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Part 1: A Joyful Gathering and the Medical Benefits of Yoga The divine atmosphere is already present. What shall I say? I want to welcome everybody who is gathered here today for this spontaneously organized program, arranged at short notice due to our honorable guests visiting Sweden and Helsingborg for the first time. Let me welcome Śrī Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsvāmī Maheśvarānandajī. This is a great honor and a joy as he visits our place for the first time. I also welcome all the visitors, the international Bhaktas, followers, and practitioners of this system. We are going to present the system a little for those who may be here for the first time. First, I want to welcome our international friends, brothers, and sisters who made the effort to come here. We are very happy for that. Let me also welcome Swāmī Umāpurī and Lakṣmaṇ Purī. They are Sannyāsīs, monks from the Indian order, the Śaṅkarācārya lineage. That is also a great honor. This is an occasion of happiness with different parts. The greatest is that Viśvagurujī has come here. For me, it feels as if light has come to Scandinavia, and hopefully it will spread. The second is that you, friends, are here, giving your heart to make this little conference possible. That is a warmth for the heart, to feel this supportive community. This is what Yoga in Daily Life is—the feeling of going higher and higher together. Last but not least, we celebrate our newborn baby, perhaps the smallest and northernmost yoga center, or ashram, in your world, now in Helsingborg. It is a great joy to continue your work on a small scale. The aim of this mini-conference is to talk about certain things. This is a three-lecture series, a presentation. We have been in yoga for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years and have experience from the inside to share. Yoga is researched in different aspects, but we want to show what we have been experiencing personally. There will be one medical aspect: the benefit of yoga outside of medical aspects. That is perhaps the specialty of our Yoga in Daily Life system—the spiritual aspect. That is why we asked Swāmī Umāpurī to talk about the spiritual benefits of yoga. This can be a kind of plus, as yoga is very popular in Sweden. The extra dimension we can add is this spiritual aspect. Enough of the verse. I will ask the first speaker to share thoughts and experiences about the physical, physiological benefits of yoga. Purī Jī, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa... Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was a Marshal of France. Exactly 205 years ago, in 1818, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, before becoming King Charles XIV John, had his first lunch in this very room. This is also an era for us, an era for Yoga in Daily Life, as the first public lecture and conference is held here. We hope that from this spot it will spread not only throughout Sweden but to all of Scandinavia. That was a brief introduction. I will talk about the medical aspect of yoga, especially medical yoga. After finishing, you are welcome to ask questions. If there are no questions, I am very happy—it means you agree with whatever I said. Before starting, please raise your hand if you know what Pālak Paneer is or how you make it. Good, fantastic. Of course, everybody knows the effect of the human brain; that is well known. Not just the brain, but entire cells in the human body have memory. Whatever we do, how we walk, how we act, is memorized by the cells. Here, medical yoga is widely applied. Yoga in medicine and medical fields is to prevent morbidity, mortality, disability, and diseases. The base is to be aware of our body. This can be achieved by physical exercises, breathing, and meditation. I would like to emphasize the four bases of life which each and every human can affect. When these four things are not there, or some are missing, we feel ill. They are very simple. I personally have made a list; you can make a very long list. But the first is sleep. Dear listeners, without sleep we will become psychotic and die in a few days. No human can keep their eyes open for more than 18 hours. We can drive home in a car, but it is just a reflex. Simply, sleeping is number one. The second is water. When we are born, 99.9% of our body is water. Everything in the universe, more or less, contains water. Even this piece contains water. If it did not contain water, it would evaporate and break. The third is food. I do not need to tell you what kind of food we should eat—Pālak Paneer, for instance. The fourth is exercises. The magic about yoga in the medical field is applied daily. Life is beautiful, and to keep it so we need to take care of the item—our body, our self. Unfortunately, life can be painful because, as I said, of memory cells. We need to understand how this pain is coming, what is happening when we have pain. Here, it is also important to understand our feelings and our thoughts, why we do and keep doing what we do. It is necessary to learn to describe and observe our feelings and thoughts, and this is achieved by meditation, by breathing, and by doing physical exercises—in this case, of course, yoga. Everyone can meditate to achieve the benefits of physical activities, but Yoga in Daily Life is a specific system. Here, I am going to make Pālak Paneer. It is needed: paneer, spinach, salt, oil, cumin. No, no, no. I learned, I asked. Eight pieces of spices. Anyone can make Pālak Paneer, but it should contain these eight pieces. Otherwise, it is spinach with cheese, or cheese with something else. So, we are making yoga, Yoga in Daily Life, and nothing else. As if you wanted to make yoga in yoga, there are very many yoga societies, very many yoga philosophies. Back to the medical part. Our brain weighs approximately 2% of our body but uses 20% of the energy. So it is important what kind of energy we put inside of us. Twenty percent of these little tiny things, which are so big, more than little. We know very much about the brain, especially since the 70s when magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) entered the era. We can measure the volume of the brain, the changes, and the connections between the different parts. I will talk about some parts. The brain has two hemispheres, and three main parts are the insula, amygdala, and hippocampus. The fourth one is the Periaqueductal Gray. The first three—two of them are... The insula is sitting here, exactly here. The other parts are inside the brain. I will emphasize them one by one. The insula is not well understood yet. The region of the insula is still not well understood. Yet, the insula works as a top diplomat of our brain. It acts in silence, in the background. It is the chief of homeostasis, which controls body temperature, fluid balance, blood sugar level, but also consciousness, empathy, taste, pain, etc. Since the insula is controlling the body continuously, pain is also reaching the insula. Our biggest group of muscles is the thigh muscles, not the tiny ones in arteries and veins. We also have muscles in our gut, in the belly. So when pain is there and the muscle cells have memory, the pain will be there. For instance, if you had a pain in your head, in your hand, or anywhere, and then you see somebody else who has the same, you feel it in that part of your body. And we know that widely, depressive medicines, anti-anxiety drugs are used, for instance, in people with fibromyalgia. That is the effect because that is the effect on the, through the insula, to the guts, which have muscles in their layer, or arteries. Because they are painful, the muscles are aching. Or anybody felt the nervousness—I mean the solar plexus. Just put your hand here. From time to time, we feel that it is aching here; it is a pain. And we can be read because here there is also memory. The system, through the solar plexus or nervous vagus, goes up to the spinal cord and up to the insula, which is sending back. In the memory, we can feel this: the pain is there. We feel anxiety, we feel nervous. When we are nervous or have itching, the mechanism of the autonomic nervous system is on. This is to protect us. But if pain is there for a longer time, it will become chronic. Unfortunately, when the chronic stage is there, it is very difficult to be rid of the pain. By practicing yoga, we can decrease and even be rid of the ache and live more peacefully regardless of our pain. I will now leave the insula and go to the amygdala. The amygdala is a part of the limbic system, which is the master organ of emotion, fear, aggression, and motivation. Without going into details, the most important thing about the amygdala is that it is affected by meditation, and especially by prāṇāyāma. A breathing which activates the parasympathetic nervous system and, consequently, acetylcholine. The amazing capability of calming down the entire brain is to live more healthily, with harmony inside and outside, with all of nature. I will leave the amygdala. The next part is the hippocampus. Here I will say something out of curiosity. In the hippocampus, by exercising, the nerve cells are regenerating, are reborn. How did we find this? It is thanks to Swedish scientists. They found it by calculating the radioactivity in the air. We know what radioactivity is in the air. Since it has a half-life, and when people were dying and donated their brains to research, they could count when the newborn cells in the hippocampus were born. By this, how are the new cells in the brain becoming, burning, being born? Very easily, with no medicine, no hocus pocus—exercises, yoga exercises—make the brain produce new cells. This is simply proven. So, making physical exercises is, if you want, to regenerate your brain and keep it alive. Our nervous system is back to 700 million years old. It is an amazing figure. 500 million years ago, vertebrate individuals appeared on earth, and this was slowly developed by evolution. Approximately 20 years ago, the first time I heard Praṇām Swāmījī in a lecture, he said, "I admire the doctors." I looked around and said, "Yes, it is nice to be admired." And then I was very curious, and the next sentence came: "Because they decrease the pain in humans." I have taken it to my heart since then: to be able to decrease the pain, not just in humans, but in all of nature. Do not kill. Decrease the pain. This is to be part of your environment. Nobody wants to be killed. Nobody. Therefore, we should not kill animals. So when we come here, I will not go into vegetarian food fields; somebody else shall talk about it. Falafel. The fourth part is the Periaqueductal Gray. Through here, when I put my finger on a fire or something very sharp, what is happening? I am taking it back because it is hurting. Here, the pain is going to the spinal cord and back to the brain, and the signal is coming back. But how is this happening? It is happening through neurotransmitters. There are 50 neurotransmitters, and one of them is called acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is produced when the parasympathetic system is active. So, making prāṇāyāma and meditation helps the parasympathetic system to work and produce acetylcholine. You do not need to pay a lot of money for medicine and put different drugs on your body. Sometimes it is needed, of course. We need to give morphine; we need to give medicines for serious illness. But the benefit of just simple exercises, regardless of how old you are, is that if you just do physical exercises, you will be healthier. As I said, to express a metaphor: everybody can make Pālak Paneer and everybody can do yoga, but we, our system, is Yoga in Daily Life. It is a complete system, and the founder, Praṇām Swāmījī, is here. Try it to see what the benefits are. There are books, videos, CDs, the voice of Swāmījī, and amazingly many yoga teachers all over the earth, especially in Central Europe, Australia, Fiji, the United States, and New Zealand. Now it is our turn to have it here in Sweden. So, brothers and sisters, please consider what is yoga and what is the benefit of it. All of us want to be healthy. To be healthy, we need to put in some effort. Nature is very clever, extremely clever. It never gives away the energy. We can go out and run; sometimes I do. When I come home, I feel really very sweaty. I put in more than 100% effort. But in making yoga, you put 70, 60, and even 50%. You put in energy when you are ready by making the physical yoga movements and then breathing exercises. You feel that you have more energy. You get that feeling once, and then you never quit; you continue. So, everybody can practice yoga, but we practice Yoga in Daily Life. Praṇām, Swāmījī, thank you for listening. Dear listeners, thank you for listening. Please ask me questions if I can answer, or, as I said, I think all of you agree with me—I can see it. Thank you. Next is Tibor Köke, psychologist, Tiāg Purī, who is going to talk about the psychological benefits and aspects of practicing yoga. Part 2: The Psychological and Medical Dimensions of Yoga I am Swāmījī, dear friends. Thank you for coming from abroad, from Sweden and from different parts of the world. I am supposed to talk about some psychology here, and I would like to join Dr. Narasiṃha Nemi a little bit. It is about the connection between the medical aspects of yoga and the psychological aspects of yoga. Let me start with one little example from one of my patients. Quite at the beginning of our sessions, she told me, "Thank you very much." I was thinking that we would like to work on your anxiety and on your mental problems, but basically your body is completely in some turmoil and in some really heavy stress. You don’t support your body, but you want to reach the upper levels. Of course, she had some quite serious problems. When she was 13, she lost her mother suddenly. Now she is 20 or 21, and of course it is such a trauma. I would like to join Dr. Nemi to mention that part of the brain that is responsible for the development of one of the segments, one of the parts of our consciousness. There are, of course, different approaches and different views about consciousness. Consciousness is completely separated from the physical entity. It is somehow projected into our body when we are in the body, but it is the spiritual aspect, and I don’t want to go into details too much. But in a bodily form, we have consciousness in one hemisphere, the left hemisphere, which is logical and quite linear. The right hemisphere—which depends on whether you are right-handed or left-handed, and that can change—is more about joy in life, actually, while the left is more about work in life. But there is a third type of consciousness, and it is the consciousness about your self-image. This is in itself, deeply in the insula. There is one part of the brain that is very close, actually overlapping with the understanding center, which is understanding speech and words. In that center, we have this kind of self-image: what we are and what we have. It is really interesting. When I learned about this knowledge—that we collect our memory, and it is quite connected to yoga—we collect our memories every 50 seconds. Our brain generates a picture about our inner qualities: how we feel ourselves inside, how our breath process is, how our digestion is. If there is peace inside, then this information goes into the brain. This is the inner information, plus what we see from the outer world, which is the outer information. These join together, and then we have a kind of picture; it is like a zip file, something that is very compact. This kind of information will create just one picture of ours about that fifty seconds of time from our lives. It repeats every 50 seconds. In every 50 seconds, we have one picture about ourselves from inner and outer information. These pictures will create how we are in the world, how we are in our skin, how we are in our body. That is a kind of self-image. It is the information about how we are and what we are; it is the memory of our self-image. Let’s say our ego—not in an egoistic way, but ourselves, our personality—is built up in this way. When we get one traumatic experience, then these pictures in life will start from one direction and turn into some other direction. For example, when something is very heavily impacting our memory and brain because it is emotionally moving us, we all have this kind of memory inside. It is a turning point in our lives. Let me give an example, a question for you: Do you remember a few years ago, some twenty years ago, on 9/11 when that terror attack happened? Do you know where you were and when you heard that information? Who doesn’t know? Of course, some of us were not born at that time, but otherwise, all of us know. Because it is such a heavy impact in our brain, in our memory. When you heard about this, what were you doing, where were you? From that point, it is somehow burned into your memory and into your brain because it is shaking your whole world about your imagination: could it happen at all? So it is about traumas. When something attacks us and creates such a traumatic event and such a traumatic feeling for us, then the whole process of our self-esteem, self-consciousness, our ego, it goes not in a smooth direction. There is some pit, some stress is built inside. This kind of stress, as Dr. Nemi said, is really all over our body. A long time ago, more than 100 years ago, Freud was talking about different levels of consciousness, about this not-conscious level of our being. Actually, these days we know that it’s even worse than what we talked about. This unconscious part is even bigger than we thought before. He was not connecting this kind of knowledge, this kind of information: where is this not-conscious part of our being? Of course, at that time, the knowledge about the brain and about psychology was just a starting point and a starting era. He couldn’t point out where it is. These days, we quite know that yes, it is in our cells. So when you have these traumas in your body, your memory is somehow holding and keeping them, and it is actually visible in you. When you have depression, anxiety, different mental and physical illnesses, it is visible. You see, a depressive person is not open like this; it is like this. You can see all this memory that is all over in the body. It is in the fascia mostly. This kind of memory of the fascia—which is a connecting tissue, actually, all over the body, connected from toe to head, head to toe—when it is somehow broken somewhere (I saw some literature that tells when it is broken and they don’t connect and don’t give the proper information flow), then that part of the body tends to get some serious illnesses, like cancer. So it is a question of your traumas; it is a question of your disconnection, of your communication system within the body. We are actually working with this with yoga, when we do exercises against anxiety, against depression. In Gurudev’s book, Yoga in Daily Life: The System, which was published in 2000 for the first time as the complete, large book we have now, there are some parts at the end of the book about which types of exercises would be for depression. Actually, it is expressed in English that it is good for depression, good against depression, and good against anxiety. Also, Gurudev has books for many, many health problems—for a good heart, against diabetes, for the joints, and so on. So, when we practice Yoga in Daily Life, we have such a pool to pick those things that are against anxiety, against our depression, against our stress, and for releasing the stress. Actually, when you practice yoga—when yoga came to the West, what happened? In general, it happens. I talked to some friends who also deal with some Eastern stuff, Shiatsu and this and that, and they also told the same. When these very valuable things from the East come to the West, then somehow they get Westernized, and this is quite a problem. When they arrive in the West, what is yoga now, mostly? Our yoga is, of course, the heart and the core of our yoga; it is spirituality, it is devotion, it is satsaṅg. Swāmījī told many times that satsaṅg is very special in our system. But many yoga systems do not talk about such things. It became more or less kind of gymnastic and aerobic in the Western world. This is the problem. Shiatsu also became kind of okay as a healing method, but kind of, "Yes, yes, I should feel good after." Real Shiatsu—I know one fellow who gives me treatments from time to time in Shiatsu—it is the hard stuff, I can tell you, but it is very supportive. So this is the reality in Eastern culture. We should not make it Westernized. Our Western habits... we just have to really go into the details of what they want to give as a message for us. So when we practice yoga, it is not an aerobic exercise. It is not something for your lung capacity or for your heart and for your bloodstream. It is much more about getting inner peace. It is much more about releasing stress from your fascia, from your whole body. When you just hold one position—for example, in Śaśāṅkāsana, in the rabbit pose—and in this position, when you have this slow breath and long exhalation, it means that, time to time, you are in such a position and your brain starts to learn that, yes, now is good. It is time to just release those tensions which you were collecting before and keeping in your body as stress, as a memory. So we can release and solve such traumas. It is not psychology, of course, what we do with yoga, but it is very much supporting our inner work. I can also talk about what kind of results. Now, I am really—I do some experiments, not those kinds of experiments, but I try to use and utilize our yoga and meditation for patients with depression, with burnout, with anxiety. I can tell you the results are just... I am just amazed, really. I don’t do anything. I’m just always trying to follow what is happening, and actually it is Mahāprabhujī who is doing it, but it is really amazing. So, when we just utilize what we have, the richness in our system, it is on a psychological level, on a medical level. Actually, we do something that is deeply, deeply supporting us and helping us in everyday life, in daily life. That’s why we are Yoga in Daily Life. Swāmījī gave this great name to our system. One of the best exercises against stress and against trauma is Yoga Nidrā, psychic sleep. When you are in your consciousness, conscious level, it means that we don’t go too deep and we don’t sleep. Sometimes, okay, a little bit we sleep after a good lunch; it is the best. But when you can keep this kind of consciousness and when you just go inside and go deep, then you can discover many, many things within your consciousness. Certain pictures can come up. You can deal with them. After some point, it is kind of meditation, actually. It is not even deep relaxation; it is a meditation if you go to certain levels. It is very comfortable because you are in a lying position, so it is perfect for us just to release tension, and it is very, very good to release mental tension with this method, with Yoga Nidrā. I also did some experiments with Yoga Nidrā and breathing processes, and it was just amazing for me how my patients reacted to these methods. One of my patients, who had quite some stress and anxiety, was doing this kind of Yoga Nidrā with breathing. At one point of the process, she said that she had no thoughts. Okay, I said, "Yes, that’s not bad." But then she said that she felt really, really alone, and she is scared because, you know, it is Cittavṛtti Nirodha, or kind of Cittavṛtti Nirodha. I said that, okay, then repeat our mantra, Oṁ Śrī Gurū Dīpāya Namaḥ. I told the meaning of it, and then she was okay: "I’m not alone, and this mantra will guide me inside." Finally she came out and said that it was an amazing experience, and she could most probably get rid of some of her stress and some of her tensions. A little bit about prāṇāyāma. In our system, there are many types of prāṇāyāma, many types of exercises. But actually, somehow, the heart and the core is kumbhaka. Kumbhaka is the retention of breath, when either after exhalation or after inhalation we do not breathe. This kind of kumbhaka gives you such—not powers, but such mental, physical, and energetical change in your body, in your consciousness. That is, somehow, as far as I understood this whole process, it gives us inner structure, inner stability through the nāḍīs, through the energy system that we have in our body. You can even realize when they get purified during this process. Maybe you experienced it when these iḍā and piṅgalā, these nāḍīs in the nose, you can sometimes hear when they change. There is some kind of sound, and one is opening and the other one is closing slowly. At that time, when there is a little balance between them, it means that you can be in this balance in your middle channel, actually. As long as you can prolong this time, then it means you are really inside and you are balanced. This kind of experience happens when we are with Gurudev, or especially in ashrams in India and you are meditating. If you do it at the end of the day, sometimes you cannot sleep because you are just open and then you are awake. So, all these exercises that we have, they have such a great impact and such a thorough effect on your personality, on your brain, on your tissues, on your psyche, on your self-esteem, on how you see yourself, actually. I could tell you many, many other things, but if you have some questions, I’m ready. Viśvagurujī Paramahaṃsa Maheśvarānanda Gurudevam. Time is going quickly when we are having satsaṅg together. For Svenska, "Tiden går snabbt." We had a rule: it is a month, no drama. Umā Purī is coming now, a sannyāsī, a monk and a yoga teacher. Great, great, great Dr. Narasiṃha, whole family, our dear Durgā Devī, his wife and children and brothers and whole family. Also, Dr. Dīkṣāpurījī, great knowledge, great. And also, Dr. Harṣā Devī, very nice, good bhajan. Part 3: The Essence of Yoga in Daily Life The entire explanation and experience of Yog Nidrā lies within. What does the deep relaxation, the yogī’s sleep, truly mean? First, praṇām to Swāmījī, Gurudev, the author of System Yoga and Daily Life, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. The specialty of Yoga and Daily Life is that we have great mentors, masters, and yogīs in our lineage and ancestry. Yoga comes from the god Śiva. He gave this science of the body, mind, and the self to humankind as a blessing. In ancient times, it was given only to select, worthy persons who could keep this precious diamond. What we have received is the science of yoga. It came to Śrī Alakhpurījī from the Himalayas, then to Śrī Devpurījī, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, to our beloved Satguru Dev, Holy Gurujī, and then to our dear Swāmījī, His Holiness, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Viśvaguru, Śrī Swāmī Maheśvarānandajī. Here we contemplate: what does 'holy' mean? It is different for everybody, for while we are all one, we are also all different. Yet for each of us, something is holy. For a mother, her children are everything. The husband, the family—this is holy. To protect, to keep in a special place. For someone, it is the garden, the house, the bed, a tree, nature, water, or the animals. In India, we learn—because yoga comes from India, Mother India. She is the mother who nourishes all and everything. A mother does not neglect; she gives up herself for her children. She stands behind them. This is Mother India. She gave this knowledge. India proclaimed, long before economic crises, to protect nature and take care of it. The saints, yogīs, and ṛṣis of India said water is holy. Why? Because one day we may not have water. Dr. Nasing said water is life. Swāmījī says water is life. Where there is no water, there is no life. This is holy. Nature, the trees—when there are no trees, where is the oxygen? What will we breathe? When there are no bees, it is said humanity will die. So this is holy. The yogīs were sent here to give us this knowledge. They do not live for themselves. They say the whole world is their family—all humans and animals. They are rare beings who possess dṛṣṭi, equal vision for all, and śānti, peace within. And santosha—what does santosha mean in English? In India, we say a person with contentment is always happy. Nowadays, we have so many material things, an overload. We don't know how to get rid of them. The new trend is minimalizing. We don't need so many things; a little is enough. But what everyone is searching for is not only health, for as a great doctor said, "Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health." In India, we say if you lose money, nothing is lost. Forget it. If you lose your health, something is lost. But if you lose your character, then everything is lost. Swāmījī always says, when you get up in the morning, the first thing is to remember who you are—that you are a human. I am a human. What does it mean to be human? The subject is spirituality, but what is spirituality? Spiritual means just to be a human. Be good, do good. We need not be religious. Religion is only made by humans. There is only one God, this we know. But have we seen this God? Have you seen God? No. But we know that something is existing. And this which exists is in all living beings. It is here. The Akhāṛājī said it is in this temporal lapen. But I think it is here. This kind of divine self, this essence of what life means. I was always thinking: there's a brain, a breathing center, nerves, feelings, emotions, and intellect. All this makes the whole phenomenon of the human. It's a big subject. Yet, doctors and surgeons have not found where this life is. Where is this concentration of prāṇa that makes life divine, that makes us inhale and exhale? It is not only in the brain center, but who gives the impulse to that brain? This is the divine, and it is in all of us, in all living beings, in animals also. That is why we say: don't kill, don't eat them. Feed them, don't kill them. Don't eat them. Consider how much they suffer. We don't need it. We have so much to eat: tasty food, good food. Now, dear Durgā will teach cooking classes on how to cook properly. We need not suffer. When I was in Australia, in Brisbane, there was one sentence written on a wall that made me think. It said, "What you think becomes bigger." On that which you think, it becomes bigger. It's true. Psychologist Dr. Nag spoke about it. Where our concentration goes, our awareness goes, that will grow. There are always two kinds of forces within us: the positive and the negative. That's why it says, "Think positive." Sing positively. That's why we have a great mentor, our Gurudev, and our mantra, which helps our mind get rid of certain thoughts and return to our self. It is said that when we get a birth certificate, be sure there will also be a death certificate. The final aim of this life is death. Is that true? In India, we say the final aim of our life is to know thyself and to realize it. Self-realization. What does this mean? Here the subject of yoga and daily life begins: to know thyself. How am I? Who am I? From where I came, and where I will go after the last breath. We should not miss the time because it goes quickly. Relaxation, meditation, and prayer. Prayer is the last thing we can do. Practice and practice and practice. That's all I would like to say, because yoga and daily life are a way of practice. Rāmacandra always says one gram of practice is more than tons of theory. It's a practical way. It's a big mosaic we have to fill, a big mosaic we have to make. With every stone, we will make the mosaic complete. It is called Anu Upāsanā. With every step, with every word, with every practice, what we learn we can include in our daily life. This will lead us to our final aim with the guidance of Gurudev. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Śrī Śrī Devī Viśvārā Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Śrī Svāmī Mahātavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Śrī Svāmī Mahātavānandajī Gurudeva Kī Jai, Sat Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Thank you. Thank you, Umāpurī. Now, I am asking Viśvagurujī if you would like to share some thoughts, words, or prayers with us. Om śānti, śānti... the blessing of our Gurudev, Mādhvānandajī, Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, and all humans. We are human, human and all other animals, many, many... Life. But it is said, Bhagavān Śiva said, "There are all animals in the water, under the earth, and out in the air." But then Bhagavān Śiva prayed, "I will bring human." Human, which is that? He wants to go after this life. Again, we will go to heaven. Others, in any world, whatever we are doing, we are coming back again. Again, we come again. So Bhagavān Śiva wanted to make it like that. But they came back again. They came, his body only, the whole bodies. But what they are eating, what they are doing, what we have done. And so they came again, and they began to take out, and that is so much meat, many things: eating, killings, everything. Everyone is doing this, animals, everyone. But who is there? Where is that? Human. It is a human. Can that human tell what I put in here, what is there? This is there, we know, we have seen, and we become, we are. And so it is that we should think, "I am human." When we say we are human, then why are we eating meat, killing animals, and so on? Then we are not human. We are like all this. And so, Bhagavān Śiva brought again. So Śiva is the one for us. And others, they are all like animals. In our yoga, everybody, you have told everybody he was very nice. He talked also very nicely. He did very great things. His talks were very great. Śivājī also tells where in my body I am sleeping or not sleeping, so that we have to live in our heart. And in our heart, what is that inside? Yes, everyone has. They have also come in the body. The human body comes. But they don't know what to do. Killing, killing... eating, this, that. So, I came here. I have seen all of you, my dears, and I'm very happy that you brought me here. I saw everything, and yoga in daily life. Yoga in daily life. What is that yoga in daily life? Yoga, what we say yoga. Yoga in one, yoga in daily life. Every day, every place, every doing. This is that yoga in daily life. And so she was telling me that my life, and I'm human, and I should be human. The body is good, we know that. But again, we go back, or we go above, to God. And so, in the whole world, we have the beginning of all yoga in Delhi life, yoga Delhi. In this country here, it came only one year ago. And in India, they have caught that everyone, yoga. So they begin to do the yoga practice, but they make one small mistake. Their mistake. So they don't say, "We are not eating meat or something." These two things they have put down, and talking about yoga. That is one mistake, and they made it down. Yes, there is meat, and this, that we have pushed under. We don't tell it anymore. If you want to eat or not, it is yours. But this is what we have done, and we have made a mistake. But now, very much as he said, tell that yoga in daily life. So this yoga in Delhi life around the whole world. I came here to these countries, Europe, many countries, all countries. Many, many times, round and round and round, in a whole, many, many countries. And there they come. Indians, they have come down. What is a down? They said, "I am weak, I am like this, everything, this, that," and eating also meat. And this is then not anymore in India. But these people here and in other countries, when I came here nearly about 50 years or more, when I came here, they saw very nice people, very good, but eating meat. And they said, "Please come and eat." I said, "No, I am not eating." I had only some freight. Mahāprabhujī Karatā He Kevalam. And so, at that time, many, many people came. And in many countries, I was in many, many countries. And I have yoga centers everywhere. I gave them, and okay. I don't take money from them. I said, "Only tell them to practice this, and we should give that to everyone." So with this, many, many countries—I don't know how many there are now. All my, I don't know, but they are all practicing. Whole countries are practicing yoga, meditations, etc., no meat, no accident, any kāraṇa. That is what becomes one, human, and they said, "Yes, now we are human." So, many, many people have become good. And now from India, sometimes people make mistakes. So, from whole countries, these, my disciples, are many, many. So they are coming now to India, and they are bringing that, telling the Indians, "Don't eat meat, please. Don't do this like this." And in that, about a few years ago, there were my disciples, and they went to see the cows. And mostly cows, they are all somewhere only. And so, they came there, and there were three or four people who went to see the cows. That day, one cow had a baby. Yeah, so this coming, what was it? Boy. So the people who were with the cows, the inner cow there, they took this baby and they took it out and took the cows, the others. And what happened? What were people doing? They were killing the animals because it was a boy. And people want to eat on that day. And there were a few people whose minds went to see only the cows, how they are. And on that day, these people said, "I will not eat anything. I will not eat milk. We will not give them to anybody. Only and only one cow." It is, there are cows, and they eat and everything, but not others. And then now you see the male, the wagon, and the wagon, and the wagon is beginning that, firstly come here in point here in this, this, this state. He was talking in many ways, and of course I was in whole countries, whole countries, and there were many, many thousands and thousands. Now, people don't want to eat any milk and such, and also not for the body, that is for the animals, and then bees, yeah, honey. So, the honey... So, people are honey, and what are you taking the honey? You take the honey, and you give something else, milk or something, that's all. Sugar, but we are taking away, and therefore we said, "No, we will not eat and take from animals." And so they also don't want to eat anything from these animals, and so on. So many, many people in Europe and this whole world, like this, they are coming, and when they eat, they will go in airplanes somewhere. They said, "What?" They said, "No, we will not eat. We don't eat anything." So, every airplane there, it is there that those who do not eat meat and fruits, that they do not want to have. So now the whole world is coming to America, everywhere. Many, many people are there for all this. So, my thing, it was good. You are very great. All my disciples here and everybody, you have spoken this. Thank you very much. And you have said very nice. He spoke. Yes, he is very great. He spoke. You yourself, of course, are very, very, very good. And she is speaking. There is also Devyatok speaking. And she's speaking, so what can I tell anymore? Yeah, it was good. It was like, but only I could... that we should come, and here, come then, tell no, no meal, what? Vegetable. Become vegan. Yeah, the vegan. Yes. So let's come to the vegan. And if I'm good, sometimes I will come again to this country here. Otherwise, I am very happy to see this state and place, and I like it very much. Thank you very much, and I wish God will give you all the best, everybody. If you know that somebody is still eating meat, you should not eat meat, and so on. But be human. We are human. We know the human. He was telling very much from his heart, and this was his heart, and this, and somebody was talking about this, everything. Because we know we are human, so let's be human. Thank you. Thank you very much.