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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 because of 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 physical and psychic condition is according to your thinking, and 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 not understand what a problem means. We try to solve the problems, but our mind is also creating the problems. So yoga means to master the thoughts. Yoga pomeni, da smo sposobni nadzorovati misli. You cannot become thoughtless. Ne morete ostati brez misli. Only maybe 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, so we have to become the friend of our mind. You cannot be a friend with force. There was one king who had many horses. He had one beautiful, nice horse, and he loved that very much, but that horse was so spoiled and so wild that no one could ride him. The best of the best riders failed. He didn't let anybody sit on his back, and the king was very sad about that 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 said, "Okay." So 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, sitting near him, observing him, giving him something nice, and sometimes coming near to give him a little massage. 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, he used to lean on him, and the horse let him do everything. One day, he even sat on him. He came down again, massaging him and giving him chocolate. "Yes, yes, we will go." 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 horse is our mind. Our mind is that wild horse, and it doesn't want you to ride it. It runs away, and it will kill you if you want to ride or control it. 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. Recording location: Slovenia, Ljubljana, Satsang