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Oṁ Viṣṇu Maheśvara Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma Dāsme Śrī Gurve Namaha. Dhyāna Mūlaṁ Guru Mūrti, Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Pādaṁ, Mantra Mūlaṁ Guru Vākyaṁ, Mokṣa Mūlaṁ Guru Kṛpā. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Devadidev Deveśvar Mahādev Kī Ārādhī Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Kī Satguru Svāmī Madhvanājī Bhagavān Kī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Today is a very beautiful day. The sunrise was beautiful because it was cloudy. The clouds covered the sky, then the sun emerged, very hot. Later, a beautiful moon rises in silence. Today we realize the push of a birthday. When a birthday comes, God gives sweet prasāda. What does all this mean? It means life. This is the life whose nature we often do not know, including myself. Many times we think we know everything, and then we try to go beyond that, towards the Guru or God. It is not easy. What I want to tell you is that even I do not know. I think 99.9% may not know, or perhaps it is completely unknown. What we should understand is how our creation happened. It is a very beautiful miracle of God, a miracle we do not understand. We all say there is a God and a soul, and there are many different kinds of souls within different bodies. It is like an egg, or like water creatures such as fish. Long ago, under the earth, scientists showed a film. They made a listening video so you could see how it is. Anywhere on earth, in any country where you stand, just under your feet, you will see how many creatures are there. As they go deeper and deeper, they find so many different kinds of creatures. That is why they said, and I may accept, that our earth is a living earth. From this living earth comes all different kinds of vegetation and creatures, some also from or within the water. In this way, according to yogic teachings, Patañjali, the Bhagavad Gītā, the Rāmāyaṇa, Upaniṣads, Vedas, Bible, etc., we think more about humans. But still, humans cannot do one part; perhaps they think they can, which is very interesting. The second part is that we can try to understand, not completely, but in a certain way. So, what we are speaking of are the five sheaths: Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. We can think about these five a little, but there is another set of five, which are separate yet one. First is space, ākāśa, endless emptiness. Though it is empty, we still see emptiness. We can go far and far but cannot touch it. It is like a horizon; as we go towards it, it recedes further. It is like driving on a highway: the road is very far, the car drives and drives, and the road is there all the time. This is eternal. We still think we are Ākāśa. If we know that Ākāśa, maybe we can understand a little. It is empty space, but it is a field. Empty, but it is a field through which we can go. After that is fire, heat. It must not be fire like here, but there it is. Without this heat, nothing can happen in this empty space. This fire or heat cannot move or do anything without air. Without air, we cannot move at all. Once, someone made a little video for children about Hanumānjī. Hanumānjī is the son of the wind, Pavan. In the video, they took the prāṇa out, and Hanumānjī could not move at all; he fell down on the earth. Then they put the air back inside, and he came to life again. So, our air is life. When this air is not there, soon the whole body will cease; it is gone. We cannot make the same body again. So prāṇa, air, is very important. After that is water. Without water, we are nothing. Then comes earth. So these are the five elements, the five principles. These two sets—the five sheaths and the five elements—we shall realize. We have them and we know of them, but we do not know how to hold them or how to proceed with them. It is not easy. First is the Annamaya Kośa. Generally, we say kośa like one quarter, second quarter, etc. This Annamaya Kośa is from the nourishment of food. Within it are the five elements: earth (solid), water inside, the food we eat, our intellect, and our mind. The mind is a very powerful force in our body. We can do all we can; we can go a million miles away. If we talk about Jupiter, I do not know how far it is, but you are already there in your mind. I said Jupiter, and we are all there. Or we are in Slovenia. Now we are all in Slovenia. With what? With our mind. Or we are in Sydney. Where is Slovenia and where is Sydney? How quickly we are there, from here to there. The mind is very clever and powerful. Therefore, a yogī should try to master the mind. Sometimes people think about the mind, yoga and mind. But still, they cannot make clear what we want to achieve and how we can live happily, relaxed. How can we say to ourselves, "I know, and I have, and I will constantly be on that way, straight like a highway"? What does that highway mean? They made bridges. Who made the highway? It was in the Second World War, Hitler. He wanted to make it so his army could go straight with nobody crossing in between. That is the highway: go ahead, no one can stop or block us, so bridges go over. They are running there, and others are going the other side, straight like a train or a bus. Now we have many bridges. This is what the whole world is doing. Perhaps he was thinking that we have that kind of highway in our body, going straight with high thinking or high power without any obstruction. That energy goes into our body in different parts. All these elements—the liquid in one way, the air in another, the movements in another—everything is in our body. If anything comes between, it blocks. For example, we have a heart problem. You feel an unpleasant feeling, something stuck. Nowadays, doctors and scientists perform angiography. They go in. This is the human intellect at work. They have learned how to go to the end of our heart. Who did this? A doctor in Switzerland did it on himself. He went through his own vessels to his heart. He described his experience and succeeded. Then he told other doctors. After that, many developed techniques. First, they went through the thighs; now they can go through the hand. About 100 years ago, they only went through the thigh, and the person had to lie still for 24 hours. Technology is growing. But what is that power in our body? We are only talking about the Annamaya Kośa, this body of earth. But there is no earth in the body; these are all different metals and materials. One day it will all go. The Annamaya Kośa will cease, be burned and become ash. Water will return to water, air to air, fire to fire. When there is no more heat, you touch the body and it is cold. Why? Because the fire element is not inside. The space also disappears; only this space remains. Then, what about the soul? Where is the soul going? Is it there or not? Everybody asks what happens to the soul. We perform ceremonies. The Indians perform ceremonies near the river Gaṅgā. We perform tarpaṇa or pitṛ pūjā after someone dies. Where is the pitṛ? Ask the paṇḍit: "Please first show me where is my pitṛ? Where is my father? First show me, and say, 'Yes, this is my father.' Then you can say, 'Father, I will send you this.'" Perhaps we are doing it mentally, psychologically convincing ourselves, "Now my father is gone, liberated, because I performed a pūjā." How do we go there? If it is not there, there is still something else, which is very interesting. In Australia, there are Aborigines. The British came across the Indian Ocean and other oceans, arriving on the beach of Australia. They were fighting. The British brought people who were not considered good—criminals, robbers—by boat and left them on the beach. Now they have become part of the nation. On the other hand, the Chinese made a beautiful map of Australia and claimed they were there first. The Chinese are often first in things. They even claimed copyright for "Yoga in Daily Life" after learning it. But there is no copyright. The British claimed they were first. Then scientists did research and found it was Indians from South India. They used white stone powder to make tilaka on the forehead, hands, thighs, and stomach. South Indians still do this. In other parts of India, they sometimes do it during pūjā when wearing only a dhotī. The South Indians' skin, face, and height are like the Aboriginal people of Australia. Scientists researched for many years and said the genes of Indians are in the Aboriginal lineage. What I want to tell you is: how do only these cells remain there? Genes in that part of the body, in other bodies? One turns back, coming to know, "Who am I, and what is mine?" I can go endlessly in this space, but when I turn back, I come to that energy inside. And again, you are that exact same picture. So, fathers and body: when you are born, your father's traits are there. Mixing occurs; the mother's will be different. The mother's body also contributes. It goes inside and inside. Therefore, it is said the father is the first, the mother is the space, and the father is the first life in the space, and so it comes to the body. But how? Who is making this whole net of our nerves, the entire nervous system? How does one nerve connect to another? No doctor or scientist can create this, yet it is there. It is said in human bodies there are 72,000 or 79,000 nerves. Who was there in the mother's body to place these nerves exactly for the embryo? There are nerves in the eyeballs, very sensitive and small. I have felt it many times: a doctor gave me an injection here, or a Chinese acupuncturist touched below my knee, and I felt it behind my ear. The doctor put a needle in one place, and I felt it in another. Why not? This is how prāṇa and the nāḍīs work. Only a yogī in samādhi can see this, though it is not easy. All the nerves are on our skin, which is like a very fine jelly. If you want to practice as a yogī and achieve that which is God, then do not put your thoughts today on me, my master, my Swāmījī, and then after some time think, "There are other yogīs, very good; I think I will go there." What happens then? It is okay, but you have created confusion. You have made confusion through your mind, not through your nerves or body. In this way, our mind is mental. If we can master it, we can go further and realize. It does not matter if you are young or old; begin now, and maybe you will find the right path of your life. This is a science. Many scientists are making science about this and that. Our doctors are very good; they are learning. They also have a little of this science. Our Ayurvedic texts have it. But even your mother does not know how things are going on in the body. You only know there is something, but you do not know the details. Only the ultimate, that supreme God, knows who is making it for each creature. People ask more demanding questions: what was first, the bird or the egg? I give you the answer: it is Śrīyambhu Śiva. Śiva gave that the egg is the space, and within it is consciousness. That consciousness is finally coming. That is what yogīs are searching for, coming again and again. Therefore, do not change yourself. You can tell anybody "Mother" or "Father." We Indians say to the youngest child, baby, sister, mother—everybody we address so. But your real mother is different. If you feel everyone is like a mother or sister, then there will be no problems, no fights. But in this modern time, we are lost. We lost in education. You may think about your studies, but you go from your country, your village, far away to study. Your mother and father are there. What is that life? This is nothing. This is not research; it is a loss. Modern education has gone that way. The feeling for parents is lost. If your mother dies, you say, "I'm sorry," but tell your brothers to make the funeral because you have something very important in your exhibition and will come after a few days. No feelings, because you are away. Similarly, if you have in your heart and soul an understanding of what the soul is, then when your guru is that, or your disciple is that, you will be constantly connected, like a needle and thread, or like beads on a mala. They are all one. But one day the thread may break, the beads will fall, and you will not know where you are or when you will come again. It does not matter if you are old or young; find that connection, and when you find it, be there. You can progress quickly. You may practice very little but go quickly towards mokṣa. After a few years, you are old, but you got a mantra and blessings. That was fresh energy inside, and you died. You went well, but where? We do not know. Therefore, we have to go through the nerve systems and all these five elements. We will see again tomorrow or the day after. If I am here, I will talk; otherwise, somebody will talk. Talk about what you want. We do not know our body yet. The physical body contains everything: Ākāśa is in the body, heat is in the body, water is in the body, nourishment is in the body, earth is in the body. Therefore, eat what your human body needs. Drink water, not alcohol. See how people destroy themselves drinking alcohol. The biggest drug in the world is alcohol. But everybody drinks it, so they say it is not a drug. A drink is a drug; alcohol is that drug. When you drink alcohol, your brain becomes confused; sometimes it goes completely out of control. Tomorrow we will see. I wish you all the best. Have a good evening. Amma Śivāyoḥ Namaḥ Śivāyoḥ Har Har Bhoṭ Namaḥ Śivāyoḥ Alak Purī Jī Mahādevakī Devādhi Dev, Deveśwar Mahādevakī Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhū Jī Kī Indodharam Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī satya-sanātana-dharmātā.