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These devotees from all over the world are here with us, and I am so happy and very thankful that everyone is continuously integrating yoga into their lives. Across the globe, they are practicing. They always come to these programs. Welcome Yoga is around the whole world, with all these Yoga and Daily Life centers in many countries. They are always speaking about and learning of sāttvic bhojan, food. Sattvic food means having nice, clean food. That means very nice, all vegetables, the milk of cows, butter, etc. It is very practical to take care that our nourishment should be very pure and clean—what I said, sāttvic food. So, in the whole world, there are many, many millions of people who are sāttvic. Especially now, in this Corona time, people are turning to sattvic food. Everyone is getting that sattvic food and moving towards that sattvic part, and people are going towards spirituality. Therefore, in these few months—sorry, not years—we will now slowly, slowly go back to this Kṛṣṇa. Many spiritual people around the whole world, from every different kind of religion, are praying. They are praying in their homes, in the forest, in their temples, and wherever they are, they sit in prayer. In every household, there are children, parents, and grandparents together in the house. They should not go out after sunset, etc. A good thing is that all children are at home with parents, and parents are giving nice love and peace to the children, giving very nice knowledge and a lot of spirituality. Children are getting an education with their parents at home, as if they are going to school. Many now think that with this technology, they are all getting an education at home. In this way, as we have been, all these yoga centers and practitioners were anyhow giving their children very good education in schools and everything. Now they are all very happy; they can all be together. The yoga in life, practicing what we have, is called the systematic practice of yoga. It is called Sarvahitāsana. Sarvahitāsana is for all people now in their houses. Some were not practicing every day or had difficulties with the hard exercises they could not do. For them, in Yoga and Daily Life, Sarvahitāsana is a great, very beneficial practice for all, for the whole world. If a person is old and cannot sit on the floor, or someone cannot sit on the floor, they should sit in a chair or on a sofa. You will see that many exercises, Sarabhāsana, are for everyone. You can sit in a chair, on a sofa, or on the floor, etc. They are so comfortable and easy. In this Corona time, many, many people have taken up yoga practice, concentration, and, of course, something about spiritual meditation. What is meditation? We have to learn there are different kinds of meditation, and now the family together can all get this, the profession of yogic exercises. If one believes in some religion, and some do not want any religions, respecting or prayers, it doesn’t matter. It is for you and your body. It is your temple. Our body is our temple, and God is our ātmā, our soul in our body. We respect everyone, that you are that great person in the world. So, what yoga means is not that we are worshipping something, but worshipping our body so that we should be healthy, very comfortable, and can have a long, good life, etc. God said, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said that everything is within you. Your ātmā, your soul, your consciousness, everything is in us, and therefore we shall take care of our living God. Who is a living God? It is inside our body. But of course, we do believe; mostly people are believing in their religions or gods, whatever, and everyone, morning, evening, or also in the daytime for a few minutes, is worshipping God. So, let’s come today, go towards the temple of our body. Our body, our temple, is beautiful and very great. It takes you anywhere, there and here. We keep our temple very clean, very straight, and very healthy. As I said before about nourishment, this nourishment we are getting keeps our body living a long life and very healthy, especially when old age comes. Then we will see how happy a person is there and how one dies or gives the soul out without suffering. So, there is what we call, according to Haṭha Yoga. You know, Hatha Yoga is for our whole body, our temple. So we began all; it was that netī, dhotī we were practicing. Neti, dhoti, basti—all these techniques. We have been learning neti already, and dhoti. There are two kinds of dhoti: jala dhauti and the sūtra dhauti. Sometimes people have some kind of feeling in the stomach, not good feelings, like burning in the chest. That is addressed by jala dhauti. Jala is water. Take warm water in the morning before eating anything, or the last three weeks in the night. Take lukewarm water with a little salt inside—about half a liter of water, or you can take more. Then put your left hand under your stomach, and with two little fingers in the mouth, press your tongue a little bit and bend forward. The water will come out again. We will see that the water comes out a little bitter or not good. Sometimes something yellow comes out, which is the burning in the center of the chest in our bodies. The water comes out, and that is one of the best techniques of Haṭha Yoga. After this, you can practice Agnisāra Kriyā. We will also learn this. After this, we should again drink a little normal water. For about half an hour, don’t eat anything. You will feel your body; your whole intestine will be very relaxed and very good. This was the jala-dhauti; dhauti means cleaning. Then it’s called sūtra-dhauti. I spoke about sūtra already one week ago, but I tell you again. It is a cotton cloth about one and a half meters long and about half a foot wide. Again, in lukewarm water in a pot, there should be a little salt inside. Put this cloth in the water, sink it, and then slowly take one part of this cloth and bring it out. Slowly, slowly, as if we are chewing, we swallow it into our stomach. When it doesn’t go, take a little sip of water, drinking. So it will go slowly, slowly. It will go, and all the intestine time here. About one foot of the piece of cloth remains out. Do not do anything else; there is no getting up or this and that. Then, standing or sitting, bow in the front, mouth open, only with the nose inhalation, and we hold this cloth and slowly, slowly try to bring it out again. Sometimes it happens; it’s stuck inside. Don’t worry. Just take one sip of water. Drink a little water. Again, you can bring it out. After a while, something bitter will come. Taste. Sometimes, different kinds of taste—all this is from the intestine here—and about half a meter of cloth comes out, which has a really not good smell or taste. This we can do once a week. Those who have some of this kind of heart burning can do it once a week or, if not, once a month is enough. This is very good; the intestines will be very good, and what we call always here, the heart. In this way, this is called sūtra dhauti and jala dhauti. So this is very much Haṭha Yoga. The word "haṭha"—what is haṭha? There are different kinds of haṭha. One is called the yogic haṭha, which I am telling. Then the child has that. The child has that; parents want, and the child says, "No, I want to have. I want to eat ice cream, I want to have this, I want this toy," etc. The parents say no. The child will keep on crying or get angry, etc. So the parents give in, and then the child will be happy again. That is also haṭha. There is also haṭha between couples. Either husband or wife always says, "I want this, I will do this, you don’t." That is also haṭha. That’s also not good. So, yoga haṭha means not negative, not with power, no pressure. But sometimes it’s not so easy to understand and learn. But we want to, we would like to do sūtra dhauti, jala dhauti, etc. That’s what we are doing. So this sūtra dhauti, jala dhauti, is very, very good for our stomach, our intestines, etc. Sūtra dhauti and jala dhauti are very good for us. Next, dhauti will come, śaṅkaprakṣālana, which we will come to next time. I wish you, my dear all, be healthy, be happy, all the time in happiness, and take care of your families very well now in this situation. And, of course, you can send any message on this Swamiji’s television, and I will send you the answer. I wish you all the best. Wherever you are, in any country, I am with you in this way. I will say, God bless you. Be happy. And be a practitioner of yoga. All the best. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Hari Om.