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Seminar in Vep. Morning meditation, 16th of August 2010
A guided practice for awareness and energy through breath and movement.Sit comfortably with an erect trunk. Relax the body completely, letting go of worries. Simply follow the movement of the breathing process; the abdomen expands and contracts. Feel the space the body occupies. Expand consciousness to … read more »
Swamijis birthdays celebration, 15th of August 2010
The essence of spiritual practice is bhāva, the feeling and attitude brought to each moment.This retreat is an opportunity to restart the inner self, away from the distractions and mental pollution of daily life. True practice requires sustained, dedicated effort over time, not brief sessions expecting quick results. The atmosphere … read more »
The Grace of Darśana
The gift of darśana, seeing the Guru, is the most important practice.Viewing the Guru, even for seconds, imparts intense energy and inspiration that lasts for months. Singing bhajans is the essence of the teaching; it purifies the mind and creates a satsa ga. One must participate fully, … read more »
The Third Eye of God: Jyotiṣa and the Guru's Grace
Astrology is the third eye of God, a precise science of celestial mathematics.The timing of sacred events is calculated by planetary positions and constellations, which vary each year. Your birth constellation, determined at that moment, creates a horoscope revealing past, present, and future. Acting at the correct astrological … read more »
Closing ceremony of Gurupurnima from Jadan Ashram
Closing ceremony of Gurupurnima from Om Vishwa Deep Gurukul Swami Maheshwaranand Ashram, Jadan, Rajasthan, India from 27th of July 2010.
Celebration of Gurupurnima from Jadan Ashram
The Upanayana Saṃskāra awakens the eye to see Īśvara.In Vedic culture, householders' duty was to give alms to brahmacārīs; not receiving them was a sorrow. This tradition of dāna is grace, not beggary. True sannyāsa requires at least twelve years of intense practice to … read more »
Celebration of Gurupurnima from Jadan Ashram, 25th of July 2010
Celebration of Gurupurnima from Om Vishwa Deep Gurukul Swami Maheshwaranand Ashram, Jadan, Rajasthan, India from 25th of July 2010.
The Most Beautiful Moment
This gathering expresses gratitude for spiritual nourishment received.The present moment of provided sustenance signifies freedom, but worldly duties resume. This time together is a harvest of divine mercy, which must be carefully held within the inner vessel of one's practice. Disciples from across … read more »
Swamiji's afternoon satsang from Strilky, 15th of July 2010
The human being is composed of five sheaths, from the gross physical body to the subtle causal body of desires.The physical Annamaya Kośa requires healthy nourishment. The energy body, Prāṇamaya Kośa, is the vital force binding all layers together; when it departs, life ceases. The mental body, Manomaya Kośa, is unstable emotion, connected to greed, … read more »
Vegetarian kitchen in praxis (part 3)
Health is founded on home, nourishment, and aligning with natural cycles.Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Every illness is connected to the psyche. Food supports healing, but the root spiritual cause must be addressed. Nature offers daily and yearly cycles with … read more »
The Essence of Satsaṅg and the Guru's Grace
The human soul is trapped by attachment, an iron ball preventing flight to liberation.Satsa g speaks the truth for the soul's freedom. Among 8.4 million species, only humans possess the intellect to escape the cycle of birth and death. One must live in the world like a dancer on … read more »
Vegetarian kitchen in praxis (part 2)
Approach vegetarian cooking with freedom, focusing on flavor and digestibility.Food should be a pleasurable experience for everyone. Anxious adherence to many rules leads to joyless meals, which hinders proper digestion. True spiritual maturity is not indifference to food; the body savors taste, and enjoyment aids … read more »
Yoga teachers program
A guided practice for the seventh level of yoga, focusing on relaxation, specific postures, and breath control.Begin with deep relaxation, systematically directing awareness to each body part while lying down to activate the parasympathetic nervous system. The practice then proceeds through a series of postures starting from a seated position. Key exercises … read more »
Vegetarian kitchen in praxis (part 1)
Vegetarianism is presented as the optimal path for health, mental performance, and planetary survival.Animal foods lack protective antioxidants and amplify environmental toxins. Cooking meat creates harmful free radicals. Dairy consumption correlates with higher osteoporosis rates, a calcium paradox. Scientific consensus now confirms plant proteins are sufficiently digestible, even for … read more »
The Path of Knowledge and the Grace of the Guru
The path integrates knowledge, health, and grace.Prāṇa and health are practical gateways. Āyurveda originates from the Vedas, meaning knowledge, and is the knowledge of life and health. Its root principle is that the first happiness is a healthy body. Sukha and duḥkha … read more »
Learning, education and change
True education is founded on love, not mere information.Current education lacks love, creating a disconnect between teacher and student. Knowledge transmitted without this connection remains ununderstood. Real learning occurs through shared experience and joy, not rigid rules. From a young age, children are separated … read more »
Yoga for Kids (2/2)
Yoga for Kids from Mahaprabhudeep Ashram, Strilky on 13th of July 2010.
Yoga in Crisis Management
A crisis is a state of psychological imbalance with potential for improvement or deterioration, originating from the concept of medical criticality.It represents a fork in the road, a delicate situation demanding a choice with unknown outcomes. Such periods disrupt automatic routines, forcing presence and new decisions. Crises are often triggered by loss—be it physical, emotional, or … read more »
Evening satsang from Strilky
Oṁ is the essence of all creation and the core of spiritual practice.The entire universe is Oṁ, encompassing all that was, is, will be, and transcends time. This truth is revealed in sacred texts and realized through meditation. The Ātmā, or Self, has four aspects corresponding to states … read more »
Lecture by Sadhvi Parvatiji
The sixteen samskāras are scientific rites of passage that purify and guide life's journey.These rituals create profound impressions, steering the mind toward liberation and ensuring healthy, sattvic future generations. Neglecting them leads to societal degeneration. Most ceremonies occur in childhood, requiring a knowledgeable priest and uniting the family and … read more »
Yoga Teachers Program
A guided afternoon yoga practice integrates relaxation, postures, and breath control to harmonize body and mind.Begin with systematic relaxation, feeling and releasing each body part from the feet to the face while observing the natural breath. Proceed through gentle movements and postures like spinal twists and Trikoṇāsana, maintaining awareness and relaxation. … read more »
The Puruṣottama Yoga: The Path to the Supreme Self
The world is an ever-changing tree to be cut with non-attachment.The individual soul enters with senses and mind; only the pure realize the divine essence within. God is present as light in the sun, moon, and fire, as sustaining energy in all beings and vegetation, and … read more »
Yoga for Kids (1/2)
A children's yoga practice for relaxation, using stories and playful techniques.The session begins with attunement through chanting and breath awareness. A guided visualization follows, imagining a beetle moving with the wind, then finding rest, teaching that calm can be found even when troubled. Physical practice involves … read more »
Yoga against burn-out syndrome
Yoga provides the essential foundation for preventing and addressing burnout syndrome, a modern lifestyle illness born from constant time pressure, performance demands, and the disintegration of personal harmony.This condition, once linked to helping professions, now threatens all under the strain of contemporary life. True health in this century requires active education in lifestyle management, where yoga's unifying principles offer critical tools. The syndrome … read more »
Yoga in Daily Life - exercise program
A guided practice of deep relaxation, mindful movement, and breath awareness.Begin by systematically releasing tension from the feet to the face with each exhale. Practice creating and releasing tension in individual limbs, then the whole body, to feel the contrast. Move with slow, deliberate stretches, coordinating … read more »
Sunset in Strilky
Meditation on the setting sun in Strilky.Recorded on 1st of July 2010.
Evening satsang from Strilky
This evening's satsa g blends Bhakti, Rāja, and Dhyāna Yoga through song.Satsa g means sitting with truth, and truth can be sung. Kīrtan repeats God's name to connect with devotion and surrender. Bhajans contain the truths of knowledge and the path toward the Self. The gathered collective … read more »
The Puruṣottama Chapter: The World as a Tree and the Path Beyond
The fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gītā describes the path to liberation using the symbol of an inverted tree.This aśvattha tree represents the ever-changing world, its roots above in the divine and its branches below. The leaves are the eternal Vedic teachings. One must cut this firmly rooted tree with the strong axe of … read more »
Yoga Teacher Program
Advanced yoga practice integrates physical postures, breath control, and deep relaxation to recharge the system.Begin with Ānandāsana, focusing attention on each body part without physical movement to relax and recharge the cells. Follow with gentle torsion exercises and sequences like Kaṭhūpraṇām to warm and stretch the body. Perform isometric holds … read more »
Yoga for Stress Management
Yoga for stress management from Mahaprabhudeep Ashram in Strilky, with Swami Gajananda.
Yoga in Daily Life - excercise program
Morning Yoga excercise according to system Yoga in Daily Life from Mahaprabhudeep Ashram, Strilky, Czech Republic.
Morning lecture about Yoga in Daily Life,
Yoga in daily life is the path from separation to wholeness.Yoga is absolute eternal completeness. The universe and our existence within it are Viyoga, separation from that completeness. In separation, there is restlessness, hunger, and suffering. We search for completeness through transient things, which only brings … read more »
Time according to Vedas and Puranas II part
The Vedic concept of time describes vast, cyclical ages presided over by Manus, with our current age beginning after a great flood.Time is measured in divine years, where one divine year equals 360 human years. The cycle consists of four Yugas, each representing a decline in dharma and human virtue. These ages are also reflected within the … read more »
Practising fifth level of Yoga in Daily Life System
Morning practising.Fifth level of the System" Yoga in Daily Life" from Mahaprabhudeep Ashram, Strilky, Czech Republic on 9th of July 2010.
Time according to Vedas and Puranas I part
Time is a cyclical concept without beginning or end, where everything repeats across countless independent universes.Each universe operates under its own laws and has its own trinity of creator, preserver, and destroyer. The structure of time is mathematically precise, defined by repeating ages called yugas. Four yugas—Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara, and Kali—form … read more »
Children Programme from Strilky
Children Programme from Mahaprabhudeep Ashram, Strilky, Czech Republic on 8th of July 2010.
Human Nerve System and Yoga practicing
The nervous system is the central controller of the body.We often focus only on the passive movement apparatus of bones and muscles. A controlling system is required to direct how and what to move. The nervous system governs the movement apparatus, inner organs, and endocrine … read more »
Practising third level of Yoga in Daily Life System
A guided practice integrating āsana, prāṇāyāma, and relaxation begins with breath awareness and gentle movement.Settle the body and deepen the breath to receive prāṇa. Coordinate movement with inhalation and exhalation, maintaining inner attention. Practice stretches, Pāvanamuktāsana, and Vajrāsana with focus on spinal alignment. Perform inverted postures like Viparīta Karaṇī Mudrā … read more »
The Five Kleshas
Kriyā Yoga, comprising tapas, svādhyāya, and Īśvara Praṇidhāna, aims to reduce the kleśas, the fundamental obstacles to liberation.These five afflictions are rooted in avidyā, or ignorance. Avidyā is regarding the perishable as eternal, the impure as pure, the painful as pleasant, and the non-Ātmā as the Ātmā. This ignorance gives rise to asmitā, … read more »
Lecture about Vegetarianism
Nourishment is understood through the dimensions of quantity and quality.Quantity involves macronutrients—carbohydrates, proteins, and fats—which provide energy and structure. Quality involves micronutrients like vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, which are essential for health. In Western civilization, the primary issue is excessive quantity, leading to major causes … read more »
Evening lecture by Sadhvi Shantiji, 6th of July
Life is brief, and attachment binds the soul across lifetimes.A farmer repeatedly postpones spiritual liberation for worldly family duties. After death, he is reborn as a calf, then an ox, a dog, and a cobra, each time bound by the same attachments. His master, a … read more »
Yoga in Daily Life program
The play of prāṇa and the path of the sannyāsī are the reality of spiritual life.Prāṇa is the divine energy manifest as thunder, lightning, and the life force within. Enlightenment reveals this inner lightning, yet living in the world continues to generate karma through simple acts like drinking milk. This karma … read more »
The Radiance of Supreme Consciousness
The body's vitality depends on prāṇa and a strong apāna śakti for internal cleansing.Rain cleans the air and generates fresh prāṇa, vital for the five senses, especially the skin. A proper diet with spices like turmeric and capsicum, not harmful chilies, supports circulation and health. Pure water is essential. … read more »
Evening satsang from Strilky
Fear is a creation of the mind, born from ignorance and sustained by imagination.A man was told a farmhouse held a ghost. When forced to sleep there, his fear grew. He mistook a moonlit chimney for a specter, causing a panic that infected an entire village. A healer arrived, … read more »
Prana, apana and vyana, Strilky
Prāṇa is the source of life, originating from the divine.This energy is channeled through the body's 72,000 nāḍīs. Specific prāṇāyāma techniques purify and balance this vital force. Nāḍī Śodhana harmonizes the mind and intellect by alternating breath through the lunar and solar channels. Subsequent practices … read more »
The Science of Prāṇa and the Guṇas
Prāṇa is the cosmic energy manifesting as physical strength, mental willpower, and vitality.This pure energy is filtered through the three guṇas upon entering the body. Sattva Guṇa represents purity and balance. Rajas Guṇa drives activity and creativity but also manifests as destructive anger and jealousy. Tamas Guṇa enables … read more »
Evening satsang from Strilky
The highest duty is non-violence, or Ahiṃsā.This principle is foundational across all religions and scriptures. The classical yoga path is structured through eight limbs, beginning with ethical restraints and observances. These ten principles guide conduct to cease generating negative karma. Perfecting truthfulness … read more »
The Parrot’s Counsel: A Dialogue Between Ātmā and Mind
Listen to the counsel of the two parrots, an allegory for the soul and mind.The world is unreal; only devotion is true. The mind flutters, consuming the poisonous fruits of desire and pride, which appear sweet but bring bitterness. These desires are a mirage, leading to exhaustion like a thirsty … read more »
Prāṇa Sañcalana Kriyā: Directing the Life Force
Prāṇa Sañcalana Kriyā directs the life force through the body.Practice begins with the yogic breath, inhaling into the abdomen then chest and exhaling from chest then abdomen. Maintain a relaxed, natural flow. Lie with the back flat, knees bent or straight. Concentrate on the navel … read more »
The Roots of Dharma and the Nature of Prāṇa
The root of dharma is mercy, and the root of sin is ego.Prāṇa is life itself, not merely oxygen, air, or breath. It is the vital energy present in all beings and the five elements. Mercy, or Dayā, is the foundation of all righteousness and is an expression … read more »