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Blessings to all of you from Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Alagpurījī, and Gurujī. Also, to all dear brothers and sisters around the world who are with us now through the webcast. Our webcasting is very uplifting—spiritual, as well as for health and philosophical knowledge. All the bhaktas, devotees, practitioners of yoga and daily life, thousands of them around the world—and by now, it reaches over millions—are mostly here in this hall as Yoga in Daily Life teachers. For your information, I would mention that we have here our sister, Kṛpā Devī, from Spittal in the beautiful neighboring country of Slovenia, Austria. She is working on research, so I request Kṛpā Devī to come and inform us how many visitors we have through the webcast and YouTube. I request her to do it within five minutes. Thank you. In English, but not Austrian dialect. Hari Om to all of you here in the hall and around the world. The modern technique is a very good thing because it brings us very near and has many possibilities. I am working on YouTube; I think almost everybody knows about it. This is the possibility to see the webcasts, the Guruvākya—the speech of Svāmījī—in small videos with a maximum length of ten minutes. They are always the essence of a special topic. We have, until now, almost 600 videos uploaded. We have six different playlists with different topics: one playlist with almost one hundred bhajans, one with meditation, one with āsanas, and another with Holy Gurujī’s Living Wisdom series. Until now, we have more than 800,000 video views. We have been uploading videos on YouTube for two years, so the number is continuously counting. In about one or two months, we will reach one million video views. This, dear brothers and sisters, depends on you—on your frequency, interest, and visits to the Yoga in Daily Life YouTube channel. We have uploads almost every week, always something new and interesting. I hope everybody will join us on the Yoga in Daily Life YouTube channel. Thank you. And Svāmījī TV, of course. These videos on YouTube I can only do if the Svāmījī TV team is doing seva; they are the source from the live webcasts. Thank you. Danke, Gruzko. Auf Wiedersehen. Thank you, Kjellas, for your good information. Therefore, Yoga in Daily Life means a compact program. It is multi-activity, multi-information—from children’s programs to juniors and seniors, in prisons, blind schools, many schools and rehabilitation centers, as well as humanitarian and social work. Also helping wildlife, and especially in India where there is drought and no water, Yoga in Daily Life is helping to bring water to certain villages and for animals to drink. Also, for peace conferences and many other projects. So you are in the right place to join us. It always begins with a grassroots project, like the news of today: "Yoga in Daily Life News of Today. Dear Svāmījī, we collect donations for your house by selling flowers." It means for our projects and omaśams. These are the children: Ula, Ziva, David—can you read all these Slovenian names? They are small children selling small flowers from the meadow and collecting donations. Can you think of the idea? They are the agents of ideas, our children. Yes, there are many questions, and I ought to answer them. My question can be your question too, and my answer can be an answer for you too. But sometimes questions are not so satisfying, nor the answer. We should know this, and the color, time, and situation. This is the case for many of you. This question is not only from one person, I think, but from many people from the whole world. This problem is facing the whole world: what to do if you live in an environment with alcoholics? The answer: don’t begin to drink. Protect yourself. And if you have influence, then slowly, slowly give them treatment so that they will give up drinking alcohol. Unfortunately, everywhere you go, people are pouring alcohol on you. In airplanes, especially, they prohibited smoking—good. Now, in airplanes, not all consume alcohol, meat, and fish. So, for a vegetarian and non-alcoholic to sit so many hours in that airplane is a punishment. Many people begin to vomit; they come out, and it takes them a few days to recover. You will not die if you don’t eat meat or drink alcohol for two, three, or a few hours. So, all dear listeners around the world and you people all, write to all the airlines and the World Health Organization to ban or prohibit meat, fish, and alcohol in airplanes. If they prohibit smoking, then they should do this too. Thank you. Hvala. There is a question from someone who would like to have a Frāhertī diet. I would like to clarify what the Flaherty diet means. There are two kinds of flattery—three. First, Flaherty diet: "Fla" means fruits, only fruits—all kinds of fruits except banana. Second, the flowery with the milk production. Third, for health reasons. Fourth can be a raw diet. So there are some flahārī who don’t eat any kind of grain: no wheat, no rice, no corn, no barley, and no salt. But they are consuming pomfret and they are consuming milk. Here, without rice, they are consuming the halva from different kinds of sources, not from the corns. They take a lot of milk and paneers. So it’s not a real flahārī. The third, the raw diet, is only eating raw fruits and nuts, vegetables. If I’m not mistaken, I think they also use honey. Many of them don’t use dairy products. Now in Yoga in Daily Life, we have a light diet mainly for good health, and this should be done only by people who are overweight. Those who are underweight should not do it; for them, eat as much as you can. You are free to eat, but only vegetables and fruits. Quit meat—that’s all—and grains. No potatoes, no bananas, and no milk products or dairy products. But you can have milk in your coffee or tea. You can have one cup of yogurt per day. Pregnant women should not do a flowery diet. You may eat 10 to 20 nuts a day; that’s all. A question came: can a flowery eat tofu? No. Can a flower eat corn? No. Can a flower eat quinoa? What is quinoa? It’s a kind of grain. No. Can a flowery eat barley? No. Can a flower eat ghee? Never. So you can eat vegetables, cooked, boiled, with spices, little salt. You can put oil or one teaspoon of ghee after the vegetable is boiled or cooked on it. Cut the carrots long and make nice chutney. So, whenever you feel that your jaw muscles need something to bite, then dip the carrot in the sauce and enjoy. Very tasty. It will do great help for your body. You will get kāya kalpa. "I have cancer." There is a question about someone who has cancer and is advised to eat fruits, vegetables, and juice. Can I eat the nuts? Not one kilo a day—25 grams a day. Where will I get, where will my body get proteins and fats? Don’t worry. The elephant doesn’t eat the nuts and fat. He gains everything from vegetables, so don’t worry about fat. Ask how to reduce the fat—that is a good question. Okay? So the body takes care of itself. Hari Om. "Why were these last two years in Strylki not an instruction seminar?" Thank you. Ask Strylki, not me. There is one question about pedagogical education in school and college for children. It is a horrible thing, and he or she does not accept this. It’s a teacher, I think, no? Teacher. If you are a professor or teacher, then change the job. Go to other faculties, other places, and write this to your government: President, Prime Minister, and Health Minister. I agree with you, but I am not entitled to help you in this way. Therefore, either you change the job, or you write to the government. They can do something. I’m sorry for that. Now, everyone cannot write the questions. Maybe someone has a question; please feel free to ask. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Yes, that was a very good question: banana and potatoes. Banana has a lot of nutrition, potassium and many other things. But when you eat flahārī, then you have more hunger and begin to eat three, four, five bananas. Then again, your body will gain the kilos. But if you eat one banana a day, it’s okay. The potato is the same thing. We are all potato masters. The potato made an easy life for people: quickly cutting, quickly frying, eating. So when we consume a lot of potatoes because they taste nice, then again we are expanding. But if you keep it limited, then of course you can eat. If someone has a problem gaining kilos… You know, some are manufacturing and some are consuming. Somebody has such a nature: only looking to the food, body expanding. So we are the manufacturer. And there are some consumers who eat and eat, but they are still like this. Very often, questions ask me—mostly the ladies—"My husband is so thin. Please, can you give some diet so that he becomes a little stronger?" The real story, I tell you: I told her, your husband, before going to sleep, give him a big glass of milk, two tablespoons of honey inside, and three bananas. She said, "It’s done." So she gave him this. Within four months, he overtook her. Then she came to me, "Svāmījī, please, how to reduce his kilos? Now he’s taking it, growing and growing." I said, "Stop the banana." "I stopped already one month." She stopped it one month already, but still she’s fighting, and he’s fighting that he will lose the kilos, but constantly he’s heavy. So, people who can’t gain the kilos and would like to have more kilos, then this is a therapy. Yes, "What would be your advice for using the spices for children, the one that you described in the morning?" Well, as long as a child is breastfeeding, it is getting the spices automatically from what the mother eats. When the child begins to take solid food, then don’t give anything hot like chili. But you can put some mild spices, like parsley leaves, carrot juice. Then you call them on the softer things. Okay. "If you don’t have enough iron in your blood, what would be the advice for the kind of food? What kind of food should you eat?" Yes, that was a good question. Seaweed, algae—what they call spirulina—and eat these black poppy seeds, about 50 grams a day, and one glass, half glass of carrot juice, some different roots juice. There is a special pot, an iron pot made of raw iron; cooking in that is very good and gives you iron. There was something more I’ve suddenly forgotten. Yes, there are some apples; when you cut them, they become brown. These are from old apple trees—the old kind of apples. They have a lot of iron. When you cut and put it in the plate, after five minutes it’s brown; that is the iron when it comes in contact with oxygen. And what we call bāṅgan, the melanzani, eggplants—there are two kinds also. One is when you cut and put it, keep it a few minutes, it becomes brown inside. That has a lot of iron inside. That’s it. Yes, "What is your suggestion? How long should a mother breastfeed the child?" Normally, it is said when the child begins to get teeth—seven, eight months at least, or one year. Is it okay for two years? Yes, it’s my case. Till I was five years, I wanted to drink from my mother. So I was the lucky one who drank a lot. No problem. But after one year, ten months, you should give solid food: nicely cooked rice, make it paste, a little milk, and so on. Yes. Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa Nā... Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Deep Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Deep Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Satya Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Satya Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Ajman Narayan Narayan... Ajman Narayan Narayan... Life is beautiful. Life is divine. The life which God gave us is great. But at the same time, for many people, life is a struggle. Life is hard. Why? Because we do not have the strength to endure and digest certain circumstances in this world. Life is struggling, meaning that we do not have a limitation of our desires. Our wishes are too much, and a wish is also a kind of feeding your brain, your emotion, your intellect. If a wish comes true, it becomes a burden for you. If a wish doesn’t come true, it becomes a sad subject for you. Therefore, God Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā, "Arjuna, before doing any karma (action), know the form of your deeds." When you know the form of your deeds, or what kind of karma you are doing, then your viveka will show you a clear picture of what the result of this will be. Then your viveka makes you alert, and you will decide if you will do it or not. Sometimes we wish, and the wish comes true, and then you don’t know what to do with this wish. If you deny, it’s bad for you. If you accept, it’s bad for you. So it is said there is a kind of mouse which is very long and has a long mouth. Mistakenly, when the snake catches that mouse, immediately the snake realizes, "Oh God! What to do now?" Because if he swallows the mouse, the snake will die. And if he lets it free, the snake will become blind. Because, while leaving him free, the mouse puts out such gases that immediately the snake will be blind. That is the situation many of you have. Mostly, those who go through Facebook: you catch such a mouse, so now you can’t swallow it, and you can’t free it. At that time, the snake is searching for water. He dives in the water, and then he leaves the mouse out. So he’s saved. Satsaṅg is that water; you dive in the ocean of wisdom, and you spit out your old wishes. Wish means poison. So, many situations in life, when we wish, it can become trouble. You know the one story about a snake; I told it several times. But similarly, there is another story. In the desert, one man was traveling—sand and sand. He had to go 60 kilometers to visit someone on foot. They are strong; they are not spoiled like us. To get one liter of milk from the shop half a kilometer away, you take your car. Then you are angry because milk costs ten cents more, but you are not angry about how much petrol you used. So we are spoiled, spoiled. We have no physical condition. So that man took his lunch pocket with him, and in the morning when dawn began to rise, he started his journey at four o’clock. Until eleven, he walked nearly 25 to 30 kilometers. Hot, no water, no shadow. Suddenly, he sees, one kilometer distance, a beautiful green tree—a banyan tree, which gives a lot of shade. Millions of creatures are living in this tree, from very small to the big birds, many ants and many insects. That tree is a shelter for many creatures. The man was happy, "Oh, beautiful tree." He walked there. Beautiful sand, very gentle, clean sand. Outside, the temperature is nearly 50 degrees. Under the tree, there was a one-degree difference, but for him, even one degree was nice and cool. Our ancestors said, our grandfather and mother said: when it’s hot weather, wear long and loose dresses. Because anyhow, when it’s warm, you will be sweating a little bit. But this cotton cloth is covering your body, and it is loose and nice. Wind blows through it; it’s a natural air conditioner. When you have tight jeans, wind can’t blow through. Now it’s completely opposite, especially the ladies. When it’s 25 degrees, they have nearly nothing on. No, when it’s hot and sunny, take a long dress. In this pollution—physical pollution, cars and industries—to have your skin open is not good. So the elderly people, when they see young people running with short trousers and a short shirt, half naked, they say, "Oh God, this person doesn’t know how to protect the body." You are bombarded by many advertisers, posters. In hot climates, like in the Sahara, the Middle East, India, China, people have a long dress. Why do the ladies have these veils? It’s not that they have to hide; it was to protect from sun and rain. There are also people who cover their face with a turban and ride camels—what do you call them? Bedouins. They can sit completely naked on the camel, nobody sees them, but they know that’s not healthy. That’s it. So that man saw a beautiful banyan tree and walked under it. The shadow was about 40 meters in diameter—a big tree. He said, "Oh, thanks to God, nice and cool." And it became nice and cool. He opened his eating and thought, "I’ve forgotten to take water with me. It would be very nice to have some nice, cold water." Suddenly came a very nice cold bottle, full of water, cold in one pot. He said, "Oh, miracle." He drank cool water. "But this eating, what I have, it would be fresh, would taste double if it were warm." So he took one bite, and with the second bite, he sees a whole beautiful plate with a fresh, warm meal. He said, "Oh, it must be some siddhi I have." So he ate. Now he said it would be good to have a little rest—a nice bed. Suddenly he finds himself on a beautiful bed. "And a cool breeze would be nice, like an air conditioner." Suddenly, cool air came. He rested ten minutes, then said, "Now, best be good, good kava, the coffee." But he said, "It’s stupid. From where will coffee come?" And he saw a beautiful cup and plate coming, full of coffee with cream on it. He drank the coffee. Then he said, "There is no village, no people. From where does all this come?" He lay down again, relaxing. "Maybe there is some ghost in this tree, maybe a ghost." And he sees a ghost sitting on the tree. He was paralyzed on the bed. This ghost will kill me—and the ghost killed him. Finished. That is called kalpa vṛkṣa. Vṛkṣa means the tree, and kalpa means whatever you wish comes true—whatever you wish, but only under this tree. If you go one meter out of this, then no wish is fulfilled. So this life is, this world is, an endless desert. And this human body is that tree which fulfills all wishes. And this mind is the traveler, and mind has so many wishes. You fulfill and fulfill, but it is your wish that will kill you one day. Therefore, without using viveka, if you wish for something, that can make trouble for you. That’s why it’s called that life is a struggle. Life is dangerous. Therefore, God gave human life to protect all and to protect yourself. Love every creature. Tomorrow you will hear in the lecture about the fighting between two devas and asuras. Do you remember? This morning we made one test about memory. Who had the best memory? You judge yourself. There is no one to be judged, and we know who failed. Similarly, tomorrow you will judge if you are a member of the Asuras or Devas. Who am I to judge you? You will judge yourself.