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Good evening to all dear ones. Welcome. We also welcome our dear Mayor of the city, Mr. and Mrs. Volny John. I met him today, and we had a very interesting, beautiful talk. There was a lot of information about this countryside, its culture and people, education, and many things. It was very interesting. So, I thank him for his valuable time. We met both in the morning and now, a few minutes ago—I was late. Well, you had a beautiful day today, and you were practicing. Who was your leader? Very good. Poprad—my God, very good. Košice—oh, very good. In Hindi, "Košice" means 'try'. We shall try. Košice is a beautiful city, balancing between Hungary and Slovakia, and Ukraine. It’s a beautiful place. Our main subject this weekend was and still is health. Before noon, I spoke according to the ancient principles of health. It’s not only physical health. There are physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, social, and many different kinds of health. And illness—why are we not healthy? Because we have some illness. Some illnesses come quickly and go quickly away. This is something like the flu. When you get the kind of flu that comes with the changing of the season, it has no quick treatment. There is one joke: A lady got the flu so often, and she went to the doctor, and the doctor gave her medicine. Again she came, and again she came. Two years later, one day she asked the doctor, "Doctor, I’m fed up. Either you are not a good doctor, or the medicine is not good. Why can’t you cure me of this disease?" He said, "Yes, ma’am. I can cure some diseases. I can cure it, but not the flu." She said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Well, I tell you the treatment." It was winter, Slovakian, middle of Slovakian winter, minus 20, 27 degrees. And he said to her: "Take a hot bath. Then, without dress, go on your balcony and lie down for half an hour, relax." She said, "Then I will get pneumonia." He said, "Yes, lady, then I can cure you. The pneumonia I can cure, doctor food." So, when we get a flu, if we take medicine, it will take one week to get rid of it. And if we don’t take medicine, it will take eight days to get rid of it. That’s it. So certain kinds of infections, the illnesses, they don’t inform us earlier. It has a short information, and it goes away again. But certain diseases—mental problems, cancer problems, and many, many other physical problems—have a long cause from the long past, and these certain diseases attack us several years before. Which I spoke this morning, concretely, three points which cause what kind of illnesses: the physical, the mental, and the spiritual. And this has its cause. The physical, through our nourishment, our movements, and the society, the company with whom we spend the time. The mental or emotional, they are caused from our negative qualities like anger, hate, jealousy, conflict, and greed. And then, very deep psychic problems that cause the fear from blackmailing, from frightening, or a fear from losing the job; the anxiety because you have an examination as a student and you don’t know how it will be. Or someone talks, there is black magic. Or there is a ghost. So these are certain occasions which cause fear, anger, etc., in our body, and that develops slowly, slowly into an illness. The treatment is there, but also slowly, not immediately. Some are slowly, and some are immediately can be too. So if someone says there is a ghost, and you are somewhere in a dark space in the forest, and some noise you hear, suddenly you get fear. Before, you didn’t believe, but now you hear something; the hair is standing. You have no torchlight, you are alone, and you hear someone walking, like on this dry snow. And what was it? Some deer, and you said, "Oh, it’s only deer." But that fear which we get, it kills our willpower. At that time, 80–90% of your strength is gone when a tiger or a lion attacks the deer or some other animal. Already, that animal is confused and has fear. Strength is lost. And sometimes only people are gushing up, and you think there is something. One man was walking through the forest, climbing mountains, but he always had a very typical feeling that there was something wrong. So there was a nice, clean, beautiful lake. Nice water was flowing from the high hills. So he went to drink water. He put his hands in the water to drink and drink. That time, one frog jumped in the water, and you know, a frog swims quickly. So he swam away. Now this man is thinking, "This frog was falling in my water, and I drank it. Oh God! He is in my stomach." And he was hungry, so a lot of water was making noise. And he said, "He’s swimming inside." He came home. He told his wife, "Terrible, terrible. I drank the frog." She said, "Oh, poor one, he has died already." He said, "No, no, no. He’s living inside. Look, he’s jumping here." Imagination. He went to the doctor. The doctor checked all the sounds and said, "There is no frog inside." He said, "There is. Mr. Doctor, there is." Doctor said, "Sorry, there is not. You are not a good doctor." He went to another doctor, who also said nothing. But he went to the sonography, and they looked at the sonography; there is nothing. And he said, "He is growing already, I feel it. And he is jumping from one side to the other side, from big intense time to small intense time, and sometimes he is stuck between. I feel his front leg and back leg." So they sent him to the psychiatric doctor, and he said also there is nothing. But he said, "Please send me for an operation." So first they made an, what do you call it, MRI, MRI,... looking into the stomach. And the doctor said, "There is nothing." He said, "Your camera is wrong." Even he had big eyes, he said. No doctor could help him, and he was sad. Couldn’t work. And he told his wife, "Don’t cook too spicy food. My frog doesn’t like that food." Now he begins to love his frog inside. He was searching for a doctor and treatment. So one day, one yoga practitioner came and gave a lecture about yoga and cleaning off the stones, where the stomach was cleaned and problems were removed. After the lecture, that man went to that yoga teacher and said it was very interesting. "I have one problem. For the last three years, I have had a frog in my stomach, and no one can find it. And no one can take him out. I’m suffering. He’s getting bigger and bigger. Can you give some treatment, or can you take him out?" He said, "Three years already." I said, "Yes, he must be resistant to your stomach acid." He said, "Yes." He said, "Okay, Sunday morning, come at eight o’clock to me, and I will take your frog out." So that yogī went to search for a frog in the forest near the water, and he found a big frog like this. He brought it home and put it there. Now he tells the man, "You have to drink three, four, five glasses of warm, lukewarm, salty water." And what will happen? Yes, you have to drink water, and then you have to pull it out again, vomit it out. He said, "OK." So he drank one litre of water. And the yoga teacher put a bucket in front of him and said, "One hand on the stomach, and with the second hand, press your tongue, and water will come out." So one liter of water came with force into the bucket. He was closing his eyes and saying, "Oh," and he was doing it like this. And the yogī put the frog in the bucket. He said, "Enough, enough, he’s come out already." He saw. "This is my frog. Three years was it missed. Thank you, thank you." Yes, it was a greeny color. "Oh, my frog." So what to do with him? Yogi said, "Take care of it, he’s your baby." So he took him in hand and washed him. "My frog, for so many years you had a problem there." He took it home, made an aquarium, and put the frog in the aquarium. And he became healthy. So you see, where you have wrong ideas, fixed ideas? No one can help you. Only you have to help yourself, or someone has to become stupid with you. So the stupid can cure the stupid one. So there are certain fixed ideas, and that makes us weak, ill, and sad. So many, many reasons are there why we are ill. And there is a treatment in Āyurveda, in yoga, and medical treatment. There are karmic problems, destiny problems. That’s also very important to know. And certain colors, there is color therapy. There are some people who like only white dresses. And some, they like only black dress. Some always wear green dress. Because their psychic is like this color. And who is always taking black dress, and you put in the white dress, the whole day the person will feel very unpleasant. Looking in the mirror, you say, "Everything is white." Afternoon, looking in the mirror, there is some spot. And black, you don’t see so quickly. So there are many things which can help us. Similarly, there are what we call the precious stones. Yes, it has an effect on our energy, not on our psychic. So this changes the energy in our body. It must not be the quantity, but the quality. And suddenly our feelings, our behaviors, and our work, everything changes, and smoothly goes. So mental energy changes. Emotionally, it changes. Intellectually changes, and suddenly peace is there. It is not a miracle, but it is a reflection and energy of that particular stone. But don’t think that same stone is good for you. This again has to be asked with some expertise, according to your astrological horoscope, and then which is good for you: color. Weight of the stones, sometimes you think that you can have more. Yes, you got a very nice sea salt, it is very healthy, and you say, "Okay, today I will take two spoons inside." You can’t eat too salty, so quality, quantity, that is very important. Similarly, yesterday I spoke, this morning I spoke about Rudrākṣa. And Rudrākṣa is one bead. This is from one tree. Now, there are different kinds of Rudrākṣa. And some are real, pure Rudrākṣa. And some are not very pure. Nowadays, people are mixing the pear and apple together. Neither is the apple, nor the pear. So sometimes people are making artificial Rudrākṣa. And there is some tree that looks exactly like Rudrākṣa. It is a tree that looks exactly like a Rudrākṣa, but it is not a Rudrākṣa. It is called Bhadrākṣa, and that is very light and like wood. So you need the real Rudrākṣa. Now, how should we know about real Rudrākṣa? In Slovakia, you know, which is good, cherry. And in Rajasthan, there is no cherries growing where I am, so we don’t know which is a good cherry. And for you, even your children will say, "This is a good one, this is not eatable." So how should you know what is a good Rudrākṣa? So, the Rudrākṣa is when you take that one seed and you put it in the water. It will go down. It’s the fruit of the tree. It has fruit over, and it has seed inside. But this is a very, very ancient and especially very, very good for the thyroid gland. And this part of the body, near the neck, chest, so if you wear the Rudrākṣa mālā, it is said that it will protect you from chest cancer, throat cancer, or thyroid glands, etc. It has been made a real research work on the Rudrākṣa, and there are many, many different kinds of Rudrākṣa. Each has its specialities for protection from illness or for certain wishes, prosperity, many, many things. That’s called Vanmukhi. From one till twenty-four, they are. But it is very rare to find them. You know, there is energy changing in that. For example, one coconut. You don’t know the coconut properly. Because in Slovakia, coconuts don’t grow. You buy them in the supermarket. But there is a coconut; when you buy it, you look, and there are three points on one side. You can see three eyes. When it grows, from one side comes a sprout out, and from two sides come the roots out. Coconut is one of the hardest nuts. Now, if you find a coconut anywhere in the world which has only one eye, don’t miss it. Buy it. Take it. A lawn that will bring prosperity, harmony, health, and happiness to your house. These are certain symbols by nature. Or what you call the conch, which we blow in the temple. They are all turning from left to right, all. Very rare, which turns from right to left. That is very, very rare to buy. There are some which you can find, not so easy, but still you can find, which go from left to right. But that is masculine, feminine, sorry. That you cannot open and blow. So that if it goes from right to left, it has no meaning. But that which is a male, and when you find that going from right to left, it is great luck, great harmony. Five hundred meters around that, beautiful energy is radiating. So it means also your neighbors will benefit. Suddenly, your neighbor will say, "What’s happening? My whole family is happy. Even my dog is not nervous. And my cat sleeps very well every day." These are the natural symbols. And it has that kind of energy, so one eye coconut. Coconut, the right-turning conch, and the one Mukhi Rudrākṣa, which has only one line on it. And that is expensive. The people are ready to pay even $20,000, $30,000, $100,000 to get that one. But you can’t find it. There are many stories about this. But it has a reality in it. It’s not a fairy tale. So it changes energy. Now, either a stone, coconut, a conch, or Rudrākṣa. This has to be blessed in a ceremony. You know, when you have something, you call your priest and get the blessing: the holy water, the holy smoke, and the blessing, like the Christians are doing with the cross. Then it is blessed; that becomes reality. You can print your passport for your country, but it’s not valid. Valid is that one when you have the stamp of your government. Then it is valid. So similarly, the things when they come have to be blessed. So this was the subtle energy changing in the body, speaking about what you call health. Health. If it is physical, then we will speak with some doctor. He or she can give us which vitamins, which proteins, or which different kind of medicine, antibiotic. There also they will say how much you should take. We can’t take half a kilo at once. Doctor will say, "You will die, but very little." It has a subtle energy in the body, so similarly, the blessing has energy. What you eat has energy. With whom you speak, whom you meet, and how you behave also releases the energy. So I would suggest that everyone should have one Rudrākṣa, and always wear it here. So it should be only four centimeters below the joint of your collarbone. You know the collarbone? So it should go around the collarbone, that’s it. So today I asked someone to bring me some Rudrākṣa from Vienna. And they said, "Well, Swamiji, the petrol itself will be more expensive than Rudrākṣa." I said, "Don’t worry." So I ordered some Rudrākṣa. And if someone would like to get it, you can get it. And we have in Vienna different shops: Om Shiva Esoteric and Om Namo Narayan Shop. And in Śrīlakṣmī we have from Muktānanda. They are really bringing the quality. And of course, giving blessing is no problem; it is a home. But still, I can’t say if this is a real one or not. Because I have to throw this in the water. And I can’t throw with the thread. So, you have to test it. But Rudrākṣa is like my mālā, for example, I can show you. It is from the tree; it’s not a stone. But it sounds like a stone, and it has a life inside. You can hear the sound. So I put my mala inside, and it’s going down. It is too much, that’s why it’s up. In the bucket, it will go down. Now, someone has to dry. This falls from somewhere up. Now, I don’t know, looks as it is, but only water will tell me if it is right or not. So we can put it in? Oh my God! Yes, it functions. Okay, this is the sign that it remained. I didn’t say, "He remains down." It’s not that frog. But it is down, and if it is a badraksha quality, which is like a wood? Then, will the wood go down or up? Up. So, yeah, sounds like a stone, my God. Yes, it’s good for you. So, water of the Rudrākṣa to drink is very healthy. So, wear Rudrākṣa here, around the neck. Luckily, I got it from someone, a one-mukhī Rudrākṣa. But that’s why I’m putting it inside. So, if someone would like to have a one-mukhi Rudrākṣa, we have to register the name in the company there in Haridwar, where they are selling tons of Rudrākṣa every year. And they are cleaning very carefully. If it is one mūkī, they put it on one side. The price is their price, not our price. So it can cost, I cannot tell you. And there are some who are selling, but they are from the wood. When one gets about 5,000 euros, to make it with wood like this, there are people, artists, and you carry it in front of you, and you think it is a real one. But only those who know what is real and what is not real. Only real Slovaks can tell if it’s the real brinza or not. So, my dear, there are many things which we can do for our health. And many are only symbols which protect us. And many are just symbols that protect us from many things. In your culture, when you see the wedding ring on your hand, some man has his wedding ring, and some girl or some lady has an intention to marry or get this man, and she sees the wedding ring in his hand. She will go away. It protected him. Who? The ring. So that’s why everyone who is married, woman, man and woman, have the ring. And that’s why we call this finger the ring finger. And when someone has no ring, then the other one thinks, "Okay, this is vacant. He is a free man, a poor man; nobody likes him. So I shall try to help him." Is it nice of them? Very nice of them, but then one says, "This one has a doctor, so I need not be a doctor for him." So now, this is not a joke, but this ring is a protection for us. Similarly, there are many symbols which have a protection for our energy, for our body. So, my dear, there are many, many things for health that we can do, and many things also we have to follow. It is said, late evening, don’t go alone out, and that evening is to remain with your family, friends, brothers, sisters, mothers; then nothing will happen. But if you go alone around somewhere, and some drunken person will come and attack you, so it is a purposely invited trouble, invited troubles. So we have some exercises, some certain mantras, and we have here. Dr. Arati from Bratislava, who is working in Brno, will give 25 minutes of advice tomorrow morning, especially for the problems of women. And this program is designed, experimented, and researched from Yoga and the Vedas. So, I think for many of you, this talk will be very helpful. And if your wife is not here and you are here, and if she has that problem, you can tell her and advise her. That will also be very useful for you. So finally, someone said, "Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health." And in yoga, we said the body is not everything. But everything is nothing without the body. Our self-realization, God-realization, coming to the heaven, or whatever you call this body, is very important. So take care of your body. Eat consciously. Move consciously. Work consciously. And don’t be fearful. So with this, for this evening, this lecture, I give rest to this speech. I will conclude this lecture and give rest to the words. I wish you a pleasant evening and good night.