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Om Śiva Śiva, Namaḥ Śivāya, Om Namaḥ Śivāya, Om... Namaḥ Śiva, Om Namaḥ Śivāya, Om Nama... Śiva. We have a very nice program today, again, and it is about health. Health depends on many things: nourishment, society, and thoughts. There is another way of our behavior that harms our health. It is very important to know that, and that is laziness. That is the biggest enemy of humans. People who have these characteristics are said to be under the influence of guṇas, and that is tamas guṇa. Tamas guṇa is like a rotten fish; it stinks. Such people are in tamas guṇa, and it inwardly makes us sick and causes many diseases. So, laziness is this tamas guṇa, and tamas guṇa comes from laziness. Then one thinks, "I can’t do anything." That is very important: he can’t do anything. He sits under a tree, and he is so lazy. There is a cherry tree, a beautiful ripe cherry, a heart cherry. Every minute or every second, the nectar drips from these cherries. And in the moonlight, the water comes. But the lazy one is lying under the tree. He says, "Cherries are very beautiful, but I can’t." The cherries are on the tree, and they are mouth-watering, but this lazy person is just waiting. Then comes another person, and the lazy person says, "I cannot get up. Can you bring me the cherries? I’m so full of cherries. Can you put them in my mouth?" The lazy person says, "Can you please open my mouth? It’s so hard." Then he says, "It’s very good, but I can’t bite. Can you move your chin a little bit?" Then the man was like Gajānana. This person like Gajānana lost his nerve and gave him a good teaching. He closed his jaw and went away. The lazy person is lying there. That is tamas guṇa. Tamas guṇa comes from false nourishment, false thoughts, and dependence on others. The person can do everything, but he doesn’t want to. He cannot get up. He cannot walk. He is just lying there under the cherry tree. Then he suddenly sees a leopard and starts running very quickly and climbs up the tree. The man sees and says, "Aha, he is not sick; he is lazy." So, whoever has the tamas guṇa loses everything. And when we ask them, they have other guṇas, and that is also a sickness. That is rajas guṇa. When you say more, then you are chorṇik. And when you say something to them, they become very angry, and that is then rājas guṇa. There was a beggar putting out his hand, and a good-hearted person like Dr. Radha took one shilling and gave it into the beggar’s hand. He was so curious and said, "You can have that back. Why are you giving me just one shilling?" So, tamas guṇa and rajas guṇa, these two types of guṇa, cause mental illness for humans. They can cause psychic illness. Then you go to a doctor? Yes, but if you are not ill, what can a doctor do? If you’re not healed, what can the doctor do? Everything is good, but you are lazing in your thoughts. And he said, "These are psychic problems. You are really very sick. Take this medicine." This person takes the medicine and sleeps all the time, and so he loses his health and his life. It is said, water should flow. When water flows, it is clean, and when water stays, it becomes stinky. The water flows, and then it leaves. So when a person is active physically, mentally, spiritually, then it is brilliant. God gave us everything, but we should use it. So, that is also an illness. Then there is another illness, called spiritual illness. That is something interesting. Oh, that’s interesting. He is so lazy and so full of tamas and rajas guṇas, and he goes to the church and stays there. He comes to the ashram and sits there and says, "Where are the prasādis?" Everybody can be so lazy and full of rajas and tamas and come into a temple or ashram and just sit. They cannot work, and that is a karmic disease. So when you are lazy, you cause karma. Your every thought is recorded by God, and in the next time, you will meet crocodiles. They will be running after you. Other diseases we can heal, but this śikṣārā, we cannot heal. But this śikṣārā, we cannot heal. And destiny you cannot heal. So this man says, "If my destiny was written on a piece of paper, I could read it, but now I cannot. And if it was a piece of wood, I could break it, but now I cannot." And so karma is a good or a bad thing. Good karma keeps us healthy, awake, wise, and leads us to our goal. What goal? A human life goal means ātmā jñāna. Good karma makes us alert and healthy and leads us to our goal, which is self-realization. And bad karma leads us to a lower life, which is like reptile life and others. The animals are born because they have such a destiny. Animals cannot make new karmas, but humans can change their karmas. It means we can overcome our bad karmas through our good deeds. So a human being can do two things: he can do good or bad karma, and also change old karmas. So, nobody can heal a karmic disease, and there is no medicine for that. Only one. And that is a blessing. And from whom? From everybody. From your mother, father, brother, sister, friend, your teacher, everyone. Your siblings, your teacher, and your master. Blessing is a blessing. So when somebody says hello, we have to know that in the old times they said, "May you be blessed." And so it was also with Mārta and the Ṛṣi. He is still alive because he collected so many blessings. Even animals can bless us. When we feed the hungry animals, they can also bless us. Somehow their stomach blesses us through their well-being. So we are making such karmas that will accompany us from life to life. Our money, accessories, and all the things will remain here, but the karmas will be with us, and then the karmas lead us on further. As long as they are in our hands, we can still protect ourselves. We are doing physical karma, we are doing emotional karma, with thoughts, with conversations, etc. Tanamana dhanabhachana, tanamana dhanabhachana. We are doing physical and emotional karmas. Such a disease is very hard to heal. I have told you this story many times about a ṛṣi. The ṛṣi had a disciple, and he was very learned. But suddenly the disciple thought, "I am wiser than my master. I am better." And he tried to manipulate and blackmail the other disciples of this master behind the master’s back, but the master knows everything. So the master said, "This karma is bad for you. In the next life, you will be a crow." He made bad karma going against his master. He was reborn as a crow. The ones who gossip too much and criticize the holy people and the master—it doesn’t matter how he is—in the next life, they will be crows, and the whole day, "Quack, quack, quack." And we’ll do quack, quack the whole day. When I rest in the afternoon, a few sit on my roof, and from every side, they say, "Quack, quack,... quack." And he says, "Quack, quack, quack." My God, I have to close the windows. When Swāmījī has his rest in the afternoon, he hears the crows from both sides quack. And he has to close the window, and then they sit on the windowsill. I already know who they were. He knows who they were, and they always asked the master why and how. They were the gossipers. If you have a question for the master, you will get your answer in the next life. So the holy one was wise. He had many cities, but he became a crow. But it is said the grace of the master will always be there. There will be punishment, but the master has his disciples always in the palm of his hand. As a crow in the Himalayas near Pokhara, so this crow was in the Himalayas near Pokhara, by the Annapurna range, next to the Annapurna Mountain. And it is called Mukti Dhām. Do you know Mukti Dhām? Mukti Dhām. Dhām means the holy pilgrimage. Dhām is the holy pilgrimage. Mukti is liberation. Mukti is liberation, and whoever goes there, the ones who go there will be liberated. It is very high in the mountain. And further on, it is very cold, and there is a wonderful lake. There is no lake in this world as pure and pure as this lake. And there is a wonderful, wonderful lake there. There is no other lake in the world that is so pure and so clean. And why? Because all the birds that live around there have a blessing from the holy one, and they live all together. At the sunset, all the birds come and sing. How happy they are. One day in the evening at sunset, all the birds come together and they sing, and they are so happy, but this black crow, who has always criticized, will not sing after the sunset or during the sunset. And the birds will sing, happy. Did you notice? Have you ever heard it? The crow sings? The crow doesn’t make any noise anymore. It just snarls. But this black crow didn’t sing with them, because crows don’t sing at the sunset. Because of the negative karma, because they have black, negative karma. They have no joy. They are not happy. So the crow sits there and just listens. And the other happy birds talk with each other, like us, who were chatting away happily. One comes from Slovakia, one from Croatia, and so on and so on. "How are you, friend? How are you? Oh, that’s nice." So, the joy of the animals, especially birds, in the morning and in the evening is so nice. And in Jadon Ashram, our birds sing all the time, twelve months a year. And in Jadon Ashram, every animal and every bird speaks several languages. Our dog understands Croatian, Hungarian, Slovenian, English, Czech, and everything. German, of course. The first language after Sanskrit is German. Yes, many languages are dialects of German. The English language is a dialect of German. Many languages are dialects of German, like English, which is a dialect derived from German. That’s why I’m here. That’s why Swāmījī is sitting here. And one bird, that was the only bird, only one, and the birds were so happy. And one bird said, "One of his master’s faces." Another said of his guru brothers and sisters. And one said, "In my previous life, I was always in an ashram, and I saw a master." And the birds sit together, and they are telling each other stories about their brothers and sisters, also about their master and living in an ashram. And one bird says, "My master said to me, ‘You will be a bird one more life, and then next life you will be a human.’" And then there comes somebody like Dr. Shanti and Dr. Radha. They are all like these happy birds. They gossip so much. Oh, God. Viśva Gurujī hears them sometimes, but then it’s all very boring to him, not through telephones. With Trikāl Darśī, he hears them, and one crow began to weep. The tears were flowing. Freund, was ist los? And all the other birds came to this crow and said, "What’s the matter, my friend?" And he said, "I am so sad. Es tut mir so leid," and he said, "I’m so sad. And I know that I caused this sadness because I wasn’t faithful to my master, and my master gave me this curse... So I became a crow." Die Kripa says, "Oh, it will be better, have patience." And the tears are flowing. So viel hat geweint, and the tears of this crow became a wonderful lake. The tears were so pure and so clean, and they made this lake full of the master’s grace. From nowhere, a bird comes quickly and takes it away from the sea. And if something falls into the sea, even a little grass, a bird comes and cleans the sea immediately. Because the birds think and say, these tears are filled with the memory of the master, and there is the presence of the master. Because the birds know this lake is full of the memories of the master. And then the crow accepted his mistake. And suddenly, the memory of his previous life came again. And he sees everything. And he sees everything. He became a Trikāla Darśī. And there is a specific time given to the crows, to all the crows, and we don’t know that. The child for all the ancestors. There’s a special time, a week or two, that’s known as the time for ancestors. It’s a big secret. At that time, the crow sees where your ancestors are: your father, mother, brother, sisters, everybody who died, and this is a blessing to the crows from the ṛṣi. So the crow has again opened his wisdom. So the wisdom of the crow is open then. And his name was Kāgabhuśaṇḍī. Kāg means crow. There was somebody known as Kāgabhuśaṇḍī. And Bhuśuṇḍī is the wise one who started to speak. And his satsaṅg was so beautiful. Even Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Nārada, and all the other gods went to his satsaṅg. Even Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Nārada, and all the gods came to this satsaṅg, and now as well. And a few kilometers around Kāgabhuśaṇḍī, there are no negative thoughts and no negative energies. When you come to this room, when you come into that place, all your doubts are not just about your master but also against your wife. There you will understand your wife again, and she will. So all misunderstandings and all such karmas will be purified there. Why? Because one holy man got his self-realization in the form of grace, and that is grace. Because one holy man got his self-realization again in the form of a crow, and that’s praise. Who cannot do sādhanā and is lazy, then he will come in the next life as a python. Do you know what a python is? A snake. In the next life, the one who cannot do sādhanā will be born as a python. A lazy snake, a lazy snake, everybody can play with it when it’s not hungry. A lazy disciple will be a python, and who speaks too much in satsaṅg and so on, in the next life there will be a frog in the next life. It’s all written on that list of 8.4 billion beings. And for some diseases, it is said they are psychic. It’s true, there is an astral being, and normally they come from your ancestors because they haven’t been liberated and they suffer. It is dependent on us, the living descendants. These ancestors depend on us, who are still alive. So to overcome your karma, you have to take over from your ancestors. That’s why, to overcome your destiny, your karma, you have to take responsibility also for your ancestors, and you have to also help liberate your parents through pūjās, mantras, ceremonies, etc. And every year you go to the cemetery on All Saints’ Day. Why do we go there? Because we want to liberate our ancestors. A human understands that. And when we don’t observe this law, it doesn’t matter. You can live in South America, in China, or in India, or anywhere. For the astral beings, distance is no problem. They are always with us, like our bodies and shadows. In Austria, we always have shadows. So we say, "Well, I’ll take a plane." There is no shadow there anymore. And I’ll fly away to Africa. God, thank God, my shadow has stayed in Austria. And you get off in Africa, and you are surprised; it is next to you. We cannot let go of our shadow. And so it is with our ancestors, and they live in us. Our ancestors are still with us, and they are within us, and that’s a cause of diseases a lot. That’s why there are mantras and pūjās. When you go to a church, they also do a pūjā there. Everywhere, in every religion, for our ancestors. But a lot has been lost. How to do that? And we should do it systematically when we haven’t done any ceremony. That’s Pitṛ. The souls that live in the dark places. They disturb our family, they disturb our business, they bring disharmony into our family, into our mind, and a lot more. We want to do something good, but it always goes in the wrong direction. Many people say, "I’m trying so hard, but another obstacle comes." That’s disease. That’s real disease. Because we haven’t done our duty. And there is a pūjā, and we will do it in the summer. And then suddenly you will be free. Maybe we will do it in the summer, and you will feel liberated instantly. But not the final liberation, but you will only be free of these problems: our bad thoughts, the quarrel in the family, you have no children, or you have children, but you know how they are today with the colleagues, with a colleague, with neighbors. There are so many things that need to be purified, and we will do it. Would you like to? Yes. When Kākabhuśaṇḍī said, "Do you want to do it?" everyone said, "Yes!" When Kākabhuśuṇḍi said, "Do you want to do it?" Everybody said, like we here, yes, we need to find our roots. We need to do something, then we are healed. Then we will be healed. Many of our diseases are caused by destiny and the karmas of previous lives. When you do this pūjā and you are liberated from them, it’s very nice. And when we don’t know how to do it, there’s another possibility. One in all, all in one. One in all and all in one. There is a way, very beautiful, very nice and simple. But again, our destiny is against us. Otherwise, it is said, Abba Hama, Abba Hama, Guru Caraṇasukha. Without instruments, very quietly, because now is the time for the news. And our neighbors say, "Damn it, it’s raining. It’s the weekend. We can’t hear our news." So sing very quietly because of the neighbors who are watching the news. Yes, like that. Do you know a good woman? What does she do? In the kitchen, when she cooks and the guests are sitting in the living room with the man, then this woman sings. So, whether you sing louder, quietly, or internally, that will be heard. You know, like a good wife who’s cooking, and the guests are sitting in the sitting room with the husband, she cooks and she’s singing very quietly, and this is also heard. That’s a very good quality for a woman. She will have no anger. Otherwise, she will be angry. "I always have to work in the kitchen, and my husband always brings some stupid person, and they sit there and gossip, and I have to cook and wash up." She has to vent, and that’s a good wife that sings. Guruśaraṇasukapāya abha hama Guruśaraṇasukapāya. How nice! How nice! So, be always happy. Always be happy. Our task is to bring light into darkness. Our task is to bring light into the darkness for years. When Holy Gurujī in India gave him a mantra, once I was also young, you know. And when Holy Gurujī was giving mantras in India and Swāmījī was young, there was a time, and it was a saṅkalpa that Gurujī gave: "Let me be light in the darkness. Wherever I come, light will come up in the hearts." Light means positive thoughts.