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Asana and Pranayama

Yoga is for body, mind, and consciousness, aiming for comfort, health, and balance. The essence is to feel comfortable and happy, not to compete or force the body. The yoga mat itself is called an āsana, meaning a seat or a comfortable posture. Health is foundational; without it, everything is nothing. Breath is life, and prāṇa is the cosmic energy distinct from oxygen, flowing through the nerves. The body has 72,000 nerves, with three central channels—Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā—vital for receiving this energy. Hatha Yoga balances the lunar and solar energies within these channels. Practices like Vajrāsana after eating aid digestion by calming the nervous system. Prāṇāyāma cleanses and sustains life, as breath is more crucial than food or water. Ultimately, yoga is a personal tool for health and happiness, requiring self-responsibility to overcome inner obstacles like jealousy and anger.

"Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health."

"Prāṇa is that energy, cosmic energy, not oxygen. Prāṇa is supplied by the Cosmic Mother free of charge."

Part 1: The Essence of Yoga: Comfort, Health, and Cosmic Energy Nice to see you. This is a beautiful city with beautiful, very massive buildings. The stonework is nice, and there are always nice clouds, so the sun is not too strong. It’s cold, which keeps our life long. When we put vegetables and things in the fridge, in a cool room, they last long. And so, when we are here in the cool climate, then I think we will live long. That’s it. Also, I heard there are some yoga teachers who are teaching here. Who are they? May I know? I said, one, two, three. Very good. Welcome. This year, 21 June was the International Day of Yoga. This has already been announced for two years. So, this year they gave a very nice title or subject: "Yoga for Body and Beyond." That was good. Everything is inside, everything. So, the beyond is endless. This is a good subject. We understand beyond means more than mental, emotional, intellectual, concentration, awareness—different levels of the consciousness, different kinds of yoga: karma yoga, bhakti yoga, rāja yoga, jñāna yoga. There are eighteen different kinds of yoga declared by Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad Gītā. Then there are other kinds of yoga: Kriyā Yoga, Sahaja Yoga, Prāṇa Yoga, and now they also call it Vinyāsa Yoga. You know the Vinyāsa Yoga? You didn’t hear? It began in San Francisco. So, like this yoga school, they call it Vīṇā Yoga. When you come to the center, then they come with a tray and offer you different kinds of wine, of course not a big glass, just a little. And then you come to your yoga mat, we call it āsana. In India, we call it āsana. Āsana has many meanings. So when you come and sit on your yoga mat, then again service goes to offer you a little drink, "How are you?" and so on, and then says, "Relax." So after alcohol, it seems that they can relax. Similarly, everyone who has some ideas puts it. But classical, authentic, ancient yoga, if we are doing that, is good. So, yoga is for body, mind, soul, and consciousness. The health, physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. So, the ethics, morals, and spiritual education. That is beyond āsanas, prāṇāyāma, kriyā, mudrās, bandhas, meditation, concentration, dhyāna, and samādhi. So there are so many things for humans to do, to choose from. We can’t do all. It is too much; then we have no time. And it’s not necessary to do all. Postures, āsanas, in yoga we do not have competition and no challenge. This is the nature of the yogī. Challenge and competition are for businessmen or sportsmen to win some medals. Yoga is for our health. I often say, there is one slogan from some person, a wise person: "Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health," and that is correct. Whatever we are doing is for our health. You are here, and you are practicing at home; you are teaching also to be healthy. We are healthy. Healthy means that we are comfortable and happy. We can work, we can walk, we can sleep well, we can eat well. We are healthy, but one day the body will begin slowly, slowly to weaken, and the soul will go out of the body. So, āsanas. Where you are sitting is your āsana. Your mat is called āsana. Please take your āsana and sit. Where should I put your āsana? Where would you like to sit? So, this is āsana. My āsana is this. And they put especially for me this one, so this is Swāmījī’s āsana. So, your āsana. Where will you have your āsana tonight? It means, where will you sleep? Where your bed is, that’s called āsana. That’s your āsana. So, the meaning of āsana is many, many things. And then comes āsana, to sit. Please take āsana. So, it means please sit comfortably. Now, which posture do you sit in? Every posture is an āsana: Sukhāsana, Vajrāsana, Padmāsana, Sahajāsana, and many, many more. Where we can sit comfortably, Sukhāsana, Sukhanāma Āsana. This posture, āsana, is where we feel comfortable. And when we are not comfortable, then we stretch our leg. This is also my comfortable āsana. I’m telling you this because some other teachers who are teaching, maybe their master or in their training, knew this subject, or because yoga is such a big subject, it is difficult to learn it all. We have three years of training, then you get a yoga certificate. So, the main thing is that you are comfortable. When we feel comfort in our body, then inside, our soul is also happy and comfortable. When we are healthy and balanced, then the body doesn’t move. The body only moves when we feel a little discomfort. So, in the glass there is water, and the glass is on the table, not moving. So, the water is also not moving. But now the table moves, and the water is also moving. Glass is moving, water is moving. So when our body is not comfortable—our body is always changing, or we feel discomfort—then we are not peaceful, we are not healthy. We may say, "Please sit straight, don’t move." It is easy for me to say, "Don’t move," but the one who has pain is sweating from it. Hey, don’t move, remain straight, breathe, slowly, slowly doing that. No movements, close your eyes. Then the Master closes his eyes also and relaxes. Then take the chance. So, āsana, nāmasukāsana, where we are happy, healthy, and feel comfortable. So, it doesn’t matter which āsanas you are doing, which kind of traditional yoga you are doing is okay. The main thing is that you are comfortable, healthy, happy, and you have a lot of prāṇas. Therefore, that was the yoga. Then, many things we take from nature, so mostly the names of āsanas, which means postures, are names from nature: the tree, the trunk, the branch, the cat, the rabbit, the tiger, the lion, the snake, the scorpion, etc. So this is a posture, how they are. Moving and maintaining their lives. Now, there is one other theory on that, another opinion, that our soul is traveling in different bodies. In this life, our soul is in a human body. Next life, it may be in another body. The human body is the last milestone to come to the supreme, the highest, whatever we call it. If we miss this, we have to go again in that cycle of birth and death. So they said that if you practice a particular posture, then in the next life you will not come as this kind of animal. Yes, you will not be a snake, you will not be a cat, you will not be a dog, you will not be this. So if there is some karma, some qualities to go that side, then while doing āsanas, you will replace it. So you have a way directly to your highest aim; your highway is going straight. So there are many, many meanings, many opinions. Again, I come to the point where you feel comfortable, relaxed, and happy and healthy. That is the best, so no competition. Don’t break your spinal column. Don’t break your knees or hips. Don’t torture your body. Feel comfortable. We are here to be comfortable and happy, and to help others to be happy and healthy. So this is an easy way to take the yoga and practice. So every master does their best to give the best to the students. And people have a choice of which kind of techniques or masters they want to have. It’s all right, very good, very good. So, postures, āsanas. So your yoga mat is also called an āsana. That is my yoga practicing āsana. My yoga āsana that I am practicing, so there are many, many things. Good, this is one thing. Second thing is, well, we still have 10 minutes to... I’m just talking normally, okay? Don’t count it as a lecture. Then there is the breath. Breath is life. Life is breath. When we were born, first what we did was inhale, and then exhale, and then we tried to cry. Or they do something so that you will have a good voice, good singing, and your lungs are opened better. But first, inhalation begins counting life in this world. We are born old; we are getting old in the mother’s body, but there are some restrictions. So we are born nine months old, so that the tune, brother and sister, in mother’s body. And they also have their diagnosis. Dialogues, please, not diagnosis. Dialect. So, sister says to the brother, "Brother, we will inhale the nice smells." What? Are you crazy? What happened to you? We inhale, and we will be born. Will we be born? What is that? I don’t want to be born. I am comfortable. You know, we will eat, sister. You are always telling me what to do. Eat? What is this? Yes, we will eat and bore. Don’t make me stupid. So they have their dialogue in the mother’s body, and when they have come out, then the brothers see, "Yes, what is happening? My sister said it was all right." So the dialogue is all the time in the astral body, too. So when we inhale the first time, and the last time we will exhale, we will not be able to inhale again. That is death. So life is from birth until the inhalation, until that exhalation. Between is like on the ocean waves, water waves coming. But it’s from one soul to another soul. So, our life is long, and we shall take care of our health and save our prāṇa, our breath, so we can live long and healthy. So, there are many questions about this. The breath is the breath. Is the breath the life? Life is a breath? Or is a soul a life? The prāṇa is the life. So, there are always questions. What is the reality? So, in different postures, we get different energy, and the main thing is for our health. This is all for our health. So, when there is some problem with some muscles or a joint or the organs, digestion, etc., then we practice particular postures and it will be repaired. That’s very good. So yoga is for the body, for health. But health is nothing; everything is. But without health, everything is nothing. In this way, I experienced—now I am 45 years in this part of the world—so I made some experiences. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā He Kevalam... Hands beside the body, palms open and facing upward slightly, elbows relaxed. Relax your legs, relax your elbows, relax your hip joints and the knees. Relax your shoulders, relax your neck and face muscles. Now, take one deep inhale and exhale. Just relax. Feel your whole body and relax the whole body, from the toes to the top of the head and from the top of the head to the toes. Just relax. This is called Ānandāsana, the blissful position. Some call Śavāsana, like a dead body, but this is negative. So we change from the Śavāsana to the Ānandāsana. Be bliss, the joy. And now, again, two, three times: deep inhale and exhale. Slowly move your fingers and toes. Rotate your ankle joints. And close your fist and rotate your wrists. Deep inhale and raise your hands up above the head. Stretch the body and slowly exhale. Bring your hands beside the body. Once again, inhale and stretch the whole body. Now, rotate your body to the left and to the right, keeping your hands over the head. Very good. Lie on your back. Cycle with your left leg. Raise your left leg up and cycle forward. Now, the other side. Cycle backward. With the left leg, left leg, not forward, backward. Pendling back, good. Stretch your leg and take your right leg up. Five times cycling forward, only with your right foot, right leg, and five times backward. Very good. Both legs up, alternative cycling forward, like a normal cycle, and now reverse cycling. Perfect. Stretch your legs out. On the floor, bend your right knee and hold your right knee. Bring your forehead to the right knee, or touch your nose to the knee if you can. If you cannot, then make your saṅkalpa. Next year when I am here, you will be able to do it. One year’s time, very good. Stretch your left leg out. Slowly raise your head up and touch your nose or forehead to the knee. This posture is especially very good for our stomach, for digestion, for intense times. It’s a prevention against all stomach problems, especially for the appendix. Change your knee, meaning bring the right knee up, raise your head, and touch the knee and nose. If you have a pillow under your neck, please remove it. Bend both knees, hold your knees, and very relaxed and comfortable, roll your body left and right. Very good. Perfect. Stretch your legs out and slightly turn right, left side. Roll your body a little to the left side and sit up. Let’s do once or twice Paścimottānāsana. Stretch your legs. Slowly inhale and raise your hands up, and while exhaling, bend forward. Touch or hold your legs, and if you can, bring your forehead towards the knees. Remain there as long as you can comfortably, with normal breath. Then, raise your hands up. And hands down on the knees. Very good. Now I will introduce you to something about prāṇa. This was body warming, dynamic movements, a little stretching, good for your body. According to the yogic anatomy, in our body there are 72,000 nerves. These 72,000 nerves are responsible for supplying energy to the muscles, ligaments, tissues, glands, blood circulation, heart, and organs of our body. Everything is balancing and supplying energy to all these organs and functions of the body, so that everything is healthy. 72,000 nerves means, for example, the alphabet Y. So there is one branch, and then it becomes two branches. And further it goes, then again comes one branch. So likewise, the nervous system spreads its network through the whole body. If one nerve is damaged, then in that area, the body is suffering; the supply of energy is a little bit less, but other nerves overtake it somehow. So therefore, what we call the operations, when we go under operation, then some nerves are damaged, some are cut. Though the doctors take care very much, very, very much, but still sometimes a very small, tiny nerve, which is over our flesh and muscle, has to be cut, and then they remove it. So, there are not many people in the world who have all 72,000 nerves complete. The nerve is like a tree; where there is a knot, there comes the leaf or the branch. And so, where the knot is, there the other nāḍī begins, the nerve. From this, we know according to the chakras, the science of chakras, kuṇḍalinī, or the science of the breath, prāṇāyāma, or the nerve systems. Of these 72,000 nerves, three are very important, known to us according to yoga books. And this is receiving the cosmic energy. Now, here, energy is not the oxygen. The oxygen we receive is through our respiratory system. Also, we receive oxygen through our skin with humidity. But that cosmic energy is not oxygen, neither consciousness. Our consciousness, our awareness. In this case, our sensibility is through the nerves, and that consciousness flows through the nerves. That’s called cosmic energy. Now, many of you may know, when you read about yoga books and chakras and such, there are three nerves. One is the major nāḍī, that’s called Suṣumnā. And Suṣumnā nāḍī is that one main channel which receives the cosmic energy through our Sahasrāra Cakra or the Bindu Cakra. These two glands, the pineal and pituitary glands, are responsible for catching, producing, and balancing the further functions in the body through the Suṣumnā Nāḍī, the central nerve, and the so-called small brain. There come the two nāḍīs, nerves, and they are connecting to our respiratory system, nose, nostrils. We know other animals also have two hemispheres, and we also have two hemispheres. And both our hemispheres should function equally. It should not be one-sided. So the science tells us that language is very important for both hemispheres. Time of dreaming, time of sleeping, time of thinking, time of speaking, time of singing, time of writing, and time of reading. In all this action, what is happening? Both hemispheres are equally balanced or active. That language is the best language, and that will keep our memory and many things all well, as both hemispheres are functioning. I had one disciple, he is not alive anymore in Austria, and he was a specialist for languages, and they were researching scientific work on the brain and languages. So he told which languages have an effect on both hemispheres equally. Sanskrit, Old Greek, Parsi, Latin, and one more language was forgotten. But some of them are only active during certain actions, but mostly. But the Old Greek, Sanskrit, and Parsi, these three, in every action, in sleep, in dream, in walking, both hemispheres are equally working. That’s, so our nervous system and our prāṇāyāma, what we do, breath techniques, are mostly to activate all the nerves towards going to the brain and the glands. Part 2: The Nāḍīs, Prāṇa, and the Path to Balance To cleanse and gain more memory, our memory is currently overloaded. It is like a computer telling you, "You have no more space." That is why, slowly, our memory diminishes—there is no space. However, the human brain possesses an immense amount of space, immense, if we take care and learn how to manage everything. Nourishment, movement, breath, and thinking—walking—there are many, many things to keep straight. But more about nourishment. So now, these three nāḍīs. One is that which I said: it is a cosmic nāḍī which gathers all the energy, everything for our life. Then it takes over. One is called the left hemisphere, and the other is the right hemisphere. The left one is called lunar, the moon principle. The moon principle is always thinking short-term. That is called in Sanskrit saṅkalpa vikalpa. We decide, and we again change. We decide and again change. "Oh yes," then "oh no, I changed my mind." So, that is a mind which is not responsible. But that is very important still. The principle of the left nostril is a moon principle. We said the goddess of the left nostril is the moon. The moon is never equal; it is always changing, growing or decreasing. Similarly, we are also growing and decreasing. It is a water principle. Water is emotion, and emotion has the most energy—very strong energy, very, very emotional. And emotion means... motion. When the emotion is that there is strong energy in our body, in your mind, to do something, that is emotion. Look, an earthquake is emotion to move the earth. It is not easy, but that is the power of the moon. It moves the whole ocean. On a dark moon night, the ocean is mostly calm, but the next day begins. The waves, and when the full moon is, the whole ocean and creatures are restless. Similarly, when we are more mental, when we are using our mind and emotion and we do not take decisions properly, then we are always in trouble. The right one is the Sun. Activity is warm, but it can be anger, restlessness. So that also has to be balanced. Now, these two, moon and sun: the moon is ha and the sun is tha. Ha and tha means hatha, and when both balance harmonizing here on the third eye, the eyebrow center, then it is called hatha yoga. So the name of Hatha Yoga comes from these two nerves, to bring them together to balance—that is Hatha Yoga. Then, because the energy is so strong, it is like a river. The river has the curve, not the water. So the nerves have the curve, not the energy. These two nerves go like this, serpentine. That is why they call Kuṇḍalinī a snake. There is no snake. There is nothing. This is energy moving inside, and so wherever they cross together, at the junction, there is one chakra. So, Sahasrāra Cakra, Bindu Cakra, Ājñā Cakra, Viśuddhi, Anāhata, Maṇipūra, etc. All these chakras, through these two energies moving like this, and one is in the center, one which is going. So, out of 72,000 nerves, these three are very, very important for our life, for our health, for our concentration, for our being, etc., etc., etc. Now, we have here this beautiful building. It was a church. Okay, no problem. Now it is also a church. We are also spiritual. This is a building with stones. When the cloud comes, it begins to thunder and lightning, and when this light hits and comes down, what happens to the building? It cracks. There is a mighty power. So, what we did is we have earthing. All the engineers who are sitting here know why they put earthing. They put earthing with coal and other materials in the earth and run one wire through the whole building, from the outside to the top. Nothing will happen, and that protects the whole building. And so there is another nāḍī, or nerve, which balances even the suṣumnā, iḍā, and piṅgalā nāḍīs. That Nāḍī is responsible for our physical, mental, and emotional life. And that is through the Vajrāsana. So, do you know all the names of Vajrāsana? Please sit in Vajrāsana now. Now, Vajra Nāḍī begins from between the big toe and the second toe. It starts from both toes, connected, goes in the middle, both left side and right side. This Nāḍī, Vajra Nāḍī, is also coming and going towards the spine. Vajranāḍī is maintaining 100% of our intense times, activities, health, not health, diarrhea, constipation, etc., etc., Vajranāḍī. So Vajranāḍī is a very strong tool for a yogī to have life balanced. All the time the yogīs used to have sandals with a wooden hook, and all the time it is between these two toes, and that was mastering the entire nāḍī systems. That protects from schizophrenia, that protects from anxiety, that protects from depression. This Vajranāḍī, and when we sit like this, it is suggested after eating we should sit a minimum of five minutes or ten minutes for digestion. It will help our intense times very, very much. In this, when we sit—you are sitting now in Vajrāsana—automatically your spinal column is relaxed, your shoulders are relaxed, no tension, elbows are very relaxed, and your stomach muscles are very, very relaxed. Now, the intense time, our intense time, is functioning very relaxed and free. Our intense time, you all know, is eight and a half meters long. In everyone, in our stomach, there is this heat pipe, 8.5 meters long. Whatever we eat goes through this, and that affects our health. So, prāṇa goes through this body and intestines. So, we have the best and good digestion. Therefore, Vajrā, Nāḍī, and this name of the āsana is after the Vajrāsana, Anāḍī. So, we sit in Vajra. What is Vajra? Vajra is a very strong, very strong substance. There is no stronger pillar or weapon than the Vajra. Vajra was the weapon of the king Indra in heaven. That is called Vajrapāṇi. Vajrapāṇī means when someone is doing bodybuilding and has strong arms and muscles. His or her hand is so strong. That is called Vajrapāṇi. So, this posture which we are doing makes our intestine so strong, you can digest your food easily and very well. It will supply that proper nutrition to our body and for digestion. So this is called the Vajrāsana, and in Vajrāsana you will feel... if you have gastric problems, you sit in Vajrāsana after eating for five to ten minutes. Try it and see what will be. It is also very good for the eye-sides, because eye-sides problems begin from our intestines, digestion, gases, and so on, not from here. So prāṇa, what we call the prāṇa, is that energy, cosmic energy, not oxygen. Prāṇa is supplied by the Cosmic Mother free of charge. No tax, so happiness, joyful, free thinking, kindness. This God gave us freedom. You should be happy. Nobody should question why you are happy. God gave you happiness. Contentment is that. So, God gave everything that we need, but we do not utilize it in the proper way. So, prāṇa, in our body, prāṇa is the strongest one. Prāṇa is connected with our breath. In breath, there is oxygen, but there is also cosmic energy in the breath. It gives us strength. When we have a little suitcase, a little heavy, and we are going to the airplane and we have to put it up. So, what do we do with the suitcase? It is heavy. So we do, we inhale and stop the breath, and we put the suitcase up and relax. This happens automatically; you are not doing it purposely. It is happening by itself. The body takes care of itself. If you do not do this, you will have a slipped disc. So this prāṇa, strength comes to our muscles, all the muscles, it supports our spinal column, etc. So, this is how prāṇāyāma, the prāṇa, what we do is very, very important. My watch is not correct, or yours? The watch is very perfect, exactly level 50. So we will have prāṇa further in the afternoon. Is it afternoon? Do I have a program? So even if we continue the subject, okay. So the prāṇa, when there is no prāṇa, the tree will die. When there is no prāṇa, the river will not flow. When there is no prāṇa, the birds can fly. So many, many, many things: prāṇa in our body. When you are very weak and very tired, your eyelids are like this. Yeah, yeah, yes. Why? The best quality of the prāṇa is always in our eyelids. All the time for you. Even when you sleep deeply, the heart does not sleep. It is functioning. So, the most loyal organ in our body is our heart. Did you ever say to your dear heart, "My dear heart, today you relax. He will not follow you. He is very loyal." Here, he will tell you no. Otherwise, he does not tell no. So, never say to your heart, "No." Heart, relax. And he wants that, "Let me serve you as long as you wish. But please take proper nourishment. You like food to eat this and that, fat and this and that, all." I have to suffer. My one dear one, I am suffering for you. He said, "My sweet heart, but I like sweet and sugar and fat." He said, "Yes, but limit please, so that I can digest it and let it flow through." So the heart is very significant. Most pure, best quality of the energy is supplied first to the heart and to the eyelids. So, prāṇāyāma in yoga, what do we do? Inhale. You feel tired, you want to do Prāṇāyām for half an hour like this, so you have a Prāṇāyām stick. You know, who has the Prāṇāyāma stick now? There is a Prāṇāyām stick that you can support. Now, bring it here, Anurāghī. You see? So this is a very good instrument. Now it is nicely done. Put your hand back. So you can do how high you need, up and down. This is very good. When you are tired and the master is talking too long, then you can sit like this. Or itching in your back, this is used all. Someone has a knee problem and cannot put their knee down, so support it. When you are meditating, nobody is snoring, then you can say hello. So, it is a multi-purpose little thing. So, you can listen carefully. Yes, Master. It gives you immense release, sitting and looking. So, this is one instrument. This is for yoga. It is many, many things we can do. So, prāṇāyāma, breath exercise. We can live without food, maybe one month or more. We can live without water for some days, but we cannot live without breath for more than one or two minutes. So this is prāṇa in the body, prāṇa. So the very secret things in yoga are prāṇāyāma, the breath technique. Okay, rest we will have this evening. Further, prāṇa? There were some questions, please. Yes, read a good one, okay? If someone is complaining about me, then do not read. This one hour I was talking, this was an answer for you. Negative energy all goes, what is coming? Prāṇāyāma, I told you, everything will be cleaned, cleared, it is cleared up. Yoga, there are many techniques for many things. "When making decisions in your life, what are the most important factors to take into consideration? Should you always choose to sacrifice your happiness for the well-being of others? For the well-being of all others, even I suffer, but I want that no one suffers. And that will automatically create happiness and energy for you. For the sake of others, we should not do differently. If others are suffering, we are suffering with them." "How can one stay present if in their job they have to work on a computer most of the day?" Joke or the joy? Joy. Job. Please repeat again. "How can one stay present if in their job they have to work on a computer for most of the day?" Do not go. Yes. If it is a problem, do not go. Close the computer and close your eyes. Say Om. So, you have to make an interval between your hours and hours of working on the computer. The best exercise is that you make hands like this and hold it here on your eyes for one minute. It will help you very much. Or have some cold water cotton for one minute, just put it on your eyes, and it will give you immense relief. Release your eyes, and they will be very thankful. These two exercises are very good, and it depends on which subject you are working on. On the computer, you should concentrate; otherwise, you make... If you make a mistake and the computer does not tell you, do not worry. It can happen. No, no, no. It is gone. So concentrate and relax from time to time. Keep your inner thoughts. Whatever I am doing, I do with love. I work for a company, and the company pays me. So it is my dharma that I give the best to my company. Yes? Big difference. Yes. Yeah, it is a difference. You say, is there a difference? Yes, there is a difference. Yes. That is what the computer said. When you type, "computer, is there a difference between meditation or this?" then the computer says, "yes, that is all." "Writing, together with sleeping. Can you tell us more about writing?" Writing, yes, because when we write, then we also concentrate. Writing, we have to be very alert, very aware that we do not make any mistake on any alphabet and this. So we pay very much attention. So that is very important, and this changes our brain waves. You see, these world food companies, they are doing it purposely. Food is everywhere, enough. Everywhere is enough. From where do they bring the food there? They are feeding all these grains to the pigs and to the cows, for the meat. And then they say the people are starving, no? These people who are doing this are wrong. You see, here is so much good field and very nice, God’s blessings. There is organic, very good growth in your soil, so you do not need fertilizer because you have so many sheep automatically. In India, we also do not have any problem. We have enough of our grains, but the government does not want us to grow so much. In agriculture, there is a ban. In India, you cannot produce too much. You cannot have so much land, agricultural land, only a certain quantity. So, this is a problem of those food companies. Then they take away from this all, and then they bring all these rubbish things and feed the people. So if you have space somewhere, try to grow, even in your window, grow some nice vegetables there. Yes, you can. Spinach on your two windows, you will have good spinach every day. Purījī, Purījī... Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp. Brilliant, but now mother does not know how to cook. She goes to the supermarket and brings all the junk food, and the child you give in the mouth, and the child says, "Mmm," and then you take it again and then put it again and again and put it again. Poor child. This whole system is wrong. So my answer will not help you, and if it does, then immediately buy a pot with good soil inside and put the seeds in. You will enjoy it, I can tell you. And you tell you, and you will be so happy. Say, oh my own food and clothing. Yes. Finished? One more? Okay. "Why am I still full of rubbish? No bhakti, no jñāna, no ritual crisis." In German we say, it is eigen und schuld. It is your own mistake, yes. Jealousy does not come from outside. Anger does not come from outside. All is in you. Why do not you sort it out? Selfishness brings jealousy. Who is jealous? Who is selfish? It is a person who is very weak, has no strength to say to oneself, "No, finished." And be happy if your neighbors have more money, a nice car, you know. You should open your window and look. Always nice car, how nice it is. Do not be jealous, just see how nice it is. And tell your neighbor, "Very nice car, oh God." The neighbor will also be happy. Thank you, sir. They say we can have it. Jealousy is a burning, inner fire. It will burn all healthy things. And anger is a thief which will steal everything from your door. Therefore, kāma, krodha, moha, lobha, mada, mātsarya, these are in yoga that we should give up. So only you can do it. Nobody can help you. Nobody. Yes, I will tell you, but it will not help. In your pot, there is a lot of dirt, and we pour nice milk inside. It has no sense; the milk will also become like that. Only you can help yourself, no one else. Or your neighbor is very rich, he has 5 billion, so you earn 15 billion, okay? Then you are not anymore jealous. So it is the same, our own mistakes. Who put the question? Yourself? Okay. Alright, wish you a very nice appetite, good dinner, lunch, and see you this afternoon or evening. If something I did you did not like, forgive me. And if you like it, then keep it in your pocket. That pocket is always open. It is a heart. Tell your dear sweetheart, you are very nice, please do your exercise.

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