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To see you is beautiful; it is a beautiful day that we are together. We shall keep to our subject: spirituality for world peace—the light of wisdom for world peace, for self-contentment, and for the protection of this beautiful planet. Life situations are different for humans across the world. Humans have created or developed a way of living completely different from ancient times. Still, in human consciousness, in the human mind, in human feelings, in the human heart, there is a tendency to create peace, harmony, love, and understanding. Some are spiritual but do not want to dedicate time. Nowadays, people have become what we call workaholics. To sit in a room and meditate is boring for many. Just to read a book is also boring. Instead of reading the whole newspaper, they turn on the radio or television, and in one minute you know all the news. So now, how do we develop our spirituality? I would say there are hundreds of ways. So, leading an everyday busy life, living with family or without, what can we do to be spiritual and develop spirituality? If we at all have spirituality in our heart and mind, we need actions to maintain and develop it—meaning practice. The way of life is so different now; the so-called living standard is different. Without money, it is very hard to live. And when we think of money, then maybe we become selfish. But it is said, "Paramārth" and "Svārth" go parallel. Paramārth means good deeds, selfless deeds, spiritual deeds. Svārth means selfishness. Both go parallel in our life. When you are very weak, very hungry, and very tired, you cannot help someone. But when you eat well and have energy, you can help someone. So when you are eating, it is selfish, but this selfishness—the food you eat—gives you energy to help others. So we have Paramārth and Svārth parallel. It is the love, or the spirituality, or compassion, which keeps you running. Every day you learn something new; it does not matter how much you know. Every minute there is something new; that is why knowledge is limitless. Let me tell you a little experience from yesterday. We were driving from Ljubljana to Naumesto, and at the beginning of Naumesto there was an accident, an ambulance. Was there a doctor? Was there a helper? These helpers were running to bring something—maybe a bandage, a blanket, an oxygen machine, or anything. You could see in the action of these helpers, spirituality. In that moment, they were not aware they would get money for this work. In that minute, they were not aware of their family either. They were only fixed on: how to help this person? How can we quickly transport this person to the hospital? What can be more than this? The spirituality in the action. These actions which they did, God sees. If there is a God, if He is on holiday, we will inform Him. Or if there is some account where this will be credited as your good deeds, then it will definitely be registered there. So that is what I used to say: helping hands have more value than folded hands. The best karma is also to take away someone's pain, whether animal or human. We are not afraid; we are only afraid of the pain. We are not afraid of the dog, but we are afraid the dog will bite, and then it will be painful. We know a doctor works for money, for his family, but he or she will have more positive credit in their account than the selfish. Also, the nurses who are working, you know how much they run here and there helping ill people. This was only one example. There are many possibilities in life where we can be helpful to others, directly or indirectly. This is the way, in this modern life, we can develop our spirituality. That was one thing, physical only. But there is also far more: emotional, mental, spiritual. And that is to help someone forever, to come out of the pain of birth and death, where we have to experience all pleasant and unpleasant things. That comes through wisdom, or what we call, another way, a spiritual work. There are many possibilities. Again, there is one means: to be a teacher. We call guru, you call teacher. A doctor who gives you treatment, or a surgeon who performs an operation, could not be that surgeon or doctor if that person had not attended courses at the university with their teachers, professors, or what you call the guru. There are different professions. There, you also get some kind of teaching, but that is against ethical principles that we do not want to learn. We do not want a profession, for example, a butcher. This profession we do not want to learn, and we do not want. So there are many like this, different things. But we would like to develop spiritual energy and spirituality while teaching some meaningful things to humans. And that, I would also say, is becoming a teacher of yoga and daily life. Many of you are teachers of yoga and daily life. Many will become teachers. Now you are working for your living, but at the same time you are working for your spiritual development, where you can, in the first place, help the person to become healthy, then help the person to be balanced mentally, then make the person healthy while giving a motivation for life to live a happy life. Then you can explain and teach and motivate towards spirituality and make the consciousness clear. So yoga in their life is something which has everything in it. I am not concentrating only on āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, but more than that. Sometimes I do certain things, and many of you do not understand why Samāj is doing this, but that was very important. I see that was very necessary. To be a teacher is a great blessing, because you give wisdom to someone. Anyone can take from your hand the bread, but no one can take away what you have in your brain. So what you have learned, you learned it, and now this wisdom, what you learn, it is known as a kāmadhenu. They know it is that kāmadhenu. They know that cow which gives milk forever. Every day you consume the milk. It is not that the same milk will come back. New milk will come. So your wisdom is that milky cow which will feed many, many hungry ones. And that cow needs to be fed also with love and devotion. If you do not have love or devotion to your knowledge, then you will develop an ego, and then that cow will slowly, slowly give up giving milk, or that cow will die because now the ego has taken over. Therefore, we should be very careful that we do not develop the ego. But with the devotion we are teaching, we give to someone. You can also, on a certain level, teach animals. So to be a teacher is a great blessing, a blessing you cannot imagine. And that will develop your spirituality. So it does not matter if you teach even one person or ten persons. Persons always observe that you are not doing something wrong, that you are not disobeying that wisdom which you learned. There is an indicator showing the way to Ljubljana, but you are going towards Belgrade. You know how to drive, but you are going towards Belgrade. You are not going towards Ljubljana; you will not come to Ljubljana. Similarly, if you use your wisdom with your own ego, thinking "I can do it," it is different. Then you miss your aim. Then all that you have done was for nothing. So, to develop spirituality through actions is easier for us now than sitting and meditating. Once Gurujī said, holy Gurujī said, "It is not easy to make mantra and meditate the whole day, eight hours, but it is easy to work eight hours. The workers who are working eight hours, you tell this worker, 'You will get 100 euros more per day, just sit down and make mantra.'" It is not easy. So spirituality is a very rich nourishment. It is not a job for everyone to digest. So for us, in this modern life, it is good to develop spirituality through actions. That is called karma yoga, yoga karaṁ śuklaṁ. Through this karma, you can be successful in the practice of your yoga. So in your actions, take care that no one is offended, or that there should be no violence. Take care of ahiṃsā. Keep always in your heart compassion. Understand them, guide them with the right wisdom. So to be a teacher of yoga and daily life means a great achievement in your life. And do not forget also practicing. You should also practice. When we are so far that we understand what help means, even if you get money for that help, it does not matter. Money is not of that value compared to the value of the things which you have helped. Sometimes money has no value. For example, you have to go to the airport. You are late, and you go to the taxi and tell, "It does not matter. Even if you have to drive through a red light, please, I will pay the fine. Bring me to the airport on time." So you do not care if you pay more money or not for a taxi, but you are only aware of your destination. So, of course, you get some money, but what you help is much better. Therefore, to be a teacher is a blessing when this consciousness awakes within you: that you are a teacher, you are helping. Then you will begin to understand the people, and when you understand the people and their problems, you will get more feeling of dayā in your heart. And that means you will bring peace within this group, and this group will try to understand and bring peace in their family and society. So there will be waves of spirituality. You need not introduce it; it is there. You need not write on your t-shirt, "I am a spiritual person." Spirituality does not need any kind of advertising. Like when the cold winter is there, winter does not tell that "I am the winter now," but we know winter is here. Or when the hot day is there, the day does not tell us, "I am very hot," but we know, we feel it. So, like this, the waves of spirituality, which will radiate from you as your aura or positive energy, will spread in the world. So there we count, then the quality develops into that quantity, which will have a result of peace. And therefore I always say: yoga for world peace, meditation for world peace. And also, definitely, this food is influencing us. Also, the water is treated with chemicals, so there are many, many things which are harmful. But we need to balance the inner function through āsanas and through prāṇāyāmas, and the food. That is called Pakṣāstra, the philosophy of cooking. And that is very much described in Āyurveda. Āyurveda may sometimes have a slow effect, but sure, and no side effect on the body. So, to be or to have Āyurvedic knowledge, or knowledge of Āyurveda, and to be a teacher of yoga in daily life... Then one thing more is missing that I will tell you in the afternoon. That is very, very important. So if you are a practitioner of Āyurveda or you have knowledge of Āyurveda, it is the same. Being a yoga teacher, you need Āyurvedic knowledge, and not half knowledge. Mahāprabhujī said, "Half knowledge is very dangerous." And a little knowledge makes more noise. A small moped makes so much noise. And when a big car is passing, you hardly hear that the car was passing. So who has this Āyurvedic knowledge, and the yoga and daily life knowledge, is a very solid person. But do not study Āyurveda just out of the books only, or not just by going to India and buying Āyurvedic medicine and coming back and saying, "Here's Āyurveda medicine, here's Āyurveda medicine." That is not right. Our aim is not to sell or not to sell, but we want to have that knowledge. When something happens, then we should know what to do. There is one joke. There was a very expensive car with a lifelong warranty. It did not matter which part of the world, anything would happen, they would come with a helicopter or aeroplane and help you repair your car. One lady was driving this expensive car, and she had no telephone number from that company. So she telephoned some other service. One mechanical engineer came with a car, looked at her car. The agreement was that if they would not come, if somebody else repaired it, she could send a bill there. So he opened the motor bonnet, looked in, and joined one small wire, which took him half a minute. He closed the bonnet and made the bill: $15,000. She said, "This is a crime. It is not correct. Just half a minute, and you have done nearly nothing. It was such an easy thing, and you charge $15,000 for what?" He said, "Not for that half-minute work, but 15,000 I charge to know how." That is it. Lady, you are standing one and a half hours in the rain here. You could also have done it. So to know how, that is it. So to know how to give a blessing, that is also a technique. To know how to teach is also a technique. And how to advise our disciples what and when to eat. Therefore, yoga and Āyurveda are parallel. So you should also make a proper Āyurveda course, and then the third one also you should do at the same time, that I will tell you this evening. That is it. So, spirituality in action for world peace. That is it. Dīpānayana Bhagavān kī. Devāśvara Mahādeva kī. Now, we have to be in the park to get fresh air, oxygen. And because we are talking about peace and peace and peace, someone has to stand there for the peace, not with a signboard, but dedicating oneself to stand there as peace. But we have many obligations. We have to go to many, many places. So we decided to give this duty. You know, the Master can give duty to everyone. So we gave the duty to one tree to stand there for world peace. We have to admire, and we have to support with our spirituality, our spiritual thoughts, that tree. And we admire the tree which will stand in every circumstance, in different kinds of weather; therefore, for world peace. And every year on this day, you should have the world peace prayer. It does not matter, prayer, not meditation. Maybe it is only ten minutes or two hours, but you should go there and remember this day with multi-religious people, with politicians, no politicians. Naumesto will have one day which is called the Day of World Peace. And you will go to the tree, look after the tree, and tell the tree, "Thank you, tree. It is not that you are standing alone here, but we are all living here for you. So we came to you here to say that we are standing beside you."