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Mental pollution is the most dangerous pollution. Everything that happens in the world stems from mental pollution. Why is our planet suffering? Why is humanity suffering? All of this is due to human mental pollution—the pollution of greed, the pollution of power, and so on. Therefore, the father of psychology, Patañjali, said very clearly: "O human, if you would like to be happy in your life, then you should control your thinking." Your condition—both physical and psychic—is according to your thinking. This thinking can change many, many things. Many people cannot sleep because they have restless thoughts. Many people are suffering because they have many restless thoughts: jealousy, anger, greed, hate, and many, many different things. Fear, existential fear, health fear. Personal and impersonal problems arise because we humans do understand what a problem means and we try to solve problems, but our mind is also creating the problems. So, yoga means to master the thoughts. You cannot become thoughtless. Perhaps only during meditation; otherwise, you cannot become thoughtless. To become thoughtless means to die. Thoughts are our nourishment, and thoughts are the support for our life to exist. But the thoughts should not be out of control. We have to become the friend of our mind, and you cannot be a friend with force. There was one king who had many horses, and he had one beautiful, nice horse. He loved that horse very much, but it was so spoiled and so wild that no one could ride him. The best of the best riders failed; the horse didn’t let anybody sit on his back. The king was very sad about this because he wanted to ride, he wanted to sit on that horse. So he announced, "Is there someone who can train my horse?" One man came and said, "Yes, sir, I would like to train your horse for three months." The king agreed. The man took the horse and let him free. He walked behind him, and from time to time, he brought him nice grass and nice water. He sat near him, observing him, giving him something nice. Sometimes he came near, giving him a little massage, and so he became his friend. It took him one month to make him such a friend that wherever this man used to go, the horse used to go behind him. Then he used to sit beside him; the horse used to lean on him and, of course, let him do everything. One day, the man even sat on him. He came down again, massaging him and giving him a treat. "Yes, yes, we will go," he might say. Like this, he became such a good friend, and he began to ride him. After three months, that horse was one of the kindest and best horses; anyone, even children, could ride him. This is the teaching: the horse is our mind. Our mind is that wild horse, and it doesn’t want you to ride it. It runs away and will resist you if you try to control it by force. But just become a friend. Observe your mind, observe your thoughts. That is self-treatment, self-help. So many life problems we can solve in this way.