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Oṁ Harabodh Namaḥ Śaṅkar Bhagavān kī, Alak Purījī Mahādev kī, Devādhi Dev, Dev Purījī Mahādev kī, Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Satguru Swāmī Madhvanānjī Bhagavān kī. This is a time of preparation, much like the days before festivals such as Diwali, Raksha Bandhan, Holi, or Christmas. It is a time for remembrance, a celebration known as the International Day of Yoga. There is a day for the father, for children, for the mother, and perhaps one day we shall declare a day for the woman—meaning one's wife. Yet, that day is limited. How many times have you changed your wife or husband? If you have, you are not on the list for that day. It will be a beautiful day when we celebrate the lifelong commitment of husband and wife. Do not celebrate it before sunset; do not celebrate it early. It is a tapasyā, an austerity, to live together as husband and wife and to be an example, creating such good children that they uphold the family's good name. That is human culture. Above all this, I would place Yoga Day. Yoga sustains that energy, happiness, joy, health, awareness, consciousness, and spirituality. For ages, we waited to obtain a human life, and now we finally stand before the door of Brahmaloka. Do not miss it. Wait, wait, and wait. Do not say, "I will not wait; I will go." That would be a great pity, leading us again in the wrong direction. Therefore, understand human life. We are the protectors. God sent humans as protectors to safeguard all creation. That is very important. Sometimes, very foolish thoughts enter the human mind. Sometimes it is called confusion—lost energy, lost memory, lost joy of life, not wanting to live anymore. Why does this happen? God did not send us like that. There must be some mistakes, and these mistakes we receive from outside, from life, family life, society, etc. Yoga is the solution. Recently, I was at a conference where there was a beautiful slogan: "You are the solution." It does not matter the subject. If your husband is not good to you, you are the solution to guide him rightly, or to guide your wife. You are the solution to solve problems and fulfill the needs of your wife, children, and others. What is happening in the world? Everyone is talking, but what is the solution? It is said we are the solution. Many problems are stored in your memory for a long time. So, yoga. We often repeat that our body is created from the five elements. These five elements create immense quantities of different qualities, energies, and memories within this body. Whether we call it God, Mother Nature, or something else, someone is working, observing, and taking care of this body. Our eating is not enough; there are more things. Each of the pañca bhūtas—ākāśa (space), agni (fire), vāyu (air), jala (water), pṛthvī (earth)—mixes together, and from this, something appears or develops that we call the soul or life. This is a divine science. No scientist has fully understood it, or perhaps understands it intellectually but cannot make it practical. A mother gives birth to a child. The child is of the father and mother, but a supreme scientist is also at work. In modern science, when we mix certain things, different reactions and results occur, which can be good or bad, but we have not advanced far enough. We cannot produce even one drop of blood. We can let blood flow on the battlefield. That blood is the same color in every creature, yet every drop contains different genes—human, dog, horse, cow, pig, snake, etc. How does this science of God preserve this everywhere? We do not know; we cannot understand. Therefore, we should understand and keep it pure. Do not pollute your blood with alcohol, drugs, or wrong nourishment. Take care of it. Of course, we cannot take 100% care; someone else is taking care of our body. Other energies are mixed in, or foreign energies may enter. We are destroying our nature and agriculture. Humans think that in this century, we should all perish. That is why, day by day, more pesticides and poison are used, and new diseases emerge from the negative effects of these chemicals on living beings. Bees are dying. In your European countries, there were balanced seasons and very good honey. It was said to be a land where honey and milk flowed. Now, honey is polluted, and milk is completely polluted, thanks to God—and thanks to your governments, which are very good people. They still protect and manipulate milk; it is 70% manipulated, but 30% remains. Some countries are 150% polluted. We do not know what they mix in the milk or in dairy production. Bees are dying. Is there anyone who can produce a single drop of honey? Until now, no scientist can; only Mother Nature can. Therefore, we must protect. But again, I say this one word: we are the solution. So, preach more and more to our fellow beings to live and return to nature, prayer to God, and spiritual life. Let it rest, but awaken in human awareness to return to the natural way. Try to inspire. In one year, one person should change at least ten others. How many yoga practitioners are there? 10%? How much does it multiply? In the second year, more. We will return to that path where we have organic, healthy, natural food. If you cannot get food one day, I promise you will not die. If one day you cannot eat, I guarantee you will live five more days in this life. But if you do not find organic food—if you eat organic all year but one day eat junk food—five days of your life are lost. What does that mean? What happens in your body? Our tongue, our gums—only the taste is in the mouth. There is no taste when you touch your hand or body. With our eyes, we say, "Oh, it looks nice." But junk food has no good smell; organic food has a good aroma. Junk food is dead food, and much of the water we drink is dead water. No wonder new diseases emerge daily. Once, a person from Vienna named Ekta—a good person who likes to talk, but about good things—said she studied the test between organic food and junk food. The best organic food, as long as you chew it in your mouth, develops a good taste and a good aroma comes from your mouth. After a long time, a good smell persists. With junk food, nobody chews long because if you do, you feel like vomiting, and bad smells begin to emanate from the mouth. The next day, on a bus or tram with many people standing, you will know from the smell of the mouth. One with bad breath often causes people to look away. Taste does not develop in the mouth when you chew junk food. That is why it is called chewing gum: you always chew, but it is nothing. You think there is something inside—artificial aromas—so you chew gum. It is not healthy. There was a time many people chewed gum. Now, clever people do not chew anymore. In Singapore, you cannot bring chewing gum into the country. As a tourist, you may have personal items, but you cannot chew in taxis, trains, buses, or on the street. You can chew at home and then dispose of it. If natives bring gum in, it will be confiscated. If you want to chew, return to ancient times: chew cardamom, anise, or cloves. These things benefit your body as medicine, influencing your whole body, blood, and tissues, making the body healthy. No one will detect a bad smell from your mouth. Our people who come to India and stay with me eat 99% organic food with good spices. When they return to Europe, they say they feel a good smell from their mouth for two or three weeks, but slowly, junk food brings back the bad odor because that food is not alive; it has no energy. How do we purify our body? According to Haṭha Yoga, there is Śaṅkhaprakṣālana. According to Āyurveda, there is the five-fold cleansing, pañca karma. Even animals clean their mouth and stomach. When dogs do not feel well, they eat grass. Kunjal Kriya came from the elephant: when an elephant does not digest well, it drinks much water, puts its trunk in its mouth, sucks the water, and spits it out. This is the Kunjal Kriya we learn in Hatha Yoga. If our stomach and intestines are clean, you will be healthy 45% of the time—a very significant amount. We should do Caṅgprākṣālana four times a year: between autumn and winter, winter and spring, spring and summer, and summer and autumn. This is our health. The other point is healthy, organic food. Finally, to purify our blood, vessels, tissues, the delicate organs of the body, and the brain—to improve memory or prevent its loss—all this, according to yoga, a yogī would say is 100% correct. This is called prāṇāyāma. We are sitting in this hall with hundreds of people; everything is closed. If someone enters from outside, they immediately feel a shock, a kind of trance. If we open windows for ventilation, we feel comfortable. Prāṇāyāma is a science and the best part of yoga, but it must be done systematically. You cannot cleanse in two weeks or improve your memory in six months or one year. How many years did it take for your memory to diminish? At least one month per year of practice is needed to feel memory improvement. In yoga and daily life, you must systematically train in prāṇāyāma. First, understand prāṇa. Prāṇa is life; where there is no prāṇa, there is no life. This prāṇa is similar to our soul. When one dies, we say the prāṇa has gone, or prāṇa remains in the body. Prāṇa and air are very close in prāṇāyāma; it is not easy to separate. This prāṇa circulates in the body, and many diseases disappear if you practice prāṇāyāma. For the first month, only think about prāṇa. Understand your prāṇa, your inhalation and exhalation. Feel the atmosphere of prāṇa in a crowd. Feel the prāṇa when air blows. How do you feel when air touches your skin? Feel the prāṇa. When you inhale, you touch this energy. In meditation, I mention feeling the presence of the Divine. When you inhale, feel the gentle touch of air; that is prāṇa energy. That prāṇa is like God for us. When we exhale, all impurities leave the entire body—not only through the mouth or nostrils. Our skin breathes. I do not know if this is true, but someone told of a tradition in France or other countries: during a big festival or a king's visit, two beautiful women were placed at the palace entrance. Every woman is beautiful; if she is not, there is a mistake in your eyes. To make these ladies more beautiful, they applied a paste of gold over their entire bodies. Gold was more expensive than cloth, so they discarded the cloth and applied gold. The result was that these poor ladies died because their skin could not breathe. This was told by many. If I am wrong, forgive me. If you know of this, raise your hand. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight—Yishal? This is evidence. Those who did not raise their hands are too young; they were not born then and have not read that history. Anyway, this subject is prāṇa. The whole body breathes. After a long day, you come home, go to the bathroom, and remove your clothes. Already, you feel the body breathing. As soon as you touch water, all impurities from air and sweat are cleansed, and you feel nice. Pure water, pure air, pure food, a pure environment, and pure eating. Try to feel your skin. When prāṇa is missing in the brain or heart, one feels disappointed, lonely. Someone said, "I don't feel good under my skin." I never had that experience, but those who do think, "I don't want to live anymore," because that pure, good prāṇa is missing. Understand life; do prāṇāyāma with good air, then open your eyes and see the beautiful world. When you wake from deep sleep, open your eyes and say, "Thank you, God, that I awoke from deep sleep and am again in this beautiful world. God, let me enjoy your world as long as I live." Suddenly, if illness comes, we become alarmed: "I will die, suffer, it will be painful. Why?" Because prāṇa is missing. When you touch morning water—now easy, as everyone has a tap in the bathroom—open the tap and feel the water on your face. That is a pure element, pure energy, changing immense feelings in the body. That is prāṇāyāma. So, prāṇam. Begin the first month studying this experience: How do you feel in clean air? In polluted cities? With chemicals? With good people? After one month of such experiences, consider prāṇāyāma. First is Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyāma, which has two definitions. In yoga science, philosophically, different words are used: Chandra Bhedana and Surya Bhedana—purification of the Chandra Nāḍī (left nostril) and Surya Nāḍī (right nostril). Behind this, the moon and sun mean much for our earth, vegetation, water, all creatures, and ourselves. These two principles connect to the brain's hemispheres—Chandra and Surya, emotion and intellect inside. Practice this for one month. If you try to learn all techniques in one month, you will not have those feelings or purification. Inhale and exhale only through the left nostril twenty times. Then do the same on the other side, again and again, for twenty minutes. That is all. You may say, "I want to do more," but that will not help. Many people think Yoga in Daily Life and Sarvajitāsana are too slow; they want to jump and twist the body immediately. A big mistake in yoga advertising is posters showing young people under 30 twisting their bodies dramatically, and everyone says, "Wow! This is yoga?" But I do not want to break my spine. That is why fewer people come to yoga practice. Do not forget our elderly generation; all seniors need yoga more than kids. We have different exercises, step by step. Chandra Bhedana and Surya Bhedana, then Nāḍī Śodhana—purification of the nāḍīs. Nāḍī Śodhana means inhale through the left, exhale through the right; inhale through the left, through the right—25, 20, 15, or 50 times, but at least half an hour. Inhale through the left nostril, exhale through the right; repeat. After ten minutes, rest. Then Surya Bhedana, Surya Nāḍī: inhale through the right, exhale through the left. Always begin with the left, as it calms restlessness, heart rhythms, and is relaxing. So, inhale through the right nostril, exhale through the left, twenty-five times. Rest a few minutes, then repeat for twenty minutes. If you practice prāṇāyāma to become healthy, purifying all tissues, digestion, and organs, do it systematically for one month when beginning. Start with Surya Bhedana and Chandra Bhedana for a few minutes. Then comes Anuloma Viloma, balancing both sides: inhale through left, exhale through right; inhale through right, exhale through left—one round, twenty-five times. Rest, meditate, feel your breath—inhalation and exhalation. Then begin from the right side: inhale through right, exhale through left; inhale through left, exhale through left—that is Anulom Vilom. Practice that for two months. First month: analyze feelings of prāṇa on and inside the body. Second month: Chandra Bhedana, Surya Bhedana. Third month: Nāḍī Śodhana. Fourth month: Anulom Vilom. Then comes the summer seminar. You will have a beautiful feeling of Anuṣṭhāna, free from Tamas Guṇa. Health will change something in your brain—sudden happiness, joy, a zest for life. Then comes Kapālabhāti, then Bhastrikā, then other techniques in our yoga book. This is about a two-year course; if done comfortably, three years. You will have made kāya kalāpa—purification of the body. Prāṇāyāma: first do āsanas to warm the body, circulate energy and blood, etc. Then prāṇāyāma, then meditation. This will be the golden time in your life, then the diamond time, and after some years, the supreme time. Practice yoga. What others do—twisting, cold, warm, hot—was not like this. Practice real yoga. But you must inspire your friends, explain to students why to move slowly or quickly, and why not otherwise. Read the "Yoga in Daily Life" book; each posture is described nicely: name, technique, breath, benefits, precautions, etc. Read what is good for what. If you have an illness, concentrate more on that posture or prāṇāyāma. Today, I thought about what to talk. Perhaps Devpurījī said, "Give them a yoga teacher training lecture." So, this is a yoga teacher lecture. The teacher should learn, practice, inspire people, guide them, and develop further. Now, in every European country, our Yoga in Daily Life centers and teachers who have taught for at least five years can train teacher trainings. Examinations will be at your national center, controlled by the fellowship, which will be controlled by that which I will tell you next time. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Har Har Bho Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Har Har Bho Namaḥ Śivāya.