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O Akṣara Para Brahma, tasmai Śrī Gurave namaḥ, dhyāna-mūlaṁ guru-mūrtiḥ, pūjā-mūlaṁ guru-padaṁ, mantra-mūlaṁ guru-vākyaṁ, mokṣa-mūlaṁ guru-kṛpā. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Alak Purījī Mahādev Kī Devadī Dev Deveśvara Mahādev Kī Ārādhī Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Kī Jaya. Satguru Svāmī Madhvanājī Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Chora Śilāk Jīva Jūna. On this earth, there are eighty-four lakh types of creatures. There are water-like creatures living in the water. And in that water, there are many types of creatures in a single small drop. And there are earth-like creatures upon the earth. Once, scientists were trying to see how many creatures exist on and under the earth. They showed on television that wherever you stand, from a distance they are watching you. You can see its picture in the cinema. After ten seconds, you cannot stand in that place. So many creatures are under our feet; you would get scared and jump away. And in the sky, there are so many creatures. Nothing can be seen; we do not see them. But small birds, like the chumchuri, when it is night and there is no light, still they catch their food. How many lakhs of birds are flying? These are the three kinds of creatures: on, over, and within this earth. We know that all creation, which we call known as that time, comes from Swayambhū Śiva. There are many Śivas, not only that one, but the beginning was that same one. For example, your lineage, your ṛṣi. For example, Agarwala. The Agarwal lineage dates back to the time when Lord Kṛṣṇa was alive. Who was the grandfather of Lord Kṛṣṇa? Gajānī. And who was his guru? Gargācārya. So that is at least five to six thousand years old. In India, you can trace all this because it is followed from generation to generation. For example, the Agarwals have a specific mark. If that mark is there, then it is a part of Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa. In the same way, Bhagavān Rāma also had an avatāra, lasting 1,14,000 years. Bhagavān Rāma had an avatar, and at the same time, Hanumānjī also had an avatar. In that era, Rāvaṇa was also an avatāra. Rāvaṇa was a Brahmin, a very wise man, but due to his ego, he lost everything. I do not want to go too much into that. But this Jīva, Bhagavān Śiva—Śiva is also known as Nīlakaṇṭha. He is called Nīlakaṇṭha because when poison first emerged from the churning of the ocean, that poison was such that if placed on the earth, the whole earth would burn. Nothing would live. If put back into the ocean, the entire ocean would be poisoned. For example, you have milk from the mother, but that is not butter; it is milk. When we churn the milk, the makhan, the butter, comes out. Similarly, once it is butter, you cannot make it back into milk. That poison from the churning of the ocean was brought forth. If they put the poison in the ocean, all creatures would die. So where to go? What to do? Therefore, all—Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, and other ṛṣis—came to Bhagavān Śiva. "Now what shall we do?" Bhagavān Śiva said, "Give it to me," and he drank all that poison. But Bhagavān Śiva held the poison in his throat; he did not swallow it down. If it went into his stomach, then Śivajī would also be... Hari Oṁ Tat Sat. The body is made of five elements, and these five elements can be utilized. According to our yoga, as a yogī, Śiva holds the poison in his throat and, through prāṇāyāma, purifies that blood, that poison, into amṛta. That is why we say that when Śiva appears, Śivajī is in a meditation posture. Sometimes people make a joke, but even then, the answer is that it is Śiva, Swayambhū Śiva. He has no father and no mother; he comes from these five elements. First was the sound, Nādarūpa Parabrahma. The first is the sound, the resonance in the whole universe, nothing else. That sound is still here. That sound is connected to the sun. Now scientists say the Oṁ Ucchāraṇa is from the resonance of the sun. You can see this on Google or YouTube videos. So, if you want to see what Parabrahma is, it is all resonance, nothing else. And we all will, at the end, dissolve these five elements into that resonance. That resonance has no form, but it penetrates through and through. We cannot see it; we cannot hold it. So, Swayambhū Śiva. First is "Eko'haṁ Bahusyām"—"I am one, and now I will multiply into many." Who? Who is the "who"? It is said, "I will be." We do not know. But how will it come? Where will it come? So first is the resonance, and that is called yoga. Yoga begins there. I am so sorry for my Indian government and ministers and Indians. They are declaring that yoga is only five to seven thousand years old. What stupidity! Five to six thousand years of yoga? Because they do not want to go further, and Christianity has pushed Hindus down to take it all. Yog, Yogeśvara, is Śiva. And Śiva has given Yoga to Kṛṣṇa. We said Kṛṣṇa is Yogeśvara also, but it is Śiva. So, what were those three? One is the space, and the resonance. Resonance means that consciousness: where it is, how it is. Is the conscious in the space, or is the space in the conscious? Where is it? Is sound in the space, or is the space in the sound? Therefore, between the conscious and the space, there are three principles, and these three principles are harmonizing, balancing, and holding into one. These are the three principles, and that is called yoga. Which ones? The sound, the conscious, and the balance. These are the three, and from these three, that is a yogī, that is yoga. And that comes from Śiva. So first is the light. You can hear in this the sound of the sun. That is the sound of the sun, which is in Oṁ. Akāra, ukāra, makāra—these are the three points, and though that comes like a sun fire, a big fire, that is called the light, the jyoti. That jyoti means that sound. After that, coming from this light, the sound, and then... it continues. We are coming to the five elements: light, air, water, earth, and space. Five elements, neither father nor mother, but it is he only, Śiva. Ananta kāl se—from endless time. That is Ananta. We are the limited, and that is beyond limitation. Yoga is there. And when we declare here that yoga is five to seven thousand years old, then what about all the ṛṣis? They are only counting now from the Mahābhārata times. The Vedas were created or written by Vedavyāsa. Vedavyāsa said, "Now it is like this: in the future, people will have no more memories, and they will be lost completely. Their memory is going quickly and speedily." Is there anyone who knows a hundred telephone numbers by heart? Therefore, Bhagavān Vedavyāsa wanted to write. He had to sit in meditation and speak. But who could write? We all know—sabhī ke jānte hai—then Bhagavān Gaṇeśjī came. Gaṇeśjī was asked, and Gaṇeśjī said, "Okay, I will write." Then Vedavyāsajī said, "Do not stop; ask me. What do you say it is?" It means you are not perfect. "I will talk and talk, and you will write everything." Vedavyāsajī, Śivajī also said, "I will not stay for a second. My hand will move constantly. If you think it over, it is gone." So it happens. They say, "I do not know, even you do not know." Ṛṣis and Munis say that it is there. Even then it is there in the Vedas, but it was there before that too. There were so many great Ṛṣis and Munīs. Yoga was the same. How can you say it? Now, our Indian government and others are taking yoga into sport. We also had sport. We had the sport of Ṛṣis, Munis, Saints, Sādhus. In the morning, we do exercise. We do Vyāyam. What do we call it? Akhaḍā. We do Akhaḍā. Akhaḍā was that. So, that same thing—what will happen, and it is happening—one is this: day and night we are making holes in the earth. What we call this is mining. We are emptying it, putting water inside. Second, they are searching for oil and pulling from under the water. A few years ago, in the Mexican Sea, the Americans were drilling for oil. So much oil came out they could not control it. It made a... dari, dari. That is in Hindi. In English, I want to see it in Hindi. Dari—so it was thousands and thousands of kilometers. All was oil. Many animals died. Many birds died. No one could control it. There was no Śiva who would take it again. So it is said, first, what we are doing is destruction, and now we are going so far. So yoga is beyond that, from Śiva's time. Yoga is not only for the ṛṣis or yogīs. Ṛṣis have given this, and it is for all. It does not matter if you are married or not married. Our Ācārya Patañjali has told of four stages: childhood, marriage, vanaprastha, and sannyāsa. But our Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācāryajī said that in the fourth stage, when one is 75 years old, what will he do now? Now he will do Vyaktitva Sādhanā, and he will help the people of this world. That is why Śaṅkarācāryajī said—I always forget Hindi words after 50 years of living here—that whoever is separated, if you are separated from childhood, then you are the best, and you can do good for mankind and for others too. So, sannyāsīs can do it, but also anyone in the household should and can practice that yoga and all different kinds of yoga: Yama, Niyama, Āsana, Prāṇāyāma, Pratyāhāra, Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna, and Samādhi. These people do not even have the name of Samādhi. They do not know what yoga they are doing. They are not telling. They have Yama and Niyama, Āsana and Prāṇāyāma. Nobody wants to teach yoga further. But such yogīs like us have gone out of India. And what is yoga in reality? There in Europe, in countries like Australia, America, Africa, Europe, everywhere you have such great yogīs that they have all knowledge and practices there. And when they think about Indians, what are they making Olympic now? Yogic Olympics, in which they are saying what is to fit in it. So, this is all yogīs are doing. But the best of the best is that if you want to achieve cosmic consciousness, then you come to the Haṭha Yogī. Haṭha Yogī is Bhagavān itself. Haṭha. And there are many types of Haṭha: Bal Haṭha, Kriyā Haṭha, Rāj Haṭha, and Yoga Haṭha. There is a small story. Once, Pārvatījī and Śiva were going for a walk at night, about eleven or twelve o'clock. It was very cold, a little rain, and a black night. Parvatī said there was a little village of about fifty or sixty houses. Śiva and Parvatī were going. Someone had died, and they took the body to the grave there, performed the ten saṁskāras, and left. But the coal, slowly with the air, ignited again and began a fire. A lot of coal was there. Pārvatī and Śiva were there. And there was sitting one man, with no dress, only a little cloth, jaṭā. And he was making one Hanumānjī rotī, only one chapātī. Pārvatī said to Bhagavān Śiva, "Prabhu, āpke ghar mein andherā. Kyō? Yeh aise bade mahān Īśvarīya vibhūti yogī. Aur āpne ko rotī sekhne ke liye bhī āpne ko śraddhā nahīṁ dīye." Such a great yogī, and even you did not give the facilities for making his food or chapatis or whatever. Śiva said, "I want to give him, but he does not want." She said, "No, no, that is not true. You do not want to give. You see how many people have big, big buildings and this and that, and they never ask you about your name, Śiva. Please give him." Śiva said, "Better we go. He is a Haṭha Yogī, and this yogī will not take anything from me." She said, "You do not want to give, and I want that you give, please." Ladies do not know what they say. One says Haṭha, three Haṭha. Bhagavān Śiva said, "Stay behind the Chambush tree, and I will go to Bhagavān Śiva." Śivajī says, "I will go to the yogī and give him something." Which yogī? A Haṭha Yogī. He had his chapati big, and he was trying to rotī ko pakāe. Bhagavān Śiva came and stood before him. But the yogī did not look up or down, nor wonder who was there. A few minutes passed, and Śiva was listening and looking, but the yogī did not move at all. Then Śiva said, "It does not matter." Two, three times. Then this yogī said—he did not look up; he was in his chapati, in his rotī—"Who are you?" Bhagavān Śiva said, "Have you said anything?" He said, "I am Śiva." He said, "Yogī." Upadev does not see. "Why did you come here?" Śiva said, "I came here to give you something." The Haṭha Yogī said, "Where did he beg you from? I did not ask for anything from you. I do not need anything." But Śiva said, "I want to give you something." He said, "I do not need anything." Just Śiva said, "But whenever I appear, I must give something to you. So you are a Haṭha Yogī. I know you are great, but I am Śiva. Ask from me whatever you want." He did not look up again. He did not want to see how Śiva looks. So the Haṭha Yogī says to Śiva, "If you want to give me, then I tell you, go away from here, Pārvatījī." He listens. He puts his finger in his mouth. Lord Śiva is leaving, and Pārvatī is outside. "I told you, Devī, that he is a yogī, a Haṭha Yogī. He is alien to Śiva. What do you think?" Parvatī said, "I am sorry." He is a Yogī. That is why when Lord Kṛṣṇa left, and all the Gopīs... So, a Gopī says to Uddhava, "Hai Uddhav, tell us, what is less than yoga and what is less than vyoga?" Hai Uddhav, tell us, what is less than yoga and what is less than vyoga? Yoga is also there, and the one who lost everything, that is also Vyoga. Yoga and Vyog, yoga is in the heart of Vyog and Vyog. It is in the heart of the yogī. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa has left. We are in that yoga, but Krishna is in our heart. And the yogī is in our jungle. O God, tell us what is less than yoga? Yoga is that. And what do you do in yoga? You do one leg up and one leg down. That is not yoga. Bring our sage Munyoka from India, and so I am going to the conference, and they have invited me. Anyhow, more or less, yoga is from India, the ṛṣi is from India, and whatever will come, all incarnations will come to this land of India. All twenty-four incarnations come on this earth, and mostly here in the Himalayas, and here and there, they are there. But they are not in us. Just understand that we are there. Especially the Hindus, they have forgotten their religion. The Christians pray in the morning, afternoon, and evening. They eat and sleep. Their book is the Bible. Muslims also read to their children in the morning and evening. Do you read Rāmāyaṇa in the morning? Do you read Hanumān Cālīsā? How do you teach your children the Gāyatrī Mantra? You just say, "Hi, Dad, I want to have my coffee." Ma'am, Ma'am,... not Ma'am. What do you say? Ma'am, what do you say? What do you say? We say Ma'am. Ma'am, hi Ma'am, I would have ice cream today. Now I do not want anything. You have to give me. What is happening? Our Muslims do not say that. They teach good children, whatever their religion is, and they also do. There are many things to say. They are showing. They send the father out of the house. Many times they tell on your telephone. I live outside. Sometimes it is said that the father is removed from there, the mother is removed from there. And we say, always get up and show that you are the mother and the father. Are you? This is why. This is why. This is why, in the coming times, the Kalyug is so dangerous. Isi liye ho sakte to hum jo humare jitna upshadana karke Bhagwan ko kaha ki, "Hey Prabhu, hume to us prakash ke andar le jao." Anyhow, it is an understanding. Yoga is very different. Oneness within thyself, you should... aap same par so jao. Jitna aap saath, kareeb saath ghante tak to aap so jaiye, to humare smaran shakti... So I. I am bringing yoga back again from the Western countries here. I have been there for 50 years. So these people come to us. Hari Om. Śāntiḥ. Stop it. Dīp Nayan Bhagavān Kī Dev Puruṣa Mahādev Kī Haryum.