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My dear ones, I am very happy to see you. Welcome, all of you. This gathering is a great blessing of our paramparā, of our Gurudevs. I am very happy that after eight months, I am here again in these cities and countries of Europe. It was a great thing, and I truly received so much love, respect, and bhakti. My heart is full of blessings. We know, and our Vasantpurī has told you much, that we must maintain more respect. Distance is very important now. First, it is for yourself. Therefore, you should not go close to others, nor should you go too close to those in front or behind you. This is for your respect and for your health. We know that all the brothers and sisters in our programs of Yoga in Daily Life are very happy, and we are happy to be here. Today we also have with us Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar Vivekapurījī, Ānandapurī, and many others from Croatia. We are happy to see them. We will have our seminar programs, and they will be great. You know we have great respect. Now, we know that for nearly one hundred years—not only a hundred, but the whole of what we call a century—this year was not so good for us. It is very interesting that this corona affected only humans. Why? We must think this over. Why not some birds, animals, or fish? It means that somewhere, we humans made a mistake. I was asking many people, and with my disciples, we made a test. We wanted to know about yoga practitioners who are pure vegetarians—no eggs, no meat, no alcohol, and no torturing of animals. I was thinking one day in meditation, and I have thought many times, about all creatures except humans. We all know how it is: the torturing, killing, eating, and burning half the bodies of those animals. We know how the animals are crying. But who goes to them? Nobody tells them, "Please don’t do this." In this way, I think all the animals, whether in open or closed places, went to God. They said to God, "Please, have you forgotten us? How we are suffering! They are slaughtering, leaving, burning us. What have we done? We have done nothing," the animals said. Which kind of animals? Not in that form, but in their heart. The burning problem, how hard it is. This is their crying. They went to God, and from this came an attack this year for us, for humans. And still, humans have not understood, and it will mostly continue. But in these few months, many, many people gave up drugs, alcohol, and also stopped eating what is essentially the body of other beings. They are not torturing other animals in that way. The pain from the animals is affecting many people. Now, especially in Europe, people are becoming more and more vegetarian. People have turned very much inward. They are in the family. They understood what family is when they were all at home: all your children, your pets, your husband and wife. We were all in our rooms, in our house, for so long. They understood what it is like. Many people got depression. Many people do not speak. And if they speak, it is as if God has closed their mouths. We don’t know what is happening. Many, many people are in depression. When I came here to Europe now, I saw that all people, including our yoga people, were very, very depressed. So here in our seminar, I try to open people again, so they all begin to speak to each other, to understand our bhajans and my words. Again, when I speak something and people open their mouths to laugh, they all were opening their hearts. Many began to open up and think, "If something good..." So you also now, make your hands open. It is 65%—you open your mouth. If you can’t open your mouth, you can make a gesture like this. Only one person said, "Tak, tak, tak." Come on. No, yeah. Some people are greeting, making loud sounds, while others are down like this. Oh, my God. You are depressed. I don’t want you to be depressed now, here in the kingdom of our Bhagavān Dīpnārāyaṇa and Mahāprabhujī and all our guru-paramparā. At least you can say it and make the sound to your Swāmījīs here, okay? Very good, thank you. Oh, I’m also relaxed. I know how we all are. I told you one day, and I think you have heard on our Swāmījī’s television long ago, maybe 30 years back in San Francisco. There was a conference of all yoga centers. They invited me also, and there was a big festival for three or four days, with many people from different yogīs. At that time, an Indian man met me. He had a shirt and trousers and a cap. He came to me and said, "Swāmījī, who are you?" and so on. "I know, I heard about you." He said, "Swāmījī, I have some technique, and it’s very good." He said, "I am laughing, man." I said, "What is that?" He said, "I am laughing and very happy, and I am making everyone happy." He was laughing, and slowly he began. Everywhere he brought people for retreats and said in the retreat, "Laughing." Every third hour, they all were laughing. Some were a little skeptical, saying, "Oh, he’s a madman." But in one or two days, all became so happy and relaxed. Then, also on an aeroplane, when it was about to take off, he said in front of everybody, "Hello friends, I want to make you happy." They all were looking, thinking, "What is this?" He said, "Everyone, you have to be happy." They said, "How?" He said, "I am standing..." and what he said... They said, "This boy, this man is not normal." And again he was laughing. People said, everybody began to laugh, "What is this person?" And again he said, "Please, all of you also laugh with me." What happened? All became happy. When he got off the airplane, all his friends said, "Thank you, it was very nice." Now what he made is called laughing yoga. But what happens now in this situation? We all have closed our mouths. So now you have to open your heart and don’t be depressed. We all have to be very happy and very good. So then, let’s all laugh three times, okay? And who will not laugh? He will be depressed, okay? Very good. Again. Once more. One more time. Now we say... When something happens, sometimes we talk, joke, or this, we say it all, we should make it nicely. Someone told in Yugoslavia, when it was one whole country—someone from Croatia, or Slovakia, Slovenia, or maybe another—they said, "No, when Swāmījī is dead, then we should not laugh," and so on. How they suppressed everything after my lectures or something in the conference, I said, "Thank you." That means that somehow new people were there. They want to make it like this, and they say, and so that was depression. Yugoslavia became depressed, yeah, and in that depression they spread it. They spread their politics, not the land. You cannot make a wall between the Adriatic coast. So always, when good things happen, we should explain your goodness. So he is also saying, "Yes, Swāmījī, that’s right." Do you understand? Good. Once more, Vivekapurī has come. Very good. Now, see, the good bhajan singer, Swāmī Umapurījī, is here. Now I see who has not opened their heart for oneness to all. Maybe you are not a friend of hers, or maybe you don’t like her, but in the conference, with all people together, we have to do things together. Otherwise, in some parts, there are two parties or three parties in politics, and someone is very happy and good and laughing, and others are lost, so they will not make me like this. You know, the Croatians, when something... they don’t laugh, but what they are doing, they are holding their... what is that? Croatian, and they said, "I want to kill my heart." That’s it. So we always... and another thing is that between, when someone’s joke comes and all are laughing, it means it awakens everyone. Again, we are awakened. There is hardly one person who can understand or will hear everything clearly in ten minutes. We cannot. We cannot concentrate. Or if someone has something for you, or someone is asking, "How much money are they giving? This and that?" then they will say yes. Not only ten minutes, they will take fifteen minutes. In that thing, you will not be laughing, but you will be concentrating. So now it has been these three months, or already the fourth month, we are all depressed. The whole world is depressed. America is very depressed. China is depressed. India is depressed. Europe is depressed. Africa, Australia are very depressed. It has made very, very depressed old people. Now they are depressed, and they don’t know what to do because, you know, many people lost their jobs. Our job is there. They are working, but they have no money. They don’t give the money. And they think that it will give me more money back, and this. So in such a depression, don’t go down. Therefore, Yoga in Daily Life is that we are very open and relaxed. We don’t know how long we will be. So if something we have to do tomorrow, we should do it today. And what we have to do today, we should do it just now. And what is that? We should be happy, relaxed. Of course, if someone has died, or something is very, very ill and very painful, of course we are all very sad. But others are not, and this sadness will be sometimes, and then you are laughing again. So this seminar, what we have here, and all the people who came here—for example, it was 130 or 150 people allowed—they all were depressed. Everybody? Hello? That it was not me. No, no... no. When I said yes, then you also first said yes. I didn’t say, so I will say you are too happy. Say yes, we are very happy, okay? Are you happy? Yes, we are happy. Very good. Now, say to your heart, relax your heart. And awake in your heart, happiness. Otherwise, it will also affect our heart. It will be suppressed. So, Yoga in Daily Life is not only exercising, but we are further. We have to understand that these five principles are these elements, and this is what we call annamaya kośa. This annamaya kośa is our physical body. We are getting oxygen, we have water, we have food, etc. So this is the first point: our body is not everything, but without the body, it is nothing, as someone said. We are taking care of our body. We are looking at our body, how beautiful I am or not. And we are all very beautiful. Whatever God has made is perfect, beautiful, but we ourselves are not satisfied that we are beautiful. Therefore, what are we doing? Makeup, and this makeup, now even they are making tattoos again, and I don’t know where they are, in many different parts of the body. It is said there was a king, and this king was a Muslim, what they called at that time a Mughal. He and his secretary—his secretary was great. He would advise his king very well on what to do, good and bad, and everything, and the secretary would always show what is right. So what happened is that somehow, the king hurt his thigh. He tore his thigh, and his secretary came. The king said, "Look what happened to me." The secretary said, "What happened?" "This is a very big wound on my thigh." The secretary said, "Very good." The king was so angry. "You are always against me. I always said this, and he said no." He said, "My Highness, I will tell you, it is great for you." He said, "From today, finish, go away from my palace." So he went out of his palace and sent him home. After two months, or not two years, the wound was okay; it was healed. So the king and some of his friends went horse riding for a picnic. They were all riding horses in the forest and said, "We will meet at a certain place." So everybody was riding. At that time, people who were in the forest only, jungly people, they had one festival. People in the mountains, forests, they are a completely different kind of people, jungly people. They also have one guru. So they made one kind of festival or something. Their master was sitting there, like Vivekapurī. They made a ceremony. They said, for this we have to burn them in the fire. This is like a ceremony, so bring some good, very clean men. Suddenly one saw the king coming on a horse. All these people tried to get him, and the king said, "Yes, come out." They all caught him with one hand and that hand and everything, and they said, "What happened?" They said, "Today is your day. We will have our master, we will have our holy master there, and we will have a ceremony, and he will offer you." Now there is nobody there. The king is there, but so many people are strong. So they tied him and brought him to that man and said, "Here is the master. Here we have the best, nice person to give into the fire." His master said, "Okay, then take his dress away. Wash him with soap, with water, with milk, with oils, with butters, with honeys." Again, this is a ceremony. Then they brought him to their master. The master said, "I will check his body." There was on the thigh a big wound. "What is this? We don’t know how his thigh was injured. Take him away. We cannot take a person who is half damaged." The king was thankful. He said, "You go well." They didn’t know he was the king. He took his horse and was riding. He came to his palace and said, "Call his secretary." He came after two years, and the king said, "I am wrong and you are good." "I have done nothing." He said that when I was injured, and you said it’s very good for you, and I was angry. But now I know that day you said it is good for you. So we know when something happens, we know that if something happens to you, you don’t always think that it’s just a negative thing; it can be a positive thing. And so those people in the forest, for them, on a human’s body, there should be no kind of carving, something, or it is haunted. Similarly, the human is trying to be, "I want to be more beautiful." What do you think, that you will be more beautiful? We are not becoming beautiful; we are damaging ourselves. How is our body good? How is our very nice skin? Okay, we have something inside, some kind of ornament. Okay, ornament is okay, you can have it. But as much as you will be making some kind of makeup on your body—on the body, eyes, and everywhere—then you think you are beautiful? And in the evening, before going to sleep, you wash yourself, and then you say, "How am I?" You make the light dim and go to sleep. So, beauty is your heart, beauty is your words, beauty is your behaviors, beauty is your health and everything. We have to understand that. So yoga is not only torturing, but okay, we need exercise because we need movement. It’s okay, we should have real yoga postures, the real āsanas. According to tradition, there are 84 āsanas. 84, pardon. 84, not 80, 84. I’m sorry, because these are all different creatures, and so these are the postures of the animals. For example, one posture is called cobra, snake. Bhujaṅgāsana? I am wrong. Yes. Then scorpion. Yes or no? Yes. Then is the mendicant. You know what is a mendicant? Frog. The frog posture. There’s a cow. Gomukhāsana. So all 84, what we call the āsanas, and we should be successful in them. But of course, we humans become more and more practiced and do more and more things, so it’s okay. We are doing many things for the body. It is a chaurāsī lakh, so it is 8.4 million different creatures. For example, let’s say fish, let’s say the turtle also. We have to know the posture. Who doesn’t know the position of the tongue? Yeah, this throttle, not a throttle. It’s not a throttle. So, how many of us are also in the posture where we are sleeping on the water? With which āsana? Lotus. The lotus posture. With lotus posture, you can lie down in the water. If you don’t know, go to the Adriatic coast. There’s very nice water, very peaceful, very clean, and there are many sacks. Big fish are not there. And if there is, he cannot eat you because he has to turn like this. So, lotus. The lotus flower is in the water, and the flower is up. So also, from our navel, there are roots of that which we will see in the coming days. So this is what the ṛṣis were talking about: we have to come out of all these animals, and we come to the humans, and then we come to mokṣa. So many, many different kinds of āsana. And then there is Haṁsāsana. Do you know somebody here, Haṁsāsana? Who can come up here and tell me? Anybody? Come on, quickly. Haṁsāsana, good, very good. Are you male or female? Yeah, because which kind of wings are better? This kind of wings come. Yeah. Not here, there in the middle. Yes. Very good. Thank you. And that’s why, you know, many things about spiritualities, and many things were very close to the Germans and philosophy. The Germans and Indians are also close. And European philosophy is from which country? Greek, that’s it. So in this world, when all became neutral, everyone has their names in their countries. The Germans were very, very clever, so everyone made aeroplanes. But what is an aeroplane? But everybody wanted a name. So they said, "Which is the, what is it called, Indian aeroplane?" Air India, and somebody has this and that, but in German it’s Hansa. Yes. And that is what in your aeroplane? Lufthansa. Luft Hansa. And Luft is the air. Hansa is the Hansa flying. Hansa je ta, so in the air the Hansa is the way. And Hansa goes so swiftly and landed in India. So, Hansa, this Hansa, aeroplane, is everywhere in the world, and also that symbol is also like a swan. So all this is from nature, and that in yoga is also nature. So we have here Haṁsāsana. And they said Luft Haṁsa. It’s a very, very good name. And so another called Haṁsa is our heart, our soul. Our soul. And that Haṁsa, that’s my soul. My ātmā is different than my body. And so my ātmā is going into the Brahmalokas. When the big flight of the Germans goes very high, about nearly ten thousand meters, we don’t see anything. It’s gone up. That’s it, we are. So, this āsana is very beautiful. Hansa. We have Hansa and Lufthansa. So, haṁsa is many, many things in that, in very spiritual names, in many poets, in poetry. So, like this, all āsanas, if we follow according to nature, then our wings will be like in Mokṣa. Āsanas. That’s it.