The Meaning of Namaste and Daily Yoga Habits with Akshay Bhat

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0:40 Then they feel sad like oh, I couldn't do it. This is like unbelievable. So you are attached to yoga, yoga practice, which should not happen. So even for good things we can get attached. So the people who are attached to the bad things maybe which spoils the health like cigarettes or continuously having coffee. So any stimulant, a purpose.

1:11 So that's the thing that we need to understand that, that it's serving the purpose or it's it's sensual pleasure. Senses have already overtaken overtaken the self. Welcome to the Going Pro Yoga podcast. If you love yoga as much as I do, then this podcast is for you. We talk all things yoga related for teachers in order to supplement and complement and even support after a 200 hour yoga teacher training.

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2:14 Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Depending on where you are in the world, this is Michael. And I just wanted to introduce this week's episode as a continuation from last week where we had Akshay Bhatt, who has come to the podcast to share his knowledge and his insights of yoga, specifically the Yoga Sutras and helping us to understand some of the foundation behind the Yoga Sutras and yoga in general. He brought in elements of who

2:44 Patanjali is and ultimately allowing us to understand on a deeper level some of the philosophy behind the Yoga Sutras and the understanding of the Yoga Sutras because it is a little bit complicated and hard to follow, but this is the essence of where yoga has originated from.

3:00 So it is really fascinating and also somewhat overwhelming at the same time. So for that reason, we split up this episode into two. This is the second iteration. So if you're just tuning into this one, I suggest going back one week to listen to the previous episode to allow some of the foundation to begin. And if you wanted to go back even further than that, the previous episode, Akshay actually introduced himself in a way of knowing his story, where

3:27 he comes from, and explains a lot about the power of mantras as well. So I think that's a great foundation to start. But otherwise, if you've already listened to those and you're tuning in for this week, we're going to just continue the conversation with Okshai as we dive further into the Yoga Sutras to understand the roles of a role of habits and healthy living, talking about the five default problems, and understanding where we can start with the yoga and then so much more.

3:57 So without further ado, let's dive back into this week's episode. Samadhi is like the blissful state. And once the blissful state is experienced, then it's almost like Timmy I'm fearing because like what Buddha, the story of Buddha is like, OK, he experienced these moments of realization.

4:15 So he had moments of bliss and then that led that almost like opened the door to the start of the journey, which was to continue to explore the bliss. Is that kind of right? Yes, yes, absolutely. OK, and then in the different ways, like you described 4 different ways.

4:33 Interesting. So so in the context of like what we're all doing, like us people practicing yoga and learning about yoga and these types of things, participating in kirtan, it's kind of translates somewhat into the same. I mean, we're not, I wouldn't say we're all, you know, achieving samadhi, but there's certain states of bliss or like smaller states of bliss, which is why we, you know, we practice the physical awesomenos and we feel a certain amount of bliss or calm or peace.

5:02 That's why we meditate and we sit in stillness and we, you know, focus the mind and still the body to experience these moments of bliss or peace. So is that kind of all in the same? Yes, absolutely. That's that's to achieve this basic state of samadhi, right.

5:21 But because samadhi is not there somewhere after many years, it's, it's there in a small, small things. If you know you're eating, let's say the Indian sweet called gulab jamun. Yeah, it's the first time you eat that and it's like complete sweet burst.

5:42 That's also samadhi because it's it's some kind of a basic samadhi, let's say a kindergarten samadhi. OK. So, but from there the the experience is real, the the stimulation can be the sweet. Right. It's almost like because it's so new, it's like so, so the way that I'm seeing this is like when we, when we experience the world as though everything is new, then everything is amazing, everything is blissful, everything is like beautiful, which is kind of like what

6:17 happens when we're young, right? And we experience something for the first time. Like you're using the example of the sweets, but like, you know, you travel for the first time. You come to Bali for the first time, you, I don't know, see a beautiful landscape for the first time.

6:34 You see a beautiful waterfall for the first time. There's a there's an experience, you're calling it a kindergarten samadhi, but a moment of like, oh, my God. Wow. Yeah. And that that is almost like a like a thread. Let's just say that's feeding you.

6:49 Absolutely that that's what is the, the samadhi is in Vishaya Vishay Samboga means the observer becomes one with what is observed, right? And the joy is immense. The joy is very natural. It's coming from from you. That's why you are more and more joyful, right?

7:13 Because something you wanted to do and then you, you did it and it was exactly like you know what you have imagined. So then there is an immense joy and sometime it's it's opposite. You have imagined something and something else beautifully happens. Then you are in more joy, right?

7:33 Ecstatic. Ecstatic, very interesting. So I want to apply this a little bit to just the reality of, let's just say most or Western minds of experiencing something new, the novelty of this thing, trying this food, this sweet, seeing this thing, visiting this place, you know, even like starting a relationship fresh and new.

7:56 There's a certain amount of bliss, call it the honeymoon stage or something to this effect. Yet after those moments, it's almost like the the the concentration of the bliss, the excitement of that experience about that thing seems to fade and become less blissful every time we're exposed to it afterwards, which some people call that being jaded or it's no longer new so it's not as exciting. What would that be described or what? Like what is those are something

8:31 to do? That's why Patanjali says we come with a default problems. So these are the default problems that we really need to know. Like you know if cargo something happens to the car, you should know that this is battery, battery is gone.

8:50 This is, you know these are these wires and you should know the basic knowledge that how this functions. So Patanjali gives this avidya asmita raga dwesha abhinive shaha, panchaklay shaha. He says these five things are actually not true, but we, we believe this is true.

9:18 So these are the things that we have to, you know, we, we have to understand that this is not real. So starting from the first one, avidya. Avidya means ignorance or a wrong notion of self. For example, that, you know, I, I went to yoga class and then I really enjoyed yoga and then they come back to the class and then they go for a week and then after that yoga is boring.

9:57 It's too slow for me. So what happened to your experiences? We see this in the teacher training also, right? The students who are first week, very extremely sincere and committed, and then the second week, third week, something happens to them that, oh, that's all it is, you know, we want something more or some kind of boredom. Yeah, they want more stimulation. More, new, more.

10:29 Yeah. OK, so that's why now the Patanjali is saying the notion, the wrong notion that we really need to understand. I would like to share this this the sutras from you know, Buddhism, they talk about this the four wrong notion. One is the notion of self.

10:52 So the notion of self is not real because I am holding on to something when I am having the experience. But for now, the self has evolved so much. The first time when I had the I will take simple example. I had that sweet and now if I have the same sweet, I won't be having that experience because it's not first time so but something first time happening. It's more and more excited because self doesn't know that, but we hold on to the same self who took the experience, which is constantly changing.

11:34 Right. Would that way be like the ego? Ego, yes. The ego likes to hold on to things, doesn't it? Yeah, if from where we are projecting that is what is the self. So from where we are projecting these things from? Interesting. So that is number one, but there are three other notion. One is notion of time, that the time is there only if I want to, you know, put myself into some kind of a positive stress. Right.

12:10 Otherwise the time is not there. I I just be free from the time. So the time is also our notion. Yeah, which I think a lot of people can relate with of creating a self, a self afflicted time pressure, right. You know, there's obviously time pressures that exist around us related to work and things like this. But I do know, I know a few people close to me who impose a certain time pressure on themselves and on the world around them.

12:43 So they project that pressure, but that actual time pressure doesn't truly exist. It's only a notion as you're describing it, Yes, which is interesting. Absolutely. That's what the the second thing is. And then we believe that, you know, we have Human Genetics, but you know better that the body is made out of five element.

13:07 So that's it has minerals, body is made made out of the mineral and vegetals, all the plants and vegetables and animal. So body is not something, you know, extraordinary special. It's the special is that our mind, the vignana?

13:31 That's what the yogic text says that the higher mind, like if you say the name Buddha, Buddha means above the intellect. So if you are, if you are there, that that's what makes us human, that we are really special. But we believe that the body, body is same as the animals. Animals body is also functioning very well. They survive.

14:01 Maybe turtles will survive more than us more happy life. More blissful life, simple life. Maybe it's 'cause they forget so everything is new. Or maybe that's like a dog. I mean the dog is so blissful all the time. All the time. Blissful.

14:19 Right. So they don't. They're not holding on to those notions. They're just like you leave and they're sad and you come back and they're happy and you leave and they're sad and you come back and they're happy again. It's like every time the experience is repeated in the same way and it doesn't fade.

14:35 Like, you know, our experiences from novelty. Interesting. Especially the cats are very much aware compared to if you look at the animal Kingdom and elephants are very intelligent. They also have some special qualities. But it appears like that that we all all are same. And one more is that after all of this experience of samadhi, the first thing that he realizes is everyone is bodhisattva means everyone is potentially divine in nature. So even if it's a person you

15:21 know who committed sins, there should be some, you know, samskara, something karma's binding, but he is also potentially divine or a sage. So you know, every monk was they say something, right? Every Sinner was a St. every St.

15:43 is a Sinner, right? I. Feel like there's a song there somewhere, yeah. Yeah. OK. So I think we talked about two, two of the notions is there. You said there's a couple other ones for. The notion of self. The notion of let's say time, the time and the what we believe our genes as and then everyone is a bodhisattva, that everyone is a potentially divine.

16:15 All right. OK. So that was the 4th one. Yeah. So the third one, maybe I missed that one. The third one is say it again. So we are made out of three basic things. Like the elements? Yeah, elements. So like the genes the way we describe. The genes, yeah, the genes, OK, The minerals, vegetals and animal.

16:37 Oh, I see, right. And the speciality is Bodhisattva, the only humans can say that like and also humans should definitely say in the human first. That's what is this sutra is telling that if you really realized one, then first thing that you will see is that you will treat another person as divine.

17:01 Right. So that that means in India we say namaste, right? So that's what it means that you are also potentially divine and same as me, right? That is, you are here, I am there. No. Right, we are equal, we are the same. Yes, right.

17:19 And this is the yoga yoga teacher's attitude also. And if we have this attitude, I think it really helps us to see things very equally. And somebody will, you know, do mistake one day and the next day you should not see that person as like he did this to me or he did this in the class.

17:41 The next day is new. So that's what it helps us to understand that what is avidya is and Asmita is ego and everybody knows what is eco is and what eco does right. What is healthy ego? Right. Asmita and then the raga is the attachment to the good experiences. OK, so like like raga means I want this, I want this, this is what the mind says for raga.

18:17 I really want to have a brownie. Would that be related to like the expectation? Yeah, the five default problems that we are coming with. Yep. So number one is ignorance #2 is the ego #3 is this raga? But is Raga, Would you describe raga as like the like the expectation of like wanting to have that experience again?

18:41 It's like I want the brownie 'cause I know what the brownie's like. So I have an expectation that this will be the same. Yes, yes. And if I'm attached to that, I can't let it go as opposed to just allowing it to possibly come in.

18:54 Absolutely. Like I, I cannot let go of that. Like, you know, even even with the simple yoga practice, we can see some people if they don't practice yoga, they do yoga every day, but one day somehow they are not practiced yoga.

19:11 Then they feel sad like, oh, I, I couldn't do it. This is like unbelievable. So you are attached to yoga, yoga practice which should not happen. So even for good things we can get attached. So the people who are attached to the bad things maybe which spoils the health like cigarettes or continuously having coffee. So any stimulant.

19:41 So does that serve my purpose? So that's the thing that we need to understand that, that it's serving the purpose or it's it's sensual pleasure. Senses have already overtaken overtaken the self that is raga. OK. That's number three. #3 And the number four is Dwesha.

20:09 Dwesha means I don't want this, I don't want this thing to happen. So this kind of the mind's projection like I don't want the traffic jam should be there and then I go there, there is a big traffic jam. You created the through your projection.

20:28 It's almost like a negative manifestation. It's like if you, you know you'll manifest it. If you think about it too much or that becomes the reality. So that's what number 4 is. What did you call that one? Dwesha. Dwesha.

20:40 Dwesha so and the people who are continuously having the bad experiences in life, the the first thing that they should do is just go look at your face, then maybe smile for some time and see how that feels to your body. And just to really understand that how the simple things are more effective. And then the the mind which is projecting that you have to be first here, the competitive mind or you have to do this. So the mind is guiding you and mind is driving you crazy like you do this otherwise you cannot

21:26 relax. So this kind of attitude towards oneself is also Dwesha. So Dwesha can be two ways 1 towards outside things and also towards yourself. If you cannot sit down and relax, then you're having some kind of a fight with the self. Right.

21:51 So it's like attachment basically. Yeah, yeah. Attachment to the habits attachment. To the habits. The things that we do which is not serving, we know that and still we are attached to that. That can create a big dwesha in oneself. That's interesting because we are very much creatures of habit, us as human beings, right? We do something long enough, eventually that becomes hard to break that cycle.

22:21 And that's what this Dwesha is. Dwesha is. So it's almost like the practice it would be to, you know, be aware and find moments of conscious awareness to, to break those cycles, right? To to change the habits to, you know, get out of the routine, which sometimes we do like that, but it's funny because often times we like to get back into the routine like a safety net makes us feel.

22:50 Yeah, that's true. That's true. It's like a mind's projection that this is good. Right. But there are a special attachments which is good for you. You know, Vishesh Aragha Patanjali says, he says what are whatever the good attachment is there, hold on to that.

23:13 So some people early in the morning, empty stomach, they drink coffee and they are pretty active, they're super healthy, they're doing great. You know, if that is coffee may be good for some people, bad for some people. So it's we cannot judge. This is the thing which is, you know, making good and bad feelings.

23:39 Right. Because, yeah. So this is interesting because when you think about diet and habits and what one person does, and, you know, we live in a world where people say this is what you should do, This is what you shouldn't do. This is the way to do this.

23:50 This is the best thing for this. This is the worst thing for this. But realistically, that is not helping the world because it's not relatable to every single person. It's, it's not at all relatable. Like I know some people who, you know, in the mountains, they smoke every day, every day they are on tobacco or something else and they're super healthy that they are carrying.

24:14 They're doing agriculture every day. They are they study the scripture they give if you talk to them, they're very wise and they give good wisdom to life. So, so naturally they're healthy that our projection of that things that which is going to make us more attached.

24:36 Like if I don't smoke, I cannot do this. So this is already Raka, right? But somebody just smokes and does all his activity, he's healthy, then I think no problem. Right. So it's, it's almost like the attachment of that thing that helps you connect with something else as opposed to allowing that thing to just be what that thing is with whether it be smoking or some other type of habit. Yeah.

25:03 And not allowing that habit to be almost like a sequential or a linear lead to something else. Like I if if I do this, then it helps me do this. And if I don't do that, then I can't do that other thing. That's not the healthy thing.

25:16 Not, not the healthy thing. Right. So being able to do that second thing independent of the first thing, whether it be coffee, coffee is a good example. Cause a lot of people are like, I can't do, I can't do anything if I don't have a coffee or you know, the common thing as well.

25:29 And yoga is like, I can't work well if I don't do my yoga practice first, right? Which is interesting. We also have to know that what is body is addicted to and what is mind addicted to The certain things our mind is more addicted and certain things body wants it.

25:48 Maybe body wants should be fulfilled because body is very innocent. It asks for certain, you know, food, certain things, basic needs, basic needs, the rest, all of that. Right, but then the mind. Mind always wants the the Super faraway things.

26:12 So what is very exciting for the mind is to go to the space. Mind is to go and live in the Mars. Right. I mean, I don't want to go to Mars, but I can see why some people might want to do that. OK, cool. So that's four. That's four. OK, last one.

26:36 The last one is fear. Fear. Fear and Patanjali says this as abhini vesha. Abhini Vesha And it is also connected to the ground that what you're setting in. Suppose the ground, what you're setting in is that Michael is this person and he's from here and he does this, this, this. But there is some kind of fear of losing that the projection of you.

27:17 So the projection of me that I'm some kind of fear is there that that means you have the Abhinavesha, the fear of death. Right. So it's like the I I heard identity. Identity. My identity. So the loss of my identity, the loss of who I believe I am. Oh, I think I am interesting.

27:41 But in in yoga we always believe this, that the body can. The Bhagavad Gita says this. The body can perish but the soul doesn't perish. Nainam chindan thi shastrani nainam dahati pavakaha nachainam kledayantiya paha nashoshayati marutaha. This is the the shloka from Bhagavad Gita from the 2nd chapter.

28:13 Krishna is telling that that no wind can wash this and no fire can burn this. Then you know, this is beyond this five element and this is something eternal which is always there. So how can you actually think that? You know, he's asking Arjuna that you are going to kill someone you cannot kill.

28:44 You are just acting here on the, you know, divine as a divine instrument. You cannot kill him. You maybe end his body, but he's going to go back to his cycle. That's what is Krishna is talking in Bhagavad Gita, which is very much relatable to what is Abhinavesha is.

29:07 So if somebody has this kind of fear that in their day-to-day life they're manifesting fear every day, then I recommend them to, you know, chant Bhagavad Gita second chapter or just just chant Yoga Sutras. So the best thing you can do is chant Om and all this text you can listen and read and understand. Then we, we slowly believe that that is the reality, but it is actually that is the reality.

29:43 One who practices yoga. They know that. So it's like letting go of identity. Yes. And just realizing. Realizing. Beyond. Yes, every moment, every breath, every second, the new new energy not projecting from somewhere that this is me.

30:08 So that the complete the new energy is there. That is, that is also a some, some kind of, you know, samadhi. But Patanjali in the second chapter, he starts with Kriya yoga. He's not, he's not talking about the Ashtanga yoga, the 8 limbs of yoga.

30:30 No, he says Tappa swadhyaya, Ishwara, Pranidhanani, Kriya yoga. So one should begin their yoga journey, the real Raja Yoga journey because this Patanjali's yoga is one of the highest top form of let's say the disciplined yoga practice. So then you start with Kriya Yoga. Kriya Yoga is singing in machas, yeah. So the Kriya Yoga is the combination of tapas, swat dihaya and Ishwar Pranithan.

31:10 OK. For example, in India on the 11th cycle of the moon, so the 11th day, what we do is Eka dashi. So in Eka dashi, what we do is like we don't eat, we don't eat breakfast, we don't eat lunch. Some people don't eat dinner also.

31:31 But usually in my family we used to eat dinner. So what we do is the first phase is fasting, which is tapas. So it's, it's not easy for the mind to not to have food. If somebody challenged themselves to do for three days, it's very challenging to do fasting because its mind wants to eat food. It's it's very much habitual.

31:59 So to unlearn, to undo that is is the first step with tapas, with great will. And along with the tapas we have to do swadhyaya. Swadhyaya means self study. One has to focus on like reading Bhagavad Gita or do Om chanting, or do a simple meditation practice or just stay next to the beach, listen to the waves. Something like this which is swadhyaya which reflects the self.

32:34 Right self study. Self study and the last one is Tapaswadhyaya Ishwara Pranidhan and dedicate that day to Ishwara to to yourself, to the divine self. If if somebody say there are many people who do yoga practice, they say now I can't do it anymore.

32:57 You know, I have this, this, this. Then I tell them, you don't do it for yourself, but you have responsibility to connect to the divine, connect to your spirit. Doesn't need to be, and they're probably thinking yoga asana.

33:13 Doesn't need to be. Yeah, like my aunt, she does everyday, Lalita Sasaranamam, which is, which takes half an hour. And what she does is when she's cooking, she's, you know, chanting Lalita. The devis names thousand names of the devis and she's cooking food. I think the food is also, you know, very tasty and it has that the divine qualities.

33:43 The love and the the devotion of the the OR the the experience. Experience then it becomes the Kriya yoga, right? So when the Kriya Yoga we start in our day-to-day lives, that's when we are eligible to do the 8 limbs of yoga.

34:05 Interesting. If somebody is having addictions, if somebody is under this, the five default problems, then you're not going to go anywhere studying Patanjali Yoga Sutra because Yoga Sutra is they're putting this the first sutra itself as Atha Yoga Anusha Sanam Atha means therefore and here onwards that means you have to have all this basic preliminary discipline to begin Rajayoga because this is the the yoga of the kings means mind over the mind.

34:52 So it's, it's very difficult to do what Patanjali is, you know, telling us. So many things to navigate and so many things to think about. Wow. OK. I think I'm good, but in in a really good way. Like I feel like this has been really helpful to kind of help me, especially with like the five. What did you call it, the five?

35:14 5. Problems. Yeah, default problems. Different problems. So this which causes the pain. Right. And remind me, so we have ego. Yes, we started with Avidya which is ignorance, wrong projection of the self, asmita, ego, raga attachment, dwesha, the hatredness and abhinivesha of fear of. Fear and then those default problems which if we become aware of those then we can let's say soften them or reduce them, possibly notice when they happen and then. We start our the journey of

36:04 Kriya Yoga. The Kriya Yoga. Tapas swatya Ishwara Pranidhan. Which are the three of the niyamas? Yes. Yes, yes. And this, this is the fundamental pillar Patanjali puts that Yamaniyamas and be aware that you have these problems and understand your, you know, thoughts, how the thoughts are manifested in first chapter, he explains that he explains in the third chapter, special powers. What are the special powers you can get from yoga by doing this? And then the last one is

36:44 absolute one is kaivalya. So Patanjali is step by step telling that this is your journey. This is how you know you had to practice this, and he's guiding with a small thread sutras. Right, the thread comes back to the thread. Yes, OK.

37:08 And so everything that we or like a lot of what we shared today is like embedded in the sutras. It wasn't one specific sutra, it was like a different ones. You said chapter one, chapter 2. So it's kind of you also said there's 196 sutras and you know, not to overwhelm me, first of all, and the audience, but you know, it's like almost.

37:28 So you teased out little elements of like things to think about to process, you know, the five default problems, you know, and then being aware of those moving into the Kriyas and then you know, then then it's like the yoga can or the the 8 limbs is then. Then the 8 limbs of yoga starts right? And like one has to really like know that the Patanjali is yoga is the most intense form of yoga practice. And if you're really you know, you're having experience in life, like you're drinking the

38:10 experiences of life, then you will slowly, slowly understand what Patanjali is telling is the truth. But if you're in the, the basic, the fundamental, you know, living, then there is Hatha yoga, which is the lower, let's let's not say lower. This is the basic and the Patanjali is advanced, right? So the, the basic one is Hatha yoga. And in the Hatha yoga they actually mentioned the 1st the shloka of Hatha yoga Pradeepika Shriyadhinatha Yanamos Tutasmay Yenopadishta.

38:55 Hathayoga Vidya means the Shiva is giving the Hathayoga vidya vibra jate porn Nataraja Yogam that means only for the only purpose of practicing Hathayoga is to enter the Rajyoga that is Patanjali's the sutras. So that's the whole idea.

39:20 And bhakti yoga, karma yoga, everything comes with that with Yoga Sutras. Right. OK. So when we're learning in the 200 hour training, we're we're, we're, we're looking at it from a very basic perspective. Yeah, Yeah, absolutely.

39:37 Yeah, absolutely. And there's so much more, which I'm sure people understand. Yeah, there's obviously more to what beyond what we're learning in these likes, you know, trainings, I go for three weeks. But it's also a lot of information. It's a lot to learn.

39:52 It's overwhelming to some degree. And you know, the Western mind is very much like, I want to do the physical practice and then, you know, then the other stuff will infuse in. And you know, that's better than nothing at all, of course. But calling it basic, I think is actually a great way to realize that there's more potential, there's more advancement, which. I think is great because when we think about even just like jobs and things that we do, you know,

40:16 we usually want to know that there's possibility for more. You know, I'm going to take this job because I know that I can advance and I can eventually go to the next stage. And that might be for, you know, egoic reasons of wanting to have status and money and all these types of things.

40:29 But I think there's a fundamental innate desire to grow, to expand. And if a 200 hour training helps to at least provide a foundation of knowing that can lead to possibly more of this advanced information or knowledge that you're sharing or the the sutras or any elements of what we talked about today, the five, the five default problems and these things, then, then it just, you know, can continue to grow from there. And even like you said, chapter

40:59 three and four is like, you know, your advancement possibly in years to come. The chapter 3 is very it. It's very interesting actually. He's talking about so many, you know, forms of special powers like that. He says Kantakupe kayavuhad nanam.

41:24 So if you want to know about your body, Kantakupa, this is the place where you do Sayyama. On Sayyama means you have to do intense focus, intense expansion and oneness together at this point, so you get to know everything about your body.

41:45 But how do we crack this open? I have no idea. Like what Patanjali is talking is that it's impossible to grasp it, but you can go through the experiences. Maybe one side did this. I focused on my throat bit and I started breathing that started with Jay and went a little deep deep, deep. The first thing that I found is the body goes into deep rest and from the deep rest I realized that OK, my breathing is not only one directional.

42:27 First I thought lungs will, the chest will come up, stomach will come up, all of that. Then I understood that the lungs are expanding multi directional. So like this by functioning with the body naturally, we know that I have this involuntary movement which is my leg is constantly moving, which is it's happening, it's not supposed to happen. That means some restlessness is there. So like there's some kind of feedback with the body gives along with that.

43:05 We can process this. But what what he's telling is you get to know everything about the body. The one sutra can we can take one sutra and practice for entire lifetime. Right, OK, this is great. I, I do want to talk more, but I also, I think my brain has had enough. Maybe some other people as well are feeling the same, but I love it.

43:38 This is like, I want more. I, I'd love to talk more about this and I'm sure other people can agree as well. But like, you know, anytime we're learning things, it's always nice to give time for a reprieve and integration.

43:52 So thank you so much, first of all, for helping to clear and provide the information which I or at least certain elements I've learned, you know, in my study and also just in my training from the Jeff. But like, you know, there's just a lot of information to come in. So this is another moment to kind of digest some of that and sit with it.

44:16 But then also, you know, when ready for more and more expansion, then you know, we'll do the same and have you come back and continue to share, which I would love. Maybe soon, who knows, we'll see what happens. Do you have any final thoughts to maybe possibly summarize or maybe simplify some of the things, the lessons, the shares from today before we close off? I will just say like Ishwara pranidhan adhwa that that's what the Patanjali says.

44:53 Ishwara pranidhan means do everything in dedication to Ishwara means just be an instrument. And once you become instrument, you know what are the right things. My intuition says Ishwara is can be manifested as intuition. And once you normally listen to yourself, listen to your intuition, then the magic starts to happen already. So the naturally yamas, niyamas, everything will come, the guru will come, Yoga sutras will come, everything will naturally happens.

45:41 So Patanjali says the most important thing is Ishwara Pranidha Nadwa that you you have to dedicate this for Ishwara and once who does that? Who dedicate his life to Ishwara? And Bhagavan says in the Bhagavad Gita Yoga Kshema Maha Mehum, I will take care of you.

46:06 You don't need to worry. So the energy will take care and naturally everything will go with absolute ease and bliss. So trust yourself. Yes. Trust yourself. Trust your intuition. And know that that is real. That it's real.

46:28 Yeah. OK. Thank you. That was great. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Akshay. Thank you everyone for tuning in. If you have any questions which may possibly come through yeah send us send us an e-mail podcast get going proyoga.com or of course we can reach out to you as well. We can have your contact in the the show notes your Instagram which.

46:54 Akshay Bhatiyoga. Yeah, write that down now. We'll have it in the in the show notes so that it's just easy to click and find if somebody wants to reach out, ask you some questions. Otherwise, yeah, if you want to come join us in Bali and learn about this stuff, you know, sometimes we'll just hang out and talk about these things.

47:12 But of course, there's trainings as well where Akashi is teaching and sharing some of this knowledge. So thank you for being of service to all of us. It means a lot. And also coming on the podcast and sharing what you've known. So, all right, thank you everyone and we will speak to you next week.

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