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How mind-body exercise improves cognitive function

A scientific presentation and discussion on yoga's benefits for brain health and mental well-being, followed by a spiritual story.

"For the age group of 55 plus, yoga exercise has a greater effect on mental health than aerobic exercise or strengthening exercise."

"Yoga has a superior effect on our brain, on our cognitive capacity... and that is prevention against dementia and even repairs it."

Dr. Nemrud Vyukhaja presents a scientific study highlighting yoga's superior cognitive benefits for adults over 55, explaining neurobiological mechanisms like BDNF. Psychologist Tyāg Purī shares a clinical anecdote on yoga's rapid effect on depression, and a third speaker discusses the Vajranāḍī and the physiological shift from sympathetic to parasympathetic states through āsana and prāṇāyāma. The session concludes with a parable about thieves transformed by a single sentence heard from a satsang.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Praṇām Swāmījī, praṇām Gurudev, dear praṇām Avatār Purī and Vivek Purī, Sannyāsīns, dear yoga brothers and sisters, and the Swāmījī webcast listeners. Praṇām Swāmījī, praṇām Gurudev, praṇām all Swāmīs, dear brothers and sisters, and you who are listening via webcast. My name is Nemrud Vyukhaja. I am a physician working in Sweden. Today's topic will be yoga's superior effect on brain and mental health. For you watching Svāmījī TV, the title will be projected. The title is as follows: "Mind-body exercise improves cognitive function more than aerobic and resistance exercises in healthy adults aged 55 years and older." For the age group of 55 plus, yoga exercise has a greater effect on mental health than aerobic exercise or strengthening exercise. This study was published on September 23, so ten months earlier. When it was published, more than 50 worldwide broadcasts featured it, like CNN and The Times. The study is based on more than 300 worldwide studies and consists of data from more than 20,000 healthy humans. It was conducted at Jönköping's health university together with Jönköping's county in Sweden and is published in the European Review of Aging and Physical Activities. It is open access, and everybody can see it. You can also see a short review in Swedish on Facebook on the Swedish branch of Yoga in Daily Life. Before I continue, I would like to say thank you from me and my wife, Ida. Thank you, Uma Purī, who came to us for a four-day yoga retreat one month ago. Thank you very much. Dear yoga brothers and sisters, why is this study so important? Since we are doing—you are doing yoga every day—and you are healthy. Aging is a process, and it starts when we are born. By the age of 40, we are losing approximately 30% of our flexibility. Now, a question to you: how long do we need to regain flexibility? Can you give me a figure? OK, let me tell you: 20 minutes of exercises, three times per week, for 12 weeks. So, with just one hour per week, we regain flexibility. And even general health, of course, improves. So I think doctors should be happy, since with so little effort, people are not doing this. If they would do that, then many doctors would lose their jobs. Do you know that yoga prevents death? Yes, yes, yes. Yoga prevents death and promotes a healthy life with your beloved ones. I wouldn't say this if there were no proof for it. Now, this study is scientific, and I have to talk about some scientific words, but I will try to explain also in normal language. Aerobic exercises enhance BDNF, which by it enhances the giving birth to new brain cells, neurons in the hippocampus. So if we run, or we make, of course, yoga exercises, we are—new cells in our brain are born. And now many, maybe many people ask, "How can you prove this?" We know that right now, what kind of, how much radioactivity is in the air, and by an algorithm, when an autopsy is done, then we... can see the half-time of the radioactivity, and then we know that the cell, the new cell, was born that day because of the half-time of the radioactivity. And my, actually, we can, when autopsies are performed, we can examine those Moscow cells according to half-life decay, and depending on how we know how old the cells still are and how they occur. Another factor, catapresin B, is affecting the third factor, which is GLPD-1, and this enhances back to an increased BDNF factor, which enhances production of newborn brain cells. Everybody heard about Alzheimer's, right? Do you know that Alzheimer's can be decreased and prevented by increasing the Leukotriene 6 factor? This makes the amyloid process lesser and thereby prevents dementia of Alzheimer's. I promised you that I would explain this more easily and precisely: what is the effect of yoga in this? Everybody knows that brain capacity and work is a process which we use information, we get information to our brain, it's processed, and then we give it back. Like I'm talking now, or like we are sitting listening, something is happening. Or, in other words, the cognitive function or executive function: memory, attention, and processing speed. And so, among these cognitive and executive functions, we include memory, thinking, and the speed at which we think. And listen carefully now. Yoga has a superior effect on our brain, on our cognitive capacity. Yoga has a superior effect on this process. When they compared it with dancing, aerobic exercise, or with running, climbing, any other activity. And now the study proves, I have to mention that beside yoga, even Tai Chi, Pilates, and Qigong have also good effect. I have to say that in that study, it is said that Pilates, Tai Chi, and Qigong also have a good effect. So there is also a little danger when you are making yoga. And it's also a bit dangerous when you're doing yoga. Ānand Purī will show us. When you lift like this, it can injure your back, since prolonged strain is finishing here just in the lower back, so it can hurt and give you pain and even paralyze you if you are unlucky. But do again, but like this. The pressure on the lumbar region is lessened, and you can do it without any injury. Another exercise, Dayāl Purī will show. So, making this, if you are not a user of making exercises, it can hurt your knee. You can do this, but just so much, because then you are not pushing too much pressure on your body. The other thing, the other thing is the neck. Be careful when you are making neck exercises. It is a fragile region, and it can affect and even stop the blood to the brain, which is very dangerous. It is a very fragile area, and when you practice it poorly, it can stop the flow of blood to the brain. Please listen to your yoga instructors because they know. And they teach how to do exercises correctly, because they will tell you, they will teach you how to do those exercises properly. I think all of you are waiting, but how is this affecting our brain? Simply explained, the combination of breathing and exercises affects our sympathetic nervous system. Yoga breathing slows down the sympathetic nervous system. This simple action has an effect on stress. When we are not stressed, when we are not under stress, our emotional control, our emotional regulation, physical body control, and well-being are enhanced. It increases our attention, memory, and our cognitive functions, and that is prevention against dementia and even repairs it. So, dear yoga brothers and sisters, just go home and tell everybody. That superior effect of yoga, just continue to do yoga. Are there any questions? So once again, this study is now projected on Swamiji TV, and it's an open access. Please read it. It's about 20 to 30 pages. It is about 30 pages. Read it and show that this is not any yoga founder who made this study. It's done by a university. Neutral, thank you. A neutral university. Thank you, Pranam Gurudev. Thank you that you listened. I would also like to say my deepest thank you to all the yoga community, and especially to those who are working and making the yoga camp become true. And I would like to thank you all, and thank the entire yoga community and all of you who work and help so that these yoga programs can be carried out. I think Tyāg Purī, it would be good if he tells something later on when there is time about the psychological effect of yoga. And it would be interesting if Ityagpurī would tell us something about the psychological impact of yoga on psychology. Thank you very much. And I already long for the next yoga camp next summer. Thank you. Thank you. Gurudev, dear friends, dear friends, Pranam. Gurudev Vivek Purī Mahārāj, Avatār Purī Mahārāj, and I was not prepared for this. I will do some bluffing here now, and it is the trap of my brother-in-law and also Avatār Purī. He called me that he come, and it's a kind of belt, my brother, and also Avatār Purījī. So, some facts about how yoga improves mental health as well. Facts about how yoga works and improves not only physical but also mental health. That is very much connected also with the brain and the hormonal endocrine system. On one hand, this type of exercise, what we have, is very complex. And we can take whatever we wish to improve in our life and in our phenomena, and it is not only the body, but it is our phenomena, let's say. And for our body, we heard that it can regenerate, it can create new cells, it can regenerate even the brain, even the damaged part of the brain. But we see the effects for mental health as well. For example, people with depression have a very low level of energy, basically. Or at least we think about this. But it seems that with certain yoga techniques, we can improve their condition very, very quickly. Yes, it includes also some āsanas, that's nice and okay. But for example, the leading type of meditation, especially yoga nidrā, it has really superior effects on this subject and topic. And I had one patient who had this type of depression, a medium level of depression. It started when he lost his alcoholic mother a few years back. And since that time, he was not able to recover from this trauma. Make the story short. That he came to me, and we were doing some kind of, let's say, intense session, including meditation. A kind of meditation, let's say. Yeah, and it included... So I was also somehow inside, but guiding was also this type of process of meditation. And after the three-hour session, it was on one Sunday. Because I was in a hurry, I wanted to come to the yoga seminar next week, so we have to be quick. So, because of the darśan of Gurudev, I was just pushing that it is quick. So it happened that after this session, an intense session, and including, and mostly it was with this guided meditation. He came again on Tuesday, so it was Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. And Tuesday, he told it was approximately 11 o'clock. And he told that he feels much better, good, not bad. And he told that even his girlfriend told that he is much more energetic. And he told the real fact because he feels something. Who knows what is behind, but he told some facts also. And it was like this, that it was one day, Tuesday. So the previous day, Monday, he woke up at eight o'clock, and he, I mean, he woke up earlier, and from eight o'clock he was working. He says that already on Monday, actually, he woke up early and was already working by eight o'clock. And, you know, for people with depression, two hours of work and then they just collapse. But he was a businessman, and he started working at eight o'clock in the morning. And he was working till two o'clock, after midnight. And at 11 o'clock, he was there with me consulting, and quite fresh and quite relaxed. I mean, no pills, no cocaine, no nothing like this, and he was good. That is yoga. I mean, I didn't do anything. It was Mahāprabhujī's grace and that deep meditation that we did, quite deep meditation, let's say. So it seems that that type of approach, from the body side, is okay, nice. But it seems that depression is not a lack of energy; otherwise, in the body, there is energy, it seems. But it is switching to some higher cognitive functions. It means that that depression is putting us in some reserved mode, let's say, some survival mode only. And with our techniques, we just switch on again. And all of a sudden, we are good. That is about depression. With certain studies, it shows that it is in brackets only, shortly. Those people who meditate have the gray matter of the brain. It is thicker than normal people, than the average population. It means it is preventing your cognitive functions. It is preventing aging. As my brother-in-law told, Narsing Purī told that it is preventing Alzheimer's and dementia. That's not so nice anyway. And we are at that point that, yes, we are prolonging our life, and somehow we are getting in this healthy way; we can do it. And coming together with this, IQ is higher with the people with deep, or regular and quite deep enough, meditation. Their IQ is not declining as much as the normal population. It also shows that the IQ of people who meditate does not decrease as quickly as that of the general population. And so what Gurudev gives us is a complete system, which affects bodily functions through āsanas, which actually is prevention of the decrease of the body's functioning. Including energy exercises like prāṇāyāma, different levels of prāṇāyāma, and that's already a huge topic. Meditation, Haṭha yoga kriyās, all this knowledge that is being established, I think it is for our daily life; it is the most important. The ethical values in us. So it is such a complex system, and we can just... it is really like a gold mine. We have to just take and take. So last year I was talking about panic and its effects. How to come out from panic? How to get rid of panic attacks? We have everything. We have breathing exercises, we have consciousness, we have everything for this, all the tools. And I could continue all these examples. And really, this type of mixture of science and our spiritual path, and the technology of our spiritual path, is giving such a value and such a bright future through yoga for humanity that is really exceptional. And yeah, we have to go to the mine and let's collect that gold, yes. It means practice. It means coming for recharging and increasing our potential. And it also means, I think, it is one of the most important thresholds for us, that we dare to use and utilize all these things, so we dare to go further always from where we are at that point. And I am really, I cannot explain it properly, but I am really so grateful and thankful for Gurudev, for this system, and for this blessing for us. I can't even describe it in words, but I am really very grateful to Gurudev for this system and for everything he gives us in the last 50 plus years here all over the world. You just heard psychologist Tsiagpuri. He explained more about the effect of yoga exercises. Sometimes, patients come to me and say that they have different troubles. Both mentally and physically. Thank God, in Sweden there is medical yoga. And I see, really, I see the difference between people who practice yoga and people who do not. I became so happy that even a kindergarten in the town I am living in started with yoga. Imagine that small kids, three years old, learn to balance. Yeah, because just these small things are enhancing a better life. Yoga has been existing for thousands of years. And it's improved all the time. Pranam, Gurudev brought this here, and we are lucky to have this system. This system is for us, for me, because it's enhancing my health so I can live longer with my kids, with my wife, and so for everybody else. And so this system is for us, for all of us, but for each one of us, even for me, because thanks to the fact that I am exercising, I actually improve my health, and so I will be able to live much longer with my children, with my wife. Everybody knows what I will say now. Gurudev, let us make more yoga. Any questions for me? Please write or send an SMS or email. I will gladly reply. If you have any questions, write me an e-mail or an SMS, or contact me. I will be happy to answer. Hari Om, thank you very much. Hari Om and thank you. Praṇām Gurudev. Hari Om, dear brothers and sisters. Now we hear a very interesting lecture. We have heard an interesting lecture about how yoga will help our body. And also, we hear nicely about the sympathetic and parasympathetic, and many years ago, Vishwagurujī was talking, I think for a few years constantly, about Vajranāḍī. You remember this? Yes, because you immediately remember Vīrāsana, and being in the Vīrāsana was also very hard for us. And also, when Viśvagurujī started with some kriyās, it was from Vajrāsana and Vīrāsana. And I must say that for me, it was... It is very hard to sit in this position, that position, and also it was some kind of torturing. And because of that, I started to think a little more about this. When you listen and when you realize why Virasana is so important, because it's functioning on the Vajranāḍī, and Vajranāḍī is that nāḍī which we hear and learn from Viśva Gurujī. It is the nāḍī which is balancing Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. When we talk about nāḍīs, we know there are 72,000 nāḍīs. We always speak of the three main ones—Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā—but it is also said there are ten most important nāḍīs. One of them is the Vajranāḍī. When we try to work on the Vajranāḍī, we immediately see a difference in our body. There is often a little confusion because sometimes people translate nāḍīs as a nerve, and sometimes as a river. When I think about nāḍīs, for me they are like a current of water in the ocean. Our whole body is that ocean, that energy, but there are some main currents, like the Gulf Stream or others. If you are flying in a plane and look down at the ocean, you will see the ocean. But somehow you will see what looks like a river flowing within it—different waves, another kind of wave. You will even see a slight difference in the color, a subtle shade. That is the nāḍīs in the ocean. You cannot cut the body to see them, just as you cannot see a pipe in the ocean, but there is a stream inside. We talked a few days ago about practicing yoga and being aware of the five bodies. These five bodies are not separate. It is like a construction drawing: you have a drawing of the walls, and then you place an almost transparent paper over it with a drawing of the installations. When you put that drawing on the first, you immediately see walls and installations together. Imagine all these five bodies like that. In one moment, you have a complete picture, but you are also able to see each of them separately. Mostly here we hear about the Annamaya Kośa, the physical body—about nerves, neurons, the brain. Next is the Prāṇamaya Kośa. When we talk about this Vajranāḍī, we can say that in one dimension it is the Vajranāḍī. In other dimensions, what is the physical body? It is not exactly this, but something similar. Is this the vagus nerve? For our health, it is so important on the physical level. The vagus nerve is like a switch from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system. We need to practice all these āsanas, and in that way we will come into this parasympathetic state, and at that time we will rejuvenate our body. Thanks to that, we will renew and regenerate. We have such nice exercises like Vīrāsana, Gomukhāsana, and so many other āsanas which make a switch off from the Sympathicus. They joke that the Sympathicus is not at all sympathetic. When you are in stress, when you have a lot of stress hormones in your body, you start a lot of inflammatory problems. Aging is one cause; quicker aging is due to this inflammatory process in your body. Most of what we call "speck" (I know that is not Croatian)—when you are 50 plus years old, 70% of this speck is inflammatory cells. Because of that, you cannot lose kilos. It is not only a problem with your eating, but a problem of your inflammation. If you want to do anything, to rejuvenate your body—if you want to become younger—you first need to decrease the inflammatory processes in your body. All medicine and everything done for a long life, all those medicines which aim to prolong life, are about having less inflammation in your body. They are actually anti-inflammatory, but not with corticosteroids. You need to do it with something completely different. First, they always start with anti-inflammatory food. And what is the best anti-inflammatory food? What do you think? A phalāhārī diet, but not a "real" phalāhārī. Last time at the Kumbh Melā, I thought, "Oh my God, I will enjoy the sweet food." After Kumbh Melā, they would call me Mitha Harababa, so I would eat only sweet. And after that, very soon, Svāmījī put me on the phalāhārī. Svāmījī immediately transferred me to phalāhārī, and I realized that phalāhārī in the Akhāṛā is a lot of banana and potato. I said to myself, "Yes, but what about those bananas and potatoes? What was also okay?" But that is not what Svāmījī gave as phalāhārī. How he said, "Guru diet"—what Guru gives to you, that kind of diet. And what do you know about phalāhārī? What we learn from Viśva Gurujī? No wheat, no milk, and all these other things. I will not talk about the phalāhārī diet now, but that kind of phalāhārī diet is an excellent anti-inflammatory diet. All these sugars and other stuff... and we have such good āsanas. I mention now not only Gomukhāsana, Vajrāsana, Vīrāsana, but all our āsanas, especially those which function on our Vajranāḍī. That kind of āsana will also make the stress hormone go down because we will switch from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic. All these āsanas function on the production of cortisone. Plus, we need a lot of oxygen for our body, but prāṇāyāma is not about oxygen. One little, little, little part is more oxygen in your system, but much more is about purifying our nāḍīs, which makes stronger currents of these inner rivers. We know that if you have water and the water is not flowing, there is not enough oxygen in that water. Very soon it will start to smell, and the water will not be usable for drinking; it will cause disease. Because of that, we need the flow. It is very important to have a flow of the blood. For me, I always have one picture: you have a sponge, and you clean something. That sponge becomes dirty. How will you clean that sponge? Not only a little from the top, but you will put it in water, squeeze and relax, and in the end, that sponge will be clean. What are we doing during the practice of āsana? The same thing. Our muscles, our inner organs, everything is squeezing. That old water, blood, what is deep in the tissue comes out, and fresh water comes in. What will you do with this dirty water? We will flush it out. We will not do this with our blood directly, but we know that through breathing we are purifying 70% of our blood. Because blood always goes first through and makes purification through breathing, and 30% is your kidney, liver—which means 70% is through breathing, and only 30% is still going to the toilet. Everybody talks only about purification of the body going to the toilet and sweating. And in yoga, we know that one of the most important things is to breathe—nice breathing. We will purify our body and also purify our mind. When you have constant thoughts, the same thoughts, and you are chewing the same thoughts like chewing gum, the best way for releasing such chewing-gum thoughts is to start to breathe and exhale all this garbage. With the breathing, we will purify our blood. Our inner organs will be in much better shape because we will, through āsanas and through the breathing, purify the inner, really deep tissue of the organs. So, the prāṇāyāma fresh energy will come into our body, and also we will change our mind. Because when we go from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic, we calm down and start meditation. And that is how to live. Yoga is giving this. We know all of this through yoga. Only, we do not think that is enough. Because of that, it is so good to have such scientific research. Such scientific research will just give us a little push. But what is interesting? All this scientific research is only, I really dare to say, one percent of the truth. They need so much to go deep because in yoga you have so many things. Now they are talking only about Annamaya Kośa, only about the physical body, and a little breathing, and something starting with meditation. But what is for us? Only Ātmacintana meditation, first level. Really, if you go and read the research, you will see that it is something like this. And understanding the Prāṇamaya Kośa—but to understand the Prāṇamaya Kośa, they have not even started to think about it. Because of that, thank you, Viśvagurujī, that you teach us about all five bodies. Now, it is only important that we start to practice, because yoga is a personal experience, and through that experience, we will go further. Śrī Dīpna Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Śrī Ālok Purī Jī Siddha Pīṭpa Ampara Kī Jaya. Shri Dharam Madhavam Gopika Vallabham Janaki Naayakam Vasudevam Hari. Om. Shalakpur Ji Mahadeva Ki Jai. Devadhe Dev Devashwar Mahadeva Ki Jai. Shri Dharam Madhavam Gopika Vallabham Janaki Naayakam Vasudevam Hari. Pozdrav kosmickému já. Pozdrav śrī Alak Purījī Siddhā Pītparampara. Mē dhanvat praṇām Svāmījī Gurudev, His Holiness Vishwaguru Mahāmandaleśvara Maheśvarānanda Purījī. Mē dhanvat praṇām Jeho Svatosti Gurudevo Viśvaguru Dīmu Svabimu Maheśvarānand Dīmu. Om Namo Nārāyaṇa to Mahāmudāliśvara Vivek Purījī and all the sannyāsīs present here. Pozdrav Vivek Purījīmu a všem sannyāsīnům. Hari Om and good morning to all of you who are present here and who are watching through Svāmījī TV. It is a beautiful, nice, cool, warm morning. I heard that from today onwards, it is going to start getting warmer and warmer. So this is the perfect temperature for me, and I like it so. How can just a single word or a single sentence from the guru's mouth or from a satsaṅg change someone's life? Or can you guide someone and change the path of that person? So, continuing our Ānandamurtī stories by Holī Gurujī. Once upon a time, there was a family of thieves. The father, the head thief of the family, was passing away, and before his passing, he decided to tell a few good tips to his two children. It was very hard for him to say any words because he was dying, but still he decided that he had two wishes for the kids, and he wanted to tell them. So he called both of the kids to him and said, "My dear children, I am dying, and I have two wishes from you." They said, "Sure, father, we will surely fulfill your wishes, and we will listen to whatever you have to say." And they sat for the satsaṅg, and then prepared to go. The father said, "The first wish, or the first order, is never go to any Mahātma's satsaṅg. In case you are passing by a satsaṅg, change the way and go through another way. If you pass by a satsaṅg, change your direction, and if there is no other direction and there is only one way, then take your shoes in your bag, close your ears with your fingers, and run." The children said, "OK, as you wish." "And the second order, or the wish, is that the king's son is very cruel. He always tortures our family and always gives us a hard time. So go and cut the throat of that prince and burn his head, and then I will be at peace and I can die." They said, "Okay, as you wish." That night, they went and jumped the wall of the castle. After jumping the fence, they sneaked into the prince's room, and they successfully managed to do the job they came for. They brought the head back to the father and said, "Here you go." But something happened on the way while carrying the head. They got the head and were coming back, and there was a satsaṅg happening apparently there. They remembered their father said, "We should not listen to any satsaṅg, we should change our route." But there was no other way to go; that was the only direction they could go. So, as the father ordered, they took the shoes in the bag, closed their ears, and started running from there. But one of the brothers got a thorn in his leg. He thought, "What should I do? Should I take my hand out of my ear to take out the thorn, or should I run when my foot is hurting?" He decided, "Okay, I'll be very quick. I will take my hand out, I'll pull out the thorn, and I'll put my hand back in and start running." And in those few seconds, the Gurujī was speaking, and he said, "The gods and goddesses, they never have a shadow. Like now we are sitting in the sun, and the sun is having shadows on the trees, and the shadow is on the floor. But gods and goddesses, they never have any shadows." The brother put his finger back in his ear and continued going. They brought the head of the prince to the father. The father died. The next day, they saw the prince was dead, so there was a whole scenario in the castle. Everyone was very upset and sad, and the king, the father, was very furious. He said, "Who killed my son? Find that person, and if you cannot find that person, I will cut off your head." At that time, there was one lady who was a caretaker of the place or of the queen. She said, "OK, OK, Your Highness, I will find the person who killed your son." She asked for some money. She went and bought a bull. She went to a person who makes wooden handicraft things and told him to make two hands out of wood. She knew that the thieves' family were great bhaktas of a goddess, Mājāk Dambā. The form of the goddess they worshipped sits on a bull and has four hands. She decided to disguise herself as that goddess, with two extra wooden arms on herself. In one hand she held a sword, in another she held a tool for cutting, in one hand she held a deepak (lamp), and with the other she was giving blessings. She sat on that bull and went towards that household. She called the kids out and said, "Your father was a great bhakta of mine. Whenever he used to do anything, he always used to give something to offer to me. So, are you forgetting something, maybe? Did you do something recently, maybe, which you forgot to offer me?" They said, "Oh, you're talking about what we did last night, right?" She said, "Yes, yes. Oh, Matajī, so sorry, we didn't know that we have to offer you something. So now, if our father did it, we will keep the legacy, and we will also give you whatever you want. What would you like from us?" She said, "Today, I'm not in the mood for any money or food; just give me that head which you cut." So they offered the head to her, and she started to return. But guess what? She was holding that lamp in her hand, and because of that light, her shadow was cast on the floor. The brother remembered what he heard in the satsaṅg: that God and goddesses do not cast any shadows. He realized, "She's here to make us in trouble, and she's here to get us caught." So then they killed her also. They thought, "Okay, now what should we do?" They had a big family. They said, "We are 40 people. We will eat the bull for dinner." So the bull was also swāhā. Then the brother asked, "How did you know that she is here to catch us?" And he said, "You know that day when we cut the head, we were passing by a satsaṅg, and at that time a thorn went in my foot, and I had to take out a finger, and that Gurujī said that the god and goddesses do not cast any shadows." Something clicked in their heads. They said, "If just with one sentence of a satsaṅg can save our life, then what can a whole life of satsaṅg do?" So from that day onwards, they left what they were doing. They left all the evil stuff and decided to become disciples of a guru and to go on the path of spirituality. And that is why we are blessed not to be somewhere else in Kusanga, but we are here, enjoying the time with our beloved Gurudev in satsaṅg. If only one sentence could change the brothers' lives forever and save them, here we have three weeks of the presence of Gurū Dev and his blessings. He is always with us, and always we see him, we have his darśan, we are in his presence, we are in satsaṅg. So our lives are already good. It is already 12 o'clock, so I am going to keep it short. And in the evening, we will start with the new mantras. Śrīdeva Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Madhavānanda Purījī Sadgurudeva Bhagavān Kī Viśva Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Paramahaṁsa Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānanda Purījī Gurudeva Kī Satsanātana Dharma Kī Haraṇāmav Pārvatī Pataye Harahara Mahādeva Śambhu.

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