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We should not leave our stomach empty. We should eat until our stomach is full, but the question is how to balance the body. For nearly 16 or 17 months now, I have decided to follow a special diet consisting mainly of salad. Of course, in winter there is not an abundance of salad, but we can use different kinds of vegetables. Potatoes are also very good, but in limited amounts. We make a good soup with one potato, half a liter of water, cut into little pieces, boiled long, and then we add our spices. We shall avoid a lot of corn, wheat, and so on. Use all oils, but not one liter—just half a spoon, one or two spoons, that’s all. Please do not give up salt. Many people say, "No salt," but we will see what happens to them after some time. When we are older, we need a little more salt. We shall boil our water because it contains many chemicals. Boil it, leave it in a container overnight, and in the morning take the upper part of the water to drink. We have good water, but we don't know what we are putting inside. We get chlorine in the water. If we boil it the whole night, the impurities will settle, and we have the good upper water. Mineral water is an option but expensive. So, similarly, eat a lot—but of vegetables—and then take one slice of bread. Now, there are different kinds of salads. When I was first in Slovakia, Czechoslovakia, my accent was so thick. Veľký. So I’m still working; all is here from Czechoslovakia. So now, please don’t mind. I was watching, and please don’t mind—it doesn’t matter, man or woman. They do little exercise and consume more butter and this and that. I think if you want to live healthy—meaning happy, without disease, with a long life, and live your yogic life—then the body will give itself for us. Thank you. So, prāṇa. Prāṇa is more abundant in vegetation. So: salad, salad, salad. And then, of course, you have to have a little bread or chapatis or a little rice. Do it gradually. Slowly, slowly, slowly. One month, one year. Every day, little by little. After one year, then make your diet more strict. Our whole body—all our joints, muscles, the heart, lungs, all different kinds of organs—will feel great. I give you this advice now; you begin, and next year in this seminar you will see how you will be. If you do it quickly, you will not feel nice in the stomach, and you will become thin. I thought my face would also be very thin, but I looked after cutting my hair and beard. I thought my face and cheeks were swollen. Our face and cheeks tell us that we are healthy and that the things we are doing are good. Of course, slowly our vitality will go up and our fat will go down. This is very important. I will say that about 78% are very good yogīs, and about 22% are the best ones, whom we can see are the strong people here. So, please attend first to health. This does not mean making our food less and less, nor taking more and more. Your stomach will be full and you will feel good, but we need exercise. Some people engage in bodybuilding, and after some years they have many problems, pain, pain. But we should practice sarvahitāsana. Do it mostly for one year with your good diet. But of course, we shall practice our other āsanas. We have all kinds of āsanas. We also have Śīrṣāsana, Sarvangāsana, etc. We should do them when we are young, healthy, and practicing. This is very important for all the organs of the body; they need movement. Give good food. Of course, we like to taste and want to eat more and more, and you keep it all in your body as a reserve. One day, they took a person to the graveyard. They took the body, and about ten people were needed to lift him. So much luggage inside—why? So we shall come to our yoga in daily life. What does yoga in daily life mean? It’s very easy, very normal. It means practicing yoga every day. Another thing is that we should respect all different kinds of yoga schools. They also have their guru or some teachers. Everyone shows some different postures. Why not? It’s good; they all belong to yoga. So we shall respect all different kinds of yoga schools and good teachers—but not those teaching just for money. We are doing it for our health and, further, for the people. It is said that every yoga school has its guru. It is very, very important that everyone should have that kind of guru, which comes from many, many ages of disciples and masters. Don’t become a guru from now on. No, we have to have that guru which is our paramparā, our tradition. That means we will keep life yoga. Otherwise, people engage in what’s called alcohol practice, wine yoga, or other such things. Many begin, come up, and then go down. Some years ago, they called it hot yoga, and many people had problems in the bones and lungs because in a hot room there is not good air. They came all over the world and are now doing different things, calling it this and that. But yoga is that from the beginning of Śiva. The yogī is Śiva, and Śiva has brought this yoga from the beginning. You know that there are five principles. The first is what we call space (ākāśa), and the second is called consciousness (caitanya). This consciousness is not only in humans, nor only in vegetation, but in the air, in the water, in the space. Now, they don’t know what is first: that awareness, or consciousness, or the space. So there is a balance between them. It’s called yoga, and that is harmony, balancing the conscious into space. That is the beginning of yoga. In that yoga, we have the light, the space, and the movement means the air. Then come the other three: water and earth. This is in yoga’s beginning. But we are making yoga; we are making many, many techniques, and every technique we say is yoga. So here, yoga means good exercises for keeping health. But yoga is different. This kind of yoga is not that yoga. That is the kind practiced by ṛṣis, yogīs in different parts of the world. There is prāṇa. There is energy. There is consciousness. There is the consciousness towards the cosmic Self (Ātman). So yoga is different. We are beginning now, and what is the difference? I tell you, people have already begun to make confused yoga. Our Prime Minister, the Chief Minister, said and brought yoga in officially. But now they gave it to the embassy, and some people became the master. They said, "Only practice this, not others," creating different things. So as long as Modijī is here, the ambassadors will try hard. Afterwards, they will just go. You know, every year the yoga exercises organized by the embassy of India attract fewer and fewer people, slower and slower. Yes? Because they have no yogic techniques; they give only physical exercises and bye-bye. That is not yoga. So again, our people—what do I mean by our people? Our Europeans, our Westerners—and those yoga schools from many years ago have good yoga. They understand yoga. They practice yoga. But now came something like bubbles. You know children play with water and these bubbles? How long do they last? They explode. But you are... India also has this, but the yoga that Indians are doing is very rare. When our Prime Minister comes to promote yoga, my God, all Indians come like a flood. They want to see Modijī and take a photo with him, and the next day they scatter like pigeons. That’s no yoga. I tell you, you will bring the best yoga to Vienna or to India. I have been here for 52 years, and before that great masters were also here. We call Vivekānandajī. Vivekānandajī was a politician also, but before Vivekānanda, many Indian masters were in other countries. Of course, Vivekānanda was great. We adore him, and the whole government respects him. Why not? So, my dear, we need great techniques for the body, mind, soul, etc. Now, some people use this one easy word: "body and mind." So, body and mind—where is your soul? Where is your consciousness? Where is that? To say only body and mind means neither your mind nor your body will truly be there. So understand, bring the yogic science. When you come to the yogic, like all of you—you are yogīs now, very great yogīs. But those who are angry, jealous, and so on, that is not a yogī anymore. When you are yogic, you will be humble, kind, and your practice will be great. In this way, our generation, the new generation, we shall bring a real yogic science. There are some scriptures; yes, it’s good. But those who are great often don’t practice; they are only talking, talking, talking. It is like a child crying, and the father says, "Don’t cry, mother is coming." The child asks, "Where is my mommy coming?" "Oh, she is coming very soon, come on." But no, there is nothing. So we shall learn inwardly. Learn inner yoga, not just on the surface for show. There are many, many good yoga schools in the whole world. If someone has more or fewer disciples, it doesn’t matter. When the best yogīs come together, they are very happy. But many yogīs go to other yoga centers and try to take a few people away. We have only one guru. What does that mean? Your mother gave birth to you. You cannot say, "No, I don’t like my mother. I want to go to another mother’s body and come out." Only one mother, only one father. Understand? We can have many mothers and fathers in a respectful sense, but the real father and the real mother, we don't always know. But the mother knows her child very well. So Holy Gurujī said, "What mother said, mother said, 'Is the child?' Mother said, 'Who is my child?' Not father said, 'My child.' So mother said, 'My child.' The child, mother said, 'Five of my child.'" And when Kṛṣṇa said—that is Bhagavad Gītā. Yes. So ask Kṛṣṇa. There are many things for us to learn. Our mother is our mother. Our father is the father. Our master is our master. Our guru is our guru, and our disciple is our disciple. Then we can be in the world, humble and kind with everyone. Everyone says, "My religion, my religion." Why not? Very good. But don’t fight for religion. Don’t try to take away from other religions. That’s why problems exist. So let’s come to yoga. Yoga is within our body. We have it within us; we give it out. We don’t take from outside to inside. God gave it to us already inside, and that is within us. So practice yoga. Everyone, and respect to all. Some yoga teachers in their school use a little different technique. Why not? Others have some different techniques. Why not? They are happy. They are giving good techniques. Then we are happy that we are all yogīs. So we can go home to our parents. During the day, we can go to our work or visit friends anywhere. This is how we should learn. We have our paramparā from Alak Purījī, many, many ages. Then we know Dev Purījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, Lālā Nanjī, Brahman Nanjī, Śiva Nanjī—all these we know, the disciples of Holī Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī. We adore them. So now we have all. We will have pictures for all our paramparās. My dear, I am very happy to see you today. Those who are going back home today, I wish you a good journey. Come again according to your time, and of course, we are limited. Otherwise, the government says you should have only so many people. The government doesn’t want to do it—how to call them?—purposely. Our government wants that our people should be free, healthy, and great. They are thinking that our citizens will be healthy, happy, etc. Therefore, you know, our organizers are very hard-working. Here, our organizers are very tired. You will see, when I get up, you all will come again together, and again we will go hand in hand. There is a... because we don’t know, there is some concern. We are the type of... yes, we don’t know. Someone touching a little somewhere, and it will affect you, and then a second, five, and then ten. Oh, God, please, you be healthy. It means you should not need this kind of thing. So please keep distance, clean your hands and everything. Always clean your children’s hands. All the best. And look now, what very nice light. Śrī Vipnar Bhagavān, thank you.