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A beautiful, good morning to all our dear sisters and brothers, all bhaktas. You are most welcome—those who are here for the first time today, and also our many brothers and sisters who have been with us since last week. So, welcome, and many blessings of our paramparās. Our practice will be very beautiful, and here under the shadow, the air is cool. So, those of you who are very far back can come here under the sun. If not, then if you are okay, it’s okay. Can you raise your hands if you are here for the first time? They are coming in the evening. The evening people are coming, all of them. This is only for a limited number of people we have to have. And the sādhanā you are doing is mostly what we call Kriyānuṣṭhāna. So, can you raise your hands if you are practicing Kriyānuṣṭhāna? Thank you. And others, you are also practicing. Which kind of techniques are you doing? Āsanas, prāṇāyāma, meditation, and yoga nidrā? Good, good… good lunch, enjoying. That’s very good. Breakfast and dinner also, yes? This place where we are has a very divine atmosphere. For many years, this place has been a site for Mahāprabhujī’s satsaṅg. Thousands upon thousands of people have come and gone from all around—the whole Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, and all other neighboring countries: Hungary, Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia means all at once, otherwise Slovenia and Slovakia. And definitely, you too. These beautiful, beautiful trees and vegetation here have so much energy, so much prāṇa. We can inhale and exhale this; it’s unbelievable. We go to the hospital, to the intensive care unit, and we have so many things like oxygen. We are always looking at how much prāṇa is there. Also, in the city, what kind of air is there? In many countries, before this Corona, it was like… for example, in New Delhi, all great big cities in America… So we are so blessed that we are getting such nice prāṇa here. It is also a healing power. So if there is any disease—I don’t want to say which kind—but here, sitting and speaking about what we are practicing, walking, eating good food, talking with our friends, exercising, 24 hours a day… This is one of the best airs here in our Strelka āśram. Sometimes, in some countries, people go out on Sunday, one day or half a day, to get good air or go to some park. But there are parks, and round and round there are many, many cars. So, do you feel this breath here? And also, the water is the best. We have different kinds of water; we also have water from our own tube well. Other water is coming here; they are, of course, putting something inside the water. But this water is good. It is like healing water. So this is the first part: we are here, and it is very peaceful, not so many cars, etc. So you should, we should, I should, be aware 24 hours of how our prāṇa is here. We are born in this kind of atmosphere, and therefore, from birth onwards, our body needs this kind of environment. This is also the atmosphere in which we were born, and that is why our body needs this kind of atmosphere. Many people go to the mountains to ski and move. Those who live higher up, where the oxygen level is very thin, are used to it and are very good. But when we go, we think we are the best and we can walk quickly. A tak si nechajte čas na to—take your time for it—and stay there one month, and again slowly, slowly come back over one month. This is the Himalayan trip, three months. So there are many people, many yogīs, living there. They are not feeling that the energy is so thin or that the oxygen is very… what we call the oxygen. So now, for our practice today—what we are doing, this Kriyānuṣṭhāna—and for those who did not practice and are going to practice our techniques, I would like to explain and give an introduction for those who still have not practiced this Kriyā Śakti, Kriyānuṣṭhāna. Sooner or later, this year or next, you will also come to these higher techniques. When we practice this in the beginning, we are really beginning. We feel ourselves like, "Oh, now I am here and great, techniques." But when we practice in such a kind of atmosphere and air here, then we begin to practice this Anuṣṭhāna, these Kriyā techniques. But what happens? After 20 minutes, 15 minutes, some 10 minutes, or some one hour, they fall into sleep. This means not that kind of sleeping which you do at night. Takto, like this. Therefore, we are giving training so that you should understand what the techniques are, how we should do them, and which techniques to practice more and which not. It is going through from the toes to the top of the head, and from the top of the head to the toes. It is something… Let’s say there is one who is a very good cook and can cook some vegetables or food very nicely. Then the spices inside are very, very powerful, and this is for the whole body: all different kinds of nerves, the glands, the organs, many things. When we now look, we have everyone, we have this kind of telephone, and there you can read everything. Now, when we read, then it is said, this is very good, this is very spicy, this is very good, many, many things. Many, many things. And if we eat them utilizing this, then, definitely, we will not have that kind of cancer and many, many diseases. In every body, in animals also, there is a cancer. That’s not at all harmful. It is something there. But if there are negative things that come in, then they expand like a cancer or some other disease. So every creature has its own kind of food. Dogs and cats are eating everything… because she’s not a real cat. The best are the lion and the tiger. And what? They don’t eat chili. They don’t eat chapati. They don’t drink bread. They don’t eat anything. They eat only pure meat. And not meat that is one or two days old. They will not eat. And also, there are certain birds that also eat only meat. And they will not eat the old one. But our other creatures, some, like pigs, will eat everything. Cats will eat everything. Dogs will also do it. Similarly, humans. We are also eating differently. So, if we concentrate and understand what kind of nourishment we should take… And you know, still we are talking, and we said the best is grandmother’s kitchen. So how is it good? Oh yes, that’s a good medicine in the grandmother’s kitchen. But now they don’t even know what spices are there. But now, in these two or three months, many, many people learned cooking. And many had a problem because they didn’t know how to cook, and they could not go out of the house, so they were suffering. So we humans, if we take that kind of spice, then we will be really very healthy. Now, everything that we use for our food, if it’s tasteful, but it means not to eat. Tasteful, but not eat. What do I mean by that? That spices. And spices, we should not put too much inside. Just a little. It is something like a perfume, very little. If you will put on the whole body the perfume, oh my God, you will become mad. So, every vegetable in our kitchen, then we should know which kind of vegetables you are cooking. And it is said that in our kitchen, there should not be dead animals. When the animals are dying, and immediately they are eating, maybe it’s late, they call it fresh. But you don’t know how old the meat is that you bring from some shop. Long ago, it was the time in your countries—they were Czechoslovakia, Bosnia—communist time, very good. Nothing, everything good. The country is the same, the people are the same. Narcissism is everything. It is only politics, talking, this and that. Anyhow, I am not going to talk about your politics. But once it was told that from Czechoslovakia they transferred meat to America. It took a long time, and it was standing there long. Then they came into the Czech area, and somehow they didn’t take that meat, and it was standing there for some months. Then it went back to Czechoslovakia, and it took a very long time. And they brought it out, etc. But it was so nearly not eatable. But for the business people, it doesn’t matter. So they said, "It’s orange, fresh, my meat, it’s good." But then, thanks to the people of the Czech Republic, they found it out and didn’t let them give it to the people to eat. So when you put it in the fridge also, it’s a dead body. If it’s hot or cold, that is not anymore. But what we eat—the fresh vegetables, fresh milk, cheese, butter, bread, fresh—that we shall eat. And therefore, also, there are certain spices that are missing, and due to them, many, many diseases are there. And therefore, for example, the spices, the chili… there are many different kinds of chilies. In Mexico, there are very little chilies, about, let’s say, two centimeters. And they are so strong. And these are only seeds, and seeds are very, very hot. And the fruit is not so thin. Long ago, I heard once on the telephone… that this telephone was not there. And so, sometimes they were giving radio, and he could hear on the radio. So I was listening about chilies from Mexico. And they said many people from Mexico have their intestine in their food, in their body. They get the holes, and they get the cancer. So one should never, never even touch that kind of chili. Even that can harm your eyes. Your skin also can harm. So there is a child who is very good in yoga… Hungary and some other countries like India. So, best chili means that it is long or big chili, but the seeds are little and the skin of the chili is thick. And that chili, which is a little bit sour and hot, that is the best one. And so many in Hungary, they are bringing that. That’s good. And that kind of chili is very good for our whole body. It kills many, many other kinds of bacteria in our stomach. So chili, but of course, don’t eat too much. It’s only a little taste. The best person who knows what is yours, what you drink, is not a chili or not a chai, but coffee, coffee. And a coffee drinker will not drink a big glass, a big cup. And how to boil, how to make the coffee? And how to take the sugar in that? No sugar inside. No milk inside. There is sugar, that is crystal sugar. Just take a little in your mouth. Don’t break and don’t taste. Just leave it in your stomach, and coffee is two and a half tablespoons. The spoon is not so big, okay? And there is a very nice little glass, and that you drink. Just a little bit like this, yes. And it takes one and a half hours. That is called a coffee drinker. That’s it. That is a test. Taking too much coffee is also very harmful. First, it will attack your liver, one hundred percent. And there are many other things. So if you give up coffee, you will be okay. But if you can make it best, then it is medicine. We have to learn. Every year I am telling, when I am coming, "Please, learn cooking." And no one can learn this. It is so easy, but you don’t know. You have. I’ve explained to you a hundred times, but they cannot. It is about 52 years I’m here out of India, and many they are cooking for me. Till now, they don’t know how to put chapati. And how the chapati should also cannot. And on the chapati, which side should you put the ghee, a little bit of butter? And 99% or 95%, and 95 percent, all my cooks, still now, they don’t know how to make chapati or ghee, or where butter we should put. Because they don’t know from their mother to their mother. So, better they should not give butter on it. This is number one. And number two, which is the right side of the bread or the chapati? So they always put the wrong side. Ninety-four percent. They don’t know which is the right side and the wrong side. When you drive your car, do you know you are driving from that side, but you are pulling back side? You don’t put the gear to the back gear and say you’re driving that car, and talking, "Come forward, come," and you blow into the back of the car. That is, that is a cooking, the cooking knowledge. Very much that, and why? I am, I am a little bit angry. One time, OK. Two times, OK. Three times, OK. Four times, OK. Fifty-two years. Now I must really be a little bit angry. Because when the dead body is brought to where we are bringing dead bodies, to the crematorium, so they put, people put on the chest a chapati, a thick chapati, nice, and on it a little ghee, a little sugar, like this, and they put it on the chest, wrong side. And the thick side of that chapati is up. That is for the dead body. But for the living body, you should put the chapati on the other side. Thick one down and thin one up. Of course, your other kind of food here, you know how to make. Apple, apple, apple strudel. And when you give it to Rajasthani people, then tell them how to make the apple strudel. They will make it better, parota. But one can learn at least one, two, three times in the kitchen, then you are perfect. So, anyhow, I want to tell you, in your countries, which kind of food you are eating, except the meat and the eggs, etc. But you have very nice food here also. But now many don’t know. In the cities of India and in Europe, people have lost seventy-eight percent. No cooking knowledge. Best cooking is the mother, and therefore the ladies should know best cooking. But now there is one couple, husband and wife. So the wife is the president in your country, and the husband is in parliament. Both are good, and then they come home. Both are hungry, so he is sitting there and says, "Are you cooking, my dear? I am the president." Okay, now who should eat? Of course, he will say, "Yes, darling, I will bring you a little bread." Others said, "I bring you chewing gum." The whole night, the husband is only chewing chewing gum. Next day, they said, "Let’s go to the restaurant." And then, like that, we lost our cooking. Now, what I’m talking about, always cooking? Because 70 or 80 percent, or I would say 90 percent, we are living from food. That’s it. Money will not give us eating. Alcohol will not give you; only drink alcohol. Alcohol will only give you another and another alcohol. So, how many percent are we surviving ourselves with good food? Even the yogīs, they said, "I’m a yogī," maybe two days they are not eating, but then they will look for something and cook something. But nowadays, people are eating enough. But what kind of food are we eating? That is how many diseases there are in the world. How many hospitals do we have? The best hospitals. And how many hospitals, but still there is no place for the patients. That’s it. And in very old times, the hospital was empty. Mostly accident, or something like that. But now everyone has so many illnesses. Of course, a lot of these chemicals. But now people are, they wake up, and we are all looking for organic. When I came first time in Europe, it is in, let’s say, the 1970s. Nobody was talking about organic food. Everything is pure good. And now we are searching for what is organic. And now we have destroyed and poisoned everything. And you know, that’s it. Why? How many people have many, many problems? Mental problems, psychic problems, and many other diseases. So, please, at least bring good food, and give good food. Cook good food for your families. It doesn’t matter who wants to cook, your husband or your wife, but you should know how it is. Otherwise, you don’t know what is milk. My husband said, "I want to have hot milk." And a little sugar, and a little taste of sugar. And what did he put? Lemon. Very nice hot milk, glass, and husband wanted to drink a lemon inside. What happens? It splits. Not eatable at all. So, that is that: what we should do and what we cannot do. So, my dear, we shall speak here more. Ask some kitchen person and give what kind of spices are there. And there are many, many… It must not be chilly. But there are certain foods which have good taste and are better for health. But we are putting many things, this and this and that. So this for us is a very important thing, and now here in the ashram, food is very good and sāttvic, everything. But we say, eat less so that you can practice; otherwise, after eating, you will sleep. This morning I had breakfast, and then I had some time, so I was sitting like this, and then I said, "I want to have a little coffee," and the tea was hot, of course hot. So two cups were there. One with the coffee or tea, and one was empty. And then, till they brought the tea, I was tired. And then I had tea in my hand. It was too hot, so I did a little test, and I was holding it like this. And Mansa Devi said, "You are sleeping." I said, I am not sleeping, I am just thinking. And she is sitting there, still she is looking at me, and the cup I wanted to bring to my lips, and my lips were here like this. So Mansa Devi ran, and she took my drug; otherwise, the heart would have turned it. So, this is sometimes it happens, and that’s called jet lag. And jet lag is very nice. My jet lag is years and years, from which I went from village to other village, to other city, to other countries, other planes, etc., like a pilot. The pilot is flying how many hours, days, everywhere. So they know they are now used to it. But sometimes they are also like this. But that’s why, you know what? They have a co-pilot. So when one pilot is doing like this, the second pilot says, "Sir," I know, don’t disturb me. And the captain says, I know, I don’t have a rose. And he says, "I’ll take care of it. You can have a little coffee, okay?" So sometimes it happens, that’s okay, this is a joke. But cooking, and you use soda, we should get spices. Let’s say one cup of spices, and then we should dry them, and we put all in one plastic that we can see through, and then we put all in, write on it what kind of spices and for what. And this we should have, and now, for which vegetable, which spices we should do. Our body will be, I can tell you, about 60% healthy. And our body, I can tell you, will be 60% healthier. You don’t have to give it too much, but you should give it. So this is what I want to tell you in our Anuṣṭhāna practice. Keep your body straight. Therefore, sleep earlier, awake earlier, and if you feel that you are tired, then better come out, walk a little, or run a little bit, again wake up, but don’t remain there. Okay, I’m okay. But after a few times, you know, till the nine, one, two, three, four, nine, and after the nine, there’s no number. And when nine, then there’s no more second number or fifth number. And so, after the number nine, what is more? Nothing. And what is a nothing? A zero. And a zero, you know what is happening? You are completely becoming a zero. That’s it. So, we should be higher and higher; we should come to the nine. And if you go further from nine, then it is zero. So, you know, be careful when it is nine. Because nine is very, very nice and very clear. So, how many countries are you here from? Every country, no? Okay. Now, how many languages do you have here? You are Czech? You have Czech language? Slovaks have a little different? The Austrians? The French, the British, the English, the Poles, etc. How many countries and how many languages? Now, mostly in all different languages, but nine has one. That always no means nine. Always no. What is when you have to say no in the Czech Republic? How do you say that? No, no, no. German? No. No. Yeah, okay. The Croatian? French? The Russian? No. So, Indian? No, Mexicans, Italians, you see? So, with the no, it means no now, no more. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now, finished, please. No. It is no. What is further? There is zero, the whole cosmic Self. All is zero. So see, in any place in the country where there is no knowing, say no. So we come to that border. It means that we should bring our best nourishment. Otherwise, what you take, your body says no. Only then you go to the hospital; then you don’t say no. There, you said yes. So, good food is a good life, a long life.