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We have the chanting of the Bhagavad Gītā, Lakṣmī, Sūrya, and all these little boys and girls. These are today’s children; tomorrow they will be our yogīs, progressing further on the good path. Today’s children are tomorrow’s culture. They are the future culture, on the good way. They will give a good name to this country, Slovenia. These children should know that this is their country, their home. We will practice many good things together—not only yoga exercises, but different kinds of knowledge. Slovenians are very enthusiastic about playing football and many other activities. You, our sisters and brothers, are very happy here, and you have such nice children. I am very happy that we have so many children with us. When a couple comes together—wife and husband—you must understand the purpose. First, you should know the nature of this union. You should not base it on a single word or a fleeting emotion. Emotionally-based couples will separate sooner or later. When you plant a seed, it takes time. It grows for one, two, three years, and then the real fruits come. What is often done today is not good. They plant something small, expecting fruit not this year but the next. That plant is not long-lasting. Therefore, my dear all, first give your children the education that we should be a good family: father and mother together, always for the children. Then give them education in many different ways. Everyone has different inclinations—some want horse riding, some biking, some cars, some diving, some flying. Yoga is present inside all these activities. Yoga is not only for God in a limited sense. Yoga means we first have to build our inner qualities. Build good quality. Then we can be successful in everything, and it should be with humbleness and kindness. For example, when playing football, the 22 players—11 and 11—come together, they hug each other, they sit, drink coffee, all in this hall. They shake hands, hug, and then go their separate ways. This is a play. It’s not aggressive, not negative. Then they will be successful. Of course, they have to play as well as they can, kicking the ball into the goal. Afterwards, they come to the other room and say, "Thank you, you did well." They are friends. This is how we should give our children different kinds of qualities and work. Football is not the only activity; there are many. Some are riding, some are artists, some are poets. We should give our children the best and good qualities. The seed within you should be humble, kind, peaceful, spiritual—integrating yoga into daily life. We know your country is not very large, but it is still good. A small country is easier to guide, and it can accomplish more good things. Perhaps not too many children, but we should have at least two, three, or four children. They will become the pillars. We work hard to build a building, and we have pillars for support. Make your country strong with many such pillars in the best way. It depends on the parents. We should not do anything to harm animals. You know we are vegetarians; we should have good milk and good food. It is said that children learn from how their parents act. You are not a couple just for your own emotion. When you have children, then you become a perfect couple. Now you will raise your children in a very nice, good way. We can go to the ashram, to church, to other spiritual places, and we should go swimming. Give them experiences, but they should know not to do things in the wrong way. We must guide our children on which groups to belong to and which people to associate with. This is a very big problem here and in the whole world: other people taking children and leading them onto a bad path. For example, someone giving drugs—and this drug means dry, finished. Who gives drugs to children? This is really not good; it is a sin. These little children don’t know. You must teach them: "You must live like this. Everyone is being tested. Say no, thank you. Don’t give your children drugs." But the child may say, "But you are drinking alcohol, father or mother." So this is also a drug. Human life is very good, but it is also very hard. Humans are killing humans, but humans should strive to realize God. There are very difficult things to navigate. When there is dirty water and you think, "Oh, one little stone," and you throw it in, you know it splashes onto your dress or others. So don’t go to such dirty water, and don’t throw the stone there. In this way, we have to learn. You are not together merely for emotion—what is called "love" between girls and boys. This love is the children. What you want to enjoy, enjoy that love. That means you have received it now; you don't need to seek more. That love is the child, and the child is your love. You should take care of the child. That is you, loving the whole day. Mother and father should say in the evening, "Please, drugs are not good. Do not go to other people like this." And when someone offers something, the child should say, "No, I don’t want." Only if a mother or father says it is okay should they take it. Many children say, "No, really." Even little children in our ashram, coming to our seminars, if someone offers them chocolate, they say, "No, no." But when they have the confidence of the parents, then they will take it. There are many, many paths to guide our children, like little flames. We make this flame, and very soon it will be sunrise. Your children are the rising sun. Give them toys, but good toys. Don’t give them pistols and such things. Here, I think many people are not having many children, but in India, little children walk on both sides of the road with little toy weapons. Terrible! Terrible! And such toys are coming from other countries too. We should say we do not want to put any weapons in the hands of little children. Only in your country, your government gives education for the armies, etc. That is for them, after 20 years. A person can have a gun then, and they are not taught to kill. They always try to protect everyone—both the other side and ourselves. There are many things, but we want the whole world to come to such education. It will bring peace and harmony. Yoga, which we have in daily life for our body, for our good health, for our mind to be peaceful, and for everything good, including the social aspect. We shall build society on a good path. As we said, Barikāṭo Praṇām—this is the body, the mind (our thinking), and the social aspect. We are all social beings here. What education will we give the children now? This is important. First, your cultures and traditions should teach your children. Your language, your culture—that is very important. And we should also learn nice, good things from other countries. In this way, I was so happy when I saw one child, then two, then three. Inside are all our beautiful flowers—these children. That’s very good, nice to see you. I pray to Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, and all great saints in the whole world. I pray that we receive from them good knowledge, good qualities, and live a good life. In our house, don’t give any negative toys to children. The best would be to tell them, "Don’t go to a toy shop where there are not good toys," because from there they get a certain kind of knowledge or problems. Yoga for our children is not only about thinking of yoga. Yoga for our children is not only yoga, but first, our culture. Therefore, today’s child is tomorrow’s culture. And what kind of culture will you give us? That is the culture. I am very happy to see you all, and if you have any questions, you are welcome. One girl has her birthday in two days, on Pūrṇimā, and she would like to get a little blessing. Yes, someone has a birthday. Hari Om. Good. A birthday is very good. God bless you with good health, peace, harmony, and knowledge in schools and colleges, etc. It will be nice. Hari Om. And it is also your birthday? You have a birthday? Thank you. Now, we have chocolate for the children, but not now—afterwards. Parents, please, would you like to say something? Q&A and Further Discussion Question: I was nearly three months in Strilky. The children from there are so educated and spiritual. When they come home in the evening, they say, "We go for prayer, we go to prayer." They tell their parents, "Let’s go to satsaṅg." A little child is two years old, and when they are eating, the parents say, "Anāpurāṇe, Sadāpurāṇe," and the little children also say, "Anāpurāṇe, Sadāpurāṇe." When parents want to eat in the beginning, the children say, "No, no, first prayer." So it is the parents giving the education. Answer: You should discuss with your mother, father, or your wife: "What education should we give?" In the beginning, when you want to marry, you should state that you want to live a happy, healthy, and spiritual life. You want to bring a child to this earth, and that child should become one of the best persons—good for our parents, our streets, our village, our country, and the whole world. On the spiritual path, in the spiritual sense, it will be good for your family, your city, your country, and the whole world. But we all very easily do something, and the children are spoiled. So, it starts from the parents, not from the children. You have to say no. No means no. If the mother says no and the father says okay, give it, or vice versa, that is not consistent. They must know a no is a no. If a child asks for ice cream, say yes, but first finish eating. If they did not eat, then say, "No, no ice cream, put it away." This is you, mother and father. You know how you are taking care of your children. Of course, we should give some toys—good toys. Also, let them run, let them go. You have many friends with children, and you should come together. That is the best way to give education. Once a week in your village, come together with our Yoga in Daily Life, with our children together. Question: (About vaccines) Answer: I am not a doctor. The doctor will definitely not give negative things or poisonous injections. All of you have had vaccines from your birth. Now, if there is this corona problem, and if a vaccine protects us all, why not? Many people say something is not good, and I’m sure they are saying it, but I don’t want to say yes or no. It is your country, your doctors, and your government, so I cannot do anything. But I can tell you, if we are protecting ourselves with this, then we should take the injection. I speak for my country; I will say for my country. Question: What happens when you die? Answer: We will not die. We will not die. We will still go to school, we will become great, we will work very hard, and we will not die, so don’t worry. Enjoy and live happily. Be happy with your parents, with your grandparents, with your great-grandparents, with your friends. You will grow up and you will also get a family. You will have nice, good children, so don’t think about dying. We will not die. Afterwards, when we are very old, then we will just go to sleep, that’s all. Like in the evening when you are tired, you go to sleep. When we are tired enough, then we will sleep, no problem. And when we wake up again, we will have good things again. Okay? That’s all? Any more? So, can we sing some bhajans for children? Which bhajans or songs will children like? I would like to listen. Come here with your instrument, please. Yes. We are going to bring chocolate for the children, okay? We are going shopping and will bring chocolate. So, children, please wait. The chocolate will be here in a moment. Some song—one of your country songs, so the children can also join. Aha, which one? We can have one prayer. One prayer, yeah. Śrī Guru Ātmā Param. Subtitles by the Amara.org community