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Good morning. Today is already the third day of practicing and applying ancient wisdom in modern life. I still have to explain to you the Khāṭū Praṇām, the benefit of the Khāṭū Praṇām. After that, we will come to what they call the top sports: heavy sports, weight lifting, building muscles, running, jumping—long jump, high jump—swimming, car riding, horse riding, archery, and many, many things. Yesterday, I explained the Khāṭū Praṇām to you. So please, sit again in Vajrāsana, as we explained already. We practiced Vajrāsana yesterday. Please sit in Vajrāsana, hands on the knees. Relax. Relax your shoulders, relax your elbows. Relax your stomach muscles, relax your jaw muscles. Practice the Khāṭū Praṇām yourself. Peace and spiritual energy from the holy mountain, the holy place of Khāṭū, is protection. You need protection in life in many ways: physical, social, and energetic. You receive this through the Khāṭū Praṇām. Practicing connects you directly with that holy mountain, Khāṭū, and Mahāprabhujī’s divine presence. It is good to have memory, imagination, or to feel the presence of good things. Then automatically our inner self is more relaxed and stable. If one feels depressed or scared, you sit in Vajrāsana, in Pādukāpāṇam. Imagine this energy; you will feel relaxed again. You will feel the strength. You will feel that you are supported. Now, while inhaling, raise your hands. Stretch your hands up, fingers together, palms facing each other, and slowly fold your palms. Feel the stretching of your side muscles. Feel the pressing of your shoulders, muscles, shoulder blades, so that the back muscles are pulled together, pressed together. You feel it like a massage. Open your palms while exhaling very slowly. Bring the hands to the ground. Feel pressure on your stomach or on your chest. Slightly separate your knees, place them apart. Place your hands where they are fixed, and your toes are fixed where they are. This means only the middle part of the body should slide differently until your chin comes about 10 centimeters from your fingers on the ground. Then touch your chest on the ground, knee on the ground. Take three wide steps towards your body, so that your heels touch the ground. The muscles and thigh muscles are shortened. One step more, until your heels come on the ground. That is your full balance, just on the ankle joints, the ligaments, also for the thigh muscles. You will see one part of the thigh, the left thigh muscles, are stretching; the side is contracting. The muscles facing the front, slowly bring the hands near. Right finger... I have to praise your hips, but it’s down target. Demonstration: left foot, raise up your hands. Try to keep your knees straight. If you can’t touch the ground, it doesn’t matter, but the knees should be straight. You may hold your calf muscles. The time will come when you will master it. Try to look down to your stomach or to your knees so that your back muscles are also stretching. Keep your eyes open. Come up. Completely stand up, and hands stretching again up, and looking slightly... Don’t close your eyes. Good. Hands, feet to the side. Right foot is touching the ground. Muscles, hide your body, mudrā, āsana. Śaṅkāsana. Elbows relax, touching ground. Relax, support your head, forehead on the ground. Trunk of the body, bring the palm, looking to the sky. Stretch your arms up. Now you may close your eyes. Feel the home. Feel the circulation in the body. Relax inwardly. Feel the presence of the divine energy with the gentle air. This divine energy is touching your very gentle skin. At the time of inhalation, your body is slightly expanding; you come in contact with this divine energy. And at the time of exhalation, the body is contracting, and you feel that all the toxins, all the tiredness, are being removed from your body. This Khāṭū Praṇām helps us to be completely relaxed, with our energy centers active and our gland systems very active, improving the body’s immunity and allowing us to feel the protective energy of the divine mass. Change your posture if you need to feel comfortable, alright. Remain in meditation. First, the head on the top of the head to develop complete relaxation. And be aware, this minute, your time here is given to you to be one with yourself. No imagination, no questions, just feel it. If you have a mantra, mentally you may... If you have no mantra, then just observe your breath. Feel each and every thought with peace and happiness. Let from your heart flow the understanding, love, and blessings for the whole world. From your pure heart, bless the world with all the divine presence of God in your heart, the flowers, the beauty of the calm, your divine self, your heart. Bless peace, happiness, good health, light, love. Sometimes we will change... Keep inhaling. Sometimes it can happen that you fall down. Front side, inhale, up. Thumbs, interlock the thumbs, go back side, exhale, 20 centimeters, 25 centimeters... case 1 meter 10 centimeters... hand firm, thighs tight, exhale, together. Stand on the toes, dead step. Stand on the heels, on the heels, 25 step, okay. 1, 7... what was it? 7, 8, 9, today. And now we will come to some kind of dive, okay, yes. This has always been, since ancient times, very... If you see, if you read about it, there were special schools. Every school had this physical, very strict, very must discipline. They say that discipline makes the man perfect. So in the āśramas, they were staying there, riding, jumping, high jumping. There is a special area that’s called an Akhaḍā, the sport called now modern jeep. In every Gurudev’s school, there was a place that’s called that. Actually, the name Akhaḍā is that where you are learning all the physical. This kind of sport was known in ancient times, or it has developed. Parallel were yoga, meditation, relaxation, Āyurveda, and so on. They were mostly vegetarian. They were following ahiṃsā principles, and in their gurukul or in their school, they were completely vegetarian. In the West nowadays, people understand a vegetarian diet as just boiled vegetables, or not cooked vegetables, or a little boiled rice. Of course, if you just eat boiled vegetables every day, your muscles will decrease; they will not increase. So you have to have complete nutrition, which we need. The body and brain need sweet and fat. Also, our body needs this kind of food. So, they had a... and we understand different vegetarian as Indians and the Europeans. When they think, "Oh, I want to be vegetarian, but I can’t do it," it’s not true because you don’t know what vegetarian food is. If you know, you don’t know how to cook. The biggest problem is now the West: people have lost 98% of the knowledge about cooking, 98%, because everything is pre-prepared. You go to the market, you buy, pack everything, bring it, and put it in the microwave or in the oven. Warm it, heat it, put its chili paste or something inside, and that’s all it is. And one apple or one little carrot, and say, "Oh, my lunch was good." It’s not healthy. First, if you or your mother, your wife, or your husband cannot cook, you cannot put your body, you cannot keep your body healthy. And in cooking, there are two things: the knowledge and the love. The food which is cooked with love, that is not in the packing industries, the love that they pack, or in big restaurants. Of course, the cook is happy to cook, or he is employed, but still, it is not that kind of love with which your wife, or your mother, or your father will cook and be the love. Mostly the mothers, and after the mothers, the wives. The wife is working in the office, the mother is working in the office, the father is somewhere else, and what to do? Children don’t get a proper diet. What should they do? Therefore, I would suggest that all dear brothers and sisters who would like to know what a vegetarian diet is exactly, please visit our website and yoga in their life and swamiji.tv. We will make a complete recipe and cooking course, a few cooking courses, especially for sportsmen. In vegetarian, there are three. One is called the raw diet, which is not our subject. Then it’s called vegan, only vegetables and no honey, no dairy products, and nothing else. Then it’s called lacto-vegetarian. In lacto-vegetarian, eggs are not included. Eggs are not grown on trees. Milk has a mother’s feelings. Milk is different from that. The response of the ego is coming in impurity. Rajas guṇa and tamas guṇa. If you eat one egg, Param Śrī Yogananda or Vivekananda said that for twenty days you cannot meditate. So, the milk production is very important. So milk, the curd or yogurt, must be proteins. Second, the different kinds of the grains, it’s called chapatis, and you call the bread. The bread has less strength than fresh made. For the sportsman, it is like this: you make a chapati, we call it dāl bāṭī. Bāṭī is like a bread roll. It has a lot of air inside because you put... The yeast in, bāṭī prepared from the chapati dough, and you put in the oven, or you put it traditionally. They put in, they burn the cow dung, like in Mexico, the cowboys used to make there’s some kind of chapati down on this stick, you know, put it on the hot patty. It’s like a tennis ball. When it is through, press the patty. Somehow they have to make it like a, not so fine, but then comes inside ghee. A person, about 100 grams of the ghee. And when you are a sportsman, then you have to take 200 to 225 grams of ghee. Nothing can defeat you. Nothing can pull you down. You become an iron person. In this party, which we will make, swamiji.tv, we will make a really nice power presence course so that you can all see it and give it to the people. There is a kind of sugar which we call cane sugar. Not a root sugar, but from the sugar cane. And the cane sugar is a raw sugar which looks brown. It looks like a bread. You buy a big... It looks like a bread dog. And that ghee gud, we call gud. So for one good sportsman who wants to do, he will eat, I think if he has a good appetite, he is hungry, maximum five patties or eight. After running eight hours through the woods, he comes back, then he may eat a tennis ball. Then 25 grams, 100 or 225 grams, and 25 again. The rest you cook as dāl, moong dāl, purad dāl. Pūrad dāl and moong dāl have the maximum proteins, three times more than in meat or something. Haldi, that’s very, very important for this sport. This laḍḍū, and this you eat, my God, you can with one hand break the wall. That’s if you are doing this sport and consuming this. Second, there is one laḍḍū which in the morning they are eating before running outside, and that’s the dry coconut. So let’s say you take one kilo of coconut, one kilo of this gourd, one kilo of this laḍḍū. Again, press it, the coconut, the gourd, mix it nicely, and make the laḍḍū. Every morning you eat one laḍḍū, which is about like... you can’t eat more than a tennis ball. It’s very strong, very heavy, full of nutrition. That is the best. Then you run in Olympia, I can tell you that you will get the gold medal, not one, but ten. If you take my diet, the sportsman, anyone, and then I, my diet will never fail. Promise the gold medal. Then, these are, every day, what I’m telling you. In different forms, then we have in Rajasthan, this is special, that’s called Bāflā Bhāṭī. Their laḍḍū, and that one is very special. In Rajasthan, it’s called Dhoklā. With olive oil or fresh paste, butter, one gilā fresh cow milk, three tablespoons almond butter inside, hot milk, and one big tablespoon of honey inside. So this is a vegetarian diet. This is a vegetarian diet, a lacto-vegetarian diet, a sattvic diet. Almonds, milk, and honey need your bread. Good ghee, and this wheat flour, and this needs your muscles and your blood, and so on. And the spices are very important for bones and for blood. This is a complete diet. I will write it and send it to your American newspapers. Guaranteed, guaranteed. If you are a swimmer, if you are a runner, a jogger, or a cyclist, there is one game from Australia, you collect this piece, rugby. There you need, it is a very... the Australian national game, no? That’s it, so you don’t need to kill the animals, and you don’t need to eat the dead bodies of the animals. Strength is there. It is your mental strength, your mental power, that will be your saṅkalpa śakti, that will be. This is what I told you for your dāl bāṭī, bāflā bāṭī, dhoklā, coconut, and gourd, almonds, milk. Best quality of the mango imported from India: mango shake. Indian mangoes have different energy inside. I’m not supporting because I’m Indian. Eat one Indian mango, oh, that’s why it’s called incredible India. The best, and God bless you. Have a nice day, and we will see you this evening. Satsaṅg here. We will sing bhajans and have a satsaṅg. Good luck.