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Part 1: The Eternal Self and the Path to Well-being Swamiji enjoys the greatest respect not only in Croatia but also abroad, as you probably know. We are very happy to have the opportunity to listen to his lecture, especially during this period of Navarātri—nine special days with profound meaning. Listening to such a significant lecture on these very auspicious days has an even greater influence on our body and mind. Yesterday, Svāmījī held a very special lecture in Zagreb on the topic of the Agnya Chakra. Today, the topic will be a little different but will also be useful for us. This time, I ask you, Svāmījī, to bless us with your teaching. Thank you. In the divine light, Lord of our hearts, all-knowing and all-present, in His divine presence, I wish you a good evening, brothers and sisters, Mr. Kurana from the Indian Embassy in Zagreb, the other viewers who are sitting here, dear representatives of the media, and the organizers. It is my great privilege to be here with you tonight. The Split organization, Yoga in Everyday Life, asked me what the topic of today’s lecture could be. I spent a few days on the island of Pašman, then flew from Split to Vienna. After two weeks, I decided to come back here again, and I thought about what could be better and happier in life than good health. When the āsurī śakti and daivī śakti began to churn the ocean, they searched for nectar, meaning they desired to be immortal, healthy, and young. But there is one eternal principle of the law: that which is created will be destroyed. Who has come will go. That is the eternal truth. But the second truth is that which is everlasting, immortal—that is thyself. No weapon, no death can take it away. That everlasting, immortal, final truth is called the Ātmā, the supreme self. This body is mortal. This mind is changeable. Emotion is changeable. All this memory, emotion, intellect—everything is temporary, given to us. And the soul is individual. The soul is not universal. As personal souls, we are sitting here as different persons. Every creature has a soul, but there is unity in diversity: the Ātmā, the light of God, is equal in every creature. Suppose you take a cup of water and put it in the garden; you will see the moon in the sky reflected in the cup. There is only one moon, and you will see only one moon in the cup. Now, we put one hundred cups filled with water—different colors, different forms, different sizes, but all filled with liquid. Again, we look in every cup. There is a moon. In my cup is a moon, in your cup is a moon, in his cup is a moon. A hundred cups, a hundred moons. Yet, we look up, and there is only one. So, my beloved Gurudev, His Holiness Swami Madhavānandjī, he used to say: "One in all, all in one." Only that one consciousness exists in the entire planet, and all the planet’s creatures are connected to that one. But as a soul, there is a different destiny, and that destiny is caused by our karma. Where there is action, there is a reaction. And where there is a reaction, there will be action. Each of us has a different destiny, and that destiny is your ID card—what you have done is what you will get. This means the soul is also not immortal. When we become free from the karmas, then the soul will dissolve. Everything is deleted. What remains with thyself? That light of God will merge into God. Water merges into the water element. Fire merges into the fire element. So the reality, the truth, is only one. Ekaḥ, one is the truth, that is the Brahman, and where there are two, that is non-reality. How does that self look, which cannot be destroyed? God Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā, "No weapons can destroy him." That self is like the sky, like space. Suppose you take a gun and shoot at the sky, and then take a magnifying glass and look to see if there are any holes. Similarly, your divine self is like the sky. But since we are in this physical body, we are acting as an individual, and we have our dharma. If we don’t fulfill our dharma, we get negative karma. If we fulfill our dharma, we get positive karma. Dharma means principle, not a religion. The principle of my eye is to see. The principle of my ears is to hear. So the Vedas say, "Dharma rakṣita rakṣitaḥ." If you protect your dharma, dharma will protect you. It means if you protect your eyes, they will protect you too. If you protect your ears, they will protect you. Similarly, there is the dharma of the seasons: winter, spring, summer, autumn. Dharma of the ocean, dharma of the father, dharma of the mother. Dharma of the children, dharma of the husband to his wife, and dharma of the wife towards her husband. Dharma rakṣitaḥ—if you protect this dharma, then that dharma will protect you. Don’t expect that you are all the time naughty and angry and destructive, but still your wife will love you. No, or your friends. So, if you protect this dharma, then that dharma will protect you. Out of 8.4 million different creatures, one is a human, and a human has this intellect—very powerful, but that intellect needs right education. And in the heart of humans, God put the seeds of mercy and compassion. The purpose of human life is to have self-realization, God-realization. Humans are created by the divine as a protector, not as a destroyer. And the aim of human life is to know, "Who am I?" I am not this body, I am not this blood, flesh, bones. I am not this emotion, intellect, mind. I am not this soul, but I am Ātmā. Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya, the great saint Śaṅkarācārya, said: "Who am I? From where did I come? What is the purpose of my coming here? And where will I go?" We don’t know. If you know this, you have enlightenment. Do you know of your past life? Or, do you know, last year in September on this date, what you ate? Last month on the same date, do you know what you did? You were gone. Memory deleted. But through the practice of yoga and meditation, you become trikāladarśī, the knower of the three times: past, present, and future. Doesn’t matter what you think. Reality is different. How much we take care of our money, our house, our dear ones, and even this body. It will go. If your grandmother died—yesterday she was at home, you had a nice dinner with her, and at night she died—the body is carried away. Just before 23 hours, grandmother disappeared. We cannot telephone her. We cannot send an SMS. Nothing. Where? What a mystery of life. Yesterday she was sitting, having dinner with us, dear grandmother. Nowhere in the universe can we find her. We can only cry. Only memory remains. From where she came, perfect. She played as a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, wife. And just went. The same way, we will go too. We don’t know who will be the first. Don’t think that I’m old enough, I will go first. No. Destiny knows. Therefore, human life is given to attain self-realization. Therefore, God Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "Arjuna, practice yoga." Why? So Krishna is telling him that through this, you will get self-realization. Arjuna asked the question, "My Lord, what will happen to me if I practice for 100 years, for example, but still I didn’t get self-realization, and I died? What will happen with my practice?" Krishna said, "This will go with you." You will have again a human life. You will have spiritual, loving parents. And from childhood, you will have spiritual, divine feelings. Your spiritual journey will begin from childhood again. You will meet the Master who will lead you there. That’s it. Today, while driving the car, I was reading one poster—a big poster, not my poster. In Zagreb, it was a big poster, black and white, black and orange, or yellow. And there was written that one holy priest or guru was giving a blessing. And the disciple is standing on his knees with folded hands. And there is written one sentence: "Master is God." What was written there in the Croatian language? "Your master is God," meaning Jesus. So it was Jesus who blessed his disciple. I said, "Very good." We come again there. We say, "Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvarāha." Guru is Brahmā, Guru is Viṣṇu, and Guru is Śiva. Guru Devo, Maheśvaraḥ, he is the highest one. He is the supreme one. I bow down to my master. No religious conflict. Now is the time, my dear, to unite our hearts. You believe in one God. I believe in another incarnation of God. He believes in someone, he believes in another one, and she doesn’t believe anything. It doesn’t matter. We believe that we are human, and we believe there is only one religion: humanity. And we believe that we are all creations of one God. All these troubles in the world—the ex-Yugoslavian experience just some years ago. Many of my disciples said, "Swamiji, we spent the nights and days under the trees in the forest." In this century, the 21st century, where there is a time when humans are clever, capable, and have a lot of spirituality, such a thing happens. The question: what was the cause of that? Culture? Religion? Tradition? What? It means humans still don’t understand humans. And when humans don’t understand humans, then of course they don’t understand animals at all. So, they were churning the ocean. Instead of nectar, first the poison came. And so on—I will not tell the whole story. Finally, God Viṣṇu in the form of Dhanvantari came out of the ocean. In his hand, Amṛta Kalaśa. And that Amṛta Kalaśa, at that time, was recognized as Āyurveda medicine. And one philosopher in Europe said, "Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health." Pela sukha nirogikaya means the first happiness is a healthy body. Nothing can make you happy. Happy are they who are healthy, can eat anything, sleep anywhere, and work at anything. We don’t know. A healthy person doesn’t know what health is. But an ill person knows what health is. Thanks to God that we are healthy. The second was yoga. So Āyurveda brought the message of healthy nourishment. You drink good tea for blood pressure. You drink good tea against stomach pain. You eat some good olive oil; it’s good for health. So whatever we take in is our life, healthy. So nourishment and movement—every movement which has an influence on our body, mind, and so on. Yoga exercises are known as psychosomatic movements. They influence our entire physical being: our muscles, ligaments, joints, nerves, glands, circulation, and so on. In yoga, there are three levels of exercises: dynamic movements for body warming; after body warming come the stretching postures; and after the stretching comes the postures we call āsanas. Now, yoga is as old as I told you, like the universe. No religion is as old as yoga. Yoga is a science. Yoga is a science of this body. Āyurveda: Āyur means life—the age, not only this life. What is your age? How old are you? And Veda means knowledge. It means to extend your life existence as long as you wish through Āyurveda, but of course, we must have proper herbs, proper combination. Unfortunately, 90% out of 100—90%—we lost the knowledge. The snake has run away, but we see only the trap of the snake, unfortunately. But now, I’m very happy that the Indian government is again trying very hard to research and bring back Āyurveda. I asked the Indian government about Āyurveda 15 to 20 years ago. They said, "Yes, but we have other medicine now that affects quickly and so on." But since the Western people adopted Āyurveda so much, the Indian government was thinking, "Oh, there must be something good," because Westerners accept it. Yoga? I’ve been teaching for 40 years here. In the beginning, when I came and was talking about yoga, people said, "What? Yoga? Must I sit on a needle bed? Or should I hang myself upside down?" A very nice joke, a real joke, not a... It was in 1984. A place called Makarska. Do you know where that can be? Which country? On the coast, I had a yoga seminar, and some young men—his parents and grandparents were against that this boy is vegetarian. They think vegetarian means ill person, will die very quickly. But you know, the longest life is vegetarian living. The best memory is had by vegetarians. The best students in this school are vegetarian. And fewer numbers of cancer cases are among vegetarians. And fewer broken bones are among vegetarians. Anyhow, they went to the doctor. The doctor should write something, that his son should go to the psychiatric doctor. A psychiatric doctor should find out what illness he has, why he is a vegetarian. It’s a true story. A doctor wrote an article in a local newspaper against vegetarianism and yoga. At the end, he wrote one sentence: "And that’s why vegetarians don’t have children." That day was my birthday. So, my Yugoslavian friends—that time was Yugoslavia—and the owner of the hotel made a big birthday cake. And one of my organizers from Novi said, "Is there eggs inside, in the cake?" Eggs, yeah. He said, "Yes, and we are sorry, you cannot offer it to Swamiji. He doesn’t eat eggs." No fish, no meat, no eggs. Only milk, yes, milk products. And the owner’s wife, she came with the newspaper. "Look, today’s article, the doctor said vegetarians don’t get children." And they told me. That time there was no mobile, no SMS, and no emails, so I sent him a telegram: "Dear doctor, I admire your knowledge that vegetarians don’t get children. That’s why India has overpopulation." So, how people were thinking? Now you should know that every fifth person in the world is practicing yoga, and billions of dollars of business is making the Indian government because people buy the yoga goods from there: yoga mats. And suddenly, my government woke up. Yoga is so good that all Westerners are practicing. So, my dear, why do you practice yoga? You study and you know that allopathic medicine has a lot of side effects. But I am not against this medicine. Medicine can save our life. If it is necessary, you should take the medicine. But prevention is far better than treatment. And your health is in your hands. It’s your decision. It’s your life. Twenty-four hours we are working. I would suggest you take one and a half hours from the twenty-four hours of the day for your health and for your happiness. That you will have a happy, healthy, and long-enjoying life, and that I wish you today. Second, the breath. Breath is not only oxygen, but if you practice prāṇāyāma, breath technique, it calms down your nerves. We call it Nāḍī Śodhana, purification of the nerves. That’s what you can do for your lungs. We don’t know what healthy lungs are because, thanks to God, we have healthy lungs. But one who has a lung problem knows what the lungs are and what it means to breathe. These two nāḍīs, iḍā and piṅgalā—sympathetic and parasympathetic—they both influence very strongly our both hemispheres. As soon as you begin to breathe slowly and long, you have to develop the capacity, you have the nerves to breathe slowly. As soon as you begin this from the left nostril, this left hemisphere is free of tensions. And when you practice through the piṅgalā, the sun system, then your right hemisphere is relaxed. It has been researched so many times. Now, the yogī is talking about anulom vilom prāṇāyāma. Many of you know, because you are yoga students here. Anulom Vilom means you inhale through the left nostril and exhale through the right nostril. Then you again inhale from the right, and you exhale with the left. It will harmonize and coordinate the work of both hemispheres. It will supply more oxygen to the brain, and students will have such good concentration and be very healthy. Try it in your yoga school. But I can tell you, it’s not easy to breathe slowly for a few minutes. We are so nervous. When I tell you to breathe slowly, these two fingers are placed at the center of the eyebrows, at the Ājñā Chakra. It has two functions: one is that it keeps your head straight and supports your head, which means your neck is relaxed; second, it develops concentration at the center of the eyebrows. If you have high blood pressure, do it for 15 minutes and then measure your blood pressure. You will see it has dropped down. That is the first introduction of the prāṇāyāma, the first result of the prāṇāyāma, immediately. So, why should we not do it now? Would you like to do it? Yes, who doesn’t want to do? It’s your thing. Tomorrow evening, this time, if you come here, nobody will tell you to do it. You have the chance. Use it or lose it. Come on. Sit straight. Always, when the body is straight, then the lungs are relaxed. Place two fingers at the center of the eyebrows, and with the thumb, slightly close your right nostril. Press the right nostril from the side, and try to inhale from the stomach. It means first expand your abdomen maximally, and then expand the lungs. Exhale slowly again with the left nostril, first from the lungs and then from the stomach. So, close your eyes and ten times: deep inhale and slowly, long exhale. Don’t miss your breath. Put your concentration on the breath. How the air is flowing in and how the air is coming out. While inhaling, you feel a little cool and fresh air through the left nostril. And while exhaling, you feel very pleasant, warm air coming out through the left nostril. No movements. Don’t play with your toes. Relax. Listen to the breath sound, inhalation and exhalation. Go ahead, concentrate and feel your breath. When ten times are finished, then with your ring finger close the left nostril, and ten times inhale and exhale with the right nostril. I see your mind is running away. Keep your mind on the breath process. Immediately, I can see when your thoughts are running away. I don’t know why I can see, but I think it’s only temporary. Don’t worry, I don’t see always. Deep inhale and long exhale. And now, when you finish ten times, place your hand on the knee after ten times and concentrate on your breath again. I know that I’m inhaling, and I know that I’m exhaling. Concentrate on the breath in the stomach. Time of the inhalation: the stomach or abdomen is expanding. And the time of the exhalation is contracting. Be relaxed, sit straight, and be one with thyself. Don’t run away with your thoughts. And those who open their eyes and close and open them, it means they are restless ones. Nothing new will happen, don’t worry. Just close your eyes. And if something happens, I will tell you at the right time, so enjoy your inner world, relax. I know that I am inhaling, I know that I am exhaling. Very good. Now you can open your eyes. So, further, your yoga teacher will give you the exercises. There are many, many steps of breath. This is the best thing you can do for your physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. And after that, take time to meditate and concentrate. Today, one journalist asked me the question, "Swamiji, what are you doing for your relaxing, to calm down?" Yoga and death. I am always relaxed. Maybe she was thinking I go for a dance or some big water sport or something. So, ever relaxed, if you do exercise. Now, many different kinds of yoga you hear nowadays. Part 2: The Essence of Yoga in Daily Life I tell you, there is only one yoga, and that is called yoga. Yoga is yoga. Now, some people teach it in a split manner. We could call that split yoga. But "split" means separation, not union. Other words are used, like "Umāg Yoga." In Hindi, "Umāg" means happiness. A third might say "Zagreb Yoga," and in German they call it "Agram"—"A" meaning one, and "gram" meaning gram. "One gram." People become confused. Yoga is only one, and the copyright of yoga belongs to Lord Śiva. However, different teachers, according to their experiences and research work, arrange those yoga exercises into a system. That is why I call yoga a daily life system. So, practice yoga in everyday life. Slowly, but constantly. You will be healthy and happy. Live an organic, vegetarian life. You will enjoy your life. You will always have relaxed muscles, happiness, no feeling of guilt, and no fear. Now we come to other exercises. We have some demonstrators today. Please welcome our demonstrators here, one on this side, one on that side, facing the middle. Yes, very good. Not so close; you go a little further back. More behind, okay? No, no, they are too close. Girl, you go a little to the back. Always, girls and boys should be separated, but not so far. There. Flowers on. Put the flower in the direction. Okay, thank you. Very good. You know why? So that people can see me. Sit down. Head in the middle, lie down on your back and relax. After coming home from your whole day of work, the best thing you can do is relax consciously. Say to yourself mentally: relax. Relax, my friend. Just relax. Let me be one with myself. You should say this, what I am saying, mentally to yourself: "The whole day has passed. I was working physically and mentally hard." Then take a deep breath. Inhale deep, and exhale. But now it’s time to relax. Relax, my friend. You will say to yourself, "Relax, my friend, just relax. Let me be one with myself." I am giving you a very valuable lesson. If we were to give such a nice seminar somewhere, it would cost a lot of money. But today it is gratis. So learn, please. First, when you come home, wash yourself—or your hands, mouth, and legs. Freshen up. Take a blanket, or no blanket, and lie down. Wear some loose dress. This is automatic air conditioning. With so much pollution in the air, to wear a short-sleeved dress is not advisable. It can lead to skin cancer due to the ozone problem. So, no mini rock, long rock. Long arms. If some man doesn’t like me, don’t look at me. That’s all. Don’t wear a dress that some man will like. Less man, less problem. So relax. Now, second, withdraw your thoughts from the external world. And say to yourself, "Relax. The whole day passed working hard, mentally and physically, but now it’s for myself." Next step: I know that I inhale and exhale. And with this, try to relax every limb of the body. Consciously relax your right leg, left leg, right hand, left hand, shoulders, buttocks, back, bow muscles, stomach muscles, neck, face muscles, entire body—from the toes till the head, and from the top of the head till the toes. Just fall down. Then, at the time of inhalation, imagine that cosmic energy is flowing into the body—the life force, vitality, the prāṇa. And at the time of exhalation, all the toxins are going out of the body like a fog. Light enters the body as energy, and like black clouds, it comes out—all the daytime problems and all the pollution that entered. Your body, he called us, is the home. Naked Tom on obloquies, Lazy’s was was agonist. Five minutes, five minuta. If you do long aqua dorada to do ish, then I’m not responsible on the nice a mission, because then you will do a different technique. You’ll touch. It’s a beautiful tool. So after a few minutes, move your fingers. Close the palm, open. Close the fist, open the palm. Contract the toes and relax. Rotate your ankle joints. Close your fist and rotate your wrists. Move your head to the right, and move your head to the left. Move your shoulders up and down. Slowly inhale and raise your hands up above the ground, on the ground, and stretch your whole body. Toes towards the body, heels out, and knees on the ground. Don’t make a breeze under your back. Press your back down and stretch your body. While exhaling, bring the hands parallel to the body down. Inhale and stretch the hands above the head on the ground. Stretch the whole body, tear it into parts. Toes towards the body, yes, and feet together, yes. And exhale, relax. Beautiful. I’m feeling to do with inhale. Generally, I’m not so nice to mom. And now, normal breath, and roll your body to the left side, and right side, and left side, and right side. Very good. And middle. Hands parallel to the body. Bend or turn a little bit to one side, left or right. Bend your knees a bit and, with the help of your hands, sit up. Now you are ready for exercises. Sit in Vajrāsana. Now we do one series of exercises called Kaṭhu Praṇām. "Kaṭhu" is the holy place where my Grandmaster lived, the holy hills. "Praṇām" is salutation. So I dedicated this series of the composing of different āsanas and gave the name Kaṭhu Praṇām. You can do it as a body warming, you can do it as a stretching, and you can do it as a posture. You can do it to develop your energy centers, chakras. And you can do it to develop concentration and health. It depends on how you do it: where, when, and how to concentrate. So, one, two—the movement itself is introducing. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. You see now, other knees in the front. So differently, we are influencing our side muscles and hips. 13, this is 13, 14, 15. It will remove all the tiredness of the whole day which you had. While sitting on the chair, working on the computer or doing different work, the leg muscles and ligaments are getting tensed. Now you see how nicely they are stretched. Heels should be on the ground. Now the muscles are stretched from the inside, from the nose. You will feel stretching from here, going through the head and neck, back muscles, buttock muscles, thigh muscles, calf muscles, and the heel muscles. Heels, ankle joints, beautiful feeling. 16. It’s also for the people who want to have good muscles, strong. 17. And this wonderful one, 18, will be a little harder to develop your shoulder muscles. 18, 19, and 20. If you do it quicker, it’s a body warming. It’s very dynamic. If you do it slowly, stretching and staying longer, it’s called postures. All the eight chakras—Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra—if you know and you read the book, they all are balanced in the body. Or these plexus, glands. They get a normal rhythm again. And this posture, how they are sitting, Vajrāsana. After jogging, after long walking, if you sit, you will feel very relaxed and fresh. You see the people who are running through the forest or the beach, then they come to one tree or a wall, one hand pressing to the wall, and with the second hand, they hold the foot and stretch like this. Is it true? Because it removes the tiredness. Really, just the tension of the muscles. Or if you go to, or you’ve seen someone in the mosque praying. Sitting in this posture automatically, the spine is straight. When the spine is straight, the stomach is relaxed. Lungs expanded have enough oxygen. Shoulders are relaxed because the elbows are very relaxed. Neck muscles are relaxed. This develops concentration. And when you bend forward, when you pray, it is similar to Shashankāsana, one and two, slowly. It circulates the blood more towards the brain, to the muscles, so it is good for the eyes, for the ears, and for the face muscles, everything. So thank you, come up. Then comes, it’s called half butterfly. My God, very nice. Today is the best exercise. If you want, we can do hand standing, head standing. But what will you gain from this? Something you can really use at home. Never force yourself. So, now to remove the tensions from the hip joint pain, and these inner muscles of the thighs, and the back tension, and the neck is tense, and the shoulders are stiff. So, half butterfly. That’s it. My God, they are so flexible. They are doing yoga in their life, but they can’t show you. Can you imagine someone is so stiff, sitting like this? And you press more than if there is something breaking. Now it’s good. So, it should be so flexible that your knee is touching the ground. You are relaxed, and now hold your toes. Oh, that is something, a blessing, yes. But the butterfly is drinking the nectar and moving its wings, but they are practicing every day, good yoga teachers. So come up, and on the other side. To become a Yoga in Daily Life teacher, it takes you a minimum of five years. It’s not a ten-day seminar and you become a yoga teacher, no. So, hold your toes. Very good. Come up. Now, the full butterfly. Please close the windows so they don’t leave it out. Now, here you see if they practiced or not. Hands on the knees. Yes. And now press the knees down, touch the ground. Mmm, that is, you know, I have not proper dress, but it should come to you like this. They are busy yoga teachers, you know. And now, hold the toes. And now the butterfly is sitting, moving its wings, and we’ll drink the nectar from the blossom of the toes. But the toes and the heels don’t move away. So, touch your toes with your, kiss your toes, but thighs are not moving. Knees should move. Yes, that’s it. It’s not easy to drink the nectar, boys. Okay, slowly come up. Very simple, but you will feel so nice in your legs and back after some days. Thank you. Now, after that, is for all of you. Very simple, but the best. Boat rolling, yes, because you are living near the sea. So, hands near the knee. While going back, close the fist and belaying back side, and exhale. One, go ahead, please. Can you imagine what’s happening with the back muscles? The shoulder muscles? The neck? Beautiful. Forget head standing. Let’s stand on the legs. And other direction. Palms open. One. Going up and coming. Good for digestion, good for back muscles, good for the hamstrings. Good to remove tiredness. Dynamical movement and stretching, both together. Very good. Hands on the thighs. And now we do the posture, Paścimottānāsana. One. Two. Three. Knees are straight. You may rest your forehead on the knees if you can. Paścimottānāsana means the back. Back stretching. Back muscle stretching posture. It’s very, very nice. So don’t hurry to practice. Maybe only five or six postures, but take time. Two, three, and four. Lie down on your back. Likewise, yoga and daily life, the system, have very simple exercises. Even you will not get these exercises on the first day. After three weeks, you will get. The first day you may get is moving of the shoulder, the bumper muscles. But you will become the master, step by step. You see, when a small child begins to learn writing, then he can’t properly hold the pen. And when he writes "A," you know, like that. But after, when he’s grown and going to school, he can write like this. Health. Nothing can be compared with health. Health cannot be bought with money or with anything. Health can only be gained through inner willpower. So, it is your life, it’s your happiness, it’s your health, and it costs you nothing. And you are always at home with your happy partner and children. And this exercise is like a cosmic dance. Someone said, "My body is the temple of my spirit, of my soul." And we are happy in this body. So, good food, healthy food, good exercises, good society, and good thinking will develop spirituality in the body, love for the whole world, and you will be that one ring to join the chain for world peace. So, inner peace for world peace. Next weekend, not this weekend, we will have a world peace summit. The subject is inner peace, the answer to the troublesome world conflict. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and you are most welcome to come to Hungary. Very near to you, it’s called Sombathe. It should have been in Budapest, but we moved to the country. So, there’s a lot of things to say, but time doesn’t allow. Dear brothers and sisters, I wish you, first of all, good health and long life. Happiness and health. If you have any questions, you’re welcome to ask. Now, demonstrators, you can slowly sit up and sit in yoga posture. Thank you. Any question about your health, about this subject? Yes, one and a half hours every day you should practice. It means relaxation, āsanas, prāṇāyāma, and concentration or meditation. Minimum one and a half hours. And this Yoga and Daily Life System book you have, the first part of the chapter, chapter A and chapter B. Each has to be practiced for three months, six months. Then you have another seven chapters. It depends on your body’s capacity and flexibility. So, in about three to five years, you will master it. And you will feel the benefit within three days. Today, you begin, okay? You will be good. I practice yoga. Tomorrow you will do, and you will feel a little sore. The day after tomorrow, you will say, "Should I do it or not?" Now you have to overcome your laziness and develop willpower. And on the fourth day, you will say, "I feel good hunger." And I have very good stool, cleaning bowel. Oh, I sleep so good, and in one week you will feel very good. And in ten days, if you don’t practice, your body will say, "Get up, do something." So then you will be in the rhythm constantly, and you will feel the benefit. For the whole digestion, digestive system, heart, lungs, kidneys, glands. I’m not a doctor, so someone who is here, a doctor or medical student, may understand much better. And it’s never too late; begin immediately. Every day which is gone is lost. Next, yes, do you advance spiritually with practicing this yoga? Of course, that’s the main thing. Okay, how will it come? Slowly, slowly. Now you put the seed inside, it will grow. It will become a nice olive tree. It will take a few years until the olive will come, twelve months until it thrives. Then you take the oil, and then you put it on the salad. That’s it. Step by step. Spirituality means not religious thoughts. Spirituality is a pure heart, clean thoughts, positive thinking, a loving heart, never quarreling, no doubts, no jealousy, and, of course, next time we can have a different subject. Without spirituality, yoga practice is like a body without a soul. Without mantra, meditation is like a stone statue without life. Okay? Yes. He said, "Is there anything that makes you lose your temper? You seem always very calm." Yes, drink cold water, eat vegetarian, balanced food, and control your feelings. Learn to trust, trust others. Though some are not trustworthy, Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." So, from our side, we should be happy and relaxed. So, food is very important. It influences our glands, hormones. It influences our thoughts, our temper. Everything. And if it is still not controllable, then fasting. Eat only once a day, at lunchtime. Quit your dinner. In the morning, drink cold water. Not hot coffee, cold water. Lunch, eat little. Automatically, you will be like this. Yes, next someone. Yes, if the person is spiritual, how can he defend himself from bad people and negative energy? Yes, that’s a good question. He doesn’t need to defend. They are already... goes away. You know, God, yeah, still you achieve. God takes upon himself the responsibility of a spiritual person, though even they will attack you. Then be a nice, a real Christian. So the second chick, are you capable? To do this, no, you are not a Christian. We are only named Christians. Learn, read what the Bible says. You have to live to die. You have died to live. That’s it. Unless you have not killed your ego, you can’t leave that. I think I am spiritual, but my thinking is wrong. Everything is clear? But, but I know, curry, the great one, never speaks about his or her greatness. Probably the leaker, Nick, and I’m gonna go over your story. Very chiny, a spiritual person or guru will never say that, "I’m a..." Guru? Do you know about a guru? Nick and I, church? Yes, I’m a guru. And if someone said, "Yes, I’m a guru," I connect with a "yes, I’m a guru," then he’s very close to the kangaroo. But, but I... There was a poet, his name was Rahim Dās. Rahim Das said, "When does a diamond tell us that my value is millions of dollars?" Diamond doesn’t speak that, "I’m a diamond," but we say, "Wow, man, very expensive." Still, the diamond will not say yes. He will not say yes or no. It’s your decision. Similarly, don’t judge thyself nor others. Just be. Just be. That’s it. Next. Well. How to hasten the growth of spirituality and consciousness in our neighborhood, in Croatia, in the country. Of course, whatever I spoke, I spoke for Croatia. Fasting means drinking a lot of liquid: orange, apple, grape juice. Carrots, vegetable juice, about 200 grams of yogurt per day. And salad. Some nuts in the salad, or some seeds. And avoid the grains. No corn, no wheat, no rice. All, avoid this. When you are hungry, you eat fruits. No cakes. No ice cream. And after one week, reduce your diet. Well, in the whole world, nowadays, people become crazy. Wine is not fine. Wine will not make you divine. Therefore, don’t drink any more wine. The wine that Jesus told of was a fresh grape juice. The plant of the grape juice is called wine. So, it depends on you: this or that. The holy saint Francis from Assisi said, "Dig the wine ten meters deep in the earth, so that nobody smells it." It is that which makes humans stupid. And he said, "Even a donkey doesn’t drink alcohol." If you give a bucket full of alcohol to a very thirsty donkey, bring alcohol, the donkey will make like this. Oh, human! This is not me who is saying this, please, okay? Reporting what Francis of Assisi said. You know, I have to go safely back to Austria. Yes. We are saying that everybody should be happy and everybody has the right to be happy, but nevertheless, this is not the case in the world. There are many differences between people, and deeper and deeper, those differences. So, the question is that although we are talking about happiness and peace, and we are focusing on each individual, and every religious and spiritual movement is doing so, and do you, as a spiritual person, in your... Meetings with government officials and presidents have some efforts, so that all those individual movements and individual efforts are combined into one, so the global sense of happiness should increase. That’s a very good question and very nice thoughts, but some governments are not capable. Unfortunately, in many countries, religions are obstacles. But it depends on the public, the majority. And so nowadays, as you said, many, many spiritual groups from different traditions, many spiritual thoughts are coming, and it will be, and we pray that it will be. Thank you. So with this, dear brothers and sisters, I wish you a very good evening, a very relaxed and happy evening, and a very good night and sweet sleeps and honey dreams. Thank you.