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On Authentic Yoga and Spiritual Realization

Authentic yoga is a science of body, mind, and soul for realizing oneness with God, not a commercial wellness activity. Many modern practices use the name 'yoga' but lack authenticity, originating from commentaries rather than ancient wisdom. The true author of yoga is Lord Śiva, and its essence is found in authentic scriptures like the Mahāśiva Purāṇa, the works of Śaṅkarācārya and Swami Vivekānanda, the Śiva Saṁhitā, and the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā. These texts provide the logical, scholar-verified foundation for practice. Yoga aims for liberation (jīvanmukti), expanding consciousness and freeing oneself from karmic bonds while in the body, as exemplified by King Janaka. The spiritual journey is internal; the battlefield of the Bhagavad Gītā represents the inner conflict between justice and injustice within oneself. Every step of practice accumulates; no effort is lost, and one may continue across lifetimes. True realization comes from within, guided by authentic tradition, not from external forms or self-proclaimed teachers.

"Tantra means expand, and Tantra means liberate: expand your consciousness, expand your experiences, and liberate thyself from these karmic tensions."

"Within you is everything. Nothing is outside of you. So realization is also within you."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī, Dharma Samrāṭ, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānanda Jī Bhagavān Kī. Today is Wednesday or Thursday. So, good evening to all devotees of Gurudeva, practitioners of Yoga in Daily Life and some other systems of Yoga, spiritual seekers, and aspirants. A question arises in our mind. Many times people say to me, "Swāmijī, you always tell the people, practitioners of yoga in their life or any other kind of yoga practice." Do I support other yoga techniques? Yes, I do support all yoga practice, yogasādhanā. But you should know if it is really yoga, and how one should know if it is really yoga. This is a question. There is a small story from one of our good friends, a disciple. She was working in the United Nations in March. I think I was in America, in New York, and she invited us for dinner in her house, a beautiful house. Three... four floors down, restaurants and so on. She was working in the men's head department in the United Nations and traveled around the world. It is natural when you go to some other country, the first time you bring a souvenir. So she had a collection of many souvenirs from different cultures, religions, traditions, and many collections of Buddha. She was showing the old museum—it's about 50 or 20, 30 square meter room, big—and the way came to the Buddha, one of the Buddha pictures. She said, "This is my favorite picture." I said, "Oh, yes. God has different mudrās. Some like this mudrā, some like other mudrās. Favorite is good." She said, "You know?" I said, "I don't know." She said, "You know, he's holding a bowl in his hand." I said, "Yes, I see. This is called Medicine Buddha." I said, "Oh, what do you mean, the Medicine Buddha?" "Because Buddha used to give the people medicine from this bowl." I said, "Well, this pot, what he has in his hand, the bowl, is not medicine, but he used to go for getting food." "Really, now I understand why he always has this in his hand." So, how should we know if it is yoga exercises? Well, unfortunately, in the last century, yoga began for many people as a commercial venture. And unfortunately, they did so many different commentaries on the yoga postures, meditations, prāṇāyāma, and so on. Recently, someone told me, "Do you know laughing yoga?" I said, well, in the śāstras there is no laughing yoga. Yes, one thing I know: in an Austrian newspaper, every many years there was one column: "Who laughs lives long." In an Austrian newspaper, but by Śiva or nowhere is it like this. Of course, be happy, that's all. So now there are many different kinds of yoga, just... They do something and say, "This is yoga wellness." Yoga, yoga is always well. There is no wellness. So, dear friends, bhaktas, devotees, I do respect, especially through the webcast, those who are listening to me. I respect your sādhanā practice is better than nothing. If it is healthy, don't become fanatic. And if you are practicing yoga, or would like to continue your yogasādhanā, then please get authentic, ancient yogic literatures, authentic. And that time, there were not so many literatures. Now everyone prints a book, you know. Everyone types something in the computers and makes the folder and photos and writes something and folds it and then says, "My book." Yes, you have freedom. You can do your book as you like. But if it is authentic or not, the book is like a regulation, and it has been checked by many scholars: Sanskrit scholars, spiritual scholars, philosophers. And it has been proved and explained until it is logical, and yes, it is like that, or it can be. So the author of yoga is Lord Śiva. The science of yoga, or wisdom of yoga, the sādhanā of yoga, all that you call kriyā yoga, mantra yoga, tantra yoga, yantra yoga, haṭha yoga, all this. And then mostly tantra yoga is practiced by Buddhists. Monks, the teaching of the Buddha's Mahāyāna Tantra is a thousands-of-pages book. But that Tantra in yoga and in Buddhism is not what in the West Tantra means. The commercial men, they put in the West Tantra with the sexuality. And that's completely wrong information. But what to do? You put nice photos of naked women and men, colorful, and you write something. And then everybody said, "Oh, yes." Then the husband comes home with this book and tells his wife, "Look, you are practicing yoga, but this we should do. This sounds good, yoga." His wife said, "No. My Swāmijī said, 'This is nothing for you. This is not a tantra yoga.'" Tan means to expand, and tan means the body also. So tan means expand, and tra means liberation. Tra means liberation. You heard in the Mahāśiva Purāṇa, Indra, they are all coming to Lord Śiva and say, "Trya mām, trya mām." Did you hear that? Forgotten. I can tell you, the Mahāśiva Purāṇa is wisdom, and to understand what creation means in the Lord or God, and why and when, how God acts. And in many people's minds, it was that Viṣṇu is the first, and Śiva is not. But you know, even Śiva is the creator of Viṣṇu and the creator of Brahmā. And Brahmā has created many, among this one is called Manu. And Manu is the first father or creator of humans on this. So this is very good that you should buy this Mahāśivapurāṇa and peacefully listen every day, or every second day, to one episode and think over. I think we will write to the video company in India, if they can make some, what you call, less price, and we can, so you can get it. Get original, don't make a copy and this and that, and again, copy is copy, anyhow, show the Lord Śiva. So Tantra means expand, and Tantra means liberate: expand your consciousness, expand your experiences, and liberate thyself from these karmic tensions. Purify your body and liberate your soul from this body with the knowledge of who am I. Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi also. And therefore Patañjali also said, Bhavapratyayo videhaḥ prakṛtilayānām. So, bhāva pratyaya vidhi prakṛti, when the yogī, while practicing, practicing, comes to so far distance... Now, while living in a physical body, he is going to be known as a jīvanmukta. Now, a story about jīvanmukta. You can read about one king, Janaka, father of Sītā, Rāma's wife. And Janaka is known as Videhī, meaning with physical body, he was completely liberated. So, authentic yogic practices are very few, and in the world there are many, many yoga teachers who are seriously, honestly practicing authentic yoga. Well-known teachers came from Swami Sivananda of Ṛṣikeśa, and they brought authentic. Yes, also came Paramahaṁsa Rāmakṛṣṇa, Yogananda, also gave the authentic teachings. And to bring yoga to the West, mostly the first was Swami Vivekānanda. So, the books Jñāna Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rāja Yoga, these four books of Swami Vivekānanda, were written without any missionary work. There is one, someone has translated the Bhagavad Gītā, and in the Bhagavad Gītā they are writing, "If you work only for this mission, then Kṛṣṇa will be happy with you." That's wrong. That is how to say too much asked, or there is a forcing. I will say only Maa Prabhujī will liberate you, otherwise no one else. That is a little bit too much. So, Vivekānandajī's literature and Śaṅkarācārya's literature, Garaḍa Saṁhitā, Śiva Saṁhitā, and all these authentic śāstras you should read, so that you will know what is yoga. Now, the question is, you will ask me where to get these books. I don't know exactly, but please look in Indian editions or in the publishing house. There will be, I will try my best to get good translations, if that is English, and very soon we will put them on our website, and you can order from India, or I don't know from where it will be, and read these books. Because you are on such a level of your yoga practice, now you need serious steps to be sure. You were a small child, learning bike and little car and this, but now you've grown. You've got a key from the car, and you are on a highway. Now you must concentrate nicely, okay? Not like a small baby falling down. Don't fall down. There is no one. You have to control yourself. So, we shall go traditional, authentic, ancient. Rest, leave it away. It's good for your physical body, okay? That's it. That is something called hot yoga. There is nowhere in the śāstras written, "Hot." No, yoga was more for the ṛṣis in the Himalayas, cold yoga. Yeah, that time, Kailash mountain, cold, minus 40 degrees. And Śiva is sitting just with one cloth, the skin of the deer, you know. And in such a cold, can you believe the snake survives there? But the heat of Shiva's body is so strong, not only the snakes survive, all can survive. Śiva, Śavarūpa. Therefore, if you ask yourself, do you want to practice yoga or just have fun? If you want to have fun, then wherever you like, you run. That's all. But I do believe that all you brothers and sisters would like to practice honestly, real yoga, also without fanaticism. You can follow your religion or don't follow; this is your decision. Yoga is a science of body, mind, and consciousness. And soul, and of course the realization of one with God. You are maybe one with God, but you know, if you are one with God, it does not mean that everyone is one with God. So, in this way, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna, "Arjuna, practice yoga." And, you know, the Bhagavad Gītā has got 18 chapters, and each chapter begins with yoga, the name yoga: Sāṅkhya yoga, Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga, Rāja yoga, Sannyāsa yoga. According to Kṛṣṇa, there are 18 chapters of yoga. It means 18 steps. And it ends also with yoga, ātā, bhakti, bhakti-yoga. And it ends, Śrī Upaniṣad, dvādaśo 'dhyāya, bhakti-yoga. So, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gītā is written, developed from the essence of the Upanishads. Many Jñāna Yogīs have said, and many said, it's not that Kṛṣṇa spoke, but who can say otherwise? It is said, those who know Kṛṣṇa, they know what is the Bhagavad Gītā, others do not know. And so Kṛṣṇa jāne su Gītā, mātā jāne su pitā, and Mother knows who is the father of this child. That's reality. And therefore, but it is according to the act of God Kṛṣṇa, the upadeśa of God Kṛṣṇa, the Bhagavad Gītā is compared with our life. Our body is that Kurukṣetra battlefield, and there is Dharmarāja, the justice and injustice, Duryodhana and Yudhiṣṭhira. So justice and injustice both are within our self. And what did Patañjali try to clear up? That Kleśa and Vikṣepa, negative qualities, purify from your cittas. And Kṛṣṇa is that Ātmā. Krishna is Ātmā and Arjuna is the Jīvātmā. Now, if this Jīvātmā will be involved in the material thing, then it is lost. If Jīvātmā will be involved in the spiritual Ātmā, then it will become one with the Ātmā. Kṛṣṇa is the truth, and truth is the Ātmā. Ātmā is only one. God is only one. And that has no form, nothing, and no name. Omniscient, omnipresent. How beautiful that you call God in your language, Holy Father, or you call Allah, or we call Īśvara. How beautiful. Everyone believes as they like, and Mahātmā Gandhījī's favorite song was, "Īśvara Allāha, tero nāma, sabako sanmatī de, bhagavāna." Īśvara and Allāha, both are your name, O God. Please give everyone good thoughts and mutual understanding. Gandhījī was a bhakta of God Rāma, and proof of this is that his last breath... He breathes, saying, "He Rāma." So, what is mostly in your mind, in your realization? Last word, you will tell this. So, Arjuna, that Jīvātmā, Kṛṣṇa is the Ātmā, and our ambition is that Bhīṣma. And ego is Duryodhana. So you see, all exactly this, how many heroes are standing there in the battlefield? All are compared with our good or bad qualities. So you are that. Within you is everything. Nothing is outside of you. So realization is also within you. So Kṛṣṇa is telling Arjuna, "Practice, practice yoga," and why, and so on. So Arjuna is asking a question. Suppose, Lord, I am practicing for so many years—ten years, or a thousand years, or a hundred years. But still, I did not get Brahma Jñāna, Jīvan Mukta. I have my body and understood. Then Kṛṣṇa said, you will die and will be born again as a yogī. You will have that śarīra vīre, that śarīra you will get back, that you will practice a little, and it will be joined with your endless practices from past lives. Nothing gets lost. Every, Mahāprabhujī said, every step will be counted. If you are five steps far from me, I am also five steps far from you. If you are one step far from me, I am also one step far from you. Every step will be counted. If you had good karma, you had good deeds, yes, then you will get good again. It's not lost, and when you have bad karmas, then you will get bad things. They are also not lost. The science of karma, or the theory of karma, is like Mother Earth. Whatever kind of seeds you throw in the earth, that is what will grow. So it is said, the mother never loses the seed, this Mother Earth. Similarly, destiny is the creation of our actions, good or bad. And in the record of the Dharmarāja, king of justice, god of justice, every movement, every step, every look and every word, every act of this individual is recorded, noticed there. And it's a perfect system. Don't think they have the God, Dharmarāj has about 10,000 employees per country. No, it's perfect, like a computer system. Like this, everything is there. So the computer is developed from that. How does Dharmarāja keep the record, my God? In a little thing, thousands and thousands, millions of words, in a small, tiny key. And so, the science of the computer is the development from the yogic mind, that's it: the memory, the talent, the experiences. So, till today, whatever is developed in this world by scientists, nothing is new. All is written in the authentic old yogic literature, ancient yogic literature. So, you will be born again, and everything will come to you. So, when one, while practicing, without realization, dies, that means that you interrupted your yoga practice. We call yoga bhraṣṭa. Yogabhraṣṭa means two things. One, just left, begin again drinking alcohol and meat and kuśāṅga. This is called yogabhraṣṭa, or you died and your sādhanā stopped. King Janaka, the father of Sītā, was a king. One day in the afternoon, he had a rest, yoga nidrā. He was sleeping in the afternoon for forty-five minutes or one hour, and then he began to dream. He begins to dream that he is, he knows that he is a king. Everyone has a fear, especially fear of those things which you lose. Kings have fear that they will lose their kingdom. Every country has fear that another country will take over, or that people from other country will come into my country. Now, King Janaka is dreaming that another king attacks his kingdom and comes with so many soldiers, and King Janaka has to go to the battlefield. Nowadays, there are many thoughts and many weapons, hidden weapons. The doer is sitting somewhere far away. They press the button, and innocent people are killed here. They are not heroes. The heroes means the ones who jumped in the battlefield, fighting with their hands. That was it. Now they are hiding, looking behind the rock and gun, and then again go back. Coward. That's not a hero. They are cowards. Come face to face. Well, what happened? Janaka, King Janaka's army or soldiers were killed, mostly 80% or 90%. Life is dear to everyone. No one would like to die. The king, though he was a king now, tried to run away to escape somewhere in the forest. He saw thousands of his soldiers crying. Someone had an open stomach, someone had lost their hand, someone lost their legs, someone's neck was half cut, and so on, you know. War should never come, neither inner war nor outer war. King Janaka ran away, very sad, into the forest. Many, many days he spent in the forest, hungry and thirsty. During the daytime, hiding behind the trees and trying to run farther away. At night, because of the wild animals, spending life in the tree, sitting the whole night in the tree, no sleeping, completely exhausted. Still, he had the dress with the blood on it, hungry. After some days, he came somewhere in the forest and he saw a farmer's house. And he went, and there was the house farmer's lady, and he asked, "Mother or sister, I am hungry. For so many days, have you something for eating?" She did not know that it was King Janaka. She said yes, she gave some chapatis or bread, you can say some eating, and he thanked her. And he said, "You know, 10 days I didn't take bath, and my principle is this, that my discipline every day: first I wash myself and then have eating, because the anna, the food is so holy, so pure, and first." We must wash ourselves, and then we should eat. She said, "Yes. You see, 200 meters far or 300 meters far, there's a beautiful, nice, clean lake. You can go and bathe. We are also bathing there, washing and like this." He said, "Thank you." Hungry, thirsty, tired, scared, desperate king, thinking about his kingdom, and the dog came, a very big dog, and the dog was also very hungry, and the dog saw the bread or chapati in the hand of the king Janaka. The dog jumped on him and took away the bread. When the dog jumped on him, the king fell down and was thinking. When he was fighting with the dog, he said, "What is my destiny? There were the days in my life." This is exactly what I'm telling you. Last evening, I told you about this lion. You remember? People were afraid of my name, and when I came to the battlefield, thousands of soldiers were trembling. And I had everything to eat and drink. But today, what is my situation? I escaped from the battlefield, my soldiers were killed, I'm hungry, and being a king, I went begging. And now a dog came, and I couldn't even fight against one dog. This was his thinking. He fell down, and what happened? He woke up. What? He woke up in his palace. Ah, comfortable bed. Nice smells inside Agrabathis. And there is a basket full of fruits, and there is a basket full of fruits, and there are some nuts and there, everything. And he was not hungry and not tired at all. He sat on his bed and began to think. You see, there must, there should always be a reason why one turns to the other side. There must be some reason in your life for how you came to yoga. Sometimes such things happen, sometimes an accident that opens your eyes and gives you such a big lesson. The king was thinking, "When I go to dream, this world disappears and the dream world appears, my God. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. And when I come into this world, I wake up and the dream disappears, and again this world is here. What is the reality? Why do I dream so much? Why do I dream like this? I am asking for the answer." He gave up eating. He was so depressed. And so they call so-called many masters or gurus and learned people. Now, if some king said he searched for a guru, you know how many gurus would go there to become the guru of a king? If you are Czechoslovakian, or the Czech president will announce, "I am looking for a guru, but a Czech guru," how many people will run there? Yogananda people, or many others? So when the king announced Janaka, so many went there, coming, "Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi," "Oṁ So'haṁ," oh my God. And the king asked the question, and they said, "Yes, this is your imagination," and some said this and that, but no one answered properly. Tagma, you go and drink hot water, get up. There was one Brahma Jñānī living in his kingdom, and the Brahma Jñānī's name was Aṣṭāvakra. Aṣṭāvakra. Vakra means defect in the body. So he had eight kinds of defects in his body. Back was going like this, head was like that, one shoulder was like this, and many, but Brahmajñānī. So he also went to give the knowledge to the king. And, of course, the soldier didn't allow him to go in. Go in. We see only outside posture, how nice we are dressed, and we have the cravate, you know. Since I know about how the Thai, English man say Thai, but actually the real name is cravate, you know. And it is a culture of Croatia. The inventor was a Croatian. So I said, okay, I love Croatia, so let the people have the ties. So those who are all wearing the tie, they are propagating the beautiful culture of Croatia around the whole world. Even the president, before going on the stage, he is making like this. So, Croatians are in everyone's neck. Like in Śiva's neck, the biggest neck. Yes. So, again he tried to go in, and they said, "Stupid man, go away." He said, "I came to give knowledge to the king." They said, "What? You give knowledge to the king? Go, go home." Give to your wife, but there was some kind of interval, and some back door was open, and he went in. He went there in the big audience hall. The king was sitting on his chair, and many, many so-called self-made gurus, self-made gurus, and the kangaroo. They have the same kind of feelings: guru paramparā, siddhapīṭha. You must have paramparā, destiny, and dynasty. So, what is your background, your dynasty? A self-made guru is always dangerous. When Aṣṭāvakra entered the hall, people... Begins to laugh. Others, you know, were sitting, saying, "Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi," "Oṁ So'haṁ," "Tattvamasi." Oh my God, what? And they begin to laugh. Aṣṭāvakra slowly looked over the people, and then he looked to the king, and Aṣṭāvakra began to laugh at the king. Maybe laughing yoga began then. So he was laughing at the king, like this. And the king said, "Hey man, why are you laughing at me like this?" He said, "I'm laughing at your stupidity, king. Now who is there to tell your president that I'm laughing at your stupidity?" All the Brahma Jñānīs, who are above all, he said, "Yes, king, I am laughing at your double stupidity." His bodyguard said, "Hey man, quickly, how many times we hunt you? Or when you come in, we will chip off your head." King said, "Wait, wait... wait." The king was thinking, which power? He said I'm stupid? It must be something. Must be someone who is greater than anybody. There was a joke. Should I tell a joke in this story? The ex-president of Russia, Mr. Gorbachev, had to go to some meetings. And he told the driver, "Go quickly." And the red light became, and this light became, and the police stopped the car, and again, and Gorbachev got angry. He said, "Stop the car." The driver said, "Yes, sir. Sit behind," and Gorbachev begins to drive. So then the police stopped and they saluted the driver behind. Garbhachop said, "I am president," but they didn't look because their cap is like this. Who is getting out of the behind door? That is all. So he asked the driver, "What happened?" They said, "Well, they are thinking, 'Whose driver is Garbhachop? That person must...'" Be greater than Garbhachop, right? Therefore, King Janaka begins to think. Then he said, "Tell me, what do you mean that I am stupid?" He said, "Yes. Why did you collect in your, this beautiful hall, all skinners? Skinners are they who take the skin away from the dead animals, no? Sooster. And they all said, "What? We are not from this lower caste. We are the Brahmins." He said, "Yes, Skinner Brahmins." "What do you mean?" He said, "You have the knowledge of skin only. You are laughing because of my skin and my form. You don't know what is within me, and therefore you are all skinners. Get out of it. King, are you stupid? The blind leads the blind. Where will they lead?" The king says, "Something must be beautiful, then." He gave the knowledge to the king. I will now try to make some sort. Say it, king. How do you know that you were dreaming? Do you know that you were dreaming? "Yes, sir. I can draw every picture." "And how did you know when you were dreaming that you are a king and your kingdom and this?" "Oh, that was the most horrible time of my life. Not that I had to run away, but I had to quit my kingdom, and my people died, and so on. How do you know?" He said, "I know, but I want to know what is truth." He said, that is the truth. A dream is not the truth, and this life is not the truth. The truth is that which is the witness of both, who was looking at the dream and who is looking now at this life. And that is your Ātmā. And Ātmā is Sarvatra Kiṅga. And then Aṣṭāvakra begins to preach. Now, there is one Gītā, like the Bhagavad Gītā, it's called the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā. And if you have not read the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā, you have read nothing. Every yogī should read the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā. You will get knowledge, vairāgya, and many doubts will go away. Well, King Janaka became a Jīvan Mukta, completely free from karmas, and with this body he was a Brahmajñānī. That's called Videhī. Janak Videhī. In our literature, in Indian philosophy, mythology and stories, everywhere comes the name only of this one, and that is King Janaka. Janak Videhī. Once they wanted to know if the king was really the Janaka of Videhī. They invited him for a meeting, and at lunchtime, they said, "Have a rest." So he was lying down to rest, and they hung a big, very sharp knife directly over his heart. The knife weighed about 25 kilos, or something like this, and was hung with a very thin thread. That thread had a capacity of only perhaps 24 kilos, and there were 25 kilos. And they said, "King, rest, but there is a knife." He said, "No problem." He just closed his eyes and went to Yoganidrā. They said, "This is a Janaka Videhī." And what we do say, when we go to sleep and one spider is on the ceiling, we say, "Oh my God, spider, spider." Yeah, then you are talking about Brahmajñāna and afraid of the spider hanging over you. Where is your knowledge? Where is your work? Where are your abilities? Where are your achievements? And so also the son of the great saint Ved Vyāsa, who dictated the Vedas, and the Vedas were written. And his son was Śukadeva Muni. You know about Śukadeva's story. It will come in Śiva Purāṇa, when we will speak about Amarnāth, Amarnāthjī in Kashmir. And you know, I think we had already, he didn't want to come out of his mother's womb, because he said, "I am a Brahma Jñānī, and I don't want to come to the Saṃsāra; this is full of Māyā." So Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, all three had to come and request him, "We promise you in this saṃsāra there will be no Māyā, please come out." So he came, was born. And then, after a few months or days, I don't know how long, they said, "Okay, now you are born. There is no Māyā." He said, "Yes, there is no Māyā." Now it will be Māyā. So Śukadeva Muni was so disappointed. He gave up, and as a small child, five years or something like this, eight years or so, he went into the forest to meditate to have this brahma jñāna. And they said he can only have brahma jñāna if he meets a brahma jñānī gurudev, and he was searching. There were many great saints, but only one was that time, and that was Janaka Videha. So Sugrīva, great saint Sugrīva, went to Janaka Videha to get mantra dīkṣā, to become a disciple. When this Janaka Videha came to know that Sugrīva is coming, a small child, they said, "Anyone whom I accept as my disciple, I must test them." So he told him, "Let him wait 48 hours at the door." A small child, don't talk, don't say hello. For 48 hours, he was waiting. Then he said, "Is he here?" He said, "Yes." Just open the door, but nobody asked him about water or eating anything. Again, 48 hours, he stepped in the door and waited. He is still here. Let him come into the sitting room and let him sit. So he was sitting, but they didn't ask him if he was hungry or thirsty, and then brought him to the other room, telling him, "Why are you doing this? Are you mad? Go away. This anika is nothing. Go eat." He said, "No eating. I want to see my guru," and then Janaka... Accepted the Śukadeva Muni, so in India we used to say when someone speaks good, anytime steps on the stage and begins to speak, that we call incarnation of the Śukadeva Muni. He was the greatest, and he brought the Śrīmad Bhāgavata. He begins to preach about the glory of the God Kṛṣṇa. So Janaka Videhī, the yogī who did not achieve this consciousness, the body purified, everything is controlled, but it goes away. This is the aim of a yogī, but still one hasn't achieved the highest level. Therefore, tomorrow we will come to the further. Bhava-pratyayo videha-prakṛti-laya-nām, and so that he who has withdrawn back, he who has no fear, and he, all this effect of the nature is over-controlled from all the indriyas, that is called videhā. Now, what happens with him or her after that? Krishna told her we will speak tomorrow. So, for today, I wish you all the best. Dear brothers and sisters around the world watching the webcast, we are with you, and you are with us. So, decide which way you are going, what kind of practice you are doing, if your yogic practices are authentic in those authentic literatures. Until then, all the best. If you have any questions, please send your question. We will answer it in the webcast. Very soon, we will research which of his books are available and where. We will send the information through the webcast, the address where you can order them. God bless you. Good night. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Tee hee.

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