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When we go to sleep, we should surrender all our actions, good or bad, at the lotus feet of the Lord. "Lord of my heart, by Thy will, I did all my best. But I do not know if it was best or not. Through body, through words, and through mind, whatever I did, I surrender to Thee." This act releases our mental tension. We offer it to God: "Please take care; it is in Thy hands. I am only Your instrument." At that time, we should also say a good prayer. In every language, in every country, culture, and religion, there are certain prayers. But the prayers according to the Vedas, according to the Vedic culture, are not only for ourselves. "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ"—in this thought, all should be happy, not only me. If I pray for myself, it is: "Please forgive me for my wrong steps and wrong thinking." Who are we to judge anyone? Who are we to humiliate anyone? Who are we to find the mistakes in others? Who are we to say, "I know, and my knowledge"? No matter how much knowledge you have, it is just a very tiny dot on the tip of a needle. And this knowledge you have is only given to you temporarily; it is not yours. That is Guru Kṛpā. So, while we are responsible for what we do, at the same time we pray: "Lord, may all be happy." In the Vedas, there is no name of any individual God. Only Īśvara. Only Parameśvara. Only Ātmā—perhaps Jīvātmā—and the nature, the elements. The main message of the Vedas is to live in harmony with nature. Do not go against nature; otherwise, nature will take revenge, and you will suffer the consequences. Here, "you" means the human, not he or she. There is no gender difference. There is only one Ātmā. The Vedas speak about Parameśvara, who is in each and every creature, in every blade of grass, in every leaf of the trees or plants. Without Him, blossoms cannot come, blossoms cannot open, and color will not come. This is Sanātana Dharma, which is our life. So the Vedas said, "Live in harmony with nature." And it is right that Gandhijī said, "Nature doesn't need us. We need nature." In that way, a human, in one sense, is only the mind. Manu was the first one; Manu was the creator of the humans. Here, Manu means the mind. Manu mantra jagataḥ: the mind has created this world, and this mind will dissolve this world. When you are born, you created the world, and when you die, the world is gone for you. As long as we do not look within ourselves—to know who we are and from where we come—we are only temporary here, and soon we will go away. Then, for what are we fighting? My land, my country, my culture, my religion, the wars, the killings... You are killing. Whose killing? The killer will be killed too. At that time, you can put both bodies near to each other. One was killing this one, and the other was killing the other one. Ask them now, which country do you want? Nothing. They are only occupying a few square meters of land for a while. The reality will come then. So why are we fighting? This is ignorance. This is pride. It is greed for power, position, etc. This Kali Yuga has developed in this intellectual way. People have gone out of their Self, but we have to go within ourselves. Outside, we will not meet God. Therefore, in the evening when we come home, we wash our hands and feet, or we take a shower, go to the altar, make the prayer or light a lamp, and at the time of sleeping, also surrender thy actions. "Thank you, Lord, that You guided me. You protected me. Please accept all my deeds and protect me in my sleep." You will have beautiful sleep. You will have no tension. There will be no need for sleeping tablets. You will sleep very peacefully—a divine sleep, Yog Nidrā. Then, when we get up, we should get up very relaxed and fresh. Only those can sleep very well and wake up very happy and relaxed who go to sleep early. Nature says, Āyurveda says: after sunset, do not eat anything except a glass of water. Some say a glass of milk, but if milk is available directly from the cow, not the milk which is pesticide from the dairy. There is a tamas guṇa in eating after sunset. Juice is also food; it is not water. In Brahma-muhūrta, you will wake up before sunrise, very fresh. And there, you should listen to this beautiful bhajan prayer. Listen to the bhajans, the prayers. In our whole being, we feel the divine vibration. So when a bhakta wakes up, they remember God. They wake up fresh from good sleep and remember God. And who cannot? Those who get up later have tamas guṇa. Then, they remember the coffee. Many would like to have a coffee machine near the night table. Everything is prepared; only one button has to be pressed. You turn this side and put the button. So the whole day, tamas guṇa. A bhakta wakes up in Brahma-muhūrta. When Hanumānjī went to Śrī Laṅkā, he wanted to know if there was any spiritual person, if anyone there was a devotee of Bhagavān Lord Kṛṣṇa, Rāma. So early morning, Hanumānjī was walking slowly from every street. Everyone was snoring. It was a beautiful resonance. "Oh, my God. This is the resonance of the tiger, or the snake, or the crocodile." But one bhakta, he woke up early, took a shower, went to meditate, and was saying, "Śrī Rām, Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām. Glory to Bhagavān Rām. Śrī Rām, Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām. Śrī Rām, Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām." Rāma. When we say Rāma, the whole mouth opens. Rāma. Rāma, not like that. Rāma. Even when you say Kṛṣṇa, it does not sound like that. Kṛṣṇa is a complicated story. So, next time, Kṛṣṇa will come. Hanumānjī was waiting, looking through the window. He said, "This must be a bhakta of my Lord." And Hanumānjī went into the room and said, "Brother Vibhīṣaṇa, I make praṇām to you. You are the bhakta of my Lord." He was the younger brother of Rāvaṇa. Hanumānjī had the dress of a sādhu, and Vibhīṣaṇa said, "What a great luck of mine!" He said, "Vibhīṣaṇa said, 'I have faith. Hope, oh Hanumānjī, without the mercy of God, you cannot meet the saint.' So, Hanumānjī Mahārāj, I welcome you." So, Brahma Muhūrta is a time of the divine, the Brahman. Amṛt Vela is the time of the nectar. At that time, when you repeat a mantra or bhajan, it remains with you the whole day and inspires you. Our entire body, all indriyas, all thoughts, everything is tuned in the direction of positive energy. And we say, "Thank you, thank you, my Lord. You protected me the whole night, and You woke me up relaxed, healthy, peaceful. But whatever happened through my sleep, through my dreams, good or bad, I surrender to Thee. And please, guide my each and every step today. Let my each and every word go through Your mouth. Let all my actions be in Your hands. I am Your instrument." Then, definitely, our day will be very positive. This is the second kind of sādhanā. When we wake up, then we say, "I am a human." Just to be aware that "I am a human" can protect us from many negative energies. "Oh, a human cannot do like this." Anything wrong we will do, it is not human. So, one word, one sentence in the morning, when we put it in our brain positively: "I am human." What makes me human? Not this body, but some human qualities. Who is mentally ill? He has a human body but acts like an animal. When one loses the human qualities, then one gets psychic problems. What makes me human? Find out which qualities are there. You will find it in the hidden powers in humans, that which is hidden in you. How to awaken these qualities? These are beautiful thoughts which will lead us to perfection. Then we will feel that God is with us. God is within us. When you think and pray to God, when we think of Him and pray and try to see His picture or statue, then He is with us. But when we feel Him in the heart, then He is within us. So, outside and inside. Outside, He is a separate person. Inside, He is one with us, so He merges within our Self. At that time, what we call, we realize Viveka. Viveka tells, "Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā." Brahman is the truth. The world is temporary, unreal. But how to get the taste from this suffering? Pure vairāgya is that all kinds of joy from the mortal world till the brahmaloka are tasteless, as Holy Gurujī said. How can I say this, Gurujī? Without vairāgya, we cannot come further. But vairāgya should not be temporary. There are many different kinds of vairāgya. One vairāgya is called "in the graveyard." When you go to a funeral, your best friend died or a family member, at that time we all think, what was the sense of life? Everything is gone. A person cannot take anything with them. That is a vairāgya. But as soon as you come out of the graveyard, you go home... In Europe, it is a different tradition. You invite them to the beer pub, give them bread, and give them a drink. In India, it is different. After the funeral, you go and wash yourself, go home, change your dress, and then a few people come together and bring food to that family, the bereaved family, and offer it to them, telling them, "Please eat something." So, different traditions. But when they come back, the vairāgya is gone. When you are sitting here, "Oh yes, really, what Swāmījī said is it? Yeah, really, I am a human." And when you take the car and someone overtakes quickly, you will say, "They are stupid." That's it. To maintain vairāgya is not easy, but vairāgya is the way, and Mahāprabhujī said it nicely. How to maintain vairāgya? How to get vairāgya? You know, there is endless treasure in the bhajans of Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī Brahmanājī, the disciples of Mahāprabhujī. So Mahāprabhujī said about vairāgya, yes, you know, everybody: without satsaṅg, no vairāgya. There is a beautiful story about vairāgya, but many people are waiting, as eleven o'clock is goodbye. After vairāgya comes ṣaṭsampatti, the six treasures which are within ourselves. We are so rich. Who said you are poor? You are not poor. God gave us everything: hands, legs, eyes, bread, everything. How can you say you are poor? Karma se pūr, vichāra se pūr—you are poor through your karma and through your thinking. So think that you are the rich. Once they were interviewing people to make a little documentary, asking, "How happy are you? Are you poor? Are you rich?" So one man said, "I am the richest person in the whole world." He said, "Oh, what have you?" "All the banks of the world belong to me. All the factories and companies belong to me. All the mines of gold and metals belong to me. All the precious stones belong to me, not only this. The whole world belongs to me. I am so rich. And I sleep so peacefully, because I am a good organizer, a very good managing director. I gave all the work to the people to do, and I am happy, relaxing. Do you want to know more?" The person says, "Thank you. So why do you think you are poor?" Think always happy. And when you think that you are rich, this is a very secret saṅkalpa. A saṅkalpa comes true. So say before going to sleep, "Joseph, you are the richest one." And Joseph smiles and sleeps peacefully. Yes, this is saṅkalpa. You will be rich. That's it. So Joseph will not be unhappy then. "So, Joseph, you are the richest one." And he will say, "Yes, Natasha, thank you. My richness belongs to you." Positive thinking. So what do we think? These are the six treasures within us. Though we have all this richness within us, constantly there is a longing. It is called mumukṣutva. "Oh Lord, Gurudev, when will I be liberated from this troublesome world?" That's it. And the last, through the kṛpā of the Gurudev, is tyāga, renunciation. Vairāgya: stay above. Endure desires, pain, longing, anything. Enduring. Viveka: the reality, truth, is ātmā. So try to love your ātmā, take care of the ātmā. And samādhi, śraddhā, titikṣā—this is your richness. Renunciation, enduring, Viveka—these are all qualities, the vairāgya. Vairāgya, tyāga, tapasyā—all these divine instructions, words are given by the saints who made experiments in reality. They tested many, many times, then they gave them to us. So to declare and realize, a philosopher has to be proved by many. That's it. So there are some so-called self-made masters. Mentally, they think like that. In a colony where people are living in a residential area, at one o'clock in the night, one man, a self-made professor, was screaming in the street, making noise. People woke up, and the people were a little civilized. If he was in some other country, they would give him treatment. So they called the police, and blue lights came. He was still shouting. The police said, "What are you doing?" "Oh, sir, I'm hunting elephants." So the police said, "Where are the elephants?" He said, "They are not here. I hunted them. If I will not shout, they will be here. So please, you should also shout, not only your horn, what you call the siren. The siren doesn't cost energy. You should scream." So it is like that. So, my dear, all these techniques, the philosophy, the yoga, are researched by many, many holy saints, and they all agree. So what is the reality? In the end, nothing will remain. Therefore, simply come to thyself. That is the best. So after that, we all come to one state of our mind, and that is called nivṛtti. Nivṛtti means "done." When everything is finished, you sit down and relax. As long as the house lady has work, she is working in the kitchen: cooking, cleaning, ironing. When everything is done, she makes a bread dough and puts it in. With the buttons, automatically in the morning there will be nice, warm bread. Everything is done. She says, "Ah, finished." And she takes some needles and knits like this to relax, and the husband puts on the television. That's it. They are both relaxed. So, nivṛtti, pravṛtti, and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti, vṛtti—you know what is vṛtti? Yoga: citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ. As long as our vṛtti is in the outer world, we cannot rest, we cannot meditate. So, pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Nivṛtti means yoga: chitta vṛtti nirodhaḥ. It is all controlled, all realized. Āsana is good, prāṇāyāma is good; it keeps our body healthy. But finally, our personal mantra and meditation. Meditation is the way. So we wish you all the best, a very good journey, and see you again soon in the summer program. There will be some mini programs. You are welcome, and let us make the International Day of Yoga, I-D-Y, very successful. I-D-Y is good: "I" means International, "D" means Day, and "Y" means Yoga. That is our ID. Ahaṁ brahmāsmī: I am ātmā. So, please give the lessons free on that day in many, many places, and immediately on the same day, give the message to our national center. The national center must immediately write the figure of how many places and how many people and send it to the fellowship, and the same night, the fellowship... You should forward it to all the embassies. You have to send it to the Indian embassies in your country, and we will forward the fellowship to India and keep it in our record. That's it. And we will have a prayer on that day. I will have a webcast, and we will see. So, we will have a logo: Yoga and Dead Life, I-D-Y, instead of Idle, I-D-Y. So, thank you, and wish you a good journey. And you know the highest point of our seminars is the silentness of our children, how beautiful they are, how silent they are. You think there are no children? There are many children. And if the children are many, Swāmījī also has many chocolates. So now they can come under the eighteen. So now you can see the webcast of all our children's moments here. More finished steps on your hands.