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The Guru-mantra is always best, and the Guru-mantra is known as the bīja-mantra. This bīja-mantra is that which will purify all karmas and awaken our consciousness to the endless universal one. Do not try to shorten your mantra. Some people are only repeating, "Om Gurudev, Gurudev." This is not correct. I mean, you can repeat it; it is okay, it is Mahāprabhujī’s name. But you are given a complete mantra, and therefore, it should be repeated in its complete form. Anuṣṭhāna is done with a saṅkalpa, an intention. There are two kinds of saṅkalpa: a material saṅkalpa and a spiritual saṅkalpa. Through the anuṣṭhāna, the saṅkalpa will come true. But you cannot make twenty saṅkalpas for three days a month. Therefore, you should know what your saṅkalpa is, which you think is best for you, after all. That is very important. The mantra, as many of you know, has many levels of practicing. Unless you practice systematically, there will be no success. It is not that you have a mantra and your master blessed you and that is all. Therefore, in yoga, it is advised to achieve the fifth level of the mantra. The yogī who advised these five techniques must have had some experiences and sense in it. Everything that is done has been researched. Všechno, co děláme, prošlo výzkumem, and it has been agreed upon by all. Therefore, the first step of the mantra, after you have received it and gotten initiation, is called Likhita Mantra. It is called Akṣara Brahma. The Brahman, the Supreme One, is in the form of these letters. These letters are Sanskrit letters. They are not only man-made letters; these are letters which appeared in meditation. Every form of the letter has spiritual meaning; it represents a particular deity or element. Therefore, each alphabet has its own meaning, and so it is called Akṣara Brahma. Each syllable has a connection to the inner organs and psychic centers, the cakras. These chakras and energy centers are very important for our well-being: first of all, physical, then mental, emotional, and intellectual. This is called sound, the nāda, the resonance. It is a very fine resonance which you can hardly feel, but it is there. Through this resonance, our certain organs and all the tissues in the body are nourished. When those tissues are not able to get this resonance, then what we call the cells die—the dead cells in the body. When this resonance is reduced, then death comes. Old age means that your body is not able to receive this resonance. Too many karmas, too many things you have caused in your life; you didn't use your body, but you abused your body. Therefore, your body is no longer capable of resisting or living long. So if we practice Nāda Yoga and Svara Yoga—and Svara Yoga is the flow through the particular nerves, the Nāḍī system, to let this very fine resonance flow through the nerve systems—it supplies energy in the form of resonance to the organs of the body. That is why every chakra has its bīja mantra; these are the particular resonance of that area of the body. That part of the body which is ill means there is some blockage in the resonance. As many Sanskrit alphabets there are, that many petals are in the chakras, in all the chakras. That many petals are in every chakra, and each chakra is connected with a particular resonance. So this is the science of mantra, both within you and outside of you. So, Likhita Mantra: Akṣara Brahma. The letter is Brahman itself. Then comes Vācik Mantra, that means loud sound. That sound, which you have written, you are now listening to inside. It is said that painting can be made as music, and music can be painted. So you have to chant. You have to chant your mantra a few times a day, and that will keep your spiritual development. That is very important: the sound and the form. The sound and form are united with energy, and that energy is then produced when you listen to the resonance of what you were chanting within you. It means now it will activate your energy centers in the body. When energy centers are activated in the body, then peace of mind and concentration are realized: good health, peace of mind, and concentration. At that time, the fourth level of the mantra is called Mānasik. So the first was likhit (writing), the second is vācik (chanting), the third is chanting inside. So, from bahirmukh to become antarmukh—from extroverted, you bring your sound to the inverted. And then, when peace of mind is there, you repeat mentally with your mālā. But it must be the complete mantra. Many people have done wrong things. You develop one summary, and you are repeating a small mantra like this. I am surprised: I give you such a long mantra, and how could you do like this? Even now they are listening to my lecture and doing like this. You see? So good things we can also do the wrong way. Therefore, the complete mantra. When you are doing it quickly, quickly, you are not aware of the mantra. The mantra is not complete, and it does not then influence your entire being. If you will repeat the complete mantra and cross one bead, then you will realize how much energy and concentration you need. So, by listening to my lecture, it is very hard for you now to repeat the complete mantra and cross one bead. What does it mean? It means that you are not practiced. So, let us begin again anew. Think that you received mantra dīkṣā today. Because you have been practicing for so many years—where is your mental peace? You have so many vṛttis. You have so much anger. You have so many egos. All that one sees. That is not a result, and if this is a result of yoga and daily life, my God, that is terrible. But this is a result of your wrong practicing. When you will practice your whole mantra all the time—mentally, in meditation, prāṇāyāma, walking—but not fixed, not fixed on it. When you overtake a car while driving, after overtaking you must come back to the right side. But you say, "I repeat my mantra once more, and then I go on the right side." That is too late. Every second has its meaning. Therefore, practice, but with a relaxed body, a relaxed mind, without stress, without fear, without doubts. Then you will come to the ajapa. Mahāprabhujī said, "Ajapa jisko kya japa mīn japa jai hoi." When you achieve the level of the ajapa, then what do you need anymore to repeat? Because without your repeating... victory is there. And when you will get ajapa, then you will practice more. So now, when you achieve the fifth level of the practice and you make a perfection of the fifth level of the mantra, když dosáhnete toho pátého stupně úspěšná. Otherwise, you think, "I make five mālās, and I should pass my examination." I doubt. Psychologically, okay, but achieve something in your life. So many years you have dedicated yourself to a spiritual path, and you have inside the longing for that; you have this spiritual tendency within you. But there are a few stupid things on the surface of your mind, and that made you like this. The person who is spiritual develops a completely other radiance. And who falls down is completely different, like a lemon which is sucked out—no radiance. So when spirituality is there, humbleness comes. Kindness comes. Understanding comes, and friendship comes, brotherhood comes, love comes. All beautiful things radiate from you. Not that someone is kind to you—forget it that someone will be kind to you. Why should they be kind to you? But within you is such a kindness, then automatically all will be kind to you. And all people whom you think are your best friends, after some time, they will disappear. I tell you one story which I told you many times about that old man. He was a director of one big company; about 800 people were working under him, or more. He had two cars from his business, one his private car, three houses, and many friends. He never had an evening free; every day he got an invitation somewhere. He had one daughter and one wife, and he became now 80 years old. And no friends were there. The wife died. Daughter went away somewhere. Don’t know what happened to cars? Who’s living in the house? He was pushed into the old home, and not a single friend came to visit him and say, "How are you, my friend?" That’s it. He’s very sad. These are your friends in this modern time. It’s not easy to make a friend. Be happy if you have one friend who will accompany you until the last day of your life. But you don’t have it like that, even your husband or your wife. You don’t know if tomorrow he or she will say, "I’m sorry, we don’t understand, and we will divorce now." Therefore, don’t think now, when you are very young, that everything is there. Think of days when after will come. Therefore, it is said, "Sabdhin hotan ek shaman." Every day is not equal, day. And sābhin śvaran din, every day is a golden day. Every day is a golden day for a saint, for a spiritual person. And who falls into the worldly affairs again? Every day is a different day. So your spiritual practice should awaken within you those beautiful talents, beautiful energies. It is only one energy, but has more functions. For one who needs kindness, this energy is a kindness. Who needs the love? This energy is for the person who is like love. Who needs happiness? This energy is for the person who is like happiness. For example, there is one elderly lady. One man says, "She is my wife." A second says, "She is my daughter." A third says, "She is my mother." A fourth says, "She is my sister." A fifth says she’s my neighbor. A sixth says she’s my grandmother. You see, it’s only one lady. How she’s acting is a miracle. She is, at the same time, a daughter and wife and mother and sister and friend and neighbor and colleague. In one moment, at once, she is a mother, a daughter, a grandmother. There’s no one else who will change you. They cannot give an injection or medicine that will change you. They can talk to you and tell you something. But inwardly, you have to change. You have to change your ego. You have to change your wrong ideas and expectations. This is always the most harmful for the spiritual aspirants: "I am a mother, I am a sister, I am the husband." Where are you going? Oh my God, this "I"—I am director, I am manager, I am the boss—this "I" is the most dangerous thing for humans. Therefore, it is said, within you is the ocean of bliss. Within you is the fountain of joy. Within you is the immortal one. Kill this little "I" and lead a divine life. So there is this "I." Either it is "I" or the divine. And so, mantra, you should begin to repeat again the complete mantra.