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Yoga, the inner engineering

The inner mechanism requires understanding nourishment and energy for self-knowledge. Life's symbols contain wisdom. The five bodies constitute our being, from the physical to the causal. Energy is singular but functions diversely, present in food, water, air, and earth. The body possesses an automatic balancing mechanism. Most consume food excessively, confusing the body's energy and causing disease. Eating should be for living, not living for eating. Consuming incompatible items like ice cream after a meal damages the digestive fire. Daily habits disrupt inner functions, glands, and digestion. The energy gained directly from nature—touching the earth, a tree, or sunlight—is immense and pure. Confused energy from unnatural eating alters the mind, feelings, and life. Changing one's entire living system is essential for health and spiritual knowledge. Research your nourishment and eat according to your local environment and season. The inner mechanism must be corrected through yoga, prāṇāyāma, and conscious living.

"We are not eating for living, but we are living for eating."

"The energy which we gain from nature—from the earth, where you touch the earth with your naked foot... you can’t imagine how much energy comes into our body."

Filming locations: Strilky, Czech Republic.

Oṁ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Śrī Devpurīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Oṁ Śrī Viprabhudī, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Devīśvara Mahādeva, Alakhpurī Jī Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Satyasanātana Dharma, Kī Jaya. Again, we are on that subject: the inner Kriyā, the Inner Mechanism or the Inner Engineering. We can use words according to the modern language, but ultimately we come to the same point. The thing is that we have to research ourselves, and we have to work within ourselves. Many things in life are symbolic. They are an example, but within them lies a great treasure of wisdom. Yesterday we spoke about the Pañcakośa, the five different kinds of bodies, from the physical body to the causal body. These are the different levels of our being. In our life, the first is called the Ātmā. Then, it is Jīvātmā, consciousness, awareness, intellect, mind, emotion, senses, desires, and body. The body exists on different levels: the physical body, the body of nourishment, the energy body—prāṇa, prāṇamaya kośa—the body of the prāṇas, the energy. Now, the energy—when we think of energy—still, we don’t understand. What is the energy, and how energy is working is not easy. Energy is only one, but it has different functions and different qualities. In this way, energy is in the food, in the water, in the air, in the earth. In many different things, energy can support us, and energy can kill us. So there must be some mechanism in the body which is automatically balancing; it takes care of our body, like a stabilizer. Where is that machine in the body that is monitoring that energy? That energy distributes and functions in different parts of the physical body through the glands, through the nerves, muscles, etc. Now, if we use and gain 100% energy, there are two techniques. These two techniques are very easy and very difficult, both. There are two things involved. One is called the time. Which time? When? In which season? Which month, and which moon, moon day, the moon phase? The second is physical nourishment, and there is our weakness. We eat too much. In one life, we eat for ten lives. And there is our problem: our energy is confused in the body. That is the cause of many diseases, what we call even cancers and many different things, because we do not eat for our energy and for living. We are not eating for living, but we are living for eating. So, limitation in nourishment. We should know which kind of food, which kind of fruits, or different things we can take. What we do is we get a good meal and we eat. Then we have ice cream. To eat ice cream after the meal is a horror. That is very, very bad for digestion. You don’t know. You only know how tasteful the ice cream is. It’s only the taste in the mouth. After, when you swallow, there’s no taste, nothing. But we kill our digestive fire. When we take some food in the stomach, it begins the function of digestion, creating hormones, blood, etc. And you put cold ice cream on it. Then, many, many damages take place in the body. Or you eat ice cream five hours after eating and then don’t eat again for five hours. That’s okay, but it’s not so okay. Ice cream is not described for our eating. Nowhere is it written in Āyurveda or anywhere to eat ice cream. Nowhere. After eating ice cream, good food, and then ice cream, you are still sitting at the dining table and talking, and, of course, the restaurant would like to make money. Then the waiter comes, "Madam or sir, would you like to have coffee or tea?" Okay, I will take a coffee, or a tea, or green tea, anything like that. Now you drink a hot coffee or chai, and then you send it before the ice cream inside. These kinds of habits of eating damage your own inner functions in the body, glands, digestion, fire, etc. And day by day, we are increasing our diet. So, one person in a lifetime eats more than 80 tons. Can you imagine? Eighty tons, and in some cases nearly one hundred tons. Eighty tons of eating is for eight lives. Therefore, the energy which we gain from nature—from the earth, where you touch the earth with your naked foot, or with your palms, or any part of the body—you can’t imagine how much energy comes into our body. If you touch a tree, the trunk of a tree, you get immense energy. Or you just look at the sunlight, just stand there, and you will feel how much energy we get. Also, you touch the ice block, and there you will get an immense amount of energy through your palms, but that immense amount of energy you will not get when you take an ice cream. Yeah, summer is coming. Summer holiday is coming. And you will go and take a big ice cream, and you will remember about me. And you will say, "No, Swamiji is talking." So this is our weakness, and that’s why a lot of problems, physical problems and mental problems, are coming. Then, from time to time, it changes your taste. You cannot keep the same thing for a long time. You want to change, you want to change. Also, you want to change your partners. And you know, these are already problems. How many problems? So this is because of the problems of the energy, and that energy is confused with an unnatural way to eat. If you have a Trabant or a Mercedes, the mechanism is the same, but sometimes you want to drive quickly or like that. So, the life God gave us, the entire human body’s mechanism is the same in everyone. If you have changes in your mind, you have changes in your feelings. If you have changes in your feelings, you have changes in your opinions, house, profession, clothes. Then these changes take hold in you, and they change your life. And that means the wrong energy enters your body. Now, it doesn’t matter how much you pray, how many kriyās you are doing, how many mantras you are doing, it doesn’t function 100%. So there is the inner mechanism, and there is what I said after the consciousness: the awareness, the intellect, the mind, and emotion. These points help us to live healthy, happy, and long. Bodhi, may you live a long, happy, and healthy life and attain the Divine Consciousness, the High Consciousness. This is it. So weakness is within us, and energy is... sometimes now that energy you cannot preserve. The energy is just going. Your body does not accept that energy. And your body and organs do not accept each other’s support. They said in diabetes that your pancreas creates lots of insulin, lots of insulin, but your body has forgotten, and now this body does not accept that kind of hormone or insulin which is produced by the pancreas. And so, we now use medicine and injections. We use the injection, but the pancreas is still thinking, "I must give more insulin." So much insulin is produced by the pancreas, the pancreas is exhausted and then gives up. So, practicing yoga, if you have the aim, the target, to get healthy and get ātmā jñāna, then you have to change the whole system of your living. It’s very easy and very difficult, also because you have some friends. They will say you are crazy. It is said, when you drink a lot of coffee at different times, then your liver will suffer. And you will have less thirst, though it is said, with the coffee you get a glass of water. And then, whoever drinks the coffee must drink more water, five times more than one cup of coffee. Otherwise, liver problems, and then you have headache problems. So, mostly headache problems are because we do not drink enough. And drink means pure water, not juice, not milk, not alcohol, not beer. This is not a drink; it is counted as a diet. The milk is a food, so pure water. Drink three, four, five liters of water. You clean the inner system. But we don’t drink that kind of water. So to change the inner mechanism—this is a very important mechanism which is very important for our mind, emotion, intellect, etc.—to keep the organs healthy. So one day you should say, "Now enough. Now enough." No more. But when you said enough and no more—enough, no more ice cream—then you will change into the beer or a little vodka instead of the coffee and ice cream. This is that which does not replace, instead of one another, harmful things. So it is our own decision, our own feelings, and we should do our own self. All of us here, we have energy in the body which we don’t need. All this energy which is reflecting on our cheeks and different parts of the body is artificial energy. The organs and the glands are suffering. Eighty percent of us all, including myself, unnecessarily carrying the luggage. When you go to the staircase, then you know how many kilos you have, unnecessary to carry. And when you lose the kilos, people will say, "Are you ill? Oh God, your skin is hanging. You look very thin. Are you fasting?" Say no. I’m practicing yoga. Wow! No, I don’t want to practice yoga. When I do, I will also look like this? Say no, because I am not practicing yoga. I am doing something extremely, therefore slowly, slowly reduce those bad habits. And instead of that, increase your exercises. Increase the amount of exercise, more exercises, prāṇāyāmas, and healthy eating, seasonal eating, my dear. What now? We have cherries. Time we shall eat? But at Christmas time, to eat the cherries, it’s not good for our body because we live in this climate. There is a diet called the macrobiotic diet, and they say, eat only what is growing within a 40-kilometer range. But we are importing from Japan, from Konya, Africa, from South America, and from China, nothing from the Czech Republic, and you are living in the Czech Republic. Now you have water from Fiji, and you are living here. The Fiji water does not suit the Czech water. They made a research now that one river is flowing, and there are some others, 500 km far, 100 km, 200, 300 km distance. One river is dry, so they supply water from another river, 500 km to that other river which is dried, and the vegetation died there. Because that water has other bacteria, which cannot suit and support that climate there, which is 500 kilometers away. That’s why when you go from the Czech Republic to India and you drink the Indian water, you get diarrhea. And the people who come from India, if they drink the normal Czech water, they will get diarrhea. But now in the water there are many chemicals, chlorine in the water and different things. So you see, in every 70 or 50 kilometers, or let’s say 100 kilometers, the atmosphere changes, the energy changes. Vegetation changes, language changes. So, this is how in yoga we have to carefully understand what our inner mechanism is and what kind of nourishment and energy it needs. You have a petrol engine, and you put diesel in it. And you have diesel, but you are putting water. And where is the water, diesel, machine, engine? And you put alcohol, so God made our engine, our motor in the body, which is running with water. And instead of that, now you put inside alcohol. God says, I didn’t give you a human body for this. Then the brain centers die. Many other glands die, and no surprise that many problems come. And not only physical problems. When you become alcoholic, then the whole family is suffering. The wife is suffering. Children are suffering. Their education is suffering. Your work is suffering. How many things are damaged because of changing to a different liquid in that mechanism? So that’s what we call the inner mechanism to make a correction through the practice of yoga in daily life. Some we can repair only through mantra, through prayers and inner feelings. There are different kinds of nature in a person, and one is called individualistic. That person cannot feel good with the group, and feels anxiety. This is a psychic problem from childhood. In the very beginning, in school, the child came to see more children and was frightened. So, how we educate children nowadays is wrong. In all the time, in every village, all the children were playing with the whole street of children from the beginning. And those children don’t have phobias. That’s it. So, try to research your nourishment. Don’t think that I must have the cheese from Holland. The Holland cow milk doesn’t suit the Slovak. The Slovakian is a good brinjal, not the Holland cheese. When Dutch people eat brinjal, they get diarrhea, or they don’t like the taste. And when you eat that wrapped in the plastic, in the wax cheese, if you eat it like soap, think of your own environment where you are living and where you are born now. It takes a long time to change. Yes, if you go from here to Africa and work there, it will take time. After 50 years of working in Africa, you are used to all the food and drink and everything there. After 50 years, you come to Czech. Oh, you enjoy eating the chair. So, my dear, it is in the blood. It is in your psychic. And it is yours, where you first breathed in when you were born. Therefore, these five different bodies, which we have: Annamaya, Prāṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijñānamaya, and Ānandamaya Kośas. There is inside the mechanism to make correction, to come to meditation. Otherwise, you cannot meditate. You are trying and trying to meditate. Sometimes you can get something that is sleeping. Meditation. Say to the neighbor, "Are you okay?" So let’s work for one month. I will come back again in Strilky, and you will change. Eat all the beautiful, good fruits from your country. All kinds of water come from here. All chocolate comes from here. The cheese is from here. You like the Olomouc cheese, but the Italians don’t like it, you know? So when Italians smell the Olomouc cheese, they become ill. And Olomouc people, when they get this cheese, oh, sorry. Similarly, in South Korea, in Korea, they make a kind of salad or pickle, and that’s from onions. And when you open the fridge, we immediately close the door because of the smell of the rotten onions. Once in Olomouc, they gave me one kilo, two kilos of cheese. I liked it. And I put it in my suitcase. It was communist time. I was on the train, and at the border between Austria and the Czech Republic, they said, "Please open your luggage. I want to see the Czechs." I opened the luggage, and the police said, "Close it." I said, "There is no cobra." So whenever I used to come there on this border, they asked me, "Do you have Olomouc cheese?" So you see, every country has something different. So this is, think of this as our nourishment, and then, as I told you, we have to find our path, our spiritual path, where our roots should go, so what I call the Guru Paramparā, Alakh Purījī Paramparā, from the Satya Yuga, and what we call, what means the Kumbha Melā? What does Kumbha Melā mean? That I will talk about in the afternoon. So, the Kumbha Mela is still churning the potion, and still there is coming nectar or poison. There are Devas and Rākṣasas within everyone. So, mythologically, I will explain to you the meaning and the picture of the churning of the ocean. And you can produce the nectar to become immortal, or you can produce the poison. So yesterday I gave you three mudras and the center in the body, which were activating the divine energy, the Amṛtā. And that’s why Jīvāme Amṛta Ātmā, in our nectar, Jīvāme Madhu Ātmā, in the tongue should be on the tongue, the honey. So, I wish you all the best and a good journey. Many people are driving. Well, as Mahāprabhujī would bow or say, we’ll see you again here. All the best, and thank you. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Alakh Purī Samahādeva Kī Jai, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...

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