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The global situation is, in one way, not good, and in another way, it is good. What is not good is this: as you all know, there is a lot of fighting. There are many enemies, terror, and fear. All people on this planet are living full of fear. A life where there is fear is not good. It does not matter from whom you have fear; fear damages the psyche of a person. Fear is in every creature's existence. For example, if a doctor makes a diagnosis that someone is very ill and will not live more than a few months, that person will have a lot of indescribable fear. So, there is fear from illness, fear from wars, fear from terrorists or negative people, fear from money, fear from positions—many, many kinds of fear exist. Consequently, the whole world is looking for a kind of security. Yet there cannot be security because fear is within us, and it is we, the human beings, who are creating the troubles on this planet. There is fear of God, fear from religions, fear from some cultures—many, many different fears. While coming here, I was listening to the radio on an Austrian channel. There was a discussion about immigration—how many people are immigrating from different countries to different countries: Asians coming to Europe, people from what you call divided Europe, Eastern European countries, or the former communist countries, immigrating to the UAE borders. They interviewed one Czech lady (I think she was Czech or Slovak). She said many things and ended with something very nice. She said, "Culture is a living thing, like life." Culture is something which is moving, constantly changing; you cannot stop it. If you try to create a boundary to protect your culture, then that culture will die. So, there are many, many different kinds of fears people have throughout the whole world, and they are created by humans. The circumstances and situation in our life are our creation, and it is we who have to solve this problem. Our planet is threatened by humans, and humans are threatened by humans. Consider how much pollution we are creating! We have polluted the ocean, which is now threatened, and our life depends on the ocean. Lakes are polluted, rivers are polluted, fields are polluted, and the human mind is polluted. It is a very critical situation in the world. Now, the great ṛṣis said something very important which we should contemplate. They said in the Upaniṣads, in the teachings, "Mano mātra jagat." The world is created out of the mind. What do they mean by "the world"? The world means the world where you are living—what kind of situation or circumstances are there. These circumstances are created by the mind. You will be happy if you think happy thoughts; you will be unhappy if you think unhappy thoughts. Therefore, to practice yoga means to correct the way of thinking. Changing thinking is not easy; it is not easy. There is an example of the tail of a dog. A dog has a tail which is curved, you know, it's ringed. If you hold the tail for a long time to straighten it, it should remain straight. But as soon as you let it go from your hand, it will roll back again. So, our mind is like the tail of a dog. Unfortunately, it is very hard to change. We think about multi-religion. How many are ready to accept multiculturalism? The reality is different. How many problems have you had in your countries? Yoga should come to school, and they said, "Because yoga is coming out of India, we don't want this world." How much narrow thinking is there in people's minds? This is a mental problem. It is not a healthy way of thinking, and that is the fear—the fear that if you have something, you will lose it. The ṛṣis said, "Whatever you have, you will lose all. You cannot stop anything. It is like a river, it is like water. Water should flow." When water flows, it will be clean, and when water stops and lies there, it will become dirty and smelly. So, nothing you can keep; everything will change. Nothing belongs to you. You will lose everything. The only thing you will not lose is your wisdom—the knowledge you have learned. Someone can take the bread from your hands, but they cannot take the bread out of your destiny, from your knowledge. So, practicing yoga means to master oneself. And it is time to think and change our way of thinking. We have to change our inner self. You cannot exist in this world as you are. Nemožeme žiť v tom svete takom, aki je. Because the world is not only Slovakia, let's say. Svet to není iba Slovensko, napríklad. Our world is not only India. Ani svet není iba India. Our world is not America. Ani to nie iba Amerika. All together makes the world. Všetci spolu robíme svet tvojí. So we have to think and act globally. A problem is different: we think globally, but we act locally. There is a problem. And acting comes from your real thinking. So, how many are ready to accept the multicultural? How many are ready to put on the church altar the Quran? That's it. That is the question. If you are able to put the Quran there, then it means you are thinking and acting globally, and you have tolerance and respect. And therein lies the problem; there are the roots of the problems. Or ask them, the Muslims, if they can put on their altar the Bible. That's it. Or put the Vedas there, or put the Bhagavad Gītā there. Or ask them to put the Bible there. So, we have to change the way of thinking. Otherwise, our children will suffer, and we do not want our children to suffer. We do not want to close the borders; we open the borders. Our borders of our country and the borders of our heart are open globally. But again, thinking is a problem. You think so quickly in a negative way—against, full of complexes, hate, jealousy, doubt. That is the problem. A my zvykneme myslieť veľmi rýchlo a veľmi negatívne, z komplexami, pochybnosťami, zjarlivosťou, neistotou. And we do not change that. A nesme skopni takéto myslenie zmeniť. So, this is one situation in the world which is going on: humans become the enemy of humans, killing each other. There are some humans who are supplying the weapons to kill others. There are some humans who are producing the weapons. Where is the teaching of the Bible? "Thou shalt not kill." Become a real Christian, a real Christian. Buďte skutoční kresťania, praví kresťania. But we are not. Ale nie ste. Do not become fanatical. Ale netreba byť fanaticky. That's it. So, this is the big problem in the world now. Toto je veľký problém vo svete. Fighting for money, for power. Boj kvôli peniazom, kvôli moci. And the second, good thing in the world is: A tá druhá dobrá vec, ktorá je vo svete. There are millions of people who are trying very hard to create world peace. Recording location: Czech Republic, Trencin, Seminar