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Today, for our beautiful anuṣṭhāna, our yoga program begins with prayer. Everyone, please sit with the prayer mudrā and mentally wish for your good health, your spiritual development, and for peace and harmony in your home and country. This prayer is for our well-being: physical, mental, and spiritual. Prayer is essential in any situation, at the end of life, and in our everyday life. It has a positive influence; it does not matter which religion or language. Through prayer, nothing goes wrong, and there is no negative effect. Prayer is one of the best things we can do. It can be one minute, half a minute, or just a few seconds thinking of God, the Supreme, or your well-being. We can pray briefly or at length. Perfection takes place through prayers. All different kinds of techniques, yoga, gymnastics, or sports—finally, there is prayer. Now we will pray. Look to the altar, or think whatever positive thought you wish. Jaya Jaya... Mahāyāśaṃsa Bhavasāgarbha Svāmī Bhavasāgarbha Satsaṅga Jaya Ch Kar Satsaṅga Navachala Guru Pālamitāri. Hari Om, Jaya Jaya... Guru Natacha, Kali Yuga meṁ Rūpa Bisarāja Swāmī, Rūpa Bisarāja vāta, sabhako Prabhujī samaja ātmā batalāva. Hari Om, Jaya Jaya, Tanna Manna Dhanna Yarapanaka, Guru Seva Paata Jodhya, Jee Karu Paata Jodhya, Binati Ka Charanome Siranma. Hari Om, Jaya Jaya... Guru Śrī Deva Purīśa Paripūraṇa Ānanda Darasa, Śrī Dīpa Prabhu Śatān Mannase, Śrī Dīpa Dalunija Mannase, Guru Ārati Ga. Hari Om, Jaya Jaya... Shirdī Pādayāl Kṛpāl Mahāprabhuaprakolaj Shri Deepadaya Prakola Vyapak Vishwacharachar. He is the Lord of the Universe, the Lord of the Universe, the Lord of the Universe. Āp kis me āye pade hain? Dur bal das du kya hain? Prabhu Āp kā virād vichārī, Shirdī Padayāl Kripāl, Mahāprabhujī prakola. Chetananī Kariyai Shirdī Padayāl Kripālama Prabhuva Prakola Pāpī Aneko Āgeyubariyab Śrī Prabhupāpya ne kāge ubharyah abhake me bahri hai Prabhu mujh parame dātā māṅgat abhi kabhi kyārī hai Shirdī Padayāl Kripāl Mahāprakolaj. Śrīdī Pādāyala Kṛpāla Mahāprabhujī Prabhu Śrī Pūjya Dīpā Dāyā, dayā karo apakā śubha karo. Prabhu kahe, "Mādhava Nandājī, āpake caraṇa kamala bāliyā." In Prabhukai Madhāva Nandajī Āpake Caraṇakamala Śirḍī Pādayalakrī Namaste Śrī Gurudeva Purīsadāyālaṁ Nijananda Ānandamayake Śrī Rāmāyakandaṁ Harirūpa Jase Atītaṁ Manadī Nirākāra Agama Ajonī Aparaliptaṁ Sarūpaṁ Suśuddhaṁ Namo Sarvavyāpī Guṇātīta Deva Prabhudīpādījo Sadāśa. Vighna Harana Maṅgala Kāraṇa Dhāraṇa Paraśurāma Pāṇi Pārvatī Nandana Namaḥ. Jaya Jaya Deva Dayāla Śiva Karuṇā Sumaṅgala Mūla Śrī Dīpa Jñāna Vairāgya Mātā Sadāravo Vandau Śaraṇa Gurudevake Śrī Deva Purīśa Śukadeva Yoga Yugati Jaya Smaraṇa Prabhu Jānī Bāla Timira Gaye Āruja Tāravi Bhāi Jñāna. Śrī Dīpā Prabhu Sakhī Vinati Namo Namo Gurudevajī, Koṭi Koṭi Pālaka Pālaka Prabhu Vinati. Nāma Liyā Sab Obare Ānanda Otāyā. Āp Satguru Me Śiṣya Huā Mamprāṇa Paramahaṁsa Gurudeva. Jītana Lokake Śūrnara Munī Sab Santa Jananī Tautā Satguru Samandhatā Nahī. Shab jaga mangana har, aaja kya baad sa? Sabhi khadare Rāma-Kṛṣṇa se kaun bade? Kushnī bhī guru kīn? Tīn rokke na tūve. Satguru, Satguru pūran brahma he. Jove śūr naravāta, anich jāne nahīṁ yug yug. Ye tan viskī veladī. Guru ambratakī śiṣyade. Satguru mīneto. Guru Mūrati Mukācandra Mā Sevak Nen Aṣṭa Peher Nirīkataram Guru Sākṣak Parabrahma Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaḥ Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrati Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyam Mokṣa Mūlam Om Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma Dīpam Sarvemo Deepanā Sajyate Sarvam Sandhyā Dīpam Sarvas Om Namo Prabhu Dīpa Vināśi Api Brahma Api Viṣṇu. Okay, now let’s go. Apo Nāradī, Apo Sāradī, Apo Se Sukarāsī, Apo Dhyānī, Apo Gyānī, Apo Yog Prakāśī, Apo Dev Sabdevī, Apo Śūr Prakāśī, Apo Brahma Nirvāṇī, Apo Chamorkyā, Apo Vedamke Gyātā, Apo Bhaktārvāsī, Apo Śatnāmke Dātā, Apo Niśrūpke Gyātā. Om Namo Prabhudeep Pranama Brahmananda Nuruva Bholi Shri Alakpuri Ji Mahadev Devadhi Dev Deveshwar Mahadev Haradi Bhagwan Shri Deep Narayan Mahāprabhujī Ki Satguru Swami Madhvanaji Bhagwan Satya Sanatan Dharma Ki Jai. Our Gurudev used to say that every evening and morning, every creature, every bird, is singing the song of God. Only we cannot understand their language, but the animals understand our language. Doing morning and evening prayers means that in the morning when you get up, you go under the water and get fresh. The whole day we are working, coming home, and we take a shower. It means that whatever we are doing during the daytime, good or bad, we purify that in the prayers. Also, at night, dreams, and so on—in the morning when we pray, all the negative dreams and qualities are purified, and it shows the path to the good path. Yoga is not only for yogīs. Yogīs have already decided to live somewhere and practice only for themselves. But yoga is more useful for the householder and for those who are working in factories, companies, etc. It is said in the Bhagavad Gītā, "Yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam." Your yoga sādhanā will become successful when you do good actions. And when we do good actions, then it is said, yoga agni, karma dagdhani—the fire of yoga, the power of yoga, can burn all our sin. Yoga has many steps. The first is nourishment. There are four principles, called ācār, vicār, āhār, and vihār. Ācār means to make your actions better. Your attitude: do good, think positive. Ācāraṇa means behavior, which is very, very important—behavior towards all. But some people have inside a bitterness, such a bitterness that they very quickly become angry or very rude to someone. This means your yoga sādhanā, your yoga practice, is not successful. It is said, "What is the difference between self-respect and ego?" Self-respect means we have to respect ourselves in relation to others. How do we express self-respect towards others? What we are doing is all very good. It means when you get up from your bed and go for work immediately, it is not good. At least brush your hair, clean your face, and make yourself presentable. And wear good dress. This is not only for you, but you are presenting yourself in front of others in a good manner, so that one who looks towards you also feels happy and clean. That’s it. So self-respect and ego are different when you have a lot of jewellery or this and that. There is a little bit of ego everywhere. Without ego, we can’t survive. Completely egoless, we cannot live anymore, but it should be positive ego, not negative ego. This is called ācār and vihār: where to go and where not to go. In the Holy Rāmāyaṇa, Tulsīdāsjī writes, "Don’t go in that house where there is no bhakti." But Tulsīdharjī said, "Ava nahī, ādar nahī, nahī, nennan me nahī." Ava nahī means they do not welcome you. If you can, okay, come in. There’s no respect. Āvā nahīṁ, ādar nahīṁ. Ādar means respect. Ava nahī, ādar nahī, or nahī, nennan me nahī—and in your eyes there is no love, no humbleness. Your eyes will say, when your best friend or a good one comes, then your eyes are, "Oh, how nice, welcome, welcome. How nice, oh my darling." Otherwise, you say, "Okay, come," but looking like this, "Okay, welcome." When four come together, then sixty-four flowers will bloom. When someone welcomes you with happiness, then four come together. Sometimes it can be three. Four means four eyes: two mine and two yours. But one may be blind on one side; then there are three. So, this four meeting together... We have 32 teeth in our mouth, so 32 mine and 32 yours. How many? 64. So when someone is your good friend, and he says, "Oh, very nice, hello, no?" It means our mouth opens, and all 24 teeth show nicely. Otherwise, we’ll say, "Come on, that’s it." No welcoming, no respect, no humble ways and love, no respect in our eyes. Tulsī, us ghar na jaiye jai kanchan barse me. O Tulsīdās, don’t go in that house even if there is a golden rain there. Even if golden rain is there, if there is no respect, no welcome, then it doesn’t matter. And then again Tulsīdāsjī said, it is about welcoming, respecting, kindness, humbleness, and happiness in the eyes. Tulsī Taha Garjaiye Chai Pathar Barsai Me. Tulsī Dājī said, "Go in that house, even if stones are falling." That’s why it is said, everyone is a yogī, but if they behave in that way... So, āhār, ācār, vicār: ācār, the behavior; vicār, the thinking; then āhār, the diet. Diet is also very important. There are different kinds of diet: when you drink juice, water, milk, good water, etc., you speak very nicely. And if you drink alcohol, then you know how we will talk when you are drunken, because the buddhi, our intellect, our wisdom, is dimmed down through this liquid. The biggest drug in the world is alcohol. How many families are destroyed? How many children are without parents? How many accidents happen on the highway? But in Kali Yuga, it is money. Just as the kind of liquid you drink, like that you will speak. With whom, which people, with whom you are there, what kind of society—like that you will be. If you take drugs, all friends are together, then they will also tell you, "Come try, come try." If you go the first time, what? You didn’t test. You must experience. This is modern life. Come on, try. But that try has caught you. Life long will torture you. That’s it. So, when you go to good companies, good people—there are many, many good people, more good people in this world—then they will make you happy, and they will give you a good way, good advice, etc. And when you have a problem, go to your grandparents. They have many experiences in life. They will give you very good advice. And even only the blessing of your grandparents is a holy blessing. So, good society or satsaṅg, what we are talking about, is always the satsaṅg. Therefore it is said, when yogīs, who want to practice yoga, come to the yoga path, it is to make your life divine, pure, clean, and oriented toward the cosmic Self, God, or whatever we are thinking. This is the beginning of yoga: ācār, vicār, āhār, and vihār. Write it down, understand. Ācār, behavior. Vihār, good behavior also. Ācār means positive thinking, good food, and good company. After that, Patañjali said, "So the yoga begins with the discipline." If you have no discipline, you will not be successful. Even if you want to practice physical exercises—like there is one person who wants to do bodybuilding—every day, early morning, or at a fixed time, he will go and do exercise. Every day we do it, and day by day, he or she will say, "Oh, my muscles are getting better." Every day, practice, practice, practice. Discipline. Similarly, meditation, mantra, prayers. So after this body, the second body is called prāṇa, energy. Good energy. The strength of our body is the energy. That energy is not visible, but it is powerful. Otherwise, sometimes we happen to feel, "I have no power at all. I have no energy. I can’t get up." Yes. So try to create good energy now, good nourishment. But also movements. If you will just relax and relax and relax, okay? Two, three days, okay. But then you are getting into laziness, and that is in Āyurveda said to be sāttvik, rājasik, and tāmasik. So the tāmasik guṇa, a laziness—you want to sleep a little more and more. Now, your whole body is filled full of this negative energy, tamas guṇa. Then you have no good mood. "I have no good mood, I cannot walk, I can’t think, I’m tired," because you are coated with negative energy. What should you do? Get up, go for a walk, come back, wash your body, and do 11 rounds, 12 rounds of baddhikatu pranāma, yes, and then do śravitāsana. Oh no, Swāmījī, no, no... Do it, do it. It will take you three days to use your willpower. On the fourth day, you will be blossoming with energy, prāṇa. So prāṇa is within us, but there are other prāṇa which are the dead prāṇa, and that is called laziness, tiredness. Laziness is the biggest enemy of the human. So practice āsanas, prāṇāyāma. Prāṇa kośa, the prāṇa, the energy body. Then comes the mental body. The mind is also accepted as a body, but we don’t know. The speed of the mind is one of the quickest speeds. Yes. No one has that much power stronger than the mind. For example, we are sitting here, and how quickly I can bring you somewhere. It is about 14,000 to 15,000 kilometers, or 1,000,000 kilometers. Within no time, you will be there without money, without a ticket, without a passport. Don’t worry, that is the mind. Let’s go today to Jupiter. Okay, we are already there. The mind is already on Jupiter. Where to begin? In Tokyo. Oh, we are already in Tokyo. No, no... Budapest is good. So, the mind is one of the quickest ones. And therefore, the mind has to be controlled, and the yogī should purify the mind. If in the mind you have impurities, you have other thoughts; nobody knows. Nobody knows what you are thinking, but there is someone. There are two who know what you are thinking, yes, in this room. One is yourself; you know that you are thinking. And the second who knows is God. You can’t hide from yourself, and you can’t hide from God. And therefore, even if you keep it in your mind, don’t worry. You and God know what you are doing. So, purification of the mind. The mental situation should be good. Otherwise, sometimes Americans used to say, "Oh, Swāmījī, I changed my mind. I will not come today in the satsaṅg, but tomorrow I will come definitely." "Oh, Gurudev, I changed my mind. I am going for swimming." So, I changed my mind. Why don’t you change your body? That I cannot change, you see? But our mental action, mental thoughts, mental power, that is the most powerful in our body, our mind. And where is the mind? Where does the mind sleep in this body? Where is he sitting? And where is he resting? Where is the mind? In the brain? In the heart? In the stomach? In the liver? In the kidneys? Where is the mind? The mind we can’t catch at all. And we don’t know if the mind is in our body or outside of our body. Mind is like a reflection only. You look in your mirror and you see your body, and there is some spot on your cheek. And you take the cloth and you clean the mirror. Still there? Oh, mind. You clean the mirror. The spot is more clear. That is the mind. But if you know, then you know, oh-ha! And then you will do like this. The mirror will say, "Mind tells you, ‘Caught me.’" Then the mind has no more power. So, mind, O my mind, you lost everything with the negative society. After the mind, then comes the vijñāna. Vijñāna means the science. So either we say vijñāna or you say science. This science, vijñāna, our knowledge—and knowledge is more than the mind, but this knowledge can also be manipulated. When you drink alcohol, then you talk differently. When you drink nice, clean water... You speak very beautifully, or what you call that someone can manipulate your thoughts. So the fourth body is called jñāna, vijñāna, intellect. Annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa. Then comes the ānandamaya kośa. Ānanda means bliss. Or, ānanda means desire. If you have pure, clean, good thoughts, then ānanda. Ānanda means happiness. Now you are in the highest level of consciousness. Or, you fall down again. So, it begins—our attitude, our problems, our disease, our everything—from the ānandamaya kośa. From ānandamaya kośa, it comes to jñānamaya kośa. You know that you should not take drugs. So it is your jñāna, your knowledge. But now your knowledge is polluted, and then your mind will also become like that. Your prāṇa, your energy will be like that, and then this body will become ill. So any kind of disease we have is beginning from the upper part, not from the lower part. In the 15th chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā, it is said that trees have the roots down and branches going up. But in humans, the roots are here and the branches are downwards. Everything begins from there. And so, if we make the purification... Tomorrow we will begin with what is called Haṭha Yoga, and we will, I think, try to give very clear techniques and explanations of what Haṭha Yoga means. We will do it tomorrow. But if you are not doing, then nothing is helping. It is said, "Upar se bhare Gurudev," is giving from above, filling your glass. Nice, see, the jar is but down. Is everything dripping out? So we are filling in the upper, but down is the hole, and this hole is our weakness. So first we should repair here; then the knowledge will be there. So yoga begins with ācār, vicār, āhār, vihār. And for ācār, vicār, āhār, vihār, we need Aṣṭāṅga Yoga Anuśāsana. And then, what happens? We have to understand these five bodies. These are the five tattvas. And these five tattvas, when cleaned, are called the air, space, the air, the fire, the water, and earth. So these are the five tattvas. And these five tattvas are the best in Āyurveda to treat our diseases. But now our earth is polluted. I remember when I was little, it was nearly about 98 years. The morning when we got up, we took a little water. Went out of the house, we put water on the earth. And we took, and we were brushing our teeth, like this. And clean it, hadihom. So pure, good, the earth. And now, if I do like this, "Oh God, my mouth will be swollen," I go to the dentist, then he says, "What have you done?" "The earth, oh God, there is a good toothpaste, use this good toothpaste, clean." Toothpaste is also polluted. So, what? Everything is polluted: water is polluted, air is polluted, earth is polluted. Fire is not polluted, and the space is also polluted. How to survive? But a yogī can survive, and you are the yogīs. So, welcome you all. Tomorrow begins the program. And our dear Swami Umapurījī will guide Kriyānusthān, and another teacher will guide you in āsanas. The programs will be announced after this lecture. My duty is finished. Wish you all the best. For those who are going home today, I wish you a good journey. Very happy to see you all, and God bless you. We will chant mantras: Asato mā Sat gamaya, Tamaso mā Jyotir gamaya, Mṛtyor mā Amṛtaṁ gamaya.