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If I speak of Karma Yoga, and Karma Yoga is the best—karma sukho ślama—those who perform karma will be the highest yogīs. You see, they are working, learning, and listening to my lecture. They are working hard, and both sides are thinking and observing. I only have a slight thought: they look at me and place the stone upon it. Regardless, they are all doing many practices, doing very well. Now, there are various techniques or workings they have done. I wish to give them also very nice yogic techniques. Yesterday was very nice. So we are coming now to very high techniques of yoga. There will be three techniques now. Very, very nice. But children should not hear, "Coming, doing, in there and coming." They can sit comfortably, no problem. If someone is thirsty or needs to go somewhere, they should do it now. I will give you practice for one hour, meaning from twelve to one. Are you okay? Thank you. Please sit very well. One of our sisters is here. She can sit a little in the warmth. Yes, she can come here because she feels cold, you know, in life. Here, ask her. She says she’s not cold. She is sitting in the chair. Are you comfortable there? If she wants to sit in the shade, she can sit in the sun. Okay, that is good. Already she becomes a Swami. Comfortable, very good. Now she’s already a sannyāsī. Her husband is still waiting, so hurry home. Sit very nicely, with hands on the knees in this mudrā, palms on the knees—not up. Now you should sit more straight. In this mudrā also, the body, with one leg down and the other leg should be like this in the thighs, and one foot looks up. This leg is put up. Yes, it is difficult. I have a meniscus problem. Good, then two other legs on the other side. Yes, that’s it. Is that better? If not, then Vajrāsana? No. Okay. Then make yourself as comfortable as you can. Yes, please. As you like, but you should be relaxed and good. Our knees should be close... Yes, your knees touching the earth. It is very good when we have something under... Now you will have a little bit of a problem. But tomorrow you will bring things, and that will be good. You know, we always put it like this. When I don’t have it, then I’m like this, okay? So tomorrow, everybody, the best is one stone, or what do you call this? One brick. That is one of the best. It’s not a joke. You can put your little cloth if you want; otherwise, really, it’s good. Then you will always have it in your hand, okay? Regardless, the hands are like this on the knees, and shoulders come up a little. We will bow down like this, chin here to the heart. Okay, so this will be after practice. But this is given to you now. Then it will be after the technique, and other techniques that are very, very good. So many other yoga exercises are good for all, but the other, what we are doing, you will do it, but you have to practice with a good guru. That guru exercises after the students. Our students, teachers have learned so they can teach further. But the Guru’s blessings and the real techniques are only what we can do with our own, near our own exercise and room, under the trees or anywhere. However, the master should be physically with us. So what I am giving you now, these techniques, do not give them further. Otherwise, they will not be comfortable, and they are not ready, and these are also not. I have many of my yoga teachers here, students, and they are practicing in our yoga centers or somewhere. They are new, new things. They are giving techniques inside. We have in Vienna, in our ashram, and in their house they are teaching already, always to some people. And they become like a supreme master. But they will not be comfortable, so they will be good, and others will not be. We have one doctor, and the doctor is very good, and he has very good techniques. He is working with his spine coil, and people have broken their back or something, and he can very nicely clean it again. But someone saw that. How this doctor was breaking or correcting, I don’t know how they did, and then the next day his father died, and the father broke his back and said, "Father, it doesn’t matter. Lie down, I will do it." Exactly the same: a guru, what he is teaching, only that you are listening, and you should really become master of this technique, and then you can be. So, mostly our Austrian disciples, and mostly they are our Austrian disciples, that only we are looking tomorrow if Swamiji will say how to eat. Next time, there is a lot of chili in the food. So, there I know they are sitting here, some, and neither will they become great, nor will the others not go. Yes. There’s a story because there was a king, and the king had his sleeping room. They were controlling outside, all the people, the guards, and he locked his door. He could not trust his other people. So he had one monkey, a very nice big monkey, and he had a sword in his hand, so that if anyone came, he would kill them. So the king is sleeping, and the monkey is all the time looking like this with a sword. And the king is sleeping, and one of these little flies sits on the nose of the king. And it is said that if anybody comes, monkey, you should kill them. But don’t disturb me. So the fly came, and the king said like this. Again, the fly came and sat on his neck. And the monkey wanted to kill the fly. So the fly flew away, but the monkey killed and cut the nose of the king. But the king’s nose was cut off. Why? Because monkeys don’t know. And they only have one, but nothing in the others. So, become first a master, and then do something. Otherwise, they are okay. Somebody can do, but it’s not good. So, we have to practice what I’m telling, and, of course, all the people all over the world are listening. But they should only practice what they have learned and seen. But then they have to come to some gurus. It must not be only me. There are many other gurus there, and some disciples will come and say, "This and this technique," then that guru will give you. So I mean that not only I will be the guru, but some very good gurus, they will give you everything. But if you are going and giving techniques to your guru, first, "Gurujī, this and that," and he says, "Okay, I will see, and I will see," then it means something is not right. Okay, then sit comfortably again. This is only for 14 minutes, and you are moving left and right. So, okay, let’s come. Hands on the knees. Lean a little bit forward so that our back is very straight. A little lean forward. Normal breath, and normal breath. But many of you, your back is not straight. The back should be straight, and lean the brain other than the head, and head straight. Again, forward a little, and contract and relax. Again, your head up. Now the anus contracts and relaxes. So now again, straight forward and chin down. Inhale. Contract your anus and release 25 times. Aśvamudra: contract and relax. Aśvamudra is for... Our Kundalinī kriyā, this is also one kriyā. When this is finished, after 14, sit relaxed, eyes closed. Now we will Oṁ chant 11 times. Mudras, normally, sit very straight, inhale from the navel, and you will find yourself seven steps while this Oṁ chanting. From the navel to the top of the head, then come again down and go again to the navel, eleven times. Yourself, we make loudly, but not too loud. Of course, someone is chanting longer, some are shorter. So you have to do it ten times. So let’s begin from the navel. Three times I will chant with you, then you are continuing. So, feel in the navel. From the navel. Eyes closed. Fourteen times. Brāhmārī prāṇāyāma with these kriyās. Eyes closed, index fingers in the ears, deep inhale, three times mantra from the navel, place the hands on the face, little massage of your eyes in your palms, open the eyes. And hands down. Hari Om. Good, finished. Now it’s time for your food.