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Our life is not settled; we are still searching. We are still wandering here and there with our thoughts and feelings, and we are still not satisfied. We are still not settled down. When we become settled, then we will have santoṣa—peace—in such a way that we are now in pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Poverty is that we still want to go outside; we are looking for this and that. But suddenly we find our inner peace, and that is indescribable. That satisfaction, santoṣa, and peace is so valuable, you cannot buy it. You cannot pay that much to buy peace and santoṣa. It is a very peculiar feeling, a very special feeling. The real satisfaction and feeling of peace you cannot describe. And that comes when your life is settled down. So, are you in pravṛtti or nivṛtti? Pravṛtti is this: you still have to do that and do this and do that. Clean one room and clean a second room, build one house and build a second house, buy one flat and a second flat, and get one car and repair another car and sell a third car, and write this book and write that. You have many, many things, work you have to go to. You come home to family problems; you are divided into a thousand pieces. As many relations as you have, into that many parts you are divided—with all your friends, with all your colleagues, with all your acquaintances, all the family members. As many as you have, into that many pieces you are divided. But it can happen one day that you are in such harmony with all, and you feel yourself as oneness and completeness. So, if you think, if you will think about yourself in meditation, you will find out into how many pieces you have divided yourself. Or you feel completeness. How many wounds do you have on your heart, on the side of your heart walls? The wounds of many unhappinesses, many disappointments, many things, bad words or bad experiences; life is not easy. We are struggling through this life. And therefore, you have divided yourself into so many pieces. Sometimes someone takes that piece of you and puts it in the fire, takes it from the fire and under the hammer, and turns it. And if you say no, don't do it, you become cold, resistant; then they put you again in the fire. Again in the fire you lose everything. Again you are flexible; you say, "Yes, okay." Then again comes the hammer on it. How many beats of the hammer are there on you? That's why there is no development. According to our expectations—social, political, religious, from families, friends, professions—from how many sides we are often pressed. So, where is that happiness, and which happiness? You are divided. So, through svādhyāya and through manana and through bhāṣā, for at least a few days, try to feel yourself as a complete being. We need this santoṣa. We need this peace. We are hiding. Our reality we are hiding. We do hide our realities. We have a very beautiful mask over. It seems that we are happy and we are satisfied, but we are not. The face of a happy one is quite a different face. One who has santoṣa has quite a different face. So, look in the mirror and judge yourself. In the morning, you must go to the mirror and say, "Good morning, myself." This is that bhajan I am talking about now. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Summer seminar