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Feel and relax your whole body, from the toes to the top of the head, from the top of the head to the toes. Try to develop complete relaxation in the body. Be aware of peace. This minute, your time here, is given to you to be one with yourself. No imagination, no questions, just feel happy. If you have a mantra, mentally obey it. If you have no mantra, then just observe your breath process. And walk a mat: 100 steps on the toes. Again, stand up straight on the heels. Toes up, 25 steps on the heels. 1, 30, 17, 12, what was it? 17, 18, 19, 20. For today and now, we will come to some kind of diet. Yesterday, the question about health has always been there. In ancient times, if you see, there were special schools. Every school, this physical discipline makes the man perfect. So in the ashrams, a special area called Akhāṛā was where you learned all the physical sports that were known in ancient times or that they practiced. Paranilwaji Yoga, meditation, relaxation, Ayurveda. They were mostly vegetarian, 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 uncooked vegetables, or a little boiled rice. If you just eat boiled vegetables every day, your muscles will decrease; they will not increase. So you have to have complete nutrition. Our body and brain need sweet and fat. Also, our body needs this kind of food. So they had a—and we understand different vegetarianism as Indians and the Europeans. When they think, "Oh, I want to be vegetarian, but I can’t do my sport," it’s not true. Because you don’t know what vegetarian food is. And 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 food, 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. And one apple or one little carrot, and say, "Oh, my lunch was good." It’s not healthy. First, you or your mother, your wife, or your husband must be able to cook; if you can’t cook, you cannot support your body. You cannot keep your body healthy. In cooking, there are two things: knowledge and love. The food which is cooked with love, that is not in the packing industries, the love they pack. Or in big restaurants, of course, the cook is happy to cook, or he is employed. But still, not that kind of love 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 Daily Life, and swamiji.tv. We will make a complete recipe and cooking course, a few cooking courses, especially for sportsmen. In vegetarians, there are three types. 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, so milk is different from that. The forms of the egg come in impurity, Rajas Guṇa and Tamas Guṇa. If you eat one egg, Paramahaṃsa Yogānanda or Vivekānanda said that for twenty days you cannot meditate. So, milk production is very important. So milk, the curd or yogurt, must provide calcium and proteins. Second, the different kinds of grains, called chapatis, and you call it bread. Bread has less strength than fresh-made. For the sportsman, it is like this: you make a chapātī, we call it dāl bāṭī. A bāṭī is something that looks like a bread roll. A bread roll has a lot of air inside because you put yeast in it. Bāṭī is prepared from the chapātī dough. You put it in the oven, or, traditionally, they put it in the hot ash after burning cow dung. When all is burned and all is hot ash, they put it in. Like in Mexico, the cowboys used to make some kind of chapātī dough on a stick, you know, and put it on the heat. Bāṭī, like about a tennis ball, when it is through, they stretch it, somehow they have to—not so fine—but then comes inside ghee. For a normal person, about 100 grams of ghee, and when you are a sportsman, then you have to take 200, till 225 grams of ghee. Nothing can defeat you, nothing can pull you down, you become an iron person. In this bāṭī which we will make, Swāmījī.tv, we will make really a nice power presence course so that you can all see 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 that cane sugar is a raw sugar, which looks brown; it looks like a bread. When you buy it big, one kilo looks like bread dough. And that ghee and guḍ, we call guḍ. So, for a good sportsman who wants to do it, he will eat—I think if he is good and has an appetite, he is hungry—a maximum of five bāṭīs or eight. After running eight hours through the woods, he comes back, then he may eat. Then 25 grams, and 35 again. Rest, you all have the maximum protein, which is three times more than in meat or something. Haldī, that’s a very, very important thing. This laḍḍu, and this you eat, my God, one hand breaks the wall if you are doing this sport and consuming. Second, there is one laḍḍu which is for morning; it’s for running, that’s high coconut. That’s it, you take a kilo of coconut, one kilo of this, one kilo of that. Another one, these are everyday, what I am telling you, in different forms. Then we have in Rajasthan, this is special, that’s called bāflā bāṭī, their laḍḍu, and that one is. Then we have a special in Rajasthan, it’s called dhoklā, with olive oil or fresh paste, almond butter. Boil one glass of fresh cow milk, add three tablespoons of almond butter to the hot milk, and then add one big tablespoon of honey. So this is a vegetarian diet. This is a vegetarian diet. A lacto-vegetarian diet, sāttvic diet. Almonds, milk, and honey complement your bread. Guḍ, 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. Saṅkalpa Śakti: I will eat this, what I told you: your dāl bāṭī, bāflā bāṭī, dhoklā, my coconut and guḍ and almonds, milk. The best quality mangoes are imported from India for mango shakes. That is, Indian mangoes have different energy inside. I am not supporting, or because I eat one Indian mango, oh, that is why it is called incredible India. I wish you the best, and God bless you. Wish you a very nice day, and we will see you this evening for satsaṅg here. We will sing bhajans and have a satsaṅg. Good luck.