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What you are utilizing, what you think you are enjoying, is not yours forever. If you believe the things you enjoy are useful to you, know that they will not remain with you. 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. Out of innocence, ignorance, and attachment, humans believe it is theirs. That is a mistake—a significant one. All this belongs to God. He merely gave it to you. If you believe and treat things as not yours but God’s, you will be happy and will not suffer. Suffering arises when you think something is yours and then see you will lose it; then you become angry, jealous, nervous, or scared because you do not want to lose what you consider yours. Problems emerge when you treat things as personal property and fear their loss. It does not matter who is who or what is what. Your station arrives, you disembark, and the train continues. You do not cry or suffer because the train departs. But if you scream, "It is my train!" other passengers will say, "Relax." And if you insist, "My friend had to come very soon," a blue-light vehicle will arrive to take you. You need treatment. That is the point. Thus, the ṛṣi said these things are given to you temporarily. We are all visitors here. You go to someone as a guest. When you leave, you cannot take the whole house with you. How would that look? Problematic. If humans learn to live with this understanding, there will be fewer 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 and thank Him. When you go to someone's house and they prepare a nice room or apartment for you, but you take your sleeping bag and sleep in the garden, your host will not be happy. To make your host happy, you must utilize what he gave you, and you must utilize it carefully. Do not destroy these things or take them with you. If you destroy them, be sure this host will be your last; you will not be a guest of this host again. 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. Instead, you will go somewhere else—a place of many, many small creatures, what we call Naraka, hell. Therefore, the ṛṣi says in the Upaniṣad how to live life. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar