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Mahāprabhujī said, "Do not waste your time knowing the past; the past is past." Therefore, in Yoga and in almost every religion, there is no talk or explanation about the past. They are preaching about the past. So, Mahāprabhujī said the past is past. The presence is here, so you should be aware of your present time and know what you are doing. The future is not here, but your future will be like your presence now. If you are angry, you will have an angry future. If you are cruel, you will have a cruel future. So, the door of heaven is not easy to find. And if you find the door, it is not easy to enter. It is said, "Come and knock on the door, and the door will open." And your question will be answered. And you will be welcomed. Let us hope for the best. Therefore, anything that you do and think will influence your future. The great saint Tulsidās said, "Pralabdha pehle rachā," the first is created destiny. "Phir sarīra sarīra," then the body is given. Like a bird makes the nest first and then lays the egg, so your nest is your pralabdha. According to your pralabdha, you will get a kind of nest. Parents can give us birth but not the destiny. The pralabdha, or the destiny, is a product of our karma, our actions. Do good, get good; do bad, get bad. So, you are your own liberator, you are your own guide, and you will be free. You will be free only through your behavior, your actions, and your thoughts. And you will be free only through your actions and thoughts. Who has seen heaven? Or who has seen Vaikuṇṭha? We call it Vaikuṇṭha. Has anyone seen it? How many square kilometers? What kind of trees are there? What is there? Are there some houses? Or should we take a tent with us? Will we have a tent there? What will we eat? There is no eating, no hunger. It is boring. There is no jealousy, and there are no old days. All are young and beautiful, and still no jealousy. So, these are the thoughts of people who would always like to be young. So, it is the human mind which imagines what could be the best. And that is their fantasy, which has no beginning and no end. So, we put this in. You will never find it. In India, we say, "Without death, you cannot see heaven." Without dying, you cannot see heaven. So, I said, "If I will not see heaven, then what will I do? Can I come back and complain?" No chance. So, what is the reality? It is a very hard thing. And we know there is something, but that something is like nothing. But they say there is not nothing; in nothing, there is something. So, perhaps in nothing, something is myself. Therefore, the mystery of life throughout the entire universe and the mystery of the individual self moving, and when it remains somewhere for a while, then it begins to create relations. Water is flowing; it is clean. It remains stagnant, and blood begins to create the algae and the reptiles. Therefore, it is very hard to know and explain. Because those things which you cannot explain are the same as you cannot explain. So, they put one name for that: indescribable. "Oh, I would like to see that. How does the indescribable, everlasting look?" So, how do you know everlasting when you cannot describe it? Immortal. So, this can only be realized, experienced sometimes. So, a mantra is that resonance, like a wind takes a boat in a particular direction, a ferry in a particular direction. You are sailing on the ocean, and the wind will take your boat in that direction. It is like when you sail on a sailboat on the ocean and you do not know which direction the wind will blow you. It is like when you sail on the sea and when the wind carries the ship, the boat, in a certain direction. So, if there is positive energy and positive vibration in your mantra, if your mantra has positive vibration, positive energy, it will definitely take you to the Divine Destination. And the Divine Energy definitely influences or affects our body also. Our body, our mind, our emotions, our intellect, our body, mind, intellect, emotions. And that energy then radiates from you further to other members of your family and to friends, to the surroundings, wherever you are. Wherever you take light, the light is lighting everything. Therefore, an ancient śāstra said, "O man, you are the light in darkness." You are the light in the darkness. Lord, lead us from the darkness to the light. There is no name given to God's name. In the Vedas, the Upaniṣads, wherever they mention the name of God, "Ali," "Īśvara," "Parameśvara," or "Paramātmā," but no name because that is a nirguṇa, formless, saguṇa that is the embodiment of God. But in the Vedas, in the Upaniṣads, in Vedic Dharma, Hindu Dharma, they said only one God. Ale ve vedách, v upaniṣadách a v hindu dharmě tam je jenom jeden Bůh. U védské dharmě, u hindu dharmě řečeno je u vedám, upaniṣadám a samo jeden Bůh. A to je Īśvara. V křesťanství se také říká, že je jenom jeden Bůh Otec. Nebo v islámu je také Allāh, which has no form. So it is all coming finally together. So it is said in old scriptures which are thousands and thousands of years old, "Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya," lead us from the darkness to the light. "Asato mā sat gamaya," from unreality to the reality. What is changing is not a reality, and what is not changing is the reality. And what does not change is the reality; therefore, this mortal world is changeable, changing constantly; therefore, it is not that reality, and reality that will never change. Seasons changing, weather changing, earth changing, even said the sun and moon are not a reality. In the Vedas, it is very clearly written, the age of the sun, and the beginning and the end, and many explosions in the universe. Read the Vedas. When you will read the Vedas, then you will see modern science; what brought everything is the knowledge from the Vedas. So that is it. So that light, "Asato mā sat gamaya," lead us from unreality to the reality. Put us from reality to reality. We are tired from dying and being born. We are tired from creating relations and breaking relations. Lead us from mortality to immortality. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, "Lokalaj sab tajak dhar ke vairagān besudhar ke vair." Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Summer seminar