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Yoga, as you know, is as old as this universe. Ānand Brahman, the endless universe. In this universe, the endless, universal consciousness. The balance between that consciousness and the space—maintaining that principle is yoga. All visible and invisible elements in this space, this universe—all the stars, moons, suns, and planets—are in balance. That balance, in principle, is yoga. All elements in this universe are equal, and this principle is called yoga. It is the same principle which balances all the five elements from which our body is created. The hundreds and thousands of systems and principles in the body are also balanced by this one principle: yoga. The hundreds of thousands of principles and functions in our body—mind, emotion, memory, thoughts, peace—everything is balanced. Where there is balance, there is harmony. Where there is harmony, there is unity. So, simply translated, yoga is a union. It is the union of the individual with the cosmic one. But yoga means that balancing, uniting, maintaining. That principle is yoga, and without it, nothing can happen. Therefore, the first korona, the first vibration, the cosmic resonance which took place in the Cosmic Consciousness, is called Icchā Śakti. That is the fourth principle: Divine willpower. "I am one, now I will multiply." But that desire is not like a human desire. That mind is not like a human intellect or a human mind. It is a tendency, a cosmic vibration, and that yoga, or the yogīs, declared as a sound: Oṁ. It is also yogī proglasseri zvukom OM. Nāda rūpa parabrahma—if you want to see the form of the Parabrahman, the supreme, it is the sound, the vibration. That’s so fine that we cannot hear it with our ears. Therefore, it is said: "Oṁ karvindu-sayuktāṁ nitya-dāyantī yogino kaṁdaṁ mokṣaṁ caiva oṁ kāraye namo namaḥ." After this, all the yogīs realized that Oṁ, that sound—this particular sound, akāra, ukāra, makāra—is that Parabrahman. From these three principles, the guṇas are developed. Therefore, Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśa are these three guṇas. So, at the end of their research, the yogīs found that Oṁ is practically the same as the highest one. These are the three guṇas, so Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśa are practically the three guṇas. When we speak about God, God is not a human form, not like what we think. Vedānta, or Hinduism, or Sanātana Dharma, believes in only one God: that Parabrahman, the supreme, omniscient, omnipresent, the only one God. One in all, and all in one. Gurujī used to say that one is in everything, and all is connected to that one. One in all, and all in one. Therefore, this is his second form: the creation. All are his sons and daughters. Even a small creature, even a small ant, is also the son of God and the daughter of God. Therefore, everything is holy. All these principles, which are created by that one, we call Agnidev, the fire God. Let us say we have not seen God. We don’t know how it will be when we see Him, or what we will get. But that Agni in our body, the temperature, is there. Without this, we cannot live. If the temperature goes too high, we also can’t live; it will kill us. So every element is God. Jal devatā, agni devatā, vāyu devatā, pṛthvīmātā, ākāśa—these all, these bhūtas, are all gods. Therefore, not only are humans holy, but cows or buffaloes can also be holy. Jīva ātmā, that jīva, that soul in which the ātmā is living—a living creature—is a creation of that one Supreme. So, all that maintains that consciousness is yoga. Everything that keeps this consciousness up is yoga.