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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagvānkī, Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādevkī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagvānkī. Good evening to everybody, all dear brothers and sisters around the world. Blessings are coming from the Śrī Mahāprabhū Deep Satsaṅg Foundation, the ashram in Strelka, in the beautiful country of the Czech Republic. This ashram's nature is very beautiful, indescribable. Every day you see a new vision, a new view, a new kind of landscape with beautiful trees. To be here for a retreat or a seminar is a blessing for us. To breathe here for 24 hours is equal to one year of prāṇāyāma in the city. But prāṇāyāma in the city is not healthy because there is a lot of pollution. This is a place where you can find your peace, time to think, meditate, practice your āsanas and prāṇāyāmas. We had a wonderful walk through the forest, a wonderful hike. The forest we were in today is untouched nature. We did many mantras and physical efforts, going up and down, straight, through the trees, under the trees, beside the trees—only we were not above the trees. But in some way, yes, when we were looking high up from the hill at the beautiful trees down below. God Brahmā created this world very carefully, and these trees are our life. We cannot imagine the world without trees or without any vegetation. In Hinduism, the tree has a title or an equal place as a saint. Sarvar means lake, Tarvar means tree, Sant means saint, and May means rain. These four have manifested, incarnated, and are here on this planet for the benefit of every creature, not only humans. Therefore, it is our prime duty to protect, serve, and look after these four great living examples: the tree, the saint, the lake, and the rain. Yesterday we spoke about love for all creatures. It is not acceptable that humans kill animals, destroy forests, pollute lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans, and do not respect or listen to the great saints. If we would listen, we would be liberated, but humans have become greedy. Humans are caught in the prison of attachment. As long as you say "my, my," you are not free. But it is our planet, with our brothers and sisters living in different forms of life. You see, a nice cool breeze is coming. Everyone is feeling good. No trees, no air element—finished. And the space, Ākāśa, has so much room for everything to multiply. The wind comes and takes all our smells away. Who is sitting there has an intensive quality, but the space absorbs it, divides it into billions of parts, and that means purification. No air, no cool air from the trees, only hot and hot and hot sun. Can you imagine? Many of us cannot because we live in this very blessed part of the world. When I was in Nigeria for the first time, we made a journey through the country. We got up at 3 o'clock, started at 4:30, and packed our picnic lunch. I said we would sit under a tree to eat. From 4:30 until 1 o'clock, we did not find one tree. We drove more than 800, 900 kilometers. I kept saying, "A tree will come, a tree will come." No trees. Hot sun. Little thorny bushes. We had to stop and eat something. We sat under our car's shadow, but the sun was directly above, so the car gave little shade. Life is a struggle there, so we need this beautiful forest. Patañjali speaks about citta vṛtti. Yesterday we spoke: citta vṛtti nirodha. Citta is our consciousness, that awakened part connected with our intellect. There are so many thoughts you cannot imagine; within your consciousness, it is a jungle. But this forest jungle is healthy, while the jungle of thoughts is not. So how to prevent the restless, nonsense, unhealthy thoughts of citta vṛtti? First, give up attachment. Attachment is a prison; detachment is freedom. Imagine you made a mistake and were sentenced to 18 months in prison. How do you feel? You don't just relax there. You have to clean, work in the field. It's not sleeping and relaxing. I remember a story about a man, about 60 years old. After 35 years, we are all old; that is the peak of our life, then we go down. Maximum, we may survive 70 years. The young generation, we don't know how long they will survive due to pollution, pesticides, chemicals in nourishment and everywhere. Humans have made their own way of life very miserable. Money is not everything. One wise American said, "When the last fish will die and the last tree will be chopped down, then, oh man, you will realize you cannot eat your dollars." You may have a car boot full of Czech crowns and be hungry, but nowhere to buy food. Can you eat your crowns? But a man with a small house and garden, who has potatoes, tomatoes, corn, apples—he may not have money, but he is happy he can survive because he has something to eat. So, concentrate on nature. Someone said every culture is good, but the best culture is agriculture. Concentrate on agriculture. The global crisis we have now, I can tell you, if everyone learned some kind of handwork, there would be no problem of employment. Learn handwork. In all your gardens, don't just water the grass. Cultivate fruits, vegetables, corn, wheat, and grains. Keep a milk cow—one cow between five families. How nice. No pesticides. You don't need anything from industrial dairy; you don't know what they put in. The global crisis can be overcome, and people can be released from this shock if they develop multi-talents and learn different kinds of work. So, the 60-year-old man: his wife was always very angry with him, and his children did not follow him. You know, as long as there is juice in the lemon, you love it. When everything is squeezed out, that lemon is thrown in the garbage. At 60 years, my dear, you will see if your darling still loves you as a darling. The reality will come; it is not me saying it, it is Mother Nature. The man was not happy at home, and one day he was angry and beat his wife. The wife went to the police. The police had to take the report, and the judge gave him five years in prison. Boys, don't beat your wives, okay? Relax for five years. When the five years ended, they took him to court. The judge said, "Mr. So-and-so, your five years have passed. Don't make such a mistake again. Today you are free from prison." The man was now 65. He began to cry loudly. The judge thought, "Perhaps he's emotional, happy to go home." His lawyer asked, "Why are you crying?" The man said, "I don't want to go home. I want to stay in prison." The judge asked why. He said, "Because here was a much better life than at home. I don't have to quarrel every day with my wife, being asked ten times to make coffee." The lawyer told him, "Do some mistake again so you can come back to prison." The man said, "Good idea." He stood up, took the chair he was sitting on, and threw it at the judge. The judge said, "Seven years prison." The man said, "Please, ten years. Or should I throw one more chair?" There are different situations, but the most terrible prison is attachment, greediness. "My, my, my." And those you call "my" will not be yours. Therefore, finally, for all of us, the last shelter is God. We trust in God, believe in God, believe our holy scriptures, believe the Guru Vākyas. We should wake up to realize we are human, and this human life is given to become free from this karmic prison torturing us through our destinies. Destiny is the fruit or result of our karmas. Where to give our love? Where to feel belonging? Therefore we say, "Vāsudeva Kuṭumbakam." The whole world is my family. When I concentrate on individual persons, I become very bounded and attached. The earth is our bed, the sky is our roof, and the whole world is our house. All humans are my brothers and sisters, and all creatures are my friends and brothers and sisters also. With universal consciousness, you have God-realization, divine visions, enlightenment, and what not. Therefore, Patañjali says to try to overcome, reduce, and control all your thoughts and feelings. The greatest enemy of humans is laziness. You had a mother and father in every life. Brothers and sisters, husband and wife, children—you had them in every life. But Gurudev, God-realization, and the chance to become one with God is only in this human life. This jīva in this body has been sleeping for many, many lives, but still the laziness has not become less. The time you spend in sleep is lost time, and the time spent in laziness is a sin—you are not aware of the time God gave you in this human form. This is a discrimination toward time. You kill time, lose time, because you don't know its value. In Western countries, they say time is money, but we say time is so precious you cannot buy it with money or any precious stone. Time is as precious as your life, as precious as God. Can you imagine someone telling you, "Now you have only five hours left to live"? How would your psychic condition be? How many messages would you send? "Mama, papa, come quickly! Only three hours left!" Every second would be like billions of crowns or dollars. You would beg the doctor, "I'll give everything, please save my life, give me time." Then you would know what time is. Now we don't know. Especially in Brahma Muhūrta, the morning hour—from one hour before sunrise until one or two hours after sunrise—is a very special time. In Brahma Muhūrta, nectar is flowing. As the sun rises, life and energy come. If you meditate at this time, you gain great benefit. If you sleep, you lose it. Holy Gurujī often said, "Those who have many sins from their past life and a dark destiny find sleep very sweet in Brahma Muhūrta." Nothing seems more beautiful than sleep at that hour. If your husband tries to wake you up, he should have a bulletproof jacket. For the sinner, pāpīko brahmamūrt, we also call it amṛtvelā, the time of nectar. Laziness becomes your destructive power, sitting on you like a devil. Like pressing a football under water—it wants to come up but can't. Laziness is very tricky, very sweet. It plays a game that you like. That's why everyone likes Yoga Nidrā. In the afternoon, 98% of you who practice Yoga Nidrā, after 10 minutes you don't know what the instructor is saying. Therefore, the time given to us in human life is very precious. This human body is a diamond. You cannot buy or exchange this diamond in the entire universe. Now you are old. Do you think you can get out of this body, go to someone new, and say, "Give me a young body to jump into"? No. God doesn't know this business; He doesn't want this business. Therefore, Gurujī wrote a bhajan: O my brothers, wake up, wake up! Your chance is going away; you are losing it. Sleepiness is the sign of ignorance, tamas guṇa. Like heavy dark clouds on the horizon—that is your laziness, your sleep, your ignorance. And you think, "Ah, beautiful." "Get up, you have to go to work, darling." "I know, I still have 20 minutes." That is laziness. The result? Janam janam duḥkhapāy. Life after life you will suffer. You will have to go through different forms of life and suffer there. No one can help you. Just now we heard, "Don't go to the forest at four o'clock; hunters are hunting." We can't do anything. We can't go to the hunters and say, "Please don't kill them." Though the animals would like us to help, we have no power. What is their situation? Ten or five are together; one targets and shoots a deer. The others, poor things, know what happens. They love their family, children, parents, brothers, and sisters. Don't think they don't know, but they can't do anything. So this killer, next time, will be that deer, and that deer will become human to shoot them again and again. So, janam janam dukh pāī—through this laziness, you will suffer life after life. When a doctor comes with an injection, even with a fine, small needle, our heartbeat goes up. Everyone has fear. Even a tree has fear when you go with an axe. Therefore, try to develop healthy vṛttis in your consciousness. Healthy vṛttis, so you think, "I would like to be like that. I will respect time." Quit your television programs at night. Quit your internet at night. Quit going to the pub or gambling at night. Quit telephone calls at night and go to sleep early. If you can't sleep, meditate. The next day, get up at Brahma Muhūrta. It doesn't matter how. Tell yourself, "Go under cold water. I will see if you wake up or not." The whole day, don't sleep. In the evening, go to sleep early. Can't sleep? No problem. Make your bed. Early morning, get up under cold water, run, do āsanas and prāṇāyāma. Work the whole day with no sleeping; by evening you will be tired quickly. That's how to change the program. It is very easy and depends on you. This jīva has been sleeping for many, many lives. There is no end to the sleep of this jīvātmā. So, humans should wake up. We will sing this bhajan in the evening. So, citta vṛtti nirodha—what Patañjali says again and again. When you are inspired by the Master's words, Guruvākya, when inspired by the śāstras (ancient literatures), when inspired in satsaṅg, then some new vṛttis awaken in you. Now, what to do? Where to begin? At that time, Patañjali said to put your vṛttis in the right direction. Don't control or stop thoughts, but give direction to your thoughts toward beautiful thoughts. Tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe 'vasthānam. At that time, the draṣṭā—the seer, the witness, you—fixes your thoughts in your svarūpa, your Ātmā, your Self. Realize this situation I have described. Now, where is the solution? Detachment upon detachment. As Śaṅkarācārya said in his beautiful bhajan: "Cidānanda rūpa, cidānanda rūpa, śivo'ham, śivo'ham, śivo'ham." You know this bhajan well, where he says, "I am not these elements, not these thoughts, neither this body, nor these indriyas, nor these prāṇas. I am no mother, no father. There is no master, no disciple. I am the divine chidānanda-svarūpa, the supreme consciousness, the cosmic consciousness, the Ātmā." But if you have attachment, you are like a little mouse running under the furniture here and there. It depends on you; it is in your hands. So, tadā draṣṭā svarūpeṇa avasthānam. At that time, through meditation, the draṣṭā—you are the draṣṭā. Saurūpaha—what is my form? Who am I? I am not the body. I am not the indriyas. I am not these prāṇas—pañcaprāṇas, upaprāṇas. I am not a mother, father, or child. I am Ātmā. Fix your thoughts in Ātmā jñāna, in the Ātmā. Then there can be liberation or realization. Otherwise, it is not easy to realize what I am telling you. So, develop discipline. Wake up tomorrow morning, everyone. At 5:20, get out of your laziness, the dark cloud of your laziness. Come out. Put all your bad things which are sleeping in the halls, in the garden. Go under a very cold shower. Then walk around the whole garden. Go to your program, sit there, meditate, and pray. That is why you came here. You gave money, took precious holiday time from family. You could have done this at home too. To get rid of laziness and make it easier, try to eat less bread, less rice—reduce all kinds of grains by 50%. You will see how easy the next morning will be. Or, don't eat anything after this dinner. But our real dinner begins at 11:30? No, you clean out your freezer, empty it so nothing rots. That is not a way of life. Even for dinner, eat only 50% of your capacity. Maybe tomorrow there will be no dinner. No flute, no noise. A very good idea. Tomorrow the Americans said, "Quit dinner." Okay. Thank you. Breakfast will be only some liquid. Lunch will be some green leaves. How nice. Very nice. So, I wish you all the best. Tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe 'vasthānam. At that time, the practitioner in meditation realizes, "Who am I?" and draws all vṛttis, all thoughts, toward that direction. What will happen then? I will tell you tomorrow. I wish you all the best and a very good time. Relax, get out your laziness, and go have a little dinner. We will see you for prayers, bhajans, and again we will have Śiva Purāṇa. Till then, all the best, and God bless you.