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It is good. You are all happy. I also have good news. The good news is that after five years, there has been good rain again in Rajasthan, especially in Jadan. Our lake is about 150 by 100, 40 or 80 meters long, and 11 meters deep. Good rain came within one night. I think God just said, "Okay, you have all." So, the whole field of the Om Āśram, about half a meter or what we call two feet in height, was water everywhere, everywhere in the district of Pāli. Water is life, and life is water. You say in Western countries also, "Voda je život." And we say, "Jal jahā jagadīś"—where there is water, there is God. Where there is God, there is living, there is life. So, these five elements, we are taking very good care, and it is said very nicely that you must take care of the five elements, especially the water, the fire, and the air. Water is life; you must be very careful. Life is water, but have respect. Even if you are a good swimmer, a good diver, still, your knowledge... you cannot face the water. We had one disciple who was a champion skier, a winner, and he was also a good swimmer and diver. He was teaching people how to dive and swim. Then they had lunch and a rest for two or three hours. He himself wanted to dive deep, and he remained there. We were searching for him, we found him, but he was a good swimmer, a good diver. When the time comes, it is coming. So, with water, we have to be very careful. And fire. Fire is very dangerous. You know, sometimes people are sleeping and smoking a cigarette. Then he puts it down, he sleeps, and a towel falls there. The whole room begins to burn, and that man, half from the smoke and half from the fire. Agni, Jal. This is very important. Agni, Jal, Vāyu, etc. There is a very nice poem from one we call an incarnation. He was at that time an incarnation of God. When the god Rāma was stretching the bow—you know this story—he said that whoever can lift this bow will marry Sītā. Many, many great people, including bodybuilders and kings, went there. On the table, there was the bow. And he said, "Who will come?" Sītā was sitting with her mother and all her girlfriends. That time, for the women, there was the upper balcony, still watching everything. And men don't look. If a man looks to the balcony, you know what that is? Chin up, head. Why are you humiliating the women? Be careful. But now we are neutral. So what we call the male and female should be equal. There was always a higher place for women. Anyhow, everyone came to lift the bow of Śiva. Many great bodybuilders, strong, they were sweating but could not even move it. Everybody thought this girl would not be married, poor girl. Then came God Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa with their Guru. They said, "Rāma, please, you come." People were laughing. All great personalities, and Rāma was so thin. He was thinner than Arjun Purī. That’s why I gave him the name Arjuna, so that he should become a little stronger. Someone humiliated God Rāma, laughing that some prince said, "This bird tried to lift the Himalaya, the whole mountain." All were laughing. Lakṣmaṇa was so angry, but Rāma said, "Brother, be calm." Rāma comes, and Sītā was so happy because all the time when somebody touched the bow, she said, "Oh, I don’t want to marry this one. God, please." When Rāma came, she was praying. Rāma just lifted it. Everyone said, "What is that? Perhaps this was stuck down." Then he said, "Now you have to stretch it, then you are the hero. How to put the string?" So Rāma did like this, and the bow broke. All said, "Oh, this little bird." But that was Rāma, God Rāma. Then it was like an earthquake. There was a ṛṣi—not Viśvāmitra, Paraśurāma, Paraśṛṣi. Paraśṛṣi is one who is in the counting as an incarnation. He was somewhere in the Himalayas, and Rāma was near, in Nepal. So Paraśṛṣi ran and said, "Śiva’s bow, who can dare to break it?" He was so angry, and all the kings were under the chair because he came like this. "Who are you?" he said to God Rāma. And what does Rāma answer? What do you think? He said, "I am your servant." Lakṣmaṇa was so angry. Anyhow, when ego is there, everything destroys you. So, in that time, the power of women was respected in many ways. It is always said, "Mātṛ Devo Bhava"—first, God is mother. And mother is the entire universe. Have you the limitation of the sky? How can you reach that? So one poet said, "If you want to see my power, my rays into the sky, then first lift it to the sky. How much power you have, so lift the sky more up." Can you skydive? Yes. You can even go by rocket. But the sky is endless, and that is the power of the mother. Endless. That’s it. And within that is life. That we call Brahman—not Brahmā, Brahman. That is endless. So you don’t know which is which. Is there Ātmā or that Parameśvara? Or the sky? How can we compare these two things? But that also has the humbleness; humbleness is all the way, like a ball, around everywhere. So those five elements: first is the body for us. This body will not die? No, no, it doesn’t die. The earth will melt into the earth, fire into the fire, water into the water, air into the air, and sky into the sky. These are the five elements with us, and beyond that, then... Is your Paramātmā so still? You did not approach your soul, your ātmā, but first you had purified these five elements. So only āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, it’s okay to survive, somehow survive, yeah, it is true. How long will you go with the āsanas? And how long will you hold the breath? But hold that, your five elements in your control. Therefore, the Annamaya Kośa, the strength of your body. It is said you have the power until you can stand on your legs, but there is a strength from the mother’s milk. Yes, many don’t want to give the milk. They get different milk. That kind of child will have strength, still from the cow or from the buffalo, or goat—not ghost. That’s also mother’s milk, but the real mother, that needs your child. After that, lifelong, that energy, that everything from mother you have, it remains till your last life. Father can go anywhere, but mother must not, mother will not, and father should also not, because without father there is no mother. But both have to be in one place. Then your child, your daughter or son, psychologically... Psychological, that children are suffering here and there. Even the bird which doesn’t give the baby, but it is her egg. You can’t prepare an egg without the bird. Of course we can make it, and you like it that way. A beautiful laddū. Eating laddū, no? Open it, there are no eggs. And if you get now the fertilized egg or the eggs, that is not good. But still, this egg must come through the mother’s body. So, it is the biggest sin. You are killing your mother, suffering. You know how much the chickens are, what you call the suffering? And how much they have to give out, out, out. She has a feeling. Though there is no, maybe no egg inside, life. Without life, the egg cannot become. So, if you are a woman here, then please, don’t eat yourself. Who is yourself? The chicken. And this chicken is your mother, yourself. So you see, you should have at least... man, it doesn’t matter. He can, in the river, he will come out. But have you a love for that creature? That’s it. So, I think nowadays, from today, tell everybody: we are women, and we women make power. All females, it doesn’t matter if they are humans or animals, we will protect them, yes. And that is also the cause. All others, goats, sheep, buffalo, all, how we are torturing them. Recently, someone said it was in a good science newspaper: if we want to save this earth and humanity, then we should stop eating meat. Otherwise, that meat will be such that you will be completely ill. And you know how many cancers there are? From where is it coming? So it means that these elements, which we have first understood, are our Annamaya Kośa. The Annamaya Kośa is in your mother’s body, your embryo, until that, and nourishment. How did you nourish in your womb? The mother did not give you milk in the womb. She did not give you ice cream there, or she didn’t give you the yogurt or orange juice. No. Mother has everything reserved, and she is nourishing us. So it is a science, if you want to go to science. Everything, how to do. But in this sense, many people have no humbleness at all. That doesn’t matter for them, but the mother doesn’t matter. Animal mother, the bird’s mother, in the beautiful tree, a bird brings the grass, makes a beautiful nest, and then she lays the egg. And she doesn’t run away here and there. She is only about 20 or, at most, 100 meters away. And the eye, the bird’s eyes are in the water, the fish, the fish eye. So why is the mother always watching? She doesn’t look like this. The bird’s eyes are also moving. And she comes and sits on the egg. It needs mother’s warmth, and she sits so peacefully. You don’t understand. We don’t speak to understand the human. But she is definitely talking with her ego. And she knows when she will open it. And how nice, a beautiful baby is coming. Immediately, they open their beak. And now, mother has a lot of work to do, and an enemy that takes a baby. Still, the mother has the pain, and she will search somewhere else for a protected nest in some bush, and it’s a thorny bush so little birds can go in but big birds cannot go and take the egg. Also, the snake cannot go there. So many thorns. So how is the mother protecting the child? And so the human mother is also protecting the children. When you have a child, then men and women, do not talk and do not think of sex. Not this kind of life anymore. You have no problem, but you are now living for the child. That’s it. Both father and mother live for a child. This is a very fragile subject. We are all keeping away. So that, oh man, when you have a child, then forget that you will go away from your wife or husband. Go. Or, you have no love for your child. And it was not, you didn’t give the child a mother and a father just out of emotion, nothing else at all. So, the Annamaya Kośa, the whole Annamaya Kośa, has within it both hell and heaven. All karmas, all actions, everything that is happening with this physical body, it means Annamaya Kośa. And that Annamaya Kośa has to be completely protected by the Prāṇamaya Kośa. There are so many different kinds of prāṇa, you should know. When a little baby is coming, it doesn’t matter, humans or animals or birds, that is what we call, we protect them. This is prāṇa. The mother will give the whole prāṇa, the father will give the whole prāṇa. We take care of this life, so that is the prāṇamaya kośa. So prāṇa has different aspects, and therefore you should have proper, good nutrition. And when your child is—when you should say, "Now you can be free." Until your child has finished their studies, then gotten a job, then gotten married, then where do the parents go? Seventy-five, one prasthāsana, one prasthāsana, and after seventy-five, sannyāsa. But Śaṅkarācārya said, "When you are seventy-five, what will you serve the world?" We will serve you, therefore, if you have vairāgya, then you can at any time become a sannyāsī. But do not become a sannyāsī out of emotion only. And then after five years, oh God, I could have married. Oh God, I want my husband, but now I am a sannyāsī. And all men are passing by. Then she, she is looking. So she begins to sing bhajana. "Bhajana manare mari dunya javere." She is singing like this. And why is she singing like this? She is putting the birds away. Which is the bird? That man. She says, "Go away." There is no Vairāgya. So, vairāgya without vairāgya does not make a sannyāsī. Otherwise, you will suffer. So, really, thousand percent, now someone, we don’t like his wife, not he doesn’t like his wife, the wife doesn’t like him, then again he’s getting another wife, again like that, then he said, "I don’t want anyone." Sannyāsa. After two years or ten months, I will search for some wife again, that is not, it’s called, what, what she said, frustration, no, no... No more Vairāgya, the Vairāgya is only a little. Like there are different kinds of Vairāgya, many, many Vairāgya. But I give you a very good example. You have about 500, 200, 100, 50, or 20 friends. And one of your friends died. And we are all going to the grave, to bring him to their grave. And all are sad, and everyone said, "Life is nothing. Sooner or later, we also die. Oh God! Better to die." That’s called Vairāgya. Which kind of Vairāgya? An emotional Vairāgya: "My friend died, and I also will die. Oh God! Life is nothing." And then after the funeral, they go to... in Europe, there is a system: you call them somewhere to a restaurant, and then they begin to have beer, then alcohol, then this eating, and all are laughing. Yeah, Francisca, hey France, big is dear. Big is dear. Forgotten. Just now, after half an hour, you burned that inside your friend. And forgotten. And now you eat other chicken. This is not a Vairāgya, and so is the Vairāgya. Many, many of you here said, "Oh, look how is our sitting here? What is her name? Mantra Purī." And she is sitting in the heat. In India, it is very hot, and she is sitting there. "Why did I become a sannyāsī? It would be better if I went. It is nice and cool, and nice. Swāmījī, please, I have one girlfriend, and she is very ill. She needs me. Can I go?" You need the cool environment. Not there. So, she’s coming here. Mahāprabhujī said, "Aha. Let’s have 35 degrees." Here, now, it is hot everywhere, and there is no ventilation, no air conditioning. In Jadan, at least in the ashram, we have air conditioning. This is a vairāgya. Where is the tapasyā? Tapasyā means that you are in the fire. This is, without tapasya, you cannot go to mokṣa. But they said, "I also want to sit in the front. Orange cloth, please. Swamiji, I want to become a sannyāsī." I said, "Very good, great." But why are you getting sannyāsa? "Oh, I am fed up with my husband and my children, and I have no job, but I am a vairāgī sannyāsī." So this is not. But look at our Pārvatī, from the day when she took sannyāsa, she is really a sannyāsī. Really. And of course, Vivek Purī and Ānandī, they are only sannyāsīs in 10 years. So it’s not even one decade. Not 12 years, so they are on the good way. The balance is a little bit like when they are walking, you know. They go for a walk in Zagreb. Very nice. Little hills, and I’m looking, and how, who is walking? Our Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarjī, walking like this, and our Ānandī, that’s life, it’s good, very good, but they are talking, then I put my ear like that. So when I am doing my ear like this, like that, then you must know that someone, Swamiji, is listening. So, what are they talking about? Like a parrot who was talking in Vedānta with the Śaṅkarācārya, so, this is a Śaṅkarācārya and this is a parrot, and where are they talking? To go into the house. Which one? To Swāmījī’s. That’s it! So many, many. Tapasyā is very, very good. You can’t imagine. And in this time of this yuga, out of 5,000 sannyāsīs, 5,000, or maybe 10,000, 20,000 real tapasvīs, is maybe one. But I say to Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī and Alakhpurījī, I had a tapasyā. But I said now, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, "Please, can I get a, what you call, a digest? I want to detest, not a test." So Mahāprabhujī says, "Yes, which is a test?" "I want the test. Yes, so what test do you want? Yes, Swamiji, I’d like to have coffee, I want to have tea, I will relax now, good satsaṅg. Yes, a test. Let me be a test now, the test that’s only outside." So Mahāprabhujī said, "Okay, eat what you like. You are my child." So we are children, and always we go to children, say yes, but slowly, slowly. If you go quickly, you break your legs, like me. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, "You see, all Vedas, everything is there." What is not with Mahāprabhujī, I tell you? All Qur’ān, Purāṇa, everything. Mahāprabhujī said, "If you want to become a sannyāsī," yes, okay. Perfect. Great. Then, let’s go. I didn’t say it today. Mahāprabhujī said it, okay? I didn’t say it to you today. It is. Mahāprabhujī said. So many are going today, and I wish you a very good journey. All the best, and we will see you again. Who knows tomorrow, next week, in the Himalayas or in Vṛndāvana. Hari Om.