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Yoga and its integration into daily life are spreading around the world more and more. The speciality of "Yoga in Daily Life" is that everyone can find something for themselves, whatever they need. Yoga is yoga. Some speak of karma yoga, bhakti, rāja, jñāna, kriyā, or haṭha. But finally, we have to come to yoga, like bhakti yoga. So yoga is the center point. Many teachers, masters, or gurus have found some easier way according to their experiences. Their disciples then called that way of yoga after their masters. So "Yoga in Daily Life" is nothing but yoga itself. But how should we know the difference? So we gave it the name "Yoga in Daily Life." Of course, it has a meaning, very great meanings: for everyday life, what to do every day according to yogic principles. How should our day look, the day we spend? There are different levels of consciousness. The consciousness in nature: fish or water animals, birds, animals, humans. Similarly, human consciousness is more filtered or more clear. It means we are flexible; we can change our nature. For example, flowers do exactly what their dharma is, that's all. Like the lotus flower: in the morning when the dawn comes, it opens, and by sunset, it closes again. We humans understand our life, the dangers of life, the risk of the day, our actions, and so on. We know that every morning when you get up, and first you open your eyes, it means you now enter into this world again. You came from the dream to this world again. You came from very deep sleep back here. First of all, thanks to God that we can wake up; it's a big blessing. It is not in your hands to say, "I will wake up." It's not yours; it is in divine mercy. So when we wake up in the morning and we open our eyes, then in front of our eyes should be some beautiful vision, a beautiful picture. Let's say you open your eyes and see a window, a big window or a small window: the sun rising, mountains, nature, fruits, flowers, or a holy picture of the Gurudev, or any God, in which way you believe in God. Mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, your children, and so on. I remember one thing. As many of you know, I was the last child, the youngest one in the family. The youngest one is mostly spoiled by the brothers and sisters and everyone. I used to always sleep in my mother's bed, in my mother's room. Then I moved to the Gurujī, and when I used to come back home to see my parents, I slept near the mother always. I remember from my childhood when my mother got up—because I always used to sleep with the blanket on my face—she took the blanket away and looked at me, and then she closed it and she went. I asked her, "Why do you always wake me up?" She said, "No, I only want to see your face sleeping." For a mother, your mother is also happy when she sees you, or your husband. But mostly, the wife sees the husband's face because the wife gets up earlier than the husband. The husband is lazy, sleeping, and the wife has to get up to make coffee or tea. It is where you feel happiness. That first impression of the day should remain the whole day's happiness. On which side do you sleep? Left side, right side? I have always Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī, Devapurījī, and if the picture is a little far, I know where it is. I get up with closed eyes, and I look there, and then open my eyes and say, "Thank you for the Om Prabhudeep Niranjan Śabduk Bhanjan. All troubles should go away," and so on. You see, this is like that. It is a self-suggestion, a wish, and a divine impression that will come true. You wake up, look to Gurudev, and repeat your wish: my day should be happy, relaxed, protected, successful. Lord, guide my every step, each and every step, towards positive things. That I never make a wrong step, only to help all others. Good steps. That my steps lead me to safety and happiness, and not to accidents and bad things. My thoughts should always be full of love, understanding, kindness, and help. Full of help to others, all creatures. My senses should always function and be active to do something good in this world. And my words should be a prayer. My words should have sweetness, full of love. That my words should not hurt someone like a knife, but my words should be like honey, the nectar to all. This takes you half a minute to make a first impression and surrender. So this is the first instruction of yoga in daily life. It's beautiful, it's very beautiful. It should not be like this: you get up and say to your husband, "Good morning," and he's looking in the window. "Good morning," or your wife says good morning. You say, "What do you want again?" Yes, there is something, you know. Love is lost; everything is lost. When the brass bell has a crack, then there's no resonance inside. And when the milk is spoiled, butter is gone. From spoiled milk, you cannot gain the butter again. Beautiful, very good butter. On the top, a lot of kaimak. Yes, your kaimak is sitting still here. Long ago, in ex-Yugoslavia, my favorite one was kajmak. Gokurucha and paprikas, adhikas and what? Lasagna and baklava. Horses were young, you know, young body. And collected a lot, and still there is lying here. The cream is always on the top. So when milk is spoiled, there is no kaimak. There is no butter. When the candle flame is burning and the wind blows it off, where has the flame disappeared? The room's windows closed, door closed, everything is closed. But where has the flame disappeared? Similarly, when love is gone, something happens in your heart, Manphata. Your in-heart, your mind, your feeling is like spoiled milk, where love has disappeared. And where there is no love, you have nothing to search there. So we shall pray to God to protect our mutual understanding and that love. Love is life. Without love, everything is ugly. Even this table needs love. If you don't clean it for one or two days, there's a lot of dust. So the day begins full of love, divine love: a love of God, the beauty, the nature, the relations, the mother, the father, the masters, God, the devotees. Yes, the second thought: you have to get up from your bed, true? You cannot be fluttering in the kitchen without getting off from the bed. You say, "Ooh, coffee machine," like astronauts in the aeroplane. We cannot levitate still, so we can. Thanks to God that we can get up, we are healthy, we wake up, and life is in the body. We can move, we can open our eyes, we can speak, and we can get up. There are some people who can't even move. So we stand on where? In every language, it doesn't matter which language of the world, and it doesn't matter which culture of the world, we call Mother Earth. In Serbian or in Bosnian, or any other language, do you say Father Earth? No, we don't. We don't even know the father. We know only the mother, no, Mother Earth. Now you are going to step on her? What a naughty boy! You step on your mother, and look how much Mother is enduring. She doesn't say, "Don't step on me." Did you ever think of Mother Earth? Therefore, before you step down from the bed, you should say, "Mother, allow me to give me the solid place under my foot and carry me around with your love, mother. Love that I never do something wrong to you, oh mother." And if we will be so thinking, then no one will pollute this planet if you will respect like that. Yes, you have to respect a lot. You have to respect this earth as you respect your mother. But nowadays, who is respecting mother? Because the mother had no time for the children. Children are growing up with the babysitter. And father, of course, has no time. He is all the time in meetings. And children have no time even with the father for eating. That's it. So, respect Mother Nature means flowers, vegetation, fruits, grain, bread. Bread is holy. We share the bread. Then we come to the bathroom, to the water. Did you ever say, "Thank you, God, for the water element"? How clean it is, how beautiful it is, how gentle it is, how nice it is, cool, warm. Can we imagine our life without water? Vodha Jīvata. Water is life. We have mostly in our body the water element, and in the Vedas, in the Upaniṣads, in the Indian scriptures, it is said: where there is water, there is God; where there is God, there is life; and where there is life, there is God. The Lord of this planet, God, is there where the water is, and where there is water, there is life. So from tomorrow onward, or today onwards after this lecture, when you come to the bathroom and anywhere you touch the water, say, "Thank you, Lord. Beautiful, it's beautiful." Can you imagine? Clear, unbelievable, indescribable taste. This is the mother's milk, this is divine milk. This is the source of our life. Our life began with the water that came from the astral world, the salt descending with the water and wandering, traveling into the grains in the food, and the grain seeds traveling into the body of the father, the mother, the embryos, as a beautiful light, the seed. And that again preserved by beautiful water, and a bowl of the water. Egg inside, inside is this life, the beginning. That's a Viṣṇu. That seed is fire, Agni, and fire only can be kept in the water. And so Viṣṇu is a fire element, and through that heat, the whole ocean, the water is created on this planet, and that is a form of Viṣṇu, that is yourself, that seed. And that is residing in the navel. And from the navel, the embryo grows. And that embryo is called the lotus flower from the navel of Viṣṇu. You know Indian mythology? That Viṣṇu is residing in the ocean, and from his navel comes a beautiful lotus, and from this lotus, Brahmā is created. Brahmā is the knowledge, the guru, wisdom. So, from the navel, your navel to the mother's body, this is created. This flower, embryos like a flower, every day growing and growing, then unfoldment: the limbs of the body, hands, legs, head, ears. We wish to have a nice, little, beautiful ear, no? When we are in the mother's body, we say to God, "Please give me beautiful ears." Can you imagine that you are born with donkey's ears, then we go to the doctor to cut them? Can you imagine? God gave you the nose here. Yes, God is working, Mother Nature is working in our favor. And we don't touch that Mother God, Mother Nature. Prakṛti. Prakṛti and Puruṣa. Puruṣa is masculine, the consciousness. Prakṛti is the nature. Matter and consciousness. And so we touch the water. Oh, beautiful. And the fire. Oh, my God. What do you drink mostly in the morning? Hot coffee, hot tea, or when it's cold, then you take cold water. So, your day begins. You get up, greet everyone, happy, nice, and then stress yourself. Khāṭū Praṇām, Mahāprabhujī. And do your exercises, do your duty, do your work, pray according to your beliefs, and have a happy life. That's yoga in daily life. If you cannot dry the tears of others, then don't be the cause of the tears. It's not easy not to be the cause of the tears, but there are two kinds of tears: one is out of happiness, love, and one is out of the pain, disappointment. Someone is doing wrong to you. Someone is going to the court, making a court case. Someone is making bad thoughts, trying to damage your health, your family relations, your business, and so on. This is wrong. Great Saint Kabīr Dās said, "When I was born, people were happy, smiling, and I was crying. Where I am now, no child is crying. The child is thinking, 'Oh God, I thought there would be something better, but now here is...'" The nurse, and this injection, and my God, pulling me here and gushing. And I was so comfortable inside. Who knows? Inside is also not comfortable. Thanks to God that we are born. The world was happy, but I was crying. Do such deeds in this world. I will smile, and the world will cry for me, that how nice a person was who died. And if you are not nice, people will say, "Ah, thanks to God, that person died." So it is lifelong work, yoga in daily life, not only āsanas, prāṇāyāms, and relaxation. No, it is how you live, how you think. Do you have doubts? Do you have jealousy? Many, many things. This is not easy, but I'm sure you can manage, and you will manage to be happy in this world. Do something good, and for that we don't need anything. We don't need any tools. We don't need any supernatural power. If you have supernatural power, you are a very, very poor person, because you will have no time. Always, people will run behind you and say, "Can you make this miracle? Can you make this miracle?" Only one miracle we can do: we know how to eat, drink, and sleep. That's good, and the biggest miracle: we wake up, okay? And the second miracle that God gives us is good intellect, so that we don't do anything bad to others, mentally or physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, politically, financially, and so on, that we don't do bad to anyone, that we don't cheat anyone. Better to be cheated than to cheat. True. That person is the one who becomes a holy person. It's not that you need to do anything like this and like that, just be there, be good. This flower doesn't speak to us. This flower doesn't do anything for us. This flower never told you anything, but this flower is just here, present, and we give it the highest place. Did the flower say, "I want to sit near Swamijī on the table"? If this flower would have said, "I want to sit near Swamijī on the table," be sure it will not be here, so just be. That's it. I will be thy Gurudev, I will be thine. Yes, always. I will be there for you. So this flower doesn't need to work, doesn't need to go anywhere. It is just smiling and radiating the smell. Similarly, just live. So pure thoughts, pure actions, purity, the smell means the pure energy, positive energy. Who are you to judge someone? This morning, someone said, "Oh, he has a problem with that," when I said, "Shut up, you don't know anything. Don't put black karma on you." Of course, the person didn't like it when I said that, but after, the person realized, never judge like this. Never. Don't put a black spot on you. Great are they. Even if it is a negative, they will neutralize it. So if he has a problem with her, then your duty is to solve their problem, but not to judge them that he has a problem with her. Clear, so the two have a problem, and now the third problem is you are judging that they have a problem. So now you make the problem like more fire, petrol on it. So can you endure the pain of others? Can you endure and understand the conflict between others? Can you solve the conflict? That's it. All you can solve with mutual understanding and mutual, how to call it, not in business negotiation, but what they call it, political coalition. There is a picture Gandhijī gave, one picture. Maybe you have seen a picture. Did you see that picture? How can you say no? I didn't tell you which picture. It's an interesting thing, yes. There is a picture of both sides lying on some very nice, fresh grass. Fiddle. Grass for the animals. This side is about very nice grass. The farmer cuts it softly. Other side also. Between, there are two monkeys. And both monkeys were tied with one rope. They had one rope in this. One side of the rope was on the neck of the donkey, and the other side of the rope was on another donkey. Now this donkey wants to eat that, and the other one wants to eat this. They are pulling each other. But no one can eat. It's only one meter distance. One donkey gives the complete strength to go and eat. On the other side, complete strength, and going and eating. The donkey mind, they can't eat. Then they decided, both together, to come and eat together. Then they could eat, right? And so, this is a conflict. I want this, and on the other side, I want this. First, I will have. First, I will have. None of them can have. But if you come and join, both of you can have it. So mutual understanding, negotiation, clarity, love, forgiveness, kindness, and understanding can solve the conflict between two. But if you have conflict within thyself, then you create conflict outside. Then you have different visions, then you see different things. So what is within you comes outside of you. Think over before you think. Once again and again, analyze your thoughts. You mean good, that is another thing. But you didn't analyze the situation and the thoughts and qualities. That's it. So yoga in daily life means how to lead our life, that we come through, and we can do something good in the world. Rest. We will have the evening program. Now you have dinner time. Because I heard you didn't have lunch. But I heard, at the same time, you ate more than lunch. Yes, someone had drunk coffee and cake, and that fruit, and this and that. It was more than you would have eaten for dinner or lunch. But anyhow, that is a very good thing. God gave us also this system that we should eat, and that's why I wish you now all the best and a very good appetite. And you can write some questions this evening. Let's have a question and answer session, okay? So ask some questions, write them down on a piece of paper, and then we will answer your questions. And if you have no questions, then there will definitely be no answers, because a question invites the answer. Good appetite. Hari Om. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Sai. Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Sai. Dharam Samrat Satguru Swami Madhvānandjī Gurudev.