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Good evening, my dear brothers, sisters, and yogīs from all parts of the world. I am very happy that in this time, many people are thinking, "What should we do?" Many are suffering. Many are not happy, yet they work very hard, trying to live well and also helping others. This is a time when we should help each other towards peace, harmony, and especially good health. All around the world, people are praying according to their religions or spiritualities; it does not matter. All are a part of it, or it is God itself. In spiritual places and in their homes, they are praying, worshipping, and asking God to please bring peace and harmony back to this world. Last night, as I was going to sleep—to give you rest—before I fell asleep, in that state between awakening and half-sleep, I went completely into nothingness. I did not know how long I was in that real, relaxed, sleeping state. After that came the vṛttis. Vṛtti means inner thinking, and these vṛttis can be good or negative. Here, according to the Koran, positive and negative are not like that; 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, suṣupti, 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 and looking outside, it is like in winter when the leaves of the trees are falling down. It is not for you, so go within thyself. Whatever is given has been given outside. You gave, and others give to you also. But what is given from outside is temporary, and what you give to the outside will also go out and be gone. That is good. We should send, we should give very good things: harmony, peace, good things. We should send much from our heart outside. But it is said that when the rain comes, it falls to the earth and flows towards the ocean again. Sometimes that water remains in the earth itself, and it will go and 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 is flowing in our nerves. That is given by the highest, the supreme. God has given all the nerves, and there the liquid, or the blood, 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 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 also we say Allāh. They are all within us, and they are with all. So it is said: just enter into thyself and search there within thyself. If you search outside, it is temporary. And so it is said, you have Māheśvarānanda. Who said? Myself. Because who told me is our Gurudev. Paramparās 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 when 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 would go to all positive, good. But outside, it can be very aggressive or good, both. So it is best for meditation. I have said many times, it is only temporary. A little bit you want to come and close your eyes, thinking you are meditating while looking at some sunrise or oceans or forest, etc. That is like when a father is sitting with a small child, two or three years old, and the child says to the father, "Where is mother? I want to see mother," and the child is crying. What does the father say? "Look, mother is coming. Yes, she was there, and she brought you some nice fruits. Look, mommy is coming, mother is coming." The child looks and thinks, yes, mother is coming, and is happy, but she is still not there. The father only says, "Calm down, child. Yes, mother is coming very soon. 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 are meditating and getting 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 does not come in; we only see the picture, that is all. Like a person who is very hungry and sees very nice pictures, photos of fruits, cherries, apples, bananas, ice cream—something nice—but this is only a picture. 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 cannot 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, wash myself with cold water first, then I pray, meditate, read holy books, feed birds, perform yajña every day, and think of all others' holiness. 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. "Do not think about anyone." He said, "Today, give your meditation, everything, in front of me." The man meditated and asked, "What do I meditate on?" Holy Gurujī said, "Give me some minutes. Do not think anything. Now you should know that I am in my body." After ten minutes, he came out 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 see Kṛṣṇa, but he is restless." In Jaipur, there is a very beautiful, big temple of Kṛṣṇa. Every day, three times āratī is performed, and thousands come. Many get up early to go to the temple. But he said, "I cannot see Kṛṣṇa." Holy Gurujī said, "Tell Mahāprabhujī that tomorrow will be peaceful, Kṛṣṇa." Then he said, "Gurujī, please, make me your disciple." My son said to Mahāprabhujī. Holy Gurujī said, "Yes, very good, but Māheśvarānanda will come from Europe; then he will give you mantra dīkṣā." But the merchant said, "Gurujī, you are our Gurujī. I have not seen Māheśvarānanda 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 Varsānti... I was very happy. Gurujī said, "Māheśvarānanda 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 the mantra." Gurujī closed his eyes and said, "Do not disturb me. Go and give him mantra dīkṣā." That book is here. That merchant wrote every day his knowledge and what came in visions inside. Everything happened; he became very great. He said Kṛṣṇa was there but always very restless. Holy Gurujī said the merchant said. Mahāprabhujī comes always in his vision. "You meditate, and Kṛṣṇa will come, but he will 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, "Do not be restless; stand or sit." For this, your bhakta who is meditating now—who can say to Kṛṣṇa, "Do not 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 all our indriyas we bring in, and then you will see there your meditation—so, inner meditation. But many of us will say, "Okay, we close our eyes and say we will go inside." When we come inside, we will be only inside. Then it will expand more because we do not want to go out; we 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, then Gurujī's book, the manuscript he wrote with his own hands. Many people, his friends, saw with their own eyes what this person became. He always sent me his experiences from meditation, and he gave them to Gurujī. Gurujī said, "Send to Māheśvarānanda. Why send to me always?" So he used to send letters to Europe, and what he gave to Gurujī—all letters are there, remaining. That merchant passed away. It was very miraculous how that merchant, very healthy, peaceful, speaking, said, "Gurudev, Kṛṣṇa," and without any pain or anything, 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. What he has written was... so one page that, and then in English we wrote one more translation. I think this book is very, very interesting and useful for yogic people—for meditation, for those who want to meditate, who understand the spiritual or God, who need to realize how it is. He said one of his friends always goes to the Jaipur ashram temple, Kṛṣṇa's temple. Now her husband is very old; he cannot go to the temple. This person said, "I cannot die without seeing the Kṛṣṇa temple, the Kṛṣṇa statue." His friend went to him: "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?" 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." Then again Kṛṣṇa went. He only closed his hands like this and passed away. So 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 humans. It is the hidden powers in humans, cakras and kuṇḍalinī. You know.