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Oṁ Brahmam Sukhadam Kevalam Jñānamūrtyam Dvandhātītam Gaganasadṛśam Tasmādyadilakṣam Ekam Nityam Vimalāchalam Sarvadhi Sākṣibhūtam Bhavātītam Trigunarahitam Satgurutam Namāmyaham Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Good evening to everybody. Dobrý večer všetkým, vás takisto vítam. This is a beautiful place, a place of rehabilitation. It is very pleasant to hear that many people here practice yoga in their daily lives. Slovakia is a beautiful country. Every time I come, I discover something more, more beauties. In these last 37 years, I have been coming to this country for 40 years, and every time it is beautiful. And, of course, the people here are not only from Slovakia but also from your neighboring countries, so welcome to them as well. Our subject is always yoga. What can yoga give us? Or what can we benefit from it? Yoga is one in all and all in one. You can get everything. Whatever you wish, it will be fulfilled. So what more could you want? But everything is nothing without this body. Ale všetko je nič, ak nemáme toto telo. If the body is here, everything is here. Ak je tělo tu, tak je tu všetko. And if the body is not here, nothing is here for us. A ak tu nie je toto tělo, tak pre nás nie je nič dostupné. And to have the body here means a healthy body. A to mít tělo znamená mít zdravé tělo. The body has its three levels: to be born, to grow, and to die. In the spring, leaves come, they grow, and in autumn, they fall down. So our life is like a tree leaf. But there are some trees whose leaves last for several years. And to take some fruits or juice or the bark juice from those trees can prolong your life. That is very secret. This is the subject of Āyurveda. This body is the temple of your soul. This body is your real home. This body is your real partner. This body will accompany you until the last minutes of your life. Therefore, we should not neglect our body. We should learn to love our body. We should have devotion to our body. Devotion means love, respect, and care. And this body needs very gentle care. This body does not need any kind of forcing power. This body needs softness, soft drink, simple exercises, simple and pure organic nourishment, and very gentle movements. Unfortunately, people think yoga is something like acrobatics, but it is not. And if you do those postures, you harm many things in your body. The body does not want to be tortured. Therefore, Yoga in Daily Life is the system. It is a twice-proven, scientific system in Slovakia. And it is for everyone. Yoga in Daily Life will lead you comfortably from cradle to enlightenment. We cannot stop our growing old age. We may slow it down, but we cannot stop it. So one of the bitter truths of this life is that this body will die, and when you do not respect the body with drinking and eating and exercising and way of living, then you are torturing the body. Then the body will tell you, "Wait." The time will come. I will torture you, and after 80 years, 90 years, you have two legs, but now you walk with four legs. Pain in the knees, hip joints, back pain, kidneys, liver, headache, no teeth. My God. Now you have to visit constantly your dear doctors. If you visit your yoga class, then you will not visit the doctor's class so much. Therefore, we may make many philosophies: there is a God, there is a universe, there are many solar systems, and there are indescribable things. What to do with that? Therefore, be here and take care of your body. That is your present life, and therefore, exercise. There are many different kinds of exercises which can care for your life. Physical exercises, which we call āsanas, maintain the vitality of the body. That is called postures in your everyday life. Maintain the vitality of the body. Then come the breath techniques. Regulate and balance your energy, the life force. Then comes relaxation, the anti-stress. Anti-stress meditation, or relaxation, or Yoga Nidrā. Then comes meditation, the harmony of body, mind, and soul. Then comes the mantra, awakening of the consciousness to the divine. And then comes the nourishment, food. Give quality to your life. These are the aims of Yoga in Daily Life. Now, this is not only for a weekend. And this is not only at holiday time, but every day it should become a part of our life. One day, if you cannot practice because you have no time, then also do not eat that day because you have no time for eating. So there are many yogīs sitting here, bhaktas, who can hardly remember which was the day in their life they did not practice. And the light on their face and the light on our face is day and night different. And if they were to go out of this hall, a few of them, this light would become dim, but I do not want to tell who is here. Surely not myself, but there are some of them sitting here. There are 27 of them, so there is something. So these points which I told you about our body are very important: to lead a life more sure, comfortable, safe, and without fear. Then, in yoga, there are many different kinds of yoga. Yoga in Daily Life covers all the fields of yoga. And there is one called Rāja Yoga. Rāja means the king, and king means self-discipline. So your discipline is your king. And Rāja Yoga has first two principles, that is called Yama and Niyama. And what you call in the Bible, the Ten Commandments, this is from Rāja Yoga, Yama and Niyama, in five yama and five niyama. And it is said that we draw from the external world from bad things and discipline thyself innerly. So there is one that is coming, svādhyāya: reading or studying the holy scriptures. Now, holy scripture must not be only that which speaks about God. All good things, all which inspires us, is holy. What is the definition of holy? Next time. So svādhyāya means read good books every day, which makes you happy, which gives you inspiration or motivation, which gives you spiritual knowledge or information. It is like a divine tonic, svādhyāya. When you do the svādhyāya, when you read some book, then you feel inside, that is your life, or you should change something. So in Sanskrit, Svādhyāya means two things: study, or Sva means the self, and Dhyāya means the chapter. Now, what is the chapter of your life? From your birth until now, how many chapters have begun in your life? How many chapters were not fulfilled? Why did you stop? Uncompleted? How many disappointments? What is your inner story? There is one song: "O bird, in the cage, nobody knows thy pain. Outside, you are playing like a happy one, but inside you are crying. What a life, what destiny you have." You see many birds flying free, and you are closed in a limited cage. So man is closed in the limitation of their habits and desires. We need someone who comes and opens the door of the cage, and you fly. That is the master. He can open the door of your cage. Therefore, svādhyāya: know thyself. And the second: go to satsaṅg, go to good people, good company. Always have good friends, not only drinking and fighting and drugging and that. So, your inner chapter—read every day your inner chapter. Closing the chapter means the problem is not solved. For that, you have to be born again to complete it, whether you believe it or not. Therefore, be careful before you begin some chapters. It means before you begin in your life to do something. So life is given to be healthy and happy. Help all. Humans are as a protector, not the distractor. And the human body for you is a liberator, liberation from rebirth and death, liberation from the karmic reactions or from your destiny. That is very important. So, all this, whatever you hear and you see, first is your body. Your hearing system, your looking system, smelling, tasting, touch—all should be very healthy. And then your legs and hands, meaning the joints, your memories, your words, and capacity to do something, your excellence. So, if you do the gentle exercises of yoga, you will protect all the organs and joints. If you are doing too much stretching, yes, in the beginning it is good. Your body is like rubber, but very soon, throw it away. So use and throw. Not good. Listen to your body. The body does not want force. The body does not want you to force it. It is gentleness. So, yoga is for the well-being of humans: physical, mental, social, and spiritual. So, when you read your inner chapter, svādhyāya, you will find inside there is a lot of fear hidden. And nowadays, the biggest fear that people have is the fear of existence. Why? The economical situation. Why this? Because in education, there were not and there are not spiritual and ethical principles. And if there will be spiritual and ethical principles, this situation will not come. But do not worry. No fear at all. We said, "Who gave the peak will give the food." When God gave you life, God will give you eating. Do not worry. Do not lose the nerves. Money, human makes and human takes. So there is a little story, a beautiful story. There was one man, an artist, and he got a big rock, two meters by two meters, or three by one meter, two meters. Now he had to make a statue, so every day he was working. While cutting, cutting,... he could not make it complete, and he came closer and closer. And one day, what happened? It broke into two parts. But what did he see? Inside, in the middle of the stone, there was a little hole like a cave, and one ant was sitting inside. And that ant had a kernel of sugar. The man began to think, "How did the ant come there? And who gave her sugar?" Maybe there was a very tiny hole or a crack in the rock, but who made the nice round cave inside? He began to think. Then he threw away his tools. When the god can give sugar or a cord of rice to this tiny creature in such a hidden place? Oh man, why are you worried about it? Let's go home. So he threw the tools away and went home. He came home about two o'clock in the afternoon, and his wife was surprised. "What happened? You always come at 6 o'clock in the evening." He said, "From today onwards, we will not work." He said, "The problem." And she said, "Why?" And he said, "Yes, no work." "Did you lose your job?" "No, no,... I did not lose my job. I gave up my job." So he said, she said, "My dear, relax. Now, tell me what happened." "A good thing happened." "What?" "We need not work." "Why?" Then he told the whole story. If the creator, God, can supply nourishment to such a small creature in the middle of the rock, then he can supply us also here. Relax, sleep, and enjoy. The wife was very wise, very smart. Hanka. Her name was Hanka. With a lot of viveka and knowledge, she said to him, "My dear, let's go to a psychologist." And he said, "No, I do not need to go. If you want, he can come here." So she brought a psychologist, and he said, "Yes, and what?" He said, "Nothing. You are welcome, that is all. Stay, do not go home, do not work." He said, after one hour he said to Hanka, "He needs psychiatric treatment." So, when the psychiatric doctor came, he said, "Well, it seems this man is normal. No problem. Let him rest, that is all." Now Hanka is cooking pohanka, but she is worried. Women have big hearts. Six months, no work, and always he said, "If God wants to give us, He will give." At home, one day morning, he went in the forest. That time, there was no toilets in the house, like many Slovaks also have still in the garden somewhere, so they used to go in the forest. Less human population. So he was sitting in one yoga posture called the crow posture, Utkaṭāsana in yoga, and dead life you will know. And then you make hands like this and like that. And he was thinking, "Why does not God give me anything? Why did he give it to the ant?" And while sitting there for the toilet, he took a piece of wood and he was making like this. Crossing the earth, he felt something solid. It was some iron. He dug more, then he saw it is like a handle, a big handle on it. He took the earth away. Moreover, there was a very big pot. He opened the lid, and inside was so much treasure: precious stones, gold, and this and that. And he became angry. Who? That man, he closed the lid again, and he said to God, "Do not give me on such a place. Do not disturb my toilet. If you want to give, bring it to me at home. I do not want to put it again." Earth and I went home. He came home a little bit angry. And his wife was a little bit worried about what happened. He said nothing. "I am angry." "On whom?" "You know on whom." She said, "I hope not on me." He said, "No, no, no." Night, one o'clock. Still he could not sleep. And the Hanka was worried, "Why can't I sleep today?" And she asked, "Do you want to have hot milk?" If you cannot sleep very well, then drink hot milk in the evening, but just a glass. And put a little inside cardamom. If you like sweet, a little honey. Then you will have honey dreams. You will sleep very well. Instead of taking sleeping pills, drink fresh, good milk. While she is asking him, at that time, something is happening. Three thieves were waiting behind his door. Not behind the window, sorry. When they fall asleep, we will break into the house and go to steal. So the thieves were saying, "Oh God, put them in sleep. Oh God, put them in sleep." Everyone has their own interest, and that man tells his wife now, "Darling, I must tell you, because you are asking me so many things." She said, "Yes, my dear, yes, please tell what is happening." He told the story: "This morning when I went to the toilet, I was sitting there, and he gave me." He said, "What? Big treasure." "I opened it, there were so many diamonds, many precious stones. And since the end, did you bring him? Why should I work for him? If he wants to give it to me, he brings it home." And his name was Freddy. So Freddy, what have you done? "Oh, I throw earth on it again, and I am angry at him." She said, "My God, where was it?" He said, "There, under one bush, is a wild cherry under the wild cherry." She said, "Morning, we should go to get it." He said, "Do not make a mistake. If he wants to give, he will bring it home. Let's go to sleep now." The thieves got this message. Let's go get that treasure. And they were searching for where the toilet is, somewhere. And they found a pot. They said, "Oh, this is something." And they opened. When they opened it, there came ten big cobras. And so many, oh God, they were frightened. They closed it again, and we are looking at each other. "Clever man? He came to know that we were sitting behind. We take this snake's pot, and what does he think? We will climb over his hut, break the roof, and throw on him all these snakes. Good idea. Let's go." So they were carrying it. They climbed up and through some window, a light window, they threw the pot in and ran away. When the pot fell in the room, it was sparkling. All the precious stones. Hanka said, "What happened, Freddy?" He said nothing. "He did his job. My dear darling, trust Him and trust your destiny. What is in your destiny, no one can take away. It will come. Why are you worried? Take it." And she was so happy. She said, "Tomorrow morning you will not get only pohanka, you will get also halušky." And something good. So, my dear, no fear of existence. Whatever you will do, only that will happen which should happen. Then why are we worried? Just do your duty and trust in God. So the Americans have written on their currency, "We trust in God." We trust in God, so good things will come. Therefore, your children were singing today while planting the tree, one song. And it is a song from yoga too, the same. Ānandoham Ānandam Brahmanandam. I am happy, I am very happy. Ānandoham Ānandam Ānandam... So Yoga in Daily Life means in every minute of life, in the yoga. To inhale and exhale, you cannot do without yoga, because that is connecting with energy. We cannot move. We need that life energy. So, good thinking, good heart, positive thoughts, working, walking, and doing some gentle exercises. Of course, there are more, also other exercises which we call the kaṭupranāms. There are advanced exercises also, but these are for the young kids, those who are 20, 30, 35. The peak of life is 35 or 40, after that, going down. So 40 and 40, 80. That is why it is said in the Bible, "Thou art the salt of the earth." So you came from the mother earth, you try to rise up, and you came again to the mother earth. So, Yoga in Daily Life from cradle to liberation or enlightenment. I wish you all the best. I wish you all the best, good health, and divine blessings.