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Whatever is happening but we are yogis

The heart of practice integrates life's experiences with yoga's discipline. Yesterday's walk in the forest was also good practice. Asana and pranayama have been done for many years, from youth to old age. Current techniques serve both young and old in daily life. Health issues often stem from hereditary lines, not from these exercises. Those who practice yoga are much healthier despite problems. Life involves various relationships and home situations where one may practice alone. The practice is about living well amidst all circumstances. Gurus and disciples understand that everything comes and goes, including this life. Practice connects one to the energies present, like the cyclical renewal seen in nature. The story of the couple illustrates how unspoken assumptions create lifelong unhappiness, resolved only by finally speaking the truth. A yogi's heart remains in satsang, beyond anger or trouble. Feel the heart's constant path within.

"Those who were doing yoga practices, they were much better than they could be."

"Because I want to give soft, very good, and hard, hard, I'm eating."

Filming locations: Strilky, Europe, To be determined.

Hari Om, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devādhi Deva, Devapurīṣya, Mahādeva Kī, Mādhavānanjī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī, Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Yesterday, we did not sit here, and we did not practice what we wanted, but that is also not bad. It is very good. We were walking around in the forest, and that was also good. Thank you. But we have to learn, and there are two things: āsanas and prāṇāyāma. This is something we have been doing for many years. When we were very young, we had very nice āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, and so on, for about, let's say, 80 years, some 50 years, etc. And now they are still here, but they have done very good things. So when they were very young, they did very well, and now they are old. Yes? How great! We were like this only, young, and then we were very nice. Now, at that time, the exercises and everything were different, and now, for all, it is, and we need other techniques now. In this time, we are all making, so for our young and old. That's very good. It is our yoga in daily life, and you are very healthy. We are very healthy, and some have some problems, but this problem is not from this exercise. It is from many, many years, from parents to parents to parents. Well, doctors are giving sometimes, but still, some problem is in that. So, we said, with all our practice and with all our exercises, everything is still much better for us. Those others who have this, and they didn't give anywhere, just go to the doctor and get some medicine or something. But they are very powerful. It's not a good life, they think. Others, we have, you are all sitting here with me, and we are all here. It's beautiful, very good, this ashram here. But not only this, we are yogīs, and we, as yogīs, are practicing. And that's why we are much healthier when some have many problems, but those who were doing yoga practices, they were much better than they could be. That's how it is. Now, this is all, but another thing is different, and this is for all others, gurus, and yogīs who are doing these exercises. And there is one, and one is that, that is a teacher or guru, okay? And now our Guru, or our disciples, we are teaching different people every day. Do you understand this? Now we are here, here in our āśram in Strilky. So everyone is coming from different, different places. But we all come here, and we are very happy. We are good friends, and we have our exercises, and we have to do them in two ways. So, one, teachers tell our teachers and students, and this we are telling. So sometimes someone is telling something, and others want other things. So in this, we have to live here and practice here very well. Another thing is, all these years, you are in your home, in your place, like this, and you have a home. Your home, beautiful home, very good, but some, they don't practice yoga, but you are doing. This is sometimes, good husband, he said, "Okay, you can practice, do, but I will not do." But, so it's very good, you can do it. In others, one says, "No, I don't want this and that," you know that. Many times it is coming. So, like this, life—so, life, what kind of life is it? And life is, if we will know, beautiful, happy, okay. That's it. It's my heart, my body, my thinking, etc. So that is making what he likes according to himself. Others, they think, "I don't know how to do this, how I will do that." So in this way we are living. Yes, it is. You have little distance or some things. And so, somebody can bring now, here, this, that light comes from this here, umbrella. So, so many of you said, yogīs, or you are all, everything you said, "Naya, in my family I have this, and they have my this and this and this." And they tell the Swāmījīs or other gurus many, many things, and many great things, but they are not like this. You think like that, all will be like this. And so, in that way, myself, you know, I have to control everything. Did you see? Yeah. So what yogīs, gurus, and sādhus have done is they know it is coming and it is going, and one day we will die too. So in this way, we are living according to what you are practicing. We are coming, we are in Europe mostly, and then, how many of our bhaktas come to my exercises. I come to Vienna, and we have in Vienna two or three ashrams, and in each ashram, every ashram is very good, and everybody has something. But there are many people, therefore we have another ashram, and there we are all coming and going. And others are in different places. So that is life. Life is life. And it is like this that they know, they know this, what speaking, and you have exercises, you know that, and you are teaching some other students, and something like this is very good. But when I come, then everybody is coming in the ashram, and I am also there. They don't tell. They know, and they don't tell. And what do they tell? Good. Everything is good. And they said, I said, "Can I tell you this?" They said, "No, is everything so good? Every sitting?" Yes, because they feel that the ember and the Guru's energies—it is an energy, and there are two kinds of energies. So, for the Guru's organization, it doesn't matter; you can say anybody. Know any one Guru who has no problems? Yes, even sitting in the Himalayas, they know where to eat, where to get things, those problems are there on sitting, and this. So, like this body, the body is very good, but this body we have to control, and we take it from ourself in that. So in that, some gurujīs, there are some gurus, there are more coming, and there are more, and there are gurus, the gurus, the gurus. So many are, and those gurujīs, they are from many, many years, other gurujīs. And that is, it is like that. We have now a very nice tree here, and very nice, beautiful cherries. We'll see the cherries, and they are very good. And then, after the cherries are gone and the trees are also very dry again, and no, even there are no leaves on the tree, all is like this. And then, again, it will come anew. And so is that one guru, and that guru or disciples, or you, we have done beautiful, good, sweet, the trees or the fruits, cherries, and what, remember, we ate very nice. But what we did, the seed, we threw it out. And see, it may come and come again to others. So our life is not only that we, our problems, and our things, but also these trees and forests and everything. So there are also the creatures, the many birds. Yes, the birds, how they are dancing, very nice. This, and suddenly the snow comes very strong, and sitting there. Yes, and then again coming. This is that we are in between, and that if we can take it this, we will very take it that yes, like this. For example, I told you this morning, when we open our eyes, just say, "I am human." Then we get up, and then we put our hand on the floor, mother, or mother means also the earth. So, mother, can I sit with you? Then we go to the water, and we take these water drops, and we know this is the water in my life. And so on, once, the whole day. And then going to the bathroom, washing, and this, breakfast, and so on. And then you go to some work, different, and then we come back. How many are there? How many farms do we have? What do you eat, what do you not eat? What is gone? From the house, when you go out and tell yourself how you are doing, good or bad, or what kind of troubles, this and that, and you see, "I am very nice." No, no, no. I have more troubles than you. Yes, yes. But that, that is, that is a guru, a master, that who has, he said, and he said that I know, and I know it is, but it will be, and it will go. So these are the things that we should all come and say, like, "I am the best heart, everything is this." And so, if there is no guru, or one who is not doing the yoga, do not follow them. Yes, but you know, you will see how many problems they have. Yeah, yesterday it was, what was in that, so that it was, satsaṅg was there or somebody was telling. So at that time, those who had been married for many, many years, you were living life. In life, sometimes we are not happy, sometimes we are happy, sometimes it is like this, but they were all as husband and wife. You know, there is, I told you, and many of you have already told, but may not. And that time was very good; that was very good. But they know what to do, that is, and what will tell now many, now I can, in this situation, "My husband, I don't like him, and some other one came, and I've got another," or wife or husband. Sometimes people, five, six, seven, they marry again and again. That time, but many times they say it, and many elderly people, very old, old ladies and this, that time, they have a problem. My husband, maybe they are not speaking even properly, but all the times in life together, it is together, that is like this. So this was told to me by someone when I came to Czechoslovakia, and here, and then to Croatia, then Germany, Vienna, something like that. So it was in Vienna, and there was some person who had some troubles. "I have a problem," we see troubles and this and that. So they told me one story—a story. You like the stories, you will do it. So there were two in the school. First was the... what they are coming, the... Children, little children, what they call them, kindergarten. The garden, the kinder, yes, but in kinder, until the life will go, you should know, yes, exactly, more and more the same. So in that one street, there were many people, and then they go to school, and like this, all the school is also there. So, friends to friends. So always these girls and this boy, they were from neighbors, and they were friends. What do we call friends? Yeah, and friends means not this or that, but very nice. I was like my brother, my father, like this. And parents come home, and parents also come. So at that time, nobody is going out. They were coming home and learning and speaking with our friends, our grandparents, or our father, and this. So many things, many things, stories and this and that. Very nice. So, there was this one man, he is now, I think, 25, and his friend is also similar, like this. All the times they were coming, they were speaking very well, and then sometimes they wanted to come, and they were thinking that they would marry. So, but they say that we are at an age of about 20. And so, they both came, batting, this. So, these girls and that boy were coming and eating this and that. So, there was a bread, a very nice bread. And that bread, they are coming, they are these both girls. And they will go further, they will be. They still return marriage, but they are, and it is said that, please, we will eat. So, bread, beautiful bread, is coming. So he cut the bread, and this hard one, he put it to one side, and the very nice, softer, and good for this girl, he gave to her with butter and so on. And he's taking the hard butter and the fruit. Not fruit, yeah. So bread. Every day, from both sides, he's cutting, and on the other side, they can be nice and soft, like this. And he's taking this hard one. And that girl, she said, "My God, why doesn't he give me something hard also?" And he doesn't say anything. He thinks, "Because I want to give soft, very good, and hard, hard, I'm eating." Well, all the time he was looking like this, all the time, for about ten years. And then they said, "Now we have marriage, it will come in." And the marriage was, and she was very happy, and he was also very happy. So they went to the marriage, and they came back, and everything. And then she was thinking. The ladies are very nice, very soft, and very good. They are, yeah, men are always taking this and this and that and that and everything, good. He will run away and bring something, and that, and that. Man is a great, you know, yes, yes. Man is a very great being, and everything brings this and this. Soft, calm things for the ladies, that's good. After that, will something come, no? So, two days, three days, then this lady said, "Girls, she won't become a lady," and now she doesn't speak with him. They are eating their breakfast, and he is making bread, and she is looking only like this. His whole life, he doesn't want to, he is working, doing his work, but she is talking like this. Morning he comes, "Hello, darling," and he said, looking like this, only like this, really, and he doesn't speak to her, and she doesn't speak to him. Why, why? They were about 20 years or something married. Or 25 or something, no, they did not like, not marriage, not that cooking, this, this, but he said something to her, and she said, Something different, he said yes and so on. He said, "Hmm," said, "Hmm, no, you." Then it came, 50 years, and now he said, "Let's go. We will go to one nice park. There is a very nice hospital—not hospital, hotel." And he said, "Let's go there." She said, "Naya, every day is coming." So then he said to the people there in the hotel, Please, it is our wedding day, like 50 years. And we make like this, oh, nice. And he said, "Please," he said, "please make a very nice lunch or breakfast or so, for my wife and me, and so. He is sitting still. She was not like always; she was sitting like this. And he, well, he said, "Darling, is it nice today, our 50 years time? Can you tell me something?" And he said, "Because your whole life, you are on the table." And you never, and never you said, "Me, this hard little bread I want," you never have given. He said, "Oh my God, darling, I was thinking very hard my whole life, but it's better." How bad, all very bad, and I was giving you very soft and good. And she said, "I don't like soft, I want it like this." Then she said, "What?" Then he said, "Please, like this. What?" Let me give you the soft one, and I give you the hard one. And then he was saying, "Thank you, darling. No. Yeah. Yes." Then he said, "Please, please come back from the hotel." Please, please, come here, please, he said. Is my marriage today? And she also said, "Yes." And so, it's not 50 years like this, but marriage is where we are today. And they become very nicely, one hand like this and one like that. That's it. So, but you know, from a very little time, children, till that time, marriage was already, but very unhappy all the time. But not gone, but not gone. Why? Because marriage. And when we are married, then we will live a married life until death, or until we die. That was a story. It was a story. But what did he say? Bread, this and that. And there again, she said, every night, we did this. And she said, "Darling, are you happy?" She said, "I am very happy, and you know, we will go, not only for this 50-year marriage, but now we are married, and we will go to the other city, somewhere very good, and we will come there nicely." How do you see? So that, like this, either woman or man, it doesn't matter which country, where it is, and they, who lead, lead like that, in that. So, we are all yogīs, you know we are. And how good we are, yes? So don't be angry, okay? Whatever is happening, we are yogīs, and we will be with the yogīs all the time, and you will get it one day, that kind of feeling in your heart, that yes, now my heart is in the heart of the satsaṅg, of the gurus, like this. So, there is that which we are, and you know that many are not like this. One is this, one is this, may this, that. We have to come nice. How we come? How nice, very nice. Yes, not only that, this is not good, and this is not good. Then, you are not good, you will not be, and I will not be also. Because I feel, I feel, I feel like this. That is what you practice, like what we are doing. And therefore, now please sit down nicely, with your heart and mind. If we, if we will do it, you all, then we can do it like this. That, while we do say, "my heart," "the heart," "my heart," "my... heart." So if you will do like this or not, but if we do it ourselves, then there will be a little bit of difficulty. Then you will say, "Okay, forget it," and we go to other words, anything. So how will you understand in our heart, my heart? And who was that, my heart? That lady? And they said they gave band to this, this. That was given to me in my heart, to hurt this many times in my heart. Okay, so inhale deeply, and we will give up now because we don't need it just yet. So please, only I can see them like this. Otherwise, relax, very nice, very nice. My heart, the heart of the heart, that mouth that you can feel. One can just go in the water, deep in the water, and close his nostrils and wait to see how far you can go. But the heart will not; the heart will go constantly. So when we say this, we feel inside, this is the path. And now, place your hands up on your thighs. Five times chanting from the navel till the...

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