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Practice according to your path

Yoga is unity, and the day of practice is the day of the Guru.

Yoga means coming together, from the elements of the earth to the meeting of friends. The practice unifies the physical, mental, and spiritual bodies. Official celebrations should not be exclusive or centralized at embassies, splitting practitioners by school or attire. Every practitioner should celebrate according to their own guru and tradition, fostering freedom and oneness. The day is for honoring the master through practice, without creating duality between nations or schools. Practice daily, especially in the morning. The coming summer is a time for collective practice everywhere.

"Yoga means suddenly we came together about a good luck."

"Yoga is the day of Gurudev."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Nandajī Gurudeva kī Jai! God bless you. He is a great man, a great man, a great man. Thank you for watching. Sāba ke śiro para to jale, ena pūrā nahīṁ samajha to se koī śiro mānī mānuṣya kā na tharī huā nahīṁ. Santo se koī śiro maṇi mānuṣya tannadhārī huā nahīṁ. Santo se koī śiro maṇi mānuṣya na tharī huā nahīṁ. Oṁ Bole Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Śrī Mādhavānanda Jī Satya Gurudeva Kī Jai! Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Jī Gurudeva Kī Jai! Oṁ Har Har Mahādeva! Bhagavān Śrī Devapuruṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai! Devādideva Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Kī Jai! Ārādhya Gurudeva Bhagavān Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānanda Jī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Alak Purījī Mahādeva kī Jai! The āśīrvād, the blessing from Alak Purījī. Blessing means the āśīrvād. Thank you all, my dear bhaktas, friends, brothers, sisters. It is a very happy time. New days are coming, and in many countries, those kinds of diseases have gone away. It is said that in New Zealand they have declared that no one has any kind of disease there, or any kind of coughing. Similarly, in many other countries, people are controlling themselves. The time has come for us—the summer time, and also the winter days. The winter time is going now slowly, and our summer time is coming back. It will come slowly, slowly. It is said that on the 21st of January... but there are some differences according to astrology. And according to astrology, the sun is always moving. But it is said that slowly, slowly, sooner or later, all will come together again. And so on 21 January—no, not January, June—and there is our Indian Prime Minister, Modījī. He was concentrating on where he must bring together on that day, the day of yoga. And yoga is the point from where, for the first time, that which is coming from this Brahmadeva, where Śiva comes for the first time. And there is the very beginning. We don’t know how many ages, when was the moon, when was the sun, etc. We don’t know, but these are the five tattvas, and this tattva is creating this earth. And in this earth, what we call this—the ocean, the earth, the fire, the air, space, etc.—and that means coming together: yoga. It’s not yoga. Yoga is multiple, and yoga is single, so we say yogī yoga. But because we all are practicing, let’s say we are doing sarvahitāsana. If you do sarvahitāsana, one āsana, then it’s only yoga. But when you do two, then it’s yoga. And therefore, but there is another that Indian, or the Americans, always they end it with the "A," with the name, etc., "A" last. So now they call it yoga, but it has yoga. We will say the yoga, and what is that yoga? The yoga has many different meanings. Yoga also means, that is what we call, that suddenly happened, so that we are for that. So yoga also means... then suddenly it happened. We were going somewhere, and our very best friends, the families or anything, and we didn’t see them again for about 30 years. But we wanted to see each other, and we didn’t know where or what was happening. Suddenly, one day, what happens? Both friends meet. That’s it. Called yoga, that’s called yoga, yeah, yoga. Yoga, he thought so. Yoga, it’s also that suddenly we meet something, we come to the oneness. So again, yoga. Yoga means also yoga practice, and that is. What we are doing, searching now, we have yoga and yoga. Now, let’s not look outside, but we see within our body. How many elements are in our body? Why do we look outside? Also, how many things are in our body? I mean, our blood, our bones, our nervous systems, many things, our fingers, our toes, everything. So what is one? Different is the one separate, and therefore our whole body we can count. Our bodies, yoga, and in this, that yoga, so. We shall first take care of our body, and that body means health. Health is not the thing, but without that health, there is nothing. Can we go also get back? So yoga needs this. And that in this we are coming now today, so how will we come to this unity? And that unity means we have in the body, but we are not unity. We have a physical body, we have a mental body, we have a spiritual body, etc., all are separate, but more or less they are coming together, therefore yoga. So, yoga. So, you are a yogī. How many things you have in body? So, not only we have a yoga, yoga is only one, that’s... it, or suddenly we meet together, so there are many things to understand. But yoga, what we are doing, this yoga, that’s for ourselves. So what happens? That this year, that was a sanyog. Now, yoga and sanyog. Yoga is there, but separated, but we know all, but sanyog. So, yoga means suddenly we came together about a good luck. I have a luck, but suddenly I got a good luck, and that we are coming through yoga again together. Now we know that from the month of February, March began, and the whole world, the whole world became very, very full of the love. They were all afraid, all and all, not only India, every country, even there are some little tapu, and that tapu, you know what it is. A tapu? I know that I, and then, yeah, but tapu is better than okay, but that’s also... but that also got it. And how they got it from some birds, and from the birds were the humans or something, but the birds, they did not affect by this, but that from there they are. Touching something through the air to air, so more or less the whole, our whole planet was falling down, and now it is getting better. And my dear all, in this month, we shall come to our yoga practices, and in a few more days, on the 21st of January, we have the Yoga Day. Do it everywhere. It must not be that you go and practice with the Indian embassy. It must not be. We did it like this the first time, and now they say, "Oh, we will do only yoga." No, yoga is for everybody. It must not be an embassy. Why that? What is the something? Why do we have to go only to the Indian embassy? What I’m talking about today, we’ll see the whole India, whole embassies. They will hear what Swāmījī said. Okay, once we had an embassy, we did once, and now what they are doing, they are splitting the practitioners. They are splitting. There is a yoga practice by your school, let’s say Swami Śivānandajī’s yoga school, so it is. Śivānandajī’s yoga school, now the big one, have come our Yoga in Daily Life. Swami Vaisaranand, yoga is a yoga, but why not my people, my disciples, my friends? Why should they not say yoga in their life? Or the Sivananda yoga, or Vivekananda yoga, etc. There are many, many that say schools, these schools of the yogic, and everyone has their guru, and everybody has jaya to their guru. Like we say Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya, or they say Śivānandjī Mahārāj kī jaya, they say Chidānandjī kī jaya. Yes or no? So why are we again making confusions in this? And that I will speak, and I know that. Yes, good. But there is again making confusion. So, what kind of yoga are you doing? They don’t know. There are different karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jñāna yoga, ānanda yoga, many yogas, many, many books. So why not? Therefore, all my dear ones, you should practice your yoga according to your guru, according to your school, and like we, we are according to our yoga and daily life. And so we will make a yoga and daily life in the park, because we are many people, or in the street, every street in Croatia, in the capital, Zagreb. And in, we have to close the train, the inner train. So many yogīs, yoga in their life, people, many, many. Now, why not? Others are going. They are also very good. So, we have to bring this. Because again, we should not do the fear. No, we don’t want. We are neutral. We are happy. We are doing yoga practices. We are practicing Indian yoga practices, and this, for many, many years. Now, thanks to Modījī, he brought this, and Rāmdevjī, he brought yoga very much in India. It doesn’t matter how it is, but it’s very great. So they brought yoga, and as long as Modijī will be, everybody will come and practice yoga. And when maybe other people will come, yoga will be finished. They will say, okay, you can practice yoga, but embassy, they will say, no more practicing this yoga. Yes? Therefore, we have to not bundle people together, but we should give freedom to the people. They will have one with the white cloth; we have separate cloth, we have orange cloth, they have yellow cloth. Why not? And some in the black, why not? So this is a very important, but my dear, what I want to tell you is this: you should practice every day. And now, time has come. Time has come. No, dawn has come. Night, make my children wake. Thinking of thy guru’s lotus feet, night has gone, dawn has come. Wake, my children, wake. Wake, my children, wake. Sitting in the āsana of meditation, thinking of thy guru’s lotus feet. Thinking of thy guru’s lotus feet, thy task is gone away. Practice in the morning, during Brahma time; that is the best time. So, morning practice. So, practice everywhere now. This is the number one. Number two, because now we have the summer in Europe, Australia, America. In these countries, there is Australia, not America, Canada, Brazil. They are all these countries, so they also have yoga practice beginning. So please practice, come together. Of course, not with many, many people, but you should practice anywhere, but do together as a yoga. Practitioners, according to our yogic practice, so don’t think that I will teach yoga now and you have to become a teacher of yoga. Our talk, I’m telling, is about yoga and daily life, and if you are not a teacher, we haven’t we one thousand or two thousand yoga teachers? But we can also get more. We need many people. So they can be as the assistant. And assistant trainings, we allow to you. But not that one who has nothing and says, "I’m a yogī. I will make a certificate." We don’t give a certificate. We don’t do anything in that way. Because after three or five years, we give you the certificates. Not like this. I am waiting for you, all my dears. I’m looking forward, and maybe on Guru Pūrṇimā, I will be, after a long time, in Europe. And the Europeans will be very happy. And we will have, I think, three days of Guru Pūrṇimā worship. Yes. So we have to pick five days, one Guru Pūrṇimā. Because people, there are so many, they will come. Morning, they will go. Afternoon, they will come. Then they will go like this. And in other countries, we will talk through our Swamiji TV. Not a kiwi, TV. So please, all bhaktas, disciples, follow my words and practice according to our teachers, your teachers, and wherever you are practicing, keep together. And you know, Prasad is coming for Guru Pūrṇimā to everyone, everywhere. So thank you, and we will see you again one more time. So, yoga, we have yoga, but not only, maybe physically we must start with doing, we have mental. So, what we do with Gurudev, what Gurudev is showing, what is that bhajan nicely? Satguru Svāmī bhajan. Any Satguru bhajan which has come? Kevarantayamindepata samānabhacanamādhare. Śrījīpakāyebhāṭa Haisamānābhāchanāmādhāre. God bless you all. So in this way, all in India and out of all the countries, there are so many gurus, Gurudev. We will not say only gurus, but Gurudev. Maybe one gurujī has only twenty bhaktas; he doesn’t want more disciples, and many others they have. So first, on this Yoga Day, the 21st of this coming month, we will have Yoga Day. And in this Yoga Day, first, if there is in any country, any city, any place, if you have your Gurujī, if you have your master, first you should be like to your master and teach your all. That day will be called the day of the Gurudev. Yoga is the day of Gurudev. That we will now see, on the first 20, 21st, 21st, and there will be all yogīs, yoga practitioners. They should worship their guru with the yoga, and they should be. In the front, teaching the yoga to them, it doesn’t matter if they are from Europe or they are from India. But not only that, we will have only Indians now, and then you will see only Europeans and not Indians. Gurus, there, that is it means duality. It has become a big duality, and this big duality should not be. Therefore, all our bhaktas, our practitioners, for Europeans and Canadians and Americans and New Zealanders and Japanese and Chinese, all our bhaktas, they should worship in yogic yoga for their guru and not anything on one side. Understand me? So, I think this time I will come, and I will tell Modiji, thank you very, very much. And all gurus and all disciples are so happy that you made this free for yoga to everybody. But where is the guru? Where is the master? It must not be an orange dress; it can be a black dress, it can be a yellow dress, it can be only green, or it can be red, or it can be like our yoga dress. So we have to bring this oneness in a different way. On one day, we are making many people sad. This we are coming for yoga, and they say, "No, you should not do this, you should not do this, that is not good." Do you agree with me, yes or not? Thank you. Tvaṁ eva mātā ca pitā tvaṁ eva, tvaṁ eva bandhuś ca sakhā tvaṁ eva, tvaṁ eva vidyā draviṇaṁ tvaṁ eva, tvaṁ eva sarvaṁ mama deva deva. Guru brahmā, guru viṣṇu, guru devo maheśvara, guru sākṣāt para brahma, tasmāi śrī guruve namaḥ. Dhyāna mūlaṁ guru mūrtiḥ, pūjā mūlaṁ guru padam, mantra mūlaṁ guru vākyaṁ, mokṣa mūlaṁ guru kṛpā. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ... Oṁ Ālak Purījī Mahādeva kī Jai! Ārādhya Deveśvara Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī kī Jai! Ārādhya Bhagavān Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānanda Jī Bhagavān kī Jai! Sab Ṛṣi Munī Mahātmā kī Jai! Māta Pitā Gurudeva kī Jai! Bhārat Māta kī Jai! Sab Yogī Muniyoṁ kī Jai! Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... EJ!

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