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What you are using, the things you think you are enjoying, are not yours forever. If you believe the objects of your enjoyment are useful to you, know that they will not remain with you eternally. They are not yours. You may think you have a house on the beach and that it is your beach. It is not your beach. It is given to you by God. You can enjoy that beach until the end of your life. Humans, out of innocence, ignorance, and attachment, believe it is theirs. This is a mistake—a significant mistake. All this belongs to God. He merely gave it to you. If you believe and treat things that are not yours as belonging to God, you will be happy and will not suffer. Suffering arises when you think something is yours and then see that you will lose it. Then you become angry, jealous, nervous, or scared. You do not want to lose it because you believe it is yours. Here lies the problem; then problems arise, as Patañjali describes. Your station arrives, you get off. The train continues on its journey. You do not cry or suffer because the train has departed. But if you act out, screaming, "It's my train!" the other passengers will say, "Yes, yes. Relax." Then you might say, "My friend had to come very soon. A blue light vehicle will come to take you." You would need treatment. That is the point. Thus, the ṛṣi said these things are given to you only temporarily. We are all visitors here. Imagine going to someone's home as a guest and, when you leave, wanting to take the entire house with you. How does that look? Problematic. If humans learn to live with this understanding, there will be few problems. Everything is in Brahman. This world and the entire universe are full of Brahman. Brahman is here; Brahman is there. Therefore, everything belongs to God, and we utilize it just to please God and thank Him. When you go to someone's house and they prepare a nice room for you as an apartment, yet you take your sleeping bag and go sleep in the garden, your host will not be happy. To make your host happy, you must utilize what he gave you. You must utilize what he gave you carefully. Do not destroy it, and do not take it with you. If you destroy it, then be sure this host will be your last host. You will no longer be a guest of this host. So God is the host, and we are the guests. If we destroy God's world, if we destroy God's creatures, then God will not let you come again into this beautiful world, but will send you somewhere else—where many small creatures are walking. This is the pūjā of many, many small creatures, what we call naraka, hell. Therefore, the ṛṣi says in the Upaniṣad how to live life.