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Now we must change entirely. We must change so that everyone who comes to Yoga in Daily Life seriously has to practice at home for the sake of their health. Spirituality comes afterward; spirituality is automatically there if you feel physically well. Our body is full of vikāra and tamas guṇa. When vikāra and tamas guṇa are present, then you are not a yogī. Vikāra means illnesses; vikāra means dead energy; vikāra means those energies in the body which will cause you illness. It is the nature of the body to create the vikāras; it is the nature of the body to produce three natures: tāmasika, rājasika, and sāttvika. For the tāmasika guṇa you don't have to support anything, and for the rajas guṇa you have to support something, but for the sattva guṇa you have to work a lot. So we have to be sāttvika. In a sāttvika body there is no vikāra. The vikāra is also in the mind. So when the body is not healthy, when the body is full of vikāra, then the thoughts are full of vikāras. And when the thoughts are full of vikāra, then the activities of the indriyas are full of vikāras—negative activities. And when the mind is full of the vikāras of thoughts, then buddhi becomes dull. It means in buddhi there is now vikāra also. So when the intellect, the buddhi, has vikāra there, then your pure knowledge is affected; your pure knowledge is covered like a cloud or fog covers the sun. Your reality is covered, hidden behind those negative vikāras, those negative qualities. Therefore, nothing else can be done than to practice yoga; there is no other way than to practice yoga. There is no other way to purify the body in such a manner. Do not think that you have no extra kilos or that you have many kilos—that is a different matter. So continue practicing every day, and seasonally practice Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, Kuṇḍalī Kriyā, Netī Kriyā, and Prāṇāyāma. You will have no health problems. So why not jump into the new year with full discipline and a healthy program? The food we are taking is also full of the tamas guṇa. It is full of rajas guṇa. The same food we are taking we can have in a different way, and that will then become sāttvika food. Of course, we shall avoid all kinds of eggs, meat, and alcohol, and so on. But you also have to learn how to cook the food. 85% of the population sitting here in front of me do not know how to cook. You have lost the knowledge of cooking. And you have developed a wrong taste in your mouth, so it means 95% of us do not know how to eat. And 100% of us do not know when to eat; this is our problem. Therefore, four times a year, every third month, you should do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. Every week, on Saturday or Monday morning, you should do Kuñjal Kriyā, because on the weekend you eat a little bit more. With eating, we have difficulties. Mahāprabhujī said that to eat less and to forgive is difficult for many people. And therefore, Kuñjal Kriyā on Monday is very good. Netī you should do almost every day, only in the morning. Agnisāra Kriyā you should do every day. And Uḍḍīyāna Bandha you should do every day, and for five minutes you should do Kapālabhātī or Bhastrikā Prāṇāyāma every day. This program must be followed, and then your āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, which you are doing regularly. So, five minutes of Bhastrikā should be every day, about two to three minutes of Agnisāra Kriyā must be every day, Netī should be every day, every Monday should be Kuñjal Kriyā, and every third month should be Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. Āsana and prāṇāyāma should be done a minimum of one and a half hours every day. "Pehlā Sukhī Rogī Kayā" — the first happiness is the healthy body. The first happiness is a healthy body. We are not physically immortal, and we know that sooner or later one day we will die. Thanks to God that we do not know, and also we do not know when, where, and how. We hope that our death should be quick. We hope that our death will be quick, without suffering. But you know, those who are lazy, full of tamas guṇa and illnesses, it is like, you know, when the black car is transporting a dead body with a wooden coffin. So if you are living in a lazy body, you are living lifelong in a coffin. That's it. A lazy body, an undisciplined body, an angry body is a dead body, and you are inside. Therefore, wash out tamas guṇa. Wash out vikāra; we do not want to have vikāra; we want to have āchāra. If you remember, I gave you four points. For the last four years, constantly I am telling you. Are you thinking about what I am telling you? Do you change your life accordingly? No, if you would have changed, you would look different. So I told you the last few years constantly four things: āhāra, vihāra, āchāra, and vichāra. Āhāra is diet, vihāra is where to go and where not to go, vichāra is what to think, and āchāra is behavior. It is a hard life. To be a human is beautiful, but to be a human is hard. And we are in this school to become perfect, in the school of perfection. Therefore, you have to purify. Begin to practice again. Finally, wake up. You are stuck in the tamas guṇas: coffee, coffee, ... coffee. Let us make a saṅkalpa that in six months, in summer, my body will be something like a yogic-looking body, and I will be perfectly healthy. You can do it; it depends on you. You should throw away the copying of your dead body, and that is laziness and tamas guṇa. Change the way of eating, and put your alarm on in the morning at 4:30, whatever happens. Even if you go to sleep at 3 o'clock, you get up at 4:30. And peacefully, you do your exercises. So you are taking time from no one, and you have a beautiful day. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Weekend seminar