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The hatha yogi wants to live a long and healthy life

A satsang on herbal remedies and the principles of Haṭha Yoga.

"You take only a little of this babool fruit... Shake it in the water... By morning, it is ready. You drink the water, and you eat that."

"The biggest enemy of the human is laziness. Where there is laziness, there is tamas guṇa."

Swami Ji leads a session beginning with practical uses for neem and babool plants, sharing recipes and a disciple's testimony about neem healing a wound. The talk transitions into the philosophy of a Haṭha Yogī, emphasizing the conquest of laziness, dietary practices including the defense of garlic, and internal cleansing. The session concludes with a live demonstration of the Agni Sāra Kriyā by a disciple.

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Our Jayaprakash from Ljubljana told me something while walking. Is he here, or did he go to drink? So that you don't think that Swāmījī is only telling something. And also this neem, or not a neem, that babool, that's also very good for, you see, our sisters, our brothers, mothers, or like this. After a certain age, 40 or so, they have problems with stopping the menstruation of the gland, thyroid gland, and sweating, and this. And so this is our bābul water. You take only a little of this babool fruit, like a fissolka. Shake it in the water, normal water, and put it in the evening. By morning, it is ready. You drink the water, and you eat that. It has a very good, little salt and little lemon on it. And if you like, a little chili or Tabasco, that is very tasty, but that does good to our... Body also for the men, so it is really very, very helpful. So this Bābul is really Bābul, and name this two is miracle. So, Jai Prakash Vatiu, take the mic, please. He is not my... Okay, hello. Yes, I have one very interesting experience with the neem powder. As Swāmījī said yesterday, neem is very universal and useful. And what I have experienced last week was a great help of neem leaf powder for wounds. So my father is 90 years old, and for four months he had one wound on his leg, which didn't close. It was open all the time. It was much swollen, all the leg from the knee down. And the pain was there. So I gave him neem powder, the same powder as you can buy, you can get here. And the same evening, he just put the neem powder on the wound. And during the night, so I can say in the morning, the wound was completely closed. The inflammation has gone completely in the whole leg. And the pain was gone also. So, I suppose many of us know older people. And it is very typical for older people that their wounds don't heal. So, I would suggest, because my father is not some exceptional, I know also, I gave him because one of my friends from Croatia told me that he also wounded himself, and on the same day, he put just the whole fist of Neem powder to the wound, and it healed very, very quickly. So, it is obvious that it has many, many effects, and I would suggest using it in such situations. And if you agree, Swāmījī, I would tell one more experience. Come on! So it was, many times it's mentioned that neem is a very good biopesticide. And when we planted these 150 apple trees in a park in Ljubljana, this was, of course, on Swāmījī's suggestion. I promised the authorities that we will take care of these trees for two years. For these trees, and of course these little apple trees, they were very sensitive. In the first year, a lot of these little animals, not bugs, but yes, lice, lice, it was completely over. So we bought one, this big spray for 10 liters. Make neem tea and spray trees, and I can tell it was very, very effective, and it is only this, how to say, small neem leaves. But otherwise, there are books about neem, and every part of neem, as Swāmījī said, Americans were researching NIMH in one period, between 1975. At the same time, about 10 or 20 universities were making big, big experiments, and they, at that time, said that NIM is a hope for big changes. Of course, they saw economic and also personal interest. However, they found one problem. The main component of neem is called azadirachtin. It is so complex that it is not possible to synthesize it. But they had a problem: the main component of neem, which he also mentioned, was so complicated that it could not be produced by hand. So afterwards, everything settled down, and there is not much information about this. However, they could not patent it. But however, few companies are putting neem oil in their synthetic products, because neem oil is so effective, like most poisonous synthetic pesticides. So it increases the efficiency of this synthetic pesticide. But there are still companies that add neem oil to artificial, chemically produced plant-based products, and the second reason is because bugs do not develop resistance to neem. So, this is all from my side. I hope you can make some benefit from this information, and Hari Om. Very good, thank you. It is very nice when you have the neem seeds. It looks like peanuts. No, you have in Croatia, Serbia, they say kikiriki. So when you take some of these seeds, about one handful. And you grind them on this stone, not in the machine, so it becomes like almond butter, and then you massage with that in your hair. He talked about the leaves, you know, the leaves that will disappear on the first day. But your hair roots will become strong, and your hair will be very gentle. But, of course, those who are coating your hair with some color, that we cannot help. And it is said that those who have artificial perfume or this color, but you are making the black or the white or the fair or something, I don't know. Ladies are doing it, mostly. Then, don't go mistakenly even near the bees. The honeybee, no? They don't like. They will attack you. So even the bees don't like it, but you are a big bee, so it's okay. So with the neem, the seeds from one neem tree give us about one gunny bag, and we don't know what to do. And when we walk, it makes oil everywhere. So you can come and volunteer. Collect the neem seeds and take them freely. Yes, so that's it. It is the neem, very much. And as you said about the babool, if you mix this babool with neem water and drink it. 100% quickly, your problems will disappear, bleeding or something like this. That's what we are calling, talking about Haṭha Yogī. Haṭha Yoga. People understand hatha yoga, the physical exercises. No, they are the postures. These are exercises, but hatha yoga is different. It is, I'm talking about that which I don't want, because I am also guilty to myself. And that is, a hatha yogī should renounce laziness. Hatha yogīs have no kind of laziness. It is said, everyone says, in every country there is one slogan. What you have to do tomorrow, do it today. And what you have to do today, do it just now. You never know when your breath will go out, which means you will die. It's very nice. What you have to do tomorrow? This work? Better do it today. And what you have to do today? Do it just now. And what you have to do today, do it now. If you do it today, do it today. Now, in a second, you will die. Within a second, life, maybe you die. Then when will you do it? When will you do it again? So, the Haṭha Yogī said, The biggest enemy of the human is laziness. Where there is laziness, there is tamas guṇa. And in Ayurveda there are three guṇas. Sattva, rajas, and tamas guṇa. Tamas guṇa is compared with the big snake python. So that person who has tamas guṇa is like a python. He is always lying somewhere. Then, after some days, Then he searches for something to eat because the jāṭharāgni. The digestive fire is very strong, even the legyī crocodile, Legyī python, and legyī human is equal. And next life they will be somewhere. So it is said a yogī is a legyī sleeping very much. The next life will be a python, and who is talking too much between? Next life will be a water frog. And like this, so the haṭha yogī. These techniques, which affect our solar plexus very much, which is called agni, the fire, so these are the five elements. And these five elements, or what we call, is ākāśa, the space, the fire, The air, the water, and the earth. These are the five elements. And these five elements, he said, nature brought together, and God, after, the Ātmā comes after. So, a Haṭha Yogī wants to have a long and healthy life, and that Haṭha Yogī can eat as much as he likes, or for a few days, he doesn't need to eat. For the haṭha yogī, he said, it's enough, one handful of rice. So, in haṭha yoga kriyās, there is a call. The dhoti, nauli. So nauli is that it's moving, exercising the whole intense time. It makes a very nice feeling, and it keeps your solar plexus very active, with good digestion and good energy. It is said, 100% sure, if you do the nauli and agni sāra kriyā, you will not be attacked by diabetes. And if so, then diabetes will run away. Like how? When a dog comes in the forest somewhere, then how is the rabbit running? So when you do your Nauli and Agni Sākriyā, then your diabetes is like a rabbit. It will run and run and run very quickly, far away, and then the rabbit stands there and looks, "Where is my enemy?"And again, Nauli is coming. Oh God, the rabbit will run away forever. So these are the principles of Haṭha Yogī. But a Hatha yogī must be having sattva guṇa. And also rajas guṇa. Rajas guṇa is a fire. Yes. I had many experiences in one thing, and many people in India are angry when I talk about this. Many people said yogīs should not eat garlic. And those who eat garlic, they are very aggressive. But I can tell you, I saw almost all aggressive people are those who are non-consumers of garlic. So many yoga books are writing, "Don't eat garlic." But garlic is the brother of the neem. Yes, garlic is the guard of your heart. Garlic is the best part of your solar plexus. The garlic takes all the legy guṇas, tamas guṇas, from the whole body and brings them out as gases. Yeah. And when the gas comes out of your anus, then you feel free. Yeah. So sometimes, go in the forest and let it run; all the gas comes out. In India, there are so many so-called Brahmins. And many sādhus, and they are so aggressive. If you tell them a little something, they are like, you know, the corn. Kukuruts, and we put the kukuruts, corn, on the fry pan. What happens? That's called corn, cornflakes, popcorn. Yeah, so, like a popcorn. Who eats garlic? It will digest it, and those who don't eat are like popcorn. Angry, you can't imagine. So there are many sādhus and many maṇḍalas, they don't eat garlic, but they are so aggressive. We should be yes men, yes sir, yes sir. But there are some who say, "Okay, in akhāḍā we don't eat our garlic."But when they come to the tent, they make a vegetable food for them and say, "Please use the good garlic." Garlic is very good for our eyesight. Very good for the heart. The best for the liver. And it is good to clean all the gases from the intestine. That's it. So garlic is not wrong. But too much is not good, and sometimes garlic smells. When I came to Austria, at that time, it was still not what we call the European Union; there was Yugoslavia and other countries. So we have in Vienna a certain district where most of our brothers from Yugoslavia are in that part. Now you can say Croatia, and maybe different. But when you walk in this district, it's like a cloud of garlic. I did not know. But one girl, a lady, told me she was from Slovenia, and she said, "Best opera singer,"and she is my disciple, and she told me, "Swāmījī, when I land from the aeroplane, I feel the garlic smell of Vienna, where all Yugoslavians, why not?"That's why they are very healthy. Anyhow, so the hatha yogī will use the garlic, but if he or she has purification, doing the śaṅkha prakṣālana, normal yoga practitioners should do four times a year śaṅkha prakṣālana. But hatha yogīs will do it every week. Yes, or they call it basti. That's a very good technique. When you use, doing the basti, every day or every fourth day, maximum latest every week, you will have no ulcer in your body, no cancers, all is clean, very nice. You should not do, but you can take your intense time out and look how it is, and then pull it again back. But that you should not do, okay? It is the work of the doctor. I don't know, I'm not a doctor, but it is said the human intestine is 8.5 meters long. And that everything is God has been nicely selected and put in place. And it doesn't make any problem. If you eat more or a little, if you don't eat for five days, it will not come together. And it is said the animals which are meat-eater animals, their intestine is small because they digest quickly. But humans cannot. And because they are also consuming alcohol or meat, Then they try to burn this with alcohol, but that's also not good. So that's why the alcoholic has a gastric problem. Many, many different problems, and that is what also causes—it must not be, but mostly is—from those kinds of gases in which food is not properly digested. That kind of energy creates the cancer, also the psychic. Females have cancer attacking mostly those sensitive parts of the females. In the chest, thyroid, and the uterus, etc. And men also have their weak points. And mostly, these cancers attack there. And those who are with the smoking, too much sugar, and alcohol, then it attacks the liver and covers our lungs. But it must not be only these reasons. There are many, many different reasons. But the hatha yogī keeps the body very clean; it's transparent. And mostly, yogīs are purifying bodies and all diseases away with fasting, but we should know how to fast, when and how, and how much water. So there are many, many things. So I think the Garuḍa Saṁhitā's book is talking more. About Haṭha Yoga, Śiva Saṁhitā's book also. So these are the little books about haṭha yoga. And only alone about the Khecharī Mudrā and Jālandhara Bandha, only about this there are many pages written in Sanskrit. So they live life happy and healthy. They can walk and walk the whole day, and they are not tired. And we just went around the football field, and we came back. And we are sweating, and we put on the jeans. Yeah, but a hatha yogī is not. A hatha yogī doesn't sweat. Little bit, definitely, but not like us. We are ill people. We are living whole; we have a whole city that is the hospital. Including the house pet, so we are ill. Yes, the hatha yogī will take you, and you don't know what he will do with you. So you will try to find a way to escape and go to the pizzeria. Junk food. So, a hatha yogī is a great person, a great yogī. That is a real yogī. And so, in our haṭha yoga, First, we will do today's demonstration about Agni Sāṅkriyā. Agni is a fire, and the sark means burning all the toxins in the body. It's awakening in our solar plexus the fire, good for digestion, and it's balancing or removing your diabetes. Good sleep, and your lungs will be best. So inner organs will be very, very good exercised. So in our "Hidden Powers in Humans"there is written, and in our "Yoga and Daily Life"book there is written, about the Agni Sāra Kriyā. You have many girls here named Agni Devī. So it's no wonder they are so angry always. Because their name is Agni Devī. Agni Devī is a goddess. And Agni is fire. Oh God, this is the anger of the fire. That is Agni Devī. Oh my God. Therefore, you should go with the bucket of cold water to calm down this Agni Devī. So now we have here our brother from Australia, and he came for our retreat here, and in many years disciple, how many years? 18 years. So it's long, no? He is 18 years old and very devoted, very good. And he always goes where I'm going. Yeah, he moves everywhere, and he sells his house there and takes another house, and this. For Australians, there is no permanent house. They are like a yogī. Today, yogī house here, tomorrow go there. Don't be attached, so they are detached. So now he will show us the Agni Sākriyā, and please don't mind, he has to take his shirt away. Here, come here. Now you see he has no belly, because it's the Agni Sākriyā. So, will you tell something? How about to do it? I think you all know, but pretty much take a deep breath in, exhale, then forward. Put the hands on the... It's okay. Tenyerek a combom. Egy vákumot hozunk létre. Yeah, yeah. In. Be. Go ahead. Do it. Now, perhaps you do side. Most oldalról. Look to me. Okay, because the camera wants to show it. You see the camera better. Little like this. No, no, other, not so much. We have to see the camera. Now you see the other stuff you have to do. Other new, new version of the Agni Sākriyā. Okay, yes, yeah, new one. Okay, yes, yes, this is a new yoga in life. Okay, come on. Thank you. So, when we do Bārikhāṭu Praṇām, Where we have to come here, I mean, standing, then Agni Sākriyā. Very good. Very good. Yeah, now he's doing okay. This is late. Thank you. Thank you. So now you have seen what you are doing. So everyone can do it, and those who have a big stomach, it is very interesting. Oh, very good. Then, like an elephant goes in the water, and he is so relaxed. And so the Agni Sākṣīya is with the biggest stomach, and then this side you go. Thank you. So Agni Sārkriyā should be done in the morning. First, you go to the toilet, then brush your teeth and so on, then take a shower, and then do this Agni Sār. It only takes two or three minutes. After two or three rounds, the muscles will not act against you. And that is enough. Good for eyes, good for digestion. No constipation, and it is good for our diabetes. After practicing this Agnisāra for one year, two years, then you try to learn the Nauli. So we will have now a demonstration of the Nauli. Thank you, very good. And there is then also Nauli going from up to down, and this to down. And for that demonstration, we will bring Rāmdevjī one day. So he will demonstrate this, okay? So this is a Haṭha Yogī. Not only comfortable asanas and relaxation. That's good, very good. Very healthy, very good. But Haṭha Yogī is something great. Hatha Yogi makes his body like when you put the iron rod in the fire. Then you can bend it, and so the yogī makes his body hot like hot iron. We will come again. We will continue Hatha Yoga and the Kundalini and chakras webcast in about one month.

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