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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... Alakh Purījī Mahādev Kī Devadī Dev Deveśvara Mahādev Kī Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Kī Jayā. Satguru Svāmī Madhvanāthajī Bhagavān Kī Jayā. Chora Śilāk Jīva Jūna. On this earth, there are eighty-four lakh types of creatures. There are water-like creatures living in the water. In that water, there are many types of creatures even in a single drop. And there are earth-like creatures upon the earth. Once, scientists were trying to see how many creatures are on and under the earth. They showed on television that wherever you are standing, 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 don't see them. But small birds, like the chumchurī, 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 get all this because they follow it from generation to generation. For example, the Agarwals have a particular mark. If that mark is there, then it is a part of Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa. In the same way, Bhagavān Rāma also had an avatāra of 1,14,000 years? (Forty thousand years?) Bhagavān Rāma also 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. Rāvaṇa was 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 came from the seabed. The first thing that emerged was the poison. That poison was such that if it were placed upon the earth, the whole earth would be burned; nothing would live. If it were put back into the ocean, that ocean would be completely 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, now that it is butter, you cannot make it back into milk. In the same way, 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—they all came to Bhagavān Śiva. "Now what shall we do?" Bhagavān Śiva said, "Give it to me," and then 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 used. According to our yoga, as a yogī, Śiva holds the poison in his throat and, through prāṇāyāma, he purifies that blood, that poison, into amṛta. That is why we say that when Śiva appears, Śivajī was in a meditation posture. You hear many times, sometimes people make a joke. 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 uccāraṇa is from the resonance of the sun. You can see it on Google or YouTube videos. So, if you want to see what Parabrahma is, then it is all resonance, nothing else. And we all will, at the end, dissolve all these five elements into that resonance. That resonance has no form, but it is penetrating through and through. We cannot see it; we cannot hold it like this. 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 don't 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 whatever it is, 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 don't want to go further, and Christianity has made this all into this and pushes Hindus down to take it all. Yog, Yogeśvara, is Śiva. And Śiva has given Yoga to Kṛṣṇa. And we said Kṛṣṇa is also Yogeśvara, 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? And so it goes further. 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 through that comes like a sun fire, a big fire. That's called the light, so jyoti. That kind of jyoti means that sound, and sound, and 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. That is Ananta. We are the limited, and that is beyond limitation. Yoga is there. And when we are declaring here that yoga is five to seven thousand years old, yoga is there. Then what about all the ṛṣis? They are only counting now from the Mahābhārata times, and 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 in their memory. There are no memories." We spend quickly and speedily; our memory is going. Is there anyone who knows by heart a hundred telephone numbers? Therefore, they said that Vedavyāsa Bhagavān wanted to write. But he had to sit in meditation, and he was going to speak. But who could write? We all know, sabhī ke jānte hai, phir Gaṇeśjī bhagavān āye, and Gaṇeśjī ko kahā. Gaṇeśjī said, "Okay, I will write." Then Vedavyāsajī said, "Don't 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." So Vedavyāsajī, Śivajī also said, "I will not stay for a second. My hand will move constantly. If you think it over, it's gone." So it happens that they say, "I don't know, even you don't 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 Vyāyāma. What do we call it? Akhaḍā. We do Akhaḍā. Akhaḍā was that. So, that same thing... What will happen, and it is happening: day and night we are making holes in the earth. What we call this is mining. We are emptying it, putting water inside. And second, they are searching for oil, and they are drilling 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. And it made a... what do you call it? Dari, dari. That is in Hindi. In English... it was a spill. It was thousands and thousands of kilometers. All was oil in that. Many, many animals died. Many, many animals died. Birds died. This died. No one could control it. There was no Śiva who would get 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 doesn't matter if you are married or not married. Our Ācārya Patañjali has told four things: that children, childhood, marriage, and... what do you say? Vānaprastha and Sannyāsa. But our Śaṅkarācāryajī, Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya, said that in the fourth stage, he 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 that... I always forget Hindi words after 50 years of living here... so whoever gets 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 don't even have the name of Samādhi. They don't know what yoga they are doing. They are not telling. They have Yama and Niyama, Āsana and Prāṇāyāma, 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 are thinking about Indians, what are they making Olympic now? Yogic Olympics, in that 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 the 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. So, yogī... this is a small story. Once, Pārvatījī and Śiva were going for a walk at night, about 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock. Very cold, a little bit of rain, and then black night. Parvatī said there was a little village, about, you can say, about 50 or 60 houses. Śiva and Parvatī were going. Someone had died, and they took the body into the grave there and 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, no dress, only one little cloth, jaṭā. And he is making one Hanumānjī rotī, only one chapātī. Pārvatī said to Bhagavān Śiva, "Prabhu, āpke ghar mein andherā." Why? Such a great, majestic, divine yogī, and even you didn't give the facilities for making his eating or chapatis or whatever. Śiva said, "I want to give him, but he doesn't want." She said, "No, no, that is not true. You don't want to give. And 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 don't want to give, and I want that you give, please." Ladies don't 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." What is that? Which yogī? Haṭha Yogī. He had his chapati big, and he was trying to roti 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 listening and looking, but the yogī did not move at all. Then Śiva said, "It doesn't matter." Two, three times. Then this yogī said—he did not look up; he was in his chapati, in his roti—"Who are you?" Bhagavān Śiva said, "Have you said anything?" He said, "I am Śiva." He said, "Yogī." Upadev doesn't see. "Why did you come here? 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 didn't ask for anything from you. I don't need anything." But Śiva said, "I want to give you something." He said, "I don't 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 didn't 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 Vyoga, yoga is in the heart of Vyoga and Vyoga. It is in the heart of the yogī. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa has left. We are in that yoga, but Krishna is in our heart. And 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 don't want anything. You have to give me. What is happening? Our Muslims... 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. "Jitnā upāsanā karke Bhagavān ko kahā ki, 'Hey Prabhu, hume to us prakāś ke andar le jāo.'" Anyhow, it is an understanding. Yoga is very different. Oneness within thyself, you should... aap same... Jitnā aap sāth, karīb sāth ghaṇṭe tak to aap so jāiye, to hamāre smaraṇa śakti... 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 Oṁ. Śāntiḥ. Stop it. Dīp Nayan Bhagavān Kī Dev Puruṣa Mahādev Kī Haryum.