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O Sākṣāt Parabrahma, tasmai Śrī Gurūṇāmā. Dhyāṇa-mūlaṁ guru-mūrtiḥ, pūjā-mūlaṁ guru-padaṁ, mantra-mūlaṁ guru-vākyaṁ, mokṣa-mūlaṁ gurur-kṛpā. Om śānti śānti śānti. Devadhī Dev, Deveśvar Mahādev kī Jai, Alak Purījī Mahādev kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhvānandjī Bhagavān kī Jai, Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī kī Jai, Mātā Pitā Guru Dev kī Jai. Good evening to all dear sister-brothers, to Yoga in Daily Life, to all the teachers and practitioners, to all other yoga centers, yoga schools, and yoga teachers around the whole world. They all have different techniques, and we are all in oneness. I also extend my respect to other spiritual people around the world; they may not practice in the form of yoga, but they have more or less the same essence. I look forward to them as well. In yoga, which we are discussing, there are many, many different techniques or practices. Which is the yoga? For example, there is Bhakti Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga is one of the highest yogas. Many people have different kinds of techniques, but Bhakti Yoga is a sure one which will bring us to the Brahmalokas. Today, I saw a video about one of the great saints. What was his name? We call him Tukārāmjī. He had a family, two or three children, and he was a farmer. He was always sitting in his farm, always singing bhajans, the name of God. He would just put the seeds in the earth, in his farm. Other people would make fine fences so that animals would not go in. But this Tukārām was only engaged in bhajan, and still his corn grew. Some animals and other wild animals would come and eat it all, and he didn't care. His wife was always very angry. "What are you doing here? What is this and that? You are not coming home to eat, and you are not taking care of our farm." He said, "Don't worry. God knows, God is speaking with me, and God is doing." She was angry, but she brought food for him. It's a long story. When he went from his farm, he had sugar cane. He was bringing about twenty pieces home to his little village. They are very long, like sticks. People were running and taking them, pulling them from him. One boy came in front, and he gave him some too. When he arrived home, only two sticks were left. But he said, "No, it's for all. Is it not for all? It is for all." And when the harvest came, it was so much you can't imagine. When they collected all the seeds, it was like a full hill. In many, many ways, it is the truth that for him a chariot came from heaven. Guards came, he sat in the chariot, and it flew up. This is truth. There is a temple there in India, and we can go there sometimes. India is a land of God. There are many saints still in the same way. There are many stories about this. I will tell you and bring you. You should go to that temple there, where he was. So, Bhakti Yoga—all great saints we speak of practiced only Bhakti Yoga. Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jñāna Yoga—these are all different yogas. Yes, yoga is good; yoga practices, āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, everything is very good. It is said, "He was a very holy saint. He died; he just breathed in and said, 'I am going.'" But yoga cannot be successful without bhakti. So it is, as one saint said: "Bhaktirodhanā datā dījīyo, māre Gurudeva, bhakti kadan Gurudījīye." O my Lord, give me bhakti, devotion. Devotion, devotion. That I may worship, I may pray at your holy feet. And when I will die, I will go. Please, when I come again, bring me to the shelter of the sants, the bhaktas. Bhakti comes when you have no negative thoughts at all. It has to become completely pure, purity. So even when black stuff comes upon it, it will not stay; it will become clean. So Bhakti Yoga is very, very great. And in Haṭha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga is present there. These two, Bhakti Yoga and Haṭha Yoga, are among the greatest. Then we have Jñāna Yoga and Karma Yoga. Yes, karma is the bhakti, because without karma, bhakti cannot be clear. And bhakti cannot be clear if we are not doing the karma. So this is karma and bhakti together. Anyone who wants to go on the path, it doesn't matter if you are a sannyāsī or not a sannyāsī, with a husband, wife, children or no children, etc. Many saints go through like that. These are the great Indian saints; they have this knowledge and these techniques, and they can give them to the disciples, and they know which way is good for each. Sometimes one wants to be a spiritual guru and do a guru's sevā, but one doesn't want to do these karma yogas or this and that. So when we come to the guru, the sadguru, that guru is spiritual and belongs to the paramparā of sannyāsīs. It may appear that such yoga gurus, and there are such paramparās of the gurus, are not what you think—"oh, well, he's not like this and like that." Nowadays, people are thinking, "I am studying, and I am in college, and I am there," and someone is giving more and more stories, and they are talking, but inside is empty. Bhakti Yoga is very, very easy and not easy at all, because to give up, you give up everything that you have feelings for, to give it to others. It doesn't matter if someone is your enemy or your friend, whether they are humans or animals. The heart has to be very clean and very pure. So, there are many points on which path you want to go in yoga. Nowadays we call it university. In university, how many subjects are there? Yes, and someone says, "Yes, I want to have this subject, I want to have this subject." And someone gives up after some days, or one or two years, and then says, "I don't like this, I want to take this other subject." Then you try to have this and that and that; you will not be complete. Similarly, in spirituality, to go towards God, towards the Guru, we shall go with bhakti, bhakti. "Bhakti rodhanā datā dījīyo, māre Gurudeva, bhakti kadan Gurudījīye." Give me bhakti, devotion, devotion, devotion. So, in bhakti, how many techniques are there? One will say, "No, I will only be singing bhajans and singing this and that," or, "I will give lectures and so on." And one is only cleaning in the ashrams, or in their house, or in the street. He will be the highest. Ego. Ego is our enemy. And this ego is so strong, you can't imagine. And as long as we are good, and everybody says yes, and good, and that, we think we are not ego. They think because the ego is down. But if someone will say something—"Because it's my seat, I will sit here. It is my seat, you go sit on the other side"—that means your ego is exploded, and how terrible that is. But the other one will say, "No, I'm sorry, it is your place." All will say, "No, no, please, you sit here." They will sit there. So this is also ego or humble. Humble means to bow down. And, of course, many—we are always in our whole country, everywhere—someone comes, then we get up and say, "Yes, please come, you sit," or when females come and we are going by bus or train or somewhere, they sit first for ladies. Others say, "No, no, I'm going first. My seat is there first." There is already ego. So, there are many, many things. So, how do we clean our ego? And that ego is only cleansed by bhakti yogī, karma yogī, karma. "Karma sukho śālam." We will be successful when we do something for someone. We are doing for ourself, that is nothing. Of course, we want to wash our body and this and that, and okay, it is yours. But if you will wash someone, or massage someone, then one is making bhakti. So it goes about, let's say, 90%. The bhakti goes to this person who is doing sevā. And only 10% goes to the others for whom they are being massaged. Okay, massaging. And then somebody gives the money; then the money is only 5%. But the person who is doing it has so much happiness and joy that "I want to massage someone, I want to practice, etc." So bhakti is the greatest. So, Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga. So, Bhakti Yoga is not only like this: sitting and meditation and mālā, reading holy books. Here, sitting there, mālā, pūjā, and waiting that someone is cooking, I'm coming for eating. That bhakti is not very much, but bhakti is that we are doing, and no ego. If someone is sitting beside you, and someone is talking to others, then you say, "Why are they talking only together? Why don't they speak to me?" Ego is a fire that is a volcano in humans. And when you are ego and this and that, then the śoka is coming out of you, burning from the heart, inside. That's not good. And if we do bhakti for one year and for one day we break everything... But Karma Yoga, with the heart, then is the greatest, more than bhakti. Because Karma Yoga is Bhakti Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga is there. And Jñāna Yoga is mostly what people are doing, but there is nothing to say about Mokṣa. That "I am not in Brahmalokas." So, then it is Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and what is the fourth one? Rāja Yoga. "I am the Rāja." Rāja Yoga is also only the knowledge talking. There is spirituality very much inside, but still not that. So, Jñāna Yoga and Rāja Yoga are very good, but they are on the surface very much. So all, even Bhagavān Śiva, is very humble. And Bhagavān Rāma, how humble. Krishna also, but Krishna is a little bit too much like this. Yes, but he knows this and that. And again, so Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa was also giving sevā. He was in school, and where Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa's school was—where we were in Kumbh Melā, which is there, Sandīpṛṣṇu. And in Kumbh Mela I was there, and last year I went again once more to the ashram of Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, where he studied, in Ujjain. Ujjain is the complete center of our globe. Every scientist and everyone has said that, yes, this is the center. And there are so many spiritual and holy people, many, many. And there is also Śiva, Mahākāleśvara. If we go there for at least two weeks or one month, we shall see each and every point where it is. For example, there is a black Bhairava, and he is guiding. So there are two: one is white skin, and one is black skin. And they are the guards of the Gurudeva. So the story is very long. So Kālabhairava is also there. And the Kālabhairava in this way is very strong and very powerful. And Kālabhairava, he drinks only alcohol. And best quality. And there are people in line, a very long, long line. And there is a little temple, like I am sitting here in my glass box. And there is a statue of the Bhairava. So, in Kumbh Melā time, I went there to see that. So that one, the pūjārī, is making sevā for the Kālabhairava. So when I went, he brought me into the room. And these teachers, masters, or the pūjārīs, they were so happy, and they became my disciples. And there was some prime minister and his wife. They were also there, right? They were inside making pūjā. And I came. Then the Minister and his wife said immediately, "Please, Swāmījī is coming, so next time we will sit more and talk." So the statue is made from this stone, and his lips, a little bit, mouth is open, just a little, not like this, just like this, and they will bring a kind of alcohol, a little bottle. One should not open it. You give it to the pūjārī, and the pūjārī, he opens the bottle. And there is a nice plate, and he gives half into the plate. And with this gesture, he brings it near the mouth of the Kālabhairava, and in two or three seconds, two seconds or maybe one second, it is just gone into his mouth, finished. And half the bottle he gives back to the devotees who came. And once a year, there is one very big procession. They are all coming: the police, the guards, the king's things, and everything, making one procession. So I asked them also, and many people said, "When the British were in India, where is the alcohol going?" They tried to dig around the temple, but they didn't find anything: no pipe, no sweat, and no smell. And how many tons, or whatever, of alcohol is going per day? Where is nothing? In the temple, it is beautiful and nice, and there is no smell. Other people also came; scientists came. What is happening? Where is it going? Still, there are also devotees who, when working there, also don't know. And I was sitting there, and I didn't bring the alcohol bottle. I didn't know. But the pūjārīs, they brought it from someone, and said, "This is for Swāmījī." And then I was sitting by the side, and then from that Kālabhairava, there was something there, so they gave me some shawl and something. Some of our bhaktas were there, but in Kumbh Melā there were too many people, so we were not all together. And next time we should come, or you can go. All your many troubled things and troubles will go away. Bhairava will be protecting you. And there are certain dogs, they are sitting also there, outside. And many monkeys, they are just sitting there. It is also mysterious things there. But they've talked to me, I went with them, and then after I visited other temples there, so I was also there, and there was sitting one dog, his dog's eyes were so... So there are, I don't know, 100–200 temples here in this city. And there is the Mahākāleśvara. And you know, Mahākāleśvara, he was then in the Rākṣasas, then he burned there. And still, when you dig there, the sand comes out. So, like this, there are many, many. Then we will know, yes, what it is. So, come time, too many people, so I did not go to Krishna's school. And then, next time I was there, I went there. I had time enough to see that Krishna was here, studied this, this, everything. And it is his Guru was there. So Krishna's Guru, yes, and the Pāṇḍit of the Krishnas is Gargācārya, my line. So, this is, in this way, the bhakti yoga. If you cannot go through bhakti, then you have not done anything. And bhakti yoga, you can only do if you have done the karma yoga. "Karma-yoga-sukhośālam." So "karma-sukhośālam," you will be successful. In that way, then we are coming to the prāṇāyāma, and in the prāṇāyāma there are only three prāṇāyāma. In my [teaching] also, only two prāṇāyāma: inhale and exhale. Inhalation and exhalation, that's all. But then we call Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. This is also prāṇāyāma, which is very... and they, like Devapurījī, can lift up. But we all still, even we cannot go one centimeter up. So sādhanā is guru kṛpā. "Sādhānā cāra karo hari pyāra, jain se hove satumāra. Sādhānā cāra karo hari pyāra." So let's say the bhakti and karma. You can give everything up, but karma and bhakti, we are in brahmalokas. My dear, Mahāprabhujī's, Mahāprabhujī's samādhis, it means that he was in everyone. We have the vision from eyes to Mahāprabhujī, but we have it within ourself. So, Mahāprabhujī is very great, and all our Bhaktas who know around the world, they know Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, and Devpurījī, and now comes Alakpurījī. It was the time when Shiva was alive. So we are connected very much, chain to chain. Practice, but bhakti. If we are against one another, then you are gone. I have seen this one video of Tukārām and how he was great. It was very great, very, very great. This was only video, film, but how was it really when it was that time? So, tomorrow we go further. All the best! Om Śānti, Om Śānti, Om Śānti. We all should, still we have time for us. Guru Kṛpā, surrender completely and do the Seva for all.