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energetically strong, first thing is we

2:02

cross our legs and keep our hands

2:04

open. You know, in the yogic physiology,

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it's like this. There

2:08

are one hundred and twelve chakras,

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one hundred and fourteen, but actually

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one hundred and twelve within the

2:14

human system. Out of

2:16

these one hundred and twelve, there are seven categories

2:18

of them, sixteen in each one of them. These

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seven are generally known in the world today

2:24

as chakras. So the

2:26

first three are survival processes. And

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the in between one is representing

2:33

a meeting of this. It

2:35

is from here on, from anahata

2:37

onwards, which is enlightening processes of

2:40

life. So in

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that sense, it is important you receive

2:44

certain things in certain ways. Food

2:46

is considered very basic level of

2:49

reception, how we receive food. What

2:51

we receive is very important. Today,

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what are we receiving? Right

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now, as you see, societies

2:59

get more and more affluent,

3:01

they start eating worse and

3:03

worse food. What

3:07

a rural person in India would not touch,

3:10

very sophisticated cities are eating that

3:12

kind of food. When I

3:14

say that kind of food, almost anything

3:16

that western societies are

3:18

using today are a minimum thirty

3:20

to sixty days old. In

3:25

yoga, their food is classified as sattva,

3:28

rajas and tamas. Tamas

3:32

means inertia. If you

3:34

eat anything which has tamas, inertia

3:37

will come in your system. Inertia

3:39

does not mean you just become lazy. Inertia

3:42

means certain things slow down. Certain

3:45

things means essentially regeneration of

3:47

the systems slows down. Today

3:50

you know that neural...

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neuronal regeneration is one of the

3:55

most important aspect of keeping

3:58

your brain reasonably functionable. functional

4:00

throughout your life. If you are

4:03

consuming foods which are thamasek

4:06

or causes inertia in the general function of

4:08

your system, in the energetic process of who

4:10

you are, then you will

4:12

see cognition level slowly will go

4:14

down over a period of time.

4:16

Because everybody understands this. This is

4:19

why they're drinking cups and cups

4:21

of coca-cola or coffee or alcohol

4:23

or something else because they know

4:25

they need to balance

4:27

that. So this kind of balance

4:30

is a very rudimentary way of balancing your system,

4:32

that you're putting wrong things and then you're trying

4:35

to correct it with right things. The

4:37

highest number of antacids in

4:39

the world, nearly sixty percent of the

4:41

world's antacids are sold in America. The

4:44

most affluent population on the planet, this

4:46

means they have a whole choice of

4:48

nourishment. They can eat the best food,

4:50

but no, they will eat the worst

4:53

food. Because commercial forces will

4:55

decide what you eat. You cannot eat

4:57

consciously anymore what you want to eat.

4:59

In the yogic culture, if

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you cook something, the maximum time in

5:03

which you can eat it is one

5:06

and a half hours, ninety minutes, before that you should have

5:08

eaten the food. After

5:10

that we won't touch the food because it

5:12

is started gathering thamase, inertia will begin to

5:14

happen. If you want to

5:16

experiment, you can experiment. You eat something

5:18

very fresh for one week, eat something which

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is processed and kept for one month, two

5:23

months and then eat it, you will see

5:25

the level of alertness in the system,

5:27

you will notice it in your experience. But

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it is happening at the cellular level, it

5:32

is happening in terms of, we

5:35

call this Ojas. There is

5:37

no English word for that. If

5:40

you create sufficient Ojas, which is a known

5:42

physical dimension of energy, if every cell in

5:44

your body is wrapped in this, believe

5:47

me, your aging process is almost...

5:49

will not progress. Your

5:51

cellular age will almost remain stagnant

5:54

for a long period of time.

5:57

Some of the tests they have done on

5:59

me and... You know, they are saying that

6:01

I am… my cellular age is twenty-five. Well,

6:04

I still am like twenty-five, I'm maintaining the

6:06

same level of activity, I'm maintaining the same

6:09

weight, same everything. This

6:11

is not some miracle. Every human being

6:13

is capable of this with some simple

6:15

attention to fundamental things. Going

6:17

further in terms of food, there

6:20

is something called as Viruddha Ahara. That

6:23

means if you eat one thing

6:25

and put another thing, which works opposite to

6:28

that, then in your system there is

6:30

a war. You

6:32

know digestive process is largely between

6:34

acids and alkalines and all this

6:36

stuff. For example,

6:39

you eat meat which is fatty. If

6:43

you ate it by itself, it

6:45

may not cause that much damage. But

6:47

you ate that with rice and ghee.

6:50

You call that biryani and you ate it. Now

6:53

the damage is big because these

6:55

two things will not go together. This

6:58

is why any… any

7:00

non-vegetarian food and milk and milk-related

7:03

food were never mixed. Because the

7:05

moment you mix it, it

7:07

will go opposite to each other and you create

7:09

a battle within yourself. In the

7:11

yogic culture, food should not remain in

7:14

your stomach bag for more than two

7:16

and a half hours. Within

7:20

two and a half hours it should have

7:22

moved out, you must be feeling empty stomach. Hunger

7:24

will not come, empty stomach will come. And

7:26

that is good. We want our stomach

7:29

to be always empty because in an

7:31

empty stomach everything works well. And

7:33

the colon health is something

7:36

that's completely neglected today. If

7:38

you do not keep your colon clean, keeping

7:41

your mind in a balanced state is very,

7:43

very difficult. So in

7:45

Ayurveda and Siddha, first thing if

7:47

you say anything, you are having

7:49

sleepless nights, you are having disturbed

7:52

something, mild any kind of psychological

7:54

problems, first thing is purging. Purge

7:56

the system, clean the colon, suddenly you

7:58

feel little. balanced.

8:02

So in the yoga center, the

8:04

day starts with

8:06

a small marble-sized ball

8:09

of neem and turmeric. There

8:13

are many aspects to this of

8:17

what impact it has on your system. One

8:20

immediate thing it will do is, it

8:22

will keep your elementary tract

8:25

clean. When

8:28

we say clean, this

8:30

is a region where you

8:32

have maximum amount of other

8:35

life. So within

8:38

this elementary tract, there are

8:40

a whole host of microorganisms.

8:45

Many of them have turned friendly to us.

8:47

We are living because of them, we are

8:49

able to digest food because of them. Many,

8:52

many functions in the body happen because of

8:54

them. But still there

8:56

are many who are harmful to us. The

9:00

uniqueness of neem,

9:03

especially when it is taken along with

9:05

turmeric. If

9:07

these two things go together, largely

9:11

those things which are not

9:13

necessary for the body, those

9:15

things can... that which can harm the body,

9:18

any kind of parasitel life which is there,

9:21

all these things get eliminated. It

9:26

is not a whole solution, but it'll

9:29

bring the basic necessary atmosphere

9:31

in the body to make

9:33

the corrections, either with medicine

9:35

or with necessary practices you

9:37

can bring about correction. How

9:40

would we apply this to a

9:42

person who is suffering right now? That

9:45

needs a compassionate approach, not

9:47

a standard approach, my way or your way. It's

9:49

a very silly way to go at it, that

9:51

this is the only way it can be done.

9:54

Because that's not how human beings

9:56

are, a judicious action of

9:58

what could be met. maximum right rather

10:00

than wrong, more right than wrong is

10:03

all you can do. I don't think

10:05

anybody has an absolute right about mental

10:09

conditions that people are in.