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The day was full of surprises, a very pleasant, divine day. We learned many things and had many divine experiences. Yoga and daily life are spreading around the world more and more. The speciality of Yoga in Daily Life is that everyone can find something for themselves, what they need. Yoga is yoga. Some speak of karma yoga, bhakti, rāja, jñāna, kriyā, haṭha. But finally, we have to come to yoga, like bhakti yoga. So yoga is the center point. Many teachers, masters, or gurus found some easier way according to their experiences, so their disciples used to call that way of yoga after their masters. So Yoga in Daily Life is nothing but yoga. But how should we know the difference? So we gave the name "Yoga in Daily Life." But of course it has a meaning, very great meanings: for everyday life, what to do every day according to yogic principles. How should our day look, which we spend? There is a different consciousness, a different level of consciousness. The consciousness in nature: fish or water animals, birds, animals, humans. Similarly, the human consciousness is more filtered or more clear. It means we are flexible; we can change. Our nature, for example, the flowers, they do exactly what their dharma is, that’s all. Like a lotus flower, in the morning when the dawn comes, it opens, and by evening at sunset, it closes again. We humans understand our life, the dangers of life, the risks of the day, our actions, and so on. So, we know that every morning when you get up, and first you open your eyes, it means now you enter into this world again. You came from a dream to this world again. You came from a very deep sleep back here. First of all, we thank God that we can wake up. It’s a big blessing. It is not in your hands that you can say, "I will wake up." It’s not yours. It is in divine mercy. So when we wake up in the morning and we open our eyes, then, in front of our eyes, there should be some beautiful vision, a beautiful picture. Let’s say you open your eyes, and there is a big window or a small window, the sun rising, mountains, nature, fruits, flowers, or a holy picture of Gurudev or any God in which way you believe in God. Mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, your children, and so on. I remember one thing that, as many of you know, I was the last child, the youngest one in the family. And the youngest one is mostly spoiled by the brothers and sisters and everyone. And I used to always sleep in my mother’s bed, in my mother’s room. Then I moved to the Gurujī, and when I used to come back home to see my parents, my mother and so on, I always slept near my mother. I remember from my childhood when my mother got up, see, because I always used to sleep with a blanket on my face, and she took the blanket away and looked at me, and then she closed it and she went. I asked her, "Why do you always wake me up?" She said, "No, I only want to see your face sleep." So for a mother, your mother is also happy when she sees you or your husband. But mostly the wife sees the husband’s face because the wife gets up earlier than the husband, you know. Husband is lazy, sleeping, and wife had to get up to make a coffee or a tea, no? Well, it is where you feel happiness. That first impression of the day should remain the whole day, happiness. And so, on which side do you sleep, left side or right side? I have always, Maa Prabhujī and Gurujī, Devapurījī. And if the picture is a little far, I know where it is. I get up with the closed eyes, and I look to there, and then open the eyes, and I say, "Thank you for the Om Prabhudeep Niranjan Sabduk Bhanjan. All troubles should go away," and so. You see, this is like that. It is a self-suggestion, a wish, and a divine impression that will come true. You wake up and look to Gurudev and repeat your wish: "My day should be happy, relaxed, protected, successful. Lord, guide my every step, each and every step, towards positive things. That I never make a wrong step, only to help all others. Good steps. That my steps lead to safety and happiness, and not to accident and to bad things. My thoughts should always be full of love, understanding, kindness, and help, full of help to others, all creatures. My senses should always function and be active to do something good in this world. And my words should be a prayer. My words should have sweetness, full of love, that my words should not hurt someone like a knife, but my words should be like honey, the nectar, to all." This is a very... It takes you half a minute to make a first impression and surrender. So this is the first instruction of yoga in daily life. It’s beautiful. It’s very beautiful. It should not be like that. You get up and say to your husband, "Good morning," and he’s looking in the window and says, "Good morning." Or your wife says, "Good morning." You say, "What do you want again?" Yes, there are some things, you know. Love is lost. Everything is lost. When the brass bell, you know that we have a bell, where this brass bell has a crack, then there is no resonance inside. Yes? There is no resonance. And when the milk is spoiled, the butter is gone. From spoiled milk, you cannot gain the butter again. Can you? Beautiful, very good butter. On the top, a lot of kaimak. Yes, your kaimak is sitting still here. Long ago in ex-Yugoslavia, my favorite ones were kajmak, goulash, and paprika, and what, lasagna, and baklava. Horses were young, you know, young body, and collected a lot, and still there is lying here. The khaimak is always on the top. So when milk is spoiled, there is no khaimak, there is no butter. When the candle flame is burning and the wind blows it off, where does the flame disappear in the room? The windows are closed, the door is closed, everything is closed, but where does the flame disappear? Similarly, when love is gone, something happens in your heart. Manphata, your in-heart, your mind, your feeling is like spoiled milk, where love has disappeared. And when there is no love, you have nothing to search for there. So we pray to God to protect our mutual understanding and that love. Love is life. Without love, everything is ugly. Even this table needs love. If you don’t clean for one or two days, there’s a lot of dust. So the day begins full of love, divine love, a love of God. The beauty, the nature, the relations, the mother, the father, the masters, God, devotees. Yes, the second thought, what you should have, you know, you have to get up from your bed, true? Or you will be fluttering in the kitchen. Without getting off from the bed, you say, "Oooh, coffee machine," like astronauts in the airplane, no? We cannot levitate still, so we can thank God that we can get up. We are healthy, we wake up, and life is in the body. We can move, we can open our eyes, we can speak, and we can get up. There are some people who cannot even move, so we stand. On well, in every language, it doesn’t matter which language of the world, and doesn’t matter which culture of the world, we call mother earth. Clear? Or in Serbian, or in Bosnian, other languages, do you say father earth? No, we don’t. We know even the father, we know. Only the mother, no, Mother Earth. Now you are going to step on her? What a naughty boy! You step on your mother, and look how much Mother is enduring. She doesn’t say, "Don’t step on me." Did you ever think of Mother Earth? And therefore, before you step down... From the bed, you should say, "Mother, allow me, give me the solid space, place under my foot, and carry me around with your love, motherly love, that I never do something wrong to you, oh mother." And if we think in this way, then no one will pollute this planet. If you will respect like that, yes, you have to respect a lot. You have to respect this earth as you respect your mother. But nowadays, who is respecting mother? Because the mother had no time for the children. Children are growing up with the babysitter. And father, of course, has no time. He is all the time in the meetings, and the children have no time with the father, even for eating. That’s it. So respect mother nature means flowers, vegetation, fruits, grain, bread. Bread is holy. We share the bread. Then we come to the bathroom, to the water. Did you ever say thank you? God, thank you for the water element. How clean it is. How beautiful it is, how gentle it is, how nice it is, cool, warm. Can we imagine our life without water? Vodha Jīvata. Water is life. We have mostly in our body the water element. And in the Vedas, in the Upanishads, in the Indian scripture, it is said, "Where there is water, there is God. Where there is God, there is life." And where there is life, there is God. Jal jaha jagadīś. The Lord of this planet. The Lord of this planet, God, is there where the water is. And where there is water, there is life. So from tomorrow onward, or today onward, after this lecture, when you come to the bathroom or anywhere, you touch the water and say, "Thank you, Lord. Beautiful. It’s beautiful." Can you imagine a clear, unbelievable, indescribable taste? This is the mother’s milk. This is divine milk. This is the source of our life. Our life began with the water, coming from the astral world. The salt descends with the water, wandering and traveling into the grains in the food. And the grain seeds growing into the body of the father, the mother’s embryo as a beautiful light, the seed, and that again preserved by beautiful water, and the power of the water, the egg inside, inside is this life, that is Viṣṇu. That seed is fire, Agni, and fire only can be kept in the water, and so Viṣṇu is a fire element. And through that heat, the whole ocean, the water is created on this planet, and that is Viṣṇu, that is yourself, that seed, and that is residing in the navel. And from the navel, the embryo grows, and that embryo is called the lotus flower from the navel. Of the Vishnu, you know the Indian mythology that Vishnu is residing in the ocean, and from his navel comes a beautiful lotus. And from this lotus, Brahmā is created. Brahma is the knowledge, the guru, the wisdom. So, from the navel, your navel to the mother’s body, this is created, this flower. The embryo is like a flower, growing every day. Then, unfoldment: the limbs of the body, hands, legs, head, ears. We wish to have a nice, little, beautiful ear, no? When we are in the mother’s body, we say to God, "Please give me beautiful ears." Can you imagine that you are born like a donkey’s ears? Then we go to the doctor to cut it. Can you imagine that God gave you the nose here? Yes. God is working, Mother Nature is working in our favor. And we don’t thank that Mother God, the Mother Nature. Prakṛti. Prakṛti and Puruṣa. Puruṣa is masculine, the consciousness. Prakṛti is the nature, matter, and consciousness. And so we touch the water and the fire. Fire. Oh my God! What do you drink mostly in the morning? Hot coffee, hot tea, or when it’s cold, then you take cold water. So your day begins. You get up, greet everyone, happy, nice, and then stress yourself. Khaṭū Praṇām, Mahāprabhujī. And do your exercises, do your duty, do your work, pray according to your beliefs, and have a happy life. That’s yoga in their life. If you cannot dry the tears of others, then don’t be the cause of the tears. It’s not easy not to be the cause of the tears, but there are two kinds of tears: one is out of happiness and love, and one is out of the pain and disappointment. Someone is doing wrong to you, someone is going to the court, making a court case, someone is making bad thoughts, trying to damage your health, your family relations, your business, and so on. This is wrong. Great saint Kabīr Dāsī said, "When I was born, people were happy, smiling." And I was crying. Where am I now? The child is crying. The child is thinking, "Oh God, I thought there would be something better." But now, here is the nurse, and this injection, and my God, pulling me here and gushing. I was so comfortable inside. Who knows? Inside is also not comfortable. Thanks to God that we are born. The world was happy, but I was crying. Do such deeds in this world. I will smile, and the world will cry for me. That is how nice a person was who died. And if you are not nice, people will say, "Thanks to God, the person died." So it is lifelong work. Yoga in daily life is not only āsanas, prānāyāms, and relaxation, no. It is how you live, how you think. Do you have doubts? Do you have jealousy? Many, many things. This is not easy, but I’m sure you can manage, and you will manage to be happy in this world. Do something good, and for that, we don’t need anything. We don’t need any tools. We don’t need any supernatural power. If you have supernatural power, you are a very, very poor person because you will have no time. Always, people will run behind you and say, "Can you make this miracle? Can you make this miracle?" Only one miracle we can do. We know how to eat, drink, and sleep. That’s good. And the biggest miracle, we wake up. Okay? And the second miracle is that God gives us good intellect so that we don’t do anything bad to others. Mentally, physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, politically, financially, and so on, that we don’t do bad to anyone. That we don’t cheat anyone. Better to be cheated than to cheat. True? That person becomes a holy person. It’s not that you don’t need to do anything like this and like that. Just be there, be good. This flower doesn’t speak to us. This flower doesn’t do anything for us. This flower never told you anything. But this flower is just here, presence, and we give it the highest place. Did the flower say, "I want to sit near Swamiji on the table?" If this flower had said, "I want to sit near Swamiji on the table," be sure it would not be here. Just be. That’s it. I will be. Die always. I just will be there for you, so this. A flower doesn’t need to work, doesn’t need to go anywhere. It is just smiling and radiating its smell. Similarly, just live. So pure thoughts, pure actions, purity, the smell means the pure energy, positive energy. Who are you to judge someone? This morning someone said, "Oh, he has a problem with that." When I said, "Shut up, you don’t know anything. Don’t put black karma on you." Of course, the person didn’t like it when I said it, but after a while, the person realized. Never judge like this. Never. Don’t put a black spot on you. Great are they. Even if it is negative, they will neutralize it. So if he has a problem with her, then your duty is to solve their problem, but not to judge them that he has a problem with her. Clear? So the two have a problem. And now the third problem is, you are judging that they have a problem, so now you make the problem like more fire, petrol on it. So can you endure the pain of others? Can you endure and understand a conflict between others? Can you solve the... Conflict, that’s it. All you can solve with a mutual understanding and mutual, how to call it, not in business with negotiation, but what they call it in politics, coalition. Coalition. There’s a picture Gandhījī gave, one picture. Maybe you have seen a picture. Did you see that? Picture, how can you say no? I didn’t tell you which picture. It’s an interesting thing. Yes, there’s a picture that both sides are lying. Some very nice, fresh grass, grass for the animals. This side is about very nice grass, farther cuts, soft. Other side also. Between, there are two monkeys, and both monkeys, they were tied with one rope. They had a rope on one side of the donkey’s neck, and the other side of the rope was on another donkey. Now, this donkey wants to eat that, and the other one did this. They are pulling each other. Other, but no one can eat. It’s only one meter distance. One donkey gives the complete strength to go and eat. The other one, on the other side, gives complete strength and goes to eat. They enter the donkey’s mind; they can’t eat. Then they decided both together. To come and eat together, then they could eat, right? And so this is a conflict: "I want this, and others want this. First I will have, first I will have. None of them can have." But if you come and join, both of you can have. So mutual understanding, negotiation, or clarity, love, forgiveness, kindness, understanding—that can solve the conflict between two. But if you have conflict within thyself, then you create conflict outside. Then you have different visions; then you see, like, different things. So what is within you, that comes outside of you. Think over before. You think once again and again, analyze your thoughts. You mean good, that is another thing, but you didn’t analyze the situation and the thoughts and qualities. That’s it. So, yoga in daily life means how to lead our life that we come through, and we... Can do something good in the world. Rest, we will have evening program. Now you have dinner time, because I heard you didn’t have a lunch, but I heard at the same time you ate more than lunch, yes? How many drank coffee and cake and that fruit? And this and that, it was more than you would have eaten for dinner or lunch, but anyhow, that is a very good thing. God gave us also this system that we should eat, and that’s why I wish you now all the best and a very good appetite.