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The heart center is the place where our Ātmā resides. Our Ātmā dwells in that Anāhata Chakra, what we also call the heart. In the Upaniṣads, the Vṛddhāraṇīya Upaniṣad says that within the heart, there is a beautiful small cave. And within that cave, there is a beautiful, tiny blue light. That blue light represents the Ātmā. That blue light is called the flame of your life. On the day we depart from this body, it means the Ātmā will no longer be in this body in the form of your Jīvātmā. Then this body is disconnected. There is Jīvātmā, Ātmā, and Paramātmā. Normally, Jīvātmā means the individual soul. The individual soul is also life, a living being. The individual soul is a mixture of Ātmā and anātmā—reality and non-reality. The non-reality means that changes take place according to your karma. And that karma, which creates different destinies, changes your way of life. It changes your road, it changes your direction, it changes your thinking and your mind, which we spoke about this morning. It changes your opinion, it changes your feelings. Those who have experienced that blue light within the heart—the Ātmā—and who have enough satsaṅg, then you will not change your mood. Otherwise, you are changing from full moon to dark moon, and from dark moon to the full moon. It is a very dangerous situation within thyself when you become very moody. One day you smile and say hello and this and that; you are one of the best jokers, a jolly person making jokes. And other days, you are like a squished lemon. That is a very dangerous situation. You are going through a dangerous situation. We know this world is changing. We are living in the world of changes. But at the same time, our Ātmā is not changing. As we were saying yesterday: Ānando’ham, ānando’ham, ānandam, brahmānandam. So it means that you are happiness. How could it happen that after one hour, you are so... "How are you?" "Okay." "Any problem?" "Hmm, don’t talk to me." It happens—changes of the mood. A yogī cannot do like this. Yoga practitioners cannot. And that is why you have a very divine path, especially in yoga and daily life: that you master your mood.