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Good morning to everybody in this beautiful, historical town of Szeged in Hungary, located at the bank of the river Tisza. In Hungarian time, European time, it is twenty past ten a.m. Magyar idő szerint most van tíz óra, húsz perc, dél előtt. I welcome all bhaktas, friends, aspirants of yoga, spirituality, and seekers around the whole world to this lecture, especially the bhaktas from New Zealand, Auckland, and Australia, because that is the other side of the earth from us. The subject is yoga in daily life, harmony for body, mind, and soul. The name is beautiful, but what does harmony mean? Harmony is a state of being in perfect condition: health, perfect health—physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. "Mental" here means emotional health. Many, many problems are created out of emotional problems. These may be connected with the family, with parents, partners, children, your colleagues at your job, the condition of your house, or even the condition of your car, which can cause you a big disharmony and emotional problems. When your car is running smoothly, nicely driving, with perfect air-conditioning and perfect movement, emotionally and mentally you are harmonized. But if it always stops, goes, stops, starts, and breaks, emotionally you become so angry. Emotional problems come from inside when you are not content. You can cause problems when you are not content. Also, emotions and emotional problems can come out of your thinking. There is a story about one very famous dentist. Dentists have to deal with many emotional problems. You know, these 32 teeth in our mouth are connected with emotional waves. When you are happy, your jaw is relaxed. When you are in tension, you are biting your teeth. Almost all champions and sportsmen carry inside the mouth what they call a denture, because sometimes they are so emotionally angry and they bite their teeth so hard that they come out, and constantly they are grinding their teeth. So many have to carry this denture. When you don't like someone, you grind your teeth. If you are someone who is happy, it is said that if you are harmonious, you smile. When you smile, only two or three muscles are a little bit in tension. But if you are in disharmony and angry, then 76 muscles are in tension. What happens? That causes disharmony in the entire physical and astral being. Our gland systems are alarmed, and they begin to produce different hormones. Many systems suffer: the digestive system. Some people get diarrhea, some have constipation, some can't digest food properly, and some have emotional problems. The biggest one is inside: your ambition, which is always disappointed. Ambition is connected with ego and selfishness. When something is not proper, you get into anger. Your wife, your husband, your children, or your friends may mean good for you, but you don't understand that and you are angry. When you come to know they mean good for you, then you are happy. For example, there is one true story from the time of socialism in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and all these countries. You know how it was, perfect or not perfect. But whether it was perfect or not was a mental problem. A person from Budapest or Szeged would like to go to Austria, and it was very hard to get a visa and permission to go. You were suffering because of this. Now all borders are open, and no one wants to go. There is no tension. This is the emotional problem. Krishnanand's wife, Amritanand, said, "Now we have already five years, and I think now I can get permission to travel to Austria. And now, no time to come." During the time of the socialist system in this part of Europe, the president of the Soviet Union—not Gorbachev, before that was Brezhnev—a strong man, a mighty personality, visited Prague. All Prague and all of Czechoslovakia was decorated. Why not? That person meant something to them. For you, it meant something like Christmas, and you decorate. Some decorate for Christmas, some for weddings, birthdays, and so on. Everywhere it was written, "Welcome, Brezhnev, welcome." The procession was going through. All the school children were standing with flags. It was something for the children; it was a joy, a festival. There is the central jail. The procession was moving by the central jail, and on the main gate of the central jail was written, "Welcome, Brezhnev Elftar. We welcome you in jail, Brezhnev Elftar." They meant well, but how did he take that? That was the problem. The director lost his job immediately; he had to move away. But after, he said, "Sir, Your Excellency, it means not in that way. But they all were happy to welcome you." It's okay. He understood, but some people did not like that. So you see, someone does something good to you. It meant good for you, but you take it otherwise, and that is a tension problem. There was one doctor, a rich one, but he had a problem finding a wife—a surprise, a problem to find a wife. There are so many girls waiting to find a boy. In the world, there are more girls than boys. But can you understand? Still, the problem is to find, because girls are not so stupid as to go with someone who is psychic and not in order. In modern psychology, we call it a communication problem, and a communication problem is only a psychic problem, mental disharmony. And that, you see, is always wrong. You like to eat chocolate, do you? But when children eat chocolate, you say, "Don't eat too much." You make a mistake and you don't see that, but when someone else does something, you make such a theater out of that. It means you have disharmony within you; you are not capable of understanding. The doctor went to a psychologist for therapy, and he telephoned the psychologist: "I can come only in the evening, after ten. Nobody should see me going to a psychologist. I will pay as much as you want, but please, there is no one." Psychologists understand. He said okay. They found out why he has a communication problem: because he has his own ego, too strong, being a doctor, a dentist, and having money. But be sure, you cannot buy a good wife with money—only some stupid girls, not forever. They are praying for when you will die so they can have all your money. Love cannot be bought with money; you cannot gain love with force. Love comes if you are inside healthy and trusting. Otherwise, with one word you can destroy that. When the thread is broken, you cannot join the thread again. If you try to tie it together, it remains a knot. The psychologists advised the doctor, if he wants to find a wife, to always say yes and not go against her will. He said, "That's very hard for me." They said, "Well, if you want to have a wife, then you have to become a yes-man. Otherwise, bite your teeth." So he tried to become a yes-man. He found some person and invited her for dinner to a restaurant. They took the menu card, and she said, "I like Hungarian lecsó." He said, "Oh, that's my favorite one," though he had never eaten lecsó. Then she said, "But with hot paprika." He said, "That's very good, because it keeps the whole body fresh." When it came and he took one spoon, the lady asked him, "How do you like it?" "Wonderful." Water, water. Anything she told, he said, "That's my favorite." She said, "Well, I like the sitar music of Ravi Shankar very much." Pandit Ravi Shankar is a world-famous sitarist. He said, "That's my best relaxation medicine. That's my favorite one," even though he didn't know how the music sounds and had never heard the sitar. Then they were talking about some culture and arts. She said, "I like that painter," and mentioned a famous name. Whatever you tell, that is what I like. "I have in my sleeping room the picture of that artist." She said, "Really?" "Yes, in my sleeping room, big. That I must see." He said, "Of course, I invite you. You're welcome. Tomorrow we will have dinner at my home." "Okay, I want to see the picture." In reality, he did not have that picture, and he heard, for the first time in his life, the name of that artist. Now he kept on telephoning everywhere and paid a lot of money to buy the original picture—more than five million dollars. You know, a dentist pulls one tooth out for ten thousand dollars; one little repairing, 500 dollars. You make, ah, that is $50 flowing away. He got the picture and carried it home, but he had to hang the picture in the sleeping room. First, he didn't have such a big wall near his head, so on the other side he managed. He had a beautiful nail but no hammer. That lady should come in half an hour, so he thought. Now the psychic problem begins. There is a psychic problem called communication disharmony. When something beautiful happens, then inside you, your ego says something: "No, that's not good." And that's your conflict—conflicts that you don't like someone's good work. You wanted to be the best one, and this is a problem, a psychic problem. Such a person suffers lifelong because of disharmony. When there are twenty musicians playing different instruments, or when you see it in opera, in European opera—how many instruments are there? But all are in one harmony. If someone begins to do things like this, oh God! All will take you outside the opera because you are a factor of disharmony. So it is your ego which begins to make some other noise inside. She is coming in 25 minutes. No hammer. She will be disappointed if she doesn't see the picture hanging in my sleeping room, so he thought, "I can borrow the hammer from my neighbor." Why not? So he took his jacket and tie again—Mr. Doctor. I'm sorry, is anyone a doctor here? I mean, not, but there are some full of ego, like me. He went to his door. Before opening his door, he said, "No, I, as a doctor, to my neighbor, who is a hand worker, a messenger—going begging just for a hammer? In my life, I never begged. And now I am going begging for a hammer? No. I will not go to him. He can have his hammer. In 20 minutes, she's coming. Well, nobody will see that I ask for a hammer. I will quickly knock on the door and ask him for the hammer. Why not? That's not begging; that's a help." He went out of his door two steps. "No. What will I say if he refuses to give it to me? I don't have a hammer. What will be my position at that time? I am a beggar. He's the giver, and he refused to give me. No, I don't want his hammer. Oh God, in 15 minutes she's coming." That man, a poor man, struggling between two situations. "Well, I don't want his hammer. But how should he know that I don't want his hammer? I must show him that I don't need his hammer." So he went to the neighbor's door and said, "Neighbor came, open door. Yes, sir. I don't need your hammer. You can hit your hammer on your head. That's all." The neighbor said, "What happened to you, doctor?" Well, that's called the disharmony and the reaction of disharmony, an effect on others. He just put the picture in the sleeping room, put a nice table like an altar. "She will be happy about how much I love this picture." And the telephone was ringing. "Ah, dear doctor. I'm sorry, I can't come for dinner because my husband is ill today; I have to be at home." All plans fell down. He became crazy: angry, desperate, disappointed, ego, jealousy, and anger. At that time, a human is completely crazy, blind, and can do anything. It's called the hurricane. Now he goes to the market, on the center, like a second center, at one o'clock in the night, and begins to scream, "I don't need your hammer! I will never invite you for dinner!" And the people telephoned the police: "There is someone who is making noise; we can't sleep." The police came. "Say, sir, please don't make noise. People are sleeping." He said, "I must make a noise." The police said, "Why? There are so many wild elephants running." Police said, "But there's no elephants." "Yes, there's no elephant because I'm screaming. If I do not shout, there will be so many elephants." So mental disappointment, disharmony, and emotion can cause physical trouble, social trouble, and spiritual trouble. That becomes destructive. So harmony. And then, the soul. What do we mean by the soul? The soul is the core, the main thing of our existence. Whatever happens to us touches our soul, and that soul radiates energy, touching our very gentle centers in the body like the heart, the brain, the digestive system, nerve system, and gland systems. So when you see suddenly an enemy that has a negative influence, a radiance on your body, and when you see someone or something which you love and say, "Oh, it's here," it's radiance, harmonious energy. When you think negative, your aura becomes grey. When you think angry, your aura becomes red. When you become greedy, your aura becomes weaker. And when you feel love and happiness, your aura is widening, opening, and getting brighter. That's called the ābhā maṇḍal. Ābhā means the aura; maṇḍal means the circle. If you see some old paintings and photographs of holy persons, they always show light here because that is the light of the Ābhā Maṇḍala of that person. It is said when you go to the church, the aura, the Ābhā Maṇḍala of the church, is so pure, very strong. When you enter into the ashram or the temple—the ancient name of the church is also temple, and Hungarians are always calling it temple, no? In the Hungarian language, and from Christianity's roots, it is coming more from Judaism. When Jesus was born, they were also called the temples. Many stories in the Testaments and in the Bible, what you call, are mentioned in the temple. Temple is a proper word. When you come near the temple, ashram, church, mosque, or synagogue, because there's a name of God and there are prayers to God, there is a very positive energy. Entering the temple is like entering a swimming pool; you feel the water. When you meet a loving person, then your energies begin to radiate because harmony is there. When there is harmony, then your body, your intellect, your mind, and your soul will adopt that foreign energy. Even foreign particles: if your body is in harmony and that particle is in harmony, then your body will accept it. Otherwise, the body will reject it. Similarly, just as your physical body rejects foreign particles, your psychic body, your emotional body, or your mental body also rejects them. So also your intellectual body. What I am telling you, some of you don't accept. It can be, maybe. Your intellect rejects my words because you don't accept. But if you harmonize your intellect and you are on the same waves and the same ābhāmaṇḍal, then my words are a remedy for you, or my words are like more particles which will brighten your light more. Psychologically, every evening all the members of the family used to come together, sit together, eat together, speak together, sing something, and read something. And it was there all the time, in the whole world. Grandparents had the best place. Grandmother was the boss of the boss, and mother is the boss. Daughter is a servant. Son is a servant. Husband, caretaker. Grandfather, controller. The whole family together: the dog, the cat, the cows. The whole family together. Now they read some holy book: Gītā, Rāmāyaṇa, Koran, Torah, Bible, any yoga and daily life book, meeting with the master, then singing some nice bhajans. Why do we sing? When you sing, everyone has the same word in the mouth, the same word. Second, every vocal cord is creating the same melody, the sound resonance, and it is harmonized. That removes the disharmony of the family. That's called a happy joint family. And now, mother is for dinner in Kiskunhalas, father is for dinner in Budapest, daughter is at dinner in Novi Sad, and the son is somewhere camping with the Romans. Where is the harmony? At home? Also not in harmony. She is also alone. What do you expect today, harmony in life? So that is the advice of yoga and life: a suggestion, a therapy. Create a happy family. If you don't have one, don't be unhappy. Maybe your parents died; maybe you are alone. Then join your spiritual family: Yoga in Daily Life family, the worldwide big family. Go to the ashram, go to yoga class, go to church, go to the temple. Join the spiritual life. Join some social worker organization. Many people are waiting for someone to come. Every day you can visit some family. Don't feel lonely. And if you are at home alone, then peacefully read your book and meditate. Finally, you have time for practicing. So it is said in India, Hindus say, "Vasudhaiva Kuṭumbakam"—the whole world is one family. And with family, you should live in harmony. So yoga in daily life, harmony for body, mind, and soul. Your soul is radiating energy, and it touches your cakras in the body: all cakras, Maṇipūra, Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, all these cakras. And it focuses the light of love in the heart and the light of knowledge in the Ājñā Cakra, and it makes you happy. In your harmonious situation, suddenly if your ego and greediness come out, then you block that energy in such a way that you keep a gap between two streams, and that will bring your entire being again into disharmony. That gap which you have can attack your body as some complication: organs, blood circulation, and so on. If there is a physical and emotional disharmony, you can't concentrate; you can't meditate. Then there is one beautiful yoga technique, and that's called Brahmārī Prāṇāyāma. That will again bring the distance together; it will heal that disharmony. That gap will be removed, and it's like a miracle. That harmony is there through the Brahmārī prāṇāyāma, the resonance. We will do some kind of practices this evening in the lecture. A person who loves others, who respects others, and who is happy to be with others—either with your family or your spiritual brothers and sisters. Mahāprabhujī said in one beautiful bhajan: "Satguru Satsaṅgyārī Olu Avere, I am longing to see my brothers and sisters of my Gurudev's satsaṅg." All disciples of my Gurudev, all followers of my Gurudev's teaching: I'm longing to see them today. That's why satsaṅg is very important. Satsaṅg is more important than any exercises or anything. But don't gossip in the satsaṅg. Don't talk negatively in the satsaṅg. Don't put blackmailing in the satsaṅg. It is your disharmony, your desperation, your complex; then the negative karma will come back to you. So even if there is something you don't accept, you have to use your knowledge to accept it. Accept. Then you will feel very relaxed and happy. Otherwise, you will not find harmony there too. A person who is inwardly dispirited—jealousy, complexes, disappointment—feels in the satsaṅg like a goat between the tigers. There are many tigers sitting, and one goat is there. Doesn't matter, you can do all techniques. Tell goat, please relax. That goat cannot relax. Calm down. Relax the whole body. It cannot. It means within you is that fearful ghost of your doubts, your complexes, and you can't release that tension. Therefore, it's in your hands to think positively. And if you can't accept something, don't think about that. "Satguru satsaṅg yārī olu avere, I'm longing for my all satsaṅgīs of my Gurudev." How much do I long for that? Only when I remember, my eyes are full of tears—love. When your dear person dies and someone tells you, "I'm sorry for that," it reminds you again, and in your eyes are tears because that was so dear to you. Similarly, all satsaṅgīs are so dear to you that your eyes are full of tears; you are longing for them. Anywhere you see one friend from your satsaṅg, oh, you give a big hug because that one is a source of your harmony, a source of your happiness, and it's your partner who is walking on the spiritual path, so we are one. All, you know there is one fruit, what you call here, I think, pomegranate. You know pomegranate? Who doesn't know, hand up. If you don't know, go to Serbia, and you will find it there. The skin of this fruit is that Gurudev's satsaṅg. It is the Gurudev, and all these pearls inside—the seeds—we are. If you take one out, it will not thrive. But if it remains in, it will thrive; it will be tasteful, beautiful. So we are all parts of that one, and that one is only one. So we are all that one, as a part of that one. It's all beautiful, the pearls or diamonds or whatever you call them. So when I think of these spiritual brothers and sisters, my tears are falling. How much do I suffer for that, longing for that? Example: a fish without water, you know how much she is suffering? She gives up her life, and she is suffering. She gives up her life while in great suffering. Don't kill the fish. Don't take fish out of the water. If someone will push you under the water, how will you feel? The same thing the fish feels if you take her out; she's suffering. Her pain is indescribable. Dear one, it's not easy to die. We don't want to give up this body so easily. It doesn't matter what happens; we will play all the tricks. We will take all the medicines. We will knock on the doors of all the doctors. And we will telephone to all the gurus to bless us: "Please help me to become healthy." It's not easy to die—no one, not only humans, animals too. So a spiritual person is longing for spiritual meetings, like a fish is longing for the water. There is a call, a supreme swan, Paramahaṁsa, and he lives in Mānasārovar. It is not visible to everyone. Very, very rarely, someone may see him. That swan is the immortal one. And if you, the real swan, if you give him water and milk together, he will drink the milk and leave the water out. And their nourishment is only pearls. So here, swan means, symbolically, your soul. That Mānasārovar Lake in Tibet, near Kailāśa Mount, is your heart. Your heart is that beautiful lake in which that Paramahaṁsa is dwelling—your soul, liberated one, our Gurudev. This lake belongs only to that Paramahaṁsa. But if there is no pearl, what can he eat? He will suffer. So pearl means here the words of wisdom: Guru Vākya. So that enlightened soul in the heart is still waiting for the satsaṅg. Never and never goes to Kusaṅga. Even to hear the name of Kusaṅga is frightening because there is one of the best air, atmosphere, and everything in Mānasā Rovana, where Śiva and Pārvatī were bathing, and the holy water of the holy Mount Kailāś is flowing. So, "Mānas Sarovar Haṁsa Viraje, Moti Nahīṁ to Haṁsa Kyā Khāve?" If there is no pearl, what should the swan eat? So a bhakta, when he can't go to satsaṅg, feels like he is starving—hunger. And when you come to satsaṅg again, you are happy. Therefore, in every center, in every ashram, you should have satsaṅg at least once a week, and go to your nearest satsaṅg place. Lucky are they who can organize a satsaṅg in the name of Gurudev. There is one shell in the water which is in a particular constellation called the Svāti Constellation. In this constellation, if the rain falls in the ocean, and Mother Pearl, if she catches that drop, becomes one of the best pearls. Sāgar's sheep—now that sheep in the ocean is happy and suffering because he wants to have that water, the drop from heaven, even only one drop. "Amṛt Bunda, Kaun Barsāve?" Who will let fall these drops of the nectar? That means the words of immortality. Nectar means immortal, and the rain means the preaching. So, who is going to preach to us the words of the nectar of immortality? That's called Guruvākyā. That's the preaching of all holy spiritual scriptures of the world. In all holy books, no matter which language and which religion, it is written about love, harmony, understanding, and forgiveness: non-violence, helping, be kind, be good. That we don't read anymore, but we read some kind of different books. And the news also: how many people were killed, how many bombs were exploding? Very rare news comes: "There was a beautiful satsaṅg, Amrit Bunda." Nobody knows what is Amrit Bunda. I think in Croatian language, "bunda" is a jacket; Hungarian too. "Piyu, piyu, ratata, papaya." There is one bird we call papaya. I don't know what you call it in English. Also, during the monsoon time, there is a special season, and he is screaming because he is very thirsty; he wants to drink water. There is a lot of water on the ground, but he does not want to drink; he only wants to catch the rainwater. Your child, you give them bread, rice, potatoes, spaghetti? No. "What do you want to eat?" "Ice cream." You see? So that's called Haṭha. Haṭha Yoga. So that's called Bāl Haṭha—the heart of the child. The willpower, strī haṭha—the heart of the woman. Rāj-haṭ—the haṭ of the king. And yog-haṭ—haṭ of yogī. Or haṭ of this papaya. "Piyu-piyu-nithratatapapaya." Every day he is calling, "Piyu, piyu, piyu." "Padiyo nirvāṇe naibhave." He doesn't want to drink the water, which is their life. So it means there is everything written, but you are not satisfied. You want to hear this again in the satsaṅg. Again, you want to go to satsaṅg and hear the same thing direct. Now you are already second-hand. Water on the ground is the second hand. I want the first hand. So please, God, let the drops come—means the words of the wise person's preaching. So when there's satsaṅg and words of wisdom there, you feel insight; your spiritual hunger and thirst are quenched. Mahāprabhujī said, "Where every day is the satsaṅg, but bhagīsuī jana pavé." The blessed or fortunate ones are those who can go every day to the satsaṅg. Satsaṅg is a way to God, and kusaṅga is a way to the hill. So choose yourself. Deep night, Bhagavān.