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A young Mahārāj, just ten years old, once gave a lecture to our school children, who were between five and twelve years of age. He told this story: A grandfather took his grandson on a train journey. They were sitting together when a vendor came through: "Ice cream, ice cream!" The little child said, "I want to eat ice cream." The grandfather replied, "No, we just had a meal ten minutes ago. No ice cream." The small child then said, "Grandfather, buy me ice cream, otherwise I will tell." The grandfather was cool. He took out money and bought the ice cream. "Here you are." After an hour, another vendor: "Potato chips, potato chips! Grandfather, I want to eat chips." Again, the grandfather was angry. "No potato chips." "Grandfather, buy me potato chips. Otherwise, I will tell." Again, the grandfather was completely cool and bought them. After half an hour: "Vegetarian sandwich!" "Grandfather, I want to eat a sandwich. My God, how big is your stomach? Will your stomach ever be full?" "No sandwich." "Grandfather, buy me a sandwich, otherwise I will tell." Again, the grandfather, being too big, gave in; the money was gone again. After another half hour: "Popcorn, warm popcorn! Grandfather, I want popcorn." At every station, something new came; the child would ask, the grandfather would refuse, the child would say, "I will tell," and the grandfather would silently buy it. Nearly the whole day, the people sitting in the same cabin were wondering, "What is the problem? The child asks to buy something, the man gets angry, then the child says, 'I will tell,' and the man becomes completely cool and buys it." Finally, one man asked the elderly grandfather, "Excuse me, sir, but we all don't know what to think. What's the problem? He asks for something, you refuse and are angry, then he says 'I will tell,' and you become completely quiet and buy him what he wants." The grandfather said, "Yes, there is a problem; I made a mistake." "What mistake? That you are afraid of this child? Do you see this child? He looks 5 or 6 years old." "In reality, he is 15 years old. I didn't make a mistake, but I know that I made a mistake; I made a conscious mistake. I bought for him a half ticket. And he knows this, that in reality he needs a full ticket. So he forces me. If I don't buy for him, then he will tell that I am 15 years old. Then I have to pay a fine. So that's why, until we come to our destination, not to have problems, I buy him something. I lost more money in buying these things than if I would have bought the full ticket." So, the grandfather is our buddhi, our intellect. And the child is our mind. And every birth is a station. And those desires that the child wants to have, that the mind wants to have, mean we will suffer a whole journey throughout the entire universe. Therefore, we know we make mistakes. None of us is perfect; no, we are holy incarnations in thinking, but not yet in doing. Therefore, we shall follow the words, the teaching of the great saints. And that is the yoga which began from Mount Kailāś. So Mount Kailāś is the seat of the Sanātana Dharma, the eternal Dharma, not a man-made Dharma, where the Lord Śiva used to live and where the great saint Kārg Bushaṇḍī, who spoke the Rāmāyaṇa wisdom, resided. There is Mānas Sarovar and Rākṣasa Tal, both lakes are there, and this is our Iḍā and Piṅgalā. And the Suṣumṇā, which leads to the Sahasrāra Chakra, where Paramāśiva is there. But between, Māyā is there. And she comes in such a way that all your sādhanā is gone; like you have wings, they are cut, and when they begin to grow a little, Māyā comes again nicely to you and cuts the wings. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said in one bhajan, "The cat of the day will eat you very soon, and everything will be finished." So therefore, think: what is the human? What makes a human? Why are you born as a human? There must be a big difference between animals and humans. And know thyself. To know thyself is not so easy, and the recognition is not so easy.