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Hari Om. A beautiful, good evening and greetings to you all. I recently went hiking and did some cross-country skiing. At that time, I thought it would be wonderful to have a yoga center here. I just thought it, and it has been realized. Have you had any experience with this church? No? That is because you have not truly prayed from the heart. Were you inside? As tourists? Visitors? Yes. So, as pilgrims. Does that mean you had no desires? You are completely content, without desires? That is clear to me. Okay. And thus, Yoga in Daily Life. First, I would like to say something about yoga. Indeed, yoga is yoga. Yoga means balance. It means a balance that leads us to a harmonious life. And when there is harmony, it becomes a unity or union. I have given a name to this yoga, with a subtitle: Yoga in Daily Life. Harmony for body, mind, and soul. But yoga is yoga. There is differentiated knowledge and many other types by name, where people lead according to the name of their master or their own name. Yesterday, someone told me they read in a newspaper article that a famous actor and his wife are practicing yoga, and they call it "Love Yoga." A beautiful name. This is what we want. Love your Self, love your body, love your thoughts—beautiful thoughts. Love your path so you can understand and love others. If someone cannot love themselves, they cannot love others either. "Love" is too great a word for us. But now, in this modern, confused mind, people have lost their direction. We are very attached to materialism, material life, money, money... Business, business, business. Among the multitude of saints and gods and incarnations, Jesus was an example. He loved just as he preached or said: God is love. Where there is no love, there is no God; there is the devil—Asuras. There is no respect there, no naturalness, and no respect for others. In this material world, in business, nothing else matters. "I want to have my business, my company." And so it is. People are walking in the wrong direction, and there is no more love there. So may God, through our righteous life and the way we live, perhaps lead us back to understanding love. When they practice the yoga of love, my God, that is Bhakti-Yoga. That is the word. In the American mentality, they have somewhat modernized it as "Love-Yoga." Love-Yoga means Bhakti-Yoga—devotion. Now is the time that is called here in the Western world, or everywhere people believe in Christianity, Christmas time. This is the time for love, forgiveness, creating friendship, giving understanding, lowering [the ego]. When one goes through yoga, especially through this Yoga in Daily Life—because this is a system, systematic, very systematic; that is the difference. I have the book in my hand. Yesterday we held the book presentation, and I dare not open it because it is completely sealed. When I open it, I might have to pay a price so that I truly commit myself. One never knows. Perhaps there is a book that is already open. When one travels the world and arrives in different countries, in different shops... I once picked up a book, opened it, removed the plastic, and they told me, "Now you have to buy it." That is why I am always cautious. Thank you. Now, it is very interesting. There is a word in Austria: Zufall, right? Zufällig. Zufall. But it is not a door of chance. Yesterday, for the first time, I opened the book and a certain image appeared. Today, for the first time, I opened it again and found the same image once more. It must have some symbolic meaning. This exercise is called Ujanga—that is, Cobra. I was just visiting St. Pölten, the bishop's seat, with him in his reception hall. He was very kind; he received us with great respect. There were beautiful paintings. There I asked him, "What does this symbol mean?" And there was also a snake. A cobra. And again, a cobra. There was a cobra that also came from my book, from my Bible. And here is also a cobra that has emerged from the yoga book. This somehow has its meaning, its context, today, right now. Cobra, snake, means sins. Snake means poison. Poison can kill us, and poison can also save us. And 1 and 0 is 9. Again comes 8 is 9. So it is. Now, our back. Each of us has a difficulty with the back. And everyone has a membrane of air with them. Can you do that? Yes? Are you familiar with that? No, wait, please, so that everyone can see. Yes, in the front. Thank you, thank you. Slowly. I have not said anything yet. That was the... that is the difference between the guidance of the Master and the guidance of the student. Yoga in Daily Life is a master system. What are the differences between Yoga in Daily Life and other types of yoga? Other types of yoga would be like how he practiced it. We don’t need a blanket. He is a young man; he still has to endure a hard life. Well, one must experience many things, my dear. So, first, lie on your back and relax. Relaxation is the primary practice of yoga. Relaxation is the main thing for our life. Those who are relaxed can live happily. Physically relax, mentally relax, intellectually relax. One can only relax when one is able to let go of something. That means renunciation. Who cannot renounce anything cannot relax. So, once or twice a day, either lie down or sit in a chair and say to yourself... Let's take a deep breath once; we'll do that in a moment. Reality will come later. The practice—who knows? Today we will demonstrate the practice. Now we have just sown seeds into the earth. When a tree grows tall and will bear fruit, who knows that? So. Now, please take a deep breath in. And exhale. And tell yourselves inwardly: relax. Relax, my friend. Just relax. Be aware of your existence. You have worked the whole time, but now it is time for yourself. Let it be. Let everything be. Simply relax. Be aware of your existence—physically, mentally, and spiritually. No concentration, no expectations, no imaginations, and also do not engage with any particular thought. Let go of everything, relax. We breathe in deeply. To love oneself does not mean being full of ego, but rather asking: Why am I here? Why born? What is my purpose? Breath is life; life is breath. When we were born, returning from the womb into this world, what did we do? We took our very first breath in and then breathed out. And the very last thing we will do in this life is that we will exhale and be unable to breathe anymore. That means breath is as long as from birth to death. Between are only the waves on the ocean, from one shore to the other shore. Breath carries much power, much energy. And breath is like a soul—the soul that lives within us, breath lives within us. Prāṇa—life force, life energy—not just oxygen, but also many other types of energies. Conscious breathing, proper breathing, means a relaxed and happy life. We should breathe more consciously: breathe slowly, breathe deeply, breathe into the abdomen, not short breaths here in the chest. All living beings that breathe rapidly have a short life, such as dogs, cats, and so on. And like turtles and crocodiles, who breathe slowly and have a long life, they possess much prāṇa. So, the second special aspect of Yoga in Daily Life is breathing. So, first of all, relax. Secondly, breathe. Third, know why or for what purpose you practice yoga. Yoga. What is my goal? Why do I practice yoga? Why do you practice yoga? And do we currently have the right exercises for what we have come to achieve or to solve problems through yoga? Yes, there is an answer. Yoga in Daily Life has so many exercises. Everyone finds something. From before pregnancy, through a woman becoming pregnant, the child being born, the child practicing and studying, growing young and old, and until death—up to that point. So yoga accompanies us from the astral planes through the entire material world back to the astral. We have all kinds of practices for everyone. Why? What problems do we have? The book is here, and here it says "Yoga for Back Pain." But perhaps the book can also cause pain. This means one should understand, know the diagnosis: what problems I have with my back. And then, which practices am I allowed to do, how often, and which practices am I not allowed to perform. So, that means getting to know the practice, understanding where there is a lot of benefit, and who should not practice at all. Next level: exhaling with my exercises now. So, exhale as you bend forward; come up, inhale. Inhale through the left and exhale through the right. Inhale through the right, exhale through the left. And then slowly. That is it. The slower, the more effective. And make a fist. And then we support once again a little. With the right hand, we hold our left wrist firmly. Hold. Very firmly. Very firmly. Did you feel it? And how do we feel now? Let us compare the left hand and the right hand. So one also offends with the right hand in other situations. That is also a problem. In Austria, there is always insult. Truly. There is very little. The Austrians get offended so quickly. Let us hold firmly. Very firmly. And with the left hand, we hold the right hand, wrist firm, open the palm and... [it becomes] very pale. We did nothing; we only stopped the blood flow, the circulation. And now we are teething on the fingertips, and how quickly does our blood flow then? So, carefully, slowly. Attention, I will count: 3, 2, 1, release. Good? Thank you. So, practicing quickly and practicing very slowly is the difference. Instead of 10 exercises, we will do only 2 or 3. That is enough. And that is also the special feature of Yoga in Daily Life. After each exercise, it would be good to relax slowly a little. During and after the yoga practices, one should feel relaxed, full of energy, and happy—not like a long marathon that ends in exhaustion. So that is the difference. And so, first, relax. Is he still there? Yes, okay. Because the table is like this, I can't see. Okay, thank you. Now slowly move your fingers and toes. Move your hands and legs a little. Very good. Move your elbows. Turn your head to the left and to the right. And now stretch your hands above your head. You can clasp your hands, interlace your fingers, and stretch your entire body to the right and left. You cannot roll there because you are only sitting here. He rolls left and right. Okay. Fine. Very good. And now slowly twist at the belly. Yes. Now it comes, exactly. Now, feet flat, whole body comfortable and lying straight on the belly, and the hands beside the shoulders. That means our thumbs are at chest height and the elbows are completely parallel to the body, not letting them stand out. Is that so? Not like the corner of a house above, hands. The corners of the house, the legs are like this. Is that correct? Okay. And now, exactly, slowly lift the upper body, the hands as well. And come back again. Now, during the inhalation—or first inhale and then lift the body, hold the breath, and exhale. Please repeat two or three times slowly.