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What is meditation? Meditation is there where you are doing nothing. But when you do nothing, then you are doing this. That's it. So who here can meditate without nothing? You need guidance, but guidance can only come from one who has practiced. Meditation is there just to do your mantra and that's all—nothing else. No imagination, no thinking, no kriyās, no nothing. If any imagination comes, you say, "I don't want." No light, no darkness. If Mahāprabhujī appears, of course, tell, "Yes, Hari Oṃ." And if Swāmījī appears, then tell, "Please wait, Swāmījī, I'm meditating." So meditation, vṛttis, yoga—"chitta vṛtti nirodha"—this is the first step, Patañjali is saying. But that can only come, "ataḥ yogānuśāsanam," only if you make the discipline into your practices. So where is anuśāsan? Anuśāsan is discipline. And many, many, many, many things. Whole life is disciplined life. Then vṛttis can be controlled. But you have so many vṛttis. One who has so many vṛttis cannot meditate, and one who cannot meditate cannot have that realization. So clean vṛttis. Study Patañjali. Patañjali was a great, great yoga teacher. Just now I opened one mantra of Patañjali: "Draṣṭā dṛśimātraḥ śuddho'pi pratyayānupaśyaḥ." Only the cetanā, the Self, that is His form. And that is the nirākār, that is the meditation. That is ātmā cintan, that is ātmā, ātma tattva. And one who has this kind of vṛttis about ātma svarūpa, that is ever and everywhere pure, but still when you enter into your intellect, then you again create the vṛtti. So you become as a seer, the observer, but in reality that observer is the ātmā itself and it is pure, but this vṛtti makes that one again impure. So this is our thinking. This is now what you are thinking. That is your problem. And therefore, meditation—through meditation you can heal all your mental problems and even physical problems. So begin with one minute of meditation. Try one minute to be without vṛttis. And I can tell you, challenge you, all who are sitting here, long-year practitioners, you are not able to sit half a minute without vṛttis. If you can reach one minute in one year, it is a great progress. That one minute of meditation without vṛtti in cetanā will change completely in you. Become one. When the sun is shining, it doesn't matter how much darkness is using the force of darkness, but it doesn't come in. When the sun is shining, no matter how much darkness tries, it cannot penetrate it. Everything turns into light. Every vṛtti that comes to you is illuminated. And it becomes part of your meditation. And it will not be a theme. So we are very much half. So it is either all seeds—you should keep either complete seeds or squeeze the oil out. Don't just cut it half-half. Don't crush them just. Either take the oil out or leave it as it is, so that they can grow again. Half-scratched seeds will not grow. So we are half-scratched. Why? Because we think we are already yoga teachers and we are great. You are not. So learn, learn, learn, learn, and learn. Ask yourself: How much do you practice? How much discipline do you follow? How much do you think good about you? How much do you love yourself? Do you love your body? Or yourself. That's it. How much do you think about you? How kind are you to thyself? This is a subject for the yoga teacher as well as a yoga practitioner. And that's why we all came together. I don't know which karma you have in your life, which brought you to me. Otherwise, you will come to some other teacher and we will all say, "Very nice, very good, oh wonderful." But our Swāmījī is never satisfied. Always it's good, but. Good, but. So you are very good, perfect, beautiful. But I want to make out of you a big, shining diamond. And that is only if we will follow the disciplines, principles, Guru Vākyas, Guru Bhakti. Otherwise, whatever you do, it will not be successful.