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Welcome this evening. It is a beautiful day, and now the sun, Nārāyaṇa, is going further to the others. So we first pray. It is a prayer time, so we all should know. Therefore, we first offer our praṇām to our Gurudevs. This is the time of the Sandhyā. Sandhyā means the connection. It is the joint between day and night, so Sūrya Nārāyaṇa for us is resting, and oneness becomes the day and night. At this time of Sandhyā, one should never entertain any kind of negative thoughts, negative thinking, or anything negative. Also, one should not do—but at least one should say—that on Sandhyā time one should not slaughter animals. Of course, one should not hunt at all, but at least at this time, Sandhyā, one should not kill any animals. No hunting. The same time in the morning is also called Prabhāta, and that time should also be respected. It is time for oneness, a divine time. The great saints, the great ṛṣis, they knew when to do sādhanā, when to meditate, when the most favorable time is. They also said that generally one should eat before sunset and not after. And after morning, early morning sādhanā, etc., one should wash, clean everything, then perform āratī, pūjā, and then bhajan, and then eating. This is for the Gṛhastha Āśram. Gṛhastha Āśram means the people who are family parents—those who are working, those who are at home, those who have families, etc. This is pūjā. For a sannyāsī, it is also like this, but the sannyāsī can, at any time, do anything. They said the sun sets after people are sleeping, but the yogīs are awakened. That’s what we call our Yoga Nidrā. We call it Yoga Nidrā, that beautiful... And when our Satguru’s disciples said that... Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī and Mahādev Purījī. That is how to make our sādhanā. So these are all at certain times. We cannot at any time make sleeping what we call this bhakti—no, Yoga Nidrā. Yogī Janakī, Yoga Nidrā. This bhajan Mahāprabhujī has written, and that is what means the sādhanā: Yoga Nidrā. So, the people (grasti), they sleep, and yogīs awaken. But we should honor this time of the sun: when it rises, when it is, when it sets. There are many different days, festivals, and sometimes some do and some don’t. Then what are they doing? They are making a festival. And what is a festival? Something spiritual, but nobody does that. So they do the festivals with dancing and making good eating, and like this. They have kept only the dancing, the entertainment, the good food. So, now, this is just called the Sandhyā. This is precisely the moment called Sandhyā. And from this now, when the sun sets, until the time for prayer, we can see the lines on our palm. Not with light like this, but when it becomes dark, then you will see that it is not visible. Then we should not do the prayer. It is not right to do it then. Because you are here—all our yoga in daily life, all our disciples, our guru paramparā: Alak Purījī, Dev Purījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī—we are together. I don’t count myself as the first one. If I do, I am lost. So as long as I am physically living, when I am eating, you are also eating. What you are drinking, I am drinking water. They drink milk, I drink milk. You have cloth, I also have cloth. So it is said: O saint, O sādhu, we all the people who are living in the families should respect the sannyāsī, and the sannyāsī should respect them very much. It means that we are living beings, sādhus and people. But their knowledge, their feeling, their living is different from the household. This is different. I am not like you, and you are not like me, because my way is different and your way is different. But still, I am the same human. My body is like your body, and therefore one should not say, "I am great," or "I am this and that." Many people are making a lot of distinctions, and they say, "Don’t come close to me, don’t touch me." Once Holī Gurujī was somewhere, and someone said to some other sādhu, and he even said to Gurujī, "Don’t touch me, Swāmījī." Swāmījī said, "Even if you want to do, I will not let you touch." That is ego. Ego. Immediately, you become a sannyāsī? You are not. It is ego, ego, ego. In the last minute, some minutes when we die, then we know what I am. Of course, they have more and more differences. We have our different activities. And sādhus, mahātmās, holy saints, they are different. Therefore, the household—house, husband, wife, children, parents, this, that, everything, takrī, pakrī, takrī, everything inside, dog and this and that—that is all. That’s called not parpañc, but it is a household, other. Have a little difference, and so even we are there, but we keep different. It’s very important, and if we are touching, then it will be lost. So this is Sandhyā. Sandhyā means now sunset. Brahmamuhūrta is sunrise. And one has different activities, and sādhus, mahāpuruṣas, and yogīs have others. So they will go to the mālā, and others will go to the coffee. So the sādhus have a different way, and someone has a different way. Someone takes a mālā in the morning, someone takes a cup of coffee. This is what you all here have learned a lot, and Lord, you are doing this very nicely, and I am so happy. I am very happy for you, that you and me, we are very happy together, and we do good things. And I am also glad that you are learning all this here, and I am very happy, and we together are all happy that we are doing good things. All we are one, one in all and all in one, as Holy Gurujī said. As Holy Gurujī says, we all duality, this and that and this, then you are lost. There is one nice bhajan we will have. So this is a prayer, what I wanted to tell us. Why are we making prayer? And it is said, for the householders, it is the time for prayer: morning, midday, and evening. Why? Why, as householders, are we making prayers? Why not the other side? Mahāprabhujī said, "Our Gurudev said, ‘I did not see physically Bhagavān Dīpnāra Mahāprabhujī.’" So it is said that one day there was a difference between sādhus, swāmīs—the real swāmīs, okay? Not all who dress in white or black or something like this; that is not what it means. So it is said, people said, "What and when, how can we see God?" The great saints, ṛṣis, they will tell about God. So some people said, "We went to God and said, ‘God, we can come anytime to visit you.’" But other people have to wait, and they have to get time, and if they will see or not. So then it is said, Bhagavān, God, we sādhus and this you bhaktiṣ, you are all my, you are sādhus, all you. We can meet anytime, Bhagavān, God. But what about other people? They cannot always come to God. God, it is said, this is duality, God. God said, "No. I give freedom, and my door is completely open, wide open. Everyone can come. I have enough space. But Sandhyā, and early morning Pūjā—there you come to me all the times. The rest, I have given to you for your day and night activities. What you are doing is your thing, but the sādhus, they can come and go anytime. This is the difference." So today I was thinking, every day many things, so I said, I was a little bit thinking, I said to Mahāprabhujī, "As long as I am here in seminar with them, no duality, one in all and all in one." Even you are more with God than me, you are doing sādhanā, japa, prāṇāyāma, kriyā, anuṣṭhāna, etc. You do the āsanas, prāṇāyāma, kriyā, anuṣṭhāna, and so on. Then God says, "You rest, Swamiji." Maybe like that. So, my dear, you all are great people, great souls. And I, you know, it is said many times, God, we said, you are on my palm. God said, no, I am on the palm of my devotees and my saints. God said that I am like a father, and all disciples are like little children in our hands, on our lap. So there are many things, but if you think this is right and this is wrong, then it’s different. No, but if you think something bad about it, then it is different for you, then it is otherwise for you. Therefore Mahāprabhujī said: "The saintly sādhus can come to God anytime and talk with him anytime." And the others say: "Well, and when is our turn?" Śubha and śiyām, śubha morning and evening, which I have said many times from Holī Gurujī’s words. Japa, paśu, pakṣī, pyāre, to every animal, bird, and human. So all the birds and all, they are morning and evening, they are praying. You know how the birds and they all can be... all. We have killed all our animals, but it was, they said, the rainforest. On the earth, I don’t know what percent remains. I was in Brazil, and my disciples there took me to this rainforest. They took me into this rainforest; it was a long journey. And there was one person who had a beautiful hut, and his sister or his uncle, and she is my disciple in Australia, America. And she was in the airport. And she is also now, and she was one, two months here in Strelka. And often she telephones, I telephone. Her name is Parās. Anyhow, her uncles and this, they were all there. And there, you can see, people are constantly shaping the forest. And they are putting these other kinds of trees... and they are putting, and they are putting... and they are putting, yes, eucalyptus, yes. And they said, "Why?" They said, "Because this is commercial, we can use it." Others know nothing. That is what humans are doing now. That one is uncle. He said, "Every day he goes for hunting." And he would not come back without hunting some animal. But one day, something happened in his mind. And maybe some energy came to him. Before he had not seen him. Maybe some of my energy was already working there before we saw each other, before we met. And he threw out all those guns and started to live in that rainforest. And nowhere else have I seen such beautiful birds. Fruits, banana. So he put on the tree somewhere a banana, and so different colors of the birds, little, little. Dr. Savasanti, Mansa Devi, and she has these birds, so beautiful. Little, like we have, and there are many monkeys, different kinds of monkeys, and there are some big monkeys, and they are called, what we call, we give the keys, so the oldest monkey is sitting there before sunset. All monkeys from the forest come and they hug the grandfather, and he kisses them here and like this, and they all sit like this. Maybe they say, "How are you?" Maybe we don’t know the language. And so many animals. Now this whole forest is destroyed. What can we do? Therefore, it is humans who are destroying. So there we were there, so I saw here that, and then I saw the rainforest and these other trees. So, it is said that Sandhyā time, this is now prayer time for that. And just now, you can see your palm. But you should not have the tree, not tea, light you see. Then you will see, so therefore, God said, "I give them the time, about one and a half hour. You can come and just come to me, and we say the prayer." And you see, in every religion, for example, they have given prayer times. So, it’s great.