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The Birthday of Sri Hanumanji

Proper nourishment for the physical body is essential, yet we must be mindful of what we consume. The strong temptation for sweet, sugary foods is an addiction that harms health. Quitting prepared sugars leads to better digestion, weight loss, and improved liver function. Initial withdrawal symptoms like headaches pass, revealing the natural sweetness in whole grains and vegetables. A healthy body supports clearer awareness and a better feeling overall. Reducing sugar also helps control parasites in the body that thrive on it.

"the more we can quit sweet things, the better it is for our health."

"Your willpower is your Hanuman. Your strength is your Hanuman."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

We know about our nutrition, that it is for our annamaya kośa. This is our outer layer. As we are vegetarian, we know our food should be proper and clean, healthy and strong. The health of the physical body has a lot to do with our nourishment. We are all vegetarian; this is a main point for physical health. But still, when we are feeding our body vegetarian food, it depends on what we are taking in. There is a big temptation for us: the sweet things. From my own experience, I have to say, the more we can quit sweet things, the better it is for our health. I do not mean that you should not eat carbohydrates at all—that must not be—but to quit the things which are prepared with sugar. For example, one can start to take liquids without sugar. If you can manage this, it is a big help for the digestion. It is like a drug; we are addicted to sweet. When you try to stop eating or drinking sweet things, for example, you first have this—what is it called? Entzug? Yes, we are addicted to sugar. When you stop eating sugar, the body will react with many consequences, like headache and similar things. When we come over these first two or three weeks, maybe, then all that you are eating with carbohydrates is sweet. But there is a nice way of eating sweet: whole wheat bread, whole corn bread is sweet. Yes, and vegetables are sweet. It is delicious to eat like this. It is very good for our body weight; you will lose some kilos without eating less. You can eat normally all that you want when you quit sugar, and it is very good for the liver and intestines. Digestion will become much better, and also this full stomach of gas will go. When we can learn to live without these simple sugars, it makes the health condition much better, also in our awareness, in our brain, and we feel better. In a healthy body, it is so helpful just to try this. A doctor told me when we are a lot addicted to sugar, we have problems with small parasites in our body. Then we want to eat sugar. In this way, we can control a lot of things in our body much better. Just this I wanted to tell you. Hari Om. Very nice. So from the dictionary, we shall delete the word "sweet." Sweet love. Sweetness. Speak sweet words. And when we have no sugar in our body, we cannot speak sweetly. So, thank you. Daya, it was very nice, very nice. Thank you. So, somebody needs the sugar. And somebody has inside so much sugar, so we have to give an injection to pull it down. The doctor said the brain needs sweet and fat. And when the other doctor said, "No sweet and no fat." In everything, there is sweetness. All kinds of grains that we are eating, making breads and so on, are sweet. But that is limited, okay. So when we are above 25 years, then we are mature. And 35 years, we are old. Because 35 and 35 is 70 years. So, till 35 we can eat some sweet, and till 40, time to time, then finished. Anyhow, thank you. Very nice for our health. Today is a very holy day again. That is the birthday of God Hanuman. Hanumanjī was born 152 years or 55 years ago. Also, God Rāma incarnated is now one hundred fifty-five years. Yeah, thousand. There is a draft coming from somewhere to my mouth. Yeah, thank you for the correction. One hundred thousand fifty-two. The incarnation of God Rāma and Hanumanjī. In reality, Hanumanjī was not like a monkey. It is not the birth of a monkey, but he has such strength, and he is known also as Pavan Sutra. Pavan means the wind, the air principle, so he was quicker than anything. He had many siddhis, he was a great devotee, and he was a devotee of God Rāma. In some śāstras, in scripture, it is said that in one yuga, Viṣṇu comes as a Viṣṇu, a God incarnation. Then Śiva comes to support Viṣṇu. So when Viṣṇu came as Rāma, then Śiva came as Hanumān. So Hanumān or Śiva is repeating the mantra of Viṣṇu, and Viṣṇu repeats the name of Śiva. They have equal quality. But finally, Shiva is the highest because Shiva is Swayambhū. And Hanumanjī was the incarnation of Śiva. And he was protecting Viṣṇu in every aspect. So he could run, he could jump. His jumping was so quick and strong, like from one shore to the other shore, to Lanka. And one day, the story is very long, but even Hanumanjī swallowed the sun. Everywhere was dark and dark, so they said, "Please, please, Hanumanjī, give the sun back, please." He was that dignity, that power. He will again, he will come again, and he is there. So today is Hanumanjī’s birthday, and so there is one called Hanuman Chalīsā, and it is very nice. If you know, we can chant. Who can somebody play and sing? Yeah, text, you know, you need a text. Okay, so we say. It is a beautiful mantra, it is a very beautiful mantra, and he is a god of protection. He can remove all negative qualities from us. And if someone has problems or fear that some magic, that some magician is attacking you, then sing, sing every morning Hanuman Chalisa. It takes five to ten minutes. You will see it is not only blind belief, but it has a protection. So, who cannot chant, we shall just listen. And who can chant, they should come close to the mic. And who cannot chant, they should move, go away from here. Yeah. So, who can chant more? Hanuman Chalisa? No. Then go there. After that, we will have a nice, nice program. And do not show your back to the camera. And who cannot chant, do not sit there. No traffic. The other sits straight. You can close your eyes, then more energy will come in. And if you have any kind of, many people have maybe some fear, that you have anxiety, you have unexpected, suddenly some fear, or you think there is some magic or someone is giving some blackmail on you. This is the Hanuman Chalīsā that will remove this disease. So, can you chant? No? Then go there. Yes? Can you chant? Then go there, down. If you cannot chant, then go down. I cannot chant, that is why I am sitting here on one side. Mister, you cannot chant. Come here. Here. Yes? Siddha Hanumāna Kī Jai, Siddha Hanumāna Kī Jai. Kanchana-varana-viraja-subhesha-chitta-kesha, hatha-vajra-or-dvaja-viraje, kande-munje-hade-usahaje, shankara-suhana-kesari-nandan, teja-pratapa-mahajaga-padan. Asakahī Śrī Pahitallagave Saṅkadīka Brahmā Īśa Nārada Śārada Sahita Āśīṣa Jaṅku Veradīka Palajahante Kaviko Vidaka Hiṁsatkahante Tumah Upakāra Sugrīva Nikina Thank you. Siddhi, Nal, Nidhi, Kedāta, Asā, Bhāratī, Narachan Kī, Matā, Rasāī, Sadā, Sadā. Jaya Jaya... Sārī Kṛpāk Satva Sukha Vaiśa Vaiśa Siddhi Kurīśa Mahādeva Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Svāī Maheśvara Nanjīviśva Gurudeva Kī Jai! Bhavana Sutta Hanumāna Kī Jai! Oṁ Śānti! Oṁ Śānti! Oṁ! When Hanumānjī went to search for Sītā, whom Rāvaṇa had kidnapped and taken to Śrī Laṅkā, to the palace of Rāvaṇa, it was very big, very, very big. Everything was made out of gold. And no one can enter without the permission of Rāvaṇa. Not even a bird can fly in. So there are many stories in the Rāmāyaṇa, but when Hanumānjī went to search for Sītā, the message came that Sītā was there in Laṅkā, but no one let him go in. So there was one Rākṣasinī, the devil, and she was very strong, and her name was Laṅkā. So Hanumānjī came, and Laṅkā did not want to let him enter. Hanumanjī could jump and do many things. But he wanted to know if in this territory of Rāvaṇa, is there also some spirituality? If anyone believes in God or not, always, what we call that kind of rākṣasas. Atheists are not rākṣasas. So we should not tell them that they are negative; they are good. They believe. They do not believe what we believe. And what we do not believe, they believe. It is a question of the nirguṇa and saguṇa. But rākṣasa is different. That we call the devil quality. And they are also like a human, looking completely like a human. And suddenly, the asurīśakti awakes in someone. And that asurīśakti awakes, then even your best friend will try to destroy you. That time Rākṣasa awakened. So all were the Rākṣasas. Now, how to go to Hanumānjī inside? So Hanumanjī was waiting when it became dark. Hanumanjī became like a little mouse. Monkey baby, but very small, like a little mouse. And this mouse was coming close to Lanka. And she was looking, trying to trace away the mouse. Hanumanjī was going many times here, left and right, left and right. And then there is a big gate, a very big gate. Many men had to hold to open the gate. But down there was little space. So Hanumanjī went under the gate and again became big inside. Morning, before dawn begins, that time Āsurī Śakti is sleeping, and Devīk Śakti is awakening. So when you like to sleep during the dawn and sun rising, you are sleeping. Then your lot of spirituality is going away, and the past life’s sin is becoming stronger to you. So Gurujī said, one must wake up, get up before the sunrise. Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man wise and wealthy. So health is, you must eat sugar sweet, you see. When you cannot walk, go to the walking on the High Tatra forest in the Himalayas and go walking. Half the day you are so tired, and you take chocolate and you walk, you have again energy. And you have so spirituality. Spirituality is gained in Brahmamūrta. Go early to sleep and make your habit that you will wake up at that time. One week you must wake up; it does not matter what happens. After one week or two weeks, you will have a habit of waking up. You will say, "No, it is impossible." Then you can tell the person, like me, that all the time I have jet lag. In Europe we are sleeping, and in New Zealand we are awakening. What is the condition? That is... now morning in New Zealand, we are all awakening. And here we are, sleeping. It takes, when you are a little aged, then it takes you fifteen days to overcome that jet lag. And a person like me, a quarter of jet lag is recovered, and I am in Canada. Again, the jet lag. So, this is, then you said, "I want to sleep." But after 15 days, we are used to getting up at that time. So, wake up early in the morning and practice your yoga. And if you are still sleepy, take a great cold shower. Cold shower from the river, on the drow. You know, cold drow, river? Filak and the drow? Or our Danube? Take the cold water. All the heat of the body will come out. And with that heat, negative energy goes. And refreshing the whole body. You do good asanas, good meditations. Hanumanjī was walking. Is there any sāttvic person? Brahmamuhūrta wakes up. So Hanumānjī was walking in the streets of Laṅkā. And time of the dawn, everywhere, very nice sound. Every house, that is the symbol of the Tamas Guṇa. Hanumanjī was surprised, "Is there any one Bhakta of my Lord, my God?" And one person woke up, window was open, and he said, "Śrī Rām, Jai Rām, Jai Jai Rām." Hanumanjī’s ears became big, his heart was blowing. At least one devotee, bhakta, believer, spiritual person, one person. Hanumanjī changed his form. Became like some pandit or some sādhu. And in the Govinda, he said, "Brother, you are reciting the name of God Rāma. It is very nice to see you." How did you come here? So, how did you realize this, Vibhīṣaṇa? I trust I have a trust, oh my dear brother Hanuman. Without the mercy of God, you cannot get the scent, a holy scent, a sādhu. But the real sādhu changing dress is not a sādhu. They are so angry. Some sadhus’ dress is this, but jealous, ego, proud, etc. That is not a sādhu. A sādhu means simple. The definition of the word sādhu is very humble. And if you tell this other sādhu with an orange dress, and he said, "Please, can you sit that side? I am a sādhu." But do you think, who are you? Do not you know? He said, "You are not a sādhu." So, opposite to the sādhu is called svadhū. Svadhu means taste, yes. Someone spoke, "Do not eat sugar," but ice cream comes, nice fruit comes, jelly comes, laddū comes, kolachka. That is called taste, the indriyan, the taste. When you swallow the sugar or ice cream, after the vocal cord, there is no taste. Now, there is the rest. What will happen? If you eat, you like mushrooms very much. And you bring the mushroom and make a soup. And one mushroom came inside, which is poisonous. But in the mouth, it is tasteful. But when it goes to the stomach, then you have yoga nidrā. Not a yoga nidrā, mahā yoga nidrā. Mahāsamādhi, so that is the definition of sādhu and svādhu. One sādhu went for bhikṣā, and one lady, a house lady, morning Brahmamuhūrta, she was making butter from the yogurt, so she was churning and put a little cold water inside. So, in one liter of yogurt, you put two and a half liters of water, and then you are churning. So, the butter will come up, and after it, we call it the buttermilk. This means what remains after this, we call chas. And when everything is still, butter is not turned into butter. Then it is very tasty. Milk became yogurt, and yogurt is full of butter, and so on, so this is the best quality. So one sādhu went for bhikṣā, and he asked, "Please, can you give me?" The sādhu said, "Give me bhikṣā." She said, "Wait, I am churning my butter. When it comes, then I will give you the sauce, buttermilk." He said, "For a sādhu, no test." Give it to me as it is, without churning, because the whole butter is inside. So she said, "I know you are a svadhū, not a sādhū." So it is not easy to become a sādhū. It is said also in the Bible they write, "After this, die and live." Die and live. Mahāprabhujī’s bhajans say, so those are the real disciples of the Guru. They have no doubt, no anger, no greed, no hate, no pride. Why did you do this to me? Why did you do this? Why do you take this from me? Who are you to ask me? This kind of words is bitter words, that these bitter words are the poison words. So there are many different poisons. So negative words are poisoning everything. And sweet words harmonize everything, sweetness. So, O Hanumanjī, without the grace of God, one cannot even get a sādhu. Many of you are ready for getting a sādhu. And many who became sadhu, they are already going; Mary is finished again. How many? How many became sannyāsa? When you become a sannyāsī, your ego comes up. But we are the servant. That is it. And to show this humbleness, for the sake of the humbleness, day before yesterday, Jesus was washing the feet of his devotees. If the devotee does not do it, then the master said, "Okay, I do it," that is it. Humbleness. Well, Hanumānjī is going, it is a long story, but all the soldiers... Of the Rāvaṇa, they caught Hanumān, and of course, Hanumān easily wanted to be caught. And they brought him in the palace of the Rāvaṇa and said, "Who are you?" "I am Hanumān." "Who are you?" "I am a bhakta of the Hanumān, Rāma, Rāma and Sītā." "Rāma and Sītā? Where is Rāma and where is this?" He said, "In my heart, in your heart, Rāma Sītā." I said, "Yes, in my heart." Everyone can say, "Show us." Then it was Hanumanjī. He tore open his chest. And what is he inside? Bhagavān Rāma and Sītā are sitting in the heart of Hanumanjī. Really, and that is in the Rāmāyaṇa written. Many pictures are there, and that is what we also say: that Jesus gave his holy heart. It is not that Jesus gave the holy heart; Hanumānjī gave the holy heart. And that Hanumānjī was the Jesus, too. Like this, they are one. Do not see the duality in this. And so there were many, many great things that Hanumān did. At that time, during the battle, there was a battle, and the brother of Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, got an arrow in his heart. He was going to die. Rama was very, very sad that my brother, I promised my stepmother that I will bring your son back. But emergency, emergency. Now, where is the ambulance, and where is the doctor? So that was the ambulance and the doctors. So they brought quickly from... it was happened in Laṅkā. So they called the Āyurveda doctor. So Rāvaṇa said, "You should not treat and give the medicine." To this, Rama’s brother, the Ayurvedic doctor, said, "A doctor does not see religion or non-religion, warriors or non-warriors, yours or others. The principle of the doctor is to save everyone’s life, even if you are an enemy." And so the Ayurvedic doctor came. And he saw the pearls of Lakṣmaṇa. Oh, my God, my pulse is also still bubbling, yeah, really, this also, yes. He said, "As soon as the sunlight will come, he will die," the sunrise, and it was ten o’clock. Evening, night. Only you can save his life if you can bring the sañjīvanī herb. So they said, "How does Sanjīvanī look? Where is Sanjīvanī?" Vedya, please, can you have you? Bring, he said, "Sanjivani is only in the Himalayas, and if he can bring it from someone who is here, I can save the life of Lakshmana." Where is Sri Lanka and where are the Himalayas? How many thousands of kilometers distance? Rama and all were very sad. This is called the God is playing such a theater that he wants to show the people what God can do and how God can be feeling. Hanumanjī said, "My lord, give order to your sevaka, your bhakta, Hanumāna." And he will, I bring the Sanjīvanī. Yes, Hanumān, but it is very far. Very far. Nothing is very far for Hanumāna. He jumped. He jumped like more than a jumbo jet, at 10,000 km speed. Hanuman. But Rāvaṇa has his CIDs, Big Brothers Watching. Got the message that Hanumān is coming to get Sanjīvanī. In that particular hill of the Himalayas, there was a nice lake. So Hanumanjī thought it was too quick, I was flying. And there was a lake, a beautiful lake. Hanumanjī wanted to take a little bath, and the Rākṣasa’s secret CIDs, one became a big crocodile and caught Hanumanjī. He opened his mouth, one on this side and one on this side. But Rāvaṇa said, "Do some miracles." So, the rākṣasas, CIDs, security. Hanumanjī told, "How should I know what is the Sanjīvanī herb?" And that, Vedya said, in the night, oh, that Sanjīvanī is sparkling. Like a light. So the Rākṣasa gave the mantra. Everything is lightning. Now Hanumanjī said, "Everything is lightning. What should I take?" So he took the heel, big on his hand, and he became like an aeroplane with the goods, with high speed, and he flew over Rāma’s birthplace. And his brother Bharat, his CID secretary, said, "Some of Rāvaṇa’s enemies are running, going towards Rāma." And Bharat shot the arrow in the night. It caught in Hanumānjī’s knee. Hanumān came down to pull it out, and Hanumānjī said, "Śrī Rām, Jaya Rām." Bharat said, "Oh God, I made a mistake. Who are you?" I am Hanuman. Oh God. They took the arrow out and said, "I give you some remedy," and the rest is in the Ramayana written. So Hanumānjī said, "Rām, Kājī, Kī, Moe, Kahā, Bish, Rām, O brother Bharat, without fulfilling my duty to my God, how can I rest?" There is no rest for me. Again he flew. It was about morning, two o’clock, and in four hours the sun will rise. God Rāma said, "Śaśī ḍhal rahā, śamā ḍhal rahā, Lakṣmaṇ kī prāṇ jā rahā, Hanumān kab āoge?" Śaśī ḍhal rahā. Śaśī is the moon, so the moon was going down and the sun will rise. Lakṣmaṇ’s life is going. Where are you, Hanumān? Rama said, "I do not know which of my past karmas are coming now in front of me." So even though God has the karma, do not think that you have no karma. What are we? We are just nothing. Karma of the Jesus, Krishna’s, Buddha’s, Rama’s, but they are above. But they are performing to give us the lesson. Hanumanjī came, life came in everyone, and he said, "I do not know which is the Sanjīvanī, please take it quickly." So the Ayurveda, he took it, that helped, made the juice, and put it in the mouth of the Lakṣmaṇa, and powerful Lakṣmaṇa gets up and jumps up. So now the Indian embassies and these people said Ayurveda is 5,000 years old only. Look into the Rāmāyaṇa. The first medicine, the first is that Āyurveda from the god Śiva’s time. So Hanumānjī brought this. So there are many, many miracles of Hanumanjī. Such a person, if he helps your father, or your mother, or your master, you are like a god. That is it. So, Hanumanjī was great, and in his heart, and in our heart, he is also god in our heart. And Hanumanjī is in our heart. He is not a monkey god. Do not say he is a monkey. Oh, no, no, no. So, let us sing. Jaya Jaya Śrī Rām Śrī Rām... Śrī Rām... Śrī Rām. Your will, your power, your energy, your knowledge, that is the Hanumān in you. And Ātmā is the Rāma. That is what we call eternal God. That is your Ātmā, you are that one. We are the essence of that one. That essence is enough for a very tiny seed, a very tiny seed of the banyan tree, and it becomes a big, big, big tree, a huge tree. So your willpower is your Hanuman. Your strength is your Hanuman. Your fear is Rāvaṇa’s. So you can just step on it and go. Because Rāvaṇa came and said, "Hanuman," Hanuman said, "OK, you can move my tail." And Rāvaṇa wanted to pull the tail of Hanumān to throw him away. So he tried very hard to move the tail of Hanumanjī. He could not move the tail of Hanumānjī half a millimeter. So again, he was pulling, and what happened? Ravana’s crown fell down at Hanumanjī’s feet. Hanumanjī said, "Not in my feet, in Rāma’s feet." So there are many, many, many glories, and we are all, we are all like that. So now, therefore, in Manipūra Chakra is Rāma. We have this mantra, what we call Rāma. Manipūra Chakra is Rāma. Now sit all straight, and we will do now one, one kind of beginning of one, one Kriyā, and so this is a Kriyā for you, all of you. So we shall also give the chance to the camera people; they should also practice. So now we can finish the webcast, and we will do something, that Kriyā. You will see like you are sitting in endless space, and you will feel as if you were sitting in an infinite space.

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