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It is beautiful to be here. This is always a divine, relaxing environment with clean air and oxygen, allowing us to recharge physically, mentally, spiritually, and socially. We are sometimes overfilled with energy, which is very good. But how can we utilize this beautiful energy for our spiritual progress? This energy is within us. Look through your camera, the Skype, the webcast. Let me see more people's faces. You have been looking too much towards me; now let me see you. Very good. You can see who is sitting nice and straight. I see one called Swami Vivek Purī, and he is sitting like this—not straight. When I see someone sitting, I make myself straight. When you go to school and they have PT, what does your master, your Pīṭhāyā, say? In English or Hindi, it means the same thing, and it is very important. What do you say to the teachers, to the students? Sāvdhān. And the next second? Attention. So today we do it all this way: Attention. Relax. Paho. Relax. Pohof. I think from the beginning of our life, we should from time to time remember, and not only remember but try to become alert and healthy, and know the whole body, to know how it is. So when you say "attention," even the hands are like this. And then relax with one stick walking. So it is life from the cradle to the grave. The cradle is made from wood—nowadays plastic—but beautiful is made from wood, very natural. So life from the cradle to the grave. Who is with us all the time? Our spine, our stick. Attention, alert, careful. Otherwise, sometimes it can happen: we fall down, we break something. Of course, I am not teaching you as children. You are not children; you are very alert, with knowledge, everything, more than me. But still, I should tell my cameraman, "Don't look at me." Yes, because everybody says, "What happens to him?" Or you say, "The tension," then I take the camera away and I will sit like this. So please don't check this mafia. They will sit, oh God, sitting here today in Chicago... Anyhow, let's come further. I am so happy to be with you. One day I was missing, so that's why I am making you more happy that one day I was, but I am always with you. Mirabai said to Tulsidas in her bhajan: "My body is here, but my self is with you." She said to her Gurujī, "So, we all know there is sitting one young lady, about 25-30 years, and she's here. She has a two-year or one-and-a-half-year-old child at home. Her husband said, 'Yes, you can go. I will take care.' Grandparents also, but still the feeling, the heart of this young woman towards her child." Are you more towards your child or your husband? Tell me, please tell me, because I don't know. I'm not on both sides. So, are you more towards your husband, or in feeling, for care? Husband or the wife, or the child? Yes, the child. But you feel exactly also your husband not as a husband, like a child. Yes. That is a very beautiful couple. In the beginning, they were in love and married. They always had the feeling, if one is in the office, the other is in the college, but they are all the time with the feeling there. And when you get a child, now you are both in the child. There is more love, more love towards the child, and if anything happens... But the husband loves the child, and the mother loves the child. When such a love is not a physical love, what are you talking about? What are we talking about? It is a real love, feeling: "What can I give? How is my child?" Everything from both sides. That means it's a real husband and wife, and that child is happy. I know, unfortunately, many times there is a difference between husband and wife. And the child, on both sides, the child loves. Now, how is it like a one? This melon, and you cut it in two parts. And when the melon is very—not lemon there, melon—when you, we open it, it is in two parts. And what is the color of it? Red, and both parts are the same. Seed, rife, not rife, very red like blood, but we separate. So, it means that two parts are this little child. Which part should I take, or this? Therefore, when your child is about 25 years old, finished study, all your academy, everything. Then you can say your wife and husband, "I would like to separate." The child will say, "Father, why?" or "Mother, why?" But this child is grown in such love, meaning so much care and protection in every aspect. So let us begin in our society. This will be a new subject for our yoga and sad life. That we should know, couple, boy and girl, they should think over. Do not turn towards sexual feelings. When the husband and wife are really there, then it touches their heart. So now the heart has two parts, and you both became one part of the heart. And we should give them whatever we can. It must not be that we are rich, but we are rich in love. There is a problem between parents and friends, and between both couples too. That is a very hard point. And that we should not give too many toes. But even I, I can't keep my hands away. When I see something, then I say, "Ah, this is good for this child." So, little toys and more education. Not education of the school or college, but education that is harmony between learning something and not a little doing that. Well, one way, the toys, shops are getting locked. We like it before something, then with other toys, and then other toys. And now we have these toys. An eight-month-old child cries, and you give this one. All the time, it's looking, doesn't care about mother and father. Until the death of the old people. We are all having separate, and we are looking in. In the train, in the aeroplane, in the office, everywhere, we cannot stop. So when we cannot, why should we not give to the children? And children are now full with the toys, the one toy. So Gurujī said very nicely, "One in all and all in One." For children also, not many toys, only this one. Now there are three points: how should we manage the father, mother, and child? So, okay, we all have, and this has good things. And also, not good things. And technology is, in some way, really very, very good. The cities are getting bigger, and for example, Vivek Purī's city, Zagreb, when I came first time there, so while walking we could cross it, Zagreb. We can say the address very quickly, we are there. Now it's beyond the airport, touching to the other side of the... Other city, but we have a navigator. It brings us so comfortably, like somebody's guiding us. This is very good, but some things are not good. So, what can we do now? How can we make family and give the family half an hour one day without this instrument, this tool? Or one hour, including sitting at a dining table. And every day, you should be together for a while and talk and give your child good. And we know the biggest drug in the world is alcohol. But that we offer to everyone, everyone. In the airport we go, mostly there are only shops full of alcohol. Call them duty-free, but duty is not so much. But really, really, whenever I go to any aeroplane in India, or any airport anywhere, anywhere, and they come and offer the alcohol more and more, "Please, sir, you would like to drink?" Where was the aeroplane? They always said to me, "Sir, you drink something?" I said, "Yes, please, mineral water." "Sir, only water, nothing different?" I said, "Okay, soda water." After that, sir, anything more? I said, "Well, it's orange juice, sir. Do you want to drink alcohol, a little bit of wine? Not alcohol, wine." I said, "Well, my..." My wine is still in my field, on my farm. When they arrive, I will eat them. Then you can bring it. Anyhow, the things in life, can we make some kind of saṅkalpa? In our society, in your country, in your street, with your friends, try something: let's come together, go once a month for a picnic. So let's come, really, nothing is impossible. You see that when I came to Europe, it was 1970. And since that time, I told people, "No eggs, no meat, no alcohol. Animals are suffering, don't kill them, no fish." And the people said, "No, we don't want vegetarian, we don't want vegetarian." And suddenly it came into the minds of the people that we should not torture animals. Animals are suffering. The cows are suffering. The outer of the cow is so big that the cow probably cannot walk. I saw myself with my eyes many times in Australia, near our yoga center, very big, it's called Dungong, and about one kilometer away is the mulchery, and that person has the cows, a few hundred. So they cannot sit, and if they sit, they fall down. Their one leg is like this, and they cannot sit up. Someone had to bring her to get up, and that farmer said, "There are some naughty people, young boys, who go into their farm and pull the cows down, so they are suffering." And when, if they are not milked at the right time, it is like a big pain in them. Now, what is? I thought, "Why is one cow after the other coming?" Like when you go to the bus, so you are in line, one after the other. So there is taking the milk from the cow, how is it called, the milking cow, there. So the cow is coming by itself. And when one cow is there, the machine is washing, automatically comes to the auto and sucks the milk. When it's finished, you know, the machine goes down, and the cow goes away. Next, a cow is coming. I was looking at how disciplined these cows are. I want to teach my citizens of India, sorry. They can't and can't. Yeah, truth is the truth. Oh, God. But when they come to Europe, they are disciplined. They come to Singapore, everywhere it is very clean and very nice. When they are splitting this and putting it in. And as soon as the Indian is landing at the airport, that is called, "India is free." You have freedom, but discipline needs many things. Similarly, like here, they don't, it is difficult to learn sometimes, people. For forty-three years, I taught many persons because they wanted to learn how to make chapati. And chapati, you make first on the hot pan, only half a minute, one minute. Then you turn the other side. And just move it, that's all, till it is nicely picked, how to call it, fried. Then you turn to the other side, and it will pop up. And here they cannot pop up. And they are eating and eating, and what pops up? From chapati? How? What did pop up? Their stomach. They eat so many chapatis, that's why in India, all are popping up. Now, this is the main point. Number two. We make a little ghee on one part of the chapati, but there where the fine part popped up, and that should be up and the other should be down. And if you fold, you should fold it inside like this. When you die, then we make a big chapati, and we make something on it, and they put it on the wrong side of the heart. This is for the dead person, but if I'm still not dead, please don't put chapati on my heart like this. Forty-three years. That person is already old. And I said, "It doesn't matter, I'm still alive." So how can you not learn? All, not only that one person. But, so the Indian cannot learn also spitting? They can, they learn now. Indians are very, very learned, respect it. But my disciples, with the making a chapati, is impossible. I hope, I hope one day, before I will go. They will bring me chapati in the right place. Also, what is his name, Vivek Purī? I don't know if he can make chapati. Anand Purī, she doesn't cook chapati, only he can make it. I have not seen, sorry, I don't want to blame her, but I can feel the fingers. He can make it, or he will say, "Let's have a chocolate, better chocolate than this." Anyhow, my dear discipline, and if we are not disciplined, how will we then make that one? So, in that way, now in the last 10 years or maybe 15, some people made a good idea of what that Swami said about no meat, no torturing of the animals. And it doesn't matter; they will eat meat. Because some people don't know the animal is killed. In Washington, at the University of the Catholics, I had a lecture there, in their hall, and Divyā Purī is sitting here. Is Divya Purī here? From Washington? There is not a cow. Can you stand up and say yes or no? You have mauna today, yeah? So, we were in the conference or not? In the hall? Yes. Don't be afraid, I am talking, not you. So it was a lecture, a yoga lecture, and then I talked about the torturing of animals, not to eat meat. And then one lady, or the girl, a lady—she was about 45 years old—and she began to tear. And then she said, "Swāmījī, I will never eat any more meat. I thought meat was available in the supermarket. I don't know that they kill you like this." So still many people don't know that, even children don't know that animals are killed. And so you are giving the children, innocent people, children. Your child's toys, how much they love them. A rabbit, a cow, or a tiger, they don't know that they are killed. She said, "I will never eat any more animal's meat." I said, no fish and no human meat also. Then she said, "I will think about my husband." I said, "What do you mean? That I will tell him also you should not eat meat?" Well, sometimes when you repeat your mantra, one day your success will come, your spirituality will come. And suddenly some sprouted, and that's called people began vegan. Now people begin vegan restaurants, and even on the aeroplane you get vegan food. And I'm surprised that in Prague, Czech Republic, last time, two months ago when I was there, I asked how many vegan restaurants there are. And what answer did the Prague people give me? Can you tell me how many restaurants there are? Can you talk properly, please? 80, 80,... 1, 80, 1, 8, 0. In Prague, there are 80 vegan restaurants. Now, we have the ashram, a beautiful kitchen, and we are also going to make a vegan restaurant. So, this is what people can give, something to change something. So it doesn't matter how they become, they know that this Swami was talking and talking about no meat, no meat. In the communist system, some yogis were, yogis, not against me, and they said, "We are communists, we will eat meat, you cannot stop." So I said, communist means not that they should not eat meat. So, my dear, let us make some kind of this, that we should take a child, a nice parent, a nice society. And more friends come together, more come together. Go on a picnic together, your children, your parents together. We love our house pet, and we also love our carpet. Both we should respect, that should be clean also. Carpet. So, since when does the car need a pet? But so, me, she can't stand which, you know, the carpet go. But it's not, man. I want to watch a joke. I'm asking these similarly. The subject I was thinking yesterday from before. Sleeping and morning, when I was practicing, you can—I can tell you—I'm practicing one and a half hours every day, asanas. And this is your, how do you call that, you are disciplined. And you make me disciplined. Swamiji, please practice again. Yes, a disciple can make the master also. If not, then good chapatis. So, I'm coming to some point, but before that, we can change something. This bhajan, which was written by our Gurudev, Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān: śrīpūjā-dīpa-dayālu-dātā, lakho praṇām, lakho means millions of times my salutation, my salutation to you, Gurudev, because you, what, something went wrong, you brought again together. The soul, the individual soul, as long as we are in our body, then we are in our body. Like one drop of water and another drop is in another bottle. One drop is in another bottle. But it is the same water in different bottles. And these different bottles of water will come together; they will be in oneness. So, Ātmā is one. Jīvātmā is from the one as the many. You have a beautiful seed of a cherry, and that one seed we put in the earth, and it grows. Same color, same form, same sweetness, everything is that fruit. And if we let them grow wild, they will have the same branches in everything, like the other one. Like our parents, our parents... All the times when your father had a problem with their spine, your child had now grown, and he will have the same problem in the spine. Another one will have again the same problem. So it is many, but one. So as a jīva is separate, ātmā is one. And ātmā and ātmā means that ātmā is. Mixed with Jīvātmā. Ātmā, jīvātmā is Paramātmā. Now, the soul. It is a journey. And we don't know how far, where. Now, it means that this soul has a destiny, so it must not be that it will be born in the Czech Republic or in Mexico, we don't know, and it is destiny. So, in that, it is like this: that this tree has now, it is the time of the herbs, and that wind blows from south to north. And these leaves go in that direction. And after a while, from the east, it blows towards the west. Now these leaves are blowing toward the west. So it depends on the air. Similarly, when we go out of our body, we don't know where we go. Don't think, "Oh, this is like my grandmother," and then even a cat, "Oh, my grandmother was exactly this, this is my cat." This is our attachment, our love. Good, it's okay. But that is gone. You can imagine that like a star falling. And how speedy it is. We look in the sky in the evening, and it goes like a second. So, you can imagine you have a flame, an oil lamp, and it's going at the highest speed, farther and farther. There is no attachment, but destiny which is taking us. So we cannot expect that my parents will be that again, the same. Can be or cannot be. That is not that it will come again. Draw a drip of the water, a drip of water in the ocean. How will you separate that my grandmother is here? The drop falls there. Grandmother became the ocean. Therefore, whatever we want, if we can, it's not easy that our soul as Ātmā and how it should go in Paramātmā, it is not easy, my dear. We try hard, but it is in his destiny. Secondly, in your body is not only one Jīva. Don't think that I am, in my soul, my Jīva. Millions of bacteria live in our body. Yes, my God. If you really look and open the... And they are working for you. And you are giving them, you are working for them. If there are no bacteria, we will die; we will be very ill. So, each drop of the blood that you can see, maybe, I don't know, but the doctors or the scientists, when they are looking through the microscope, see that there are so many lives inside. Oh, we are so happy! So many things in our body. It means this is your city, or it is your whole universe. And you are the king of all, and they are working for you, my dear. Yes, yes. There is one very nice bhajan. O my friend. Be alert, be aware. You are the king of this kingdom. Don't be, how to call, too naive. Don't think that, "Okay, and okay." No. You are the king. And if you are not the king, then they will give you alcohol. They will give you some drug. Yes. Not your jīva. Your jīvātmā is not giving you anything. But your jīvātmā, your jīva, doesn't take care of your body. And that is giving you this and that, and you are completely in the hands of the people. You are not in the hands of the king of your ātmā. I will look in the book today. The budget of the from India from Jaipur, Jodhpur, and then two words again I forgot. I will search it, and you are that you are the king, and this is your kingdom, and don't be innocent. Give them in a... Control, then we can come and do. You know how many souls are sitting in you? They also have a soul, but you are the king. But when there are bacteria, negative bacteria, they will take you as a kingdom out of this body. So nothing is outside; it's within our self. This universe, endless, is within us. After is nothing. We don't know where, what, and this. Oh, if not more, at least when you die, all bacteria are very sad. Oh God, our king was so good. He brought us ice cream. Oh, he gave us some good alcohol. That's it. So control the whole body. Your kingdom should become the divine world. And that's what we are doing through yoga in daily life. So, ātmā, Paramātmā. Śrī Guru Ātmā Param Maho Mātma Puruṣakāl Jagke Antrajāmī Carācarakī Ātmā Prabhucarācarakī Guru Ātmā, Oṁ Ātmā, Puruṣottama, Kālajagke Yantra Jāmī, Carā Carakī Ātmā Prabhu Carā Carakī Ātmā Nāpa Rūpa Vyāpoh Sārtīya Vyāpoh Vimalacetan Ātmā. Prabhu Vyapoh Sartya Ātmā dhun dhyāna age, agam jāge, nigam senitya ātmā, prabhu nigam senitya ātmā, Śrī Guru ātmā paramātmā pōtmā puruṣottamā Sakala jagake andrayāmī charā charakī ātmā, Prabhu charā charakī ātmā, Se Pavan Aage Pratit Ho Adhyātma. Pratīt ho adhyātma, nirādhār ho savichal ātmā. Savichal asīrī guru ātmā, parama puruṣottama. jāmī, charā charā kī ātmā. Prabhu, charā charā kī ātmā. Malak Deva Ajab Seva Brahma Beva Ātmā Prabhu Brahma Beva Ātmā Sun Se Ho Prabhujī Sākṣī Śhud Ātmā Prabhu Sākṣī Śhuddha Ātmā Śhrīgurum Ātmā Ho Ātmā Puruṣhottama Sakal Jag Ke Antra Jāmī. Dharā, dhyāna, sohaṁ, muni, mohaṁ, svarūpa, seja, dhyātma, guru, dīpa ho, praṇām. Sayār hī paramātmā, abū abhī paramātmā, śrī ātmā paramātmā, śokal jagke yantrayā. Charkhī, ātmā Prabhuchara, dhyāna dharasī, bhavadukse tarī ātmā, bhavadukse tarī ātmā Śiva Gurudeva nirguṇa. Now you can show me how I am. Yes, Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Devadhī Dev, Deveśvar Mahādev. So, through these words, bhajans, four poems, everything that is yoga, what you are learning. It's yoga. Writing something, and writing some such bhajans or poems, and it should have a sense. Essence of our ātmā to the paramātmā. You should know how to... we always translate for you, and when you sing in the Hindi language, but where the translation is there, then you feel your heart is that. So, this jīvā in our body is not alone. Not alone, you have your kingdom, a big kingdom, like a big, big country, like our whole earth. The whole earth, our within us, these five elements: the earth, the water, the air, the fire, and space. All this, you are. Your ātmā is in that. Everything is one. And they are all within you. Therefore, take care of your kingdom. Don't let any enemy enter your kingdom. No mafia comes to your kingdom. No terrorist comes in. What is that? Illness, drugs, alcohol. Bad habits. Don't let them come into your kingdom. Check carefully, like a security checking. But in security checking, that is our good health. Good nourishment, good satsaṅg, good people, good words. What can we... we will not be so ill. That's it. This we will continue again. So, once somebody said to Krishna, and it is said, "Lethari mala, O Krishna, Bhagavān, O Krishna, take this your mala." I am hungry. Without hunger, I cannot use your mala. So, nābī. You know the nābī? You see, this is your kingdom. One after the other, big, big country: Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, Bindu, and what not. Then you are in Brahman. Again, we will come. Wish you all the best. Oh yes, I forgot to say hello to you. Ahaṁ Om. Deep Narbhagwanaki. Ahaṁ Om.