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You know your body because you have lived in it for so many years. Only you know your body best; nobody else knows its habits, its feelings, its limitations, everything. Therefore, I think we are the first doctor of ourselves. If we take one or two months to be careful and listen to the body, we can do many things for ourselves. That is also yoga. In Āyurveda it is called, "Pahlā sukha nirogī kāyā"—the first happiness, the first wealth, is good health. Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. East, west, north, south, above, below—all directions exist only if you are there. If you are not, no directions exist. So your being is first. "Pahlā sukha nirogī kāyā." The first happiness is a healthy body. Who is happy in the world? Not a rich man, nor a poor man, but a healthy man. And health we cannot buy; health we can only gain. Spirituality we cannot buy; spirituality we can only gain. The health which we buy is temporary and artificial. That means our car doesn't function, but we push it to reach the petrol station. That's it. So, "Pahlā sukha nirogī kāyā"—the basic happiness is a healthy body. "Dūjā sukha gharame māyā." And the second happiness is wealth: money, property, material goods enough that you are able to welcome a friend anytime, that anyone can come, you can offer them food, you can give them a bed, and so on. It means not being rich, but we should have enough because the human way of life is totally changed. It doesn't matter what our background was, if we were monkeys or not. Some say monkey, some say gorillas, some say something else. Now they said some monkeys were lazy, they were not eating enough, so the head got bigger—there are many theories. As the Czech saying goes, "Kolik je úst, tolik je slov" (So many mouths, so many words). So it doesn't matter how we came or what our background was; we are, that's it. And our way of living is not natural anymore. If we spend one night without a dress here somewhere under the trees, then in the morning we will have pneumonia or malaria or different things. We have stepped out of nature. We developed another art of life, so we are used to dressing. Dressing is not only for the beauty of the human body but also for the protection of the human body. You should wrap your body, but give a chance to the body to breathe properly. It does not mean that you are wearing just very short dresses; then it is better not to wear them. What they call, just in a half meter of cloth you have one rock—how poor you were, not able to buy two meters. But you know, dress is for protection. In Hindi we call it "Aṅgarakṣak"—the protection of the body. So everything—eating, pots, way of sleeping—even if you say that I am a yogī, I don't need anything, still you need to eat something. Therefore, dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa—these are the four puruṣārthas. Humans should realize these four things. Dharma. "Dharma rakṣita rakṣita"—if you protect dharma, dharma will protect you. And if you can't protect dharma, dharma can't protect you. For example, the eye: the dharma of the eyes is to see. If they will not see, the eyes have lost their dharma. Because eyes see and they help you, it becomes your dharma to protect your eyes. Then the eyes will protect you. But if you can't protect your eyes, they will not protect you. "Dharma rakṣita rakṣita ha." Artha, material means, means that you have enough to eat. So that we have enough to eat, so that we have enough to eat, so that we have enough to eat, so that we have enough to eat, so that we have enough to eat, so that we have enough to eat. O Lord, give me that much so that my family can live, that we are not hungry, starving, and that who comes to our door doesn't go hungry. That's all. Otherwise, more wealth is a burden, sorrow, and a cause of fighting. So "dūjā sukha gharame māyā"—the second happiness or comfort is wealth. If you ask in India, "How are you?" it is a language of the farmers and the wise people. That's it. "Bhagavān dává chleba, dává jídlo"—God gives enough chapati and dal, or bread and butter. Now what do we say? We introduce: I have that company and this, that. "Já mám tadyhle tu společnost. Já mám tenhle podnik." Giving advertising to find some wife or husband—big house and big Mercedes car and this and that—and then they say, "Wow, I need such a husband." I'm 85 years old looking for a young wife, so there you will see the queue because they want to get rid of the husband quickly and have the money. That's it. That's human nature now. When we used to ask, "What's your name?" still, the villager says, "The name has only God. This body is known literally, and then tell this name." This is the answer. What they call an illiterate person. So I don't know if they are illiterate or not, because we are the literate ones—but are they? Without asking the name: "Good morning, sir, I'm doctor so-and-so," or "I'm engineer so-and-so," "I'm minister so-and-so," "Good morning, I'm inspector so-and-so." So this is talking your ego. That's it. Still, nobody asked you your name, and you are also so-and-so. That is the difference. That is the humbleness. There you can see where is the border of the knowledge. So it is said: as long as you didn't speak, you were wise. And only from two sentences you can gauge how deep the water is. So wealth makes your life and your children happy, but do not collect too much. Because you can give birth to the child, but you can't give the destiny to the child. You can build a house for the child, but you are not sure if that child will live in this house. Very often, parents give all their money, all their efforts—"This room and this apartment for Hanička, and this is for Hanička, and this is for Frantička"—and that very dear Hanička is only 14 and says, "Ahoj, ahoj, Tatinka, I will not come home today; I will stay with friends," and you never know where they will go. All your plans remain empty; they are happily married, maybe, or a good profession brought them somewhere else. There is no one who can clean that apartment. So before you're planning, do you know? Otherwise, it has no sense. So don't make sorrow; who gave the peak will give the foot. So the parents can give birth, but they can't give the destiny, because you come with the destiny. Your destiny is already decided; maybe you know, or maybe you don't know. There is no way to escape. Only one thing: if you follow some advice of a wise person or Gurū Vākya, then maybe they can delay your destiny. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Summer seminar