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In this last year and a half, during my satsaṅg lectures, I have continually posed questions. Now, you must analyze yourself through meditation. What is the conflict within you? You can solve it, very easily you can solve it. But the problem is that you are not able to give up. You are bound—emotionally, culturally, by nationality, or by religion. You are bound by family ties, or your ego, your pride, does not want to let you surrender. This means the conflict is not in the world. Conflict is within you. That conflict is in me, and only I can solve that conflict. No one else. For that, we must learn to surrender. Give up the pride, give up the ego, give up those qualities which make you feel very big, while in your eyes, others are all small. That is a sin. Oh man, at least you should not make a difference between human and human. This kind of conflict can only be solved through prayer, through meditation, through inner dialogue. Have a dialogue within thyself. Therefore, now, do not only think about what it means to be a human for me, but you should think, "I am a human. I cannot do this. I have all the human qualities. I will establish peace, clarity, harmony, and oneness within myself." That will reflect outside. Otherwise, the greedy person who thinks only for oneself will never be successful in life. It is like a person who cannot speak but is eating ice cream. He cannot speak about how nice it is, but inside he is closed and very happy. But that ice cream may not be healthy for that person. Similarly, we do something and think others do not know. But you know what you did, what you are doing, and what the result will be. So, it is not that someone made a mistake, not that someone was shouting, no. Conflict begins in us. Bura jo dekhan ko chala, bura ne mila koi. I went to see in the world, to search for the bad one. I went to the world to look for someone who was bad, but I did not find anyone who was bad. But when I searched my inner self, I found I was the bad one. This is the meditation called self-inquiry. Self-inquiry, meditation, is to solve the inner conflict and the world’s conflicts. Therefore, be ready to accept critique and negativity. Yes, everybody will say, "Oh, beautiful! Oh, how nice! Oh, you are successful! Oh, you are the winner! Oh, you are the good champion! Oh, you are good in this school." That means feeding our ego. Our ego is getting more and more kilos, like a potato with good water and good fertilizer, growing under the ground. So we are full of ego, full of selfishness, and full of that attachment which we cannot give up, and which we think is good and we enjoy. It costs your blood. A hungry dog finds a dry bone and begins to bite through it. The bone is very hard and dry, but through this, the dog’s gums begin to bleed. The dog is sucking his own blood, but he thinks the taste is from the bone. He does not know it is from his gums. Similarly, that attachment which you think is you and you like it—that is the bone which you are holding in your mouth. Therefore, hat chod, mana. Chal, saṅga mere to ātmā gyāna vatāvatī. Therefore, Gurudev said, "Give up your fixed ideas and come with me. I will give you ātmā jñāna." We cannot have ātmā jñāna while we possess the qualities we have now. For that, again and again, we have to be born. To come from the astral world into this physical world is not in your hands. The decision lies with your destiny. The driving force is your destiny, and destiny is the result of your karma. Karma is the result of your desires. Desires are not only for eating and sex, but many desires: to have nice black hair, to go to the hairdresser every week to make it nice, black or blonde. But you know, after one week, the truth, the reality comes out. No, Shanti, beautiful reality comes out. Again we try to put color on it. How long will you put up with this? This is a desire. So desire means not only eating or sex. This is another last of the last of nature. But unnatural desires, like the desire for money. Money did not create Shiva. Shiva did not have a money printer. We made it to control human emotions. It is very clever, very nicely thought out, how to move humans to be creative. Therefore, money is just a piece of paper. But in such a way you cannot get more when you are trying; you will get only a little bit. Why? To make humans more active. But on the other hand, that money creates conflict in us, and that is a factor of that conflict. We went too far. We cannot control it. Similarly, desire is the cause of karma—you can call it ambition. The cause of karma is desire, and the cause of destiny is karma. The cause of this kind of life is our destiny. Again, we come to that root. It is not in your hands. After death, when you go somewhere—I do not know where you will go—but give me your address or telephone number, at least. I will give you my email. You cannot say, "I would like to be born again in beautiful Moravia." You cannot say, "I would like to be born somewhere in Moravia, where flows the honey and milk." Now flows the petrol and gas. And then you have to come to the mother’s body. It is not so pleasant. It is not so beautiful. Nine months in grab wash. Nine months in the mother’s body—for other creatures, it is a different time. Now, it depends on that with Haṭha. That creator, if he will give us healthy eyes or not. If he will give us a healthy nose or not, good ears, a good face, beautiful. Fingers five. Maybe that Prakṛti, Mother Nature, will give only till here. Then, you will always put it in your pocket to hide. Then you understand and thank Mother Nature. In nine months, you were given such a beautiful body. Everything is there: perfect canalization, ventilation, heating, central heating, and also air conditioning. Beautiful electric wires are inside. No engineer in this world, till today, who can give—make me—in nine months such a beautiful body and put a soul inside. And you say, "Ah, ah..." Ah, then we can only thank God that we will have a happy, comfortable, and good birth. Birth is also not easy, neither for you nor for the mother. Thank God that it is like this, yes. Mother and father can give you only birth, but not the destiny. And therefore it is said, "Vidātā, terī kalam kyō nahī rukī? O Vidātā, O my destiny, when you wrote my kismat, when you wrote my destiny, oh writer of the destiny, why did your pen not stop?" Through which situation do you have to go, my dear, to be happy? To be happy, how many times are you disappointed? How many times is your wife angry with you? Or how many times has your man been drunk and angry? Many, many families are unhappy because of alcohol. Children are growing up in fear. Parents are fighting because of alcohol. This situation you had, my dear, all... very, very difficult. What a life! Humans create such conflict. Humans are perfect beings to live on this planet like a divine self, like God Himself, just to distribute love, light and love. You are an incarnation of love. You are not an incarnation of holding guns and shooting people. You are not born to make beautiful guns and weapons to kill creatures and humans. Too far. We went too far. Therefore, world peace and inner conflict—to solve the inner conflict is the way to world peace. And therefore, meditation. How am I, not who am I? What is in me? How many times do I protect my feelings? How many times do I lie? You know, when you ask a person a question and they are lying, you can see it directly in their eyeballs because they are not steady. Psychologically, they either go like this or like that, or the head goes like this, so you can understand in the answer whether it is truth or a lie. Therefore, these conflicts were there all the time. The great sages also went through many conflicts and difficulties, so they tried very hard to find some word. And all that the ṛṣis gave us, the words, they are without title, unchangeable. Peace. You do not want to add any title for peace. Just peace. Love. Does love have a title? In the friend and back? Dr. Love? A professor’s goal is to love, to be happy. They put such words like beautiful, precious stones, jewels, sparkling, shiny: love, happiness, contentment, freedom. All are, by birth, the rights of all creatures, not only this one. Meditation is the way to that part.