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Today is a very good day. No matter which direction you look, it is beautiful. It is the first of November, a very pleasant month with many different moods and qualities. It is colorful. Look at the trees—everything is beautiful and colorful, especially for an artist who paints. Old life is also beautiful. Do not think you are always young, young, young. Young and old exist together; this is the beauty of old life. Not only does the tree get color, but we also get color. God is working for everyone, mixing things nicely. There is still some black, some white, a little grey. It is beautiful: half the hair is white and half is black. If you want to see the beauty of life, then do not put color in your hair. Why do we put color? There must be some desire we still have. As long as you have desire, you cannot proceed towards higher consciousness. Fashion kills people, and you know how much? Of course, fashion supports the economy, but which economy? Your home economy, your personal economy, is not in good condition. How much do we spend on different things? Many things are full of chemicals and very expensive, like makeup. When you go to the airport and walk towards the gate, there is no free access. You must go through all kinds of shops: chocolate, alcohol, and many others. There are also shops for color. I went to see, and I wanted one nice lipstick because it is easy to make a tilak. I said I need two colors: one like this and one to do it like this. The person said to me, "Swamiji, this tilak will be very expensive." Such an expensive thing you put on, and in the morning and evening you wash it away. For what? When you wash your face in the evening and look in the mirror, you get depressed. You think, "Tomorrow I will practice yoga." In the morning, you are ready again. The money is gone, and the skin is hanging. Yoga helps, really, if you practice every day. Use less of these chemical things, these makeups. You will have beauty because the skin itself keeps the beauty. But when you put too many chemical things on the skin, too much cream, it is not good. It does not matter what kind of best makeup thing is there; it contains a little alcohol. Maybe very fine quality alcohol, and that will dry the skin. Then you have to put on cream again, and again it will dry. So you become dependent. I tell you my own experience. When I came to Europe, people used to give me nice cream. I put the cream on my skin, on my hands, and on my feet. After one month, I could not refuse myself. I could not sleep without putting cream on my feet. For years and years I said, "No, I do not want this." I went to sleep without cream. You will not imagine—at three o'clock in the morning, I had to put cream on to sleep. Until three, I could not sleep. I said, "No, I will not have cream." I went to the bathroom, came back, put a little water on the soles of my feet, and again they dried. They said it was the best cream; I forgot the name of the company. I could not give it up, and sometimes I was putting such a thick layer on my feet. Then once Gurujī invited me. Gurujī told me I should come at Guru Pūrṇimā time. It was so hot in India. When it is very hot, you sweat more. I was sweating, and the humidity there... I forgot to put the cream. In ten days, I got rid of the cream. Otherwise, wherever I went here in Europe, once somebody gave this diet coke, and it is very good. So, where people were putting cream where I sleep, a bottle of the Diet Coke, even now sometimes they are putting that cream. But now, thanks to Mahāprabhujī, I am not depending. And if then, oil, pure oil: sesame oil, olive oil, different kinds of oils, pure oil, cold-pressed. That is very healthy for the skin and for everything. The best thing is to save your money. You should use a little real oil, not that orange oil, mango oil, Swedish can oil. There is something inside, blended. All of you, all girls, boys, good journey. Let's make up. See you. Yoga regenerates our body, the cells, our skin. It is great support for our gland systems, organs, and blood circulation. And what do we need? Blood circulation. With too many creams we block our skin; it cannot breathe properly. That is why many ṛṣis in their tradition, their skin breathes very easily and very nicely. It is not true that creams help; they are blocking. So, clean nicely, if possible with natural soap, neem soap, and then take a little sesame oil, almond oil, olive oil, pure oil, and put a little bit on the skin. It will make your skin most beautiful again. Practice. When we practice the āsanas... Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Gyāneśwar Purī told you in Jaipur, he does not use so much cream, no. He does not use, except on his skin. But Vivek Purī told you yesterday. So you see, Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Vivek Purī does not use any kind of cream except ice cream. You see, psychologically we have to satisfy our feelings, so ice cream is okay. It is sugar. It is sweet. Whoever does not eat sugar will get diabetes. Yes. I gave up sugar in 1978, and I got diabetes in 1998. Because I did not eat sugar, my cholesterol went high. Because I gave up eating ghee naturally in 1981, I got cholesterol and heart problems in 1998. There are many doctors and many therapists. I do not compare with the doctors; I am not a doctor. But I can tell you, we should have natural food. We need it. Otherwise, the body will produce itself. When you do not eat sugar, the body will produce sugar. When you do not eat oil and butter, then the body will produce fat inside. So our habit, our diet, is very important. Of course, you should not eat 100 grams of butter per day, but limit it. And yoga practice. Yoga is really a beautiful diet for the body. All the gland systems, all the nerve systems, all the muscles, all the ligaments, all the joints, they are nicely moved. People want to do things quickly, but it has no effect. That is why slowly, but you should have to do it in such a way that you do this slowly, but you will feel that, oh, it was really strong. So this depends on the teacher. We have in yoga and in life hundreds of teachers. They are very, very good. Many of these people who are sitting here, how many years they have been practicing yoga in their life. If they went to some other kind of practice, they were frightened and came back again. So you are practicing, but do something more: less chemicals and less makeup. You should make up a little bit, okay, no problem. Make up your mind that you will practice. Use little chemical things. You will use natural things, and instead of making makeup, you will practice two āsanas more. That will regenerate our tissues again. That is how they said that yogis, maintaining good health, look young. They cannot become young, maybe one or two. If you can make all people young, then I will believe. No, Śāntī? Otherwise, what is it doing, only to become young and this and that? What is the use of this? Sooner or later, we have to say bye-bye, so practice yoga. There are exercises for the face. When you do matsyāsana, you do not know how your face muscles are also stretching. When you are rolling the neck, the face muscles also. When we bend forward, the blood circulation is applied. So there are many, many postures which are good for the body. Let us make a saṅkalpa that I will practice one and a half hours of āsanas the whole year, this whole year. Make a saṅkalpa; it is only one and a half months left. That is it. I always give you the shortcut. And prāṇayāma. So always yoga practice should make us happy, relaxed, and more energetic. Food. Now I was disappointed. Someone brought me, they said, "Swamiji now drinks a little tea with sugar." Half a cup, but brown sugar. And Gyāneś brought organic brown sugar. That is a little expensive, and it was in a katorī, in a cup: sugar, brown sugar, on one plate. It was in the frame of the window, and he forgot to close the window. The rain came. Some water drops fell into the katorī on the half side, so maybe one or two spoons of water fell into half of the katorī of sugar. Then Janis Vary came, and he was surprised. In Swamiji's room, it is a miracle. "I filled the cup full of brown sugar, and half is white and half is brown." So it was a brown color on the sugar. Moment, listen. It was from India. So everybody blames India. Yes. Then I came to Vienna, and I told Mānsā Devī, "Brown sugar." It was in Vaibh. They call it bio-shop from Vienna. They brought the brown sugar. I said, let us make an experiment, and I put one spoon of water on that sugar. It became so quickly white. My beard took 15, 20 years to get white. So, brown sugar... there must be brown sugar, but for businessmen, it does not matter. So, the best is the good, good that is from the cane sugar. That is very healthy. So, every day one should have at least 20 grams of sugar in 24 hours and one tablespoon of ghee. Sometimes two teaspoons of sugar is healthy with coffee, and two or three tablespoons of ghee on the bāṭī, dāl bāṭī. Sometimes it is okay, so please eat. Eat solid and good food, not junk food. And then walk, do every day āsanas, one and a half hours. In four or five months, you will be different. Your skin color will be more beautiful than with makeup. Once I heard music, a folk song, long ago. It was a cassette someone gave me from Slovakia. One singer, one girl, was singing, and I was told what she was singing. That girl was singing, "I have no money. My family is not so rich, but every day my cheeks are nice and red because I wash with the coffee water, with cold snow water." So look, cold water was nice, and go in bright sun. So the body manages everything in a good, nice way. We know that you have heard, many of you, about health and the World Health Organization, that they proved, they agreed, that meat causes cancers. And especially, they said—I did not read, people told me—the sausage, buffaloes, cows, goats, milk, goat and buffalo and cow's meat, so many cause cancer. Thanks to God that we are healthy. But if someone is diagnosed with cancer, definitely, we are not happy. It does not matter who is who. We make thoughts. And that devil, cancer, is with us in our body or on our skin. And we cannot get rid of that. Look what a māyā of God. Maybe in the past there were also cancers, but not so much. Now every third person is diagnosed. So this is in the food. It was not so much meat eaten in the past. Once, someone gave me a book from the Tyrol, Austria, a very nice vegetarian cooking book. So people were not eating so much, and people loved their animals. They loved their cows. They loved their goats. But now we do not have cows, we do not have goats, but we have the meat, and you do not know how animals were killed, how animals were fed. This all comes to us, and a lot of pollution. We cannot stop. We have no power to tell those big companies to stop. But we can stop eating. It is our body, our health. And we can practice, so definitely yoga will keep us healthy. But you have to dedicate two or three hours a day. So when you have three hours a day for yoga, how many hours in a year? About... how many? 1,000? Let us say 1,100. Can you practice continuously, 1,300? No. But when you do it every day, that will keep you healthy. To be honest, I must begin too. Yes. But I can only begin if you do. That is it. So you know that the dog school, the school for the dogs, so when two dogs are doing, following the master, then the second also does. So when you all will do, I will also do. So let us say, next time, I wish you all the best. Many, many blessings on the day of our beloved Gurujī. Very soon, Dīvālī is coming, Dīpāvalī, and I wish you a happy Dīvālī. Dīvālī is like Christmas. Rāmnāmī is also like a Christmas, so every day is a festival. Guru Nānak Jī said, "Sadā Dīvālī Santke." For the saints, every day is Dīvālī. Sato, Bar, Tehwar, and every seven days of the week is a festival. Every day is Dīvālī, and the whole week is a festival. For whom? Yogīs practice. So I wish you all the best. Many are traveling to India, and I too tomorrow, and I will come back soon. Mahāprabhujī's Mahāsamādhi is on the 5th of December in Vip. So around the 28th of November, yes, November, I will come. And this evening there will be no satsaṅg in Vienna because I also have to practice, begin. Yeah, so see you when I come back. And wish all the best and much love to the whole family, all friends, and always be happy. Czechoslovakian butter is very good, and bread, so good bread. And I like it, you know. You see here? This was my sandwich. I tell you my bad habits. After all the programs, in the evening, at eleven o'clock, we sat together and shared stories, and midnight was the semester. We were eating sandwiches. Oh my God! Toast bread and butter, and I like it, Olomouc cheese. Really. So when I ate there one week in Czechoslovakia, Olomouc cheese... one month in Vienna, people could smell. So we have good food, good nature. God gave everything, and we pray that in the whole world it should be like that. So, eat well and practice well. That is good. Shabbat Shalom.