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Yoga and health

The essence of a yogic life integrates body, breath, and mindful living.

Care for the body through exercise and yoga; neglect brings illness and suffering. Movement is vital, but excess is harmful. Practice moderation. Breath work and meditation nourish the lungs and system. Diet is crucial; consuming meat introduces impurities and disease. Familial ailments can be addressed through lifelong prāṇāyāma. Simple yogic techniques, like using water on the face and nostrils, awaken the body's cells and promote health. The goal is a long, happy life. Householders who work and maintain stable families are great yogīs, providing essential support. Spiritual practice is for everyone, not just ascetics. True yoga brings health, peace, and understanding.

"Movement is very important. Meditation, breath exercises—what we call playing with the breath—are vital."

"Either do not have children, or if you do, the children should have one father and mother in oneness."

Filming location: Zagreb, Croatia

I am very happy to see you all. Vivek Purī is doing good work, and all of you here are working very hard. This is life. We should take care of our body, which we call śarīra, very well. Those who do not exercise will mostly remain ill. All the machines in our body need it. For example, if we do not wash our car for months, many things may not be good. Activities like basketball and football are a joy; a happy body is good. Yoga, or any practice for our body, is essential. We should never neglect it. Only eating and eating is not healthy; it means the body will die earlier with suffering. Movement is very important. Meditation, breath exercises—what we call playing with the breath—are vital. This helps our lungs get good oxygen. Playing football is also good for our lungs. But those who do too much will find the realm wrong; life goes slowly down. After many years, one may not be able to exercise. The muscles feel painful, and so do the bones. That is the difference. Those who do many things are strong and great, but at the end, it is different. In yoga, it is very smooth because we should not do too much. For our yoga, I told you about Sarvahitāsana in our book. I gave up my job and gave a job to Vivek Purī, so he is doing Sarvahitāsana. We should also eat well. Many things are happening now with animals; their muscles are different inside, and many chemicals move within. Many people eat meat, but they suffer afterwards with cancer or a lost life, lying in a hospital in pain. Many cancers... Many people have now come to yoga and do not eat meat. Though we practice only yoga, and it is good, impurities can come from the mother's milk. From the mother's milk comes the child's body, and that is very difficult to purify. So, at that time, we should wait one or two years and clean out many things from not-good eating. Then we will see the child will be great and higher, with no such disease. Another thing is that disease comes from families; what happens to them may also happen to their children. But with prāṇāyāma, which is a very powerful thing—not too much, not for only one month or two years, but for a lifetime—we can help. Pranām means bringing both hands together; then the energy awakens in the whole body, all in one. I will tell you again: in the morning when you wake up and go to the bathroom, see the water. Is it cold water? When water comes in, the whole nervous system relaxes, awakening each and every cell of the body. Sometimes, you see, the ocean water, and even the fish standing... similarly, each and every living being gets rest and peace. In that way, our body... you may be a doctor or someone who studies much, and you know more than me, but still I say that each and every cell in the body awakens with cold or hot water. Tomorrow you should do this. Just come and take water. One drop is enough for the whole nervous system. When water is beautiful, we mostly sit like this, and this part of the body, our face, brings immense energy awakening. We put water on the face and then inhale and exhale. From the nostril, we should take water to the nostrils with one finger, cold water. These are yogic techniques, and they said many diseases can go away. With mantra, with words, giving techniques, we become healthy again. We should, we want, and we will live a long life. It is said, "Oh human, now you have a choice." Enjoy life now. Good, enjoy. Not like modern alcohol, animals, and eating what is in their body from the animal's flesh. One does not know how many things are inside. Your father and mother were healthy, and you are healthy, but when we get from others, that is mostly how people get cancer. At that time, the first... Bābī said many people were dying. People were trying to eat a little good things. Again, people were fighting and killing each other. At that time, people were coming from France and eating meat. Eating was more; many were doing it, but not every day. But now, without meat, one feels one cannot live. Then, after, you will say, "When will it come in the body?" And what we think like this is cancer. But this is not all; many other things come with cancer. In yogic techniques, everything we are... you are all yogīs, you are great yogīs. I am so happy that you are such great yogīs. You see that me and he and she in an orange dress... okay, it is this dress, that's all. But you have many different dresses. It is not in the dress; in your body you are already great yogīs. I can give you the dress; you will become swāmīs in Kumbh Melā. I will make you all Kumbh Melā Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. Don't worry, we will all come in this country, Yugoslavia, Croatia, and we will all come. Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaram, ahaṁ brahmāsmi. Yes, you are all like this inside, so don't say "he" or "me". I will talk myself. They may be great saints, but in my eyes, I said you are greater than me. There is who is living like families and this and that; they are more than who is not. Families, and this, and who is making yoga, or I would say, sādhus and so on. Many sādhus, they are not working, only sitting. "Thank you, I am God." You are not a God. And you, Holy Gurujī said to me that all people who are working the whole day, families and this, and they have money, and all food and this, you are giving us. Does Vivek Purī go every day to the farm and work, doing everything? I also do not. If I go there, everybody will say, "Please sit down." So in this dress, people are happy sitting like this, doing this work. So you are the great yogīs, and you are making more, you are bringing more people. What means more people? Children. Please take more children. Don't worry, money will come from you, because I need many, many of my disciples. So don't lose it, or not lose it, let the children, babies, yes. But you see, always everything is good, nothing is wrong. Everything, there was money I had, but I have the money, this. And this is 100 rupees, and you said, "Please give me 100," but the one cent is missing, so it is 99. But 99 cannot make me complete, and that is a mistake in us. So if you want to have children, then lifelong, both father and mother should be together. Otherwise, a child nowadays, with the husband going away or wife went away, and the child is going here or their children are suffering. O man, O woman, that is sin. Either do not have children, or if you do, the children should have one father and mother in oneness. Life, I think, but you know. When you are together in marriage, then you are enjoying this girl and this boy, and that you are doing everything. What? That you are enjoying the sex, but how long? You are married, very good. Maybe one month, or two weeks, or one year, and slowly it's going. But you should not marry for that. You marry so that you will have a good son, a child, and you will take care of it. Yes, when a seed falls down, that will give you more food. Our food is only what we choose, and what is that? The seed. And this seed is gone; you will not have it again. This is that, so we are all in oneness, and that's why God has given for all of us. And so great are the people who are, how to say, the house, the house family holders, yeah. And the Swamis? A Swami? Today is here, and tomorrow is there. From Africa to Mexico, and Mexico to Croatia, and Croatia somewhere else. Oh, they are yogīs. Why not? Because they are bringing these spiritualities. And all will be becoming Swami. Then who will be there more again? Children. So, you all are giving us bread, you all are giving us fruits, you give us nuts, you are giving us cloth, and they are giving us money. You are the great all humans, this one family. But family should be the real family. Otherwise, it is what we call it, the other word I cannot say, but it is not good that you have done. I became old, so many things I have forgotten, yes. So if then, yes, no, then is no. Otherwise, all the times it comes in the brain, all. The times again, it goes wrong on the other side. So our children, and our children, we want to have students and teachers and professors, and all we need, and again we make it. And your country, look how beautiful your country is, very happy. You are enjoying. It doesn't matter how it is. Politics this and politics that. And you know what is the politics? One is politics like this, and second is like this. Good thing is inside. We go. Live like life. It means that our body, I'm talking about our body, and in the body is not only one cell. Each cell is God. Each cell will make billions of cells. And from there, you are yourself. So it is said that every creature is there, and all animals, but God has given that to all humans. Now I have given all as clean, peace, harmony, and very spiritualities, that I will become like a cosmic. The ocean and one drop are the same. The fire is very big, a very big fire. But there is another fire, this. This fire and the very big house burning is also the same. And this fire is in ourselves, or any animals. So you practice your yoga, your meditation, your mantra, and you are doing, and you are great. I will tell you that yes, you are. Not only is my dress like this, but it has been given to me by my guru. And you know, I am always receiving blessings. I am not. Alak Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and now Holy Gurujī, and now Holy Gurujī, Holy Gurujī gave me this all on my heart. Don't always eat. So, my whole life I have to go, given to me, and if I will be successful and really like God's energy in the last minute of life, therefore, life we should live very happily. When my life will be that, now I will tell from all of you, now please. I cannot wake up. It means that time, my counting, counting there, what things you have done and not, not like, "I was eating this, and then I was eating milk, and then with this, and I was eating here and there." This is nothing but how much killing. How many killings? And a little child is your children? You are killing, taking away. After 25 years of marriage, before, not now, they are saying, I think 25 or 28. After 28, they are married. But that time, then say yes, because that time we know how some it is that yes, then the yes for that. But in this Kali Yuga, they say, "Do what you want, fall into the fire, that's it." So you are keeping your father, your family, so your country is very good. Your people are very good, your wife is very good, your husband is very good, Croatians are very good, so I hope you will be like this. But tell to your child, my child, if you marry, then respect my wife, or respect my husband, and because of my girl, the little girl, where will it go? How long should I be torturing you? Long years, that's a very good hope. Means how many years? So that we should live a long life, but life, long life means not living. I wish, I wish, I pray, I pray to Mahāprabhujī, please, that time when your time is coming, prāṇa will go. In South India, there was one brāhmaṇa and Sanskrit. Very much Sanskrit language, and he became very old, and his father, or his son, was also about 80 years, 80 or 90, and his father was nearly 125, and he's lying there on the bed, and he said to his son, "Come and chant this mantra." And he is also chanting with us, and while doing, when completed, he said, "I am going," and he died. Such people are also... So we have done very, very many things. Now, others, this, you know, every... I told you many things about our, these three techniques: Aśvinī Mudrā, Nābī Praṇām, and Brahmari. Those who don't know this, because I was teaching all the time, so there are only one. So this one will also... you are teaching, going to yoga center, you are going on yoga. No, no... Now, you will come to the Yoga Center, "Yoga in Daily Life," in your country, in many, many cities and villages. Yoga is there, and now we will do this today. And when you are not, who does not learn properly, then Vivek Purījī will give you techniques. But you know what technique? You know how many techniques are there? If you are not practicing, then also technique there, yeah. When Vivek Purī, you are coming and you are not doing, then he will give other technique, yes. And then she will give you, "Please don't do, bring it good again." All ashrams, all centers, we have to be like our mother. You all ladies, I'm saying, not this one. All ladies are our mothers. All men are our brothers. Very nice. So, please, next time when I come, you will be more relaxed, and how many new children will come? That I will give them a good name to children, all my young children, you know. My young children means my disciples, all girls and boys. Please, in one year when I come, there must be something, because they are becoming yogic. They are all yogic, they are all. So we will do. Only five times from the nābī, and then five times brahmari. Others not, okay? So, nabi, middle finger on the nabi. If someone has a big stomach, it can be... some people have a big stomach. Then we have to have something like this. So, practice now this belly. There is one man. He makes like this, and he was very good. That was a good boy. So, Nābī, five times from the Nābhi. You have to realize that all Kuṇḍalinī chakras, and this, you have to bring the sound on from the Mūlādhāra till Sahasrāra, and then coming back to the Nābhi. You will go up, you will go down, and you will come back. This is, I am trying to bring that, what the kuṇḍalinī is, they are thinking there will be no vibration. But health, peace, understanding, good things. So now you can say again and see from here, nābhi, nīval to how vibration brought you, bring it up. Like I'm doing once more, I alone myself by step once more two times, please. There was no difference. Now, this Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, this again is Aum. This is also Aum, and that's Aum. So, only look to me. This is only three steps, and from the nābhi, go. How many steps can you get? Step by step, then coming, then back comes again, nostrils, and from nostrils it is going, falling down from down. Now, try to say, you know, this is all the letters of the, in Sanskrit, in that what we said. And that is A, I, U, E, I, O, A, U, Ṇ, Ṅ, A, H. A, Ā, I, Ī, U, Ū, E, Ai, O, Au, Aṁ, Aḥ. And that is coming to this. On that, according to this, counted by this, the yogī is in this. This is really, really very powerful, and it will be. And you will learn this, and you will get it one day. So, try to go and count, and then count how many steps we are going, but not like, no, sportly. It will be more. Very good. So, for morning, lunch time, and evening. Five times five elements, this you will take a long time, then you will understand, yes, how it is feeling, kuṇḍalinī something, and then brahmari, you know all. So after this, home from the nābhi, and then brahmari, and now the brahmari, there are many. Techniques which, next time I will come, but either your teeth bite, but one stoop not there, or one stoop not there, then don't do, because the vibration is going wrong. So let your jaw relax, but keep your lips closed. Index fingers. And elbows and shoulders, same right. And you need not hear anything from outside, five times, five times more. Bhagavad Gītā.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

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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