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Oh, yes, who is here? I see someone is here too. First of all, I welcome all of you—our dear sisters and brothers and beloved children. We are very happy to have all our Guru brothers and sisters here. You are delegates of Yoga in Daily Life from many different countries. We have a beautiful āśram here for retreats, with hundreds of bhaktas. We also have many juniors, and these juniors now need to go to sleep. Tomorrow we will teach them how to get chocolate, but today they can go to sleep or be silent. So for a few minutes, we will chant some mantras until all these little juniors go to their rooms and sleep. Say, “Śubharātri.” Yes, that’s it. Parents—both or one of them—can go along. There is nothing wrong with that; children are children, and they should speak. The mother or father will tell them a story in bed. So we will chant one mantra. We are the luckiest ones to have this retreat or seminar, to again come forward a few steps towards spirituality. We are always at home and at work—all day, evening, and night. But now, for these few days, we have time for relaxing, practicing āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditations, and more techniques. Lucky are those who, in this Kali Yuga, have the opportunity to visit such a place, such an āśram, such a seminar. It is very rare. This day is more or less gone, and six more days remain. Tomorrow begins a new day, leaving only five days. So try to gain in these few days purification of your body, mind, thoughts, and philosophy, in line with your own spirituality. The truth is that rare yogīs or masters understand their life and spiritual practice, but yoga is not only for yogīs or ṛṣis. Because they are on the path, they know what they are doing. But yoga is not only for yogīs or priests; it is for everyone—from childhood. Even the lucky couple, the parents—are they happy? They conceive a child, and while the child is in the mother’s womb, they are happy for this new baby. They imagine: the child will be born very spiritual, very great, very good, and very humble, with real human qualities. They are happy that a boy or girl will be born to them, and they look forward to a child who will be spiritual, humble, and devoted to these things. So fortunate are those children whose parents are on the same path. Every country and culture is different. So we cannot say, just because we are now in the Czech Republic, that Czech culture is the best. The Slovaks would say something else, the Hungarians something else, as would Poland, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Germany, France—and don’t forget Austria. Every country has its beauty, its culture, everything. But spirituality is one. It doesn’t matter how we understand spirituality; in the end, it is only one. There is only one word—God—though with different names. Ultimately, it is that one God. Some perceive God in form, while others say God is only space. Yes, that is right, and this is also right. But in the Bhagavad Gītā, in the twelfth chapter, Arjuna asks Kṛṣṇa, “What is best? Is God better in form or without form, as pure space?” Kṛṣṇa said, “Yes, Arjuna, both are good.” Because as we are in physical form, we can understand better: we can see, talk, touch, ask questions, and receive answers. So this is good, and the other is also good. But you cannot receive an answer and then say to yourself, “Thank you, God, you were great to me today.” To whom are you speaking? Maybe He is not there in that way. So both are very important. Nirākāra is without form, and Sākāra is what we are now. Arjuna, in both there is that Brahman, that God, but you still do not understand. Though God is within you, we always search outside. Yes, sometimes we say that God is here, as the holy books speak. And when someone dies, God is with them. So why did God or the Creator create us? He could have left us only in space—where we would have more space, no fighting, no neighbours, no one to talk to. You would be “Ānandoham, Ānandoham”—“I am bliss”—but with no form, nothing. It would be boring. And so, slowly, we come to understand. Someone told a story: In a mother’s womb, there were two children—a boy and a girl. The sister was to be born first, so she was the elder. She said to her brother, “Brother, will we be born?” “Born?” he replied. “Oh sister, you are a girl, you don’t know. We are. What is there to be born? We are!” Then she said, “Yes, we will be born. We will open our eyes and inhale.” “What should I inhale? I am so good as I am,” he said. “We will speak different languages, and we will eat.” “Ah, God! My dear sister, what will we eat?” “Wait, wait,” she said. And they were born. The sister said, “František, can you see the world? It’s very nice! Why didn’t you tell me to come earlier? We were in a little cave for nine months.” She said, “Don’t worry, we will grow big, we will sing, we will ski.” So this is progress. Then we will grow old, we will use a stick, and one day we will lie down and sleep so deeply we don’t know when we’ll wake up. “Yes, sister, that is the best,” he said. “Take your time, enjoy here.” But what enjoyment is there? They are only two days old—what will they enjoy? “Wait a minute,” she said. Similarly, the process goes further and further, and then this nāṭaka (play) is finished. And we will be again in space. “Brother, we will be in space.” “Yes, brother. How big is that?” “I don’t know—it is endless.” “But, brother, will we be together?” “That I cannot tell you.” And so life comes and goes. You go to Brahmaloka. Everyone says, “I want to go to Brahmaloka.” But when you are in Brahmaloka, you don’t even have a telephone—no one will talk to you. So what is Brahmaloka? Ask the other masters, ask many Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras. What is it? Nothing. So you should say, “I have, I have”—and that is nothing. Please, don’t teach me such a meditation, to throw me into nothingness! No, no, no. I want to be with you—with my bhaktas, my friends, my parents, my sisters, my husband, my wife, everyone. Please, God, don’t send me anywhere. I want to be in this beautiful world, on Mother Earth. Let me enjoy in the lap of Mother Earth, in the lap of the Mother. So what to do? Go to Yoga in Daily Life. It will give you everything. You will have what is called… we go to the side sink? We go to Brahmaloka, look into every loka, and then come back here. I lost my luggage—I came empty. When I went, I took my body with me; I slept, and I was with my whole body anyway. And when I woke up, I came somewhere else. My dear, this is what the great saints say. But what do you expect? Even when our hand breaks, we are unhappy. Our whole body goes, and we are sad. We are all friends together, and this soul is going. Do you want to go? Today we have a samādhi, and I will give you a card, a ticket. So you can sit right on your ticket. I am in Brahmaloka, I think. The Czech authorities—not the people, but the government or police—they will not let me leave this room to bring my people back from Brahmaloka. So what is that? Everything is in this body. All is there. So let us enjoy. Enjoy means look—look how happy it is. So practice yoga, eat good food, and do not kill any creatures. Don’t kill animals; it is not good. They are also creatures. Do you want a world where only humans exist and all animals are dead? Then we would begin to eat people, like in Fiji long ago. They ate human to human. In many other countries, long ago, it was the same. But now we have Brahmaloka—we are happy, we love our friends, our countries, our people, our animals. Brahmaloka means our knowledge, our philosophy, which gives us something more than knowledge. Some are going the wrong way, some another way. So welcome—you are here to attain Brahmaloka. Knowledge, only knowledge. When they say, “Let’s go to Brahmaloka,” we say, “No, no, we are very comfortable in the Czech Republic, but please give me Brahmaloka knowledge.” That is the knowledge within us, in all the cakras of the body. These are Brahmalokas. Oh, which cakra is down there? Mūlādhāra. My God, Mūlādhāra! Mūla means root. Everything is mūla. That is our foundation. Do not lose your Mūlādhāra—hold it, and enjoy your human life. Svādhiṣṭhāna—oh, that is very good. You have to learn to get rid of six qualities; otherwise, they will push you towards the animal nature. You kill animals, you eat them, and they will kill you. That is the law. Anger, hate, jealousy—these are the six qualities. Finally, we come to the navel. There are three kinds of creatures: Jalacara (water-dwelling), Sthalacara (land-dwelling), and Nabhacara (air-dwelling). Those born from eggs, those born from mothers. The flyers have eggs. Is there any animal that can fly? Cows, buffaloes, dogs, goats—they cannot. You were born complete, but one thing is missing. It’s not nice. I think we should say something about God. God gave you complete birth from the mother’s womb—no matter from which creature—but one thing is missing. We should tell God, “Practice, practice.” He said, “God, please give us something.” God said, “No, you are too clever.” God said, “Goat, cow, buffalo, elephant, tiger, monkey, human, horse, camel—everyone is complaining.” And you know what it is? God did not give us flying. My God! The eggs—God gave them flying. And we are born complete; somehow, mother kept the wings inside. Do you see? Yes. Of course, humans try to get wings, and that’s what we call an airplane or a parachute. But your wings can break your legs. So when the legs are broken, your wings don’t function. Why didn’t God give us a flag? That’s very important. And there are others; flying is called nabhacara. Nabha means air. In all this, humans got the knowledge and intelligence to understand these 8.4 million species, and they have a little knowledge to do something. Other animals also have something, but mostly they eat and sleep. That’s it. But we are human; that is what we do and what we should not do. Who am I to ask or tell you? Tell God, and if you don’t know God, then tell all others that you love them, my friends. You see, you have a dog. Nowadays, people love dogs very much. Sometimes the dog is more loving than the husband or wife. When the husband comes home, the dog loves him more than his wife. Will you kill your dog? If your husband says to your wife, “This evening we will eat our dog,” oh God, there will be a war. That’s it. So because we understand, we touch this creature, we see its eyes—how can we kill it? How can we eat it? All humans are humans. But one big problem in humans is that they torture. Slaughtering—that is something the human heart should not accept. There is so much eating, yet God has given so much that is healthy. So now, if you want to become truly healthy, with no cancers and no problems—even environmentally—forget religion, this is something you should know: look at your plate. Don’t just say, “Hmm, it’s good.” Today, you didn’t think that a living being was slaughtered. Crying also has pain. Any creature—and we are also creatures. We have the five tattvas, and they also have these tattvas. So our Brahmaloka is there when we become completely pure, not killing animals for food. It can happen when you’re driving—many bugs—or when walking, a little creature under your feet. So let’s come into this weekend. I will not talk about this subject for the next five or six days. You should think about it, and you will live long. If you want to live long, you should have sāttvic nourishment. We will have nice programs. There are very good teachers here, Yoga in Daily Life teachers, and we have different subjects. The first subject: sleep well. Yes, sleep well. And second: enjoy sleeping with more friends in one room. How? There are different sounds, so you don’t miss the noise of your big city. How much noise is in the city? Otherwise, if it’s silent, you might be afraid. “Oh God, where am I sleeping?” So there are people who make good sounds for you, especially. And the person who makes nice rhythms for you—they don’t know it. This is a real miracle. You sleep deeply. But we don’t know when people will say there is a… It’s very nice, you know? You enjoy. It’s boring to sleep with your wife every night. Mostly the wife takes her pillow and goes to another room when the husband begins to snore; he doesn’t hear anything. She takes the pillow… no, it’s an opportunity. When he said, “She takes the pillow,” he said, “She stops.” When he said, she opened the door. The third time, she closes the door and sleeps deeply. And I can tell you, a deep sleep with snoring is more relaxing than your husband. Very relaxed morning. So your husband knows that his darling feels disturbed by the snoring. But one day during lunch or breakfast, the husband said, “Darling, I think you should learn how to snore, but we have to do it in a nice way.” This is human life. Be happy, be good, and make your mantras. Please don’t waste too much water, and don’t waste too much time in the bathroom. We are so many, and we don’t have many bathrooms. So if you wash for five minutes, please take three minutes. Try to enjoy our park more and the good, fresh air. Our subjects, our yoga classes—everything will be there. Yoga in Daily Life is a complete system of yoga. We will talk about different subjects. But I tell you, I will bring you to Brahmaloka in your bed. So you are very happy—that is Brahmaloka. And I bring you quickly back. You snore in Brahmaloka, and like that, you come back again. Āsana, Prāṇāyāma, Pratyāhāra, Dhāraṇā, Samādhi—all these. Our prāṇāyāmas, our kuṇḍalinī cakras, our many different techniques and bhajans. The bhajans will create a Brahmaloka together. That is what we will enjoy, and we all become one. Really, we become all one. And how will we go there? Very nice. Which bhajan? “Sai, Helia, Sat…” no, no. What is the bhajan? Another one. Yes, that is also very good, very nice. And the other one is also very nice. Yes, let’s go all together. Let’s all do it together. Let’s sing here in Czech. We will say, “Oh, it’s Czech, but we don’t understand.” Yes, a very nice song, but we don’t know it. Okay. The Yugoslavians will sing. Very nice song. Yes, it’s similar to Czech—no, not Czech. And that word is “Voi Voi.” “Voi Voi.” What is “Voi Voi”? It’s like asking someone, “Do you know where the way is?” And one says, “Voi Voi, that’s the way, that’s the path.” I don’t know; someone said friends also say, “Voi Voi.” So there is something together, but still we cannot enjoy it. Ah, we go to Russia—we don’t know. But do you know Russia? Oh, there’s a very nice bhajan there. Very, very nice. I will ask you sometime. So, translation: “Chalo, chalo” means “let’s come, let’s go.” You understand now? This first word. “Chalo, chalo”—you, you. “Chalo, chalo, sāheliyā, sāheliyā.” All my friends, many girls together, like best friends. We don’t leave the men behind; “sāheliyā” really means not just women or girls or boys—it means our soul, our self. “Sāheliye” means our deep feelings. “Chalo chalo he sāheliyā, Satguru Sāraṅg dhar ke deśa.” Where to go? Let’s go, friends, let’s go. Where? To the Satguru, to the Gurudeva, Sāraṅg dhar ke deśa. Sāraṅg is Brahmaloka, the Supreme, the Highest. Sāraṅg Dhar Ke Deś—dhar means His place. That is the Brahmaloka. It is the same as Brahman. Our mind, our inner self—that is our inner longing. “Sāraṅg dhar ke deś, pīvā har velā ke det.” He is our Lord. He is so great, happy, joyful, everything. That Gurudeva, that Brahman—He is ours, our own, and He is great joy, happiness. What is that? That is the knowledge within ourselves, and it is our desires. “Āvo sīpīvo, āvo lākhe dev, Chalo chalo he sāheliyā, Satguru Sāraṅg dhar ke deśa.” But don’t sing in your sleep, because all will get up and say, “Let’s go.”