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Through this channel, you must have listened to my discourses as well. I always speak from my own experience. Yoga is that cosmic power which keeps the entire cosmos balanced. Among all the visible and invisible elements, the power that maintains harmony is yoga, and the means to connect the Jīvātman with the Paramātmā is called yoga. Yes, you all know very well that yoga is not merely āsana, prāṇāyāma, and a little dhāraṇā or dhyāna. However, by practicing āsana, prāṇāyāma, dhāraṇā, and dhyāna, our body remains healthy. It is true, absolutely true, that a yogī who practices sādhanā regularly is ninety-nine percent free from illness. This is because the kriyās of yoga—āsana, prāṇāyāma, and the regulation of diet, behavior, and thoughts—improve, thereby preventing any kind of disorder in the body. The first happiness is a healthy body. The greatest happiness for a human being is found not in indulgence or luxury, but in a healthy body. One who remains healthy is capable of performing every kind of work. Gurudev Śrī Svāmī Mahādvānan Jī Mahārāj always said that yoga is the fire that burns away the seed of karma, which is like a burning ember. Yoga is this fire. Therefore, regularly practice śayān or śubha or śyāma āsana, prāṇāyāma, and dhyāna. A yogī who practices yoga regularly every day experiences a unique joy in whatever food they eat. They can do without tea. They are vegetarian, not non-vegetarian. Once, a scientist wrote in a magazine about staying in close proximity with a yogī. He wrote that if a person eats one egg, then for ten days their vṛtti will remain restless and they will not be able to meditate. So, consider what can be said about one who eats food like meat, fish, and the like. Such a person cannot truly meditate. Yes, it is possible they may sit in meditation for some time and calm the mind, but they cannot reach that destination. In that same magazine, the scientist wrote about how the effect of diet influences our body, mind, emotions, and consciousness. He writes that animals can sense a few days in advance when some accident or mishap is about to occur in their lives. Just a few days prior, whether it is a gada or a śvara, a dog or a cat, a rabbit or a cow, or a goat, a buck—any innocent creature at all—vibrations begin in its body, fear arises, and this fear physically manifests within our body as well. The granthi is such that it generates a vibration filled with fear, mentally or psychologically. So much fear enters their inner being that they become restless. The innocent creature, the mute creature, cannot say, "O human, do not do this to me." Paramātmā has also... Life has been given, but we have also been given life. No one desires to die. Yet, whether human or animal, the Jīvātman that has entered the body composed of the five elements must one day pass through the door of death. However, the yogī who practices yoga sādhanā can willingly relinquish their body. It may be that there is no fear of death, but there is fear of the pain—how much pain one will have to endure until this Jīvātman leaves the body. When a doctor gives even a small injection, your heartbeat increases. So, when an animal sees a wheel or a weapon... Even a sword understands this much—that now I will no longer be able to move. Yet, inside it screams, "O human, do not do this to me." It belongs to the noble ones who will surely display their deeds. The actions performed will, sooner or later, manifest in some form and cause such pain within the doer. In other words, their fruit will certainly come to them. The animal utters the animal’s cry; it looks towards the one who would kill it. The pink cry of the rabbit—how beautiful that cry is! One sees it, and the heart beats faster. The cry of the goat and the cry of the fish—how beautiful they are! Like water drawing out a pearl. Throwing a hook, attaching an ankush, and then baiting it with something like dough or another animal, the fish think it is food and swallow it. When they do, the hook pierces their throat, and when it is pulled, how much pain it causes... If a single blade of grass or straw gets inside, the cough will worsen and you will become restless. Just imagine in your mind, if someone inserts a hook inside your mouth and pulls it upwards, what would happen to you? That fish does not die just once; it dies millions of times. In the evening, at the time of their death, in front of the fearsome door, there is an innocent creature. But in whose heart the mercy of that Paramātmā has been bestowed, that mercy never fades away. Similarly, even if an animal is killed, its eyes witness it; within those eyes resides Bhagavān of the world. Who sees? Bhagavān has given the eyes—both inner and outer eyes. The eyes see everything. Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī was from Khāṭū, Rajasthan, Nagaur district. In one bhajan, it is said: the one whose eyes are pure, with fifty-two sandalwoods on the body due to the essence of nectar, the body is sustained; thus, pure are those eyes in which there is no impurity. You see, it is fine in front of others, but one should not even glance with a bad thought for a second. If the person ahead realizes that there is a flaw in your vision, then capturing a living being and cutting its neck with a knife—there can be no greater sin than this. Your prāṇāyāma and sādhanā will never be successful. No matter how much you talk, the truth remains the truth. In the body of that being, their gland produces a fear-filled essence in such a way that the innocent creature has been killed, has died, has been slain. It pierces through their speech, the body trembles, the feet tremble. No, Bhagavān does not do this to anyone. Yes, it is said in the scriptures that jīva devours jīva, one living being consumes another. But this is a human—I have made you human, not a dānava, created as a protector of humans, not as a devourer. Whether it is a buffalo or a cow, once you have tasted its milk, it becomes your mother. That is why we say gava mātā, and the children of that gava mātā become your brothers and sisters. Or if it is an animal, it experiences trembling, suffering, and intense pain. I witnessed a scene where... There are some countries where meat is sent. But if the meat is sent after killing the animal, then what do they require? A cold room, a freezer, and only then will it be cleared by customs. Until then, the meat can spoil. So what do they do? They send animals—cows, buffaloes, donkeys—alive. They load cows, bulls, goats, camels onto the ship and send them off. Where there is capacity for twenty cows, they cram in fifty or sixty cows. By the time the ship arrives, some cow’s leg has already broken. She says that no one understands the pain of my heart; to whom should I speak? When the ship reaches the dock, there is a very large crane there, and inside the crane, such a mechanism automatically closes—it grabs the cow's horn or one leg. Then that crane throws such a heavy animal onto another truck; if thrown like that, the neck would break, the legs would break. It is alive there, and it goes straight to be slaughtered. Those animals fall there, and there the belt runs; they are placed on that belt. Some of them are still able to walk. A black bull, a black-colored bull, with a very strong, heavy body like a bull, because they are given medicines and injections continuously. After the back leg breaks, the animal becomes wounded and falls down. They have to carry it just five meters to the belt. They beat it with electric sticks, they beat it with all sorts of things, they give it prāṇa, they insert a rod into its anus repeatedly. Then how can it move this way? Then who tries to stand up next? He falls down. The ox’s tongue is hanging out, fans are blowing from the mouth, he is shouting. Generally, you will see that cows, oxen, or animals do not shed tears. He put his finger into their eyes, pressing in such a way that it would cause a slight tear to flow. There was blood inside both eyes. Even then, he stayed two meters away. Then another person came and said, "Hurry up, our lamp is about to go out." So he... And they leave, saying that the one who secretly made the video, we could do nothing more, but at least in the end, some trick was put into his mouth, like water poured into a bell. Now, what will happen to the one who eats the flesh of that animal, and to the one who torments him? The pain-filled essence inside the body of the animal, which produces fluid and causes vibrations in the glands, enters the body of the meat-eater. What has come into emptiness, how did it come, and how will its staff be received—no matter how intellectual a person is, no matter how much they reason, this is not a matter of logic or argument, dear ones. It is a matter of the pain of a living being, and such things have even begun to be done to humans. How much suffering they cause, how much... I am suffering, various kinds of diseases are occurring, and then after eating and drinking, we also worship Bhagavān. In the morning, we wake up and pray to Bhagavān to bless us. There was a wedding of our disciple in Turkey. I was invited, I went, and on one side at the wedding... Having been taken out, it is also writhing, blood is falling—this prāṇa still exists. Then they hang it on two poles and set fire beneath it. It keeps burning, it keeps moving. Now they pray to Bhagavān, "Please bless us for our wedding, O Lord." But will that Lord bless you, or will He understand the pain of those whom you have tormented? Dear ones, whatever simple celebration you have, do not use alcohol and meat in it; otherwise, you will not receive blessings, and your children will also incur sin. Many times, parties are held inviting two or three hundred people, but in that party... How many roosters are killed for this? They are brought alive and slaughtered right there. There are people who eat cats as well, but those who do labor work ask for more money. That is why, in the same film, it is shown that they go to a restaurant with children, and cats are kept in cages. They tell the children about their mothers... They grab the body, the cat meows loudly, screams, they take it out of the cage, and the boiling water, hot water that is boiling, held firmly in the same grip, they immerse the living cat in the water, two or three times... And then they put it in cold water, showing that it is hanging like this in the cold water, and the face is making such expressions—does the mind not feel the pain? And the very first nourishment given to awaken this cosmic power, Kuṇḍalinī Mā, within the body is that if the diet, lifestyle, conduct, and thoughts are refined, then the yogī, by the grace of the guru, can reach their destination. A brahmaniṣṭha, śrotriya guru is one who never... We will not speak for the sake of eating; all the great souls who have existed anywhere in the world were all Sāka Hari, but they were concealed, their names merely erased. Therefore, Indians should say this with pride. Great souls, great men—this is indeed a spiritual land, the very land where countless great souls have incarnated, and the twenty-four incarnations also took place on this very soil, dear ones. Within every particle of the soil of Hindustān, the divine resides. The time for śakti has come, but if we continue to act in this way, dear ones, karma spares no one and śama waits for no one. Therefore, while practicing yoga, the sādhaka must think for their own benefit: what should I eat, what should I not eat, what should I drink? Where to go and what to do—āsana, prāṇāyāma, dhāraṇā, dhyāna—and after that, a kriyā is also performed along with bandhas and mudrās. The nāda kriyā, as our great masters say, should not be taught to the unworthy. But I have complete faith that all of you who are listening are not unworthy; you are worthy. Nāda resides in the nābhi, nāda originates from the nābhi, para, Paśyaṃtī and vekarī, in parā nābī, vaśyaṃtī in kaṇṭha, and vekarī in hoṭa, jīvya and oṭa, in which we chant Oṃ. Then the cosmic power in the form of nāda, the supreme Brahman, that supreme Śiva-like nāda, arises from our maṇipūra cakra as a kind of subtle vibrational resonance. It manifests in the heart-space as pure love, devotion, compassion, mercy, and so on, coloring that space within. If there is anger, greed, ego, and no love, then that nāda will be colored in that hue. When it rises from there and enters the Viśuddhi cakra, various types of psychic problems, which are mental illnesses or fears, whether caused by certain foods like meat, sweets, eggs, or due to other inauspicious experiences in life, there... When yogic practices are performed with ujjāyī prāṇāyāma, jālandhara bandha, and khecarī mudrā, the nāḍī comes from there and merges in the ājñā cakra in knowledge and light. From there, the three nāḍīs that carry this nāḍī upward... Information enters as a sound that resonates within you, is felt, and from the brahmanārī, that is, the suṣumnā through which the nāda travels, it enters the bindu cakra, meaning that the amṛta is there itself. That amṛta, within that amṛta when... Through it, that nāda enters the brahmāṇḍa, which you can hear with your ears, and others can also hear your speech. So, in three ways, that nāda flows through iḍā, piṅgalā, and suṣumnā, and this is practiced as a kriyā in meditation. The mantra has been revealed, but the true royal mantra is the one your Gurudev has given you. And if you do not have devotion and faith towards your guru, you will lose everything, no matter what your guru has done or is doing. It will happen, and your consciousness will enter that brāhmaṇa. This very process we will explain more precisely in the next śloka. For now, I have realized that I will have to explain something in English as well. In the entire world, there are five mahābhūtas... So I will try to explain to them in my limited and broken English. To the devotees of the Hindi, I repeatedly offer my thanks from my side. If anyone feels offended by what I have said, I seek your forgiveness. This is for your well-being, your health, and a long, harmonious life together. A prayer to the Lord: may your spiritual power increase day by day, and may you reach your destination. Only the grace of the Guru is the true blessing. Oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, the eternal truth of Sanātana Dharma—Good evening, dear brothers and sisters. This blessing is coming to you from the very beautiful, colorful pink city of Jaipur, Viśvadīp Guru Āśram, Śyām Nagar. I welcome you all here, and first of all, I wish you a happy birthday if today is your birthday. I was just speaking in Hindi before, and now I will come to you to explain something about yoga and yogic kriyās. Yoga is the science of body, mind, and consciousness—yoga. This science of Divine Ātma Yoga, two Āśraya Prāṇāyāma and a little bit of meditation, is not only yoga but Āśraya Prāṇāyāma, relaxation, and meditation is very important. And this modern allopathic science, they agreed, they realized, yes, those who practice yoga systematically every day, ninety-nine percent of them are healthy; though it is a physical exercise, there is no compromise. I have seen many, many yogīs, including householders, and many of my disciples who practice with genuine sincerity. Unfortunately, ninety-five percent of my disciples become lazy after two or three years; they think they know everything, and they lose the subtle feeling. I am also one of them. Truth is truth, but my problem is different. I am a world traveler, and for the last forty years, I have been constantly experiencing jet lag. There are situations, days and days, when you cannot relax, and you cannot return to your daily routine. But for those who practice honestly, it is... For them, for your own benefit, in America, in Australia, in England, and many other countries, the insurance company covers the cost of yoga classes. If you are a daily practitioner of yoga and your yoga teacher confirms that you regularly attend and practice every day, then you have to pay less insurance. Many companies are paying their employees for practicing yoga. Many companies have yoga teachers who come only for one hour during lunch time. If they practice forty-five minutes of yoga daily, they gain more energy, better concentration, and an improved ability to work in the company. And those who just go for a coffee and fast food, they come back to the office and they are sleeping, they are so drowsy, so tired. You see, this is just proof of yoga—what yoga can give you, no one else can give, only you can give because you practice. If you eat... Your stomach will be full if you just look at the food; otherwise, you will remain hungry. So, practical yoga, not just theoretical—tons of theory is nothing compared with a gram of practice. Therefore, do not neglect your everyday exercise. Yes, walking is... Wonderful, yes. Swimming is wonderful, yes. Cycling is very good, yes. Jogging is very good, yes. Tennis play... The whole year, it will constantly sound like a train is coming, and throughout the night, there is whistling. How many millions of people in the world are suffering from this disease—I have forgotten the name. Do you know, it is called tinnitus. Many, many people suffer from it; they cannot sleep. It is a horror. Even when you do aerobics, it is external, but the sound is internal. This is also a problem of problems. Those who play tennis have constant pain here and here because tennis is a one-sided sport. I am not against tennis, my dear. Those who are playing tennis, excuse me, but I have to tell you the truth: you are young, you are flexible, you are beautiful, and everything is good. You play and it is all right, go ahead for deshe bold. Champion Olympia, but after forty-five years, ask for a physiotherapist, a physiotherapist and dentist. Dentist job is very good, but as a dentist, dental surgeon and dentist, what about physiotherapy and nerve soldering? What about dentist work? Very fragile work, little millimeter. Oh, so doctors, dentists, you have to be very precise. To examine, doctors can administer injections. And doctors say that I should ask, you should keep me happy... It was very gentle, but it was very gentle, and when the doctor is very skilled, it does not affect the guḍḍa channel and does not cause any disturbance. So do not worry, it neither rises nor falls. But you know, when they are used in the practice, it is complete and whole. They said that yoga and daily life are a very good and elevated exercise. Those who excel in tennis, yoga and daily life are an advancement. I am not into sports. Sports are very good for the body, but yoga is better. Sports are a challenge and a promise. In yoga, there is no promise, no competition, and no challenge. This is good. You should not challenge. You should not promise. And you should not compete. It is all about faith, faith. If you are jogging, swimming, cycling, riding, playing tennis, playing football, hockey... Playing, and if you can do this playing, then you are very very... bah Victim, victim,... victim... vic- With the rocket, the past is past, the future is not here; you are in the presence. Here, whatever your presence is like, that will be your future. So, in the presence, keep on practicing yoga in daily life āsanas, but which kind of āsanas—very... Slowly, very gradually, very systematically, and step by step in prāṇāyāma. Don’t immediately go to bhastrikā. Don’t immediately go to kapālabhāti. Don’t immediately do prāṇāyāma with kumbhaka—internal kumbhaka and external kumbhaka. No, if you want to do prāṇāyāmas, not bhastrikā. Til yū comes to the kumbhaka according to Rājayoga and Jñānayoga, where all three prāṇāyāmas—rechaka, pūraka, and kumbhaka—are involved. Rechaka means exhale, pūraka means inhale, and kumbhaka means retention of the breath. If you do kumbhaka very early, that means after ten days of practicing prāṇāyāma, you begin doing kumbhaka, then you can harm your lungs, you can harm your heart, and many, many... In Swāmījī's Yoga and Daily Life book, I consider it my holy bible many times. People say Yoga and Daily Life book is like my holy book. It has given immense joy and happiness because the whole family became healthy. If you practice, then you should practice. But you should practice. You should practice.... You become good and complete. If you welcome yourself again and tell yourself who you are. Good, what do you want? What do you want? If you what... You desire. What do you desire? What do you desire? I came to Vienna, Austria to teach yoga classes for diplomats. There was one lady from the American Embassy, and they are very good. They are very good... They are very good. Very good... very I am very, very... many I am practicing yoga and daily life for fourteen days, and I am practicing for daily life for fourteen days, ... and I am practicing for daily life for fourteen d... For a yogendriya life, for a yogendriya life, know this, be influenced, be influenced... Prabhā Of your soul as much as you take care of your body through yoga, a vegetarian sāttvika balanced diet, and organic food, I am sure you will be happy and relaxed. Yoga kriyās are wonderful, but only you can do them and they can only be taught when you... They are on that level of yoga, so we have the essence: physical exercises begin with the very simple in yoga and in life. How simple can I tell you? Yoga and life can be practiced by anyone, even if you are lying in the hospital, even if you are lying down. Whether you are at home in bed and cannot move, or you are sitting on the sofa set, still you can begin and do yoga exercises. It is not necessary that you do headstand, nor is it necessary that you sit in the lotus position. Subscribe, subscribe... S schools, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, yoga centers, cultural centers, old age homes, and so forth. You are healthy and coming to yoga, our Yoga in Daily Life teacher, International Yoga in Daily Life, you can take a course, a distance course. Our teacher comes and says, stand up, now move one shoulder up and down. If one person starts ten times, then you relax. If you practice for your pravāra, then if you practice for your pravāra, then if you... We practice pravāra for the sake of pravāra, so if you practice your pravāra for your own pravāra, then if you... Therefore, always, always... Niśva Gurudīp Āśram or we have a very, very beautiful yoga center and Prākṛtik Chikitsā Nēcharopaiti Dr. Puṣpā Garg Bāpu Nagar Yoga Śāddhā Kendra. She is a very expert person, very systematically learned and practiced it, but unfortunately now she is like me. She is ready to teach everyone, but she herself has now neglected her exercises. Why? Because she is so busy. When she comes out of her room, hundreds of people run to her, saying, "Dīdī, this, dīdī, that, this, this. Oh dīdī, do you practice āsanas? Can we sit with you?" So, it is not easy to be a dīdī, but she has very good knowledge about yoga. It is not that I am the authority of the authorities of the authorities... of the Yogaśābhanā Center... And when I was influencing the West, it was a great influence for me, influencing a lot of people. That is why I named a yoga practice, an influential one, called Ānanda Āsana. Now, how did I come to this? This is a very good story. It was in 1977. In Vienna, there was a professor about seventy-five years old, or perhaps a little older. He was a professor of Italian, Italology or whatever it is called, at the University of Vienna. And he spoke about yoga, and because yoga is health, health... Now I will not speak German very well. I want to observe yoga and I want to practice yoga. So I said it well. And I said that thing. You know. This is my twelfth marriage. I have been married twelve times, now I am married the twelfth time, I am married for the twelfth time, and my wife is about twenty-five, and he is above seventy-five, I... He said, "Did you marry your granddaughter?" I said, "No, no,... but you know, I heard that when you practice yoga, you become young." I said, "Okay, I will make you young, just practice." I am not saying that they will not practice. That is why they will practice. That is why they... Because he asks just for the sake of asking... for the sake of asking... Mahāprabhujñā gave an answer, and I am speaking about it. This is not a dead body. It is good, good, a wonder. It is a blissful wonder. Why did you not say this to me earlier? I said, because you are a professor, and I will tell you it’s Ānandāsana, and you will buy a book and say, why did you tell me the wrong name? Now I understand, Ānandāsana, thank you. And he begins to practice. In my book, scriptures, I immediately change the name, and now that āsana is known as Ānandāsana. And that is the Ānanda Āsana dedicated to Swāmī Ānanda Ānanjī. If you desire yoga, if you desire yoga,... if you desire yoga. Yoga teachers, self-made yoga teachers taking books and teaching yoga, and going to some center for a seminar for one week of yoga practice, coming out with a yoga teacher certificate. And I am teaching now for twenty-five years, but I cannot say the time of a yoga teacher. My dear, to become a yogī and perfect one takes... Years and years, at the last minute of your life, your inner ātman will say, I am a yogī, but until then you are a practitioner, practitioner,... Abhyāsa, abhyāsa kontē, abhyāsa, practice makes perfect. So whether you are healthy or ill depends on your own interest, and you should not take it otherwise. You should consider it as your life, your happiness, your body, your feeling, your pleasure; it is the life and happiness of your life. You wish to live long and enjoy this human life. If you say now, "I give up everything," and then you pass on to the other world, you will have not enjoyed this life. You will have not experienced it. Then you remain only in the svargaloka, observing what others are doing. Eating ice cream—you know, in English they call it a midlife crisis. You experience a midlife crisis when you are forty years old. A man experiences a midlife crisis at forty-five years, and nowadays some are already going through it at thirty years. That is why they divorce and find a new wife, and again... They said, "Oh God, I did not fulfill this, and I did not enjoy this." And also, ladies, it is very hard to come out of a midlife crisis. But the wise person understands life, and the master is oneself. Therefore, yoga is for everything—you will enjoy your life more if you practice it correctly. Change your way of living, your way of thinking, and your way of eating, dear brothers and sisters. If I have spoken anything wrong, please excuse me. If you like it, accept it; if you do not, forgive me. Until then, I remain at your service. Most probably on the sixteenth of November at the same time in a different space. Until then, I wish you all the best—good health, happiness, harmony, long life, and spiritual development for you and your family. God bless us all. Oṃ sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu mā kaścid duḥkha bhāg bhavet. Oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Deveśvara Mahādeva kī dharma samrātha Satguru Svāmījī Mādvānanjī Gurudev Oṃ Śāntiḥ.