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Good morning to everybody. We are ten minutes late today. This was not on purpose; there was some urgent emergency that required us to stop somewhere for five minutes. So, especially for the friends and bhaktas around the world who are with us through the webcast, here is the message. Again, our subject is spirituality and religion. Nowadays, many people distance themselves from religion. And somehow, the people, the organizers, or the so-called authorities of religion are deeply thinking about what to do. In every religion, you are getting fewer monks, fewer priests, and fewer people who have the knowledge of performing the ceremonies—what you call the Karmakāṇḍa. The Karmakāṇḍa is a part of the Vedas, and it is a very important subject for human life, especially. It can also be used for animals and for the environment. Simply, Karmakāṇḍa means the ceremonial part of religious rituals. Sometimes people misunderstand rituals. You can say ceremony, you can say worshipping, you can say pūjā. The Karmakāṇḍa is a scientific system. It is like when you were born and you got a name. Nowadays, in hospitals, they tell you to give a name before the birth already, on a piece of paper. But that Karmakāṇḍa does not accept. The name is decided, not by you. Does it mean the father, mother, grandparents, or friends? In one way, you have to decide. But there is a big "but," and that means the hour of the birth, the constellation, and the position of the moon. The sun—Western astrology is depending on the sun, and Eastern astrology is according to the moon. Both could be correct if you are a good astrologer. So, it can change in half a minute, in ten seconds. According to the birth constellation, certain alphabets appear. It doesn’t matter which language; it has nothing to do with a particular language. Sometimes there are three alphabets, sometimes five. Now, the name of the child is given—it doesn’t matter if it’s he or she, daughter or son—the first letter of the name should be the one that is according to the constellation. If it came to 'P', you can write Petra, Paola, or Peter. So, the first letter should be 'P'. Now, there we can make a mistake also. If you write P-E, you are changing, so it’s not correct again. If we are writing Paola, P-A, it is also not correct. This is very, very important for the future life of this person who is born. Then the success is there; many things will be good in your life. It is a science, like numerology, mnemology, or alphabetology, and many other things. Now, this is the first Karmakāṇḍa: choosing the name and giving the name also on the best constellation. You choose, and then you give the name. Also, you should have proper concentration. Now is a good time to plant potatoes and tomatoes. But in November, we cannot plant tomatoes and potatoes here in the European field. We can do it, but they will be frozen, so we have to wait until spring comes. So it’s the same law, same system. It has nothing to do with a particular religion. The sun is equal for every religion, and the moon is equal, and so on. The second: when a child should first be given something to eat or drink—mother’s milk. Now, there are the constellations. So again, you have to look; yes, now there are 10 or 15 minutes where the child can be upheld by the mother’s breast. That becomes a nectar. That means a great thing for the health of the child, and the health of the mother, and the relation of the child with the mother and with the parents. Another thing begins: when are you going to give solid food for the first time? Solid food means maybe some rice, the milk of other animals—goat or the cow, or the buffalo, different milk. So, when are you going to give the grain to that child for the first time? Mostly, they give us rice. Rice is, we believe, one of the most ancient crops. And rice has all kinds of nutrients, they say, if it is not polished. And it is easy to digest. So there are many things to observe—not for one or two months of the child’s health, but for the entire life. It does influence the tissues in the body, the gland systems in the body, brain activities, the nerve systems, many, many things. And that’s why the Karmakāṇḍa is very important. This is called Saṃskāras. Now, you have also in Christianity, also here, they are giving a name, also they are giving initiative in association with the water. Giving, eating, everything is the same thing. Everything that we have in the Vedic religion, you also have in the Christian religion. We have tilak, we have the ash; it means you are nothing, you are the soil of the earth, you are the ash. But you have only one, unfortunately, once a year, what is called Ash Wednesday. No? And this is coming from the Nāgābābā, you know? They all have the ash on their whole body. Charan Amṛt also we have, and you have also when you go in the church, there is holy water, and that is the Charan Amṛt. So this is called the saṃskāras, and saṃskāras means initiations. When you have to cut the hair, in the name of which deity, your Kuladevatās—the goddess, the female and male deities of your family—that is called the patroness. So everyone has a patron saint of their family. Someone has Hanumānjī, someone has Kālī, someone has Gaṇeśjī, someone has Gurudev. In the Lilāmṛt, you read that all these snake charmers, they are all dedicated to Devpurījī, and they cut the first hair of the children in the ashram at Devpurījī’s samādhi. So we have to accept one. If you don’t have one, you can have it now. That will protect your family relations. That will protect your children’s life. That will protect your house. And in the family, there will be no quarreling. Now, children are not even ten years old. They say, "Parents, who are you to tell me? I will do what I want." The children are out of control. Why are the children thinking like that? Because there are some disturbances in that fine energy. If you believe or you don’t believe, it is there. And therefore, it’s very important to go to your church, or your mosque, or your temple, or your ashram, or anywhere. This is for the well-being of humans. And we lost confidence in this. People are happy to sit one hour in front of the computer, but not to go and sit ten minutes in the church. Because you lost the relation. You lost the meaning. You lost the feelings, and that’s a pity. Similarly, there are ceremonies, fire ceremonies, that we call Yajña or Havana; both are a little different. Havana is what you do every day. When you put Agarbatti, it’s Havana, and the holy smoke. That holy smoke, either coming from the incenses or from some particular gum of the trees, or in yajña, purifies the atmosphere. That holy smoke does not harm the environment. What is harming is your pet ego. The candles, all these artificial and chemical things, are harmful, but not that. And that is a Karmakāṇḍa. And so the religions have a Karmakāṇḍa connected to that. And when you lose this, you know you are suffering. But you don’t know the way back. Now, there will be only one way back, and we’ll be coming, but that will take time. And that is when you will fall down, then you will open your eyes and say, "Oh God, I was walking blind." Many people become spiritual after a car accident. So I don’t wish you such things, but spirituality is something. Spirituality is the, how do you call them, jewelry, the ornament of human life. You know, you have so many blim-blam here, and here, and... here. Now, they have here also on the tongue, and here, and here—I don’t know where, everywhere. But so it is that spirituality and religion, this kind of ceremony, is a beauty of human life. Then, automatically, you will overthink what you are doing. Automatically, life will become good. So, do not deny religion. And without religion, how would the world look? Like now, how it is around us. Wars, atoms, pesticides, fighting, all these chemicals, no trust, bankrupt, financial problems, everything. Yes, that’s it. Especially, I don’t understand the Christian people. They should not do the business. Christianity means being very simple and poor, and go through the pain. And Jesus said, "Do not believe in this wrong God. I am the way to the Father." And that was with the golden bulls, you know, with the gold. So, if you are saying you are a Christian, then you should be like that. We have nothing against money. You can give us, and we will use it for good things. We will build the old homes with all good facilities because I’m getting old. I will come to the old home also. And good homes for children, disabled children, blind people, war victims, and good religious schools to give them again what we call the reform, Karmakāṇḍa, the knowledge. This is this. Therefore, do not deny the religion; accept the religion. Let’s say spirituality is the soul, ātmā, and religion is the body. You cannot separate your body and ātmā. Now you are with the body. And every indriya, every limb of the body is that beauty and Karmakāṇḍa of the religions. Of course, believe in the religion which you feel comfortable with. All religions are very good. What is not good is ourselves. And we shall respect every religion. Every child says, "My mother is the best mother." So which mother is not the best? And every child said, "Not only my mother, my father is also the best father." So you should know the father loves children very, very much. Father has only one problem, and that is that he doesn’t like to show that emotion. But the father loves the child very, very much. So everybody who is listening, you should know that your father loves you very much. And mother too, of course. Similarly, God loves you. Gurudev loves you, and your friends love you. Even your small mouse at home loves you. How rich you are. When I feel bored, I go on my terrace in Vienna. And so many ants come, they say, "I love you, Swāmījī. Why are you unhappy?" So many ants. No, everything is. So never feel lonely, and never feel that no one loves you. If I talk, "No one loves you," my flowers will be very unhappy. They said, "What are we doing here? We are not cooking soup." Who said? Flowers said. And they tell me, "How can you say nobody loves you? How many of us are there? We love you." So, God’s creation is a creation of love. So, Karmakāṇḍa, ceremonies—and those who have bad karma, and those who are polluted with this Mālāvikṣepa and Āvaraṇa, don’t like the ceremony. You know, you are doing ceremony to your computer. You are coming, opening the computer, and pressing the button to turn it on, and waiting. Yes, many times I see people waiting in front of computers like this. And then he tells, "What’s your mantra? Likhit mantra." Then you have to write your mantra with your password, you know. Then he said, "Okay, celebration with music, nice music." That’s a Karmakāṇḍa. Then realization comes, then problems come, or good things come. So, those who don’t believe in ceremony should not believe and work with a computer. Just open your eyes and look at the sky. You don’t need a computer; everything is there. So, if you sit in the windows looking like this, your husband will call me. "She is only looking at the sky." That’s it. So you have to maintain your social relations and family relations. Your husband loves you very much. But sometimes you are doing things which he can’t accept. You know, so I don’t know, maybe ladies have some problem with their husbands since they are practicing yoga. Because you are doing too much. You come home and you’re playing like you are holy. And when you are holy, the husband doesn’t feel to touch you; he’s afraid. So maintain a normal relation. Be more normal than now. Yes. Many times I get a complaint that, "Swāmījī, we have nothing against what you are teaching and doing, and yoga is very good. But do you think this is correct, that my wife is coming home and she’s doing everything, what?" I said, "I don’t know what she’s doing." And she said, "Don’t touch this, don’t touch this, don’t put it here. Don’t begin to eat; wait a minute. Only eat this." This is not good. So, he’s suddenly looking, "What happened to my wife?" So, spirituality, religion, everything should be done with a very normal view, normal way of life, normal behavior. That’s it. You have to maintain your family relations. So, there are many, many things. Therefore, do not deny the religion. If you deny religion, you are lost. Okay, you don’t like this pundit, you don’t like this priest, you don’t like that one. You don’t like these sentences of the Holy Book. But maybe there is one or two sentences, but the rest of the book you like. There are some things in the Vedas that I may not like. Something in the Upaniṣad, which I don’t like. But that does not mean everything. So the Upaniṣad was a science, it is a science. Therefore, take your religious activities normally, humbly, not fanatically. So, religion is the ornament of life. And spirituality is the treasure or wisdom of life. So, Ātmā is God, and the body is Karmakāṇḍa, this life, the religion. And religion means united. Religious means community. And religion means the unity in one name. So, all the organs of the body, all the limbs of the body, all the functions of the body should be united. Then the ātmā, the jīvātmā, is happy. And if something is disturbed, then you say, "So much pain, I don’t want to live. Better God help me." Help me to die. Why does the jīvātmā say, "I don’t want to live anymore"? Because the body doesn’t help or support you anymore. So without religion, this jīvātmā is unhappy. Like, without the function of this body, you don’t want to live. So spirituality, of course, is different. Religion is different. But still, you can’t separate. It has to go together. That’s it. So I hope something became clear, and what is not clear, we will do next weekend in Vienna. And today, I think, finished. I was too quick today. I saw the watch, I spoke only half an hour. But we have some other work to do, and still the subject will begin. And there is one bhajan. I don’t know if somebody knows. Do you know somebody’s bhajan? We will sing next time, okay? Yeah. You know this? Did you ever sing? Or is it only like you sang yesterday? So we shall sing something. Sonāmuḳī, you will sing something, okay? When you sing, you should affect the people’s body and mind like Sonāmuḳī. All negative energy goes out. All the cameras are directed to Sonāmuḳī. And whoever sits nearby will become very pure. Go and sing, sit, play, dialogue. Oṃ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Paramahaṁsa Yogīrāj Maheśvarānanda, Viśvaguru Deva, Kī Jai. What? Thank you. If you want to come, please come quickly, and those who have been, don’t come again. Any questions? Do you have any questions about these three days? Okay, no question means no answer, so I’m very happy I made it so clear. So there is no question, so I have to create the question. If an animal is very sick with cancer, what is your opinion about euthanasia? Well, it is very hard to say yes or no. But in some cases, when the animal is really suffering very much, then it’s better to be free from the pain. It’s our attachment that we don’t want to give up. So doctors have to decide if we should keep the animal still and look after the animal, or it’s only suffering, only lying, falling apart. So these are the situations. Okay. Dr. Shanti, you want to say something? No. Siddharan, you want to say something? Parvati, you want to say something? He Kevalam, you want to say something? Yulia, you want to say something? No, thank you. Karchi? Maybe, thank you, that’s what I... So, as a goodbye, our juniors, all the children, they made a present for me. This is present. Thank you, children. Yes, here the children come. Akefaldit, Rolitgal, thank you. Yes, Kṛṣṇānanda. Dear Swāmījī, we would like to say thank you for this beautiful weekend, your words, your teaching. We are trying very hard to keep it. And we are looking forward very much to the next meeting with you. Köszönjük szépen. Thank you. Thank you very much. Praṇām Gurudev. It is good weather. Drive carefully, look at the road, not at the trees, and I wish you all the best. See you in the next program, in Vienna or somewhere. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi-Vardhanam Urvārukam-Iva Bandhanān Mṛtyor-Mukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi-Vardhanam