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Beauty is in our heart

True yoga requires right conduct, not just physical exercise. Without abstaining from meat and alcohol, it is merely exercise, not the yogic path. The world often misunderstands this. The purpose is to return to God, a knowledge preserved in India. Foreign influences promoting contrary habits have caused problems. A return to peace and understanding is coming. Many worldwide now question harming animals. This is yoga in daily life. Many teachers work globally, but practice is undermined if students return home to eat meat. All beings are connected. The practice must be consistent, regardless of one's background.

"If someone consumes meat and alcohol, they are not a yogī, and it is not yoga. It becomes merely an exercise."

"We should not kill animals. This is yoga in daily life."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Isha Mahādevakī, Mādhavānandī Bhagavānakī, Satya Sanātana Dharmakī, Bhāṭa Piṭṭa Gurudevakī, Satya Sanātana Dharmakī, Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Our tradition of Yoga in Daily Life spans more than 13,000 years and is practiced around the whole world. We practice and teach it, and this is the way of the yogīs. However, if someone consumes meat and alcohol, they are not a yogī, and it is not yoga. It becomes merely an exercise. People may say many things, but without the right conduct, it is nothing. The world at large does not truly know what yoga is. They may know of Bhagavān, but if Bhagavān is dead to them, they will continue with meat, alcohol, and other such things. People often do not know this truth. In India, it is Śiva who is Bhagavān. You will not find this understanding of God in the same way in any other country. Others are good, they are doing something, but it is not the same. The purpose is to return to God, and that is why this knowledge was in India, though other countries also have their paths. The problem is that people from other countries do not know, and they come to us, asserting their ways, promoting meat-eating and other habits, influencing our India. Unfortunately, when our own people began learning from them, many started to eat meat and so on. That is why we have problems in India. After these years, a period of darkness was coming, but I think within about five years, we will return to peace, harmony, understanding, and the real God. Where is God? When I was in your country, everyone was eating meat. I said, "I do not eat any meat." How many years has it been since I was there? People understood. They know now. And how many such people are there now in the whole world? Unfortunately, in India, people talk, but they do not tell others directly. We Indians say everything, but if someone is eating meat, we do not tell them. So this cycle continues. For example, when I came from other countries—Austria, New Zealand, Fiji, or elsewhere—I came to India. Many people who come to India do not eat meat or anything on the aeroplane. Not only that, but some, even when travelling by wagon, abstain. Some do not even want milk from animals, or even honey. They say, "The honey is not given for us; the bees eat it and have it for themselves." But what do people do? They take everything, mix it with water or something, and consume it. Now, in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, America—everywhere—there are many, many people who ask, "Why are they killing cows or other animals?" So you are here now. I am so happy that you are here, and you will tell others. It does not matter what is happening; we should not kill animals. This is yoga in daily life. Now, what is the Yogānanda life? Yoga is for everybody. But we have many—not only myself, but many Swāmīs and Mahāmaṇḍaleśvaras—who are always teaching everyone, as yogīs do. Still, we have here many, many great sādhus. They are better than me; so many are. But now people are pulling things down. Other yogīs, many, many yogīs, are constantly active, and they are taking up much work in other countries. In all these countries, many great yogīs from India are there, doing their work. But when we come from there to here, people come to yoga class, then go home and eat meat. Then this is not it. We are human. Jīva jīva bhakṣyate. Jīva jīva bhakṣyate. All the beings and such, they do not know. Those who are eating meat and such, that is why Bhagavān Śiva brought this teaching. He brought this, but they come back. So it is always like this, but you are all part of this. All your children, how many are mothers? In these five years, many, many people have become my disciples, and they do not eat any meat or such things. You came here, many of you come here, and so we have to be here and practice well. Yoga practice is there, but people come to class, one comes one day, another goes out, one comes in between—it is not like school where all students come together. So it is with Yoga in Daily Life. It does not matter if one is Muslim, Christian, or other; our yoga people are there. So, yoga in daily life. Let us practice again, and now we will begin again, okay? So, five times, yes, and sound. You have some, okay? Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... Yes, both. One, two, speak, okay? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. One more. Fifth. 1, 3, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. Very good. Relax. Lie down. Relax from the toes to the head, each and every part of the body, relax. Relax each and every part of the body. Each and every finger, all continuously relax. Both hands straight and hold on the head. Your heart straight. Roll left, other side right. Again, and slowly sit. Again, sit, yes. Each and every thing is yours first. It was, and it will be in us. So we came there, and we will be there after that. Everything will come, all, but it comes first to the navel. The father will not know for some time, but the mother knows. And so with this finger, and not like this, not like this, but like that. But relax very much, not press too much, but make yourself there in this point. The other hand is like this, ten times. Again, in, exit again. Three, four. Place again. Take your hand. Try that. You do you see exactly in your... Now, if you have some kind of left side or right side pain, this side or that side, it will come again very nicely with this. What we are doing again is like this knob: inhale, see? Inhale, press and relax. Three, four, pull yourself, yourself, and relax. Do you have it on the knobbly or little side, left or the right side? Have you someone? Hands up, someone. Which hand has your knuckles, left or right? Very good. Then, and again, one, inhale, and relax. So that in our exercise, which we did before, it all came into the navel. And from all parts, everything, the body, it was like that. We have to get that much, not only first like this and that. And now, five times, inhale and exhale. Okay? And bring out, so there it is too. If all your teeth are okay, then you bite, and it will be very... Nice sound and everything, but if you have some two, three, it’s, and then not bite, but of course the lips are together. So how, like, you have both lips, okay? And bite, yes. And who’s not? Not one, two, three, four, etc. So now again, like this, like this, and stop. We do not, our eyes not. Do this. It is like this: go here, and then everything. We hear from which side? Then, so look, if you have this, or your tooth is like this, and then find out which side you are going more—this side or this side. Or we come exactly together, but it will come back again. So this is very, very important. This is about many countries, not yogīs, sorry. Many, many cannot do like that, but in India, we have that. Now in India, it is always, for example, here, okay, we have little this and that and that, but those who are doing with the very inside from here to and holding. In this part, then both sides sometimes go this side or sometimes this side. Try yourself. It will be very good, but completely. Both sides should be sound here. We should be sound here. It should be the sound here. And that means that we are very great yogīs, all. So once more. Abhigraha, five times. Is enough. Five times is so we can do two times or three times or five times, but not too long all the time. After that, we have to come to on our here. See yourself very the sound, though not a sound, but were groups like this on. The heart here, so not like this, not like this, but like that. And do not press, but see everything, how it is in your heart. So the other hand is like this, like this, like that, but don’t press, but hold it, and very nicely on your body, like this. Like once, so we don’t have something like this in your heart. And so, the woman’s—the woman’s—they should not go to, like, a milk or what it is. Also, go a little up. It should be good. Also, up yourself, okay? So. Five times, inhale nicely and take your hand, only five times also. That was five times, and that was also five times. This other, this practice only, this is that. How is our tooth? So if there is somewhere, a place, if there is one or two leaf nodes, then it is going to all be, then let it open like this. But lift, lift it. Yes, it is not. There, or it will come all from both sides here onto the very point. When this, then that, we are right. What we are speaking, what we can do. And that’s why it is given from the yogic, or in India, or in like this, in this. And that they practice also mostly, that in India mostly, they learn and this. And our people, they are learning very much in our countries. Yes, do you know? Do you practice always? In the ashram there, in Badikattu there, so every... so only five times. So morning, after bathroom or this and that, and then, then the whole day will be very good. We will come tomorrow again. Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Satya Sanātan Dharmakī, Mādhavānandī Gurudevakī, Satya Sanātan Dharmakī, mātā pitā gurudev Satya Sanātan Dharmakī, Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Mother and Father, when you come to India, for us and in other countries, that... but there was also those countries was very good. So people think, okay, this one girl, she marries this, or this, or boys do this. Then they will go out, and then they go out, and they say, "Go, I will not meet," and then go to another. How many times? But in India, and everything, this, all which we are, and then it brings exactly that she and he, they will become families. And for the whole world, they are in life. And they don’t want to go to another person with this one. Only mother is a mother. This man, this man is that good man, and wife also very good. No problems anymore. Don’t think that my beautiful is my beauty. What is a beauty? Beauty is in heart, yes, it is in that, then it. It is so happy, they are happy, and you, it is like they are like one of that. One doesn’t matter that you are going other where, we’ll come back again in this, but all the time it is in that. And that is bringing in this from this, which I told in the other parts of this. And you have to see that from Indians. And in India, they are writing this. And then, when you write that exactly, I don’t know, I have this, but all you should tell us is what is that, when and how, and this. So in this, we will be there tomorrow again. So in India, which is that? What exactly is there? Exactly. So that’s why I’m so happy, very peaceful. So beauty is the inner self. So tomorrow, perhaps I will tell you something, okay? To others, Siddhī Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Jaya Ho, Hari Om, Kī Jaya Ho! Āge jaldī! Hari Om!

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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