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The author of Yoga is God Śiva. Śiva is one of the first manifestations of form in this universe. Through Śiva, all manifestation took place. He is called Swayambhū. No one has created him; he manifested himself. He creates Viṣṇu out of the third eye and fire, and he tells Viṣṇu to go and do tapasyā. Then he creates the water, so that fire is in the water. That is why Vishnu is residing in the elements fire and water. He also creates Brahmā through the navel of Viṣṇu. It is over billions of years that creation took place through Lord Śiva. Then, after that, this planet was created. He is the Lord who blessed this planet with yoga vidyā, the knowledge of yoga. All mantras, yantras, and spirituality, everything came through Śiva. We have 52 alphabets, and these 52 Sanskrit alphabets are called Devanāgarī. These 52 are the protectors, the guards in the universe, as a resonance, as sound. So the language is coming from resonance, and the seed of that resonance is in our navel. After that, many ṛṣis came. It is a long story. You should read the Purāṇas and very ancient Indian literatures. You will know that India is that holy country, that holy land where thousands or millions of holy incarnations took place. One man said, "In his garden, a cherry tree, one fruit, one fruit of cherry came in my tree." No trees can give. A neighbor said, "Look in my garden." Like in Strilky, one tree has five thousand trees. So India is that tree where there are millions of holy incarnations. Every village has a history; in the past, there have been some holy saints. So, read those ancient literatures. It is wondrous. Our mind will not function anymore. We will say, "What?" A poor man opens one lid of a big pot, and inside are kilos and kilos of jewelry and diamonds. You will say, "What? One man was playing the lottery." And it’s about the country which was behind the curtains from Czechoslovakia. We were inside, they were behind, and was a poor man. And can you imagine, he went 150 million DM. And when he got masses, he got a heart attack. He didn’t see the money, so much. Out of happiness, he died. At least it was good that he died out of happiness. So that holy land India, which at present is not that one, now the Indians are hungry towards the materialistic life, which the West has rejected and India has accepted. That’s it. When you practice in yoga, Indians say, what? You say, "I’m vegetarian." They say, "What? You’re vegetarian?" But you are European. You don’t eat meat, and you don’t... no alcohol? They think that Europeans are only sitting in the tank of alcohol. And only they have meat, nothing else, and they think that’s best. So they will pay back, and they are already suffering. And unfortunately, the Indian government also has such a constitution; they don’t support the religion or the ancient wisdoms. That’s it. But still, there is a possibility to read and go to the libraries and see those literatures. If you will read or you will hear about that, only from listening you will become young, and you wish to live long, and you will feel that till today you were in kindergarten. That wisdom, that’s it. You know, the Slovakians have a very nice dish called halušky. And haluski and cheese, what they call brinja. And then you go to Rajasthan and make something, dahlia, and put yoghurt and say this is haluski. And bṛñjā. A Slovakian will smile, a Slovakian will say, "One day I should show this person real halušky and brinza." So when we speak about creation, incarnations, spirituality, siddhis, God, sometimes I have to smile. So yoga is universal, but many, many yoga masters, teachers, gurus in India, in the West, many doctors, they put certain exercises for a particular purpose together, and that’s it. And they gave the name. Now, to have a hot and cold water treatment. This is from the time of Dhanvantari in Satya Yuga. It is an Ayurvedic treatment: hot water, cold water, hot water, cold water. Now, there is known after some other’s name. I have forgotten. Knife, and a knife was somewhere. Persons, no? A priest. So, how did the Ayurvedic technique become a knife? And that’s how yoga became physiotherapy or a sport. So that’s changing. Humans try to change something. Therefore, every yoga teacher around the world, no matter in which country, and which kind of yoga they are teaching, they are good. Every yoga teacher in the world works for health and for world peace. So it doesn’t matter which school they follow or which teacher they follow; it’s good. Some have therapeutic progress, some have only spiritual, and so on. But yoga in daily life, it is unique. It has many, many techniques. So it is spiritual, physical, mental, social, and so on. So there is also developed one exercise called Sūrya Namaskār. This means salutation to the sun. This was developed in Banaras at the time of the sun rising, which is beautiful there. Then it was accepted and developed and practiced by Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh, and he wrote in the book named Sūrya Namaskāra. But in Banaras, there was also the adoration of the sun, which also has very beautiful dynamic movements. Similarly, now, Khaṭū Praṇām. Kathu is the holy place where Mahāprabhujī incarnated and lived. A beautiful, large banyan tree. And that banyan tree is many, many, I think more than five or six hundred years old. And Mahāprabhujī lived there, under this tree, and had a small room. Unfortunately, it is a great pity that, out of my ignorance, when I reconstructed this ashram, I removed that room of Mahāprabhujī. Because that was in the middle, and when Mahāprabhujī left this world, many people did not take care. So, people were just sitting there and playing cards and things like that. They spoiled the atmosphere. They carved some bad words on the stones inside. So I said, "Now, better to remove it." But now, many times during the day, I am thinking I made a mistake. We could have replaced some stones, but we kept that room. Rozumíš? So I understand why the Czech authority would like to preserve this castle. Though we are unhappy a little bit that we can’t change the rooms, we can’t make an extra toilet, and this and that. But origin is origin. Firsthand message is better, so what I am teaching you, yoga is called firsthand yoga, and you will be the second hand, or one of my left hand and one of my right hand, so you will say, "No, I am also right hand, firsthand, because I am Swāmījī’s right hand and I am Swāmījī’s left hand." If you represent and will teach yoga further, this quality of yoga and dead life. But as long as you don’t follow the discipline and Guru Vakya, my situation is different. Ravīndranāth Ṭhākur, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Poetry, he was looking at the sunset, and he was sad. Because the sun is very sad now. Sunset, my time is gone. I gave so much light and prāṇa to this creation, but now my time to go, sunset. Who will take my place? And then there was a little lamp lit on the altar, and a bell was ringing, and he looked to the temple side, and he saw a small, tiny flame in the temple making āratī, and the flame said to the sun, "I will try." I cannot be like you, but I will try to give the light to these creatures. So sometimes I am also thinking, when you do not follow the discipline, understand the Guru Vakya, what will be? Better I should not die, so for a long time I will screw. So, Khaṭū, where Mahāprabhujī also dictated these bhajans. And 98% of bhajans of Mahāprabhujī, when Mahāprabhujī was dictating, Gurujī was writing. And Holī Gurujī’s memory was so good, Gurujī said that sometimes he could learn by heart 25 bhajans. Pravda, Bim, that was his memory. And we can’t even remember one telephone number. There are only six or seven numbers, you know. Yes, Prashim, what is your number? Three, six, nine, eight, four. Once more, three. Three, three, nine. No, no, three, nine. That’s our memory. Gurujī said, "Mahāprabhujī said, ’Bhajan complete,’ and said, ’Go and write down.’" And that was the most, most joyful work for Gurujī. Gurujī said, "When Mahāprabhujī gave me a duty and told me to do this work, there was nothing more joyful than this. It doesn’t matter if it was sweeping the whole ashram yard, cleaning, washing, or cooking." And he said, "The most beautiful was, most..." Divine, sometimes because they had no bathroom, so they had to sit somewhere on the stone and wash with the bucket. At some time, Mahāprabhujī said to Gurujī, "Come and wash my back." Oh, Gurujī said, that was for me. I was somewhere else. That’s it, Śiva. So, at least, in memory and in honor of our Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, whom we salute through this name, that holy place. When you think "Khatu Pranam," it is accepted by Mahāprabhujī immediately. And, of course, every posture is explained by our doctors, physiotherapists, and yoga teachers. How beautiful is also the dynamic movement, stretching, and influencing of our energy centers, and developing the immunity in the body. So, you just imagine: "Khatupranām," and you are there. Through this name, you receive the energy; only through the name can it happen. When Bhagavān Rāma had to go to the forest for fourteen years. Before that, there was a saint called Viśvāmitra. And he wished to perform yajña. But the negative energies, the devils, did not allow the success of the yajña, and the principle was that if you become angry, then your yajña will not be successful. So if you become angry, your sādhanā will not be successful. So the demons were approaching. They were casting the bones of animals into the yajña fire, pouring the blood of animals and humans into the fire, causing disturbance, and Vishvamitra should not become angry, for he was one of the most wrathful. And you know how many thousands of years of tapasya he had undertaken. He simply offered a donation, the power of his 72,000 years of tapasya. So, 72,000 years, who is meditating? You all very much... many... And when Swamiji makes like this, then many things, oh, now he will sing "Om." So I am making purposely, you know. And now, feel the whole body and prāṇa together. Again. So, that is a condition of a few minutes of meditation when we are doing it. 72,000 years. He just gives it, like you have many cherry trees and you pick one basket full of cherries and just give it to the neighbors. That was the ṛṣis. Only through His look He could burn them, all rākṣasas. But they know you should not be angry. Do not use your temperament and anger against anyone. Otherwise, your sādhanā is not successful. So Viśvāmitra went to the king to ask King Daśaratha to send his two sons, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, to guard that yajña. So the king was very sad, but also he couldn’t refuse. First, when the guest comes, the guest is God. But when they sent him, he asked, "Then you cannot refuse." Now, okay, he can ask anything; we will do it, give it. But Viśvāmitra asked Daśaratha to send his two sons, very young boys. And Dasaratha was afraid. They’re 17, 18-year-old young boys. I can’t feel that I should send them with you. Viśvāmitra said, "Okay, I go." That also he didn’t want. Because when a ṛṣi is angry or not satisfied, it is like a curse. So, he sent Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa. You know, God doesn’t incarnate for one thing. For many, many, so some hundreds of years before, there was one ṛṣi living in the hut with his wife. One day, a ṛṣi went for bathing somewhere in the lake or river, and the king of heaven, Indra, came to his hut, to his wife. He changed his form to look like the ṛṣi, but at the same time, the ṛṣi came. So Indra came out of the door and ran away, having a fear from the... Rishi, but you know sometimes men cannot endure the jealousy. Women may suffer, but they will wait. That’s why they are women. So the ṛṣi was angry, and he cursed his wife. She became a rock. But thanks to God, no man has such power now, so girls, you need not be afraid. That reveals that those men were different. When someone becomes angry with you, you can just say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, yes." Neither he has power, nor do you. Now she is there as a rock. And it is said, God Rāma will incarnate when he will bless her; then she will wake up from the rock again as a human. So they were passing through this āśram, and Viśvāmitra said to Rāma, "This is the poor lady Ahalyā." Her name was Ahalyā, and Rāma was so sad. He touched his feet to the rock, and she again, from the rock, got up as a woman, and he liberated her. So, what can happen through such a great sense in their name is a lot of power. So now, Rāma has to cross the river. Rama, Lakshmana, and Sita, three of them, when they had to go to the forest. Of course, Rāma protected the yajña, the yajña was successful, everything was happy, happy end. Now they have to cross the river, so there was one boat seller. And he asked Rama, "Brother, can you let us cross this river with your boat?" And he asked, "Who are you?" So he said, "I am the son of Daśaratha, Rāma." My brother Lakshmana and my wife Sita. He said no. Sorry, Rāma said, "Why?" You know, I heard that you touch a rock, and the rock became a woman. You touch my boat. And it will become a woman, one I have at home. What will I do with the second one? No, no, no. So Rāma said, "It will not happen." He said, "What security do you give me?" He said, "I tell you." But the bhakta, he knew it is God. He said, "First, I will wash your feet." Then I will drink this water. I will see if I become a woman. If nothing happens to me, then, of course, you can sit in my bed. So now, happily, he is washing the feet of Rāma. He knew what he was doing, and now they sat in the boat. They had nothing to pay. Now, for Rāma, it was a very unpleasant situation. You should pay the fare, looking left, looking... Sita had one ring. She took the ring and said, "Brother, this ring we pay you as a fare." Rama said, "Please take it." Then he said with folded hands, "No, that’s too little." What do you think? But I have one wish: I let you cross this river, please let me cross the ocean of ignorance. What great thoughts! So, in the... Even in the name, there’s a lot of power. So when we remember Mahāprabhujī Khatu, the bhakta’s hair is standing. But only a bhakta can understand who is who. Therefore, Khāṭū Praṇām. Alone, while practicing Khatu Pranām, you think of Khatu or Mahāprabhujī, half the disease will disappear by itself. That’s why I give the name Khatu Pranam. Many of you have been there. Many were not there. Mahāprabhujī met Devpurījī in Kathu Hills. And Devpurījī was residing in Kāṭhū sometimes. That was one bhakta’s house. And even still today, there is a fireplace where Devpurījī used to sit and live in that small room. It’s on the Rock Up Village. And down was this field, sand, and there was a banyan tree. So Devpurījī said, "Here is your tapasyā." And so Mahāprabhujī stayed there. Also, Holy Gurujī stayed with him. Then Devpurījī said to Mahāprabhujī, "Go and reside on that other place we call Devdungri." It was a small sandy hill. Because people were afraid, they were thinking there is a ghost, so Devpurījī said, "If there are Rākṣasas, now you go and make them Devas." And that’s why the ashram is called Devdungri. So, Ghaṭu Praṇām and the Yoga in Daily Life has a special divine blessing. You try, you practice, and you accept. Don’t say no. You know, it is beautiful. So Gurujī said, for him it was the nectar, the amṛta, and from the big toe of Mahāprabhujī’s nails, everyday Gurujī would wash and drink. And many, many bhaktas have got the nails of Śrī Mahāprabhujī’s toes and fingers. Every day before they drink anything, water in the morning, they dip in the nail of Mahāprabhujī and then they drink. Prakashpūñj, there is a Prakash, Amṛtke Sāgar, ocean of the nectar. Only a bhakta knows, others don’t know, that’s it. Only a baby knows what’s mother’s milk. Others don’t know, and therefore this entire system—I have been so many years thinking what to put in, what not to put in—all prāṇāyāms, āsanas, meditations, lectures, everything, and you are the fortunate one that you can get this. And I’m sure that we know each other from many lives. Otherwise, you will not survive in front of my temperament. Therefore, sometimes it is said, when the master is not angry, then he’s not a master. If the master is not strict, then he is not a master. Like the story of that snake. Outside is frightening, but inside he doesn’t want to bite. The ocean on the surface has many waves, but on the bottom it is motionless. That’s it. Therefore, it is said, "Va la la ge sa me hi jaan." What is that? You have definitely read in Līlā Amṛt one beautiful story. Often Mahāprabhujī was invited to give a satsaṅg and stay in Jodhpur at the Mahārājā’s. At that time, this palace, Umedvavan, was not there; it was built afterwards. In the service of the Mahārāja, there was one man who was taking care of the kitchen, management, and so on. His name was Devī Siṅghjī. His old man, living still, and he was in sevā to Mahāprabhujī. So one day Mahāprabhujī said, "Well, today I should have a bath." So, some, there was a bathtub, a mobile bathtub. You could sit inside. So he filled the water and told Mahāprabhujī, "Please, bath is ready." Mahāprabhujī came, he took his shirt out, and so, and now that man begins to think. Tabhījī is small, and Mahāprabhujī’s body was heavy, and when he would sit in, water would flow all out. He is thinking, and Mahāprabhujī smiled and held his hand and stepped with one foot in the bathtub and told him, "Hold the towel," and what he sees, he was paralyzed. Mahāprabhujī changed his body like a three- to four-year-old boy. He takes it deep in, out, playing with the water, washing. He was fixed. And then Mahāprabhujī stood up as a normal body and stepped one foot out, said, "Give me a towel." You have no trust? You should have trust in Gurudev. How much water is spilled out? He said, "Mahāprabhujī, your Līlā, you know." So, like that, many things happened.