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Good evening, my dear ones, brothers, sisters, and yogīs from all parts of the world. I am very happy that in this time, during this corona period, many, many people are thinking, "What should we do?" Many are suffering now. Many are not happy, though they work very hard and try earnestly to live well and to help others. This is a time when we should help each other toward peace, harmony, and especially good health. All around the world, many people are praying according to their religions or spiritual paths—it does not matter. All are a part of it, or it is God itself. In spiritual places and in their homes, people are praying, worshipping, and asking God, "Please, bring peace and harmony back to this world." Yesterday, as I was going to sleep to take rest, in that state between awakening and half-sleep, I went completely into nothingness. I did not know how long I was in that deep, relaxed sleep. After that came the vṛttis. Vṛtti means inner thinking, and these vṛttis can be good or negative. Here, according to the Korana, it is not about positive and negative in that way; negative is not good, and positive is good. Suddenly, it came to my vṛtti, my feelings. As I spoke the day before yesterday about jāgrat, suṣupta, and svapna, it came to me—Mahāprabhujī’s, our holy Gurujī’s teaching. Of course, my whole paramparā, my great ṛṣis on whose line I stand. It came that if you are doing everything and looking outside, it is like in winter when the leaves of the trees fall down. It is not for you. So, go within thyself. Whatever is given from outside is given. You give to others, and others give to you. But what is given from outside is temporary, and what you give to the outside will also go out and be gone. It is good. We should send, we should give very good things: harmony, peace, good things. We should send much from our heart outward. But it is said that when the rain comes, it falls to the earth and flows back toward the ocean. Sometimes that water remains in the earth itself and will flow again. But where is the source from which water will ever come to us from Mother Earth? It is said that in our body, water flows in our nerves. That is given by the highest, the supreme. God has given all the nerves, and there the liquid, or the blood, or whatever it should be said, flows in the body. It was like last night. A voice came to me: "Why are you not going inside? Be there." It means it will be everywhere. This is in our yoga, in daily life, and in many beautiful books you have written so nicely about what you call the hidden powers in humans. In this, the whole power, everything is within, not outside. So it is said: finally, come to your inner self. Within thyself, there, what it will, that will come to you. You may think about God. You may know about gurus, or we also say Allāh. They are all within us, and they are all with everyone. So it is said: just enter into thyself and search there within. If you search outside, it is temporary. And so it is said, you have Maheśvarānanda. Who said? Myself. Because who told me is our Gurudev. Paramparas are all believers, but they are believing themselves—good. Those who try to go within, but if it is negative, then many diseases will come out. Many negative thoughts will come. Suffering will come. It is also the truth that as we grow old, we are getting slowly, slowly, and we are going out. So, always, the whole day, wherever we are, there is disturbance from outside. But to come within, into that harmonious form which is our body itself—we have not understood our Self. We know our self. If we understood that we are human, then the energy goes to all that is positive and good. But outside, it can be very aggressive or good, both. So it is best for meditation. I have said many times, looking outside is only temporary. You want to come and close your eyes, thinking you are meditating while looking at some sunrise, ocean, or forest, etc. That is like when a father sits with a small child, two or three years old, and the child cries, "Where is mother? I want to see mother." The father says, "Look, mother is coming. Yes, she was there, and she brought you some nice fruits. Look, mommy is coming." The child looks and is happy, but the mother is still not there. The father only says, "Calm down, child. Yes, the mother is coming very soon. She will come here. Prepare, mother will come." And the child plays again like this. The mother is not there; she will come home only after work. Similarly, we always think outside of meditation. We say, "Now God, the sky, the beautiful mountains, caves, sunrise," etc. But this is only coming and going. We cannot catch it. Therefore, it is said there are different kinds of meditation: inner meditation or outer meditation. We have to go to the inner meditation. But it is also very hard to get meditation within. We meditate and get something from outside. It is the thing; it is not coming in. We see something. Let's say we are in the cinema and see the whole picture, but it doesn’t come in. We only see the picture, that’s all. Like a person who is very hungry and sees very nice pictures, photos of fruits, cherries, apples, bananas, ice creams—oh, something nice. But this is only a picture, and we are very hungry. We become more hungry because we see only those pictures; they are only temptations. But if it is real, even if we eat a few almonds or one real cherry in the hand, it will go into the stomach and calm our hunger. So when we go outside, we are only looking, nothing else. And when we go in, then we are thinking about outside. We are in our body and thinking many things. So meditation is not easy to come into. When we want to go outside, we can’t go. And we are inside, also not. We are in meditation, then thinking of my prāṇas, my house, my meditation, my mantras, about everything. We want to meditate within, but we are from there going out again. There is a nice story written in Līlā Amṛt of Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī. Our holy Gurujī wrote this book. One person came to Mahāprabhujī and said, "Bhagavān Śrī Dīpnārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, I am doing a lot of spiritual work. I get up early in the morning, wash myself with cold water first, then I pray, then I meditate, then I read holy books, then I feed birds, I perform yajña every day, and I think of all others’ holiness. But still, Gurudev, I cannot feel that I am happy. My thoughts are always going here and there." Mahāprabhujī said, "You are only outside in the wind. Just close your eyes and rest. Give it to me." To whom? To Mahāprabhujī. "Don’t think about anyone." He said, "Today, give your meditation, give everything in front of me." The man meditated and asked, "What do I meditate on?" Holy Gurujī said, "Give me some minutes. Don’t think anything. Now you should know that I am in my body." After ten minutes, he came and said, "Oh, I never had such peace, such harmonious understanding within. Gurujī, it was a miracle." So you should be within thyself. In the Jaipur ashram, our holy Gurujī was there. A merchant in Jaipur, a very spiritual person, worshipped and bowed to Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa. He said, "I see Kṛṣṇa in my meditation. I sit and I see Kṛṣṇa, but when I am restless, I don’t see. There is a sight there. Here, I don’t know, can I see or not?" In Jaipur, there is a very beautiful, very big temple of Kṛṣṇa. Three times a day they perform āratī, and thousands of people come. Many get up early to go to the temple and come back. But he said, "I cannot see Kṛṣṇa." So holy Gurujī said, "Tell Mahāprabhujī that tomorrow will be peaceful, Kṛṣṇa." Then he said, "Gurujī, please, you give me that I am your disciple." My son said to Mahāprabhujī. And holy Gurujī said, "Yes, very good, but Maheśvarānanda will come from Europe, then he will give you mantra dīkṣā." But the merchant said, "Gurujī, you are our Gurujī. I have not seen Maheśvarānanda yet." Gurujī said, "Yes, I know you are right, but I have given the key to Māheśvarānanda, so he will come." I went from Europe to India during that Varsaṁthī. I was very happy, and Gurujī said, "Maheśvarānanda is coming today." The merchant asked, "But will he speak to me or not?" Gurujī said, "Wait. When he comes, you will know what is happening. Anyhow, I gave him," Gurujī said. Then I said, "Gurujī, I cannot give mantra." Gurujī closed his eyes and said, "Don’t disturb me. Go and give him mantra dīkṣā." That book is here. That merchant wrote every day about his knowledge and what came in his inner visions. Everything happened. He became very great. He said that Kṛṣṇa was there, but always very restless. So holy Gurujī said to the merchant, "Mahāprabhujī always comes in his vision. You meditate, and Kṛṣṇa will come, but he will be restless because he is always running here and there." So, Mahāprabhujī said to him in his meditation, "Tomorrow, Kṛṣṇa will not move at all." He sat in meditation, and Kṛṣṇa came. Mahāprabhujī said to Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, "Don’t be restless. Stand or sit." For this, your bhakta who is meditating now—who can say to Kṛṣṇa, "Don’t be restless, or you will go left and right"? Maybe he will not come anymore. But he said in his meditation, Kṛṣṇa was peaceful all the time. And so it is beautiful. All his meditations began with what holy Gurujī taught: that we bring all our indriyas in, and then you will see there your meditation—the inner meditation. But many of us will say, "Okay, we close our eyes, and I will say on the inside. When we come inside, I will be only inside." Then it will expand more because I don’t want to go out. I will be inside. Then we are completely more outside. In Gurudev's book, I will let you go. I will give you that book. You should have it tomorrow. I will bring that book now—Gurujī’s book, the manuscript he wrote with his own hands. Many people, his friends, also saw with their own eyes what this person became. He always sent me his experiences from his meditation, and he gave them to Gurujī. Gurujī said, "Send to Maheśvarānanda. Why send to me always?" So he used to send letters to Europe, and what he gave to Gurujī—all letters are there, remained. That merchant passed away, and it was very miraculous. He was very healthy, peaceful, speaking, and he said, "Gurudev, Kṛṣṇa," and without any pain or anything, he just said, "Now I go." His parents were all with him. I thought I would give my Western bhaktas the book and show them. But you know, we humans think, who knows who told like this? Only maybe we are writing what he was talking. So I take all this paper, like this. What he has written was on one page, and then we wrote another translation in English. I think this book is very, very interesting and very useful for yogic people—for meditation, for those who want to meditate, who understand the spiritual or God. They will need to realize how it is. He said one of his friends always goes to the Jaipur ashram temple, Kṛṣṇa’s temple. Now his husband is very old and cannot go to the temple. This person said, "I cannot die without seeing the Kṛṣṇa temple, the Kṛṣṇa statue." His friend went to him and said, "Please show me once the Kṛṣṇa temple." Mahāprabhujī said to him, "Go tomorrow to your friend, the very old one, and Kṛṣṇa will come." He smiled. "How is it possible?" goes Bābājī. "That I go and show them how?" Mahāprabhujī said, "Go." So he went to his friend who was lying in bed. He saw his palm. To his friend lying in bed, in his whole hand, Kṛṣṇa was there. His family said, and he said, "Yes, I am now happy. Kṛṣṇa is here." And then again Kṛṣṇa went. He only closed his hands like this and passed away. That is inner meditation—how we are learning from the out to the in. From in to out is gone. That book is here in the ashram, and we should translate it into other languages also. So tomorrow again our meditation will come, and the hidden powers of the humans. It is the hidden powers in humans, chakras and kuṇḍalinī. You know.