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The purpose of our life is to be a protector, not a destroyer. Protect the environment, protect God's creation, protect humanity, protect your family, and protect yourself. Be kind to all, give your love to all, and give freedom to all. Secondly, the purpose is spiritual development, God-realization, or self-realization. The aim of human life is to find God, to become one with God. We have to learn to respect each other. We have to learn to respect and love God's creation, every creature. Then we can become one with God. Many things happen in human life, good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy which can happen to a human, or will happen to a human, is that that human will die without God around him. You can find out more in your meditation or through practicing yoga in daily life. Throughout all of Croatia and Slovenia, there are many, many classes going on about Yoga in Daily Life, and you will find the answers there too. ### On Leading a Spiritual Life To lead a spiritual life means to fulfill your dharma in this world. Dharma means your obligations, duties. Maintain a harmonious life with your family, with your wife, husband, children, parents. Believe there is God. Definitely get to God and pray every day, read good books, meditate every day, and think always positively; that time your heart will feel the purification, and you will feel love in your heart for all. God is in your heart. You don't feel it because you still have a lot of karma inside. Practice, one day you will find this. Don't give up, and don't waste time. ### How to Open the Heart and Become Happy You can open your heart only if you have a tendency to give. Develop the tendency to give. Give birthday presents, name day presents, Christmas presents, marriage presents—this is also a way to give something. And give help to other people if you have something. Give blood, blood donation, that's very important. You can save the life of someone. Many people think and say one should not give blood. But yogīs are not of this opinion. Giving blood is good karma. To give blood means a good deed. We have to help our neighbor. So, giving kindness, giving love, giving understanding, giving their rights—your heart will open automatically. You have a water well or a water fountain somewhere. If the water is flowing constantly, more and more comes. Therefore, if you block everything, then the stream will be blocked and die out. It is said, even the last drop of your blood you should give for someone. Give good thoughts, give good feelings. ### On Caring for the Mental Body and Controlling the Mind How to take care of our mental body and control our mind, control our thoughts? Is relaxation the only way? Through practicing yoga in daily life, automatically all will be controlled: physical body, mental body, astral body, causal body. ### How to Overcome Spoiledness Go to some other country and do karma yoga. Work. Go and work with some strangers. Then you will know what it is. Go to some other country and work in a restaurant, or go to some āshram and yoga center and work the karma yoga. Change your life situation. When you are always at home with grandmother and grandfather, they spoil you completely. You need light experiences. ### How to Overcome Pain Take a painkiller. There are different kinds of pain: emotional, physical, mental. In yoga, it is said that you should do ātmā cintan: I am not this body, I am the immortal one. That my immortal one is never ill and never has any pain. It has no birth and death. It's the body which is born and will die. It's the body which is ill. So the body is suffering, not I am suffering. I have no pain. The body has pain, and I am not the body. It is very easy to say and very hard to realize; therefore, take some medical help. That is the truth. It's not easy. I also said I am not the body. I am the divine self. And when I go to the dentist, the dentist comes a little near to my teeth and turns on the machine, the drill, and my dentist says, "But you are a Swāmījī, not a body." So it is easy to say, easy to speak, and nice to listen, but reality is different, dear one. So I tell the doctor, "Give the injection," and then it's all right. Alright. And after the injection, I said, "I am not a body." So please take the help of the doctor and medicines. If it is something emotional, something psychic, then speak with your grandparents or elderly people, because elderly people have more experience; they went through such things, and their advice is golden advice. Or go to your yoga master, teacher, or read some holy books. You will overcome situations. So try to learn something from the elderly people. They have a lot of wisdom. So lucky are you if you have grandparents and you talk to them nicely about your problem; they will help you definitely. ### On Surrendering Surrendering means that you surrender to God, Lord. Nothing is mine; everything is yours. Thank you for giving me this body. Thank you for giving me this chance, Lord. It's everything yours: my thoughts, my feelings, and my deeds. I surrender. And they may lead me to you. It's an inner understanding. It's a confidence, like mother and child, confidence between them. ### How to Accept Everything That Comes My Way It's difficult. Difficult to accept everything that comes. So try to avoid situations, circumstances. This is a very sensitive and big subject. Because I can't say that just ignore everything and accept it. Sometimes we cannot. You walk on the street and a tiger comes in front of you, and I say, "Don't worry, just go." Easy for me to say, but it costs your life. So you should change the way or search for some trees where you can climb quickly. Therefore, in different circumstances, use your intellect: how to deal with them, or how to avoid them, or how to come out of them. God gave us mind; God gave us intellect, that we can decide and do something. In Ukraine. Recording location: Slovenia, Maribor, Public Lecture