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Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagvānkī, Śrī Śrī Deveśvar Mahādevkī, Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagvānkī, Satya Sanātan Dharmkī. Good evening to everybody. Welcome to our afternoon program. Today is the fourth day of our retreat or seminar in this beautiful ashram, Śrī Mā Prabhu Dīp Satsaṅg Foundation, Strelky, Czech Republic. I also welcome our international friends around the globe who are with us now through the webcast. Today, I can promise you that the cameraman will show you better views and the panorama of the ashram. This place is pollution-free, neither physical pollution nor what we call sound pollution. With the mental pollution, I cannot promise. Everyone sitting here has different kinds of thoughts and feelings. That's very individual. But the majority of us are very positive people. Our subject is always Yoga in Daily Life, an authentic and scientific system based on ancient authentic yogic literatures. In this seminar, we have Patañjali, the great ṛṣi Patañjali, who is leading his disciples toward self-realization, giving many examples. Patañjali is known as the father of psychology. It was the yogīs who understood what life is, the entire creation on this planet. It was yogīs who said there are 8.4 million different creatures on this planet, divided into three categories: Jalchar, Thalchar, and Nabchar—creatures in the water, on the earth, and in the space. They understood the life of each and every entity, as well as the life within the vegetation. In the Vedas, it is said that even a tree has a soul. A tree is life, but there is a different level of consciousness. The yogis followed the path from stone consciousness to cosmic consciousness. Many of you know about stoneology, different kinds of stones, how they influence our life. The yogis were the ones who experimented, researched, and found that every planet has a particular stone, and every planet has a very individual influence on every creature, not only humans. There are stones, and when water flows through those stones, it creates such energy that our plants and vegetation can survive for a long time. For the last three years, I have been making an experiment or witnessing. Someone gave me a glass ball. Inside, there are some kind of stones and water. When I get some cut flowers, I put them in a flower vase with the same water, and some flowers I put in that glass ball where the stones are. The flowers which are in the flower vase survive a maximum of five days. If you change the water and take more care, and it's cold weather, then one week. But the flowers which are in the glass ball, which has stones inside, survive more than six months and begin to get roots. Sometimes, because it's boring to have the same flower, you may change them. There was a leaf of one plant which survived in that water for about one and a half years. The roots grew about 15 centimeters, so we put it in the earth. But it couldn't sprout, couldn't give branches, because the leaves, they don't have a knot in the stem. Where there is no knot, it cannot produce a bunch. The leaf itself became thicker and stronger, like leather. I went to India. Someone put that flower near a cold draft, near the window, and 20% was damaged from cold. It survived nearly two and a half years. Now, this is not what I want to talk about, the plants. But the prāṇa, which is created through the stones, is indescribable, and it is for our health too. So whenever possible, I drink water from such stones, which is put in a glass pot or glass jar. But my problem is that I am hardly four nights in one place. To carry the stone everywhere with you would be a little bit funny. It's good, but certain countries have strict security; they don't allow you to bring any rocks and stones. So what I want to tell you is that stones also have life. They have energy, and the stone is growing, the crystal. It was the yogīs who researched the entire planet's life, as well as astronomy and astrology. Astrology is known as the third eye of God. If you know astrology very well, you can see everything, past and present, through astrology. But there is a practice, a very concentrated practice. And palmistry—palmistry is known as the philosophy of the ocean. On the top or on the surface, the ocean has many waves, but at the bottom, it's very peaceful. Through the different lines on your hands, on foot soles, on your forehead, on your cheeks, on your chin, they all indicate something about your destiny. Also, the wrist and the lines here on the wrist. And every ten years, the lines change. Your destiny takes some curve. If you know palmistry, you can try to direct your life too. The lines which are disappearing will appear again if you change the way of your life. This is the knowledge. It was the yogīs who gave the knowledge of the Vedas. Anant Brahmāṇḍ Śāstra Sūrya—endless universe and thousands of sun systems. Thousands and thousands of suns. The 14 different worlds and 2100 sun systems were witnessed by yogīs. When you practice Nāḍī Yoga, when you practice self-inquiry meditation, when you come to the higher level of your consciousness, your self becomes that instrument which is able to collect all the information in this universe. Life on the planet—we know from modern scientists, and we know all of us, we call our beautiful Mother Earth. Earth. First, God is mother. Mātṛ deva bhava. Are you kind to your mother? Are you good to your mother? We have two mothers. One is the planet Earth, and one is our mother who carried us for nine months in her body. Through her body, we were nourished and got this beautiful, healthy body. We in this Kali Yuga neither care about our mother nor about our mother planet. What kind of children are we? Many yogīs used to say, and many wise people said, Mother Earth is crying. Mother Earth is ill. And all these pesticides created cancer on her body, like skin cancer. Guilty are the humans, the human greed, the pollution of the human mind. So the life, the soul, and the origin of the soul, which is known as Mother Earth, our beautiful planet, and all creatures on this planet, and which is departing from this, coming to the different worlds, different lokas, originated from one divine consciousness. I'm very happy that you see the Śiva Purāṇa, and it may become clear to you. The very first in this creation is that Śiva in the form of light and sound, Oṁ. And that light is the light of our Ātmā, our soul, our ātmā. This is the light of the creation. Everything is manifested from this. Therefore, the yogis discovered: if you cause pain, it doesn't matter in which way—physically, mentally, intellectually, emotionally, socially, economically, and so on—it is a violence. Those who are doing violence in society will be punished by the judge; we will be known as criminals. But there are certain violences which they can't see, but God sees. So karmic punishment comes back to every creature, and therefore it is a non-violence, ahiṃsā. That ahiṃsā is the way to God. Ahimsa is love. We say God is love, and love is God. That love which is known as a universal love to every creature, to every plant, every tree, and to thyself too. That was the middle point of Patañjali's teachings. And so the disciple, people like all of us, were very curious, inspired. We became disciples, aspirants, spiritual seekers, God-loving, life-loving, with hearts full of love, thoughts full of love, actions full of love, who would like to know more about this and more about our origin. It is a Svabhāva, the nature of every creature, to know its origin. You saw, in the very beginning of the Śiva Purāṇa, Brahmā, the creator, whom Śiva told to create this beautiful planet and gave the duty to Viṣṇu to take care. Brahmā, who came on the lotus, went to see, "Where is my origin?" He took the ages, but couldn't find where its origin is. Similarly, it will take us ages, lives and lives, to know where our origin is, that Brahman, so that we can come and become one with that. As soon as Brahmā begins to create, first what he experienced was disappointment. You remember? Yes. And so, even Brahma himself was disappointed, Vishnu was disappointed, Shiva also sometimes had to think over and do what all requested him to do. Then, from which gardens, carrots we are. In India, we said, "Mūlī kā bāg kā?" So the radish, you know, or the carrot, from which garden you are. That's it. Who are we in this endless universe? We are such tiny bacteria that we are not even visible with a telescope. And you think that you will be the governor of this world? That was the human's ego, and that is the cause of the wars. All the times in the past, in every century, there was a war because those people who led the war did not know what they wanted. They would like to be the ruler of the entire planet. And where are they now? Again, in the womb of the mother, this planet. We are here temporarily. Day before yesterday, we spoke about time. Yesterday also here we spoke about time. You cannot buy time. You cannot stop time, and you cannot step out of time. So time will bring the truth, and we will see. Therefore, do not ignore time. Be aware of this time. With this kind of thinking, Patañjali, with a loving heart, very gently, but giving such direct instructions—some may like and some may not. But nothing that he taught was disliked. Everything was truth. Such beautiful thoughts. That disciple became thirsty again, like a thirsty man waiting for every drop of water, or a thirsty bird waiting for a drop of water. And so we all, we are all practitioners, we all are the seekers, and we nourish and we drink the nectar of the wisdom from this all—Āgamas, Vedas, Upaniṣads, and the words of great saints. That's called śruti and smṛti. Śruti means what we heard, the knowledge from the masters. Brahmaniṣṭha śrotriya—the Satguru is that. Brahmaniṣṭha means who is one with the Brahman, knower of the Brahman. And Śrotriya, that he or she can speak and inspire us, motivate us, answer all our questions, and lead us towards Brahman. Śrotriya is the saint who is speaking. And Śruti is that which he spoke, and Smṛti is memory. Now, how must you preserve? That you must give further. If your memory is not good, you may give wrong information. Therefore, Patañjali is speaking about different kinds of vṛttis. There are many, many vṛttis, kliṣṭa-akliṣṭa vṛttis—the good vṛttis and bad vṛttis. The good vṛttis, the thoughts which inspire us to walk comfortably on our spiritual path, which supports, which helps, which guides, which protects, which strengthens our vairāgya. Without vairāgya, you cannot come through. And vairāgya cannot be realized without satsaṅg. Mahāprabhujī said in one of the bhajans, "Vairāgya naī hove lāl binā satsaṅg." O my dear, you cannot realize vairāgya without satsaṅg. Vairāgya means detachment. Vairāgya and rāga, these are two. Vairāgya is detachment, and rāga is attachment. When we see a small baby, it doesn't matter from whom—human, pig, dog, cat, donkey, horse, cow, any—immediately, we have a feeling of love, and we say, "Oh, how beautiful this baby is." Yes, it is true. That is the pure love. That's a pure love, and that pure love is on the Vairāgya side. But then comes the attachment. And now, how is the attachment influencing your selfishness? A small story. There were two brothers, loving each other very much. Of course, brothers are brothers. They wouldn't eat without seeing each other. The youngest brother tells the elderly brother, "Everything is yours, brother. I don't need anything." Elderly one says, "No, no, all is yours, I don't need anything." No fighting for property. And now you know, when the brothers grow, they even tell the parents, "Write all property in my name." Just now happened, 20 days ago. One man who was working in the army came home, and his father, who was also working in the army, was retired now. And he had one brother also. So the young man who came from the army took the gun and said to his father, "Write all property on my name, not half-half. Otherwise, I will be a fatherless son. You see, the bullet is inside." Son said to the father. Father said, "Well, I have another bullet too. I will be a sonless father." What do you think? Is this a relation of father and son? No. That is something terrible. If brother, like God Rāma and his brother Bharata, that's it—ready to give everything to the brother or to the sister, of course. Okay, sisters? But the rules are like this: the sister's gates already more than half of the properties. You know gold, and these, and when married, they seek it so much. But now, even if she gets married, she still has the right to share the ancestors' property. So these both brothers, they were loving each other so much. Living together, one kitchen. Living together means one kitchen. His family and his other brother's family lived together, ate all together, and shared everything. So one kitchen means they are sharing all together. One day, the youngest brother was sitting on the roof of his house, and both of them had one child, one son each. Now, the elderly brother went to the market, and on the way, he saw a nice, beautiful, big mango. Oh, beautiful. You can say a nice apple, or you can say some nice peach. But mango is known as the king of fruits. Lotus is the king of flowers. Peacock is the king of the birds. So he had in both hands one mango each. One mango was a little bigger, the other one was a little smaller, but both were mangoes. He came from the market having mangoes in his hands. And both children, his son and the son of his brother, they ran and said, one said, "Father, father, mango!" The other was, "Uncle, uncle, beautiful mangoes!" And he loved the children very much also. So he turned over. Look, even he was not aware of that, and he doesn't remember. The younger brother said, "Brother, I was sitting on the roof of the house yesterday when you came. Your both children came to you, my son and your son." And he said, "Yes." "And they asked you to give them mangoes." He said, "Yes." "Your son was on the right side." He said, "Yes." "And you had, my son was on the right side." He said, "Yes." "And the left side was your son." He said, "Yes." "You had a bigger mango on the right hand." He said, "Yes." "Then why did you make hands like this, my brother?" He couldn't look into the eyes of his brother. He looked down. "Yes, brother, it was my selfishness, my attachment, my..." That is the biggest rock on our path. That means the discrimination. When I say, "It is mine," now who are they? Duality. And we must have non-duality. We should have a love like immediately our love awakes in the heart for a small baby of any creature or our human baby. That is the universal love; that's pure love. Attachment is that where you say, "It's mine." You give the big portion to yours, and this big portion is because of our attachment, moha. Moha is the cause of all troubles, and moha is the biggest obstacle on your spiritual path, or your journey towards the universe. Yes, the blood is thicker than water. Blood relation has more nearness. But a wise one who realizes will say, "Without water, there is no blood," and there is the wisdom. So renounce. Therefore, holy Gurujī, our Satguru Dev, Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ Swāmī Madhavānandjī used to say, "Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice." What did you sacrifice in your life? Without vairāgya, you cannot. So rāga and vairāgya. Raga is attachment. Where there is raga, there is disappointment. Where there is raga, there is pain. Where there is raga, there is anger. Where there is raga, there is hate. Where there is rāga, there is jealousy. Where the rāga is greediness, and where the rāga is cruelty. And where the rāga is separation. But where the vairāgya is, there is love, there is understanding, there is beauty. There is no sign of disappointment. There is no fear. But where there is raga, there is fear. That raga, attachment, is so deep in our heart. Who dares to say something to my child? Who dares to say something to my wife, to my husband, to my parents, to my property? This is this. How long have you been here? This is a hotel. You have to check out. If you take something from the hotel, you have to pay. That's it. So this bird, we are a bird sitting temporarily for one night on the tree. Rain basera. Rain basera means one night's rest. Morning dawn will come, and birds will fly. Similarly, the dawn of the astral world will appear, and this body will remain, this body, the tree. And that soul is a bird that will fly. What did you gain from here? What did you take with you from here? Only one thing: your karma, your deeds. Good deeds—you took the good things with you. Bad—you took the bad things. The name of God, your mantra, your spiritual work, that will create a beautiful destiny, and you will be welcomed somewhere. Or bad things, you will be welcomed by different ones. That perhaps we will see today in Śiva Purāṇa. How are the different ones? So Patañjali is talking about vṛttis. Patañjali researched from the body, mind, emotion, intellect, memory, thoughts, the soul, consciousness, Ātmā, and Paramātmā. How is this individual linked to the cosmic one? And which is the safe way to come through? That is why we call it yoga. So think over what I said. How much attachment do you have? Can you convert your attachment into love, or are you not able to do so? That depends on you. That's not my subject. That's your problem, not my problem. So I wouldn't say problem, the subject. Some people used to say, "Your coffee is not my coffee." So drink up your coffee, okay? So attachment, detachment. So which kind of quality would you like to have for the attainment to come to the Supreme? Therefore, Patañjali said, "Tadā draṣṭā, tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpeṇa avasthānam." That drashtā, you are the drashtā. That has a vṛtti: who am I? And fix yourself on that ātmā, then automatically all vṛttis will merge and become one strength for you to go towards the Ātmā. For today, that is enough. I wish you all the best and a good appetite. Satsang will begin again at 7:30. Webcasting will be tomorrow, same time, dear brothers and sisters. See you tomorrow. And satsaṅg, we are not webcasting because we are on the meadow and there is little light, so all right, see you tomorrow. God bless you.