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The first wealth is health

The first happiness is a healthy body. Without the body, there is nothing. It is easy to dismiss the body when healthy, but illness reveals its importance. This body is a divine gift, a perfectly balanced system given freely. We must keep it clean and not destroy it through unnatural nourishment. Health requires good space, pure air, clean water, and natural food. Our lifestyle creates psychic problems, but humans can heal themselves. Practice yoga, prāṇāyāma, and meditation. Use organic things and embrace a natural life. True prosperity is having enough for your family, not excessive greed. A loyal partner and mutual understanding create a happy household. Obedient children and good neighbors are further blessings. Fresh milk from a cared-for cow is a source of health and a maternal bond.

"Without the body, there is nothing."

"Money is not everything, but without money, nothing is there."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

The first mantra, the first slogan, the first instruction, or first inspiration, is called Pehalā Sukha Nirogikāyā. Pehalā Sukha Nirogikāyā, this Mahāmantra. This should be in everyone’s awareness. Āyurveda says, Pehelā means first. The rest comes after. First, pehelā, the first thing: nirogī. Niroga means without illness. In some countries, it’s called Rogla, but that means something different. But in Hindi, in Āyurvedic language, "Rogī" means one who is very ill, with many, many illnesses. So you can’t imagine. There’s a problem, there’s an infection, there’s many, many things. That’s called rogī. But what is in the Croatian language? What is a rogla? In Slovenia, so Slovenians are all rogla. No, a mountain. Name of the mountain, or the mountain means Rogla. Okay. So you see how the language can give the misunderstanding? So roga is illness, niroga is perfect health. Sukha and dukha: dukha is when you are a rogī, where you are ill very much, and sukha is when you are niroga, without illness. So the first happiness, first joy, first comfort, everything, the best first is good health. Pahalā sukha nirogī kāyā. The first happiness is a healthy body. The body is not everything, but without the body, there is nothing. One may say, this is only a material body. One day it will go. This is only five elements. Yes, it is very easy to say when you are healthy. If you are ill, then you know what the body means. So Āyurveda says, "Pehalā sukha nīrogī kāyā." The second happiness, dujā sukha, the second happiness or comfort or joy, is that in your household you have some prosperity, that you can buy food, you can welcome guests, so you have everything. Money is not everything, but without money, nothing is there. Therefore, in this Kali Yuga, money is first. Money is governing. And some are greedy for it. Some want to get some target. So if you are that richest one, you are the beggar one. You want to have more and more and more. But who is saying, "Sāī, itnā dījī jismeṅ kutumb samāy"? "O God? Give me that much, that my family I can feed them, and they are all happy and have everything that they need." In which all my family can comfortably live and have enough to eat and so on, that he can satisfy his needs, that he can eat, and that he can live comfortably. I won’t starve, and I’m also not remaining hungry. I won’t starve, and any guest who comes to my door should not go away hungry. For that, we need money. So that’s called the wealth. Two kinds of wealth: one is just what I told, and second is spirituality and logical thinking, viveka. And the third happiness, sukha, means your partner, yes, aghyakālī, loyal to you. It is said generally about women. To say the truth, but it is a poem which is matching alphabet, but it also means the husband. So better to say the partner. Mutual understanding between partners. That household, that family is ever happy. And to keep the family happy, sometimes you have to swallow some hardness. But if a husband and wife have mutual understanding, no fighting, and respect each other, that is the best happiness. Pehalā sukha nirogīkāyā, dujā sukha ghar meṅ māyā, tījā sukha partner... evidence? No. Loyal. When you tell your wife, she says, "Yes." Yes, wife. And when you say to your husband, he says, "Of course." Yes, ma’am, I will do it. And when she wants to take garbage from the kitchen, he runs and takes it from her hands and brings it to the dustbin. And when the husband comes from shopping, bringing, on the gate, the wife takes everything and takes it in the kitchen. And then he should not come in. It’s her husband’s day. He brought something good to cook and eat, but she put it in the cool room. And she cooked what he brought five days before. Because that should also be consumed. So, between husband and wife, if there is mutual understanding, then it is the best family life. Everyone is searching for the best husband or the best wife. You are not marrying just for physical love. You cannot do sex with her or with him every day. Maximum one year or two years, finished. So you are not married for that, but for love of the heart, that both hands clean together. When one hand is injured, then you know what it means for one hand to clean. This hand will clean the armpit from other harm, but not on one. So husband and wife, these two have mutual understanding. It cleanses each other. The fourth, santānāgyakārī, the children, obedient children. Yes, a child should never say harsh words to their mother or father. And listen to the parents and get the knowledge. They are the best students, so they are obedient children. Where are the obedient children? But our children, our yoga and daily-life children, you see now how silent? No one can think there are about 50 children, 60 children. They are very peaceful. They are the model. Though they are peaceful for the chocolate, but that is also something. So I admire these children. I love these children. And I congratulate you. That’s it. And lucky are you, but when you cannot take care of the children, then they go out in the evening and so on. Teenagers go out, and then they are out of your hands. But there are many children who don’t go outside. Without necessary training, so that is the fourth happiness. Then, the fifth happiness is a good neighbor. Can you imagine? A good neighbor, a friendly neighbor, like your own family. Otherwise, sometimes you have such a neighbor, oh God, horror. So you and your wife and your children said, "Better we go somewhere else and buy some other house." So lucky are we that we have good neighbors. That is also our family. And the sixth happiness is your own cow, your milk on milk. How healthy is the health? I’m coming to the point of the health. So happy are they who have a cow. Or between three or four neighbors, one cow. You have fresh milk, the real milk. That’s it. Only a mother can produce milk, maybe a goat, buffalo, cow, mother, etc. That milk is love. If you have no baby, milk will not come. And when the baby comes, only the mother produces the milk. You know, it’s very interesting. Mother goes shopping, and father is at home. And the child is crying, is hungry, and he is holding like this, but he can’t give the milk. Child is, yeah, mama will come quickly, it will come. When the mother comes home, the father said, "I will do everything. You take the baby; he is hungry." You see, that is, can you understand a mother? It is the divine. So even an animal, when you drink the milk of that animal, it is said in spirituality that a cow or buffalo, or a goat or sheep, is like your own mother. You have a mother relation, you know, and that is how beautiful. Yeah, the calf is also a skin only, flesh and this. And the cow is also the same, and who is milking is also a skin. And who is drinking is also a skin. So there’s a nice poem which is difficult to translate like that. Cāmbrekā gāy, and also cow is from the skin. And cāmbrekā dunevālā also, who is milking, is also skin. And cāmḍāī pijāī, the skin also drinks. What a miracle in this process, but it gives life, and in this milk, mother’s milk, every kind of substance is in it. So now, in many countries, you can’t drink milk anymore. So much is manipulated, and in many countries, there is a prohibition to sell the milk as it is. You have to go to the dairy, and you don’t know what they mix. Dr. Shanti said when she’s coming to Europe, she can’t drink tea with milk. And when she comes to Jadam, she enjoys milk, tea, and coffee. Because our cows are a thousand percent organic, and they get nice feeders. They run, they walk, and that milk, when you drink a cup of the milk, you feel that you had milk. It’s not—I’m not making a story—the Dr. Shanti is sitting here. Just stand up and say yes or no. Otherwise, Swāmījī is making stories. So, everyone should adopt one cow, yes, and take the milk from the farmers. Thanks to God, still our country is here more free, and you can get the farmer’s milk. In some countries, the farmer will give the milk to others; not even their own children can drink the milk directly. Otherwise, they will pay the fine, so we are happy. So similarly, there are certain points about happiness. And that is called the health. Then it is said, bungalow, a house. This house is wondrous, the house of the body. Till now, what medical science has discovered, it is about 30 percent, but 70 percent we still can’t understand. We are trying still, but God-made body and doctor-made, human-made body are different. But we know that medical science has made a lot of progress, and it can save our life, so we should not neglect it. So this is only supplementary. The origin is the origin. There was a time long, long ago; ages have gone, but we are still remembering, and we are witness. There was a time throughout the whole world, and that was called "made in, made in." Made in Germany, West Germany, made in Japan—certain countries have that quality. Say, "Wow, it’s made in Germany," because the German people were so honest and such hard workers and were giving the best quality. But now, it doesn’t matter if it’s made in Germany or somewhere else. So someone said a joke: God made the world, and the rest, China. So it is. Similarly, God made this body, but it is repaired by doctors. Pharmacy, medicine, medicine, operation, this, that, that. Now we can avoid certain things, 100%, maybe not. Baṅglā, ajab, banā hamārā, this wonderful bungalow, all kinds of facilities, air-conditioned. The temperature is fixed, manipulated on the temperature, how it should be for this bungalow. So neither hot, neither cold. When hot is, alarm is there. When cold is there, alarm is there. Either fever or temperature goes down. But God made perfect meter there. Everything, everything: the function of the ear, function of the eyes, digestion, everything. That’s a bungalow, and God gave it to us free. We don’t have to pay rent. This is another beauty. But God said one thing: "Keep my bungalow clean. Don’t destroy." Otherwise, you have to go to the prison. God doesn’t ask for money; then you have to pay back as suffering. So please give my body as it is. The great saint said. Aṣṭakamala kacarkabana pacatatvaki ponī aṣṭakamala kacarkabana pacatattvaki pūñcadariya navadasmasabhunankolaka murakamelikiśadarijinikiramaṇamrasabhichadariya Chanting Chant. This body is like a blanket. This body is like a soul, and the spinning wheel. Eight, they were working. And the material, cotton. Different kinds of cotton. Five kinds of cotton: the space, the air, the fire, the water, and the earth. These are the material, five different materials, and beautifully it was woven with this spinning wheel. How long did it take? Nine to ten months to make this beautiful body. When this was finished, it was given to us, and it went to the Master. Raṅgrī is to color it, colorful life, color of the wisdom, good qualities, good habits, good things. So, I brought that to the color who is coloring, and he colored in such a way it made it completely red, completely red. That is the blood in the body, and this is good blood, clean blood. There is life in it. How beautiful. And great saints, but the foolish ones did not understand this body. They destroyed this body with unnatural nourishment. We have five different kinds of diet. We have good space. This body needs a good space, free space. That is very important. Then we need good air, yes. Now, air is 90% polluted. It is everywhere around the whole world. In the environment, there is plastic smoke, and that plastic smoke is in our body already, yes, and petroleum and many, many different things. So, that is what we call the poison at the time of the churning of the ocean, and the poison came out. So, still they are churning. Devas and Asuras, and these are the churning in the ocean, what we call the petroleum. Yes, constantly we are producing. At the end, this petroleum turns into poison. So, it’s difficult. So, many people go to understand, the foolish one does not know, a foolish, a stupid one, does not know the secret of this body, the quality of this body, that’s why day by day they become polluted. Alcohol is not for this body. If it is a petrol engine and you put diesel, it destroys the machine, the motor. So it is a water machine we have. This is a steamboat, and you put petrol, the alcohol, inside. My dear, destroying all the fine machines and everything, so one who understands life, who understands the creation of God, who understands his or her body, and who would like to live healthy and happy will not touch alcohol, except for medical treatment. But you know, humans consume less water and more alcohol, and that’s why Pehalā Sukha Nirogikāyā is from there. There is a disbalance between husband and wife, parents and children, and then taking unhealthy food, organic food. Not the quantity, but the quality. You have one house pet dog? Yes. Someone has a dog. Raise your hand. How many dogs do you have? How many people have dogs? Thank you. You know that the dog party, the political party, my God, they became the winner. You know, they gave very strict rules in the cities against the dogs. So all the dog owners, they made a union, and they made a party. So we will not vote for the others. They had to take away the law. And the dog went under the tree and relaxed, and was smiling to his boss, the owner. "I am the winner." Then the owner said, "I’m proud of you." Well, anyhow, that is your dog. Why am I talking about your dog? Oh, there is something. And then there is, in the forest, a kind of wild dog. May you call the wolf? Wolf, no? Now, that dog, the wolf, did not eat anything for five days. For six days, it couldn’t find anything. But how quick he can run, and he doesn’t show any tiredness. He’s fresh, alert, aware, conscious, and ever ready to run. And for five days, your dog doesn’t get anything to bite. And when you take the dog for a walk, he’s going... And try to smell to eat something, whatever is there. Because your dog doesn’t get that food, which for a dog it is. You know, and that dog in the forest, he doesn’t search the paṭī. He doesn’t search for bread. He doesn’t search for this, and he doesn’t eat the meat which was killed, not from the supermarket. That meat they will not, animals will not touch in the forest, and they are healthy. So, similarly, the human body needs healthy food, healthy air, healthy water, and healthy movement for temperature, body temperature, and healthy air. So, try your best to use natural material. Don’t think, "Oh, nice dress," and look, this is... Nothing, it’s a plastic, you know, in the warehouse, and where there’s a cloth is sold, there are puppets nicely dressed. They’re standing like that the whole day, and so are we all this time. My God, you can’t breathe, but when the meeting is over... Then they make it a little. Then why do you have this many, many countries? People hardly take the time. That has become ancient times’ things. So feel free, physically, mentally, spiritually. Drink that pure water, that pure air, yes. Yes, in big cities maybe you don’t have, but you can go to the park. Every country has a park, so at least there is some good air. We can go for a walk, so think healthy, mentally think healthy. It is our food, our way of life, which creates the psychic problems, depressions, and many different things. A human is able to heal oneself. You are the doctor of thyself. God gave you everything. But we don’t do it. We only think now, the doctor will help. The doctor will help. And the doctor said, "Yes, but you have to help me." Means, do what I say. Go for a walk. Do yoga. Do meditation. And prāṇāyāma. Doctor, can’t you give me one tablet? One pill? Must I go for a walk? Must I make āsanas? The doctor said, "Yes, that’s also okay." But then your life quality is decreasing, and we need quality. So, through practicing āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, relaxation, meditation, and thanks to God, in the whole world, now in the consciousness and in awareness, awaken the yoga. Yoga will become the divine science. It is, but it will be. People will turn to yoga. It will be more than what we call the religions. Because yoga is the father of religion. It is that which gives us peace, harmony, love, understanding, and the understanding of God within and there. So try to use now, today, take a saṅkalpa that every day you will practice and you will use only organic things and healthy things. Some say, "Oh, my dress is only cotton, it is not good, and it’s like this." That time is gone. The day before yesterday, I had my distress. I tied it up right, so it has all these kinds of, what you call, the really wheels, or what do you want? The creases, I turn it, it’s dodgy crease, wrinkle. So I was in on it, and nobody said, "Turn it, the other side is this." So much of it doesn’t look good for this, so I said, "It doesn’t matter. No one needs to marry me, so I am as I am." So when you are ironing, you know, you create pollution. You consume the electricity, or you consume the coal smoke, many things. So, natural life, natural life. So I wish you all the best.

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