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Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya. Salutations to Śaṅkara Bhagavān, to Deveśvara Mahādeva, to the Emperor of Dharma, Satguru Svāmī Mahādvājanājī Bhagavān, and to the Eternal Truth, Sanātana Dharma. Good evening to everybody. Good evening to all other brothers and sisters around the world who are with us now through this webcast. The blessing is coming to you from Holy Bhārat, Jādan, Rājasthān. We have been talking about the aim, the purpose, the dharma, and the final destination of human life for the last 20 days. Today, the first step is to realize that "I am a human." It is not only the human body that makes the human, but the divine qualities that make the human. Negative qualities make, in human form, asuras. So first, humans have to realize, discover, and awaken the human qualities. Many times I have said that in the morning when we get up, we should remember that we are human. What is our human dharma? What are the human qualities, and how do we improve them? This awareness comes through those thoughts. Those humans are aware of their destination. After that, it is said, when you realize that the human body is the most precious one, then you have to take care and keep this body with great care, so that we can live a long life—not only to enjoy life, but to achieve our goal, which is Ātmā Jñāna, Self-realization. Now, in modern civilization, humans have become more aware of physical comfort. On one hand, thanks to God and thanks to science, we can have many things. On the other hand, it has made us dependent, unhappy, and unhealthy or ill. Some days ago, I met one sādhu, a holy man, and we had a very nice satsaṅg together. We were sitting for about 45 minutes, and he said, "Swāmījī, humans have spoiled themselves and made themselves dependent on this modern comfort and technology." The result is that the mostly unhappy and ill creature on this planet is the human, and who is spreading more virus, physically and mentally, is the human. The human has lost willpower and that energy to endure, what we call in Rāja Yoga, Jñāna Yoga: titikṣā, śama, dama, śraddhā, samādhāna, vicāra. Titikṣā means to endure the circumstances according to the seasons: hot, cold, warm, humid, air, hunger, thirst, and so on. He told me that those house pets that live with humans are also often ill and have a short life. They also do not have the immunity to endure certain circumstances of life. But the wildlife, which is completely far away from civilization—sometimes those animals, for even a few days, can't get a drop of water. And just to quench their thirst, they sometimes only eat some green leaves of the trees. Often, they do not find food. A deer may sometimes not get water and food for a few days, but if it is necessary, they still have the strength to run, jump, and flee. The animals we call house pets, and humans, if they have to fast for a few days, have no strength to run. If they run, they will become dizzy and fall down. So in this way, modern comfort is not healthy for our life. But at the same time, we cannot live without it. We can't imagine life without electricity. You can't imagine a hospital without electricity. So there are many things; therefore, we depend on this, and we have to do something. The ṛṣi-munis, the yogīs, knew that time; they were known as trikāladarśīs, and they developed certain systems. The nourishment, the environment, the circumstances, solid and liquid nourishment, movements, thinking—this all is a kind of nourishment. It is said the body of the five elements will be born, grow, and die. But this is a sādhanā. This body is a sādhanā, a medium for our sādhanā, or practice, to come to our final goal. Do not interrupt your sādhanā; do not let failure lead to laziness. Don't avoid your practices, and don't let go in your heart or your mind any kinds of conflict or doubts. In this way, long life, but still you cannot have it as long as you wish. In every yuga, the human lifespan was getting shorter and shorter. In Kali Yuga, the maximum is 100 years, and I think it will now be very rare for people to achieve 100 years from this young generation. In this, they need healthy, organic food, and that is what they call Āyurveda and naturopathy. And besides this, the first is called Yoga. Yoga should become a part of our life. Āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, and samādhi: Aṣṭāṅga Yoga, in which Haṭha Yoga, ṣaṭ karma—that ṣaṭ kriyā: neti, dhauti, basti, nauli, tratāka, and kapālabhāti. Āsana, Prāṇāyāma, Mudrā, Bandha, and Kriyā—these yogic names, many of my dear workers and practitioners around the world know. Those who don't know, look into the yogic dictionary or on the Yoga in Daily Life website. With this kind of thinking, for nearly 45 years, I began to think about designing a program perfect for everyone who can practice, young or old, healthy or ill, without any dualities or without any discrimination. And that's called the system "Yoga in Daily Life." Yoga in daily life means what you practice—your yoga practices—means you are doing already in your daily life; that's yoga. If you meditate, if you practice prāṇāyāma, if you practice āsanas, if you practice kriyās, or any kind of yoga you are doing every day, it means yoga in daily life. Long ago, some people put the question, "Swāmījī, we would like to have a very gradual, systematic practice, meaning the system." And so around the world, now the system "Yoga in Daily Life" is accepted and practiced by thousands and thousands of people. Because that is something like from nursery school, kindergarten, till the university—very carefully designed according to the physiology, psychology, and the mental and spiritual well-being of humans. So Yoga in Daily Life has got the main principles: physical health, mental health, social health, spiritual health, and finally, God-realization. If one of these parts of health is missing, then you are ill. Physical health, but if you are mentally not healthy, then you have missed the path. A mentally ill person will always think aggressively. Mentally ill people will always think about harming something. A mentally ill person will always, what you call, be like vandalism. The mentally ill person will fall into depression, and even the mental person can harm more than what we could think. Anger, hate, jealousy, conflict—this is a mental illness. So what is health? Mental health means peace, contentment, love, kindness, and wise thoughts; positive intellect and mercy for all; a balanced life; clear visions; and being supportive and protective of the entire nature. That's called mental health. One who is not mentally healthy begins to talk nonsense, and always, like having stones in the stomach, they have so many stones. They always talk and talk and talk negative. One who has beautiful energy in the Manipūra Cakra, love in the heart, clarity in the visions in the brain, that one becomes a wise one and unites everyone. I used to say, love unites and hate divides, because hate is ignorance and that is a mental illness. Social health means supporting society, supporting your country, supporting your world, doing social seva. So social illness is corruption; social illness is drugs, addictions; social illness is criminality, and so on. This is called social illness, social cancer. The health, peace, harmony, love, and beautiful environment within and outside are created in the whole world. That's what in Yoga the Ṛṣi said: "Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ"—all should be happy. "Vasudhaiva Kuṭumbakam"—the entire world is a family of one God. We are all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter on which spot of the planet, on earth, we are living, but we are all brothers and sisters. "Sabhi prāṇī merī ātmā hai." All living beings, creatures are myself. "Ātmā sohī paramātmā." And that Self is the highest one. Then your social life becomes healthy, balanced, and you are successful. So it is said, it comes through satsaṅg, uṭhān and paṭan. Patan is a distraction. Many years you have been working and improving your spiritual thoughts and health, and suddenly you get anger and hate, and now you are making your own patan. You are chipping off the branches of that tree on which you are sitting. Therefore, it is said, "O Lord! My prayer to Thee, accept and give me Thy shelter. Support that I become a disciplined person, that I have better vision, a disciplined life, positive thinking, and so on." This is every day in our Indian schools that children are singing this prayer. When we have physical, mental, social, and spiritual health—spirituality means purity, crystal clear purity—look in your cidākāśa, look in your thoughts, look in your actions, look in your words. What kind of clarity and purity do you have? Or look within thyself: how unhappy, how ignored, and how much anxiety is within you: mental ill, spiritual ill, social ill, and then physical also. That time when one becomes angry, trembling... When all these four parts of health—physical, mental, social, spiritual—are balanced and purified, then what is called self-realization, or your future vision's road, becomes like a one-way road, like a highway. So, the Yoga in Daily Life system is designed for humans, for better humans. A better human will create a better society, and a better society will create a better world. And so this begins from very simple exercises, what you call the grassroots projects. The grass-root project is within thyself, and then practice step by step by step. That's why it's called Yoga in Daily Life, the system. Dear brothers and sisters, you can look, and you can have the yoga and Vedānta literatures, and practice accordingly. The Kuṇḍalinī Yoga and cakras—according to this, perhaps after a few days, we will take the subject over again about cakra and Kuṇḍalinī Yoga. So that all our brothers and sisters who can't come to India or to Europe or somewhere else to my lectures, they can at home have the benefit to listen and to practice also the kuṇḍalinī, cakras, energies, where there is Kriyā Yoga, mudrās, bandhas, and these all are included. So Yoga in Daily Life is not a dogma; it's not only theory. It is a practice; it is the most beautiful, and it is adopted by thousands of people around the world, teaching and benefiting themselves from this. For many people, it has become their existence. So in this way, Yoga in Daily Life also produces work for the unemployed to make them employees. So many people around the world are profiting physically, mentally, socially. Social means also the material life, the benefit. So, Yoga in Daily Life. You can look on the website, Yoga in Daily Life. Or you can look at Swamiji.tv, and you will find a lot of teachings and materials for you. You are at home, and you are getting everything, teaching and practicing. My dear brothers and sisters, I wish you all the best. Today is the first time that we have good rain here in Jādan, but it was so strong, what we call... The monsoon, it was not rain, but was pouring like a shower and strong wind. So many generators and transformers are burnt. So it can happen that we will have a problem with this electricity. So before it goes off, I want to say to you all the best, much love, and many blessings. And tomorrow, and tomorrow, tomorrow, the webcast will be one of our sannyāsīs, like Swāmī Premanānjī, and some other people. They will demonstrate—our very experienced yoga teachers from different countries. They will come and demonstrate and show you the exercises for a particular purpose, maybe shoulder pain, neck pain, back pain, knee pain, or different illnesses or something. Tomorrow, I have a duty to go somewhere, so I will not be with you on the webcast. But I am sure that some of our expert teachers will give you a very nice, practical program of Yoga in Daily Life. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī Jai. Śrī Śrī Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva kī Jai. Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī Jai. Satya Sanātana Dharma kī Jai. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ.