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Above all, the center is our health. We strive to stay healthy, but in this modern age, everything we eat, drink, and breathe is not so healthy. There are possibilities for regularly practicing physical exercises and breathing exercises. Yoga in Daily Life is a system, a very systematic and scientific one. If we practice correctly, be assured, you will reach your goal. Physical exercises, called āsanas, should not be practiced like gymnastics, nor should they be practiced merely as bodybuilding, but rather as the realization, discovery, and awakening of the inner forces that reside within our body. The abilities, and thereby the human qualities, arise. When an āsana is performed, it is not merely a physical movement. One imagines one's entire existence: his feelings, surroundings, his goal, his body, physical condition, your breath, bodily difficulties, illness or pain, how you feel mentally, where you are right now, in what state you are, and then try to find a center, that is, self-confidence. With these thoughts—yes, I can and I will achieve this—these thoughts arise during relaxation or preparation of your āsanas or physical exercises. Every movement should be clear to you. Feel every joint, every muscle, every movement, and then observe the breath with special attention. Breath is a force, the force that directs our entire body. Prāṇa, quality of life, life energy, is activated throughout the entire body through breath practice, and in every cell of the body, our breath awakens the dormant forces. They are not visible to us, but they are there. Immediately, one feels a light within the body. You feel a pleasant relaxation and strength. There are many people who feel very weak, no matter what they do: eat healthily, exercise well, have been sleeping for a long time, yet they are still tired, still feel without energy. Yoga in Daily Life would be an answer, a therapy, and a means to awaken energy in the body once again. Every movement should be fully conscious and accompanied by the breath. There are no, how shall I say, computations and no challenges. Competition and challenge arise from ignorance, meaning ego. And when the ego is there, it means self-destruction, self-purification, letting go, simply releasing. Give the rights to others. If someone wants to go ahead, then you say, yes, please, go ahead calmly. That is so. In spirituality, in practices, and especially in yoga practices, there are no challenges and no competitions. Relax, and at the same time be self-aware after concentrating on the breath. What am I doing? How do I breathe? How do I think? What is my goal? Where am I? What is my environment like and where am I right now? Be self-aware, be conscious of your existence in perfection. This means that now you have an awareness of your own development, your own movement. The power of thought leads us to the power of meditation. And meditation, which I believe we will talk about next week, is eventually a lecture, coming soon. We will talk more about technique, theory and technique, the power of meditation. According to this explanation of Yoga in Daily Life, it is described as a cosmic dance. What do we understand by cosmic dance? To be blissful in the universe. When one is happy, one is free, one is healthy and full of strength, then your soul floats in the universe. Your soul radiates once again a harmonious, positive atmosphere, the light and the love. And that comes through physical exercises. I am speaking about physical practice. How should one perform āsanas? Perhaps one hour, performing only three āsanas, but with complete attention, awareness, and feeling. Many of you practice yoga, surely. Many have achieved much, but many of you have neglected it. From time to time, on all holy days, they especially practice their yoga exercises, āsanas. And especially the yoga teachers. They believe they are already self-realized in the seventh heaven and do not need to practice anything themselves. That is one of the greatest misconceptions. I have not yet seen the seventh heaven, whether it exists or not. But they say so. Has anyone seen it? Perhaps you know better. Alright then, let us leave the topic. So, when through my attention, consciousness of existence, from all my movements, breathing, concentration, relaxation, then begins the awakening of energy in various glandular systems. Especially chakras, energy centers. There are many cakras in the body, but the main cakras are eight, from Mūlādhāra to Sahasrāra or from Sahasrāra to Mūlādhāra. It must not be only the practices that one calls Kuṇḍalinī contemplation or cakra purification. One cannot cleanse chakras individually, just as one does not start cleaning by washing one window after another. It all comes together. It works; a practice affects our entire existence. When the cakras begin to generate positive energy, then the main channels Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā are near. Of the 72,000 different nerves, the most important are the three: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. When the Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā harmonize, then without our effort, the cakras will begin to positively influence our body. Perhaps someone has a question, which āsana? Yes, yoga āsana. It means that any movement is an exercise. Āsanas means a comfortable seat or lying comfortably. Move little, be aware of the body and feel the body. What is happening throughout the entire body, that is an exercise. So, from the first part of the Yoga in Daily Life book until... Sorry. The highest level. All exercises are very important. One thinks, I cannot reach the eighth stage. I can easily imagine that. Stay in the first stage. There is no competition. Or just stick to one practice, Kathopraṇam. But practice daily disciplined with these meditative thoughts of your existence in your own phenomena, that means you begin to see and move, practice, correct, awaken now, this can also be called a kind of ceremony, a self-ceremony. In a poem Mahāprabhujī has said, according to Vedānta, according to the highest realization: I am my own Self, Ātman. I am the knower of the tattvas and Nirmoe, independent. No dependence, no attachment, free. One with all, as a saint has said, I am like the wind; no one can hold me. I am like the sky; no one can possess me. I belong to no one, yet I will leave nothing undone. I will become one with you. And that is our goal to realize. Then there is no anger, no hatred, no envy, no jealousy, no misunderstanding, and so on and so forth. But nothing happens from one day to the next. It's a long, long way, long, long way, long, long way. Many, many, many lives and lives and a long journey. We have enough time, it doesn't matter. We will come back in the next life. But that does not mean that now we say, well, next life we will do it this year. In this life, we give up. Then you do not return as a Yogi. What is past is past. The past lies in Mother Life from the past. The present is here, and the future is still an embryo, not yet born. And the future is born precisely when you arrive there in the future, after this life. How it will be, Hagenasobi, now in this life, what you do. And I greet, I pray to myself, may it come to me. That means Ātman in unity with all. But if every second, every minute, with every word and every glance your feelings and your opinion change, and you are angry and offended, then not even the Lord of the eighth heaven can help you. That is the point. Spirituality. What do we understand about spirituality? Yes, it is a very difficult word to understand and realize. But still, it is there. A good future for us. We want to have it. For me, spirituality means purity. Pure food, pure life, pure thoughts, pure actions. Pure thoughts. If you ever think angrily or negatively about someone, in psychology, someone has said, that means self-poisoning. You are poisoning yourself if you think negatively about anyone or anything. Choice is yours, my dear. Never force yourself not to think negatively or positively. Every thought that the unpleasant comes from you is a darkening within your own phenomenon. And every thought filled with love, understanding, and forgiveness is an illumination within your phenomenon. Choice is yours. No one forbids you to think positively, to think well, to think with love, to think kindly, to forgive, and so on. No one forbids you. And no one forces you to think negatively, to be angry, jealous, hateful, greedy, passionate, and so on. Zeus is yours. And so it is, spirituality is my own responsibility. That means our own task is to realize this in this life with presence, fully in this life with yourself. Positive thoughts, spirituality means crystal clear, through and through, transparent. It is not easy for some people because they have caused so much negativity within themselves. And it is a task for us, when someone is angry with us and thinks negatively about us, that is a test for us. In this test, whether you pass or not, that is your matter. And so, this weekend, we will continue what we are meant to do. Today, all this reflection and contemplation, and tomorrow we will continue.