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Good evening. What a beautiful day, and now a beautiful evening. We are living in this cycle of day and night. What do we feel? Night and day. Morning, noon, evening, midnight—but still, we are living. My dear all, brothers, sisters, and our "Yoga in Daily Life." Many of you know, and many don't know, what it means: yoga in daily life. Yoga is only one yoga. Finally, it's only one, the yoga. And yoga means also the joint; it becomes one. But why are we giving "yoga in daily life"? Some other yoga schools and ashrams are practicing yoga, but everyone gives names to their practices, their work, etc. It has to be, because they will say, "Which kind of yoga? Name of your school, so that we can understand and know where to go." So, our Yoga in Daily Life—many of you know, many don't know. And we should know, what is this name, "yoga in daily life"? It means daily, daily—means every day, that's all. So, yoga in daily life, so daily life, every day. That's why we give the name "Yoga in Daily Life." We can say it every day: eating, every day playing football, every day running, every day swimming. So, this is the name to do. So yoga is yoga. And how can we also think about yoga? This is also in between. It is between Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā—the left nostril and the right nostril. Oṁ Ga. Between comes the Om. So this joins together Ha and Tha, this Sanskrit or Hindi letter. So, Ha is the left nostril, and Tha is the right nostril. And that comes then, Ha-Tha. And this hatha yoga, so mostly people who are calling, "I want to have hatha yoga." So, where is the haṭha yoga? So we understand the different names of it. One way's hatha is different. So how many different kinds of hatha are there? First is the hatha of a child. The child, and when the child wants to get something, he'll get it. Otherwise, he's crying, crying, crying. So then, father or mother, they will say, "Okay, you can have." And if you don't give, he will cry again. He doesn't want to eat this; he will not do this. He wants to get only one toy. I will not sleep. I will not eat, etc. So we give them this one little toy. "Yes, yes, I got it, I got it." So this is hāṭha of the child, Hāṭha jī. And then the second is a woman. When that woman wants to get something, it doesn't matter what, but she will get it. So it is, but maybe she wants to have good things, but we don't want to give. That can also be hāṭha. And the third is a yogī. So the yogī, if he wants to achieve, he will achieve. So Bāl Haṭ, Triyā Haṭ, and Yoga Haṭ. This is the Sanskrit name for this. So, a Rāja Yogī is a yogī. Not that Hatha Yoga, but the person who wants to get this. That's why many times, yogīs, what we call sannyāsīs or etc., they will go away from the parents, they will go from all work, nothing. They will only achieve God, many things. So there was Holi, Gurujī said one very nice story about this, a very little story. He came away from the families and everywhere, no money, nothing to carry with him. God will give something to eat, then I will eat, otherwise nothing. Maybe I will wash myself, or I don't want to wash myself. If there is some cloth, I will take it; otherwise, I'm naked. I don't want to cut my hair. That is a Hatha Yogī, that's called a Hatha Yogī. So one day, the Hatha Yogī wanted to go to the east. Long hair, but from the back side was coming a strong wind. The wind comes from the west, and the yogī is always putting his hair back, but again the wind comes and it is all in front of his face. About a few kilometers he was going, and more and more strong wind from back, so yogi said, "My hair, if you don't stay backside from me, always in front of me." So he said, "I go to the west." I will not go to the east. And nicely, hair was backside, and he was going towards the west. So that is a yogi. They know what they want to get, interesting. So there is another hatha. There was one man, and he said, "I want to see God." We are always saying, "God, we know God," and then I want to see God. Otherwise, we will not give the name of God. Finished. I want to see God in the villages, in the big cities, in the forest. Always say, "I want to see God." He was going to some temple, to the ashrams, to church, anywhere spiritual he went, only, "Please, can you show me God? I want to see the God you see." So Bāl Hūt, Bāl Hūt, and Triyā Hūt, Yogā Hūt. And further, the bhakti yoga. He was very sad. I want to see God, otherwise why did God bring me as a human? I don't know if the animals also think about God. Though Gurujī always was saying about this Paśupakṣī, Śubhāruṣyam. Even the birds and animals are awaking, and they are speaking, singing, and also before going to sleep, they are singing. Maybe they are calling God. So one day he was going somewhere to another place to see God. Holy place, everywhere. So one yogī came, and he said, "Man, Yogījī, you are a yogī?" Said yes? You became a sannyāsī? You became a yogī? Yes. Have you seen God? He said, "Well, I have not seen, but I feel in my body, and I follow all principles." So I think one day I will come to God. He said, "I try very much, but I want to see God." Nowadays, we will bring him to the hospital, and they will put him in another room or in another hospital, so they will be closed and give some injection or something, like sleeping tablets. But at that time, he said, "Please, yogī, you are a yogī. Can you tell me, please, where and how I can see God?" Well, that yogī told him, because all the time he's asking him this, there, there. He said, "Go into the mountains, to the peak of the mountain, and there, nearly, there are no trees, only rocks and a little grass, and there you will see God. When?" He went there. You see the high mountain, like the Himalayas or somewhere. There are no humans nearby, and very few animals. Maybe the tigers. He's sitting on the rock. He doesn't want to sleep because if God comes and I'm sleeping, then it's my mistake. So day and night, my eyes are open. Well, after a few days, or nearly one month, he became very weak. He did not eat anything; there was nothing to eat. He put a little grass or this and that, and he became very, very weak, so he could not sit. So he just fell down, and only eyes, "My God, my God, please come to me." What is there coming? Very strong wind, night very cold, day very hot. And many animals are, from time to time, going by. Then one day came a big black crow. The crow was sitting far, a little distance away. And the crow is looking like this, like this, like that, and flew away. Next day again, again go away, and coming again. The crow warned that when he would die, I could eat him. But he's not dying. One day, after two days, this person could not raise his hand up, but his eyes are open. The crow jumped and sat on the hips of the man. And looking towards the man's eyes, thinking that maybe this man will hit me and kill it. The crow is a very clever bird. They said, "There are a few who are very clever." A fox, a crow, and a barber. Yes, there are, because they are very intelligent. And many people are coming there for haircutting. And sometimes, they said, in other countries, there are participants, the Indians, and there are all, they are going. So one man, he was very naughty, and this. And he could get messages from everyone, the farmer or the barber. And their barber always said, "How are you?" And all these messengers, they are getting these messages. And so, one man always comes, and he doesn't give him anything. So one day, he was shaving his beard, and then was cleaning himself like this, and took his knife, and like this, "Here, tell me who is there." Not now, he cannot move his hands, and he said, "Okay, I give you this." Then he took it away, so there are techniques everyone has. So the crow is sitting on the seat of the dead man, and the man is looking at the crow. So, crow said, "Why are you lying here? No eating, no drinking, you don't sleep. What are you doing?" But he said, "I want to see God." He said, "Ha, ha..." He was laughing, crow. "Are you stupid, man? God will come here. Why are you wasting your life? You can make meditation, go to prayers, holy places, etc." He said, "I cannot anymore, but I'm sure I will see God. And then what?" The crow jumped away and came again. So Crow was thinking, "This man cannot move his hands, and he's not dying, and I am hungry." So the crow with his beak from his stomach and pulled it out. And the crow said, "Is it painful?" He said, "No." Again, the crow tried to get something from his stomach. In, ten, stein, out. And the man said again, looking there, and Kroos said, "Is it painful?" He said, "No." Kroos said, "Eat all of my whole body. But please don't eat my two eyes, because I want to see God in my life." He said, "Craig, like this, God will not come." So he said, the man, The crow, and he said a very nice poem. "Eat all my body, but let my two eyes, because I want to see my God, my love. Because I want to see my love, I want to see my God." Then the crow jumped away, flew a little, about five meters distance, and he said, "You will kill all my body?" He said, "Yes, eat. But why not the eyes? Because, my beloved, my God, I want to see him." And the crow put his body differently and became the God. God said, "My dear, my child, I was testing you, but you were harder than me, and now I am there." He said, "You are a god?" He said, "I am." So, me, better, my body, I can't look left and right. So God gave the hand like this, and his body became very strong and very powerful. And he stands up on his knees, with folded hands, and looks to God. And God disappeared. So it's not easy, my dear, to see God always. We are thinking something for only a little time. We have prayer only for 20 minutes, and then all ādiom. Or we make little meditations for half an hour, or we make a mala for half an hour or one hour. But when we are doing the malas, we are always thinking differently. So this is that Haṭha Yoga. So that was the hatha, that bhakti. I will, and God, you will. But how much were we doing sādhanā, good words, no negative thoughts in our brain? A few days before, I saw one little video from India, certain, I don't know how many years, but long years, and he gave his whole life for God only. He was married, he had children, he was a farmer, and he had some animals also, cows and like this. And he had a farm, but he was just going into his farm and sitting under a tree and singing bhajans. Always, always, only Bhajjana. And always he got more harvesting. And many, many things. And you know that, in the end, it was a long life there. I don't want to tell you. But from the heaven came one chariot, and two persons came for him from the Brahmaloka. And the poor people were looking, people were there. Because, after all, people know that he is a very great bhakta. And the messengers came and said, "Please sit." And it lifted up. People were looking, and many people were crying, but he went and went and so on. So there are a few people like this in India. So the Mahābhārata, also from them, Yudhiṣṭhira, in the Himalayas, near Devpurījī. And when they went, so it said to Alagpurījīs, and so Alagpurījīs, then there is a place where you can go to the Brahmalokas. There are seven steps, highest in the Himalaya, and seven steps are very, about ten feet height, one step. It's not easy: ten feet height, seven steps, only glaciers, but he came to Alagpurījīs, and there were four points of that. Even when we go, we see that it was this. And he tried very hard, and he came up there, and again there came brahmalokas. But he worked very hard, like Vasanth, our yoghurt bhakta, Vasanth. And someone is working hard, and someone is coming from above and saying, "No, that was wrong. This way we're going to get cut, and this." And that place is there, above there no airplane can fly. Automatically, the flight will not come over. And there is about one, two, or three kilometers distance to Devpurījī's Gopha. So in that way, how it is, what we call the yoga. Bal-yoga, triya-hat, bal-hat, triya-hat, yoga-hat, etc., all. So, similarly with this, our prāṇāyāma. And if we can understand the prāṇāyāma, what it means—not only the physical body; the physical body we can do anything, the best of the best—but one day we will die. And we will not go to the Brahmaloka. Because we are talking only about this body. And this body is made of the earth. Different kinds of all these can go there. Vasantbhuri has a lot of material, like mud, and can be made out of this instrument, but what is further this prāṇa? Prāṇa is not a body. Prana is not only breath, but prana is the heart of God. Let's go further tomorrow. Namaḥ Śivāya, Namaḥ Śivāya. Namah Śivāya, Namah Śivāya, Har Har Bholē, Namah Śivāya, Namah Śivāya,... Har Har Bhole, Namaḥ Śivāya, Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Māyo Maheśvara, Gurur Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Om Hari Om, Hari Hari Om, Hari Hari Om. My dear, I wish you all the best. Be healthy, and let all these troubles partage in this world. It's coming and going. You see, when you go to sleep, there are some creatures also in the hair and sleeping. But we are still sleeping. It is coming and going. Like a river, water is flowing, and also more and more stones are going with it. Be happy. So don't think that, "My God, this disease, I will die, I will die," no, no. When death will be, then it will not take one second, and if dawn is not our time, we will always be healthy. So we shall pray, of course, to God, our mantras, our good thinking. Never think that I will die, I will die. If I'm not, God will give, I will die. You should know we will never die. What is life? Life is life. And death is a death. So death is a death, but life is... we are always alive, always sing bhajans, prayers, praśanas, and think positively, and think others negative, because this disease. So that kind of negative, what they are? Medicine? We are talking about disease. Take away from this negative. Many people did not understand, many people, what is positive and negative. So, there was in one office, and a few people were working there, and one person, always he comes home, and they all say it's negative. You are always negative. You are talking negative. Other people say to that one person, one day he went to the hospital for something, and they said, "Is something negative or positive?" So in the hospital, it's good if you're negative. And where is the positive? So he comes to the office with people. "Today I am positive." All were laughing. "Why are you laughing? You are negative." He said, in that case, we are all negative, but you are positive. So now we came to know the Kṛṣṇa. Give us what is positive and negative in this way: happy, joy. My dears, be happy, be good, sleep comfortably. Wake up joyful, open your eyes, and say, "I am human." My mother, I step on the earth. I am my life, the water. And all my father, mother, children, first their faces. Then Bhagavān, God, etc., what we want, and also then our creatures. Your cow, your buffalo, your elephant, zebras. Dogs, cats, mice, birds, life. We are all, we are a jīva. We are the jīva. The jīva will never die. Hari Om.