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Try to live life according to the pure nature

We must live in harmony with nature, not oppose it. We often complain about weather, but we cannot manage it better than the natural order. A story tells of farmers who asked to control the rain for a year. They watered perfectly, and crops grew tall and green, but at harvest, there were no seeds inside. This shows nature provides holistic nourishment we cannot replicate. Modern life, especially since the last century, has brought more illness despite material abundance. This is because we eat constantly, consume unnatural foods, and live opposite to seasons. We eat summer fruits in winter. We use artificial perfumes and products that disturb creatures like bees, which are sensitive to such imbalances. True health comes from working physically, eating only when truly hungry, consuming seasonal and simple foods, and respecting all life. Yoga is not just physical exercise; it is understanding how and when to live naturally. This includes eating moderately, walking in nature, and avoiding negative speech. Our body thrives on natural rhythms, not on excess or artificiality.

"God said, 'I am giving exactly how it should be.'"

"If we eat all the time this and that... we are ill. Our life will be short."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti. How beautiful the day is. It is beautiful not only for us, but for the whole world, especially here. All our trees, the grass, everything. Many animals are also very happy. Sometimes we think, "Oh my God, too much rain," and so on. But if there is no rain, then we say, "Oh God, there is no water." So if we decide when we should have water and when not, believe me, this does not depend on God. Once, someone was giving a satsaṅg, some other Mahārāj or Swāmī, and he was giving a little lecture. He asked, "What about God and our thinking?" Sometimes it was very hot, with no water. Sometimes there was too much water. The farmers were a little angry. They said to God, "God, why do you sometimes put more water and sometimes less? You should make it rain at the right time." God said, "I am giving exactly how it should be." The farmer said, "God, please give us one year. We will manage how the water should rain." God said, "Okay." So the farmers worked. They brought water, then stopped. All water was finished. They worked and put grass, etc. Then again water, then crops, more water, and so on. The whole field was nicely green and growing in height. The farmers were walking in their field. Someone was going with a pipe; different farmers came at the right time. It should have been harvesting time, and they let it dry. Yes, there was something, but no seeds inside. He went to the other farmers and said, "The crops were very good, but there are no seeds inside." And somewhere, there were too many pests. Again, they came to God. All the farmers went to God. "God, what happened?" God said, "Well, you wanted to have it your way." Why? Because these are not your eyes. They should only grow like this, and the greenery should be like this and that. I am always making it so. It will be very hot; there is heat in the whole garden. Everything thinks it is going to be dry, but it comes from the earth. The humidity comes up, and the roots get that, and then a little rain will come. But I am giving them nourishment from the earth. It is a mother. You feed your mother, you feed your mother, but nothing happens. No milk comes. But the mother knows how to give the food, and so on. The child will also have enough milk. Therefore, we should not tell God, "Do this now," or "God, not this." God is no, no, no. It is not only for humans, but we should know all animals, all birds, all other creatures, and the trees, the big trees. If too much water comes, then the roots of the trees will not go deep. So, all these trees here, where water comes more and more, have roots in the upper side. They don't need to go deep, and when a strong wind comes, they fall down. So many, many of these vegetations here fall because the roots are too shallow. And there are certain trees that have deep roots, and if for one month there is no rain, the tree is still very nice and green and blossoming, and fruits are coming. It goes more from the earth, going deeper and deeper. Similarly, ourselves, of course, we are, and we do it, but we are not healthy. Now, in these last 100 years or 80 years only, what can we say? Since the Second World War, the people from that time behind that, they had long health. And after that, those who are coming later have a very short life. They have everything, but why are they not healthy? Why are they not happy? Because we are nourishing too much, and we eat so many things we think are good, but our body doesn't want this. And so there are many, many functions in the body that cannot get their own feelings. For example, the farmer goes into the field and works very hard, including the women, and they are working very hard. They have a glass of water, but then at lunchtime they are relaxed, they are tired, their stomach is clean and empty, and whatever they eat is tasteful and very good. They take 10-15 minutes, half an hour rest. Some are just relaxing, some talking to each other. That's relaxing. But eating was finished, and they are not eating in between again. And then they said, "Let's go work." They don't eat between. They come home. So there's exercise, walking, working, so everything is digesting. And then they are hungry, they eat very well, and they are tired, and they sleep. So, good sleep. And then they get up in the morning again, the same thing: they go to work. So the farmers, the people who are working in the forest, have long life and are healthy. And those who are in the cities, they eat all the time this and that. And what they call food is not good, and so we are ill. Our life will be short, and we have many, many illnesses inside. Why is that? Because we don't respect nature, and that is because nature is what God gives us. So if humans will again come and go with nature, it will be very good. Therefore, it is said that in this age, people have little life, more illness, more suffering, and not a happy life. They can't enjoy. What is life to enjoy? Eating, sleeping, drinking, etc., is not a life. That life, enjoying life, is to be with nature. Walk there, sit there. We made an experiment here the last two weeks. And it was good nature. God gave us very nice warmth. But it was not only for us. God didn't tell me, "Now, please do this." God didn't tell me that this would be for you now. So we made here a nice dining place. So you have everybody there, so all can eat nicely. When it was a nice Sunday, I told them, "Everyone, take your food and come somewhere under the trees, near the trees in the forest." Here and there, they were so happy. Many went and said, "I want to have more food." So we were eating more there on the field, and in the hall inside they were eating, and it was not so okay. Of course, okay, they take half more, and then they can't eat all, and then they let it go like this. So this is nature. So many trees on the hills also, but they are very nice. The surface is dry, about one meter is dry, but Mother Earth, the mother, is giving the nourishment from her body, and milk is coming from that mother's body. In the mother's body, there is no milk. There is no milk. But when the mother will have those feelings, then from the whole body, from all the nourishment she gets, milk comes. And for whom? Those roots are for those babies. And also, you cannot get milk outside like that from a mother. That is the feeling, the love, the harmony. Otherwise, for example, please don't tell me something wrong. We have so many mothers here, and they have the breasts. And we said, "Please, please, can you give me milk from you?" And we take out nothing. We cut a little, the milk will come, only blood. You cannot do so. From where the milk is coming and what time it comes, similarly, like the roots of the trees or vegetation, that in that season they will give this, like the flowers. These beautiful flowers, but at that time they will give the flowers. Otherwise, they will give the leaves the whole year, and like this. But not this flower, and this flower will have that color. And from the colors, it has so many smells. And different kinds of smells, different kinds of flowers. How happy we are. Similarly, if we, oh men, live according to our nature. Another thing, yesterday I spoke about living life, living a good life. Now, one day I was walking in Vienna, about 20 years ago now. It was winter. Snow, about 14, 20, 14 degrees, minus degrees. And I also had a coat, and I was going somewhere through the street. And there was a little vegetable shop. Now it becomes a big, big shopping house. And that is lost, also I want to tell that. But anyhow, there were some vegetables, and there were such nice, big cherries. And it is winter. Fifteen minutes. Now. There are no leaves on the trees, and somebody is eating the cherries here. What is that nature saying now? I should eat now in this season. But I'm eating now the summer. So, how can we give our life opposite to nature? Similarly, we put a lot of frozen vegetables, which, of course, look nice and okay. But it is not real food. In wintertime here, I see sometimes they are making these vegetables in the cellars. But those kinds of nourishment, like what we call the root vegetables and pumpkins, many things are just a little underground, and many things we are eating are only corns. That's why. We have all kinds of wheat, bread, milk, cheese, etc. We are healthy, and we are preparing nice food. All mothers are making very nice food for their children. And they are healthy, but now we are opposite. Summer is the winter, and when we have winter, they have the summer. Or, of course, you can fly to India, and after 10 days you will be in that. When I went to Australia—Australia, many times I have gone. Once there was a Christmas tree, and I did not know I would live in Rajasthan, and we didn't have any Christmas tree, and how you made everything nice, because it's a winter toy. In Australia, it was really very hot, and I asked my people there. I come now from Austria; many years I'm there, so I learned about Christmas, the Christmas season. And mostly women, they are making so many different kinds of things to eat, something sweet. And the husband is sitting and looking, and time to time he comes in the kitchen and takes from out, like, "Mmm, it's very nice." And then, of course, some men, they are coming and helping also, anyhow. And then we have Christmas, like we have in Bhagavān Rām's time, Dīpāvalī. And there is, about 5,000 years, the traditions. So I told them in Australia, look, we in Austria, how it is nice and beautiful and this and that. And you don't have this tree, but how are you celebrating Christmas? And it's very hot. What are you doing? They said, "We wish Christmas were very hot, so we could go to the beach in the sun." That's all. So these are the seasons. They are different, and they have different qualities. Similarly, food is different, air is different. Therefore, we should not go opposite. So we shall try to come prepared now for summer. What you will do, and this and that. And what you are preparing is something that you can use. Which one? Dry. The dry things are good: roots, vegetables. And don't eat all the time the same. Every day something different, let it come in. Then our whole body system will be very good. Life will be long. So now we are eating too much. And it is said that it's not that much eating should be given. God said, "Don't eat too much." When we are really hungry, you come home and the children say, "Mother, Mother, I'm so hungry." Okay, I'll make you good food. Yeah, I'm so hungry. Okay, I give. That is hunger. That is healthy. And it is said that the brain function is better. So, my dear, we are all, including myself, because if you fall into the water, I am also in the water. Fall down. But again, now I come back in this direction: I am getting my body different. And so I would also tell you, of course I don't want to stop, and I know that you like eating very well. You are making it very well. But this is not your body, said no. And only who is helping us? Anything that we want to eat, this and that and that, only one from our body. And all kinds of taste words we have, only in the mouth, we can eat, let's say, nice ice cream. But after the vocal cord, maybe it's cool, but no sweet. Anything bitter is also only on the tongue. Then goes, svāda means taste. And the taste is the best if we take time to learn how to do it. So, my dear, Yoga is not only about doing the exercise and this, and poom, poom, and toom, toom. I am also doing it. I do it also. I did it this morning. But it has its time, then after, not. So now I told you the exercise this. Only I made a demonstration, and I was showing this. There are two Hübung practices. Okay, that was also half a second. Again, I told you something. Only one and a half minute, not even one and a half minute. My stomach is angry. What are you doing, guy? What are you doing? It's my time. I was eating. I'm everything, making a difference. And you are making pooh, pooh, pooh inside everything. Yes, that's it. After eating, you can't run. Yes, you can run, we can run, but at least half a kilometer we should go slowly, slowly, slowly. Then the stomach will say, "OK, at least I will put the things separate, this and that." So yoga is not only this physical body moving, the breathing prāṇāyāma, but also to understand and think where, how, and when. And so I will be happy, I will be healthy. And then another thing we have got in this, in this time, so many perfumes. Perfume was, should be this one, but this also they spray on it. I tell you that really it is a truth. It was on the four hours, four years, four months ago, I was in Jadan. And you know the Jadan ashram, we are working here, so there is one building built for our foreigners who are coming, and they were working there on the second floor. And there was a very big honey bee. They are very strong. Bah! Oh my God! The doctor makes little, but they make so quickly. The second bee comes also in three; you are down. That was like a poison. Like this, hanging so, honeybees like this. And our workers are working here. They don't help you distribute anything. Now, there is to work there, and our Yogesh, you know that Yogesh, he is from Slovenia, and he is already now there nearly 30 years. He is not there. He asks the workers, "Can we try to catch them somehow and let them go away?" He said, "You cannot do this." He said, "We will do it in the night. We will bring it like this, and we will put it somewhere and take it 12 kilometers away." One farmer, not farmer, the worker. He's working in an ashram, I am telling you, yesterday and today, live life. So this farmer, the worker, said, "Bring me a little fire," and from dry cow dung and a little dry coconut, these little pieces, and he makes fire. On the floor, and he said, "Bhagavān Śiva is your army for five hours. Please, can you go somewhere else?" And the yogī is thinking, "But what?" They went. And work was done, and bees came back. And then other ones tried to do. Even Yogesh. He said, "What have you done?" Only I ask the nature. Please, respect. Really, it's the truth. Now, four months ago, again, Slovenian, two brothers from Slovenia, every year they are coming, and they go throughout the whole of India. And they are my disciples, and I don't know what they did. Either they had some, you know, some drink, musk, or tobacco, or they put some kind of perfume. So they wear the perfume, I think. And we have now a big tower for a water tank, and there are at least eight or nine, ten big hives from the bees. So one brother went up, and some other friends came and they also went with him, and I think Avatārpuri also went with him. And the bees attacked. They said, I don't know, nearly 100, 200 bees went in. And one person, young boys, have also perfume. Arjun Purī also likes. She's always here and here. And one person didn't take any perfume. And peas are like brothers with them. Of course, immediately, how high it had to come down. Anyhow, we got an ambulance in the hospital. And they took him many hours. They were swollen one day, but they gave the injections. Well, Jogesh told him, "You should not go there." Please ask me, and this and that. And I said, "Maybe you had some perfumes or this." "No, no, we don't." Three days they were. Now they want to come to Slovenia. So now it was already there. I was in my room. I didn't go out. They wanted to come to that place. We go there, and can we see Swamiji? So again he came to me, and I think his brother was also. So Agnī Devī was there, and I said she gave some fruits and this and that, and then they said, "Okay, we are going." And they went out of my door, and there are also my Śiva army. And exactly them, they attack again. So Yogesh said, "What have you done this year?" So many of you know here, who were in India, and my bees were very peaceful. Even some are walking from door to door like this. They don't do anything. But if there is something not natural, then it's difficult. And so they are, some are making perfume also on it. Or something is there, not good. Here now, three or four days ago, I was eating outside. People were sitting, eating. I was eating my salad, and there were some flowers, something flowers and something, some fruit, was it? And this side was another thing, but a little bit of chili on it. But this one bee is always going to my vegetables. And this fruit and this, they do it all. So I said, when I put my hand there, she will bite me. She doesn't do. So I said, "Oh, poor, I give you the fruits here." And they took away from there the bee and came to my other vegetable. I said, "Oh, my brother, or you are the father, I don't know, are you male or female? Enjoy, please enjoy. But eat this sweet." So here in this area, very nice, beautiful, and they are living very well. In your countries here, wild bees come, then you burn them or something like this. But this is only, I'm telling you, what is the nature? And the same thing, if we eat, and what we... that is the best. When you give your food to your bees and your food, sit down and eat. I have vegetables, chapati, a little perhaps honey or good or anything, and on the other side is meat. My bees will not go to the meat. But they will go to my plate, so even the bee doesn't eat this. Why should we do different things? So try to live life according to the pure nature. The water, the bees—they water only clean water. They are not doing somewhere else. Even they will fly one kilometer far distance and get good water, and they will come. Like also the birds, every different creature, their food is like this. So today we can say, we shall live life. Live life. Good? Live life good. Don't act good. Just live life. One day, if you can't get any food, don't worry. Drink water, but don't eat something if it's not available or not good. So, life... and it is said, there are many, many people I have seen here also, and some sādhus. In the morning, they will take one cup of milk or water. At eleven o'clock, they will eat something. In the afternoon, maybe a little milk or tea they are doing, and in the evening, those little birds. They are very thin, but they can dive through the rock. And we, when we went to the Himalaya, went to the Himalaya. It is about eight kilometers. And our people in six kilometers, six kilometers, hours. And other workers who were there, they came in 14 minutes. Day. 14 minutes. Less than one hour. So, let's come back again. So, you are here, go for a walk, eat outside, good air. Of course, you should eat as much as you want, but try that you should eat only now: half, and quarter water, and quarter for empty. Try this. At home, try this. I can tell you, I know that we will not be young. Definitely, we will not be three years behind, but the condition will be like we are two years younger. So don't eat too much, but don't give up today. Slowly, slowly. One year, you come slowly, slowly,... and no perfumes there. I tried to eat; they gave me some oil, good oil for the skin. Yes, I take this. After half an hour or ten minutes, this is gone. And it's drying again, my skin again. And if we put our coconut, sesame, almonds—these are our different ways we have from the olive flowers—but pure, nothing inside, and not too much, just a little, so what I do is that I want to take no more oil. And I don't put oil on my body. I wash nicely. I don't use soap. And if I have a soap, then it's three years, one soap. And someone will use it for three days. Then the skin is not good, but of course, clean it nicely. Then, like this, I have one experiment. There is a beautiful, what is that, not oil but cream, very nice cream. And he said, "Swamiji, they are very good. There is nothing but only very nice, natural." And I did this on my foot. After one week, two weeks, I could not sleep. Until I did this on my foot. Now, people think that Swamiji likes this oil and this cream, so everywhere I am, there is this cream. I don't know from where it comes, always. I didn't ask them, but my friends, they always... okay. Five years. I could not sleep without this, and sometimes I said, "I will not anymore." Four o'clock in the morning. Then I have to take this little bit on my foot, and then I was sleeping. Now I can't get out. I cannot. Two days I could not sleep. Then I came to India, and it was very hot, and Gurujī was there, ill. So when it is very hot, then our hands and our feet, they have sweating. So I was sleeping, and I was sweating a little bit. It needs sweating. Within 20 days, I didn't use it, and now I don't want to see this cream. Even on looking like this, so I am very natural, and if something, then I take the earth and clean my foot and hand with earth. But earth, take it from somewhere in the hills where there are no chemicals, like this. But, of course, nowadays life is, you know. So I also have my shirt like this, and my beard was also cut. My nails, I am also cutting. So, of course, we have to live according to the situation of this world, but what is for our body inside, that we should take care of, and the cloth also. When I came first time to Europe, many people, they have plastic, but now again, Europe and Europe, all this, they also want to have a nice cloth, not from the plastic, but the... Cottons are somewhat different; it is warm. Everything, so, my dear, I know, I see Europeans here. America is also a little bit coming on; Australia is also very good. But some new wife, new girl, new marriage, they are making dum-dum-dum. So now our Indians have got a test. Very nice. We have a nice dress. You know our Bhakti Devī, how she is dancing? Indian dress, very nice. Otherwise, they are all in, they call, little shorts, no. No, not short, a little short, skirt or the dirt, but after, will it come again back? So, my dear, live life happy. And if you want to live a long life, eat less, because if you eat all at once, then you will die. No, we will eat a little, a little, so we can have a long time to eat. Think like that: if I eat all today, then there's no eating. So eat slowly. Please go walk slowly, and be happy. And live long, and be happy and happy and happy. Give your body respect. Give your body good food. Give your body movements and many things. So yoga is not only movements like this, āsanas and prānāyāmas, but all about natural things. So even the bees and many other creatures, also, you know, here you have been here, and this time when it's raining, then there are so many snails inside. It was so many we could not walk, and now two years, three years, hardly we see them because of all the iron chemicals. So I don't want that our human beings will also die so quickly. Āsanas, prānāyāmas, meditations, concentrations, good nourishment, good thinking, because when you tell me about someone that this is not a good person, you tell me, and now, if I will tell someone that this is not a good person, then it means it will come on you. Negativity will come to you. And if you will not tell further, you should mentally think good and say, "God, please help that person. Please, God, help him." Don't tell further negative. That's very important, otherwise we are coming there. One day, one man came for yoga practice, and I said, "What is your profession, or what are you doing?" He said, "I am slaughtering, killing the animals." Oh my God, why are you making sin? He said, "I don't think I'm making sin. It is someone gave me to do this, and I did nothing. They are eating, so I am not that. It's my duty, that's all." So many people out there think we don't know who will get sin and who will not get sin. So please, we can think positively. See the nature. See the seasons. And go more to the big trees, and maybe just touch a tree once. You may hold it for a long time, but you don't have to do that either. Just while walking, put your hand on it and go. That's all. Do one day. Go through the park for walking, you work, and a big tree. With one hand, you touch the tree and let go. You will feel about 20 minutes until the energy comes to the other hand, and the whole day it will be inside, from that tree. And I always say, this old tree is our grandmother or our grandfather, and it's with us. And you see your hand now, everybody? Put your hand like this, and open your palms. And I do believe that you feel something, a sensation. It is a circulation. But in this circulation is some positive energy, and as we go slowly up and down or just relax, not like that, just like this. Maybe only I feel something like needles going in. And you know, one, then I'm mental. And if you all have, then we are right. Do you feel that? Just slowly, a little bit. Or think that you have a little baby in your hand. Do you feel your hands? And can you bring them closer, non-touch-not? Only look. And in that, if slowly we will think, we will see the energies coming to each other. And when you go to touch, the energy is going with you, like that balloon. Many things of that, my dear. You are a human. You are alive. God is in you, and you are in God. You are happy. Live long and give everybody blessings. You need not go and give a blessing like this. From here, you can tell someone, "My sister, my brother," but don't send the negative thought. When you are telling what I told you negatively, and you will tell somebody, "I'm sorry, but you know our Swāmījī is very nice to us," and this. But you know that you are also very nice, and Swāmījī is very nice. But you see, I want to tell you that time is when negative things come into your body. How? On the hot milk, one fine drop of lemon. And you will see how quickly it's splitting the whole milk. Similarly, negative energies, you are telling, even you did not tell completely what they are. So, what did Swamiji say? Swamiji said that this person was speaking very negatively. And I told him, and I told him, he told me, "I will not let go further." I will keep it here, and that will be, says Swamiji, "Did you tell anything against?" No, I did not tell. But if I have told, others will tell that one, and that will come to her, and that will come to me again and say, "But Swāmījī, you said you didn't tell me." That is infections. Also, we know we are human, and we should not, but I think, I'm so sorry, 95% of humans cannot hold themselves back. It is so, try this: if someone may tell you something, and why you didn't tell others? No, sorry, I don't want to tell. I will only help you if you want to tell something negative to others. I will help go to them, but not in that way. We are yogic, and we should be yogī. So not only exercises, but what I'm giving you, the instructions or a satsaṅg, that's very important for us. Sometimes, though we know, we cannot. It is like an addiction. Then someone goes and says, "Don't take this alcohol, don't take this alcohol," and you say, "Okay, no, okay, no." After five years, somewhere the people are sitting and say, "Come on, have a little bit." He says, "No, I don't drink. No. No. Okay, very little." Okay, thank you. I don't want it. They said, "Okay, no problem." Take it. Thank you. Everyone, drink. That ghost was sleeping under. Now he awakes again, comes up again there. There he will never go out from our brain, so my son, we shall help ourselves. So I will ask you the question. Maybe it's here. Agni Devī, you are here from Europe. Please, give her the mic. Come here, please. I'm not making any criticism about these bees. Yes. Can you hear? So this story about the bees is really true. It was just the beginning of this corona time, and this bhakta, a disciple of Swamījī, came. He was traveling around India, and he came to our Jadān āśram. It was just one or two days before they started the lockdown, and even... I was a little bit not feeling well, that somebody was traveling around India and came to the ashram, because very easily you can get infection, but on the other hand, you want to be polite and accept your guru brother, so we gave him a room, and he went straight away to the ashram to see. His friend, what is new? What has been made new? It was just two hours after their arrival. And they went straight up the Surya temple, and somewhere on the fifth floor is this beehive. I was going many times up there, and if you go peacefully, they will not do anything. You just slowly passed near them, but they were going, and immediately they attacked him. He was thinking, "Okay, I'll run quickly up," so he was running up instead of down, but the bees were running behind him up. When he reached up on the top, this is like the seventh or eighth floor, and it's very dangerous because there is no protection, there is no fence or anything. Then he was running back down, with bees behind him, hundreds of them. And then he ran into the basement, and there was no electricity. It was dark, but there were still some bees in his hair. He has very long hair. So when we heard what happened, immediately we sent him to the nearest hospital, and they told us they took out from his body between 150 and 200, and the whole night he was on the drip, on the infusion. So it's a warning for all of us. Really, they feel our energy, peace especially. So if you are upset or nervous, they immediately feel it and they attack you. If you have any kind of chemical on your body, they feel it if they smell it. And really, after two days, it happened that they attacked him again. And there was a third person standing with these two friends in front of our White House, and the third person they didn't touch, but they were again running away. So they really feel; they have a very subtle feeling of the smell. And really, in India, people say bees are Śiva's army. So the story is, I think if he would be here, he would confirm it even more vividly. After that, they were waiting for the taxi to come and take them toward Delhi. They didn't dare to go out of the room anymore. Thank you. So I wish you a very nice lunch.

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