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It was very nice today. You have done much of your sādhanā. Some have exercised; then we have our karma yoga. In the Bhagavad Gītā, it is written: "Yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam." While doing many things—you can do many things: meditation, long meditation for one year, for hours, two hours, three hours; read many, many books; more āsanas, running, and swimming in the water, everything—but what is the highest? That is karma kauśalam. Karma? What kind of karma? That karma is like working, what we are working on. Karma kauśalam. There are two kinds of karma. One is karma: "It’s my karma." He said, "Oh God, it was my karma." And what is that karma? That is what we have done. If we have done good, it is karma yoga. Or if we did bad things, it is also karma. So, how are we doing the karma? That is karma kauśalam. Karma kauśalam is our happiness, the good in everything we do. This is what we have been engaged in during our six, nearly seven days here. You were very comfortable and very good. We had many practices. You are all my very dear ones, very dear to me. That is why I am instructing you so nicely, telling you how to do things, what we should do, etc. I wish you a healthy, happy, and long life, so that we can give good to others. Why are we doing it for our body? We are doing something because of our body, so this is very important. We should know why we are born. There are two aspects. Now, through my karma—and in this, karma means everything: āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditations, concentrations, etc., everything. Even drinking water, even eating any fruits, anything, any leaves, or animals eating, what we take into our mouth goes to our stomach. What will be the action? If it is poison, it is also karma. And if we have Amṛta, very pure Amṛta—Amṛta is like life, living forever and ever. People ask, "Where is the Amṛta?" The Amṛta is just beside you, but you don’t know. So, my dears, God gave us this human body. First, we must perform our karma so that we may come to the cosmic life. Because I know the knowledge, understanding, peace, harmony, and friendship. Animals, the forest—this is ours, and we should take care of it. Then we go to Parabrahma Paramātmā. So our action, our action is of two kinds: negative and positive. I mean, not negative or positive like corona, but we are talking about yoga, my dears. In these six or seven days, you have had a beautiful, beautiful time. And you know that day and night, my thoughts are always directed towards you. Not only are you lying down here, but there are many others; some come for mantras, some come for other things. And not only here—now it is around the whole world. The telephone is ringing constantly from so many other countries, many, many. In China, I have bhaktas, my disciples; there are many. This is very good for you also. You have telephones and everything, you have many friends. So, what we are thinking about is important for us. So, practice very well. Now, stretch your hands above the head, and bring the hands back again to the side of the body. Do this yourself, five times. When you finish this, then place your hands above your head on the ground. Now, lift both legs straight up as much as you can, but don’t go very high. No, no... bring the legs low, go down. Look, oh, a little more up. Hey, legs a little more down, but not completely. Because I can’t see other people, very good, just your legs up. That’s it, and slowly down. Let’s say one and a half feet, or two feet, okay? Two feet is good. So everybody come up, two feet, yes, and hands are above the head on the ground. You should only go up so much that you can see your toes, not high, just the toes. And just hold until I call you. How is it? And down. Once more. Count yourself: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and slowly come down. Again: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and go down. Yes, but don’t go like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, not like this. So, again, please do it yourself and sit down. So this was one. Yes, the first was exercise. Exercises are different, and practice is good. So, it was one, nine more. Hari Om, come on, please. Hands on the ground. Hands on the earth. Vasant. Yes. Go ahead, you’re... I don’t know how far you are. Release, relax. Hands beside the body. In 1977, we were in Slovakia, Czechoslovakia. Oh, we were doing so well. Old people asked, "How long should one remain?" And I said, "I will say mantra one, two." Oh, it was. So now, hands above on the earth, arms by your head. And stand, height a little bit, come up. Yes, up, head up, body up. With the hands above, with the hands. Yes. As much as you can, but your arms should be by your ears. Yes. Yes. So, one, two. One. One. And again, one, two. I think I’ve forgotten. Remain there, I will ask you. What have I forgotten? Yes, very good, thank you, you are great. And relax. Relax your arms. This afternoon, when we have programs, we should be very well stretched, exactly like this. Now, interlace your fingers on your stomach. Yes. And now raise your legs and head up. And stretch your hands. Yes. Oh, very good, but not too high. You are too hard. You are going up. Hurry on back. One. Two. One. The stomach will be empty now. You will eat a very good lunch. Once more, please. Relax. You were perfect. Now you can sit up. So stand up, legs slightly apart, and lean the knees back a little, and then go back, going to the front and then back. You know how? No, like this, go forward a little. And then up, like this. Yes. So the knee will be good. Yes. And look up, then I stay here. Yes. And come up. Hands down. Again, like getting up from the toilet, like getting up. Yes. And go like, yes. Rest, the knees will not be a problem. And up, again one, yes. This was giving me Mānasa Devī practice. Come up, so that it feels like this, getting off the toilet, and then like this, really, once more. All right, very good. Perfect. Tomorrow you will learn more. Sit in good meditation and practice Brahmrī. Fifteen times. Relax yourself, either in Vajrāsana or another posture. Do it yourself, eyes closed, just like what we are doing. Go ahead now, as one first, now go. Ten times.