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I sense that you are not merely seeking a path to good health and relaxation. Within you is a strong tendency looking for something different. For that, we need a yoga which is life itself. Therefore, in Yoga in Daily Life, I try to put life into it. It is not only breathing, exercising, relaxing, and then hurrying home. It has more life in it—many, many different things. This is especially thanks to our ancestors, our great masters, our spiritual lineage connected from there. This blessing is flowing. Yes, we believe, we do believe, and it is there. Our belief is not a blind belief. If we did not believe, there would be no churches; if we did not believe, there would be no temples; if we did not believe, there would be no mosques or stūpas. Can you imagine this world without churches and temples? Humans are the most dangerous creatures; the most dangerous creature on this planet is the human. But humans have spiritual injections. They have a spiritual injection given by the great saints, holy saints, holy incarnations, and those injections are still effective. So before they attack, they think, "Oh God, I am doing wrong, it is sin, this, that. I am human, I cannot do this." These injections are functioning. If there is no belief, the human world would look completely different. We know that spiritual injections are given from birth onwards, yet there is still restlessness in the world. Some elements, some bacteria, are too strong, and God protects us from this. Humans know what God is. Humans believe what God is. Humans can achieve God-realization. Humans have the understanding, intellect, and capacities to do so. We are all searching for the sense of our life, the achievement of our life. Finally, to understand this life better means to understand our mission. Every individual has their own mission. That mission means our obligation, our destiny, or our dharma. One mission common to all is that after this life we shall merge into the Universal One. But it is not that you will automatically be with the Universal One after death. No, for that we have to follow the guidelines. I went to Slovakia and we used what you call a machine, a navigator. It brought us exactly from one door to the other. Yes, it is technology. It is okay, very nice. So Gurudev is that navigator. Your mantra is that navigator which directs you through the entire universe. Sometimes you have to go round the planet. Sometimes you have to go above the planet, below the planet, through happiness, through unhappiness. But be sure that this navigator will bring you there and say, "Now you are at your destination." You achieved. You are there. That inner navigator—you will know what you want, and your inner navigator, your inner feelings and intuition, will lead you. When you are very honest, then that navigator will guide you. If you say, "No, these are all nothing," then again you will be in the jungle. In the jungle there is no road anymore. The navigator may say, "Turn back," but where? How? You can turn back, but there is one tree, the other side is another tree. There is no way up and no way down. Clear inner feelings are very important. If you think that you will solve the problems of this world, I doubt it. Forget it. Even Brahmā himself, the creator, if he came now to this planet to solve all the problems, he could not. There are many political parties who would not agree. There is only one way for him to solve this problem, and that we do not want: to finish the whole world, Ārya Oṃ. Mahāpralaya. But it is said, there is time to time pralaya and mahāpralaya. Pralaya means disaster, destruction, natural disaster, natural calamity, earthquake. What happened to our dear brothers, sisters, and all other creatures in China? What happened in Myanmar with the flood? Many things. This is called pralaya. Or some illness, foot and mouth illness. What was that? What is that? A pralaya. Another pralaya we will call mahāpralaya. That time everything will be inhaled. Hari Oṃ. Finished. The game is over. But we do not want this. There is a very beautiful bhajan described very systematically by Maṅgilāljī, Mahāprabhujī's disciple, about Mahāpralaya. One day I may translate it; it is a long song, a long bhajan. In it, it is said that Maṅgilāljī was a self-realized Jīvanmukta saint. He led a household life, but he was a great Jīvanmukta, a trikāla darśī who knew past, present, and future. Such saints can talk about this subject, the pralaya. He said before mahāpralaya will come, all the pure souls automatically will enter into that divine consciousness. Others have to go through the suffering path, bhakta. So not only in this Kali Yuga, but every yuga has a higher place: love. Love unites, hate divides. Those who have a real feeling of love for God in the heart, it does not matter in which way. It must not be that all believe in this God. "This religion is the best, the other is not." This is one of the biggest ignorances. That is called hate. And this hate divides the world. This kind of hate is a cause of all sufferings and wars and fighting. Love is something so gentle, so tender, and you cannot order it to do this. It has a very personal, very personal aspect. Every one of us has a very personal relation to God in our own way. One is going and meditating and praying to God somewhere, having a friend's picture or a statue or an altar. Another is sitting on the beach and just observing the waves on the ocean and observing the sun rising. In his way also, he has a love for this universe. And in your way, you also have love for that God; it is the same thing. From time to time, remember: What is the purpose of my life? What is the mission of my life? How should I understand the mystery of my life? Khānā, Pīnā, Bhōgānā, Paśubhī, Param, Sujan—eating, sleeping, and creating children. Animals are also very active or expert. Am I only doing this or something more? So this is a lifelong path. It is not that you will do one weekend seminar and then you are the master, or you are practicing three months and then you know everything. Yes, you know, but theory and tons of theory is nothing compared with a grain of practice, and that practice is lifelong. You know the Olympics are coming in China; have they begun already or not? It is still not; in August, yes. You know all who will be the players there, how hard they are practicing. You cannot imagine, from morning to the evening. These are very poor, gentle girls; they have to jump like monkeys, and they are hungry, and the teacher says, "No, take a little orange juice in your mouth, that is all," lemon, not even orange. "Jump, jump, jump, take, take," many hours, practice, practice, ... fall down, pain, rub something, take medicine, go, go, practice, practice. And one day we will sit and put the television on and see, nice, how nice he is moving like this. And one hand here and another hand here; it looks very simple, and I am sure you can also do that twice. You jump; this is the first and last jump. Practice. All these artists, champions around the whole world, practice day and night very hard, and we wish and we pray for their good health and their success. So, in the Bhagavad Gītā, it says, "Abhyāsa, Abhyāsa, Arjuna, Abhyāsa." Practice, practice, O son of Kuntī, practice. Practice; only theory will not help you. So, it is a practical path, and it has life in it. Never play just; never be fanatic just. Do not try to think that you are the best compared to others; no, the great wise are they who share with others. Foolish are they who, if something is taken from them, become angry. I used to say to the people, it does not matter in which part of the world, wherever you have a Yoga in Daily Life center, you can go. Now, the Budapest people go to the yoga in Szeged, why not? Or the second Yoga in Daily Life person goes on vacation somewhere where there is no Yoga in Daily Life and goes to some other yoga practice, why not? That is it; a thirsty person can drink water from any water well or water fountain, drinking fountain, if the water is clean; that is it. We should help, advise the persons to go there. Giving makes you more happy. Taking means you are taking karma, obligation. And giving means you become free from some karmas. Give, give, give understanding, give food to the hungry, give cloth, give them love, give them support, give them their rights, give them their place, give them forgiveness. Give, give, give. When police stop your car, you drive 180 kilometers per hour. They are obliged; they are doing their dharma, and you say, "Yes." Now you are blamed by the God. Police, and police said, "Thank you, God, I have someone now today." So God is managing for both; you are nervous, you know. But you have to pay the fine; police stop, control you, check your papers. And the policeman is so nice to you and says, "Gentleman, please do not drive so quickly." Go; he was really a very nice policeman. How quickly you changed, but now you did not say, "Oh God, you know how nice this man is." You have now forgotten God; so, he forgave you and you became so happy, and you thanked him with this expression to others, but he was very kind, very nice, "Thank you, sir, you are very nice." So giving makes harmony, understanding, and love; taking creates fear, guiltiness, and many, many things. Confucius said, do not think, "Why do not all people know me?" But you should know that you are still not that one whom people should know. And when you become such, without your telling someone who you are, they will know you. You can say, go to your president and say, "I know you, you are the president." He will say, "Yes, thank you, but you do not know me." But you never met him, you never saw him. But you saw the president on television and in the newspaper and everywhere, that is it. Do not think that people do not respect you, but why do you not feel, in another way, that you have to respect them to get respect? So give, give. So human life is beautiful; human life is very spiritual. Human life is full of mercy. And humans have got that kind of intellect which they can train; they can have education and can understand the situation, the pain of all other creatures. Everyone is working for their family, for their children, for their house. Even birds, they also make for their nest, for this and that. But how many renounce for God's family? And God's family is all creatures. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Weekend seminar