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This evening is, for some of you, the final evening. We have had very beautiful programs. We were fortunate that at the beginning we celebrated Guru Pūrṇimā. You all know about Guru Pūrṇimā, and you are also lucky that on this day, the disciple and guru should be together. If not, then sing bhajans, offer prayers, and be in your visualization and in your heart with Gurudev. Unlucky are those who forget even the day of Guru Pūrṇimā. We had a beautiful ceremony. Many people from different countries attended. After that, we had our Kriyā Yoga, as we call it, Anuṣṭhāna. Many devotees are practicing Kriyā Yoga according to our yogic daily life, and many have again received new initiation. The journey is long, but time is little. What to do? Do not worry. That distance is not any distance. We are already there. We are all dancing at the door of the Gurudeva. We are all in oneness, in cosmic consciousness—the cosmic dance, the cosmic consciousness, and oneness. This week was beautiful. Our dear brother Nirañjan Purī from Budapest, who is the director of one of the largest telephone companies called "Nokā"—in our Hindi, nokā means no one said anything as a complaint—was very nicely guided for many years in Kriyā Anuṣṭhān. And also our dear sister Swāmī Umāpurī was guiding with great love and devotion. It is like this: everyone has a different taste. One likes to eat more sweets, someone likes a little salt, someone likes sweet and salty. Like this, everyone comes from different directions. According to their path, they can describe their way. When you come from Budapest to Vip, it is a different view, different lands, roads, and villages. Those coming from Croatia take a different path. Austrians came from different paths. The destination is one, but the way is many. So everyone has different ideas, visions, and views, but we are here. Next year, when you know you are coming to the Kriyā Yoga Anuṣṭhāna teacher trainings, you should start training one or two months earlier. We are lucky to have a very nice place, and the weather was good—neither hot nor cold. It was very pleasant. In this seminar, we had a beautiful bhajan from our beloved Satgurujī, Holy Gurujī. From this bhajan, a beautiful booklet could be made. But please, nobody should do it haphazardly. Someone has to do it properly. I tell you now, tomorrow many people will write something and give it to me. We will take from this record of my talk, then someone will write, and somebody will help, so it can become a very nice booklet. Our beloved Gurudev Satguru Swāmī Madhavānanda Purījī is describing our own body and what is within it. There is a physical body with different organs, different liquids, many things. But within that body, what is there and what is happening? If one is on the right way, they will come directly home. If someone is lost in the forest, then it will be a little difficult to come home. So everything is within, but how will you use it? As it is said by our Bhakti Jñānānanda about this bhajan from Sūradāsa, the great saint Sūradāsa: "Prabhujī mere auguṇa chitta na dharo. Oh my God, please do not notice my mistakes. Oh God, you are the equal-visioned one. With your beautiful eyes, you see all as equal because all is yours. Please do not notice my mistakes." It is like there is one knife at the altar for preparing fruits for the prasāda, and one knife is at the butcher's. Both are iron. The iron is not guilty. Similarly, we are that iron. So we are not guilty. It is those inner qualities which make the mistakes: kāma (lust), krodha (anger), moha (delusion), lobha (greed), and others. That is a very unique bhajan which our Gurudev writes. Then there is a very beautiful and knowledgeable book about different lokas (worlds). Many know only the names of the lokas, but they do not know exactly; they cannot describe them. What does that mean? What I want to tell you now, what am I telling this? For example, take the Bhagavad Gītā. According to the Bhagavad Gītā, there are eighteen different yoga paths. Not only Aṣṭāṅga Yoga, but it is eighteen-aṅga yoga. Those eighteen chapters, and in each chapter a yoga is described: Hathayoga, Bhaktiyoga, Jñānayoga, Karmayoga, everything. Sannyāsayoga, many, many. And there is written a śloka, like a poem of only two lines. Those who study Sanskrit and understand these words can read and understand. But still, one will also try to make clarity. That is called, for example, the sub-language. It is like a normal language where they are explaining; you have to explain. So each bhajan has to be explained again, and whatever commentary someone has written is still not enough. The same śloka, thousands of people have written about in different ways. So it is called śabdārthī and lakṣyārthī. One is who is learning only from the books; it is only learning. The second is lakṣārthī. Puruṣārthī is that one who is trying to understand and speak, but that is only dry theory. Tons of theory is nothing compared to a gram of practice. The aim of practice is that if you understand, will what you understand change your inner self? Unless you change yourself, you will not become one. You will get nothing. He said, "Oh Lord, please color me neither red nor yellow nor green nor black nor pink, but color me in your color." So what is your color and what is His color? "Please, God, color me like your color." That color means bhakti. That color means your knowledge, your oneness, that you understand Brahman. So theory and practice are very different. Many people are describing, and on this bhajan, this line, Gurudev has written: "Chaudaha loka, ikīśo brahmāṇḍa." Fourteen different worlds, and two thousand one hundred beyond that. Two thousand one hundred suns beyond that is the knowledge of the yogī. We are in our sun system. So like that, in that consciousness, it is said: "Kīso brahmāṇḍa chaudaha loka, do hazār ek sau brahmāṇḍa ratne sakala pasārā." And now what Gurudev said: all this is, all this is in this body. 2,100, these all lokas and suns are projected within this coach. Where are you going to search? Within thyself. And where is thyself? Thyself is beyond everything. "Chaudaha loka, ikīśo brahmāṇḍa. Ratne sakala pasārā." All is visible in this coach of the human body. So it is said that the human values, and so it is said in the scriptures, that a human, if there is nothing to eat, nothing, then to save the human body, you may eat meat. Otherwise not. Chaudaha loka: this is from our foot sole to the top of the head. That is seven worlds below our Mūlādhāra and seven above from Mūlādhāra to the Sahasrāra. Your self-realization, our all, whatever is written in all the scriptures and everywhere, it is within you. All are within you, and you are in everyone. So this is in this bhajan. I do not know how Holy Gurujī writes these such good bhajans. I wish I could have sat near Gurujī to learn more about how to write bhajans. When Gurujī wanted to say to me, "Write one bhajan or something," I said, "Oh, I have something to do, you do it please, Gurujī." So, I remained like that. The jatapurī is a bit... When he was small, he grew up in a Western laboratory. And always he said, "Can you write for me? Can you do for me this and that?" But now he is sorry for that. Yes, there is a certain time when you can learn. Then you cannot. This big tree, we cannot bend. But when it was a small plant, we could have twisted it, because at that time your consciousness is still empty, and your intellect still has enough space. Therefore, it is until 25 years you should not have any interest, only learn, learn, learn. That is why in Vedic culture and in Vedānta, etc., human life is divided into four parts. The first is Brahmacarya. Brahmacarya means two things. One is that there is no interest towards the desires, emotional. No interest in any things, having beautiful things. Very simple living, with a different climate. Otherwise, in the Indian climate, they said sleeping with one yoga mat on the ground. No soft bed, mat, no pillow, many things. That you will see, that you will get vidyā, you will get knowledge. So generally now in this Kali Yuga, life is given for a hundred years: Brahmacarya, Gṛhasthāśrama, Vānaprasthāśrama, and Sannyāsāśrama. These are the four parts of life. So Brahmacarya means student. Student, student... and that means Brahma is that supreme, and carya is your vṛtti is in Brahman. So whose vṛtti is in Brahman is the Brahmacarya. So you should not have, "I want to eat chocolate, I want to eat ice cream now, I want to go there." And this was the habit of the yogī people, taught to the vatarpuḍī. And that will suffer him, trouble him lifelong. It is not his guilt. The mistake is from ourselves. We did it, the grown people. So it is in the love. Love is that which is a strictness to the child. Ignorance, and you are not that interested that your child becomes good. Then we spoil. And to spoil the child is very, very easy. Because our heart is so soft, and nowadays, so many toys. All the time, there was no need for these toys. Children were playing with three leaves and with some little stones. And now, how much money the parents are giving per year only for the toys? And children are growing with animal toys, so it is going more into animal consciousness. Yes, it is. It has an effect, of course. Animals are very loving. We love our pets, and animals love us. But what kind of society you have, that kind of color you will get. So, morning in your sleeping rooms should not be the animal toys. Otherwise, you will have, after some time, not good dreams. There is one question given to me: what to do with bad dreams, and why are these bad dreams coming? The dream is your reality. That is your fear—your fears toward your parents, fears toward some animals, fears toward your neighbors, or fears from your friends, boys, girls. Yes, someone told me some days ago that in kindergarten, what you call nursery school, the lady who was taking care of the children used to take two, three children into a cellar underground, completely dark, and close the window and door, and say, "There can come a ghost and this, and don't cry, don't look, you are not good." And the children were standing like frozen, and children were not there to tell it at home, otherwise they would be punished again the next day. So your children, with whom it is, and sometimes they do not do what mother or father do. Every kindergarten, they give the lunch, and then we will see everybody lie down, sit down, everybody is sleeping. When you open your eyes, that is it. Love is the mother and father, the friend. That is why it is said, it does not matter if you accept or not, the mother needs the child, the child needs the mother. At least until 15 or 16 years to stay at home. But now, after two months or one month, you have to go for work. And where are the parents? The children, where are they? In education, with kindergarten? Or who is taking care of them as a babysitter? Sometimes they are showing some video or something, or maybe a film, to the babysitter. As soon as the mother goes out, the babysitter is like a ghost. And she would look only with the eyes, like this, and just quickly run and lie down. Really, I do not know, and I do not want to ask. But with some of you, it happened like this, and that fear is still in you. Similarly, education also. When you neglect that, you do not want to write, you let the other one write, or you do it for my homework. And out of love, we said, "Okay, I will do it," and then it will be lifelong. And further, in higher education, you will always be back and back and back. This means that... Brahmacarya till minimum 15 years: no cinema, no kino, no this, no that, no girls, no boys. After marriage, then after your education, you should marry. But that is why now the Kali Yuga has lost all principles, and that is why we will not live longer than 75-80 years. Someone said, "Thanks to God, we will be born again in a new body." But then, Brahmacarya... now you should marry, you have your job, happy girls, happy boys, happy parents, and happy children will be. And then, at 50, 55, now you give all to your children. And they know they will take care of it. You do more your sādhanā, your working, job, walking, everything. And after 75-80 years, then if you want, you can go to the monastery and get initiation. But now people are very happy to go to a monastery, but they will not take you because you need the help. And the monastery says, "You are not here that we are only taking care of you." So, thanks to God that in this modern system we have our pension. So our pension is our monastery. We have social security in our country, and enjoy your life in your country. Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya said, "If there is vairāgya (dispassion), vairāgya is above everything. Then you can give them sannyāsa dīkṣā." Otherwise, not. So next week, we will have the next bhajan translation, which our Gurudev has written, on Jñāna Yoga, which we know very well. So, this was, Gurujī said, Chaudahāloka, the fourteen worlds. There are fourteen cakras, the best in our body, that is the lokas within us, as a yogī said. Philosophers are different. They can do anything. They can say, beyond the sun there was a little cave. Okay? One poet said, and we will say, yes, there is a big sun behind, a cave behind the sun. But who has seen? It is said, in India we say, in Rajasthan, the peacock was dancing in the forest. Who has seen? No one. Or the lamp is burning, the light is burning in the closed temple. Who sees the holy light in the temple because it is closed? Therefore, still there is a time that we can do something. With this, so, Holy Gurujī said, in this coach, it is so beautiful, all instruments are there. That is called Nāda. Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma. So, this Nāda, the sound, and so there are ten nādas in our body. There are ten nādas in the body for the five karmendriyas and five jñānendriyas. There is also the sound of that. The eleventh sound is Brahman. And so, when we get that in the Sahasrāra Cakra, it is said, in this Anāhata Bhaja, endless, beyond all resonance, the instruments are playing in this body. And this is under, this word is difficult to translate, but it is like Bhakti Jñānānanda was very happy, and he was singing, all the drums and everything. So when we make Nāda Yoga, Brahmari Yoga, and it is all different. We hear different sounds in our body. "Sādhavāhi, ajaba raha hamārā. O my brothers, sādhus, my coach is wonderful. Śrī Pūjī Bhagavān Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Veda batāyā sārā." The holy worshipped Bhagavān Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī said, he saw me everything, all hidden qualities, he saw me. "Kahi Mahādvānandaratme," Holy Gurujī said, "In this coach, in my body, I enjoyed in this world, in this body."