Only wisdom can digest ego
Pride and divine illusion are central themes. The inner divine self knows all and protects. Success infected with ego is lost. Life has waves; climbing a mountain means eventually descending. Pray for liberation at the summit to avoid falling. Words, once spoken, do not return and can cause damage, like a bullet. Ego expands until it explodes, blinding us. Wisdom can digest ego, but pride often prevails. The divine may intervene to uproot a devotee's ego for their benefit. The entire world is created from the mind. When divine illusion is activated with a specific aim, its beauty is indescribable. Even a sage, upon seeing such crafted beauty, can forget his dispassion and become confused.
"Success may be achieved, but if that success becomes infected with ego, it can be lost again."
"The word spoken from your mouth will not come back. What damage that bullet will cause, you will know afterward."
Filming location: Vép, Hungary
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Practising Asanas
Yoga practice aims for inner peace and strength.
Practice brings awareness inside, into inner space. Āsanas and yoga calm the mind.
Every movement is done with full awareness.
Stand in the position, separate the feet, and relax the whole body.
Observe feelings in the body, mind, and emotions.
Mauna means not just outer silence.
Antar Mauna—inner silence—stops the inner dialogue and quarreling.
Stretch the body with interlocked fingers on the head, inhaling up on the toes.
Breathing is most important.
Place a palm on the navel and relax the abdomen.
With inhalation, the abdomen expands; with exhalation, it contracts.
The number of breaths at birth is predetermined, in a symbolic way.
Short, quick, clavicular breathing leads to stress, depression, and little energy.
Complete yoga breathing connects abdomen, middle, and clavicular parts.
Body posture reflects inner thoughts and feelings.
Inner strength is built through practice, not poor posture.
"Antar Mauna is more important: to stop this little inner dialogue, and all the time quarreling."
"We often hear that when we are born, we have a predetermined number of breaths and exhales. That is in a symbolic way, of course."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Every soul is pure
The purification of antaḥkaraṇa reveals the nature of truth as Sat Cit Ānanda. Truth is unchanging, like the sky—no weapon cuts it, no fire burns it, no water destroys it. This world is temporary, mithyā; only Brahman is real. Thoughts arise from the inner instrument: manas, buddhi, citta, ahaṁkāra. Impurity there causes ego, the belief in one’s greatness. Purifying these four leads to liberation. Judgement belongs to Divine Justice alone, not to any person. Ignorance is a dark curtain over past, present, and future. The soul is pure but coated by karma and destiny, which we create. Every soul is equal, from ant to elephant, a quality not a quantity. Love all entities; inability to love is ignorance. Four friends—dharma, patience, true friend, spouse—are tested in crisis. In adversity, you are alone; only truth accompanies. The antaḥkaraṇa absorbs qualities from contact and energy. A good deed plants a seed that remains lifelong. Cultivate purity of inner actions. Satyam Śivam Sundaram—truth, consciousness, beauty.
"Brahma satyaṁ jagat mithyā."
"Love each and every entity. If you cannot love that much, then at least love them as much as you love yourself."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Nada Yoga
The Supreme Brahman is of the form of Nāda.
The Vedas declare Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma. The Supreme has no other form. Infinite sun systems are created out of that one sound. From the vast emptiness, the primordial vibration Oṃ awakened. Through that resonance everything visible and invisible was created from a single point. Whatever exists in the macrocosm exists in this body. Alongside the four Vedas exists a fifth, Gandharva Veda, which is Nāda Yoga. The Nāda manifested in the body can be realized through human intellect and practice. A bamboo in the Lord’s garden harbored deep inferiority and stubbornness. Its rigidity left no way through. The Lord cut the bamboo’s arm to fashion a flute. The Lord said, “When the sound of My breath emerges, Nāda Brahma will manifest.” The heart of humanity hardens like stone. The harshness is removed through that sound. We are all flutes. The prāṇa coursing through is bestowed by Parabrahma Paramātmā. Practice makes perfect. Yet without the Guru, the work is not accomplished.
“Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma.”
“Jo baṛā ho gayā, baṛā huā to kyā huā? Jaise peṛ khajūr, paṇḍit ko chhāyā nahīṁ, phal lāge ati dūr.”
Filming location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
How could we live a happy life
The Gāyatrī Mantra is a Vedic practice for peace and balanced memory, not a sect. Research on the Vedas explores mantras and their effects. Chanting at sunrise connects one to solar energy. Traditional practices, like girls praying to sacred trees for harmonious marriage, stem from unity, not superficial beauty. Marriage was a familial and societal alignment. Life is sustained by prāṇa, the vital energy in all beings, which constitutes the prāṇamaya kośa. This energy is life itself; its departure is death. All creatures possess this prāṇa and chakras. One should not kill while prāṇa remains. Consciousness persists after the body, necessitating prayers for ancestors. These are not fairy tales but realities of the subtle body.
"If you chant the Gāyatrī Mantra for five minutes, it will give you immense peace and your memory will be balanced."
"Prāṇa means life, and Prāṇa is God. So that energy we call God."
