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Grays have such feelings, beautiful feelings. Do not think that everyone applies henna to their hair merely to appear beautiful or young. Your own natural hair is more beautiful than colored hair. If your hair is artificially colored and has some kind of artificial gel on it, do not go near bees. Otherwise, the bees will attack you. Even bees do not like it. My dear, we used to say that one should be worthy of having gray hair. Understand? That is your... that finally God finds you a worthy person. That now you have come so far, having gone through all this training and experiences and tests of life. Now God has given you even the color of wisdom, the wise men and wise women. In India, we call artificiality Nakhra. Nakhra means not real, artificial. No animal in your language is killed. Where is your heart? Where is your spirituality? And therefore, Patañjali... there were thousands of great saints. That is why India is a holy land. India is the land of Dharma, from where the Dharma began, Dharmaparāyaṇa, where the Dharmātmā, the pure souls, the great souls, the supreme souls, incarnated. Hardly will you find any village where a saint has not incarnated. Do not compare India with this modern people's situation. That is not India. Then it is better. You are, of course, you were always better. I do not blame you, but in some way, I must blame you because you forgot, and you lost your culture. You could not preserve your culture; it has gone out of your hands. How you are living, how you are sleeping, eating, and how you are dressing—it is not your culture. European culture, beautiful. Czech culture, my God. Slovak, beautiful. Slovaks, they walk very slowly. Their culture is walking slowly. Hungarian, my God. The Hungarians are proud of their culture. But Croatian, my God. So you see, every country has had a beautiful culture. But they are lost, remaining only in museums and in books. And the same thing is, unfortunately, happening in India too now, unfortunately. I hope, because Sanatan Dharma always survived. Always. So that culture will not get lost. Maybe changing, the waves are changing. So the main thing is to achieve that this individual consciousness merges into the cosmic consciousness and comes out of all this pain, suffering, and darkness of ignorance. God-realization, self-realization, to be one with Brahman—that is the final goal, and that is the means of yoga. Yoga means oneness, yoga means unity, yoga means harmony, and yoga means balance. So many great saints wrote many, many beautiful books and scriptures. But we have now also the most beautiful book called the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra. Patañjali lived more than 2,000 or 3,000 years ago. Great Patañjali, great. When Patañjali was sitting outside his hut—ṛṣi means hermitage—living exactly like this nature where we are sitting now, nice trees. But we do not have one thing or two things or three things which they had. It is said that when Ṛṣi Patañjali sat there, tigers, lions, deer, cows, peacocks, birds, and goats came from the forest and sat somewhere near, listening to the preaching, the teaching of Maharṣi Patañjali. Though he spoke in Sanskrit, the animals were feeling where there was no fear. When there is no fear, then there is love and oneness. Unfortunately, we do not have tigers and lions here, you know. And when the lions and tigers come, I think we will search the trees and quickly find the police, ambulance, and you. That is it. So tigers are not so stupid that they will come here. Look, a bird. The bird is there to sit on the back of the tiger or the lion. But the bird does not dare to sit on the shoulder of the human. How much aggressivity, how much negative energy, the trick is radiating from the human. When the bird is flying or coming, when the rabbit is coming and going, the deer are not frightened. But even if we go slowly walking, the deer smells that a stinky human came with many sprays, with artificial things all over. It runs away. And if you touch a baby deer just like this and leave it, even the mother does not dare to come near that baby. What is that? The aggressivity of humans. Non-trustable. We are non-trustable for other creatures, and we can understand that they do not trust us. So when the love comes, Patañjali also said ahiṃsā. Therefore, in Rāja Yoga, Patañjali put in yama, ahiṃsā. Ahiṃsā Parbodharma, the highest principle or highest religion, is non-violence. When you are angry, when you are jealous, there is violence. When you have negative thoughts, the conflict is a very subtle form of violence towards thyself and others. How many times do you violence yourself and others? A bird comes to a tree which has a lot of ripe fruits. Birds will eat only as much as their stomach capacity. We will fly, but we will eat as much as we can, and we are sorry that we have a small bag with us. That is a different thing. So, ahiṃsā—when complete non-violence appears in your heart, in your feelings, then animals will do nothing to you. There were rare people who had such things. I did not see, but I heard that a great saint from Assisi, the friends, the animals were not afraid of him. Devapurījī could speak with our grandmaster, and he could speak with the animals. Animals could understand him, and they loved him. He was always surrounded by animals. So when one has a fear, or one is guilty, or one is aggressive, then he is more afraid than the other one. So when the tiger is sitting under the tree and you are walking, you will be more afraid than the tiger. Who will run first? We can make an experiment. That is it. Because we are afraid. Ahiṃsā. So total surrendering, hiṁsā, manasā, vācā, karmāṇā—through the mind, through the words, and through the deeds. If you follow this Ahiṃsā principle, your life will become more and more comfortable. And be disciplined. Put your entire life in that form, not for two days. Now, we are all very great, speaking, "Yes, we should not kill." And a mosquito is sitting on my upper arm and biting, "Yes, Swamiji, very nice." That is it. How quickly our hands are moving to harm. I know that mosquitoes can kill you, and I know that you can kill the mosquitoes. In ancient times, there was no malaria. There were no epidemics like this. Now, come. Mother God has warned humans many times. The foot and mouth disease of the cows, the bird flu, and now this swine flu, and what not. Still, God is very gentle, but the time will come, finished, no treatment, no treatment. Therefore, we learn to be natural, we learn to be kind, we learn to love all creatures, and we love the entire planet. And we love ourselves to be one with the cosmic self, and for that, we have yoga in daily life, and this yoga in daily life, āśram. Patañjali wrote many things, he spoke about many, many, but this one booklet that he is saying, Atha yoga anuśāsanam. Anuśāsanam means discipline. It is said discipline is a key to success, and who has no discipline cannot be successful. Even the trees are disciplined, the entire creation is disciplined, the seasons are disciplined. The seasonal fruit gives only when the season comes, but a human does not. Humans do not know when to have a child and when not to. Similarly, Patañjali is comparing the word "discipline." In one way, he said yoga is a discipline. Yoga itself is a discipline. You are disciplined, you are a yogī. But on the other hand, without discipline, your yoga life cannot be successful. So, Atha yogānuśāsanam. Yoga practice begins with the discipline. Not for one month, not for twenty days, not for one year, not for twenty years. Lifelong. Until this individual self merges into the cosmic self. Go on, practice, practice, practice. Do not expect the fruits, that is all. God Kṛṣṇa said, "Arjuna, you do your duty, do your karma." The fruits will come. Do not expect whether it will come or not. Go ahead, do your duties. The fruits will go to God. That is the teaching of the Bhagavad Gītā. But if you think, "I will meditate and next year I will have a siddhi," I doubt you will not have it even in the next life. Expectation leads to disappointment, because the expectation is selfish. Therefore, just give yourself into the hands of God. A spiritual seeker, a spiritual practitioner, a yogī who is on the spiritual path tells God, "Now I give all my responsibilities, all my duties, into your hands, my Lord." It means all your thoughts, your feelings, your words, your actions, your work, everything in the sense of God. "Lord, I surrender to you." That is all. This is the first step of the devotee. A yogī is also a devotee. There are two kinds of God, nirguṇa and saguṇa. Nirguṇa God is God without form, as Almighty. And the same as a personal God in the form, both are the same. But for humans, it is easy to achieve, to have some visualization. That you can see, you can feel, you can touch, you can speak, you can smell. These ten indriyas—five jñānendriyas, the five senses of knowledge, and five karmendriyas, the five senses of action—that they can have contact with this manifested God in form. But if you do not believe in any incarnation or God in form, no problem. Go ahead, just believe as you, the universal God. But you cannot have consultation with him. You do not know where to begin. We are just talking in this air. But if you have faith, then yes, he is listening to you. Kabhī na kabhī bhanak padegī kān. Kabhī na kabhī. Sometime. Kabhī na kabhī. Sometime. Bhanak padegī kān. The resonance of your call, of your heart, will resonate near the ear of God. Yes. Kabhī na kabhī. So that God has no eyes, but he sees everything. He has no smell, but he smells everything. He is omniscient, omnipresent. When you have such a faith, okay, very good. Or we believe in certain holy incarnations, which is also representing that omniscient one. "Now I give everything into your hands. Thy will will be seen. Everything will be as your divine will, Lord. I surrender to you. I am yours. I am yours, and whatever I have is yours. My words, my actions, my thoughts, my life, all are yours, God." Ab sāpā diyā is jīvan kā sab bhār tumhāre hāthoṁ meṁ. Bhaar means burden also. "All my burdens I gave into your hands, Lord, I am free." How? A small child, whatever he or she did, now throws it away and goes to the parents. It is everything parents say, and the child is not aware of; he does not want it. So we have to become a child. We have to become so pure, innocent, like a child. There is one song in India, "Hum bache," we are children. Dil ke hai sachay, but in our heart we are truthful. Bhagavān ko lagte achche, God loves us. So become that divine child. Give God. Hai jeet tumhare haato mein, Lord. "If I am to be successful, it is in your hands. Or if I will be the loser, it is also in your hands, God. My expectation is in your hands. I have no more expectation." With this kind of feeling, if you work, God will always help you. Our Grand Master Śrī Devpurījī used to say, "God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotees. God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotees. The parents take upon themselves all the mistakes of the children." What a beautiful feeling! Then what we call in this modern world, the stress. The whole world will be stress-free if one comes to this point. Then we will come to Patañjali further. There is no name of a particular God in the Vedas, in the Upanishads, and teachings like Patañjali. There is no personal God’s name like what we call now Krishna, Rāma, Buddhas, and prophets, and messengers. That time was not; these all were not there. The truth is that God is one, and that is Īśvara, invisible. Ishvara praṇidhāna. Surrender to the Ishvara, to God. What beautiful feelings you will have. Then you are not guilty anymore. "This is his problem. I made a mistake, and God wants to punish me." I said, "Sorry, it is your mistake that you gave me this feeling to make a mistake. If you would not give me this feeling, then I would not make a mistake. So, sorry, God, correct yourself. You accept. I am free." So when you meditate, when you practice yoga, when you practice your mantra, when you go to sleep, when you are with your family, feel free. Those minutes of life when you feel relaxed and free are indescribable. And those minutes, hours, days, months, and years of life, you feel guilty. You feel pain. You feel disease. You feel poor, and you have to work and work. How poor you are, unbearable. That is a mysterious life. So, on the day when we learn to surrender, then we are free. Then your meditation will be good. So try it. It is there, but nowhere in your heart. Only change your way of thinking, that is all. Suddenly, you are a different person: divine, relaxed. Without guiltiness, yes, mistakes happen. Yes, that is why mistakes are there; they should happen. We know it is happening, and it should not happen. It happened out of our ignorance or our carelessness, or it happened. We are sorry for that, but we pray to God that, "Please, Lord, it should not repeat again," and practice. So every day, begin five-minute meditation. And in this five-minute meditation, you do nothing, only one thing: that you feel free from all. Pravda. Three times. That is it. Bhīma-bhāvam. So, but not for one day, not for one weekend, not for one year. Put your life in such a way, discipline, atha yoga-anuśāsanam. And when we will have anuśāsanam, discipline, our life will become again slow. You know, we are running. We are getting more and more old. And as soon as you return a little back in yourself, your health condition, mental condition, social, everything will be beautiful. Relax, relax, relax. So, discipline is yoga in one way, Patañjali says. Otherwise, without discipline, you cannot be successful. So, the discipline is key to success, as Patañjali said in his Patañjali Yoga Sūtra. The first part, which we took over, is called Samādhi Pāda, the chapter for the Samādhi. Samādhi means the super-consciousness, the highest consciousness. And there are three different kinds of samādhis: Savikalpa samādhi, nirvikalpa samādhi, and sabīja samādhi, where sabīja and nirbīja—sabīja means with the seeds. So still in your thoughts, though you are very deep in consciousness or divine consciousness, you still have a desire, you still have a wish. It means still there are seeds existing. On the day when you will become completely free, without wish, without any desires, then it becomes seedless. Nirbīja samādhi, nirvikalpa samādhi. Vikalpa means desires, thoughts, wishes, or the woe, saṅkalpa. So, vikalpa samādhi, the highest consciousness, but still there is a wish inside. Nirvikalpa samādhi, nirvikalpa, it means without all these desires and wishes, then this individual consciousness is hooked or merged into the cosmic consciousness. Then very soon this body will finish from here, and the soul will dissolve into the cosmic self because there is no more karma, good or bad, which can keep you back on this planet. And for that, immediately Patañjali comes to the vichāra. Vichāra means thoughts. Chitta vṛtti nirodhaḥ. Chitta is our consciousness, in which the intellect is existing. Vṛttis are the thoughts, waves of the thoughts. Nirodha is to control, to harmonize, to neutralize, and that is beautiful, which we will talk about tomorrow.