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The mind sometimes experiences depressions, and then the body is not healthy. But if you have strong mental thinking, you can help yourself. The mind is a mighty power in your body. The mind is like a wild elephant. The most powerful creature on this planet is the elephant. So your mind is an elephant, but this wild elephant can be trained too. Therefore, try to practice mental techniques. There are many mental techniques. The best mental technique is to think logically: it can be, it happened, yes, it can be because it will happen, it can happen, or it happened. One makes a mistake, one made a mistake, one may make a mistake. This is a world which is changing; everything constantly changes. Every second there is a change in our body, in our mind, in our feelings, our thoughts, in our experiences. This is constantly turning; this is called saṃsāra and cakraśikṣā. If this will not turn, then it is not a cakra. So wise are they who observe this change and think logically, not selfishly. Many, many are still very selfish, and there is a problem. So sometimes there has to be treatment for selfishness, and the best is self-treatment: think logically. As you think for yourself, think for others too. In India we say, when your stomach is full, then you think everyone's stomach is full. No, the others are all hungry still; they didn't have breakfast. Now you had breakfast, you know, you see. So I had my breakfast, and I think you are all like this. That's it. And when everyone's stomach is full, but you are hungry, so you quickly make an interval; you think everybody is hungry. So it's very difficult to know others' feelings. And when you don't give the chance to others, that means you are very greedy, selfish, and have very much attachment. And where there is attachment, there is suffering. Therefore, give a chance to others; this is it. Otherwise, you can see that there are people standing in the queue to get in the bus. When you are standing at the last and you always try to go first in, then of course maybe some people will say okay, but immediately they will not accept you, not appreciate you. So what we always do, if someone comes and then we say, "Please, go first." Perhaps we don't do it from the heart, maybe, but still we learn; please. This system, this culture, is a very good culture which unites the humans, which creates love in the humans; you know, and that's very important. In Delhi airport, I was getting out of the bus, and in front of me there was one European elderly couple. They were also getting out of the bus from the airplane to the gate. I told them, "Please, you are the first." He was looking at me; I said, "Yes, sir, you are the first; you are the guest, and you are the first also." He got off, and his wife also, and they had two bags. So you and I took his bag and handed him down, and we were waiting for the luggage. He came to me and he said, "Thank you; you are the first one in India who told us, 'Please, you are the first.' Always the Indians are running to be first in the bus." I said, "I was trained in Czechoslovakia," though Indian culture is also like this. Atithi Devo Bhava—the guest is God. We had an international conference in New Delhi, spiritual and religious leaders. It was a round table dialogue, and it was specially chosen from two religions, Hindus and Jews, in Judaism and in Hinduism. How much similarity is there? It was very nice, very interesting to know, and many talks which I don't want to tell now. The Indians who invited them made the tilaka and mālā. First they were giving to someone who was a VIP guest from India, and there was another swāmī who was sitting beside me, a well-known, very learned person. We were only about ten swāmīs and ten rabbis: the chief rabbi of Israel, ambassador of Israel, chief rabbi of Calcutta, and like this; we were about eight or ten swāmīs. So what I want to tell you is that when the swāmī was sitting beside me, he stood up and he stopped, "First give it to the guest." He took the pūjā thālī in his hand and first went to the guests who were from Israel, and then to other swāmīs, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara and Śaṅkarācārya. No one said nothing; all VIPs were looking like this. So what I want to tell you, among you many are waiting that I will have a chance. Many are thinking, "No, maybe Swāmījī is always so very close only to Pārvati and Stephan. Perhaps only Arjun Purī; maybe only his cooking is only these two persons." And you are moving there, and I would also like to go to Swāmījī. You know the feeling; everyone has this feeling. And everyone has a right to come, to serve, to cook, to sit, to speak, to be part of it. There we shall open our heart to welcome, that we should not make differences. "This is the advanced disciple, and this is young, new one." No. Mahāprabhujī said in his golden preaching that you should have equal vision. Do not make differences. Where the differences are there, then becomes jealousy or doubts. But there is something. For example, you will come and then you cook something which my tongue doesn't accept. We are still slaves of the tongue. When I came first time to Czech Republic, then there was one lady came, "Oh, Swāmījī, I make today the speciality of Spain." Then there was one man from Jakarta; he said, "I will cook this time the Indonesian speciality." And there was someone from Poland. So you know, everyone tries to make a speciality of some countries, and through this speciality my stomach was a little bit suffering. So of course we have some health measurement, what to cook and what not to cook. Especially a person like me, constantly traveling, I am more in the vehicles than in my bed and the room. Constantly jet lag is finished; no more jet lag. So need some kind of attention, but we have no differences. And you should not make a difference. If you think that you are special and why the other is sitting with Swāmījī, then you are not a yogī, and you are not a disciple. You should be happy, "Oh, now he or she has a chance also to sit with Swāmījī." That's it. Everyone came with the same aim. So there is a, it's called mental development and mental training. If you want to be happy, then do this. Give up your greediness and your this kind of feeling, "only me." If you give up this, you have a big achievement in your life. That will awaken in you spiritual energy then. You become like a great-great-grandmother or father. When your grandmother is 110 years old, and she sees seven to eight generations in front of her, or a grandfather, and sitting at a wedding together or someone's birthday or some festival like Christmas, and a whole joint family comes, seven generations, eight generations, nine generations. There are people who see now, "How many grandchildren you have, and how many daughters-in-law you have?" Oh, that's called a joint family. When all comes together and grandfather is sitting like this, you cannot imagine, you cannot measure. The happiness of this old couple, how happy that is, and that is the richness of this person—not money, but my children, my family—and they are ready to give anything; that's it. And that's why, when the journalist makes an interview and asks why there are so many people and why there are so many ladies especially, it is because these ladies and these gentlemen get more kind attention from us than in their office or somewhere else. This kind of mutual thinking, this kind of love, equality, oneness, is a remedy for our heart and mind, and there the mental energy awakens positively, and that's mental training. Not that I will be successful in my business: get up in the morning and make a saṅkalpa, "I will be successful in my business"; looking in the mirror, "I will be successful in my business; I will be successful in my business." You know what "successful in business" means? How will you be successful? It means you will cheat someone. To be successful in business means to be a bigger cheater. How to take money from other companies or from other persons. And that you call successful? That's not successful. Successful is the one who succeeded in giving everything. To take is not difficult, but to give is difficult. So easy to learn "T", but difficult to learn "G". "T" means take it, and "G" means give it. So, are you Mr. T, or are you Mr. G? That's it. So be a giver; that's it. Don't be a beggar. A giver means not only money—this is the last thing—give your attention. Give your attention towards every creature; they need your attention, they need your love, they need that you give them a chance, and especially your Gurū brothers and sisters. So, this is mental training. If you want to have the best mental training and you have no problems, psychic problems, depressions, or this and that, then clean the platform. That's it. Your platform should be like a runway for the jumbo jet, so that the pilot can comfortably take off or land. But if there are rocks lying, your jumbo will not take off. It will be a different condition. So, those who have rocks of selfishness, the rocks of greediness, the rocks of the ego, the rocks of anger and hate, then your jumbo, your body, is destroyed. And your pilot, the mind, cannot manage this. So, the mind needs that you clean up these very subtle feelings in the body. Mahātmā Gāndhī said, "Hate is one of the most dangerous, very subtle but dangerous forms of hiṁsā." So, if you have hate towards someone, if you don't like someone, then it is hiṁsā, not ahiṁsā, and yogīs should not have this. Sometimes we have to suffer also for this, but still give. So, we learned about health, about spiritual awakening, mental training, and many other programs. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Weekend seminar