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Good evening. What a beautiful day and a very nice atmosphere. We are very happy, and we had a very nice day of practice. This is a beautiful atmosphere. Tomorrow will be nearly the fourth day. So, I was thinking of giving you half a day for free. This means we will have all our practice until breakfast time. Then we have breakfast. At that time, you can have a little more bread. After that, we have time to go to the forest. You know all the paths. But please go in groups, or a few people together. Then, tick, finished. After we come back for lunch and you relax, the further program will continue. If someone cannot go walking, perhaps, then you can do your own exercises, sarvahitā āsana or other practice. Understand? Now, I have only told you, but it is your choice whether you want to go or not. So, let's give a hand up if you will go for just three hours, not more. So, will you go for a walk? Perfect, very good. And for those who cannot go far, we will give you some other nice exercise somewhere in the forest or the garden. Thank you, it's very good. This morning, you had a very nice lecture. You heard about this. And then, in your meditation, and what you were working on... How was it this afternoon? I see not too many [responses]. But it means others were also practicing, so perhaps you were not happy? That's why you said nothing. Tomorrow it will be better. Then you can tell yes or no. Someone from some other countries has told me, "Swāmījī, today was a very nice meditation, very beautiful here yesterday, this time." They said it was very nice and mentioned such nice bird sounds. Yes, it is. It is a beautiful time, very beautiful. We have many sādhanās, many lectures, but we have to take it all into our heart, into our brain, into our thoughts. That is very important. That's why we are coming here, and every time new thoughts and lectures come. It is so beautiful here. You see the beautiful trees, and these trees, when I'm sitting here, they are giving so much energy, so much energy. So we shall always have deeper inhalation and exhalation: inhale, exhale. Here, whatever food we have, whatever it is, it has the prāṇa inside. Of course, we are so many, and some have different tastes, others have other tastes. Or we could do something: everyone could bring your cook for cooking. Sit under the tree, with the fire, or in your seat where you are, and make your own food. That's beautiful, very, very nice. But, of course, I would give you a maximum of about one hour for preparing, cooking, eating, and cleaning. That's a very long life, a long time, so you can enjoy your food as you like. But we know, where is the taste from eating? It's just in the mouth. Then we don't know what it will be like inside. But we should eat food that is really very good, so that our whole body becomes very healthy, happy, and very clean, everything. And so we should eat such good food that the whole body can feel the goodness, happiness, purity, and health. For many, many years we have been together, and you have given many lectures to other people, and they have made yoga part of their life. Now, because of this Corona, the government is really telling us, "Please take care that only that many people can be here." So we have about 130 people, or 20, 30 people. Plus, those who are working here, many doing seva, cooking, cleaning. It's beautiful, very nicely done. So, everyone, at home you are cooking, eating, etc., going shopping. But now, in one of our seminars here, we give you freedom: no cooking, no cleaning, no bringing vegetables or anything. And only one thing they give us, and we eat it. And then we have here, this beautiful land, our ashram, we see. Our trees, many fruits, and our centers where we can stay. It brings to our heart a very relaxed and happy feeling. What do we need more? Everything. Yes, so I'm very happy. And you know, our yoga and daily life around the whole world... We have been thinking and telling everybody, "Yoga in daily life." And so, in many countries everywhere, now you also know—it was again Corona—but you were healthy, and he was good. And today, our one friend told us about how many doctors and nurses in one country only, and they said that they did not give any meat, anything. It's very interesting, and it was in the newspaper. A very great, beautiful newspaper. And they will tell us about the medical hospital, and they said how many doctors were there, and the nurses; they were researching that. It means they themselves also became vegetarians. And that person from that country, he will come and he will tell, and about the news, we will hear about that. But not only from us—we spoke about this a little this morning. So, because of our Swāmījī's television, which is for everybody, very free, everything good and good things, always good things... So that is around the whole world. I know that I'm telling all our friends, yogīs, yoga practitioners, and others who are now listening, and that will be given to you now from this one person. He will tell you something more: that how many hundreds, or how many... One thousand doctors and nurses. So not only two or three doctors, but thousands of doctors. I was so happy, and I said, "Is it really?" And this friend came, our disciple, and he spoke. And he saw the numbers, the figures or numbers, the article in the newspaper, in the hospital. So, I will not take time. I will ask him, our dear brother, please come here, and we are all very happy to see you. And we are happy to see you. So you can stand here. You can stand; it is better. And so also Bāpu Prabhujī is here. You can place this. Give me this. Yeah, this, give it to me here. Okay, so you can put your something here. Yes? Yes, please. So, your name and everything, where are you? And this, because it's going to the whole world now. Nemrud Bujakaya: Praṇām Swāmījī, dear yoga sisters, brothers, and kids. My name is Nemrud Bujakaya. I am a senior physician, chief doctor in general medicine. A time ago, I was reading a newspaper, the medical journal of the British Medical Journal, and this is an open-source article, so this means that everybody can read about it when you just put the title, which is the following: "Plant-Based Diet, Pescetarian Diet, and COVID-19 Severity: A Population-Based Case-Control Study in Six Countries." I have read in the British medical journals a study that is in open sources; you can find it anywhere, and it is called the case study of the influence of vegetarianism and other foods on Covid. The study was in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy, the six countries. I hadn't the entire paper, the whole copy, but Dr. Vera gave me a copy of the entire study, the entire paper. This is basically saying that the importance of being vegetarian and the effect of vegetarian food on the severity of COVID-19. The case, the number of participants was more than 7,000. And the study involved more than 7,000 people. And it was mostly females, and all of them were doctors, and of course there were a few nurses, a few women, and most of them were women, as it is in the world, unfortunately. There were many nurses, and most of them were women. The study was from the 17th of June until the end of September 2020. The 568 people had COVID among them, and it was control-based, with more than 2,000 against the control. And these infected, mainly doctors, the severity of COVID-19 was almost either nothing, or mild, or moderate. And it is shown, as I know, and as the article authors are saying, this is the first such study. It was a self-report, and all of them were vegetarian at least one year earlier. So before they were diseased, they got the infection, they were already vegetarians. At least a year before the vegetarians did. They themselves made the decision not to force them to do so. All of the people who are vegetarian, inclusive of myself, it's a great text to read because it's showing not just for our health, but for our environment and also for humanity, the effect of being vegetarian. Not only for health, but for the whole of humanity. Anyone of you or somebody else who would like to control it, so please just go on the internet and type "British Medical Journal," and I repeat again the title: "Plant-Based Diet, Pescetarian Diet and COVID-19 Severity: A Population-Based Case-Control Study in Six Countries." I think I will make a stop here, and if you have any questions, with your permission, Swāmījī, I can answer, but the best is if you read by yourself. Dear yoga brothers and sisters, continue to be vegetarian. Vegetarian is not just good for yourself, it is good for the environment and entire humanity. Thank you very much. Any questions, please? Stand up and please tell, do you stay here? They will give voice to others. Questioner (Richard Patsola): I do not have a question, but I have a comment on it because I am a doctor as well. There is also a study concerning the yoga technique Neti, that it is a prevention against COVID. I do not have the data with me, but if you are interested, I can provide it. Name? Richard Patsola from Novi Chin. Hospital? Private ambulance, oral audience test. Thank you. Swāmījī: Any more questions? Yes, today is very good, which we can have. Such a chance. There must not be that someone is a doctor or not a doctor, but we are yogīs, we practice yoga daily in our lives. So what were your feelings, what was your interest, what have you seen, and what was it? June to September 2020. One year ago. Our dear Dr. Vera, she studied completely today, the whole day about this. So, I think she can also come and tell us something. Dr. Vera, please. Can you bring it close? This mic. Take this mic here. Yes. Let's see. Here she can stand here. You stay here, and he stays here. Thank you. I'm in between. Yeah, yeah, he's standing here, because it comes in the whole world. Dr. Vera: I read this study, and it was interesting for me that it was a study that checked plant diet, carbohydrates, and proteins, and this study was about severe COVID patients. So, it was said there were 7,000 questionnaires, but they decided to study only 2,000 in this. And so they gave the questionnaire to 7,000 people, but then decided to study 2,000 of them in more detail. They wanted really to have a high frequency of COVID, severe symptoms, and illnesses. And they compared 11 types of diets, and the plant-based diet was better than low-carbohydrate and high-protein diets. So it is a surprise, and it is really true to first study. It is open access of the British Medical Journal, Nutrition, Prevention, and Health. This study was contributed from the USA, some organizations, and also funding. I think it's a good study. We will see. Thank you. Do you have any questions? Question: Too close. The question was if we can also contribute our information and data, or if this study is closed already. Dr. Vera: The study was, I think, closed. It is from this investigated group. As an investigated group, and it depends on them, yes. It was seven countries, and I don't know if somebody has some opportunity to do this study, but I don't know. I think this is just the first one, and they are writing in the end that it will continue with further studies. But the investigator decided in which country and who will be there. I can just add to it the ten last years in Sweden in the Swedish medical journal. And a discussion is going on whether vegetarian food is good for kids or not. And in the majority of them, in all of them, there are no contraindications that kids will have vegetarian food. Opposite that, vegetarian food is as good for kids as for adults. The important thing is that the kids, and also the adults, are getting all the amino acids. We know that there are nine essential amino acids, which we have to get from outside. The amount of them is higher in meat, but we have them in vegetables. We can get all the proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, vitamin B and vitamin D, iron, selenium, calcium, zinc, etc., through the vegetables. It's available, although less, but there's no need to eat meat to get these essential amino acids. They are in the food, but in a higher amount in the meat. We know that there are nine essential amino acids in meat, which are present in a larger amount, but we are able to get them from vegetables and other sources, as well as all the vitamins, the trace elements, iron, etc. All of this is available in the plant diet. She was telling, "Yes, yes." Question: Interested whether these medical practitioners did anything to work with governments to implement this diet within everyday life of citizens? Dr. Vera: I can answer: in Sweden, the kids in the schools have a choice to eat either vegetarian food or meat. It's their own choice, and in the hospitals, since a long time, a long time ago, regardless of whether you are vegetarian or not, if you are hospitalized, you can choose. You just say, "I want the vegetarian food," and you get it. That children in schools can choose if they want a vegetarian diet, and in hospitals, it is enough to say that you want a vegetarian diet and you will get it. Any more questions? Good, thank you. Swāmījī: Thank you very much, Hari Om. You know that there are many things, and why there are the spiritualities, the meditations, the concentrations, and how to have a healthy life, and how they can live a long life. And it has been that all, what we call India. And there, mostly, they are vegetarians. They lived very much, but unfortunately now, from the other countries, they got in somehow, and they also begin to have non-vegetarian. And they may think that they are, but they are getting more in them also, more cancers and many things coming. So I have seen that in western countries, more people are coming to vegetarianism. And with this, they have begun the Vedaṅgas. And in vegans, they are very much, not only that, non-vegetarian, but also for all animals, for everyone, they are very careful. So that they do not take the milk, because milk is for mothers. And when from the milk is coming yogurt, butter, and so on, they also don't want to have the yogurt, butter, etc. And also, what they are doing, not even the honey bees. So many people in the whole world, in Western countries, and it's coming more and more, the people are coming more healthy, very healthy. I am 52 years old in this country, and I am in India, not very much there, but when I saw this, I closed my eyes. They are trying yoga, practicing yoga, but they don't speak about the yoga practices, don't talk about meat, alcohol, etc. They said, "We don't know." So now also from India, many yoga teachers are coming, and they are telling, "Come to yoga, practice yoga, but don't talk about meat." This is not good, and you know that many Western people who are yoga teachers for many years, and there are so many yoga teachers and many yoga centers, and many they are called ashrams. And everyone, they have their name. But that yoga, they are vegetarian, they are not alcoholics, and no drugs, all that doesn't matter. All name their yoga center, others name their yoga center; that's okay. We said, "My mother's name," and others said, "My mother's name is there." Yes, but a mother is a mother. And now we have got this from you: how many doctors, how many thousands. And it was very great. We are very happy, and we will come in this world. If it's good, we will do practice through non-vegetarian or vegetarian, so we should be vegetarian. And if you are not vegetarian, then it's just exercises, body stretching, that's all. Why? We should know the truth. Yoga: no alcohol, no meat, not this. Peace, harmony, love, all creatures, they are like our heart. So this was very good. Thank you very much, and wish you all the best. All yoga teachers, yoga students, yoga ashrams, yoga centers, the name of their difference, I wish you all, my dears. I wish you, I wish you. I surrender to you that you are all very good, bringing this peace, harmony, and all animals, creatures. Thank you. And thank you for that. Thank you.