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The health of the bones

A spiritual talk on the purification of the body and mind, focusing on holy water and natural self-care.

"You can give this, what we call, the holy water. Give this to all your friends and everybody this Christmas."

"So bring the happiness... put a holy, a holy thought within us. 'Holy' means the clean and have a good energy."

Swami Ji offers a wide-ranging discourse, encouraging the use of holy water for purification and harmony during Christmas. He advises on caring for the physical body through natural means—like simple oils, yoga, and avoiding synthetic creams—linking it to the care of the subtle bodies (kośas). The talk includes personal anecdotes about habits and diet, emphasizing a return to simplicity and gratitude.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

You can give this, what we call, the holy water. Give this to all your friends and everybody this Christmas. For those whose business isn't going well, give it. Yes. So if you believe, it is not a negative thing, but it is purification. Like when we come home in the evening, after working the whole day, we wash our hands and clean our table. We sleep, and in the morning, again, there is dust. So dust is always there. There is this physical dust, mental dust, and different kinds of thoughts. So it is not that negative something. We come from somewhere traveling in the morning, we go somewhere in the evening, we come back. Your office was very clean and very good, your car is very clean, everything is very good. But still, you take off your dress and say, "I must wash myself," and you wake up in the morning. When we go to the water and we open the water tap, and when we touch the water, it is such a big feeling, a beautiful feeling. And what we do first, we close and cover, then clean our face, our eyes. So it means we know that even when we are sleeping, we are getting it from the... Sleeping, we are a little bit, and not lazy, but still, we are not completely awakened. So when we first touch the water, we say to God, "Thank you very much." You know, the air and water are very, very important, and we should take care of the water. Now it's coming Christmas, and you give all your friends the holy water. When your husband and wife have no good harmony, and children also don't, but you are sitting under the Christmas tree, just you will spread it completely. Suddenly, they all will be happy. It is so, actually, like, "I am right." I was having in my—this is my holy water. So when in an aeroplane they don't give me a proper chair, I mix it like this, and they said, "Yes, yes, Mr. Swami, this is your chair." So this is a purification. This holy water means there is something very positive thinking inside, and of course, it is from the holy dust of Mahāprabhujī's, and they put it, you know, do now. Of course, now we have the super one: Alak Purījī. So it has meanings. When your father, or your mother, or your husband, or your wife, when they come home and bring you something, it's very happy. If you bring one flower and give it to your wife, she is happy. Though she doesn't like it, inside she doesn't. Wife doesn't bring. This is opposite. Only sometimes for something. So, this is our own feelings. So, occasionally, if we don't get everyday flowers, but occasionally, maybe on some good holidays, so that is the holy thoughts. So, put a holy, a holy thought within us. "Holy" means the clean and have a good energy, and negative... as others, I don't know, but what people are putting in. Friend of the someone's door, how one lemon? I never make the silly deśī davāī. Chatted with a citron or a red chili, chili... People will, the whole day, they will not have a rest. And so we can tell me to put on this, put, you know, someone put some magic there. Make no top, top night episode at last, oh, oh, oh. And what will I do? I'm happy, I have a nice lemon. I will make juice or... Butter chili, thank you. That's good. So it depends. That negative, we can bring it positive. And so, there are certain things when we live together. Then, of course, you cannot all day, all the times, you have to carry your... wife, like from the Christ, from church, coming back, you know? It is like, when you live together, it is not like you carry your wife in your arms all the time, as when you accompany her ceremoniously from the church. Like when the husband carries the bride in his arms, and if that wife said, "Well, you will carry me like this every day," then he would say, "OK, I will bring you into hospital." So there are certain feelings, harmonies, and understandings that we have to bring positively now. Now, so well in Christianity, is this very happiness? Good thing is Jesus born, but then all the times, everything is not happiness. Now it is many people, even the Christian, we are happy, but very is. There were people who only said, only said every day, said so. That's also not good. So bring the happiness, happiness... So, this was... I don't know, we have so much I spray, and I didn't call it a lot about. Maybe we have to tell the Līlā. So, before you are going to spray on your car, you see how it is happening. So it is very nice, similarly, for our inner self and our inner self feeling in our body. But we know we are in and out, both sides. Equal feelings. Now you know that when doctors, they are working, learning doctorate. So even they are learning about this skin. And our skin is more sensitive than the inner part. And there is an immense amount of different kinds of dust coming onto our skin. And mostly, some kind of disease comes from touching, from the skin. But automatically, our skin has such an energy or part of our—I don't know what you call it—so that any negative dust or the same coming its way, the skin is cleaning automatically. So if you can take care of your skin, you can say sixty percent of your inner purification will be natural. As soon as you come with alcohol and cream this and cream that, it's not good. Sometimes people give me lipstick. Very good. Every woman is making it like this, and so someone gave me all, and I did like this. And I'm really, I'm saying the truth, not a joke. I went to the bathroom, and I was vomiting and vomiting. My lips were such a, not good feeling. So, I don't know, do you? See my lips, because I have so many skin. My lips are not right because I have still milk on my lips. On my lips, still the milk of my mother, yes. Till the last breath of your life, it is your mother's milk there. And that is the love of your mother, the care of your mother. See that, and then you have color. Now you are red, and this is about not at the bottom, to the chairman, about what I've done. That is coming mostly from the animals who eat some of the animals, and blood is like this in the... Body top o'clock is too hot. It's here, that's already crap, but almost in my... So you see, every woman is beautiful when they have their own lips. Really, really. It will take you one month to recover all that you had, something which was artificial. And don't take this lip, so this is really, really... and then do it. A little buggy butter, I could dish. What's about a new taxi date? A trustful heat, or a little olive oil, any good normal oil, and then put it on your whole mouth. That's the natural. Sometimes, some people, when they hold my hand, say, "Swami, your hands are so gentle." I said yes when my mother took me, and she was looking at my hands. My mother kissed my hands, and this is a touch of my mother, and my skin is from my mother. Every mother, your mother's house, but you don't love your mother. Yes, you are separated. The father is somewhere else, and the mother is somewhere else, and your husband is somewhere else, and you also are somewhere else, and it split everything. Once, it is my experience, so people were giving me oil, cream, and my foot also, one, two years, I tell you really, that I could not sleep without having the cream on my foots, on and my palms. Well, then I said, "I don't want it." Really, it is true, I could not sleep. It did 3:30 in the night, then I said, "Okay," and I put this cream, and I sleep. Now, I can't give up so easily. Experiment? So, my bhaktas, especially in Czechoslovakia, they are taking care too much. So, wherever I was sleeping, in the hotel or anywhere, they were putting this kind of cream and this and so on, and then... Someone gave me, for a while, time with this, what you call, Coca-Cola. So I said it is not good, but they said, "Look, you have gas in the bar. Is someone okay?" So everywhere where I was sleeping, there were two, three little bottles of the Coca-Cola and this cream, and why not? So I gave up Coca-Cola easier, but two years still they are putting, because maybe Swamiji will drink the Coca-Cola, but I couldn't get rid of this cream, and because the cream has alcohol, maybe best quality, I don't know, but there's a best quality, it dries the skin well, wherever I go I need that particular cream. Well then, when the holy Gurujī was on the last time of his weeks, and it was monsoon time, and so there is more humidity, so I don't need cream. And in one month, I don't know what is the cream, and wherever all cream was there, I gave them beautiful. What do you call the cream in crime? Fire? So this is a habit, and our skin becomes also heavy, and so we shall take it, take butter. But the real butter, yes, milk. I was drinking coffee because Croatians, they like coffee, or very much coffee. Even the president of Croatia, he used to go to one day, the one coffee, and he's go there and sit there for 10, 20 minutes, little coffee. So it became a tradition for creation, not a Corvus, 'cause it was the local tradition. So there's also, like, it, like... but that is not good. But when I was at the airport in this launch, and so my people, they brought coffee, and when with us from the milk, what do you call from the milk when you... Water comes up. It is not, it's not a cream, but cream, okay? So I'm waiting, I'm waiting. If real cream of the milk, it goes after slowly, slowly down, and that doesn't go. Then I took it out in the cup, plate. And that was again like this. I said, "Oh, they have got the Indian habit." But it is because in India, in the aeroplane and airport, 90% is urea milk. It is only water and something. That's the other thing. So, if you are a good coffee drinker, then take it with you. Really. Of course, my country will be angry with me, but it is also many things, many things. There's goat paneer, cheese. It is made out of plastic. Yes, and all my bhaktas, they go somewhere quickly, mostly girls and ladies, they go and drink coffee, urea. Do you know what urea is? Who doesn't know? Pesticide, which we throw in the chemical, that's it. But of course, somewhere there is pure milk. So, my dear, what I'm talking about, I'm not criticizing. I'm calling you to take care of your body with nice water, nice kind of oils, and don't keep oil too long. And then, thanks to God, we have oil enough. So, everything. So, when you come now into your kitchen or into your bathroom, all these bottles are empty. Don't throw the bottle. Then you have to fill it this way with the holy water. That's good. And what is the specialty of this holy water of the Gurujī? You can keep it for five years, and it is still as it is. So that's beautiful. Now, our body, we have five bodies. And this first body is our physical body. And this is with our food. That's called what we are eating, water-touching, etc. That's what we always call the annamaya kośa. Anna is all kinds of what we can eat. We should eat all vegetarian, and so that our annamaya kośa is very important for us. And that's why we are practicing our āsanas, and āsanas must not be done that way, that I want to do, standing on the hands down and legs up. Or we can make some day a competition in Prague, where there are always some kind of programs. So, from the beginning till there, with the hands, how can one work? Legs up and walking with the hands. I need 5,000 people. 5,000, and they are walking with a nail-like, upright bodily posture. You know how much that's definitely in the whole world? It will be in newspapers. I put a bit of love; nobody puts science with you. It's okay, but these are the prayers. We can do it. It is good for our body, everything. But practicing āsanas and prāṇāyāmas is very important for our body. So this is the first step for our good health. Our bones, our bones, they will help us also, and therefore we must have some eating, like oil and haldi and butter or the ghee, the milk from any animals which you like, that's it. So, or if someone doesn't eat milk and anything because of vegans, then oil is the best. Then our bones will be strong. Now, I can tell you this: Europeans' bones break quickly. And Indians' bones are not easily broken. Now, in India also, there are two parts, let's say. They are who are now eating meat, so about two or three generations. Their bones are also like Europeans, so it means animals, fat, meat, etc. So therefore, that's why you see the yogīs, they could quickly sit, even if they are old. They'll sit in what is called, which āsana? Siddhāsana. Siṁhāsana. Siddhāsana. Siddhāsana. No, no, but Siddhāsana is different, and it is Kamalāsana, Padmāsana, that's it. So we just sit like that. But many Indians or Europeans, if you put them in that, very soon they will break. So, Dr. Martin, he will have so many clients. So this is why your bones are not good. Really, they are breaking very much. It will take a few generations, then your bones will become normal again. Make it, experiment. Now, in these fifty years I am here, and you see there are already three generations there. Three generations' skin is so beautiful, the bones are very good. Everything, if you can move it like that, then here they will break, and they will break here. That's different. So yoga practice is very, very important. And it's not necessary that you have to do the headstand or lotus pose or something like this. And, you know, you are all workers. In the king's times, there were the slaves. And now it's called the worker. That's all. Yes. Yeah. So, you can say the slave, but the word is not good. So I am working somewhere, I am a professor, I am this, I am that, but also the professor needs money, or anybody is also working because of the money, and so we have a good word: I am a worker. I'm working, I'm employed, or I have a company, etc. So that time and this time are different. And so we have to take care of our body. And so we do everyday exercises, simple. I think I was talking where, in Slovakia, in Slovenia, in Croatia, and now here, that we should practice every day in office, and how? Just for 20 seconds, that's all. And on the other side, so let's say one minute. So, more you try, everybody, this is our sarvahitāsana of yoga and dead life. When we do like this, then our bone... backbone is again in good position, comes like this. And when we said, "I have back pain, oh god, I come at home," mostly women are there. Their fingers are good, you know. British said, "We have one vegetable we call Bindi," and Americans... Other British, they said, "Lady finger, ah, I'm a briskly, but I may give you a spot." Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. Opera I at all? I call chief, chief. So you go and say, "Please, lady fingers at that." That's a copy, chief, chief. First day, and when I came here. First time we sent up, perhaps, yeah, they said, "Would you like to eat or today, lady fingers?" I said, "I'm vegetarian." "No, no, vegetable, I understand the woman, lady, ladies fingers." Then they saw this, now we know very, so and so, the lady's fingers. Are more flexible? We can put everywhere. My mother had to do very often, my fingers like this. They are very good now, still. So you must tell your mother when you are small, anyhow. So, they have more for painting, writing, and that's. Why do they also have problems with pain in the joints and fingers, and the rotator might have, and of course the shoulder and back? It is one of the best, best, and you need not go anywhere. Just stand there, and I'm sitting on the chair, five to ten times this round, and five to ten times this time, and five times this, five times that. Make an experiment. It will be very good. And at home, when you are all practicing yoga, Sarvahitāsana, we must do at least fifteen minutes every day. Sarvahitā āsani musíme dělat alespoň patnáct minut každý den. And wash your body once a week. Soap. Otherwise, you can have neem to wash the armpit, neem, yeah. Yes, in natural things. You will see how your skin will become again very fine and nice. Or take from the earth, from somewhere where there are no chemicals there. We are getting from the bank of the river, the Gaṅgā. And we are using this earth, but now it's not so part, we have to go somewhere near in the Himalayas. But don't use the soap every three times. Yes, really, many diseases will go. So don't put soap, because again the soap, and you will take a soap, the body is dry, then cream. Otherwise, also dry because it's alcohol, so we are torturing our skin. It is your skin. Your skin will be very good. And men do not practice, so their fingers are like this. They are writing like this. Sir, what are you doing? Oh, my secretary is not here. That's the condition of the men, so please practice this. Practice is very important, yes. This is going from each and every finger, from there, then like this, and then like this, and then, you know, yes, this side and this side, but this movement is still here. If it is broken, you cannot do this. Our body is only Dr. Martin or some other, they know how it is. Yeah, but how many thousand bones do we have? Little to big, and big to little, and like that. When the child is born, God gave all bones complete. And when we are about 80 years, you can tell how many bones have disappeared in the body. So yogīs will have life complete until getting mokṣa. So you can take some leaves of the trees, good trees, made like a paste, and put it on your body. Yes. In this summer, when we come here next year, we will bring from here what we call the leaves, which are like a scorpion. Kopřivá. Yes. And so what we will do is, we will bring the leaves a little in hot water and then we will make a paste. And we will do Nāgabābā, or what you call Ekkaḍā. So, there is a Gaṅgā Hall. It's for all ladies. And Badrināth, Himālaya, is then our Yajña Śālā. And we will take this all green, green,... and we will walk green. So let's come and do something for our body, best yes, less chemical things, less with alcohol, and do something natural for our body, skin. Our skin, only one doctor knows nowadays, it's very important after there is a... Because under the above and under is our fat, and that's why the skin is very soft and it is strong. And if not, then it will break like a, like a, some bar we call the popper, though I could expect you. Could be mixed up, rascal. A cop up here, yeah? When we will die, after some time the skin is nothing. We said, remember that? Put a set of who's about Prāṇa-māyā-kośa, but it is because of Prāṇa-māyā-kośa. So that's why the yogīs have been said, "Prāṇa-māyā-kośa for the yogī, move out." So take care of your this Prāṇa. Māyā kośa, it is the body of nourishment, and then creates the energy, and that's called prāṇa māyā kośa. And there is prāṇa. Prāṇa is the strength of our body, and when we are not healthy, then our energy is also not healthy, so we have to take care. We have a good energy. Then the body and energy, then they touch the brain: prāṇamaya kośa and manomaya kośa. And this is like our mind. We will come next time. So practice, practice. Not necessary that you stretch too much. If you have no time for one hour constantly, then do it slowly. When you are driving and the red light, then don't look there. Do it like this. Yes, this is exercise already. So we can do something whenever we have a chance for our body to do something. So that's it. Today is on Mahāprabhujī's kṛpā, so that we are driving in the sunshine and come home good. Wish you all the best for Christmas, and see you next year. Deep Nair Bhagavān Kī Jai.

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