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Next year, you should try to come for the Anuṣṭhāna program. The Anuṣṭhāna program is truly excellent; it consists of advanced exercises. However, it is very important that you do not stop your sādhanā. You should not attempt the full Anuṣṭhāna program at home because it is a whole-day program that requires time and would disrupt your daily routine. Doing something partially is not beneficial for your development. Therefore, you have a completely different program designed for daily practice, which includes āsanas, prāṇāyāma, mudrās, bandhas, and kriyā. It is not important how long you practice, but it is crucial that you practice every day. We eat every day, sometimes more, sometimes less; it does not matter. Our body, mind, intellect, and consciousness all harmonize over a certain period—a few hours, a few days. If you do not practice, after three days your rhythm changes. For three days, an informative system retains the old data. Then laziness and self-exclusion begin to overtake and dominate. It becomes hard to begin again. Therefore, practicing continuously every day, even if only a little, is very important. Mantras, āsanas, prāṇāyāma, meditation—every day, and for those who have kriyā, that too. It is important to have daily āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, or obligatory kriyās. We know our body is mortal, not immortal. But even though it is mortal, it is very precious. The great Tulsīdās jī said in the holy Rāmāyaṇa: "Bada bhāga manuṣya tanu pāvā." We are fortunate, very fortunate, to have obtained a human body. Believe that we will not get a human body again and again. There is one advanced Kriyānusthāna program, more advanced than what you are doing now. I will speak about that in future meetings so you may prepare for it next year. It involves significant control over eating, sleeping, and so on; your sleeping and practicing room will be the same. Participants will be selected. Those with knee or back problems will not be selected. Those with psychic or depression issues are also not suitable, as the techniques are more advanced. What you are doing now is your mini-advanced anuṣṭhāna, which is only 30% of that program. Also, those who have children to care for cannot take part in that Anuṣṭhāna. All these techniques we are doing are a form of regeneration for us, recharging our energy. Furthermore, such a program is very important for our social life. You know you have many friends; we are a big family and are happy together here. We know we have so many friends who care about us. Here are all beautiful people with good hearts, and we try our best with what we can, which is very important. You should create, and you have created, a large number of good friends in your own town, city, or village. Love is life. Love is mutual understanding with all friends, colleagues, neighbors, and so on. Where there is no love and no friends, one feels lost and lonely. You cannot have friends; you have to make friends. For friends, you have to dedicate many things. When someone is searching for a friend, they will suddenly find one. In the beginning, a person is very nice to their friends, but soon one sees the real face—anger, arrogance, ego, greed, jealousy, and so many qualities. When you exhibit all these, you lose the friendship again. So we have to gain friends. To gain something, you first have to give something: give confidence. That is very important. Then life becomes pleasant and happy. At the same time, keep up with your practices. I can tell you, try to avoid bad societies, for there you will not find the friend you are searching for, and you will also lose your qualities. We should know we have to keep our qualities, and of course, we should not push people toward spirituality. The best is to just leave it. You have the Haṭha Yoga and āsana-prāṇāyāma classes and programs. Just do this for health. The time will come when their consciousness awakens too, and I wish you all the best. Going to satsaṅg is very important. Satsaṅg is where you will get answers to your questions. If you miss satsaṅg, you do not know what you have missed. Therefore, Gurujī always says: "Dīpa dayāla arala suna lejo kara kṛpā moi satsaṅga lejo." Gurujī always said this. Also, many bhajans of Śrī Mahāprabhujī are full of satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is inspiration, satsaṅg is relations, teachings, satsaṅg is salvation, and satsaṅg is liberation. Never think that the people who come are not good. Good or bad is in us, not outside of us. Liking and disliking are within us. I love, and I don’t love; it’s in us. You know that bhajan: I don’t know what my mind has made me do, so many things. O Lord, now bestow your mercy so my life does not pass without some change. We do not know, through the dominating power of our mind, what we have done. So many things, even things we didn’t want, but because of the selfishness of our mind and senses, we did them, and we are sorry for that. I don’t know how it happened that the mind forced us to do so many things we didn’t want, but again the intellect and mind make us do that. Therefore, there are no bad people. All come to satsaṅg with the same feeling. Just smile, just speak, just welcome them. You will see, you will gain so many friends. It is said that if you don’t smile, sixty-two muscles of the body are in tension. If you smile, only three muscles have a little tension, and the rest, all 62 muscles, are relaxed. So, don’t greet people with a tense face. Our face tells everything. Psychologists speak of face reading: what kind of radiance or color do your eyes have? The movements of the eyebrows, the center of the eyebrows, your cheeks, your lips—even in animals we can see this kind of attitude. You can see in a dog’s eyes if it is going to be angry or friendly. The great Tulsīdās said: "Eki yaha hī tajade bācana kaṭhora." If you want to hypnotize everyone in a positive way, or if you want everyone to be your friend, then give up harsh words forever. It doesn’t matter in which situation you are, whether you like it or not. Do not speak harsh words. Always filter everything with a microfilter. Speak such a language, such words, that make you happy and others happy too. So whether you have friends or not depends entirely on you. Do not think that in satsaṅg there are crazy people, that they are a certain kind of person sitting there, nobody talking to you. Why should they talk to you when you don’t talk to them? Do not think that in satsaṅg only crazy or lazy people sit, that no one will turn to you. Why would they turn to you? Would you turn to them? You might go there and think, "Nobody said hello to me." But you are also included in that "nobody." You could have said hello. It depends. What you want, you should give first. If you can’t give, you will not receive. So don’t go there like a closed block of ice. Be nice, gentle, a little soft, like butter. To gain a friend, to make a friend, and to have a long-lasting or forever friendship, you have to give; you have to do it. Try to learn to digest, try to learn to listen, try to learn to endure negative criticism from your friends. They tell you because they see this quality in you. I say, because in a video, no one could tell you such things. He or she or they told you because they love you. Now, your loving one—do not make them an enemy again. Because they warned you, they told you to change your behavior, change your words, change your thinking; it was good for you. Therefore, cultivate relations and friendship. The best medicine for a human is another human. So don’t be explosive. In this way, next summer you will come more happy, more relaxed, and maybe with more friends.