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Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī Dev Purīṣā Mahādev kī Devādhi Dev Deveśvar Bhagavān kī Satguru Svāmī Madhavānjī Bhagavān kī Satyasanātan Dharma kī Alagpurījī Mahādev kī Mahātpita Gurudev kī Jaya Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Gurur Brahmā Gurur Viṣṇu Gurur Devo Maheśvara Gurur Sākṣāt Para Brahma Tasmai Śrī Guruve Namaha. Dhyāna Mūlam Guru Mūrti, Pūjā Mūlam Guru Padam, Mantra Mūlam Guru Bhaktyam, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Good evening. Dobri Vecher. Dear sisters, brothers, yogīs, yoga practitioners, all yoga centers, ashrams, and everywhere those who are practicing yoga, I respect them and I want to say to them, "Guru Kṛpā." Each and every one of those who are working with yoga is good for me, because every yoga center, school, āśram, sannyāsīs or not, etc. We should all be together in oneness. All yogīs, schools, ashrams, everything should harmonize together. Yoga is only one, and it is not only physical movements; there are more techniques, and all is called yoga. There are also many best yoga practitioners; it may be the elderly people who have been doing it for many years. It is not only that some swāmīs or sādhus should be the yogīs. No, it’s all. All should practice. It is inner feelings and practicing all as a yogī who is doing. So it doesn’t matter if it is a householder, a male or a female, or a sādhu. But it should be on the border of the one way that we are going to the yoga. There are many, many different techniques of yoga. Someone does not make āsanas, they don’t do the prāṇāyāma. One of the yogīs said, "Do not torture your body after a certain age." Others said there are people over 100 years old practicing Śīrṣāsana and many other postures like the Scorpio posture, Cobra’s posture, etc. Because one is practicing for many, many years and has good training, one can. But the people who are doing for some days or some months or one year, and then half a year doesn’t practice and then again do, that can harm the bones and joints. There are many yogīs somewhere who say, "No, don’t make the breath too strong. Just concentrate and breathe properly and very slowly." So there are many, many techniques, and we will come to that point. But now it is the time, in this Kali Yuga’s time, and we all should come together. So all who are yogic or yoga practitioners, yoga teachers, even not a sanyāsī, but we are on the path of yoga. Yoga kāraṁ su kośalaṁ. Yoga kāraṁ su kośalaṁ. So it is said, karma, karma yoga, and through this karma yoga, yoga will be successful through the practicing of karma. Some said, "Now I am only a yogī. I will not work. Someone will give him food, okay? And I will only sit." Also, not like that. But if one is doing and he likes and is comfortable for him, why not? Let him do. After these exercises, with the mental exercises, and about the brain, exercises, eyes, nostrils, many things. So, Haṭha Yoga is the most powerful yoga. But not this kind of Haṭha Yoga is what people are thinking. That’s what people, mostly in Western countries, say: "I want to practice Haṭha Yoga." But Haṭha Yoga is not only exercises, physical exercises. It is said that even Śiva will not say it is not correct that a yogī, Haṭha Yoga. And sometimes haṭha, haṭha is we are trying, "No, I will do and I will do," but that is not good. Therefore, it is haṭha, cāḍās, and bhajans, no? Yes. Then Gurudev said that some people are working. They have not a proper guru, a very spiritual yogī, or even a householder. But they are also great like yogīs. They practice very well, and they know they are very far. So we should not say that only the sannyāsīs are the orange cloth, or the white cloth, or the yellow cloth, or the black cloth, and that I am the yogī, I am a sannyāsī. No, no. That is very good, of course, but one can also be a householder. So it is said that if you are a sannyāsī or you are not a sannyāsī. Mahāprabhujī said, "In your heart," the Gurudev has given you the colour of our skin, our colour, that’s all. This cloth is, of course, this is also because everybody knows this is a saddle, and they should also keep this. Don’t put out, and then have others dress, and then do others. This is only a drama. So that is from yesterday’s bhajans, which map to Holī Gurujī’s bhajan, telling everybody to be alert. Alert not in negative things or in some different things, but awake inside. Chetan means wake up, it is said. Gurudev said, "Chet Chet Yab Jeev Yagyani Avsar Jave Re, Guru Sam Jave Re, Chet Chet Yab Yagyani Avsar Jave Re." So when it is something, then a real guru can bring one on the right way. It should not be only verbally talk and talk. But be inside them, and then when you are changing your dress, or you have some other profession, and sometimes you make other, this dress and that dress and that dress, it’s also okay, no problem. But there must be that, because in the army, they are having their uniform. Yes, for every country. When they retire, they can have others, or when they go to their house, otherwise it is there. And though our inner color of the yoga, given by gurus, inside is that color. And that color means we should not do something bad. Then this color is different. Therefore, a verse always said, "Gurujī said, Swāmī Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī is here, Sadguru Swāmī Madhvānandjī. Chet, chet, yāb Jīva yāgyānī. Chet, chet, ab. Now, now, just now, not tomorrow, not after, but just now, awake, and how?" For example, you are sitting, and suddenly a snake goes over your body. You know what it is, so there was, you know, that snake was coming, or a tiger. So, don’t close your eyes, but be more alert. Chetan. Who is Chetan? Alert. That can become a yogī. Others will not. Others, they are this and this and that. Often, I am telling about, like, a driver. And the driver who is driving a car, or a bus, or an aeroplane, etc., they become, at that level, they become a guru. What is a guru here, there? The teacher learned, "I know everything." And in that way, it is that when you can ride or drive your car and you sit on your driver’s seat, then, in the brain, everything awakens, coming, the knowledge in the brain. So, now you have to be alert, cetana, like a ball. When we kick the ball, it rolls this time and that side, or this side, but it’s not expanding. Similarly, a driver is going round and round. Left side, he should know if somebody is coming, going, or left side. The right side, the front side, the mirror there to see the backside all. Time to time, look up what is there, and be aware of what is under. Your car is running. And then you have to become like a body, your body. And when we are there, and suddenly we have a stomach problem, heart problem, or the shoulder, similarly, our car driver has to understand and know what is happening with this car: petrol, water. So that is the path. So now you are driving, and we know our destination. And at the same time, we should know which road we are going: stop, or ride quick, slow. So this is the whole machine, and this machine of our body is that which is awakened, chetan. So this is called cetan. What a great thing! So, our practicing yogīs around the whole world—not only in India, not only in the Czech Republic, or not in Austria only—it is in the whole world yoga is awakened, and that all we should be. In oneness, we should help bring the people on the right path of their good health, good thinking, good doing. And yoga will not say that only this religion or that religion, there is no religion. The yoga, the religions, was only in this Kali Yuga, otherwise there was not one religion and this religion, that. It’s only Sanātana. Sanātana dharma, and this is sanātana for all. So that time has come. And so we have many, many yoga practitioners and teachers. And now humans have awakened again, with their life: how to save life, eating, etc. So this is what the Guru is giving us: dhana, daulat, mahal, khazana, your properties, your monies, houses, and everything. It is only for a little time. All will be gone. All will stay here. Only you will go, a patsy bird. A bird will come and take the seed, put it here, here, and here, and will fly. So whatever you have now is a proper little dime, only ātmā, the soul, jīva, it will go again out. As the soul, ātmā, goes out of this body, then he doesn’t know what is the money, or what is their properties, or what is mother and parents, and this. Animals or the humans, because it is only Ātmā. Then fire is only one fire, or light is the light. So when we go there, then immediately we lost it. Everything we lost, or left it. But still we are alive in this body, and we are about 110 years old, and very old in bed. But still, he or she is thinking, "My money, my house, my children, my children." Yes, that is called attachment, and attachment is there, but the jīva is not attached. So that way, as Gurudev said—oh, my dear—Gurudev said... All will be here. Saath nahī̃ āve re, guru sāmā jāve re. Anta samae. Anta means last. Just last. At that time, the jīv, your ātmā, your jīvā, will go alone. No one going up with money will not go; people will not go with our dress. It will not go there, everything. So, there is one beautiful story Gurujī tells, from one student and one king and from the queen, and then the king died, and the student was working somewhere in other countries. And he came back, and how it happened that many properties, people got it, took it. Remind me tomorrow. It’s a very good story, very good. So that is that. In time, it’s a very good story. Holy Gurujī is many, many days. But remind me, please. Everything, all in all, your wife or your husband, your child, your friend, it’s only until this breath is here; after it’s finished. Here we are taking our luggage, you know, when I am going to Europe, many countries, and two suitcases, three suitcases, one handbag, and then, and who’s going with me? They have Umāpurī or Mānsā Devī or the others, they are taking, hanging one pocket this side, one pocket this side, one that side, and the cloth and everything and the shoes. But when you want to get to the Supreme, there is nothing. So the soul comes, and you don’t know the color. How big? Nothing. That we will go further tomorrow. And Sarvahitāsan is a long, long way, don’t worry. And for example, yesterday, day before yesterday, I gave work to our Swami Umapurījī. And myself, I’m two and a half hours, only morning, every day, disciplined. I’m doing only Saravitasana. And I tell myself, while practicing, why did I not practice really like this before? And it is so joyful now to exercise. And, of course, it is for the aged people or young people, who should be very careful. So we had some exercises, and someone had a problem with the shoulder. Then we must not do it very quickly, or if it’s an operation, don’t do it. Then the doctor will tell you what to do. Or the back, spinal column, hip joints, or the knees, etc. All the joints of the body. So there are two things. In what I said, one is that movements and that little problems, and then concentration and practice. If you can, slowly you can come back again to the good way. Second, is there? Then the second person should help us. That’s like a massage or something, yes, helping the spinals, the knees, etc. And then there is yoga and yoga teachers and yoga in daily life teachers, they are very good, and in our book, this yoga in... So you have to always look at this book. This book is your, what we call, Bible. And so, Swami Umapurījī, before going to yoga and before me, she had been learning about all this anatomy. But sometimes people think, "Oh, I will do, and it will be okay again." So, for example, there is the operation of the bones, knees, or shoulders, and many things. When the operation is done and something is cut from the bones or not, then one should ask again the doctors or those who have done this, and there we should not move the body like this, otherwise the next day it will be very painful. For example, myself, let us say, I had a question. I had an operation, and they cut something from me. Okay, now I’m getting better, and there is no pain, and slowly I said, "Now I can practice yoga, and I will make it all nice like this." Day morning, you cannot get up, or you cannot move your knee, or your hips, or your shoulders, or in all these movements. So, my dear, that’s why Sarvahittāsana we have to concentrate very well, and asking everybody, our teachers, our yoga, daily life of our people, and that’s why Sarvahitāsana, and many, many people now… Now, many people, and from our Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, he gave freedom to the whole world to practice yoga. And many people, they are very, very happy. But still, they have no teachers to get good teachers and yogīs together. So physical things are for the doctors, and inner feelings are for the yogīs. So we are very careful in our yoga and daily life. Our yoga and dead life is how many years? About 65 years. And there are many very happy people here. And so, if someone, for example, I am talking today now, and I will tell you to practice this and that, but if that person has a problem, then one should not move. Ask one’s questions again, if there was something broken or something like this. So, nearby Yoga and Dalai people in every country, everywhere, you will help, and this will be very good help to everyone. To everyone, thank you very much. And I’m sorry I spoke too much time for Umapurījī, but Umapurījī had that, I think, three or four it was. Yesterday I was not close there, near. And now we will again. I’m doing every morning these four. Really, really, you cannot imagine. Very good. So, all the best from my side, and I wish you all the best, my dear. All, and I give over our very nice teacher, Yoga Swami. Practitioners, cook everything: body with the car, with the motor. How we should be aware and jīvan, what to do and how to use. This physical body. So that’s why we are studying yoga in daily life, lifelong. It is a wisdom of our body, mind, and consciousness. And every body is different. No body is the same. So that’s why we have to learn and to know about our self. And this is really a lifelong study. More, maybe many lives. And today we continue again with our Sarvahitā Āsan Part 6, Level 1. And we start with Daṇḍāsana, with stretched legs. We make ourselves comfortable in that way. If somebody has back pain, they can take a small pillow under the buttock. It’s possible, or roll the mat a little bit. It supports a little bit our tailbone and our back. It is helpful, especially for those who are beginners and whose muscles are still tight on the back of the legs. We have our hands beside the hips, fingers facing back, and we try to keep our back straight. The first exercise is again to strengthen our thigh muscles and stretch our calf muscles. We press strongly the back of our knee down towards the floor and bring our toes towards our shin, and keep this position, the tension of the thigh muscles. And then relax again, and once more with our breaths. Deep inhale, stretch your thigh muscles, press down the back of your knee, toes up. Keep this tension. And exhale, relax. And all good things are three, how we say? So once more, please. Very good. And relax. Now we bring our legs apart from each other. Very good. We have to find out how much and how far, because this is the stretching of our inner muscles, hip muscles, adductors of our legs, thighs. And it also stretches our back muscles. It is very good preparation for all of the Paścimottānāsana. It comes later, but it helps very much to keep our hips flexible. Hands are resting on the thighs, and with our exhalation, slowly we move our hands towards our feet and forward with a straight back, as much as you can. Some are very flexible; they can lie down between the legs, but some are not so flexible. It doesn’t matter. And inhale, come back again. Sit straight, and once more, exhale. The main thing is that you keep the thoracic part straight and inhale back. And once more. Exhale completely and inhale, come back. Very good. So it can be done for five rounds; we do it three times, and now only with one leg. And those should be careful who have pain in the knee, or some kind of injury in the knee; please avoid this next exercise. But we, I don’t know how to say in English, we think we are healthy and good and everything is working properly, so we bend our one knee and bring the foot sole on the inner part of our thigh. We turn a little bit towards the right side, and we do it only with one leg. So now we will feel the stretching of our side muscles, and again, with our exhalation, slowly slide forward as far as you can, stretching. You feel the stretching, and inhale, come back. And we try to keep both our hands at the same level. And once more, exhale. Now we feel the stretching of the side muscles, the shoulders, back. If you have a problem in your neck, please, you can hang down your neck, of course, but better is to have it straight. You need not to look upwards, but keep it straight. And once more, stretching of the back muscles and the back flexors of the leg, and inhale back. And on the other side, we stretch our leg and bend our right leg. We turn a little bit towards the left side and start with your exhalation. And inhale, come back. So please continue twice more with your own breath. Very good, thank you. And now we can stretch the leg again. Hands beside the hips, fingers to the backside. Press the knee down. Press the knee down. Keep the tension. And relax. And relax. And once more. Press your knee down. And relax. Very good. Now we sit in the Maṇḍūkya āsana. This is our last exercise. So, those who have knee problems, please avoid this exercise. Mandukyāsana in the hockey. Legs depart from each other. And this is a very good exercise for our hips. And the best would be on a non, on a slippery floor, because here we have the mat, it is not so easy, it sticks a little bit the feet to the ground. So that’s why we do not do the Maṇḍūkī āsana, but we give our hands under our foot soles, and this is one exercise which keeps our hips flexible. Or makes our hips flexible. This is a very good exercise for Kichle to be flexible, and I know many, many,... Including myself, who can’t sit in this position because of the dysplasia of the hips, so it’s from birth on. Some can’t do it, and many can learn it. And it’s very helpful for the relaxation of our back and neck. And it stretches the backside muscles of our legs. So, while exhaling, we keep our fingers under your foot soles, and we stand up, head down, and we stretch our legs. Very good. And inhale, sit back, and look up to the ceiling. So we stretch now our thoracic part of the spine. And again, exhale, stand up, stretch. Feel the stretching. And inhale, sit back. And once more, and of course it strengthens also our leg muscles, our knees. Very good. Release your fingers from your foot soles, and with closed eyes, slowly stand up. Relax your shoulders. Keep your eyes open. If you get easy, then look down on the floor, on the ground. Especially those who have low blood pressure, from this sitting position, getting up, one becomes dizzy, so it’s very helpful if you look at the floor, if you look down, it balances again. So, once deep in, exhale and make yourself comfortable in the meditation posture with a small support under your tailbone. Sit comfortably on both buttocks, with a straight back. Relax your shoulders and elbows. Your hands, your fingers in Jñāna Mudrā. Close your eyes. And enter your inner space. First, you see the space behind your forehead, your Cittākāśa. Feel and hear your breath. Once more, breathe in deep and exhale, and relax your breath. Again, we remember our Guru-Deva, we sing of our Guru-Deva, the guidance, the protection, and the blessing. And with your thankfulness, your inner feelings, do your Mānasik Pūjā, your praṇām. Deep inhale. Deep inhale. Oṁ Nam Karatā Prabhutip Karatā Mahā Prabhutip Karatā Hi Kevalaṁ Śānti Śānti Śānti. Release your chin mudrā and rub your palms together. Place your palms on your eyes and forehead, and open your eyes and bend forward. Hari Om. Thank you for being with us. Have a good night and good sleep. Hari Om.