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Once, Gurujī said that in life, there is nothing but only one thing: that is love. Prem hi jīvan hai. Love is life. This love should not be understood in the way people nowadays might understand it. It is the love we receive from flowers and the love we give to the flowers. It is the love we get from the birds and the love we give to the birds. When you are sitting in your house and see a few birds sitting on the window, no matter how sad you are, it immediately makes you happy. So, everything—in the stars, in the sky, in the moon—awakens love. If you see any little child or baby, it doesn't matter from which creature, love awakens. But such love is indescribable; that is the love, and that is unconditional love. So, premā hi jīvan hai. And such premā should enter our thoughts; such prayer should enter our actions. Then your life will be different; it doesn't matter where you work. Life will be different. It is very important to purify the consciousness. So, we need to practice āsanas and prāṇāyāmas to calm down our vṛttis, to calm down our indriyas, to purify our desires. But to, in reality, purify our consciousness and our self to become free from sin is different. That's love. We have not done any sin consciously. Generally, we are not guilty and we are not aware of it. But it happened. It happened because of uncontrolled desires, or greediness, or ignorance—we thought that was okay. We don't know what's good and what's bad, and therefore, we don't know which action in our life is counted as a sin and which actions are counted as good. And so it is in other lives too. For this, we need to practice our mantra, satsaṅg, and the company of saints and good persons. If you remember, I spoke this morning: there are some people who have imprisoned themselves in thinking and talking, criticizing others and negative thinking. Such a one cannot be a yoga teacher nor be a saint. We have to avoid the company of such a person because such a person is ill—karmically ill, with so much negativity and aggressivity. If you tell them something, they are so angry; there is no understanding, no forgiveness, no calmness. We have to learn to understand other situations. Therefore, a yoga teacher, a yoga instructor, should not have this quality. A person who may not be a yoga teacher or a holy saint, but has a positive consciousness and a kind heart—that person, such a person we need. One holy man made a very nice poem in a dialect language. The essence is: there are many humans in the world, but there are rare who have human quality. That's it. So, that we have to develop. And you cannot develop it if you are imprisoned by jealousy, by anger and hate, by doubts, by criticizing, by negative thinking and talking about others badly. For example, there are five persons sleeping together in one room, and one person is coughing in the night. The others say, "My God, this terrible, terrible person, I can't sleep, coughing all night." You see, this is negative thinking. Yes, it is true that you can't sleep and it disturbs you. But that person does not cough purposely. So, ask that person, "Do you need something? Bring some warm water or something which calms down the coughing." And that's it. One is drinking alcohol; he's alcoholic. We don't like it. Yes, he's not healthy. But don't ask him, "Don't drink." Ask him, "Why do you drink?" That's it. What brought that person to drink alcohol?