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Manva Dhire Dhire Cal

Posture affects health, and yoga practice sustains well-being.

Sitting incorrectly compresses the stomach, causing it to protrude. Yoga practitioners typically maintain good health and form. Observing extreme physical conditions elsewhere highlights this contrast. The practice brings steadiness. Grace guides the spiritual journey. A seeker finds a path through stress, entering service and forgetting the self. Over time, obstacles are removed not by solving but by transcending them. Grace is perpetual and multifaceted, like nature's rains—sometimes thundering to awaken, sometimes soft to nurture, sometimes heavy to cleanse.

"By losing myself in Seva, I gain peace."

"Gurudev’s grace is like the Gaṅgā River."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Humbulī Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Devaśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai. Mana vadhira dhīra cāga gaṅgā caraṇanare bahi ājara mahātara nādiyā cāle, lāmbī lāmbī kāi sahasrakoṣa gagana ke upara vāpara hera gurāī. Sahasrakoṭa nādiyā calī lāmbī lāmbī kāī. Sahasrakośa gaganake upara vahapāra hīrā gurāī, mānavā dhire dhire chaga gaṇagāra caraṇare bai... Galiya choti, rāta andherī, rāste meṁ chikanāī. Agar cirabate pāvada tumhārā, paroge uṭhāī. Galiya choti, rāta andherī, rāste meṁ chikanāī. Agar śrapate pāvata tumhārā, parohī manavā dīre dīre, chagagana gara caraṇa revahī. Manva dhire dhire chag ghan gar char nare bhai, Pachi pachi so beli ho kar moha rāga sunā. Rāga sunā ya tero mana mohe rastu deya bhulai, Sunaya Tero Manamo Rasode Abulahi. Marijau bho gurujī, tope varṇah ho... Jīvo kāraṇe, āpe kāraṇe, ārījā sattā tōpe vādāyā, tā kāchū rākhe. Amma dhamma ora daya dilamma hi Raka patta kachura jasa Maa jai jai... kare jai jai. Satta guva dahi sab se pyārā, nāśī sādhā hī līyārī. Prema nāhir mo sābhase pāyāyā. Praśana ho yādhikāvena, praśana ho ikalā gurūyā. Jārābhāryā mūdhiṣaṇā tathārīcārīśā pūpāyāyā. So we should sit more straight. Mostly, people who are sitting not straight—also in office and like this—they are leaning forward. And when it’s like that, then the stomach has problems because it’s pressing everything, eating inside. So the stomach is helping. And you know that? Because when we go forward, then comes the out. Comes the belly out. So, day by day, the stomach comes out because of suppressing; otherwise, it goes completely. So, I was thinking, how is it that many people have their stomach coming so out? Then, after it’s out, they cannot go forward. They have to go more out and more out then. But our Yoga in Daily Life, people, 99% have a good stomach. Two or three of us need them, yes. Otherwise, our yoga and their life and all other yoga also. Those who are practicing yoga, it means that they are also healthy. Then, of course, someone has a body like this, so even if they don’t eat too much, the body is more strong, stomach and everything. We don’t know anything like this. We don’t know about it, we don’t know about it ourselves from our own experience. In all of Croatia, or anywhere, in the whole of Europe, I have not seen. But when I went to New Zealand, there are two parts. Some are from Europe, Britain, and so on, like we are there. And the other people, they are all the way from their aborigines, Maui. And they are very good. When they go to the aeroplane, in one seat they cannot. So it takes two, really. One person came from Jodhpur, India, and I came slowly. I went inside, and my seat was there. But another person came; he was like this. The plane was trying to take off, and the people said, "Please, Swāmījī, sit." Because which seat? I have no seat. So the whole people were there. So I went to the other place, somewhat empty, a little bit, so I went there, really, really. It’s not a joke. And if you don’t understand, because you were not there in New Zealand... So you know that now they have a lift. When a person is ill, they bring them there. So when the nurse wants to clean them or this, they cannot. So now they have a lift, so they can clean like this and put him down again. Yes, do you know that? Maybe in America also, no? So in the hospital, they are like this. You cannot put like this and like this. But we are good, but we have that, we have likely something so that we don’t roll down, set. We are perfect, and because of yoga, and in yoga is Yoga in Daily Life, very good. So, I’m so happy that you are there like this, and we are great. We are not so fat or something like this. Yes, they are also, yeah. Yeah, they are like this, very good. So, again, what was food was good. So we should have today some bhajans. And there are many who will speak the language again. Yesterday we were talking very much, but we were eating too long. So, first let’s have a bhajan. Ānanda Muratī, Kṛpā Karo Mahārāja Sat Saṅgam Paḍharjo, Sūphala Karo Sabkā Gaṇādīśa Gaṇarājho, Gajānanda Sukhāro Ab Devanā Me Devbharā Hā Bhūpanā Kebu Bhajānanda Gaṇapati Hṛddhi Siddhi Kedātā Nāgata Lepadhār jo Arso Amṛtadhā Śrī Madhavānanda ke Ānanda karo Mahādeva kī jai, Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jai, Śrī Śrī Devapurījī, Mahādeva kī jai. Khanna Dina Bhadha Kire Mekanya Kuwari Na. God bless you. Śrī Dīp Naryam Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Śrī Devpurījī Mahādev Kī Jai. Mātājī, you will speak today something, okay? Yeah. Come, speak something. Yes, how you meet me, okay? How you met me, how I met you. You and how you came and who became a sannyāsī. That’s a good idea. You can stand or you can sit. That’s good, yeah. Disciple's Address: Praṇām Gurudev. Praṇām Guru Bhrātṛi a Guru Sestri. How can I describe my joy being here? Because I am very far away from all of you. And Gurudev has given me this chance during COVID-19, when I had been locked up for almost one and a half years since I came back from China to Vancouver. And due to Gurudev’s grace, I am here with all of you, my brothers and sisters, and I feel this joy of being with the family. How I met Gurudev. I think Gurudev found me. He found me when I was very late in my age. I have been here and there all over the world before I was 59. I was traveling around the world, everywhere. It is a big dream, I think, like the majority of people, but toward retirement, suddenly everything is happening in the family. My parents were very sick, and then my own self is away from the family but looking after my parents in Malaysia. I left them at a very young age. When I came to my middle age, I suddenly realized that my parents needed me. So there was a lot of stress going on for a few years, going back and forth between Canada and Malaysia. So from a friend who told me that Yoga in Daily Life was opening, but I did not even know it was Yoga in Daily Life. I was just told that there was a yoga center opening during the time when I was most stressed. So I went for the opening, and I came to this yoga center. And I sat down, and I saw a man in orange on the stage. And then a lady came in, and she nodded at the man who was sitting on the stage. When she sat down beside me, I said to you, "Do you know him?" And she said, "I had a dream of him, and then I saw the act the next day of the same man, so I came." So from that day onward, she and I—her name is Alexandra—both of us practice Yoga in Daily Life. And gradually, I became more relaxed through the system. And so, after one and a half years, I took mantra from Viśvagurujī. And there my journey began. How do I describe my journey? I didn’t know it was a journey. I thought I just came for relaxation, getting rid of my stress. So, Viśva Gurujī was coming every year. And then later on, Swami Gajānand was sent to Vancouver. So I was doing Seva for Swami Kitanen, and through Seva, I forgot my stress. But my trouble never went away, but how can I describe it? I did not know that I am being guided. It’s true. So many obstacles came, and I was learning a lot from Swāmī Gajānanda through the grace of Viśvagurujī. I did not know at that time, but as I go on my journey, I am just trying to lose myself in Seva, and by losing myself, I gain peace. But the journey can be said short, or can be said long, but it’s not as long as most of the people I know from here. For a long time, I was on the journey alone, but I was not alone. And I think when I say I’m not alone, I think we all understand why we were not alone. But at the time I didn’t realize that, but as I went on to solve more and more of my problems—not actually solving them, but forgetting about them. So the journey has been now 20 years. But as I was making a lot of savor... In the ashram, time just went very quickly, and one forgets oneself, but eventually they were removed through the grace of Gurudeva. And I am quite sure each one of us realized this miraculous grace, and Gurudev’s grace is—what is the word for it, not indescribable, but an ending? There is no end of grace, and I think each one of us... You will realize how much grace that is, and when I was sitting under the tree, I felt that the big protection of this tree is our lineage. And when yesterday evening, or even daytime, I was sitting there, the raindrops started to drop, and I felt the fragrance of this rain coming. And the raindrops are like the grace of the Gurudeva. And I think Mother Nature gave us thunderstorms and heavy rain, and soft rain. And this is like our Gurudev’s grace, like this morning, Gurudev thundering, but it is still love, and this thunderstorm wants to wake us up. And the soft rain is the soft grace that we are getting, like what we are doing now here. And then there is heavy rain and it washes all our karma away. So Gurudev’s grace is like the Gaṅgā River. Thank you.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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