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Good evening, all dear sisters, brothers, and children. A most welcome to our ashram and to this seminar, which is being broadcast through our Swamiji television. This welcome extends throughout the whole world to all who know about Yoga in Daily Life and to many others. I often receive messages from many people about how nice it is, how relaxed and happy they feel, and how they have no fear from this disease, the corona. Many of our brothers, sisters, and all our practitioners have said that they feel very relaxed, happy, and have no disease within our Yoga in Daily Life groups or anywhere around the whole world. They say they feel safe, and that throughout the world, Yoga in Daily Life practitioners do not have this disease. Also, in the different yoga schools of the teachers, they have very good disciples who are very happy and relaxed. But for those who are practicing every day, what is mostly best at this time now is Sarvahitāsana. All my friends and disciples know that Sarvahitāsana, which has different parts, is very beautiful and works very deeply in our body for good health. While practicing yoga in life, this is what we call sarvahitāsana; it gives harmony in the body, peace in our mind, and happiness in our heart. We know that we are here in this world, and God, or Gurudev, or a yogī, or a saint—whatever we see—they give us this now, in this year, in this corona time. It is beautiful, and people are very happy. We know that God, yogīs, saints—whatever we call them—we receive it this year; it is important. But it is also true that all yoga practitioners around the whole world, with different teachers or schools, are very sāttvic. They are not eating animals, meat, etc., and also no alcohol and no drugs. That is very important. We can see anywhere that when we see these yoga people, maybe from other gurus or other yoga schools, they are so very humble, very kind, very pure. That is the result of the yoga. While practicing yoga, for many schools, any masters, any gurus—many, many are great saints, and they have good ashrams. They have a very pure, very happy, relaxed, peaceful, and harmonious life. From various other schools and various gurus, which are very good, you can see that they have a beautiful, harmonious, and healthy life. So, when someone comes to their yoga mat... First, all my dear, see this first. We make our āsana; we call it a yoga mat. Āsana means the mat we are putting on the floor. When we meditate or practice exercises, we should sit on our own cloth, some mat or something. It is very nice and good for meditations and feeling energies, and there is no negative vibration. If we can do that, it is called the grass mat. It is a grass mat, and that’s a very spiritual, special grass. Even if it is dry, it will not break. Many yogīs and many people are making this āsana. So, for those who are sitting and meditating, that is for this grāsa āsana. When we meditate, we have our own energy that is going through and through the whole body. We know that electricity, cement, etc., and that reflection is not good. So we should, if it is possible, have the grass mat. Then you will see how nice it is. Otherwise, the heat comes from the earth, which makes it not pleasant. But as soon as we sit on the grass, the first minute it will feel hard, but then it’s good. On that grass mat, we should not put other cloth that is sewn and don’t have any other cotton or anything inside. Also, not iron something. It is all-natural, very much. Then you will see how that āsana is. If you put it and then put other cloth on it, that impression and pressure, and the coming energy from that, goes half away. So this is kuśa āsana. This kuśa is the grass. Now some friends are bringing it from Nepal, and from Nepal they make a very nice āsana. It will be good, meter by meter. Ask them if they can make it like this. When we have some disease and we sit on this kuśa āsana, many negative energies go out. After you finish your meditation—it is for meditation or for prayers, or if you are reading something—then sit on this grass and take your holy books or any books. If we read that, energy will come into the body, memories come inside. That’s why many, many yogīs—and what most people are thinking about the Himalayas—that’s why many yogīs think a lot about the Himalayas, and that’s very good. Now, in the Himalayas—and I was experienced in Europe, in summer and winters—so in the time of the winter, there’s a lot of snow. Now is unfortunately the little, what’s called the snows. When I first came here, it was already more than 50 years ago. It was before the end of the year, three months already. The snow was there, and it is coming all after 83 hours. I stood here for months, all snow, so sometimes I also experienced with this kūśāsana. And kūśāsana, I was making myself a demonstration. So sometimes I put on very little dress, and I sit on the kuśāsana and make meditation. And it was cold. So at that time, I was making prāṇāyāma. Prāṇāyāma makes the whole body heat inside. When we, according to Yoga in Daily Life, have the kuṇḍalinī śakti... And what we are doing is this: we sit on our āsana. Tak si sedneme na āsana. So kriyā. Kriyā. Kriyā śakti. Kriyā śakti. So, kriyā sādhanā, and there is with the power of the breath. Kriya sādhanā je díky síle dechu, from the mūlādhāra. Od mūlādhāra. Till svādhiṣṭhāna. Maṇipūra. Manipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, Bindu, and Sahasrāra. The yogī, they are how bringing that energy through the chakras? Don’t do one day. If you want to learn, minimum four years, months, then you come on the right way. Otherwise, we make something kind of defect in the heart. Different parts of the body, some people, they are doing, "Now I will do." All the time. OK, very good. Dobře, dobře. But not immediately. Ale ne hned. This exercise is about four to five months. Kuśāsana. Pokud je chladno, someone has air-conditioned, why not? This technology, but this air-conditioned sometimes makes more tired. We said, "Oh, good sleep," but this is laziness. But there, in kūśāsana, around our room, let’s make under the bed or for meditation. Immediately, energy is completely different. It’s nature. Very beautiful. So in that, it means that now there is a wave of yoga. Many people are going there and making this and that conference, and becoming teachers very quickly. Many people now hold various conferences and do exercises quickly. This is exercise. It is like bodybuilding, exercise for the body. It is good, it is not bad, but I experienced. For 50 years, those who came to me understood what yoga is, and so they began to practice spirituality. It is like a college, a university, or a school. So when you are in primary school, every year the students go to the other class: high class, middle class, college, universities. So in that way, we are coming higher and higher. So that master, or professor, or the teacher, they are giving you only for one year. Then you go to the next step. So, this is what we call that, spiritually, yoga is the practicing, and everyone learning, and they go further in their life. But they are practicing their yoga exercises, prāṇāyāmas, and āsanas; automatically comes the feelings of the mantra. And don’t give anyone mantra immediately. Then it’s just like nothing. Yes, we can say the mantras. General mantras, like we say it: "Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Namo Śiva, Oṁ Namo Śiva." This is a general. General means not only the not good. It is great and good. Yoga is from Śiva. Namo Śiva, Yom Namo Śiva. So there are many mantras. This is also a beautiful holy mantra, and there are many, many mantras. Mantra means good things, these good things we should have inside. So, mantra. When about mantras, our holy Gurujī was many times speaking. He said, "What is a mantra, Gurujī? What is a mantra, Gurujī?" How to do the Gurujī? Etc. Then Gurujī said, "You should understand what is a mantra." If we don’t know, and we are only telling something—this holy book, that holy book, that holy book. Good, they are good, no problem. But what is a real mantra? And it is so simple, very simple, but very strong. Strong means pure, humble kindness. Lifting up. Lifting up means what? Our consciousness, our feelings, don’t depend on anyone. No one helps. For example, husband and wife, yes, they are helping each other. Each other helping, they are good, happy, everything. But not that one. That’s it. It is like this, that one dies, or maybe two together die, but still the soul will go different. So, there is our, what we call, what is the mantra? And it’s so simple. And mantra, the word of the mantra: "man," "man" means mind. What is a mind? Very difficult to know. Man marau na mamatamari, marmar gaya sarir, asa drishtrisna nagey, gagey dasa kabir. That is a beautiful poem. Man, mind, our man, man is the most powerful. Goes very quickly. With this man, within no time, he’s on the moon. Jupiter. Any other place. It is even. This is too little. It is too loud. Too high. That is man. Sanga mere tuya Sangha mere tuye ātmā veda batāvatahe, tuye ātmā veda batāvatahe. The yoga, our yoga world, what we are learning. Yoga, the word we are learning, and in Swamiji’s television. You see, when I tell, press my button and the bhajan is running there. That’s it. So, man. Man, what is my man? Sometimes you are running there. Sometimes there, sometimes they don’t let you sleep. Sometimes man is so down, oh my god. Man is not man, "mara" mind will not die. Man will not die. "Man mara na mamta mari." "Mamta" means, "I want to have, I will have." Mamta means, "I want to get this one, I want to get this one. I want to leave that away, I want to take this." Man marā na mamatā marī, mar mar ga ya sārī. But again and again and again, the body dies. And that will go with us. Man will go away with it. But man is just like an empty space. We can send a gun into space, and after, we will look, is there some hole? No mind is there. Man said, "You cannot kill me, man. Man, I want, I want, I want." You know, you want to have ice cream, I want to have ice cream. I will do this, I will do this, but it’s not. And so this mind is sometimes to that, sometimes to there, sometimes to this, sometimes it’s not, sometimes it’s angry. Oh man, you are a human. Go ahead, straight towards the cosmic self. Man marā, nāmam tamārī, mar mar gayā śarīr, body came again, mind was with, This body again dies, becomes old, and dies, but man will not die. Even when the body dies, the soul is there, and this mind is leading in a different path. Therefore, do not depend on your mind. You have, and you have. Asa means "I will." Let’s go, we will get here. Yes, always. We will get. We will get, but you know, it is for the children to play with the soap and bubble. Just a fire, gone. If we try to touch, that is, "I want, I want," we will get, we will get. Don’t think, "I will get this, I will get this." No, my dear, you have to do the guru, guru jñāna, it’s called guru jñāna. Jñāna means the knowledge. Gyāna znamená poznání. Water, water, but there is no water. They fall down and die, no water. We run like after a mirage. We run, we exhaust ourselves, we fall, we die, but that water is not there. And so, again, we die. matamore da batá, very good, very good. Therefore, Gurudev says, "Come, I will give you." Sometimes we have to twist this side or that side. Sooner or later, we have to come again. So from the ocean goes the steam. And come the clouds, and it again comes down as water. Rain. They will again be together. Running water on the road comes to the crane. Crank. Coming to the river. Finally, everyone is coming there. But sometimes, and it is said, rivers have curves. Water doesn’t have the curves. But sometimes, some water is separated, and the other is separated again. And between the river, there is one, what we call the island. And so sometimes in the middle of the river there is an island. One water flows on one side. And the other one says, "I’m going this way, bye. Don’t be afraid." And again we come together, and we will flow to the ocean. So sometimes you are angry with your husband, with your wife, or your guru, or some friends, but sooner or later this man will again come there, and that is very important. So in this way, Gurujī said, "Mantra, man," I told you what is a man—mind. Man and that have some feeling, so man and that. "Tra" means thirsty. So when this water comes, then it becomes man. But this mantra means it is thirsty, looking, looking for something. So mantra, and there you will come to your ocean there. After all mantras, you will go away. It’s like a snake, any snake, any cobra. And they are rolling like this. They are animals, which are what we call reptiles. Reptiles. But when he sees his whole, it’s not going anymore like this. It’s going inside, so we are going like here, and sometimes here, and now here, and now here. But when the Gurudev gives the mantra, then we are the cosmic self. So that is then our mantra. So what is the mantra which Gurudev is giving? And that is giving the knowledge. And sometimes it is not that kind of knowledge, but you are giving the lecture. All the time, with the ṛṣis and gurus, some disciples came. Then, okay, after one month or one year, you will become a yogī? Yes. OK. Clean this, this, bring vegetables, this, everything. After two years, Gurujī, can you give me some words, some mantra? Yes. Clean the dress, everyone’s, all bhaktas here, you should clean them. OK, Guruji asked me only to wash the laundry. Next day, Gurujī said, "You were thinking that I was washing the laundry?" My son, Gurujī will always see my son. You did not understand. I will tell you after. Go ahead. After two years, Gurujī, laundry was too hard. Yes, because this is all negative thinking, and this and no and that. Laundry is not a distress. Your inner laundry is, I told you. So there is one more other story, I will not tell now, like this way, that was a yogī, and one day he had Cosmic Consciousness. And he came to Guruji, and Guruji said, "You know, from the milk and water came butter. Butter came, butter on the water and milk." And now butter has come. Gurujī said, "Go, Gurujī, good. Is that enough?" No, no, still. Go to the cows. After some years, then he said, "Gurujī, there is no butter?" Because the butter has become the ghee, and now you can go ahead. So, what is a mantra? Mantra is this, what Gurujī, the Ṛṣi, was giving this training. So therefore there are two schools: these more worldly schools, all learning till the universities, and many, many techniques. But when they die, they die. Of course, nowadays we have the books and everything; they have given us something. And the other one is that yogic knowledge, therefore, yoga. Yoga is one of the greatest. Yoga karmasukauśalam. Bhagavad Gītā says, "Yoga karmasu kauśalam," that through karma, work, work here. Then you will be successful, mokṣa. That, for my dears, so we have to search that school of the guru, that teaching of the guru, not only these books and those books and these Vedas and those Vedas, all. What is that? That is the teaching of the guru, not this book, that book, the Veda. What is it? That is surface. It will be in the heart. Mind, mirror, mind, mirror, mind. There we are to go. So there are two gurus. There are two schools: this one is for professors, and so on. But they are very good; there is no bad. And one is who has not been to school at all, but his knowledge, his power, his energy, that we have to come. Do not miss it. Best you can have university and everything, there is a great, very good. But you have to learn that inner one, mantra. Mantra. That is mantra. Mahādev, Devādhi Dev, Deveśwar Mahādev, Harādī Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī, Sab Ṛṣi Munī ko kī jī, Oṁ Śānti, Oṁ Śānti,... Om Shanti Om. Rudina Nat Prabhu, Shakti, Bhakti, Vairagya, Gyan Hridi Shiti Dena. Aag Jai Sadhya Hari Om.