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Good evening. Today is a beautiful day. It is a day of Jupiter, a day of Gurudev. Whoever has a strong Jupiter has a good chance in life to achieve and to make progress. It is protection. But this day we shall purify our energies, and therefore it is advised to have fasting. With Patañjali: śraddhā vīrye smṛti samādhi prajñā pūrvak itareṣām. This is what Patañjali is saying. Here we will come to that. Patañjali also speaks about sattva guṇa and about purification of the body. Unfortunately, you are leaving tomorrow. The course is changing. A very, very interesting point comes, and you go. That's love. Temporary love, you know. The great saint Mīrābāī said: "Agar mein yeh jāntī, prīṭh kariyāṁ dukh hoy." Mīrābāī said that if I would know that when you laugh, you will be in trouble. That laugh which is disappointing, then it means trouble. If I knew this, O Lord, then I would have made advertising throughout the city: no one should fall in love with God. Otherwise, you should come now, Lord. That's what Mīrābāī is saying. Well, about this love, Patañjali is speaking in a little different form. There are many different kinds of love to become one or merge into oneness. Devotion, bhakti, only the love is that universal love, devotion. And that has many forms, and this is what Patañjali is going to speak: that sādhakas, you practitioners all, should control your vṛttis and also your indriyas. But now some people think, we shall make our indriyas and our body so weak, there is no desire at all. That is wrong. If you think that when you have no physical energy, then you will be calm, that's not true. Desire is not in the body. Desire is in the mind. Desire is in the thinking. Longing is in the mind, not in the body. The body is the last one which gives you alarm, warning, or advice. And only we know about that we have tīvratā. Tīvratā means intensive. Homesickness. You know where your home or home country is, that's why you are homesick there. Let's say you are from the Czech Republic, in Strelky Asham, you are homesick about here, but you don't know how it is at Mount Kailash, but you are not homesick there, because you don't know exactly. So, thinking, that is a problem. Śraddhā. Patañjali is telling about śraddhā, vīrya, smṛti, samādhi. This sādhaka has to master or purify. First of all, he is talking about śraddhā. Śraddhā means respect. Śraddhā means devotion. Śraddhā means confidence. Śraddhā means love. Śraddhā means belief. Śraddhā means expectation. Śraddhā means hope. So, one word has many, many meanings. Now, what does Patañjali here want to say, I think, which is also written here? A child has confidence, love, attachment to parents. A devotee has love, attachment, confidence, and expectation in the master. A bhakta has this confidence, devotion, belief, and so on in God. But there are some people who don't believe in these things, but still would like to realize or achieve. So Patañjali is suggesting, or warning, or advising the sādhaka to say, "Have a śraddhā towards your sādhanā, your practice." You know that your car is in order, and you will take the key, drive your car, and go to the highway. But if you don't trust your car, there is something wrong, you will not take it. So here, śraddhā, you should have confidence in your practice. That is your only instrument, your only achievement, the medium or means of your achievement. Śraddhā you have. But here he uses one word, vīrya. The vīrya has many different meanings. Vīrya means also the hero. Hero means strength. So vīrya means health, strength, and the best energy of your body to support your entire existence and your immunity. Vīrya is energy. So vīrya, here he tells about indriya. All our indriyas, including our mind, should be healthy. Our indriyas should function properly. And when the indriyas are healthy and in perfect condition, and you understand them and you master them, then your śraddhā will improve and your practice will improve. It means the willpower will awaken you, motivation will awaken you. Your indriyas, your body, now will give the motivation to practice. A sādhaka who has a healthy body, healthy indriyas, a healthy mind, and śraddhā, this is the only way, Patañjali said, tīvra gati, speed. With high speed, the spiritual development is there towards samādhi. Śraddhā, Vīrya, and Smṛti. The Smṛti means memory. And memory only we have in our brain from our experiences through five Jñāna Indriyas: Cakṣu, Śrotra, Jihvā, Ghrāṇa, and Tvac. These are the five Jñāna Indriyas. Cakṣu, eyes; śravana, ear; nose; jihvā is taste; and tvacā is skin, the touch. Now, in our memory, there are very good experiences as well as bad experiences, full of fear or anxiety, disappointment, and many, or happiness, joy, longing. Now, when śraddhā awakes, indriyas are in your favor, but suddenly the smṛti brings you some thought and you lose your śraddhā, improvement, your development. You are driving your car at high speed, and suddenly the car comes out of gear, and you can't put the gear in again. The speed is slowing down, reducing, reducing, and eventually it will stop. So the smṛti, memory, can be an obstacle or can be helpful. Here in the Smṛti, as I spoke before, Śruti and Smṛti by great saints, those holy saints who are the Vedas, Upanishads, all about God, spirituality, achievement. We have heard many times from different cultures and different religions that we do have desires, longing for higher achievement. So again and again, it should remind you. So we should have such a smṛti, memory, which functions or acts like a reminder. When we sit in meditation, when we begin to practice our āsanas, our prāṇāyāmas, when we go to the prayer hall, to the altar, without śraddhā you cannot pray. It's only outside. Every evening we experience someone comes like a completely paralyzed, puts agarbatī like this in there and goes. That is not a prayer. Mahāprabhujī thinks, say, am I hungry for your agarbatī? Or, for this, once you make a bail, that you are here and going away. Mahāprabhujī doesn't need your noise, that you make a bail. The bell of your heart should be it, the call of the soul. As long as you will not open yourself completely and have that śraddhā, you cannot pray. Because there is a fear: fear of the culture, fear of religion, fear of the society, fear of the people. My God, what will they think? When you said, "What they will think first is you who is lost, let them think how what they think, but you are finished, that's it." So Holī Gurujī said in one bhajan: "Sādhana cāra karo hari pyārā, jīna se hove mokṣa tumhārā. Sādhana cāra karo hari gyāna yoga." These are the six treasures hidden in you. And when the six treasures are not open within you, then you are anxious, then you are fearful, then you think what others will think. You can't open yourself, and God doesn't want this. God is not hungry that you give prasāda. What do you give God? Prasāda? He is the giver. What a stupid! He is the giver, and you can take it and give him back. Without śraddhā and prema, you cannot get anything when you... Don't have this śraddhā, then you may stand and stand and stand with empty hands. Prem kā pyālā. God bless you. The vessel or the pot of love. Lord, when will you fill it? It's empty. I'm the beggar at your door. How long have I been waiting? Full of hope, full of longing, full of expectation. Lord, when will you fill this pot of love of mine? This bhajan we will sing tomorrow and this evening also. So, śraddhā, therefore Gurujī said in another bhajan: "Śrī Dīpa Dayāl Arj Sunālī Prabhu Dīpa Dayāl Arj Sunālī," believe and confidence should never decrease. Day by day, it should improve. Oh Lord, Mā Prabhujī, bless me with satsaṅg. Kusaṅga will destroy everything. In one of the bhajans, Gurujī is saying about mind: "Mind is a monkey." Gurujī said, "Yogī and Yatī." Yatī means also yogīs. Some years ago, some mountaineer climbed. He went to the Annapurna mountain near the Nepal-Indian border, and he saw one, somewhat you call the bear, and just that's all. Some step of the bear, and he came and said, "I saw the yatī," and yatī was like that now. Many people don't know what a yatī is, and they never saw my God. All the newspapers were full, "He saw the yatī," and there were many, many television interviews. Then, after five years, he said, "Unfortunately, I must tell you, I didn't see the yatī. I only wanted to make advertising of me, that how good a climber I am?" Yes. So people have a wrong understanding. Yatī, yatī is a human, a yogī. Yatna, yatna means abhyāsa. Yatna means practice. Yatna karo. For example, you try to start your car and it doesn't start. You are a new driver, and your father is sitting beside you. A good father's nerves don't get nervous, but when you don't start properly, and after saying it a hundred times, then the father is a little bit, but the father will say, "Try, try, you will get it." You will start the car, or you will get what you want to achieve. Try, try... Again and again, try. Go ahead, prayer and prayer. Sooner or later, one day, your voice, your call, will come to the ear of the Lord, like a bee comes, or in a night, a mosquito. So your heart, śraddhā pūrvak, viśvāsa pūrvak. Faith, confidence, and devotion, you call God. Sooner or later, bhaṅag paḍegī kān, this sound will resonate near God's ear, like Lord Śiva. Yesterday, you were so very happy. Then, graciously, graciously, he opened his eyes and looked and smiled and said, "Yes." Similarly, God will hear your prayer with śraddhā. Don't challenge God. There was a challenge, and God said, "Okay, you want to challenge me? Go! Who are you to challenge God?" No argument. Our benefit is to be, "Yes, sir. Yes, man." God said like that? "Yes, okay, Lord." But... and he will say, "What means 'but'?" But, it doesn't matter how it is, be merciful to me. That's it. But don't say, "But if you will not do this, I go." The Lord said, "Hurry up." Who are we to challenge the Lord? Who are we to argue with God in such a way? Our benefit is in surrendering, devotion to God. And that śraddhā, obstacles will come, so many. Kabīr Dās said: "Māyā mahā ṭhagnī ham jānī, triguṇa phāṅs liyā kar dole, bolat madhurī bānī, māyā mahā ṭhagnī ham jānī." The greatest cheater is the māyā, but not you girls, your name Maya, okay, you are very good girls, you are not cheaters. Maya means illusion. Maya means ignorance. Maya means temptation. This is just a minute, seconds. We have the water, soap, bubbles; it looks nice. All the colors are there from the sun, and we would like that it comes onto our hand. As soon as it touches, it explodes. Similarly, it has no duration. So Maya can be Maya for us; this all Prakṛti Darśya is a Māyā. Like, dislike is also Māyā. A man is a Māyā for a woman, and a woman is a Māyā for a man. So don't always think, don't blame women that they are Māyā. No, no, no. They are the greatest of the greatest. The woman thanks them for giving birth to such incarnations like Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, Buddha, Jesus, and so on and so on. Therefore, mātṛ deva bhāva. So don't understand Māyā in this way. Maya is that which awakes in you and takes away your confidence, your śraddhā, your viśvāsa, and tows you away in a different direction, and then says, "You and your karma should know I am going." But I came with you. He said, "Yeah, that's my work." Maya said, "That's my work. I brought it here." Now I will dig a deep hole, and I will push you in. See, I will die. That's your karma, not my karma. So your own thinking, your own imagination, your own intuition, your own feelings, your own habits, your own perceptions, all can be a disappointment. So Kabīr Dās said: "Māyā mahā ṭhagnī ham jānī," a great cheater is the Māyā. Tri guṇa fās liyā kar dolī, bolat madhurī banī. In her hand, there is this rope, three different kinds of ropes, and that is the three guṇas: sattva, rajas, and tamas. These are the three guṇas. And Māyā is only waiting for the chance. With these three, one of these ropes or all three ropes will throw in your neck and hang you up. Māyā, Mahāṭhaginī, Hamajānī. Therefore, there are many, many examples. Kabīr Dās is saying, perhaps next time we will translate. Śraddhā, your benefit is in your śraddhā, towards your abhyāsa practice. And there are many practitioners who are sitting here, since they met me and the first time they came to yoga class, they still continue with śraddhā. And these people, if they had not practiced this yoga and daily life exercises every day, today we could go and visit their grave; they wouldn't be here. So it is your sādhanā that will bring you. But between Smṛti, therefore, it is said, forgive it. Okay, we will forgive, but we will not forget. That is a problem. And not to forget means in your heart you have a fire of revenge, and your blood is boiling in the fire of revenge. Wait a minute. Time will come, my chance will be there. Why are you meditating, thinking like this? God didn't say, or Patañjali didn't say, that when you meditate, now you think of your events. So, a wise person, a holy person, a practitioner... A yogī, a bhakta, just deletes from their memory the negative memories. Delete it forever, or stand in front of God as you are. Very soon, that intensity of your bad quality or memory will be deleted. Put any picture, a color picture, in the sun. Let everyday sunshine on it. Very soon the color will disappear, so that Sun, the light of the truth, the picture which we developed, a color picture, is artificial. But if you put a natural color, when you will see the sun shining, the flowers have more intensive color because that is the reality of the Prakṛti, nature. So your real reality is... The truth you are is Ātmā, and therefore the Ātmā color will come, so we support quote, our memory, our smṛti, which constantly inspires us, constantly inspires us: "Jagat mithyā, brahma satya, brahma satya, jagat mithyā." Brahman is the truth, and this world is unreality. It is there, but it is not there. And you cannot say, Swamiji, this tree is here. I said it is here, but others said it is not there. Yes, this tree is not here, what you see this. Sooner or later, this tree will disappear, and there is nothing. But this sky, this space, it will be ever and ever here. And so truth will be always there that we are longing for. That's why we are practicing āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, these, that, all. Otherwise, all our interest will arrest in the negative qualities and die. So, śraddhā, vīrya, smṛti, good smṛti leads to samādhi. And that is a yogī's dharma, the purpose of a yogī, the duty of a yogī, the aims of the yogī, the destination of the yogī, and only the śraddhā, viśvāsa, śraddhā, and a healthy body, healthy indriyas, good ears, good eyes, good nose, good mouth, good everything, all is functioning properly, perfect. Otherwise, you cannot meditate. Many people, you know, try to meditate, but their knees hurt so much that they cannot meditate. They concentrate on the knee, not on the ātmā. Then you think, "I am ātmā, I'm not this body." As soon as you pay your attention... Saying, "I am not this body," the body stands up and says, "What did you say? Where are you?" He said, "I know I am not the body, but that's it." So the mind, the yogīs and yatīs, with great practice and discipline, create a garden of bhajan, which means spirituality. Your sādhanā within thyself is your own garden. How beautiful flowers you have in your thoughts, in your chidākāśa. How beautiful feelings you have in your heart. Inner garden, you are the gardener who has created such a beautiful garden of love, happiness, confidence, forgiveness, wisdom, all this beauty. Or there are some who make the garden ruinous, thorny, stony, and uncomfortable, with all these creatures which are disturbing—mosquitoes, snakes, and whatnot. So, yogī, yatī, koi mehnat karke bove bhajan kī badī hu, they create a beautiful garden. Ye man bandar badā harāmī, but this mind is a monkey, such a cruel monkey, palme badī bigaḍī, within no time this monkey will destroy the whole garden. And which monkey is now there? You have many, many years, many, many years tried hard to make a beautiful garden or a park. But this one negative smṛti, memory, one memory thought came to you, negative, and all this, this is a monkey, and this monkey destroyed all. What? You lost the confidence. You lost the prem. Love is lost. Everything is lost. So bhakti, śraddhā. So Patañjali is putting it in such a different way, that what means for a yogī is devotion. First, have devotion and confidence, or śraddhā, towards thyself. Śraddhā, vīrya, smṛti, samādhi, prajñā-pūrvaka itareṣām. That will lead you to the Prajñā Samādhi. And that Prajñā Samādhi, Prajñā leads to the Self. Yes, the sādhaka is coming to us. Still, you didn't find. You were searching for one beautiful fruit, smelling the mango tree, but still you don't know where it is. But you begin to smell it. Oh, we are on the right direction. Okay? That smell will lead you, pull you towards that direction. You will go, "Yes, it is here, it is here." There is a small story. In the forest, there was a fox. And one day, the fox found a coconut. Well, coconut is a very good nut, the king of the nuts. But it is not easy to open the coconut. But in Europe, you used to say, "Yes, I will do, I will try," but it is a hard nut to open. It is a very hard nut. So the fox found a coconut and began to smell it. And he came near, and now he begins to bite such a big coconut. The mouth of the fox is so only, biting, biting, blood came. He said, "Oh, I don't like." He goes away 10 meters, but his nose again pulls him back to the nut. He said, "Smells, good smell." Again he tries, half an hour he couldn't open, and he thinks, "I should go and search my food somewhere else." Again, he's going away, and the nose pulls him back again. This is our indriyas. You go to the spiritual development, and again you come to this. You have some nice development through spirituality. And this, I met one man three days ago or four days ago. That man is not here anymore, and if you are here, it is not you about whom I am talking. I ask, "How are you?" He says, "Perfect, Swāmījī. I do my sādhanā, everything." Everything is very good, but do I miss one wife? I said, but you are already 30, 40 years. He said, "Yes, but I didn't find that kind which I should. Every day I am praying for a wife to Mā Prabhujī." I said, "Well, a wife is good, but I wouldn't pray to Mā Prabhujī for a wife." So this longing, smell, nose again brings you down. Though a wife is not a bad thing, okay, or it could be that girl. I don't want to offend some girls. Do be a gentleman, Chidānanda, okay. The fox runs away again. After 100 meters, he comes again. He decides, no more. Finished. Injured my gums and my teeth, and my jaw is hurting. No more. Like some man said, "No more wife at all. How many troubles she gave." Went to the lawyer. How much lawyer cost money. She took all my half property, and still I have to pay her monthly. How much, I don't know. Definitely, there are different things. Their wives are happy, but a husband, that's it. So he said, "No more after ten." Days he spent something and went to find again. So the fox again tried to go run there, but he couldn't open. He went away desperate, without enjoying. So it is said, the name of God, the Rāma, is this coconut. God is that coconut. Symbolizing, and this mind is a fox, and he's rolling and rolling this coconut. He tried to break it, but it doesn't break. When he can't break this, from where can he eat the nut? Similarly, it is a hard nut, and we have to work with this hard nut, no? Everywhere, it is very, very strong. And Sahasrāra Chakra, yogī, Sahasrāra Chakra is already nearly open, you know? You know, very thin remains, very thin and dry. You, you are solid still. Therefore, śraddhā, viśvāsa, smṛti, that samādhi, prajñā pūrvaka, when you do systematically all these sādhanās, then you achieve this samādhi, prajñā pūrvaka. First, śraddhā; second, vīrya, the health, the strength; then, awake the good memory and delete the bad memories, smṛti, samādhi. That kind of samādhi, which is called Prajñā Pūrvaka. When you systematically, one after another, do sādhanā, then the sādhaka will be successful. So, after this, when you have smelled that coconut, which one now? Now, inside, you cannot express what you feel, but you feel it. You cannot express your real joy. You may say, "I am happy," but still, the joy of that meditation, Śiva, Lord of the universe, he himself manifested, Śiva is the universe. For what does he meditate? He is a meditation. He is a meditation. He is that ultimate. He is conscious. But that happiness, the joy of meditation, is not in this. The happiness which we have in the Hari bhajan, in meditation and spirituality, that happiness is not in this world. That sukha is not in the palace or anywhere. So, there is one bhajan of Asalā Rām Jī. Abham mast huye, Rām ras pī ke, Rām ras pī ke. Now I am divine through drinking that divine juice, nectar of God, God's name, Gurudev's. And all the different kinds of juice, meaning the enjoyment of this world, is a test place for me. There is no test. Now, "must" means divine, joyful, nothing more than this, God's name. Ultimately, we have to come, or we have to turn to that supreme one, which is dwelling in each heart, which is everywhere, and we have to become one with that. Heaven, Mokṣa, all these individuals are too little. We have to come to the Brahmaloka, one with the Brahman. And so this comes, then Patañjali says, Tīvra Saṁvegānām Āsanaḥ. This I will translate for you tomorrow. When you are not here, then we have one siddhi, and that's called webcast. So you can be with the webcast. Now, nine days, or maybe eight days, will be more webcast. Then there will be a broadcast. Where is the master? And when the master will be here, the next programs will be announced. So let's go further with Patañjali's thoughts and yoga practices. I wish you all the best, good luck, and divine blessings for your spiritual development, good health, and long life. Bless you all, and those who have a birthday, I wish you a happy birthday, especially in... Jadan Yogājī has a birthday, so we bless him for a good birthday. Hari Om. Om Tryambakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntir bhavatu.