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Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Alak Purījī Mahādeva, Satya Sanātana Dharma, Devakī. We know. We know all day. What is this? A company? We are in yoga all day, all month, all years. We are always in yoga. Our life is all about understanding what God is. And we are not only about our own yoga and life, but also about the many others—yoga teachers and sādhus, their disciples in many countries—who are giving the exercises. All these are great things. For a long time, many people were coming, but you know, there are many sādhus, many, many, in America, in Australia. Yet, there were not too many people, and others did not understand or want yoga, and so on. When I came to Europe, I was also a very young person. Like this, my disciple, you know? Yes, Śaṅkarpurī, yes. Stand up. Yes. He is like my son. And he is very great. From the time he was alive in his mother’s body, he was already very great. His father and his brothers, also others. Thank you. With this, we were beginning an introduction to yoga. In Europe and elsewhere, they asked, "Why don’t you eat meat?" I said, "No, I don’t." And sometimes in defense, they said other things too: "No, no, we will not practice yoga if we don’t have meat and alcohol and such." There were a few yogīs from India who had very good disciples, but not so many. When I came to the north of India—which is because of Czechoslovakia—I was in London and Austria and such, but people were coming in small numbers: five people, two people, sometimes ten, sometimes twenty. I thought I would go back to India. But I said, from my time onward, I have always done very little. What I do, I will do good things. So we were there, figuring out how to bring more people to yoga exercises. After about two years, I said, "I will not stay here in Europe; I will go to India." So I went to India. Holi, Gurujī was very happy, and he said he did not know where I was, but this I will not tell. Then again, I was in Austria. The people remained very good, my friends, so they called me again. I said, "No, I will not come." But people came there, and so I went again. I thought, when I am there, then I will have an āśram and everything. One day in the āśram in Vienna, a man came. I am telling you this, but how should we come? What to do? What will we get? How will we get what we want? This was before I went to Europe and India. Before I went, he said he came from Czechoslovakia. Last time it was not like it is now. He said, "Please, we would like to have yoga for us. Can you come? We will organize yoga practices here and there." People told me, "They don’t go to Croatia, they don’t go there." But I said I would go. So, one person went with me to Czechoslovakia by railway. Afterward, good friends came, and at the railway they said, "Now we have a car for you, Yogī." I am a Yogī. There were two or three persons in the car, and it was very cold. Everything was very white. I went to another city somewhere, and at midnight I went to their village and to someone’s house, because I am giving you guidance on how to live life and how we have to become. Yes to yes. Don’t say, "Take away our this and that, it must not be." They first came there, and it was very cold. I thought, "What is this?" But we had something to drink without sugar—not sugar, but a substitute. They said, "Please, if we have..." Coffee? They didn’t know coffee. Then I said, "My God, I want to have tea." You don’t know the chai? And they said, "Prosím, chai." It was okay like that. It was beautiful, and we had it. The next day there was a lecture, and there were about one hundred, one hundred fifty people. I said, "I did not... what shall I tell you?" One hundred fifty people! In Vienna, I had never seen such a gathering. There were also Christians there—men, and what do you call them, ladies? Nuns. Yes, nuns. So both, about ten or eleven of them, in their middle, in their dress. I said, "My God, how very nice they are, such persons." But they were so happy and all. And then I went to India. Bye-bye. But the Czechoslovakians told me again, and so on. Then I said, "Okay, I will have an āśram," and like this, Czechoslovakia brought forth this spirituality. Of course, they said, "But they should not have religion or something." I said, "Yes, of course, I teach yoga, so yoga is good." There were many things. Now I have told you, many people are here sitting. They are still here. At that time, we were young—me and they—and they are today sitting here also now. So this is the one. You have to come in that way and see that, yes, this is that, like this. In another hall in the city, there was a big lecture, with even more people. An elderly lady, a mother, said to her son, "Please don’t eat something, only eat meat, and this you will kill." I said no, and people said, "We are very good, and I will not eat meat," and things like that. So she said, "Everything I know is that in this city..." So his grandmother said, "You will die if you will not eat the alcohol and the meat. I will come and see how he looks. He will be, I think, like Gandhi, not eating at all." And so, really, she came in the evening. There was a lecture. It was wintertime, and all people were sitting in big halls; mostly old people were coming. They came to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and like this. People were all sitting there, and the grandmother came and was standing there near. I came onto the platform, and she said, "This cannot be. This man, it’s like a Gandhi. Should he be? He is so very strong. You don’t eat meat?" And his grandfather said, "Son, I eat, and everybody, we are eating." And so, many new times came again. So, elderly grandparents, they also gave up alcohol and meat and such. And they said, "Look, we are very healthy, we are very good." So, Czechoslovakia... The people, they were whole Czech and Slovak all along, and many other places now. It cannot happen immediately, but it comes good. And now you see many, many, many yoga people, Yoga in Daily Life, mainly many people, thousands and millions. She comes, and they see not. Some again begin to eat. And many have died. Then we had lectures in the forest because there was not such a big hall, and I tell you many things now. We had a satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is also how they said, "What is he doing, this Indian man?" But first we told. You are singing in your language, and then after, they said, "Now you give your lectures, not a lecture, song is." And then after, they said, "Now we will do over my exercise of the bhajan." So we said, "Jaya Guru Deva Niranjan Dina Bhajan," and all. There was? We make a prayer, really? Yes, and all they were looking. And so is that many, and many, and many. When so many people were like this, at least they would have twenty people. And there were secret police, and they don’t know him, and these... The next day they sent me to the police, to the police office, every day when I had to come. Yes, it is always. And now, these people who call him, they don’t know. And everyone, what they told, good things—now it is in the big, not big, but one like this building or something like this, all my letters. They were giving all, but all was all good, but still it is living, yes. So these people are very good, Czechoslovakian and this, and Austria also, of course. But that is different. Every country is different. So, this is like this: when we would like to do, then we should do, and it will come nicely then. Otherwise, you take one point, and then you will, no, you take away, and you take another one, and then another one. Then I will, I am yoga, and then I will not be yoga; I will be other, many others. At that time, Hare Kṛṣṇa was not, and that was beginners came in America, so they were also very nice. But many people told me, "You come to me," so I said, "Yes, I am coming with you, but I am a yogī." And many times it is, we are, many people have... They are very happy, and suddenly, maybe someone became ill. So now, who will take care of your person, your husband, or your wife, or a child, or grandmother? We have to take care of our family. Otherwise, this is not good. Many things were good at that time, everywhere, and even in Vienna also, and everywhere. Before eating, they were telling something. But now the people have lost the... Christians, people, they keep their tradition. They do what they want to do there, but we do not address. So I tell you now, you should have a good family. Good families. Yes. Don’t let your child die or be empty. So, I should tell you, I am your Indian, and my passport is my India. So I cannot do anything because it is not my land. But they all do very nicely, and did, and all things. So, many people at that time, before eating, they would take prayers. Not prayer, but something, no? Like we are in Hindu, saying different, and Christian different. But now, we left, and that’s why many problems will be. So, take your country, in your countries, your language, everything in your country. Respect your countries. All we should have respect for our countries, for all countries. So now, many people, what we call they who have learned very much, they learn very, very much, but they will not keep their religions or beliefs. And even they are like this, but they don’t take religion like this, and like this, and this. And if they are, then not like the friends, it is for difference. And so that you see now, we yoga, and we are, why I had the name of my yoga here. So in Czechoslovakia, they could not give the name to yoga and some other name. You have yogī or yoga, but what are the techniques, or what do you want? What is yoga? So, I would not give Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, and some of these things, and like that. And when only one, then what to do? So they said, "But you have to give this. What is your yoga, or what is yours like this?" So this, again, I wrote this in Czechoslovakia. So we said Yoga in Daily Life. So, Yoga in Daily Life. So, Yoga in Daily Life, and very nice still. And then it became very quickly yoga, so yoga in their life. It came to America, Australia, and many, many countries. But a person should have respect, and not that I will go there and then I will go to this and then. Then you will never be like that. I am again, please, sorry, but I am telling you, Czechoslovakians and Hungarians and this. So these people are Czechoslovakians, and these people, anywhere your car is there or anything, nobody will take it. And nobody will open anything on this. We were going sometimes to a few people, and nearly in the evening, light in the forest, and we were there all, and after we came, and so on. The car was standing there, nobody took anything. So that is how we should have to live like this. And now, as we have people gone like this, loved everything, and this, that’s why you are suffering and will be suffering. And so, also, when you are sitting here in the satsaṅg āśram... At that time in Czechoslovakia, everybody was sitting like this for two hours. And now you see, even in my, in this āśram, in this, many people are sitting like this. Yes, there are. Friends are going to say like this, like this. Yes? I am your guru, your Gurujī, your master. So at least you should sit like this. This means, and this has no, no anymore distribution anywhere in America and everywhere, everywhere, not here also. So we have to live all with that respect. And so we should again... Respect your mother, your father, your brothers, your neighbors, and everything.