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That is very good. Welcome. We continue with our yoga teacher's instructions. There are certain teachers. They possess great love, great devotion, and great motivation to instruct yoga students. They are truly very honest and humble. But there is a 'but'. Their own physical condition is not that of a yoga practitioner. Yoga is a practical path. As we always say, someone stated, "Tons of theory is nothing without a grain of practice." Age does not mean anything. If you feel you are old, it is your own mistake. For the ātmā, there is no time; it is beyond time and space. However, the body is limited. So, to those teachers who are listening now—who love to teach, who have devotion, and respect and love for their students—you yourself must be able to inspire them. You have to be the model. The first difficulty is diet. As long as we do not adopt the yogic diet, we will not be successful. Nowadays, the food we eat is not so healthy. So what should we do? We seem to have no option, no choice; we have to eat what we get. There is training to live with the prāṇa only, so that we need not drink or eat. It is also good economically. The only problem is that it is boring. Everyone is eating, and you are invited, but you do not eat or drink. The others do not feel pleasure. So, I would not advise you to live only from the prāṇa. But we can purify even poison. So, with such junk food, you can avoid certain kinds. Let us come today to the topic of milk. About three years ago, I was in Australia, in a beautiful place called the Sunshine Coast. Whenever I go there, it rains all the time. I asked why they gave it the name Sunshine Coast. They replied, "When you come, Swāmījī, good rain comes." So, I should come often. There is a beautiful center there, guided for many years by our dear Yamunā. She is a very loving teacher, and people truly love her. Whenever I visit, she books a beautiful apartment, I think on the 14th or 15th floor or higher. It has a beautiful balcony with a view of the ocean, a big living room, a small sleeping room, and a big fridge. We asked for milk for tea, opened the fridge—I think it was with Manchādevī and I, or Umāpurī, I do not recall, or Rādhā—and there were two bottles of milk. It was written: "Not for drinking, it's for bathing." Can you imagine? The Australians bathed me with milk? So, "Do not drink." I was angry with Yamunā. Why is she giving such milk? "Not for drinking, it's for bathing." We telephoned her, and she said, "Yes, it is for drinking." The whole problem is that they do not allow drinking milk directly from the cow. It is strictly prohibited. If you give it to your children or your spouse, you have to pay a fine. So, all milk must go through what we call the dairy. Pesticides... it is not of that quality. Many chemicals are inside, so people used to buy 'bathing milk'. Soon, they realized people were using it for drinking and eating. So now they put some chemicals inside. It is not tasteful; it has a very ugly taste, and you get vomiting and diarrhea. So, how is it that only a few people, but they have power? Such milk production, dairy production, is not healthy. What to do? Therefore, we shall try to minimize the consumption of dairy products: cheese, yogurt, milk, etc. This has been happening for a long time already. We, as vegetarians—what do most people, especially in so-called Czechoslovakia, Hungary, etc., consume? Bread, butter, cheese. Is it tasty? Everyone likes bread, likes butter, cheese. But you should know the kilos you are gaining without your wish: your body is getting fat, destroying many systems—our gland systems, liver, kidneys, gallbladder, our heart. That is why you cannot reduce the kilos, even though you practice yoga. So, use only a very little for your coffee or tea. Cheese is tamasic food, so it is not healthy because it is some days, or weeks, or months old. Paneer is better, but not cheese. Bread is not the bread we had 50 or 60 years before. In some cases, Australians told that in white bread, which is made from very fine flour... Do you know how many chickens are killed per day in the world? And what happens with the feathers? Everywhere, there would be feathers flying from chickens. So, they make a powder from chickens' feathers—and all other kinds of birds—and they mix it into this white flour. Toast the bread so it is very light, and when you make toast, in less than half a minute it pops up and is very nice and crunchy. Why? Because of the chicken feathers. And you know our hair? In every shop of the hair cutter, hairdresser, and the hairs from the military, from prisoners, and these old hairs from big hotels—they buy them, make a powder, and put it in the brown bread. So, you are eating the hair of people. I do not know why humans are doing this. This is called research. This is called science. This is called modern technology. But science will never be compared with nature. There is not one scientist in the world till today who can produce one drop of blood. Everyone's blood is different. An entire diagnosis can be founded in one trough of blood—not only about us, but about our ancestors. You know the Australian Aborigines? They are from South India. They found now that the Jains are South Indians. They look like South Indians. They make these tilaks on the face, on the arms, and on the stomach. So, how many hundreds or thousands of years? But still, you can find in the blood that for each and every person and other creatures, they have their whole picture in it. No scientist can do that, and they will not be able to do it. So, we are against nature. And nature takes revenge. What we eat is manipulated. They change the pure nature quality into artificial things. Who is the victim? We all. This is a big problem. Almost everything that you get, from your hair shampoo to your body oils, the creams, everything has come from killed animals. In old times, it was not. This affects our body. So, somehow we have to survive. If we have to survive, then we should have a good digestive system and limit our diet. We will be able to avoid 90% of our illnesses. But only one thing we cannot master; it is not easy to master: our tests with the tongue. This temptation is very big. It is said there is a rare person, a rare yogī, who has complete control over taste and sex. These are two indriyas; they are very mighty, and we are slaves of them. We lose the most precious energy of the body. So, control your taste, eat less, and practice more so that you will gain the ability to get food from the prāṇas, from the air. Tomorrow we will make an experiment, because you are mostly all yoga teachers and going to be yoga teachers. So tomorrow you have to do one perfect posture, beginning with 'P'. Which is that? Paścimottānāsana. So, try the whole night, find the technique. Whoever can do perfect Paścimottānāsana will be in a special group that will be specially supported, and they will get special nourishment. Others will get what is available. So, who does not know what Paścimottānāsana is? Everyone knows? You do not know? How long have you been practicing? Only one month? So you are a visitor. Alright. I want one demonstrator who can do the perfect Paścimottānāsana. Please stand up, one person. You know, go on the table, elbows touching the ground, holding your foot soles. Well, so how many will be tomorrow? That will be selected. Thank you. I am sure many know, and many cannot. So, those who cannot will learn. Until the next seminar, you have about one and a half months, which will be organized for the next seminar, or half a year. So, nothing is impossible. It is only a matter of exercise and reducing the kilos. The exception is if you have a hip problem, a slipped disc, or back problems—of course, then you should not force yourself. Yoga in daily life is very easy and simple, but we have become lazy, enjoying the butter, cheese, and bread—the so-called sandwich. In communist times, they had fewer vegetables because transportation was not as developed as it is today. As vegetarians, our people were consuming every day one to two kilos of bread. The Czechoslovakian bread was very good, and it spoiled me too. You know, when we had a seminar, after evening satsaṅgs around 10 or 10:30, then every day we had a Sylvester—time for a sandwich. You cannot imagine: I could eat ten sandwiches, and people were looking, and they also enjoyed it. Those sandwiches are still reserved in my stomach; you can see clearly. So, food we get in the market—maybe fruits, vegetables, corn, or grains, and milk—they are all manipulated, and it definitely causes illnesses. Now, nearly every third person gets cancer. The main cause is the nourishment. People who are dealing with such companies do not consume these things; they get different food. They have enough money. Such food attacks our glandular systems, which attacks our hormones, changing our hormones. This will harm us more and more. So, we have the opportunity; we are blessed ones that we have yoga and we have the master who is an expert and tells the students, "Eat less." Anyhow, my diet is very controlled, and prāṇāyāma is very important. Prāṇa... so prāṇāyāma is more important than postures. But it does not mean that you will not practice the postures. It is unbelievable. I tell you one example. The day before yesterday, I was in Delhi. There is one man, a Muslim from a royal family, and we have a very good relation. He was very fat. Now he is 75, and he had diabetes, headaches, back pain, knee problems. He always said, "Swāmījī, what can I do?" I was always forcing him to do what I told him. He did it for ten days and gave up, and became more and more ill. Then, after about fourteen months, he decided he would follow Swāmījī one hundred percent. Whenever I go to Delhi, he comes to visit me. When he came to me yesterday, I could not recognize him. He was looking very young, and proudly he said, "Thank you, Swāmījī. I am your real disciple now. I followed you one hundred percent. I told myself, 'Keep my lips closed. Do not eat this and this and this.'" He lost 35 kilos. No more diabetes, no more headache, no more back pain, no joint pain. He always had very high blood pressure—no more high blood pressure. He is so happy. He said, "Thank you, Swāmījī." And I said, "I wish for such discipline too." Speaking is very easy, but to do it is a little difficult. He said to me, "A person like you, Swāmījī, has dinner in Delhi, breakfast in Vienna, lunch in Strelka, and dinner somewhere else. The body cannot resist, so slow down, Swāmījī." I said, "I will do." So, what I want to tell you about practical life is: if you practice it practically, you will be completely different in one year. Even if I pray to God for you, you have no things like that. But even some symptoms in the body, which could turn into cancer, will be avoided. It is a matter of missing immunity. Kaṭhūpraṇām was designed especially to develop immunity in the body. The second part of the Kaṭhopaniṣad will come tomorrow. Many of you know, so we shall practice. Nothing can be compared with practice. If you want to be healthy, happy, enjoying life, and have a long life, then practice yoga in daily life every day for two and a half hours. Go to sleep early, and quit your night. Wake up in the morning, not sleeping long. Practice, practice, practice. If we get old with this kind of laziness, you will not forgive yourself, lying in the hospital and sending SMS and email: "Swāmījī, please pray. I am diagnosed with cancer or something different." This is what a yoga teacher should know and become an example of. So, I wish you a very good appetite, but controlled. In Āyurveda, they say: one portion solid food, one portion for the liquid, and one portion for the bread, and another for space. Then you will be healthy. We have enough to eat, but it does not mean we have to finish all. So begin today. Patañjali said yoga begins with discipline. So when should we develop discipline? Aṭṭa means now. Just now. Not after one hour. Not tomorrow. But just now. So, mentally decide now. So you will, let us say, not a quarter, but today, half. If you eat 200 grams today, 100 grams tomorrow, 90 grams the next day, slowly, slowly. Make sure that in your sleeping room you have no chocolates, no biscuits, no cakes, no fruits, no nuts. Give it all to the kitchen. They will put it in the food and use it for us. So, I wish you all the best. In the evening, we will have satsaṅg here in the same place. If they put your loss... I cannot ask him every time, "Please stop, please rain." So, I wish you good appetite. At seven is prayer here, and 7:30 is the webcast. I said that you can come for greetings, so some can come now until seven. I will be sitting here, but do not make a long queue; go and eat. Okay? So, thank you, all the best. The webcast will be about seven forty-five. Dīp Nand Bhagavān Kī, Devī Svar Mahā Dev, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī, Sanātan Dharmakī, Om Śānti Śānti Śānti.