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It is nice to see you, and I see many of our brothers and sisters have also arrived. Many went today because they had been here for two weeks, three weeks, and so on. But you all are always present in this whole field. There is an immense amount of energy here from you. Yes. You are walking. You are looking at our trees. In our apple garden—this is a very old one—the trees are not hybrids. These are very different kinds of apples from very ancient times. We are lucky that we don’t have any water coming from the hills or from somewhere with farms that use urea or pesticides. So this is very, very nice, and still, it is not rife. This apple farm gives us fruit for a whole year at our castle. The ground is about eight or ten meters deep, so it is always cool in summer and also good in winter. We also have many other fruits here and many berries. It is very pure; there are no pesticides. There are also many fruits. In this area of our ashram, we have to count how many hundreds of different plants are here. Now, what we call Āyurveda, or how to make treatments for certain diseases—it is not necessary that we apply it to our body—but these many hundreds of different trees and bushes and many things… when the wind blows through all these herbs and trees, we call it the beautiful grass. While sitting there, about a hundred meters away, I observe this whole farm and field. How many different kinds of grass and different plants are there? Today, when we were doing beautiful āsanas—what we call Trikoṇāsana—this Trikoṇāsana has five different postures. But when we were here under the trees and in the field, how much did we feel the energy? So when you go for a walk, and we walk down to our ashram, it is nearly two kilometers. It is 1.6 km, but if we go further to our tilaka, our tilaka is a resting kilometer. So we come to the two-kilometer point where we can again fill our body with energy. We have prāṇa energy and nourishment in our body, our water. This is all very lucky, and I hope it will remain forever for all humans. Walk without your shoes and gloves, socks—walk barefoot so you can get a touch of the Mother Earth. At the same time, we get a very nice massage. The Chinese call it acupressure. It is very important. One day, if you lose your shoes somewhere and you have to run or walk for five kilometers, and if you were never walking without shoes and socks long ago, then in the evening you will put on cold water, but the whole night heat will be coming out. So, who knows when we will need it? We get immense energy. Also, it is said it was a culture. I don’t know, maybe in Europe it was that culture, and in many other countries—Africa, China, Japan, India—that little baby children until two or three years old don’t take any nappy, and often they are running without trousers, and that is it. It becomes a culture. Then they don’t look every day, or every time, at their naked body. It is like we see our face; we see the body. There will be no more disease, but we think we are civilized. Yes, this is also good, but nature and civilization are different. People who live in the Alps in Europe and in some hills, also in other parts in the forest, they live very healthy, so good, still. They can walk long distances, and we cannot. Even our house pets, they have no more strength. They will walk, dogs, but they will come completely exhausted because they have no more touch to the earth and the fair forest alone. In some European countries, if a dog is walking without a master, they have a law that they will shoot it, even if it is a beautiful, good, healthy, and very friendly dog. But they will eat, so they are not animals anymore. They are like an ill, and ill humans also. You were doing prāṇāyāma. How much we were using prāṇāyāma in our lungs was very good. Even when we did not do prāṇāyāma, our inhalation and exhalation were very healthy. So this is one of the best retreats. A retreat is for ill people, and a seminar is for learned people. They are learning more. Yes, they have all the same together. That is a retreat in the hospital. That’s why many Europeans are coming here for seminars. Now, also our water here. Of course, our government takes care of us all very, very much. They protect the water very much, and they are also using some kind of little chemicals, like chlorine, because our water should be healthy. In ancient times, it was not. At the same time, when you go to the high mountains—they are about two or three hundred meters high—when the water comes out from the rocks, how nice is the water. This water is a part of our life. Eat water. Inhale air. Touch the earth. Touch the hands with the stones, rocks. This will give us… it is a retreat. It is healthy. When we don’t do this, there is a lot of cancer coming. But if we have such air… so this ashram in Strelka, Mahāprabhujī Deep Foundation Satsaṅg, you are lucky you are here. Try to practice more your mantra. So, on this earth we have the physical, then we have energy. Our mental? Still, we cannot understand what is the mind. We will not be understanding or complete. Of course, science and medical science have researched very, very much, and they can open our brain, look inside, and again close it. It is a science, and it is for humans. For a long time, the ṛṣis have been in Āyurveda. In Āyurveda, they also had brain operations. It is said—I don’t know the truth or not—but it is said that one hair they could split into two parts. It was, but now it’s more, of course. We cannot compare it to anything. But it was that time, and that time there were great bhaktas, and there were many non-bhaktas. There were great sādhus, swāmīs, and gurus. So, do not think that it is not good. You are lucky. We are blessed. It is God’s blessing, and we understood human life. Of course, we all say that we are Ahiṃsā of the humans, but if the human, then there is called Ahiṃsā. And what is Ahiṃsā? Not only towards humans, but even now we don’t have ahiṃsā towards humans, because humans are ahiṃsā. Ahiṃsā is also through the body, through action, through words, through some wrong words. See also the wrong way, so it’s not only for a human. The trees, the forest, is also ahiṃsā we should have, and we should have ahiṃsā towards the animals. Animals, they do not have that knowledge of ahiṃsā, and therefore, but we have ahiṃsā. So we have to protect ourselves against the wildlife. But humans have forgotten this. Nowadays, you cannot imagine that there are very few people who remain for the ahiṃsā. So our life, how many decades? Very rare nowadays will be about 100, 200. But before, they were more; even someone was 150 years old, 300. Mahāprabhujī is about 135 years. So, as many times we see on Facebook, how old people are there, old people in China and like this. And some, it is the soil that someone was; they died, they said died, and they put it on the earth. But still, life was there and had the prāṇa there. And after, somehow they opened, and the complete body is there. For me, it’s like this: from your mother’s womb you came out, and you went to the Mother Earth. So there were some people in some countries, and it may be also. But I say, God, as long as you give me life… But please don’t get me back with suffering, many operations, many days, and that. And of course we have ahiṃsā, at least towards our families. And we go to the hospital, and we ask the doctor, and this and that, and yes. But some had a little bit of a stomach problem and morning Hari Om. We die. We cry. Oh God, my father. He should have stayed longer. I want to be with my father. Or my mother, we are crying. But on the other hand, we can say, "My parents, you were very good people, and God took you very comfortably." God, we also should go like this, but we don’t want this. When it’s something, then we are asking many questions. So, my dear, doing this, our seminar, and that we call sādhanā. Do some sādhanā. Sādhanā means that we learn this. We accept it, we are using this, sādhanā. Sādhanā means also equipment, facilities; that’s called sādhanā. So we have it at home. Guests come, ten, you are only two, have only two or three glasses and then ten people, so we are a little shy. But all the time, there was a very great system. Doesn’t matter how many will come. All will get water. And that is only one water jar, and we hold it and drink, or one cup. This, second, this, this, everything. But you use it yourself. So we had enough, but now we need something, a nice cup, nice plate, nice water, drinks nicely. Now, who is going to wash? The gentleman is sitting and talking with the people. Mostly the women are very nice. They take it and clean it and put it away. So we are surviving, everybody. So here in this air, God said, "I am giving you air, don’t take it from anyone, just inhale and exhale." And now I am talking, you are talking, but our lungs are constantly inhaling and exhaling. So this is also yogic techniques and yogic life. Some are young, some are very flexible, some are old, or some are not capable. But the inner prāṇa in our body, and all our inner organs, they are helping each other. And so we said, "Practice." So, this is what we are doing: touch your hands to the earth, to your hands, foot, but don’t roll on the green grass. Why? Because you kill the grass, and there are some animals, tiny; you will kill them, so carefully. Yes, you can roll on the beach in hot sand; that’s also prāṇa. And mostly, oxygen is given to us from the ocean. And therefore, sitting near the ocean and making prāṇāyāmas—only running and jumping, and this is not. Now, there are so many instruments making noise on the water, and the water animals, yes, you are killing them with the machine. What is when you have a big, big, what do you call it, big boat? And there is this pump. There was one Austrian man who made this. What did he do? Yes, the Austrian did. What do you think about Austrians? The world-famous, who was this? Musician. So that’s why Austria is the heart of Europe. That’s why, and in that heart is yoga and daily life. All around the world, they are coming. So Austria is beautiful. It is a very good way. When people come to Austria, they said they were in America and London and everywhere, but when they saw Austria and Vienna… And when people come to Austria or to Vienna, whether they have seen London, New York, or America, when they are in Austria and in Vienna, they say, "Oh my God!" Salzburg is hills up and down. There is a musician a little bit, and that’s okay. Yes, you can walk. There are only two streets. I mean, it’s good. People think without Salzburg, you have seen nothing. But it is not like in Vienna, the streets, this, that. Austria, Salzburg was because of Mozart, and there were some good people there. Anyhow, my dear, everywhere is very good. So it is said, it doesn’t matter where you are, in a beautiful place, but finally, when the sun sets, the bird comes back to her nest. And so, where we are born, and there again our soul comes back. And now people have lost their mother, father, country. But when one will die, the soul will search for you. Where is my place? Where did I first come on this earth here? Oh God, I was born there. And you have pulled me somewhere in another country, thousands of kilometers away. God, when will I come to my land? That’s it, that’s it. Doma. So we have to feel, and finally, it is our Mother Earth. And it should be holy. So who will say that which country and the world is not holy? If someone would not say this village, city, or this country is not holy, then this person is lost himself somewhere. So holiness is everywhere; our whole earth is everywhere. And we, all humans and animals, we love our place. Again, I come to this point. Catch this grass. Morning, today. That is the best one. Walk on this earth, on the road. And then walk on this beautiful, gentle grass without socks and shoes. That’s called morning drops on the grass. That is very good. It is like some kind of Āyurvedic treatment. And also, so if you don’t know how to walk, then you will get ill. So then you are cold and sneezing, and you give the vo-vo-vo-vo. Yes, this can happen too, so not too much. Immediately cover your feet. So while walking, you can also make prāṇāyāma, our bastrika prāṇāyāma. But not too strong, only like this, so it gives you again heat in the body. And from the foot, sole, all their many, many glands and everything, there is the end of the roots. And so, again, prāṇa comes up. So this is our seminar, and tomorrow is our beloved Sadguru Dev Swami Madhavānandu Bhagavān. It is his incarnation day, his birthday. Sometimes, because we are counting always according to the astrology, and astrology means according to the moon, sometimes we have thirteen months. Every three years, the fourth is the thirteenth month. Now, how do you count that? It’s very easy. In these twelve months, from January to December, we count twelve months. And what we count, that there is a rising full moon, also twelve months. But the moon is coming a little distance. So sometimes full moons are in 12 months. So if it is 12 months, it is one year. But one moon is there, standing. What to count that? We said, "OK, we have 12. OK, we close the door." Others are there, so we have to say, "Open the door." So then, where? So we open one door more. Thirteen doors, so it is about difference. Nearly one month’s days difference. Now, in this Western culture, after the coming of the Christians, they also know that it is the 13th month. But they make it fixed, something. So what they are doing, you are counting here, so some days are 31, and some are only 30 days, and some are only 28. And after every third day is 29. So in this, they have counted according to the moon of the astrolabe. So, then what we are counting in India is that every three years, there is one month more. So, how many months will that be? Twelve months are coming. So, you have one year completely more. So, until you die at a hundred, or around ninety, then you already have two years. And so we have to count. We have to count the day, not only the month. So this is very interesting. And after the end, it is said there is no day, no time. Who counts the time? Only humans. Who shares the time? There is no time. So we have to go beyond timelessness without any limitation. That will come next time. So in the morning you can look, wash your legs, hands, and just walk, not more than a few minutes, and then close your socks. It was very cold, but then you will see the heat comes out in your feet, and that is a treatment for Āyurveda. But it cannot be in two or three days. It is slowly, slowly. So it is very happy to be here, and we will meditate and make mantra for holy Gurujīs, and give you the blessing of our entire paramparā: Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhvānandyā Bhagavān, Satyasanātana Dharma teacher.