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Thank you for watching. He recently passed his 78th year. That is quite an age, and thank God, he is in good strength and health. Tell us a little about yourself. What I can say is that in the past I used to do a lot of sports, worked a lot, and for 30 years I was involved with children, teaching them. When I stopped doing this, I felt very bad. My troubles surfaced, something was missing, and then I thought that I should do something different as well. I met an acquaintance who drew my attention to yoga. I was already at the next yoga class; fortunately, there is one in our town. Then, the following year, in my twenties, I attended a yoga camp where I met Svāmījī. He had a great impact on me. I felt very comfortable there. In the next āyāma, in 1993, at Vép, I received a mantra from Svāmījī and became his disciple. How did your lifestyle and daily routine change when you encountered yoga? It helps to process stress, I have become calmer, and my thinking has become more positive. The exercises, harmonized with breathing, bring calmness, so whenever I face any difficulty, I just sit down, meditate, or relax, and my state of mind immediately improves, I feel better. Since I received the mantra, I have been regularly attending, practicing, going to yoga workshops, satsaṅgs, and I adhered to the vegetarian diet, which helps a lot, because in earlier times I had many problems, I was ill, I had spinal issues, joint inflammations, my cholesterol levels were high. All of these improved through the rīkṣa ḍhākoras, through regular ḍhākora practice, my health was restored, and I felt better. Have you ever surrendered a day of your life? I am now over 78 years old, I am also beginning to age, and the practice is much more difficult, but I still practice every day. In the morning, I cannot rise without practicing. My whole day is much better then. I practice breathing exercises, I meditate. And I am currently practicing for about an hour as well. That is very good, in the way they are used. I practice meditation, mantra chanting, and breathing exercises. What is your favorite āsana practice? There are many practices I like, especially the katuprāṇam practice, which I really enjoy doing because it always moves everything through, and afterwards my overall well-being is much better. Thank you for your attention. Let your thought be positive. The beauty of yoga is that it requires no tools. A person sits quietly on a carpet in a silent room and can perform the practices there. You can relax, you can meditate, you can unwind. Half an hour, an hour is enough for a person to unwind and become calmer.