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There are different kinds of health, and while it can sometimes be difficult to overcome challenges, the capacity to do so lies within our own self. We were speaking about the five elements: space (ākāśa), air (vāyu), water, fire, and earth. Fire is very holy. There are different kinds of fire. The first is the light of God, the divine light. That light or fire awakens in our body and in our consciousness. When we are more pure and spiritual, that light comes—the light of peace, the light of harmony. Our feelings and thoughts always go towards the positive. That is what we call the spiritual. Spirituality creates a very beautiful atmosphere around our living; there are no more negative thoughts. When this spiritual light is not awakened in you, then there is darkness. Darkness means ignorance—the ignorance of what you do not know. At that time, we either go deep within ourselves, into a state like depression. When we fall into depression, sometimes one goes so deep that one cannot come out. "Out" means that one does not have the strength to come outside and enjoy the outer world. Depression means you are so deep you cannot come up, and that is because of darkness. But if you have the light of knowledge and strength, then immediately you are out of the depression. When the darkness is in the outer world, then one tries to put mistakes on others. We always blame others. Mostly now, children blame their parents. In reality, it is not the mistake of the parents; it is the mistake of these children, or of people with their friends. These friends sometimes suppress you very deeply, and then that creates mistakes. You come home to your parents, and it is very easy to tell them, "You did this, and you did this, and you did not do this." This is not right, but it happens because the light of consciousness, the light of knowledge, the light to be clear, is not there. So, first, light means being a brilliant, open, clear person. Otherwise, one is falling down. These are two kinds of fire: one is the light of wisdom, and the other is the darkness of ignorance. This is one kind of fire principle. The second fire is when you have no power, no clarity, and you cannot maintain your life. Then what will you do? That fire awakens in us, and that is called anger. It is very easy to become angry, very easy to blame someone—your husband or wife, children, parents, friends, or neighbors. Becoming angry is connected to ignorance. You blame others, not yourself. That anger burns and kills the best quality of your consciousness. So, anger is a fire; it burns you entirely. Nowadays, in this modern time, when people have no capacity or strength, they are always angry and suppressing. They say, "I am burned out." Why are you burned out? Because you put your inner pressure on yourself and on others. You say, "I will work and work and work." They may be called workaholics. That is why they call it "burned out." It is not hot; there is no coal, no ash. What is burned out? This "burned out" means you have no more energy. There is darkness, no light. To come out of this again is difficult, and such a person will always blame others. They may go to a doctor, or to friends, parents, a husband, or a wife, saying, "I am burned out." That means the negative fire is in you, and you have no strength anymore. This is the fire element. It is the ākāśa, then the vāyu (air), the water, and the fire here. This fire is within us. Now, another fire is the fire of the light of wisdom. We always adore light and fire. There is a fire in the crematorium where the body is burned. We salute that which has died and is burned in the fire. That is called the chitta agni, the fire of the crematorium. Then we have a fire, a candle, a light on the altar. You go to the church or the temple, or in your home, when you light a candle in a holy light. In the church or temple, this is a light of the Divine, of God. That is a beautiful light. That is called the Havana Agni. Havana is the ceremony. According to the Vedas, in Vedic ceremonies—when you are getting married, or for your earth-making, for your fire-building where you want to lay the foundation, or the first time you cook in your new house—these are ceremonies that have to be done. Otherwise, that building, even with a hundred apartments, will not have happy residents. There will be fighting, quarreling; there will be no children, or the children will be very aggressive, etc. So we perform what is called the earth-breaking ceremony. I am talking about spirituality here. Also, when you make it for your church, it is called earth-breaking. The priest will come, speak something, use the water element, and then we dig the foundation. That is also fire. Similarly, there are step-by-step stages. When the house is completed, the first time you make eating—I think it is called housewarming. What is housewarming? We are cooking and inviting friends. This is a fire, Agni. There we call it Agni Deva. Agni Deva means the God, the fire God. There is no separate God you see sitting somewhere, but everything is God—omniscient, omnipresent. In each and every atom, there is God, God Consciousness. In every atom, there is happiness, love, joy, clarity, or illness, negativity, restlessness. Exactly. When we take the first step as negative, then all times will be negative. If we make the first good step, then all times will be good. Also, when a child goes to school for the first time, there is a ceremony. You bring the child for the first time to school, and they give some chocolate or balloons, etc. Knowledge is called jñāna agni, the fire of knowledge. Then, another ceremony is for your marriage. If you have no proper marriage ceremony and you are not witnessed by God as the fire God, the couple will get divorced. Marriage is a bond, a connection, and the joint is a child. You have to give good education to the child, so you should not get divorced. You have a little child and you want a divorce. The child is a child; he doesn't know what to do, whether to go to the father or the mother, why the mother is gone away, why the father is gone away. This is that fire, agni, that was not properly established. Then it is called jāṭharāgni. Jāṭharāgni means the digestive fire. When you are not digesting properly, there is some kind of disharmony in the body—the problem of digestion. All the traveling, everything good, is digested. So, if in our body the temperature goes down, you will be ill. You go to the doctor to see what is happening. Why is the temperature going down? Or if the temperature goes high, above 100, then there is an alarm. Our temperature is thirty-six [degrees Celsius]. But when it comes to thirty-nine, then it is a problem. This is jāṭharāgni in the body. You know what the fire principle is? Without fire, we cannot survive at all. This is the element we have to maintain. Our health depends on this principle, the fire element. We know about water, and we spoke about earth. So, maintain and take care of the five elements. Illness begins from this space. Bacteria come. We spoke about everything, and then one thing comes after the other. So, maintain your good health. Take care of what you are eating and what you are not eating. If you are eating killed animals, okay, physically you may not feel it, but on other levels you are in trouble, though you cannot see it. Trouble will come one day so strong that we cannot maintain. Good health is achieved if we can live according to yogic principles. When we say "God," it is not some form somewhere, but everything is God. What is good for us, what we feel good and happy about—the fruits, the trees, the vegetation, the waters, the earth, the sun—everything is God, and so we worship. So, my dear, yoga is the best way to maintain our good health. With this, I wish you all the best. Now we will have a little time for questions and answers. But do not ask me questions about doctors, like how one operates on the stomach. That job I give to the doctor. Q&A Session Question: There was a question that sometimes, in order to do many good deeds in the future, you need to do some bad deed. So what was the question? The question was: in order to make many good deeds in the future, is it necessary now to do one bad action, like cheating? Is it acceptable? Answer: No, because when you do a big mistake, then you will not have a chance to do good things. For example, you drink poison and think, "Afterwards, I will do good things." But after this poison, it has killed you already. So, do not do any mistakes. Question: We have to get rid of all the roles and scenarios, but what do we get out of it? We, on the other hand, are leading one more role. First, we need to get rid of everything, or how will it be? Instructor of yoga. Answer: Well, an instructor is very important. But when you have learned everything and you know and you can, it is okay. You should practice at home also. An instructor will not come to your home every day, but if you do your own imaginations, then it is not good. It is also like some people are making yoga books with only some little pictures and little writing inside; that is not the real book. For example, I am always telling you, because it is your culture: when you give the priest in his hand the Bible in the church, this holy book is a holy book. But if the priest says, "I don't need a big book. I write only a few papers, and then I bring a holy book," okay, for something for your room, for yourself, you can do it. But for proper knowledge, we have to give proper books. One should not write too many things, because then we are always changing. There is one book of one yoga master, and he wrote his biography. It was about 200 pages, and now it is about 500 pages. The master died, and the disciples are writing everything, so that is not correct. We have to keep the knowledge always pure. You cannot say every book is a Bible, or you cannot write that every book is a Qur’ān, or that every book is a Bhagavad Gītā. We have to keep that original, and that we have to follow. Now, in this Kali Yuga, it is hard for people to follow this because they think... They are the biggest writers of the holy books, you know. There is Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, eighty thousand ślokas written, eighteen thousand every separate... How many can you write? You cannot. That is why you are making a salad. So keep that as original. It is not an everyday newspaper to read and throw away. It is different. That is very important. Some people are making little booklets and selling them. That is also not good. You have to keep the authors. If you are writing a little of this and that, then you are not respecting the author. Then it is called intellectual property theft. There are different kinds of properties. There is some master, not something. Or, let us say, Mahātmā Gandhi. We are always using some words of Mahātmā Gandhi. We cannot say, "I said we will mention these words of Gandhi," but we will say it was from Mahātmā Gandhi. So Gandhījī said, "Charity begins at home." There are so many words of Gandhiji. If you say, "Charity begins from home," and you talk further, why did you not mention Gandhiji’s name? Gandhījī said, "Renounce and enjoy." Resign and enjoy. As many as you have, that many burdens you have. Next. Question: Charity, and we do not know, maybe it comes to bad hands, you know, for some bad things. How to be? How to be in this case? Does it mean that we are also, like, part of it, the negative things? Answer: No, there is a law. There is a very strict law. Charity is very good, but it should not be misused. If it is misused, you have to come to the prison, because charity means no individual should enjoy; you have money of the charity. You say, "Okay, we take some money and go to have ice cream or something." That does not matter. You are director, president, etc. You have no rights. But from this charity money, we can take money and give the poor people or children ice cream. So it is for all. If something is done, say, without saying anything, like you are stealing, then you will have big problems. You will have physical problems. But Sanjī, she says, if, for example, we give, and this person misuses it, how to do, how to deal with this, if we are also like a part of this misusing? Of course, yes. Immediately, you should change the person. Yes, yes. That is immediately bringing the committee. Yes, and tell this: this is this, and this is wrong. If he does not, he or she does not follow this and says no, then you go to the lawyer, and the lawyer will show you everything. Yes? So we should remove that person from the committee. Yeah, it does not matter who is who. If I use it, you can quit me. Yes? So this ashram, for example, is not mine and not yours, but is ours. That is it. So, tell the person to go out, finished? Yes. Question: I have a question. If, for example, somewhere on the street you see that somebody is asking, and then I do not know what he will do with this money, maybe he or she will drink alcohol. Should we give on the street somewhere? Answer: You see, when you see a poor person or something like this, if you give, then it is not yours. If this person is going to drink alcohol, why not? You also drink alcohol. Everyone drinks alcohol. So maybe he wants to drink and has no money. So, if he is drinking a drink or buying ice cream, what you have given as a donation, you have no more rights to it, and you cannot take it back. You have given from your heart for someone, it is either a beggar or only someone. Either you give or you do not give. But you give and you say, "No, he will drink alcohol," then it is not right. Yes, of course you can drink wine with him. Yeah, it is a... you have given, that is all. Just, and to be bigger, remaining there as a beggar and asking something like this, poor person, is not easy. Can you sit there and sit, please? So please, either you give or you do not give. Yes, yes. It is said that when you give a donation, it is not yours anymore. And if you give, and then you are giving some commentary, then you are giving good things, it is not anymore valid for your good. Question: How to find the balance between my work and family? Answer: It is very good. Working is your duty. You are getting money, and family is family at home. Your husband is a director, and you are a minister. When you come home, then the director and minister, they do not say, "I am the minister, I am the minister." No, there is oneness. You have your peace, harmony, love, and understanding. So home, family is different, and where you are working is your source of income. Complications? Yes. If you work, it is really the source of your anger? Hmm. Complications. Question: There are some situations when other persons tell many untruthful things about you. How to deal with this? Who? Some other people talk about me, for example. They are lying about me. Answer: That does not matter. Okay? So you say that, you will say that you were eating pizza with this person. Say yes, because I was hungry. So it does not matter if someone says you are doing like this, and yes, of course. Let us come with me. I will show you, or you show me. So when somebody says, you say, "Thank you." At least you tell. I need not tell you. This is a bite, how do you call it, backbite. Very good, then all the best.