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Relaxation and Bari Khatu Pranam

The practice is to realize oneself as the bliss of Ānanda. Begin by lying down and relaxing the entire body completely. Systematically feel and release each part, from the toes to the head. This state of deep relaxation and awareness is Ānanda Āsana. In this posture, one feels peaceful, joyful, and free from pain. Recognize that every cell of the body is in a state of bliss. This Ānanda is not temporary joy but your true nature as part of the divine. Carry this awareness into all activities—walking, sitting, or being with others. You are that blissful essence, like a star of light within. Conclude by slowly stretching and sitting up, maintaining the feeling of Ānanda.

"Feel your whole body from the toes to the top of the head, and from the top of the head to the toes."

"Each and every cell in your body is in ānanda."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Siddhī Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Devapurīṣa Mahādeva kī, Sadguru Svāmī Mahādvāranjī Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī, Alakapurījī Mahādeva kī, Jaya. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... GURURBRAHMA GURURVIṢṆU GURURDEVO MAHEŚVARAḤ GURUḤSAKṢĀT PARABRAHMA TASMAI ŚRĪ GURAVE NAMAḤ. Om Namah Siri Prabhu Deepa Narayanam. Namah Siri Prabhu Deepa Narayanam. Hamsabhadas Prabhu Saran Parayanam. Hamsabhādas Prabhu Sāraṇ Parāyaṇam. OM NAMO ŚRĪ PRABUDDHI PĀNĀRAM ŚRĪ DĪP NĀRĀYAṆ BHAGAVĀN KĪ. Today is a beautiful day. We have had very nice, beautiful lectures and meditations in recent years, weeks, and days. And now, we also have a beautiful day for our exercises. We will proceed further for meditation, but first, we all come together to perform bārikhātu praṇām to Mahāprabhujī. So everyone, please take your place beautifully. One or two persons should be there to guide everyone and give the instruction for bārikhātu praṇām. First, lie down with your head towards me and relax. Place your hands beside the body, legs straight and relaxed, shoulders relaxed, hands completely relaxed. Take a deep inhale and exhale, and relax. Close your eyes. Be thyself very relaxed and comfortable. Be thyself with the whole body; do not let your thinking go left and right. Feel your whole body from the toes to the top of the head, and from the top of the head to the toes. You slept very well the whole beautiful night. Some of you may have had dreams. Many of us think about yoga in our lives. You had a beautiful morning. You know, early morning when you wake up, you say, "I am human." I wake up and give place. I will stand up, Mother Earth. This is from the five elements. First, like to have water, touch the water in your palm, and bring it towards your eyes and face so that energy awakens—very beautiful, very clean, very pure. The whole body is very straight and relaxed. There are very good names and words, or something you would like to know, and you will see what you have seen: your mothers, your fathers, your children, your parents, your animals, your friends, and the snows. Now is the time of these snows, called beautiful, beautiful, be beautiful. From the right fingers, right hand, the fingers and whole legs, the whole part of the right legs and toes, this half part of the body, very nice. And there’s the same thing: bring the left side hand, the fingers, the palm, the hand, the shoulders, the left side of the body, and all the legs. Knees, the whole part of the left hand and left leg. Feel your left leg and toes. Levá polovina těla, from the head to the toes, and from the toes to the head. Uvolníme. Left and right part of the body. On the front, your whole part of the body, and on the backside, your whole body. All is yours. We become aware and relax the body from the head to the tips of the toes, the left and right halves of the body, the front part—the chest and abdomen—and the back part—the back—we relax. Make thyself, become thyself, be, do, that’s called ānanda āsana. Ānanda, feel the humble, good, peaceful, everything, best. Ānanda āsana, beautiful ānanda āsana. My dears, be thyself very happy, joy, the whole body, no pain in your body for a while this time, because you have ānanda, ānanda, ānanda body. We feel that we are lying under the lip of our Mother Earth. So we are with the mothers. The eyes open and think of the Father. The father holds everything, protection for you. That is ānanda-āsana. Ānanda-āsana. I am ānanda. Ānanda-o-ham. Ānanda-o-ham. This is beautiful. Ānanda-hi. Ānanda. Ānanda-o-ham. In your head, in your thoughts, in everything, please let thyself make happiness, joy, peace, and harmony for all humans, all animals, everything. Let us feel, feel thyself peaceful. From the left hand and coming to the shoulders, the part of the left side of the body, whole, and the legs and the toes. And coming from the right hand, bring all the beautiful energy, feelings, the legs, the whole legs, back, and shoulders, hands. Completely beautiful, beautiful. Then from both toes, legs, the whole of both legs, the whole stomach, and coming to the shoulders, hands, fingers, and coming to the head, face. And completely from the whole body, from the head, slowly to both whole legs and toes. So you become one, beautiful, very comfortable, not very heavy. You are not heavy, you are very soft. To be thyself, feel thyself, you are self, and now the whole body from the toes to the legs, and from the legs up to the head. Just think, when the sun rises, it will go. Then the sun goes down, and comes the moon, the full moon. These are both, our left and right; it is in our body, in our nābhi. Ānanda, ānanda... in your body you are completely ānanda, you know that. We have a nice little bhajan: "Ānandoham, Ānandoham..." But you are through the whole body. Each and every cell in your body is in ānanda. Feel your back of the body. From the head down to the whole skin. Like the whole going body through each and every part of the body, coming through the whole, both legs and both legs, I am Ānanda. When you have the ānanda, you feel everything, and each and every cell of the body is so happy, joy, happy, ānanda. I am not old. I am not only young. I am peace. I am ānanda. I feel good water, good air, good fire, like the sun, like the moon, the whole physical body, giving ānanda. This ānanda will go with us with our ātmā, our soul, but if we have not enjoyed and got our ānanda, then we will go suffering and suffering, go back again. We have different things, feelings, and we will be again bad, we will be old, we will be like this, we do something. This joy is not the joy. Finally, it is: you are God’s parts, all completely your ānanda. Sit down and meditate, go for walking, go for swimming, go for friends, go to satsaṅgs, be with good friends. Anand, I am the Anand. We are in Ānanda, we are part of God. No matter what we do, we go for a walk, we go for a swim, we go for a satsaṅg, we are constantly in ānanda, we are that ānanda. This ānanda, starting negative, not doing for others, is negative. Be all animals, all birds, all everything, the oceans, the earth, my dears, I merge into myself. Many times we are looking left and right, and this and that, working, helping many things. But just now, for this time, I am myself Ānanda. That Ātmā, my Ātmā, that Ātmā is the Cosmic. Moon, night, and how light around your whole body, beautiful. Everywhere where you are in the night, light, with moon. Ānanda, ānanda,... ānanda. Full of the light. I feel I’m happy, I’m joy. I am you, my death, God, the moon, the sun. The beautiful stars in your soul, in your body, Earth, your cells are like the sun and the moon, and it’s all like that. Try, try, try that you are a star. You are the star. Be thyself the star. Beautiful, you are the star. Don’t go to the darkness. The moon and sun will always make you a little different. But my star, you... I am the star. I want to search and bring that, yes, I am that star. Anand. Anand. Anand star. That star is in your nābhi. Hvězda Ānandī. And you are making so many stars through your bare head. For a while, only say, "I am Ānanda." Stars, moon, and sun, all become one in you. I am that Ānanda. In that star of the Ānanda, and with this, slowly stretch your body. Your toes, your fingers, your hands, your legs. And stretch your hands and legs, and toes. Stretch the hands above the head on the floor, and again come back. Turn left and right. Feel thyself honored. My Ānanda. Ānanda. And slowly turn left or right and sit up. And sit comfortably. Eyes closed, and feel in your whole body Ānanda, Ānanda. And now we will come to baddhikoṭu praṇāma. We will do it very comfortably, slowly, because this baddhakoṇāsana praṇāma is ānanda. Ānanda. Baddhikatu prāṇām, Balikhatu prāṇām. Beautiful. Two teachers, you have to come up. One backside there and one here to give the right way to control them, how to practice them. So, one should please stand up, come back, and help others, because there are so many people there in the back. Help them with how to sit, when, and how it is. Some may have not done this. So, who is here coming up? And you are doing exactly good, properly. You should be stretching very nicely. If you are not stretching very good, then it’s not good. You are okay? All right. So first we will sing something: Ānandoham, Ānandoham,... Ānandoham. Very good. Thank you. Who is controlling, two, you will do, only looking, three, and this, our disciple, this, you will control, okay, one, two, three, okay, yes, you, yes, you. Yago, you should say one, then like this, not so quickly, not so quickly. Pět. Six. Šest. Keep the time, leave the time. Next. Seven. Sedm. Make your body nicely, very good. Ānanda, ānanda. There is one lady standing there like this. That’s not right. You should go with the people. Everywhere, go with the people. Don’t speak with them. Make their body how it is: 8, 9, not quick, 10, 11. We remain more longer. You should also, yes, yes. Twelve, you can also do it. Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, I will sing that time to time, Ānandoham, Ānandoham,... Ānandoham. Twenty twenty-one, Baddhikatu Pranam. Twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four. Baddhikatu Pranam. Twenty-five Anandoham, Anandoham,... Anandoham 20, 26, 27, 27. One round more. 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 11, 12, 12, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 16, 16, 17. Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three. Barikatu Pranam, beautiful. It is for the whole body. Just this, Bārikatu Pranām is beautiful. If you can do two or three parts, it is very good: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 27. Very good, thank you. Melikhatu pranam was the best, you did very good. And Ananda Ananda pranam, beautiful. This all which you have learned, thank you. And next time we will continue. And now it’s done for our whole practice. Many people are going now, so I wish you all the best, my sisters and my brothers, my disciples. Thank you, and have a healthy, good, and peaceful time. See you again, Hario.

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