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We must be in unity

Yoga and daily life lead to peace, purity, and realization of the Absolute.

Yoga practice is peaceful and extends beyond the physical body to Paramātmā. Food must be very clean and pure. Many medicines contain hidden animal products, which is not good. In India, pure yogic food is traditionally given. Some teachers maintain this purity completely. Modern food nourishes diseases like cancer. Cancer always existed but now increases. Yoga centers and gurus follow sanātana dharma, teaching pure practices, exercises, meditation, and right food. Some now avoid speaking of dietary restrictions. All paths and techniques lead to one reality. India’s ancient knowledge is vast, with Vedas considered very old. The four Vedas and scriptures preserve this wisdom. Before invasions, the Gurukul system offered broad, deep education. The great library at Takṣaśilā burned for six months, destroying much knowledge. The system persisted until removed by the British. When Europe had nomads, India had culture. Efforts recover lost knowledge, as the tradition remains a source of truth.

"Yoga practice is that which is very peaceful and harmonious, and not only for the physical body, but further, for all, till Parabrahma, Paramātmā."

"We should all be one... They are teaching the same thing, and we are all coming to one point, because that is the reality."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Hari Om, all my dear sisters and brothers around the whole world, blessings for all of you, those practicing yoga and daily life, and other yoga practitioners. Yoga practice is that which is very peaceful and harmonious, and not only for the physical body, but further, for all, till Parabrahma, Paramātmā. Many, many people are there, even I don’t know them, because many are practicing further and giving others teaching in yoga in their life with the books and like this. We shall remain peaceful, and peaceful means that our food is very clean and very good. Different people think that they have no food, but this is not meat or something. But many, anywhere you see, there is the inda, what can we call, eggs, meat, many things in different, in many medicines. You should go and see many things from the animals, in many medicines. So, that’s that. We know that in India, according to Indian yoga, the Indians are always giving very pure and very good food. Yes, there are people already. They begin, like, in this, what they call the Indian medicines, like this different. And they were also giving some kind of animal things. That’s not good. Now they are also meeting inside. Many other good people are also very pure and clean. I don’t know, but in my thinking, our Rāmdev is very good. You know, Rāmdevjī, he is not putting anything from the animals or something like that, as long as I know. But someone may be telling something that I don’t know, but as far as I know. Like this, there are other yogīs also. There is something like that, Śrī Śrī and some others. But others, the doctors and the like, medical doctors or these others, may be putting something different. It is sometimes said that there was some kind of mixing, but some animals died, and their bones and such were put in the fire to make something, and then you are licking this, but not killing. This is that we are also, that we are the whole world everywhere. Our yoga in daily life is very, very pure. And that’s why they have not so much about what you call this corona and this. Yes, some people have long had in their families what we call cancer. And the cancer was always and everywhere, but nowadays, because of the kind of food we are having, these are nurturing it, and that is coming from this. And people, there are many, they are making some kind of medicines or something, food and like this, and that brings it, cancer. Cancer is not only now, it is in the animals and in the humans also, but not that much. Now you can see how many are suffering from cancer. So, yoga practicing, our yoga centers, and especially like our yoga gurus or mother figures, what we can say, Satgurujīs, Gurujīs, whatever this is, they are sanātana dharma. And that is all doing, and many people, Śrī Arimaya, it is like this: all Swamis from India, many, many are yogīs, and many, many yoga centers they have, and they have a doing and going in other countries. And they had a very nice, they had the yoga centers, and they were very pure, very clean. They were teaching exercises, yoga, meditation, about food, health, etc. But now, after some time, some people come and say they don’t want to talk about the meat and these other things. It means that they don’t want to tell anything and let them do. This is a different time now, and in this, I want to tell all my disciples and other yogīs, please, those who were there for a long time, many like Śivānanda, their name is always very good, and many others, and they were always very pure, clean, and also in satsaṅg, bhajans, everything. So, let us come to this time. I was thinking that we should tell in the whole countries of the whole world and tell our yoga, yoga and daily life. And from our people, we should tell other yoga teachers and yogīs. We should also tell them we are very happy that you are with all, doing like it is. It is, we should all be one. And what does the one mean? This is all techniques and yogic and everything, every book and everything. They are teaching the same thing and all, I am also teaching like this and everything, that is very good. Yeah, maybe some words are different, this and that. One is coming from the east, from the north, or the other side, or this comes. But we are all coming to one point, because that is the reality. Reality, which is in our yoga, in all books, and like this. Yes, it is about, let’s say, 80, 90 years, or maybe 100 years. Many things, our Indians, some people, they are changing very much and going back to the other side. You know where yoga was, where it was first, and how it was. This is our Sanātana Dharma, Sanātana Dharma, Ṛṣis, Sanskrit—this all. And it was the first, what we call the language, or this is what we call it. And also, there were universities in India. But they have dropped down, but all the books are there, and you should read. Bring the books, and our Swami Meripas, our Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Jñāneśvar Purījī, he will tell about these books and how it’s coming. So he will tell us something. We all, we don’t tell negative to anybody, but we know what our purity is in that way, and to become that is the God, that is the real God. So Jñāneśvarānandajī, come, tell something please, you can take this mic or the other one. Hari Om, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Devādī Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Alakhpurījī Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Hindudāraṇa Samrāj, Madhavānandajī, Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānanda, Samāśānjī, Gurudeva, Kī Jai. So we have, we are following the Indian tradition, which is very old and from time immemorial, because basically we don’t know from how far it went. According to Western scholars, the Vedas, the first written books, are a minimum of 4,000 to 6,000 years before Christ. According to the Indian tradition, they are at least one million years old or so. Because there is a difference with the timing and so on. But we are not going into that. So the scriptures are so many, and we know that they are like the Ṛg Veda, Yajur Veda, Sāma Veda, and Atharva Veda. These are the four main Vedas, which actually are one, but they are divided so that we would easily remember them. And then they divided more into six parts on how to learn them, and this is only the main. And, of course, we know about the Mahābhārata, the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and many other books. Once upon a time, before the Mughals came to India, there was one very big Gurukul. So there was teaching before in the schools, and Europe was similar. So, around five or six years old, you would go to school, and then you had a vast spectrum of learning. Not like nowadays, where you learn very small things, like in very dedicated schooling, but you had extreme knowledge. So when I speak today, nowadays, with the professors who were from the previous Gurukul era, they have written, for example, they wrote, read all Vedas, all Upaniṣads, Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, Rāmcaritmānas, all these things. But the new, they read only one of these. So this is the difference: we have a big and directed approach. So long back, there was one very famous university, Takṣaśilā, in North India, Northwest India. And unfortunately, during the invasion of the Mughals, they destroyed the whole university. And of course, every conqueror has the idea that his knowledge is the best, and they are trying to remove all other knowledge from the planet. And, similarly, if you remember, was in Alexandria, the burning of the Alexandria library. So, Takshashilā library was so big that when they burned it, the fire was going on for six months. So there were so many handwritten books that the fire was going on for six months. And, of course, some books were saved, but not as many as were destroyed. So this is only one part. In one of the biggest universities, you can imagine what happened with the smaller ones. And especially now, again, still the Gurukul system persisted until it was finally removed in 1835–1850 by the British. And then this new modern university system started in 1875, which is completely different from the previous ones. So the university and the teaching education in India is not from the recent period. India is one of the countries which, when there were nomads in Europe, in India there was already a culture. So the knowledge which was here in this part of the earth is still very, very big and very vast, and we are hoping, we are trying in Jadan and in Jaipur to get access to this lost knowledge, and we are hoping that, of course, we will manage to save some things. Because of Swamijī and Viśvagurujī’s greatness, Swamijī is building the ashram, Om Ashram, which is becoming more and more famous in India, but Viśvagurujī is very famous in India for his work around the world, and basically wherever I go, in any university or any place, just by mentioning Swāmījī’s name, I have open access. Because Swamiji did so much work abroad, that work is also reflected here. So because of that, we have access to many books and many things. It’s not easy, but still we are trying. So it’s not that India is uneducated; this was all political games and so on. But the thing is that from before, when the dark ages came, everything basically went down. So still now the knowledge is getting returned, people are researching, and we are also researching and trying to find out what is reality, what is unreality, what is truth, and what is just imagination of the people. So, the work is still in progress. I would like to thank our Viśvagurujī for the help he is giving us in this regard. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jāya, Viśvagurū Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānandajī, Gurū Deva, Kī Jāya. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Kī Jaya, Śikābīrḍhājī Kī Jaya, Bholiś Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Śrī Madhavānanda Jī Kī Jaya, Jayā Mātēśvarī Jaya.

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