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Body liberation and moksha

Beyond body and mind lies true liberation. Physical techniques are important but will not take you further. The body is like a car; at the destination you leave it. Within the body is something that wants to go to the highest. Body and mind have no lasting sense. The body finishes suddenly, and the mind has no connection. You cannot control the mind. The body brings liberation; liberation and the highest are the same. The path goes through the five sheaths: food, vital force, mind, wisdom, bliss. Only body exercises and wanting a good mind are not enough. Dependence on the mind makes you lost. Go through the sheaths to reach yogic knowledge. Then real power comes. Without a body, nothing can be done. Keep the body healthy. Do not torture it with too much food and drink. Wrong nutrition brings disease.

“Body and mind have no sense in it.”

“If you depend on your mind, then it will make you lost.”

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

People go on learning until university and even beyond, but only like this. Do you know the horses in your capacity—your capacity, Prague? In Prague, there are no horses going; they are just like this. So there was a supermarket coming, a supermarket. And one American lady, she goes to the supermarket and, “This I want to have, this I want to have, this I want to have.” She comes home with so much, and the husband is angry, but she said so many good things. So the husband said, “Just go and bring the bread, nothing else.” But there’s bread, then butter, then this, and there’s this—again coming with so much. So the husband was angry. Then his wife said, “Okay, darling, I will do something, then I will bring only bread.” So she put here like… from the cardboard, yes, cardboard. And on the left side and the right side, it was written, “I want only bread.” And so are we all; all people are here. So it’s good. It’s a good joke, no? But it means that the people who are sitting there are still higher than me, that much. But it means that the people who are sitting there in the back are as tall as I am. So I have to lift myself up. So that is a, how to call it, level, level. Like there was one yogī. He is unfortunately not here, but he passed away 20 years ago. You know who that was? Maharṣi Yogī. Maharishi Yogī, yes. And Maharishi Yogī was given to the whole world. And many, many people were there, and a lot of money was given. Levitation. Levitation. And these are my techniques. And many, many were, and all they said, “Yes, you will levitate, very much.” So they said, “One year you will be above the water.” And there was nothing. Then they had one mattress, an air mattress. And they were jumping like a madman. So it is that. So it’s not easy. So we must have that, but that, of course, you also did. And our engineer from Prague. They are both, I think, engineers. And they were walking up and down, up and down here. A behali tu hore-dole, hore-dole. And I said no, I said no. But really. Ale skutočne. So that’s why we know. If you don’t know, then now you will know how the globe is round. It’s impossible. The globe is not like this; otherwise, we would have ruled down. And people say, “Stupid.” It’s a globe, it’s round and round, and he said the sun is up, and in the night it’s down. How is that? And now we know today that it is round, from there to here, and now it’s round. Now, if we will sit there, and here we are sitting there, I don’t know how high it will be, so let’s do whatever, we will levitate, okay? If you cannot levitate, then make me levitate a little up. Because the one who is sitting behind, they are looking at me like this. And if I go up, then I see everything nicely, and they see me nicely. And many people, they are always sitting like this. And now they will look at me like this. That is, sit straight. So this will be like that. So, let’s, our programs. Oh, I’m sitting here. Her God. Now I look a little bit fat? I look so thin. Meow, meow. So it was a cat, the cat, the dinner. So it is not a meow, meow. That is a different thing. So it’s not meow, meow. Yeah. Tasteful. Chutné, not a meow, meow. It was not meow, meow, but it was tasty. Oh, God. Meow, meow, meow. O, Bože, meow, meow. So lunch, dinner was good, lunch was good, breakfast was good, the program was good, and a little cool, but after a nice warm day, and we are in our sādhanā. So, thank you, and see you again. I am glad to see you again. Most welcome to all of you. I welcome all of you. And all of our brothers and sisters around the world. And all of our brothers and sisters around the world, they all are with us. They all are with us. They all are with us. Around the whole globe, that is very nicely done. And if we don’t know, then our techniques are showing that around the whole globe, yoga in their life is with us. And if you don’t know it, our technicians are launching this transfer of yoga into daily life with us all over the world. Many now have technologies, and they are also bringing good messages around the world, of course, according to different things. But we have the very spiritual yogic science, and there are two kinds: one is theory and the other is practical. And the second is the practical part. The practical part is forever. And within that more, what we are searching for within yoga is that Brahmaloka. And what we are looking for in yoga is Brahmaloka, to come to the Supreme. We want to call ourselves very spiritual, and we are searching for that. So physical techniques are very important, but they will not take us further. For example, you have your car, and you will put your car somewhere in a 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 went somewhere else. Similarly, our body is like a car. But within that, in the car, is something which would like to go to the highest. So, we have learned what we call our body. Our body without our body is nothing. But without this, we will have beyond, and now they are calling mind. And it is 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 he said, “I mind, change my mind.” I want to go with my mind, and it said, “I will go with you.” And then suddenly he said, “No, I give up my mind.” So, always in my mind. I don’t want to go with my mind. And 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?” He said, “No, that I cannot.” But now they said, “I give up.” Body and mind, or some say mind and body and mind. So what is body and mind? It is only words; it looks nice. But everything there is a body and mind. So in yoga, it’s not body and mind, but in yoga, it is the body and liberation. So, body and liberation. The body brings us liberation, so body, liberation, and mokṣa, they are the same. So, the body, the mokṣa, and the Brahman, the highest. So, body, liberation, and the, what we say, the Brahman. Not Brahman, Brahma-loka. So, the body and mind have no sense in it. And if you are saying body and mind, 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. And will there remain only the mental activity? Yes. The mind says, “Where is the body?” So, it has no connection. The mind is. Never stays anywhere. You cannot control the mind. And the mind is one of the highest, quickly, but it has nothing. There is one story about a poor man, so he was very poor, and his wife was also poor. But the husband is going to work, but money is not coming. So that man said to his wife, “I have two children, two or three.” So that man said, “I will go and I will make tapasyā.” And 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 conch, and then he blew the conch, God. And then he gave this Kaṃsa to that bhakta. He said to God, “God, what will I do with this sick Kaṃsa? I will only blow, and somebody gives me only one rupee sometimes. Nobody will give me.” Well, God said, “This one will give you all. Whatever you want.” Oh, but how? “Go home. To your wife, children, and whenever you want anything, it will give you. It will give us eating, yes, food, the dress. The best, whatever you want: a good house, the best money. Krásnu záhradu, etc. A čokolovek.” The same God said, “Take these cones in your water. And said, ‘O Kaṃsa, O Kaṃsa, please give me good food, I am hungry.’” A voice came, “What kind of food?” “Very nice, very nice halvā, chapatīs.” All new dress on the body. So God said, “Now you can go. Whatever you want, it will come for you.” So he took his guns and put them in his handbag. And he was walking and walking and walking. After five days, six days, there was little Willis, 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 for you. I did not see you anywhere, and this was concerning.” “I made a tapasyā, and God gave me something.” “God gives tapasyā and gives you something? And what is with the something? Why not more? He gave me the coins.” “And what is this? Five years you were there?” “Yes, but this is a very powerful thing. My friend, don’t make me stupid.” He said, “No, no. This will give us everything we want.” Okay, and he makes the pūjā for the saṅgha. The cell. Kaṃsa, Kaṃsa, nice food, nice food for all the family and me. Sweet. Sweets. And nice vegetables. Good vegetables. Nice, many, many chapatis. Everything. Everything. And plates, plates, they are just giving them 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 chai, in the turn, the coffees came. Please give five thousand dollars for the box house. All boxes came for children, for husband, for wife, for him. “No, Śaṅkadev, thank you very much. When I need, I will ask you.” So he put it in his bag, and he was very, very tired. So he went to sleep, and his friend slept. Now his friend said to his wife, “That conch, I would like to take it.” She said, “Why don’t you give it to your friend? What is the friend? When I gave something like this, this is the biggest friend.” So, he was sleeping. Ráno sa zobudil. Ok, friends, thank you. Please come again. And it was great. You are very, very successful. After three days, he came to his village. And he came, and all the people said, “Where have you been? Where have you been?” So he said, “I was at the shore of the ocean. So, I will give all of you very nice food. Dobré jedlo. Eating? Jedlo? Said yes? Ano. What would you like? From Tilak, best pizza.” What is pizza? Oh, great, the whole village runs and they say, “Picha, what is a picha? Where is the pīchā? Deje pīchā? In tilak. In tilak.” So where is Tilak? Deje Tilak. Sit down. Sit down. I have come, and I will give the tilak. Oh, so you put the tilak. All are sitting, and this man said, “Kans, Kans, Kans. Please, I worship you, I give you all. And all these, my friends from my village, they would like to have all at once in their hands fresh, warm pichā. All these friends of mine from the village would like to have fresh, good-tasting pizza in their hands right now. They don’t even need a plate, just on your hand.” Oh, my God. So he said, “Śaṅk, Śaṅk… God, Śaṅk. Oh, Ulitā, Ulitā, God of Ulitā. 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 goes back again to the ocean, and he was running and running. And again, in five or six days, he came to the ocean and said, “Ocean, God. Why did you make this? He has gone, your cons in the ocean. I don’t need. He 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 a friend’s house, and you saw the guns?” He said, “Yes, it was. However, this miracle is only once.” “No, no, no. Your friend took it away, but I will give it to you now. I give you one, and that will have double power. When you said thousand euros, oh my friend, only thousand euros. Twenty million, double and double and double, so you don’t need to ask. Double and go to the earth. There, your friend again, and give him. Go and say, ‘Oh, I am again here.’ But when you go in 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 kaṅs, nowhere in the universe.’ Then tell him, to Kaṃsa, thank you, thank you Kaṃsa, leave it. What is that, the Czech, Czechian? What is your money? Euro, Koruna. Koruna. 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 that God will say, ‘Whatever you ask, he will give you double.’ And what is that? He said, ‘That is nothing in your brain. What are you asking me? Your brain is gone. I don’t give you anything, but don’t tell now. In the night when you will sleep, your friend will go again to take this sconce, which is the best, but in the house he doesn’t have a second. So he took it, the one which was the first he brought. And he left.’ But coffee? No, boys. Yes, I ask you to bring nice coffee. Why don’t you bring it? So it was gone.” So, that’s called that person’s… What I’m telling you now? Body and mind. That will confuse everything. So that’s why we have to go first to all five prāṇas of the body. Prāṇamaya kośa, Prāṇamaya kośa… Prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, then ānandamaya kośa. So, only body and mind will continue inside, and they will be finished. Ānandamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Ānandamaya Kośa is the last. So, mind and all this which is coming, that is a yogī. So now we are only people practicing all these body exercises, body exercises, and then mind, I want to have meditation, my company, my company should be best, my wish, that. That’s all. And we, what we practice, we just try to improve our body with various exercises, and we practice our mind in a way that we want to achieve, so that our company is the best, so that we can do the best, and that’s all. And do not depend on the mind. If you depend on your mind, then it will make you lost. So we have to go in that way in our life and practice. So we have to go through the Ānandamaya Kośa, Annamaya Kośa, and Prāṇamaya Kośa. Ānandamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, then we, only 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 the power is coming. There are two conventional powers: one is the five kośas’ prāṇa, but then after that, it is like a rocket; the power is then on the top, coming. So we said practice, but without a body we can’t do anything. So keep our body healthy, and our body says, “Please, don’t torture me.” What does that mean? Do not put too much in my body. What is that? Food and drink, food and drink. And the body is so, 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, let’s say about 200 years before or 100 years before, there was not so much cancer because what we put as nutrition in our body is not good. And in the body, we cannot digest anything. And that brings the disease inside. So, this is everything from wrong, wrong medicine. So what I was choosing today, and what I gave you, “Manva Dere Dere Chal Gagan Garchad.” Mahādeva kī jai, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān kī jai, Alakhpurījī Mahādeva kī jai, Lālānandjī Mahārāj kī jai, Śivānandjī Mahārāj kī jai, Brahmanandjī Mahārāj kī jai.

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