The most difficult thing to do is to live in peace and harmony with people. It is, perhaps, easier to live with birds and animals. Why is living with people a problem?

Global Unrest: Today, you see people who have more comforts than they could have ever dreamed of. An average citizen possesses today what even kings and queens couldn't afford a hundred years ago, but still you see people are so distressed.

There is no need to condemn yourself by thinking, "I am bad, I am bad, I cannot do anything." You waste so much time in condemning yourself. Who are you to condemn yourself? You don't belong to yourself. Your body is made of five elements. You cannot create the body again, so your body does not belong to you.

To most of us the idea of evolution implies a series of achievements, that is, achievements born of continual choice between what we call the unessential and the essential. It implies leaving the unessential and moving towards the essential. This series of continual achievements resulting from choice we call evolution.

You cannot avoid relating as well as responding to the world, whether you like it or not. You must necessarily relate to the world in order to live your life; you need not relate to the world just to be alive. When you are in deep sleep, you are alive but you do not relate to the world; there is no world, in fact, for you.

In the state of deep sleep, the mind is absent, absorbed in its causal state, nothing exists. Everything is a creation of the mind. As the wind creates and destroys the clouds, so too does the mind create and destroy this bondage.

Man is moved by desire. Life is maintained by hope of getting one's desires fulfilled. Instinctive desires, impulsive desires, rational desires, irrational desires, worldly desires, spiritual desires-they chase man all through life. Even the old man who is approaching death has a myriad desires in his mind.

All over the world, the military forces of all the countries are called defensive armies. Then who is offending? Every country claims that its army is an army for defending itself. Than who is offending?

The Gita with its rich and many-sided thought, its synthetical grasp of different aspects of the spiritual life and the fluent winding motion of its argument lends itself, even more than other scriptures, to one-sided misrepresentations born of a partisan intellectuality.

By merely staying here (Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh) on this holy spot on the banks of the Ganges one gets Eternal Bliss and perennial peace. In this great place we have the blessed good fortune to serve a God-realized sage.