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Our beautiful weekend program is coming to an end, and different life activities will now begin for you. We have definitely gained a lot of energy. We are now coming to the point of that energy, which is a very interesting point in our life. Many are trying to understand what this energy is. There was an international conference with scientists and many scholars who spoke from the Vedas and Upaniṣads. Many learned people gave their views on this point. The conference was organized by a person who was the director of a NASA scientific center, and he still works with scientists. The subject was prāṇa, and still it was not clear—at least not to me, and also for many others. You know, such a conference ends, and the beginning is more or less the same, except you exchange your business cards. Prāṇa is for us, and for yoga also, something very important. In many bhajans and poetries, we say God is known as Prāṇadhāra. Every creature, every living being on this planet, no matter its form or size—what is living is known as a prāṇī. A human is also known as a prāṇī. Prāṇī means a holder of the prāṇa. Who has prāṇa? Who is alive, still living? If someone hasn’t died yet, we say abhi śarīra me prāṇa hai. And if one is declared dead—it doesn’t matter who, animal, human, bird—prāṇa chhod dī. You see sometimes on Discovery channels, or sometimes you see channels about wildlife, about life in Africa or Sweden, and you see a lion or a tiger catch a deer by the throat. It holds on as long as the animal is showing strength. That strength means prāṇa. When there is no more cramping or strength in the muscles and legs, then the lion leaves that animal dead. It means died. There is no more power. Prāṇa. Now, in our nourishment, in the Upaniṣads—in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad, I think, or in another—it is described how the soul travels in the astral world. You saw that nice video done by the Ministry of Tourism of India about Śaṅkarācārya, and you saw all of it. There is a description of how the soul is passing. It goes to the astral world and then comes again in the form of the atmosphere, gas form, clouds, rains, and travels into the vegetation and into the grain. When we speak about grain, seed, any kind of seed, there is a presence of the soul. Therefore, in the eating mantra we say: Annapūrṇe sadāpūrṇe, anādevatā, anādevatā. For this planet and the earth, it is very, very important. That’s our life. Truly, where there is enough anna (food), there is everything. Where there is no anna, there is hunger. I remember often people tell me, "I didn’t read," but it is said also in Christianity: the Lord said, "Don’t throw the bread away." To throw away the bread is a sin because bread is nourishment, and the salt is the source of the earth. We say in India, "In whose house you eat namak (salt)." You should not do wrong to the house where you eat. In a similar way, a "namak harāmī" is one who eats the salt in someone’s house and then does something wrong to that family. Then you are known as a "namak harāmī," and there is a great sin. Therefore, to protect the environment... Offer food. And so what? In your culture, and mostly the demand in Slovakia: bread and salt. Annapūrṇe sadāpūrṇe. Again, prāṇa. If you cut a branch of a tree, after one minute you will see this branch is getting sad—what do you call it? It wilts. So there is also prāṇa. One of our yoga sisters, Milena Lise’s father, was a very great artist in lithography. He used to make art from plants and flowers. Milena used to tell me that when her father took a flower, he would say, "Please, please, remain alive still, let me do exactly," because within a minute, changes take place. Prāṇa goes out. This prāṇa is in nourishment. Our life is nourishment. Before the creation took place, there was a parliament sitting, a cosmic parliament. It was not that we were just created and are here. No, no. 99.9 percent we don’t understand God’s work. So it is a bungalow, and to that body it is said that it is a wonderful home in which Nārāyaṇa speaks, and from him speaks God. In which Nārāyaṇa speaks, but Guru does not open a secret. But without the help of the Guru, that architect must be perfect. So it has been discussed: Viśvakarmā designed this world. He designed life, all electric wires, ventilation, air conditioning, automatic everything. And then said, "How will it function? It needs something. How will they work? How will they be active? They will not be moving. All will be lying like resistors, stones here and there. How to move the creatures? They will be lazy. Nobody will work." So a very clever, excellent one made a discovery: the eating system. Hunger. So Mahāprabhujī said, "Hunger is the guru of all." Everyone dances for the stomach. This is the hunger. Your stomach is what moves you. Entire creatures are moving because of this one. How? How will they be hungry? Then give the fire. The fire will burn everything, consume and consume. You know, a human, in one life, consumes two and a half tons of nourishment. So when you destroy two and a half tons of food, you have destroyed it. Then this machine is kaput. There is much important information. Recently, I read and got information about our kidneys, how much blood they purify in 24 hours: 1,700 liters. 1,700 liters of blood flow through the kidneys. Only God’s machine can handle that. All other pumps would be destroyed. So what will they eat? What should they eat? Then Jīvaḥ jīvaṁ bhakṣate. Life will eat life. Oh God! It’s cruel. No ahiṁsā. Yes, no ahiṁsā. Cruel. In nature, it is cruel. They said, why this? Vishnu said, "This is impossible. I don’t allow the cruelty." But there were many parliament members. They said, "Yeah, here, Viṣṇu, what do you want? This world which we create is a mortal world. It’s not an immortal world. Immortal only you are. But what is created, should they also be immortal? Then your value is lost." Okay, think. Work for the work. You see how it is. So what? Give them limited life. Work for their karma—to come out of karma, or to create more karma. Because this planet we are creating, that creation which we are creating, is not only once. It is sustainable, long-lasting. So how? It should be newly created. But who will create new? We cannot always create. And how? Therefore, he gave the system: male and female and kāma śakti (the power of desire). If there is no person, no generation will grow. Yes, but there will be too many. That’s why. Life will eat life, and that will continue. So, life eating life. Nature is cruel. In nature there is cruelty, but in nature there is a balancing principle. It is balanced by itself. So it is given: hunger, given thirst, given the feeling of love. Many, many feelings. And every feeling you have has its reason, and that is created with you. Now, every feeling needs a kind of energy, and that is prāṇa śakti. If you are hungry, you have to search for your food and prepare it. If you have no energy, you will die; you can’t get your food. But here, that life will eat life—but not the humans. Humans are excluded, not included. Humans are given more comfort, more priorities than other creatures, a better life. But at the same time, the human’s karma is counted as karma, niṣkāma or sakāma karma. Good karma will have good result, and bad karma will have bad result. That is in humans, not in animals. And that makes the difference between humans and animals, because humans have got the most powerful tool, and that is the buddhi (intellect, rozum). The human intellect can be trained. Human intellect also needs education. And this can be educated negatively or positively. When it is educated in such a hard way, when it is raised so rigidly, so strictly, then it is difficult to re-educate it, to reform it. So many times our grandparents don’t understand many things because in their consciousness, the education, in their buddhi, the śikṣā, is very compact and is not easy to change. Therefore, it is the human intellect that can also be a fanatic, a criminal, a terrorist, a thief, or holy—a yogī, a kind person, a good person, a helper. This is the most powerful tool that is our buddhi. And this buddhi should not be disturbed, should not be manipulated—what they call brainwash, though it is not easy—but kusaṅga (bad company). That is what can make your pure buddhi dirty. A dirty shirt takes time to clean, but a clean shirt doesn’t take time to make it dirty. Therefore, it is said: "Dīpadāyālaya rājasunālī jo..." O merciful Lord Mahāprabhujī, listen to my prayer, my request. Be gracious to me and bless me with the satsaṅg (good society). That is very important. Because through these words, energy also flows. Through different mantras, energy flows. Through the instrument, through the music, energy flows. Now you are that living object, a living model, a living thing, a living being—so whatever you call it—energy is flowing, but you are able to catch that energy. That energy, that prāṇa śakti, is so subtle that we are not even able to define it. When prāṇa is gone, life is gone. When prāṇa is there, life is there. When the soul is gone, life is gone. When the soul is here, life is here. So now it’s very hard to make definition differences between the soul and the prāṇa, because feelings are in the prāṇa. This prāṇa can be created in different ways. It’s energy. Electricity is energy. That can save our life. That can take our life in the motor. It’s energy. The engine itself is Śakti. Your cycle is Śakti. Anything you touch is Śakti. And similarly, that Śakti is hidden in us. So, which Śakti, which kind of quality of the prāṇa, lets our memory function? Which Śakti is functioning when we are talking a prepared lecture? It is a conserved food in the tin. And a free lecture, that is your wisdom, which comes from you. But which act is there? There must be something. Someone is talking in you, and when you are writing, you are only holding the pen. There is some different śakti which lets move your pencil. And that’s the power. And this śakti which is in your hands, what you are writing, is controlled by your intellectual śakti. So our memory, our words, our thinking process, our actions, our feelings, digestive process, birth and death, growing, everything—hunger, thirst, cold—in the Vedas very nicely described, because the Vedas is a science of the individual. Vedas means the Vedas. Etymologically, the word Veda is connected with the Czech word věda (science). What is not existing in the Vedas, nothing is existing in your world. To this day, no science has discovered anything which is not already in the Vedas. Study the Vedas, but to understand that also is not easy. In Chicago, there is a library. After the activities of Swami Vivekānanda, two Americans were visiting that library and every day reading, borrowing a book from the library—the same book and the same chapter for four years long. So the librarian one day asked, "Why do you borrow every day the same book, and you read the same chapter?" And the book was the holy Rāmāyaṇa. They were reading the chapter where it described an aeroplane from 10,000 years ago, where Rāvaṇa came from Sri Lanka with this Puṣpaka, and it was a two-seater aeroplane. And when God Rāma came back from Śrī Laṅkā, then his whole army, all friends were sitting inside. It was like 500 jumbo jets for the 500 passengers, the same aeroplane. What was the speciality of that aeroplane? That it could become bigger or smaller according to your saṅkalpa-śakti (power of intention). You wish one place more? Yes, there is one place more. So everyone had a place. And they were reading this about the Puṣpavāhana. That aeroplane’s name was Puṣpavāhana. Puṣpa is a flower, and vāhana is the vehicle. So what was it made from? Which material? Which technology? Before 10,000 years, there was already an airplane. And they are reading for four years, the same chapter. Maybe they will find something, but still they didn’t understand. So it’s very hard to understand a chapter about agni, fire. It may take you one year. Every day, it can be five hours of lecture on that, and it will last one year. And still, you will not understand what that fire is. So Agni Tattva is not just this heat, but Agni is something more different than that. So it’s unbelievable what that beauty of that wisdom is. But then one is stuck in intellectual knowledge. It is important that with your intellect you should spiritually develop. Then it’s very good. Otherwise, your head is getting bigger and bigger, and your body is getting smaller and smaller. Or the head is getting smaller and smaller, and the body is bigger too. The proportions should be fine. So as intellect grows, the spirituality should grow. Otherwise, that human intellect which is educated is dry without ethical principles. It becomes destructive, self-destructive, and also for others. So the prāṇa is in the nourishment. And therefore, after long thinking, very much thinking, they gave three qualities: sattva, rajas, and tamas. But these three are not so easy to define. Often, people think that garlic and onion are tamas or rajas. Garlic and onion are very good for your health, especially for blood circulation, for the heart. You will have beautiful skin and no skin disease. But when the garlic is fried in oil and is burned, then it becomes Rajasic and Tamasic. In Āyurveda, which was developed long after this, they discovered the signs of prāṇa. And there, God Dhanvantari, Vishnu, appears with the one pot, kalaśa, amṛta kalaśa. This amṛta kalaśa, amṛta is the nectar. If you get one drop, you are holy and immortal, through and through. All this Kumbha Melā takes place there where the amṛta was dripping somewhere. But what is that amṛta? Prāṇa. Pure prāṇa. And therefore, sattvic vegetarian nourishment. At that time, there was no question about chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Now, in the last 50 years, unfortunately, all this poison has been created. And therefore, wherever this chemical fertilizer is used, the prāṇa is not there. There is some kind of growing ability, but not that healthy prāṇa. That will kill some functions in the body. Therefore, the fruits, vegetables, grains, and milk products, our drink—all is manipulated. And therefore, our feelings and way of thinking have changed. Now these children are talking in such a way that sometimes parents can’t imagine. Yesterday, there was a question about a four-year-old boy. The parents don’t know what to do. That’s it. And also, many complications, many diseases come up. So prāṇa is the life—not the source of the life, but life itself. Prāṇa is God. And therefore, Mīrābāī’s bhajan, many times she told, "Kṛṣṇa, prāṇa ādhāra, my prāṇa." You see so many bhajans of Gurujī writing about Mahāprabhujī, "prāṇa ādhāra"—the source of the prāṇa. Our life is based on that. That is gone, everything is gone. Therefore, prāṇāyāma, āsanas, and healthy nourishment—these three will grant us healthy prāṇa, and our mantra and prayers. Prāṇa, and that is what they call kuṇḍalinī śakti in cakras. So next time we will continue this. Today is too much talked, too much spoken. Please analyze the prāṇa. What is prāṇa? Take a drop of water on your hand, sometimes anywhere, and feel this drop—that’s immense of prāṇa, immense of śakti, and the life inside. Or take one grain, hold one grain in your hand, and meditate like you have some life in your hand. In Vedic tradition, when we enliven a statue—God is a statue made from stone—we put the whole statue in grain, wheat, or rice, completely covered, and light on it. And then outside is a yajña or ceremony. So that in this statue, it is not anymore a statue. Life has entered into it through mantra, ceremony. There are many, many things. You know, unfortunately, some religions in this world have killed humanity at its roots. They cut all the branches, made the naked... human soul is naked—without tradition, without culture, without these many things. That’s it. And that’s why humans are suffering. Therefore, respect the salt. Respect the bread. Respect the vegetation. Respect life. Respect the bees. You know the bee? Oh, my God. They produce for you nectar, so sweet nectar they bring for you. Respect them. Don’t pollute the vegetation. Because that honey you will eat. So that is the science of life. It’s not that you have a beautiful, big apple. Very soon we will all use an astronaut diet: two pills. So one pill for breakfast, three for lunch, and two for dinner. No work. No time for kitchen and anything. No cleaning dishes. Your break for lunch time: one tablet, drink water, please work. Coffee time: one tablet, all the computers. Humans are getting distant from humans. So, eating is a social event. It’s not that you are going to drink a coffee and how nice is coffee. It’s a friendly, social event. How nice you sit with someone and you talk with understanding. That’s something beautiful. It’s not a coffee, but it is that meeting, and that’s a social health. And that’s it.