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Daily Practice of Yoga, Diet, and Meditation

Daily practice of yoga, diet, and meditation is essential.

Begin with morning exercises, adapted to age and ability. Perform standing movements, focusing on the palm, and count. Sit or stand in posture. Evening practice leads to sleep. For diet, make salad from various grasses and seeds. Break the seeds so they digest properly. Add a spoon of oil and some salt. Eat salad first, followed by a little bread, dal, vegetables, and yogurt. Control portions and eat small amounts. When hungry, take fruits. Avoid excess butter, milk, and coffee. In one month, health improves and the body becomes thinner. Practice Vajrāsana, sitting on the knees. Perform Marjari on hands and knees, arching the back. Do leg lifts lying down, without touching the ground. After one month of exercises, sit comfortably in meditation posture.

"Every day we should practice."

"Salad is the best. If we can take it like this from this, otherwise that other kind of salad is also not good."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Every day we should practice. I have practiced my exercise for three years now. Try it in the morning, and include all of my exercises. Of course, the practices can be adapted according to whether a person is young, middle-aged, or a little older. Even if one is young and can do very vigorous exercises, that is also very, very good. But there are those who can simply lie down and move this way and that—this is good for a young person. I have told myself to exercise. I made a video of it. Did you receive it? Because at the United Nations, my disciple—he is a very great person, very great. He is Indian, though he now lives in America near the United Nations, and he is a very spiritual person. So I told him I would give him an exercise, because he could not do certain movements. Yes. So, this machine you hear going here goes far away to cut grass. Thank you very much. So he said, "I will give you [something], so that you can give me that exercise." And I said, that's very good. And he said, "Yes, yes, yogīs, there are yogīs." But I said, no, we have many, and this is our yoga practice. And so we did everything very well. It was during a United Nations program; people were there. So this is exactly what we did then, and what we do today. So we stand up. That’s very nice. Yes, we are fine. What we do—if we move like this—it is only for our bird, so we should feel. We should move like this, like this, no, like this, like this... And in this posture, you know what will happen here: it comes together. So let’s perhaps do it on the fifth time. You know, I have told you many times, and you definitely know it. But let’s say we hold close and only look at the palm; don’t open the other hand. Beautiful eyes, and now you will see my palm: good, white, and how quickly it will return. And how quickly it will come. When we do it like this, it’s not so much. So therefore: One, Two, Three, Four. Not like this. So it is everything; it comes still over this part of the body. So you could sit as I will do, or stand. Okay? We were standing, and we did this, and we could sit like this, this way, or in that way. Now, you will be better, good? Yes. Now, you know all of that. Then we will go to sleep. In the evening, when you go to sleep, then you will say, "Ah! This is also like this, but very strong." But if you do it every day, it’s good. But not like this. Not like this. We had breakfast, no? Oh! Fasting! Okay, good, then it’s good. Three months ago, yes, three months, I could only do this. And now I can come into it like this. So this is that exercise, how we did it very nicely, not just once. If we come and say, "Oh, we will do it in one month, or not even one month, in five or six days, I will not be eating, everything will go out," and this, and "Oh, I am like this," and then again we are eating. And slowly, slowly. The first was our breakfast, where we are getting a salad. Salad is the best. If we can take it like this from this, otherwise that other kind of salad is also not good. So we have to get it from there, where there is only great salad and no other form for the different part of that. But many people now do it in their own house, a little house, and they have inside different kinds of salads, and enough, enough. So, the salad. What I did, and do also, is use different kinds of grass, many, many different kinds, and then we put in some kind of seeds, and there are different kinds of seeds, about three or four, that they can have. Water, water, melon, and others from the other seeds, and we can get it from the shop. Many people are bringing good ones, healthy ones. So, this is a salad. Oh, today is something like this. Yes, so they are a little... So, take five seeds. And so, two, three different seeds and many things. Eat, but don’t put in the vegetable that is not a sizzle, our different kind of chairs. So in the salad, in the salad we have to eat, but we have to break it. There are little seeds, but if we eat them with the salad, then the seeds will pass through as they are, so we should try to make it like this, that’s better. And a little either ghee, or a little salad oil, but not very much oil—one spoon, and you can, if you like, add some salt, and then eat as much as you can. In the beginning, okay? And it will be very tasty. You can also make it with a little bit of salad from the gauze, the gauze, a little milk, or the taste, a little also in this. So it is so tasty. It is tasty. And we will say now, "Yes, I will eat it more." So very desirable. Then when it is full, break a little bread. Half of it. Okay, and then salad, after that, some dal, different kinds of vegetables in the diet, and this—eat that, full stomach, yogurt, this, but it’s too much inside, so how much will you eat? Very good, tasty. And after one or two hours, the stomach is getting a little better. So it is very good; you can eat three times: salad and this and that. And eat little—heart, one chapati or a little bread. You will see in one month: oh, I’m so healthy, so tasty, and I’m getting thinner and thinner. So, whenever you say, "I’m hungry," you can have fruits, no problem, different kinds of fruits. That’s really it; it is good. And not always that milk and coffee—this is too much, this is not too much. And so now it has become so good, so good. So these people, they are about 50 years old, or 43. Our stomach goes slowly, slowly back. So we should be like that. Don’t eat too much butter, Bhāratī, Bhāratī, or what is it, chapātī, or this other, what is it you have? So don’t eat, then again quickly. Of course, we have to control ourselves. That was in this way. After this, there are other exercises coming. That is very nice. So we sit in needle on our knees. Yes, sit down. Yes. Very good, yes, very good. Vajrāsana. Very good. Perfect. I have to control because I am... So it is good for our, our... and not like this, standing, no, more and more like this, back and out, and now we go down and hands down. One, two, normal breath, hands on the floor, hands separate, and slowly stand up, hands together, the fingers, and relax down on the thighs. Now, stand up on your knees, stand the knees up, and sit like Marjari, look down, and your head is up and back down. You all know this, but slowly, not quickly. Go ahead, do it slowly. And hands up. And sit on your knees. Again, up. And hands on the floor, and make your head and your back just straight. Go a little forward, hands. Yes, that is very good. It is a good technique; with practice, it will be very nice. So just yes, and come up slowly, slowly. Don’t go forward, just where it was. We can do it about 20 times, but not now. Stand up, like this. So this is slowly; maybe if it is not, you can do, don’t do, okay? Then once more. Sit there. And yes, like this. This is a little hard at the beginning, but it will not remain so, and our vegetables are very good and very tasty and everything. Again, then hands up, and there, and go up. Yes. Yes. One. For the men, it’s not good; the girls should have it. No, everybody. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. And lie down. And now, turn to the other side and lie down. Left foot, hold your hands, and your head up a little, yes, and your knee. And relax. Both legs up, not holding legs. Only two legs. And not on the legs. Now, it is said that both legs will go up and down, but not touching the ground. One. Bend the legs after. Jeden. Now, both hands from back down, bend your legs, bend your legs, both legs, and get up, legs straight down, like this, go down, again, bend your knees. Yes. Hands down. That’s it. No, no, no. That’s like this. Good. Yes. This was about after one month, one month of this exercise. Another one is only for very soft and slow, like this exercise with the śalāt. And comfortably sit back and sit in your posture for meditation.

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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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