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To be together each time is a blessing. Every breath of life is a blessing. Every day is a blessed day. Yesterday we spoke about human life, human qualities, and the purpose of human life. For every creature, it is a blessing to live every minute. We have two kinds of lives: life in the astral planet and life on this physical planet. When we descend onto this physical planet, we lose the memory of the astral planet. But when we are in the astral planet, we have a very vivid memory of the physical planet. The soul is individual, but Ātmā is unique. The divine self is unique. There is no duality—ātmā of the human or ātmā of the animals. Ātmā is immortal, everlasting, unchangeable, and indestructible. That is called Ātmā Tattva, and without the knowledge of this Ātmā Tattva, suffering will not end on this planet or on the astral planet. Like in a dream: you have a dream where you are suffering. You have fear, you have pain, but when you wake up, there's no pain, no suffering. Who did experience this suffering, and who says now that dream is gone? That is the Self, and that Self which we call the individual self, the individual soul. Because every individual has its own quality. Quality is collected according to experiences and karma. And therefore, every individual has a different destiny. So the duality is in the soul, not in the ātmā. When all the negative karmas or the sins will be washed away, then this jīva-bhāva will merge into the ātmā-bhāva. Bhāva means awareness. Bhāva means the knowledge. Bhava means feeling. Bhava means the value. Ātmā bhāva means "I am the ātmā." And jīva bhāva means "I am the jīva. I am this life. I am individual." And there is suffering. It doesn't matter if it's the soul of the animal or the soul of the human. The differences are here on this planet. On the astral planet, there are no differences. There, your memory is very vivid. So it is said, this Jīvātmā—Jīvātmā, not Ātmā, but Jīvātmā. Jīva Ātmā is the shadow, the reflection of your Ātmā. So this Jīvātmā is praying to God, "Merciful Lord, give me human life, that through the human life I will do my spiritual sādhanā." To come from the jīvābhāva to ātmābhāva. We were singing now one bhajan: "Oh brothers, wake up, oh jīva, who you are sleeping in sleep of the ignorance? Manuṣya janam amolaka hai." This human life is a very precious diamond. And "gayā vakt āve nahīṁ pyāre"—and the time which is past will not come back. "Phir pichtāverī"—then you will be sorry. Every second which is past is gone, gone out of your hands. This life is like water in the hand. "Yeh jeevan aṅjali kā pānī, ṭapak ṭapak ṭapajai re." It will drip out very soon. And this youth, this physical energy, when you are 15, 20, 25, 30, is like a morning dew. As soon as the sun rises, it will dry out. Wake up, O ignorant one. Wake up from the sleep of ignorance. After this, all experiences depart into the endless. It is not sure that all this will come again on this planet. It's not your permanent residence. You are a visitor on this planet. Who knows on which planet you will come, in which form, in which situations. This planet has five elements, living elements, and you are modeled out of five elements. But Pramāṇḍa Śāstra Sūrya, it is Ṛṣi said, endless universe and thousands of the sun systems. And Ātmā is one. Your Ātmā and the universe are one. "Akhil Viśvakā Jo Parmātmā He, Sabhī Prāṇiyoṅkā Vahī Ātmā, Vahī Ātmā." The Cetanam Ātmā of the entire world or entire universe is only one. That's myself, which is the ātmā of every creature, immortal. But this individual soul, who with your subtle body or astral body, traveling through the endless—very nicely said—on the waves of time, through light and darkness, experiencing pleasure and unpleasantness, pain and sorrows. Happiness depends on your... You are looking from far. Your time is gone. Now you are sad. You have no more power. Once I saw a very nice documentary film, I think something like Discovery Channel or something like this, about the lions. So there was one very strong lion, and he had about 15 or 20 female lions. A few years, or I don't know how many years, a young lion developed, and they had a fight. So that strong, young one hunted away the old one. And he has to run away. And all these other female lions, they remained there. No one there to fight against him, the younger one. Now the old lion, climbing up the hills, sitting on the rock, crossed hands like this, legs. And he sees down his whole group, about two kilometers far or one kilometer far, that young strong lion and others, they all, and he was looking exhausted. The situation, psychologically, to observe the feeling of that animal. The lion was very sad. Feelings are always young, but the body's old. His time passed; he can't gain that time again. You will see very rarely that animals have tears in the eyes, but he had. So you can see in nature also that time doesn't wait for anyone. But when we are young, we are blind. We think we will change the world, but our parents, they don't know anything. "Let me become 18 years, by law I am the grown person." Yes, now you are more stupid. Now is the time to control your... Horse, by this very fine human qualities which we spoke yesterday, will get lost, and what is gone is gone. When you go to bathe in the river, you can bathe only once. You take one dip in the water and come out; that water is gone. Now you can take a dip, but in the second new water. So this is deep into this planet and out to the astral planet. We think they are all mine; they are not yours, neither your property nor your friends nor your parents. Finally, you have to take along your journey. What will go with us? Positive energy or negative energy? And positive energy is through our meditation, through our prayers, through our mantras and through our goodness. Be good. Simply be good. Write on your door. When you close your door, you will read, "Be good," and when you go outside of the door, you will read, "Be good to all." One should never cry on the past; let it be the past. In our memory, if it was beautiful, then the beautiful memory it was. Unpleasant? Then let it be. That unpleasant experience, thanks to God, is past. And time you cannot measure, and the speed of time you can also not measure. It is beyond our imagination and measurement. We know there's the speed of light and the speed of sound, and so on. There's one story, but I can tell it tomorrow. No, it's a very nice story. How should I tell you now? Not now, okay? This lady said no, so I will not tell. Therefore, the past time is past, and sooner or later, who knows who will be the first of us to jump into the endless again? So, given limited time here, never think it's too little time now. Never think that you are too old. Maybe some young one will die before you. Who are you to judge the time? Who are you to judge your life? "Now I'm too old, I can't practice yoga exercises. I would like to do Cakrāsana, I would like to do Vṛkṣāsana, Scorpio, but I'm too old." If you think only asanas are yoga, then you don't know what yoga is. Any good thing you do in this world is yoga. The best thing you can do is to inspire people, motivate them, and awaken the spiritual consciousness in them. That's why it is said, in one, the spiritual consciousness is awakened. The wisdom is called teacher or master or guru. The value, the position of the guru, is very high, but you must have the wisdom. So, for example, now those who are teaching yoga and daily life, they are contributing not only to the humans, but entire nature, something good. We are working towards protection of the environment. We are working towards animal protection. We are working towards world peace. We are working for mutual understanding, tolerance, and respect. We are working towards spirituality. We are working for God awareness. And we are working towards good health. You should know that every insurance company is very happy with you because you are less ill than other people. In Europe, as well as America, Australia, and many countries in this world, if you are a practitioner of yoga, then you have to pay only half the price of the insurance. In Germany also. And if you are practitioners of yoga, you can deduct from your taxes. So yoga in daily life is not only the physical movements, but a way of life. Harmony for body, mind, and soul. And therefore, to become a teacher of yoga and daily life is a blessing for us. We are not only sports teachers or rehabilitation teachers. You know, it is said, a doctor can give you treatment, only a doctor is life. If a doctor is a life, even the best, best chirologist—how do you call the surgeon? When he died, his picture is there. Now his picture cannot operate you. Likewise, only the guru can give you the special kriyās, practices, and siddhis when... That master will pass away, will die. The body, all the siddhis will go with him. If he or she finds a proper disciple who can get and digest these siddhis, it's not only that. It depends on the master, not only. It depends on the disciple also, and when it's something written, that is like a picture. Therefore, physical contact with the master is very important. And though he or she is a master, the feeling is still that I am only the disciple, only the student. Even a perfect master will never say, "Now I have finished all my practices, I have all siddhis, I don't need to practice anything." That means now the car of the master is going down the hill and the brakes fail. Therefore, it is said in prayer, who is greater than God Rāma and Kṛṣṇa? They also had a master, and they were very obedient disciples. So they are the lord of all the three worlds, but in the front of the Master, they surrender like their disciple. Therefore, our yoga and daily life teachers, we allow them to teach only after certain years' experience. But I would suggest you take the chance of life and guide the people. Give your wisdom, what you learn from me, to others. The experiences and the knowledge of the disciple are like a fountain, and this fountain, if it is blocked in one swimming pool only, then it will die, but as much as it flows constantly, it comes clean and new fresh water. So when a teacher sits in front of the practitioners, that time, that teacher should have—when you sit in the front of your people, then you should have feelings, the bhāva. I am not teaching. I am not teaching. It is Mahāprabhujī's teaching. Only He is the teaching. I am only the medium. I am only the channel through which the wisdom is flowing. Of course, you have to deliver as original as it is. If you mix your ideas and your psychic feelings, your problems, then you will not be successful, and your students will not gain anything. Remain to the guru-vākya. Now in this Kali Yuga, in this modern time, people developed towards the materialistic life. The intellect of the human turned towards the materialism, and the spirituality, the power, the siddhis, are getting lost. It is for thousands, for millions of years. The research work of the great sages got lost in one sense. Holy Gurujī said in one of the bhajan, "The yogīs and the yattīs, with the hard practices, they create a beautiful spiritual garden." But this mind is a stupid monkey; it destroyed the whole garden within no time. And that is this: in this modern civilization, day by day. Like the Sahara is drying day by day. Spirituality is disappearing, and what will remain in the human's hands? Hot guns, war, and no God. Therefore, take the bow, make the saṅkalpa that we will try our best to save the world, the spirituality of the world. And therefore, every person who is sitting here, try your best to inspire the people. That is your best practice and prime duty.