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Astrology and astronomy were both discovered by the ṛṣis. It was the Satya Yuga, and they conducted experiments over hundreds and thousands of years. According to their findings, they compiled all the data: on which day what kind of energy prevails, which planet is more influential, and which energy rules which planet. In Indian astrology, this is called Jyotiṣ, meaning the constellation of the thirty days. Astrology is the third eye of God, Shiva. It is the inner eye. Anything else can be missed or mistaken, but according to astrology, nothing can be wrong. We always believe that destiny cannot be changed. If we look at destiny, it is caused individually by what we call karma. The result, or the fruits, or the effect, or the reaction of karma, is known as destiny. We call destiny pralabdha. Pralabdha... śarīra. First, pralabdha—destiny—is created. Then life is given, meaning in which form of life the soul will enter. You cannot influence this; 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. The first is through the body (tan). The second is through the mind (man). 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 come 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 also like you did it. Whatever you are thinking now, you are doing karma. It can be good, it can be bad. What you wish for, what you would like to have, you are already doing mentally. You are imagining and thinking, so you are creating karma. The third way is through words (bachan). If you tell someone, "I love you," you create a happy atmosphere. If you tell them, "I hate you," you create a negative atmosphere. So, good language, kind language, is very important. Language is a computer, but a computer does not have emotion, whereas humans and other creatures do. A wise person said: you make others happy, which means you also make yourself happy. One great holy person, Tulsī Dās, 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 you don’t want to have an enemy, then use kind words. Be kind, be humble." Be good, so your language expresses everything. Therefore, it is said: before you speak, you shall measure your word, how heavy it is in your heart. Then you should speak. If you find it very heavy—your heart is the scale which will measure—then don’t utter it. So, words (bachan) are also a way you can create good or bad karma. The fourth way is through wealth (dhan)—your 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, then it means socially you are not doing good. So 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. It is given at the end of your life, after departing from this body. You are still not dead; the body died. And if you think very deeply, then the body also doesn’t die. Every element will merge into its origin: earth element into earth, water into water, air into air, fire into fire, space into space. Because this body is created out of five elements, but the soul... The soul is individual. Ātmā is universal. Ātmā je univerzální. Ātmā je osvobozené od karem. You cannot remove space; there will always be space. So ātmā is always the same. But the soul consists of actions, karma, which has good and bad. Good karma means your soul will have an easy life and more and more spiritual, positive, good karma. Then the soul will dissolve in the light. Otherwise, not. This means that 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 depend on your karma. No one can see that. If you could see, you might try to help. You don’t see, and you can’t help. But as a human, with a human heart, human intellect, and human attachment—animals also have attachment, but we are talking about humans—we do something. We perform sixteen saṃskāras according to Hindu or Vedic philosophy and culture. 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. Velké řeky, so that the other animals have something to eat, nebo ho pohřbíme do země, or you just burn your body. This is how this is a part of the body, this physical body, tohle je to fyzické tělo. 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... Musíte projít. jednoho Boha. Through four different ways, and one of those is called the udvish, meaning the bark, the plants, the vegetation. So vegetation also has a soul; one should not neglect that the plants don’t have life. About 20 years ago, one man developed a machine, a very sensitive machine, that can feel the emotion of trees. So when you went with a knife to the tree, there was a sound of fear, screaming. And also with potatoes: when you took the knife and were cutting potatoes, and the machine was sensing, that potato was screaming like you killed some other creature or human. They showed this result on television. The next day, no one bought potatoes. The potato market went down. It took time again for good people to think it over and say, "Okay, life, but it’s a very lower form of life." So, this is all what we do here. There will be experience. There was one sādhu. All the time, praying, meditating, and living in one Śiva temple. Somewhere in the mountains, behind the temple, there was a small cave, and in that cave he used to live. Morning, noon, and evening, he used to perform pūjā. One day, he went to a big shop for food in some village, and two or three thieves came. Śivova chrámu. Oběť. You know, unfortunately, in old age, 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 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. But 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, there 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 began to shout or scream, the king or the people would catch them. So it was a young man, a young boy, about 18-20 years old, and with a knife they attacked him from behind and killed him. And they put their hand in his mouth. Yes, all 32 teeth were there. They said, "Thank you, Śiva. You gave us treasure and belief, as also the offer." So they said, "Well, where will we search? Someone, we take the head of this man, tak si vezmem hlavu tohodle muže. There was one prophet in Sofia, and there also the people used to bring the goat, and they were offering animals. Also, in the Bible, New Testament, there is where Jesus was 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 into his temple to come. It was their will to come to the temple. Śiva did not, Śiva did not promise them. It was they who made their promise. Shiva did not help them to find the treasure. It was they who knew, and they went to steal. And Shiva did not ask them for any offering. It was their own imagination. And the offer, and Shiva did also 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 she says, "Please help me, I will do this, this." And you say, "Please, help me, I will do this and that." And now, will it help you? Pokud ano. But it is said that he, or the Divine Mother, their help will be there if you have some positive and loving wishes. Otherwise, negative saṅkalpa will not be fulfilled. It is your imagination. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī is showing one mudrā. In his picture, one finger is 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 a God, then, don’t you believe this? That I am within you? Without your talking, I know. So keep silent. Don’t do it. Mauna mudra. So this one mudra expresses many things. You can have many lessons. Any saṅkalpa you make, 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 did 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 was somebody, and behind was a cave. They went in. And there was one sādhu meditating. They said, "Aha, now we know. They are 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 him with an arrow." At that time, there were no pistols. Well, order is order. They prepared. Among the kings, 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. When you find he was really guilty, then punish him." The king said, "Okay," and the search began. Within five days, they found the criminals, and they said, "Yes, we did it." 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, I did nothing, and this happened to me. I want the answer, Lord, today. So many years I’m doing Seva Puja, and you don’t talk to me. Okay, I accept, but today I want that you speak. Why did it happen?" 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 is mitigated. 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 protected you. They brought you only to that point. 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 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, has 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 life is given. Where should you come? Heaven or hell? God can show us heaven in this life and can show 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 many; they are just near us. But these physical ears cannot hear them, and these eyes cannot see them. And therefore, the karma, the destiny, is all the time there. Now, according to destiny, things happen in your life, dějí věci. Your birth on the physical planet and also your departure from this planet, and the influence of other planets—that we call a horoscope, astrology. That is there. Now, it is there. We can’t avoid it, and we cannot avoid it. So why do we do all this? It is the human intellect, and the human spirit is capable of doing something, and that means prayers to avoid it. That is why there are saṃskāras. Obřady, for example, the last ceremony and pasty 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 a little mild our prayers, our thoughts positive. It’s very important. So therefore, there is also something we call the pūjā, the ceremony, and there is a ceremony for particular planets, all nine planets. And this influence of a planet, which is on us, good or bad, can be influenced through some fasting, saṅkalpa, some ceremonies, many things, also what we call 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, Guru Pūrṇimā is one month later. Otherwise, the Guru Purnima, now the Guru Purnima is celebrated, it’s called Vyāsa Purnima. 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 morning to evening your spiritual pūjās and sādhanās, that will make your karmas a little lighter. It 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 Shiva. But many people are fasting on Tuesday for Hanumanjī. This is a Maṅgal graha, and Maṅgal graha is very powerful. Saturn and Mars, these two are very strong. But there is another Rāhu and Ketu. When Rāhu and Ketu are both directed to you, 99% of the time it is a death for you through accident or through anything. God protect us from this. So when some two people are behind you with bad intentions, then in India we used to say, "These two, Rāhu and Ketu, they are all behind me. Please protect me." So it is not a blind belief, it’s not a story, it is a reality, and human understands this. So through this planet, even our planet is influenced, and that changes the entire vibration. What is Kali Yuga, Satya Yuga, Dvāpara Yuga, Kali Yuga? These are vibration 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, 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.