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In one of Gurujī's bhajans, he says: "Sādhambhāī, ye mana badā anādi." O my brothers, this mind is very uneducated. I have tried to explain to it many times, but it does not understand. It always returns to its own nature. Yogī jātī koi mehnat karkī bhove bhajan kī balī the. Yogīs and yatīs, through great effort and hard work, plant or prepare a beautiful garden of bhajan. This means their sādhanā, their spiritual practice. Jainī and Jātīyas plant a beautiful garden; they devote themselves to spiritual sādhanā. But this mind, this monkey mind, is so terrible that within a second it destroys the entire garden. "Yogīs, yatīs, koi mehnat karke bove bhajan kī balī." Yogīs and yatīs—yatīs are also like yogīs, not animals. (Some think in the Himalayas, yetis look like ice bears.) Jātīs are those who are doing jātnā. And jātnā means sādhanā, trying. For example, your car is stuck somewhere. Four or five people try to push your car out, but it does not come out. Then you bring a tractor, hang your car on it, and pull it out. This is called Jñāna. It means you are trying to pull your car out of the mud through different means. That is Jñāna. There is a fruit hanging on a high branch. You jump to catch it but cannot. Then you throw a stone but still cannot get the fruit. Then someone gives you a hand, and you try to climb up, but you are still 20 centimeters short. Then you try to get some leather to help you climb and reach the fruit. This effort, this trying, is called yatna. You are trying very hard in your shop so your business will improve—that is yatna. You try to cure your illness through different medicines: Ayurveda, homeopathy, naturopathy, energy healing. You were not successful, so you made many yatnā. Still, you were not successful until one technique finally worked. The one who does this yatna is called a yatī. These are spiritual yatnas, spiritual sādhanās, and through them, practitioners attain many siddhis. They gain great control and many abilities. It must not be thought that yogīs live only in the Himalayas. You can be in the desert or anywhere. That is the definition of a Yatī. Yogī and Yatī are two terms. A yogī is one who removes the duality of the ātmā and paramātmā and realizes non-duality. That is called a yogī. This is achieved through yatna, which is why a yogī is, at the same time, a yatī. Yogīs and yatīs perform sādhanā and bhajan for many years. Bhajan means repeating the name of God. Bhajan means doing good things in life. Bhajan means leading a spiritual life. That is called prabhu bhajan: you dedicate your life to God and do good. Your intention is to do good for all. Therefore, bhajan must not be understood only as singing. All your spiritual sādhanās and trials are called bhajan. Through leading this disciplined life for many, many years, you create a beautiful garden with beautiful flowers and fruit trees. This is your spiritual inner garden. Yogīs and yatīs, through their hard work, plant a beautiful garden. Yet, "Yeman, Bandar, Bada, Harami"—this monkey mind is so cruel. "Palme Bali bigali"—within minutes, it destroys the whole garden. How does this monkey mind destroy your years of work in seconds? How can it happen that the mind, that monkey, in a moment destroys what you have built over years? It happens through your emotional explosiveness. When you are so emotional that your buddhi is completely darkened, then you speak badly, write badly, think badly, and act badly. In this way, you destroy everything. Therefore, these tendencies lie hidden within. These are what I call the hidden powers in humans. There are good ones, and there are bad ones. We can understand it through a saying—perhaps Jesus said it, or someone else—that when someone strikes your left cheek, you should gently show the right cheek also. What does this mean? It means not to explode. When you show the right cheek, the other person's emotion will calm down. Their emotional parameter will drop from 120 to 60. In this way, you help them calm down, and you do not destroy your own inner work. But then there is something more: it is said we will forgive, but we will not forget. So, human life is not so easy.