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Astrology and astronomy were both discovered by the ṛṣis during the Satya Yuga, and they conducted experiments. Over hundreds and thousands of years, they compiled all the data: which day has what kind of energy, and which planet has more influence on which planet. In Indian astrology, it is called Jyotiṣ. It means the constellation of the thirty days. Astrology means the third eye of God, Śiva; it is the inner eye. Anything else can be missed or mistaken, but according to astrology, nothing can be wrong. What we always believe is that destiny cannot be changed. If we look at destiny, it is caused individually by what we call karma. The result, fruit, effect, or reaction of karma is known as destiny. We call destiny pralabdha. First, pralabdha destiny is created. Then life is given. This means in which form of life the soul will enter. You cannot influence it; you cannot choose. But you have the freedom now to do something good so that the future will be good. Do good, face good; do bad, get bad. There are four different ways one can create karma. One is through the body, another through the mind. What you think becomes your karma. In modern psychology, they speak of negative thinking or positive thinking. Negative and positive are imitations of bad karma or good karma. In Christianity, they speak of hell and heaven. If you do good, you will go to heaven. If you do bad, you will go to hell. What does that mean? Good karma will give you a heavenly life. Bad karma will give you a hellish life. Karma is individual. It is not collective karma, but sometimes it is said that one ill fish can spoil the whole pond. Negative karma easily influences our life. Positive karma takes time. So, what you think is as if you did it. Whatever you are thinking now, you are doing karma. It can be good or bad. What you wish for, what you would like to have, you are already doing mentally. You are imagining and thinking, so it means you are creating karma. The third way is through words. If you tell someone "I love you," you create a happy atmosphere. If you say "I hate you," you create a negative atmosphere. Therefore, good and kind language is very important. Where there is no kind language, there is a computer, because a computer has no emotion, but humans and other creatures have emotions. A wise person said, "Speak such a language that everyone becomes happy." Speak in such a way that everyone is happy. You make others happy, which also means you make yourself happy. A great holy person, Tulsī Dāsjī, who wrote the Rāmāyaṇa, said, "If you want to have everyone as your friend, then give up harsh words. If you want to have many friends and no enemies, then use kind words. Be kind, be humble, be good." Your language expresses everything. Therefore, it is said that before you speak, you should measure your words by how heavy they are in your heart. Then you should speak. If you find them truly very heavy, your heart is the scale that will measure. Then do not utter them. So, through words, you can also create good or bad karma. Then, through your wealth, prosperity, money, power, or social position—when you have a higher social position, it means you should not abuse the public. You should do your duty. If there is corruption, it means you are not doing good socially. These are the four different ways to create karma: tan, man, bachan, and dhan. The result of all this becomes destiny. Some effects are immediate, some in this life, and the rest in the next life. The final judgment is given at the end of your life. After departing from this body, you are still not dead. The body died. If you think very deeply, the body also does not die. Every element merges back into its origin. Earth merges into earth, water into water, air into air, fire into fire, space into space. This body is created from the five elements, but the soul, the soul is individual. Ātmā is universal. Therefore, ātmā has no karma. Ātmā is free from karma. It is never born and never dies. Ātmā is like space. You cannot destroy space. You cannot burn it. You cannot remove it; space will always be space. So ātmā is always the same. But the soul consists of actions, karma, which has good and bad. With good karma, your soul will have an easy life, and with more and more spiritual, positive, good karma, then the soul will dissolve in the light; otherwise, not. So it means after departure from this physical body, the soul is still there in the astral body. And you have to go through many experiences. Good or bad, that depends on your karma. No one can see that; if you can see, you may try to help, but you don't see and you can't help. But as a human, and with a human heart, human intellect, and human attachment—animals also have attachment. But we are talking about humans; we do something. We make 16 saṃskāras according to Hindu or Vedic philosophy and culture. And these saṃskāras are to liberate you from certain destiny or karma. The last saṃskāra is called anteṣṭi, the funeral; some take jala samādhi in water; many would like that you put a heavy stone and let the body go in the ocean or in a big lake, or in a big river, so that the other animals have something to eat, or it is buried underground, or you just burn your body, cremation; this is how this is a part of the body, this physical body; we would like to have the last ceremony. But Kabīr Dās Jī said, "Better to die there where no one is there for you to cry." And the wild animals will be happy to have something. But so far we are not, and I don't wish you such things. And now, nowhere can you die alone; very soon, somebody will find you. If they don't find you, you will begin to smell. And people will know there is something, someone died; don't do this. So when the soul enters into the astral world, you must experience everything. You have to go through it; if you have given someone love, happiness, forgiveness, kindness, then you will pass through love, through happiness, and it would become beautiful, or if you have been very cruel to someone, meaning also to animals, because all are the creation of one God, all are the children of one God. So according to the Vedas, life enters this planet through four different ways, and one of those is called udbhiḥ, meaning the bark, the plants, the vegetation; so vegetation also has a soul, so one should not neglect that the plants don't have life. About 20 years ago, one man developed a very sensitive machine that can feel the emotion of trees. So when you went with a knife to a tree, there was a sound of fear, screaming, and also with potatoes, when you took the knife and were cutting potatoes, the machine was showing that the potato is screaming like you kill some other creature or human; they saw this on television, the result the next day no one bought the potatoes; the potato market went down; it took time again for the good people to think over and say, "Okay, life, but it's a very lower form of life." So, all that we do here will be experienced. There was one sādhu who was praying, meditating, and living in a Śiva temple all the time. Somewhere in the mountains, behind the temple, there was a small cave, and in that cave he used to live, and morning, noon, and evening he used to do pūjā. One day he went to a village for a big shop for food, and two or three thieves came and entered that Śiva temple. "Lord, help us to have success. If we have success, then we will offer you a human head, a sacrifice." You know, unfortunately, in old ages around our world, people were sacrificing sometimes humans too, and animals, in the name of God or something, but this all is a blind belief. But they made a saṅkalpa and they promised this—what we call all negative people, they are also very loyal to their promise; that is one good thing; what they decide, they do. So they said, "Lord, we will sacrifice one, but this he—" but this he means 32 teeth in the mouth; teeth, 32; a human has got 32 teeth, and if your wisdom tooth is taken out, then this is not accepted, so you are out of this danger. So thanks to God we have good dentists who take our one tooth out, then you have only 31. So they have to search for someone who has 32 teeth in the body and also no scar on the body. It's called pūrṇa. They went to one palace, of course, where you find more money or jewelry or anything. Evening time, and they took a lot of money, jewelry, or gold from the treasure. And they wanted to escape from the back door of the palace. And one young man saw that, so they decided to kill him because if he begins to shout or scream, the king or the people will catch us. So it was a young man, a young boy, about 18-20 years, and with a knife they attacked him from behind and they killed him. And they put their hand in the mouth; yes, all 32 teeth are there. He said, "Thank you, Śiva, you gave us treasure and belief, and also the offer." So they said, "Well, where will we search for someone? We take the head of this man to sacrifice it to Śiva." Śiva does not accept any sacrifices. No animal is killed in the name of Śiva. Mostly those offerings were performed for what are called the feminine goddesses. There was one prophet in Sofia, and there also the people used to bring a goat, and they were offering animals; also in the Bible, New Testament, there is Jesus offering a sheep, so that time was blind beliefs. Mahāprabhujī said the Divine Mother, Devī Śakti Kālī, is a mother of all creatures; she cannot eat her children, but blind belief is blind belief. Well, anyhow, they took the head of that young man and they went to the Śiva temple and put that head of the young man and said, "Thank you, Lord, for helping, and here is our offer as we promised; thank you, Lord," and they went. Now, Śiva did not invite them to come to his temple; it was their will to come to the temple. Śiva did not promise them; it was they who made their promise. Śiva did not help them to find the treasure. It was they who knew and they went to steal. And Śiva did not ask them for any offer; it was their own imagination. And the offer, and Śiva also did not say thank you; there was no one to say yes or no. Everything was a creation out of their mind, and there a human can make a mistake. So you stand in front of Mahāprabhujī's picture and you say, "Please help me, I will do this, this." And now, does he help you or not? That is such a burning question, a very sensitive question. If yes, then he should help you with everything, so why does he help only with good things? But it is said that he, or the Divine Mother, their help will be there if you have some positive and loving wishes. Otherwise, a negative saṅkalpa will not be fulfilled; it is your imagination. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī is showing one mudrā. His picture, one finger near the lips: don't talk. Don't wish, don't tell me, keep quiet, I know. You need not speak. If you believe me as God, then don't you believe this, that I am within you? Without your talking, I know, so keep silent, don't do it. Mauṇa mudrā. So this one mudrā expresses many things; you can have many lessons. Any saṅkalpa you make, and look to him, he will say, "No, no, that's it." Again he will say, "Ah." How many we are doing? Well, the thieves went away, in the palace there was restlessness and big sorrow; the king had only this one child, and he told his soldiers and his secret agency to find out as soon as possible who were doing this. So they followed the footprints, and still some blood was flowing, dripping from his head, and it led to the Śiva temple in the forest in the hills, no civilization near there, and they entered the Śiva temple; they found the head of the prince; they searched if there is somebody, and behind was a cave; they went in and there was one sādhu meditating; they said, "Aha, now we know, he is playing like a saint meditating, and at night doing criminal things." They took him and went to the king, and the king said, "Hang him up and shoot with arrow," at that time there were no pistols. Well, order is order; they prepared. Among the king's court, there were also some good people, wise people. So, a very old man, nearly 80 years, 90 years, he said to the king, "Lord, of course it will be what you wish, and your order is order. A příkaz je příkaz. Je to poslední slovo. Ale mám jednu žádost. Chci vás ochránit. A král říká, co ty myslíš? Prosím, nejdřív to proskoumejte. Pověřte tu informaci, jestli to opravdu udělal. Dejte ho do vězení." When you find really he was the guilty, then punish. The king said, "OK," and the search began, and within five days they found the criminals, and they said, "Yes, we did." The king called that sādhu and he apologized very much, and with great respect he freed him. Well, the sādhu went straight to the Śiva temple and said, "Lord, this is the fruit and this is the result of being in your temple, serving you; I'm innocent, did nothing, and this happened to me. I want the answer, Lord. Today, so many years I'm doing sevā, pūjā, and you don't talk to me; OK, I accept, but today I want that you speak, why it happened." The voice came, "My son, yes, on these days your destiny should have hanged you up, or on the arrows. But due to your being here and making pūjā, this karma was milded. Ta karma byla zjemněna, že tě přivedla jenom k tomu bodu a zbytek té karmy přešel." A on říká, "Proč? A jakou karmu jsem udělal?" "Mé dítě, když si byl malý chlapec, osmiletý, našel si jednu kobylku," and you put a thorn of the tree through the body of this locust and you were playing to fly him; he couldn't fly, but he died, and that karma has come, returned to you; you should have been hanged on the nails, but your positive way of living, ale tvůj pozitivní způsob života tě ochránil. Přivedli vás jenom k tomu bodu. "Pane, to bylo víc než dost. Dostat se až k tomu bodu. A proto karma nikoho nenechá svobodný. Osud nepřijímá žádné omluvy." And this we will face either in this life or in astral body experience; go through these all experiences, you cannot say, "Yes, I was not guilty," because you see the reality, the evidence; evidence will never die, evidence will go and remain forever. No one can change the truth; no religion, no philosophy, no politics, no culture, and no language can change that reality. So, the soul of humans as well as animals have to go through this process. And you feel this pain or love, happiness as you feel now, but you can't do anything against it. And then the life is given; where should you come? Hell or heaven? God can show us heaven in this life and can show the hell in this life; heaven and hell both are here. The astral world is also here; our planet is living in the astral world. It's not that you go some billions of kilometers far away. Our ancestors are maybe just near us. But these physical ears cannot hear them, and these eyes cannot see them. And therefore, the karma, the destiny, that is all the time there. Now, according to the destiny, the things happen in your life, dějí věci ve vašem životě: vaše zrození na fyzické planetě a také odchod z této planety, a vliv ostatních planet, a tomu my říkáme horoskop, astrologie. To je tam. Now, it is there. We can't avoid it, a nemůžem se tomu vyhnout. No, a proč teda všechno tohle děláme? Tak je to lidský intelekt a lidský duch je schopen něco udělat, a to znamená modlitby, abychom se tomu vyhli; proto jsou saṁskāry, obřady. For example, the last ceremony and paśyā, that you get blessing, so you do for others; your children will do for you; you did for your parents, your children should do for you, and grandchildren should do for your children. So we can do something to make it a little mild: our prayers, our thoughts positive, it's very important. So therefore there is also some, we call the pūjā, the ceremony, and there is a ceremony for particular planets, all nine planets. And this influence of this planet which is on us, good or bad, can be influenced through some fasting, saṅkalpa, some ceremonies, many things, also what we call the stone therapy: the precious stones, or any kind of stones, what you have to wear on your finger, and you should wear a particular stone only at a particular time, and then you are out of this shadow of that particular planet. And that's according to the horoscope; there are 12 horoscopes which influence us. And so this is a science which was brought by great saints through meditation. So in this year, there are 13 full moons. And since there are 13 full moons, there are 13 months. So this year, one month was more; it's called Adhikamāsa. One month extra or more. According to that counting, the Guru Pūrṇimā is one month later; otherwise, the Guru Pūrṇimā, now the Guru Pūrṇimā is celebrated, it's called Vyāsa Pūrṇimā; it is the birthday of the great saint Vedavyāsa, and also it is the day when for the first time this planet came into the sunlight. But every full moon has its meaning, and that's why on this full moon, when you are fasting seriously and doing your spiritual pūjās and sādhanā from morning to evening, that will make your karmas a little lighter and will make life more easy. So there is also fasting on Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. For a particular person, generally, people fast on Monday or Thursday. Thursday is the day of Gurudeva, Monday is Śiva, but many people fast on Tuesday for Hanumānjī. This is a Maṅgala Graha, and Maṅgala Graha is very powerful. Saturn and Maṅgala, these two are very strong. But there are also Rāhu and Ketu; when Rāhu and Ketu are both directed toward you, 99% it is death for you through accident or through anything—God protect us from this. So when some two people are behind you with bad and intense energy, then in India we used to say, "These two, Rāhu and Ketu, they are behind me." Please protect me, so it is not a blind belief, it's not a story, it is a reality, and humans understand this; so through these planets, even our planet is influenced, and that changes the entire vibration—what is Kali Yuga, Satya Yuga? Dvāpara Yuga, Kali Yuga—these are vibrations, constellations of the planets; so prayers, meditations, mantra, fasting, spiritual readings, and positive thinking can make our life very easy, and that's why spirituality is there, so think over. I only want to tell you that today is Pūrṇimā. For us, it's Guru Pūrṇimā, but Mahāprabhujī spoke more; what should I do? I thought I would come and sit here and drink tea and tell you, "Today is Pūrṇimā, a nice day." I thought I would just come and say, "Guru Pūrṇimā," but Mahāprabhujī wanted more. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Summer seminar