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My adoration to the cosmic light, Lord of our heart, omniscient and omnipresent. In His cosmic light and in His divine presence, my dear brothers and sisters, I greet you and welcome you here this evening. You had to wait for a few minutes; I am sorry for that. It is my first time in your beautiful place, though I have known friends from this city for many, many years. Now I am here and happy to be here, thank you. You have heard before that our mission in this world is to bring peace, harmony, and love among humans and God's creatures. We shall learn to respect each other, and we shall learn to respect God's creatures. Then it will be possible for us to have peace in our heart, peace in our mind, in our family, in our society, in our country, and in the world. We know that fighting cannot bring peace. With weapons, with guns, you cannot bring peace. But with flowers and with love, you can bring peace to the world. In the last centuries, millions of people were killed, millions of children were killed. After these two terrible wars, the First and Second World War, until now in this half of the century, more than thirty million children have been victims of war still. Many ladies were the victims of the wars, and, of course, all our young men died in the wars. Day by day, weapons are created. With which consciousness do we create the weapon? Because we want to kill, we want to defeat. If you kill someone and then you declare that is your victory, that is not your victory, that is your loss. You have killed yourself. You did not understand God's message. God says you should live in harmony. Thou shall not kill. Be kind, be humble, love all, love your neighbor. If we will not follow the words of God, then we will suffer all the time. But why are we fighting? For what? Nothing belongs to us. The wise man, the yogīs, they said nothing belongs to us. Everything is temporary. Even your body does not belong to you. This body is given to you just for some years, and we have only two days of life. Not longer, only two days. Which are these? One day was yesterday, and the second day is today. We do not know about tomorrow, and no one has seen tomorrow. Tomorrow will never come in our life. Past is past, future will always be future, and presence is presence. So be conscious, be aware of your present situation. The house does not belong to you. The country does not belong to you. Jewelry, your money, and your companies do not belong to you. One day, we will pass away. Under the earth will be the body. What will you take with you? Your money? Your house? Your property? Your parents? Your wife? Nothing. Even this body will not go with you. For what are we fighting? That is ignorance. Hate and ignorance divide, and love unites. Take today this vow, the Saṅkalpa, that you will work for peace in the world. First, create peace in your heart and in your mind. What has happened has happened. We shall forgive them. If you understand the words of God, Jesus said, "Father, forgive them." Can you also forgive? Yes, yes. Maybe we will forgive, but we will... Do not forget what happened to our family, what happened to your country recently. You may forgive, but you cannot forget. But still, we should not fight anymore. Think of your children and think of yourself. Why are we fighting? We are fighting because we want to have power and we want to have position, but for what? Even if you are a president of the country, one day you will die. You are a president of the country; one day, your chair will be empty. This is a temporary power, a temporary position. We have to create the inner certification. For inner certification, we have to get a motivation in our life: who am I? I am not this body. I am not this mind. I am not this intellect. I am not this emotion. I am not this consciousness. Then what am I? You said my body, my consciousness, my intellect, my feelings, my emotion, my temperament. So, who is it? Who is saying, "Always I am, and my—this is my dress"? This dress is not Swamiji. So, who are you? This is the burning question. If you know who you are, you know God. Know everything, therefore it is said, "Know thyself." If you know thyself, you know everything, and if you do not know yourself, you do not know anything. This knowledge and intellect which we have is very limited, maximum till the death, then everything is lost. A doctor will not be born again as a doctor, but if you have spiritual knowledge, then that knowledge will go with you. The great Śaṅkarācārya said, "Who am I? From where do I come? And where am I going? What am I doing here? For what did I come here? And where will I go?" If you know this answer for yourself, you are a liberated one and a lucky one. Otherwise, you are in ignorance. Ignorance brings troubles. Ignorance creates hate. Ignorance creates jealousy. Ignorance creates attachment. Ignorance creates greediness, egotism creates fighting, and that's... humans should come out of this. For this, the ancient sages found, or discovered, the divine science of yoga. That is called the science of body, mind, consciousness, and soul. Yoga is a cosmic principle, balancing the entire universe, visible and invisible. All matters and elements which exist in the universe are balanced by that perfect power. Where there is a power balanced, there is a harmony. And where there is harmony, there is understanding, peace, and unity. So yoga means the union of the individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. There are 8.4 million different creatures created by God. 8.4 million divided into three categories: the creatures in the water, creatures on the earth, and creatures in the space flying. From these 8.4 million creatures, one is the human. It is said there is one circle. And this circle, which is moving, is like a wheel. And that is called the wheel of rebirth and death, rebirth. Modern science has taken the word out of rebirth, recycling. How do you understand what is recycling? You cannot imagine how this is recycled. But when you think over, and make research work, there is recycling. Your body is recycling. You will die, the body will die, it is put into the earth. After some time, it will become beautiful fertilizer. You plant pumpkins or tomatoes there, and beautiful big tomatoes will come. Now you are in the form of the tomato, and you eat that tomato. Wonder, it goes in your body. How the recycling processes similarly, the soul is passing and coming. After a long time, millions of years, we get a chance to be human. It is God's grace. The Lord was merciful enough that He gave us birth as human, dear friends. This human body you cannot buy anywhere, and you cannot borrow your body to someone. It is only a chance. It is the most precious diamond. You cannot pay for this. All you can do is thank your mother and father and the Almighty Lord that He gave you a beautiful human body. This body, you got the chance to serve God, to serve His creatures, to protect His creation. Means to serve God. God loves all creatures. Do not think God loves only humans. If God loves only humans, then why did He create others? They are all His children. There must be democracy in God's mind. Everyone has rights. Everyone has the right to come to God. Every creature, whether it is a buffalo, cow, horse, or any animal, God has created them. To love them means to love God. God created humans as protectors. We can protect them because we understand what is love, what is pain, what is suffering. Animals have a father and mother too, and they have children too. They feel pain too. Their life is very dear to them, as your life is dear to you. Second, God has given this human life to get realization, get free of the karmas or the sin, and finally become one with the cosmic Self. Through meditation, through prayers, through beliefs, through helping, through serving, through kindness, humans have beautiful qualities. We shall use our human qualities. We should not use the animal and devil qualities, which are killing, fighting, jealousy, hate, and complexes. This is not a human quality. Tolerance, forgiveness, understanding, kindness, helping. My dear friends, this is your quality. God speaks in you. God thinks through you. God acts through you. Your body is a temple of God. Keep this body pure, clean. They found the science of yoga. They came to know what is the purpose of the creatures. From the void, dark space, the sound came. And from the sound, all creatures began. God is not a person. God is universal. He is everywhere. Nothing is existing in this universe without Him. He is in heaven, he is in hell, he is everywhere. He is in the weapon too. If he is in every atom, then he must be in the bullet too. That God, you cannot blame. It is we who are misusing the energy. The five elements were created: fire, air, water, and earth. Ether is there. Out of the five elements, our body is created. But this body has four bodies more. You have five bodies, and within these five bodies, your divine self is existing: body of the nourishment, this physical body; body of energy, prāṇa energy; the mental body, the intellectual body, and the causal body. These are the five bodies, and visible is the physical body. If you are ill, it is not only physically. Something happens to you; it happens to all the five bodies. And you want to get treatment, you shall treat all the five bodies. And everybody, all five bodies have different principles. And so yoga exercises are psychosomatic movements. It heals our physical body, our psychic body, our mental body, and our causal body. All your astral bodies, all. Therefore, practicing yoga in the first way is good as a therapy. Second is a therapy, mental therapy. So yoga in daily life means health: physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. God realization—I must shorten my lecture. I will, God, not go in detail because someone is moving with the flowers to say goodbye to me, perhaps no, and I do not know how long we can be here, dear friends. Yoga is a very ancient science. Yogīs found there is a God. Yogi found there is an individual, and Yogi found there is a birth and rebirth. They discovered what is karma or sin. You speak about sin, but who realized first what is in yogīs and ṛṣis, which was before some million years? The Trinity: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa. Brahmā is the creator, Viṣṇu is the protector, and Śiva is the liberator. For about several thousand years, they were existing. It goes to the system of yugas. Yuga means the time, like what we call the millennium. This millennium, which we are saying now, is only after the Jesus incarnation. There is nothing changed in the nature, but according to the yugas. That takes place, change into the whole universe. So yoga has been taught, understood, and practiced in every yuga for millions of years. To pray, to believe, to serve, to meditate, to be kind, to be healthy, to be positive. These are the principles of yoga. Any religion in this world, if it has these principles—belief, serve, pray—then they are a part of yoga. Yoga is not a part of any religion. All religions are coming from yoga. So yoga is the father of all the sciences of spirituality. Yogi says, in the human body, which is made out of five elements, there are 72,000 nerves. In your body, there are 72,000 nerves. These nerves are the energy channels. The cosmic energy is flowing through these channels. It is like a network, and out of the 72,000 nerves, there are three most important nerves: iḍā, piṅgalā, and suṣumṇā. Iḍā is connected to the left hemisphere, and piṅgalā is connected with the right hemisphere, and the suṣumṇā is the central nerve system. That is connected with the consciousness. Left hemisphere represents the emotion and mind, and mind is never equal. The mind is, the principle of the mind is the moon. The moon never rises equally. Every day, the moon rises differently. Similarly, your mind is not every day equally. Now you think differently, and tomorrow you will think differently. Yesterday, you thought something different. Always, the mind is changing. The mind is the problem. The mind is a monkey, always jumping here and there. Oh my God, we are tired of the mind. The right nostril, the right nerve, that controls our temperament, that controls our activities, that controls our intellect, there is a mind. The mind is always changing. Then there is the intellect. The intellect is deciding; the mind cannot decide. The duty of the mind is only to make a wish and then give up. The intellect says, "Aha, good." The mind has a desire to eat ice cream, and the intellect will tell it, "Yes." This desire is ice cream, and now, where to go and find out the ice cream? Intellect gives order to the body to go and buy ice cream. Then, between the intellect and mind, that is what we call vivekā, discrimination. That is the pure, pure intellect, your knowledge that divides your desires. In two parts, if you will do, then your teeth will be bad. The dentist will be angry. Do not eat sugar, ice cream. If you eat and you have diabetes, your sugar will go high. If you do not eat, you will be healthy. Now, this is the viveka. It shows you both sides; now your decision, what you want. Mind, my dear friends, I would like to tell what is a mind in short. God has given us ten senses: five senses of knowledge and five senses of action. Before I begin, I must tell you something different, if you do not mind... and friends who are standing... they can sit sideways, this side or that side. Please, come and take a seat, or if there is a free chair. So please sit on the podium. I will be happy to have you beside me. Have you beside me? Thank you. And if some gentleman can move and come here and give place to the ladies there, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. The five senses of action and the five senses of knowledge. The senses of your knowledge are like the eyes, the two eyes. You receive the knowledge and information through light and color. That gives you the imagination of the knowledge of the form. The second sense is your hearing sense. They give you knowledge of the things through the sound. Telephones to you and say, "Hello, Jorka, how are you?" And Jorka will say, "Who is talking there?" He will say, "I am Chi Chi." Now, through the sound, Jorka can see the whole Chi Chi. Sound the third: smelling. You smell it is a rose, or you smell it is... This is apple and different things. The fourth, through the taste. You eat and you say, "Yes, this is an apple," or, "It is grapes." Or it is banana, and the fifth one, skin. Touching. Touch, you can say yes, what it is? These are the five senses which inform you. There are only five keys to send the message into your brain. There is no sixth one, only five. You and me and all of us, the whole world is appearing to us through five senses and the senses of the actions: hands, legs, words, and the, what you call, the excretory and urinary systems. These are only five, no more. You can do something only through your words, through your hands or legs, and the other two organs. Now, whatever information you receive... I am talking about what is a mind. Perhaps I will not come to the complete subject end, okay, but I want to tell you what is mind. Mind is a problem. Mind creates your schizophrenia. Mind creates your depression. Mind creates your fighting. Mind creates everything. But why? Who is that mind? Should we imprison him? Through the senses of knowledge, whatever you receive through smell, through sound, through ears, through taste, or through touching, it is going to your subconscious. From the conscious to the subconscious. The conscious is the present situation. And the subconscious is a past one. All information goes to the subconscious. The subconscious is a big storeroom. So what you receive from the outer world, that is called impressions. And when the impression goes to the subconscious through your senses, that becomes vāsanās, desires. And now the subconscious must bring these desires out to the consciousness, so that you can decide something and do something. If the desires from the subconscious come out and you are not able to fulfill them through some situation or circumstances—always we cannot do what we wish—they go back to the subconscious. And in the night, that comes as a dream. And in the dream, even you cannot fulfill. For example, in the dream, you are going to buy ice cream, and you get a beautiful ball of ice cream and a spoon. And you take the full of the spoon, it comes near your mouth, alarm begins to ring, the dream is gone. My God, even in a dream you could not eat ice cream. Unfulfilled desire, which you could not fulfill even in the dream, that returns back to the subconscious and comes out as a psychic disease, emotional problems, indescribable situations of your life. Now the things which are dormant or lying in your subconsciousness come up to the consciousness and go back to the subconsciousness. This function is known as the mind. The mind is nothing but a process between subconsciousness and consciousness. Now you would like to stop your mind. You cannot stop, and do not try to stop. A river you cannot block, but you can give direction to the river. Similarly, you cannot stop your mind, but you can give direction to your mind. All your feelings and desires, for example, you direct to God. In this way, you will control your mind, but still there will be no control because the subconscious is filled with so many things, and your senses, they are still very wide. You would like to see, and you would like to hear. You would like to enjoy tasting, and you would like to smell, and you would like to enjoy... your desires, the senses are not under your control. Your ambition and emotion, these two are not under control. Mind cannot be controlled. So, to come out of the stress, to come out of the depression... come out of the anxiety and come out of the restlessness... Meditation is only to close your eyes for some minutes, or one hour, two hours. Withdraw yourself within yourself and relax. Do nothing. The best meditation is to close your eyes, sit down, and relax. That will give you immense peace in your mind and your heart. That is the mind. Mind is a function between subconsciousness and consciousness. And when the problems which are not fulfilled by dream or anything, that goes to unconsciousness. And unconsciousness goes with you to the next life. We spoke yesterday about unconsciousness and about one chakra. Here is lying the chakra, the Mūlādhāra Cakra. Here is the unconsciousness. Here are all the problems of the past life. Unfortunately, it is not a very good picture. Clear. Because they faxed it by email. Tomorrow in Jagannāth, I hope, will be good on the big screen. Here are all our sins or past deeds, dormant. And all our karmas, which we could not fulfill, all went down here. That is the left hemisphere. And the right one, which supports your emotions and aggressivities, temperament, and also concentration. Also, thinking of something positive. Both are very good. It begins from the small of the brain, which in yoga we call the Ājñā Cakra. The Ājñā Cakra is the sixth center. That is a very beautiful one, that is a very powerful one, and that is a very important one. But that is also not clearly so. You cannot do anything with the picture, but I can show you something here. But I do not think you see very clearly. Sorry for that. Chakras, dear friends. Chakras are the energy centers. In our body, there are thousands of chakras. 72,000 nerves have 72,000 chakras. They are divided. Chakra vegetation, chakra animal, chakra human, chakra divine, chakra cosmic chakras. These are in your body. Chakra means one circle. Always, energy is turning. Everything is in route form. Even the Sun's energies, which are constantly turning, circulating. So, in our body, there... There are many chakras which are turning, but they are dormant. Through yoga practice, we can activate them. For example, in your hands, in your palms, you have beautiful chakras, and you can awaken them, and it becomes healing power. Such a healing power that you can heal yourself or somebody else, but first you must practice to awaken them. Today, I will show you how to awake your chakra. We will awake now just for a few minutes, then they will go to sleep again, you know, like a snake, a cobra in the basket. I will take the basket up to show you that he is here, awake, but I will tell him to sleep. Again, but I will not give you the basket first. You have to learn to master this snake. So, for a few minutes, we will awake our chakras now, and you will feel that energy intensively. How beautiful it is, would... You like to do it, yes? All right, thank you. Very few said yes, but well, who would like to do it? Who does not want to do it? If you will not do it, you will be sorry. Keep your palms like this, and now you must feel on in your palms. Sensation must be like a pulsing, yes, thank you. Second step, we have to feel more intensive than this. Make hands like this, you feel, and this is you feel mostly because the blood circulation is, and centers are also now awakening. Chant. With me, once home by chanting home, you will feel intensively deep inhale very. Good. Third step: fold your palms completely, and we will rub our palms, rub them till... The tip of the fingers, it is a process of the movements. Let's become hot, because I want to feel your energy. I want to feel their energy, and I want that you will feel also very intensively. As intensive you will rub, that intensive will be all right. The sixth of the fifth process: hold hands like this. Do you say something? Can you do like this? Feel it. Can you do like this? How far? You feel it is like a magnet. Now we will tell Cobra to relax. Close the fist. Hands down. Chakras are sleeping. Already try once more. Is the energy there? It is gone. So, you know, master, do some time like this. If you do every day, three, four times this exercise, you will have the awakening chakras in you, abilities. To help someone or yourself, but you have to do it for a long time, nearly one or two years. By driving a car, when the traffic light is red, you make your hands like this, and the miracle will be this: the red light will become green. Thank you. Likewise, there are thousands of chakra centers. In this body, out of them, eight chakras are very important. These eight chakras are called Mūlādhāra Cakra, which represents the earth element, energy, and dormant energy. Second is Swādhiṣṭhāna Chakra, which represents the water element. But the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra is the subconsciousness. Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra has all these qualities: jealousy, anger, hate, passion, complexes, greediness. Its symbol is the crocodile. When the energy awakens from the Mūlādhāra Cakra, then it rises up to the Svādhiṣṭhāna Cakra. And Svādhiṣṭhāna Cakra is our subconsciousness. But you cannot see the difference today. You cannot see very much difference between this and that. Because the pictures are not clear. Those who are jealous, angry, and greedy, this is a symbol of the undeveloped personality. It is not developed completely. It means, why are you jealous? Let us say you are jealous, or I am jealous. I am jealous of this glass. If you look at my glass, why do you look at my glass? And if somehow he takes away my glass, then I am angry. I would like to do something, but I cannot because he or she is very strong. I am suffering inside. Why? Because I think I cannot live without this glass, I am depending on this glass, I am attached to this glass. My attachment shows me... I think this glass can make me happy. And if someone takes away, I cannot live without this. But if I am a developed person... and someone looks at my glass, I will say, please... Take it without suffering. One more example. Small children play with toys. Suddenly, one day comes in their life when they do not play with the toys anymore. They give up the toys. Why? You did not tell them they are only toys. Do not play always only with the toys... but they are developed now. They said it is only a toy. Now they begin to search for another toy. When the children are grown, teenagers... then they search for other toys. After some years... they give up this toy also... then they will search for spiritual toys. So, how do we have to develop? So, these qualities of the Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra... is very harmful for us, but we are stuck here in the center. And this center we have to purify through some mantra practice... meditation, and thinking with forgiveness, tolerance, understanding, giving... to give, to understand. Like this, yoga is a science which can help you physically, which can help you mentally... which can help you emotionally, which will help you intellectually, which will help you socially, and which will help you spiritually, and finally, it will bring you to the cosmic self, God. So, dear brothers and sisters, yoga is a Divine Science. I believe that many of you are practicing, and if some are new, I would suggest you to begin. In your country, there are hundreds of centers everywhere in the country which are teaching Yoga in Daily Life, or you are getting the book very soon, which has a complete system inside, and you shall take that book, and you can practice at home. Do something in life. So, ask a question to yourself and answer the question. Take time: who am I? From where do I come? Do you know your past life? And before that life? No. From where do I come? And why did I come? What is the purpose of my life? What dharma do I have in my life? What dharma? I have a mother? What dharma has a father? What dharma has sister and brother? What is the dharma of your relatives? You have your dharma, and if you do not know your dharma, you are wasting life. And where will I go? We know we will go to heaven, but who has seen heaven? It is a limited place. Where heaven is ending, hell is beginning. So we have to become one with the omniscient, omnipresent. That is called one without second. Otherwise, many things happen in human life, good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy which will happen to the human is this: that the human will die without realizing God. This diamond will not be given to you again. Do not miss the chance, dear friends. Think over what I tell you.