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We have called this Sarvahittāsana. Do you know what the word Sarvahittāsana means? Its meaning is very, very necessary. Those who know Sarvahittāsana, hands up. Thank you. And who doesn’t know Sarvahittāsana? Hand up. One, two, three, four, five, six. Slowly, quickly. You didn’t raise your hand. Yes, this one. Did you raise your hand? Do you know Sarvahittāsana? She says, "Yes, these are āsanas that are good for everybody." Thank you. I think this is very good for us to know. This is truly our... and now, in many other yoga centers, they are using the word Sarvahittāsana. Many of you here are yoga teachers of Yoga in Daily Life. This name, which I gave in our Yoga in Daily Life, you should all know because you are a Yoga in Daily Life teacher. When you are a teacher for a long time and you practice Yoga in Daily Life for 30 years, 40 years, even 48 or 49 years, this name is there. So this is not just a lecture; it is for all of us, for our yoga teachers. It doesn’t matter if you have been teaching for 20 years, 100 years, 40 years, 1 year, or 1 day. When I first came to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other countries—Vienna, Germany, and at that time Yugoslavia—the situation was different. Now Europe is one; they are very close. They have the Schengen area, so it's closer and good. But at that time it was different; there were many Soviet countries. They were also together, but they had visas and passports to go from one country to another. They could go anywhere for swimming or for many things. That is the world. We are this way, we are that way. It is like in a government: there are ministers, presidents, etc., and police guards standing beside these ministries. Then all the ministers are finished, and a new ministry is there. The police then stand on that side. So it is in the world, changing every time. So, what should we call the name of our yoga? Only "yoga"? Who would know what or where? There are many, many names of other yogīs: Śivānanda Yoga, Brahmananda Yoga, Kriyananda Yoga. They give their name, why not? Thank you. Just as we are here in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Austria, Hungary, etc., but we are all humans, we are all people. Yet we have the name of this country, that country. So every yogī was good, working, doing their... the yogīs, their names. And why not? It should be like this. I was here, and I would tell a name, but it was something not spiritual. A name should not be... What will be the names? It should be very neutral. But what should we do? We have here now this place, you know, that is called—I’m again taking the same name—Gotwaldov. Gotwaldov is the name of the city. There was a very nice place; we had seminars there. Now they call it Žilina, right? Yes, Žilina, Žilina, Žilina. That’s good. Everything is good. Why not? My name was other. Then my name became Maheśvarānanda. Then Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. Then Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara... Then Viśvaguru. So it goes name after name, but we are the same. So we were thinking very much, and then we said, "Yoga in Daily Life." It means: practice yoga every day. So every morning, every day, anytime, but every day you should practice your yoga. And then we began to make Yoga in Daily Life. My dear, this is like I’m telling my big stories. At that time, there were not so many computers. Many people did not know what a computer is. In my language, "come" means little. Nothing. Anyhow, but then there was something—what was it? A typewriter. It was a typewriter like this, and then we were printing. Now it’s beautiful. It was very joyful. So then we were making this... what do they call this? No, no, no other name. These girls know—they are not baptizing. So they were making this printing: "Yoga in Daily Life" and "Swami Maheshwarananda," and this and yoga, and we had seminars. We were making these papers, printings, and there were big, big letters. It was a socialist language, a socialist government. In this socialism, you could use as many papers as you wanted; it’s not yours, it is theirs. So all papers—you don’t have to get any money, anything. It is the government's. And cycling—that was also the government. Go and bring something, also the government's. Everything: go and bring the milk for drinking, and this is the government's cheese. That is all the government's. There’s a big farm, and there’s corn, you know, the corn and big, big farm. We could go and break it and bring it, and with water and fire we could boil it, and nobody would say, "Why did you take this?" It is mine, and mine means our whole government. That was other things. But I’m sorry, not to tell you a second time, all the time thing. All doctors, ministers, lawyers, and everything—once a year they had to work on the farms. Everybody had to cut this and that and work. And people were so happy. They said, "Oh, we are working, and this is very good. Eat what you want to eat." Some don’t like, "I’m not going that way." There are so many good things and so many maybe not good things, but the good thing was they were not working too much and very... Little from Bratislava to Prague, aeroplane maybe, how much? 10, 20, 25? Not, not. Yes, and when we go to Vienna, we have our shilling, and our shilling is very high, and then this shilling is little, and there’s height. That was a nice thing, Saryo. There I was growing. I was growing in the Vardukals, like in your... no, not communist, I mean the Kukurucie. Thank you. So, okay. Then we made this, the yoga for every day. And that is called Yoga in Daily Life. You are going home? Karma yoga, okay. So we were working every day, practicing every day—Yoga in Daily Life. They said, "Swāmījī, how long can we practice? How many days do we practice?" So I said, "Practice every day." "Oh, Swāmījī, every day?" So yoga, every day yoga. Yes, every day yoga, yoga every day. Because the language was different, and now many people know English, but before, not so much. So, Yoga in Daily Life, and for a long time—it’s a long time—it is so very nice. It is the number one way. Now you know how it came, Yoga in Daily Life. What does this practice mean? Every day yoga. I used to tell them, if you cannot practice one day yoga... daily life, then one day you should not eat also. You have time for eating, you have time for looking at the television. It was only black, white, black. Now it will all be the colors. So, Yoga in Daily Life. Then I was in Vienna, and there I was teaching yoga, Yoga in Daily Life. But in Austria and Germany, I was only a few times. In Austria, very nice people, very nice everything. They were coming and going. Once there were twenty people, and then only five people, and so on. So I told them, "Once all, once all." They said, "Swāmījī, your yoga is not systematic." Of course it’s systematic. Lie down, relax. I’m sitting. All systematic. Get up, stand up. See, not this. Is there in yoga something like a first class, second class, third class? I said, in India we have all one class: primary, middle, high school, college, etc. I don’t know about Austria, maybe you don’t have this system. They said, "In Austria, we have very systematic." But I’m talking about yoga. Then I got something again. So, we made from this again here in Czechoslovakia, and we made about eight different systems. And then there were two more. This is like a Kriyā, Anuṣṭhāna, and so on—11 systems. And then, we—there are these ladies sitting there too, they were young girls at that time. You know who’s sitting there? And there are some also; she’s also many years. And so they were, day and night, typing. They go to their office, the government’s office. And what are they doing? They are printing "Yoga in Daily Life." Everywhere. And people who were looking, "What are you printing?" And they said, "But can you also give us one paper?" That is on the masters. So these people here were so much interested in yoga. And this is another thing that I don’t want to tell you. Only one thing I can tell you, that many people knew, "Can I have one see Swāmījī for one minute?" But it takes eight or ten steps to come to Swāmījī. In practice, okay, and sometimes they couldn’t see me. Organizers didn’t allow, but we can tell you one thing: he will come from Bratislava to Brno in one car, and that time, that time was not highway. In that village, after the corn, you people can walk there, and the windows will be open from the car. And that Indian, he will look out of the window, and you know that this is a Swāmījī. I will not say like this, otherwise they will send me back to Vienna. Yes, it was like that. And they should also not look, but still they were standing. That was like, yes, true. So in that way, they are so. It was a whole. These countries had yoga in their life, and still have yoga in their life. And you know, mostly are the Czech, Slovak, mostly our teachers, students, many, many. And also, when the other government came and their president, he gave me one nice letter. So these are great people, very humble, very kind. And that is, every, many different countries are, so that we come to the yoga every day, Yoga in Daily Life. So every time I come, I have to go to the police station. And they ask me the question, "Why do you come? Why this, that?" And no, the government gives me. They bring it, because otherwise we have to go get money there. Give the money, but they give me the money. My class, they have to pay money. I said, "I don’t want." They said no, so my hotel, my car, many things, all. They are both very nice. They don’t want me to take their money; they say no. And so, anyhow, it was nice. People are nice, and they are looking to come to Austria. Austrian people, they were very, very nice. To respect them, bring them, that’s a life for us. And then we begin to make the books. So first, this step, this... Step this, step this, step so. There was one Indian man, and he was somewhere in some factory, some kind of two, three years training. And so we had there, somewhere we had programs, and we were talking, "What can give the name?" These best exercises, the easiest exercises. And so he was Indian, he told me the name, and we all Czechoslovakians, we understood very much that yes, that’s good. And that’s called Sarva Hitta Āsana. Sarva means all. Sarva means for everyone: children, old, anybody, ill person, hospital, football player, any players, doctors, students, all. Sarva means all. Now, because it came very nicely, Sarva Hita. Now, what is Hita? Hita is a very good name, a very, very good name. And that was liked in this country very much. And so that time came later, came to Pārvatī. She was maybe a little girl going to third class or fourth class. Or something, but so śarīra, you know what is a śarīra? I know what it is, but I would... all. So sarvā means all. That was the best. Because in that time, in this country, they were not all one. All one. So they said, "Sarva." Then the government said, "Yes, mister. Sarva. Everyone." Hṛdaya. What is a Hṛdaya? For their, how do you say, for their, everyone’s health. Good for all. Good for all. Sarva, Hitta, Āsana. What is Āsana? Yoga exercise for, and then for, beginners. So, very good name. Sarva means all, for all. Hitta for their. So Sarva means all. Hitta for your good health. Sarvahitā āsanas, prāṇāyāma, yoga, and now I can tell you, many, many people who have no good health, they should only practice Sarvahitā āsana, and you will see after five months, after ten months, after one year, and again one and a half year, the same Sarvahitā āsana. You will see that you are like a young boy or young girl only. Sarvahitā Āsana now, other, there is what we call the young blood. So we call it young blood. So what is that? So that’s further than this training, and this exercise, and this exercise. Now, I made so many experiments, so many. I did so many experiments. So pivo in Hindi means drinking water. Holi Guru said, "Yes, please, yes." Holi Guru said, "Yes, please, yes." Then I said, "But Guru, did you drink beer?" He said, "Oh, God," but I said, "It is not alcohol." Gurujī said, "No." Gurujī said, "It is something like a Coca-Cola, OK?" Then maybe, OK, so sometimes they gave me something. One year they gave me this something for my health and something. Of course, no alcohol, no meat, no, no... Others, but they are also drinking alcohol and meat, and this. And I did not. So people who were against me, they said to the government, "He is not eating milk, alcohol, and this and that." I said, "I will not come." Again, they brought me. So one company tells that, "No, we don’t want him." Other company comes there, so I was now still sitting here. And it was the truth. They were also the truth. They were very, very strict and very, very good people. And they went. My car, I had, and I got my car. And my car was somewhere in the field, and I went somewhere. The car was open. Everything is inside. Two days, the car was lying somewhere. No one took even one tissue from there. These countries’ people were very, very, very nice. In Austria, I didn’t have a car, so I couldn’t go. I have in Austria my then mom. Everywhere, people are very good. In Europe, it was very, very good. In Vienna, I was teaching yoga until 9 o’clock. Then I was giving everybody cooking, eating. Then people go, "I was cleaning." Then at 10 o’clock, I go into the Vienna Woods. Till 12 in the forest. And I come back in Austria. There are so many people, very good, no one anything. Now I can’t go, maybe because there are many different people now. So everywhere, Europe is a very good country, peaceful everywhere. And now it is also very good in Austria. Many countryside, they don’t make lock, everything open. Even there are some people told me that someone... Go there, people, and there’s a farmer’s house, and two people are going there. The door is open. There is one basket, and there is bread, butter, everything, and some money. And there is written, "One day on the bread, friends, who are you? Please come and eat, and there is more in the fridge. If you need anything, there is your money, and the shop is very near. Go somewhere, buy, and enjoy, please." That was that time, people, you know. I myself saw that, and there are still many things in Europe. In Austria, there are in the mountains what they call the Alps. So people are in the whole world, good things, but now we have changed, we have changed those things. So in that way I was comfortable, I was very peaceful. Even I went in the night, the thing was there, and Yoga in Daily Life. So here in the whole of Czechoslovakia and Hungary and this, when I went to the train, they said, "Oh, Mr. Yoga, yoga, yoga." Okay. Always. So Yoga in Daily Life is thousands and thousands of people in these countries. They practice, they are practicing, they are doing themselves like this very much. So now you know what Sarva Hita Āsana means. That we should write everybody, what it means. So, Sarva Hita Āsana Prāṇāyāma. So that is a Sarvahita Āsana Yoga, what we call whatever. And so, Yoga in Daily Life. So they told me that, "So how many years or months or weeks are you giving us the training in yoga?" So I said, "My yoga is not limited." Why? They said, "But how long will you give my people teaching here?" I said, "Even after my life." So, Sarva Hitasan, Yoga in Daily Life. I said, "As long as you will live, if you want to live healthy and good, then you have only Yoga in Daily Life." And when you are old, on something like this, you have again come back to Sarvahitā Āsana. And so they said, "Maheśvarānanda yoga in daily life." So this is, and this is many, many people everywhere working with this. And then our book, which is made very nicely here, is written. And so they also, the Czechoslovakian people, they were printing like this, and yoga in their life. Many, many. In Hungary, they printed my books there by the government, and they made 200 books. And the Christmas was ten or twenty minutes before the Christmas. 10 days before Christmas, but they printed 200,000. But it was more, so they sold. Before Christmas, everything was sold. In Hungary, and from the government they gave me the money. Because of my book, many people said, "Please, we will give money to the machine, and please give to 10,000." You can ask Krishṇānanda. Is there any Hungarian here? Yes. I don’t know anybody saying something like this. Hungarians are like this, they are new girls. You have that book, that old one, that book still they have. That book is everywhere. Then we came to also Yugoslavia, very nice things, and then in Vienna, of course, we made printed very nicely. We had yesterday. There was a president here from Yoga and Daily Life Vienna, but he went yesterday, and he is very great. He made very nice books, pictures, and eyes. So Sarvahitāsan, you should practice Yoga in Daily Life, meaning Sarvahitāsan. As long as we are young and flexible, we can do our āsanas, but we should not make competitions. No competition, and now they want to make it Olympia. So I said, Olo, you know what is Olo? I give you, okay. You run, please. I will comfortably see how you are running. So we have, as a yogī, as a good human, and this, we tell, first please go you. When some person comes or some ladies come, we say, "Please, you come first." That is human, and they’re running, running, "I go first, I go first." Run quickly, and when you come to the border, go slowly and tell, "You go first, you go first." That is the best. But then they will say, "You are stupid." You were there, and you said, "Now you go. I go slowly." There are differences, but we don’t want to do the yoga in that way. We can make a competition of many things. We make a competition that we do good work. We will have good vegetables. We have good friends. Everything, everything. And Olympics and this game, so they are sort of going to the game, okay. But we are different. Therefore, Yoga in Daily Life begins with the Sarvahitā Āsana and ends with the Sarvahitā Āsana. Now, I think eight months I am doing Sarvaheita Āsana. And you know, every morning, two hours. When yesterday, I am always nearly coming, but how late? Sleeping, going? About 11:50. Nearly midnight. I go to sleep. And at 4:30 I get up, then go to the bathroom again, and I sit down. But it is a habit now, so at 5:15 or 5:14, I have to get up. And then I’m doing my āsanas, and in the middle comes a cup of tea. And then I practice this, and then I come here. So this was also to see what I can change myself. And when I came again to Czechoslovakia—should I tell them or finish? Because the whole world will listen. When I came to Czech, I had no beard or anything at all. Only the black hair, and I was thin like this. All my exercises, this and that. So they said, "I have no beard, you are so young, boy." I said, "You were also a young boy, so come on." So I tried to make hair grow quickly so that I have a little hair, so that I am not so young. And here we are practicing seminars, teaching that. And then, in the evening, we were doing satsaṅg and satsaṅg bhajans. And first, what we said, we sang the Czech song. After the Czech song, we do the Indian song. And what is the Indian song? This is Indian, so "Jaya Guru Devānī," and everybody, they know. But this is an Indian bhajan, song, song. And then we are singing exactly 11 o’clock at night. It came, many trays, big trays, with very nice bread and butter, and some with honey, and some with something. So in two years, I was going like that. So it still is there, and then I was in Yugoslavia. They have also another very nice, you know, they are very kaimak myself, so tasteful, so they spoiled me. Otherwise, I was doing all programs, all āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, so I come back again to the Sarvahitā Āsana, and it is very nice. You people also, Sarvahitā Āsana. And not only for ten days, not only for ten years or months, days, or time, at least one and a half hours, Sarvahitā Āsana. And there are the step-by-step that is different for yoga teachers. So, my dear, we shall practice both the Sarvahitā Āsana for everyone, for husband, for your wife, for anybody. So it has nothing, because here the people are afraid of the religions. So they are very afraid. So, therefore, I said, "I’m not afraid. I can tell your religion, come on, come on." So, Sarvahitāsan is very good. You can give your little children, you can teach your teacher, and in your school you will say, "How is your teacher, and what are you doing?" "I’m doing Yoga in Daily Life." Many, many teachers said. Please, can you also accept me in your yoga center? Everywhere, everywhere, many doctors, many things. So now, coming in the world again, yoga is back. But we, we have in Slovakia, I’m in this Soviet Union before also, and so it is around the world, yoga in their life. How? Many, you know that? We were showing one letter, yoga in their life, because then it was very big, the temple, Śiva temple. And they made a foundation, and they asked, "Who is the Swāmījī or yogīs or something?" So my letter was sent there, and I was also surprised how many. Not only in Austria and Czechoslovakia, Hungary in this, but also in Afghanistan. And also in Pakistan, there is now a center. Make this. And with Cuba, America, China. In China, it’s five centers. Many, many, everywhere. Yoga and their life. All they have is this very nicely. These are very good exercises, and very, very good. People are coming, they are taking. There is one Ramdev Yoga Center, you know. Now he is practicing all Sarvaitā āsanas. But he, it’s him, not mine. He took it in his exercise as a Sarvahitāsana. I said, "Why not?" But now, my dears, we have one other something. You have to do everyone now. There was Kāṭhūpraṇām, but there are three or four villages which are called Kāṭhū. So we want to Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī is Barīk Khāṭū. So again, because people are going to that Khāṭū, and this is not this, it is Barīk Khāṭū. Where is Mahāprabhujī? So that’s why we call it Barik Khatu. There are two cities. Okay, and now we have made 27 movements in this. It is very good, from the very simple till the highest, and come back, and good. So there was a competition. I made a competition, but good things. So there is a Sūrya Praṇām. Sūrya Praṇām or Namaskār is only 12, because there are 12 names of the sun. But we have 27, because this is Kriyā Anuṣṭhāna. And this is 27, a quarter of 100. So everything is very, very good. And the name is now Barikatu Pranam, and this Barikatu Pranam is already on Google. On Google, you can check, you will find it. They have taken someone from me, and they are my disciple in Mumbai, and he is very much sending it to Google. So, there we can do something so that he will learn. We have given to anyone, let’s say, Facebook. There, you can make this, and we have made this, and we will make it nice, but you can make yourself different, how? But the postures, they should be the same. Bari, khatu, praṇām. Bari, khatu, praṇām. So you know everybody, yes? Thank you. So you can make this in your yoga class, you or your friend, everyday practice. So the bārī khaṭū is better also. Sarvihitāsan is good. This is good, and Yoga in Daily Life is good. Now we would like to see here, hope a few people can come. Give a mic near, yes. You speak inside. You speak. Yeah, you speak nice, good, yes? Trī. You are a teacher. Give the instruction. Čtyři. You two speak. Pět. Šest. In the mic. Sedm. Loud. Right leg. Sedm. Osm. In the mic. So go talk properly. She’s nervous. Deset. Can you call mic, little mic, talking? Dvanáct. We need one loudspeaker. Mic, you will be. 14. English, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. 23, 24, 25, 26. Now, stand up and only give instruction, okay? We are going to practice Darikā to Praṇām. We are going to practice Darikā to Praṇām. The voice be strong. We are going to practice bārikatu pranām. One, hands up. Two, we are going down. Three, to the front. Four, tell him also go like the next. First, hands back round. Five, six, seven, left. Leg to the front, eight hands back, nine hands up, that camera will go, then ten hands down, 11, the leg to the front, 12, we are going up, 13, 14, hands behind the back, look to the front, 15, we are going down, 16, Left leg back, 17, 18. Arms up, 18, 19. 19, 20, 21, 22, arms back and legs up. 23, 24, we are going back. 25, arms back. 26, arms up. Continue. Next. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Look to the front, to the front. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, arms up, 10, 11, 12, look forward, 13, 14, look forward. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. Very good. The champion is... Lāda Mantra Devī. Lāda Mantra Devī. Come on. Yes, very nice. Yeah, thank you. So, everyone, you can write on your somewhere, t-shirt or anywhere, first only: "Bārikatu Pranām Yoga for physical, mental, and spiritual health." Mental and social health.