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Good morning to everybody, and to all listeners around the world. Today is Monday, the day of Lord Śiva. Yesterday we spoke about Hanumanjī. Hanumanjī was the incarnation of Lord Śiva. Hanumanjī is Śiva, and Śiva is Hanumanjī, so today is his day. All kinds of spiritual sciences, all knowledge, mantras, and all that we humans have is a blessing of Lord Śiva. All mantras, yantras, tantras—all are created by one Lord, and that is Lord Śiva. We see Śiva in two forms. One is in the Trinity. The Trinity consists of Brahmā, who is manifesting or creating. Which creatures are created by Brahmā? This world is created by Brahmā. Brahmā is a heavenly architect, so we have this beautiful body. We are thankful to Lord Brahmā. It is his work, great work. No one can do this work. There was never anyone, and I do not think there will be another one like that. So we have the direct blessing of Lord Brahmā to have this beautiful body, to have this healthy body, to lead a life that is comfortable, sustainable, and independent. It means you can walk independently, you can see independently, you can work independently, you can hear independently—everything. This means God did not make us dependent on Him; He made us independent and beautiful. Then there is Viṣṇu, who is in the form of the ātmā, or in the form of the prāṇa, or in the form of the fire element. Viṣṇu is the one who takes care, like a housemaster takes care of the house. Similarly, Viṣṇu takes care of our being, ensuring we have everything and are protected. In this Trinity, there is also Śiva. Śiva means consciousness, that cosmic consciousness. Śiva is the first one in the universe, called Swayambhu. Swayambhu is Śiva. Śiva means liberation. And so in the Trinity, Śiva is there for giving liberation. It is He who destroys the negative powers or energies and leads us to the positive energy, to parama ānanda, the supreme bliss of liberation, mokṣa, or the brahma jñāna. So this is one form of Śiva, which we see as part of the Trinity, acting to remove negative energy and support us, giving positive energy through which His blessing and liberation take place. The second form of Śiva is the universal consciousness, which has no form. The first appearance of Him, the first manifestation of His divine body, you may say, is the sound Oṁ. And therefore, where there is Śiva, there is always Oṁ. > Oṁ Kāra bindu saṁyuktaṁ nityadhyāyanti yoginaḥ, kāmaṁ mokṣaṁ caiva Oṁkārāya namo namaḥ. That Oṁ Kāra, Akāra, the form of the Oṁ, with that bindu, the dot—on this, every day the yogī is meditating. And meditation should be with devotion. If there is no devotion, the meditation is not successful. If there is no Guru Bhakti mantra, your meditation is not successful. It is said that Nārada Ṛṣi once asked Viṣṇu, "Lord, where are you residing mostly? Where are you?" And God Viṣṇu said, "Neither am I in Vṛndāvana, nor am I in the heart of the yogī's meditation, where yogīs are meditating for Me. I live there in the heart and consciousness where My bhaktas sing My name." They sing My glory with bhakti, with love, with devotion. That means God is there where you have your mantra. When you repeat your mantra in your meditation, then Mahāprabhujī is with you. And when Mahāprabhujī's God is with us, then we do not worry about anything. We are in safe hands. So meditation on that divine form of the Oṁ is meditation on the divine consciousness of Lord Śiva. Śiva means pure. Satyam Śivam Sundaram. Satyam, truth. Śiva is the truth. What we call the ultimate truth, the final truth, the highest truth, that is called Śiva. Satyam, Śivam—that liberation, that consciousness. Satyam, Śivam, Sundaram—the beauty. What is the beauty of the truth? The beauty of God, the beauty of consciousness, the beauty of creation—everything. There can be only one beauty, and that is God, Śiva. Satyam śivam sundaram. So Śiva, who represents in the Trinity, also represents in every creature as the consciousness. That consciousness is the ātmā. That ātmā is the consciousness. That is what Hari Gurujī said time and again. "I am body" is ignorance. "I am pure consciousness" is wisdom. So that pure consciousness, without any negative qualities—pure is pure. There are no more words in it. Truth is truth, beauty is beauty, love is love. So Śiva is that, our consciousness. Śiva is constantly with us, and therefore mostly yogīs meditate on Lord Śiva because they know Śiva is the salvation. Śiva is the way. Of course, there are different paths also. The Vaiṣṇavas, who believe only in Viṣṇu, say Viṣṇu is everything; the rest is nothing. These are then discussions. Argument is called Tāraka. But Viṣṇu meditates on Śiva. The Īśa devatā of Viṣṇu is Śiva. And the Īśa devatā of Śiva is Viṣṇu. They do not make differences. Differences are in people's minds. After a certain level, then there are no differences, no forms. There is only one, and that is the truth, and that truth is Almighty God, what we call. Therefore, yogīs and yoga practitioners should be aware of these principles of Śiva, and that is why one should have a fasting day on Monday. A fasting day on Monday because it is the day of Lord Śiva. Or Thursday is also the day of Gurudev, Viṣṇu, Śiva—also good. Because you ate more on the weekend; you had time to eat more and cook more. Now, on Monday, you can give rest to your digestion. That is also healthy. On Thursday, you fast and prepare yourself for the weekend, that you will eat more. To see in this way is also good. The weekend, if this is created by Christian thoughts, by the Christian movement, Christian missionaries—Sunday is a day by Christians declared to go to the church, and so Sunday should be the holiday, is the day for the church. Now this has gone so far in the world that every religion has to follow this, every culture, every country has to follow this. They are saying, "Yes, today, Sunday, everything is closed." But there are some countries, I think it is said in the Middle East, they do not believe. They have on Friday; Sunday they do not close. They have no Sunday as a working day. Friday is the day for Islam, where they meditate, pray more, and attend the prayers. And because of the very deep connection to Judaism—Christianity's roots are coming from Judaism. And in Judaism, they have the Saturday. Saturday is a day where you should not work, do nothing, be with families and prayer. So this Friday begins the weekend, connected with Islam; Saturday, Judaism; Sunday, Christianity. So they made a weekend, and we all follow this weekend. Okay, they asked the Hindus. The Hindus said, "Every day is a holy day. Sunday is a day of Lord Surya Nārāyaṇa." Very good. Surya Nārāyaṇa, the sun god. Saturday is Saturn, the planet. So every planet is represented. The seven planets are the seven days. So everything is for the... some days for Hanumanjī, they are happy, okay. Wednesday is for Gaṇeśjī, Monday is for Śiva, Thursday is for Gurudev. Every day is a good day. It does not matter which day. The main thing is that you believe in prayer and have a little rest. That is it. So in our Yog Sādhanā, it is very important that we develop discipline. Many people, 99.5% of Westerners, do not understand what fasting is. Though they are with me, my disciples, nearly 30, 40 years, still, they do not understand what fasting is, though I speak so many times about it. In India, no one gives you a lecture on fasting. It is in their blood. They say today is fasting; they know immediately what it means. But in the Western mind, it does not go, "What is fasting?" In the West, people do not know what fasting is. On the fasting day, you should not eat even one grain of rice. Not even take it in the mouth. When you take one corn in your mouth, it is gone. Your fasting is broken. You see the good eating, nice, and you said, "Do you want to eat?" He said, "Okay, I am fasting, but okay." It is not okay. It is not okay at all. You are fasting. You are not even allowed to taste with the finger. That is called discipline, and that is called fasting. There is, once a year, a fasting day that is mostly for ladies. Ladies are doing it for their husband, that her husband will be protected and he will have health and be good in life, so she is fasting 24 hours, not even taking a sip of water. You see the dedication of the woman. There is no man who is fasting for his wife. Olive, and if she does not cook, then he has to do so. Fasting means, especially, no salt at... All that is scientific. On that day, no salty things tasting, and no kind of corns—neither wheat, nor barley, nor millet, nor rice, nor the rice corn, nothing. No biscuit, not touching with the hand and then putting this hand in the mouth. Your fasting is broken, kabūt. On a fasting day, you have to be so strict, like a doctor in the operation theater. An operation theater doctor, how much prevention they take, protection against the bacteria—the dark green dress, putting on some kind of disinfections and the gloves, and then he keeps his hand like this. Even he does not touch his dress; the sister has to come and tie his dress. And everyone who is in the hospital because of bacteria—the safety precaution is very important. A similar safety precaution you should take for your fasting day. And it is said on a fasting day, liquid is allowed—pure, clean water. Suppose you have sugar disease, or you get a headache when you fast, then you may take a piece of fruit or a juice, but nothing else. And you people, somebody said, "Okay, but ice cream is okay." Is it okay? Okay, yes, okay, ice cream. There are eggs inside, so many times I have told you the same thing in this lecture. You do not know what the fasting principles mean, though you know, but you do not take it seriously. We have to ask again and again, "Are you fasting?" "Yes," or, "Okay, I will eat." Now, evening, I will not eat—that is not accepted. Do you want to go to mokṣa? Okay, do you want to go to the hill? I do not mind. That is it. Morning, you get up, you go to your bathroom, wash yourself, and make the pūjā, āratī, and you can have your tea without biscuit inside. Coffee is not allowed because coffee is like a grain inside, you know. Coffee bean is nearly like a food. So, tea you are taking only as milk inside and the herbal leaves. That is all. Work, sing prayers, sing bhajans, hear good spiritual songs. Evening, come back, wash yourself, prepare nice prasāda. And when you are preparing prasāda, do not lick your spoon. That is not allowed, neither on a fasting day nor on any day. When you leak your prāṇa, then no more prasād. And the spoon, you lick it, you do not put it back in. You have to clean it. We say this is a sin. If you lick and put it back again and give it to others to eat, that is a committed sin, jūṭā. So here people do not know what is a jūṭā. There is no translation of jūṭā, but it is like any kind of infection. Now, almost in every restaurant, the cook takes a big spoon and, good, no bread—it goes inside. And we have strict rules in the kitchen that the cook must be healthy, must have a certificate, yes. But you know, no one is healthy. No one is healthy. Even a fresh-born baby is not healthy. The bacteria are enough everywhere, so you have to take precaution, as a doctor doing in the operation hall—do not be careless. And then, so when you prepare the food, sing mantra, sing some bhajan, think of God, repeat your mantra. Cook with love. When the mother is preparing something, eating for a small baby with great love, she is doing it. And she thinks, "What can I cook that my baby will like better?" Similarly, you are cooking as a prasāda, even only for you or for your friends and family members. After cooking, we offer it on the altar, if you have an altar, if you believe in God. If you do not believe, you do not fast at all. Then you are fasting occasionally when you are traveling and have nothing to eat, or at midnight your cheese is spoiled and the milk is spoiled and you have nothing to eat—then you are fasting till seven o'clock in the morning. So after we offer and we sing the prayer, after the prayer there is a satsaṅg, or you eat and after have a satsaṅg. And this is a process: how you should fast. And when you sit down and the food is on your plate and you begin to eat, then do not get up. You should complete, finish your meal while in that one sitting there. Not that you go away and bring something, and like this. While eating, you go and bring for someone sabjī or vegetables—that is not allowed. You have to wash your hands and then bring, but here is everything in one pot, what they call the one-pot cooking recipe. So you are taking plates in your hand from another one who has eaten. You bring it there and take others eating, and bring it there, and then you are again sitting and eating. What are you fasting? There is no culture in it. Eating is a culture. Eating has discipline and principle, and eating is God, life, nourishment. > Annapūrṇe sadāpūrṇe śaṅkara prāṇa valabhe. The prāṇa, Lord Śiva. All my relatives are the Śiva devotees, Lord's devotees. So this is also a spiritual culture. Then your spirituality will grow. On which day, which constellation, what you should not do—all this has disappeared from the human. The human's roots are rotten. Humanity's roots are rotten. There is no care about this. And no one cares how it is. We need only two things. We need, in time of election, your vote, and you are our consumer—buy our goods. That is all. This is not what people ask. But if we go very deep, then there were so many ceremonies. And because they put ceremonies in that form in spirituality, that people will follow. Otherwise, people will not follow, and now they have lost also the ceremonies, the belief in the ceremony. They do not believe, and where they do not believe, then sooner or later they will come into trouble: the mental disease, the depression, the hallucination, the fear, many, many things. Time is coming. As you approach the time, the fear comes. And you look within thyself, you have done nothing. You were selfish, you were careless, and you were running here and there, avoiding, ignoring your dharma, your responsibility. But now old age is coming, approaching, and you become sad. Therefore, it is said, "O Lord, please be now merciful, that my life does not go away without realizing something. My life was meaningless, but now, Lord, help me." So these are the principles that make you spiritual and successful. You know, it is the spices that make your food tasty. Otherwise, just put the spaghetti in the water, take it out, and eat. There is just a boiled chapati flour, nothing inside, but it is spices inside. It is salt, it is butter, it is some nice aromas or herbs, and then you get the sauce, this some night sauce, and then the spaghetti. Then it is tasteful. So it is the spices that make the food tasteful. So it is a ceremony. It is a ritual. It is that principle that makes your spirituality healthy and good spirituality. And that makes you aware of what you should do and what you should not do. And the same thing is when I should do my āsanas. And when you do your āsanas, you are dealing with your holy body. This body is holy. It is created by God, Brahmā the Holy. This is your temple, and you do not know which nerve is going where, which tissue is where it is, which muscles are joining and coordinating. Why one muscle is moving, why one muscle is relaxing, is in a tension—how does it happen? We do not know. It happens from the brain centers, okay? Brain centers. What are the brain centers? Everything. The body is living. Not only is your tongue moving, but your toes are moving, your fingers are moving, everything. I am talking, and how many things are moving in the body. Breathing at the same time. It does not matter how much I speak, I do not forget to breathe. And if I forget to breathe, then all activities are finished. So, breath, the function of all organs, blood pressure, blood circulation, consciousness, memory—that, that, this, all. So when you practice your āsanas, then you are touching that holy body, and look, take care. And also, when you are making prāṇāyāma breath, you are taking the holy breath, the holy energy. I breathe that cosmic energy, that cosmic energy I hold in my body. And it is that cosmic energy which I exhale, the whole creation. I exhale everything I created. All is in me, existing, and I will inhale. All will come back to me, and I will hold. All is in me, so recaka, kumbhaka, and pūraka—this is prāṇāyāma. Oṁ śo'haṁ, with the Oṁ śo'haṁ, and that is the mantra. Same thing when you sit and meditate—so discipline, discipline. Do not put your bhajan books on the ground under your legs, your holy books, all yoga books, and Līlā Amṛt, and this. Do not put it down. Put it always higher than you. Gurū Nānak Sāhib said, and it is written on the end of the book, Guru Nanak, and it is said that Guru Granth Sahib, the book of the Gurudev, you should know, is the embodiment of the Gurudev. This is the embodiment of Holy Gurujī. He is, in this book, He is. > Jāniye pragat-gurān kī dey. > Jis ke hirde sāch hai, khoj issī me le. And those who say, in the heart there is a truth, that eternal truth, they will find this in this book, that yes, my Gurudev is here inside. This is my Gurudev. Otherwise, many people, once I gave someone a little amṛt, and he said, "Look," and then he could not sit, so he just put it under his buttocks as a pillow. I say, hey, hey, what are you doing? You cannot do this. This is a Western mind. Lost. Feeling lost. You do not know where to put the wire. That is it. Because you do not know, you have no feelings. It was in India. I asked somebody, "Can I have one?" Eating two sheets of tissues, no? And he did not know what, what is this tissue? Somebody said, "Paper." So he ran into the toilet, brought toilet paper, and put it there. So I said, "Well, this paper belongs to the toilet and not to the dining table." He said, "We do not know." In India, they do not use toilet paper; they use water. So here, people have known this feeling, or it was, but lost. The Holy Bible was never put on the ground, and you never sit on the Holy Bible. The Holy Bible is a holy book, and that is why you will see when the priest comes into the church, he has the holy book and holds it like this. No, do not you see this, or only I see? You do not see? He will not go with the book like this on the roof, back, and sit? No, no, never. But people do like this. Many do not respect, and that is not good. So someone asked, "Why in India do they not have the holy books in the hotel?" In the drawing, so they said, because everyone is not that one who believes this, then there is no respect to the book. And many, they drink alcohol, and they take the book, and all drunk, "Krishna, no, bra, good day, Jesus, more Jesus," is not. Here, Krishna. Okay. In this, like this, drunken completely, they do not know what they are doing. Therefore, it is a respect for the holy books. Do not give to those who do not understand, do not read, and do not respect the holy saints. The world is divided into parts. One is what we call those who have lost spirituality. That is why the human, humanity, the roots of the humans are rotten. And we are searching for Pravda. Always say, "Yes, Pravda." We are searching for spiritual development and a solution. So it does not matter who will say what to you. This intellect, ah, these are only the dogma, and this is a blind belief, and this is a sect, and this is, we do not want this. It is very nice that you influence the people. We do not want a sect. What is a sect? Everything is a sect. Your cooking is a sect? Your wife's belief is a cooking sect? And you are reading newspaper sect? So what is the sect? Nothing is. And the sect is not bad; everything is very good. The sect was created by the Roman Catholic Church because, when people did not believe this, then they say, "We have our other religion, like, how do you call the Assisi, the François Assisi, or other believers?" So they said, "Okay, we have this sect." Sect is a sector, a part, so we are the Christian, but some are the Catholics, some are Protestants, some are the liberals, and some are the Orthodox, but all believe in God, Jesus. The main thing is Jesus; all believe in Jesus, that is it. So that was, that is a different sector, and the sector slowly, slowly they manipulated in the people's mind a sect, so sect is not a bad word. It is people who made it a bad word, and what we do not like, we said, "Oh, this is a sect. Oh, this is a sect," and people think also this is a sect. So again, human needs the discipline. Again, human needs these rituals. Human needs this all, you see? When you go to the Western world, you are here, maybe you have been in church, or you saw on the television, or this also: when the priest comes on the stage near the altar, he is doing also some kind of ceremonies and playing the bells and light, and this—what is this? This is a ceremony that is havan, and people like to see. People feel that God is adored. It is done in the name of God. So yoga means not that godless. Godless yoga is then when you say, "No, we do not believe anything, no guru, no God. We are doing only our sport." That is a godless thing. So we have to have. We believe this is a holy book for us. We trust, we believe it is holy for us. Every word is holy for us. And when this awakes in our consciousness, automatically there is a divine energy flowing through our consciousness. So, in the morning, when you begin your āsanas with a great feeling of love for yourself and love for God, place your blanket or mat. That is your āsana, and your āsana should be only for you. No one should sit on that. It is your prāṇa inside, and you practice your āsanas. Sit down or relax, lie down, you become aware of your being: my body, my breath, my organs, my digestion, my limbs. You become, and I am here, thanks to God. So my exercises, my āsanas, is a cosmic dance. Cosmic dance means the movement in the universe. And then you begin to do your āsanas at a different level, and after you sit down, the divine mother energy, the prāṇa—oh, how beautiful it is when you can just sit and inhale slowly. An indescribable feeling in the body. Consciously, you are breathing. Can you imagine how important and how beautiful it is to breathe? You do not know. If someone pushes you under the water, then you will know what it means to breathe. Say, "Please put me out." Even you cannot speak, and when you come out of the water, say, "Thanks to God." So breath, breath is life. Our life is hanging on the breath. When the thread of the breath is cut off, Hari Om, nobody is at home. You can ring and ring, no one answers, it is gone. So when we breathe in, unbelievable how beautiful the feeling is. Now you will feel when you do, because I told you. You know that, but now I make you more conscious, and then you feel your entire respiratory, your lungs, and this relief. You get a relief when you had an accident, or they say you have to lie down in the hospital straight, and next morning the nurse comes and she said, "Now you can turn a little right." That is a beautiful movement. Beautiful. Thank you, nurse. And she turns you a little right, and you say, "Oh my, gosh, here is a pain." You do not know what health is. An ill person knows what health is. A person in the hospital who is not permitted to move their leg for a few hours, after an operation of the hip joint or something, he or she knows what it means to move constantly. So, thanks to God, we have our body healthy. So, do everything consciously as a ritual, as a ceremony. I am myself, is the self. I pray, I salute. My prayer goes to myself, to the ātmā, the God within myself and within all. And then you sit in meditation, you clear up your consciousness. The Upaniṣad said, "All should be happy. Not even a small ant should suffer because of me." So I send these divine thoughts, sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ. I clean my heart from all negative feelings, and I clean my beautiful consciousness, the chidākāśa, from all the negative thoughts. There are no disturbing vṛttis, neither in me nor in others. Therefore it is said, "Śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam." Śubham means good, happy, pleasant, a good sign. > Śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam ārogyam dhana sampadā. Satru buddhi vināsāye. Śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam. Through this, please liberate us. Śubhaṁ karoti kalyāṇam ārogyam dhana sampadā. O Lord, bless us with good health. Dhan, the prosperity, and sampadā, the harmony. We should have money, but our money should bring harmony. Without harmony, it is only money. And that money can make a life very funny. Okay, there is no taste of honey. That is it. So, ārogyam dhan sampadā—that wealth, that prosperity with harmony. Satru buddhi vināsāye, and destroy the intellect. Buddhi means intellect. Destroy the intellect of the enemy, or the thoughts of the enemy. It means, if someone has negative thoughts towards me, oh Lord, destroy, remove, purify that, Lord. And if I have some bad thoughts towards others, please remove, root it out of my cittākāśa. That in meditation, when we sit down, we say in oneness, in purity. At that time, you see everything in oneness. Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya said, "Then you see thyself in every creature." This is the first step of Self-realization. It does not matter if it is an animal, bird, or a human. The ātmā, śopramātmā, everyone is in this. So this meditation, prāṇāyāma, āsanas is like a beautiful ritual, a beautiful ceremony. And fasting is that kind of ceremony where you have to observe yourself for 24 hours. That nothing happens, not that you are doing this or that. You know only what you should do and what you should not do. It is very, very important. Then your Yog Sādhanā will become successful, and rapidly you will feel the spiritual development. So quickly you will say, "My God, Swamiji, why did not you tell me this before?" I told you many times, but you did not hear. This is it. Then many things change. Health will change. Oh my God, what or not? So this is how we, as yoga practitioners, especially in yoga in daily life, and those who are not only here for physical benefit, but we do care for spirituality. We have a spiritual aim, and that is what we need. This body has been given to us for a particular time. And then God gave some time to get detached from this body. But we are so attached, we cannot get detached. God says, "No, now you go." Gray hair means prepare. Moving of the teeth, yes, means now take again the baby food, liquid. Baby was taking all the milk and the soft. So now we go back to the baby food. Milupa. And the joints are hurting, yes. Now, prepare for the other walk. Detach from this body slowly, slowly. Then suddenly one part of the kidney is not functioning. God said, "You see, lifelong it was helping you. Now its duty is finished." So slowly, slowly, get detached and hurry home. So the body is given to us for a certain period. Dharma of the body is to be born, grow, and die. So when we are young, we have different feelings, and after certain years, these feelings will disappear, and then other feelings will come. And then the persons, many, they put their desire in different ways; they go to the business, they do not care for their wife. They are workaholic. His wife said, "Where are you?" "Oh, I am in Tokyo, darling. Sorry." "When are you coming?" "I will come in two, three days." Then again, he is somewhere in New York. "Where are you now?" "In New York, darling, what are you doing there?" "Oh, I have a very important business meeting." And so life is gone, different. So one is in love with money, not with the wife or the husband, not the family. So this human became confused. So we have to have peaceful time, follow discipline, and meditate. This is your sādhanā, dhyāna, and Bhagavān kī. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, that is it. It does not matter what the world will tell you, what people tell you. I have to do my sādhanā, my spirituality, the satsaṅg, not a cushion. So, there was a question. Now we come to the question, okay? There was one question, someone about karma yoga. And this is a very nice question about karma yogīs: when, what I do, and what I like, and so on. So first, there are three, four points. I listen to talks of young karma yogīs. One said, "I am doing karma yoga because it is good for my spirituality, but..." It is selfish. How to remove it? The other Mother said, "I am doing from inner joy and need nothing, only prize." We wish to listen. It is good work. It is also a little bit egoistic. How to overcome it? Third said, "I am simply doing and do not expect anything. No thanks." But if work is not going well, I am unhappy. So, I am still attached to result. How to overcome it? Well, nothing in this creation and in this world is selfless. We are praying also selflessly. God, liberate me. God, forgive me. God, forgive my sin. Or we pray for spiritual development, this development, that realization. So there is always expectation. There is always, when you put a seed in the ground, then the fruits will come. Why do you put an apple seed in the ground? Because you think an apple tree will grow, fruits will come, and people will eat. Apple tree is good for this part of my garden. There is thinking. Though you know that you are an old person, by the time this tree will bear fruit, you will not be here in this world, maybe. But still you are thinking that someone will get the fruits. So even when you do your karma yoga, your duties without any expectation, just for making others happy and doing something for others, still you are doing it for yourself. There is a selfishness, two kinds of selfishness. One is positive, healthy, and the other is negative. That is not good. I like that when you work. I like to see the beautiful work you did. I like that people would like what you did. You remove the stones from the path. You remove the thorns from the path. This means you remove the stones and the rocks from your spiritual path. How beautiful that you remove this physical part, which is good for all. And this also reflects for you to make a clear path to your divine aim. So we do have an aim. We are all very selfish. Very, very selfish. When we say to God, "I do not need anything." This is a bigger selfishness, because God knows that he or she is playing a trick with Me. He said, "I do not need anything, but I know he needs liberation." So our selfishness is there. Even breathing is a selfishness; otherwise, we will not live. Eating is a selfishness; otherwise, we will die. So everything is selfishness, but some selfishness is natural, like eating and sleeping, and some is not natural. Some is healthy, some is not healthy. So when we are doing only that, "This is for me, only for me, nobody can take this, that is only mine," that is then self-feast. And you plant a tree or anything is for all, that is a self that has fruits. In the spiritual level, other have fruits on the material level. The material level fruits will not last long, but that one will last long with us. So it is selfish, you enjoy doing seva, very good. You like when someone sees, "Oh, it is beautiful," that is very good, and when you do the Karma Yoga, you feel happiness. That is very good. So this is a very good question. I was expecting this question. I do not know who wrote this. We need in Jordan now about twenty Karmayogīs. All Karmayogīs, they disappear from Jadan and run away because it is warm now. Now it is warm, about 38 to 40 degrees. So you see, they are Karmayogīs; they who run away are not real Karmayogīs. They are comfortable, selfish Karmayogīs. I will stay as I like. When hard times come, I go. That is it. So, hard times we need you. When there is a lot of Karmayogīs and a lot of the tourist visitors going with me in summer and Guru Pūrṇimā, then you are there also because you get so many chocolates. All who come from the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic bring so many chocolates to Mantra Devī, and so many cakes, and so many things. Her room is like my table here, you know. But now there is nobody going because it is hot, and she ran away and disappeared. Because it is too hot, and last year it was very hot for me. I said, "Yes, I know. Karma yoga is hot to do." That is it. Surrender. You have to go as iron into the fire. Then you say,