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Our main subject is always yoga, and yoga is a very big subject. If you talk about health, it’s yoga. If you talk about the environment, it’s yoga. If you speak about world peace, it’s yoga. If you speak about religion, it’s yoga. If you speak about multi-religion and one nation’s religion, it’s yoga. If you speak about art, it’s yoga. Music, painting, poetry, dance, singing—all are part of yoga. When we speak about spirituality, the development of human consciousness is yoga. So yoga is universal and a very vast subject. It needs practice. Out of all this, there are different names and paths: Rāja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Kriyā Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Dhyāna Yoga. These are all different kinds of yoga. We cannot practice all of them. Therefore, according to our own choice, our interest, our ability and possibilities, we should choose one path, one direction, one theme. Because all will lead you to unity. Finally, you will find me. I will be there for you. God Kr̥ṣṇa means God—that God which you believe as God. God has many, many names, and God has no names. Names are given by humans, and the expectations of humans are different according to their cultures, traditions, and their problems. So we play with God. We imagine God as we would like to, and He does change the form according to our imagination. Indeed, God plays as we want Him to play. If He doesn’t play, then we are crying, we are praying and praying, we are requesting. Finally, He has to play that role or that game which we want Him to play. It means that God comes according to our imagination. So, yoga is that part of perfection. Yoga je cesta k dokonalosti—yoga is the path to perfection—and this perfection takes time. There are certain things where you can have quicker perfection, and there are certain things where we need lifelong work. And there are certain things where we need many, many lives. So if you have interest in writing poetry, you may get a little quicker perfection. If you are an artist or a dancer, you will get a kind of perfection in a few months or a few years. But the perfection still needs work. What people generally mistake in yoga is this: they think, "I have practiced for so many years, and I know everything. I need to practice now," and they give up certain exercises or their practices. Then the perfection they achieved begins decreasing again. Consider a world champion, an Olympic champion. He or she trains for how many hours per day? At the time of the Olympic Games, the whole world is looking into the plastic box—the television—and tries to judge their performance, analyzing each movement. When an athlete moves a little bit wrong, they fall out of the game. How many practitioners, girls and boys, cry because their leg was a little bit not straight? Jumping, balancing, and keeping a perfect position is not easy. That requires practice, every day. That is yoga. That also you have to practice. Now, you have been practicing yoga for the last 20 years and you have health problems. But ask yourself: did you really practice honestly for 20 years? Did you practice according to the disciplines—discipline in eating, discipline in āsanas, discipline in meditation, discipline in prāṇāyāma, and also discipline in your mantra singing, your prayers, your kriyā practice? Do not blame others. Do not blame yoga. Do not say, "I have been a vegetarian for 20 years, so why did I get this illness?" Only being a vegetarian does not mean everything. There are many vegetarians who are more ill than you. So, the disciplined practice—that is what I want to tell you. Yoga is a path of perfection, and this path requires daily practice. And that is why in the world there are so few yogīs. Proč? Why?