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The doctor is great for us all. They can do so much, quickly and suddenly, and we cannot see what we are doing ourselves. So if someone has broken a leg or something else, of course they immediately come to the doctor, and the doctors handle it. I said this, and he also definitely agrees, because from this perspective, we are thinking of everything. We go to the forest and bring things; it is very good. But the doctor is also like this, and it is always very nice. So we should do both. There are many doctors now who are eating and doing things just as we are doing now, you see. Therefore, it is very nice, and we have life like this. But when we don't eat well, it is not good. Always eating sweets and such things quickly, it goes into the stomach and it's not good. You see that; you also know. I tell you because I am 50 years, you know, both here and in India. When we had something good, for example, during the holidays and for many days, they all are making something very nice for cooking at home. This is very nice. We have to make it at home ourselves, by a mother or a father—it doesn't matter. Yes? And then they bring it to their house, to their other friends. They were bearing it, yes, and they brought it to somebody. They said, "We didn't know at that time what it is like this, but now it is what we have made, like so many things, and how it is, we don't know." It is good, of course, maybe, but not made at home. And we don't know how it is, and this and that. So many things—this is not good health. This is it. So do it in your home. Let's do it at home. Bring something first: good fruit and something that is... Now, we don't really know how to do it. It is not healthy. Why? Because when I came to Europe, and from my India also, and everywhere when I come to this country, everywhere was very good: fresh, good fruits and many things. The cooking here is very nice; here it was very good, everybody very good. Sometimes also good: they are swimming in the rivers and drinking the water, yes. Do you know that? Yes. And now, how is it like that? So, of course, the doctor will see and give up. Good. And like this, perhaps now in the whole world, there are two countries somewhere. This is in there, and they... don't want to have anything more, making some like this from the others, only home-cooked and very good, and nothing from the memory of other countries or something like this. Those two countries, I think they're, you know that, yeah, yeah... There and there, you can see that they don't let anything like this come there, yes. And they are very healthy, very good. Everything is going, and then it is coming from India. India, you can come also down. On the other side, and this, but now again we come with this. Many, many people, you are here also, these our people, and that is like our brother. He came, and he, so he now, how is? We should see with it, and what it is, and from where it is like this. And that is very, very good. When I came to Vienna here, and I was going to the forest, and we've got some fruits or something, many things. So yourself, please, can you give, tell some words, please, if you can? Please, yeah. Sanātana Dharma family, sitting in the wonderful, most gracious, and the most comfortable lap of Śrī Swāmījī. Namaste. Hari Om Tat Sat. You know, I've only been here less than 24 hours, and Swāmījī and all of you have made me so much at home. I really just cannot, I don't have words to share with you that I feel absolutely, completely, you know, like coming home. So, thank you for that generosity, and thank you for giving me a humble opportunity to speak with you today. And so, in yoga and in Āyurveda and in Jyotiṣa and in Vāstu and Saṅgīta, these are all Indian traditional sciences. So the first mark we have is Ṛtu Carya. Yeah, I'm sure you are sort of, somehow acquainted with that ṛtu carya? Yeah, ṛtu carya. Ṛtu is season. So in India, in that part of the world, we have six seasons, and here in Europe we have four seasons, yeah. So Mother Nature is so bountiful, Mother Nature is so beautiful that it gives. It gives the produce that we need. It gives us the vegetation, it gives us the fruits that we need to prepare our mind and our body for the next season. So that's why, I'm sure Swāmījī will agree with that. Me, hopefully that I mean, in India, you know, a mother will go to the local market to buy seasonal vegetables, seasonal produce, seasonal fruits. So she's not going to, what's the name of a big store here? Supermarket, yeah. So you don't go to the mummy, doesn't go to the supermarket, and you know, gets, like a mango every week, yeah, like what we do here, unfortunately. So there are, so the first thing I want to request you is that please design your diet around the seasons. So what Mother Nature is giving you, design your body around that first. So eat seasonal vegetables, eat seasonal fruits, eat seasonal produce. So that's number one. This is what our great ancient Ṛṣis like Mahārāj have prescribed, you know, for all humankind. Number two: progressing from Ṛtu Carya, then we have daily regime. Daily regime is like, for example, what time you wake up in the morning, what are you supposed to do with yourself, what are the yoga āsanas you need to practice? What is the prāṇāyāma you need to practice? What is the main thing you want to eat first thing in the morning? What time do you go to the bathroom? What time do you go to the toilet? What time do you start your work? You know, like creating a regimen on a daily basis. Yoga and Āyurveda say that the most important meal of the day is in the afternoon, yeah, to help the agni, the firepower in our belly. So Āyurveda and yoga say—we say in Europe that you are what you eat, yeah. We say that everybody understands my English, okay? So everybody says that you are what you eat, but we don't say that in yoga. In yoga, we say you are what you digest, yeah. So your digestive system is going to be so strong that it has the ability to digest, you know, the food that you want to put in this. So, as a sort of a rule of thumb, if you go on your internet station, internet search, and you put in "alkaline foods versus acidic foods," so all yoga diet, all Āyurvedic diet, it is based on alkaline foods. So please look at the internet search stations. You can do this in the comfort of your home and look at the alkaline foods, so bring those alkaline foods into your diet and take out acidic foods, okay. And so these are really, you know, my sort of humble suggestions. And of course, you know, we have two major detoxes in the yogic world, in, you know, globally, at the summer solstice and the winter solstice, yeah, you know that, yeah. So the idea really is to clean yourself. For example, I mean, I'm not talking against any particular organization or any particular group of people, but you know this magic number, 40 days, yeah. We have this in Christianity, yeah, at Sabbath, you know, at Easter. So the Christian world goes into 40 days of cleansing, yeah. And then you see the same thing in the Islamic world. So they also have Ramadan, which is also for 40 days, and we also have, you know, all the Sanātana Dharma, you know, all the Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, yes. So all these, all these religious institutions, you know, that have sprung up from Sanātana Dharma, so we also have this in a 40-day cleansing period. So the idea really is, is that, you know, I mean, there's something that, please, take into your consideration. Maybe if you can't do 40 days, you know, please, can you just do one day a week? Yeah, because the body's getting, you know, the body is getting tired every week, every month, every year. So the body needs to, the body wants to have a holiday. The body wants to detox. We have so much, like Swāmījī was just saying a few minutes ago, you know, you want to eat this, you want to eat this, you want to eat this, you know? Because we feel, we think that the mouth is put on the body, is designed around the body, just to eat. Yeah, we just want to entertain, eat, eat all the time. So the thing is that, if you, please, look at one day a week, you know, so you don't have to have a lot of carbohydrates. Don't eat carbohydrates, no bread, no Indian, you know, chapatis and pastas and heavy duty foods like that. And, I know that all, everybody here in this family, we are all very strict vegetarians, which is absolutely wonderful, but please try and keep away from carbohydrates at least once, one day a week, rice. So just have something like kicharī, yeah. And for kicharī, you can, I know it's rice, but try and use some alternative rice instead of just white rice, so you get some wonderful rice here. I think also in Austria they're called red rice, very nourishing, excellent. Yeah, don't get those rice from a Chinese shop because they spray the red color, so you have to get them from a, like, a bio store, organic, organic, so they're very good companies, you know, that have that. So just once a week, you know, please just have red rice. Cook them light in water and put a little bit of ghee in there, and you can also have that with mungī, you know, mungī, okay? Yeah, mungī dāl, the best, best dāl, the absolutely ultimate dāl for detoxing. Yeah, once a week you can try that. And then, of course, the other thing is that I wanted to also sort of bring to your attention is that there were a few things going on in my mind this morning, but you know, I've been so, so busy here, so they will sort of escape my mind, my thought. Yeah, I think that this really sums it all up in terms of food, and so please eat fruits and vegetables and produce which are seasonal, and try and design your diet around alkaline foods. So, you know, when in Āyurveda we talk about Vāta and Pitta and Kapha, which is an amalgamation of the five elements, yeah. So alkaline foods are, and it's very difficult, you know. Even if somebody used to come here and they check your pulse and they say that you are dominant Vāta or you're dominant Kapha. And so what? And then what? You're not going to go out, you can't go to a supermarket and say to them, "I want Vāta foods," because there isn't anything like that. You have to take control of your own mouth first. You have to take control of your own body, and the best way to do that is to do your own thing. Look at alkaline foods and sort of take it from there. If I just have two more minutes, Swāmījī, I want to speak about the five elements. May I speak to you about the five elements? Yes. Do we have a chart here? Do we have a chart? I can write a chart. Okay, all right. So, I have to have a look, so it's a little bit difficult, but I'll try. I'll try and try and describe this to you the best of my ability. So, you have to imagine the universe is a circle, yeah? It's a circle, and we start off with—it doesn't matter anywhere on the circle you start with B, B... Yeah, and that stands for Bhoomi. Bhoomi is the Sanskrit name for Earth, Pṛthvī, yeah. So Bhoomi, and Bhoomi is normally represented, you know, with the Vedic swastika. That's the symbol for Bhoomi. And then you go up to the next segment, and then it comes to, I think I better get this sorted out here. It's been some time since I spoke about this. And then you come to the symbol Oṁ. Now, you see, we talk about in our system here in yoga, when I say Āyurveda, I don't mean Indian. Yes, I mean Āyurveda in the sense that Āyurveda yogic tradition, Āyurveda tradition. And we say, you know, Auṁ is the ultimate sound. Auṁ is the mahā mantra. Yes, we all speak about that, yeah? So if we speak about that, then what about people living in Europe? They don't say Auṁ, do they? People living in North America don't say Auṁ. People living in Latin America, Aborigines, Africa, these people don't say Auṁ. So how come we say that, you know, Oṁ is the first sound in the universe? But I would be actually delighted to share with you that during the creation of the Silk Route, the greatest trading route that was ever built in the time of King Aśoka, the greatest king that India had, who was a Hindu king who actually became a Buddhist. Okay, so he created this Silk Route from Beijing to Palestine, and in that Silk Route went a lot of Buddhist monks, you know, with their silk and trading and Āyurveda and Yoga, and all this is how the whole thing actually filtered out of India. And so, when Oṁ went out to Palestine, there were a group of people there, and—and I mean, this is before Christianity, before Islam, and so these are the people, the Arabic people of that time. So they were saying, like, when we look at a church, you know, when you go to the church, and so the last word in the English prayer is "Amen," yeah. So people living in that part of Palestine had "Amen," which was a lot more, you know, it was much more part of their language. You know, it's like in India, for example, you know, when you talk about Bhagavān Rām, yes, we say Rām. If you go to South, Middle India, they say Rāma. If you go to South India, it's said, "Raman." It's the same guy. So see how they... So this is what happened with Auṁ when it went out to the Middle East. So it became from Auṁ to Amen. And then when you look at our friends, you know, just across the border, when you look at Islam and they say "Āmīn," same difference. So everybody is actually saying Auṁ. There's no difference. So, the second, going back to my example, we start off with a circle where the whole journey starts off with the Vedic swastika, and then it goes to Oṁ. And Oṁ represents Ākāśa. Ākāśa is, we're talking about five elements, yes? Ākāśa is space. Space, very good. Okay, so we have started with the Vedic swastika, then we go to Oṁ, and then the next symbol is Śrī. Śrī represents, not Lakṣmī. And so, Bā, we started with Bā, and then we go on to Oṁ, which represents Gagan. Gagan is the yogic word for space, Gagan, yeah? Bā-ga-ga. And then we come to number three, which is Śrī. Śrī is represented by air. Air in yoga is called Vāyu. Bā-gā-vā. And then we come to the fourth symbol, and you see here your remarkable dīvā. This is a dīvā here, yes, dīvā. Yeah, so many places have dīvā, some have candles, same difference. And so, dīvā represents fire, and fire in Sanskrit is Agni, and then finally, we come to the fifth symbol on this side in the circle, which is so coming from Dīvā. Then we come to a pot. So this is a pot like this. Can I, can I hold this? So this is called, in English is called a pot, yeah. And what is, what goes in here, near, near... It is a Sanskrit word for water. Bhagavān, Bhagavān actually meets elements, five elements. Everything in the cosmos, everything in the universe, is based on these five elements. Otherwise, in Āyurveda, as otherwise in yoga, known as Pañca Mahābhūtas, make sense? And you see this is how, in our terminology, when we greet, when we grace, when we refer to the Lord or we refer to the equivalent word of God, so our rightful word to use, you know, for the ultimate source, is Bhagavān, because it represents all the five elements, and this is how the word "Bhagavān" actually has come together, yeah. So I just wanted to take that opportunity to share my little bit of wisdom that I have, and I'm requesting Mahārāj, I had a wonderful opportunity to share a small treatment, you know, for him this morning to see if we could actually have a program to initiate Āyurveda workshops, Āyurveda courses, and Āyurvedic treatments. So I think Mahārāj is really happy with that possibility. So maybe you will see us, we will see each other a little bit more over the next few years. And so, how can we try and do this? So, do you have any questions? Do you have any answers? There was, you know, the national symbol for the airline of Indonesia. Any idea what it is? And what is Garuḍa? What is Garuḍa? Yes, yes, okay. Half animal, half bird, yeah, Garuḍa. Yeah, so that means, so, Garuḍa was flying above Swāmījī's ashram in Vienna, just now, yeah, and so he heard that you know, it is enough to come into a satsaṅg, is enough to achieve, sorry, mukti. What is another word? From mokṣa, oh yeah. So he said, "My goodness, I, this is new news for me." So he goes up to Vaikuṇṭha, and he speaks to Bhagavān Viṣṇu. He says, "Excuse me, sir, I was flying over Swāmījī's ashram in Vienna, and there were these guys, and they were saying, 'This is enough,' and I mean, is that really, is that, is that possible?" He said, "Listen, don't disturb me, I've got, I'm too busy. I've got the whole universe to run, you know? I don't have time, you know, for things like this." So he said, "All I'm asking you is just a little question." He said, "Okay, well, if you want the answer, you have to go to a lake called Mānasasarovara, which is now in occupied China, yeah. And so you go there, and there by the side of the lake you will find a little worm, yeah. And you go and ask the question to the worm." So, I don't really... He said, "Yeah, you do." So he gets his satellite navigation, you know, puts in the code, he goes to Mānasasarovara, and then he's looking for this little worm. And he sees a worm, and he says, "Excuse me, sir, I've been sent to you by Bhagavān Viṣṇu, and this is my question." And the worm dies. He said, "Oh, I don't know what's going around, what's going around." So he makes a little hole in the ground, and he puts the worm in the hole and covers it up with the earth. And then he flies back to Vaikuṇṭha, and he goes back to Bhagavān Viṣṇu, and he says, "Oops, something went wrong. Something's gone wrong. Can I... this guy, you know, I went to him, and he just died on me. So I don't know what I did wrong." So he said, "Listen, you know, I don't want to know all these stories, 'I'm too busy running the universe,'" he said. "Can you please, please, can you help me out? I just want to have an answer." All right, then he said, "Okay, so you have to now go to some lake, you know, in Austria, and there you will find a swan on the lake, and this, and you go to the swan and ask the swan the same question." So he gets his navigation, you know, bearings, and he comes to this lake in Austria, and he sees the swan is actually in the lake. And then he goes to the swan and says, "Excuse me, I've been sent to you by Bhagavān Viṣṇu, and this is my question: can you please tell me if this is right or wrong?" And the swan dies; this story is coming to an end very quickly, and so he goes back up to Bhagavān Viṣṇu. And he says, "Excuse me, you know something is terribly going wrong. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but something is not working out." So then he said, "Okay, for the final time, there is a lady in this village. She's just given birth to a child, so you have to go and ask this child." So he's getting his coordination, and he's flying down to this village, and then he says, "Oh, my goodness, you know what? If I go, and what if this happens? And if this little guy dies, there'll be a lot of humans, there, they'll, you know, take me out." And then he said, "Oh, I don't know, I'll just, I'll just do it." And he went there, and then, you know, he's going and he's walking on these alleyways, and he discovers that this child has just been born and sitting on a bed, and the mother, you know, they've taken the mother for her snāna, you know, bathing after, yeah. So he goes up to the little one, he said, "Please, whatever you do, don't die, but I have, I want to make this request to you, that is it possible to attain salvation if you're in satsaṅg, if you are in the company of satsaṅg?" And so this little human said that, "Do you not remember me when I was a swan? Do you not remember me when I was a worm?" So, you know, we are all blessed here, and you know, Swāmījī is absolutely the greatest gift, you know, that we have, and he's created this awareness amongst the hearts and the minds, you know, of us mortal people, and this is absolutely a wonderful opportunity, and I'm so delighted to see all of you, you know, in this satsaṅg, and I hope that his vision and his mission, you know, goes this year and in future years from strength to strength. Thank you so much. Jai Śrī Rām. Very good.