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We should have roots

Yoga is a progressive path requiring tailored techniques for growth, like a child advancing through life stages. We must evolve beyond mere physical exercise to teach yoga's full science, especially at universities where its depth is often unknown. Many traditions and teachers exist, each with their own disciples, just as every mother has her own child—all are valid and should be respected. True roots come from genuine lineage and practice, not from those who claim exclusivity. Modern life severs these roots, leading to disconnection, much like a leaf blown from its tree. Our goal is to merge with the divine, like a drop returning to the ocean, through sincere practice and loyalty to authentic teachings.

"University, but I don't know what yoga is. So, we have to teach them at the university. Because only physical exercises are not enough."

"Similarly, everyone has their mother, their father, their children, friends, etc. And that is what we call the best path."

Filming location: Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Very good. We must always create slightly different techniques for everyone. For about a year now, we have had these two or three different techniques. All that we have been teaching, we should continue. It is like a little child; this child will grow a little. Then you can walk, and then again, another comes, working with toys. Then, walking, coming, going with the parents, going with the mother, shopping, etc. Then go to school, class by class, every year. And we are progressing more and more toward something to do. Then some become doctors, professors, scientists, etc. And so are we all like this. But they know how to do it, and they are always thinking about how it was with parents, house, friends, etc. And so it is that we also have our own yoga in life techniques; from time to time, we are taking them in from a far distance. In that way, our people also will come more. Otherwise, all the time, the same exercise, same exercise. Yes, some come and then some go. We always have to give further. And all of you should become good teachers, our yoga teachers. Now, people in many countries are thinking that every yoga center and people of yoga should be at universities. But they don't know what yoga is. University, but I don't know what yoga is. So, we have to teach them at the university. Because only physical exercises are not enough. They should know further what the signs of yoga are. And yoga is the science of humans, and so we have to show them more. Now, in your country also, they want to have, with universities, all this learning yoga first. But what is that? Football is always only if we are kicking the football. Left, right, straight, that's all. And so, still, people don't know what a guru is and what kind of guru. These spiritual gurus, they learn from the great ṛṣis, learn the Vedas, Sanskrit, and all further. So our yoga in daily life is very great. So now I am telling you that you should make yourself, and you should learn it. And at the universities, when you go for learning, then you have to pay the money. Of course, they have to pay. So in other countries, Vienna is more money, here is less. London is more, but the same language; language is the teaching of that same yoga. So we have now three universities for us in India, and this is that: first is that we have from Jaipur, and that is Sanskrit, yoga, etc., and this is Yoga in Daily Life. In Jaipur, and then Jadan, Jodhpur, and in Jodhpur there is a very big university, and there we are giving yoga. Some people are talking, some now they are attacking, that they want to have all, only one yoga center. And they don't know what they are teaching. Yeah, and so that is somebody they think that I want to be the whole world god of it. After some time, perhaps it will be nothing anymore. But we have many, many great yogīs, sādhus, and yoga teachers. So, in which yogī or guru or Swamījī, who is that and his disciples? So yoga is the same, but everyone has a different guru. And they like their guru. They will learn only from this guru. And so they are very happy with their gurus, and they have their ashram. Yoga in their life, yoga center, Sivanandjī's also yoga in there. So there are many, many good yogīs, many, many yogīs, and there are many disciples. They love them, okay, why not? For example, in one little village, one woman or a lady gives birth to a child. And we are all very happy that the baby comes, and this and that. Next street, in one month, another woman gave birth to the baby. All were very happy also. This is one child, and they are very happy. After some time, the third mother gave birth. And there are also children there, and we were all very happy. Suddenly, we had about twenty children, and we made what we call the kindergarten. And now, their children are flowing, walking, playing. How nice. And after every mother, they come and take the child. So every mother is a good mother. The best child is also always a good child. And our whole street is that more child, yes or not? But only we will say no, only one lady should give children, not others. Or you have a child, your child, give it to me? It cannot be like that. Similarly, everyone has their mother, their father, their children, friends, etc. And that is what we call the best path. Some people say it is the Christians, others say Buddhists, some say Muslims, some say Hindus, yogīs, everything. Yes, it is like that. And so we should respect all in this your country, the many people teaching yoga, and it is very good. I am very happy that they have different yogas. What they said now, we need the learned in university. They want to get money, nothing else. But our yoga teachers bring them to the university and ask them, "Who is your teacher in the university?" He doesn't know what he's teaching. And any teacher with our yoga disciples will come and give you the yoga. How is that? We will talk. What are the mantras, tantras, yantras, pantras, gītās, Hindi, ṭagaḍīgī, āsanas, prāṇāyāmas? But therefore they stick to that. Our yoga instructors know all about yoga. If they were sent to the universe and they would ask those who are in the universe, the professors who teach, they probably wouldn't know anything. Our instructors would know everything about yoga: prāṇāyāma, āsana. How many gurus? How many disciples? Who is coming, going? How is it that? Paramparas, so it means your parents, father, mother, their grandparents, grandparents, etc., and you know that in this city, your parents' house, they lived in this house, and that is very important. But nowadays, the house is gone. The house is gone. Where are the roots? We take one house, and we say, "No, it's not good," we sell it, and we make another house. After the children, they are not like this, then they go somewhere else, and they are going somewhere. Where are the roots of your village, your city, and your parents? And how many, how do we call our old parents? They were here. For example, I tell you, because in this country, there is a church. And we all go to the church. Our great-grandparents were there. All of them were coming to our church. These are our roots. It is like this, so we cannot say no. We don't put this "no." So where are our roots in this world? So where is the root for you? How did it come to one guru and then to other gurus? When we see the Kumbh Melā, how many sādhus are there? Thousands of them. Yes? Everyone has their gurus, and everyone has their disciples. And nobody tells that: "Come all to me." I am a good guru, come to me. And if someone will tell you, "Come to me, I am the best guru, you come to me," then that other person said, the person said, "Not gurus," he said, "Yes, come to me. You want other gurus, you know?" Then he said, "Yes, other gurus are good. Do you like them?" Yes, I want to have a guru. I am a good guru, he said. So that guru is, which they want to tell, that you should become my disciple too, his disciples who are taking other children also to the guru, to this one. Go to your guru. My mother gives me the milk, not your mother. Understand? Therefore, we should not tell the people, and when somebody is telling, "This is not good," you come to me, and this is not good to me also. This is not good. And that's why the science, yes, that science is the science which is the best science. And go to the universities; everything is destroyed. Parents, families, place, everything is in universities: America, Africa, India. And where's your grandmother? She's dying. Ja, mama. Maming. Maming. It will be okay. Don't be careful, okay? I will come one day next month. O my child, do you know you were in my womb? For nine months I was suffering, my child. But though it was pain and this and that, I was happy that for my child this year. The father was sleeping in the kitchen. Because the mother is now having pain and this and that, and he said, "You are always going this, you go in your room and sleep. I must sleep somewhere." And when the child is born, how many times does the mother clean the child? Yes, but then after the sun comes, also, yeah, my son is good and good, you know. And, you know, everything is going. And then, mommy, father, give me money. I go, this for ice creams, that, this. In the school, in the college, don't give any money. You have food, you have milk, you have everything. You have chocolate, I give. And when you need something, I will give you. But now, how much money is going? They come to the mother, take it, and go, hurry up. And then they go somewhere, learning, and they are gone. Hurry up. Where is the mother? She is sitting here. The father is somewhere, alcoholic. And the children are here and there, and don't know what to do. How many children, many children, they cannot study now. They are drinking this, that. This is the situation. And before a hundred years, eighty years, sixty years, everything was still good. This is the same situation for the disciple and guru. Because they don't have a guru. Anybody comes with a dress, you don't know, with this cloth, okay, I'm a guru. And teaching this, and coming, and this, and Jyotiṣ, and this—oh, my guru, oh, my guru—but where are the roots? So our roots are Alak Purījī, and we adore Alak Purījī. And Alak Purījī is from the time of Śiva. We don't know, but in the Śiva Purāṇa there is Alak Purījī written in it. In the Vedas, it is written that the river Alakṇandā then becomes the Gaṅgā. So, Alaknandā, how many years, ages? So there is a Śiva, Śiva, Śiva-śukra. So Sat-yuga, that is called Sat-yuga. Sat-yugas, Dwāpar-yugas, Tretā-yugas, and Kali-yuga are now. And how and what happens now? So therefore, my dears, your neighbor's woman has children, and we should be very happy for her and her children, and we are very happy that we have a child, our neighbor's. So it means that where there is a good guru, but don't tell everybody, "Okay, I'm a guru, I'm a guru." But you don't know that. Many worldly people in these countries, they don't know what a guru is and how that is. He said, "I am a guru. Oh yeah, this, yes, I can do everything, oh yes." And teaching is like when a child is born, and then it comes to the mother, and she gives it milk to drink. Then comes something to drink, something to eat, something to walk, something, etc. And so is the yoga teachers. When we begin, it is like this sarvahitāsana. And many other gurus, they are teaching like this; it is the same. There are 84, 84, 80.5. This is the meditation, the exercise. On this, which many, many postures are different, not human. You know that with many, many names? Also, they are in the water, in the ocean, or in the water, and sitting on the back like this. Cobra, yes? Scorpio. All the creatures, eighty-five. And that helped so many. What is, first it was like that, but now there are many, many exercises we did. So in this way, remain true to our gurus. We don't know. We die, for example, one day in this country. And you think, again it will come back in this country? We don't know where it will go. The ocean is there. Water coming up as a cloud. All clouds, and which drop will go where. When one dies, then you know that's Ātmā, the soul. When it goes from the body, then this is going so straight, quickly, like in the night a star is falling. We said, "Hey, look, where?" It's gone. So this soul, this jīva, was running away because I was suffering so much in this body. I will go again to the Brahmalokas, but we, as humans, we make ceremonies, we are going in the earth, or the fire, or in the water, etc. And every time, on a day, there is a day when we all go to the cemetery. Our grandmother, great-grandmother, they are all there, and we are going there. And the others said, "I am not anymore." So we don't know. You know, I write sometimes about a tree and the leaves of the tree. Pata, the leaves of the tree. That is, so one leaf was beautiful. Very beautiful. And then it becomes cold and yellow, like we are also old. And wind comes, and from the tree it falls down. How many months was this with this tree? And the beauty of the leaves in the tree. But now it is old and yellow, we have no more power, and a little wind comes and it falls down. That pan said, the leaf said, "I will fall to my mother's feet." No, no, no. Wind will come and take the whole. Where? Over some far distance or on another hill. And when it will fall down, similarly, we are all like this. But when we will go again, father, mother, boy, we don't know. All going, dying. Who is dying? Doesn't matter—animals or anything, things, all humans and others. When they die, all goes through one hole. Like we have qualities, we take it, and the rest all goes back again. So, my dears, we don't know, will I be born in this country, where I will be. How will I go to God, and where is God? Did you see God? And if we can see God, we all will go and catch him. So, that is completely different. So there is an ocean, and from the ocean, with the heat or the wind coming, the first water drop—steam is going—and it's so fine, but it is a drop, it is a drop. So water is very heavy, very heavy. But it comes in so, that even the drop, hokerke, in that drop is going up, becoming, what is? Clouds. And how much is hanging here? How much water? And where will it go? Will it come again? Maybe it will go into the dry Rajasthan and fall in the sand. Very hot. So one drop will go into many, many other drops. When will I come? When will I come to my ocean? In this hand, there is a drop on my hand. In palm, and here is the ocean. But this drop is in my hand here, and the whole ocean is there. And this one is said when I go where it is. This is a drop. It's only one drop. It is one drop, and then one drop more. And very near to me is the ocean. But between my hands, and when we put this drop like this, It's gone. Gone. Where? In the ocean. Where is it? Please, please, take my drop. Gone. And so it is that we should all come to like the ocean, so we will come to the Brahmalokas. And don't think that I will become very great now, and I will be God like this already. No. When the time comes now, one day, half a day, or only one hour, then it will say it. Where will you go? Then I will see that if you did good, then you are going, God said, like that. I did something, but I did only many things: killing them, talking to them, like this. But I was thinking, I'm good. I cannot be. It will go again into the dust, down. So this karma, which kind of karma you are doing, this and that and that and that, and when nobody likes you, when we have this fruit, we peel it out, a banana, and we take everything and we eat it. So when we are old, then your wife will not take you, my dear, sit down. Mother, father, one is in Africa, one is in America, and one doesn't eat anything, only drinking, hating, loving. Where am I? So, therefore, we should become really, really—our mothers, fathers—should be with, and we should be happy, and then give to everything good. So that when you know that you are now, we are going to the urban high road, and there is one sign: the animals flying, coming, deer or other animals or something. Why? Because their parents, to parents, to... Parents, they smell, they said, and there is our path. So stay in your country, in your village, in your ashram, your yoga ashram, and be happy. When it will come, that will come. So, this is that heart we are doing. I was told thinking very much, so how we are doing with yoga? Because now the universities or somebody are teaching this, they don't only physical things that we don't want only. And in university, go and let your professor, he's teaching, and then you say, "Professor, sir, what is this about Brahmrī?" And does Brahmṛ have how many payas? Yes? Yes? When the Brahmins say, "How many whips does he have?" And one whip is broken. So the left one is good, and the right is not good. How is the sound? Is it there? How to know from which side, left or right? Is it broken or not? And yes, it's good, okay. Then go further. What will be the vibrations in which nostril, and which nostril will give into the brain what is good? And then practice from that, that from the sound here it comes to your toes. He's coming, you know, he said. And then, after it is Brahma, everything is okay. Then your guru is coming and giving you a mala inside, and what is happening? Do you know? Therefore, there are two sciences. This kind of science, we humans, we know, we are very great, we are very far. Everything is not wrong, but this will fall down. And other yoga sādhanā that will go like in the cloud beyond that, that we go to that brahmaloka, we will not come back. We are not suffering because we are not that. What should suffering? It is the light, and light is light. That is. So we have to practice, but we should have to because they will destroy many things otherwise. So make all yoga teachers with the universities, and we have in India, and you can do from here to there. You will come once or twice there in the university, and that is. Less, how do you call them? Money, so, and Sanskrit. And then you will be the perfect of the yogīs here. So you should become our yoga teachers. Do it. You are old. He is the best. Yes, because we have done everything, we know. We will go to the embassy there in India, and they will say, "Yes, Brahmṛṣi." Then he said, The teacher there will say, and we will say, this is not a Brahmari. Oh, yes, sir, it is like that. And, oh, yeah, I'm sorry, that's good. From where are you coming? In Slovenia, from Yoga and Daily Life. So we have to get our good teachers, okay? And they can teach our teachers. So we have to do it. Yogesh Ji is here, and the brothers are there, so you can take some and do it for one month or one week, and then you can come here and do your exercises every day, but we have, that's all. We have, for five years, all for yoga practice, written such a big book. So we should do it. Yoga in their life. And if you said, "Not yoga in their life," then you said, "How do you know what that is?" So what is that? It's only yoga. He says, "Empty. Empty." What is that? Yoga. Empty. So what will be empty? Yoga in daily life. Oh, there are two and three, Yoga in daily life. Thank you. Can you tell us what is that yoga in daily life? Oh yes, there are two ears, one nose. Said yes, nose. You don't know. There are two noses. Can you see? He said, "Yes, but how? Two nostrils. No, I had one for a while." Yes, tell it. Many, many things. When OM, how it is going? And now we have come from the navel. And eight steps there, from the mūlādhāra till this, all coming from the navel. Time vibration is also going down. We will teach further. Very good, thank you. How nice. I'm very happy to see you, and you can come. You should, you should... However, every yoga center here, we should take them to study there. Okay. Hari Om.

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