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Good evening to all my dear sisters and brothers, to everyone in Yoga and Daily Life, to all devotees, and to the Yoga and Daily Life teachers around the world. A warm welcome also to those who run ashrams and yoga centers. I respect you all. And to those who do not know yoga and cannot practice it, I say: for your good health, do something for your body. The body comes first. So, welcome everyone to our program. We have said that whatever we do, we offer praṇām to God, or to your mother and father. When we wake up—as I always tell you—we should offer salutations. Salutations to those to whom you are beloved: first to mother and father, to elderly brothers and sisters, to your teachers in schools, colleges, and universities, and to the Cosmic Self, to your Gurudev. This is good for us. It is not for any other reason, but when we offer salutations or pray to God, we receive their blessings, and we give them thanks. We should lead our lives in peace, harmony, understanding, and love. Yoga and daily life are for everyone. It must not belong to some religion or to no religion. We humans, the human body, everything—we ourselves and our body are the temple of God. Therefore, we humans are the temple of God. We should keep that temple very clean, beautiful, and shining. And when we go to that temple, or move towards that temple, we are happy. How? When your good friends, your parents, your brothers, your sisters, or your neighbors come to you, you feel happy. "Oh, my mother is coming, my father is coming, my brother, my husband, my wife, my uncle, my teacher is coming." So we see the temple of God as the human body. In different religions or spiritual paths, they also have their temple or place of worship, which is different. The place they worship, they strive to keep clean. Therefore, first we should keep our body very clean—outside and inside. Then, our ātmā, our soul, resides in this temple of God that is our body. It is very beautiful and a blessing. Thus, it is also said: keep your temple very clean, harmonious, and very beautiful so that you feel good inside your body and in your feelings throughout your whole being. And in our mind, in our thoughts, we move in and out of this temple. You know, the priest or pūjārī cleans the temple or church early every day. Similarly, our body, the temple, is what we encounter when we get up. I always say, when we wake up, we should say, "I am human." We open our eyes and we see our temple. We respect the earth as our mother, life, water—everything. Then what do we do? We are very pure and very clean, but there is a different kind of dust. That dust is not only material; it is laziness and a lack of freshness. We say, "I am very tired," or, "Oh my God, I have to get up." So we have to move. When we wake up, we cannot just jump up and run. Even animals do not do that. We bring clarity to our whole body. Then we go to the bathroom, we wash our body, our eyes, our mouth. As we purify ourselves, we become more awakened. So many energies awaken in the body. In this way, this is the first temple: our body. We have many temples, which are different, but we ourselves are already given by God as a temple. And in our temple, God is seated. So do not go elsewhere. God said, "I am in you." Your Jīvātmā, that is my God. So when we go within and feel clarity, peace, harmony, love, understanding, and respect—all this in our temple makes us very happy and relaxed, and we move more and more towards where God has destined us to go. We wake up and open our eyes. There are some people, unfortunately, who are blind. They cannot see, but they see inside. They are awakening; they know where they should move. So that is within us, and that is our temple. That God is one. How is God one? Let us say that everyone on this earth needs water: grass, bushes, trees, animals, birds, and humans—we all need water. Water is only one, but everyone says, "My ātmā, my jīva." So our jīva is like one very fine drop of water. And in that one drop of water is the whole ocean, the whole earth, the whole atmosphere—all the warm, the cold—it is all one. Our Gurudev said, "One in all and all in one." If you do not respect your body, then you will not feel it in the temple, the church, or the mosque. Or when you go to visit someone. Many times we go with friends to others' homes; they invite us, and we enter their house. We say, "Oh, beautiful! You have such nice flowers here. You have very nice colors on your wall." We see the beautiful things on the other side. And they say, "Yes, but you also have very beautiful things." I was like this in recent days. So we are all moving like a globe, and that is, in this way, ātmā, jīva. Sometimes people say, "I cannot be happy; I do not want to live anymore." And you know, many people commit suicide, which is not good. But why? Because in their inner temple, it was not happy and not clean. So in that way, our temple gives happiness, joy, and blessings from our temple to other temples. There are many, many temples in our body: our heart and other different parts. But many people do not know. They know, but they do not concentrate on that. And that is our nābhi, the navel. There is one drop, and that drop is the whole universe, the whole earth, the whole oceans, all fruits—everything. Just a little drop. That is it. If we look at the whole universe, then our earth appears only as a very tiny speck. How many suns are there? Many stars are like a sun, a different sun. And so we think, "I am very big," but we are not. We are very fine, but we are very great, like a spark of fire. And so, every day before going to sleep and when you wake up, wash yourself. Each time, please place your hand or a finger on your nābhi. There was a very nice person from India who had different kinds of oil. This is something very interesting. For example, we have mustard oil. Mustard oil is very sharp, but it is a very powerful, healthy, and great oil. It creates a little warmth. Just with your ring finger, take only a little of this mustard oil before going to sleep. Put this little oil just in your navel and see what happens in the morning. Then you will tell me tomorrow, "My God, how many things in my body have happened." This is also good for the ears—for those who hear English—it works from the nābhi, and also from the ears, the eyes—many, many good things. Then there is another kind of oil. He has written about it very nicely, and I will get it again and ask him if I can share it further with others from my side. It is unbelievable. And you know, there is one which we call a kind of juice—cane sugar? No, not cane sugar, but anyway. There are many... I will—sorry, I will tell you all this tomorrow. And the mūlī, you know, mūlī is a reddish-white root. But we should only eat it in the morning, until eleven o'clock, not after. But if you are making a vegetable from it, then it is different. These are so many things from what we call grandmother's kitchen. This is very, very nice. And for example, from the cow: milk, butter, ghee. From the cow we get milk; we warm it and make yogurt; from yogurt we take butter; and from butter we melt it to get ghee. And that one, then you will see what happens—a miracle, what? Before going to sleep, take a very little amount, just drops like this. Take this ghee, warm it a little, and put one little drop in the left and right nostrils, and so on, and then sleep. What happens? Many people have headaches. See what ghee will do, how well you will sleep, and that you will not have any bad dreams. You will feel relaxed, good, and happy—very nice. But only a little ghee, and that is very needed for the whole brain. But the ghee should be of that kind. This is all that we have. So this is our temple. Our body is our temple. Maybe tomorrow I will give you more. This is very, very important. You are your own temple. Keep your temple very pure. Do not introduce into your temple meat, alcohol, drugs, eggs—only pure, green things. It is said of humans that in all yogas and yugas, they did not eat such things. Brahmā, Śiva, Viṣṇu—they are all very pure. How cleanly and well it was eaten in all the previous yugas, even the godly yugas—only cleanly. What do we do with all the āsanas and prāṇāyāmas? Our yoga and life practices serve thousands and many others. So in this way, today, before going to sleep, release all the stress from your whole day. Wash your mouth, brush your teeth or whatever, and also wash your face. If not your whole body, then wash your hands—both hands. When we touch water, cold or warm, the whole nervous system is activated throughout the body. So, see you again tomorrow for our prathānā, our prayers: Oṁ Namaste Śrī Gurudev Purīṣa Dayālam Nijanandāyanandamaya Ke Alam. Śarīram akhaṇḍam Hari rūp jase, ati tanadī nirākār bhase, āgam ano jīvapar aliptam svarūp, suśuddham sadā yogī japat namo. Sarva vyāpī guṇātīta deva, Prabhudīp koḍījo sadā caraṇ sevā. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Now, one line I will give you today. We have this: Vigna Haran Mangal Karanam Dharas Parasvava Paan Parvati Nandan Namo Shri Deepa Saran Dhar Dhyan Jai Jai Dev Dayal Shiva Karna Sumangalamur Shri Deepa Gyana Vairagyamat Sadaravo Anukul Vandai Saran Gurudevake Shri Devapuri Sasukudai Yoga yugatiya ismrati pravujani bala urlay Timir gaye udit vṛavi bhaye jñāna ujyal. Śrīdīp prabhusa kī binatī sunjo dina dayāl. Jaya Jaya Deva Dayāla Śiva. Jaya Jaya. Victory, victory. Deva, the God, Śiva. Deva, Devpurījī, Dayāla—merciful. Śiva is Bhagavān Śiva, Kāraṇa. This is all the good things. Karaṇa sumaṅgal mul—the best good things done for us every day. Every day, Śrī Dīp Gyān Vairāgyam—Śrī Dīp Purī Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṁ Mahāprabhujī, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṁ Mahāprabhujī: gyān, knowledge; vairāgya. How is it that you get it? Vairāgya means that we are clean. Vairāgya means that we give. Vairāgya is not a rāga. There are two kinds of rāga. One rāga is meditation on instruments—that is also rāga. And the second is rāga which is inside. Rāga is purity. Rāga can also be negative. So deep jñāna vairāgyaman—so Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Bhagavad Gītā, Sada rehe anukul—always, 24 hours, will be for us, always with us. Anukul means we like what we want. Vando charaṇ gurudeva ke—therefore we bow down at the holy feet of the Gurudeva. Śrī Devapurīṣa śukadai—whose holy feet? Devpurījī's. Śrī Dev Purīśāl—Dev Purījī. Bhagavān Dev Purījī. Sukhday—always gives us good things: peace, harmony, understanding, everything. Sukhday—we are happy always. Vandosharan Guru Devakī. Yoga, yugati, yahi smriti—Yoga, yugati, how to do properly; yahi smriti—that remembrance that we know all, we should know that. Prabhu Janī Bāl Urlāī Mahāprabhujī, and Mahāprabhujī's Prabhu Janī, he knows that Bāl. Like Bāl, we are the disciples or children. Prabhu Janī Bāl Urlāī—that we bring that knowledge, happiness, everything into us, into Uralāya. Timir gaye ur udit ravi—so it is awakening from that morning. Udit, Ravi Bhai, on that—Udit, like the sun rises. Bhai Jñāna Ujjala—like the sun rises, similarly the knowledge awakens like a light in our brain, in our bodies. Śrīdīp Prabhu Sāky Vinati—we pray to Mahāprabhujī. Please, O Mahāprabhujī, Deep Dayāl, be merciful to us. Please, Mahāprabhujī, be merciful to us. Jai Jai Dev Dayāl Śiva Karṇa Sumaṅgalamūr Śrī Deep Gyān Vairāgamat Sadāraho Anukul Vando Śaraṇ Guru Devake Śrī Dev Purīśa Śukudai Yoga yugati yai smṛti, Prabhu jānī bāl urlai. Timit gaye, timir gaye, ur udit ravi, bhai gyan ujiyaal. Shrī Dīpā Prabhu sākī vīnaṭī, sun jo dīna dayāla. Oṁ Śānti Śānti... Hari Om, Hari Om.