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A guided meditation and discourse on breath awareness and life force.

"Apply only a very light pressure, not deep or strong, but with the gentlest touch."

"This is called our life. And now, this is not only for humans."

The teacher guides participants in a breath awareness technique, focusing on the navel and heart. He discusses the primal nature of breath shared by all beings, contrasts human habits with animal instinct, and shares a fragmented anecdote about an ancient tree, weaving in references to yogis, scientists, and spiritual figures like Swami Shankar.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

We sit now, comfortably and nicely. Place your right, middle, and left fingers at the navel, pointing toward the world. Apply only a very light pressure, not deep or strong, but with the gentlest touch. How do we receive this air or breath? We know that when we breathe, we know it through... our stomach and so on, but to the navel. This means we are directing our awareness to the navel. The second point is from the heart. There are two points: one is our heart, and our navel, and mouth, and our nostril. These are among the first points—one, two, three—to bring the breath either to the mouth or nostril. These are the points. At this point, we will learn tomorrow about the tomorrows, as we are living here for how many days. So, at this point, we have to learn. Then there are the ṛṣis, the yogīs—a yogī is a little different—but the ṛṣis came and said that we are like this. Number two: also many doctors and many other scientists, and they are also very great. That is what is to be said, not to look back. All they are doing is learning and going further beyond. So, all our techniques that we are doing, working, everything proceeds through these techniques. But it was not so quick in that time. Yet this, what we do about breathing and so on, has been with us for a long time already, from life itself. When we were born, and the mother gave birth to a child, and opened—I don’t know how it is—and immediately, the navel begins to receive the breath. When that opens, then you cannot go anywhere else like that. Then it comes to both nostrils and the navel. So this is called our life. And now, this is not only for humans. Well, we humans have more techniques now, but others, all animals or any being, how are they breathing? How do they live? How do they receive? And from there, what can we understand? Now, whether Hindus or Christians or anybody, it doesn’t matter. We are only Hindus or any humans. But humans cannot recognize anything, or they can learn everything, or that. No. If they can learn, then they will be very happy and have a long, long life. But the Hindus, or all these Hindus or humans, let’s say, we are always taking in something not good: eating, walking, this, that, everything. Animals, their life, they know exactly how. So, in that way, look at this tree. And this tree, how long is its life? How long will it live? And we are very happy for these trees. So there is one story, a very nice story, but that I will tell you next time. So it was one of the yogīs, very great, and he was in the forest only. And the forest was like this, and the wall was long, long. Also in Australia, we had one beautiful tree. How long was it? Five and five thousand years? No, or how much was that in Badīkhaṭu, which was our land? We had a big land, we had, and there was so much. After two, three days, or something like this, then we should... Let’s see more trees. Where are they? And so... One day we went to see there. It was a little bit in the valley, and we were about, I think, five people. We were holding the tree because it was very far from this side to coming. Then they verified this like we were so much, and then we told this, and we... We brought the people, or the sentence, or something, and they came, and they came, and they saw. This is one of the so long, long... It is living still. We wanted to take the other trees. The people were getting the wood and something like this, but we don’t go so many under like this this year or the last year. They said this is going to the forest. And forest, or they said that this land we want to have here, and something, and not like this. So they told us, and of course they gave us the money very far, long, long like this. I think 20 times more like this. That was who. Who wasn’t with me from Australia? No, he was not there from Dangog. He was there, yeah. Many, many snakes, and one snake with a stomach, what is out? Black. No, no, but the red, red stomach. So many, mostly there’s so many, but in Australia there’s all kinds of animals, not animals, these spiders. But only in India is that cobra. But Cobra, as you know, is always with Śaṅkara, Swāmī Śiva. Anyhow, my dears, everything was good. And now, therefore, how we go, how we do, how we are making. All in all, we come further, more. Hari Om. All the best. Siddhiṃ Nar Bhagavān.

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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