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It's all yours.
Hello.
When you've been at the TTC, we hear so many stories, and I have a lot of stories in my head.
And we always connect.
There is this guru that we've seen too many times at the three,
and he learned from 24 gurus that are the pigeon, and the crow, and the tree, and the mountain.
Because the stories are everywhere. You just, if you see it, you see it, and you learn, if you don't.
And every time, I mean, the TTC here in stories, all these other stories come to mind.
This group for people on holidays, vacations, and guests, this group has a very nice energy all together.
They seem like old friends coming all together.
And when I see them just going, some of them, like Patrick's telling his first steps in yoga in this life, of course.
I also remember my own first steps, you know, and it was last life.
And it was the first time I started yoga because I was with this guru.
He was an enlightened master of martial arts.
And when he saw me practicing martial arts, people think that martial arts is just, you know, kicking somebody in the head.
But it's not right.
If you understand properly, martial arts is kicking somebody in the head to evolve spiritually.
So I was learning this.
And the guru saw me and said, you better practice asanas, you know.
And I started, I was with this guru, as he was enlightened, he loved me so much.
As a person, I was rubbish, but he was enlightened, so he could love me.
And all the other students in the ashram were very jealous.
And the guru was always defending me and backing me up.
They said, Hari is useless. Why do I have him here? He's completely useless.
They said, no, no, he's not useless. He's good as a bad example.
So he had me there.
He had me there because he said, you know, Hari, I have you here.
From all the people in the world, I have you here because I love the world.
So I was there.
And the other students said, you know, he was jealous because the guru was nice with me.
And they said, Hari, you see, he's not humble.
The guru said, he doesn't need to be humble. He has nothing to be humble about.
But it was really tough.
Life in the ashram was very tough. Sorry, I'm getting a little nervous.
The main yoga practice is the yoga of the public toilet.
I don't know if you know it. Have you ever been in a public toilet?
Yes.
How many times? How many countries?
You know, these weeks here, we tell each other where we were, where we come from, where we were born, where we moved to.
But we don't tell anything about the public toilet.
I've been in public toilets in seven countries.
I've been in two hundred public toilets. You don't even know how many.
So the yoga practice with him was like that.
You know, in your house, in your toilet, you make it green with blue tiles,
and you buy the towels, matching the color and all these ornaments and things.
But when you go to a public toilet, you just go because you have to go.
So you go to what you have to do and get up.
So the idea was to do everything like that.
You know, just do it. You have to do it, so do it, and then forget about it.
So that was the main yoga we did there.
Then there was this other yoga that we did that was the most difficult,
was the yoga of the last spaghetti on the plate.
You're not evolved enough to hear about it, but I will tell you anyway.
Some day, some life, when you get there, you will...
And the idea is that you take the plate,
you put the food on the plate, and you eat from the plate.
The last spaghetti is there on the plate.
And because that spaghetti is there, you call it a plate.
And the moment you eat the spaghetti, now it's a dish. You have to wash it.
So life, you have to find which is the last spaghetti.
Which thing in your life is the last one that still makes it life?
Well, you find that, but that's very difficult. That's the hardest job.
So again, of course, every life, you know, at the end, exit, and I came into this life.
And the Guru said, you have to practice.
Wait for me, I will come when you're ready.
So I'm still there waiting.
And practicing.
I started practicing yoga in this life when I was growing up.
I was a little child, and my parents found that I was a little strange.
No, no, not basically.
And people used to ask my parents, you know, why don't you talk to your son?
And they said, we don't want to interrupt him.
My mother was worried and she took me to one of these house psychic people, you know, that...
She said, you know, I want to see how can I fix my child.
And what happens to him, what is his...
And this woman that could see inside that little child.
That was me.
She said, oh, inside this boy sleeps a wonderful human being.
Caring, honest, hardworking, with high hopes and dreams.
Okay, that's fine, that's nice, good, good.
But the woman said, inside that caring, honest person sleeps a very eccentric, vicious, disgusting human.
So what?
Inside that disgusting man sleeps a wonderful spiritual person that can make everybody around him happy.
Oh, good, good.
But inside that nice spiritual man sleeps a terrible, evil person that can hurt anybody just for whatever he feels like he wants.
But inside the man I said, wait, wait, wait, what kind of child is this?
And the woman said, that's why I started practicing yoga.
The woman said, no, don't worry, don't worry.
It sounds strange, but you see, it's not so strange.
Everybody, we are all like this, everybody is like that.
The only trick is knowing who to wake up and who to let sleep.
