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Dear Swāmījī, what is the best moment to receive Kriyā? How should we know that we are ready? And does it mean that we are no longer using our personal mantra? You will receive Kriyā in the summer, at the summer seminar. If you already have a three-year mantra, then you are not allowed to change it. To receive Kriyā means you must now practice your personal mantra more diligently and practice every day. Be sure that you will follow the Swāmījī. Then your Kriyā will be successful. How to Perform Complete Yogic Breathing How do we perform the complete yogic breathing? Because we were taught in two different ways. In the Hungarian book, it is properly written—I do not know how it is written there—but in the yoga book it is written correctly: yogic breathing is from the stomach. First, inhale into the stomach, then into the chest... exhale first from the chest, and go like a wave. This is a very good question because it is a technical question, and for all practitioners it is very useful. It can happen that we misunderstand. Āyurvedic Advice for Deep Purification What is Āyurveda’s advice for deep purification of the organism? Sat karma—the Haṭha Yoga kriyā. We have ṣaṭ karma, and Āyurveda has pañca karma. Ṣaṭ karma means six karma techniques; Āyurveda has five, but this is the same: Neti, Dhauti, Basti, Nauli... Eat only when you are really hungry. And you know that in half an hour you will get food, but you are very hungry, and you ate one apple. That was the biggest mistake. Because this one apple calms down your digestive fire (agni). Now, in 40 minutes or in half an hour or in 20 minutes, the food will come. You will eat, but your agni fire is not so intensive, and therefore it will not digest everything. If you know, also in Europe we have dieting as one principle: before you begin to eat, you should take a very small appetizer, and that means, again, it makes your agni stronger. So I would say: eat when you are hungry. When am I hungry? When you are hungry, one big, old, dry bread is as tasteful as your wedding cake. That means you are hungry. And that will purify your body itself. But we are in between so much eating and drinking, and all the time our fiery flame is so little. If we can control our eating habits, the body will be purified.