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Good evening and blessings to all of you. Also, to our dear friends and spiritual seekers across the globe, bless you in the name of Śrī Alakpurījī Siddhāpīṭ Paramparā. You saw our new generation, many juniors. They are the future of the world and the future of yoga in their lives. I admire the parents and their education of their children: healthy, happy, intelligent. This is also the effect of a vegetarian diet. We are planning a school in Strelka, which will follow the Czech education system and also provide ethical and spiritual education for a healthy way of living. We need more children, so feel free. The world needs spiritual light and spiritual people. I am sure there are many, many good and spiritual people in the world. Spirituality is not a particular religion, but humbleness, kindness, and believing in God. Spirituality means purity, crystal clear and pure. Many people try to restore systems in the world—ecological, environmental, economic, political, social—striving for what we call unity in diversity. In Vedānta and Vedic culture, it is said, "Vāsudeva kuṭumbakam." The whole world is one God’s family, and now we realize this, as the United Nations speaks of a global family. Many principles the UN has adopted regarding peace, environment, spirituality, culture, religions, and nationalities are 80% from the Upaniṣads and Purāṇas. It is very interesting. We must awaken global consciousness. This does not mean everyone should immigrate to the Czech Republic. Stay where you are, live happily, and have friendship with all. That is very important. Yet, there are a few people who are destructive factors. Like one ill fish spoils a pond for a while. Some people cannot bear to see their neighbor wealthy and happy. It is a human weakness. When they see someone wealthy, healthy, in a high position, and famous, ill-minded people cannot digest it. They may go at night to scratch their car or cause damage. That is an illness, a brain illness. Those who repair are many; those who destroy are few. It is the majority of the devas and a minority of the asuras. These qualities exist in people, so the world now needs spiritual education. In the last century, the way of education was wrong. It made humans slaves again to competition and challenges. In old times, people did not have so many comforts, but they were happy. We have all comforts but are still unhappy. Happiness comes from within, and that is what the practice of the mantra provides. Someone asked, "Who is more rich and happy?" This morning there was the story of Kuntī and Kṛṣṇa. Now, here is another story about who is happy. Happiness and unhappiness are of our mind, that elephant, that horse. In Jñāna Yoga, it is titikṣā. Titikṣā means to endure the situation: hot, cold, hunger, thirst. In old times, there was no exhaust fan. I will tell you a small story. A man was selling a hand fan for 20 rupees a piece, with a lifelong guarantee. A king thought it was cheap and sustainable. The seller said if you buy more, buy one get three, then be free. The king bought two and got six. Within four hours, the king broke all six pieces by fanning vigorously. He thought the man was a cheater. The next day, the seller returned, calling, "Hand fan, 20 rupees a piece, lifelong guarantee!" The king summoned him and said, "You said lifelong guarantee, and all six are broken." The seller replied, "It is not my mistake. What I said is true—lifelong guarantee—but it depends how you use it." The king said he used it normally. The man said, "Oh God, you used it the wrong way." The king asked how he should use it. The man said, "Very simple. Hold your hand like this and move your head like this." So, where is happiness? The answer from that person to the question of who is happy was this: Someone may have a lot of money, a big house, many friends, and companies, but they are not happy. They think they are happy, but they are very poor. They are slaves to their property, mere caretakers. On their gate is written, "Beware of the dog inside." They have alarms and weapons. Both Allah and Rām are together, but still they cannot help. They take sleeping tablets. They interview people sleeping under a bridge, who say, "We have no alarm, no sleeping tablets, no problems. We have many dogs, free, and we are happy." May you have thousands of elephants, but you cannot take care of one. Bring one elephant to Strelka; after two or three days, the park will look different. Can you feed the elephant? You must be rich. May you have many elephants, golden eagles, or mines of precious stones. You may be very rich, but when you get contentment in the heart, all your wealth seems like dust. That was Kuntī asking Kṛṣṇa. This is the answer for Divya Jyoti. I was thinking all afternoon about what to tell Divya Jyoti. So, who is happy? Contentment needs nothing. Somewhere in the high Himalayas, in a little village, one evening was a little cold—the Himalayas are always cold—and a little rainy. Śiva and Pārvatī went for an evening walk. Śiva said, "Pārvatī, the whole day we are busy, now let’s go for a little walk." About 500-600 meters from the village, Pārvatī saw a fire burning. She said, "Lord, why is there a fire burning?" He said, "Well, that is a graveyard. Today someone died, and they burned the body there." But she saw someone sitting there. "Can we go and see who is sitting? Is it no problem? Are you sure, Śiva, it is not a ghost? The same man came back?" Many people fear cemeteries, thinking ghosts live there. When you walk near your grandfather’s grave and he calls, "My grandchild, come here, bring me a little water," what will you do? Your legs become heavy; you cannot run. Everyone loves life. Śiva said, "Let’s go." About 30-40 meters away, they saw a yogī sitting with a nice thick braid, baking his chapati on the fire where the body was burned. That is called really smoked—special aroma. Pārvatī was angry with Śiva. "Śiva, I cannot understand you, my Lord. Look, many people do not think about you, yet you give them comfort, money, everything. This yogī repeats your name day and night, 'Oṃ Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṃ Namaḥ Śivāya,' and you cannot provide him even a small cooking facility? How poor he is, that he has to bake his chapati here." Śiva said, "Pārvatī, we went for a walk, not for this dialogue." She said, "I quit my walk. I want you to give him something." Śiva said, "Yes, I can give, but he will not take." Pārvatī said, "Do not joke with me. Who in this world, when you want to give something, will say, 'No, I do not like it, I do not want it'? Tell someone in the street, 'I found half a kilo of gold. Do you want to take it?' Especially poor people—I want to see if he will refuse." Śiva said, "I am sure he will not take." She said, "I am sure you do not want to give." Śiva said, "It is the truth, what I say." She said, "This is not the truth. The truth is what I say." Finally, the gentleman Śiva went to the yogī, stood before him, and said, "Auṃ, Auṃ, Auṃ," three times. The yogī did not listen; he was making his chapati. Śiva thought he could not hear, so he said again, "Auṃ, Auṃ, Auṃ." The yogī did not listen, busy with his surprise. Again Śiva said, and the yogī said, "Who is here?" Śiva said, "I am Śiva, the Lord of the entire universe." The yogī did not look at Śiva; he was watching his chapati so it would not burn. Śiva said, "You know who is standing in front of you?" He said, "Yes. Why did you come here?" He was telling Śiva, "Why did you come here?" Śiva said, "I came to give you something." The yogī said, "When did I beg from you? I did not ask you to give me." Pārvatī was standing behind a bush. As ladies do, she was biting her little finger, sweating. Śiva said, "Whenever I appear, I give something and then go. So ask whatever you want. What would you like to have?" The yogī did not look up. He said, "Okay, if you want to give something, then disappear from here. Do not disturb me." Śiva said, "Oṃ, Oṃ, Oṃ," and went away. Pārvatī went before him far away. Afterwards, Śiva asked Pārvatī, "My dear one, did you see and hear?" She said, "Yes, Śivjī, Your māyā is indescribable. No one will understand Thy māyā. Tvoja māyā je neopísateľná, nikto ju nikdy nepochopí." Therefore, the happiest is the one who has no more wishes. Titikṣā, śamadam śraddhā, or titikṣā, karśamadhān uparatī vichārā. This is the third principle of Jñāna Yoga. Some people say, "No, I am a jñāna yogī, I read the book and I know everything." You are not a jñāna yogī. Jñāna yoga sādhanā is more difficult than karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and rāja yoga. Gyan yoga is not so easy. Finally, jñāna yoga sādhanā is completed when ātmā-jñāna comes. Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya said the first step towards self-realization is to love each and every entity and see in them thyself. So, it is not easy. Therefore, better not to have. If you have, you have a problem. If you do not have, you have a problem. So, the best is in the middle. In India, when someone asks, "How are you?" the answer always has been—though now they have forgotten—"Bhagavān gives bread, I am happy. God gives me chapati and lentils. What do I need more?" That is the answer of farmers, people who never went to school. Those with high, high, high education, high academic degrees, it becomes a mental epidemic. "How are you? I am very good. My company is doing perfectly. This year, my budget was great. My shares went high." The other is looking, not knowing what he is talking about. When they ask your name, you say, "I am a professor, doctor, engineer." If you ask villagers, "What is your name?" they say, "Name has only God. I am simply Prem Purī." Modern education has made humans lonely, selfish, and egotistical—self-centered persons. That is the trouble in the world. Education is that which understands the pain and troubles of others. Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite song, "Viṣṇu Viṣṇu," refers to those who understand the pain of others, not only humans but animals too. When you take a goat or a chicken and cut its neck, how much immense pain? When you get an injection, it is a very fine needle from your favorite dentist. You relax on the chair, and the dentist says, "Open your mouth. We must give an injection." If the dentist does not like you, he comes near with the injection and makes liquid out. Oh, my God. For the dentist, the needle is long. I am always afraid it goes toward my eyeballs. Just looking at the injection, we have so much fear. When it comes, the doctor’s helper must hold your head. In some seconds, you feel it. My dentist first checks the right place; he did not inject, and I said, "It is pain." He said, "Yes, a lot of sugar you eat." Can you imagine when a dog, rabbit, chicken, goat, or cow has its throat cut? How much pain? That animal does not die once; it dies a million times with this pain. That is why you should not eat meat. God gave enough to eat. Quit only the meat. Mother Nature has many vegetables and everything. Otherwise, you consume meat and meditate to get self-realization? I have to laugh. You celebrate a wedding party, making a marriage ceremony. God helps with a happy life and blesses us. But how many chickens do you let be killed for your marriage? Be sure, God will not bless you. The heart of God is weeping, bleeding. So, spiritual development, self-realization, Jñāna Yoga, all yogas, all spirituality around the world—no ātmā jñāna unless you have that ahiṃsā, non-violence, the highest principle. How many goats you ate, that many times you have to be born and let your head be cut. How many chickens you ate, that many times you have to become a chicken. Then someone will run behind to catch you, and Swāmījī will say, "I told you, I told you." That is it. Karma comes back. So, mantra practice purifies all negative tendencies and is very good for the healing process—many illnesses, even like cancers. I was talking about my dentist, and I feel pain in my jaw exactly where the injection was. Karma comes back. There is therapy called sound and color therapy. Sound means either the best tune, best rāga, or those mantras. And the light, beautiful light, different kinds of daylight. Sit in a park or outside your house and observe nature. Every minute, some reflection, light is changing. Light and sound. Then comes naturopathy therapy, one of the best therapies because you are with nature, taking different earth, different herbs, rasāyana. Mantra definitely will give you peace, harmony, and good health. Mahatma Gandhījī said, "I can fast physically."