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Question: How can we develop a mood of austerity, myself in austerity that is required? How can we perform more austerities for our spiritual life?

Guru Maharaj: So the astanga yoga process recommends severe austerities. Like in the middle of winter, sitting in the cold river and meditating. In the hottest day of summer light fire on the four sides, mid-day and then mediate. But we don’t recommend such things....
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