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Hari Om, everybody. Good evening to all sisters, brothers, yoga teachers, yoga students, those who have yoga in their life around the world, and to all other great yogīs who have many students across the globe. There are many different kinds of yoga centers. What a beautiful atmosphere exists in the whole world. In this Kali Yuga, especially in recent years, there have been many, many diseases. This is often because many people did not eat properly. The atmosphere is twofold: outside and inside our body. We think beautifully of our forests, yet many forests have been broken down, trees cut, and the land transformed. Of course, all humans have done great things and we try to do good. But we should return to and follow the natural way that God has given us. Eating enough is sufficient; one should not eat more than that. Our body is very good and strong. It takes care of us so we may live a long life. Consider the periods since the last great wars; what has happened to humanity is still difficult to understand. Yet, I tell all who are listening, there is natural disease and a natural way to live life. For other times, we have doctors and hospitals, which are a great boon. We have learned a lot and know there are good doctors. But it seems the more doctors there are, the more people become ill. Systems like Āyurveda and other natural healing methods are also trying very hard. Now, some say doctors and hospitals are best, while others disagree. I would simply say that the best medicine is the kitchen of our grandmothers. This means we people should return to the natural way. It is not all like this, of course; some situations are different. Doctors are also trying more and more to give something, but not all share the same approach. Different people have different opinions, and doctors have their own position. The first part is our nourishment. I am not asking what you eat, but we are constantly eating, eating, and eating. Consider our farmers and working people. They have a very good breakfast around six in the morning, according to their daily program. Then they eat lunch because they are hungry. In the evening, when they return home hungry—when the stomach calls, "Bring me something! I have nothing to do, please give me some work, give me something to eat"—then they eat a nice meal. They are happy, the family is together, talking, perhaps singing bhajans or dancing. Everyone has a nice evening, and they sleep very well because they are tired. They wake automatically, two hours before sunrise, when there is not much light, and they go to church, temples, or other places of worship. At that time, especially the ladies, they are thinking, praying, and talking about religion and God. That was a life that led a human life. Now, we do similar things: we get up early, work hard, and come home. But our bodies are constantly eating, eating, eating. If not eating, then chewing gum. In recent years, chewing gum has become less common, but it has caused many problems for our body. This is the hardship we speak of, which shortens our life. You know that our friends, yoga students, and yogīs have tried and tried to make a healthy life. But the problem is this: sometimes they follow it, and then again the program is given up. Day by day, no exercise, no yoga, slowly falling into different habits. The problem is they follow a healthy lifestyle for some time, but after a while, that regularity disappears. Others may also fall away from the path. It is said that those who use fewer chemicals have a long life and die peacefully. They live very long. But now our lifespans are becoming less and less. Thirty-five years? We are more than that, I’ll... We think the maximum is perhaps fifty. How long? In the last two generations, people lived to a hundred years or more. When we speak of Mahāprabhujī, he lived to a hundred and thirty-five. How did that happen? And not only him; many others in the past also had very long lives, everywhere in our country. This was because their nourishment was very natural. But now we say, "Let’s eat something and let’s go." There are many things. They create a certain taste inside, and if you like the taste, you will want to eat it. There is something called... a little biting soap... you know, dog... it’s called dog? Fast food. Hot dog. Yes, fast food, hot dog. Doctors try greatly. And now I say we should become that kind of doctor—I mean, we yogīs should become that kind of healer. Of course, we don’t want to compromise there. We also like to go to doctors, and doctors try to do something. Someone may tell a doctor, and the doctor says, "Take this medicine." But many yogīs say, "No, no, I don’t want to take medicine. I want to live long." Then the doctor says, "It’s your choice." So it is not a competition. But in this time, we all yogīs, yoga teachers, and yoga students across the whole world, we take it upon ourselves to make humans healthy. We do not ask for medicine. We do not seek money, but we will do the practice at home. We sell practice, and of course, we have to learn more and more. In past lives, when one decided to be a yogī practicing yoga, it meant they did everything. That was the whole life program, from waking up until deep sleep... until they left sleep. I have told them many times: when we wake up, we should say, "I am human." Many people will say, "Stupid. This man says in the morning, 'I am human.' Are we dogs?" No, it is not like that. We are humans. Our body is human, but what kind of life are we living? That is different. We are of nature. If possible, we should have a house on the ground floor. Otherwise, in our sleeping room, when we stand up, we should say to the earth, "Mother, may I step on you?" This means we have two hands and two legs. We want to have a step on something to wake up and walk. That means I am my balance, understanding where I should walk and where I should go. This is very important. You know, we go to water. We touch water for the first time when we wake up, and feel how nice the water is. We wash our hands, or drink, or swim, but we are with the water. How much water is in our body? Even from our bones, if we stretch it more, water comes out. Water is life. Life is water, and water is life. Jag, Jagadīśa Guru, God. That is God. Jagadīś is God, or water is God. In this way, if we can talk to our friends and our people, please, can you try now? It is time to live a yogic life. It is not about your religion—you can or cannot—but we have a religion, and our religion is our body. Yes. What is inside? Our ātmā, our soul, whatever you wish to call it. That is our religion of our bodies. We should take care of everything, and we are definitely doing that. So again, we shall come and practice. If we do not inhale, then Hari Om, that’s it. I want to drink water. If we do not drink, we will die. All five elements that we have are life. That is what we call our praṇām. So that is our life. We practice, we learn, we are good. So now, this is the way I have expressed for some months or two years: we should not say it is my yoga, their yoga, my school, their school. Yes, but we should become as yogīs, and we are giving all practice, all our learning. Now I will tell you how many yogas there are, and which yoga you may want to practice. I said from today—because today I was thinking all the time—there are so many yogīs, yoga centers, yoga gurus, many things. And I said, "Still, there are more needed. We need to have more." It means we ourselves are the yoga. And you are the great of the great. Come in and listen to your inner self. This is all that we are learning and taking in. We shall give it to the people. Please, wherever you are practicing, practice there. In which school you practice, practice there. Of course, not double things. Some people practice yoga and then drink alcohol. Or after practicing yoga, they do something else. There are many things, like dry grass. After practicing yoga and then smoking, this is not good. Or taking animals, killing them, and eating them. That is not good. When there is nothing, no greenery at all, when all is a glacier, then of course every creature would like to eat something, and so they might take a fish or something like that. So now, let’s turn as a yogī. You should write, "I am a yogī." That’s it. Really, we have to get our friends, everything. Do not talk about your religion. Do not take it like this. You follow your religion, you do everything as you are, but this, your body, is your everything. Devote yourself to your body. The body is everything you have. It is our God. It is our holy place. That is within us, and we say we go to our God, or Allah, or something that we are feeling and learning about in that way. Why not? Do it. So, the living God is here. And when this living God is not there, then you do not know where the soul has gone. We say this and that, but it is like, you know what happens? There is a flame. The flame is very nice, but when there is no more oil, the flame is gone. Where is that flame? Our life. This is our life. Our lamp, this Dīpak, is here now. And then, when everything is gone, this is also gone. Dīpak, Buddha Gayā. When this is gone, where has it gone? My dears, our flame should last for a long time. This is our aim: to live very well and have our life be present. So in this, let us all be happy, healthy, friendly, and good to all in the whole world. For those who are practicing yoga, we respect them, we help them, and we should bring all of humanity to be yogīs: good, healthy, peaceful, and living as your God, however you feel. But not changing this and that constantly; that is the thing then. Yes. So this is our aim for today: that the whole world, all humans, our brothers and sisters, etc., may be given good health, long life, and all the best. Siddhiparāṇ Bhagavān, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhvānandyā Bhagavān, Alak Puruṣa Mahādeva. So you will say that you will make all yogīs. Yes or not?