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Hare Om, Alakpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Devādhī Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Ārādhya Bhagavān Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Kī Jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. This morning we were discussing āsanas. We learned properly, and you were very good. The children were also very nice. That aspect was more physical. When we come to yogic science and Āyurveda, we see that human beings and other creatures—99.9% of animals and others—eat healthy. They know what to eat and will eat only that, not other things. Some animals or birds, if you give them dead food, will not eat it. They will hunt and eat. The next day, they will not eat that same food. We humans have more knowledge and intelligence; we know what we are seeking. But in the last eight or nine decades, we developed air conditioners and refrigerators, and that brought illness. We think the food is very fresh and good when we put it in the fridge. Yes, they said we can preserve it for a long time. But because of fridges, we are putting food in the cold. That is not food to be eaten out of season. I have one question. If you put a dead body in a fridge and after some days, months, or years you bring it out, do you think it is alive? The soul is gone. Similarly, it doesn’t matter if it is a vegetable or anything else. If we eat fresh food, then it has something: energy, life, etc. This is our biggest mistake, what we have begun to do. People did not have so many facilities all the time, yet they were happier than now. We have all comforts and many things, but we are not happy, and day by day we are getting new illnesses. So, take this: give the education to your children, and you should also eat healthy. Definitely, your children will be very healthy. If you are not getting good food at school or somewhere, eat at home, fresh, and that means seasonal vegetables, fruits, etc. This is the first thing: we shall take care of our health. Do you eat fresh food or dead food? The meat people preserve and eat—you think it is healthy, but it is not healthy. That is why people are ill. Strength is in your willpower, in your mind you have strength, not in the physical body. Now, let's come to what we were talking about this morning. The first element is space, Ākāśa. We exist in this space, and without space we cannot live. It doesn’t matter if it’s vegetation, water, animals, or our body. We are living from this space. Otherwise, we are just like a dead body, like a rock. That is called ākāśa, space. Can you imagine your nose is somehow swollen and you can’t inhale and exhale? What will you do? You will only inhale through the mouth. These two nostrils, why do they have holes? If there is no hole, we can’t inhale. Similarly, our mouth. In the whole body—in the glands, veins, joints, stomach—this is the first element, we call it ākāśa. This is so that you don’t feel pain. You can cut the space, but you don’t see that space is like that. It is said that no weapon can destroy or cut the space. You can say, "Shoot many bullets," and then look if there are holes in this space. Fire cannot burn space. Water cannot make it wet. But the space that is, we are all creatures and everything, we are living from that. In a body, wherever there is a space, there is no pain. Our hair is also ākāśa, yes? Where you cut your hair, no pain, but it’s living, it’s growing. Therefore it is called—this is the ākāśa. Or when you cut the hair, there's no pain because this is more on the level of ākāśa. Now in this body, where there is an empty space—in the intestines, the bones, etc.—this space is very important, but it needs some kind of support. Therefore, our health begins from there. And that support is called the air. When we inhale and exhale, what is going in and out? The space. And so, in our whole body, the vāyu, the air, is constantly purifying our body. It is said we should inhale good, fresh air. Somehow, very intelligent people don’t think of getting fresh air, but additionally they are inhaling more of what? Yes? Well, many of you tried, and then you will realize. So many will stop it, but there are some people who can’t give up. This is only one example. Then also they are drinking something which is toxic. That also goes into our body. So, the first step is for us to take care of the air and the space. First, we take our space, Ākāśa. This is Ākāśa, and many diseases enter our body through the empty spaces, the ākāśa. Now, what we are mixing in our body in these ākāśas—sometimes what we are eating, we don’t know. And we are vomiting because this ākāśa does not accept it. So the first requirement for good health is the purification of the space. When we are sitting here, many people, we closed all windows and doors. So the air is not fresh, and we are now inhaling and exhaling. We don’t know who has which kind of infections, what they are inhaling and exhaling. Bacteria are very intelligent, so very clever. The bacteria sometimes come quicker than you, let’s say, to Australia. You know how? You have infections, you come to the airport, and all your bacteria goes like fog, and it went to somebody else. So there is a direct aeroplane going to Australia. And you are going via, via, from one aeroplane to another aeroplane. That aeroplane which went directly came a few hours earlier. You come with another aeroplane. When you land there in Australia, the bacteria will say, "Hi darling, I am here, come on, let’s go further, to spread." So, all these bacteria, infections, everything is happening through this space and air. Now, what we are doing—how much pesticide we are putting here. They are trying to kill some different kinds of creatures. What happens? We are killing ourselves. It’s a bigger killing. All pesticides around the whole world. There is one country, I don’t know which it is, it is somewhere. In that country, there are no chemicals of any kind. Only organic: Bhutan. Of course, in the hospital in the 90s they have it, but the people of Bhutan are living organic still. You can go and ask, "How many percent is cancer, asthma, stomach problems, mental problems?" Yes, we can compare. Well, but still we can protect ourselves through our ākāśa, the space. When space is there, we think the space is moving. But no, there is a different element which is moving, and that is the air, and that is moving everywhere. So how to purify that air? What we do is very important: it is the prāṇāyāma. It’s called the prāṇa. Our physical body is the last one. Through prāṇāyāma, we can clean our whole body. We are not only breathing through the nose and mouth; our whole skin is breathing. If you put some kind of plastic on it, even with all your nose and mouth open, you will die. So now, what we are doing purposely first is that we clean our body. There are two kinds of purification: through the air or through water. We are trying very hard to clean our body inside and outside. You go to the bathroom and clean your whole body very nicely, perhaps with soap or whatever, like neem soap. And after that, what are you doing? You are putting on so many kinds of creams that your body cannot breathe. Even oil—do not put oil on your skin. Because there are small, small pores, and that oil will block them. If you put any kind of cream, that is what is blocking all this. I don’t know where you put everything, but she was indicating. She was showing all this. I didn’t say. So, okay, it is something, but 90% you are blocking that air and space. Now you can buy expensive, very expensive cream. One bottle is about 500 dollars. For women, no problem. My wife said to her husband, "I don’t need anything, and I don’t need you." Otherwise, of course, you bring me some of these things. I’m telling the truth. I have one disciple, and she used to have a private lesson at lunchtime. She came from some company. She said her husband is very, very cruel. I think no husband is cruel. Ukrainians are not so cruel. That’s why they are all happy sitting. Anyhow, she said, "I need so much for my makeup. I need so much money. And I only need a husband who is earning more money. So it doesn’t matter if he kicks me. Many things. But he has to provide all kinds of makeup things." I am not telling a story. It is the truth. So, expensive cream, still has some alcohol in it, maybe very pure and very much so, because of the filter and this and that alcohol. But that will still dry your skin or your lipstick. So that will dry, and you become, how do you call that, dependent. So, this is, of course, there are many, many companies, they will say, "This guru is not good." So, this is what we are talking about: the five elements. These are Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. All the five elements of our life, our body. Very healthy people are on the farm, working every day a few hours in the earth. You should also work every day a little bit in the earth. Or go for a walk in the park without socks and shoes. Of course, when it’s winter, then you cannot walk on the earth. So walk on the snow where the snow is very soft. Then walk on the ice; that is your problem. So we have to touch ourselves to the earth, all your house plants, and so there are many things. What I want to talk about is the prāṇāyāma, so ākāśa and vāyu, the air and the space. This air and space, these two, are the cause of illnesses. The space is not purposely becoming polluted. And air also doesn’t become polluted, but this is what we humans are doing. Other animals also, but I think mostly the humans are doing it. So, do you want to live healthy or suffering? That’s very important to know. This ākāśa, the space, is within our body and outside of our body. And that is flowing constantly, the air. There is one grave. And this grave also has those elements. It has a space inside. I can try again. Going in the space, coming water, but also air is inside. So let’s come to our diseases, our karmic diseases. This is in these two principles: the ākāśa and vāyu. And this ākāśa and this vāyu are very important for Āyurveda. It is very, very important to live in a room which is more natural. Now we are putting all concrete, leaving little space. If we use the material from the earth, we are also using cow dung. If you have cow dung plaster here, it will be 40% warm when it is very cold. And in hot summer, it will be cool, and it’s very pleasant for inhaling. Now, the people here have marble on the floor; concrete is not healthy. We have a plastic carpet. This carpet is preserving an immense amount of dust, and all that we exhale is going here into this. Best is, and you had previously, the wooden floor. That’s a living breath. So these are what we are doing, our room, house. Then our health, we will be healthy. Now, you said, "I have no money." That means you have enough. Well, for one year, don’t go to a restaurant to eat. Cook at home. That natural food, yes. Eat enough. You will see that 80% of your money you will save if you eat at home. You have to learn how to cook. Now the wife said, "No, I have no time." And the husband said, "I can’t cook. The children are suffering." So both husband and wife should learn how to cook. In five years, you can buy a house with a loan from the bank, and very soon you will pay it back. So this is called how to live. That’s it. How to live healthy. How to live wealthy, and how to live happy. It’s very important. So this is what I call yoga and health. These are the yogic instructions I am telling you. So air, air, air. Try to go for a walk in your park. Go every day for one or two rounds. While walking, do prāṇāyāma. It means just be aware that I am inhaling and exhaling. So Ākāśa and Vāyu. After that comes Jal and Agni. Oh, that’s very interesting. My God. Water. Boda. Boda život. We will see the water is life. Jal jaha jagadīś. Where there is water, there is God. Means, there is life. So that we can come tomorrow. So take this space. Clean. Very clean, this space. Otherwise, we see in big cities pollution. Pollution in New Delhi: you go for shopping for one hour or so and come back, you will see black on this collar plate here. Unfortunately, I must tell you, in many, many countries—China, London, many countries—that is called the pollution. So you are lucky that there is little pollution here. And only, what do you call this? No, no,... Chernobyl. How far is Chernobyl from here? This is the Kiev region. How far? 300. 300? Oh, that goes in that country. Yesterday when I came, I went to the forest on the way, and I saw a big mushroom, and Jai Devī, Jñāna Devī, she also got very nice ones, but they are lost, I don’t know where it is. So I said, "Okay, maybe it is from Chernobyl." So please, prāṇāyāma, at home you can also do it, do it for one minute, the kapālabhāti, yes. Thank you. Tomorrow we will come to the water and Agni. Evening about fire. Then we will have covered all five elements. Yes. Fire element. We can make a fire. We have to go there to the retreat center. Do you remember? So, all the best. God bless you. And see you tomorrow.