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The wisdom of Yoga for students

Yoga is the union of body, mind, and soul through daily practice. Life itself is this practice. The ultimate reality is endless space, śūnyakāśa, containing dormant consciousness. The energy between them creates balance, the first vibration of 'I am one, I will multiply.' This resonance, OM, is the form of the supreme. From this light, creation manifests. Yoga is this harmonizing union, returning to the origin. Practice postures, breath, and meditation correctly, without force or competition, to awaken energy and consciousness within. Health is the first wealth. The human intellect must be educated. Life is brief; only joy and love for all creatures are eternal.

"Belief does not change reality."

"Tons of theory is nothing compared with a gram of practice."

Filming location: San Francisco, USA

Part 1: A Glimpse of Yoga in Daily Life O Asatoma Sadgamaya, merciful Lord, lead us from the unreality to the reality. Tamasomā Jyotirgamaya, lead us from the darkness to the light of wisdom. Mṛtyormā amṛtaṁ gamaya. Lead us from mortality to immortality. Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Peace, peace, peace. Good evening, dear sisters, brothers, organizers, Your Excellency. It is a great privilege for me to be here and offer a glimpse of yoga—what we can learn and what we can do. Yoga is like an ocean; there is no end. But from that ocean, we can take out some very valuable pearls, the pearls of wisdom. Two days ago, we celebrated a day of world peace. Mahatma Gandhi said, "There is no way to peace. Peace itself is the way." On that world peace day in Atlanta, we planted a beautiful peace tree. Today, in this beautiful historical park, we planted another peace tree. Around the world, we have planted millions of trees, including about 150 peace trees in different countries. I am happy to see you and to speak about yoga in daily life. Yoga means union—the union of body, mind, and soul. "Daily" means everyday practice. Our life itself is a practice; life is yoga. I have been teaching since my last visit to the Soviet Union twenty years ago. As His Excellency came from Prague, he was there and also in Vienna. We are happy to meet each other again here. It has been 45 years in Vienna, Austria. I first came here in 1983. There was a beautiful yoga center here, the Integral Yoga Center; perhaps some of you were not yet born. Yoga exists throughout the whole world. Where there is a human, there is culture, and where there is culture, there is a human. Where the human moves, culture moves with them. Those who came from China bring Chinese culture. We Indians here bring Indian culture. Some came from Mexico, some from Europe, and so on. Culture is beautiful. Every country has a very good culture. But one philosopher said, "Every culture is a very good culture, but the best culture is agriculture." We must care for it because our health depends on our nourishment. Nowadays, junk foods, pesticides, and similar things damage our health. As a European philosopher said, "Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health." Life means health. We must achieve a healthy life; we cannot buy health. We achieve it through good nourishment and the practice of yoga. Yoga is very, very old, from the beginning of mankind, Svayambhū, Śiva. Wherever there is a human, there is yoga, and where there is yoga, there is a human. As His Excellency mentioned, the respected Prime Minister of India worked very hard to ask the United Nations to declare an International Day of Yoga. Yoga is a vast subject. Should I tell you the very beginning of yoga or just the surface? Something interesting, Your Excellency? You spoke in the beginning: "Who am I? From where do I come?" Ādi Guru Bhagwan Śaṅkarācārya said: "Ko’haṁ? Katham idaṁ jātaṁ? Ko vā kartāsya vidyate?" In Sanskrit: "Ko’haṁ? Katham idaṁ jātaṁ? Ko vā kartāsya vidyate?" Who am I? From where did I come? And where will I go? If we know the answers to these three questions, then we know everything. From where did we come before this life? Some of you were in India, someone in Mexico, France, Italy, China, etc. But we do not know. In which life were we last? We were in some other animal form, human form, bird form, or different creature. It is said there are 8.4 million different creatures on this earth. They are divided into three categories: Jalchara, creatures in the water; Thalchara, on the earth; and Nabchara, in the space. These are the three existences of life: visible, physical, etc. All three have problems and enemies. In modern technology, we have also made this Jalchara, Thalchara, Nabchara. The water creature—we have the Navy for protection from different problems. The ground army, the ground force for protection, and the air force. This is for physical human societies and human problems. But the other—water, earth, and air—also have enemies, and one must know how to be free from them. There are 8.4 million different kinds of living beings on this earth, and only one is the human. The human has the most powerful tool: intellect. Intellect has been given to humans, but it needs education. The best education one gets is in the lap of the parents—social, spiritual, ethical, and moral education. Then, for different kinds of education to serve the world, we have universities, colleges, and schools. What you are doing, learning mostly—I heard that you are... Sorry, yesterday the airplane had very strong air conditioning, so a yogī can also sometimes catch something. I was sorry because I have to give today’s lecture, and you might say, "Swāmījī is talking about health and himself is suffering." It can happen. I hope you will understand me. Thank you. So, education. What kind of education do we have? If you have the education of a soldier, you think and act like a soldier. If you have the education to become an ambassador, you think like an ambassador. Some are engineers, some farmers, some pilots, etc. The study you are doing now is like a fruit tree; one day it will give immense fruits—meaning your beautiful work and education will help the world and yourself. Education is very, very important. We call the fruits of your study now. You will harvest those beautiful, sweet fruits in the future. Therefore, concentrate and motivate yourself. Awake the awareness for what you are studying. Ko’haṁ? Katham idaṁ jātaṁ? Ko vā kutaśca vidyate? Why did I come to the university? From how far did I come? Maybe you or your parents are financing it. And after that, where will you go and what will you do? All this is something. This was a glimpse of a little part of yoga. But now we come to the beginning. So concentrate. You may accept it or may not. Some believe in reincarnation; some do not. But belief does not change reality. Do you believe in the recycling process? Yes, recycling. The environment is friendly; we need it. Similarly, like the recycling of any organic material, reincarnation is also a kind of recycling—coming and going, coming and going. So, whether you believe or not, you came. I wish you a long, healthy, happy life, a good life, a loving life. But, my dear, one day we have to go. When we were born, our fist was closed. And when we die, we will go. We are billionaires. We have everything: in San Francisco, a big villa; in Atlanta, a very big farm; in New York, multi-floor buildings; in Mumbai, the most expensive buildings in the world. Very good, congratulations, my dear, enjoy. But when we die, we will not close our fist. It will go like this. We leave everything here. Sabhi chhodkar chala mushā, fir bās kiyā vānkā, jagat mein do din jīvan kā. Chara charika khela, jag mein do din ka hai mela. This is a theater of creation on this earth. Do din ka mela: two days we are together. There is no third day; I am sorry to tell you. You will be very sad. Two days: one day was yesterday, and the second day is today. Tomorrow we never saw and will never see, because what we call tomorrow is already today. When the sun rises, we will say, "Oh, today is a beautiful view." So where is tomorrow? Today here, tomorrow there. In India, they say in some shops: today you pay in cash, tomorrow you can borrow. So tomorrow never comes. Dear ones, we enjoy life, we live life, we are happy. But nothing is forever. Only one thing is forever: our joy, happiness, and that love which is love for all creatures. I should come to the point, or you will say, "He talked and talked and didn’t tell us the point." So I will tell you. You may believe or may not believe. I told you, belief does not change reality. Reality: tomorrow the sun will rise. But that will not be tomorrow; it will be today. Today the sun will set. You say, "No, the sun will not set today." Here in San Francisco, the sun will set. Om Śānti. Om Shanti. Do you know something about Om? If you can, sit straight, place your hands on your thighs, and close your eyes. Nothing will happen; do not worry. Take a deep inhale and exhale. Deep inhale and chant OM with me as I was singing in the beginning. Inhale. OM. Feel the resonance and the space within the resonance. Inhale. OM. Feel one with yourself in your inner space. Inhale. OM. Thank you. Open your eyes. The great saints who lived and are still living for thousands of years, and the great scriptures like the Vedas, the first one, experienced their details. It is called Ananta. Anant means endless, without border. Anant, Anant... endless. That is called space, ākāśa. As far as you go, it goes farther away. What we call a horizon—as close as you go, it goes farther. Space, endless space. We can go with any kind of airplane or rocket, etc. This is what is called śūnyakāśa. In the beginning was a name: śūnyakāśa. Śūnya means empty, void space, nothing. No stars, no moon, no sun, nothing. Dark blue, finished. That is the endless universe. But it is not alone. We cannot see, touch, or feel it. That is called consciousness. We all believe and understand what consciousness is. That consciousness is also endless but not visible. You cannot touch nothing, and that consciousness is within the whole entire universe. The śūnyakāśa, the space, is the body of the mother. Whose mother? The mother here means consciousness. So, consciousness is within the space, not space within consciousness. That is called hiraṇya garbha. Hiraṇya means gold, a golden embryo—the consciousness. Consciousness cannot do anything, and consciousness has no desire. Then how do things happen? Space has no desire. Consciousness has no desire. Hari Om Tat Sat. So the space, Ānanda-śūnyakāś, is the symbol or attribute of the mother. That is the mother. That golden embryo within that space is called consciousness. That is called God, which you cannot feel, touch, or see, but it is there—everlasting, immortal, dormant, completely silent. So, space and consciousness—between these two must be something, and that is called energy. That energy unites space and consciousness. What does that uniting mean? It is balancing, uniting, and harmonizing. These are the three principles in that energy. Energy, prakṛti, begins... prakṛti, nature, after billions, trillions of years. God has time; He is not in a hurry. We are in a hurry; we have to stop at 7 o’clock. God takes time. Now, there are some Indians sitting here who know the Sanskrit language. Some of you may be studying Sanskrit. In that śūnyākāśa, there is one tendency in this yoga energy. Through this energy and balancing, there comes one desire. Does God have a desire? If God has a desire, then I think, why not we have desire also? So it is nothing wrong. If God has a desire, we also have desire. That, O Lord, Thy will will be seen. That is called willpower. Now, in that darkness—but not this kind of dark; it is other light blue—there awakes a vibration. That is called "eko’haṁ bahusyām." "Eko’haṁ bahusyām." I am one, and now I will multiply. "Eko’haṁ bahusyām." I am one, and now I will multiply. But how? Even though God thought very much over how. The first creation, first desires, first begins in our body also—in every cell, a kind of vibration, that energy between space and consciousness. This is where yoga is balancing, harmonizing, and uniting. That union of space and consciousness. Therefore, it is said: nāda rūpa para brahma. In Sanskrit, para brahma means the highest, the supreme. Nāda is sound. Roopa is form. So if you want to know what God is, then it is resonance. Only one who is a musician, who plays some kind of instrument, knows what that resonance is. If you give me the flute, I will make te-te-te-te-oo. You will say, "Swamiji, very good, thank you." But if someone else takes the flute, everyone enjoys that sound. Nāda-rūpa-parabrahma: the resonance represents God. So through that nāda sound, creation begins. From that nāda, that resonance awakes; it is called the light, like lightning in the clouds. Within no time, in the entire endless universe, immediately there is a resonance, like an OM, which we were singing. When you sleep very deep and a little mosquito bites your small toe, you say, "Oh!" A little mosquito, but your whole body knows immediately that a mosquito is biting, and you also know where it is. So our consciousness, our alertness, our awareness is with us all the time. We have body, we have energy, then we have emotion, we have the senses, we have mind, then we have wishes, we have concentration, after awareness, then consciousness. There are many levels: unconscious, subconscious, conscious, and after that, higher conscious and cosmic consciousness. Practice yoga and you will achieve that higher consciousness. If you practice meditation—in yoga and in life, we call it self-inquiry meditation—meditation is one of the best medicines for everything. If you cannot concentrate, this is restlessness. Meditation will bring you peace and harmony. So from the nāda comes light. That is called jīvanjyoti, the light of life. And that jyoti, that light, is the embodiment of Shiva. And that Śiva manifests Himself. He has no parents, no mother, no father, nobody, because there were no humans or anything. He Himself manifests Śiva, and that is a question of Śṛṣṭi. Thank you. That is called the manifestation. After that, through His acting, through His order, or through His energy—whatever we call it—the creation begins. Before the creation, it is that Śiva. Through His body’s atoms, which come and spread in the whole endless universe, that is called the stars, endless suns and moons; it becomes a galaxy. The whole universe is the embodiment of Śiva. And it is Śiva who brings the science of yoga. Yoga means union, yoga means harmony, yoga means uniting, and yoga means again coming to the origin, to the oneself. So, this is a glimpse or story of how creation begins and who brought yoga. The authentic, authorized one is Śiva. The copyright belongs to Shiva. I have an agreement with Shiva that I will make a Yogananda in life. He said, "Okay, and now you have everybody." So we all have the good things; we do not need a copyright. Copyright is for those who want to make money, who want to steal something, who want to have ego about something. Give to everybody. God gave happiness to all animals, trees, creatures, and humans. God gave love. Part 2: The Free Gift of Yoga and the Science of Life God gave contentment. God gave mercy. Give that happiness to everyone without money. Do we have a copyright on it, that you have to pay otherwise you cannot be happy? Sorry. So yoga is free, but practice the original and good yoga. Yoga is not acrobatics. Yoga is not a torturing of the body. Yoga is not twisting your body like that, and yoga is not thinking you will levitate. If you can levitate, I have nothing against it. I will also come and see, "Oh, my disciples, they can levitate." Yeah, so it is. For all to be happy, God gave us the trees. They are so happy when you come to them. He is happy, and when the season comes, she is happy and says, "Come, my child, I will give you one apple or banana or the cherries, whatever." Everything God has created for us is free, and free, and free. You have immense, immense wisdom—the, what you call, the wealth. And the best wealth is good health. The first wealth is good health. Āyurveda said, "Pahala sukha nirogī kāyā, pehla sukha"—the first happiness or joy—"nirogī kāyā"—a healthy body. We have five different bodies: the body of nourishment, the body of energy, the mental body, the intellectual body, and the causal body. These are the five different bodies, and within that is our soul, our self. And the soul is a victim of our actions. So what you do, you will get it. Whatever is, everything is collecting within us. So practice yoga, and don’t practice like a fanatic. No competition, no challenges. I do my yoga, I have my time, I have one hour for my yoga practice, okay. Then you take your handbag and come to the university or college, and you study. You will have good concentration, you will be very happy. Happiness, happiness. No challenges, no challenges. Challenge is, competition is there where there is a desire, where there is greed. We have no desires. We have a desire to study now. You are many students, so your burning desire is to learn, to be a great professor, or scientist, or doctor, or anything to save and serve our planet. After this, we will have meditation now. Now, yoga, generally, now you understand here, postures. Yes, posture is a yoga practice, a yoga exercise. But this should be done also according to the ancient literature, ancient instructions. Breath technique is very important. When you were born first, or me too, what did we do? First we inhaled, and then we cried, maybe. Mother knows. And if we didn’t cry, they would make you cry, so that you would have a good singer. Open your lungs or diaphragm, okay? And that breath, we inhale first, and we will exhale, and we can’t inhale anymore, is the end of life. So breath is so long, from this one shore to the other shore; between is only the waves. So we should not have hurricanes or storms in our heart or in our body. Peace, peace,... harmony. Good, healthy body, so breath, breath techniques. So we can do a few exercises. Would you like? Please, sit straight. When you cannot concentrate, or when you are tired, then you do like this again, looking. So, this is because we lost some energy, we lost concentration, we lost something, and we are tired. So, there are a few exercises. Number one, you fold your hands. And now, feel your hands like this, one, two inches. How do you feel now? You should feel your body one hundred percent more, your palms then now, and not all. You feel it go, the needles inside. Okay, be careful with the miracles. I will send the needles, so don’t take those needles, okay? I have nothing now for the palms, and love your palms. No problem, strong. Go ahead. Still, fire burning. You will feel that you get so much energy now, so you will concentrate again on your computer to see or study. Okay, now bring your palms together. Move like this slowly, or like that. You didn’t take care, all the needles are in your hands. Now close the palms, close the fists, hands down. No needles, you lost it. So when you sit and do like this, and after a while you place it on your face and your eyes are in the middle of your palm, it will give you a lot of energy. And with this energy coming, your eyesight will be better. And there will be no tension; you will be relaxed. You will feel that. Thank you, Swamiji. So in half a minute, you gave me so much energy and freshness. You have the energy, so when you do like this for a while and you have pain somewhere, here or here, or the stomach, or the thighs, or a headache, so you do like this and make self-healing, yes. It will help one hundred percent, it will help it. Is your energy. You are capable, and you can do it. And this is not a miracle. It is only that you evoke your energy, and you are using your energy, that’s all. Second, yoga practicing, not quickly. They are all doing so quickly. What do they call it? Aerobic? Yeah, something. Oh, my God. Once I went, I was like Ganesha dancing with big... So I said, "Okay, thank you. Very nice." Thank you. So what happens when we do the postures? There are three kinds of postures. One is called dynamical movement for body warming, five to ten minutes. Then, body stretching postures, five to ten minutes. You should know which side. And then comes the yoga postures that you remain more. So, these are the three levels of the exercises, the many yoga. Books everywhere you see, or would we? We didn’t bring today "Yoga and Daylight" book; we could have, but anyhow. So, how if you do the proper yoga? How you feel? So, I will also tell you this: how to feel, okay? Why not? Let’s experience. Tons of theory is nothing compared with a gram of practice. You agree with me? Tons of theory is nothing compared with a gram of practice. If you are very hungry and we tell you about food, "Very nice, this food and that food," and again you are hungry. But if you get just one bite, that will help something, okay? So, what I wanted to tell you, I forgot it. Come to me. So, my dear, look, your palm. Show me your palm, please. Very good. Oh, everyone has very nice hand lines. Good luck, good luck. Now, close your fist with the thumb inside, tight, and with the right hand, hold your wrist tight. And now, open your palm and look at your palm. It’s pale. Look at your fingertips, the fingers. We have blocked the, we have blocked the, what we call... The blood. Let’s look at their palm, and now very consciously look at your palm, and you will feel what happens. So, slowly look again, and now release your wrist. How do you feel now? This hand is... Light, did you feel the shooting of the blood? So we have to be very fair. So when we do the left hand, the right hand will also be offended. So please, we do the right hand now. So strong, tighten it, very strong, and open the palm and look at the palm. And now, release. In the winter in San Francisco, how cold is it here? I think it has no winter, no snow. So this is to keep good circulation when you are typing, and this and that. Many things are good for your study, for your computer, for etc. And your hands will be very good, you will never have pain in your joints. So this is very easy; you can do it anytime. Now, there is another technique called Prāṇāyāma. Place these two fingers at the center of the eyebrows and the right thumb from the side. Close your right nostril from the side. Yes, not like this. Yes, those students need very clear instructions. Yes, dear, first, deep inhale through the left nostril and exhale through the left nostril. Try to inhale through the belly and exhale. Do this ten times. After ten times, place the hand down on your thigh. Second, round again these two fingers at the center of the eyebrows, and with the ring finger, close your left nostril. Slightly press from the left side, and ten times, relaxed, breathe deep in and out through the right nostril. After ten... Round again. Place your hand on the thigh, close, remain with closed eyes, and feel your breath. Now, fold your palms and rub your palms, and place them on your face. Feel. Your energy is on your face. Open your eyes and your palms, and move the hands away. This is called prāṇāyāma, the breath technique. In our body, there are 72,000 nerves, and from these 72,000 nerves, four are very important. Three are called Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. The moon, the sun, and consciousness. The left sympathetic, parasympathetic, and central nerve. This gets or achieves what we call the cosmic energy, that’s called prāṇa. Not oxygen, not this different energy, but that cosmic mother, she is supplying for our life very pure prāṇa through these nāḍīs. These nāḍīs are connected with the small of the brain, the left, and the right. The left nāḍī nerve moves from the left to the right. The right suṣumnā goes to the left. So, like this. And that makes here one chakra, kuṇḍalinī. Do you know about kuṇḍalinī, chakra? We should give a subject for the colleges, universities. Kundalini is the most beautiful, important part. In our body, we have a very big, very important energy center, and we live according to that energy center. So from left to right and right to left, it crosses here, at the thyroid gland where it is, and from here again the left goes to the right and the right goes to the left, and it makes the heart center. Similarly, again turning and meeting in our navel. Then there are the lower chakras, svādhiṣṭhāna near the abdomen, and at the last end of the spinal column there is mūlādhāra chakra. These are the eight chakras, very, very powerful. And one nāḍī on the nerve, that’s more powerful than the other, that’s like an earthing cable in a building. That begins from between the big toe and the second toe. The wooden sandal you wear, that awakens and keeps your health. This is called Vajrā Nāḍī. That is balancing. If your Vajra Nāḍī is good and active, then you will never have brain hemorrhage or heart attack. This one Nāḍī, see from here, beginning from the small and the big toe and second toe. And for the consciousness, and for energy, and for awareness, these are the three: Nāḍī, Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā. These supply the energy. This controls our consciousness, our awareness, our intellect, and our whole body. These are the very important nerves. So there are 72,000 different nerves. And we have the centers in the body, energy centers, on our foot soles. Called Earth Chakra or Earth Centers. From the ankle joint to the knee is called vegetation, or the vegetative centers. From the knee to the hip joint is called animal chakras, or centers. And from the beginning of the spine, from the bottom up to here, our neck, these are called the human chakras, centers, five chakras. They are called Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, and Viśuddhi, up to here. This is a human chakra, and from here to here are divine centers that are sitting in our brain. Now, 72,000 nerves is a network in the whole body, and our consciousness is spreading in the whole body like electricity, and it supplies our energy, our consciousness, and our feelings, etc., etc. So when we do this prāṇāyāma, we purify our energy of the nerves. How to understand these nerves? Now, you see, there is acupressure, acupuncture. So they touch here one point somewhere on the fingers, and you know, they will only touch where the joint is, because there is a reflex zone. So if this chakra is blocked on the monitor, there will be no movement in the needle. But if it is good and healthy, it will go immediately in the direction. That proves that, yes, these are the chakras, and when we practice yoga, particular postures, then we can awaken and keep our chakras active, and that means health, good health. Once a day, without shoes, if... It is possible you walk on the sand, or buy one mat at home, one meter, some kind of mat which has like a little, little needles, but not so strong. Or bring a few kilos of sand and put it nicely on one corner and walk on it. That’s very good for Everput. These chakras are throughout the whole body, and through asanas, pranayamas, and meditation. This will help us. Now, these chakras, the energy, the vegetation, and earth together are till our ankle joints. From the ankle joints, the vegetation comes up to the knees. And then, from the knees till our lower center, are the animal chakras, desires. Desires, hate, jealousy, conflict, anger, etc., etc., in these lower centers of our body, because it’s animals and humans. And then, as you come higher, it develops more in humans, and from here above come the divine centers. If I talk about everything, we have no time today; I have to serve you breakfast here. So, these are the chakras in the body. So, for your concentration, for your health, you should go and buy one book about chakras and kuṇḍalinī. I don’t know if my book is available here or not. It’s called "Hidden Powers in Humans: Chakras and Kundalini." Anyhow, so this will make your study, your work, your life happy and comfortable. We don’t want any miracles. There will be one miracle in life everyone has, and that I can promise you: that one day our hand will go like this, and we go to the divine light. Okay? So live happy, live healthy, and I wish you all the best. Yoga is so much, there are so many subjects for each point, many, many... Subject, this was the glimpse of some parts of yoga, and I think we do now 10 minutes little meditation, and then we will have, we will have 10 minutes more to move from here, okay? So let’s have little meditation, so my other side. So, everybody, stand up, please. Thank you. And look to this side. Turn that side. Yes, thank you. One, I’m checking you. Don’t move. Three, one, down, one. Go down as far as you can, and come up. One, don’t care person. Please, be a chair. We have this very excellent yoga teacher, Amrit Sagar. She lives here, she teaches yoga in their life. So, if you all want, you can organize once a week somewhere, Arjun Purī, for the giving them. More energy, not capsule ice cream. Okay, so let’s do a little five-minute meditation, five to eight, seven minutes. Hands touch your fingers and on the thighs. It doesn’t matter, hand palms upwards or down, touching your body. Sit straight, close your eyes. Anything you want to see. Now, in this hall, sit, then close your eyes. There will be nothing new to open your eyes. Relax. We will change once home, and while chanting home, withdraw thyself from the external world. Deep inhale, normal breath. Be aware of your being here in this hall. 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. No imagination, no expectations. Just relax. Relax the whole body from the toes till the top of the head, and from the top of the head till the toes. Relax, relax... Feel your each and every limb of the body, that it is relaxed and comfortable. And now, feel your body motionless. Just feel the motionlessness of the body. Now, feel your breath. I know that I’m inhaling. Do not change the breath rhythm; let it flow. As natural as it is, feel your comfortable breath. I know that I’m inhaling, and I know that I’m exhaling. And now, coordinate your body and breath together. It means the time of inhalation, the trunk of the body is expanding, and the time of exhalation, it is contracting. You feel very relaxed. You feel comfortable. Feel your whole being relaxed, comfortable, full of peace and divine spiritual feelings. Relax. And now, three times, deep inhale and exhale. Deep inhale and chant "Aum" and become extrovert. Aum. Deep inhale and chant Aum. Deep inhale and chant Aum. Three times. Peace, peace. Fold your palms and rub your palms. Place them on your face. Warm your face muscles and open your eyes. Hari Om. So, for today, that is enough. That’s all. Wish you all the best. God bless you. And good health, happy and healthy, and long life. Maybe, who knows, somewhere we will meet again. I hope you learned something, and we had the time for questions, but up now we don’t have, because we promised 7:15. We shall slowly, slowly pack our luggage.

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