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All our joints are very important, every joint. That is why in Yoga there is one posture called Sarvāṅgāsana. And Sarvahitāsana is such an exercise, such a system; it goes from our fingers to the whole body, legs, and our toes. That’s why it is called Sarvahitāsana—'hita' means benefit, it is in your interest. Another is called Sarvāṅgāsana. 'Sarva' means all, all movements and all joints of the body. Sarvāṅgāsana is very useful, very powerful, and especially, it is very good for the thyroid gland. So if you practice Sarvāṅgāsana every day, then even if you are, let’s say, 80 years old or 90 years old, your body will be healthy and there will be no problem with the spinal column, the vocal cords, the Viśuddhi Chakra, the thyroid gland, and also our intestines. We have these two kinds of Sarvāṅgāsana. One is Sarvāṅgāsana, and one is called Viparīt Karṇī. Now, Viparītakaraṇī Mudrā—what does 'viparīta' mean? If someone is against you, 'viparīta' has many meanings. If someone is against you, then you can say, "This person is always viparīt, against me." If you go in the wrong direction, you put your car in reverse. It’s a viparīta. If a river were to flow back, it would be a viparīta. Similarly, there is a very heavy cloud and we hope now it will rain, and suddenly what happens? The wind comes opposite and pushes all the clouds somewhere else. That’s called viparīt. Similarly, when we are in this particular posture, we call it Viparīta Mudrā. 'Mudrā' means holding the posture. Now the intestine is getting energy in the opposite direction. It’s good. Those who are doing Viparītī Mudrā will have no constipation. That’s very good. And before that, you do Agni Sārakriyā. This is also very good. So, Sarvahitāsana is for our whole body. But sometimes our intestines are not moved, and therefore we do Agni Sārakriyā. So everything is moving, pushing back, and then when you have an empty stomach, do Agni Sārakriyā and also Viparīta Karaṇī Mudrā. If you have just eaten and drunk a lot of water and you do Viparīta Karanī, then Kunjal Kṛiyā will come out. And that is not good. It can be very harmful. So, we should know when we should do exercises, āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, and what time we should not do them. Sarvāṅgāsana—'sarva' means all, 'aṅga' means the limbs. So it involves all our limbs, our joints, our spine, our circulation, and our nervous system—muscles, and especially more blood flows towards the head, face, muscles, our ears, our eyesight. But if someone has high eye pressure, then we should avoid Sarvāṅgāsana and also Viparītakaraṇī. For those who have high eye pressure, there is one very good technique we shall do two or three times a day. We should have cotton, or make a weighted cotton or cotton cloth folded, and soak it in very cold water. If there is no cold water, then put this cloth in the fridge. If there is no fridge and no cold water, there is no ice. Then, there is one technique to make this cloth very cold. You put the water on this cloth, sink it in the water, and just move it like this, other side. Do it just two minutes, and then fold it. It’s so cold, and you put it on your eyes. The eye pressure will go down. They also put cabbages, the leaves of the cabbages. So, put it on the plate and roll the chapati over, and try to put it in the cool water or in a cool place, and we put it on our eyes. So, there are many techniques to bring the eye pressure down. The eye pressure to get low is from behind our ears here; give a massage. Behind the ears, it will go. Press the lobe back. So in yoga we have many, many exercises. This is also very nice to get rid of tension and stress, and therefore in Yoga Nidrā we are saying, "Relax the left temple, the right temple, release, relax your jaw." Bite your teeth, so like this, there are many exercises. But the question is our call: the śavāsana, sarvāṅgāsana, and viparīta karaṇī mudrā. This can help us very much. It affects very much our positive effect on our thyroid gland. Yesterday, our dear Amṛt from Hamburg was talking. I think she’s gone. And there were different kinds of herbals, what we call the vegetables, the old, old plants or the trees. We lost our knowledge in Europe. There are so many herbs, and so many very good, powerful, and healthy things we can get from our vegetation—big trees, tree leaves, some fruits, some seeds, some flowers. Many good things, but we don’t know. There was one yogī, Gaurāknāth, and he had a kind of disease called cancer, here on the back, near the spine. That time, there were no doctors’ operations and things like this. So the patch was coming, the mucus patch, yeah, patch. And he was a siddha yogī. We can do good to others, we can talk good for others, but we sometimes cannot speak about ourselves. And our treatment doesn’t perhaps affect us. But he was trying to get this and that and that. One day he was sitting near his fire, Dhuni, and he was always putting the ash from the Dhuni. He asked his disciples to put it on this wound. So it was cool, calm, no pain, nothing. But every day, so much is feeling. That yogī was sitting and thinking, "Twelve years I tried everything. My disease was not healed. What can I do?" And about three meters away from his dhuni, there was a bush about thirty centimeters high. And this herbal, we say herbal, okay, and said, "Gurujī, why don’t you use me? In three days, this disease will go." Gauraknāthjī said, "Where have you been for twelve years? You were all the time in front of me. Had you mauna for 12 years? And now is the time that illness will disappear. And you said, 'Please use me.'" So anyhow, he took the leaves and made a tea. And the cancer disappeared. For twelve years, so I don’t know what is the power in these flowers in this way, peasant. Could be very not good, poisonous, or we shall just make a tea out of it. Nobody there to make a tea from flowers except a little, little flowers from the forest. So we do have everything with us, but to know how, that’s very important. We have such good honey. There cannot be better honey than here in our European herbs. But this honey can kill you, and this honey can save your life. So when honey can kill you, that I will not tell you. Otherwise, you will do. But honey is what we call the nectar. So, similarly, what happened is that we lost knowledge. You are academically educated. You are a professor. You are a dean. But you lost the knowledge. Only becoming a dean and master, writing on something, number this and number that, and students are destroyed. But that dean itself is suffering from many, many diseases. Why? Because he has no knowledge, and you don’t accept. This is a problem that you don’t accept. And what you have, knowledge that is harmful for you. This kind of vegetable is full of poisons and pesticides, and that is your knowledge, that you eat this poison. So, in your country, go to the forest. Go to the hills, where there are no pesticides and water comes up. And collect the herbs that you make soup with, even a little, not too much. Now, you have, you call it a perfume. That perfume smells—smells? I have one siddhi: I can’t smell anything. The stink of the stink, I close my eyes, and you put it here, I am in ānanda. But when you get a perfume from the rose, you are not squeezing the water from the rose, but there is some little essence, a little bit. The rest is the water. So similarly, these kinds of herbs and vegetables from the plants, one should know how to know or know how to cook. We have only one knowledge. Cut vegetables, oil, salt, a little spices. Carrots, the same. Pumpkin, the same. All, any kind of vegetables, we have only one, what? Recipe. That’s it. So, now you have that technique, you have learned, like a doctor. And what doctor has that kind of knowledge or medicine, what we call the give, give... Give what you call them: antibiotic, antibiotic injection, antibiotic here, injection, antibiotic there. Little pain is gone, but many organs are dying. Well, that organ is not dead yet, so we give him an injection also. That is dead, this is dead, now here is dead, now here is dead. It’s still like pesticides on the plants. Similarly, with yoga. People try to make those postures which you think, "Wow!" How will your grandmother come for yoga? She said, "Jesus Maria, this is not yoga." Not long ago, it was in 1978 in Ostrava. There is one city called Ostrava. Which country is that? The Czech Republic. And there I had a program, and a lecture. The evening lecture is called Havirov. Because there was a very big hall, a tennis hall. Not tennis. So there were about 600, 700 people. And on the backside, on the higher chair, Grandmother is sitting there with her binoculars. Because her grandson is my disciple, and he’s vegetarian. And grandmother thought, "This child will die, he must eat meat." But he said, "Grandmother, my master Swamījī is so healthy." She said, "I will come and see him." It is a truth. So all people were sitting on the chair and on the ground, and I came on the stage, and she was looking. She said, "My child, he is not vegetarian." I thought he’s like a Gandhi. Look, so the people think, "Only you have to eat meat, otherwise you will die." This is a wrong idea, wrong thinking. That’s it. So sometimes it is right that a grandmother cannot practice if she has not practiced śīrṣāsana or chakrāsana. If grandmother will do chakrāsana, then we will carry her like this. Therefore, there must be a knowledge of yoga. So, do you want to break the bones of others? Or do you give them a healthy body? And therefore, yoga in daily life, and our old teachers, mostly our teachers here, they do it very gently and very well. Often, often, people are a little bit blamed. This yoga in their life is just like this. And then they are relaxing too much, but relaxation has more effect on our body than the movements. But movement must be first, and then we relax so that all circulations, all muscles, all joints, nerve systems, and everything again come into the right positions. Similarly, with our food. Yes? So, let’s say that you are cooking a very nice cake, and then you put in chili powder, sauce, or ice cream in the other vegetable, or let’s say, diesel in the petrol engine or diesel in the petrol machine. So God made this body, this engine, with pure, good water. But God did not make this so that you could put alcohol inside. So when you have good water, you will not have a problem with the kidneys and liver. But with alcohol, there will be a problem. Though we know, but we don’t... we want to destroy our body, that’s it. Again, I’m coming to this. So, therefore, you should know the science of cooking. And because in this modern time, the women step out from the kitchen, and since that time, the whole generation is unhealthy because she’s lost also cooking, and the man is so-and-so, anyhow hopeless. They can construct a nice kitchen, but they don’t know what to do with this kitchen. We need a woman, but she said, "I am the director. I don’t cook. If you want to cook, cook yourself." The husband said, "Please, cook something." She said, "OK, come, let’s go to the restaurant. But I will not cook." The woman thinks it is humiliation. That’s not good. The women have that hand, that love, that everything is the best qualities. Not only humans, the animals too. The male bird is sitting, watching against the enemy, but mother is going and searching and bringing the food. Yeah, there I didn’t say. That is humiliation, but God has made the female with that kind of talent, love, and good feelings for generations to grow again. Doesn’t matter if you are a president or the president, but when you have a child, will you not feed me the breast, breast... breast... Okay, he can give the bottle, but not that mother’s milk. That is the law of nature. As Gulabjī said, if women want to bring peace, health, and harmony to the whole world, in one generation they can remove all wars and everything, if women want. One generation which grows can make Satya Yuga. It depends on the mother. So similarly, we have to know the knowledge. And sometimes God gives us spontaneously. Well, there are many men in big restaurants. They are cooking. It’s okay. They learned. But ladies don’t need to learn. They have, by nature, that vidyā, the knowledge. So similarly, you should know what you should mix in for what. When we want to drink nice hot milk and we put lemon inside, the milk is not there. But we can put honey, we can put sugar, we can put saffron, we can put some nuts, almonds, everything, but we should not put lemon. Then you have paneer, and that paneer cannot give you that butter. It’s gone. So there’s one poem, that’s a good poem, it is said: Dūdh phaṭā gṛt kā gayā—the milk spoiled, where is the butter? Dīpak bujh gayā, lo kā chali gayā?—The flame of the lamp is gone out, blown off. Now where has this flame gone? Dīpak bujh gayā, lo kā chali gai, dūdh phaṭakā gayā, gṛt. Now when you blow off the flame, where has the flame gone? It was just in front of you. And you say, where is it gone? Dīpak bujh gayā, lo kān chalī gayā, dūdh phaṭak kān gayā gṛt—the milk is spoiled, where is the ghee or butter? Then there is one word, I know, but I have to join again. When our feeling, our love is gone, our feelings, then where is the love gone? This is what I will think, compare once more after. So, what? The amṛt she was sitting yesterday with, the amṛt is honey, but this honey can become a poison. Similarly, how will you combination making for these vegetables? Three times a week, not every day or once a week. See what changes happen in your body, what happens to your hormones, what happens to your kidneys, your gallbladder, your blood circulation, everything, the knees, knee pain. From us all here, I think 45 people have a problem with the knee. If they’re young, okay, and memory. So these kinds of vegetables you can use separately, but not too much. There will be no taste. Or it will be tasteless, then you have to mix something. But try, try this very much. Now, we have the tree here called acacia. This whole plant of this acacia is nectar. But you don’t know, so we have many, many other flowers and vegetables. So you must not run to India or Africa. We have here. That’s why the yoga, practice yoga, but not for competition. And that’s why we should not have competition or challenge. That’s it. On the day when you want to have a challenge and competition, then we’ll be the young children from 15 to 32 years. Then it’s finished, so it is after you are not anymore useful. In America, it is like when it’s becoming old, finished. They send you out. In America, when someone has a disease, they don’t want to tell anyone that they have a disease. Otherwise, the company will not keep you. Are there some who know this, or does America know someone? Bharat, you are here. The question is this: if you are employed at some company somewhere, and if you have some disease, you don’t want to tell the company, otherwise they will send you home. Yes? Yeah? That’s it? So we are old. Now in Europe, it’s like this. They said we are putting people less because it’s too many, and we suspend them, and elderly people are going. If it is a government service, there is a law, and they cannot throw you out, but it is about others. So that is another subject: our exercises. So please practice every day. Sarvahitāsan, Sarvāṅgāsan, Viparītakaraṇī Mudrā, and Agnisārakriyā, and Prāṇāyāma. Prāṇāyāma is a very soft one, every day. Just recently, one of my disciples came; he is a doctor, a very good doctor. Now he’s retired, and he told me that he looked on the internet and in American medical systems, and there are thousands of treatments and medicines and things like this. And very, very much about yoga. And, but sometimes they said yoga, otherwise they said the old ṛṣis, old yogīs. And there is about prāṇāyāma, and he has written so much about prāṇāyāma. He said there are pages and pages written. So, this disciple of mine is from Trenčín, Trenčianske Teplice, from there. So we’ll try one year, make an experiment: don’t bring those vegetables from the big shopping center. And go and buy in the small villages; you should buy from the small shops. And collect yourself. Now is high time. Collect yourself. Some vegetables, dry them, not freeze them. Dry them. And now, so many here sitting, they have a lot of knowledge, and I think we should give them a chance to tell us where to find, how to collect, how to preserve and how to utilize. So that our Anuṣṭhāna is successful. So it’s not only that we are closing eyes and we say, "Now we come to Brahmaloka, we are coming to the Brahmaloka, we have Brahma Loka, Om Loka, Om Loka." But we have to work on our body, our mind, our intellect, and our soul. Yesterday, the whole night, I thought about the soul. Do you remember yesterday we spoke about the soul? What happens when the soul goes from the body? We don’t know. Only the physical body remains here, but the other four bodies are with our soul. And we are not bad. Our soul is very holy, but something we have done has affected our subtle bodies. So, through our anuṣṭhāna, our meditation, what we are doing is purifying our body. So I wish that everyone will come to the anuṣṭhāna for our sādhanā. But you have to be prepared. But one day you will come, and sometimes something is happening. You have done nothing, no anuṣṭhāna and no other sādhanās. Just you practice a little, and suddenly it comes, a strong storm, so everything will flow. We will also flow with it. Where? Brahmaloka, they are practicing, and you get benefit. That’s good. Okay, so let them practice hard, and we will definitely get everything. So, do you do sādhanā or not? Our Holy Gurujī said, "I am for all." And he said, "All in one, and I am one in all." This Mahā Mantra of Gurujī is very important. Our Holy Gurujī is very, very much with us. Mahāprabhujī, of course, and Devapurījī, of course, great. And Alakpurījī, indescribable, but I have been touched by Holī Gurujī. He gave me a lot and lot of instructions, so I am not that. I have no powers. I am like you. I am sitting here, that’s all. But I touched him, and he gave me something. So I just try to distribute. Like it is your work. You bring the chocolate, and others will eat. But I’m giving yes and yes. And one hour in the night, I massage my shoulders. Yes, blessing. Yes, blessing. Yes, my back is like, you know, a dentist. Dentist, one side work. This is called one side work. The dentist knows what his order means. So, there are many other professions we have on one side, also drivers, like this. So many drivers, they are parking and they are doing asanas. So we should make now barikatu exercise, and we give to every driver, taxi driver. You can’t imagine how that driver will be happy, and all the drivers on the highway, maybe out of 120, will not want to have, but we can do something. Similarly, for every dentist, one side exercise, that’s all. So, wish you all the best. So when we are sitting all in one boat, one is perfect, the other doesn’t know anything. But Mahāprabhujī will lead all passengers of that boat to the shore. It will bring us to the mainland. Yes, we are all together. Hari Om.