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The wonderful tree "Neem Narayan"

The neem tree, known as Neem Nārāyaṇa, possesses divine healing qualities. This large, bitter tree yields medicinal parts. Its powder can heal skin, purify blood, and strengthen the body. Use it as a facial mask for pimples or a paste for stubborn wounds. A neem bath alleviates allergies and itching. Drinking neem tea daily boosts immunity, prevents diabetes, and aids digestion. It improves eyesight, hair quality, and nail strength. The tea also purifies blood, supports kidneys, and removes gallstones. Neem water serves as a natural pesticide for plants and a cleaner for household spaces.

"To sit in the daytime under the neem tree is a kind of healing process."

"It improves the immune system in the body. And it is the biggest prevention against diabetes."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

We are here, and in summer we will have more practice than lectures. Who has problems with the knee and ankle joints? Very good. You must practice every day, and you should drink neem tea every day. Everyone knows what neem is. Who doesn’t know what neem is? It must be coming from another planet. Neem is a big tree, like you have here—what you call cherry trees, big cherry trees, or bigger than that, like an oak tree. It grows in India on flat land, not in the high mountains. The tree itself is very… everything is very bitter. The fruits are sweet when they’re ripe. They are like small, wild cherries. But the seeds are also very bitter. We get oil from the seeds. It is a green tree, not pink, and we call that neem tree Neem Nārāyaṇa. Nārāyaṇa is God Viṣṇu. It means the neem tree has as many qualities as God Viṣṇu has. Everything that comes from the neem has a medical value. Nowadays you will find neem in many, many forms: toothpaste, cream, soap, capsules, and so on. To sit in the daytime under the neem tree is a kind of healing process. And you know, all who visited Jadan Ashram—we have about 1,000 neem trees. They grow wide, and Jadan Ashram is one of the places that you can call a pollution-free zone of this part. And now we have begun to get these organic neem leaves and neem bark. You have here neem powder available. You can get neem powder from here. You can buy neem powder from here. If you have many pimples on your face or on your body, you make a mask from the neem powder. For three days, every day, leave it on the face for one or two hours. You will have the most beautiful, natural skin. What you call painting, what you call makeup, cosmetics—it will restore the original color of your skin. If there is some wound which is very difficult to heal, you put the neem powder paste on it, or the powder of the neem bark, and in three or four days it will be completely healed. If you feel an allergy in the body and itching, you take a neem bath. In your bathtub, put five tablespoons of neem powder. If you have a skin allergy or you are allergic, then put a tablespoon of neem powder in the bath water and take a neem bath. And generally, every time when you have a bath, you can put one or two tablespoons of neem powder in your bath. It will be very, very good. Once a week, put this neem powder in the palm, on your head and all hair, and leave it one hour and then wash it. Your hair will have a beautiful color, not green. And your hair will have life inside. Now, from the same powder, you can, or you should—everyone should drink every day one cup of tea or two cups of tea in the morning before anything. In one cup of boiled water, you put just a little because it’s bitter, about two fingers’ worth. Or a quarter teaspoon for four cups. In boiling water, put it in, leave it for a while, let the water cool down. When it’s drinkable, warm, you just drink it. You can filter it; you need not filter it. Many kinds of allergies, especially now in Europe, a lot about now in the summer from the flower dust allergy. I think that allergy will be cured if you begin now to drink your neem tea. It improves the immune system in the body. And it is the biggest prevention against diabetes. And it does control diabetes. And people who have problems with the stomach, digestion, or gastric issues, neem is also a divine blessing for them. Some people always have a bad smell from the mouth or a bad taste. After drinking neem tea, you will have a beautiful taste in the mouth. A little bitter, but also very nice in taste. And after a few weeks, you will have a very good taste all the time, and there will be no bad smell coming out of the mouth. If you have weak eyesight, it will improve your eyesight. People who have hair which is falling out, or a very bad quality of hair, and very weak nails, it will become strong. It is the biggest, or one of the best, preventions against cancer. The neem has a very big effect on the purification of the blood. It supports the function of the kidneys. And it removes the gallbladder stones. So, what? Not? So I told you only a few benefits, but neem has thousands of benefits. If you are in a garden, you have some of these little creatures which destroy your flowers, your vegetables, and your fruits. Then, in one liter of water, put three tablespoons of neem powder, or in two liters, and a little tobacco, 25 grams, and leave this water for ten days. And then take a quarter of this water, a quarter liter, mix it with one liter of water, and you spray every day on your flowers. They will be very healthy and very good. You know, in some bathrooms, there is not good work, and what you… call, there is a water-collecting siphon, and there comes a bad smell out. You put one teaspoon of powder inside. It’s okay. Or you boil it, make it like a tea, and put it inside hot water. The best purification and cleaning for your commode, for your toilet, instead of using some chemical, you put one tablespoon of powder inside. Leave it all day there. You go in your office, you come back in the evening, you just flush it. Very good. In the kitchen, if you have any problem with the ants, then you spray this neem water, and the ants will make their… other residence: If you have ants in the kitchen, spray it with neem, and the ants will move away. So, there are many, many things that neem has good qualities for. People who cannot do a śaṅkhaprakṣālana should use, for one week, three to four times a day, neem tea. Azok az emberek, akik nem tudnak śaṅkha prakṣālana csinálni, egy hétig, háromszor-négyszer naponta igyanak nīm teát. Oni koji ne mogu da praktikuju śaṅkha prakṣālana kriju, oni… People have some allergy, they should drink nīm tea. So, therefore, nīm is very, very useful for us. It is very, very useful to us.

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