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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 techniques. However, it is crucial that you do not stop your personal sādhanā. This anuṣṭhāna, the entire program, should not be done at home. It is a whole-day commitment that would disrupt your daily routine and your regular sādhanā. Doing something half-heartedly is not beneficial for your development. Therefore, you have a completely different program designed for daily practice, which includes āsanas, prāṇāyāma, kriyā, and bandha. It is not important how long you practice, but it is vital that you practice every day. It is not about the quantity, but the consistency. We eat a lot every day; if we eat a little less sometimes, it does not matter. Our body, mind, intellect, and consciousness harmonize over certain hours—over some days. If you do not practice, within three days your rhythm, your biorhythms, begin to change. For three days, the informative system retains the old data, and then laxness and self-excusing begin to dominate. It becomes difficult to start again. Therefore, practice continuously, every day—even a little, but every day. That is very important: mantras, āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditations, and for those who have it, kriyā. We know our body is mortal; it is not immortal. Yet, although mortal, it is very precious. The great Tulsīdās said in the holy Rāmāyaṇa that we are greatly fortunate to have obtained a human body. Believe that we will not get a human body again and again. There is an advanced Kriyānusthān 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. We will select participants. Those with knee or back problems will not be selected. Those with psychic issues or suffering from depression will also not be suitable. These techniques are stronger than your current practice; your current understanding is a mini-advanced version, only about 30% of that program. Certainly, those with children to care for cannot take part. All these techniques we are doing are a form of regeneration, 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, happy together. We know we have friends who care about us. Here are beautiful people with good hearts, all trying their best. You should create—and you have created—a large number of good friends in your own town, city, or village. Love is life. That love, with mutual understanding among friends, colleagues, and neighbors, is essential. Where there is no love and no friends, one feels lost and lonely. You cannot merely have friends; you must make friends. To make friends, you must dedicate many things. When one gets to know another, one searches for a friend and may suddenly find one. The beginning is very nice when one finds a friend. But very soon, one shows the real face—meaning anger, arrogance, ego, greed, jealousy, and so many such qualities. This true face consists of anger, arrogance, jealousy, and many other properties. When you exhibit these, you will lose the friend again. So we must gain friends. To gain something, you must first give something. Giving confidence is very important. Then life becomes pleasant and happy. At the same time, keep up with your practices, and I advise you to try to avoid bad company. There you will not find the friends you seek, and you may also lose your good qualities. We must know to preserve our qualities. Of course, we should not push people toward spirituality or any particular path. The best approach is to leave it be. You have Haṭha Yoga and āsana-prāṇāyāma classes and programs; just do this for health. In time, their consciousness will also awaken. I wish you all the best. Attending satsaṅg is very important. Satsaṅg provides more answers to your questions. If you miss satsaṅg, you do not know what you have missed. Therefore, Gurujī always says, "Deep dayā aral sun lejo, kar kṛpā moi satsaṅg dejo." Guruji always said this, and many bhajans of Śrī Mahāprabhujī are full of satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is inspiration, satsaṅg is relationships, teachings, and satsaṅg is salvation. Never think the people coming are not good. Good or bad is within us, not outside. Liking and disliking are within us. That bhajan, you know? "I don't know what my mind has let me do, so many things. Oh Lord, now bestow Your mercy that my life doesn't go without some sense." We do not know, through the dominating power of our mind, what we have done. So many things, even things we didn't want to do, but because of the selfishness of our mind and senses, we did them. I am sorry for that. Therefore, there are no bad people. All come to satsaṅg with the same feeling. Just smile, just speak, just welcome them, and you will see you gain so many friends. It is said that if you do not smile, 62 muscles of the body are in tension. If you smile, only three muscles have a little tension, and the other 62 are relaxed. So do not greet people with a mere "Good morning, good morning." Our face tells everything. Psychology speaks of face reading: the radiance, color of your eyes; the movement of the eyebrows; your cheeks; your lips. We can even see this kind of attitude in animals. You can see in a dog's eyes if it is going to be angry or friendly. The great Tulsīdāsjī said: If you want to hypnotize everyone in a positive way, or if you want everyone to be your friend, then give up hard words forever. It does not matter what situation you are in, whether you like it or not. Do not speak hard 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 there are crazy people in the satsaṅg, or that people are sitting and never talking to you. Why should they talk to you if you do not talk to them? You might think, "I went there, and nobody said hello to me." You are also included in that "nobody." You could have said "Hello." It depends. What you want, you should give first. If you cannot give, you will not receive. So do not go there like a closed block of ice. Be nice, gentle, 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 that quality in you. No one else could tell you such things. He, she, or they told you because they love you. Now, do not make an enemy of your loving one again. They warned you, told you to change your behavior, your words, your thinking. It was for your good. Therefore, cultivate relationships and friendship. The best medicine for a human is another human, so do not be explosive. In this way, next summer you will come more happy, more relaxed, and perhaps with more friends.