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Every day, our many devotees around the world practice our yoga in daily life, Sarva-hitāsana, loudly in their homes. Also, every day according to European time, around 6:15 AM, we are doing our satsaṅg and practice everywhere. According to our yoga and daily life, we have been talking about Haṭha Yoga for the last week. Of course, we need all our yoga books, and I hope you have them. That is because the Śaṅkha Prakṣālana is written there; it is written there as Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. I have already spoken about śaṅkha. Yesterday, I explained it is like a conch shell. It is something like a shell, and there is water cleaning through it intensely, like putting water in a conch. When we move it, the water comes out downwards. The water beautifully cleanses our digestive system. Similarly, we do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. That is why the name is called Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. 'Śaṅkha' means what we call the conch shell, and 'Prakṣālana' means cleaning or washing. You know we have here our tongues, which can be nicely chanted. On our altar, do we have this? Pārvatī, we have a little trunk. So, in many countries, with different languages everywhere, I think I will demonstrate from the trunk. The trunk is that column, and from there, when we put water in, it does not go quickly. But when we are twisting and turning it, then it cleans out nicely. Thank you. So, Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. Now, it requires about three to four liters of water. It should be a little more than body temperature. Salt should be inside, and it should be done in the morning. In the evening after sunset, have no more food. You can have water or other liquids. Then in the morning, brush your mouth and do everything. The teacher must be there to guide you, and that teacher must know Śaṅkha Prakṣālana perfectly. When it cleans the whole intestine, automatically the cleaning comes to the whole body. So, you drink one glass or a quarter liter of water. Then we do the postures, the āsanas. The first is called Tāḍāsana. You know we all do it like this: stretching the fingers, hands up with palms up, standing, and standing on the toes. Once up, one, two, three, like this, ten times. Afterwards, legs apart, and twisting our body sideways—left, then right—also ten times: five times coming to this side and five times to the other side. The next one is twisting our waist. You see in the book Yoga in Daily Life a posture like this, twisting left and right while standing. Then there is another āsana where you slightly sit down and twist left and right while sitting on the feet, on the toes: Meru Pṛṣṭāsana. Then finally, Tāḍāsana again. In this Tāḍāsana, which involves twisting left and right, see exactly this photo. Then get up. Drink one glass of liquid water, a quarter liter, and again do Tāḍāsana. All this you may see; these are the pictures in the book. So you will see these āsanas there to understand and see the postures. From this, again the same postures—five in that program. Tāḍāsana is the first. Again, you drink this water and again practice. It is warm liquid water with salt inside. Now again, repeat the same postures. Again, do this slowly, slowly, five times. Some cannot. They will say it is going only three times, then go to the toilet. Well, maybe you will bring the water out or not. Do not sit there too long—one minute, two minutes, three minutes maximum. Again, come and again drink. Five times, twisting with one glass of water, and one glass more, and drink, twisting more once. Then again, go to the toilet. Definitely, the water will go out. If not, no problem. Come back, drink one glass of water, do the five postures—Tāḍāsana, etc.—with you, and again twisting. All this prāṇāyāma, go to the toilet. You will not believe how all this comes out from the intestines. Again, go and drink one glass of water. Again, five postures. And then again go to the bathroom. Likewise, nearly about five to ten liters or more, let the water go through your intestines like a śaṅkha. You will see that it comes out as the clean water you drank. Still, go back and drink water, and do five postures. Sometimes you cannot wait for four postures; you will go again to the bathroom. Again, go. Repeat this. Really, the water cleans very greatly. After that, from Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, take water without salt—a pot of warm water. So, drink water and take it out through the mouth again. Drink three or four glasses and then vomit it out. Then take the dhoti, that is with the loṭā dhoti, and from the left nostril to the right nostril, one glass, and from this side, both sides, so the nostrils are cleaned completely. We had already given that before, like through this Loka and Saṅket Prakāś. Do you have this also in your book Yoga in Daily Life? According to this, then, you have cleaned everything: nostrils, the mouth, and the whole intestine. Then go to your yoga mat in your yoga center, where you are practicing with ten, twenty people together, or five people, or two people, and for at least 45 minutes, lie down and relax. Maybe you have a feeling to go to the toilet again; it is okay, go. But relax. Do not lie down in a cool room, and not with this kind of ventilator. Otherwise, you will have problems with the throat from this air. Go and wash yourself, put on other new dress. Then it is said what kind of food we should have. So after one hour—45 minutes was relaxing, and 5 minutes other for cleaning—then one has to eat something, and that is very important. Now, that is said: those who are eating meat should not eat meat for at least three weeks, or one month, or never any meat again. Also, please, no alcohol, because it will hurt a little bit for the intestines, and also no raw food for one week. Salad, etc., no. Fruits also, no. Boil them; boil the salad that you should use. That is very, very important, please. And if you cannot, do not do this. So if you will do it, then you have to follow the rules about our duty on food. So the diet should be very, very important. So once more, I am telling you, my dear ones: if you cannot follow the diet, then please do not do it. Now, the first: which kind of food should we take? This is very important, the first diet. So, that is called the mung dāl. You know mung, that is, they call that beans, mung dāl, and it should be without the skin. That is called mung dāl, and the rice. Good rice, washed everything, and so let us say 60% or 65% is the rice, not mung, the chāval rice, and the other as the mung. Mix them together and boil. Add a little salt. And then, very important, cow ghee, not butter. Cow ghee. And if you only have butter and you do not have the ghee, then first put the butter, the ghee, in the fire a little bit, in the heat, and then give the ghee inside. A little salt and a little haldi. Eat this now. Eat completely, however much fills the stomach; that is all. In the evening, you should eat the same kind of kicharī, we call it kicharī. And tomorrow, then you make salad, vegetable, then rice, and a little rice. Likewise, one week of very soft food, and also no coffee, two weeks no black tea, no alcohol, and no anything which is not good for the intestines. Of course, also not some drink. No fruits, but we can have juice. So at least three weeks, giving very good precautions, that will be a beautiful, very good, healthy part in the body. You will see that even your skin has become different, very nice, soft, and good. And of course, after this Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, also no tobacco. And give up tobacco forever, no more. So this is the Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. My dear, giving instructions here is still not enough. So, according to this part I am teaching you, look in the book Yoga in Daily Life. And there are many, many exercises for different things. And then also meditate. But what kind of meditation we are doing tomorrow, we will tell. So everywhere in the world, you can ask some of our yoga centers or yoga practitioners of Yoga in Daily Life, and please give them from those instructions for the śukha prakṣālana, saṅgha prakṣālana. Then, after three or four months, you can repeat it again. Or in six months, or some people only once in the year, but not in very cold weather, not in the very heat, and you have a day, Saturday and Sunday, two days you have rest. If you want to know more, complete everything with the photos and everything, then please ask the Yoga in Daily Life centers in many other countries. Yoga in Daily Life centers, so it is Haṭha Yoga, and there is in Haṭha Yoga this Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. There are two kinds of Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. Generally, it was that one goes in the warm time or in warm water, like some very big lake or something, and then goes, stands or sits in the water, and sucks the water from down into up. It learns, it learns, sucks the water through our hands. Then go out and take water out. Again, go and suck in the water, and then again clean it. Nowadays, it is not good because water is not clean, and there are so many chemicals there. So, therefore, we have made this Ājñā Prakṣālana, and many other yoga centers are doing it. But how they are doing, I do not know. But very scientifically, Yoga in Daily Life has given this, and you can ask in yoga centers; they can give you some booklet. So netī, dhotī, bastī, naulī, and kapālbhāti. Kapālbhāti is a very beautiful and very good practice that I will give you tomorrow. I wish you all the best, my dears. And practice yoga in daily life, every day. Yoga in daily life. What does that mean? Yoga is yoga. Yoga is yoga, yoga, practicing yoga in daily life, so practice yoga every day. There is nothing special, not that, "Oh, my yoga is very good," no, only that hot yoga and all this. So, yoga in daily life, yoga in everyday practice. Theory and practice are different. So, theory is good, but not that. And practice have together the practice which has this practical and the theoretical. After that, all the best, my dear, and I wish you all the best. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam