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Do you remember what I said yesterday? We do not know when, where, or how our life will end. Everything is in our hands, we know that, but perhaps two things are not: birth and death. Sooner or later, we will die. There is nothing more to say. For every one of us, the day is fixed, the time is fixed, and the place is fixed. But it is a complete secret. No one knows except God—or your own Ātmā. And to your Ātmā, you do not listen. Therefore, whatever good we must do in our life, and whatever we have to finish, we should do it. Kāl kare so āj kar: what you have to do tomorrow, do it today. Āj kare so ab: and what you have to finish today, do it just now. Within seconds, tragedy can happen. When will you do the things you have not done yet? Thus, there are two paths: nivṛtti and pravṛtti. You have already read about this nivṛtti and pravṛtti in your chakra book, where it is very clearly written. Pravṛtti is this: we are still stuck in material life. We have many duties to do, yes. Pravṛtti means that your vṛttis—your thoughts, your thinking—are still focused on something else. And we have our dharma, our obligation and duty, and we should not run away from our dharma. If you can protect your dharma, the dharma will protect you. If you cannot protect your dharma, dharma cannot protect you. For example, your legs: their dharma is to walk, to bring you somewhere. If you cannot protect your legs, then they cannot protect you; they will not bring you anywhere. Our dharma is to see, and our dharma is to protect the dharma of the eyes. If you cannot protect your eyes, you become blind, and your beautiful eyes cannot help you. So, dharma rakṣata rakṣata: if you can protect your dharma, dharma will protect you. So, dharma and karma. This is the dharma cakra, the cycle or the wheel of dharma. That is why you can also call it the chakra of time. There is a dharma cakra, a karma cakra, and a kāla cakra. Now, kāla cakra has two meanings. Kāla means time: past time (bhūtakāla), present (vartamāna), and future (bhaviṣya). Past time is called Bhūtakāla. So, the time which is past we call Kāla. Vartamāna is present. Bhaviṣya is future. So, Kālacakra: the chakra of past time. Second, Kāl means death. And death is circling around you. You know, when an animal is lying in the forest, it has not yet died, but very soon it will. And those big birds—what you call vultures—are looking, waiting for this. When it dies, they can eat. So, Kālachakra: we say that over your head, Kāl is circling. This Kāl only God or Gurudev can take away. Third, Kāl means poisonous black; that is also Kāl. Now, you have to use your logic. When to use this word as "past time"? When to use it as "death"? When to use it as "snake," and when to use it as "past karma"? We can decide this according to the circumstances. When someone is in a war, fighting, then Kāl is circling there. You do not know which soldier will die, which soldier will become the victim of that Kāl. There is one bhajan from Brahmānandjī. Do you remember? Prabhunei sumra, biti umra: you did not meditate or think on God, and your life is gone. So, Kāla Cakra. Kāla Cakra also means the time, the circle of time. And Brahma Dharma Cakra, Kāla Cakra, Dharma Cakra, Kāla Cakra, Karma Cakra, Karma Cakra, Time Cakra. But the Time Cakra has no extra word; it is also called Kāla Cakra. Therefore, for those who are following dharma, above them is the wheel or the circle of dharma, and dharma protects them.