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Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkha bhāgbhavet, oṃ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Alakpurījī Mahādev kī Devadhī Dev Deveśwar Mahādev kī Ārādhī Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī kī Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Gurudev kī Satya Sanātan Dharma kī blessed self, dear sisters and brothers, all the spiritual seekers, all our dear ones who are with us in this hall and in webcasts, through the webcasts in different parts of the world. srdca Slovenska. It’s very beautiful: the forest, the hills, the mountains, the Fatra. Then further comes the Nīḍra Pātra. Slovakia is a colorful country. God has given a most beautiful soil here and hills, environment, etc. I am always happy and looking forward to coming to Slovakia. My first visit to this beautiful city of Martin was in 1975. My aim is to come, first of all, to bring good health. The meaning of spirituality. The purpose and the sense of the human body. We have a very beautiful relation between India and Slovakia. There are many things that are very close. My dear ones, this weekend we have a very special subject. Always, our first subject is that which is called yoga. Yoga is a science of body, mind, and soul. In Āyurveda and in yoga, it is said, the first happiness is good health. First wealth is good health. It is that through the practicing of yoga, we can achieve the highest consciousness. And that’s why the many great saints and ṛṣis around the world achieved the highest consciousness through the practice of yoga. Humans also have weaknesses towards certain desires, also desires about eating different kinds of food. Also, out of ignorance, they have bad habits, what are so-called the drugs. Alcohol is also a drug, and we know that alcohol. Does it damage the human quality? There are many desires humans have, and now in this Kali Yuga, in this iron time and so-called modern time, many people are suffering, and that suffering is more. From certain relations, the human lost that human quality. We know, but we cannot master, and we know that we are suffering. And we know that we suffer because we do not know how to come, or how to achieve the highest and the best quality of human life. So yoga is something which you don’t need anything for. You just need to have a little time and practice. Those exercises, physical exercises, mental exercises, and spiritual exercises, will create this in our body, mind, and spirituality. Yoga is a lifelong practice, not only for one month or three months or two years. Yoga will lead us to the end of our aim, the highest consciousness. There is what we are saying, the karma. Karma means actions. And where there is action, there is a reaction. And where there is reaction, there is action. Now we are all rolling like a cycle. Action, reaction, action, reaction. We don’t know now. Are we here as a reaction? Or are we here as an action? So it is. If you bite your tongue while eating. It’s your own tongue, your own teeth, and your own taste with some food, and you bite your tongue. That was an action, and now the reaction will be painful. Similarly, in this life, if we cannot control our senses, our feelings, our emotions, our laziness, our ignorance, that is the cause of the suffering, the illnesses, unhappiness, etc. The great saints gave that science of the human science, and whatever humans have created as science in this time, that’s great. And it is through the human brain and their practice. They are studying and thinking over thinking, thinking, thinking. For example, our camera, and now we are sitting here and we have this technology, the webcast, and in the whole world people can see. It was not so easy, but the scientists were looking and making experiments, making experiments, they brought. Now, this technology, what we can see and enjoy and everything. This was also here before, but we did not know. And now, everyone knows how to do it. But someone who is trying, working hard, and using the human brain—similarly, parallel, you can say—while practicing yoga, while controlling the body and senses, controlling your thoughts, and going far into meditation. So nothing is impossible. Everything is possible, but it needs discipline, practicing, and concentrating, and giving the time, and it will take time, maybe many lives. When we see in different times, God incarnates, but that is all of God. Maybe before, it was just like us, and he came and he went. He came and he went, and he came and went. So it is said, from the Brahmā, one can come till the reptilian again, and from the reptilian, it can come to the Brahman. So this is a cycle: coming, going, coming, going. And there is another level where they cannot anymore come and go. But I don’t want that you come to that divine level of consciousness; you may still want to enjoy here. But what you want to enjoy, that joy is less in joy than the pain of that joy. Few people understand. There is one story, a little example. There was a blind man, and he came into this big hall where we are sitting. And he had a stick in his hand. Nobody was in the hall now. That blind man wanted to come out again from the hall, so he didn’t know where the gate was. But a blind person also has his technique. So what did he do? He put his one hand on the wall and slowly, slowly he was walking. Touching the wall, yes, it’s a good technique. That’s the only way for him to find the gate. He was about one meter far from the gate. What he did, he began to scratch his head, and he remained walking again, put his hand on the wall. But meanwhile, the door was bent back, and he was walking and walking. He came about half a meter distance from the door. And he was itching under the armpit. Again, he lost. While slowly walking, walking, again he came near. One man was watching this blind person, so again he came, and he has again eating somewhere near the stomach. Three times he missed it. The fourth time, when he came, was very close to the door, and he was so anxious, "How big is this hall?" Again, he lost the door. The one man who was looking said, "My dear friend, the hall is not so big, but you missed the door." The blind person said, "I am blind, but I am not stupid like you, my friend. I have my technique, you know. All the time, my hand was on the wall." He said, "My brother, when the door came, you had some itching." And you took the hand away from the wall. But you did not stop there. You were continually walking. And that’s why the door remained behind. He said, "Yes, that’s right." So, this example means we come to the spiritual path, we come to the yoga practice, or some particular religion, because I would not say that only yoga. There are many other paths, maybe. So, people are practicing for many, many years. Now, their life remains only a few years. And what happened? Suddenly something comes in the brain. I don’t want this so long. I was practicing, I have got nothing. Or something, or I take another path, and this is that we lost it. We came near the beach from the ocean. We wanted to come out of the water. But again, we turn in the other direction. So, my dear, one has to have a strong willpower. Yes, I will, I will achieve. So, we have different kinds of feelings, but it is not everything. That’s not everything for life. We have to go straight on that forward. If something will come, good, it will come. And something should not come, then it will not come. And then, without that knowledge, that quality, out of your emotion, out of our ignorance, we take the wrong things. And then again we say, "Lost," and we suffer. So yoga tells you to learn thyself to live life. Don’t ask only to me or to somebody else. Finally, it is you, my dear, you who will achieve. You will do it. And you have that energy. Just look within thyself. Some saint said, "Within you is the ocean of the joy. Within you is the fountain of the immortality. And within you is the joy of the Ātmā." So within us is the ocean of joy. Within us is the fountain of immortality, and within that, just look within and enjoy thy life. The body is given to us by God or nature. If God has given it, then he is great. And if it is only nature, that nature is also great. Today I was with one person with me, my friend, and I had in one basket very nice fresh strawberries. And I offer him this strawberry, and he bites. It was morning, I said about morning 8:55, and he took the bite of the strawberry, and then he was looking at the strawberry. One minute already. So I said, what are you looking for? "Do you not like it?" He said, "No, no. I’m admiring how nature is doing such good things." Yes. And he’s thinking, the Creator has made such a nice fruit, and what I did, I bit it, I broke it. Should I eat? What should I do? Yes, so God or nature is great. You see the mother, in the mother’s body, when she comes to know that she is now pregnant, and how this whole body is developing. It’s great. God is sitting beside, giving the instruction to the inner engineers on what to do. Or is it nature? My dear, it is a science. Long ago, long, long ago, there was a story about Śiva, Pārvatī, and Gaṇeśa. So, what they call the cloning. About a few decades ago, in London, or in England somewhere, scientists were trying to make the cloning, and they said, "Science did, and now only science can do." So people wrote in the newspapers that what I’m telling, only, do you know the story? Of Gaṇeśjī? God Gaṇeśa. So, how did that time come, cloning the elephant’s head on the human’s head? You know, everybody, so that science was that time too. This is a beautiful poem. And that is, that the Gurudev, the Guru, means not only this human. It has within that above, and he can do what we cannot do. And they can change what they want to do. And we have the ability for the same thing. Therefore, okay, we don’t want a miracle. I don’t want to make the cloning, but we want to liberate our soul. And how in the mother’s body this body developed. It is unbelievable, and a 24-hour process is going on. Not a second is there an interval. And suddenly, after nine months, we are born as a beautiful child. Podobně, i yoga we can support our body to keep healthy. And that humans should know, humans have five different bodies. And for humans, there is different nourishment. But if we eat wrong nourishment, if we use bad food, then we will suffer. Long ago, when I came to Slovakia, it was almost 5-10 years ago, hardly people were talking about organic food. No one was talking, only that time the macrobiotic diet was very in, and then they wrote a lot about soybeans, and then they wrote what they called, "You should eat only what is grown a maximum 40 km distance." And now we will eat from the Japanese fruits we are bringing here, and we will eat here. So one reason that our health is not good is because we eat those kinds of food, maybe grains, maybe vegetables or fruits, or maybe other kinds of production. According to our nature, we are going opposite, against it. And then so much pesticides came, and I think every fifth person in this world is getting cancer now. And I pray all the time, "God, please protect humans and animals from cancer, please." Whether you practice yoga or not, for your good health, concentrate on your food. Two, three days, if you can’t get food, don’t worry, you will not die. But don’t eat that poisoned nourishment. And still, Slovakia has very good soil. God has given you a blessed land, and many people have at least a little own garden. And now, also, people are making vegetables on their balcony on the high buildings. Instead of making some plants and some flowers, they are growing some kind of vegetable in Slovakia. There is a lot of land, and now is the right time to put the seeds inside. We can grow such vegetables and root vegetables and pumpkins, etc., and we can save them for winter time. Besides this, practicing yoga, now there is little circulation in the body. And due to that, some kind of vikāras collect in the body, and that creates the illness or certain problems which you cannot solve. Yes, sometimes it’s our own problem that we can solve, but a problem from outside, how can we solve it? And that is a problem, a certain problem, that we all take this fear, anxiety, etc. And it collects in our bodies, our tissues, our glands, and that creates different kinds of diseases. I would not say only, there are many other reasons: our water, what we drink, what water is flowing in our rivers. Have you clean, green water? Water in your country? And it’s about... Six decades of poison are gone in your land, so all this oxygen we put in is not oxygen, it is poison, all chemicals. You see in Martin, what is the population? Fifty, sixty thousand. Fifty and sixty is one hundred? No, no, between. Okay, so let’s say fifty thousand people, and about three thousand people, the tourists and foreigners. Every household, every person, how much soap are they using? How much washing machine powder are you using? How much are you using for your dish cleaning? How much for washing other things? So, how many grams of the chemical per person? With the water, let this flow, this poison. How many years now? If you dig the water where there is poison, so water, what we drink, it’s not so pure. We can filter. But still, the essence of that is going into our body. And unfortunately, we cannot stop, but at least we can avoid. Don’t put a lot of soap on your body. Just clean it with some neem soap or natural soap. Just clean your armpits. Use a little. One big soap, one year. So try to reduce as much as you can the chemicals. Then you will see how healthy you can be. Then, through the practicing of yoga, we will activate all our body systems, our circulation, our glands, systems, our muscles, our ligaments, and tissues in the body, all the cells in the body. Through the practice of this scientific system of yoga in daily life, please practice every day. If you go to a yoga center or you don’t go to a yoga center, it doesn’t matter. You can do it at home. You only need one and a half hours. Then there is the prāṇāyāma technique, which we have now developed, and in these two days we will practice it. So, how can we try, as much as we can, to purify our body and mind? Trust yourself. Trust thyself. Trust your system. Trust your exercises and control over your diet. So that’s what we call yoga in daily life. Yoga in daily life means practice every day. That’s it. I don’t know how you are going to do yoga in your daily life. So tell the translation again, how it is. So we will have some techniques, and now we will make a little interval. The video will run. Don’t stop what you call webcast. You know, there are many, many casts, so many casts: broadcast, the weathercast, and we created one cast more, and that’s called our webcast. So I will give you some technique and let our brothers and sisters... Who are watching this technique? So now, everyone, please sit in yoga posture. And who cannot sit, you are sitting on the chair, please remain on the chair. Now, only don’t cross your legs, those who are sitting on the chair. And please sit more comfortably. Just relax and come. You should be sitting straight. Very good. I will give you some time to think it over. It is your body that wants to think. But at present, don’t think about others. About your husband, your wife, your children, your friends, your enemy, your friends, just be here yourself. And you know that you don’t think that Swāmījī will give you everything. Swamiji can give you techniques. I can show you the path. But walking you should. If you don’t walk, you will not reach the mile. So, you have to do. And at the same time, feel something, yes. If then I can get good benefit, or can think that can support me something. So, my dear, sit very comfortably, very relaxed. Feel your whole body. Feel your body from the toes to the top of the head, and from the top of the head to the toes, and relax. Imagine you are in the womb of the mother, so that you are within thyself now. You are very safe, no discomfort, don’t be scared. Let fear go away. Yes, feel oneness and sure and protected in this minute. If you trust Me, then you can direct your thoughts and feelings that, yes, I am in this minute very safe. Relax. Yes, relax. I believe that you are healthy, but still, if you think that you have some disease, that is your ignorance. And that disease is collecting out of fear, ignorance, vagrancy, and no confidence. But just see and feel if you have any pain, any discomfort, anything. You have to diagnose thyself. Relax. Relax. It will be. Trust thyself. I will overcome. Do not hate your disease. Do not fear that. Just with your willpower and your belief, you will become free from that problem. Relax, and now feel your breath. With this, your breath, you are breathing very pure air. It is our prāṇa, our breath, which is constantly removing the impurity from the body. Direct your prāṇa śakti, meaning from your breath, to that particular part of your body where you feel pain or unpleasantness, or where you think there is something, maybe a disease. When you breathe in, see your breath; it is so pure, very clean, like white light. And it’s digging, it’s digging from that part of the pain. While exhaling, it comes like a gray color of the air. And with your breath, it pulls out the disease that you see as a gray air. Relax. The second step: concentrate on your blood circulation in the body. Feel the circulation. Your blood vessels, where the blood is running, are with the power of the prāṇa. Relax. The power of the breath, or the prāṇa, the purity of your blood, and we will come to other levels. We will touch, after, the glands, but now only the breath and blood circulation. The breath and blood circulation. And we will chant one mantra which influences our breath and the blood circulation. And you know the mantra. Your palms on the forehead and your face bent forward towards the mother earth, feel the blood circulation towards the head and all the jñānendriyas. And slowly, with the help of your hands, come up.