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Understand your body

Inspiration arises from within, not from external situations for solving problems. Simplicity fosters happiness, while abundance creates trouble. Modern life, with its hospitals and complexities, contrasts with a natural, joyful past. Traditional community life, where elders guided marriages and families celebrated for a month, ensured responsibility and harmony. Now, brief, transactional ceremonies lack this depth. Modern parenting, where mothers return to work quickly, severs the natural bond, unlike traditions where mother and child remain together for months. This shift creates misunderstanding between generations. The body's skin is a primary teacher. Avoid artificial creams and soaps; natural care allows the skin to breathe and function as an antenna. Body hair serves as a vital conduit for energy and information. The nervous system, with its thousands of nerves, distrib energy like electricity. Blockages in nerves and glands disrupt the flow, which practices like gentle touch or specific prāṇāyāma can clear. Study the body from within; true nourishment and care come from inside, manifesting outwardly.

"The less we have, the more we must have happiness. And the more we have, the more troubles we have."

"Try once, two months, not put any kind of cream and all these soaps and oils... then in two weeks it will be so pleasant."

Part 1: The Two Inspirations and the Simplicity of Life We always receive inspiration from within our own self. There are two kinds of inspiration, and one is not good. That one comes from outside, meaning from outer situations. That inspiration is for solving our problems. This is now the work of humans around the world, which is different. Before, there was not much; we did not have too many things. But we were happy. The less we have, the more we must have happiness. And the more we have, the more troubles we have. Our Holy Gurujī used to say, "The people who have more money, the rich people, they are only the caretakers of that money." They cannot use that money in a good way. The more money you have, the more you are going to have, first, not good nourishment. Also, concerning the body, what kind of cloth do we have? Very rich people cannot sleep peacefully. And who sleeps long? Those who do not worry about going to the bank quickly, getting an early warning, earning money, or such things. If we compare other creatures with humans, humans are very intellectual. We have everything, we understand everything. But the most unhappy and troublesome is the human. Do any animals have a hospital for themselves? They cure themselves with nature. How many hospitals were in Hungary fifty years ago when I came? There were not many hospitals because there were not many ill people. And now, with as many facilities and everything, there is more and more disease. So now there are people who are turning towards a very simple life. They are coming back to having natural food. Similarly, with family troubles: when in families, generally in choosing partners, we are choosing good families. The young children have all emotional problems, but parents do not accept that at the time. They will choose the family which is a good family, where there are no troubles and everything is according to tradition, religion, society, etc. And then they will say, "I will give my son to that family." The girl, or the parents of the girl, of course they will choose if they like this boy or not, but still, first the parents are choosing the family, the other family. All the time, everywhere, they did not choose the marriages in the government’s office, but in society. So, these families, and the whole village—the elderly people, the good people—they come together, about 10 to 20 people, 30 people. And they, of course, will not say no, but they will choose that yes, this is a good person. So the parents of the girls come to that village and collect the people from every community, different communities. At least in my country, that’s India. Anywhere from east to west, north to south. And they will come, and they said with folded hands, "I want to give my daughter here in this village, and to this family. Will you accept?" And what will the village people say about this family? At that time, all the different societies and families took the responsibility. If there was something, then they would not go to the police station or to the hospital. That was the last resort. So the village people will take care of all the couples. And not the young people, all the elders, because they have the experiences. And these boys and girls, they were so happy. They have had—now it’s also that this Western culture arrived in India. But I remember when my brother was married. I was a young boy. The various marriage ceremonies took place over one month. My God, it was a joy. For the children, it was a joy. So, how? What was it? In that village, everyone was invited for lunch, dinner, or breakfast. That boy who is going to be married, that boy and his family members, they invited their guests, giving good food, and there was dancing and music for one month. And it is said that at the time of marriage, everyone is a king. Yes, at that time, everyone is a king. And that girl also is as the prince. So also the girl’s side was giving the invitation for dinner, lunch, etc., and everyone was giving them something. So in the village, it was always festivals. And these couples who were married then, until now, they are very happy together. They are already great-grandparents. That is our life to our friends, our village, our society. They should decide, and then they will take the responsibility. And now, what do they have in India? Ninety percent of the time, they invite the couples. At ten o’clock, they should be there—the boy’s side, the girl’s side. So they will give, when they come, they give them tea and biscuits, juice, water, some stupid alcohols, but that is 5%. And then they said, "Marriage ceremony." And then at 2 o’clock, they have food and bye-bye. Take the girl, go hurry home. The next time, they are coming with a moped. From the daughter’s side, they give them money, this or that, not from the boy’s side. So the girl brings a lot with her. And now they only see the rich people, because the girl will give something. But now it is different, very different. Now, it’s something which I will not tell you at all, because that has become the system of this modern behavior, modern society. There was also in Europe, and it was also very nice, peaceful, and good. When the queens in London, when their son was married, you know, and this girl, their daughter, had then died in an accident in France—Diana—but how big was the ceremony, no? And not only this, the other also had ceremonies at home, many things. Now, the father doesn’t know the daughter married at Miami Beach and divorced in Hungary. So, therefore, we humans—I’m telling you this—why, why in society do we have problems? And children can’t understand the parents now. And parents can’t understand the children. Children blame the parents. No one should blame their parents. If the parents are strict, and the children are after grown, then they say to the father, "You were not good," and to the mother, "You were not good, and you destroyed my life." And this, no, no, now children are grown in the hands of others, not in the parents’. A baby or a woman, okay. So it is her duty to carry the child in the stomach, then give birth in the hospital, give the milk to the child, and put it somewhere. And then you don’t know who is taking care of the child. In other hands, the mother is going to work. I think in Europe, after three months, you must go to work again, no? Oh my God! This is good, we should have an election! Oh, God! Yeah, those so-called educated women, girls, who have learned many things. Now she is working somewhere. And in one month, latest, one month, you must go again for working. And in India, even now, in little villages, that girl who gives birth, or like that girl, the lady who gives birth, the pregnant woman, for one month they stay only at home and take care of the girls and massage the back, collarbones, and knees of the children. And then, so about two months, I stayed at my parents’ house during the first pregnancy. And then, children, the child is 24 hours with the mother. And here we give the child to the kindergarten, so you don’t know the child. Is this my mother, or this is my mother? And that’s why so many problems now. So this modern civilization is not good, and we have so many problems. And our yoga people also sometimes tell some problems. But in our yoga situation, there are not that many problems which other societies have. And in the company, in the office, you know, how they are cursing each other. So there is no harmony because one is running behind money. I tell you that our yoga in daily life, our friends, they are very good with friendship and a really good life. Keep our friends, all our guru brothers and sisters, as we call them, and we say what we call the guru, the Rakṣā Bandhan. But boys don’t choose too many sisters, because there is then no one to have boys there. So, you said you have one sister or two sisters? Rest, they should go, maybe marry each other. But when you choose as a Rakṣabandhan sister, then, sister, that is already then your sister. You also have many traditions, what you call the godmother. Do you have the godmothers? My godmother, yes, so that is also that. When there is one mother dies, another is, they say, "This is my godmother," you know. So we have many different things. So let’s come to ourselves in that way, that we really educate our children free. And we have to respect very much all our different bodies. And in this body, there are also many other bodies. So, try to study and understand our skin. Our skin, on the whole body, from the foot soles to the head, what is this skin doing? I am not a doctor, and many doctors will be very, very knowledgeable; they will tell. So, only to study the skin is an immense understanding of our life and a way to come to that highest consciousness. So, first we have to treat our skin. And nowadays in the world, in humans, the skin is very ill. Many diseases are on the skin. And that is because we take too many unnatural things into our body. So much cream. Try once, try once, two months, not put any kind of cream and all these soaps and oils. One day you will feel very bad, one week will be unpleasant, then in two weeks it will be so pleasant. Try! It doesn’t matter which kind of cream; it can be the cream of the cream, it can be the butter, but it’s not good. Now, I made an experiment for nearly one year. I take a bath once a week, maybe. Otherwise, when sweating or something, I take a little soap for the armpits. And I can tell you, my skin is really healthy. So begin this: treat your body for good health. Eat inside good, and it will come outside, already on the skin. But when you put on the skin, of course it will go in, but mostly it will cover your skin, and that’s not good. And that, we know, nature said that everyone has hair on their body. And this hair is like an antenna, giving all the messages and every, all kinds of oxygen, the air in the body, on the body, to come. Oil on the body is also not good. Better you take one spoon of oil in your food, and that’s enough. Our body is producing fat. Yes, the cow eats only grass. She doesn’t get oil from the grass or the masalas, yeah, and how good milk the cow gives, and how much is inside the fat or the butter, whatever we call it, from the cows. But not only cows, even a little mouse, a baby, gives children, and also a mouse has milk for the little babies. So God has created how to live healthy. So this is all a commercial, what we are taking. Now, thanks to God, the world began to turn this side as vegans. And so many people are coming to nature again and to the protection of animals. So each hair on the body is that antenna, bringing information and also oxygen. Now, people understood, yes, I did too many hair. Okay, then you should shave nicely. All is good. So, there is more you feel in your skin. Otherwise, long hair gives you no message. And nowadays, this, what we call the fashion, till here is not good. So don’t either cut it completely or leave it as it is. Cut your hair; that’s called being like a soldier. The soldiers, they are every day, they’re keeping, they’re saying this and nicely cut off the hair like this till here, you know. It’s good. But now, our ears are here because we cut the hair. So our head is there, and it’s funny. I think in yoga we should not do this: either cut all, or have all long hair, or only nicely, as we were using one year before or one half year before. Or if you do, then do it here, only here, one like this, what we call this, choṭī. So now, this is our skin. We can study many things from the doctors’ books about how our skin is very important. And you, with clean water, wash yourself. There will be no problem. You have no skin problems, isn’t it natural? But there is another with the skin, and also, what is disease in the skin is coming from inside. So why? Understood in this, my journey is very much about Kuṇḍalinī and cakras from yogic. When the human body sweats and smells too much, of course, try to do something. Use some good, natural soap, but not too much. Part 2: The Science of Skin, Nerves, and Awakening The hair of the body is very important. Look at the monkeys, how much hair they have. And the bear, how much they have. And the goat and sheep, how much do they have? So, men also have so many hairs; they are still like a monkey. One state they have to be higher than men. Yes? But now men try to imitate also, that I want to be like a woman. Go on and do this. Don't shave every day, man. Yeah, once a month you can cut a little bit, okay. Yes, it is so nice, very nice. Yeah, so look, and this also will get you too much soap, and cream, and this, everything, no. So, our skin, that is called in yoga or in Ayurveda, and in Sanskrit it is called tvacā. Tvacā is the skin. So, how much sensation, feeling do you have on your skin? Yes, touch. Immediately, the touch of the skin gives us a feeling of joy. Or you are lying down, and a very nice snake comes on you, or a scorpion. And all hairs are standing. You see how the skin gives the information. And then it tells, "Be strong." You see, something little comes on your body, and you say, "Oh God, what is this?" So, thanks to God that God gives such a gentle skin, which keeps the information to the whole body, from the toes to the top of the head. Try to treat it now naturally. And too much soap, too much chemicals, not good. For the environment and so on, and so everything. The second in yoga and in kuṇḍalinī is the nerve system. Go deep, go into your knowledge about the nerve systems. According to the yoga anatomists, the yogīs, they said 72,000 nerves. And each has such a connection. It’s like a powerhouse, and they distribute the electricity everywhere in the house, in different instruments. And so, in the body, sometimes I feel, sometimes it gives me a little injection, insulin. And mostly Umāpurī. And other Mānasā Devī. And they give an injection somewhere here, near my buttocks or thighs, or like this. Sometimes, there’s a coming, some nerve; they can’t catch that nerve every day. But as soon as the needle touches there, on the thigh somewhere, within no time, behind the ear, there is some, like the injection is here. Nowhere else gave me knowledge that acupuncture, with these needles, in this part, mostly our Chinese doctors are doing. And they touch or give the needle somewhere, but it’s coming to the ears, or to the tooth, or to a different part. So, if one can do this treatment with needles, and there we think, oh God, it will be so painful. I also once got too many needles from a homeopathic acupuncturist, yeah. And I said, "Oh God, but what to do? I’m lying on the bed." I thought a needle is so long, not like this. And now they have something very good. The needle is somewhere in a tube. And he makes like this, and the needle goes inside. And after, he comes back, no blood, nothing. And certain nerves, they are sensations in the nerves. So, when I had this with the ear, something, yeah? And only two needles were given, and it was blocked because of the aeroplane, and just two needles. He put it here somewhere on the foot, so it was near my, here, very sensitive near the ankle, and here was open. So the science of the nerve systems, and so every time I... He was in this hall, reading, looking, talking, instructing about the nerve systems. So, the kuṇḍalinī, kuṇḍalinī śakti, and all this, the first is the body, body knowledge. Kuṇḍalinī Śakti after the nerve systems. So the nerves and their connection to the hair. And the hair is bringing the energy also into our body. And so it is also about these nerve systems. And then, after the nervous system, it’s very interesting, but it is another station. The skin station, the nerve stations. And then, by the nerves, there are the glands. And that you can see and feel how the nerves are bringing the energy, which becomes what’s called the hormones, changing blood, changing this, changing that sensation of the body. And there, I was in the night, always meditating a little bit, or while sleeping, and I’m thinking, and the cause, many things, not only, but there is also the cause of blockage in the body, skin, nerves, and which are bringing that in. The energy is not good when blocking the glandular systems. And that gland is what we call, we can take it as a chakra. And so this chakra is the whole body. And so, we have to come and look and listen about our glands. And it goes too much fat in the body, from outside, not from inside. Inside, it comes to the stomach and then further. It’s also how the function is going, that is, it is different, and outside it is different. So giving too much outside is artificial. And that which we are taking through nourishment is the best. That can be digested, and can we go into that system? We should be. And so, it’s called body and mind. So let’s come to the body and mind. After that comes many, many things, so the whole summer we will have the kuṇḍalinī and cakras. I think we will have to make one or two more books, but it is like that. Why on the top of the ear does one give a needle and filling on the back side somewhere? And so, the system, these nerves, again, begins to function. Like our canalization is blocked, and we open it. And if you want to block the nerves of the pipe, you just cut it off and put in a new one. When you can get some system to clean it, then why do you bring something new and put it in this, and dig earth, or some whole wall, or the ground floor? So, let’s come to our body and study our body. Do not put too much on your skin, and let’s see how it will be in summer. Eat inside. That will come quicker to the body. So, chakra and kuṇḍalinī, the science of body, mind, and the soul. We will see, there are many doctors who will tell you something. We have to learn a lot and a lot, but ours is different, and so it’s called the touching therapy. Yes, when you have a lot of blockage, something stretched in your body, that makes a problem. Try to do this: lie down, take off your dress, keep your back free, and tell your husband or your wife or your sister or your daughter or your brother or anybody, and let go your fingers where it’s like this. Don’t touch like this, but just gently go over. My God, all the tensions will go away. You will say, "Pfff, oh, yeah, all right." Yes? So, I got a very interesting experiment about the wax in the ear. And so someone put this here, and there was a long pipe. That was a very thin wax. Put fire, burning, and then it came so much back from here. I was with the doctor four days ago, and he cleaned everything; there was no wax. And he said, "No, no, this is a big wax, look." And the reality was that the bee’s wax was melting and went in, and it came and said, "Look." And he said, "Wow." Yes, really, you should do this. Experience yourself that it is not; you don’t have so much wax in your ear. You can have maximum, maximum, like, say, one apple seed. And so much from where it came, because this is a technique. So similarly, we don’t know many things. So feel this, your energy on it. This is the skin and nerve; these two. There are some people who have problems with their eyelids. And always they are making like this, like this, this. I have this skin here, no? And like he will say, "Oh, why is he showing my eye, my eye like this?" But it is not because of nerves. And now they told me about some person, and that person was an elderly woman, and she had no study, nothing. She doesn’t know anything. But she said, "Bring the peacock bird’s feather, or some bird’s feather that has fallen down, and take this feather." Take this, like this is a feather, yeah, and the chocolate you eat and then leave it. So that is a, but this should be a feather. And she said, "You do like this, but don’t touch too much. Only gently." In two or three days, no more tickling the ear like this. Yes, try. Because this is a system, there is a blockage in this nerve system. So gently, yes. So there are so many techniques which we can do without oppression or cutting. Now, something. That prāṇāyāma is very, very good. Prāṇāyām, which we have, the Chandra Vedan Purification, Śodhan, the Chandra Śodhan, Sūrya Śodhan, then Vedan, and then, Iḍā Piṅgalā, and then, no, no,... Sūrya Vedan, then Chandra Vedan, then Sūrya Vedan, then Chandra Vedan, and then, no, no,... Then Anulom Vilom, and then Kapāla Bastrika, and then Kapālamati, and this is a very, very experienced practice, as spoken by our Rāmdev now, and he is doing it, and millions of people are practicing, and they are really becoming, they are coming and saying they have been healed of many problems, and he said, That cancer, again, dissolves with this kapālbhāti, no, bhastrikā, kapālbhāti, and other prāṇāyāms. Because everything is impurities in the body, which are blocked. And if we can do this through prāṇāyāms and through āsanas, then again our body will be very good. So, you can also try it wherever you have a problem, but gently, not like a strong massage, but gently. You do it, you’re on your mother’s back, and mother will be saying, "Ooh, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do." It’s not a joke, my dear. It is the science of our body. And so, in the different parts of the body, on the behind the ears, behind the neck, you should know where what is, and if you don’t know where what is, then lie down on the table. Dry completely, and then bring some nice tree branch. Tell your husband and tell him, "Do like this." Oh God, your wife will say, "Don’t do this!" Really! The whole body, from our ankle joint, our heel, our heel, go slowly. And then slowly, all your ears, hairs are standing, and you see what happens. Yeah, maybe the cancer is gone. Yes, there are. It is a thing, right? It is in our body. No marriage, no problem? Look, you should not do it with a different mindset. So it doesn’t matter if it’s a man or a woman. It is your physiotherapist, or the doctor who is making an operation in the operation theater. And does it matter whether male or female? They have seen it a thousand times. They have no interest, you see? So this is like that. Then, you have other thinking. You have to change your mind. So that is, but try this. And if you know somebody who can do it, Then you hang something. Yes, yes. Then you hang something on the tree branch, and then hang it there. You lie down and move with your toes. Yes, Sarvitasan, and this will move on the whole. Yes, so then it is said, Eko Brahma. Ekobrahma Duttanasthi. So you have really this kind of techniques, you see. Now many people are listening on the television, in our webcast, and they will learn. Really, you should do it. Yes. Neem trees have very nice neems. But these trees also have very good leaves. No thorns. No thorns. Or you can cut the hair of your wife. That’s also there, yes. Also, when you completely cut your hair, when you completely shave your head, and then you take this branch of trees and slowly you can do it, or other. From yourself, there is no feeling. Feeling comes from others. Yeah? And so, you sit here in meditation and tell him or her to do like this. Yes. Awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī. Yes. Such that that means Rom Rom. Rom Rom. Rom Rom. Rom means the hair. So Rom Rom. Each and every hair. Rom is the hair, and rom rom means every single hair. And so, each and every hair, even if you have shaved completely, the roots are inside, and where are the roots? In the skin. And the sensation goes through the skin, or through the hair, to the skin, and from the skin to the nerves, and from the nerves to the glands, and from the glands to the father, etc., etc. So there is one bhajan, "Rom Rom." Which one? Here. Here.

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