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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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They used to sit down in the Himalaya where the Ganges is coming. That is a sacred place. If you go simply on the Ganges side on the bank of the Ganges, Yamunā, you will find immediately purified your mind. Immediately. Or on a seaside where there is nobody disturbing. These are sacred places.
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Prabhupāda: Then there is process of making the ''āsana'', deerskin, ''kuśāsana'', then cloth. You have to sit down in that ''āsana''. ''Āsana'', ''dhyāna'', ''dhāraṇā'', ''prāṇ'' . . . then?

Pradyumna: "The seat should neither be too high nor too low."

Prabhupāda: Yes, everything is there. "It should not be too high nor too low." Then?

Pradyumna: "And should be situated in a sacred place."

Prabhupāda: A sacred place. Just like formerly, those who were practicing ''yoga'', they were going to Gaṅgotri, where the Ganges is coming down, in the Himalaya, in the Haridwar, in a secluded, sacred place. These are the condition, first condition. So where you are getting these condition fulfilled? You cannot practice ''yoga'' in a hotel or in a club. That is not possible.

Student (2): How do you decide whether a place is sacred or not?

Pradyumna: How do you decide whether a place is sacred or not? How do you tell?

Revatīnandana: What is a sacred place?

Prabhupāda: Sacred place, generally we take as a lonely place, solitary place. If it is not solitary, it is not sacred.

Student (2): Is sacred the same as solitary?

Prabhupāda: Yes. They used to sit down in the Himalaya where the Ganges is coming. That is a sacred place. If you go simply on the Ganges side on the bank of the Ganges, Yamunā, you will find immediately purified your mind. Immediately. Or on a seaside where there is nobody disturbing. These are sacred places. Then?

Pradyumna: "The ''yogī'' should then sit on it very firmly."

Prabhupāda: Then ''yogī'' has to sit down very firmly like this. Yes, straight, perpendicularly. Then?

Pradyumna: "And should practice ''yoga'' by controlling the mind and the senses."

Prabhupāda: Then he has to practice meditation for controlling the mind and the senses. First of all ''āsana'', place, sacred place; now, ''āsana'', secluded place, alone. That is stated. These are the yogic process.