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Part 1: The Healing Power of Sound, Respect, and Nature Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. When one thing is healed, then everything is okay. The body may be healthy, and everything may seem okay, but mental illness is not okay. And so, everything becomes imbalanced—in the body, in social life, in everything. If a human tries to bring happiness, joy, and peace, it is possible. There are different ways to access the healing power, to develop it within ourselves for healing the human mind. We cannot talk directly to everyone; we cannot approach all. Nowadays, there is one word they call mass media. With it, you can be sitting in your small room and get in touch with the whole world. We have a better medium than this other one because, with this technology, what we see is that we influence only humans. But whether they will receive this healing power or not, we have to work with positive thinking, positive thinking, and what we... call it again, love. In place of love, we will take respect. In that respect, there are two words we have to understand: the difference between ego and self-respect. Is self-respect ego, or is ego self-respect? There is a very fine difference between them. Otherwise, it is understood that both have the same quality: ego and self-respect. So, either you call this self-respect, or you call it ego. Now, self-respect is that social education. If we do not have that proper education from our parents’ side, our mother’s side, our family side, etc., also from our school, we... expect this self-respect. In this modern time, you go to the office to work. In other times, people worked in the field. So now, when you come to the office to work, and in the office where you are working—in your company—different clients come, and the company holder expects good business. So when people come, and if the employee does not behave properly, then they will not come back again. Now, behavior—what does it mean? That also has different aspects, and that’s why we are trying. So, suppose you are working in some office and you were late, so just telephoning and brushing your teeth in the... office, and others will come and say, "What? My God! What are they doing here?" So we need proper hairdressing, we need proper clothes. Okay, nowadays is the time that they are making a little makeup for... what? Not for you, but for others. This is self-respect. Otherwise, in the evening when you come home, you go to the bathroom and you wash all your expensive paste, what you are painting on your body. Yeah, finally your skin is breathing. You wash and you say, "Oh, God," but every day having to wear a different foreign body on your skin, then it’s a different sign you are not happy in business. But we are doing proper dress, proper hairdressing, proper everything, clean. That’s called self-respect, to get respect from others. So you have to respect others, which means you have respect for yourself. And that is not ego. So you give others good behavior so that you are respecting. So when you show respect to others, automatically others give you self-respect, and that is not ego. Ego is something different. "I don’t care how I’m looking, or this, it is their problem." This is the ego. So that company will soon tell you bye-bye. That’s it. Now, similarly, the healing power. So we have to come back to that origin, the natural way, and that is 100% effective. And that is called mantra and yajña, the chantings, the ceremonies, etc. Vedas—there are four Vedas. Someone tells that there are five Vedas. Another one says, "No, there are six Vedas." So, okay. So the fifth Veda is called Gāndharva Veda. And Gandharvas are in the heaven, in Svargaloka. The musician, that’s Gandharva. All beautiful instruments, dance, that is Gandharva. That’s called the temple dance, the temple dance. So it is not like a nightclub, different. But it is a ceremony, it is a mantra. The body movement is a cosmic movement, a cosmic dance. The postures, āsanas, what we are doing is called the cosmic dance. Relaxed, happy, and getting many good qualities back. Gāndharva Veda, so who can nicely sing, who can dance, they are blessed for heaven. And heaven is such an atmosphere and such an energy there, so as long as you will be in heaven, you are fit for everything. You look, all look the same age, all young. Why all young, why not old? Because the young ones have to work, the old ones will be sitting only, so they can’t do anything. So that is something, Gāndharva Veda. Sitar, guitar, flute, harmonium, ḍholak, mañjīrā, mṛdaṅg, drums, whatever we call them, this instrument, who is playing, is the master. Everything is easier, but to master the instrument is different. And this is a talent within ourselves. When you touch an instrument, something awakens in us. When a good sitar player or guitar player takes it in hand and just touches the strings, oh, everyone says, "Nice." And maybe a person like me, who can’t play the sitar or guitar, I touch it and I said, "You said, ‘Oh God, what’s happening?’" Like this. A sound, what we call the resonance tune, and there is no mistune, but there is a destructive sound or contracting sound, which brings all together. So it is said, nāda rūpa para brahma. Nāda is that resonance, and so, who can play very nice pianos or sitars? You know, the concert house is full; 5,000 people are going and listening. But in London, it is not only 5,000 people; there are many millions. But who goes there? Who understands? So nāda is the sound, resonance, and when it is a resonance which is uniting, connecting heart to heart, not only humans, but to... the animals and the nature also, that sound is called Brahman, the Supreme, the God. So when a nice resonance is created, you will see how beautifully your flowers will be blossoming, how your birds will be listening, they will not fly away. It has an effect on everything: on the water, on the fire, on the vegetation, on the animals, and on the humans. So we shall bring that kind of resonance, which is a healing power. Nowadays, you go to the beach, where it is the summer holidays, and you come to the beach, and you know how much the music is, my God. Neither people can sleep, nor birds can sleep. When the birds and animals get crazy, now I don’t know if you have here, or not in India, there you big, big box they call DJ, or DJ, and one crazy person buys in his small village, and he’s renting for weddings and so on, and all villages are suffering, and a person who has a heart disease gets a heart... attack. That person, take his blanket and bed, and go to the farmhouse somewhere far distance, that he saves his heart. And even it happens, I’m not making a joke, the truth. The pregnant animals, a cow or a buffalo or a goat or a sheep, they just lose their embryos. So much vibration and disharmony. That is the modern situation, and this other beautiful thing is that even your animals are happy. This is the difference between healing power, that’s called the sound and light, a healing power: sound and the light. Now there is a light. Where is DJ? DJ in the clubs? And my God, inside. It’s blue, red, green light. You are completely finished, completely. You don’t know what you are doing. That is to make the human brain ill and come feeding them with the alcohol or the drugs, and this brought immense disharmony. Imbalance and illnesses, so we have to come now to the ancient system again. That’s called sustainable. That is sustainable. The United Nations has, for the last 25 years, been asking and working to make the world a sustainable world. We have to get the sustainability. And there are, before there were 13 points, and now I think there are 24 points. The education, the poverty, and many, many... many things. But getting more and more illnesses, so I said this in my lectures and for the United Nations, because our yoga and their life, and she’s for me mother, and the World Peace Council—these three societies are inducted in the United Nations with a special status, except the ancient rules. Systems and sustainability will be there. So self-respect is a social behavior, and there we are creating a good atmosphere that others like. Otherwise, can you imagine in summer, in the heat, everyone is sweating, and you are standing in the bus holding the railing, and some have not washed for three days, and now finally he or she can let all these aromas out. Which is close under the armpit, hidden in the armpit, and others. The person like you, especially the women, are suffering. Yes, women, they are very... their nature is very clean, and this, but how to, what... to do? The poor ladies, they try to endure. And many gentlemen, they are very good, very good. Some ladies are also, they didn’t wash their hair a long time, or this, this, and that. So there are certain men who make themselves clean and put on some kind of perfume or something to show respect to others, not just for your own smell, and others also do this. So the person who has good perfume or a good smell from the body, that lady turns to the other side and a little bit tries to lean, lean like this. So this is healing, a healing of humanity. This is the first. Respect, respect, respect. Mate said, "Doesn’t like, you don’t like, others don’t like. But out of 100, at least 10% will be learning from you and will be happy." Similarly, there are mental waves, negative thinking. And that negative thinking also influences humans, animals, and vegetation. Ego is one of the most terrible things. And ego is not easy to get rid of again. You know, I told you yesterday, remember? What was it? A big stomach and the ego. These two are very hard to get rid of. But you see, my stomach is not so big. You see, it is only my cloth here, you see. The stomachs are different. So, someone said, "A man without a stomach is a heaven without stars." Om Śāntiḥ. I have to support sometimes the man also. It’s good. So, Nādharūpa Parabrahma. Vedas are the first scriptures in the world, first written. And there are thousands of pages, and each mantra is a healing. And the Vedas said, "Live in harmony with nature." Oh man, you will be ever happy and healthy. So we don’t use natural things, artificial and plastic. So Veda said, nāda-rūpa-para-brahma. That sound, a harmonious sound. But the artist is giving to the master; they are also called the guru. The guru, my sitar guru, my tabla guru, my harmonium guru, my driver guru, who teaches us something, is our master. So you can say master or guru. Is guru a Sanskrit or Hindi word, and master an English word? Well, the fifth Veda, Gāndharva Veda. And there’s one more, then they become six. Which one? Do you know that? Oh yes, you know. Come on. The Sixth Veda. The Sixth Veda is Āyurveda. Yes or no? Now, what means the Veda? Veda means knowledge. And I think some of in your languages, Czech, Slovak, this Russian, what they call the Slavic languages, they say Veda, knowledge. So, āyur. Āyur means life, age, age. So, if you ask someone, "How old are you?" Now, many people don’t want to say how old they are. Because they are respecting, again, too much the people’s self-respect, you know. It is a gray hair, but they are nicely black. The men have all black hair and black mustaches. But you can’t hide. This is only nakhara, we call nakhara. It is not reality. Also, the woman, today it was black hair, nice, original, and tomorrow she comes with blonde hair. Wow! And in the next week, she is bringing a red-haired one. And after a few days, listening to a lecture with Swamiji, coming with orange hair, so the nature. When you have ladies in your hair, the artificial color and a plastic chemical perfume, then don’t go near the honey, the honey, uh, honey hive, yes, they don’t like this. Then be sure they will come and love you, chick here, chick here. This is a good make-up. The other is not good. This will make you so. So animals don’t like these artificial things. We shall take from nature. So Āyurveda. So Āyur means age and health. So, healthy. So health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. So that healthy body, illness is then not anymore life. Achieve this health. Listen to the Vedas, listen to the mantras, and listen to the masters, and use the organic, natural things. When I came here the first time in 1970 in London, hardly anybody was talking about organic. And when someone said organic, they said, "What?" And now? Everything is chemical. And now we say, have you somewhere organic? Everything disappears. We were thinking drinking water everywhere was very good water, and if someone was carrying a water bottle with them, they said, "This person is not so normal, getting water of it." And now everywhere we have water bottles, and very soon, very... soon, our new generation will see that they have to carry oxygen bottles. So far we are. And therefore, the healing power for the humans is that with mantras, natural way of living, and positive thinking. We chanted "home," I chanted "home" in the beginning, and now there is a video. A CD made by NASA Center, where they went far into space, and with special instruments they tried to come with waves and resonance near the Sun, not very close, but they read the record, the sound in the Sun which is turning. And the turning of the Sun, you know, there is one symbol in India we call the swastika, and swastika means good health, good thoughts, good energy, and light. This is called swastika, and this swastika is the symbol of the Sun, and the Sun which is turning right. And when Swami Vivekananda explained the zero, because they gave him only zero time. There was in Chicago a World Religious Conference, and they invited some Indian scholars also. So the Mahāsura king sent Swāmī Vivekānanda there. And Vivekānanda came there, and they told him, "This with the red color, so the orange color, what will he tell us?" Why did the king send us? He should have sent some other king. But, as a respect, they said all time is given to everyone. Now, there is no time for Vivekānanda. But they said, "Okay, we give him time zero." Let him do. Talk on the subject: zero and time is zero. And he said, "Very happy." So first he told, "Dear sisters and brothers." And people were surprised that this man addressed us like a brother and sister. And sister, we thought differently, and then he said, "Zero, that is the highest and the best." And he began to talk about zero. After one minute, he stopped. They said, "No, no, please carry on, please carry on." And I don’t know how long he was talking, and they said, "Thank you, thank you..." Zero, so everything is a zero. The universe is a zero. This earth is a zero. The water is a zero. Everything is round, and the sun’s rays also don’t come straight to us. They are circulating until they come to us. They are going in the form of a zero. Everything is in the zero. We are at zero in the mother’s body after developing. Part 2: The Resonance of Truth: Healing Through Mantra and Positive Thought Everything is a zero. Atoms are zero. The turning of the Sun is like a zero, and the resonance they have… we have a CD. I forgot to bring it with me on the 18th of February. In February, I was in New Delhi for a conference about the Vedas. They gave a CD, and they were playing it, and it was exactly the sound, exactly the Oṁ. How did the ṛṣis know this? They knew. The symbols are methodological symbols, but very few people can interpret their meanings. Like the Tantras. Do you know about Tantras? Who knows? Who doesn’t know what Tantra is? The name Tantra, do you know it? If nobody knows, then they reject the subject. So the sound Oṁ is a life resonance. From this come the mantras from the Vedas. What the Vedas are saying is to heal the human body, mind, intellect, and the entire energy within a person. They said, "Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ." Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ. Everyone should be happy. Everyone. No one should suffer. No one should have pain. No one should be humiliated. Everywhere, everyone should have this happiness, including the animals, vegetation, and everything. What a great thought. So, speak truth. Speak only what reality is. Do not speak that which is not reality, that which is not the truth. And when? The truth is within you. Don’t hurry to speak, because a lie, everyone can digest. But the truth, very few people can digest. Yet the truth will lead you to victory. What we call Satyameva Jayate. It is an Indian slogan on the flag: Satyameva Jayate. Where there is truth, there is victory. I think in Czechoslovakia they also say, proudly, "The truth will win." That Satya develops in your brain. But because we think more negatively, we focus negatively, we speak negatively about others, this light is here. In the night, if we put the light off, it is complete darkness. As soon as we put on the light, the darkness is gone. We don’t know what the darkness is. We don’t even remember what the darkness is. Because this one light, one bulb, brought the light and removed all the darkness. So one wise person, one master, one guru, or some humble wise person can remove the darkness from the minds of all others. And that is the truth. And when is it truth? Don’t hurry to speak. Let those who have too much staunch in their stomach first let it become empty. So, Satyameva Jayate. Each and every word of the Vedas is coming, telling that truth. And this truth is not only for humans, but it is valid for the entire creation on this globe. Water, earth, fire, air, space—all these elements are holy. That through which we can live and survive is holy for us. We did not see God, but there is something which is holding us alive: these are the five elements. If the temperature is too high, you will… we will call the ambulance. Or if the temperature goes down and down, what will happen? Or we can’t breathe anymore. God, God… And you said, "Relax, relax." When you relax, then the divine energy comes. We call it in Hindi language, Ārām. Āram karo, relax. Āram is a very good word. ‘Ā’ means welcome, and ‘Rām’ means God. "Oh God, come to me." Through this prāṇa, through this breath, or whatever problem I have—difficulties, physical or mental—to remove, healing. Āram. And also, many of you, in your language, when it is very painful and unbearable, then inwardly or verbally we say, "God, please, God." Then we remember God. And when we were very healthy and this and that, my God, hearts were very wild. We didn’t remember God. But finally, God comes. No one else is there, only God, and God will heal us. So the faith—now here I’m coming to that point—we try to create within ourself positive thinking. Even if it is hard, you can turn darkness into light. You can change the devil into the highest supreme person or God. You can change everything. Yes, we can. What Gandhījī said: be the change you want to see. So we can change. We can change ourselves. You will become such a holy person. It is still not too late. If you are holy, you just have to change your cloth inside and wash a little bit properly. Use the neem soap. All this inner vikāra, clean the vikāra. Vikāra means impurities. Vikāra means negative thinking, and this vikāra will bring immense vṛttis. There are two kinds of vṛttis, and one is called kleśa and vikṣepa. Kleśa creates a lot of noise, a lot of troubles, one after another. The problem is there, one after the other: kleśa. And vikṣepa, disturbances. Whatever you do, there is some disturbance. Whatever you want to achieve, there are some barriers. You can’t come forward. You make one person happy, and twenty are against you. And when you go to the twenty to make them happy, that one is against you. So what to do? Such a situation is called Dharmaśaṅkaṭ. There was one man who liked to eat meat very much, and he had one son who was about five years old. His wife, however, was not eating meat. But her husband was so aggressive, if one day she did not cook meat for him, he might kill her. So one day they went to the market to buy meat, but they didn’t find any meat. The butcher said, "No, today we don’t kill any animals." But she was so afraid that if she couldn’t bring the meat home and cook it, her husband would kill her. So she was going to some restaurants, and on the street, one dog had died by accident. That restaurant took the dog and made the meat for the people. They did not know, so you don’t know what it is. Cooking, she bought from that person a little meat, and that was from the dog. She brought it home, but this young boy, seven or eight years old, he was with the mother, and now he knows this is the meat of a dog. To eat the meat of a dog is something horrible, not good. You should not eat the dog. He’s a very loyal animal. And the meat of the dog is impure. That’s thanks to God many people don’t eat it, otherwise no dogs would exist here. But this boy knew that the meat was from the dog, and she was cooking, and the father came home and said, "Is the food ready?" And she says, "Yes." Now, this very intelligent boy is between father and mother, but he’s an innocent child; he can’t do anything. The father will not agree, and she will not. He agreed, and there will be fighting, but he decided how to save both of them. So he was thinking, "If I will not speak, then my father is eating the dog meat, which is not good. And if I tell my father that is a dog’s meat, he will kill my mother." So, what to do? That’s called dharma saṅkaṭ. This is a situation. But the child was so intelligent, great. He didn’t speak anything. The father was sitting outside under the tree. It was a very hot and nice sand and shadow of the tree, and he told his wife, "Please bring me food." And she put all this meat on his plate, and she was bringing it, wanting to bring it to her husband, and the child said, "No, no… Mother, no, Father, please, please tell Mother, today I want to serve you." And he took the plate away from Mother’s hands, and Father said, "Give him, please. This little child, don’t refuse him." And proudly, he was bringing the plate and coming near where Father is sitting. And purposely he fell down with the whole plate. All the meat was in the sand, dust. "Are you, father?" said, "Oh, my God, but doesn’t matter. Are you okay, my child, son?" He said, "Yes, yes, father, I’m okay, but this all oil on my dress, and this, and…" That, and mother said, "Up now, what do I do?" He said, "Mother, today father will eat only chapatis and rice." Okay, so how to save the situation? This was very important. How to save the situation? And that such an intelligent, good boy, he saved the situation on both sides. The father was not angry, and the mother was also not angry or sad. The father will tell something. So it is called the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra. Kliṣṭa or kliṣṭa? Kliṣṭa vṛttis. Vṛttis means thinking, our thoughts. There are two kinds, good and bad. The good thoughts come from good societies, from good things, from good natures, and so on. And the bad thoughts will come from the bad atmosphere, from bad companies, etc., etc. So mantra has that power in us hidden. And when we chant or repeat mentally, it awakes that energy. All the time the people were doing, it’s called yajña, fire ceremony. Fire ceremonies. They had a little fire and some different kinds of herbs they were making with one mantra. And svāhā, it means purify everything, be pure in everything. And now, if you do, they will say, "What are you doing that?" But you have this, you are doing also. When you come to the church, do they have this ceremony with the fire and this smoke? What do they call it, eh? Yes, and incense. So that is the same as Yajña, like that time. So when you speak or chant in the church mantras, it influences. In the temple, it influences. In the satsaṅg, those mantras, we say, "Sarve bhavantu sukhina," doesn’t matter which language, all should be happy. How can all be happy when you kill a cow in front of the mother of the cow? Is that mother happy? No. So even the people are blessing that animal, and then they’re slaughtering it. But that blessing, God does not accept. So we chant once a month, dedicated to the world’s healing power. One evening, chant nice mantras the whole night. Our Bhakti Jñānānanda is doing, sometimes, this bhajan concert he called. So one day, for the humanity, one day come together and chant nice mantras or repeat your mantras, holy mantras. So, in the morning when you get up, there are some instructions for healing ourselves and others. The healing from negative thoughts and negative energy through which the world is suffering today. So first we said, when we wake up and we close our eyes, when we sleep, and then we open our eyes and wake up. First, we greet the holy pictures, the holy masters, holy God, whatever or what you adore. Then you say to thyself, "I am a human. I am a human." Now, when we think, "I am a human," what means the human? If someone is doing something negative or horrible, and then we say, "Oh God, that’s not human." That’s not a human act. So, the first mantra: wake up and say, "I am a human. So I will do only things that a human can do." The human is protective, the human loves, and the human supports. The human has mercy in the heart. Yes, what we said, the Holy Mother Mary or God, oh merciful God. This mercy, the human heart has. So I am a human. That will protect me and all others. I am a human. Second, what makes me human? Not my body, only these two hands and two legs, and this and everything. Quality. The quality, what is a human quality? What humans should do and what humans should not do, that your mother has told you, your father has told you, your friends have told you, your husband or wife has told you. This good act, good qualities, that quality makes a difference. So I am a human. What makes me a human is the quality. Now, how to awake those qualities? Education. Education means good friends, good societies, learning, meditation, good. So, how to awaken this? It will automatically happen when we practice and think positively. These are the three thoughts. I am human. What makes me human? And how do I awaken this quality? And what does it mean for me to be a human? After that, we say the mantra: "Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ." All should be happy. All should be happy. Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ. Sarve santu nirāmayā. Sarve vadrāṇi paśyantu. Mā kach dukha bhagavet. Oṁ śānti, śānti, śānti. All should be healthy. All should be happy. And I should also be happy. O Lord, protect us from any troubles. And bless us with happiness to all. So, like this, the mantras come, and the Vedas or Upanishads—read the Upanishads—only the first mantras of every Upanishad. This is called the Śānti Pāṭha. Very nice mantras: the Gāyatrī Mantra and chanting of the Hanumān Cālīsā. That Hanumān Cālīsā is scientifically proven. If every day you will chant and listen, the many, many difficulties and problems will disappear. So healing humanity is that we think positive and good globally, and we act in our house, in our own country, in honor of our world, domestically. So that from here you can send a signal to the whole world, like our webcast now going, the signal to the whole world. People are listening now in New Zealand, in Australia, also in America, also in Mexico. They are sitting all together in our ashram is listening everywhere, so what this is, is a human technology. They did before what the master could think, Trikāla Darśī, but others will not understand and can’t get it. So, a social education we need is very, very important. So, it’s not ego; it’s self-respect, which means to respect others, and that will come automatically back to us. So now, if you have any questions, you are welcome. If not, then begin to do this thinking: I am human. What makes me human? Which techniques and societies? And what does it mean for me to be human? And then we begin positive thinking, slowly, slowly spreading. Because still we have a lot of hidden impurities in our hearts. Yeah, to whom we love and who is our friend, we are positive toward them. Others, immediately we are allergic, so stay above genders, the nationalities, the cultures, the color, etc., and it doesn’t matter, the human, animal, or birds, or the vegetation. Healing the world with positive thinking, and with this, we will chant five times the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Mantra. The Mahāmantra is this one from the Vedas, that’s called Mahāmṛtyu Jaya Mantra, a victory over the death. It means not that we will not die from this body; we have to go one day. But then we will not be born again, so we don’t have to die again. So there was one mother, she said. Any soul which will come to my body, I will educate in such a way that my child will not again enter in other wombs. It means will not die and will not be born again, immortal soul. Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Mantra, yes. So, who don’t know, just you listen; who knows, chant with us. Like we were chanting the day before yesterday. And listen, close your eyes, expand your inner space, and let resonate this Mahāmṛtyu Jaya Mantra. You will feel that each and every corner of your inner space and each and every body cell is resonating with powerful energy. While chanting, we send this energy into the outer world for all. And what is in us is awakening a very beautiful energy in our body. Oṁ tryambakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Rukam eva vandanāt mṛtyoḥ kṣīṇāmṛtāḥ. Oṁ tryambhakam yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi-vardhanam. Urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. mṛtyoḥ kṣī māmṛtāḥ yajāmahe sugandhiḥ puṣṭivardhanam nidhā mṛtyokṣī māmṛta. Hold your palms, rub your palms, and place the palms on your face to warm your face muscles. Gently, with the fingers, massage your eyelids and open your eyes. Adios.