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We know what the mind has done to us. We know the situations it has placed us in many times, and we know the situation we are in now because of the mind. And yet, we still do not know what kind of situation our mind will create. An alcoholic person, when completely drunk, promises himself and others, "I will never drink again." But again in the evening, he or she goes toward the bottle. Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs. More people are killed because of it. Most accidents on the roads are caused by alcohol. Many breakups of marriages are caused by alcohol. Because of alcohol, there are many unhappy children who are neglected and cannot get an appropriate education. Even the child of a great doctor, if the father is an addict, cannot get a full stomach because of this addiction. The condition of the alcoholic is the same as that of a person addicted to opium or any other drug. Therefore, producing alcohol means you are producing and supplying drugs. You know this, but still you are doing it—producing and consuming—because of this mind. Because this mind has good friends: greediness, selfishness, and desires. Desires, greediness, and selfishness toward money. Long ago, there was a king named King Pṛśat. That was the time when the Tretā Yuga changed into the Kali Yuga. It was a change of the Yuga, and that is the real millennium. The real millennium is the changes of the Yugas, which changes the atmosphere of the entire universe. It is the changing of the constellations. This is a beautiful mathematics, counted in billions of years: one mantra, Yuga, days, Kalpas, and so on. At the time when King Pṛśat was there, Kali Yuga came and asked the king to give him a place. The king asked, "Who are you?" "I am Kali Yuga." "And what is your specialty?" "All this that is happening now in Saṃsāra—this is the specialty of Kali Yuga. Your way of thinking, your attitude, all relations, fighting for money, position, wars, all. This is the introduction, the quality of the Kali Yuga." The king said, "Then you have no place in my kingdom." Kali Yuga said to the king, "You can't stop me; I will come. But it would be nice if you freely could give me some little place on this planet." So what is the little place? Something which is very rare. "I don't want to take your whole kingdom, all your land, your oceans, your mountains." The king said, "Then you can tell, what is it?" "Gold. It's very rare; hardly you can see it anywhere." "Okay." And Kali Yuga entered into the king, into the consciousness of the king, and everything became gold, shining. And so, it is said in Kali Yuga, money is God. This gold is God. But Kali Yuga is slowly getting more and more. We forgot the roots of the human race, and we have forgotten the roots of humanity, the roots of human life, because that Kali Yuga entered our mind: greediness, selfishness, desires. And that is all played in our mind, and we are the slave of it. So as long as you will be a friend with this, you will not be happy. As long as you are a friend with greediness, selfishness, ego, desires, longing, and so on, this mind will kill us. This mind is like a fire, a dormant fire in the wood. It is dormant; you don't feel it is a fire in the wood. But in the wood, there is a fire completely. The greater quantity in the wood is the fire. What we call the fuel, the greater quantity in the alcohol is fire. The greater quantity in the anger is fire. The greater quantity in the desires is fire. That fire is dormant, but when the fire awakes, you can walk on the mountains where there's snow and skiing you can go, but underneath is a volcano. And you know when the volcano awakes, then the solid stones begin to melt and flow like water. So when the anger of the volcano awakes, or the anger and the desire of the volcano awakes in us, we have no more power to face this. So this tormented fire which is in the wood, when it awakes, it will burn and turn the wood into ash, and the fire itself will disappear. Similarly, this mind will turn you into ashes. When will you be free of your mind? When you will pick up ash in the crematorium, then the mind will tell you, "Bye-bye, bye-bye. See you, see you. I'm just like ash. How will you see me again? I am waiting for you next life." Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Mahasamadhi weekend