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I have mentioned several times that there are mantras for different purposes. Mantras can be on various subjects. There is even a mantra for when a snake bites someone. There are people who can remove the effect of the snake's poison. In ancient times, there were no ambulances or many hospitals, so people possessed more knowledge about nature, herbs, and many other things. Mantras were a part of this knowledge. Some people still know them today. Or consider when a scorpion stings you. It is very painful, not just for a minute but for hours. I hope you have never experienced it, and I wish you never will. It is like a constant piece of fire on your skin, a burning that travels through the limbs. Yet, there are also people who have a mantra to cure it. Many from the West have experienced or witnessed this. At Jadan Ashram, some workers were stung by scorpions and were cured by mantra. There is even a mantra for bees. If you want wild bees not to settle on a particular tree but to go to another, or if you wish for them not to sting anyone, you may not believe it, but there is a mantra for bees. You would like to know what that mantra is, and I would also like to know. But this science, this wisdom, is only transmitted from person to person. It is not written down. Nie zapísano. Secondly, za druhé, druho: you should never ask for anything in return. If someone is bitten by a snake, nekog je ugryzla zmija, and they bring the person to you, dovedu vám tu osobu, you must not charge anything. Even if you go to their house, you should not accept a cup of tea. If you do, your mantra loses its power; the effect will not be there. There are certain principles to follow, and it must be done only as Seva, selfless service. Very simple people in every village perform this; one or two individuals know it. Not everyone does. This is not a job for all. So, what kind of mantra do they practice? How is that mantra? We do not know. I do not know. If I knew, I would have told you. That is precisely why I do not know. We have many wild bees. At Jadan Ashram especially, they love to be there, and they are very large. In Jadan Ashram, we have four different kinds of bees—three, four, or five kinds. We respect them. We protect them. It is said that a beehive hanging on your tree is not just bees; it is an entire village. To destroy these bees means you have destroyed a whole village in the world. Can you imagine? Such love and respect! People care for different creatures. Where bees come and settle, they are a symbol of prosperity, Lakṣmī. So people look forward to bees coming to sit in their house, somewhere on a tree. Sometimes bees can also become angry. When there is different weather, like low atmospheric pressure, they have moods, just as you do from time to time. The Bhaṭa are known as the army of Śiva. So, if you have negative thoughts, you cannot come near them, because Śiva does not like negative thoughts. If you are very positive and moving, they will not do anything to you. However, if you have some kind of spray in your hair or under your arms—something artificial—then do not go near them. They think their enemy is there. Their enemy is anyone who does not lead a natural life. So be careful. Once in Jadanāśram, yogīs were working on a building. There was a very large beehive there, and the bees did not like the noise, so they were stinging people. The workers wondered what to do. They thought of covering the hive with a plastic bag at night when the bees were sleeping. They considered many plans. Then one worker among them said, "Yogeji, don’t worry. I will tell them to sit on the other corner of the building." Our Yogeji looked at this messenger helper, who was mixing sand, and said, "Better you work." The man replied, "Yes, I do." But Yogeji said, "What you have in your mind for the bees is unacceptable. Bring me one coconut, that’s all. And I will tell the bees to go and sit at another place." So Yogeji brought the coconut, and the man came. He washed his hands, feet, and mouth. About thirty meters away from the bees, he sat down, broke the coconut, and with a small fire, he performed a kind of mantra that neither the yogīs nor anyone else had heard. He spoke to the bees and said, "Go and sit there." There was a noise as if the bees were going to attack all the workers. But then they took their belongings, wrapped cloth around their legs respectfully, and settled on the other corner. They built their beehive there. After three days, they took their eggs and sucked all the honey. They did not leave even one drop for us, except the wax. So, there is a mantra for animals too. Devpurījī could understand the language of animals. He had some dogs that were not always vegetarian. Devpurījī would tell them, "Go three kilometers away; there will be something for you, but then bathe in the water." And the dogs would do that. That is something. Well, the science of mantra is indescribable. You can learn it, but you must follow the discipline. You can drive a car, but you must follow the rules. If a truck is coming towards you and you are driving on the right side, but a truck is coming from the left, and you say, "My svar is not good, I must drive on the left side," you can die first and last. So it is said, if you do not follow the principles, if you do not follow the Guruvākyā (the Guru's word), then that wisdom will simply disappear from you, as if you never had it. For example, you dream at night of something beautiful. In the dream, you think, "I will tell my friends tomorrow." You wake up and know you had a dream. But suddenly, it disappears from your memory. You know you were dreaming. You know it was something good. But you cannot remember what it was. The same is true with Kriyā Anuṣṭhāna. The same is true with the Kriyās. When you give something away carelessly, you lose it. The other person will not get it, and you will no longer have it either. No writing, no recording—but many of you have done this. The result? You are practicing, but you are in circular traffic with no exit. The same is true with your mantra. That is why many things were not allowed to be written down. Not that they could not write, but they knew it would be misused, and then this wisdom would disappear completely. It would vanish entirely.