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Yoga is One

A spiritual talk on the principles and practice of yoga in daily life.

"Yoga is the yoga. It’s the yoga, that’s all then. There’s nothing else."

"Yoga in daily life... means we should practice every day. That’s all. And that is for everyone, whether they are Hindus, Muslims, Christians, or anybody."

The speaker addresses a group, holding up the system's foundational book. He emphasizes that true yoga requires daily practice according to these teachings, not just theoretical knowledge. He discusses the importance of ethical living, notably vegetarianism, criticizes the dilution of yoga by other systems, and urges a return to disciplined, foundational practice. The talk meanders through topics including dietary rules, the global spread of yoga, and personal anecdotes.

Filming location: Austria

We are all practicing our yoga in daily life. I would like to show you one of our books. I think you all have this book. Does everyone have it? Very good. And have you practiced everything from it? What I want to say is that we have this other book. It is very long, beautiful, and very good. We worked on it greatly, from the German edition and in other ways, and it is very nice. If you see this book and learn from it, then you will know exactly how to be a yoga practitioner. It is a help for us, everything according to this. When we show something, did you learn everything? Did you show everything or not? That doesn’t matter. It was a little aside. So, we begin ourselves. You know, and I know, all that I did and do. You have also learned these things and have been with us for many years. You know it is present in many different countries, as is in this book. But many did not practice this; they didn’t complete this book. Viele haben das doch nicht geübt nach diesem Buch. We have our yoga center. Yoga is the yoga. It’s the yoga, that’s all then. There’s nothing else. When we take this book once, when one is coming from this side, somebody else is coming from the other side. Okay, this is a different path. But we’re all coming to this point. That is yoga. Yoga is that which is for the yogīs. And this other they have made is not right. But, of course, they have made something. Modiji gave the best, very good. But he cannot himself be looking and checking all the time. Somehow they said they took everything and took another name, took it out. And it is not enough, and good what they are giving for practice. So, every yogī—we can say yogīs, we can use our satgurus or our gurus—does many things. Everyone has one yogī, and this one yogī has made beautiful lectures and everything in his āśram. He made ashrams, and he went to other countries, but it was his name there. So, yoga is yoga. But which guru, which master, which one who is coming, doing all the times? So we should all respect them. For example, we ourselves, our yoga, is yoga in daily life. So, yoga is our practicing yoga in daily life. Do you understand, all of you, from this yoga in daily life? So you are practicing yoga and yoga in daily life. Do you know that you are practicing, or are you only talking about yoga in daily life? Now, I don’t know where you have. And that is why we have to come back again. Many people now make yoga into different things. They don’t make this. For example, it doesn’t say that we will not tell you to eat meat or not. They don’t say that because they don’t want to ask, and they are taking meat. Of course, many are best, they are doing, but when they are coming to the university, it is the university, and when you go there, then they do not take this love of the meat and other things. They tell, if you want, you can; if you do not, as you wish, we do not want that. We are telling all exercises and everything, but not only this. So now it is different. They are doing everything okay. But if we are in yoga, then first we have to see our... Like yesterday, I told you that we should not eat meat, alcohol, this and that. And you know that you are, all of you know that you are doing it. Good. Maybe someone is in between and eating; sometimes we eat. But this is also not good. If they say, okay, one thing, one, one means this one finger. Okay, we will cut it off. No, that doesn’t matter. This will. I cut it only. So it is like this: exercises, exercises are different. But to become that real yogic and yoga, and that this is, they are going above, how to the heaven. And on the other side, you are coming, okay? You are many, many things. I went to Australia, and in Australia they are making yoga, coming to practice, and this. But what they are doing is they are coming to the ashram, practicing, and then going, and they are eating meat and this and that. So this is not good then. So now we have to, all we will say, yoga in daily life is such a point on that. So, whole world, you are wherever from there, you should bring it, and whole book, everything. And there are five books more, and in this book the thing is have been told, okay? Meat can be eaten, all this and that. We were working very hard. It was in Australia, and this side and this side, our difference. So in that, now we have to make like we are going, all of us, in this, it is our school. So this school, which we are making very good, now we have to know, but I tell you, that people, there are three things. We are this; it doesn’t matter in which country, but we want to know killing and doing the animals. And we are human, and the human was given that this is not killing animals and this and that, and they should live very in the spiritualities. Then it is, we will go into the spiritual other world in the world. Otherwise, okay, we are good, we have everything, but how they are eating and this. And you know now, some tell, we will make more meat and this and that and like this. This is not good. And so, anywhere, I mean not just in this country but the whole world, and how they are trying to kill the animals. You know, it was the first in, there was long, I don’t know how it is, but the people there were not eating meat so much. Very rare. And then they come after, and the next time, when they again and again came. So at that time, all the people were there, and the people had nothing to eat. I am sorry, but I don’t know. I can tell this, I don’t know if it is right or not. I was not here that time, but I saw you that time, that through the whole world it was with the humans, and they were fighting and marrying. And there were not many more things, nothing. And they were, people had little things, something too. So they saw sometimes the other countries, and they were eating meat. Not every day, but the people, they were coming, they said, from America. Or these people, and they were getting meat. And other people, I’m sorry, not to maybe mistake or not, but also here, here in Germany or Austria, the people, they were standing and looking, "Who is eating meat?" And then, when they go away, they take in something. So I don’t know. Do you know this? This country or not, and then after that, after that, when they come, then they are always trying to give meat. We will want to eat meat and meat and... Like this, they have come to eat meat. Do you know what I tell you? When again they come, and now they are coming more and more and killing the animals and this and that, it is not good. So, of course, you are doing. You are giving okay, it is their life, but we would see, and we don’t want these creatures, the animals or anybody, that they are killing. And when I’m going to the airplane, and in the aeroplane, from this country to that country to that country, and really, I see you now that in the aeroplanes, inside, those people eating, more people, they ask only for vegan eating. So many, many,... many people in the airplane with this vegan. And that’s why there are many people, because they saw that animals, they killed them. Many, many animals killed them. And that’s why all people, and young people, they said, "No, I don’t want to kill the animals. We don’t do like this." So we should ourselves, we don’t want to kill any creatures. There is this thing, anyhow. And so in these books, that is what kind of exercises that was that time, and what in this they have, that is very great, that we should learn again. And it is not only their lectures, how it is and this, but very nice it is to read again. And how it will be coming to their body. And there are many exercises, of course. Every yogī has many, many. Yes. So it is beginning from the beginning, but there is not only this. Further, we have to ask very nicely for everything, vegetables and this, so there is a lot of these things we have to learn according to this, practicing the people. And from this book, okay, if you have the book, that you can have, leave it, and where you don’t have this. And you have now a new book from this, so now you begin from the beginning again now. What means that? In the beginning, you have two beginnings. The one beginning is that you know very much everything, everything. But now I don’t know when and how and where. Then we should come on it, and again, step by step. That is very important. Otherwise, the yoga in daily life, what we are telling, which is a very great, and all they said also must not be my yoga name, but other Swāmīs, many they are from India, and they come to other countries there, they give their name, so they, yeah. Now, there is in the United Nations, and then everywhere, but there is one more. We have Yoga Nadi, or the next one more, and that is from the yogis, no, no... what is that? Sivananda. So, Yoganand is yoga, yogī. He was very great, his master, and they were very good to have practiced. Still, they are, according to the yoga... And this is the name of this whole world. I have seen everywhere there, and another one there is also that. They have also a whole other one, and so is also the yoga. Now, what is yoga? The name, it is okay. How I brought my yoga in daily life, I was mostly that time. In other lands, Croatia and the other side, Czech and Slovakia, and like this, so it was my yoga more there. But they said, "What you are telling, how is it like that?" Are you talking about religion? Then they don’t want it. Or others are having, they will do different things. So we made yoga in daily life. So yoga, yoga in daily, daily life, yoga in daily life. Life, every day we should practice. This is yoga, and so we have begun from this. Now, what I have got? This first very beginning there, and in that way, "Yoga in Daily Life" immediately, quickly, it was so many yoga practicing in other many, many countries with the name "Yoga in Daily Life." It means we should practice every day. That’s all. And that is for everyone, whether they are Hindus, Muslims, Christians, or anybody. It is like that for everyone. So, you have 100%? I know somebody telling that we have this book, and we had our book. And we read sometimes, and we were telling something, this and that. But exactly, we did not practice. And if we did, we lost. Because practice everything, and then again, then okay. In this way, yoga in daily life. So we see, how do you begin to come? Exercise, and everything is everywhere here. So now, who is coming here? Please, on this beginning, we should begin, okay, in this class.

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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