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First, I am very happy to see you after a few months. Second, I am happy to see you here in this beautiful āśram. There is definitely a different atmosphere in different places. The atmosphere in a restaurant is different. In a hotel, it is different. In clubs, it is different. At home, it is different. And in an ashram, in a church, in a temple, in a synagogue, it is different. In temples, ashrams, churches, or spiritual places, there is a spiritual atmosphere, a spiritual energy. Whether you believe it or not, when you come to such a place, that energy penetrates and transmits through your different bodies: the physical body, the mental body, the subtle body, and the causal body. The physical body—all the nerve systems, gland systems, and organs in the body—are influenced by positive energy and a positive rhythm. It is like a healing process. Your mental body, your vṛttis or thoughts, become balanced and calm, and you experience moments without stress. There was a research work on the two hemispheres concerning physical and psychic problems. When they came to psychic, emotional problems, even up to schizophrenia, the best treatment was found to be meditation and prayer at spiritual places. So a mind without stress, without confusion, without fear—that is the result of a positive environment. When you go into a church, nobody needs to tell you to be silent. Automatically, you are silent. If the astral body is not in harmony with the physical body, then one loses self-control and self-confidence. When the astral body is in disharmony with the physical, mental, and causal bodies, then a person becomes so nervous and cannot concentrate or sleep. There is constantly anxiety within you; you are living in anxiety. So, in order to harmonize the astral body, physical body, and mental body, you have to go, from time to time, to some spiritual place. Sit down, close your eyes, and repeat your mantra; meditate. That is why in every village there is a church, or in India, in every village, there is a temple. That is a place for everyone, and there you will experience peace and harmony. And so it is that you should also go to satsaṅgs. That's why satsaṅg is very important. If you don't go to satsaṅg, the result will be this: you have to face many worldly problems. So these three bodies—physical, mental, and subtle body—are harmonized in the satsaṅg, in the meditations. And then there is the causal body. The causal body is our desires. There are many kinds of desires: desire for drinking, desire for eating, desire for walking, desire for some sport, desire for dancing, desire for the nightclub, desire for the cinema, desire for this, desire for that. There are many desires: desire for money, desire for marriage, desire for divorce. Many. Selfishness, greediness, which has no end—so the desires cannot be fulfilled. When your body cannot go with you, you have mental desires so rare. Are those rare? One is that one who controlled the desires. So, the causal body means the cause of everything. Imagine that surrounding where you are sitting, there is a fire burning. You can't get out of it, and you are suffering, burning in this fire. There is a way to come out, but somehow you can't. So the person who has disharmony with the causal body is in a situation like someone who fell into the fire and is burning. Sometimes you would like to come out of the fire, but the second thing happens. So it is said that you come out of the frying pan and fall into the fire so quickly, that's it. And so you try to come out of one desire, but you fall into another desire. You want to get divorced, and before the divorce is legally done, you are already with another problem. So the causal body needs purification and knowledge. Definitely, we belong to nature. Our bodies belong to nature. There is no difference between a tree and yourself. The vegetation is influenced by weather and season, and we are also influenced by weather and season. Every four seasons, there are changes in the body: changes of tissues, in the blood and organs, and everything. So it is very natural that we have feelings. That's why there is a causal body. There will come a time when you will have no feelings. And that is—that means you—the doctor said this person died. So you will be completely desireless after the death of this body. But with the mental and subtle body, or astral body, you will be very unhappy that the body has to die. So you can't be free from desires. The body requires this; otherwise, the body cannot live. Desire is logic. Desire is natural. And fulfillment is also natural. But humans lost the capacity or lost the measurement. Humans lost the limitation; they don't know where the limit is. Trees know very well. Trees know when to give fruits, when to give blossoms, when leaves should fall, and so on. Birds and animals know when to give birth to babies. But humans lost it. So, this is the causal body which causes all these problems, and through this, all our poor bodies are suffering. It is created through this: our jealousy, our anger, our hate, our greediness, our desires. So, if you want to control your anger, jealousy, hate, greediness, then try to purify your causal body. Know the limits of your needs. There is enough for your need. Mahātmā Gandhījī said, "The mother earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for the greeds of the greedy." A person has no limitation. Therefore, after long thinking and analyzing these different bodies, the wise men created satsaṅg, prayers, meditations. If you go to a church where there is a prayer, that is the most beautiful thing you can experience. So you should visit, or whenever you can go, for ten minutes or five minutes, sit there. Or go to the ashram and sit there and repeat your mantra. So now, luckily, you have a good ashram. We have many ashrams in Slovenia, and wherever Mahāprabhujī is, there is a very good atmosphere. Sometimes people are complaining: "I don't go to the ashram because people are not good, and they are like this, and they are like that." First, are you going for people or for yourself? Second, are you going to the ashram or to the people? Third, who are you to judge them? They are... not good. And fourth, why don't you think of the other side? You are not good. Confucius said, "Don't say that nobody respects you, but why don't you think that you are not still that kind of person that people should respect you?" So, your best idea is your work and way of living where you like people and go there. That's very easy. But go there where you don't like people and create a harmony. That is something. Everybody is swimming in very nice, clean water without sharks or crocodiles. But to swim in the lake or in water with crocodiles and sharks, that is the art of swimming. So everything that we think, that people are not good, that's in our own thinking. And this kind of disharmony between these four bodies creates lots of illnesses in us. Psychology says even cancer could appear through some psychic problems. Many times they have cancer from the disharmony in the married life. That's why one tries to create a happy family. So either remain a bachelor or create a happy family. Not that every summer you break the marriage. Then don't go to the Adriatic coast in summer. Nowadays, to go to holiday places means the destruction of your married life because there are too many temptations. Let's say that you are sitting at a dining table and you don't want to eat ice cream. Somehow, because of your health, you don't want to eat ice cream. But the person brings the ice cream and says, "A little try, please. Today you can. Why not do it? Be fanatic with your health. This is very good ice cream." Inside you want to eat, but outside you say no, and you are waiting. The third time, the person will tell you, "Please eat it." Then you will begin to eat. Therefore, sit on this blanket, carpet. So, therefore, the temptation is too strong. Or you have a good husband who tolerates everything. Or your wife, still she will open the door when you come home. So this is how these four bodies create the disharmony, and that creates the tension in family life. And through this tension, through this stress, through these anxieties, many, many illnesses come out. The ideas of holidays, which you get from your workplace—was this so that you go and just relax? These holiday ideas and systems are coming from yoga. In yoga, we say ekāntavās. From time to time, you should go to ekāntavās. It means somewhere in a silent, lonely place. Relax, sleep, meditate, and read some holy books. If you look into the Christian literature, including the Bible, it is a very rich wisdom. If you look at the Jewish religion, all their holy five books, or what you call their Torah, is the jewel of the wisdom. If you read the Qur'ān very carefully, it is the pearls of wisdom. And if you look into the Vedas, Upaniṣads, Purāṇas, Rāmāyaṇa, Gītā, it is the nectar of the wisdom. So we have so many books of wisdom and divine instructions. This we should read. Just go through these old books once, and then compare your life after that, how it is. Oh, it will be completely different. But read with free thinking. Don't say, "Yes, this is the best." Everything is best, but what is your choice? You go to the supermarket, and let's say you want to buy a carpet. And there are four hundred different carpets. And all, one after the other, they are the best. And the seller, the salesman, will tell you, "Please choose what you like." Some like pink color, some like brown color, some like green color, and some like blue color. Everyone has a different nature. So, something you would like from the Bible, something from the Gītā, from the Rāmāyaṇa, from the Qur'ān, from the Vedas, from the Torah. Still, thanks to God, on this planet, there is lots of wisdom. And it is preserved mostly now in the libraries. If you try to read and begin to read the literature about and from Hinduism and from Indian wisdom, I think you will need hundreds of lives to complete reading. Just one sentence or one word has so much knowledge in it. So, you know, now we call it research work, and in ancient times we called this research work tapasyā. Like your professor tells you, "Go and research," and the master says to the disciple, "Go and..." Research makes tapasyā. "Know thyself," and all these books of wisdom or holy books, what we call, is the result of the tapasyā, the research work. A scientist sometimes works day and night to solve one problem, researching, researching, and like this, a yogī is day and night searching: "Who am I? Whom am I? I'm not the body, I'm not thoughts, I'm not these feelings. What am I? What am I?" So, science means sense. There is some sense, and research means there is some sense, but research it again. You are the ātmā, and get now realization. Know that you are ātmā. Ho ho! Therefore, visiting a holy place—it doesn't matter, church, temple, ashram, synagogue, mosque—and sit for a while. Just repeat your mantra with open eyes or closed eyes. Just relaxed. What that five minutes meditation in the holy place, spiritual place, religious place will give you, that can't give you the six-month therapy. And that's why the satsaṅg is very important. When you are disappointed, disheartened, lost your confidence, lost hope. There is a lot of gushing up. One tells you to do this, one tells you to do that, one says don't do this. One is fighting, arguing. What to do? What to do in their situation? The answer, very clearly, Mahāprabhujī said, is, "I have to do only with satsaṅg." Let people gossip as they are gossiping. Because, for what are you here in this world? For what are you born? What is the aim of your life? "Goham katham idaṁ jātam ko ve kartasya vidyate?" Who am I? From where do I come? Why did I come, and where am I going? What is the purpose of all this? Only know one thing: know thyself. Ātmā-jñāna. Without ātmā-jñāna, there is no end to suffering. When self-realization takes place, then finally you are in param-ānanda. Paramānanda. Ānanda is happiness, but this kind of happiness is temporary happiness. Paramānanda is everlasting happiness. And when you are in paramānanda, then your situation is different. Siddhānanda-rūpaṁ śivo'haṁ śivo'haṁ. Then you will realize that I am Siddhānanda. Chit-ānanda, that ānanda in param-cetanā. Śivo'ham, Śivo'ham. Śiva means consciousness. Śiva means bliss. Śiva means liberation. Śiva means the truth. Śiva means beauty: Satyam Śivam Sundaram. At that time, these worldly disturbances will not touch you. When the elephant is walking through the street—did you ever see an elephant walking in the street? You will never see an elephant walking in the street. The elephant is like a king of the forest, but sometimes people bring them, and when the elephant is walking through the street, the dogs are barking, but the elephant is never frightened. Any other creature will be frightened if the dog is barking, but the elephant never is. It is called the gajamasti, the divine feeling of the elephant. The joy of the elephant. The elephant knows that dogs can't do anything to him. So, these worldly problems are like little dogs, you know. You are an elephant. Gagana Opa Maa Gaira Kai Jondharani Jondhir Ramaji. Gagana Opa Maa Gaira Kai Jondharani Jondhir Ramaji. Mrit Jaisa Meetha Kai Seetala Sagarani. Therefore, tṛpti, tṛpti means satisfied. When a hungry and thirsty person gets good food and drink, then they say, "Thank you, now I am completely satisfied." But this kind of food which you get, after a few hours you will be again hungry. But the food, the nourishment, spiritual nourishment, that makes you divine. The sweet what we eat is good, but that kind of sweet which makes you immortal. And sweet and sour, we like all: salty, sweet, sour. But the sourness of the lemon, which spoils the milk, similarly, the sourness of the wise words spoils your appetite for all these worldly desires. You can try many things. That will not become milk again, therefore it is said. Now I am overjoyed while drinking the nectar of God's name. Now all taste in this world for me is tasteless. That you have to achieve all. This is your homework now. That's it. Sooner or later, you have to pass this examination. That's it.