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The Awakening of Inner Powers: Yoga in Daily Life

A public lecture on yoga philosophy and practical techniques for daily life.

"Yoga is the science of humans. The science of the yoga Veda is about ourselves, about our inner being."

"My Master Gurudev said, 'One in all and all in one.'"

Swami Paramadvaiti addresses an audience in Brno, exploring the concept of awakening inner power through the yogic model of the five bodies or kośas. He discusses the importance of nourishment, energy, mind, wisdom, and bliss, relating them to health, stress, and the unity of all life. The talk includes a practical demonstration of a technique to release tension by chanting OM with hands covering the ears.

Filming location: Brno, Czech Republic

Good evening, dear sisters and brothers. I am very happy to be here with you in this big, beautiful city, Brno, which I have visited many, many times. I know this country better than India; I have been coming here for nearly 48 years. It is beautiful. Thank you for inviting me. You know I was in the nearby city of Střílky for a seminar, and there was a request to come here to this city, which makes me very happy. Especially our Dr. Martin and many other friends and sisters wanted me to come again for a lecture. I do not know when the last time was I gave such a lecture here. Martin, do you know? Probably five years ago. But five years is just nothing. Thank you very much. The subject is very beautiful and is always for us: Yoga in Daily Life. This means practicing yoga every day. Yoga is the science of humans. The science of the yoga Veda is about ourselves, about our inner being. Sami v sobě, v našem těle, můžeme probudit určité energie. Many of you here know this well, though perhaps some are here for the first time. In your country, there are many, many people practicing yoga. There are different yoga teachers and different schools, which is very good. It does not matter which school; the main thing is that we are learning or teaching yoga. To be honest, I do not know how many yoga centers I have here in the Czech Republic. Abych byl upřímný, ani já sám nevím, kolik tady máme yoga center v České republice. There are 26 centers. Then there are other teachers teaching in different places. How many Yoga in Daily Life teachers do we have in the Czech Republic? There are also other yoga schools. Parvatī, you know this? So, there are 300 yoga teachers in different parts of the Czech Republic. More or less, I would tell you that the Czech country has the most yoga practitioners compared to some other countries. I will bring together also Slovakia. My dear ones, why do I tell you how many yogīs there are? Because I have to speak today on the science of yoga: the hidden powers within ourselves. What I understand about hidden powers is that our power is hidden within ourselves, but we do not utilize it. That is why we are not getting the power awakening from our body. Yoga is that which we have to understand: we have these five elements. The first is the body of nourishment. First, our body is what we are eating and drinking. We are acting through our body, and this is very important. It is said the body is nothing, but without the body, everything is nothing. So, do we know the value of our body? We know there is one thing: we are getting more and more illness in our body. How many hospitals are in this city and in other cities? We humans became a little lazy. We just go to take tablets or injections, and we think we are healthy. Yes, this medicine is also very good. Thanks to God that we have these systems, but our body is a body of nature, like this tree, the grass—all of nature. Our body is the same, we know all, my dear. So when we take chemicals, known as medicine, when we take some tablets into our body, then our body does not accept that. But there is an effect on certain parts of our bodies, and those organs are putting that effect on them. For some time, it looks like it is okay. But one tablet we take may calm down some pain, but four or five of these is harming our body. At the same time, I say, my dear friends, that this science of medicine is also very important. So, Āyurveda said, "What is the meaning of the Āyurveda?" I am sure you have knowledge about Āyurveda. Āyurveda is the first medical system for mankind. It is said that it is from the herbs, everything that it is. That is accepted by our body because our body is also natural, and that is also natural, so they come together. Therefore, Āyurveda is very, very useful and important for our body. But on the other hand, we have a doctor sitting here, and he is breaking many, many people’s knees. He comes, and he cuts it, and throws it out, and puts something inside. He cuts the ribs and he puts something inside. That is very, very good. Āyurveda will not do this. Truth is truth. Yoga will also not do this. Okay, we will do a little massage, we will give some oils, but that pain will not go because the bones are not anymore that which can give the work for our body. But if we used to have that nourishment, eating what we are eating, that will affect our whole body, we know, my dears. I will tell you, the Indians are also many meat eaters, and their bones break very easily. But those who are vegetarian by birth, their bones will not break easily. Your joints will not be so painful. So the nourishment is first: our body. The body is not everything, but everything is nothing without the body. So, this is the first thing: that we awaken our inner feelings, what we need to do in our body. After that, this body, it is coming, the energy. The body is called the nourishment, and the second is the energy. The energy is very powerful, but we need nourishment from our food, from the air, and from many things. We need the energy, the energetic. If we have energy, we can do everything. But what we are using for our body, and that energy becomes awakened in our body. Now, that energy is affecting our brain. We will come to that after. So, this energy is in the body, and that is also from nourishment and the liquid, the water. So, we have energy enough, but when you drink alcohol or some drugs, then your energy falls down. Then we cannot do any dead things, which our brain should do for us. I know that in the whole world, alcohol is one of the things most dear to all. In the aeroplane they offer you alcohol, in the meeting alcohol, everything. But this alcohol does not give our bodies energy. After a while, of course, the effect is gone from alcohol. The brain is not working the way it was before. You are from this country; you drink many times alcohol, perhaps. You have a very good brain. You are very good at everything. But if you will not have drunk alcohol or some drug, you will have double energy and work from your brain, from your heart, and from other organs. You will have the best and longest life. So this awakening of the energy in our body is, first of all, our nourishment and what we are getting from nature. The second and third ones are called the mind. This is the third body of humans: Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa. This is in Sanskrit. Mana means the mind, and this mind is in our brain. You know, my dears, very well about all this. What I try to give you is what is awakening within us: the energy and the quality of our life. Our brain is very strong. Our mind is very strong. Let us come about the mind now. Our mind is one of the most powerful, which can go anywhere very quickly. Nothing else can go there. What power my mind can do, I can tell you that something which is... We cannot achieve that, but I can bring you there so quickly. I do not know how many millions of kilometers, but I would like to bring you there within a quarter second or even less than that. Our brain, which has the mind, and the mind will be there. I am not talking about the physical body, not the energy, but that mind. We call it mana. Mana is mind. So you know this. A thousand percent, you know what I will tell you. I want to bring you there, and that is it. I will only say the name: Jupiter. Now your brain is on Jupiter. The physical is different. We will come there. But how far, how quick our brain is on Jupiter. And this is manomaya, the mind. And therefore in Sanskrit, human is called manuṣyā. Human. And the human mind is very far, very far. We can use, or we can lose. You have your mind. Use it or lose it. So let us come and awaken our mind, our intellect, and our brains. After this, the fourth part of our body, and that is called knowledge, wisdom. And that wisdom in the human brain, which we have, I think is not in other animals. And we all have immense knowledge and power in our body. And how we can awaken this, that is called memories. And that memory, that learning in the brain. If you will not utilize this, what? But the nourishment is better, your body, lazy or active. If we are lazy, we do not go to work, we only sleep. Parents are very angry, "What to do with my children?" We do not use the body. Why? Because we do not have energy, and then the energy is dormant. It is dormant energy; it needs activity. We know that, you all know. You lie down for two, three days; we are ill. Therefore, active, active... Generation, generating, generating, that it should go till the end of life. That will be the energy. That energy we bring towards our brain, or the mind. Now, if we do not utilize this, then we are lost. So here is touching the point of the yogī. So yogic exercises are called āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, relaxation, meditation, etc. This is very, very important. Yoga is for humans, and then what is our knowledge? And that knowledge is, we know which subject we take; that is our subject. Now we have so many faculties, and we learn one subject. We do not know anything else. But all the time, they know all kinds of knowledge. So there is awakening of this prāṇa in our body and knowledge. And the fifth point is happiness, joy, relaxation, etc. This is annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, ānandamaya kośa. This is the Sanskrit name. Now, these five elements, or five of our bodies, they are only bodies. Now, within that is our ātmā, soul. And this ātmā, this soul, we all have one soul. We are all one soul. But you know that in your body, do not be proud that you have only my soul. In your body, or in my body, may I tell you, there are millions of souls in your body. What? All kinds of others in life are living, all different, different kinds of germs. In one little drop of blood, we can see how many lives are moving inside. And if we cannot use this, it is gone. And if we are here, if we are lazy, then all these cells are either being destroyed or slowly, slowly becoming diseased. So many, many cells in the body. And now, yogic time is different. Practice, practice, practice every day: yoga exercises and pranayama. It is for your happiness. So when we do not do that kind of exercise, it first is... they are like what? They visit like a cancer’s. Nebuda mass proud needs which attack some just a jet travel on a most miracle, you know? All the leavers, nebuna me put your kidney, see? At least let me know many, many things. No happy, it is me because we have no proper movements. You are walking, then you are coming and sitting on the chair. How many hours are you sitting in the cradle of the mother? You were a little child, I was a little child in the cradle. Then, after that, we are a little active. Then, how many days or years are we sitting on the chair for learning? From primary school until university, we are sitting on chairs, with little movement. After that, you got the diploma, you are a doctor or whatever it is, again you are sitting on the chair in your office. And you know what happens, that our body is getting slowly, slowly ill. So, yoga exercises are just scientific, because you know which kind of movements we should do, and then after, other kinds of movements. Gymnastics is good, but not to the yoga. Running to the forest is very good, but not compared to the yoga. Body building is very good, but after 30 years, there will be problems. But yoga will keep you very happy, healthy, and flexible. Many people are walking now with a stick, and yoga in daily life, in three months, you will throw your stick away and you will walk nicely. And because this is all energy in the body, and many, many of our friends in the body, meaning the cells. So do not be proud that I have one soul. That is all. You are the universe. You have so many all with you. The cells are dead or living. If they are living, it means it is a life. If it is not life anymore, we have to get out through the pranayama. My dear, so now how can I tell you, and you have never heard this, what I am telling you now, that we all are one, including our animals, our birds, all creatures, all we are one. My Master Gurudev said, "One in all and all in one." So, how now I tell you that my soul and a dog’s soul, how is it the same? Let us say ocean. We all know the ocean, and from the ocean, one ocean—which are the seven oceans in the world, and many lakes, etc.—all this water, the ocean, is one. And now, with the heat, the steam goes up. What do you call this? Parā. And this para, each one has one drip. Each has its own rolling little from the ocean. It goes higher and higher; it becomes like clouds. And it is so fine, it is like a gas. Gas, it becomes so gas that it is fluttering, or in the ocean hanging, not really ocean, in the sky. And we all know we have been experiencing in the aeroplane. So our aeroplane is flying through the clouds, but there are no problems. But still, there are fine to fine drops of the water of the ocean. Again, the sails, these drapes, come together. We call it raining, dripping, and coming together, and we know all water begins to flow. It comes to the creek, and from the creek to the river. And from the river, again we enter into the ocean. Similarly, your soul and my soul and all my cells in the body, they are very much from the water element. And that we are all one. Now, this water, one comes into the very pure, good, drinkable water, where water is falling all. Others go into the canalization. We do not know where this water will go. And so, where we are, we are as human. Other is like a buffalo, other is a little ant, etc., etc. But we are only one jīva. And you know also the jīva, the living being. Voda je život. So you said, "Voda a jivot," water is life. And this voda is only one voda, but all is like one. Depends how coming and how going. Similarly, this finally, if you believe, then we come in Brahmaloka, and there we are only space, nothing else. So there is another part of the body which we are telling. It is called the sky, the fire, the air, the water, and the earth. These are the five elements. In this, we are human and other animals. If we believe in God, then we can say all of us will come to God. So we are all one. One in all and all in one. All creatures, all is life, and we should respect life. This is one point. Now, the second point: the life in the body. Energy in the body. So this is a different subject coming. Now we go to our body. There is a problem in our body: the thyroid gland. Mostly, thyroid gland problems are women’s. And of course, there are many causes, there are many, many causes. But according to the yogic science, our thyroid gland problem, there are two problems. The one is little movement. Second is that psychic problem, either with your husband, or your boss, or your friend, or your mother, etc. It means someone attacks you, but you, what we are doing, forget it, swallow it down. But mostly they are here, in the thyroid gland. And this gland is getting more and more and more. That negative energy, and that kills that energy. There are many different causes of the thyroid, please. It must not only be that which I tell you, but mostly, the problem in the thyroid is from too much negativity. Your husband is shouting, and you say, "It does not matter. Darling, leave it." But you are holding this here in your forehead. Now, there is a problem; also, men have a problem. And so, you know, there are hundreds of causes. But one cause is definitely the problem of the cancer, which is also from the husband and wife’s problem. You are giving again tension in your chest. Tension. You are collecting energy here. That is the problem. For the men, also the men’s organs are a problem. Also, if a wife... there must not be... wives are always good, sorry. One ambassador said to me, "I am the ambassador, and my wife and I go to a party." And, of course, the ambassador is His Excellency. And madam, the wife of the ambassador, and she keeps a little distance. Distance. But as soon as his excellency entered the house, the husband had to work many things, everything. Now, after finishing, retiring, always people will say, "Your excellency, your..." But in the house, she does not tell him, "Your excellency." She will say, "Franz Cech, bring me a glass of water." Now, these two differences, day and night, is a big problem. It is very rare, husband and wife, it does not matter which position they have, if they have harmony or not. So these are the problems inside the body: our kidneys, our gallbladders, all organs. One of the organs is more and more attacking us, and that is a very big problem. So you should do it. It does not matter. I am not telling you to come to my school. Do it at your home, and your wife will also do it, or your husband will do it. Practice, practice yoga. That is very important. And there, mostly disease and everything happens from our navel. Our navel is our origin. All other organs begin after. But we are as the drop of the ocean in our navel. And many diseases are going from there. Or you can release everything from the navel. Not from your heart. Not from your kidneys. Not from the liver, not from your prostate, or chest, or etc. And even the brain. My God. Tension, tension, tension in the brain. And we should release this tension. And this is the final point which I want to bring. Now, the Sanskrit language, it is said that 99.9% of all languages are from the Sanskrit language. It is changing. You have Czech language, then you have Slovakian, then you have Poland, then you have Ukraine, etc., etc., always changing, but the root is there. And our human language, that is called that vibration. Sanskrit language is one of the oldest. And we are all for the point of what is called resonance. Our body is existing with the resonance. Our whole body, all organs, our muscles, our blood, everything is balancing with the vibration, and this vibration is bringing us together, making us healthy. So the Sanskrit language, we call, you know that the Sanskrit language is known as Dev Nāgrīk, meaning God. Nāgrik means the citizen. We are the citizen of the divine. I am not talking about God this and God that, but I am talking about that part of our humanity. So, Devā, for us, everything is God. Our blood is our God, our bones are our God, our muscles are our God, our nerves are God. Everything is divine. Without that, we cannot exist. Where is God, we do not know. Maybe somewhere higher up. I have traveled now 50 times around the world. And you may too. High, about 11,000 meters high. I look in the window. God, where are you? In the night, God, where are you? I come down. Some people, farmers and so on, they said, "Did you see God?" I say, yes, what? The best pilot, he saved my life. So, we are God. Everything is what? We are living is God. Other part, we have different. We will talk after. So, this vibration, and vibration begins from where? Our soul, let us say, your—The soul from this space begins, coming from the space to the fire, to the water, to the air, and then it comes to the vegetation. ...are as the cells in the body, and that is in the Nābhi. So, dev means God, the divine, nāgrik means the citizen, so we all are citizens of this earth. In the water there is also life, many cells in the water too, or we are, the whole earth is alive. That is called living earth, so this vibration. Now, there is coming Kuṇḍalinī Yoga. I am not making business. I am showing you this book, and there are many, many chakras, and it is beautiful. Where are they? Like this, so many, many chakras. Each chakra has immense, immense vibration and meaning in it, so this vibration is our body. And there are 52 alphabets or letters in the human body. And according to the Kuṇḍalinī signs, from the Mūlādhāra to Ājñā Chakra, these are the six petals, the chakras. Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, and Ājñā. These are six chakras. And every chakra has what we call a bīja mantra, the seed of it. And when this seed comes to the flower, and those are the petals, and each petal has its own vibration. The center, that is the real seed. So, like, we have our soul in the body, but many cells are the vibration of our body. And so when we speak, humans, there is this language of what we call the Sanskrit. Now, nābhi, from here we begin. Now there are two points which I will give you, and you can use them. Utilize this; it will be very good for you. The tension is the very problem: how to release the tension? And the second, and the problem of our life. So the tension to release is a vibration. And then, this you can do, please, if you have some tensions, you or your wife or your children. And if not, then you should do it further so it will not be. And the stress. The stress is also a problem. And this, too, which is causing the diseases also. So these 52 letters mean the vibration in our human bodies, and from that, everything that we are speaking—you cannot speak the brake; it goes from the engine—and that is in the navel. So now I will give you one technique to try. Put your one hand on your navel. Does not matter, left or right. Just relax. No miracles. Okay? Now, whatever I will speak or whatever you will speak, the navel is pushing. The navel is acting. So, put your hand here. I will say something. You will say, "Then this." Then you say, "Okay? Check." Brno. Vienna. India. Father. Mother. You. Me. Oh. Good. Did you always move your navel or not? It was energy that came from there, so, Annamaya Kośa and Prāṇamaya Kośa. And that prāṇamaya kośa is here in the navel. Good. Thank you. Not good. Bye. What are you doing? Hello. How, friend. How, Maminka. Prosim. Always here. And who cannot hear and cannot speak, they cannot do this movement. So, out of the 52 letters or alphabet, four are there that will not move. And there you will see that your tongue will not move at all. And who cannot speak, the tongue is like this, not moving. So that vibration, which we are awakening from the navel to our brain, is using our mind. And that we will do now. So these are the four letters or alphabet, whatever you, someone said alphabet and someone said letters. So this is: Australian said this, America said that, and British, nothing. So, first alphabet, where is relaxed, not moving in the ear, tongue is relaxed, lying. The tongue here in the mouth, ah, second, good, navel is relaxed, very good, navel is relaxed. The fourth. This becomes real Aum. And Aum is nothing other than the resonance going through and through our body, mind, consciousness, etc. So sit straight. Please, a little bit. So do not lean like this. I will chant first. Then I will say, "Now you do tension." Does not matter from what. You can have tension also from your cat. She is making so many problems. She comes in the night, only in my garden, and the whole night, "meow, meow," also tension, or with your wife, or with your husband, so tension, and now release. How to release the tension from the navel? So you hold your hand like the cobra. So hold your hands like this. And then, bring this to your ear so that no sound goes out from here. So, both you will close like this, and then you chant the OM. Okay. And I will say it like this because you do not hear me anymore. I will say yes, and you go continue, and then I will say finished. And no pressure. The hole in your ear, and only when you hear, you can listen. The vibration resonance is like under the water, so raise your hand. You feel released. So eleven times morning, noon, and evening, all different kinds of stress in life will always be, but this will release it. And the tension will also become relaxed. Try, the stress will always come, tension will also come, but your OM resounding will release everything. So, the inner, inner techniques of the humans, the life into the life within thyself. And you are not alone. Do not say, "I am alone. I have no husband." Be happy. What will you do with her? You have so many inside. Relax, be happy. When the real cells will come in your body. Automatically, your husband will come or wife will come. So do not look for someone to get it. Otherwise, that will be the tension. That tension will be very hard to get rid of; how many times will you have to change the OM? So, my dear, yoga is the science of the humans. That we have all kinds of what we need through the yoga. Yoga in daily life. Thank you, my dear ones, and next time. So, thank you.

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