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Mantra śakti awakens in us saṅkalpa śakti. Saṅkalpa śakti means the power of wish or resolve; whatever you wish should come true. Of course, many things we wish for do come true, but we have to work for them. You wish to become a pilot; it will come true, but you have to study for several years. Or you want to become an engineer, a nurse, or a gardener. For everything, we need training and study, and that requires time. You cannot become something from one day to the next. Similarly, there are different wishes, different saṅkalpas. Some saṅkalpas are for realizing material things in this world. Even these saṅkalpas that lead to the fulfillment of our material wishes are not easy. One must work, learn, and take exams; that is important. Just as there are certain saṅkalpas which exceed our energy and power, through the practice of mantra you purify your future and purify the Ākāśa Tattva which surrounds you, and your wishes come true. But it is also very important that you know what you will do with that wish when it comes true. Are you sure that you wish for this? Sometimes we need many years to think over whether we should wish for this or not; sometimes we need many years to consider well if what we want is correct. There was one man who wanted to become very rich. Someone told him that a rich person has much gold. He wanted to have a siddhi to make gold, to simply produce it, so he would be very rich. He went to the forest and for several years prayed and prayed, doing Anuṣṭhāna—an Anuṣṭhāna a little better than yours. After 24 years of prayer, a voice came from the sky: "Yes, my son, what do you want?" He said, "Please give me siddhi." The voice said, "Say, what do you want?" He replied, "Whatever I touch becomes gold." The oracle said, "Are you sure what you are asking for? Do you really want this, that whatever you will touch becomes gold?" He said, "Yes, now for 24 years I have been thinking, so I need not think more. Please give me the siddhi; whatever I will touch, it will become gold." Then the voice said, "Okay, it will be." Very happily he went home, saying, "Now I have siddhis. Whatever I will touch will become gold." His grandchild came: "Grandfather, grandfather, how are you?" He embraced the child, and as the grandfather touched him, the child became gold, falling down as a piece of gold. His wife came and said, "So many years you were in the forest, how are you?" He said, "Very nice," touched her, and she also became a golden mummy. His son came and said, "Hi, Dad," and wanted to embrace the father; the father also became gold. Then he was hungry and thirsty. He took a water glass; it all became gold. He wanted to drink; he touched the water, and it was gold. He wanted to eat something; he got bread to buy, but it was only gold. What to do with this? He couldn't eat, couldn't drink; no one dared to come near him. It became a problem. Hungry, thirsty, desperate, and crying, he said, "Oh God, how stupid I am; why did I want to have gold? This gold has made my life problematic." He went again to the forest, praying and crying; this time the prayer was more intensive. Again the voice came: "Yes, my son, how are you? Do you enjoy the gold?" He said, "Lord, please forgive me; I did not think like this." The voice said, "I told you to think." He said, "Please take this siddhi away from me." So the siddhi was gone. The voice said, "I give you a siddhi; whatever you will touch, it will come into a normal state." Then the grandchild, mother, wife, and son all became normal again. So gold is full of temptation, and one thinks it will make you happy and rich, but as much happiness as you gaze in something, more than that is unhappiness. Therefore, what kind of siddhi you want to have, you must think over. There was another man who wanted to have the siddhi of levitation. He got the siddhi. Again, the voice came and said, "Yes, I want to be above the ground." Now he got the siddhi, but he couldn't sleep anywhere, couldn't sit anywhere. He wanted to sit in an aeroplane; he was going up. He wanted to sit in a bus; up. It became a very problematic life. So levitation in yoga—for me, I would say to levitate your thoughts; it means higher thinking. Stay above everything, full of tolerance, full of understanding, and see what is reality. That's very, very important. We have to see that kind of levitation; the other kind of levitation is not true levitation. What siddhi do you want? You want to see everything through? If you get this siddhi, you will be one of the unhappiest persons in the world. You know how your neighbor is thinking now? You know what your wife is thinking? Your wife is thinking, giving you food, serving you, eating, but she's thinking of somebody else. This eating will become for you poison. Or what your husband is thinking? And you want to see through; sitting here now, what your children are doing, you see everything—your wife, husband, or parent. Life will be very, very unpleasant. So be thankful to God that He didn't give us this kind of ability. He will give us this kind of ability on the day when you will be able to digest everything, but you know, it is not easy to digest the truth. Very rare people can digest the truth, and therefore God didn't give us that kind of knowledge that we know the truth—and truth means everything. Let's say we are sitting here very happy, enjoying beautiful nature, harmony, spirituality. Everything is very good, and someone's mother died now, but still you don't know, and you are very happy sitting. You don't have that knowledge; you don't know the truth, the reality. But as soon as the news reaches you, you will become very sad because you can't digest this truth that the mother died. That's it. So it's not easy to digest the truth, and we avoid it, we try to hide the truth because we can't digest it. And that's it. So any kind of siddhi you want to have is a problem. Therefore, in the Patañjali Yoga Sūtras, Patañjali writes, and many other saints say, there are different kinds of māyā. Māyā means illusion; māyā is that kind of illusion which takes you away from the right path. There is a māyā for yogīs; when you come above this material life, then siddhis come, and now these siddhis are māyās. These siddhis are exactly the same or even more harmful than the worldly māyās. Because the worldly māyā gives you only temporary troubles or some karmas, but utilizing those siddhis gives you more karmic troubles. When you utilize those siddhis in that state, when you stand above everything, it results in even more karmic problems. When you will leave the physical world, if you have a siddhi, you should not perform the siddhi. But if it happens through your presence, that's okay. One should not abuse spirituality, the spiritual power. Utilizing the siddhis, using siddhis, means abusing them. Those who have the great saintly siddhi, they don't perform those siddhis. But if it happens through their being, or you ask, "Please bless me," and they will bless and say, "Okay, it will be okay," then everything became okay, it's okay. But not purposely doing something to make siddhis. The future of such a yogī will be more problematic. Utilizing the siddhi will bring you again into the bondage of the chaurāsī chakra. So what should we wish for now? We should wish only that God blesses us, that God forgives our mistakes. And we shall wish for bhakti, devotion; that's it. Nothing is higher and more beautiful than devotion—the love. That we are always in feeling, in imagination, and in thinking with God. That we are constantly in connection with God, that we constantly think of God, because in His presence everything is beautiful and we are not threatened by anything; then we understand what is yoga, what is love. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Summer seminar