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Remembrance of old disciples to their beginning

A satsang gathering where disciples share personal stories of meeting their guru and the transformative impact of his teachings.

"I looked to this window, and I saw a clear face, clear. I don't know who this is. For me, at that time, it seemed like Jesus."

"Swāmījī was saying... that the world is actually going down... I was listening for about five minutes, and I was bored. And then, at one point, something happened. They call it resonance."

Multiple disciples from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Hungary address Swāmījī (Viśvagurujī), recounting their first encounters with him and the Yoga in Daily Life system, often during the political changes of the late 1980s and early 1990s. They describe experiences of deep spiritual connection, receiving mantra initiation, and profound life changes, including shifts to vegetarianism and dedicated service. The common themes are gratitude, divine guidance, and the perceived miracles stemming from the guru-disciple relationship.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Chandra Devī (Bratislava, Slovakia): Swāmījī, I am very happy that I can talk with you now. This is my first trip after a broken leg last year, and I'm very happy that I can be here. I've been here in Střílky from the very beginning, from the very first moments when this place was founded. As for my beginnings with Swāmījī, I had work-related experiences. I had a feeling that I had to facilitate Swāmījī's introduction into scientific circles. I was working in the Institute of Children's Psychology and was trying to introduce Swāmījī into those circles. I think it was at the end of the 1980s, and I think Premātā's mother was there as well. I didn't know how to work with mantras at all. When Martin Knapp started to organize some interest in mantras, it was still quite strange for me. At that time, I had no idea how people work with mantras, how you work with mantras. So when Martin Knapp actually introduced me to this and asked me to use mantra with people, it was at that time a little strange for us, and people were wondering what it actually was. I replied to them, "I don't know." I was afraid that they would complain to the management, but nothing wrong happened. Then I moved to the pedagogical faculty and, with an association for alternative pedagogy, I organized about three seminars for teachers over the course of five years. Swāmījī always came very willingly. Once I let him wait for me because people warned me that there was some soup that was not vegetarian, so I had to solve the issue. Then I organized another seminar; it was a small conference. We also had speakers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Germany. The latest event was a spiritual dimension conference. It was actually a predecessor of other spiritual conferences that Viśvagurujī was organizing in the Czech Republic and other countries. Swāmījī was also a guest speaker at an anti-drug expert conference, and I could see that some of those anti-drug experts were crying when they heard Swāmījī saying that they should take responsibility for the children who are taking drugs. So thank you very much, Swāmījī, for everything that you have done for us. Dīvalī Purī (Slovenia): Hari Om Praṇām Gurudev. Hari Om Praṇām Gurudev. Hari Om to all brothers and sisters. Well, I will, who knows me, will think, "Oh, she has not so long a mantra." It is true. But I will tell you what happened to me when I was ten years old. One night I woke up because I needed to go to the toilet. I went from my room to another and switched on the light. Just opposite of this light was a window. I looked to this window, and I saw a clear face, clear. I don't know who this is. For me, at that time, it seemed like Jesus. I don't know how long I stayed there. We looked at each other. I felt fear, so I just kept looking. Then I went to do what I woke up for, and when I came back, the picture was not in the window anymore. This was the year 1963. Later on, I read in Līlā Amṛt that this was the year when Śrī Mahāprabhujī left his body. From that time, my Gurudev led me, protected me, and gave me a beautiful life through Yoga in Daily Life, which I try to convey to other people with all my heart. I wish that all people can be happy with yoga, can be happy with mantra, which is so strong, so powerful—the powerful mantra I received in 2007. Yes, my life, I can say, my life is fulfilled, my life is happy, no matter what happens around. This is what Gurudev gave to me. It is a gift. We can say words, but what we feel, it is. Thank you very much. Kṛpā Purī (Martin, Slovakia): Praṇām Gurudev, Praṇām Swāmījī, Praṇām Bhrātā Sestrī. When we meet people from our surroundings and they ask how we actually came to the master and why we chose him and who he is, you don't have any intellectual arguments because it's not about intellectual arguments or reasons. I had a very successful life, work, family. I didn't need anything. But I was curious, and yoga actually attracted me since my childhood, even though I didn't know what it was all about. Martin Knap started yoga classes in Martin, and so in 1989 I and my wife joined a yoga course there. He was telling us also about Swāmījī. Anka Galovičová also was telling us about Swāmījī and Holī Gurujī. But honestly, at that time, I didn't really seek the spiritual dimension. Then they told us that Swāmījī will come in May. I'm saying Swāmījī, I should say Viśvagurujī, but for me he will always be Swāmījī, because it's like you always call your mother "Mom," you don't call her "Doctor," for example. They told us, "You know, Swāmījī is coming just for us, and it would be really embarrassing if it was just the four of us, so it would be great if you could join us and help us form a bigger group." So Swāmījī started his lecture, and I came there actually as if someone comes to a zoo to watch a tiger. I had no idea who yogīs were, and I wanted to discover who they are. It was still hardcore communism then, so Swāmījī couldn't speak about anything spiritual. He couldn't speak about Mahāprabhujī, but he had Mahāprabhujī's picture there. There was a candle, and Vyra Doležalová was interpreting. Swāmījī was saying, in a similar way as he's speaking now, that the world is actually going down, that people are getting divorced, and that there are many issues. So I was listening for about five minutes, and I was bored. And then, at one point, something happened. They call it resonance. Gurudev produced a sound, and since I was attuned to the same type of sound, there was a connection, and immediately I was in deep shock. "Where have you been all my life? I have been looking for you." I looked at my wife, and I wanted to tell her. But her eyes were sparkling like a film character. "Where has he been all our life?" Then it took a really very fast turn. It was already in December, one day before the end of the year, when Swāmījī actually came to our home. We probably needed it, and thirty-five people got mantra there. So I think it's similar to what Ekta said, that there was the resonance, and we all have experienced it. Karunā (České Budějovice, Czech Republic): Gurujī, dear Swāmījī, Sādhvīs, dear brothers, sisters, thank you for the opportunity to speak. I started practicing yoga in 1987 because my second child, my son, was born. I continued my research work, was doing my PhD thesis and, at the same time, taking care of the household, which led me to search for a tool that would help me manage everything. In České Budějovice, there was a yoga club at that time. They were practicing according to a book by Lisbeth, the so-called Rishikesh school of yoga. There were some really advanced āsanas. I was in the advanced group because I graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports. The teacher was very nice; he was an orthopedist. But he could not answer my questions. We also had meditation and relaxation, and I had certain questions in me: what is happening there? What I see and experience during relaxation and meditation? But he wasn't able to answer them. So it was helping me a lot on the physical and mental level, but I was still hoping to find the ultimate truth. I was sure that I would be able to find some sources, the original sources of the truth. Then the Velvet Revolution came at the end of '89, and our teacher told us that there would be a one-week yoga program led by a yoga teacher from Prague, close to Český Krumlov. A relatively small group gathered. The yoga teacher was Janakānandā from Prague. It was a beautiful environment, similar to Střílky, but much smaller. Janakānandā was doing Sarvahitā Āsanas with us, but she was also talking about philosophy, about vegetarianism. I knew this was the source, that I approached the source. I turned vegetarian because something blinked in my mind, and I realized that that's the only way to lead a happy life. I also thought that I would like to become a yoga teacher of this system. Janakānandā and Dayāmātā, who was also there, told me it's easy, I could sign up for a course for yoga teachers led by Swāmījī, a three-year course. So I came to Kutná Hora for this yoga teacher seminar, and Dayāmātā told me to take mantra as well, that it's useful when you're a yoga teacher. So we had a beautiful mantra dīkṣā in a corner of the gym hall there. I found the mantra a little complicated, but before I arrived back home, everything worked smoothly already. I was teaching at university, I'm still teaching at university, and I thought that I should contribute with some research on this because we all know that it's working, that yoga is working, but I wanted to bring some scientific evidence to it. So I started researching from that year, 1990. Thank you very much, Swāmījī, for your guidance, your patience, for enlightening our lives, for the whole family. For example, for my husband it wasn't easy; I changed completely overnight after ten years of marriage. But he developed great respect. We've had many experiences with Swāmījī. Thank you very much for your visits in India and elsewhere in the world where we had the opportunity to stay. There were moments, for example, when Swāmījī said, "So husband, you sit here, and you sit at his feet." That is the teacher. The enormous love which can be moved through me to my children and grandchildren now, so thank you very much. In the beginning of my research work, people were telling me, "Don't call it yoga, call it physical training." But I insisted on using the word yoga, on speaking about the system and about Swāmījī, and it was validated later. It's really working like that. I'm always surprised by how things work, how they help people, whether it's problems... I also practiced with children, for example, with night wetting or problems with speech in children. I keep being amazed by how yoga is actually really working. I've had many instances of even miraculous cases when children who had all sorts of issues have been solved. So we can only be thankful for the system which was given for the benefit of mankind. Yamunā (Trnava, Slovakia): Praṇām Swāmījī, Hari Om to all. I will begin differently, with memories. I will take a different approach; I will not speak about my memories. We have the most beautiful, the most loving, and the most caring Gurudev in the entire universe and beyond. I met Swāmījī when I was in the very sensitive age of being a teenager; I was 16 or 17. And he saved all my life. I experienced the smile of Holī Gurujī. I received a blessing from Swāmījī's mother. I have been here since the very beginning of this beautiful Střílecké kingdom. I got protection and help. I found a new family and exceptional people. I have a loving husband, two daughters that were educated by every Swāmījī's satsaṅg and prasād. That's just a small part of what I know. The rest, I don't know where I was for the rest of the time, but... Thank you for finding me in this life. I am only able to fulfill a small percentage of yoga, but I love you. Sāvitrī (Prague, Czech Republic): Praṇām Viśvagurujī, praṇām svāmī, praṇām všem bratřům a sestrám. I really enjoyed listening to all the stories yesterday and today. I was finding a lot of similarities with my own life as well. My spiritual path actually started when I was a child. I had glimpses of a different consciousness, but I had no one to talk to about it. I had a strong love for animals, and I don't mean that I wanted to have a pet at home, but I didn't want to eat meat. So I've had this ethical approach to nature, to animals, from my childhood. Every time I found some sick or hurt animal, I would bring them home, treat them, and then release them again. I am grateful to my parents that they gave me life. I am also grateful to them that they stayed together their whole life, that I was raised in a complete family. If God permits, they will celebrate the diamond jubilee of their wedding next year. They were also an inspiration on my spiritual path. My father was a top athlete, and when I was 13 years old, he bought a book called Haṭha Yoga from a leading Czech Indologist, Karel Werner. He said, "We will start practicing yoga because it's good for your health." So the whole family started practicing Haṭha Yoga. I continued in the 1980s. I bought a book by Lisbeth from the Rishikesh series. Then I went to Prague, I got a job, I got married, I had my first child, and in one of my jobs, I actually met Swāmī Pārvatī. I was surprised that someone is also a vegetarian, because at that time there were very few vegetarians, and there were not so many yoga practitioners. Premlātā was there with us as well. It was shortly before the Velvet Revolution in 1989, and I got an invitation to a yoga program with Swāmījī in Olomouc and Šternberk. But at that time, when I got the invitation, I didn't know I was coming to get mantra and to meet Viśvagurujī. It was this Velvet Revolution atmosphere; it was January 1990. When I entered the room where Swāmījī had a lecture on mantra, I saw a big light. Since that time, I actually opened my Anāhata, and I got connected with the Guru Tattva. I would like to stay connected with it my whole life. In Guru Gītā, we sing that with the mercy of Guru Dev, everything is possible. So that's also how my life developed. Any saṅkalpa was fulfilled. I want to thank you so, so much for these 33 years of guidance, and I want to remain further in the embrace of Gurudeva. Yoga Mitrā (Blansko, Czech Republic): Hari Om to all. I would like to say a little bit about the time when I received mantra. It was in 1990, two months after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and people only started speaking about spirituality. Swāmījī was invited to Blansko, and he had a lecture there in January 1990 on Guṇas. During the break, Gaṅgā came and asked me, "Hey, would you like to get a mantra?" And I said, "What is it?" She said, "It's a sentence." And I said, "Yes, I do." When I came for the blessing, I was really fascinated by Swāmījī's orange socks. Because in communism, you know, there was a lot of shortages of goods, and men would only have three colors of socks: black, gray, and brown. It was only later on that I realized it wasn't just the color of the socks. Sītā and her mother (Prachatice, Czech Republic): Our story is common, and that's why we are here together with my mom. I am 33 years old, and I have been with Viśvagurujī for 33 years. What actually happened, I cannot really remember what happened before that. So I will pass the mic to my mother. This story actually started while skiing, when I met another skier who was a yoga teacher, Maria Hetnerová from Prachatice. And this beloved child was already growing in my stomach. Maria told me, "Come to yoga, it's nice." So I actually started practicing yoga while pregnant. I thought it would be a nice hobby. But as the baby grew bigger, I stopped practicing, and then the story continued when she was seven months old. We did absolutely everything together when she was a baby. It was great, but it had one flaw. If I let someone else have her in their lap, she would start crying. So even if someone was really close to us, when I came to a shop with a friend and I gave Bhajan Devī to her, for a while she started really screaming. So everybody thought she was being... touched. And suddenly Maria Hetner said, "Sītā, Swāmījī will come, and everybody who has a child should come there." So with my husband, we went for the meeting with Swāmījī, and we were really looking forward to it. Swāmījī was sitting in front of a big table, and on all sides you had families with children. When I realized what it was all about, I was really shocked because Swāmījī called the first family and took the baby in his lap. I looked at Swāmījī and I said, "No, no." That was the first game between me and Swāmījī that started there, because every time Swāmījī took care of one child, he looked at me, and I said no, and I thought no, and Swāmījī called another family. When we were the last ones, Swāmījī just showed with his finger for us to go. So I came with my girl to Viśvagurujī, and he had his hands towards her. She stood on his lap and she hugged him. She was playing with his beard. She continued his lecture to the others, and I was truly amazed because none of them paid any attention to me. Suddenly, I had a feeling that I had given my child to someone I had known for ages. A confidence awoke in me—100%, or even more if that were possible. Never, not even for a tiny minute, has this confidence disappeared. Thus, that original hobby became a life path. I thank Viśvagurujī immensely for allowing me to be raised with him. I wish that Viśvagurujī stays with us for a long time so that my son can experience the same. As a child, I sat on his lap and played football with him. When I had difficult exams at school, I prayed. Viśvagurujī was like a father or grandfather to me. He even arranged my wedding, and I thank him profoundly for everything. The next speaker is Vasanti from Blansko, Czech Republic. Dear Viśvagurujī, dear brothers and sisters, I am standing here just as my mother did yesterday. She spoke about buying expensive photographs of yoga postures. I must thank her, for it was thanks to those that I started practicing yoga. I found the photographs and practiced according to them every day, happy to be able to do so. At that time, my mother had not yet started practicing āsanas, but she attended yoga programs and lectures. I thought I didn't need that; I just wanted the physical exercises. She kept inviting me, saying, "Swāmījī will be there. He will explain other things to you as well." Finally, I decided to go to a program at a high school in Blansko. One of Swāmījī's disciples was speaking there about clinical death. I began to realize that I needed to know more—that we are humans with a soul and must learn more about ourselves. I then attended more seminars and became vegetarian after listening to Swāmījī speak about our planet's rich resources, explaining that we do not need to kill animals to eat, as we have all sorts of fruits and cereals. Later, I received a mantra. I thank Viśvagurujī very much that I have remained with him. Furthermore, he recently arranged a Vedic wedding for us in India. Next is Badrinārāyaṇa from Karlovy Vary. He is a technical person, so I'm sure he will stick to the time frame. The story is very long, but I will make it brief to avoid causing stress for Vasant. I received my mantra from Swāmījī 30 years ago on Guru Pūrṇimā. When giving it, he said something you have probably all heard during mantra dīkṣā: that the relationship between master and disciple is eternal. Forever is a very long time; 30 years is nothing in comparison. But in a human life, 30 years is a period where everything can change completely several times. Everything has changed during that time, but one thing has remained. In the most beautiful and the most difficult moments, Swāmījī has always been there—not always in physical form, but his wisdom has always been present. There are not enough words to thank him for that. Thank you, Swāmījī, for everything. Anna Pudna from Martin, Slovakia, will speak. Praṇām Swāmījī, dear brothers and sisters. It is very difficult to describe 33 years in four minutes. I think it started much earlier. Even in kindergarten, I allegedly said I was vegetarian and did not like the food they gave me. I wanted to be vegetarian, but my parents said I could when I turned 18. I was deeply interested in what happens after death. Born in communist times to a teacher's family, religion was taboo. My father told me that after I die, my body would disintegrate and be eaten by worms. You can imagine my happiness when I found out it was different. My first big meeting with Swāmījī was in 1990. I started practicing yoga, thinking it was just physical postures. The devotion of the yoga group in Martin was so deep that when I heard a bus was going to Vienna to meet Swāmījī, I joined. I didn't really know who he was. We went to Śikaneḍrā. Swāmījī told us there is an eternal light on the altar, and whoever has a wish and thinks about it in front of it will see it fulfilled. At that time, my sister was finalizing a divorce. I decided to test it and sincerely wished for them to come together again and not divorce. That is how Miracles in My Life started, and thanks to Swāmījī, they continue. Ekta from Hungary will tell us about her beginnings. Praṇām Viśvagurujī Swāmījī, praṇām Swāmījī, praṇām yoga brothers and sisters. I am only a 34-year-old disciple, but I have had my 35th Guru Pūrṇimā, which is why I would like to say a few sentences. It will be sweet, for the love for my Gurudev and the Guru Tattva is so strong in my heart. I believe it is the most important principle in the universe. Thanks to God that the Guru is here. When I received my mantra from Swāmījī, I remember he wrote it on a little paper and said, "Repeat after me." It was so strong. This is a precious gift for me and for all people. I have been to India four times. It was the golden time, the beginning of the Om Ashram building. When I got the mantra, Swāmījī wrote it on a piece of paper—such a precious gift. I think of it every time I repeat it. The whole world came, and now the Om Ashram is ready and truly beautiful. When I was there, I was so happy. In Hungary, we founded the Yoga in Daily Life association in 1995 with Yogīrāj and many good Hungarian bhaktas. This association is still working nicely. I was a lawyer then. A very nice situation in my life was when Swāmījī came to my house. There were many of us, maybe twenty people from Yugoslavia. Swāmījī was there with Kulīrṣi, the Veda knower. It was so nice. My father met Swāmījī, and the next day he passed away. That was a great Guru Kṛpā. I will introduce Pūrṇimā from Hungary. We are moving to a super-condensed version with just a few sentences. I was a very small child and already did some āsanas. My father taught me and was very proud. Then my mother brought me a yoga book when I was thirteen, but it had to be returned. I stopped practicing after a couple of months, afraid I wouldn't do well. Later, I went to a yoga camp in southern Hungary and met a vegetarian named Mir. He had a guru, but I didn't feel I should follow him. I stopped again for a couple of years. I looked here and there, went to this church and that church. I went to a bioenergy lecture where Aruni, Āpāyana's wife, was. During the break, she said she does yoga and has a guru who is coming the next week. This story takes three times longer to tell than it happened. From that time, I have been coming. Many thanks to Gurudev that I could study Ayurveda in India for over six years. It was truly significant. Kṛṣṇā Poli from Ostrava, Czech Republic, will say a few words. Praṇām Svāmījī, praṇām sānyāsinī, praṇām guru bhrātṛ, guru sestrī. Brothers and sisters, everyone at work knew I did yoga. I put a picture of Mahāprabhujī with his cap in my office. My boss asked, "Who is this guy?" I said, "It's my grandfather." He replied, "Yeah, you look alike." We had two cows, and the herd was over two kilometers long, so I walked and drove with them. Mahāprabhujī had a herd of cows, and I, as a kid, also looked after cows—a small detail. When I was six, we had two cows and one calf. As a student, I got into autogenic training. I was in Rozhlas Podrát and liked it. They sent it from Brno. I wrote, I got the text from Číhů, but then we had a race, so I didn't get there next time. We went to the library, and it was written that in 1970 the book Yoga would be published: "Yoga from Old India to Today." I was attending other programs when I heard on the radio that a book about yoga would be published in 1970. I bought it and immediately started doing Jalaneti and Śīrṣāsana. My wife said, "Look, your legs are shaking in Śīrṣāsana." In Czechoslovakia, Lakṣmīnārāyaṇ Lāḍiyānācek said, "You are athletes, you don't drink, you don't smoke, you should have a week off with yoga." She gave me a recommendation. It was 1983. We went, and it was a sort of Spartan education. Then in 1983, a 90-year-old skiing yoga instructor—the oldest in Czechoslovakia at the time—recommended I go to a yoga seminar in Kopna. I went. The conditions were very simple; we collected wheat, etc. I was advised to speak briefly, so I'll cut it short. There was mauna from dinner until breakfast. You'll laugh: after three days, some scouts had tents next to ours. We went to their camp for water. They would always greet us, "Good morning, good evening," and we would just smile or nod because we couldn't speak. They thought we were deaf. When I was leaving that program—Swāmījī was not leading it; it was led by Czech instructors including Vasek Hošek, who taught us Katupranām—I had a Soviet Zhiguli car. I felt I was really flying in that car, like a pilot. I felt great. I thought, "I will practice this every day," and I had to get to know this bearded guy who authored the exercise. Since I must finish, I'll just add that yoga filled my whole life. One more funny story: When a doctor operated on my veins, I gave him a whole lecture on vegetarianism and lifestyle. He enjoyed it and said, "I will stay here. I have to let you go. I will follow you." In the evening, he came. It hurt. I told him, "I am a yogī, I have to hold on." The next day they took my blood and immediately took me for surgery. About fourteen days later at the check-up, the doctor said, "Pane Inženýre, jóga vás zachránila." According to the doctors, I should have been dead. I survived a severe internal sepsis; my whole abdomen was infected with bacteria. Did Swāmījī not save my life? Swāmījī actually saved my life. I had a colonoscopy, they found a serious issue, and operated immediately. The same doctor later told me that yoga saved me; otherwise, I would have died. These things cannot be expressed in words. Viśvagurujī, thank you, thank you, thank you. Have a good time. Now, two yogīs from Kutná Hora will show us how to speak very briefly. I was authorized—I wouldn't say ordered—by my wife to speak for both of us. Hari Om Viśvagurujī, Hari Om Yoga Friends. Our journey with Viśvagurujī started in 1991 in Kopřivnice. But I think we all have a destiny. Our connection with Viśvagurujī started about a year earlier, connected to worries about our children's health. We have two boys, then aged four and seven, who had severe eczema, very difficult to treat. My wife, despite being a pediatrician and consulting Western medicine, found it hard to get answers. Destiny led us to a natural healer. We were surprised he knew everything: what our boys had been through, their diseases, and issues my wife had. We discovered there is some kind of energy we cannot feel with our senses. He also guided us to treat the disease through nourishment, a big discovery. When we told this story to Vyraž Patenková, our sister-in-law, she said, "That's nothing. I know someone who knows the past, present, and future." We wondered who that was. That's why, as a family, we went to Kopřivnice in 1991. From today's perspective, we set off as complete strangers. We had a box filled with schnitzels, ate a lot of meat. Close to Kopřivnice, we ate all the schnitzels, thinking, "God knows what awaits us." During that week, we became vegetarian. Viśvagurujī turned our lives upside down. We came home and threw everything out of our fridge, starting to live as Swāmījī instructed. It was difficult for our relatives to digest; my mother thought we had joined a sect. Step by step, she realized it wasn't so and eventually supported us. Viśvagurujī and yoga gave us an answer to the question of life's meaning. We feel we are better now, and our children are better. My grandchild, vegetarian since birth, has the potential to be even better. At the beginning of the seminar, Gurujī shared a beautiful vision: after our third birth, the world will change so that animals are not killed. I hope it comes sooner. I wish that as Swāmījī transforms us into better human beings, we can carry his teachings to others so they also become better. Hari Om. Now I invite Dāyanata from Slovenia, the second-to-last speaker. Praṇām Viśvagurujī, Praṇām Sanyāsinī, Praṇām Brothers and Sisters. I first met Swāmījī in Tuchelská Tuplice in 1989. There was a list for mantra; I signed, but Swāmījī said, "Next time, not now." Six months later, thank God, Swāmījī came to Ljubljana quickly, on February 13, 1990. There I received my mantra. At the first seminar, Swāmījī said, "Make three wishes, and they will come true." Thank God it was three, because two were worldly wishes, and the third, Swāmījī said, should be spiritual. The last speaker is Shanti from Zlín. Brothers and sisters, I came to yoga in the 1980s, practicing from Van Lysebeth's book. At a course, they told us about a yoga seminar at Kopna. Unfortunately, I missed it; probably it wasn't the right time, though I still feel sorry. I married and had three children. Before my third child was born, I started attending yoga classes again. They told us about a lecture in Zlín in 1990. My friend and I went. Fortunately or unfortunately, it started an hour later. It was beautiful, divine, and great. I realized there that I had known Swāmījī. They also said mantra would be given. Since I was breastfeeding and it was late, I had to leave. I really wished for a mantra, even without knowing what it was. My friend stayed, but I asked her to take it for me, and she didn't. It was a blessing, for I received the mantra next time, much better prepared. I'll share a story about my youngest son. In kindergarten, he asked for a sausage. I told him if he started eating sausages, he would never become a great yogī. He stopped eating meat. Despite pressure from kindergarten teachers, he never touched meat again. It shows how one sentence can change everything. I've had a diverse life with ups and downs—a blessed life under the guidance of Satguru Dev. Eternal thank you, and eternally yours. We have listened to beautiful stories showing that if there is a will, God will always find us; there is always divine guidance. We will see Viśvagurujī's further instructions on whether to continue these stories next time, as we still have some gifts left. Hari Om. Did you have a happy and good time listening here? We have so many workings and bhajans open. This is also very good, what we have done and are doing now. It is a time when many people come from other paths and begin to do yoga or other things. But many people who are doing it still eat meat and such. We are very good still; we have come so far, we will not [eat] animal [products], and so on. But again, some people come to India thinking about meat and such. This is one side. So we have to be like this: Yoga in Daily Life. Now we will come together with our people, with your children, and let them go nicely with you. We are doing, and now we will do something. And so we all are. All. We will come like what we are doing. And so, animals and meat and such, we have not done. There are some people with us also who are eating meat and such, maybe. This is the one thing. Second, we have to learn and think about what to do. So when you marry, both girls and men, you must want what we want to do. If you want to have very happy, good children, and we all want to be very good and happy, then we must undertake something... I will tell something, okay? I will put it like this: I want to know when, how, which day, where, etc., for a marriage. If it is good, and when and how it will be, we have to take from us what is very good. Then you will manage; you will be very good, your children will be good, your wife will be the best, your husband will be very good, and your whole life will be good. So I am taking from India, and they will tell exactly when you should marry or not marry, and what time, and so on.

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