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This is the biggest problem. Even at the Kumbh Melā—the place we go for meditation and spiritual development—people fall in love again. This means such a person does not understand what it means to be at the Kumbh Melā. This person does not know what spirituality means. This person is completely blind. When one is blind and you describe colors, the blind still will not understand. I have nothing against falling in or out of love; that is okay. But you should understand the particular place and why you have such thoughts there. Why do you have such feelings there? It means you are very far from spirituality. Inwardly, you are desperate, frustrated, and discontent. You do not know what spirituality is. This means you just want to survive, and that is why it happens. If you have clear vision, you will be able to wait for some time and wait for your husband or wife when you come back home. Now there is a new mode, a new fashion: husband and wife do not go together on holidays. The husband goes to Bangkok, and the wife goes to, how to say, Hawaii. That is not good. I was so surprised that even at the Kumbh Melā, these blind, frustrated people—who have no spirituality at all—such things happen. What to do? Let us hope. It is said sometimes the blind hen also finds the corn, a blind chicken. So there are chances like this to develop spirituality. When you go for karma yoga, why do you go? Somewhere to do good karmas, but you create other bad or complicated karmas. You come home and have conflict with your husband or wife, or with your boyfriend or girlfriend. You bring restlessness and destroy the beautiful work yogīs have been doing for so many years. So please, only those karma yogīs should go who will be able to wait three to five months, six months for his wife or her husband, with no negative talking and not constantly sending SMS. In general, karma yogīs, you know, per day about 15,000 SMS go. Can you have 15,000 out of 18 or 20 karma yogīs? It means going and coming, and they do only two or three hours of karma yoga. At lunch time, they are sitting and talking. At breakfast time, slowly coffee and sitting. So now the rules: eight hours working time, only one hour lunch time, that is all. If you are able to do that, then please come; otherwise, better not to come. People who go only for ten days, or one week, or one month to India are not allowed to communicate with karma yogīs. Karma yogīs will have a different kitchen, a different dining place, and a different sleeping place. You can only see them at prayer time. These are the rules if you want to go. It damaged many things, so we need your goodwill. Goodwill means also, please do not come to confuse the people—that is also goodwill. And another goodwill: do not talk negatively and destroy people's beliefs and feelings. No SMS, please. Inform all people that those who went to Jordan for karma yoga, maximum once a month you can send a message: "How are you?" That is it also. When we came here, it is a sādhanā. You feel your hands, you feel your inner feelings, you concentrate. It is a tapasyā, you know. I am very, sometimes, sorry for the ladies. They have such nice... Now, Swamiji said, "Clean this grass," and then they look at their nails. Somewhere, creases, but this is a tapasyā. Why are nails damaged? Because they are not real ones. That is not real color, but still we take care. You have gloves, but work is worship. Mera Jeevan Terī Pūjā. Oh my Lord, my life is a ceremony for you. But we are doing the pūjā, you know. Pūjā means prayer, ceremony, meditation, mantras. This is a pūjā. The word pūjā, all you can do is pūjanya. Pūjanya means adorable, worshipable. Whom you can worship, whom you can adore, that is called pūjanya. And to respect, glorify, celebrate that pūjanya means the pūjā. So when we have a god altar and we do the pūjā, it means we adore, we worship. But a bhakta said, "My Lord, all my activities in my life, my life is a pūjā for you." O Lord, my life is a ceremony to you. It means I surrender, and I will do what you tell. Always we ask God for something, and always we expect some answers. When we pray, we ask the question, "Lord, help me fulfill my wishes." I can... pass my examination, I get good numbers in school, I find a job, I find a partner, Lord, maybe have good children, and so on. That is called a hunger of the humans. Mostly, the hungry being is a human. Other creatures have only one hunger; that is called eating. But humans have a lot of hunger because the human mind is hungry. It always would like to become more. When you have 100 crowns per hour, you think, "It would be good if I have 200 crowns," and when you have 200, you think, "It would be good if it is a... four hundred." When you have one million, you try to multiply to five million, and when you have five billion, I would like to come in the list of the richest men of the world. Now, how many hundred billion do I need? So this is called a hunger someone has. Hunger about getting money, someone has hunger about social position, someone a hunger out of getting beauty, someone a hunger to get a partner. So, look, we said "look" and "tṛṣṇā," and tṛṣṇā means longing in the fire of the Trishna, all creatures are burning. Every human wants to have promotion from one little post to the higher post, that is it. So this is a hunger. If you can satisfy this hunger, then it is the best. Therefore, one mahātma said that you become immortal while eating that sweet which makes you immortal, that is the best sweet. The sweet which makes you immortal is the best sweet, and sweet means fulfillment of the desires and spoils the mind from the desires. What a best sour? The sourness, like lemon, spoils the milk. So we need that lemon, we need that sourness that we call the sour, which can spoil our desires towards this all hunger in this world. Therefore, the same ātmā said, "Oh my inner self, the Lord who is within me, you are the king of senses and mind, you are the king of your senses and your mind, and the desires are limited to the senses and mind. Do not be the slave of this." And therefore, karma yoga only that person can understand who understands spirituality. "Mera jīvan terī pūjā," my life is a ceremony to you, and in English, it is said, "Work is worship." We say, "Let's do prayer, let's do ceremony," so it means doing so. Whatever karma yoga you are doing, it is not a work, but it is a ceremony, worshiping the Lord, and to put yourself in discipline. It is the karma yoga which gives you discipline. It is called karma yoga, which gives you joy, and karma yoga is the best therapy against depression. It is the best therapy for the people who have schizophrenia or people who have some mental problems, because doing karma yoga means that all stuck energy from you, you have put out. A new energy is coming, and it awakens within you the beautiful chakras, and your intellect is purified, and you have time to think. You have time to observe yourself. You are observing yourself. It is called svādhyāya. Svādhyāya means two. There are two kinds of svādhyāya. One svādhyāya means the studying of the literatures, holy books, or some professional literatures. Student life is totally dedicated to svādhyāya. The student who does not watch television, does not go to the nightclubs, does not go to the cinemas, does not go to the discos, that student becomes one of the best students. And the children who are always looking at the television, going with friends outside to the clubs, their mental energy is gone. Their limited concentration capacity is divided into many parts. So, if you open too many vents, then there is no pressure at all. So, as long as you did not finish your future, your study, you do the svādhyāya, study, study, abhyāsa, abhyāsa, kaunteya, abhyāsa, oh son of the Kuntī, Arjuna, practice, practice, practice... makes perfect. One you see in Olympia or somewhere, sports theaters, 10, 15 years, 16 years, girls and boys, they are dancing on the one beam, iron or one wooden beam, and they jump like a monkey, and it looks so easy, we would also like to do it, and definitely you and me, we can do it too, not only once or twice, jumping the first and the last, that is it. But this kid or person, it can be an old one, but who is day and night practicing. They are holding their hands like this and standing in the air. It is not one day's practice. It is not one month's practice. It is not one year practice, and it is not one hour practice. But it is a lifelong dedication. It has an aim, and nothing can disturb or move the concentration of this person, like a rope dancer who is dancing, walking on the rope three or four meters high. It does not matter how much temptation you show, that person will laugh with you. That will look to you and that will say yes and no, but the main concentration is on his or her feet that keep the balance on the rope. For us, it would be hard to walk on the rope. For us, it would be hard to come on the rope, just to stand on it is hard. The hanging bridge, when first time you walk there, and it is about 100 meters deep, clips between two hills, and the hanging bridge is moving like this. You cannot walk without anything. You hold the, you have to hold the rope, so abhyāsa practice. Therefore, for children, television looking is not good, accept some children's programs, something for nature and like this. And children who are looking at television too much, they are... they do not think good of themselves. There are many children in our yoga family. They do not want to see television. When the parents put on television, the children cry, "Father, do not put on television because I am studying." Such a child is a teacher for the father, so father and mother, they should help the children. The second, svādhyāya, means "sva" means the self, to understand the self. And the self can be selfish. In the self, there is anger. In the self, there is jealousy. There is a greediness, and in the self, there is a love to come to know thyself. But before you come to know thyself, you have to go through studying. Adhyāya. Adhyāya means the chapters. The chapter of your life. It means anything you begin anew becomes a chapter of your life. And you finish that, or without finishing, you begin something new. Anything can be. Suppose you want to study medicine, then you give up. Then you want to study some computer technology, then you stopped it. Then you want to become a sportsman, a swimmer; after one and a half years, gave up. Or the relations—many, many things. These are the chapters of our life. Now, when you meditate, or when you are doing karma yoga, if you observe yourself, it is very interesting how many old chapters will open in you. Maybe you have forgotten that chapter. Suddenly, a chapter of three years of life, when you were three years only, or two years, or ten years, twenty years. You never know when your inner chapter will be opened. These are the patterns on our consciousness that can be good, must not be bad, also very beautiful memories. We were eating today, my honey and Mukesh, he said, "Oh, Swamiji, in my village, there, there are so many trees, and there were so many bees, wild bees, and we were taking honey, you know. It is not easy to take the honey. In India, everything is intensive. Indian bees are very intensive. They know when you are 100 meters away with which intention you come there, they are very well trained, and they will send their army. Check. That is it." So I told Mukesh, but all these naughty boys are doing it, no? Throwing the stone and running away. So Mukesh said, "Yes, something like this." Now, what I want to tell you, this is the pattern: the chapter of life which opens sometime, it was a long ago, suddenly came to the memory. So, there are some chapters we should keep in memory, and sub-chapter we shall send it to the Supreme Court, which was not good. So, Supreme Court means God. Ab saunpā diyā is jīvan kā sab bhār tumhāre hāthon mein. Ab saunpā diyā is sab bhār tumhāre hāthon mein. Hai jeet tumhāre hāthon mein aur hār tumhāre hāthon. Jeet tumhāre hāthon mein aur hār tumhāre hāthon. Ab saunpā diyā is jīvan kā sab bhār tumhāre hāthon mein. Lord, everything I surrendered in your hands. If I will be successful or not, if I will be the winner or loser, is in your hands, my Lord. And that is the supreme court, and there the judgment will come. There, all our mistakes and everything will be purified, so when you do the karma yoga, many chapters open within you. Anger comes, doubts come, jealousy comes, tiredness comes, laziness comes, hunger comes, many, many things, and beautiful memories come. So, work is worship. Kriyāvant, kriyā, working, function. And even earth is working. You see, the earth is changing constantly. Time of the spring, the earth has different vibration, different energy. And in autumn, in November, there is a different energy. In spring, the earth is a teenager, coming above, this 19, 18 years, 20 years. And November, you have reached 100 years. Again, slipping, slowing down. So Earth is constantly working. The seeds which you put in the Earth, immediately Earth begins to work so that seeds will sprout. Similarly, in the universe, every star and planet is working, moving. And not only this, the space itself is working. The space itself is expanding into space, into the space now. One universe is creating another universe. This you can only understand if you meditate. Suppose you are meditating, concentrating in the inner space, and then you imagine yourself sitting near the... Look, a beautiful morning dawn. Now you see yourself sitting there, but you are sitting here. So the universe in the universe, space in the space. So you are in the space, and space is in you. So there are many beautiful things in our life. Many beautiful patterns are there, colorful patterns. So the self, the swaṁ, means to know the chapter of thyself. And it is that sṛiṁ, the self, which is from the beginning of this universe. It is that spark, a light from that universal self, and we should know that, and therefore, doing something, it is an opportunity. There are two kinds of opportunities in this life. The biggest opportunity God gave us is human life, and with this, God gave us a big opportunity and responsibility to do something good, to do good things. The human can turn everything again in beauty, and human can turn everything ugliness. When you create spiritual energy, when you create peace, when you create a satsaṅg, and there is no beauty in the universe which can be compared with the satsaṅg. Nothing is. There is nothing more divine in the universe than the satsaṅg. In many old scriptures, it is said even the goddess, the god himself, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, they go and sit and listen to satsaṅg. Devī, devatā, ṛṣi, muni, yogīs, siddhas, all they are sitting in the satsaṅg. Maybe you are some of those who do not hide. Please, you can tell me, okay? I will tell nobody, because we are only one body. We are many bodies, but only one, so I will tell to the self. So maybe you are a Śukadeva Muni, Vyāsa Muni, Vasiṣṭha Muni, Ṛṣis, Gargāchārya, many, many. So there is no greater beauty than the satsaṅg, where the wisdom, the nectar of the wisdom, is flowing, and the peace of the universal consciousness or unity is flowing. Every heart is open and beautiful, and there is no ugliness like war and weapons shooting. Can you imagine you are sitting in one room, and outside, hundreds of guns are shooting? There cannot be any more terrible, ugly situation or vision than this, the war. So God gave the opportunity to do something. Puruṣa, we call puruṣa. The puruṣa comes from puruṣārtha. Puruṣārtha means working, so turn the ugly things into beauty. It means ugly thoughts: the jealousy, the anger, the hate, the greediness, the selfishness, into the beauty, and that can happen through your karma yoga sādhanā. Therefore, finally, Kṛṣṇa gives the judgment to the karma yoga. He said to Arjuna, "Yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam." Oh, Arjuna, your yoga sādhanā will be successful through doing the karma yoga. But when you are going to do the karma yoga and you withdraw yourself away from karma yoga, and you disturb another person who is doing karma yoga, then you are not harming one thing, you are harming two persons, and not only these two persons, but all who are connected with this project. The aeroplane pilot, you confuse him or her, and the pilot says, "I am sorry, I cannot fly. I go home now." All passengers are sitting inside. And all children are sitting inside, hungry and thirsty, and they announce, "We have to get a new pilot." They will not say that our pilot does not want to fly; they will say, "The pilot is ill," or something. And the other pilot comes. I said, "No, this is not my plane. I do not have to do anything with that person, the pilot, because if I fly with this machine, then he will be angry. I do not touch this machine. Sorry," off he goes. Who is suffering now? The passengers, the expectors of the passengers, relatives, and so on. That when you take one responsibility to do something, and then you say, "Sorry, I cannot," then you get more heavy karmas than you thought. So do your duties, do your karmas; the fruits God will give. This is the teaching of the Gītā. Without puruṣārtha, work, no one can get anything in this world. Even dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa, only you can get through puruṣārtha, through work. A creative person, for a creative person, nothing is impossible. He or she will get everything whenever he or she wishes, because he is active and creative. But who is not creative? A lazy person, who sees the neighbors and friends. They are developing a big house, a big car, a big husband, and this all says, "Why? My God, he has a big house, he has a big car." Jealous puruṣa, rat-hīna prāṇī, sab kush dekh kar roī. He is weeping, crying when he sees the other's progress, development. Use kush bhī nahī miltā. He cannot get anything. Agar milegā bhī to degā khoī. In case of case, he or she will get it, will lose it. Everything, there was a beggar, a hunter. A hunter is considered as a beggar, a sinner, because killing the innocent creatures, so once a king saw a beggar. The king was riding a horse with his friends, and they were going for a picnic, and they saw a beggar there with a gun in his hand, nearly no good dress. Thirsty, tired, and searching for some animals to kill, the king was a very spiritual king, and he asked, "Why are you killing these animals?" He said, "My lord, I am poor, I have nothing, so while killing these animals, I feed my family." The king said, "Well, now, I give you something. You will not be poor anymore. I have five thousand hectares of forest, very, very expensive. The best sandalwood trees are there, and I give you this." He was very happy. The price of one tree now is about more than 50,000 euros, and there were the thousands and thousands of trees. He went home and he told his wife, "Ah, now we will be very rich." "Say, why?" "The king gave us a beautiful big sandalwood forest, and what should we do? Let's go chop the trees and make the coal, and we will sell the coal because coal is in the market, very expensive." She said, "Good idea," and they began to chop the trees and burn the trees and made the coal. After five years, he was as poor as he was. And again, the king met him. He said, "You look still poor." He said, "My lord, five years was the best years of my life. The quality of the coal was so good. Have you some forest more, please?" The king said, "In your kismat is only coal, black coal, you know." Not diamonds, so who is not a puruṣārthī? Who is not a creative thinker? So a lazy person will get nothing, and in case if he gets, will lose everything. Such people are always jealous, those who think, "This goddess will help me, this goddess will help me," they are wasting only the time in the śāstras. Devas, goddesses mean the work, creativity. More than 10 million gods and goddesses are in your body, and all they are active and ready to help you through your intellect, but also, that much is a negative. Also, more than 10 million, and they are fighting to put you to the negative side. Puruṣārtha, name puruṣa, puruṣa means puruṣārtha, work. So, it does not matter if man or woman, the karma yoga, therefore. When you do the karma yoga tapasyā, the agni awakes, and it is said, "Yoga agni karma dagdhani." The fire of yoga can burn the seeds of your karmas. Therefore, do not do karma yoga as an obligation. Do not do that. You must, as yoga is told, yesterday. There are some ashrams where people are on the waiting list from their social high position. Also, even people are on the waiting list to clean the toilets. The best way to kill your ego is to go and clean the bathrooms and toilets. Work is never dirty. Behavior and actions can be dirty, so karma yoga is the best, and we have to follow Guruvākya. Mangilāl Jī said, Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī.