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Today is the full moon and Rakṣābandhan. This day, as you see on the poster, is celebrated as Rakṣā Bandhan Yoga in daily life, and it is written there: the honor, dignity, and respect for ladies. But the problem is that ladies do not respect ladies. When ladies begin to respect ladies, then men will have no problem, because men do respect the ladies. Ladies do not respect themselves as ladies. On the day when ladies wake up and do not let their bodies be abused for commercial things, as mere photo model objects, on that day the ladies will regain the dignity of mothers. Women are not made for running here and there, sitting in offices and working. Ladies should have a comfortable, happy, and respected place at home and stay at home. They are known as the home minister. The healthy roots of the family are the mother. If you want a healthy society, then women should wake up and stay at home to control the family and children. All these children who are not under control are so because the mother is not at home. There was no bank account. There were no savings. There were no accounts. Only the wife was the bank and saved everything. The man never bought anything, except secretly his cigarettes. He leaves everything to his wife, and she never lets him go out with dirty clothes. She keeps the dignity of her husband at all times. She manages what he needs to buy, everything. The husband’s duty is to earn the bread and give the money to his wife and never ask what happened with the money. When he gives money to his wife and comes home, he never asks what she did with it. This is a mutual understanding; this is respect. That is very, very important. As long as a husband does not trust his wife, the family will not be in good condition. So you should trust your wife, and the ladies should gain their dignity back. Do not fight for women’s equality and emancipation. You do not know that women have a higher position than men in family life. It is 80% for the mother and 20% for the father. You see, it is not only equal, but you have 30% more. Even now, your mother and grandmothers—except some individual cases—guide and support the whole family. In a house where there is no woman, it looks like two minutes after an earthquake. In a house where there is a woman, it looks like a place where you can sit down and rest. So women have a higher position. They do have the ability, but they have lost this consciousness. They want to have a higher position outside. But what happened? When they went to search for a high position in the street, they lost both. They lost the position at home, and they lost the position in the street, perhaps professionally just for a few years. After retirement, nobody will ask you anything. A man said, "Swamiji, I have near depression." I asked, "Why?" He said because nobody tells him, "Your Excellency, how are you? Good morning, Your Excellency." Not even his wife, because when somebody telephoned, she used to say, "His Excellency is not at home." But now she only says, not even 'my husband,' but she says his name: he is not at home. But for a wise man, for the holy saint, every day is a golden day. And for those ladies who stayed home and cultivated the garden of the family, every grandchild and great-grandchild loves her, and she is the center point of the family—a very high position. But you lost it because you didn’t cultivate the family. Even your grand-granddaughter or your child doesn’t know who you are and where you are. So women should make a women’s union, beginning really at the grass roots. Only women are able to educate our future. The future of our country and the world is in these two hands. The first is the women, and the second is the teachers. We call children the culture of tomorrow. Children are the future of tomorrow, but the future of tomorrow is in the hands of today’s mothers and teachers. How you educate them is how our world will be. Mothers can protect humanity. Mothers can protect humans against drugs. The ladies can protect and reduce criminality throughout the world. It is the ladies who can protect. There will be no more wars, and it is the ladies who can bring again the morals and ethical principles into human society. And it is the ladies who can again gain their higher position in this world. In ancient culture, ladies always had a high position. In Hinduism, they have always had a higher position, and even now too. It is like this: when you say Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī, then we sing Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa. We say Sītā Rām, we say Rādhā Kṛṣṇa. We don’t say Kṛṣṇa Rādhā, we don’t say Rāma Sītā, and we don’t say Nārāyaṇa Lakṣmī. First Lakṣmī, and then Nārāyaṇa. So even the identity of Nārāyaṇa Viṣṇu is through Lakṣmī. Viṣṇu is through Lakṣmī. When you say Lakṣmī, Nārāyaṇa is already there. But if you say Nārāyaṇa, then they will put the question, "Who is that?" It is half empty. So, if you say Sītā, it is already the identity of Rāma. And if you say Rādhā, it is already the identity of Kṛṣṇa. So the women are the future of tomorrow. And the future of tomorrow is in the hands of women. The future of tomorrow is in the hands of every mother, and tomorrow’s peace, and today’s world peace, is in the hands of women. They have to begin to educate the children from the beginning now. Do not buy for your children any toys with guns and weapons. And do not show your children those videos and films where they are fighting with guns, even with a play gun. You are only giving it as a toy, but the child does not take that as a toy. If it’s a real gun, a child will play with a real gun as it is; you play with a toy, and then it means he or she will kill you. So children do not need the toys; they need your love. And they do not need your money; they need your wisdom. If you give love and wisdom to your child, you give the richest life to your child. If you are only earning money for your children and leave them alone at home, your hard-earned money has no value for your child, who has a very bad life. It is the wrong concept that you think you save money and earn money for your children. It is wrong thinking, a wrong concept. If the child is a good child, then why are you earning money? Because he will earn himself or herself. Putr kā putr to kyā dhan sañce? And if your child is not good, why are you earning money? This money, he or she will destroy everything. So it is a very, very wrong concept that you are earning money for children. Of course, you should earn something so that they have a good life. That’s it. But it is wrong. Now, especially in this modern time, people build a house and say, "OK, we will do three floors. The ground floor is for us when we are old. The first floor above is for Milenka. The third floor is for František." And Milenka married and went to Mexico. Now you are sitting old at home; you cannot even clean the rooms. And you have to pay the electricity, property tax, water, and everything. Who are you? You are a caretaker. You are not enjoying the house. So many, many people built the house for the children. Or they bought the flats or the house for when the children are big, and the children do not even look at that house. At most, they want to sell it and have the money. And you do not know in which drinking company the money goes. So it is very important that you think in this way. Who has seen tomorrow? No one has seen tomorrow. And tomorrow will never come. Every day will be today. So in the present, be with your children and take care of them. Explain to them that things are not good: fighting, aggressivities. Children will learn from you. Men do not have these abilities to educate children. Therefore, the women should wake up. They should make again the women’s union and make a saṅkalpa. There was one queen in ancient times, and when she married, she made a saṅkalpa: the child which will come in her womb, for this soul, will be the last life. It means all will be self-realized. She said, "I will teach them self-realization," and it happened. Every child became a self-realized soul. Such is the work of the mothers. And so, on today’s Rakṣā Bandhan, you should support this day. Do not forget. Write in your notebook and on your calendar: Rakṣābandhan, the day of honor, dignity, and respect for women. That’s it.