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Try to live in a natural way
0:05 - 1:07 (62 min)
Satsaṅg and disciplined living are foundations for spiritual and physical well-being. An eight-month Anuṣṭhāna was completed, a period of residence with daily satsaṅg and spiritual practice. This occurred at a Sattva āśram, a pure place established for decades where many have come to practice. The holiness originates from ancient spiritual lineage. Satsaṅg is the gathering of truth with spiritual companions, fostering happiness. Historical guidance from masters emphasizes simple, disciplined living. This includes dietary discipline: eat only when truly hungry, avoid tea and coffee, and consume pure foods. Modern habits of constant eating and improper foods lead to illness. True health comes from eating moderately, drinking water, and leaving space in the stomach. Practice silence, maintain personal space in communal living, and focus on spiritual practice. The recent global situation, while difficult, allowed for sustained spiritual focus and family connection at home. Ultimately, cultivate a life free from anger and negativity through disciplined practice and satsaṅg.
"Without bhakti, without satsaṅg, one feels a little bit alone."
"Eat half, drink one quarter water, and leave the other quarter empty. Then our health will be the best."
Filming location: Bari Khatu, Rajasthan, India
Build your intellect supportive
1:15 - 2:31 (76 min)
A clear aim is essential to prevent the intellect from becoming a destructive distraction. Without a definite purpose, the mind wavers among endless possibilities, changing direction with every new suggestion. This lack of clarity makes one susceptible to external influences and gossip, which act like poison, spoiling spiritual practice as lemon curdles milk. Negative talk and jealousy introduce destructive thoughts that can damage years of spiritual effort. One must therefore cultivate an intensive, unwavering aim and avoid all sources of negative influence. Protect your consciousness from harmful information that creates doubt and disturbs your peace. Spiritual progress requires guarding the mind and maintaining humility, allowing the intellect to become a supportive tool rather than an obstacle.
"Your aim must be very clear, intensive, and good. Nothing should be able to change you."
"One stupid thought, one stupid person, can destroy all your spiritual sādhanā."
Filming location: Vép, Hungary
DVD 180a
Consciousness and Space
2:35 - 3:07 (32 min)
Consciousness and space are one living reality. Space does not expand or contract, for it is limitless. Consciousness is the life of space, present within all. This consciousness is the Paramātmā, the singular supreme Self. The apparent many are like beads on a single thread, connected by the one Ātmā. Realized saints express this truth in their bhajans, which contain the essence of all wisdom. The individual self, or Jīvā, is ultimately this one consciousness, appearing as many through duality. All forms are like drops from one ocean, destined to merge back into the whole. Our journey is to realize this unity.
"Eko’ham, dvitīyo nāsti." I am one. The rest is duality.
"Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā." The Guru, the Self, and the Supreme Self are one.
Filming location: Prague, Czech Republic
Find peace within thy heart, Vancouver
3:15 - 4:28 (73 min)
Troubles always have been. We have to learn how to continue our daily life when things will happen. Remain untouched like a lotus flower. You have first to project the negative in your heart then you will see negative Which kind of glasses you have, that color you will see outside. Create within you positive feelings. Our duty should be to bring peace, love and unity into the humans, nature, animals and anywhere. Then we can live in peace. If you have peace in yourself you will find peace in all Ghandiji said: There is no way to peace, peace is the way. At the end Swamiji is leading a meditation. Recorded in Vancouver, Cananda.
Believe
4:35 - 5:54 (79 min)
Miracles arise from faith and the Guru's grace. A disciple's infant was declared terminally ill with non-functioning kidneys. A specific mantra was given and practiced with the laying on of hands; the child recovered fully and later had her own children. Her brother was also revived from a state declared lifeless by doctors. In the lineage, a farmer's wife placed her dead child under the Guru's bed, pleading for life. The child was restored. Another master caused birds killed for food to fly back to life. These events demonstrate the power inherent in the tradition. Faith is essential. One may claim disbelief, but in extremity, all call out. Trust must be complete, like a climber asked to let go while hanging from a cliff. Different names exist, but God is one. Practice the given techniques with devotion.
"After 10 days, the parents went to the hospital again to check. And the doctor said, 'What happened?'"
"God said, 'Do you trust in me?' 'Yes, I trust in you.' Then God said, 'Will you do what I tell you?' 'Yes.' 'Then release your hands.'"
Filming location: Vancouver, Canada
Believe
6:00 - 7:19 (79 min)
Miracles arise from faith and the Guru's grace. A disciple's infant was declared terminally ill with non-functioning kidneys. A specific mantra was given and practiced with the laying on of hands; the child recovered fully and later had her own children. Her brother was also revived from a state declared lifeless by doctors. In the lineage, a farmer's wife placed her dead child under the Guru's bed, pleading for life. The child was restored. Another master caused birds killed for food to fly back to life. These events demonstrate the power inherent in the tradition. Faith is essential. One may claim disbelief, but in extremity, all call out. Trust must be complete, like a climber asked to let go while hanging from a cliff. Different names exist, but God is one. Practice the given techniques with devotion.
"After 10 days, the parents went to the hospital again to check. And the doctor said, 'What happened?'"
"God said, 'Do you trust in me?' 'Yes, I trust in you.' Then God said, 'Will you do what I tell you?' 'Yes.' 'Then release your hands.'"
Filming location: Vancouver, Canada
Love animals, vegetation and Earth
7:25 - 8:11 (46 min)
The onset of a powerful Kali Yuga brings global suffering, primarily due to human actions. Humans torture and consume other creatures, causing widespread disease and imbalance. This pandemic particularly affects those who are not sattvic. The entire Earth, our mother, is suffering from human cruelty and chemical interference. In this age, the guidance of the true Guru is essential to dispel darkness. The Guru paramparā originates from the divine. All who teach us good are gurus, leading us from ignorance to light. Sattvic living and practice provide protection and clarity.
"Humans are torturing all other creatures, animals; it is unbelievable."
"Guru is the one who brings out the light from the darkness."
Filming location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Try to live in a natural way
8:15 - 9:17 (62 min)
Satsaṅg and disciplined living are foundations for spiritual and physical well-being. An eight-month Anuṣṭhāna was completed, a period of residence with daily satsaṅg and spiritual practice. This occurred at a Sattva āśram, a pure place established for decades where many have come to practice. The holiness originates from ancient spiritual lineage. Satsaṅg is the gathering of truth with spiritual companions, fostering happiness. Historical guidance from masters emphasizes simple, disciplined living. This includes dietary discipline: eat only when truly hungry, avoid tea and coffee, and consume pure foods. Modern habits of constant eating and improper foods lead to illness. True health comes from eating moderately, drinking water, and leaving space in the stomach. Practice silence, maintain personal space in communal living, and focus on spiritual practice. The recent global situation, while difficult, allowed for sustained spiritual focus and family connection at home. Ultimately, cultivate a life free from anger and negativity through disciplined practice and satsaṅg.
"Without bhakti, without satsaṅg, one feels a little bit alone."
"Eat half, drink one quarter water, and leave the other quarter empty. Then our health will be the best."
Filming location: Bari Khatu, Rajasthan, India
Find peace within thy heart, Vancouver
9:25 - 10:38 (73 min)
Troubles always have been. We have to learn how to continue our daily life when things will happen. Remain untouched like a lotus flower. You have first to project the negative in your heart then you will see negative Which kind of glasses you have, that color you will see outside. Create within you positive feelings. Our duty should be to bring peace, love and unity into the humans, nature, animals and anywhere. Then we can live in peace. If you have peace in yourself you will find peace in all Ghandiji said: There is no way to peace, peace is the way. At the end Swamiji is leading a meditation. Recorded in Vancouver, Cananda.
Visiting Alakpuriji's cave
10:45 - 11:53 (68 min)
The Himalayan cave is a site of spiritual austerity and inner transformation. The physical cave is small, requiring one to bow to enter, symbolizing surrender. Its narrow passages were designed for protection, teaching that the heart must not become narrow but expand with joy. The surrounding glaciers and the powerful Alaknandā river embody the elemental principles where fire and water are interdependent. Meditating there, one hears the river's sound and experiences a profound environment where ṛṣis in astral bodies remain unseen. The journey demands inner strength, not physical comforts, and reveals that true sustenance comes from internal spiritual joy, not external sources. This inner development, like generating one's own oxygen, allows one to traverse the terrain. The path is a gradual spiritual ascent, merging the individual into cosmic oneness, where every cell becomes divine. The story of a ṛṣi who wished to finish all Vedas before death illustrates that divine knowledge is as vast as the Himalayas; one must ultimately surrender to the infinite. Spiritual practice is the inner alchemy of purifying the heart, grinding away the ego to reveal the innate nectar and light within, which is our true nature.
"The cold becomes hot. That’s why the fire cannot remain without water. And water cannot remain without fire."
"Can you count how many grains of sand are in your palm?... This is only a little dust of the Himalaya, but the whole Himalaya is there with us."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Practice with Swamiji
12:00 - 13:07 (67 min)
Practice with Swamiji from Auckland, New Zealand.
A disciplined day and time management help dissolve stress
13:15 - 14:02 (47 min)
Discipline is the foundation of success in all aspects of life, from business to spiritual practice. A lack of ethical discipline caused the global financial crisis. Business requires supervision, but ineffective oversight creates loss, as shown when multiple supervisors consumed the milk they were meant to guard. Delegation without personal responsibility leads to systemic failure, like ice cream melting as it passes through many hands. Organize your daily schedule with discipline, allocating time for work, duties, and practice. The second principle is to calm the mind's fluctuations. Stress, which has no medicine, is managed through prayer, meditation, and yoga. Prayer involves surrendering to God, like a co-driver taking over. Meditation with mantra accesses peace. Yoga practice, performed slowly with awareness, is a cosmic dance that relieves stress. These practices purify consciousness and are essential for everyone.
"Discipline makes the country great and strong."
"Through the practice of yoga, you can tranquilize your brain waves and thoughts."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
In the end everything will be counted
14:10 - 15:05 (55 min)
Yoga is a science for human well-being. Observing practitioners during the pandemic revealed that those maintaining a vegetarian lifestyle within a specific community were largely unaffected, unlike many general yoga practitioners. This points to lifestyle's role in health. Yoga's techniques, like Brahmari Prāṇāyāma, are often derived from nature. This practice uses a humming breath to create internal vibrations, addressing issues like headaches and tension. It requires correct posture and breath from the navel. Practice is foundational, but yoga extends beyond physical techniques to a deeper connection within. The true guide removes obstacles, allowing inner potential to unfold, and does not claim the role of doer.
"Those who were not eating eggs, meat, alcohol, drugs, etc., they were not affected."
"Brahmari Prāṇāyāma affects the whole body. The inner vibration can restore the health of the body itself."
Filming location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Life is ever existing
15:10 - 16:01 (51 min)
Yoga is the singular union of daily practice and spiritual quest. The term "Yoga in Daily Life" signifies practice integrated into every day. Hatha yoga represents the union of the left and right energies, the sun and moon within. There are three types of determined will: the stubborn will of a child, the will of a woman, and the unyielding will of a yogi. A true Hatha Yogi possesses an unwavering resolve to achieve the divine, renouncing all else. A seeker longed only to see God, enduring great hardship on a mountain. Tested by a crow that was actually God in disguise, the seeker's ultimate devotion was proven by his request to keep his eyes to behold the divine. Such single-pointed determination is the essence of spiritual practice. Mere routine prayer or meditation, filled with distraction, lacks this power. The physical body is temporary, but the prana, the vital life force, is divine. The immortal soul never dies.
"Eat all my body, but let my two eyes, because I want to see my God, my love."
"You should know we will never die. The jīva will never die."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Attachment towards God
16:05 - 16:49 (44 min)
True attachment is the oneness that lasts until eternity, like a river flowing to the ocean. Positive attachment within a family is the goal. Marital separation is painful and disregards the children, who carry the union of father and mother within them. This loving attachment must be protected; to break it is to act beneath human dignity. Such failure often leads to seeking solace in substances. Our pure, eternal attachment should be to God, whom we believe in but have not seen. God is neutral and formless, yet perceived everywhere, as in ancient stones or mountains. All existence stems from one Sanātana Dharma, encompassing all elements and life. True seekers find God within themselves through purity. Do not separate the family unit, for that is the opposite of yoga, which means union. The love between husband and wife can become divine.
"Yoga means one, and separated means no yoga."
"Where are you searching? You are with me."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
The Human Path: Family, Culture, and Daily Yoga
16:55 - 17:46 (51 min)
The human path integrates family, culture, and daily spiritual practice. Recent times brought families physically together, revealing a prior separation as children moved away for study and work, leading to a loss of cultural continuity. Modern life further separates parents from children, who are often left in others' care. One parent should be present to impart culture and religion. The family home should be peaceful, without conflict or harmful habits. The pandemic reinforced being together, though it brought hardship. It is a time to maintain cultural and religious practices. Yoga in Daily Life teaches a pure, vegetarian lifestyle, which is the science of being human. To be a yogi is to first be human. The daily practice begins upon waking: acknowledge being human, honor the earth and your mother, and use water reverently as it is life and divine. Greet others with sacred recognition. Your workplace is also a family. Live as a lamp for your family. A true guru guides the soul to the cosmic self, beyond mere skill instruction. Holy figures should be respected in complete form.
"Yoga is the science of the human being. To a yogī, that is it. You are a yogī. If you want to become a yogī, you have to become a human."
"Water is life... water is God. We should not destroy water or spill it here and there."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Devotion to Gurudev
17:50 - 18:47 (57 min)
The essence of devotion to the spiritual teacher is total surrender and attentive receptivity. A true disciple absorbs every word from the teacher, considering each a divine nectar essential for growth. Questioning the teacher's actions is forbidden, as illustrated by the story of the guru saving a scorpion despite being bitten; each being follows its nature, and the guru follows the dharma of compassion. Even divine incarnations required a teacher, underscoring that a life is incomplete without one. The teacher's grace is everything; without it, the disciple is like a pot with a hole, unable to retain the knowledge being poured in. True devotion is rare, often corrupted by worldly desires for succession or property, not by genuine sorrow at the teacher's passing. The prescribed ritual for the holy day involves fasting, offering items like sandalwood and a garland filled with devotion, washing the teacher's feet, and performing full prostration to seek blessings and forgiveness.
"Guru Kripa hi kevalam, śiṣya ke ānanda maṅgalam."
"The scorpion's dharma was to bite; my dharma was to save it."
Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India
Hatha yoga kriyas
18:55 - 20:20 (85 min)
Haṭha Yoga consists of six purification techniques, not merely postures. These kriyās use water, air, and fire to purify the physical body and the five kośas, allowing the inner light to shine. The goal is to balance the two main forces, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, uniting them in the ājñā cakra. Practical techniques begin with Jala Neti, using warm salt water to cleanse the nasal passages, followed by Kapālabhāti to energize and massage the brain. Vamana Dhauti purifies the stomach with salt water, while Agnisāra Kriyā and Nauli stoke the digestive fire. Śaṅkha Prakṣālana cleanses the entire intestinal tract. Trāṭaka, or steady gazing, develops one-pointed concentration. These practices refine the senses and build willpower, serving as a foundation for deeper meditation and self-realization.
"Haṭha Yoga is actually these six specific techniques, performed to purify something within our body."
"All these five kośas are to be purified and made crystal clear, so the light of the Ātmā shines through."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Advaita
20:25 - 21:22 (57 min)
Evening satsang with Vishwaguruji from Yoga retreat in Dungog, Australia. There are 64 different kinds of kriyas but it was chosen only a few of them for Yoga in Daily Life. The teaching of the Masters says that the quality of the Jivatama, Atma and Paramatma is the same. That called non-duality, Advaita. Practicing Asanas.
The spiritual lineage
21:30 - 22:31 (61 min)
The spiritual lineage connects devotees to an ancient source of grace. A disciple met the master as a baby and received lifelong blessings, countering predictions of a short life and lack of education or wealth. The lineage extends back seven generations through the family. The source of the teachings is the immortal master Alakpuriji, who dwells in the Himalayas. Such perfected beings exist in subtle, causal bodies beyond the material world, serving as protectors. They can be perceived by pure hearts, as seen in lights over glaciers. The path requires sacrifice of attachment to enter the divine kingdom, as demonstrated by Yudhiṣṭhira's loyalty. The goal is liberation through this spotless, indescribable grace.
"Tell me when you’re ready to leave this earth to come, I’ll call you."
"Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice."
Filming location: USA
Shiva will bless All
22:35 - 22:58 (23 min)
The Kali Yuga presents a severe trial, demanding unity. A time of great calamity approaches, with disasters, disease, and agricultural ruin. Yet, a path exists for those with correct knowledge to merge with the cosmic Śiva. Śiva's nature is universally compassionate, embracing all people and religions without exclusion, unlike other forces that may discriminate. Śiva's blessing is the paramount solution. The precious human birth is easily squandered without understanding. Time, once lost, never returns. Therefore, one must remember Śiva constantly through repetition of His names, cultivating real devotion to the inner Gurudeva, who appears in many forms beyond external designations. This devotion is the essential grace.
"Śiva said, 'All of you are very good. Let be.'"
"Human life in this world is very, very precious. If you do not understand and you lose it, then you have no knowledge."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Around The World - Summer Yoga at the Beach, Split, CRO
23:00 - 23:06 (6 min)
Summer Yoga at the Beach, Split, Croatia
Around The World - Surya Namaskar at Sri Devpuriji Ashram, Zagreb, CRO
23:10 - 23:46 (36 min)
Surya Namaskar in Sri Devpuriji Ashram, Zagreb, Croatia with english subtitles
Consciousness and Space
23:50 - 0:22 (32 min)
Consciousness and space are one living reality. Space does not expand or contract, for it is limitless. Consciousness is the life of space, present within all. This consciousness is the Paramātmā, the singular supreme Self. The apparent many are like beads on a single thread, connected by the one Ātmā. Realized saints express this truth in their bhajans, which contain the essence of all wisdom. The individual self, or Jīvā, is ultimately this one consciousness, appearing as many through duality. All forms are like drops from one ocean, destined to merge back into the whole. Our journey is to realize this unity.
"Eko’ham, dvitīyo nāsti." I am one. The rest is duality.
"Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā." The Guru, the Self, and the Supreme Self are one.
Filming location: Prague, Czech Republic
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