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Once more, I wish you a blessed Rakṣā Bandhan. It is beautiful to have a few festivals every month. Hinduism is known as a religion of joy. There is no sadness because it does not even accept death. In Hinduism, and according to Vedānta and yoga, life is eternal. The Ātmā is never born, and the Ātmā will never die. It is everlasting, immortal, indescribable, blissful, the Divine, the Cosmic Self. This is the definition of the Ātmā. What dies is the body. The body dies and the body is born. But it is said: thou art Ātmā; you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not this emotion, nor intellect. You are beyond all the different bodies: the physical body, the mental body, the subtle body, and the causal body. You are beyond all this; therefore, the Ātmā is immortal. So when the Ātmā doesn't die, then why are you sad? And when the Ātmā is not born, then why are you so happy? Therefore, it is the religion which always has happy days and happy festivals. This influences the human psyche. If you are sad and celebrating something very sad, then psychologically, everybody is very sad. And when you celebrate something happy, then everyone has in their consciousness the happiness. Life is to be celebrated. Life on this planet is also happiness. It is our own thinking, it is our own mistakes that make life miserable. Everything depends on your thinking. So it is you who make yourself sad, it is you who make yourself poor, and it is you who make yourself miserable. If you realize the Ātmā and you are not depending on your body, then you will not be sad. You will celebrate your life every day. But the thing is this: practice is missing. The practical knowledge is missing. You read many things, you studied many things, you heard many things, you know theoretically many things, but it seems that you do not have practical experiences. For these practical experiences, you only have to develop Ātmacintan. Ātmacintan means: I am the Ātmā. As long as you identify yourself with the Ātmā, everything in the world is okay. Everything in the world is beautiful. Everything is perfect, and you are the happiest person in the world. But as soon as the level of your consciousness comes down to the physical world, to your physical body, then the attachment comes, then the jealousy comes, then the sadness comes, then comes the loss and gain. This kind of feeling puts your consciousness lower and lower. So, it is you who can uplift your consciousness. It is only you who can be free from this sadness. And it is only you who can liberate yourself. Therefore, all the festivals should remind us of something: ethical principles, morals, culture, protection, unity, brotherhood, family life, spirituality, and so on. This is how the human creates happiness to live in a happy environment. But when the human falls into greediness, and begins to think that one is possessing something, then suffering will come. Today is the full moon day. The full moon day is considered a very holy day. It comes once a month. That is Pūrṇa, the completeness. Like a half moon, day by day, it grows to the full moon. Like this, our spirituality should grow day by day, until one day we realize this pūrṇa. God Kṛṣṇa said that through the moon, I enter into the vegetation as a nectar. Recently, someone told me that modern scientists have discovered that moonlight is more important for vegetation than sunlight. We are not separated from this nature. Your life and the life of this tree are exactly the same. This tree is affected by the weather, by the cold and heat; this tree needs all the five elements, and this tree also has pain, happiness, and joy. The same thing we also have, so we are not separated from nature. It is the biggest mistake that humans have made, to think we are now living only one life and then we will be in heaven. This is the biggest mistake. The second human mistake is thinking they can do everything they want. That is the biggest mistake. Humans have no right to do whatever they want. And if they are doing it, they get the punishment. That punishment is a karmic punishment. The most unhappy creatures on this planet are the humans. The most troublesome are the humans. The most ill creature is the human. The most lonely feeling is for humans. And most destructive for this nature are the humans. All kinds of problems which you can imagine on this planet are only with humans. Now, still, what do you say? Which point do you have, plus that you tell, that humans are the best and can do everything? There is no plus point in human life. Everything is minus and minus and minus. Human has only one plus point, and that is intellect. The human can develop through this intellect to realize God and do good things. But humans have lost this tendency; intellect is developed towards commercial life and material things, and they have forgotten the divine aims. Therefore, the human should not think, "What do I want? I can do it." And humans should never think that it is only this one life and no more life. It will be again life given, and in such a way that not that you will be born as a human. It can happen that the human soul will travel to the lower creatures. Because the soul does not depend on the body's form. But the soul is guided by destiny. And what kind of karma you did, that will lead you. Therefore, it's very important that humans should wake up and think about what they are doing and what they are thinking. And whom do you blame? You should not blame anyone. Only you and you, only thyself. And only you can make yourself happy or unhappy. When you think about happiness, then you begin to dance. And when you think about unhappiness, then you cry and cry. You can put a pillow on your face, but still your neighbor will hear you crying. You can cry day and night, but you are not forced to do this. Crying is no solution. The solution is in your thinking. Change your thinking. Change your inner attitude. Change your way of living. And then you will be very happy and peaceful, and you can meditate. So you came to yoga, and Yoga in Daily Life is offering you all the possibilities. But it is your thinking which makes you unhappy. You are unhappy, and you can practice day and night, it will change nothing unless you change your way of thinking. That's why we are here, and today is this full moon, and Rakṣā Bandhan is celebrated, especially for this day. On the poster, on the transparency, it is written: "Raksha Bandhan: Yoga in Their Life," and then it's written: honor, dignity, and respect for the women. Yes. The honor, dignity, and respect for ladies. But the problem is that the ladies don't respect the ladies. When the ladies begin to respect the ladies, men will have no problem. Because men do respect the ladies. But ladies don't respect themselves as ladies. On the day when the ladies will wake up and they will not let their bodies be abused for commercial things, and only as a photo model object, on that day again the ladies will get back the dignity of the mothers. Then women will get back the dignity of their mother. Women are not made to work in the office. They should have a comfortable, happy, and respectful place at home. They are known as the Home Minister. The whole, the healthy roots of the family are the mother. And if you want to have a healthy society, then women should wake up and stay at home to control the family and children. All these children who are not under control are because the mother is not at home. Father cannot educate a small child. It is only the mother who can educate. Mother has a very high position at home. If a man is earning during the whole day, he should come home and give everything to his wife, that's all. And never ask the next day, "Where is the money I gave you?" There was no bank account. There was no savings. Only the wife was the bank and saved everything. The man never bought anything, except secretly his cigarettes. So he leaves all on his wife, and she never lets him go out with dirty clothes. She keeps the dignity of her husband all the time. What he needs, she buys everything. And the husband's duty is to earn the bread and give the money to his wife. And never ask what happened with the money. A good wife will never let her husband go out of the house without pocket money. But when he comes home, she will ask what he did with the money. But when he gives money to his wife and he comes home, he never asks what she did with the money. This is mutual understanding, this is respect. That's very, very important. As long as the husband does not trust his wife, the family will not be in good condition. So you should trust your wife, and the ladies should gain their dignity back. Don't fight that women's equality and emancipation, you don't know. The women have a higher position than men. In family life, 80% is for the mother and 20% for the father. In your future life, your mother is worth 80% and your father is worth 20%. As you can see, not only are you equal, but you have even more value. Even now, your mother and grandmother, except for some individual cases, it is depending and guided by the mother. In the house where there is no lady, the house inside looks like two minutes after an earthquake. And in the house where there is a woman, it looks like some place where you can sit down and rest and relax. So women have a higher position. They do have the ability. And they should know, because they lost this consciousness. They want to have a higher position. They want to have a higher position outside. But what happened? When they went to search for a high position in the street, they lost both. They lost the position at home, and they lost the position in the street. Perhaps professional just for a few years, after retirement, nobody will ask you anything. And the critical time of our life, or the critical period of our life, is our old age after retirement. Then, all your loving friends will disappear. Again, I spoke two days ago with one ambassador in Austria. And he's retired now, and he said, "Swamiji, I have nearly depression." I said, "Why?" "Because nobody tells me, 'Your Excellency, how are you? Good morning, Your Excellency.' Even not my wife, because when somebody calls, she used to say, 'His Excellency is not at home.' But now she tells only, not even my husband, but she tells my name: he is not at home." So, you see, the worldly position is only temporary. That's why Guru Nānak Sāhib said, "Every day is not equal for worldly people." But for a wise man, for the holy saint, every day is a golden day. And for those ladies who stayed at home and cultivated the garden of the family, every grandchild loves her, and she is the middle point of the family. And it is a central point in the family. It has a very high position. But you lost it because you didn't cultivate the family. Even your grand-granddaughter or your child doesn't know who you are. You don't know who you are or where you are. The women should make a women's union. Really. Begin with the grass root. Only the women are able to educate our future. The future of our country and the world, the future of the Earth and the world, is in two hands. The first is the women, and the second is the teachers. We call children the culture of tomorrow. Children are the future of tomorrow, but the future of tomorrow is in the hands of today's mothers and teachers. How you will educate like that will be our world. Mothers can protect humanity. Mothers can protect humanity against drugs. The ladies can protect and reduce criminality throughout the world. It is the ladies who can protect; there will be no wars. And it is the ladies who can bring again the morals and ethical principles into human society. And women can return to the human society the principles of ethics and morality. And women can again return to this world to their high position. In ancient cultures, women always had a high position. And in Hinduism, it has always had a higher position, and even now too. It is like this: when you say Vishṇu and Lakṣmī, then we sing Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇ. We say Sītā Rām. We say Rādhe Kṛṣṇa. We don't say Kṛṣṇa Rādhā, we don't say Rāma Sītā, and we don't say Nārāyaṇa Lakṣmī. First Lakṣmī, and then Nārāyaṇa. So even the identity of the Nārāyaṇa Vishṇu is through the Lakṣmī. When you say Lakṣmī, Nārāyaṇa is already there. But if you say Nārāyaṇa, then they will put a question: who is that? It is half empty. So, if you say Sītā, it is already the identity of Rāma. And if you say Rādhā, it is already the identity of Kṛṣṇa. So, the women are the future of tomorrow. And the future of tomorrow is in the hands of women. The future of tomorrow is in the hands of every mother. And tomorrow peace, and today world peace, is in the hands of the women. They have to begin to educate the children from the beginning now. And don't buy for your children any toys, what you call, with the guns and weapons. And don't show your children those videos and films where they are fighting with guns, even if it's a playing gun. You are only giving it as a toy, but the child does not take that as a toy. If the real gun will come, the child will play with the real gun as it is. You play with the toy, and then it means he or she will kill you. So children don't need the toys; they need your love. And they don't need your money; they need your wisdom. If you give love and wisdom to your child, you gave the richest life to your child. And if you are only earning money for your children and leave them alone at home, your hard-earned money has no value for your child, who has a very bad life. It is a wrong concept that you think you save money and earn money for your children. We say, putra sa putra to kyā dhan sañche? If the child is a good child, then why are you earning money? If the child is good, why do you earn money for him? If the child is good, he will earn money for himself. If the child is bad, why do you save money for him? If the child is bad, he will destroy that money. So, it's a very, very wrong concept that you are earning money for children. Of course, you should earn something so that they have a good life. That's it, but it's wrong. Now, especially in this modern time, people are building houses, and they say, "Okay, we will make three floors. So, the first floor is for us when we get old. And the first floor above is for Milenka. And the third floor is for the František." And Milenka went now, she married and went to Mexico. And František married and went to China. And now you are sitting old at home. Even you can't clean the rooms. Of course, you have to pay the electricity, property tax, water, and everything. Now, who are you? You are a caretaker. You are not enjoying the house. So many, many people built the house for the children, or they bought the flats or the house, and when the children are big, they can have it, and the children do not even look at that house. Mostly, they want to sell it and have the money. And you don't know in which drinking company the money goes. So, it is very important that you think in this way. Who has seen tomorrow? No one has seen tomorrow. And tomorrow will never come, and tomorrow will never come. Every day will be today, so at the present, be with your children and take care of them. Explain to them that things are not good: fighting, aggressiveness. Fighting, war, aggressiveness. Children will learn from you. So, man does not have these abilities to educate children. Therefore, the women should wake up. They should make again the women's union and make a saṅkalpa. There was one queen in ancient times. And when she married, she made a saṅkalpa. The child which will come in her womb, for this soul, will be the last life. It means all will be self-realized. I will teach them self-realization. And it happened. Every child became a self-realized soul. Such is the work of the mothers. And so, on today's Rakṣā Bandhan, you should support this day. Do not forget. Write in your notebook and on your calendar: Rakṣā Bandhan, the day of honor, dignity, and respect for women. And this day should be brought into the consciousness of the people. You must teach the people. You can make a brother and a sister any day, any month. And this day is to celebrate, so awake the brotherhoodness, but of course, when you make a brother, then after ten years, don't marry with it. It happened in our group. Someone said, "Well, we didn't dare to say, but actually we want to marry now. We don't want to be like a brother and sister." No, this business is not that. To have a sister, a Rakhi sister, means like your real sister, your blood relatives. And your real brother, even you have to write in your testament. That, that, and that is my Rakṣā Bandhan brother and sister should get this and this percent. Yes. Yes. That is my adopted brother, like a godfather or godmother. So, it is a serious thing. If you have someone in mind to marry, then don't make it, brother or sister. And get married. And when your daughter is married and your son is born. When the child is born, the parents can make an agreement that when they grow up, they should get married. So, they don't have to go far away. So, these children will have a happy life. That they don't need to search for a man somewhere in the nightclubs. So, when they are grown, 20 years, when they are 25 years old, they know where they are going to marry. Many husbands are born already, and many daughters are born. Many husbands are already born, and many future daughters-in-law are born. That could also be a very great thing you can do and protect your children from certain disappointment. This could be a way to avoid certain disappointments for your children. Let's go back to the ancient system. We have a nice sentence: Ancient wisdom for the modern age. So Yoga in Daily Life is presenting ancient wisdom for modern life. That's it.