We begin our journey after initiation. You will find definitely that your life begins to take a turn for the better. Even after the Convenient Method, if you practice for a while, you will also feel your life change, much better than before. Is that not right? (Audience: Yes.) That's why you came for more. Today, you have been introduced to more than before and of course the blessing, the happiness will be manifold more. You will enjoy a much better, smoother, peaceful life. Everything that was too difficult for you before, becomes easier. All the problems that you could not solve before, you can solve them now, much easier, quicker and more clearly. So just take time to do your meditation every day.

Be careful what you eat so that you do not contaminate yourself, make the cells become confused, make the brain confused, as these will consequently hinder your spiritual progress. It's not that God cares what we eat. But if we poison our systems by intoxicating things, or impure food such as meat or animal products, then our cells -- the cells of the body and the brain cells -- will also become contaminated and confused. Thus we will not be able to think clearly and we will not be able to sit calmly in order to find the source of our happiness and wisdom. We have to sit calmly; not only sit but practice daily. Daily activities would be more calm and more inward, so that we can contact with the real source of our God-like quality. From there, we take care of every daily problem and pain, and make it become happiness.

If we confuse our cells, brain, blood, the "sentimental department" will be also confused. Then we cannot think straight anymore and when we sit in meditation, we'll become very restless, agitated. Even if we can sit well in meditation, our vision would be clouded with negative influences from the poisonous things that we have taken into our bodies. So it's not that God cares what we eat, I care what you eat, or whether you eat a little meat then you go straight to hell. It's not true. Just that if we want to be God-like, we must care about everything we do, that everything we eat is pure, so that we become pure also -- body, speech and mind.

I do not care what you eat; but whatever you eat will affect your meditation practice, your mood, your temperament, your personality, your character, your value of life. Everything is hanging on that. As long as we are in the material world, every material thing affects us. That's why we must take care to eat pure foods, foods that have less karmic burden, that have less suffering for our sake. Animals suffer a lot. They fear death; they cling to life; and if they're forced to die prematurely for us, of course their fear, their hatred are retained in the flesh that we eat. That's why we've become aggressive, agitated, discontented and sometimes violent, like the feelings of the animals before they died.

Plants also have feelings -- not really feelings just reactions; but they don't have that much of a life span, as long as the animals. The fear in plant is not so intense. Besides, they can grow again. You cut one branch of a tree and it grows another two, three branches sometimes. So if we cut some trees, it's all right. But plant more trees, or we cut a branch and let it grow three more, it is okay. We don't worship nature, we use it, and we also protect it for our sake. Human beings must always come first.

Some people are very fanatic. They say, "Okay then we don't eat plants because plants also have life." I say, "Okay then go die." We don't worship fanaticism, we do everything in a middle way, a very mild manner. Just the same in the way we behave -- we don't meditate all day. We meditate two and a half hours only. We discharge all our duties first, then we are peaceful, then we can sit for meditation. You don't have to sit and meditate two and half hours one stretch; just one hour maybe, and if you're tired then get up. In the morning, meditate more; or the next time, when you're not too tired, then meditate a little bit more. Then it adds up. Two and a half or three hours, it's okay. But sometimes when you get together for one or two weeks or a few days, you can meditate all day. That's also good for you. That's to compensate for those days that you missed or you didn't meditate enough.

So everything we have introduced is helpful to you, very beneficial. There are no rules, no regulations and not really any precepts. They are just a noble way to live our lives, because if everyone lived their life the way you do, this world would be a paradise. Would be truly like that. We have a lot of wars and trouble, disasters in the world, because most of us don't live the beautiful way that God intended us to live. Most of us don't live the God-like quality that we have within ourselves. We bury the God quality and develop the worldly qualities too much; so our lives are very unbalanced, everything becomes more materialistic and it in turn, invites disaster and competition. Through competition, wars and conflicts arise internationally.

So the way we walk our lives is the best way, the noblest way, the way that everyone should walk. But not everyone does walk, and that is one pitiful fact of this world. I'm just telling you this to remind you that the way you have chosen from today to walk your life is perfect, so try to remember, remind yourself to continue this way. The old initiates also try to remember that the way you have chosen is perfect. There's no better way, no better choice to live our lives than like the way we do now. Doesn't matter what other choices you make, you would suffer. So the only choice we can have is here, the way we do; the way we practice spiritual wisdom; the way we refrain from negativity; the way we control our lives, make them become noble and purposeful. There's no other choice. Even if you want to make another choice, it's no good for you, you know that. That's why you should stay and you know you would.

I'm just telling that this way is the best choice that you have made and I hope that you stay with your choice, because it's good for us, good for the world, an exemplary life for everyone else to follow. We cannot wait for the neighbor to do it. We do first and then the neighbor will follow. From one person, many other persons will follow. But it started with only one, with me, so you could see the example. Who knows how many other thousands of lives will become more shining, more happy because of your one individual shining example?!

So you are very important. One person is important, two persons more important, the whole group has a lot of importance to this world. Many wars will be avoided, many disasters will be minimized because of your spiritual energy, since the day you got initiation. You will notice, maybe even your neighborhood will become better, nicer looking; and you'll see some shining light around the road that you walk, around the trees, the flowers that you will enjoy, and everything will become better. Because of you, many other people will follow and enjoy the same benefits. So I also thank you for joining us for the benefit of this planet. (Applause)

I wish all the best for you and God's blessing will be with you forever, that's for sure. That is for sure. (Applause)