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The waves are brief, yet the ocean is. So it is with our varied lives. They can change in a single second. A state of great happiness and peace can suddenly become negative and troubled. Or, within a second, it can become full of joy. Consider this: we come from university, and now it is the final days when they will come to see if you will be successful or not. At that time, everyone is thinking very differently. The point is this: outwardly we say, "Yes, we will be, we are right." But still, in the heart, there are two parts. One says, "Yes, it will be," and the other says, "I don’t know." So we are still not sure. But when the moment comes and you have done it—"Oh, I have, I got it!"—or others say, "You have saved," how unhappy that can be. So there are both sides: falling or not falling. There is a point. There are some very good sayings: "Whether I will pass or not, it doesn’t matter." That one is very best and good. But there is only one such feeling, and that is the feeling that we will come to God. But where is God? So we say the cosmic. Where is the cosmic? That cosmic is everywhere, in the whole universe. Similarly, when we practice our sādhanā, we practice with the mālā we have. This mālā is very, very important because of vṛtti and vṛtti. It is what is called not peaceful. And when there is no vṛtti, it is like there are no waves at all. It can be, it will be, or it will not be. Therefore, if we, from our mind, in our heart, may not be on the good path, our mala is our support, and we will not miss it. In each and every beat of the mala, there is a power in everything. If you put the mala aside and sit nicely at the time, then two things happen. One is, maybe we begin to sleep, or our vṛtti goes out in such a way that we are lost. The horse is in our hands, or he is gone. Therefore, in our sādhanā, as much as we will say, "I will do, and I will do best, and I will do," then it will not come out well. It is as we said: "Nāhaṁ kartā, Mahāprabhudīp kartā, Mahāprabhudīp kartā hi kevalam." You know this: that Mahāprabhujī alone can do. We cannot do. So nāhaṁ kartā—nāhaṁ means 'no', kartā means 'doing'—so I cannot do this. I don't do that. Mahāprabhujī is the doer. Mahāprabhujī deep kartā hi kevalam. So depend on that in the Gurudevas. So our mālā, our thinkings, our feelings, our death, that kind of thoughts, good or bad—all we shall give into His hand. Nāhaṃ karta, Prabhupāda karta, Mahāprabhupāda karta, he gave them. So in every country, we are all very much in oneness. We only have a difference in language. Different countries—how it is—there may be only snow and glaciers, or very beautiful forests, or very dry and very hot places. That is the difference, but inside that, it is my belief, and we experience. Therefore, we have a mālā in our hands. You are thinking about that. Therefore, we shall come to meditation, and we said, "My Lord, my God, I cannot, I will not be successful, but I have in your hands a clock." You see how the clock, I was concentrating, and how this clock will do with me. And I went to this vibration, sound, and I suddenly became oneness. So, this sound brings that vibration. So, nāhaṁ kartā, "I am not the doer," and I cannot give Him all. One, all, we are in one. So, in meditation, in anuṣṭhāna, your mālā is very important. Then, there are some kinds of techniques we are giving. The mālā is either around our neck, or we put this mālā somewhere on papers or with cloth. But it is we who are with God. And that God is like, if we want to see from our Guru. In that beginning, and giving us in that way, we will now do these techniques. So close your eyes. Concentrate on the nābhi, in the navel. Normal breath. Relax your stomach, but concentrate on the navel. The first movement is because of inhalation and exhalation, but it is peaceful. Now, the mālā should be constant, and the breath from the bindu to the navel and from the navel to the bindu. Follow that energy up and down from the navel to the bindu. Go ahead with your mantra, navel, and bindu. Inhale and exhale. Inhale with the nostrils and exhale through the mouth. Now, don’t move your head up and down or left and right, but keep it peaceful and straight. Inhale, exhale. Inhale. Tilt the navel, and exhale from the lips, the mouth. Feel the lips. It’s only you know, not others. The mālā is there. This prāṇa and apāna expand and relax your whole body, but be alert from your breath. Now, take a deep inhale and exhale five times. Inhale through the nostrils, exhale through the mouth. Five times from the navel to the sahasrāra and back to the anāhata. Try to chant, because you know many times. A-ka-ta-sa-n-di.