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Salutations to the Cosmic Light, Lord of our Hearts, Omniscient and Omnipresent. Good evening, all brothers and sisters, and all international friends, practitioners, aspirants, and spiritual seekers. For the last two weeks, you have been following the meanings, information, and practices concerning mantra. Today, the group has changed, and new practitioners are here. I welcome you all and wish you a very pleasant stay here at Śrī Mahāprabhujī’s Satsaṅg Foundation, Strilky Āśram. The program is very nicely designed for you; this is called the Summer Anuṣṭhāna Retreat. We have different groups, as Yoga in Daily Life has many steps, with practitioners from the very beginning to the advanced. You have very good experience, many years as teachers of yoga and daily life. You will have the opportunity to put your questions and get answers. We will have two lectures every day. As long as the mantra lectures are going on, after that we will begin different topics according to the mantras. As you know from past lectures, mantra is the source of our life, the foundation of our life, the cosmic resonance. Mantra is the uniting power in the universe and the origin of the entire universe. Mantra is that energy which leads individual consciousness towards the Cosmic Consciousness. It is that resonance which will guide your individual self throughout the Universe. The mantra is that which protects you from all negative energies, from negative forces which try to attack you, especially like black magic. Without mantra, human life is like a bird without wings. Without mantra, spiritual practices and meditation are like a statue without a soul. Mantra is that torch light to walk through the jungle of this life and darkness. Mantra is the light that leads you through the darkness of the world. So, mantra, being a cosmic resonance, is above everything. It is that resonance which is constantly vibrating in each and every cell of your body. It is your mantra which protects you and leads you safely toward your ultimate aim. There are many, many different mantras for many different things. Our life began with mantra. Our life survives through mantra. We survive through mantra, and our life will get the fulfillment, pūraṇa, through the mantra. For every event, for every breath, for everything, the mantra is very important. If one thinks the mantra is not necessary, that person doesn’t know anything about mantra, and that person is cheating oneself. The most powerful principles and techniques in spiritual practices, and especially yoga, are the mantra. Mantra is one of the most powerful techniques in yoga. Therefore, you will have time here to practice your mantra more constantly, consciously, and systematically. Those who have no mantra will get a mantra. Also, there is a very beautiful mantra initiation ceremony. We will have a beautiful rite of consecration to the mantra—only, of course, if you wish. Otherwise, not. So this seminar, this retreat, is dedicated to our spiritual development and the well-being of our individual self. Yoga in Daily Life is a system. It is a scientific and very systematic system, and it will guide you very safely and systematically. The prime aim of Yoga in Daily Life is physical, mental, social, and spiritual health, and God-realization. Yoga in Daily Life is a quality. Its creation is from the ancient literatures, authentic ancient literatures. It means the ancient wisdom for the modern world. If you practice, you will benefit. If you will not practice, of course, I told you and you heard. That’s all. Yoga in Daily Life is such a system which is accepted or adopted around the whole world, especially in this part of the world where we are sitting right now. Before you begin to practice yoga, and for those who are practitioners already, one thing is very important: you must have a very solid, concrete goal. Never lose your aim from your view. When you are driving a car to approach a certain destination, you are constantly driving in that direction. You see many landscapes: mountains, meadows, lakes, forests, and so on. But still, you have one aim: to come to your destination. So, you are driving in this life, but we have one aim, a final aim: How to become one with the Cosmic Self? How to come to our origin? As Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya said: Who am I? From where do I come? What is the purpose of my coming, and where am I going? The answer to these questions is the completion of your self-realization. It is the self-realization, not the theory or the practice. In theory, maybe we are already sitting on the peak of the highest mountain, the Himalayas. But to be there physically in this reality is not so easy. Therefore, tons of theory are nothing compared to a gram of practice. Therefore, it is said in the Bhagavad Gītā: "O Arjuna, practice, practice, practice." And so we should practice. Discipline, self-discipline is key to success. Never lose your courage. Never give up your practice. To be successful in the practice, you should have devotion to your practice. As long as you have devotion, your practice will be improving. Not only that, you are just practicing, but you know what you are practicing, why you are practicing. What will you achieve through this practice? Is it possible to achieve what you would like to achieve? Je to možné získat to, co byste chtěli získat? Do you respect and honor your practice? Uctíváte a uctíváte své cvičení? Respektierst du und verehrst du deine Übung? Like Patañjali said: The aspirant should have devotion and dedication to his practice, like a devotee to God. A practitioner should have a commitment to his practice as a seeker of God. So these practices are your tool. You can achieve what you would like to achieve. I was looking forward to seeing all of you. I was waiting to see you this week. Hundreds of your brothers and sisters who were here last week and also before last week had beautiful experiences. They went home very happy. That was an introduction to Yoga in Daily Life. They realized, and they agreed, that Yoga in Daily Life can give them such energy, happiness, understanding, and humbleness. This weekend and this week, you are mostly all Yoga in Daily Life teachers. The question is this: as a yoga teacher, you can’t get a diploma in Yoga in Daily Life in 15 days. What a joke that you get a yoga teacher certificate in 15 days. If a doctor studies medicine for only 15 days and would like to operate on me, I would prepare to die without the operation. So, unfortunately, in this way, yoga is misunderstood and misguided. Around the world, we have thousands of yoga teachers in Yoga in Daily Life, and they all went through long years of training. Rund um die Welt gibt es tausende Yogalehrer nach yogischem Leben, und sie gingen durch jahrelange Übung. But still you are here to learn something more. Ale přesto jste zde, abyste se naučili něco více. As a teacher who has the diploma in their hand, successfully passed our Yoga in Daily Life, but still you are sitting here. Yes. Wisdom cannot be measured with kilometers or centimeters or kilograms. The goddess of wisdom is known as Sarasvatī. Sarasvatī is the consort of Brahmā, the Creator. And she is the Goddess of Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge, Speaking, and Language, whatever you call it. She is the Goddess of language, of wisdom, of study. And Sarasvatī, though she is the lord of wisdom, still carries a book in her hand. Is it necessary that she has a book in her hand? She knows everything that is written inside. It’s her creation, but still she says there is no end. From one, you can create millions of things. Therefore, it is a lifelong learning. There was a ṛṣi. Rishi means, in ancient times, those holy saints were living in the forest, and they were doing a lot of research work: what is the body, how did the body come, how elements come together, how this body is produced, about bones, about flesh, about tissues, about organs, their functions, the hormones, about hormones, about tissues, about bones, about their function, about bones, meat, hormones, and how everything works. Without any instruments, they had only one instrument: their meditation. They were able to find out anything they wanted: anything about thoughts, emotions, anger, jealousy, hate, intellect, consciousness, individual soul, ātmā, all this. Individuální duši, ātmā, všechno tohle. And still they were thinking it’s too little for what they want to know. It is those ṛṣis at that time who said: Anant Brahmāṇḍa Sahasra Sūryas—endless universe. Endless means? There is no end. You can go as far as you like. The quickest speed which you can have is your thinking. Within no time, you are already there. But still, you can’t reach the end of the universe. How did they know this? Through meditation. In meditation they went through their astral body. The astral body is one of the quickest ones, which flies. That you are one without a second. Ānanda Brahman, endless universe. Śāstra Sūrya, thousands of the sun systems. And constantly developing the individual universes, your body, your being, you are an individual phenomenon. But not only you, also other creatures. Even one tissue in your body has its own universe. Ananda, miracles, the unfoldment of consciousness into endless beauty. So, there was a ṛṣi, and he was meditating for several thousand years. And we are not able to meditate for several days or hours. So now you can see, we are stuck here in a traffic jam. We can’t go with astral body traveling. He became old. And the time came when he had to go. Suddenly, someone told him about the Vedas, and he would like to study and read these Vedas. So when Dharmarāja sent the messenger—about Dharmarāja and Yamarāja and Jīvarāja and the Vidhātā—I told you day before yesterday in my lecture, because you all were listening to the webcast. But this week, I will explain to you once more: Vidhātā, Dharmarāja, Jīvarāja, Yamarāja. So the Dharmarāja sent the messengers to this ṛṣi, bringing him respectfully back to the Brahmaloka. The messenger came. For a holy saint, for such a person, angels come to take him. You call them angels. We call them devas, goddesses. And for the sinners comes Yamarāja, the messenger of Yamarāja, the Rākṣasas, with cruelty, with pain, torturing, suffering. The ṛṣi said, "I don’t want to go now." Why? "I wish to have some hundred years more. I would like to have a few hundred more years." For what purpose? To study. To know more. So they said, "Thank you, we will go to the Dharmarāja and seek permission." Dharmarāja said, "As he wished, I have no power over him." Mahāprabhujī said in one bhajan: What power does Yamarāja have? Look closely, you see, Yamarāja has no ability to see the Bhakta, the devotee of Gurudev, even if he tries to look. But it must be a Bhakta. Not the kind of bhakta who constantly embarrasses you. I spoke on the phone yesterday with a bhakta, with great love. Normally, a master should not use the telephone. It is the disciples that, when needed, should make the call. The moment I stood up to say Pranam, how nice that you called, and so on, he begins to complain. But I said, "But you already called me." He said, "Never, in 2008 I never telephoned you." And then I said, "Exactly, just as the person called me." And I then told him very clearly, yes, that was for a different reason. He changed his color, like horses or reptiles that change during the season. He changed the color like a chameleon when he changed the time. Such a bhakta is nowhere to be found. Gajananda, you can just smile, that’s enough for such a bhakti, okay? Just to save the situation, say, "Oh yes, good, you will be okay." Be careful, Gajananda, you are a new rider. A tak na takové bhakti je potřeba se jenom usmívat, zachránit situaci, jenom se usmát. Zu sojném bhakti kanstu no anlechim. So sometimes even the master has to use diplomacy. Sometimes the master has to use diplomacy for the sake of self-protection. In Kali Yuga now, the master also needs protection from the disciples. So, the Dharmarāja, with folded hands and with great respect, first bowed his head down and said, "Go respectfully and say, ’Your wish will be fulfilled.’" Go respectfully and say, "Your wish will be fulfilled in five thousand years." So, five thousand years, life is prolonged. You see, in reality, there is no limitation. And this life is a non-reality; therefore, there is a limitation. Time doesn’t wait for anyone, and karma doesn’t leave anyone out. How you think, how you project your own feelings, how do you put the guiltiness on others? Oh God! How will you pay back this? Who are you to judge someone? Judge yourself. Sujte Sami Sebe. 5000 let uplinulo, 5000 let uplinulo, 5000 let uplinulo... 5000 years passed. Dharmarāja sent again his messengers. And the ṛṣi was very thin, only skin and bones, very cold, eyes, and still his eyes were very weak, looking and reading. And messengers came. "Your Holiness, we came to welcome you." He said, "But I did not finish. I still wish to live 5,000 years more." Again, they gave him 5,000 years. Then they came again. He said, "Still, I didn’t finish. I have to learn many things, 5,000 years more." Dharmarāja didn’t dare to force him at all. He did not dare to force him at all, he did not dare to force him at all, he did not dare to force him at all. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, "Guru, be what Thou art." Says Maheś, Karī, Guru Śiva says Viṣṇu, says Viṣṇu, Maheś Śiva, Maheś Śiva. Even they are doing Guru Śiva, and they say with folded hands, "Guru Dev, we surrender everything to thee. We give everything to you, body, mind, and everything. Give opportunity to serve you. That is a Guru Dev." We are all sitting also. On our way, we are also Guru, but not like that. It will take some lives to achieve this. We are the Kali Yuga jīva. In this Kali Yuga, we are suffering. Three, four times the ṛṣi asked to prolong his life. Now, Dharmarāja decided something. He came himself and asked the ṛṣi if he would like to come to Brahmaloka. The ṛṣi said, "Well, I still want to learn something. Read something." Dharmarāja said to the ṛṣi, "Please stretch both your hands towards the Himalayan hill." And the storm came. Some dust flowed on his palms, and a little dust flowed on his palms. One gram of sand. Dharmarāja said to the ṛṣi: "In your whole life, including these 25,000 years I gave you extra, whatever you learned, is this much what you have in your hands? And still, what you would like to learn is the entire mighty Himalaya. So, how many years do you wish, sir? Really?" He said, "Yes." The hard-working ṛṣi said to the Dharmarāja, "Can you tell me, after studying this so much, like in the entire Himalaya, what will I get? What will I get after I have learned all this?" The Dharmarāja said, "There is nothing more to get than what you have got. Let’s go." And so they went to the Brahmaloka. So what I want to tell you: as being a diploma holder of Yoga in Daily Life, still we have to learn a lot. So this week, there will be Gyān Gaṅgā flowing, meaning the river of wisdom. Like in one bhajan, the disciple of Mahāprabhujī, Swami Sivananda, said: Sivānandjī Mahārāj Kī Jai, Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Devpurījī, Śrī Devpurījī, Mahāprabhudīp Āśram, Strīlky, Kumbha Melā, Jādan, Oṁ, Mahāprabhudīp Āśram, Strīlky, Kumbha Melā, Jādan, Oṁ Śrī Devpurījī, Śrī Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujīp Āśram, Strīlky, Kumbha Melā, Jādan, Oṁ Śrī Devpurījī, Śrī Devpurījī,... Mahāprabhujīp Āśram, Strīlky, Kumbha Melā, Mahāprabhujī Hoja Kem Guru Caraṇamayī Arsatirathe. In the presence of the Gurudeva, there are 68 holy places. And all these 68 holy places, they are at the feet of the Gurudeva. If the disciple still wants to go somewhere for pilgrimage, it means he or she did not realize. Brahmanandjī Mahārāj, seed Brahmanandjī Mahārāj, Rekha Brahmanandjī Mahārāj. Sakte aisi kari Gurudev, dayā mera moha kā bandhan toḍ diyā. Bhagavān Kī Jaya! Vaha anubhav bani aate he, vo jnana ganga me nahate he, vaha uttam jigyasu aate he, uttam jigyasu. Day before yesterday we were talking about kaniṣṭha, madhyama, uttama. And Uttama is the best one. The best bhaktas, the pure souls, come there. And those pure souls come, and they bathe in the river of Gaṅgā. Ganges, that’s called Gyān Gaṅgā, the river of wisdom. To bathe in the Gaṅgā means to purify your karmas, your sins. Yes, that river has that ability. Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s Gopīs.