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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, and practitioners of yoga in daily life, thousands around the world (and by now, millions) are with us. Most of you here in this hall are Yoga in Daily Life teachers. For your information, I would mention 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 so within five minutes. Thank you. [Kṛpā Devī speaks:] Harjom to all of you here in the hall and around the world. Modern technology 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 platform allows you to see webcasts and Guruvākya—the speech of Svāmījī—in small videos with a maximum length of 10 minutes, each the essence of a special topic. We have uploaded almost 600 videos so far. We have six different playlists on various topics: one with nearly one hundred bhajans, one with meditation, one with āsanas, and another with Holy Gurujī's Living Wisdom series. Until now, we have had more than 800,000 video views. We have been uploading videos on YouTube for two years, and the number is continuously growing. 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 upload almost every week, always something new and interesting. I hope all of you will join us on the Yoga in Daily Life YouTube channel. Thank you. And Svāmījī TV, of course. These videos on YouTube are only possible because the Svāmījī TV team performs seva; they are the source, as the videos come from the live webcasts. Svāmījī TV skupini, ki izdelujete videje za Svāmījī TV. Od tukaj potem vzamemo in jih naložimo na YouTube. Thank you. Danke, Gruzko. Auf Wiedersehen. [Svāmījī resumes:] Thank you, Kjellas, for your good information. Hvala, Kjellas, za dobre informacije. Therefore, Yoga in Daily Life means a compact program. It is multi-activity and multi-information, ranging from children's programs to juniors and seniors, and extending into prisons, blind schools, many schools, rehabilitation centers, humanitarian and social work. We also help wildlife, and especially in India where there is drought and no water, Yoga in Daily Life helps bring water to certain villages and for animals to drink. We are involved in peace conferences and many other projects. So you are in the right place to join us. It always begins with a grassroots project, like today's news: "Yoga in Daily Life News of Today." Dear Svāmījī, we collect donations for your house by selling flowers—meaning for our projects and omaśams. These are the children: Ula, Ziva, David... can you read all these Slovenian names? They are small children selling little 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 are the answers. We should know the color, time, and situation. This is the case for many of you; this question is not only from one person but from many people around the 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. If you have influence, then slowly, slowly give them treatment so they will give up drinking alcohol. Unfortunately, everywhere you go, people are pouring alcohol on you. On airplanes, especially, they prohibited smoking—good. Now, not all consume alcohol, meat, and fish on airplanes. 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 on airplanes. Zato vas prosim, dragi poslušalci, tukaj in po celem svetu, pišite letalskim družbam, da bi prepovedale meso in alkohol. If they prohibited smoking, then they should do this too. Če so prepovedale kajenje, potem bi morale tudi to. 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, three. First, Flaherty diet: "Fla" means fruits, only fruits—all kinds except banana. Second, the flowery with 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 milk. Here, without rice, they are consuming halva from different kinds of sources, not from corns. They take a lot of milk and paneer. So it's not a real flahārī. The third, the raw diet, is only eating raw fruits, nuts, and 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 flowery eat corn? No. Can a flowery eat quinoa? What is quinoa? It's a kind of grain. No. Can a flowery eat barley? No. Can a flowery eat ghee? Never. So you can eat vegetables, cooked or boiled, with spices and a little salt. You can put oil or one teaspoon of ghee on the vegetable after it is boiled or cooked. Cut carrots long and make nice chutney. Whenever you feel 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 nuts? Not one kilo a day—25 grams a day. Where will my body get proteins and fats? Don't worry. The elephant doesn't eat 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. 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 a question about pedagogical education in school and college for children. It is a horrible thing, and he or she does not accept this. Are you a teacher? If you are a professor or teacher, then change the job. Go to other faculties, other places, and write to your government—the President, Prime Minister, and Health Minister. I agree with you, but I am not entitled to help you in this way. Therefore, either change the job or 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, 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, you have more hunger and begin to eat three, four, five bananas. Then your body will gain kilos. 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. When we consume a lot of potatoes because they taste nice, we expand again. But if you keep it limited, then of course you can eat. If someone has a problem gaining kilos... You know, some are manufacturers and some are consumers. Somebody has such a nature: only looking at food, the body expands. So we are the manufacturer. And there are some consumers who eat and eat but remain thin. Very often, questions ask me—mostly from ladies—"My husband is so thin. Please, can you give some diet so he becomes a little stronger?" The real story I tell you: I told her, before going to sleep, give him a big glass of milk with two tablespoons of honey inside and three bananas. She said, "It's done." 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 growing and growing." I said, "Stop the banana." She stopped it one month already, but still she's fighting, and he's fighting to lose the kilos, but constantly he's heavy. So, for people who can't gain kilos and would like to have more, this is a therapy. Yes, "What would be your advice for using spices for children, the ones you described in the morning?" 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, don't give anything hot like chili. You can put some mild spices, like parsley leaves, carrot juice. Introduce them to softer things. Okay. "If you don't have enough iron in your blood, what would be the advice for the kind of food?" Yes, that was a good question. Seaweed, algae—what they call spirulina—and eat 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, and they have a lot of iron. When you cut and put it on a plate, after five minutes it's brown—that is the iron coming in contact with oxygen. And what we call bāṅgan, the melanzani or eggplants: there are two kinds. One, when you cut and keep it a few minutes, becomes brown inside. That has a lot of iron. 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 made into a paste, a little milk, and so on. Yes, Śrīmān Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Śrīman Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa Nā... Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... Deep Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... ... Satya Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Satya Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa Nārāyaṇa... ... 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 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 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 it. 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 a 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 releases certain chemicals, immediately blinding the snake. Če pa Jokača spusti, pa bo ta miš oddala neke določene kemikalije, zaradi katerih bo Bokača oslepela. Many of you have this situation, 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 mouse is searching for water—the snake, sorry. And he dives in the water and then leaves the mouse out. So he's saved. Satsaṅg is that water; you dive in the ocean of wisdom and spit out your old wishes. A wish means poison. So many situations in life, when we wish, it can become trouble. You know the story about a snake I told 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 and then are angry because milk costs ten cents more, but not angry about how much petrol you used. So we are spoiled and have no physical condition. 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. By eleven, he walked nearly 25 to 30 kilometers. Hot, no water, no shadow. Suddenly, he sees one kilometer away a beautiful green tree, a banyan tree which gives a lot of shade. Millions of creatures live in this tree, from very small to big birds, many ants, insects, and many more. 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 was 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 sweat a little, but this cotton cloth covers your body, 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 with 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 from cars and industries—to have your skin open is not good. So elderly people, when they see young people running with short trousers and a short shirt, half naked, say, "Oh God, this person doesn't know how to protect the body." Moreover, you are bombarded by many advertisers and posters. In hot climates like the Sahara, the Middle East, India, and China, people wear long dresses. Why do ladies have 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 could 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." It became nice and cool. He opened his food and thought, "I've forgotten to take water with me. It would be very nice to have some nice, cold water." Suddenly, a very nice cold bottle, full of water, cold in one pot, appeared. He said, "Oh, miracle." He drank cool water, but the food was very cold. "This food I have would taste double if it were fresh." So he took one bite, and with the second bite, he saw 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 found himself on a beautiful bed. "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 a ghost in this tree." And he saw 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 tree, and kalpa means whatever you wish comes true—but only under this tree. If you go one meter out, no wish is fulfilled. So this life, this world, is an endless desert. And this human body is that tree which fulfills all wishes. And this mind is the traveler, and the 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 said 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.