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Oṁ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī. Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī. Sanātana Dharma Kī. Jai. Good morning to everybody. Hari Om. Today is another beautiful day. Every day is a most wonderful day, but today is a more special day. Yesterday was the day dedicated to the Divine Mother Śakti, the cosmic energy. Today is the day called Daśarā, celebrated around the world. It is the day of the victory of Dharma and the loss of Adharma, the victory of Satya, the truth. It is the day where all the Bhaktas remember and celebrate the victory from long ago, the fight between Rāvaṇa and the Bhaktas of Śrī Rāma, where finally Rāma had to stand up to destroy the negative power and kill Rāvaṇa. It is a long story. The entire Holy Rāmāyaṇa is one of the best books you can ever read or know. The Rāmāyaṇa is a book full of devotion, love, and truth. God Rāma is known as Maryādā Puruṣottam. "Maryādā" is difficult to translate exactly into English, but it means the person who followed 100% all ethical principles—what a human should do and should not do. We have five questions to ask ourselves every day. If you are clever enough and wish to successfully navigate this human life as well as attain self-realization, then first remove all the negative obstacles. But sometimes we do not. Why? Because at the time of doing, we are blind. Blind means we fall into ignorance. We see reality differently; we create our own reality, meaning what I feel, what I think, and what I do is the best. It means you have separated yourself, and the fruits of those deeds are wrong. Therefore, these five points are a great lesson and great protection for us. First, always think, especially when you do not know if what you are doing is right or wrong. Ask yourself to become aware: I am a human. This does not mean we are discriminating against other creatures, but it gives us the right consciousness, the right knowledge, to make a positive distinction between human and animal. "I am a human. Can I do this, or should I not do this?" Just become aware. Yes, it will awaken or open your inner eyes. It will protect you from negative actions. Your Viveka will tell you, "You are a human; you cannot do this." So, from time to time, repeat in your life: I am a human. Every second, ask: What makes me a human? What does it mean for me to be a human? Do you know what it means to be a human, or do you not want to be human? Long ago, I think it was in 1968 or '69, I once told Gurujī, "The birds have a very free and good life. They can fly away in the sky. How nice to be a bird." And Gurujī said, "These birds also have many enemies, and it is not so free and comfortable and beautiful as you think." That is true. Sometimes people say, "Let me be a bird, oh my Lord, and fly." But every bird has many, many enemies. So, what does it mean for me to be a human? You are free. You can practice. You can follow the disciplines. You can create good things. You can protect many creatures and humans. You now have the golden chance to be a human. I am a human, and what does it mean for me to be a human? The third question is: What makes me human? That is it. What makes me the human? What are the differences between other creatures and the human? Every living entity has some good in them. God has created all with some sense in it, but the human has different qualities. What makes me the human? Yes, the good qualities: knowledge, Viveka, intellect, kindness, forgiveness, equal vision, understanding. These qualities make us human. Through the quality of education or society, you are made. The Divine makes you holy, makes you a good person, makes you a human. And it makes you the thief, makes you the terrorist, makes you so and so. It is the quality which makes you, and therefore, where there is quality, there are no compromises. The human qualities are within us. That is what we call hidden powers in humans, the hidden treasures, the selected pearls in the creation. Does the human know the value of this? When we come to know our good human qualities, then playing your tricks does not function because it is against the human law of human qualities. You will lose it. How will you lose it? In the night, you have a very beautiful dream, and you want to tell it in the morning to your parents, your wife, husband, or children. You wake up, and it is gone from your memory. You know you had a good dream and were so happy to tell everyone, but it is completely gone—like when milk is spoiled with lemon; the cream is gone, you cannot take butter out of it anymore. So, if you try with your blind intellect—a dry intellect, a blind intellect without devotion, without heart—it will be lost. At the present time, humans are too much above, in the Jñānendriyas in the head. All Jñānendriyas are located in this part: the ears, the eyes, the nose, the taste, and the skin throughout the whole body. But the heart is lost. So, only Jñāna without Bhakti, devotion, means you are only the intellect. It is a dry intellect, so it will get lost. One negative thought is like one drop of lemon in the milk. Your choice, of course. Do it, yes, you accept. Or not, that is your choice. Many think, "Ah, Swāmījī tells and so on. Easy to say." Yes, definitely easy to say, but it is not easy to hear this and to tell this directly to someone. So, these qualities which make me human are very good. How to protect these human qualities, what we call human rights? But human rights are abused now around the world by those people. Things are still happening; what should happen is they should have more protection. Human rights and criminality are growing and growing, but human rights are for this: that humans have the freedom to decide what to believe, where to pray. Everything is human, so they can use their human talents and live. Protect the life of the human body? Not just that. Protect from cold and heat? Every creature does that. When cold winter comes, most animals go deep into their holes, into their houses. Protect your best qualities so that you do not become angry, you do not become jealous, you do not become greedy, and you do not play the theater. They always say, "I can't do this," any excuse? Please, can you excuse today? That is because you are afraid to lose your self-respect, but that is already lost. Kapat kī bhakti prabhu nahī̃ māne, sache rāche Madana Gopāla. Sache rāche Madana Gopāla, sab kushā deve dātā, dīpa dayāla. Sab kushā deve dātā. Kapat kī bhakti prabhu nahī̃ māne. God does not want these tricks. Sache rāche Madana Gopāla. God Kṛṣṇa, Gopāla, is happy when you are doing really with an honest heart, with love. Finally, the fifth question: What do we ask of ourselves? Every day we should ask: What is the mission of my life? What is the mission of being born as a human? Not a mission that you create a big company, or a big swimming pool, or build a beautiful house and have a family. This will come anyhow. Family will come anyhow. Everyone has a family; animals also have families, you know? Did you see yesterday, tiger and pig babies, how happy they are together? They adopted. She accepted them like her own children, though they are pigs. So this will come, whether you want it or not. But the prime mission of human life is self-realization, Ātmā-jñāna. Be sure this human life is given to gain Ātmā-jñāna. The purpose of life is to gain Ātmā-jñāna. It is the chance given by the merciful Lord to come out of the cycle of rebirth and death, to finish this suffering of transactions from the physical world to the astral world and again to the physical world. Only one aim: Ātmā-jñāna, meaning the supreme realization, God. There are different kinds of self-realization. There is also self-realization about your body: how to keep my body healthy, how to keep my body beautiful, how to do this and that. All this is body consciousness. You also need it. Do not neglect your body just like this. That is also very important. I think all who are sitting here in this hall, maybe 5% are body-aware. Maybe—that is a big question. What does it mean to be body-aware? That is a very important question. I think there is one person I can tell in this 5% of people: Kriyānanda. Kriyānanda, you always have a plus point with me. Not that you eat what you like, but you eat what your body likes, and this is very hard for us. Good eating comes, and a little salt is missing, and your wife says, "Well, today we are out of salt." The whole day you are at home, you cannot even buy salt. I must have food without salt. You know, only this little salt creates disharmony between you and your wife. Poor lady, she tried very hard to make a very nice dish that my dear husband will enjoy the meal, but there was no joy. I can imagine because... there is no proper chili in the food? Oh, a person like me is more hot than chili, that is it. In an aeroplane, you are flying only two hours from here to London, then you do not get your vegetarian food. Oh God, can you imagine how much your blood pressure is going high? I ordered my vegetarian food, and I did not get it, and I went right to the airlines. Yes, we are doing this. This is the reality, please. Actually, you should fast once a week for 24 hours, only liquid that does not disturb you. But two hours in an aeroplane, only two hours, where your stomach is full—actually you are not hungry—but you did not get to fulfill your ego, your desire. So many people, they drink nice milk. Many people, they drink fruit juice, very nice clean water. Thanks to God, we in Vienna have the best water from the fountains, springs from the high mountains. I can tell, Vienna has the best. A high quality life: good air, good water, good people. Oh yes, very good people, like me. Do you agree? Yes, that is it. And you will see that Vienna, and all of Austria, is a country where there is really very, very little crime or something like this. Be proud Austrians. Why are you emigrating somewhere else? Anyhow, you are happy to sit in front of the television on the sofa and drink more of that kind of liquid which your body does not want. Instead of that, you could go for a walk. Instead of that, you can do Prāṇāyāma, and you can do the Āsanas, and you can eat one apple if you are not allergic to apple. So, I mean that you who are more body-aware, who have got body realization—this is the first step of realization. If someone invites you to the cinema, you quit your yoga program. You are not body-conscious. The second realization is that I am my property, my house, my things. This is another realization. It may be unhealthy, but it is. But you are not that one which you are thinking, "I and my." You have to come to the realization that we are all one Ātmā. All living beings have within them only one Ātmā. The individual is your soul, which is talking: "I am." But the Ātmā is the universal, the Supreme Soul of the whole world. He is the Supreme Soul of all living beings. Vayī ātmāsa chidānandam chidānandam śivo'ham. Akhil viṣvaka jo param ātmā hai, ātmā of the entire universe, the ātmā of the whole world, sabhī prāṇiyoṁ kā vahī ātmā hai. And that one is the Ātmā of all beings, all entities. And also I am that Ātmā, the very one, our self, the divine self. And that same Ātmā is the Ātmā of all creatures. And I am also the same Ātmā. To know this is our last and final and main mission of this human life, by Mother Nature or Father God, or whatever you call who gave you the birth of the human body, who sent you into this human body and gave you the most valuable tools, which you cannot get anywhere in the universe, anywhere: Jñānendriyas. Oh, my God. Jñāna-indriyas, Karma-indriyas. Also, the understanding, the intellect, the knowledge, the tendency to forgive, the tendency to understand, the tendency to give mercy, blessing, and kindness—other creatures, unfortunately, do not have that much. May I limit it? Yes, some of your animals, house pets, they can also be loyal to you: your cow, your horse, your donkey, or your dog. There are certain animals, even birds, that can be loyal to you, but not in general. That is how the humans are. And so it is given that you should utilize all these abilities and concentrate all your force towards one aim. And that is your mission: to realize the Self, to realize God. Akhil viśva kā jo paramātmā hai, sabhī prāṇiyoṁ kā vahī ātmā hai, vahī ātmā saccidānanda meṁ hūṁ. Satsaṅg with Moojī. Śivo'ham, Śivo'ham, Śivo'ham. He vyāpak jo kan kan meṁ hai vāś jiskā, that is omniscient, omnipresent in each and every atom, does not matter visible or invisible with your physical eyes. Jo vyāpak hai kan kan meṁ hai vāś jiskā. His residence is in every atom, and that cannot be destroyed at all in the three times: past, present, and future. That is called immortal, undestroyable, unbreakable, everlasting. Well, when it is so, then Gaṅgāpurī, why are you unhappy? Nothing will happen. Ātmā is immortal. Your house, your money, your business, your family, or your body—everything, Hari Om, it will be. Just take care as much as you can, but when you know that in all three times—past, present, and future—this Ātmā cannot be destroyed, and that I am, this is so. Identify yourself not with this body and mind and thoughts and your belongings, but with that Paramātmā, that Ātmā which is everywhere in the universe, in every atom. So this is the main duty, the mission of the life of the human. Otherwise, many are born, many gone, many will come and many will go. That is it. Charācharī kā khela jag meṁ do din kā hai melā. Koi chala gaya, koi chala jahega, koi gathri bandh khada. Akela charachari ka khela, jag mein do din ka hai mela. Characharī kā khela. This is a theatre of all these creatures. Charachari kā khela. This is the theatre of birth and death. What a good theatre, no? Beautiful, no? Yes. Our planet is that stage where we all play the theatre. We are all good players. Some are so good, they can confuse me too. I try not to be confused, but they are playing a trick. Such a good trick, you know. I have something in my hand, and then I say, "And there is nothing in the phone." How quickly it can be so? Charāchari kā khela, jag mein do din kā hai mela. But in this world, there is only for two days you are together in this theatre. Enjoy it. One day was yesterday, and the second day is today. You do not know if tomorrow we will be continuing this theatre. That is it. Charāchārī kā khela jag mein do din kā hai melā. Koī calā gayā, koī calā jāyegā, koī gaṭhrī bāndh khaḍā akhelā. Someone has gone. Someone has gone. Someone will go. And someone just packed a suitcase and is standing alone on a waiting list to go to the hospital or anywhere. Koi chalā gayā, gayā chalā jāyegā, koī gaṭhrī bāndh khaḍā akelā. Jag meṁ do din kā hai melā. Only for two days meeting in this world, then you go. This is a beautiful bhajan of Swāmī Brahmānandajī Mahārāj. A very beautiful bhajan, and so it is not sure that you will have again the opportunity. There is one word in Hindi and Sanskrit both: "udhār." "Udhār" means liberation, so one day, and "udhār" also means to get credit, to borrow money. In Slovenian also, oh, so "udhār." So about six years ago, once I was walking with Holy Gurujī in Jordan Ashram behind the Bhakti Sāgar, on this road to go to the other side, only me and Gurujī. I was there, and I told Gurujī, "What is the difference between udhār and Mokṣa?" Gurujī said, "Only an honest person can get udhār, who can pay back. Honest means who will pay back the money. A thief cannot get udhār, that is all." So you can get only credit if your bank knows that you will have a source of income. Otherwise, everybody will get credit and then go and sit in the house and say, "I have no money. You can take me to prison. I will eat there also." Prison people are not happy—I mean, not the people who are in the prison, but those who are taking care of it. Can you imagine when all sit in the prison? The government will get bankrupt. They have to feed you everything, give cloth and washing and this and that and everyone. Human rights? I want television? No, please. There, we are very expert to say "human rights." So, liberation, you will get only if you have the credit there, if you have some reserve, and that means your sādhanā, your discipline. So, these are the five points which we should remember from time to time, every day: I am human. What does it mean for me to be a human? What makes me human? How to cultivate these qualities which make me human? And what is my prime mission of being a human on this planet? That will make you aware and bring you to practices. If you lost your practices, you have lost your confidence, then you have lost everything. So Mahāprabhujī said in one bhajan, "O my mind, you lost everything with the kusangaīs, not satsaṅgīs." If you go to the satsaṅg, you will gain. But if you go to the kuśaṅga, you will lose everything. Everything. Therefore, this program, "Yoga in Daily Life," is a unique program. It is the program for everything, in every aspect, for everyone's interest. And each branch of this Yoga in Daily Life leads to our aim to fulfill our human mission. It is said that you are sitting in a big boat, and Gurudev is the captain. Remain seated in this boat with Śraddhā. Be sure the Gurudev will bring you to the mainland, but in between, if you jump out, it is not a mistake of the captain. And that is, I think, what Guru Nānak said: "Satguru Nām," the name of the Gurudev, is the boat. Those who will come in will cross the ocean of ignorance, or whatever you call it. Sādhaka sevako, those who will remain seated with Śraddhā, confidence, faith, guru pāra utāranehāra, be sure your Gurudev will bring you to the other shore, to the mainland. But when you begin to play your tricks and change color every day—you know, there is a lizard, a chameleon, you know, there is a lizard changing. When he is angry, he has another color. When he is relaxed, he has another color. When he is happy, other color. Aggressive, other color. Emotional, other color. So when you change every day your altar in your heart, that makes the biggest problem for your health. Sometimes you have a gap between. You do not know where. Suddenly, there is an empty space. And that gap will be one day a missing step for you, where you will fall down. Chain one chain to another chain; this makes a long, long chain. But when one hook is missing, it will fall down. So, the gap between your love or your confidence and God, that is it. So never give up, even when such a hard time comes, like King Harichandra. How hard was it? Or devotion, like a Śivarī Bhīlanī, which we spoke of yesterday—does not matter, but my master said that God Rāma will come himself to you. You need not go anywhere, and he came. Therefore, to understand the words of the Gurudev, so how the Gurudev can give you all that you need on the spot, but you must have Śraddhā. Therefore, Gurujī said in one bhajan: Shrī Deepadāyal Yajñasunālī Prabhu, Deepadāyal Yajñasunālī Kar Kirpāmo Yen Sat Saṅg Dī Jo... Shrī Deepadayal Yajasunali. Therefore, Devapurījī often used to say: God takes upon Himself the destiny of the devotee. Guru Dev takes on himself the destiny of the devotees, if you are a devotee. But if your Antaḥkaraṇa is not purified, then for years and janam janam you will be suffering. There is a great saint, Āchal Rāmjī Mahārāj. There was one saint in Jodhpur. And Holy Gurujī often used to mention or quote the bhajans of Śrī Achal Rāmjī. There is a beautiful bhajan: Aneko janma dhoye man ko chittai ho to aise ho. Many, many lives you wash your mind, but still such a fat spot on it, it does not remove. So, purification of Antaḥkaraṇa in Kali Yuga now, best is mantra. Kali Yuga kevala nāma adhara, śūmara śūmara nara hoi bhava pāra. In this Kali Yuga, we have only one hope: the name of God, mantra, your mantra. Śumar, śumar, nārahoyī bhavapara. Repeat and repeat and repeat. O human, you will cross the ocean. Śraddhā. Śraddhā, Viśvāsa. Faith and confidence. Both are very important for our spiritual development. Also, you should have faith in yourself. Do not say that, "I forgive." That is very easy, but you did not forget. "I do not need your forgiveness, I need your forgiveness." Put it out of your mind, and that is not easy because in the mind there are so many layers, so many, and from time to time this will disturb ourselves. Therefore, Patañjali said two things are very important. Atha yoga anuśāsanam, discipline that can make your yoga successful. Yogaḥ citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ. As long as your Citta, your Antaḥkaraṇa, your consciousness is not purified, you cannot get this. Otherwise, day by day, more and more desires will grow, and you are the victim of your desires, which sprout out of our ignorance. Therefore, the way out of the ignorance, out of the darkness, is only wisdom, knowledge. Therefore, often Gurujī said—when we went to Khattu Ashram, Gurujī had a talk with Surajpurījī. Now, Premanājī, you remember? Often Premanājī was there. And Gurujī said to Surajpuri: It is a pity that you do not need well for yourself. This is this. Otherwise, you will be somewhere where you know, and therefore remove your doubts. Doubts should go out, no delay at all, waiting without any waiting. Kṛiyānanda, okay, yes, and it will be so. You should say, "Yes, Master, it will be so." That is all. So, I wish you all the best. I am very happy that we had four very nice subjects, and today was first: the aim of human life, how to protect ourselves from doing things about which we do not know if we should do them or not, what to think or not, and faith. God gives you everything where you need it. The same thing Mahāprabhujī said one day to Gurujī, when Mahāprabhujī told him, "Now you go and bring the light of Guru day further." And Gurujī was a very young boy; he did not know where to go, what to do, and so on. So Mahāprabhujī said to him—first he sang the bhajan: Even you will be sitting somewhere high in the mountains, where even humans cannot reach the place. I personally will bring for you eating on the lunch eating time. Why do you worry about this? It means you do not feel the Gurudev's presence in your life. I am doing. Therefore, Gurujī said in this bhajan: "Mādhavānandake ānandabhārī, pal-palāleta sambhal, sabkūs devedātā dīpadāyāl." Therefore, unshakable faith—the moon and sun can change their direction from east to west, they can change from north to south, but the words of the saint will not change, will come true, and so... Chand tale, suraj tale, or Himalaya hill jai, but my confidence will not shake. Even Himalaya begins to shake, and moon and sun change the direction, but my heart will not change the direction. That is called strong faith, and that faith is your liberator. That will bring you there, nothing else. Therefore, get these three different kinds of realizations, and then you will be coming to the Viśvātmā, Paramātmā, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa, and Bhagavān Śrī Śrī Devapurīśa Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...