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We can speak a lot about music, but if we do not know how to play, we cannot produce that resonance which we understand or speak about. Therefore, perfection is the masterwork. There are two kinds of masters, called Lakṣārātī and Vācārātī. Lakṣārātī is one who has an aim, a thirst, a burning desire to achieve, to realize, to be perfect, and that needs practice. As said in the Bhagavad Gītā: practice, practice, O Kaunteya—abhyāsa, abhyāsa. Abhyāsa means practice. Meditation—everyone can close their eyes. Everyone can remain a long time with closed eyes. That is not a master's work. Everyone closes their eyes at night for five or six hours. If that is compared with meditation, then why do you waste time while sitting? Do it sleeping, that is all. So practice, as I used to say: someone taught or wrote or said that tons of theory is nothing compared with a grain of practice. Abhyāsa, abhyāsa kaunte, abhyāsa. O son of Kuntī, Arjuna, practice. What did he used to do? When all the students were sleeping in the hostel, about midnight he got up. He went into the garden or the park, and at night, dark night or moonlit night, he was practicing archery alone. That means lagan. Lagan is like a meditation, and without lagan you cannot meditate. If you love someone, your best friend, even at midnight—it is raining and cold—but you know that tomorrow you are going, so you would like to go and say goodbye to your friend. He will open the door, he will hug you, and will say, "Brother, you came so late." He said, "Yes, but tomorrow I am leaving, and I want to see you before going." This is a friend; that is love. Where there is love, there is no distance. And where there is no love, even the neighbor's door is very far. That love is for our hobby, our practice, sādhanā, meditation, achievement, etc. Now, especially when we are searching for good things and doing good things, then come many, many obstacles. An obstacle is a university of troubles. The best school is that where we are many times disappointed, many times we have such a feeling and situation that we cannot go further. But the best school is that when the trouble comes, do not think that everyone will give glory to you. If there are ten thousand people coming to listen to you and say, "Good," or, "Very good," and so on, but be sure, from ten thousand, if there are ten good friends, be happy. That is it. Many times they will say, "Oh, good, great, this, that." Yes, but when the time comes, then no one is there. Therefore, in the Rāmāyaṇa it says: Dharma, dhīraja, mitra, or nārī, parakhayum parakhayum yācārī. Dharma, dhīraja, mitra, or nārī, āpta kāla parakhayum chārī. And that is also our self and others. Dharma. Dharma is different. Some call it religion, some call it righteousness, some call it our discipline, our duties—dharma. Our philosophy, our belief. So if such a dharma cannot help us in a hard, difficult time, then that was not your dharma. The dharma was not with you. Though it is said in the Vedas: dharmo rakṣita rakṣitaha. If you protect the dharma, the dharma will protect you. Now, what is your dharma? The dharma of the mother towards the child. The dharma of the child towards the mother. The dharma of the wife towards the husband, and the dharma of the husband towards the wife. That is it. It is a protection. The protection is in protection. In India, when you drive on the road, often beautiful slogans are written. It is good that the driver does not have micro-sleep. So they are reading, and they are very good. On each and every truck, something is written behind. Sometimes jokes, sometimes something. On the bus also something is written. Some people have also written in the car, so it is not boring. People read it. Sometimes they make a joke also. It is in my country. It is great. Out of ninety-nine, they are all crept, but at least one is the best. What do you eat? What do you write? If you are thinking something bad, your face should be black. So, there are many, many things written. So, behind the car, it is written: "The glory to the mother, glory to the father," this, this. Our driver is writing behind that his son said: "Father, come safely home. My mother is waiting for you." So something nice. Good words are this. So on the road it is written: "Protection, drive carefully." Protection is in protection. It means if you protect others, you protect yourself. If you crash your car or truck into the other truck, he will die, and you will die. So be careful. Protect others first, and then yourself. That is mostly in airplanes; they say safety instructions. Safety instruction is one of the most serious subjects, a very serious subject. All the airlines are doing very correct instructions so that people really understand. And they said, when the oxygen is low, then the mask will come down. So first put it on you, and then on your child. But the New Zealand airlines—nobody knows if it is a safety instruction or it is a joke, or if they are on the beach or they are sitting in the garden and talking. They do not mean it seriously. It is a joke. But security instruction is not a joke. And for the last four years, I have been writing constant letters to New Zealand, to Air New Zealand. They do not answer anything. Yeah, but it is not good. It is not good. And sometimes, suddenly, they are sitting on some beach—Miami Beach, or I do not know which kind of beach. All girls and boys with a half-meter cloth on the body. Maybe half a meter is too much. Now, they are showing the safety instructions in the aeroplane. International passengers are sitting inside. And there is, for example, the Islamic women; they are sitting with the cover over their whole body. Her husband, her father-in-law, they are sitting and they are respectful, very respectful. And in front of them, they see the naked women. Now what should this lady think? Should she now also take away her dress? Okay, it is humiliation towards other cultures. Okay, your culture is a naked culture, do not worry, we do not care. We will give you a nice shawl, please cover your body. If not, then okay, but we shall respect others. Do you understand me? When now you next time fly with Air New Zealand, please write these letters. The whole world is listening to me. It is a life-giving instruction there. There must not be a joke. So protection is a protection. Do not make a joke and drive a car like this on the road. You will kill others, and you will kill yourself too. So protection, dharma. Dharma rakṣita rakṣitaha. If you protect your dharma, dharma will protect you. Now, what is your dharma? For example, do not make an accident. Do not overtake. If one percent you have a doubt—maybe I will not manage to overtake—then better not to overtake. One hundred percent you are sure, then you can carefully overtake. This is dharma. So, dhīraja. Dhīraja. What is dhīraja? Patience. Please wait. I must go. When the traffic light is red, and now you know it is getting yellow, or it will get green. Before getting green, you are just running across. And other things, I think I can cross again. They will meet because there was no person. Dharma, dhīraja, mitra. The friend. Who is the friend? Your wife is your friend, and your husband is your friend. In front of the altar of Jesus, what did you say? What did you promise? Okay, if you promise to me, it does not matter. But in front of God, from Kṛṣṇa or from Buddha or Jesus. When you speak in front of Jesus and you do not keep his words, you did not follow the dharma. And that you will follow, we will suffer. Definitely, we will suffer. It is broken. Therefore, think it over. Therefore, it is said; it will say to the ladies, to the mothers, they will say. The mother will say to the girls: "My dear, for you in your life, there is only one man. And he will be your lifelong friend, your partner, and half part of your body. Do not make a mistake and go with anybody, somewhere here and there." And also to the men: "Every girl, like I said this morning, every elderly woman is for you, brother. Your age, a girl is your sister, and a small one is like your daughter. Wait, wait, wait. Which is in your destiny, that your wife will come, it will come. See the best constellation, west everything, because love is not in looking in beautiful. Love is different." There are two kinds of love: one is lust. The lust is not forever, but love is. A faithfulness as one in every condition, you will help, you will be always with the other one will be with. So also can be man, your friend, your colleague. Mitra means friends. So dharma, dhīraja, mitra, or nārī, so your partner. Nārī means a woman, but it means not that only she is faithful and you not. No, it did not say it. Both, both wheels are running from the bike. If one falls out, you cannot go further. So, like two horses or two oxen, they are pulling the plow. They have to have a balance. That is called yoga. So, your partner: dharma, dhīraja, mitra, or nārī—these four persons. Dharma is not a person, but dharma is realized in the person: dharma, dhīraja, mitra, or nārī. Āpat kāla prakāśī. Āpat kāla—in the most terrible situation, when the whole world is against you, but if you were your friend, it does not matter. "I will die with you, my dear friend, but I am yours." Gandhijī said: "We hate the sin, but not the sinner. We hate the sin, but not the sinner." So the whole world is against you. But once you gave your word to your friend that, "I will be thine," then I will be thine. I said, "Yes, I am yours." I promise I will be lifelong your disciple, or this, whatever. When you got the mantra, you spoke, and then where are you now? It was superficial. It cannot enter into the meditation. Why are you wasting time sitting for hours and hours with closed eyes? Go and close your windows, at least. So, who is the mitra? Who is my friend? And that is again, we remember this one bhajan from great saint Yogadānjī: "My Lord, I will be Thine. My Gurudev, devotees may come and devotees may go, but my Lord, I will be Thine. I will not disappear. I will not go. I may go far, farther than the stars, but my Lord, I will be Thine." So, where there is love, there is no distance. And where there is love, even at a far distance, love is more and more increasing. But where there is no love, then if distance takes place, jealousy comes, doubts come. That was not a love. But Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī said: "Palpal let sambhala." Mahāprabhujī said, "Gurujī said, 'Mahāprabhujī, every second is looking on me and taking care of my protection.'" So that is a friend. Therefore, it is said: dharma, dhīraja, mitra, or nārī, āpatkāl—āpatkāl means in a very terrible situation. All are against you, but these four. Only you can test at that time if these four are yours: dharma, dhīraja, mitra (friend), and nārī (your wife or your husband). Then you can come to the meditation, my dear. Otherwise, you are jealous, you are angry, you lost someone, you dropped someone, looking somewhere. These are the vikāras. Now, we were talking about Āyurveda. And Āyurveda is physical, which is talking about six vikāras in the physical, in the body. This is belonging to the Āyurveda. And in this is urine, coat, fat, muscles, cuff, bones, etc. These are the vikāras in our body. The word vikāra—what is a vikāra? Vikāra is the disease. Vikāra is something which is getting rotten, which is getting stinky. So, thanks to God. You know, God is so merciful. Really, he is very merciful. He is so kind. He is like a grandfather, grandmother. They try to protect the children from the angry parents also, like this. Sit down here, you know. Grandparents, they are always protecting more than the mother. The mother was angry. Had you experience of your grandmother, grandfather? My grandfather passed away before I was born, and my grandmother passed away when I was maybe one and a half years old, so I cannot remember anything. But my other uncles, and this and that, I know them. So this God is so merciful that he did not open everything, otherwise we will have no appetite at all in our life to drink or eat. So what God did, he put over what is this skin? The skin is a jñāna indriya, tvacā, feeling the touches. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, taste, and the skin—these are the five jñāna indriyas. So, what do we call vīrya? Vīrya, a sperm. That is also vikāra, and as much as you lose it, you are creating vikāra in your body. So, what we call, what is the value of the brahmacharya? It is not easy. We lose it. It goes to vikāra. It is a vikāra. But if you protect, then you have that best quality of your life. That is all. So, all this is the vikāra. Āyurveda will protect this. Āyurveda will tell what kind of food you should eat, what kind of herbs you can use; this and this are the six vikāras. And six vikāras of the mind, mind in this body. But we do not know where he is living. We cannot catch him. If we catch our mind, we will be happy, and we can master everything. But man is greedy, man is covetous, man is fickle, man is a thief. Do not follow the mind; the mind is the householder. You understand, every day I am talking in Hindi also: Man lobī, man lālchī, man lobī, man chal lālchī, man cañcal, man chor, man ke mātena chale, gharipālak man aur. These are the six vikāras, vikṣepas. These are the six vikṣepas. Now, what is a vikṣepa? Disturbances. By this mind, but still we could not see the mind, we could not catch the mind. No. Why? Because the mind is like a reflection. Reflection on the water. Reflection in the mirror. So we go and see the mirror, and we say, "Oh, we have here some black spot or hanging spaghetti in the mirror." We cannot see, but then when we go to see the mirror, so what we are doing? We are scratching the mirror, but you cannot remove this. This spaghetti which is hanging in your mirror, you take the tissue and try to clean the mirror, but it is not. That is a reflection. And that is what mind—we try to control, but we cannot control because mind is cañcala. We cannot control. Therefore, we cannot meditate. Man lobī. The man is lobī means the greedy. And now in the modern world, there is one word used very well. This is really good. It suits together. When you go to the hotel, then say, "Please, here is a lobby." Yeah, lobī, yeah. In the lift, you come down, lift, we will say, lobī. Now, lobī in Hindi and Sanskrit, lobī means the greedy, completely greedy. For the greedy, it does not matter. Even if you have to kill someone, but you want that, have this. So lobī is greedy. So, manlobhī, the first thing, our mind is so greedy, it is a greed. Manlobhī, manlālachī—what is a lālach? Lobh toh hai greed. And what is a, Nāgīn Bhai, lālachi, lālacha? So, lālacī means desires more and more. Lalachi has no end. So greed has no end. There is no santuṣṭatā. We are not content. More and more. So it is said: Uparse bhare, nichise jhare. Guru Mahāraj, kyā kare? Right? So from above, you feel for the water. Down is a hole. Everything goes away. So Gurujī, feeling from the top, disciples will hold down. Everything is good. Uparse bhare, nichese jhare, Guru Mahārāj kyā kare, hari obta sat. The languages are somehow funny, you know. Man lobhī, man lalāchī, man chanchal. Chanchal. So you know, oh, this child is very cañcal. It will be very complicated. Chanchal is that if you try to catch the fish with the hand. It is not easy to catch the fish. Always so. Always going so. So there was a little story, a little joke, about the Second World War. So all three came together. Who was fighting there? They were fighting, and in the evening they were sitting together and drinking. All the ministers, they are talking against everybody, but in the evening they come to the club and they said, "Oh, you were today, you were very naughty." He said, "I am sorry, sir, take a little more drink." So there was one, which was Hitler, the other one was who was from the Russian side, Stanley, and the other side was the all three were sitting near the swimming pool and said, "Let us say who will win, so we can gaze at something." Said, "What?" So they brought one fish and put the fish in the swimming pool. Who can catch the fish will be the winner, so they were trying. Hitler put in a gun here, there. So in the water, even the bullet does not go straight. It goes a little so. The other one also jumped in and tried to catch and get it, but could not. It was two meters deep. The third one said, "Stanley," he said, "he went and he sat near the pool like this." And there was coffee. He had coffee. So he had also coffee, and there was a small spoon. So he took the spoon and emptied the water. So the other said, "What are you doing?" He said, "I am catching the fish." He said, "Like this, you cannot catch the fish." He said, "I will catch. Because one spoon, I will empty the pool; I can catch it." And so is that man cañcal, you cannot achieve anything. And you cannot force your mind to catch it; you cannot catch your mind. Dhīraja, dhīraja. So meditate, do not think. There are many people who say, "Oh, now I am practicing with Swāmījī for 38 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 1 day." They are counting, really. There is one person who writes me one letter every month. And there is nothing in the letter, only that one. You remember Master on that date. He writes the date. In that time, in that place, you promised me. Please, can you fulfill my wish? He does not say what kind of promise I made. Every month or every fortnight, one letter comes. Last, in which it is already, he said, about 32 years already, so fixed. But you cannot count. Go ahead, practicing, it will come. So do not give up. I am talking about meditation and vikāras. Dhire, dhire mana. Dhire means slowly, carefully. Slowly, take time. Dhire, dhire mana. Mana means mind. Oh mind, take time, slowly, slowly. Everything will be achieved. Be careful. Slowly, slowly, peacefully, have a time. The gardener gives hundreds of buckets of water to the plants. It does not matter. You can give double the water, but the fruit will come when the season will come. Now your wife became pregnant. And you want immediately, in this month, I want a baby. Husband said, "I want to see my child, please. Let us go to the doctor, I want to have my child." Say, no. Nine months. Slowly, slowly. Yes. Complete will be there. Between, you will get nothing. You will destroy everything. So dhire dhire mana, dhire se sab kus ho, gardener. Mali si che sa gada, ritu, the season. Ritu ay phal hoy, that time the fruits will come. So vikāra, the mind. Man lobī, man lalchī, man cañcal, man chor. And man is stealing everything. Mentally, how many times do you steal? Physically, it is difficult to steal. But mentally, you can steal many times. There is one nice coconut on the altar. And someone is all the time looking. It is a beautiful coconut. I would like to eat. Now, mentally, you have eaten already. Yeah? Yes. Or? Oh, this orange dress is very nice. I would like to have. You have stolen already. But you cannot get that, but you did it. Karma. Karma, and as long as we do not control our karma, we will have problems. So, karma: tan, man, bachan, and dhan. There are four different ways to do karma. Physical, tan; mentally, man; tan, man, dhan, the prosperity. The, yes, that is not prosperity, the dharohar, wealth. For example, intellectual property. You steal the intellectual property. That is also a stealer. Therefore, in old times, and though it is also the law for that, copyright. I told that. What did I say about Gandhijī? Yeah. We hate sin, but not the sinner. I could have said, and you will say, "Oh, Swamiji said, really very good." But I have stolen then, but I said first, after Gandhiji. Gandhijī said, "Now I can use it. I am clean." But the people, they told me, I did not know, but I then came to know in Australia. In Brisbane ashram, they told me, "Swamiji, can you give us a good slogan or some words that we want to write for our classes?" So I said yoga from firsthand. So they wrote in the ashram, the Brisbane ashram, big: "The yoga from first hands." On the third day, a few yoga schools, they all wrote it: "Yoga from first hand." So if they can write it, there is nothing wrong. But they should say, who said this? Or you are a disciple of the Master, and you are learning. Okay. You have a right, a copyright, to use the knowledge of the Master. But you have to mention, I am the disciple of this Master, and my Master's knowledge—he taught me this. Now, many people learn everything, and they go and teach yoga, and they lie, but they do not write yoga, and they lie in name. So that is called the intellectual property you have stolen. Similarly, many think, which is not ours, and if we are using it, then we are causing the karma; you will not be successful. It means that you have a passport in your hand, but it is a fake passport. It is not stamped by the government of New Zealand. Someone made it in the computer, and this and that, and went to the border. Go there, I am with my passport, they will say, "Yes, please, can you sit down, rest? We will just come back." And the second police will come and take you somewhere. Similarly, that is a physical, visible thing, but what you are imitating from the master, and you are not using that master's name and not thankful to the master, that will one day bring a big, big confusion, and you will not be successful. We have here, my example, our dear Gyanānanda. Now we know 24 years, and he is very, very faithful and very clear. And what he has in his mind, he also tells very clearly. So it is between Paramahaṃsa Yogānanda and me. Several times he is sitting here; if I am wrong, he will tell. He says, "Amitjī, you give me the mantra. I accept you as my guru." I said, "No, do not make this mistake. I will give you mantra if you want, but I will give the same mantra that Yoganandajī gave to you. And if you want to become..." Me, as a master, I will accept it that you should adore Yoganandajī. Did I say it or not? And otherwise, Yogananda did not die. He did not. All he gave, gave up his body. He is in the astral world. Mahāprabhujī is in the astral world, so what will Yogānanda tell? He will say, "Oh Viśwa Gurujī, what are you doing? You are confusing people. Your disciple is my disciple," he said, "and my disciple is your disciple. Where is the duality between? Why do we create the duality?" So the great sense, they do not have duality. One mango tree, big tree, and there are about three, four hundred, or a thousand mangoes, big tree. Yes? So there are a thousand fruits, different branches hanging aside, but they all belong to one root. So all the masters, they are like connected to the one trunk and one root. And this is, and why? Because that mango has the same form. It is not that one mango is growing longer and one is being cut like this. No, same size, same form, like the child from that mother, that father, all exactly. And the taste of the mango is the same. It is not that one is sour, the other is hot like a chili. It is not, and so are all sādhu masters. Otherwise, there are many, many self-made masters, passport. Those masters who said, "I am Satguru, I am this," ask where is your spiritual lineage. So many masters in the world, they are great saints. And if we sit together, we do not feel that, oh, he is beautiful, and oh, he has a nice coat today, and others say, oh, he has... No. It is happy. And that is why in Kumbh Melā, when we sit all together, then we are so like a oneness. But there are some who are jealous, angry. From talking outside, very sweet, "Oh yes, and so," but inside is burning, jealous. This is also vikāra. So stealing, physical, mental, social, spiritual, and intellectual, all this, what we are stealing, that is not good. Therefore, every book, when Upaniṣad is coming, written, who wrote the Bible? The gospel of the Master, now, which gospel? At which time? Which disciple was there out of the twelve disciples? The Rāmāyaṇa, there is a coming name of the Tulsīdās. Now, other ones, we said we will write the whole book and remove the name of the Tulsīdās, and we will write theirs. Madhuram. We cannot do it, cannot. Yes. Bhagavad Gītā. Arjuna's name is coming still. Who dares to say that, no, no, it was me? No. That was the wise person, the great people, the spiritual people. They are very honest. And now in Kali Yuga, in this time, people are not honest. And that is why there is also a problem with your partners, your wife and husband. Yes, morning, husband writes a letter and puts it on the table. "Darling, I am sorry, but I think we cannot understand each other, and I will not come anymore. Wish you all the best. Bye-bye," and leave here. The whole night was together, the whole evening was there. They were having breakfast together, did not say anything, but then wrote a letter. That was how dirty it is, how cowardly that person is, that could not say face to face, "Sorry, we have to do this and this." You killed that person. Inwardly, you killed it, and that will be the sin for you. So when you spoke in the presence of God, and now you are changing, how many times? If you think our Western culture is like this, it was not Western culture. Do not blame the Western people or culture. It was a beautiful culture, and if you go to Christianity also, do you know about the Holy Mother Maria? How much was she suffering? She could also have done something and gone away. What was the need for her? What was the situation that she gave birth to the child among animals, tables, or what do you call it? Was there not a little room for her, or was there no one there who could give a cloth to Jesus? What was that situation? That you do not sow, you do not tell that. That is it. So, and in the church it was, now I do not know. But when I came to Europe and I came to know, see, in the church they do not want to have that you have a second marriage. But now, they said, "Now you are married once more, you need not marry in the church; you can marry in the hotel." Have a party, and that is all. Go there and sign it. The government is changing, like this marriage is changing. Now, this five-year or three-year government, you are three years safe. Governments change the law, and you also change your partner. Is that human action? So that is called vikāra. And as long as we follow this vikāra, we cannot meditate. Sri Yukteśvar has written, if you eat one egg, ten days you cannot meditate. Only one egg. And what about the killed body? Some animals you kill and eat. Humans? It is a human. So, my dear, vikāras: kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, ahaṅkāra, and the sixth one—I have forgotten. Jealousy. Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, ahaṅkāra, and īrṣā. Irsā chhodo bhakt jana. Ked Kabīr suno vaisado. Irsā chhodo bhakt jana. These are the vikāra. Tomorrow we will continue something, or if not, there and then on other. So, this is my dear. Now you will say, "Swamiji, thank you, good night. Here is your book, and here is your mala. You made us hopeless. That you should not do. Then you are a coward." I told you, thousands are against you. But you will not. You are that tree on the peak of the mountain. There are no other trees, and this lone tree, storms come, snow comes, hills come, the wind comes, rain comes. One comes and cuts one branch, but this lone tree is standing there for everyone, so all can go. But you will be there for all as long as there is a breath in my body. Therefore, the great saint Tulsīdāsa said very nicely, it is said: "Mercy is the root of the dharma." Your roots must be strong and healthy. Do not let termites go there, and what are the termites? Black millers. And black millers, they speak such negative and sweet words, but they are, how to call it, the poison coated with nice, sweet candy. So dayā dharm kā mūl hai. As long as you have mercy in your heart, no one can pull your tree away. So strong dayā, dharam kā mūl hai, pāp mūl abhimān. And the root of sin is proudness, proudness. So dayadharma kā mūle, the roots and strength of the dharma is mercy. And papa means the sin. Sins are the roots of the karmas. Papa, the sin, abhimāna. Ravana was a great, wise, everything. But only because he had so much pride, he lost everything. In the Middle East, there were some great ones who said, "I am the biggest and greatest." Where are they? They are also gone. Daya dharma kā mūl hai, pāp mūl abhimān. Tulsi Dājī said, "Tulsī, dayā na chhoḍīye." He said to himself, "O Tulsī, Dāsjī, O Tulsī, do not give up mercy." As long as you have in your heart your life, do not give up the mercy. And that was also an example of Jesus: till the last on the cross, he said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." This was the same word Tulsidās said before, how many thousands of years, in the Rāmāyaṇa. Then our meditation can come, and even if you do not do meditation, O Lord, my life, my being here is a worship for you. What should I do more? Whatever I am doing, good things are a worship to thee, O my Lord. Just closing eyes and sitting is a waste of time, so first, purify dharma, earth, calm, or mokṣa, etc., etc. That we have to learn. So, there are vikāras, and beside, parallel to the vikāra, there are six positive principles that we will come to tomorrow. Today is getting... Very late.