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Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve santu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi paśyantu, mā kaścid duḥkha bhāgbhavet. Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Alakhpurījī Mahādev kī jai, Devādidev Deveśvar Mahādev kī jai, Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī kī jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Gurudev kī jai, Satya Sanātan Dharma kī jai. Blessed self, dear sisters and brothers, all spiritual seekers, and all our dear ones who are with us in this hall and through the webcast in different parts of the world. After one and a half years, I am again in this beautiful city of Martin, in the beautiful country of Slovakia. The countryside is most beautiful—the forests, the hills, the mountains, the Vāṭikā. I am always happy and looking forward to coming to Slovakia. My first visit to this beautiful city, Martin, was in 1975. My aim is, first of all, to bring good health. The meaning of spirituality, the purpose, and the sense of the human body—we share 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, "Pehlā Sukh Nirogī Kāyā," the first happiness is good health, the first wealth is good health. It is through the practice of yoga that we can achieve the highest consciousness. That is why the many great saints and ṛṣis around the world achieve the highest consciousness through the practice of yoga. Humans also have weaknesses towards certain desires—desires about eating different kinds of food, also out of ignorance. They have bad habits, what are called drugs. Alcohol is also a drug, and we know that alcohol damages human quality. Humans have many desires. And now in this Kali Yuga, in this iron age, in our so-called modern time, many people are suffering. That suffering is more from certain relations. Humanity has lost that human quality. We know, but we cannot master it. And we know that we suffer from this. We suffer because we do not know how to come out or how to achieve the highest and best quality of human life. Yoga is something for which you don’t need anything; you just need to have a little time and practice. Those exercises include physical exercises, mental exercises, and spiritual exercises. This will create harmony in our body, mind, and spirituality. Yoga is a lifelong practice, not only for one month, or three months, or two years, and so on. Yoga will lead us to the end of our aim, the highest consciousness. We speak of karma. 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, or our ignorance, that is the cause of suffering. The illnesses, unhappiness, etc.—the great seers gave that science of human life, and whatever humans have created in this time, that science is great, and it is through the human brain. Through their practice, they are studying and thinking over, thinking, thinking, thinking. For example, our camera: now we are sitting here, and we have this technology, the webcast, and people all over the world can see. It was not so easy, but the scientists were looking and making experiments, making experiments, and they brought it forth. Now, this technology, which we can see and enjoy—this was also here before, but we did not know. And now everyone knows how to do it, but someone who was trying, working hard (Ťažko pracoval), and using the human brain—similarly, parallel, you can say (môžeme povedať), that while practicing yoga, while controlling the body and senses, you control your thoughts. It will take time, maybe many lives. When we see, in different times, God incarnates. But that’s all of God. Maybe before, it was just like us. And he came and he went, he came and he went, he came and went. So it is said, from Brahmā one can come till the reptile, and from the reptile, one can come to the Brahman. So this is a cycle: coming, going, coming, going, coming, going. And there is another level where they cannot come and go anymore. But I don’t want you to come to that divine level just yet. 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 a big hall like the one where we are sitting. He had a stick in his hand. Nobody was in the hall. Now, that blind man wanted to come out again from the hall, but he didn’t know where the gate was. But a blind person also has their technique. So what he did was, he put one hand on the wall. He came about half a meter distance from the door, and then he had an itch under the armpit. He lost the door. While slowly walking, walking, he came near again. One man was watching this blind person. So again he came, and he had another itch somewhere near the stomach. Three times he missed it. The fourth time he came, he was very close to the door, and he was so angry. "How big is this hall?" Again, he lost the door. The 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 as stupid as you, my friend. I have my technique. You know, all the times 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 that we come to the spiritual path, we come to yoga practice, or some particular religion—I would not say 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. I don’t want to do it anymore. I’ve been doing it for so long, and I haven’t gained anything, or I take another path." This is that. We lost it. We came near the beach from the ocean. We want to come out from the water, but again we turn in another direction. So, my dear, one has to have a strong willpower. Yes, I will. I will achieve. We have different kinds of feelings, but that is not everything in life. We have to go straight forward. If something will come, good, it will come. And if something should not come, then it will not come. And then, without that knowledge, that quality, out of your emotion, out of your ignorance, we take it the wrong way, and then again we say we are lost, and we suffer. So yoga tells you to learn thyself, to live life. Don’t ask only me or somebody else. Finally, it is you, my dear, who will achieve. You will do it. And you have that energy. Just look within thyself. Some saint said, "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 is the Ātmā. Just look within and enjoy thy life. The body is given to us by God or nature. If God has given, then He is great. And if it is only nature, then nature is also great. Today, I was with one person, my friend. I had in one basket very nice, fresh strawberries, and I offered him a strawberry, and he bit it. It was morning, I think about 8:55. He took a bite of the strawberry, and then he was looking at the strawberry for a full minute. So I said, "What are you looking at? 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 did I do? I bit it. I broke it. Should I eat? What should I do?" So God or nature is great. You see, in the mother’s body, when she comes to know that she is now pregnant, and how the whole body is developing, it is a great—God is sitting beside, giving 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 and Pārvatī and Gaṇeśa. So, what they call cloning. About a few decades ago, in London or England, somewhere, scientists were trying to make cloning. And they said, "This science did, and now only science can do." So, people wrote in the newspapers only what I’m telling. Do you know the story of Gaṇeśajī? God Gaṇeśa. How did that time cloning happen, the elephant’s head on the human body? You know, everybody, so that science was there at that time too. Anhonī Guru kar sake, honī det mīṭāī, par brahm par meśvar heṁ, sab kus det banāī. This is a beautiful poem, and that is the Gurudeva. The Guru means not only this human. It has within that above, and it 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 cloning, but we want to liberate our soul. And how in the mother’s body this body developed—it is unbelievable. 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 baby. Don’t take it just as, "No, yeah, okay, we got a baby." But how has it happened? I’m always so much admiring and thinking. Similarly, through yoga, we can support our body to keep healthy. Humans should know that humans have five different bodies, and for humans, there is different nourishment. But if we eat wrong nourishment, then we will suffer. Long ago, when I came to, let’s say, Slovakia, it was nearly five decades ago; hardly anyone was talking about organic food. No one was talking. Only at that time was the macrobiotic diet very in. And then they wrote a lot about soybeans. And then they wrote what they called—you should eat only what is grown within a maximum distance of 40 kilometers. And now we eat Japanese fruits we are bringing here, and we eat them here. So, there is one reason that our health is not good. Because we eat those kinds of food, maybe grains, maybe vegetables or fruits, or maybe other kinds of production, against our nature. We are going opposite, against. And then, so much pesticide came. 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 or three days, if you can’t get food, don’t worry, you will not die. But don’t eat that poisoned nourishment. Still, Slovakia has very good soil. God has given you blessed land. Many people have at least a little garden of their own. And now, people are also growing vegetables on their balconies in 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, pumpkins, etc., and 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 are collecting in the body. That creates illness, or certain problems which you cannot solve. Yes, sometimes it is a problem. Sometimes it is our own problem that we can solve, but a problem from outside, how can we solve that? And that is a problem—a certain problem that we all take this fear and anxiety, and it collects in our bodies, in our tissues, in 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. Do you have clean, green water in your country? It’s been about six decades. Poison is gone from your land. So, all this oxygen—not oxygen—these poisons, 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 50,000 people. And about 3,000 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 chemical, per person, with the water, let this flow? This poison. How many years? Now, if you dig the water, 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. 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, use natural soap; just clean your armpits. Use little. One big soap lasts one year. So try to reduce the chemicals as much as you can. And then you will see how healthy you can be. Then, through the practice of yoga, we will activate our entire body system. Our circulation, our gland systems, our muscles, our ligaments, and tissues in the body, all the cells in the body, through the practicing of this scientific system, 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 are prāṇāyāma techniques, which we have now developed, and in these two days we will practice. 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 go into yoga in daily life; that’s it. So we will have some techniques, and now we will make a little interval, and the video will run. Don’t stop your, what you call, webcast. You know, there are many, many castes, so many castes. Some broadcast, the weather cast. 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 learn this technique. So now, everyone, please sit in a yoga posture. And those who cannot sit, if you are sitting on a chair, please remain on the chair. Now, only do not 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. Dear friends, just be here yourself. And you know that you don’t think that Svāmījī 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 in 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. Feel oneness, 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. 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, vagueness, 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. Believe in yourself. I will overcome. Do not hate your disease. Do not fear it. Just use your willpower and your belief. You will become free from that problem. Relax. 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 penetrating, it’s digging from that part of the pain. While exhaling, it comes out like a grey color of air. Relax. 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. And feel the flow of blood in your veins with the power of your prāṇa. Relax. The power of the breath, the prāṇa, and the purity of your blood. We will come to other levels after that. We will touch on the glands later, but for now, only the breath and blood circulation. And you know the mantra. Place your palms on the forehead and bend your face forward towards Mother Earth. Feel the blood circulation towards the head and all the jñānendriyas. And slowly, with the help of your hands, come up. And slowly, with the help of your hands, come up. Help of your hands, come up, and slowly.