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Yoga is endless

A spiritual discourse on the infinite nature of yoga and the self's journey.

"Yoga is not only what we always think: exercises, prāṇāyāmas, etc. Each and every breath in our body is a yoga."

"Holy Gurujī said, 'If you want to meditate, and if you want to liberate for all, then don't, don't ask for anything.'"

Swami Avatarpuri, invoking the lineage of gurus, explores yoga as the fundamental connection present in every cell and element of the universe. He describes the soul's cyclical journey of expansion and contraction, hindered by attachment, and uses metaphors of ocean waves and government to illustrate cosmic cycles. The guidance culminates in meditation instruction, emphasizing simple breath awareness and focus on the guru within.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devādhi Deva, Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Sadguru Svāmīmādhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Om, Om, Om. Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, please be in our heart. Devadidev Deveśvar Mahādev, sarvatra everywhere, and in each and every cell in our body, there should be Bhagavān Śrī Devapurījī. In every cell of our being, Śrī Devpurījī should be. Ārādhye Gurudev, Indudhāram Samrāḍ Śrī Svāmī Mādhāvanandajī Gurudev, please come to my vocal court, that your voice comes through my body for all Bhaktas and disciples everywhere, to be Śrī Devapurījī Mahāprabhujī and Satguru Swāmījī Mahādvājanājī. May your voice be heard through me for all my Bhaktas in this Trinity: Śrī Devapurījī Mahāprabhujī and Holī Gurujī. With this, all my dear sisters, brothers, all yogīs, all humans, all wherever they are. Gurudev, please give me those thoughts and feelings for all as one. It doesn't matter who is who. The human anywhere in the world, I bow down in front of them for their peace, harmony, and love. Yoga and yoga—yoga is not only what we always think: exercises, prāṇāyāmas, etc. Each and every breath in our body is a yoga. In each and every cell of the body, they are living and moving. That is the yoga we don't know, but we can feel, and it is telling us. Each and every cell in the body is a life, and each and every cell is one universe. Like on this earth, how many creatures, and how they are living and protecting here on the earth? These all cells in the body, they are spread in the whole universe. We don't know. But maybe very great doctors, professors, and scientists, they know about these cells. And there is in our body. So our body, you know, I'm not sure that you know what our body is. This is our physical body. It is as the earth, the whole earth. There is also the energy or the fire in the body. There is water, and this water is in the whole body. It's not only in our body, not only on the earth. But in the whole universe, and the prāṇa, the air, the movement is also that; that is also yoga. We know that as we go higher, there are different kinds of air. And that is fluttering through the whole universe. That is what we call yoga. They are all in our body. And they space the space. The whole body, doesn't matter from which creature, that is the yogic creation in any one creation. Therefore, yoga is endless. We will never complete our yoga practices. It is expanding more and more and more. And for that yogī, that limitation is nowhere. But all came together in the form of Śiva. The Śiva which is expanding is coming together again. Contracting and expanding. That is Śiva. We cannot see all that Śiva is. But that human we know, and we are going through and through this all. There is no question of religions, not like countries and countries, nothing. But everything is Śiva, in each and everyone, humans or animals, that is Śiva and Śakti. It is that Śakti which can come together, and Śiva which is expanding. That's why many times, many, many times, people said, "We can't understand what is God, where is God, where is Śiva, where is this?" It is not easy for all. Therefore, yoga means connecting. And so, in Trāṭak, where we are practicing, this is the point where that power is, and all three together—Śiva, Viṣṇu, and Brahmā—they are. Going within, and we are in the within, and we are there too. Practice, practice, practice. Then we will come to know that yes, now I know what that is. So it's something like this, which is that we are coming as a creation; we are created. But then we are expanding and going further. So practice, and know what yoga is. That is only for the yogīs, like all of you, my dears, wherever you are. And they know that I am expanding, going further and further on that path of oneness. Not a question that I will be in heaven or in hell. Or I will be somewhere, I will be great, stand out something in there? No, there is nothing. We are expanding, we are moving. It is given that knowledge in us that is connecting us again and again. And always, that power, that embodied power inside, likes to expand and go straight ahead. But where are you going? There is no end and no end. So either we go back, or we know where we will go, like the ocean. You know the ocean, how much water there is. But that ocean is also trying to go out. The waves of the ocean are coming to the beach. But it cannot go further. From far, from the middle of the ocean, the waves are coming and coming. And this water thinks, "Now I will be going further, expanding somewhere." But this ocean water comes to the outside on the beach, comes there, and goes back again. Like this, all creatures and all humans, we are trying to go to the endless, but sometimes we cannot. Again, we go back, and sometimes, from the ocean, the water tries to come up. In the form of the fogs, try to go higher and higher and higher. Say that purification, pure. I am the pure. I am the light, very light. I am above the earth and higher and higher. One layer to the other layer, the waves like on the water, and that other is like with the air. But going further and further and further, but again it comes down. "Oh, water," where, the water said, "where should I go?" I want to go endlessly somewhere. But it's not there, but in that, the jīva, the life, that becomes into the water like a fish. And they try to go, "I want to go out, I will go out," but again, we cannot. Similarly, in the space, there is also life, and there we are calling our jīvā, our soul, of our body. Again, we come back through all these five elements and then onto the earth. Many gurus, many masters, many spiritualities, very great ṛṣis, they are going far and far. And so also Gurujī told many times that how far one can go. After that, we again come back. We become pure, very good. We are coming, we give the blessings. We become like God. Or whatever you will think. I try to help them. I want to bring them further again. But still, I am also going round and round. After that, then there is nothing. That is then completely that. It is the space, and the space, and this is God. According to my thoughts only, my feelings only, then we are merging, and we don't come back again. But attachment, attachment is that which will not let us go. Attachment is always bringing us back, like we tie an animal with a chain or a rope, and it tries to go, thinking, "Oh, I am free, I am going," but we are tied at the throat. We are going left, we are going round, and this and that, but we are tied by that rope, and that rope is attachment. And it's not easy to get rid of the attachment, very, very far. So we have to make that attachment, we have to melt it, and... That we get into the like on the peace, clearness, free, but free. Where should I go again? So, my dear, let us begin to practice. And we have this one, the book Hidden Powers in Humans, and wherein there is about the chakras. And there is a chakra. It's a chakra in the whole universe. We are bound with one after the other, but how will I go? Many think that I am a yogī, and I want to have chakras, and I will explain my chakras. I will get some powers, kuṇḍalinī, etc., and I will come and get something great. That is not the chakra. Many of us are practicing, practicing, "I will get liberation, I will get liberation." That's also not easy. But these chakras, and there are many, many chakras in the whole body, there are all cells in that. It's one cell of our body, and that has everything. It can create another world again. It is a test. So, as our cells, there are many, many things that we cannot imagine, but it means we are bounded. It may be attachment, it may be love, it may be understanding, doing, feelings, painful, etc. But still, we are in this one ocean, and where the oceans are going more and more. What we call on the earth, and earth is, let's say, earth is just a little, but it is the water, and how much water it is. How heavy is the water? But also, that water cannot give up. It is attached; the water has attached it. Even the water will go into steam, but it will come again. It's the attachment, and in that attachment, again, we are back here. So, for ages and ages, we are moving and we are going. If you are a yogī or not a yogī, a saint or not a saint, and even if you talk about God, they don't know when and what will happen. So everything that yoga we are trying, we are trying to understand, understand yes and no, but not that liberation. But we will come one day, sometimes. So, the best way, then, how to go? Then, what we call the guru. What is the guru then? Not physical. Guru is coming also in the body, and all these five tattvas... It doesn't matter how great you are, or if you don't know anything. But you have the five elements, and it's with us all. And someone who is great, and they know, they also have five elements. But they are proceeding further and further, and so it is said, every yuga, again they are changing: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva. So first is Śiva, is Vishnu. And Brahmā. After the Yuga, they will change again. It's something like this, what we said: in one country, there's a government, and that government's all—there's one president, one prime minister, etc. And after five years or four years, it depends which country. They finish their duty. Now they will try to come again or not. So it's not easy for the ministers. They have a lot and a lot of work. They have the heaviness on them, on your shoulders you can say, on your head, for the whole country, and not only the humans—everything: forest, animals, waters. Everything that is in their hands, and so sometimes they think, "I will not come anymore in politics," but you have to come again, but you didn't come as president. May you get some other position? So, how did it come? This is that from the Trinity. Śiva, Viṣṇu, and Brahmā. Always after this, they will change. Sometimes Viṣṇu and Śiva's work is helping Viṣṇu. And sometimes from Śiva, Viṣṇu is saving. Like the same thing in our yogic path, where we are going up and up. So, what again? So, where to go? How to go, then? Holy Gurujī said, "If you want to meditate, and if you want to liberate for all, then don't, don't ask for anything. I want to see the light. I want to see the sun inside." Or a moon or something, it means when we are meditating and asking, doing this and that, it means we are going to run away from ourselves. So then, where are you with your ātmā? So finally, for yoga, after all, we come to the door, and that door is just: sit down and let it be your ātmā. What will do? At that door, at that gate, we just sit down and let the ātmā be itself, just let it be. And that, the wind, the air, is that guru giving further and further, bringing us more and more close to themselves to make it explode into the air. And finally, it is that within our heart is our guru, our self. But it is not like that, okay. Then I am, my self is my guru, and then I don't need... no, no, no. You know, we were talking about Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa. And we know who is who, how he is. Now, you know, in that Rāmāyaṇa, Bhagavān Rāma, he is an incarnation. He knows everything. But now he is in a box. Yeah, he's connected to the body. And when you are in the physical bodies, then they also have to think a lot. Where and why and how? And we know that about Bhagavān Rāma and his three brothers. They are all four brothers, and they all know, but where and how it will be. Like the Mahābhārata, at the end they knew it was that something divine, that it was a divine drama. To give us, we give our knowledge to others. When they come, it's not only for one. They are coming for the goddess, for the humans. For everyone, for the very holy, and for the Rakṣasas. So all that is for their purification, and they will liberate; they will bring them back. So for both. So, like we said, the Bhagavān Rāma and Rāvaṇa. Rāma, Rāvaṇa. Both the same letter. What was it that time? So practice. Finally, we have to come to that: just take yourself and be within thyself. And when we have the mala, then this is how we know we are on the right highway. And if they think that we don't have our name mantra, then we will go sometimes up; we will miss the road. So that mala, the mala is going to the end. So don't go out. Come in. So meditate. Any time when we have time, and so we sit in meditation. But then, how to go inside? Then it is said that inhalation and exhalation, that we should not forget, that is the path, and that the breath coming and going. Where are the pranayāmas? How many pranayāmas? And so, similarly, any kind of prāṇāyāma you will do. Neti, dhauti, also purifications. But finally, we have to come to our body in one thing. Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā, Kapālabhātī, all these prāṇāyāms. But you cannot run away from this. It is the breath in and out. And therefore, we are meditating. Only best is you have your visions on your gurus. You see our gurus and our breath. I know that I am inhaling, and I know that I am exhaling: inhale and exhale. Normal breath. Don't try anything, and do not disturb your breath. Don't think that now I will only inhale, then exhale and inhale. No, nothing. That is in the prāṇa of the body, and they know all these cakras, everything in the heart and other parts of the body. So this prāṇa automatically expands, inhaling, out-inhaling. So that you come now, oh, now I know that I practice yoga. Then, some kind of energy will come in the body, and it is said that it is controlling, that "I want to go on the path." Tomorrow we will come further, and that's all I wanted to tell you today. This is all I wanted to tell you today.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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