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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 exists. The principle of maintaining the balance between that consciousness and space 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, the moon, the sun, the stars, all of them are in balance, and this balance is due to yoga. All visible and invisible elements, all planets and stars in this universe are equal. And this principle is called yoga. It is the same principle which is balancing 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 one principle: that's yoga. The hundreds and 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: 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 will power. "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: Oṃ. It is also yogī proglasseri zvukom Oṃ. Nāda rūpa parabrahma: the form, if you want to see the form of the parabrahma, the supreme, is the sound, the vibration. Ako želis de vidis oblik naivisek parabrahme, to je zvuk oṃ. That's so fine that even we can't hear with our ears. Olyan finom, hogy még a fülünkkel sem vagyunk képesek meghallani. Therefore it is said: oṃ karvindu-sayuktam nitya-dayanti yogino kamdam mokstam ceva oṃ karaye namo namaḥ. After all this, the yogīs realized that the Oṃ, that sound—this particular sound, akāra, ukāra, makāra—is that Parabrahma. And 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 out that Oṃ 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 does not mean a human form, not like what we think. Vedānta, or Hinduism, or Sanātana Dharma, believes in only one God: that Parabrahma, 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. And 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 will see Him, or what we will get when we will see Him. 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, these are all gods. Therefore, not only humans are holy; it also can be cows, or buffaloes can be holy. Znaczy, ne može samo čovek da postane svet, može da postane svet i krava, i bivo. 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 is maintaining that consciousness is yoga. Everything that keeps this consciousness up is yoga. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar