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Advice for practising Anusthan

Establish a consistent daily practice for spiritual progress.

A dedicated daily sādhanā of half an hour to one hour is essential. Practice early in the morning to avoid disturbing others. This regularity is more valuable than intensive, irregular efforts. Discipline your eating: consume meals only at set times, with nothing but water in between. This aids both physical health and meditative focus. The practice involves concentrating on three points: the head, chest, or navel. Choose one and maintain your focus there consistently. This internal focus must be learned and sustained. Do not mix practices or overcomplicate your routine. Simplicity and regularity are the foundations. The technique is a gift from the lineage, meant to be integrated into your entire life.

"Three times you can eat, but between meals, nothing except water."

"One is thinking maybe here, or here in the chest, or in the navel. Only these three."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Devādhi Deva, Deva Purīṣa, Mahādeva Kī, Madhvanānjī Bhagavān Kī, Alak Purījī Mahādeva Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī, Māta Pitā Gurudeva Kī, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti Kī Jaya. Now, regarding our programs: how many of you are engaged in sādhanā here in this seminar? Let us first speak of our practice. Who is coming this year? Thank you. Niranjana, please come here. How many are present for this? How many days or how much? Please raise your hands again. Thank you. Whenever you come, make this your place. Begin from this month. So, we have seven brothers. It will be for half an hour or one hour. You should be given full instructions on how to do this, where, and so on. There are 123 people registered for Anuṣṭhāna. I know how many are there, but who is coming first to this program? He will take care of you very nicely, even though he has many other commitments. This is very good. We are happy. Ask them and see how many they are. Are you practicing half an hour of yoga, and then what? Like me? We will say this year they cannot; we will put that aside. Okay, this means: do not eat too much. If you eat one kilo, eat only one cup. Then you will be relaxed and feel good. Otherwise, you will not be controlled. Therefore, everyone should sit in one place. You have to stay, sit, and meditate like this. After eating, all of you in your class should go walking from here to here, covering the whole area, twice. How long does that take? Half an hour? Then twice. Afterwards, lie down, drink something like coffee, and then go to class. Did you understand? If you have something to drink with you, take some coffee or tea. What is that sweet or something beside you for them? So you can drink or eat a little. Many people are doing differently. It is like this. It is just not good because you are not doing it the whole year. Now I will give you something you can practice the whole year, but not whole days. There is one program, and this is it. I will give it to you. Yes? This one, you should practice every day. Then you can come here the whole day, which we have here, and practice very nicely. If you practice your anuṣṭhāna, then your husband might tell you to remain in the strelka (household duties) and not come with him again. That is why I tell you it is not a whole-day practice. But when we come here for one week or two weeks, that is okay, very good. There is another practice, you know, and it is very important. Those who are practicing this, we will do it tomorrow. It is not just for that technique, but for our inner being. This is from this one, till coming up and going about. So today, this is what I told you. For those who are not going there, there is one practice. What is that? Yes, Kriyānuṣṭhāna. That is this. This too is very important, very good. You have to learn it, and it will be. We are coming very great. Who are you? We made it into techniques, so you all come, and one day I will tell you everything. This is about a practice that takes about half an hour. If you go a little more, that will be very good. If you can do it for one hour, then do it early in the morning so the other people in your house do not face trouble. Early morning is very nice, beautiful. Sleep a little earlier. But of course, many of you are workers. You know about us, which is why we are just coming for one month or two months, or something like this. Tomorrow will be for these people who are not doing sādhanā there, but here. There we will again practice. There with them, you see with them and practice with them. It is very nice, and that will go with you to your house. The best time is early morning. Or, if someone is sleeping or working at night and then is up early morning, that is fine. But twenty-five hours, only once. Do not do two practices. It is only one day. That is a very, very powerful energy, and it affects many things in our body. This is also like... many diseases will not come. You will see that you will feel; you will not get anything. But also, our food: how we are eating. People working in the city, some in school or elsewhere, they are eating more. Farmers working on the farm go early morning. They eat, drink, and then after midday they come for lunch, and then in the evening. And we, how much? Let me know, see. You were drinking tea in the morning and came here. Once you were eating and then went out. But somebody will eat this: salad, coffee, cafeteria. That means how much time we are eating. So, Holy Gurujī said, "Three times you can eat, but between meals, nothing except water." Then you will see, you will not have so many ailments. They will not tire, and many things will not be good in the stomach. Try to do it like this. Many other people have very few workers; they are not working, so they cannot eat anything, maybe a little water, but they have to work all the time. That is good. So now you come here. How many times do you try to bite in your whole day? When you go for walking, there is also something to lay down. So this is that. That is why yogic practice is different. You know that we have this from Ālag Purījī, who made this. Then it came to Dev Purījī. It was given from Devapurījī to Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, and then from Mahāprabhujī to Devapurījī. When Mahāpurījī was in the ashram in Barikattu, he said, "Only eat a little and drink little water. Air is good." Now, in these years, in these times, we begin to make disease. Who makes this? They make people in such a way that they create these diseases. But how? And when did it begin more in this modern world? You know, it was a little after the mouth rubber, yeah? You know, it was only rubber, yeah, chewing gum. Chewing gum means chewing. It is from Italy, from America, from the other side. Not America, from the Matajis. From China. Yeah. From Kailāsa. From China. Kailash, yeah. Always. How many people were there? You have some, everybody. How many years were they, everyone? Do you know that? And still, some are still taking. This is a means that they cannot eat it, but at least they bite, bite, bite... But that was not healthy. So many have left, but many still remain. After that, something different is brought again, and that is not good. That is why we are very ill, and in our body, everything. But many people are very good; they do not eat like this and that, only at the right time, water or lunch or something, that is all. So, the first thing is to learn yourself. Please also take care of your eating, where it goes in. You can eat, but only once. These are the farmers, the ladies, and they are all working the whole day. Others not, we are all, and you know, we have all diseases inside. So, this is for our yoga in daily life. In this, what we have, we should make this one practice once an hour. It comes from Mahāprabhujī’s or Holī Gurujī’s home. Then you look towards him and close your eyes. Try to see, imagine, and then see Mahāprabhujī, or Holī Gurujī, or Devapurījī, whomever you like. Then we have to get three points. This is very good if you can come, and this will go on for your whole life. One is thinking maybe here (pointing), or here in the chest, or in the navel. Only these three. And from here, to here, or to here. It will take you one month, two months, three months, one year to learn where I will bring my program or my concentration. Where should it be? Yes, somebody said once, and she said to her husband, and she was... telling her husband, "I cannot work. Always I’m thinking about my girl the whole day. I’m working, but not all the time. I’m thinking of the girl, yeah, that girl." He is always thinking about her. That means neither do you work here, nor work on that side. That means you do not work. You do not do your job, you do not do the other thing. Women do not do it like that because they do not have it. Do you understand? You must not learn properly. You see, the men, they are good because they are hard. They always say the man is great. A proč? Kvůli dětem. So always be in such a point. I told you that it made one week, one month, two months, three months, or one year. Have you learned the techniques which you like? Then it will be that you will meditate very greatly. In this technique which you have, if you have not learned, you should learn. It is not twenty minutes, or twenty something. Tomorrow I will give you all luck. Those who did not learn will come inside and sit also, like, "Yes, I am good." Okay, tomorrow. What are the other ones for yoga citta? How will it be there? So, do not take it inside. Okay? Chūṅgī is also a kind of Chūṅgī. But it is a little bit, at least, near good, because I took it for myself. But there is something when it is something. So, these are the two people. Tomorrow you will give him the lecture with you. Others that I will tell you, I will at 7 o’clock. Seven o’clock, six thirty, six, seven o’clock. From there, it can be a little distance because there are many things I have to do, and how long, and we are how many? We will see everything and try to give everything, but then you have to practice. It is very good, very, very good. So, tomorrow, would you like to come? Heads up, all. Oh, I see. Okay, there was someone who was doing it, but once in a while, sometimes eating meat. Then it is not good. Then you can go to rabbits. Go and see the rabbit and eat. Okay? Do you know how many rabbits are here? Yes, in my rooms, very many. Yes, a very nice picture. It looks nice. Okay, so if you have done this technique today, he is going to go there, and others are coming here. We will do it here. Here, those who will go for working should go for working. So that was one. Was that for sādhanā there? This is tomorrow; I give you one. That is what you will learn. After that, it will be the best for you, for that technique. Sādhanā is what you are doing. We cannot come at the right time because on the way somebody says, "Swāmījī, please, this, this, that," so it can be a ten-minute distance. It is said the professor, coming for the lecture, is five minutes late. Yes? Fifteen. Fifteen. Yeah, because fifteen, because he lost his wife quickly to bring something. So, like, I also go up or down, maybe something, but tomorrow we will do. So, how many are you, please? Anuṣṭhāna. It is not Anuṣṭhāna. You are in Anuṣṭhāna, you will not go. Okay, so that otherwise, when you go to my class tomorrow, then he will go there and he will not call you back the next day in his practice. Because Niranjan is great, in the highest technique. Yeah, and if you go down there, then we will tell you to go. One year Swāmījī comes, then that is all. So let us really learn these techniques. I will talk to you. Last year many people were not there when I talked about the heart, and on the nāḍī, yes, and from the far further up. So these three will be tomorrow coming, or you think? I will go tomorrow in the other practice to people, how we are. You know how I can know one who is how sleeping? He is coming from Slovakia. He is all the time my teacher there, all the time. Yes, every year he is going like that, so this is not good. So give something drinking, so he will not make like this. Very nice water, nice water. So please, if we practice, then we should not make something really long. So these were the two things. Thank you very much. Others will come then for other techniques. Then I will go to the vegetables also and ask them. I will take it. I will give you something. I will take it in my pocket, vegetables, very nice vegetables. And I think, my dears, we should all really eat our grass and this, everything. You see that we have such air as nowhere else we can have. All water comes from anywhere; from all, it goes to the other side. It comes from the far end from this side, and then it is going under the wall well, and it goes out. From the other side, it goes there. From here, is there water coming? Is it good water? Really, it is a drinkable one. Very nice. In our ashram, I do not know if someone drinks sometimes, I do not know. Yeah, sometimes they are here and sleeping and drinking and then... Many people drink alcohol, yeah. They do not make problems, anything, but something, I do not know. So our ashram is really, even if you do not want, but we can only have beautiful and good grace, and everything very nice. Thank you. Tomorrow you are going first there, and for all my people, they will sit here. I wanted to put you somewhere there, but you are too many, so we will get here. You know that which is the blink? What is that? Yeah, tennis. So that is very nice, then we are peaceful. It is very nice, really. We need not to like the coronaviruses inside. All Corona is upstairs. You see? White in the green. What? The clouds. Clouds, yes. You know that clouds, this is very nice, clean. So tomorrow, please, I think so many people can sit there so that you can learn properly. OK? Thank you. Tomorrow, those who are going will go there. OK? I am asking, at what time will this be? Yeah, up to four o’clock. Four o’clock. So, there I, when we are coming here, practice. Ten o’clock, ten o’clock. Ten o’clock, no? Ten, ten-thirty. What? So the time of the morning program? Yeah, morning, 7 o’clock. So, it will be in the time of your morning lecture? No. No, because too many people are coming and going. Yes, we can do all that, but we will go there, that is it. It is very nice. Will you look at Manjī? It is good that he is sitting there. If there is no rain, then we sit in the big hall. Now, people who are going, always going in lecture sleeping, we will not give them because if one is sleeping, then others also sleep. The best techniques for them, those who can go like this, then I have the best, highest technique. Yeah, that is the highest technique. With respect, love, good. In the garden. Yes, the vegetable garden. And there, in that, you can say your mantra. Because otherwise, others are sleeping and they are not right. Okay? Really, okay? Now, today, how will you have your techniques and sleeping, okay? Maybe two times I was coming in there, and I was sitting also, and then I went out, and they did not know. So now, all who have money at home, they will sleep and everything is gone. Busy. Adios.

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