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Om Bule Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Svāmī Madhavānandajī Gurudeva Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva Kī Jai, Śrī Gaṇeśajī Mahārāja Kī Jai. Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Devājī Deva Kī Jai, Devapuruṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai, Sadguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Alakha Purī Jī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Hari Om, Hari Om. It is a beautiful day. We have had beautiful, wonderful spiritual exercises. Our disciple, a very nice soul who is nearly like a swami, is Niranjan Purī. You know, with Niranjan there are no problems at all; he has been with me for very many years. He also lived with Holī Gurujī, and now he runs very nice, big companies—like those behind our telephones: one from Google, another from Apple, and after Apple, the next best is Nokia. He came here for your sādhanā and practiced very nicely with you. Is he here? He is working outside. Well, he is both in and out, it is all right. Our other teachers have also given lectures on how they came to yoga in their lives, and you should receive these teachings. It was about Yoga in Daily Life—both lectures and exercises. So you have been students, and after being a student, you become the teacher. The time has truly come for all of you to realize that you are teachers. In India, we have tie-ups with two universities—one in Jaipur and one in Jodhpur—and through government recognition, Yoga in Daily Life can be studied up to the university level, and you can make this happen. Now everywhere there are techniques. We are here, and we conduct things from Jodhpur or Jaipur. So I ask: those of you who wish to become masters, please tell me, and we will arrange it, whether in Jaipur or at our college in Jadan. You will study in our college and also in Jadan. Then you will have a qualification that allows you to teach others and become a very good teacher, a master. This is crucial for us to understand. Now it is your turn—I am already old; I can come and sit with you, and that is that. But you will now carry this into the whole world. I was like one tree, but this tree has so many seeds, fruits, and seeds that go further and further. You are all here not only to practice yoga and learn yoga; we must pass it on to others. That is why I told you that you should have three, four, five dear children. And that is also why I said you should have three or four yoga teachers. Yes, why not? I would like to know how many Yoga in Daily Life teachers will surpass you. I told everyone: have a good husband or wife and then good children. To make this world harmonious again—with peace, understanding, spirituality, thoughts of God—all humans should be like brothers and sisters. Now is our time. Our time means we must bring to this earth what is good for humanity. And you know, you are great, you are very great yogīs. I have watched everyone here, and no one was doing anything negative. Some people said, “Your yoga teachers are very humble, they don’t speak much, nobody is laughing, they just sit and drink something.” But from here in Europe we will bring to India what yoga truly is. Therefore, in your village, in your city, in your home—wherever it may be—that is why I told you a month ago: all of you, take two or three weeks and teach yoga. Of course, you are all in one country, and you have so many yoga teachers; now they can go anywhere and teach. Yet we must remain in oneness. So I have said it, and you should do it. See where you can hold classes, find out where new courses would be possible. Maybe three people, one day or two days. Teach something. One person teaching ten people in a village will make them gurus. Yes. Guru means teacher—it is a Sanskrit word, just as “teacher” is German or English. So you are all teachers, which means you are gurus. And that guru has many, many contexts. You are with your wife or husband, in a household, yet you are teaching them as their teacher. In your school, in your college, in your universities, who is teaching? They are teachers, masters, and they are also family. That is it. So we bring something in a good way, through good people. You may teach only one person. In one little village, you are there, and only one person will come. Then another will ask, “Oh, what are you doing?” “Yoga.” “What is that?” When I first came here, people did not know what yoga was. Now the name of yoga is known across Europe and the whole world. And mostly, there are some master gurus, very nice, with very nice schools, colleges, or yoga centers. Great saints from India and their students have come out into the world, and they are offering very good teachings for learning yoga—not only āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, but far more. Yet now some say, “Just do āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, okay, and don’t talk about meat and alcohol; do what you want, we aren’t asking.” That is not good. On the contrary, tell people to be vegans. Yes, all vegans. Very healthy. So if you can take five people, make them vegans, and add ten percent yoga practice, it will work through the body beautifully. You know, we have scriptures about animals: love them, protect them, feed them, do not kill them. This we should always write somewhere—on the back, on that side. You know that for many years we had that paper everywhere, a sticker, you know. Yes, please pass it on. So you came, you learned spiritually good things, not negative. If someone said, “Oh, it was not good,” that is negative—but we have nothing negative. We are clean, completely clean, so you are already like a guru. Guru means teacher. Guru means teacher, student. So in this way, when you sit with your family and say something, they will understand. And so it is with our children: you know our little children are so great. Many times, if I don’t say anything, “Okay, prasāda is finished,” they will ask, “But where is the prasāda?” And if we start eating without prayer, the children say, “But prayer. Where is Svāmījī? Please, prayer.” Yes, that means you have given them the knowledge. So of course, we do not talk about “your religion, my religion, their religion.” All religions are the best, but we do not want killing—that is it. So you will bring good knowledge, good things to your village, to your city, to your country. Now you have sown a seed within yourself, and you will make that seed even more beautiful. Because the corona pandemic has done many things, but many people come and say, “My God, we want to be with God.” Many, many people in America, Australia, and all such places are turning to vegetarianism. This is one point. Second: always try to learn good things. We ask our brain, “What will I do today? What is God? What is my mother? My father? Where are my children?” If the father has given life and the mother has given nurture, they are connected as one. But if the mother is gone and the father is somewhere else, the thread is broken. Children do not know what to do. “I am the father, my father; I will be with my father,” and that also applies to my father and mother: “It is my mother.” But my children said, “Please do not separate us; we must go where spirituality is good.” So what we call God—we don’t know which God is there, yet everyone’s God is one God. And what are they telling? God is doing something, giving to us. Therefore, we should never promote fighting or anything like that. I want my children to be humble, kind, peaceful, spiritual—everything. During these days while you have been here, you know very well that everything in this āśrama was done beautifully. There was no noise, no sounds anywhere. People did not create any disturbance in the evening light. With beautiful rooms and halls, all was peaceful. I can say, you are all already holy saints. What is a spiritual saint? You are one. To ste vy? And now you should know that Svāmījī has said you are a spiritual master, a guru. Yet if you find yourself at a petrol station and someone says, “Just a little bit, take this”—some kind of animal product—and you say, “No, please—can one piece be okay?”—you never do it; you are all fine. We will manage it slowly, slowly. So thank you very much in this way. Always think of your body—by “body” I mean all the different parts within: what is our heart? Where is our stomach? All the inner instruments? Everything. They all need proper nourishment. Those who have disease—of course, everyone has some disease, and it can be managed—but the first thing is nourishment, only nourishment. In these last two years, and now more than that, one day I was sitting and said, “Maheśvarānanda, you are a yogī, you teach yoga, and yet you can do nothing. Now you go to the doctor, you go here and there.” So I said, okay. Truly, I tell you, our Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Holī Gurujī—I said, “Please, I will take Saṅkalpa.” In that way I resolved, “I will live a Saṅkalpa. I will come again to that truth: yes, I am also a yogī.” I had been doing many things, five times over. Sometimes I was eating and eating and eating; sometimes running, working, sometimes doing more meditations—many things like that, but always on the right path, never with alcohol or anything like that. Still, if one drinks half a bottle or a bottle every day, it is very harmful, so that is very important. In that regard, I never touched such things, but I was working, flying many times around the whole world, visiting devotees and disciples everywhere. In some countries they come and go, come and go, come and go. But you are all already like gold. Now this gold will go further. So I said to myself, “Maheśvarānanda, you have so many diseases in your body, and you tell people, ‘Practice yoga, be good at this.’ My legs were sweating, my back was not good—many things. Yet I was teaching, speaking, giving lectures. But then I said, ‘No, I will live long.’” Thank you. And then I asked, “But how will I live long? Through the body. And what should I do with the body?” You know. So I focused on nourishment. Because you know, there is always the temptation to take this chocolate, that cheese, this and that—always. So I said: nature is the mother. Nature is the mother, and the father is self-control. And so, the salad. This salad has many leaves and all different kinds of vegetables, cut into small pieces, and add the salad leaves and everything. Then we have different kinds of seeds—pumpkin seeds, other seeds, many seeds. Dry-roast them a little, without oil. Then nicely simmer them and add about three to four tablespoons into the salad, along with a little very good oil. Sesame seeds, other very nice seeds—dry-roast only, not fried. If you wish, a little salt, and then black cumin (black seed) and black pepper. That is very, very good. There are two kinds of both, and we should include them. Because many people have constipation, or those who don’t may get it. So if you include one spoon of these seeds and black pepper, all your intestines will be very nicely cleaned—no pain, nothing. So everything comes out; very important. Eat plenty of this salad with all these seeds. Afterwards, take a little bread—one or two slices, or one or two chapatis—and some soup. There are different kinds of vegetables, and you should do it after all. But so much salad is inside you; how much can you not eat? You cannot eat too much. After two weeks, sometimes people come and offer praṇāma at my feet. When they stand up, they sometimes bump into my stomach, so I was always stepping back. Anyway, yoga. So if you practice yoga, you should know what it is. And ninety‑five percent of our yoga teachers and students here have such good bodies—very nice. Sometimes five people can fit onto one seat for a while, while two cannot even get in; but of course some have a naturally sturdy build; they are not ill, just have a solid, healthy body. Everything is okay, very good, but healthy. That is it, and that health comes through yoga. Many times the doctor said to me, because I had something, “But you are a yogī.” And that is why I am making experiments. Okay. So you are all yogīs. You are healthy. And there are two things we should eliminate: white sugar. White sugar has caused many, many diseases—many, like what you call cancers and things like this—not only sugar, but also... If we must sweeten, we should use other sweeteners, like good jaggery or something similar. You also had very nice sugar before. About 150 or 200 years later, this white sugar appeared. I don’t know what Austrian people told me; after the First and Second World Wars, they were all asking, “Where is the white sugar?” Is that how it happened? Actually we had very nice sweets: honey and many things. So white sugar is not good, and one more thought I’ve just forgotten. Because that person doesn’t want to tell me—also not good. No, not the person sitting here or not, but not you, okay? Anyway, we should switch to other sugars. You know sugar cane is very good, but the sugar cane is put into the field, and we turn it into white sugar. You know I have given out gourd; many people took some with them. Every day, just take two almonds and one or two pieces of nut, a little brushing of the gourd—like air brushing, teeth brushing—and take a little gourd in your mouth. It is very, very good, and then you won’t want sugar. And when you make chai or tea, many Muslims in many countries put a little jaggery in the mouth and then drink the tea. That is very good. But our people put two spoons of sugar into one cup; that is not good. It is not good for the urine. So this sugar is not good, yet we keep taking it. If you like sweet tea, there are many other sweet teas. And guḍa—I don’t know, I’m not making a business—but maybe there is still some for you to take with you; otherwise, we will like it. I got it from the nursing home in Purī. Purījī and Narasiṅha Purī brought a very clean pyre, which is good. And when I returned from India, my disciple—who has his own sugar cane field—prepared three parts of this plant. I have some in my room, but I don’t use sugar. Sugar is gone. Then when I do want sweetness, what is it called? Mong sugar. Mongs means yogīs, swamis, and it is a need: very sweet, very sweet, and only by touching my finger—like this—a big cup becomes sweet enough. It is a tree, a fruit. Anyway, we will think about this next time. Before going to sleep, put one spoon of this mong sugar into your mouth, and you will sleep. So the salad with some very good oil, some seeds—do it. Experiment. My experiment is great. You know, I want to tell you, because I had so many difficulties in my body. And now my doctor is here—Dr. Martin, I don’t know who he is now—and Dr. Vera, and my doctor in Vienna, a very great doctor, and all of them, along with those from Jaipur and Jadan, have said I have no disease.