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Practice according to your path

Yoga is the practice of union and the honoring of the guru.

Yoga Day is marked on June 21st, introduced by Prime Minister Modi. Yoga means union, a coming together of elements. The body is a yoga of diverse components requiring health. Unity arises from integrating physical, mental, and spiritual bodies. On this day, practitioners should worship their guru and teach yoga. All yoga schools, like Sivananda or Yoga in Daily Life, must practice freely. No single embassy should monopolize yoga. Diversity prevents duality. Certificates are awarded after three to five years of training. Daily practice is essential. Practitioners should become teachers. Guru Purnima blessings will reach all disciples. Mental and spiritual practices complement physical yoga. The day is called the Day of the Gurudev. Gurus may wear any color, from saffron to black, without hierarchy. Practitioners worldwide should celebrate in their own traditions. The pandemic is receding, allowing collective practice. Time has come to awaken and engage in yoga.

"If you do sarvahitāsana, one āsana, then it’s only yoga. But when you do two, then it’s yoga."

"First, you should be like your master and teach all. That day will be called the day of the Gurudev."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Om Bholē Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Śrī Sattva Gurudeva, Kī Jai, Śrī Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmī Madhavānanda, Śrī Sattva Gurudeva, Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī, Gurudeva, Kī Jai. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī,... Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Śrudev Bhagavān Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Alakh Purī Jī Mahādev Kī Āśīrvād. Āśīrvād from Alakh Purī Jī. Blessing means, blessing means the āśīrvād. Thank you all, my dear bhaktas, friends, brothers, sisters, etc. It is a very happy new day, as days are coming, and in many countries, those kinds of diseases are going away. It is said that in New Zealand they have declared that no one has any different kind of disease there, or any kind of coughing. This is comfortable. Similarly, in many other countries, people are controlling themselves. The time has come for us, the summer time, and also the days of winter time. The winter time is going now slowly, and this summer time is coming back. It will come slowly, slowly to the summer. It is said that on the 21st of June, but there are some differences according to astrology. And according to astrology, it is that exactly the sun is always moving. But it is said that slowly, slowly, sooner or later, all will come together again. And so on 21 June, and there is our Indian Prime Minister, Modijī. He was concentrating on where he must bring together on that day, which was the day of yoga. And yoga is the point from where, for the first time, that which is coming from this Brahmadeva, where Śiva comes for the first time. And there is the very beginning; we don’t know how many ages. When was the moon? When was the sun, etc., we don’t know. But these are the five tattvas, and this tattva is creating this earth. And in this earth, what we call this, the ocean, the earth, the fire, the air, space, etc. And that means that coming together is yoga. Yoga. It’s not yoga. Yoga is multiple, and yoga is single. So we say yogī, yoga, but because we are all practicing, let’s say we are doing sarvahitāsana. If you do sarvahitāsana, one āsana, then it’s only yoga. But when you do two, then it’s yoga. And therefore, but there is another thing: Indians or Americans, they always end it with an "A," with the name, etc., at last. So now they call it Yoga, but it has Yoga. We will say the Yoga. And what is that Yoga? Yoga has many different meanings. Yoga also means what we call kuṇḍalinī jāgaraṇ, that suddenly happened. So that we are for that, so yoga means also that suddenly it happened. We are going somewhere, and the very best friend, the families, or anything. We didn’t see them again for about 30 years, but we want to see each other, and we don’t know where and what it is. And suddenly, one day, what happens? Both friends meeting. That’s called yoga. That’s called yoga. This is yoga. This was yoga. So yoga, it’s also that suddenly, when we meet something, we come to the oneness. So again, yoga, yoga means also yoga practice, and that is what we are doing, searching. Now, we have yoga and yoga. Now, let’s not look outside, but see within our body, and how many elements are in our body, why we look for something outside. Also, how many things are in our body? I mean, our blood, our bones, our nerves, our systems, many things, our fingers, our toes, everything. So what is one different? It is the one separate. And therefore, our whole body, we can consider our body as a yoga. And in this, that yoga, so we shall first take care of our body. And that body means which is healthy. And health is nothing. But without health, there is nothing. Can we also get back? So yoga needs this and that. In this, we are coming now today. So, how will we come to this unity? And that unity means we have in the body, but we are not unity. We have a physical body, we have a mental body, and we have a spiritual body. All are separate, but more or less, they are coming together. Therefore, yoga. So yoga, so you are a yogī. How many things do you have in your body? So, not only do we have yoga, yoga is only one. That’s it, or suddenly we meet together. So there are many things to understand. But yoga, what we are doing, this yoga, that’s for ourselves. So what happens? That this year, that was a sañjog. Yoga or sañjog. Now, yoga and sañjog. Yoga is there, but separated. Mahāprabhujī’s Karatā, Mahāprabhujī’s Karatā. The whole world became very, very full of love. They were all afraid, all and all, not only India, every country. Even there are some little ṭāpū, and that ṭāpū, you know what is a ṭāpū? I know that, I learned, yeah, but tapu is better than, okay, but that’s also, but that also got it. And how did they get it? From some birds. And from the birds, what the humans or something make. But the birds were not affected by this. But from there, they are touching something through the air to air. So, more or less, the whole planet was falling down. And now it’s getting better. And my dear all, in this month we shall come to our yoga practices, and in a few days, on the 21st of June, we have the Yoga Day. Do it everywhere. It must not be that you go and practice with the Indian embassy; it must not be. We did it first time like this, and now this, oh, we will do only yoga? No, yoga is for everybody, it must not be at the embassy. Why is that? What is the reason? Why do we have to go only to the Indian embassy? What I am talking about today, we will see the whole India, all embassies, they will hear what Swāmījī said. Okay, once we had an embassy, we did once, and now what they are doing is they are splitting. The practitioners are spreading. There is a yoga practice, a yoga school. Let’s say Swami Śivānanda’s yoga school. So, it is Śivānanda’s yoga school. Now, the big one has come, our Yoga in Daily Life, Swami Maheshwarananda. Yoga is yoga, but why not, my people, my disciples, my friends? Why should they not say "yoga" in daily life? Sivananda Yoga, Vivekananda Yoga, etc. There are many, many schools of yoga, and everyone has their guru. And everybody, they have jaya to their guru. Like we say Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, or they say Śivānandajī Mahārāj Kī Jai or Cidānandajī Kī Jai. Yes or no? So why are we again making confusions in this? And that I will speak, and I know that. Yes, good, but there is again making confusion. So, what kind of yoga are you doing? They don’t know. So there are different karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jñāna yoga, ānanda yoga, many yogas, many, many books. So, where are they? Therefore, all my dear ones, you should practice your yoga according to your gurus, according to your schools, and like us, according to our Yoga in Daily Life. And so, we will do Yoga in Daily Life in the park, because we are many people, or in the street, every street in Croatia, in the capital, Zagreb. And in Zagreb, we have to close the train, the inner train. So many yogīs, Yoga in their Life, people, many, many. Now, why not? Others are going to do, say, they also have very good, they should do also. So, we have to bring this. Because, again, we should not do the fear. No, we don’t want. We are neutral, we are happy. We are doing yoga practices. We are practicing Indian yoga practices, and this has been for many, many years now. Thanks to Modījī, he brought this, and Rāmdevjī brought yoga very much in India. It doesn’t matter how it is, but it’s very great, so they brought yoga, and as long as Modījī will be, everybody will. Come and practice yoga, and when maybe other people will come, yoga will be finished. They will say, "Okay, you can practice yoga," but the embassy will say, "No more practicing this yoga." Yes? Therefore, we have to not bundle people together, but we should give freedom to the people. One has the white cloth, we have the saffron cloth, we have the orange cloth, they have the yellow cloth. Why not? And some in the black, why not? So this is very important, but my dear, what I want to tell you is that you should practice. Every day, and now time has come. Time has come, no? Dawn has come. Night, wake my children, wake. This is a spiritual lecture about Yoga in the Indian tradition. Australia, America, in these countries, there is a beginning of yoga practice. So please practice, come together, of course not with many, many people, but you should practice anywhere, but do. Together, as yoga practitioners, according to our yogic practice. So, don’t think that I will teach yoga now. You have to become a teacher of yoga. I am telling yoga in daily life. And if you are not a teacher, we have 1,000 or 2,000 yoga teachers. But we can also get more. We need many people so they can be assistants, and assistant trainings we allow, but not that one who has nothing and says, "I’m yoga, I will make a certificate." We don’t give a certificate, we don’t. Go anything in that way, because after three or five years, we give you the certificates, not like this: "I am waiting for you for all my Mahāprabhujī." "Karata Mahāprabhujī," like this. And in other countries, we will talk through our Swāmījī. So please, all bhaktas, disciples, follow my words and practice according to our teachers, your teachers, and wherever you are practicing. Keep together, and you know, Prasād is coming for Guru Pūrṇimā to everyone, everywhere. So, thank you, and we will see you again one more time. So, yoga, we have yoga, but not only maybe physically, we must start with doing, we have mental. So, what do we do with Gurudev? What is Gurudev showing? What is that bhajan, nicely? Satguru Swāmī Bhajan. Any Satguru bhajan which has come? So in this way, all in India and out of all countries, there are so many gurus, gurudevs. We will not say only gurus, but gurudevs. Maybe one gurujī has only twenty bhaktas. He doesn’t want more disciples, and many others they have. So first, on this Yoga Day, the 21st of this coming month, we will have Yoga Day. And on this Yoga Day, first, if there is in any country, any city, any place, if you have your Gurujī, if you have your Master, first, you should be like your master and teach all. That day will be called the day of the Gurudev. Yoga is the day of Gurudev. That we will now... So, first, twenty-first, twenty-first. And there will be all yogīs, yoga practitioners. They should worship their guru with yoga, and they should be in the front, teaching the yoga to them. It doesn’t matter if they are from Europe or from India, but not only that, we will have only Indians now, and then you will see only European and not Indian gurus there. That is, it means duality. It has become a big duality, and this big duality should not be. Therefore, all our bhaktas, our practitioners, our Europeans, Canadians, Americans, New Zealanders, Japanese, and Chinese, all our bhaktas, they should worship in yogic yoga for their guru, and not anything one-sided. Understand me? So I think this time I will come and tell Modiji, thank you very, very much. And all gurus and all disciples are so happy that you made this free for yoga to everybody. But where is a guru? Where is a master? Must not be an orange dress. It can be a black dress. It can be a yellow dress, it can be only green, or it can be red, or it can be like our yoga dress. So we have to bring this oneness in a different way. One day we are making many people sad. We are coming for yoga, and they say, "No, you should not do this. You should not do that. That is not good." Do you agree with me? Yes or no? Thank you. Nandochasakha Tvameva Vidyā Draviṇam Tvameva Sarvam Mamade Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahmā, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrtiḥ, Pūjā Mūlam Guru Pādam, Mantra Mūlam Guru Vākyam, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Om Śānti, Śānti,... Oṁ Alakhpurī Jī Mahādevakī Haradye Deveśvar Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Kī Haradye Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Kī Haradye Bhagavān Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Sab Ṛṣi Munī Mahātmā Kī Māt Pitā Gurudev Kī Bhārat Mātā Kī Oṁ Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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