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You have been practicing with your yoga teachers, and your teacher has certainly given you many experiences of yoga in daily life. Yoga is for our entire life. Why? Because many of us may not complete the journey to Cosmic Consciousness. For example, someone is walking to Rijeka. You cannot walk there in one, two, or three days. But we have our path. We stay overnight, yet we remain on the same path. When we get up, we continue on our path. This means we came onto the path very early. We do not use an aeroplane, car, cycle, horse, or even walking because it may not be our final destination, but we have our clear path. If we are on our path, then it is 100,000% certain you will reach the goal. If we are on that path, it is 100,000% sure that we will achieve that goal, even in the next life. The path itself is the master, and that master will definitely follow you in every next life. This is what we call our Guru Paramparā. Nowadays, we use a navigator. It shows the path to where we are going and brings us to our door, announcing, "Your destination is here." If the navigation is not there, the master guru is the navigator. However, this worldly navigator is only for this life, only for this one path. Many of us use it and go on different paths. You go towards the river at night. The next night, you go to Hungary. The next day, you go to Italy, and the next day you go to Russia. You did not come to your Rijeka. If you concentrate, you will see that this Rijeka is a river. Water from all different forests and everywhere will come to that river, and that river will lead us to the ocean. So, many of you have been practicing for many years, and some have just come onto the path. But surely, that Gurudev, the paramparā, our lineage, will comfortably lead us in the next life as well. But if you are going from Budapest to Italy, and other times somewhere else, you may remember your master from time to time, yet you think, "I will do it myself." Yes, you can. You can do it yourself—into darkness and lostness. Then, you are like a blind person with no one to guide you, walking blind. Imagine this big hall. One blind person wants to go out, and there is no one to guide him. Sometimes blind people have a little technique: one hand on the wall, the other hand with a stick, walking and walking and walking. The door will come. When he comes close to the door, it is closed. One or two meters away, the blind man whose hand was on the wall begins scratching and walking; the door is gone again. His hand is on the wall, walking, walking, walking. Again, when he comes close to the door, he is squeezing. The door is gone, and then he starts shouting, "Who was the stupid man who made such a big hole? How far is it?" There was one man sitting in the gallery observing. When the blind man became angry, asking, "Where is the door?" the man said, "My dear friend, whenever a door was there, you took your hand away." The blind man said, "You may not find the door, but we blind people... have our technique my whole life? I don’t miss the way, but so..." The person said, "My friend, I know you did your techniques, but whenever the door came, the gate, you took your hand away." You were scratching your head, your back, etc. That time you did not stop; you were walking further. "Yes, that’s my mistake," he said. "I was at the gate, and really, I put my hand here." Similarly, we practice yoga our whole life, and in the last minutes, we think, "I don’t need Swāmījī, I don’t need Gurujī, I don’t need anyone. I have my way; I can go." And before the door comes, we change to another path, and again another path, and become lost. We may read many books and practice many different techniques, but the guide with open eyes—these eyes are our Master, our Guru. Therefore, we must be very careful and know that this is our path. That is very important. Practicing āsanas and prāṇāyāmas and reading some books is not yoga only. Prāṇāyāmas, āsanas, reading, and talking are okay. They keep you on the path. But where the path will lead us—that is our paramparā, guru paramparā. That is like we all have Ālak Purījī from Satya Yuga. You know that from Ālak Purījī’s name, the name of Ālak Purījī, a holy river flows. On one side is the river called Bhagīrathī, and on the other side is the river called Alaknandā. When these two rivers come together, they become the Gaṅgā. So, Ālak Purījī was in the Satya Yuga. Shiva—he has the quality of Shiva. Your son is your son, or daughter. We will die, but they will further work or walk on their parents' path. You have this country, Croatia. It doesn’t matter where you will go. You may live in other countries, but you were born on this earth, Croatia. You may be in Australia, America, Africa, but your nest is here. We call evening at sunset time: every bird comes back to the nest. Similarly, this origin, Ālak Purījī, is in Satya Yuga. Always our eggs and babies from the nest will also come there. And so you have got those roots from Satya Yuga. It doesn’t matter where you are born, but you came to this. Your destiny has guided you on this path. There are many, many who will lead on the path. Only one root, many branches, many seeds. But we call a beautiful apple tree, which is some hundred years old; the apple, and the quality of the apple and the taste of the apple will always be the same. And so you are also. It doesn’t matter from where you are born or where you are. Language different, culture different. But the inner ātmā, the soul, is searching: where is my nest? And so many, many others, from the very beginning, they have their nest, and they know. So, it depends on ourselves. And we should know that we should work on that blessing. Our Guru, or our God, our destiny—they are not here with us, but they are observing everywhere. As far as we are on the mountain, we see more, wider, everywhere. When we go more into space, it could be so far that Croatia is just like one drop of water, and sometimes it will disappear. But the Supreme One, He knows equally everything. So don’t think that God forgets us. Our Gurudevs are sitting there. And once they open their eyes, they see the whole universe. This earth is like a little, tiny stone. That’s our eyes also, but still we can’t see with that eye. Therefore, don’t worry, just practice mantra and you will come there. I’m also on the path. I’m just sitting in the... I’m the driver and you are four people inside. But the driver is there. If the driver will always say, "How are you? Yeah, yeah,"—accident. Such a driver will die, but not only one. He or she, the driver, will also kill all other passengers. Similarly, if someone has the steering in hand, but attention is not there, therefore we should not go here and there and there. You can do many things. We try this, we try that. We take medicine, we take injections. We are jumping, swimming, aeroplane flying. But he said, "You do many things." But it is not what you need, and not what your Ātmā is doing. This body will also die. It will become dust. And air will come, and with the air, all will disappear—all our bones, flesh, everything. The wind will come and blow it away. Where are our puṇya karma, puṇya codes? Puṇya codes will just be destroyed. Where are you? Who are you? Annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, ānandamaya kośa—they all disappear. Where is your ātmā? That we have to come to; that is the essence. And our work is yoga in daily life. Many of you can do very good āsanas. Mnogi od vas rade izvrsne āsane. Maybe I cannot do. So it’s good, but this is not our destination. Prāṇāyāma, everything. Therefore, sādhanā, sādhanā,... sādhanā. Many of you know one of our Mahāprabhujī’s disciples, Śivānanda. He was from near Kāṭu, two villages. At that time, people called the kings—big kings, little kings, etc.—so they called them Mahārāja. So was Swami Śivānandajī, Mahāprabhujī’s disciple. He was a very great person. He made one nice prayer. When Gurujī was in Nepal, when I first came there, Gurujī was making prayer, morning and evening. From all these Mahāprabhujī’s disciples who made the prayer, Gurujī was, Monday, Saturday, this prayer, she was making prayer also. This kind of prayer will give you such clarity—such clarity about who you are and where you are, etc. Our ātmā, our soul—we are not only ourself. In this body, do you know how many things we have? Not only the soul. The soul will sometimes be alone. Then you will also be this; you are the soul. It’s lonely. So sometimes I said, "I don’t want to go. There’s no one, no one said hello, no language, no song, no friends, no earth, no space, no light, no dark. Where to sleep? In the air? No friend, no girlfriend, no husband, no wife, no child." No ice cream, no Croatian chocolate, that is nothing. Forget it. No sweet, no bitter, nothing. No hand, no legs, no eyes. What do you think about this? Do you want to be good, then? Fall anywhere. You are falling, but where? We don’t know if we are going up or down. That’s called eko’ham, I am the one. I am in the Supreme. Think over, think over. Will you live there like this? No singing bhajans, no Swamiji’s talking, not even our webcast. Where are you going then? Better is, good is to be a human, do good qualities, good things, and help all creatures. Love everyone, don’t kill anyone, don’t eat anyone’s life. Happy life, of course, we have different organs. They will torture us again. We have to change the body. Yes, we want to come again, so that in prayer it is said, "O Gurudev." Guru means light. Guru means the knowledge. Guru means happiness. Guru means clarity. Guru is... But someone has to open that treasure, and if we do not have good karma, we open the treasure and there are cobras, so we close it. We open the other side—crocodile, yes. What is that? This is our karma. How much you are talking negative to others—that’s it. If someone has a mistake, you should clear it. You know, when something is on your head or on the back side, something. If someone is the other person, you don’t know, but we will say friend. "Sorry, can I take it away?" He said, "Yes, what? This little scorpion." Yes, so we should take away the poisonous things that people take in their hands. That’s it. So, people cannot even understand how they will take care of the animals. If someone kills your throat, or your neck, would you like to do this? If someone will kill us before they kill us, we die. So how can we kill these animals, these innocent animals? And you eat them. All this comes as karma to us: many cancers, many in your different organs. This is karma coming back. But in this Kali Yuga, no one tells us what is good and what is bad. They only tell you to eat animals, eat animals, drink alcohol, eat this. O human, can you give love to someone? Yes, that’s it. So that’s why there are few who are going to the supreme. At that time, that jīvātmā is alone, but alone is all. So one in all and all in one. This is just what we are doing is a painful world. This world is... What we call to die, to suffer, to come, but there are all yogīs, all goddesses, all they are with us. But at the same time, all yogīs, all deities, they are all with us. That eternal peace, harmony, love, understanding, everything. When we die, we come out of the body. We say, "Oh, thank you, thank you for freeing me from this body." The soul, when it goes out of the body, you know how quickly it speeds. Like when you catch an animal in a cave, and somehow the door opens, you know how quickly the animal will run away. Or the bird, how quickly will it fly? Similarly, our soul, our ātmā, when it goes out of the body, it’s like a star falling. Anywhere finished, the soul doesn’t want to come back. Neither to Croatia, nor to Africa, we don’t know where. So it is said, Gurudev, within you, within Gurudev, they are preparing us. They are preparing, like a bird creates the egg and then still the bird sits on the egg till it becomes complete. Similarly, Gurudev is also doing, sitting on that nest all the time. So this mantra, our prayer, is "Śrī Guru Ātmā," and I did not say you will sing because many people don’t know. Śrī Guru Ātmā—who is the Gurudev? Our ātmā, Śrī Guru. That Śrī is the knowledge. The wisdom, Śrī, is like Lakṣmī. Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā. That Gurudev is Paramātmā, the soul of the Supreme. Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā, Ho Mahātmā, and they are all Mahātmā. You are here, all Mahātmā. You know what we called? Whom do you call Mahātmā? In Croatia, you have some? You have Mahatma in Croatia? Yes. Go to your city. In a beautiful garden. Day and night, standing for you. That’s called a Mahātmā. Which one? Mahatma Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi. So, we are all at Mahatma. We must be at my Mahatma, Siri Guru. That time when you come in human, you, when you come to the human body, that’s all. Then you are Mahatma. But how? How will you take care, like Mahātma Gandhi? Even if somebody beat him, he would not say bad words. And he said, "We will win without weapons." So you know about his life. But it was not easy for him also. You heard, or did you see the Mahatma Gandhi in cinema? Who did not hear Gandhi’s film? Everyone looked at it. Who did not look? Who did not see? Yes, very good. One thing is very interesting: the Croatian cannot raise a hand up. Croats can’t raise their hand up, just like this, shyly. Yes. When Tito comes, they were... Now Tito is not here. Get up. So, did you see the video or film of Mahātma Gāndhī? I didn’t say, "Say yes." I want those who have seen. Perhaps this evening we will translate this prayer. Next time, not this time. When we come next time in such a hall, then we should take some kind of balloon or many, many things. Or some paper, some paper or cloth, will be good, what we call the echo. Because echo is only one, that’s why I call echo, there is no second. So the only echo is the echo of everything; we are nothing. So, if everyone—so many of us—are one meter or one and a half meters, hang something here, each one one, and we will take it out, or I will wear a flag. So we come again to our sit straight. Because I was talking about this, our new Kriyā. And you did not practice this morning, so I am not teaching you anything. Because your language is much better than my language. Come on, we are going to Mokṣa. Now again, where was the tongue? Where was the tongue? Where was the tongue? Relax A, A, I, I, U, U. Good? Yes, this is what we have to go to, very deep in our resonance, according to our brain. In accordance with our brain only. I will do. No, no... I will do. Now you do. A means come. Heart, so... um, first, ājñā chakra. Um, so these are the, what we call, the five indriyas. Ears. Nostrils. Mouth. Sound. Our skin. A. U. Aṇḍeśa Sahasra Cakra. No pressure. Just gently. Eyes closed, relax, close your eyes, and follow the resonance. Mentally repeat the Nābhi, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, and Sahasrāra. There are five kośas, five, all within our body. Jñāna and karma. Let’s come within jñāna loka. Three times OM chanting. Always, whenever we will chant, we will go through the navel, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, and Sahasrāra. Pranaam, mentally, Gurudev. Grab your palms and place your hands on your face. Open your eyes. Look to your palms. And touch the palms to the ground. Feel the circulation towards the head, the face muscles, the stretching of the neck, and the spinal column. Feel your whole being slowly again. Come up slowly, come up. Polako. Hari Om.