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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, and we all should know this. Therefore, we first offer our praṇām to our Gurudevs. This is the time of the Sandhyā. Sandhyā means the connection, the joint between day and night. For us, Sūrya Nārāyaṇa is resting, and oneness becomes the day and night. During this time of Sandhyā, one should never entertain any kind of negative thoughts, negative thinking, or anything negative. Also, one should not act negatively; at the very least, it is said 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 in the same way. It is a time for oneness, a divine time. The great saints, the great ṛṣis, knew this when they performed sādhanā and meditations. It is generally said that one should eat before sunset and not after. And in the early morning, after sādhanā and everything—after washing, cleaning everything—then one performs āratī, pūjā, and bhajan, and then eats. This is prescribed for the Gṛhastha Āśram. The Gṛhastha Āśram means the people who are family parents: those who are working, those who are at home, those who have families, and so on. This is the pūjā for them. For a sannyāsī, it is also like this, but a sannyāsī can, at any time, do anything. They say the sun sets after people are sleeping, but the yogīs are awakened. That is what we call our Yoga Nidrā. We call it Yoga Nidrā, that beautiful state. When our Satguru’s disciples spoke of it... Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī and Mahādev Purījī taught how to perform our sādhanā. These practices are for certain times. We cannot simply call any sleeping time "bhakti" or Yoga Nidrā. Yogī Janakī, Yoga Nidrā. This bhajan Mahāprabhujī wrote means the sādhanā is Yoga Nidrā. So, householders (grasti) sleep, and yogīs awaken. But we should honor this time of the sun: when it rises, when it is at its peak, and when it sets. There are many different days and festivals. Sometimes some people observe them and some do not. Then what are they doing? They are making a festival. And what is a festival? It is something spiritual, but often nobody performs the spiritual aspect. So they do the festivals with dancing and good eating, and so on. Now, this is just called the Sandhyā. From now, when the sun sets, until the time for prayer, we can see the lines on our palm. Not with electric light like this, but when it becomes dark, then you will see that the lines are 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 do not count myself as now being the first one. If I were to do that, I would be 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 families—should respect the sannyāsī, and the sannyāsī should respect them very much. This means that we are all living beings, sādhus and people. But their knowledge, their feeling, their living is different from the householder's life. 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 create a lot of differences and say, "Don’t come close to me, don’t touch me." Once, Holy Gurujī was somewhere, and someone said to another sādhu, and even to Gurujī, "Don’t touch me, Swāmījī." Swāmījī said, "Even if you want to do so, I will not let you touch." That is ego. Ego immediately—you become a sannyāsī? You are not. It is ego, ego, ego. Only in the last minutes when we die do we know what we are. Of course, there are more and more differences. We have our different activities. 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 not called parpañc, but it is a household, something else. There is a little difference, so even when we are there, we keep ourselves different. This is very important. If we start touching (identifying with it), then it will be lost. So this is Sandhyā. Sandhyā means now, sunset. Brahmamuhūrta is sunrise. One has different activities, and sādhus, mahāpuras, and yogīs have others. So they will go to their mala (prayer beads), and others will go for coffee. The sādhus have a different way, and someone has a different way. Someone takes a mala 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. I am so happy. I am very happy for you, that you and I, we are very happy together and we do good things. All we are one: one in all and all in one, as Holy Gurujī said. As Holy Gurujī says, if we all dwell in 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? It is said that for householders, it is the time for prayer: morning, midday, and evening. Why? Why, as householders, are we making prayers? Why not the others? Mahāprabhujī said, "Our Gurudev said, ‘I did not see Bhagavān Dīpnāra Mahāprabhujī physically.’" So it is said that one day there was a difference of opinion 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 asked, "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 it is uncertain if they will see Him or not. So then it is said: Bhagavān, God, we sādhus and you bhaktas, you are all mine, you are all sādhus. 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 during Sandhyā and early morning Pūjā, you all come to me. For the rest, I have given you time 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: we said to God, "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. Śubha and śiyām, śubha morning and evening, which I have said many times from Holy Gurujī’s words. Japa, paśu, arpakṣī, pyāre, to every animal, bird, and human. So all the birds and all, they are praying in the morning and evening. 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. There was one person who had a beautiful hut, and his sister or his uncle—and she is my disciple in Australia, America. She was at the airport. She is also now, and she was here in Strelka for one or two months. Often she telephones, I telephone. Her name is Parās. Anyhow, her uncles and these, they were all there. And there, you can see, people are constantly shaping the forest. They are putting in these other kinds of trees... they are putting, and they are putting... yes, eucalyptus, yes. 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 uncle 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. Maybe some energy came to him. Before, he had not seen it. Maybe some of my energy was already working there before we saw each other, before we met. Fruits, banana. So he put a banana on the tree somewhere, and so different colors of birds came, little, little. Dr. Savasanti, Mansa Devi, she has these birds, so beautiful. Little, like we have, and there are many monkeys, different kinds of monkeys. 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 are hugging the grandfather, and he kisses them here and like this, and they are all sitting 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, and I saw there, 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.