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Feel your heart and be merciful for all

Yoga originates from ancient wisdom, seeing unity in all life. The postures are derived from observing all creatures—animals, birds, snakes, and aquatic beings. Every living being possesses the spark of life and consciousness, notably through the eyes. Humans are not separate or superior in essence. A story illustrates this: a demon sought immortality but was tricked into causing his own destruction by his arrogance, showing that harmful desires lead to downfall. True practice is internal. The mind often jumps restlessly like a monkey from thought to thought. The essential practice is to anchor awareness in the heart. Sit quietly, place a hand on the heart, and feel its rhythm with the breath. This cultivates inner peace and direct perception of unity, moving beyond intellectual knowledge.

"All which have eyes are one."

"You have to do it yourself. It happens."

Filming location: Czech Republic

Hari Om, very good evening. We have all worked very well. Yoga has been present everywhere for many, many thousands of years, even before that. This comes from Śaṅkara Bhagavān. Śaṅkarācārya gave his praṇāms and thirty years. So, how many exercises are there in yoga with Śaṅkara? This was given to every different theme, and that is coming as yoga. Now, for example, you can see my book here, or some other book. There are many, many yoga exercises from many countries, practiced for years and years. That was Śiva’s yoga. What is this? How was it? Bhagavān Śiva learned to see how the whole world is, everywhere, with different kinds of humans. We see in this book here, there is Śiva and Śakti. They become one, and from that one, how do we come further? They give many, let’s say, animals: cows, buffaloes, jackals. All these animals, they are named one by one. Do you understand why? Then there were the birds. Bhagavān Śiva has said birds also have life; be free and just go. There were the snakes. You know that? In our exercise, we have a snake that moves like that. Also in the ocean, in the water, swimming. Śiva has given all that—82% of all. Now, for example, you open my book. What will be? I don’t know what’s coming. Oh, holy Gurujī. Bhagavān Śiva. Yes, so that is the humans. Very great, that is. What are these all? You see? They are all animals’ movements. In every book, there are humans, but they are turning into animals. Not like animals only, but how they live. We see here Śiva, Śakti, and our eyes. Eyes are also very important. Every creature has eyes, not only humans. Clearly, they are living eyes. All which have eyes are one. So it is animals, buffaloes, everything different, but everyone has the eye. Śiva has given eyes for all. Yesterday night, I was doing something, and there comes a very nice… oh my God. Yeah, there’s a beautiful… He was also from Śiva, you know? You know that he did something? But he had eyes also, and winkers he had, you know? So we all tell 100%, it’s not like this, 100%. But now we have done more. What have we done more? We know many things: more different kinds of postures and this and that. When we lie down like this, how we are sitting like this. And the rabbit—you know how the rabbits are doing very good, and how big they are, very quickly. Many times, even the tiger cannot catch him. So, where is that? All is in that. Now, you can get and tell me also: how many postures do we have from different kinds of creatures? Also in the ocean, in the water, so they can live in the water. They can operate the waters. Everything we know; more active are the animals or some creatures in the ocean than on the earth. So long ago, I was in India only for about 20 years, and before that, my father… I was holding my father’s finger, and we have water, some lake, and went swimming a little bit. But that bit, my father said, "Look, there are all different, different creatures that have life. It is a life also. Don’t kill them. Don’t let them go away. Be beside them like this." And we learned in that swimming. Yes, my father also, he was sitting there and then told me how to swim. So, my dears, you, we all know all animals. And there are, without eyes, creatures in the waters very deep. So it means that my Gurudev, my mother, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurudev, also my father, also they said, "You see, we are all creatures here, and we are the best as humans. But don’t say that only humans have this. Everyone has this, my dears." And so there are 85 points, something for only creatures. Now, how are they creatures? How are they? But which quality is that? Then only this is only that, if you can tell anywhere. And out of all this, we are called human. So we said, "Hundred, boom, boom." So we were only 90%. Then there were many, but we are writing one, two, three, like this. So who did tell us how to make these letters? So, ninety-one, and that is only nine remaining. So that was done by the Indians. You know that? Yes or no? Otherwise, so many: one, two, three, and then this, and then, and then… it was inside. So this is all human. They are all very great, everything good, but it’s only one. Doesn’t matter which countries, which kind of person, the black, blue, or like this, all different colors they may be, but it’s a human. Two hands, two legs, standing, etc., but it’s only one. So in all, there is one: the human and others also, all like this—buffaloes and this and that—all is one. The snakes, there are many, but only one snake. So in this, if we go there, then we show that we have 80 to 5, sorry, yeah. Now, in this way, what they do and what we do. So in that, God has given us these humans, and they should have, and they like, like a God, and they should be like good. But sometimes, wrong things come. So, one there was a rākṣasa, and he wanted to tell God something: "I will [have] whole life, whole life, no, no, I will [live without] die." But many told, "We can." Brahmā said, "Brahmā cannot give you anything, but not that life for the whole time, center." And so he was hanging himself down. Then it is said that Śiva came. And Śiva also said, "I cannot give you like this." Then he said, "You can go. I will still handle myself." Then, I [Brahmā?] said, "I can give you one. Then you will live as long as it is. And, well, okay. Give him this. And on his hand, so don’t put your hand on your head. Say to God. You can do anything, but don’t put your hand on your head." Oh, then it’s good. Now I will be. I will not do like this, and I will [live] long. Okay. So he said, "I will tell me this or that." And then he said, "I will hold my hand on the Śiva." So then, the Rākṣasa was very wrong, very angry, and he said, "First, let me see that practice if you say to me. His or someone’s head, if you put like this, he will burn." Said, "OK. Well, Śivajī was good, happy." Now he said, Viṣṇu said, Rākṣasa said, "Śiva, come, come, tell me, I will learn. Because you said, when you put your hand like this, it will burn. So now, first I will test upon you the Śiva." Oh my God, Śiva wanted to run away. So he held his daṇḍa, and a snake, also a snake, and the rākṣasa is coming and coming. It is in the Himalayas. Around there, and there, and there. Śivajī was very tired, angry, and thirsty. What had to be done? Rākṣasa is very quick. And then, come one cave, and Śiva went quickly to Viṣṇu, and the Rākṣasa remained at a distance, and he wanted to know where they are, so he is looking like this, and Śivajī goes to Brahmā. And Bhagavān Viṣṇu said, "Bhagavān, my Bhagavān, my Śiva, my Bhagavān. You are so angry. You are not angry. You are running, running... you are." And Viṣṇu said, "Śivajī, please sit down. Have a nice water, cold drink, or milk." He said, "I cannot. My Rākṣasa is coming from a distance. He may kill both of us." Viṣṇu said, "No problem. Oh Gurujī, he will kill both of us, the rākṣasa? No. Sit down and have a nice water." And Viṣṇu came out from the rock, awake. And outside he came, one little lady. So, a very young, very beautiful, very good lady, with nice clothes and this and that, like this. And he [the rākṣasa] said, "Oh, who are you?" She said, "I am Śakti. And I want somebody like this for my wife, you." He said, "Oh, I will be with you, let Viṣṇu or Śiva go." But Śakti said, "But you have to dance with me, and you have to learn the dancing. Then you can be with me, otherwise not." "But I don’t know how to dance." "That I will give you very good. So on this rock I am, and on that rock you are. So that your rock is this side, my rock is this side." Then she said, "Okay, I will give dancing, and you will learn." So she said, "This Śakti," she said, "tak." And Rākṣasa said, "Bo." Again, te, te, ta, te, ta, te. "Please don’t tell so quickly, okay? Don’t worry, you will rest and look at my hand and say, 'Oh, you are beautiful,'" by the lady, and you have danced like this and put it like this, and he put his hand like this, fire, because Rākṣasa. He should not put his hand in his hand, or his hand on his head here, otherwise you will die. So we have to be also very careful, my dear. Yes, we should not try to do, "I will dislike this." So Śiva, Bhagavān, and the Rākṣasa died. So this is the reality; it is not truth in the books. Yes? So that is for everyone. Everyone has to do like this: peaceful, helpful, and they are not thinking, "This time this, and this time this, and this time that." So what we want, we should meditate, our concentrations, we are reading, everything, and so we go in our sādhanā. And therefore, the sādhanā which we were telling, that is in the heart. So let my heart, and lay there five other points more, four points. More, this we have to learn. We will step. But we cannot say today here and tomorrow there, no, no, no. So there is one, only one. We will cure from here to there distance, from this tree to that tree. That is only my monkey. A monkey can do, but still we are not monkeys. So from this tree, we should jump to that tree. Then we are there, my dears, me also jumping and coming back again, not there. Where will we come to that, and it will, we will, we will. Then it is there, it is completely there, this stone, and this. And this stone should have gone hidden. How will it go? And that we will do, because we can, we can. Secondly, you will get it now, but how will it be complete? We are sitting there in heart to heart. And suddenly we are thinking this, many, many things. And that is called, what is called, the one which is jumping from one to the other. What was that? What was it? Monkey. And I am 100% sure we are all still like a monkey. We cannot hold on to that. I did sometimes, but I still might not also, but I have. So you will do like this. It is here, by the right hand, to here. And we are not in the between, not in the between here. The women have little problems, a little bit, so therefore they should come a little here, like this, not at the chest that much, but here, this one. And that, not like this, like that. The hand is going like this, but we have to be on this part. Then you will see my heart, my heart. Close your eyes and try to sit on your chest. It is yours; you can, nobody else can. You have to do it yourself. It happens. Sometimes you will think differently. But again, come to your chest. You may see with the breath. So that you can feel your heart. Place your hand on your thigh. Very normal, and feel very nice air. Not asking some trees, animals. Just feel very fine, peaceful, very clear, nice. Twenty-five times again in the heart. Yourself, and then after, place your hand down. Comfortable, relax. And again, we put our hand on the heart and inhale and exhale 25 times in the area of the heart. We sit relaxed, but hear your heart. I am in my heart. That’s what I’m starting to see.

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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