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Practicing with Vishwaguruji

The practice of Sarvahitā Āsana and relaxation brings health and peace.

Lie on your back and relax your whole body. Bring relaxation to each part of the head. Raise your head slightly, then place your hands above your head and stretch your toes. Bring your hands back to your sides and stretch your entire body peacefully. Rest with your back fully on the floor, hands out to the sides, legs straight. Turn your head to one side and your knees to the other; this is Sarvahitā Āsana. Breathe normally. These twists massage the stomach, benefiting digestion and relieving gas. For women expecting children, practice brings a peaceful delivery without pain. Bring your knees to your chest and hold them. Turn slowly from side to side, feeling the comfortable stretch. Roll from side to side, then sit up. Lie on your stomach for Ānanda Āsana, the bliss pose, and relax. Deepen your breath, inhaling and exhaling fully. Sit for meditation with eyes closed, using your mālā and guru mantra, feeling yourself in humility and calm.

"The child will come very well, peacefully, and there will be no pain in delivering the child from the body."

"Feel thyself. Try to understand. Feel. Relax. Spiritually, everything."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai, Dev Purīśra Mahādeva Kī Jai, Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai. Badikhatu Pranam. Yesterday we did Sarvaita Āsanas, and today we continue with Sarvaita Āsanas as well as what we call Badikhatu Pranam. So, lie down on your back and relax. Allow your whole body to become very relaxed. Feel your body relaxing, and bring relaxation to each and every part of your head. Now, raise your head slightly above your legs, then straighten your head and place your hands down above your head while stretching your toes. Next, bring your hands back beside your body. Stretch your whole body while lying down, and then let it become very relaxed, stretching peacefully. Your body should rest on the floor, with your back fully down. Bring your hands back alongside your body. Very nice, it looks good. Place your hands out to the sides. Straighten your legs and knees. Now bend your legs—very beautiful. Learn to feel your bodies, how peaceful, how relaxed, how good they feel. Separate your legs a little bit. More, yes, straighten your feet, separate them further. Now you are on both sides—or rather, you are on your back. Very good, one leg is your foot and the other is your knee. One of your knees should touch your foot. Now come up again, and on the other side, your knee should touch your foot. This is Sarvahitā Āsana. Once more, the other side. Very nice, your legs are nicely stretching. And in the other direction, the head is to the right and the knees to the left. Keep normal breath, normal breath. Sarvahitā Āsana—this is the best exercise. Now bring both knees to the middle, and then take your knees nearer to your buttocks as much as you comfortably can. Stretch your hands out to the sides. Now move your knees to the right side, and the leg is on the other side—the right leg rests on the left foot. Your knees are touching each other. Give your stomach comfort and relax, and then come back to the middle. People who have stomach problems will find these three postures very beneficial, giving a kind of massage to the stomach, which is very good. Again, slowly, right leg to the right side, and now the left side: knees together on the side. Your left knee should rest upon your right knee. Then return to the middle. Now bring both knees toward your chest, drawing the knees closer to the stomach and chest. With your knees together, turn your body to the left side and look to the right. Bring your knees towards your stomach and chest. Perfect. This is one of the best for you. Feel how comfortable and good the parts of your body are, enjoying this nice twist. How good this is for our stomach and overall health, and for digestion—many, many things. Now, from the knees to the right, and head toward the knees, toward your chest and stomach. There should be no tension; it is comfortable stretching, as if we are resting in our bed. Then we go to the left side, lie down, and relax. Then we go to the other side, very nicely. One should not twist quickly, for then one gains nothing. And here we are now, twisting. Oh, now we know our body is very happy. Again, slowly, left, right hands. Keep your knees toward your chest as much as you can. Breathe normally. You will feel how your breath system works; you will feel very good after observing how the breath comes. Sarvahitā Āsana—Yoga in daily life, Sarvahitā Āsana. And it will come. Barikatu Pranām. Very nice, feeling nice. You feel your whole back, and we are twisting—it’s very nice. Now come to the middle. The right-side legs are on the edge, and the hands are on the other side. In Sarvahitā Āsana there are many good exercises that are very nice for women who are going to have children. They should practice these exercises; it will be very good. The child will come very well, peacefully, and there will be no pain in delivering the child from the body. This is the name; I will not elaborate further, but it is very good. For men, also those who have stomach problems, digestion issues, or excess gas, this twisting is excellent. Have water and wait for a while. After two weeks, you will see that your stomach will be very beautiful and very good, and all gas will go away. Turn to the right and keep your legs straight. Legs straight, hands beside you, and feel how your body feels. You see, in making yoga, there are two things. Some make it more about exercise and this and that. But those who want the real yoga—meaning yoga in their life—Sarvaśiṣṭi Sahasrās and then others, all around the world. Our students are doing very well and are peaceful. Come on, do the work nicely. Now again, bring your knees up. Yes, and hold your knees with both hands. Keep them very close, holding your knees. This is very nice. Now, do it yourself very peacefully for a while. Remain on this side, then come to the middle, and then again to the other side. And of course, the movement to both sides is as one. The left side, your knees and your head, and the other side also: the head goes to the other side, the needle on the knees, and the head goes to the other side. Slowly, relax very nicely. Now, I will guide you: roll yourself to the left side. Stay there. And to the right side. Try to bring your chin toward your chest. Try to bring your salt. Try to bring your left side. And the left side. Always think, “I am doing Sarvahitā Āsana for the whole world.” The Sarvaitāsana. Then, of course, many other exercises come, right? That is the yogic, pure yogic exercise, Sarvaitāsana. Sarva means all. Hitta means for us. Sarva-hitta-āsana. Āsana means exercising this. Sarva-hitta-āsana, Hitta for all—it doesn’t matter who it is. Left side. One after the other, legs straight. Relax. Relax the whole body. Relax the breath. Just be with yourself, your body, your spirituality. It is all that you want to know throughout the whole body and your mind, and so on. Now turn left and sit up. Sit with the legs like this. Knees up through the body. Yes, that’s very good, perfect. Bring your heels toward your body as much as you comfortably can. Come further into the exercise on your yoga mat. Go more, yes, and hold where you can, comfortably but a bit more. Keep your head high, not hitting the floor. So now it is rolling, yes, twelve times. Very good. Up to ten, go ahead, and remain sitting. Perfect, you are very good. Hold your knees to your chest. And if your stomach is a little bit… nice, big—very good, perfect. You have already, it’s very good. But pull it to your knees, okay? And tell your stomach, “Oh, my friend, I have lived so long, I don’t know how I will do anything. Now I know. Now I will make my stomach back a little bit.” Very good, it’s powerful. Okay, once more—eleven times. Rolling. Very good. You could bring your head to your knees like this; if you cannot, this isn’t… Try this, yes, it’s better. Okay. Now lie down on your stomach, and relax as you wish, very relaxed. You may put one leg to one side. Relax, be comfortable. Relax comfortably, however you like. And you can think about how many chocolates you ate today—that will make you perfect. Choklet means chor, which means three, four, this all: one, two, three, four. South, from there to the other side. Breathe nicely, pleasant breath. Relax yourself. Be happy. Yes, we are lying down. And what is that? Ānanda Āsana. What? Ānanda Āsana. We should always have Ānanda Āsana, yes—not like a dead body. Never, never should we talk about life, death, not death. Ānandāsana, Sarvithāsana, Ānandāsana—Yoga in daily life, Sarvithāsana, Ānandam. Ānandapā. Beautiful. Ānandāsana. Feel thyself. Try to understand. Feel. Relax. Spiritually, everything. Let my body be very peaceful, held, and good. Sarvahitāsan, Ānandāsan, and the other one, Guru Kṛpā. Guru Kṛpā He Kevalam, Guru Kṛpā He Kevalam… Yes, my dear. Breathe deep. Deep inhale and exhale, and turn out on the other side. Do 25 breaths, a little deeper in and out breath. Inhale through the nostrils, exhale through the mouth. Go ahead. Now, Hari Om. And slowly roll yourself left and right, and sit up. Okay, very good. Now we are coming to Bārikattu Pranām. Those who don’t know should first see what they are doing, and then they should practice. We will do it very slowly. So once more, you should only listen, and if we have our sisters, they will show the exercise. You will be counting: one, two, you will only think. Yes, one, two. And they will, in English, they will listen. One, two, exercise, okay? So both of you sisters, do it nicely—two times, okay. Two wheels, two wheels, and we will all see, very nicely. And we will all look at it nicely. And you will translate so that your words go once in English and the next time for your countries here. So, should I only count? Yes, go: one, two. Slowly, for a little while, okay? Count on your fingers so that you don’t forget: 3, 4. Sarvahitāsan. After, Badī Khāṭū Pranām. Very good, thank you, perfect, barikatu praṇām, all my dears, all practitioners from different countries. You are also here, and this exercise is given to all countries free, no money and nothing. All give them this beautiful. So, you are welcome to see the practice. Barikatu, praṇām, and this. It is yoga in daily life, Sarvahita Āsana and all others. This one, our sister, she will give you the instructions. She will always tell you, she said, “One, two, that’s it,” and you will practice all like this. And there will be, if someone is there with bhajan, someone who is sitting here, bhajan without words, only the sound, if you know someone. So now we begin. Om Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. Badī Khāṭū Praṇām. Yoga in daily life. All my dears. In between, tell, “Baddhik hatu, prāṇām.” The instructions: now we are bending forward, and our knees are straight. We relax the whole upper part of the body. We relax our hands, head, and back. Deeply relax your stomach. Our back should be as straight as possible, and we are facing forward. Our knees are still straight, and we are a little bit trying to push our palms to the knees so they are even more straight. Prātaḥoyeme – as you like, on the back or on the stomach, as you like. As you like. As you like. Now, we will meditate for a while. First, you have to relax. Relax. Feel your body as if it is relaxed and comfortable, and feel yourself. Go with your mālā, your mālā and guru mantra, this mālā mantra. Comfortable, relaxed, eyes closed, and be yourself. Samy Sebu within the Gurudev Barikatu Pranam Sarvaita Asana and now Mantra Puja. Feel only humility and calmness, and with this mantra, feel how you are with yourself. Feel your Self. Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Devadhī Dev Dev Purīṣa Mahādev Kī Mādhavānandjī Svāmī Mādhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Alakhpurījī Mahādev Kī Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...

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