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Body liberation and moksha

A satsang discourse on transcending body-mind duality through the five sheaths.

"Body and mind have no sense in it. And if you are saying body and mind, then both are wrong."

"We have to go: annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, and ānandamaya kośa. Then we are only outside; it is in the body, but it is sending somewhere in different ways."

He argues that true yogic science requires progressing through the five koshas (sheaths) toward Anandamaya kosha and liberation, moving beyond the confusing duality of body and mind.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

People study up to university and beyond, but only in a limited way. It is like the horse with blinders, seeing only straight ahead. In Prague, horses do not go. They have blinders like this. There is a story about a supermarket. An American lady went to the supermarket. She wanted this and that and came home with so much. Her husband was angry. But she said there were so many good things. Every day it happened, so the husband finally said, "Just go and bring bread, nothing else." But at the store, there was bread, then butter, then this and that. Again, she came home with a lot. The husband was angry. So his wife said, "Okay, darling, I will do something so I bring only bread." She took a piece of cardboard. On the left and right sides, she wrote, "I want only bread." And so she went. We are all like that here. It's a good joke, no? But it means that the people sitting there are still higher than me. I have to lift myself up. That is a kind of levitation. There was one yogī, Maharishi Yogi, who passed away about 20 years ago. He gave techniques to the whole world. Many people paid a lot of money for levitation. They said, "One year and you will be above the water." But there was nothing. Then they had an air mattress and were jumping on it like maniacs. So, is it that easy? It is not. We must have that [ability], but of course, it is not simple. Even our engineers from Prague were walking up and down here, and I said no. So that's why we know. If you don't know, now you will know: how is the globe round? It's impossible. The globe is not like that; otherwise, we would roll down. People say stupid things: "It's a globe, it's round and round." They say, "The sun is up, and at night, it's down." How is that? Now we know today that it is round, from there to here. Now, if we sit there... I don't know how high it will be. So let's do whatever. We will levitate, okay? If you cannot levitate, then you make me levitate a little up. Because the ones sitting behind are looking at me like this. If I go up, then I see everything nicely, and they see me nicely. Many people are always sitting like this, and now they will look at me like this. That is, sit straight. So this will be like that. Let's start our program. Oh, I'm sitting here. Dear God, now I look a little bit fat. I look so thin. How was our dinner? Meow, meow. So it was a cat dinner. But it is not a meow, meow. That is a different thing. Tasteful, not a meow, meow. Oh, God. So, lunch was good, dinner was good, breakfast was good, the program was good, and a little cool. But after a nice warm day, we are in our sādhanā. So, thank you, and see you again. Most welcome to all of you and all our brothers and sisters around the world. They are all with us, around the whole globe. That's very nice. If we don't know, then our techniques are showing that around the whole globe, yoga in their life is with us. Many have new technologies, and they are also bringing good messages around the world. And, of course, according to different things. But we have the very spiritual yogic science. There are two kinds: one is theory, and the other is practical. Practical is forever. Within that, what we are searching for in yoga is that Brahmaloka. To come to the Supreme, we want to call ourselves very spiritual, with thoughts and searching for that. So physical techniques are very important, but they will not take us further. For example, you have your car. You will put your car somewhere in a garage. You park it in the garage, then where are you going? All the times you were driving the car, and when your destination came, then you left your car and you went somewhere else. Similarly, our body is like a car. But within that car is something which would like to go to the highest. In our body, just like in that car, sits someone who wants to go further, who wants to go as high as possible. We have learned to know our body. Without our body, it means nothing. But without this, we will have beyond. And now they are calling it "mind." In America, mostly they are using the word "mind." "I would like to go with you, my mind. I want to go with my mind." And then I said, "I mind, change my mind." I am thinking, I am considering, I have thought about it. "I want to go with my mind," said I. It means that when they say that, and then suddenly say, "No, I give up my mind." So always "in my mind." "I don't want to go with my mind, so only mind. I give up. I give up there." So, why do you always give your mind away? Why don't you give your body? No, that I cannot. But now they said, "I give up body and mind." Or some say, "Now, mind and body and mind." So what is body and mind? It is only words that look nice, but everything there is wrong. So in yoga, yoga is not body and mind, but in yoga is the body and liberation. So, body and liberation. That body brings us liberation. So, body, liberation, and mokṣa—they are the same. So, the body, mokṣa, and Brahman. Brahman, the highest. So, body, vibration, and the, what we say, the Brahman. Not a Brahman, Brahmaloka. So, body and mind have no sense in it. And if you are saying body and mind, then both are wrong. Because the body is not long life. It is finished. Suddenly, for example, you get a heart attack. So, the body is lost, and now the brain is standing. The mind says, "Where is the body?" So, it has no connection. The mind never stays anywhere. You cannot control the mind. And mind is one of the highest, quickly, but has nothing. There is one story of a poor man. He was very poor, and his wife was also poor. The husband was going to work, but money was not coming. So that man said to his wife, and they had two or three children, so that man said, "I will go and do tapasyā. I will pray and pray to God. I will go to the ocean and sit there on one leg, and I will pray to this ocean God." And one day, God came from the ocean. "My child, what do you want?" He said, "I am very poor, and I have nothing. I have three children, my wife. Please, God, give me something." God said, "I give you, and I give you so much that no one can be richer than you." "Oh, God, thank you. That will be great. Please, please, God." So God gave from the ocean one śaṅkha, a conch shell. And then he blew the conch. God gave this conch to that Bhakta. He said to God, "God, what will I do with this conch? I will only blow, and somebody give me only one rupee? Nobody will give me." God said, "No. This conch will give you all. This shell will give you everything. Whatever you want. Amazing." But how? "Go home. Go home. To your wife and children. And whenever you want anything, it will give you. It will give us eating, yes, food, the dress, the best, whatever you want, good house, the best money, as much as you want, more, what do you want, beautiful garden, et cetera, et cetera." He said, "How will it give me?" God said, "Take this conch in your water, in your plate, and something with the water. Spread on it, make it clean, and make a little tilak, and make agarbattī, and say, 'Oh, Śaṅkha, oh, Śaṅkha, please give me good food. I'm hungry, boys. Come, what kind of food? Oh, very nice, very nice halva. Chapatis, good vegetables, and pizza.' Okay? And suddenly, in front of him, comes all this nice, fresh food. 'Thank you, Śaṅkha. I feel cold, and my dress is so dirty now.' All new dress on the body." So God said, "Now you can go. Now you can live, and whatever you want will come to you." So he took the conch, put it in his handbag, and he was walking and walking and walking. After five days, six days, there was a little village, and he had one nice friend. And he went to his friend and said, "My friend, I came to you." And he said, "Where have you been, my friend? I was very afraid about you. I did not see you anywhere." "I made a tapasyā, and God gave me something." "God gave tapasya and gave you something? And what is with something? Why not more?" he said. "He gave me the conch." "And what is this? Five years you were there? Yes, but this is a very powerful conch, my friend. Don't make me stupid." He said, "No, no. This will give you everything we want. Okay." And they made the pūjā for the śaṅkha, the conch. And said, "Nice food for all family and me." Sweet. And nice vegetables, nice many, many chapatis, everything, and plates they are giving in front of you, and they were eating and said, "Oh my God, what do you need more? Ask me." After eating, a nice cup of Indian tea. In turn, the coffees came. "What do you want? Please give five thousand dollars." All boxes came for children, for husband, for wife, for him. "But do you want more?" "No, Śaṅkha, thank you very much. When I need, I will ask you," so he put it in his bag. And he was very tired, so he went to sleep, and his friend slept. Now his friend said to his wife, "I would like to take that conch." She said, "But don't do that to your friend. What is the friend? When I gave something like this, this is the biggest friend." So he was sleeping, and he had that conch exactly like that. And his friend had another shell, just like his. He put that other shell into his friend's bag and took the magical conch. In the morning he woke up, and his friend announced: "Good, friend, thank you. And come again. It was great. You are very, very successful." After three days, he came to his village. And he came, and all people said, "Where have you been? Where have you been?" So he said, "I was at the shore of the ocean. I did tapasyā, and God came, and he gave me a conch, and I can get anything. I will give all of you, very nice food. Eating? Yes. What would you like? From Tilak, best pizza. We would have the best pizza from Tilak." "What is pizza?" "Oh, great." The whole village runs and they say, "Pizza!" "What is a pizza? Where is the pizza?" "In Tilak." "So where is Tilak? Sit down. I have come, and I will give the tilak." So he put the tilak. All are sitting. And this man said, "Śaṅkha, Śaṅkha, Śaṅkha, please, I worship you. I give you the all, and Tilak and all these my friends from my village, they would like to have all at once in their hands fresh, warm pizza." They didn't need a plate, just on your hand. Oh my God. So he said, "Śaṅkha, Śaṅkha... God Śaṅkha. It is a tilak. And please bring the pizza." Nothing. No tilak. "Please bring pizza." Nothing. And all people were laughing, "Oh God, you became mad. And you made us also mad." Well, he said, "I will not go in the house," and he went back again to the ocean, and he was running and running, and again in five, six days, he came to the ocean. He said, "Ocean God, why did you make this? Here is your conch in the ocean. I don't need it. You humiliated me." God came, "Why? I gave you the right one, the good one. It is not that one in your hand. It is that." He said, "No." God said, "Did you sleep in one friend's house, and you saw the conch?" He said, "Yes, it was. He had only this miracle only once." "No, no,... your friend took it away. But I will give you now another beautiful one. And what is it? I give you one, and that will have double power. When you said thousand euros, oh my friend, only 1,000 euros? 20 million. Double and double and double, so you don't need to ask double. And go to your friend again and give him, go and say, 'Oh, I'm here again.' But when you go into his house and tell him, and your friend will say, 'Oh, you came earlier.' He said, 'Yes, yes, my dear, I was with God. And God gave me this beautiful conch. Nowhere in the universe, world here.' And what is that? Beautiful, conch like this. And when I ask for one, it gives me a hundred. One dress, he gives me twenty dresses. One house, you have twenty houses. And when it doesn't happen, something will happen. So you will go and tell him, 'One nice dress,' so the conch will say, 'No, no, twenty dresses.' The shell will say, 'No, no,... I will give you twenty.' And then tell him, 'Thank you, thank you, leave it.' And then say your tasks, thank you, thank you, but that is enough. What is that? Czech, Czechian, what is your money? Euro, koruna. No, koruna. What is the Czech currency?" So he said, "Wait, wait, wait." So God said, "When you will tell, you just say something, and then say the second word. When I tell you, you say, 'No, no, thank you.' So I will tell you, and I will tell you that the conch will say whatever you ask; he will give you double. And what is that? He said that that is nothing in your brain. What are you asking me? Your brain is gone. I don't give you anything, so but don't tell now. In the night, when you will sleep, your friend will go again to take this conch, which is the best, but in the house he doesn't have a second, so he took the one which was the first he brought it. And the wrong one he put in his house, and he went in. So the next day his friend said, 'Bring us good, nice morning coffee.' Then he said, 'Do it yourself.' 'But coffee? No, boys. Yes, I ask you bring nice coffee. Why don't you bring it?' So it was gone." So, that's called that person's... what I'm talking to you now. Body and mind will confuse everything, so that's why we have to go first to all five prāṇas of the body: annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, then ānandamaya kośa. We must pass through all these five. So only body and mind, only body and mind, will continue inside, will be finished. And they, both, will end. Ānandamaya kośa is the last, so mind and this all, which are coming, that is a yogī. So now we are only people practicing only body exercises, body exercises, and then mind: "I want to meditate, my company, my company should be best, my wish," that's all, that's all. And don't depend on the mind. If you depend on your mind, then it will make you lost. So we have to go in that way to our life and practice. So we have to go: annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, and ānandamaya kośa. Then we are only outside; it is in the body, but it is sending somewhere in different ways. So from these five kośas, then we can come to the yogic science. Then we are as a yogic knowledge. And then is coming the power. There are two kinds of powers. One is the five kośas: prāṇa. But then after that, it's like a rocket; the power is then on the top, coming. So we said practice, but without the body, we can't do anything. So keep our body healthy, and our body says, "Please, don't torture me." What does that mean? Don't put too much in my body. What is that? Food and food and drink and food and drink, and the body is so tired. And all that we are calling now, which is people eating too much. People were eating from time to time and working. And you know that, let's say, about 200 years before. Or 100 years before, there was not so much cancer. Because we put nutrition in our body which is not good. And in the body, we cannot digest anything. And that brings the disease inside. So this is, everything is from wrong, wrong nourishment, and too much. Try yourself, but now come again in a good way, very, very slowly. Therefore, there is one bhajan, and you are always singing very nicely. That's why I was choosing today, and what I gave you. Thank you. Bahā'ī Hazār Bahā Tāhā Nadiyā Chāhale Lambī Lambī Kai. ... All Rights Reserved. God bless you. Dīre Dīre Chā Gā Gā Nagar Chād Nāre Bhāhi, Dīre Dīre Chā Gā Gā Nagar Chād Nāre Bhāhi. Naliyā Chotīrā Tandherī Rastā Me Chikanāī, Naliyā Chotīrā Tandherī Rastā Me Chikanāī. God bless you. Thank you. God bless you. God bless you. Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Śrī Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Alak Purījī Mahādeva Kī Lalanāndjī Mahārāj Kī Śivānandjī Mahārāj Kī Brāhmaṇāndjī Mahārāj Kī

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