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Praṇām Swāmījī, dear yoga brothers and sisters. My name is Nemrud Bukhaya. I am a physician in the south of Sweden. My profession is general practitioner; I am the chief doctor in family medicine. I would like to give some further information on the coronavirus, referring to what we heard from my dear colleagues, Dr. Vera and Dr. Chitra Purī. Corona concerns all of us, not just here in the yoga camp, but the entire world. You can have corona without any signs. Please stay at home if you have a fever, headache, throat ache, or chills, until you are symptom-free for at least 48 hours. Coronavirus was first discovered in 1937. It is called Corona because the molecule looks like the crown of a king. The correct name is SARS-CoV-2. The '19' stands for the year it spread, and SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. This means it mostly attacks the lungs and changes the lung tissue. Healthy lungs look like yellow, spongy material, but when contaminated with Corona, the tissue changes so oxygen cannot pass into the blood and carbon dioxide cannot be expelled. It is very lethal; many people are dying. Unfortunately, I have taken many samples from deceased people to confirm they had corona. There are two tests: one for if you have corona right now, and another for if you had it. The current test, taken from the nose or mouth, uses PCR technique. However, the test is unreliable, with a 47% false negative rate. This means if 100 people take the test, 47 will test negative even though they have the virus. Please use a mask. The reason is our breath. If you wear a mask, you feel moisture on it. Coronavirus spreads via moist, small water particles. For instance, if I sneeze, particles can travel up to 11 meters—like from here to the third tree. When I am sitting and talking normally, small particles come out from our mouth; this is a normal physiological process of breathing. If I have corona, the people around me might get it. Please use masks. The majority of people who get coronavirus do not need intensive care. For example, in Sweden, with over 82,000 cases, the death toll was 5,800. Most patients come to general practitioners like me. We measure temperature and oxygen saturation. Saturation indicates how much oxygen is in your blood circulation. Normally, it is between 95 and 100, mostly around 97. For a healthy person, it should not be below 95. Currently, unfortunately, over 20 million people on Earth are contaminated. We can protect ourselves by using hand sanitizer. We have different masks: M1, M2, and M3. The M3 is easier to breathe through, prevents glasses from fogging, and offers more protection. It is the best one. If you don't have a mask, use paper; it's better than nothing. I am very glad to see that in the yoga āśram, alcohol sanitizer is available everywhere. Of course, I didn't mean the drink. The virus needs a host—a human body or animal—to survive. We don't know how long this will last. For example, the Spanish flu, a kind of SARS virus, began in 1918, lasted two years, and killed between 20 and 50 million people. Scientists think this pandemic will slowly subside, and we will survive. But for that, use gloves, masks, and hand sanitizer. I was very glad to hear that rooms will be disinfected after use and to see karma yogīs cleaning door handles several times a day; it is recommended at least four times in 24 hours. The problem is we become tired of wearing the mask, but it is very cheap insurance for our life, our families, and all of humanity. So, keep distance, use a mask, and wash your hands. The coronavirus shell, the outer layer, does not withstand soap or alcohol. If you don't have alcohol, use soap and water. If you don't have water, use alcohol. The surface of the virus does not withstand either alcohol or normal soap. Praṇām Swāmījī, dear yoga brothers and sisters, thank you for listening. Q&A and Yoga Practice Thank you very much, dear brother. Are there any questions, please? But not too long. A question is asked about the 11-meter range. Hṛṣṭa is asking, if a person speaks normally, how far can particles reach? Particles from our lungs reach one to one and a half meters; that is why this distance is recommended. If you cough, you must cover your mouth with your elbow. Most water particles come from the mouth. The question about the difference between the nose and mouth is interesting. My brother said it's all about the mouth; he doesn't know how far particles go if you breathe only through your nose with your mouth closed. The important source is the mouth because when we talk or cough, particles fly further. But this is a normal physiological process. When we breathe, the mouth is a little moist, and these particles fly one to one and a half meters. Another question is asked about netī (nasal cleansing). Is it true that practicing netī is good not only for prevention but can also help cure it? Cleaning the nose means the corona will go more easily? Viruses are all around us; we live in symbiosis with them. But medical science believed this virus, which normally exists in animals, would not cross the barrier to humans. I don't have any medical report about these exercises, but once the virus enters your body and goes down to the lungs, you cannot do much. What you can do is improve your health: sleep well, and perfect are yoga exercises. I would like to ask Paramahaṁsa Swāmījī to teach more about strengthening the immune system and health generally. Yoga exercises are perfect. I would like to ask Paramahaṁsa Swāmī Māheśvarānanda to support this exercise, as practicing yoga daily can support your immune system. In Sweden, 5,800 died; the majority were elderly, and many were overweight or obese. The most vulnerable are mainly elderly people. Another important point: exercises strengthen the immune system, which yoga does very well. We have seen strange diseases and hyper-inflammation suddenly increasing in children, which is unknown to medical science until now. Please keep good health, sleep well, do yoga exercise, and God bless all of us. Thank you. So, thank you very much. It was great. This is not only a joke; it is our life. So, life or death? How many of you want to die now? Of course, we will all come somewhere to bring you there. If you want to live long, then we have just received very practical and scientific advice, which is what we need. That was very great. So now, according to what was said about yoga—good sleep, prāṇāyāma—we are going to do one of the best of all yoga movements, which we call Bārikhāṭu Praṇām. For two years, I have been trying to make it the best. Dva... So now, everyone, please make a line. A jītem, Bhagavān, jītem. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam-iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Okay, so please prepare yourselves. Sit in Vajrāsana. Relax your palms on your thighs. Keep your back straight. Slowly, with the next inhalation, lift your hands up. Draw the palms above the head. Look into your palms. Now slowly bend forward. Place your palms, forearms, and forehead on the floor. Now, slowly pull your body forward into the position of eight points, where your palms, chin, knees, and toes are on the floor. Now, slowly straighten your body and pull your hands behind. Intercross your fingers and pull your hands up. Lift your legs. Relax the position and go with the palms on the floor. Lift the upper part of your body. Now, lift your pelvis up and go into the posture with the palms and feet on the floor. With the right leg, make a big step forward. Place your foot between your palms and look forward. Now, with the next inhalation, bring your hands behind the body. Hold your wrists, your elbows, and with the inhalation, lift your hands up above your head and join your palms. Exhaling, bring the hands to the floor and make one big step forward. Lean forward. Relax your upper body. Now bring your body up. Place your palms above the knees and look forward. On the next inhalation, lift your body up, join the palms, and look again into your palms. Slowly, with the exhalation, lean forward again to a perpendicular position with your trunk, hands behind the back, and hold your wrist. Now slowly exhale and lean down forward. With the right leg, go one big step backwards. Again, bring the hands behind the back and hold your elbows. Lift your hands up and join the palms. Bring the hands to the floor. Keep your back straight, and now take one big step backwards into mountain pose. Now, slowly lower yourself through your knees, come down on your belly, and lift the upper part of your body. Bring your hands behind the body, interlock the fingers, and stretch your body. Lift your legs. Release the position and enter the position of eight points again. Now, push your body back. Again, place palms, forearms, and forehead on the floor. Bring your hands behind your back and hold your wrist. Inhaling, come up with a straight back, continue with your hands above your head, join the palms, and look into them. With the exhalation, bring your hands onto your thighs. Take a deeper inhalation and exhalation. We will continue with one more round, now practicing with the left leg. One, lift your hands up. Two, bend forward. Three, pull your body in front. Four, hands behind, stretch your body. Five, lift the upper part of your body. Press the pelvis into the floor. Five, lift up your body, your pelvis. Six, left leg in front. Seven, hands behind the back of the elbows. Eight, hands up. Nine, hands on the floor. Ten, one big step forward. Eleven, lean your hands above your knees, back straight. Eleven, we rest our hands on our knees, our backs are straight. Twelve, hands up, stretch your body. Thirteen, hands behind the back, back is straight, look forward. Fourteen, lean forward, hands to the feet. Fourteen, one big step with the left leg back. Sixteen, hands behind the body. Seventeen, hands up. Eighteen, hands on the floor. Nineteen, one big step back. Twenty, come down on your belly, lift your upper part. Then bring your hands behind the body, interlock the fingers, twenty-one. Twenty-two, put your palms on the floor, lift the upper part of your body. Twenty-three, push your body back and sit on your heels. Twenty-four, hands behind the body, hold your wrist. Now, with the next inhalation, lift your body up and join your palms. Twenty-six and twenty-seven, bring your hands on your knees. So now we practice. I did not look. Let’s start again, okay? Get ready. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. 8, 9, 10, 20, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 49, 50, 51, 51, 52, 51, 52, 52,... 53, 53,... 53. Nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven. Now, one more. It is not right. Left, right, left, left, right, left. Okay? So, Corona will go out. So, you will read for news, okay? Go ahead. One. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. 14, 15, 15, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 18, 19, 19, 20, 20, 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, 23, 24, 24. Twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six. And twenty-seven. It was not right. Someone’s head was down. When the hand was on the back, the head should be strong. That’s called the horseback. So once more. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. Look up, horseback, not like a camel. Look straight up. Next: 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven. Was good. Now, practice. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30. 25, 26, 27, lie down, deep sleep. Corona will go out. You can lie on your back, on your side, on your stomach, as you like. Corona on the mouth. But do not go in. The corona will come and not come in the mouth. He will go out. Relax. Relax the whole body, from the toes to the top of the head, and from the top of the head to the toes. Relax the whole body, feel the whole body, relax your toes. Relax the whole body, relax from the toes to the hips, relax the whole stomach. Relax the whole back muscles. Relax the shoulders. Relax your arms, elbows, your palms, your fingers. And relax your jaw. Feel the whole body. Let all the beautiful oxygen into the body. And relax. I know that I am here relaxing in our Strelky Yoga Center Park with closed eyes. Amazing. See yourself with that movement, and we call it bārik hātu pranām. Relax. Do not go anywhere outside. Just be in your body. Feel your body is relaxed, comfortable, and the oxygen is coming very clean from this park. I am relaxed. I feel comfortable. And now feel and concentrate on your heart, the heartbeat, how it is. Then concentrate and feel the area between your chest. Feel the inhalation and exhalation. I know that I inhale and exhale very comfortably. Lie down and feel that you are here on this beautiful park, green grass, beautiful trees, and you are relaxed with closed eyes. I know that I am inhaling. I know that I am exhaling. Feel your fingers from the right thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger. The palm, the wrist. Similarly from your left hand, right elbow, and left elbow. Upper arm, from right and left, down. Relax. Feel your shoulders, left, right. Relax, relax, relax your shoulders. Relax. Feel the whole body. Feel your whole trunk. Relax your stomach. Feel inhalation and exhalation, standing and relaxing, up and down. Feel your back, the back muscles, both your legs, feel your whole body. And again, bring your awareness into your heart and into your mind. Try to feel this park. Imagine all these trees. Very beautiful and very good air. Take a deep inhale and exhale three times. And move your fingers, your palms, close the fist, open the arms, spread, and stretch your hands above the head on the ground. Stretch your hands towards the head and your heels outward, back. And bring the hands back to the side of the body. Turn to the left side and right side, and left side and right side, and left side, and turn left side to sit up. Chant the mantra with me. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam-iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Oṃ Tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam-iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt.... Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Rub your palms and bring them to your face. Open your eyes, rub your palms, and slowly remove your palms. Hari Om. So this was Barikhatu Pranam, and there will be some mantras, but the mantras will be very difficult and very easy. So we will have each limb of the body as a mantra. So, we will write after. Thank you.