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Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Devadhī Dev Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai. Satguru Svāmī Madhvarānjī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Alak Purī Jī Mahādeva Kī Jai. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Good evening, dear sisters, brothers, all yoga teachers, and everyone. Today we begin our program, joined by about twenty people from the Czech Republic who are practicing with this lecture from Střílecký. To my dear bhaktas and karma yogīs in yoga centers working with this lecture: they are performing āsanas and prāṇāyāms because the hall is very cold. Through our exercise, I am giving this lecture for all of you, my dears, around the whole world. Many people have been learning for nearly a year now from Swami television. Many have already learned a lot about yoga and are sending messages: "Swāmījī, Maheśvarānandajī, Viśva Yoga, would you like to give us some more advanced techniques? Can we have a mantra from you?" This shows they are learning. They say, "We don’t want only lectures; we want your teachings." Many people practice at home, and now is the time for a lecture broadcast worldwide. I receive many reactions from people globally who are very happy with the lectures and find them a great inspiration. At the same time, they would be happy if I also spoke about other techniques—not just to teach, but to give mantras and the like. After the coronavirus pandemic began, I was in New Zealand and Australia. Authorities in various countries advised people to return home or stay indoors. So we began broadcasting via our Yoga in Daily Life Swamiji television, free of charge. For me, it was very important that all our Yoga in Daily Life members, thousands across different countries, were so happy and asked, "Please guide us further with our techniques and teachings." Many people were confined to their homes by government orders, only going out for essential needs like medicine or hospitals. Thanks to Swamiji TV, which reaches the whole world, people at home during Corona could speak and practice yoga. Many began practicing Yoga in Daily Life, but many also sent messages: "Please, we would like to know more about yoga, not only physical exercises." So I began to share all our Yoga in Daily Life techniques, and people are very happy. Many said, "Swāmījī, I would like to have mantras or this and that." I replied that mantras and everything else come after. First learn, please, and be good. Many were very happy because, confined at home with families, they didn't know what to do all day and were getting depressed. We have now gone through many different techniques. Yoga is not only āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, but much more. For example, all holy books in Sanskrit, Hindi, and English—when people received books like Śrīmad Bhāgavatam and the Bhagavad Gītā, they learned. The Bhagavad Gītā has eighteen chapters, and these eighteen are the eighteen chapters of yoga. From beginning to end, the Gītā speaks of yoga: karma yoga, jñāna yoga, bhakti yoga, etc. Then people came to understand what yoga is. In this way, thousands of people turned towards their body, mind, thinking, techniques, health, and spirituality. Many creatures, many animals, know how they are living and dying. Humans, of course, also die. But when they come into certain situations—very ill, lacking something, or fighting many things—they ask, "What should we do?" Then we turn towards God. If we don't understand God, we still think and say, "My God, please." When we are in deep trouble in life, we turn to someone. Others also ask, "What can we do?" So we go to what is called God. But God is not something we can see; God is in the whole cosmos. We want to see something, but God is not here in a visible form. If God is here, we don't understand, expect, or show respect. But when we come to some situation, we ask ourselves, knowing that mostly people cannot help us. For example, in these Corona troubles, in many countries some people have work and are well-off, but others don't have enough money for the whole year or month. Some people were helping, giving something. But how long can one give? The giver is also now asking for others. So, how should we manage? One neighbor, a second neighbor, a third neighbor, the whole street, the whole village—they all know. Now, what can we do? Five days ago, I told something: like a big animal, a big elephant, and a very tiny little ant—big animals and very tiny creatures. Only the One feeds them all. Yes, God will not let everybody die because they do not eat and have nothing. For those who are at home and don't go anywhere, we have to move. You have to come, and God is coming. Even God will come home. So it is said: kīṛī ko kānā or haṭhī ko mānā. It means: to the little creature like the ant, God gives. And to the very big elephant—kaman haṭhī means elephant—which needs a hundred kilos of grass per day, and to the little ant which only touches a tiny bit and says, "This is enough." God gives to all the animals, and also to all trees, grass, everything. God even takes care of the waters, always trying to keep water around our earth, for the creatures in the water, and water for the earth, and for forests, everything. O man, whether you believe or not, God doesn't tell; God is giving. And that is that. In certain conditions, there are many, many problems: the corona, earthquakes, and a lot of problems with water. There was a cyclone. In Fiji, there are very big problems now, and the whole water is in the houses. The children don't know where to sit. Some just drive their car, and the whole family is in the car. But still, God gives to them. So, my dear, in the same way, all different yoga practitioners and yoga teachers and all other humans must not be defined by yoga, religion, or country. We are life, living life. In that way, we should try to understand that God has given to us, God will give to us, God will bring us to Him, and again, God is there. In that way, Yoga in Daily Life—how many centers do we have? Yoga centers, Yoga in Daily Life. And many, many Yoga in Daily Life teachers, thousands. From the beginning, since I came in 1971, very few people turned to spirituality. They need that God, guru—and not just any guru, but that guru paramparā, where it is. In paramparā, the gurus don't ask for many people or few people. It is like when you go to the temple, or you go to the church, or you go to the mosque. We go to the temple; the temple doesn't come home. Similarly, those paramparās, these temples and gurus and guards and the father—many, many satya yogas, dvāpara yogas, tretā yogas—from that, automatically we are going there. For example, even the animals: they are sitting, doing nothing, but when they are hungry, they stand up and go where the grasses are, or thirsty animals go where water is, to some lake or rivers. So, automatically, we are going. But when you have a full stomach and don't need water or anything, you don't look for water. Similarly, oh my human, we know that we are trying very hard. Every family—the husband, the wife, the children, and the parents—they are working very hard. Yes. Why are they very hardworking? Because we need it. We need it for our children, for our animals, and for our friends, etc. So this is that. Not only that, my God, and this and Guru, and this—no, no. Guru is normal, like you all are. Don't say that I am master and I am holy and this and that. No, no, no. Of course they have more knowledge, they can do very good, and they are helping many, many people. Thousands of people are coming, but still, they all, gurus, have said, "But I am also like you, my friend." So on which path are you going? For example, in universities and colleges and schools, they ask which subject you want. There are many, many subjects, and always, every year, some new techniques are coming. These are the masters, the gurus. All professors, doctors, teachers—they are great. And they are giving further to others. That is also a guru. Understand what the guru is. And don't take your guru like a god of the gods. Maybe inside it is, but from our brain, we should not say that I am the god. You see, Śiva, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, and many others—they are also working, also eating, and they are also running and working very hard. They didn't say, "I'm God." Śiva never said that he is God. He said, telling, "You did not do good. You should not have done this. You should do this," etc. He doesn't say, "I am God and I will give to you and I will do all." Śiva also doesn't say; he says both sides. And see God Rāma and his generation, and how God Rāma went to the forest and everywhere. And the same thing Kṛṣṇa took. And many other gods: look to Jesus, how Jesus was in difficulties, and he did not say, "I am a God." He said only, "I am the son of God," and we are also sons of God. In a similar way, do not say, yoga teachers, and those who say, "Now I am best, and my this." No, no, no. How many cells are in our body? How many nerves are in our bodies? We do not know the whole body completely. So whatever we can, we take it and understand. In this way, we shall practice and concentrate. It is said, the body is nothing, but without the body, all is nothing. In that way, we have to go. So, my dear brothers, sisters, all my friends, and all my humans—I don't know them, but with folded hands, I pray for all. It doesn't matter which country, which religion, etc. In that way, we are coming towards God. God said, "This is that one. Please come closer, more closer." But I don't say that I will do, and God will come closer and closer. No, no... God goes far away physically, but spiritually, He is in His palm. I told a story two days ago about a man who was walking. There were thorns and stones, and it was very hot, and so on. He was going alone. Suddenly, he came to very nice sand and nice grass, and it was comfortable. Someone was walking with him, but he could not see; he only felt that someone was with him. And suddenly, that presence disappeared. Again he came to a good place, and again someone was with him. So he said, "Friend, you are always with me when there is a good place—very nice sand, very good road, and grass, and shadow, and like this. Then you are with me, and when there are troubles, then you run away." God said, "When it is comfortable, I am just walking with you. But when there is trouble, then you are on the palm of my hand." So God said, "Is my hand?" And I put you on my hand, and I'm working, God said. There are many holy books: in the Rāmāyaṇa, in the Bhagavad Gītā, in many, many Vedas, and for the Christians and Muslims. Their books are good, very good. We should learn there; we should live on this side. Then we will go to doubt there, not here. In that way, today I was thinking: how many of our friends and other yogīs also, they all are on their path at home, doing the techniques and practicing. So we have time, but we don't know how long. We don't know tomorrow. The past is gone. The present is here; tomorrow we don't know. Let us live always happy, joyful; never be angry. Don't be jealous, don't do this and that. Let it come, enjoy. In this way, I wish you today a very good evening, and I will see you tomorrow. Vipākartā Mahāprabhū, dīpakartā hi kevalam. Om so’ham. Saguṇa Brahma siddhi paripūram. Nārāyaṇa Nāmah. Om Viśvaguru Paramahaṁsī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Gurudevakī Jayā.