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Good evening. How are you? Good afternoon. There is a story about Kaiser Franz Josef. He, like Rembrandt, enjoyed a kind of halvā. He was known as the Kaiser. A lady was cooking for him, and it happened that the Kaiser went to see in the kitchen. The cook was so happy that His Highness the Kaiser came to her in the kitchen. She was stirring the halvā, and she said, "No, no, sir, it will be very tasteful." He smiled and said, "It depends." She was cooking, and he was waiting. She said, "I’m doing this especially for you. It will be a very nice test for you." He said, "Yes, I’m waiting, it depends." Then she was moving this way and that, in a kind of meeting with about 200 people. She was moving the halwa as one does in India. Again she said, "It’s nearly ready, sir. It will be very fast forward." He said, "Well, yes, I believe, but it depends." She said, "Now three times you say, 'It depends.' What do you mean, 'It depends'?" He said, "I am waiting with great fear." Because her nose was dripping, and still it was not falling. Then he said, "I am still waiting, very much with fear." That’s it. And so it is. Either it comes from your nose, or you lick it in the same way. So now, I can, and most of you also can, lick your foot. And then, the way is, you take something on your palm, test it, and wash it out, or with a spoon, you test it, and then wash this foot. I never saw, in my 37 years in Europe—purposely I put on to see the cooking course on TV—and I’m surprised, sorry, therefore cooking is an art. We have sixteen different kinds of vidyās, and it is said that if humans should know these, out of the sixteen, one should not be known. That is stealing. You know, the skill you need is skill, too, to spin. Yeah, it needs knowledge. You should know how to put your hand in someone’s pocket. And if you or I do it, the hand will be broken. So, who can steal something? Strong heart, be ready for getting something here and there, and like this. So from the sixteen vidyās, one is cooking, riding, horse riding, swimming, and like this there are sixteen. So cooking is like a medicine for your body. Good eating keeps the body and soul together, and when there is no good cooking, good food keeps the soul together. Then soul and body will no longer be together. Because the body will become ill and die, good cooking is also tasteful. Now, what most people buy is food in packets. Bring it home and put it in the oven or in the microwave. Dali, mohu do ruhi, ala bo do mikrofoniky, and added a lot of ketchup on it, and that’s it, all this spaghetti and ketchup. Now this spaghetti is white color, so it is something like what they say today, the Haruski. But these people, who, this girl who... Taught us this about Halushka: if she would have got a bite with spaghetti, she would have said, "Ah, there is spaghetti there." So this is a habit, a healthy food. You have to learn to cook, how to cook healthy food, and it is your life, it is the life of your children, it is the life of your wife or your husband, but we are doing mostly, we are doing for our eating, to have a comfortable life. To have a luxury house, you cannot enjoy it if you are ill. You have a luxury house, but you are lying in the hospital. Well, that’s it. So, good eating means good health, to know how to eat, how to cook, what to cook, and how long we should cook. When you are just boiling everything, all vitamins are destroyed. So, they do not add lemons to hot food. And when you cut them, it is done. So, there are certain rules for how to cook and for how long you should cook. And which vegetable you should not cook with which vegetables? And you find the mixed vegetables? And then you put everything together. You know, apples don’t like certain fruits. If you put the other fruits together with the apples, they will be spoiled. The flower, the flower doesn’t like it. The flower, the flower doesn’t like other different kinds of flowers. These are roses, and these are tulips, but if you put them together, they don’t match. One of them will die with you. And which spices should we add inside? Otherwise, it goes wrong. Should I tell you about Dzogchen? Yes. It’s about nearly five years now. One man had a problem with his ear, and he went for controlling this here at the hospital. His wife dropped him at the hospital. About 40 years, young man. For all men, 40 years. About 40 years, young man, for all men, for all men, 40 years. And she said, "I want you shopping, and then I will get you...." And they called his name in the hospital, and he said, "Yes, I am." So they said, "Please lie down," and they gave him an injection. Anesthetic, anesthetic, and took him to the hospital in the operation theatre. And they operated on both his prostate, the prostate, they operated on the prostate. Yes, and the operation was successful, and he was brought into the room, and the man who was hacking the head prostrated. Sattva Purī, Sattva Purī,... So instead of putting coriander inside, you put neem, and that’s not good. So the cook should know which kind of vegetable and which kind of spices should go. Yeh Paragraph 1. And what else is there? Gas injection, and gas injection, prithakṣa injection, and potatoes and cabbage. Paragraph of the verse. Paragraph of the verse. Therefore, the cooking subject, let’s say cooking, is very individual, very personal. In the past, during personal tests and personal health issues, old age, and old times, people used to kill or cure illnesses through diet. For example, they will avoid eating anything at all, something like yogurt or made out of yogurt, even... That keeps your digestive fire higher and slows down your digestive system. And so, you get many other problems. So, in which case should you not eat potatoes? In which case should you not eat corn? You should not eat tomatoes. You know, in Āyurveda, tomatoes are not recognized at all. In Ayurveda, they forbid you to eat mango salad and tomato salad. And best is lemon, lemon, aṅla, or there is some other fruit which is also a citric fruit. Then you know they have this Vāta, Pitta, and Kapha. And so, your wife, your mother, your husband should know what to cook. So, I have no knowledge about cooking. But in India, you can ask any woman. Except the ladies from the big cities. Other from villages, they are the best cooks in the world, they have the best knowledge about spices, and you can learn a lot from them. Why illnesses happen, the first is that wrong way of living. And wrong way of eating, not eating at the right time, that disturbs your bio rhythm. And when the biorhythm is disturbed, the entire brain system is disturbed. It is like you have now in Europe and in many countries of the world, summer and winter time. It’s only one hour difference, but it takes people three weeks to overcome these differences, and also the animals, the big farms. The pigs have the right time for eating, the cows have the right time for milking and feeding, the birds—the human disrupts death at the wrong time, so the entire nature is suffering. What you call daylight-saving, day-life. What I am saying is completely wrong. It is not good for the psyche of the creatures and for the cycle of nature. And the same thing happens with eating. So, at what time should we eat, and from which time should we not eat? And not every day potatoes and potatoes and potatoes. That’s happening. Some of my disciples, they like spaghetti so much. What happens? Some of my wives eat spaghetti. They die in their fasting as on their first day. Exactly 11:30, they put the spaghetti in the water at night, because the fasting date is gone, and they drink spaghetti. So, it is our problem with everything. I can tell you that in the last two years, I have really been getting very good at it. My problem is in every country, in every town, in every place I go. My problem is that people do their best to make some specialties for me, and some specialties are really specialties, which don’t do good to my body, but now I take care, at least, of what is organic. And the whole wheat, not only white flour. So, in the seminars perhaps we cannot manage, but the bone you should cook for yourself. Healthy, good eating will keep you younger longer, and eating what we now call fast food will make you older quicker. Many different hormonal changes will take place in your body. And a lot of disharmony will change in the body, because the glandular system is suffering. We are living, and we want to enjoy our living, and that depends on our good, fresh food. Die, we all will die one day, and we don’t know who will be the first. It doesn’t depend on age. We don’t know who will be the first. God protect us all. God give us long life and healthy life, that we can do something good in this world. Only that much we can do. So eating—you eat what you are, and that is very important. So, from the middle of the last century, humans began to consume too much meat, and that meat which is produced nowadays is not good. You know how the animals are there, suffering, and how much chemicals they get. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat meat at all, and one should not kill any creatures. We have no right to kill any creature. If you can’t give life, you should not take life. So there are many, many things which we should follow in our life. So, cooking, I would suggest you should all learn. And if you don’t know still, and you don’t have the time to cook, I can tell you a very simple recipe. First, you have to cook two vegetables together. You may cook them separately. Secondly, the cooking pot is best if it is made out of ceramic. Not that kind of ceramic, what we call the top plate, Saira Keramik. But the Keramik, like we have flower pots of Keramik, flower pots. Kvetinachar, if you don’t have this, then what they call the die iron should be thick, and the fork should be thick. It should be a very heavy, thick pot, and never put oil inside first. First, put the vegetables inside, then whatever spices you want to put. If you want to put tomato, you can put tomato. And then any kind of oil which you like. Also, put it on it. Then, it depends on the quantity of the vegetable. But I am talking about two persons: put one glass of water in his head, cover the pot, and put it on the heat. When it becomes hot, when they lean out and the lean has steam on it, it makes the inside begin to put in quite a bit. Put it away, don’t open it, leave it covered. He will put some kitchen towel on it and let it sit for half an hour. All the vitamins, minerals, everything will remain, and the taste of that vegetable will be very nice. This is one very simple recipe. Do not mix the vegetables; cook them separately, because different vegetables need different timing. You can have them after, eat together, and learn chapati making. The best is the chapatis. Nowadays, braids, you know, they mostly put the feet, feet pad inside, or very low quality of oil goes in the braids, and according to Āyurveda, braid is already tāmasa, it’s a very fresh chapātī. But out of the different forms, that will do very good for your health. Very testful. So there are certain things you could learn in your life. You should take time for two things: for prayer, and for food and cooking. That will make your life easy. If you have no time for cooking, then better don’t eat anything except fruits. Buy good fruits and eat the fruits. But don’t eat the food which has no nutritious value. Okay, so today Haloski was in good. I ordered from the teacher. From the teacher, the Haloski came to me. And I finished my dinner when Haloski came. Again, I said, "Please bring me," and I ate halushki with what? With kefir, I enjoyed it very, very much. It reminds me that we were also in India for studies. This is how the Gypsies brought this Hauški system. Because they have only one part, and we will do it in one part. So, it is strong in all of Europe. Two different names: Haluski, Pruetni. There are many things, good things, but we will try to avoid now creamies, potatoes, and cabbage. There, tomorrow, in the kitchen, the potatoes and candies should go away. Any questions about cooking? Yes, I have a question about cooking. Karata Mahāprabhujī Karata He Kevalam... That is all for the oil inside, and when the oil is hot, then you put in the garlic, and then you put in the onions, and then you put in some jīrā, and you mix it, and then you put in the vegetables. But when you do this, then the oil is finished. The oil is vitamins, and whatever you have in oil, that destroys. Then you have all you have, nothing else. Okay? So this is also a custom from India. The question was whether they give mixed or mixed vegetables. For example, first you put them in a pot, leave them, because they need a longer time, a while, and then you add the first vegetable, and it can be mixed. And the same question was that the lady is a fan of oil in Prague and vegetables. In India they say you should make oil so hot, and when you put something inside, it makes the oil so hot. It makes the oil so hot, and when you put something inside, it makes the oil so hot. It makes the oil so hot, and when you put something inside, it makes the oil so hot. It makes the oil so hot, and when you put something inside, it makes the oil so hot. It makes a big sound, so the neighbor knows that you are cooking something. Yes, he says, "Oh, don’t even be something that’s good." But from the viewpoint of the head, this is the best I have seen. When the vegetable is half cooked, then take it off from the fire, leave it covered, and let it cook further with all its steam. Okay? Yes. Please, louder. I am so touched by Maharṣi. The same importance as the prayers. We already know some prayers and mantras, but with Swāmījī, we speak more about this subject, about the cooking. It’s true that we also learn something, some principles, some more principles. Yeah, but anyhow, she didn’t cook for her husband. She cooked for him very well, and then I will tell you more. She is pretty awesome, and they know very well how to cook. They have the mantra also. But when I spoke about this mantra and prayer, it means not during the cooking, but it means there is time for cooking, time for eating, and time for prayers, mantras, and meditations.