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Ilya Ilf. With such happiness - and in freedom!

“The great strategist”, “former hereditary honorary citizen” and “ideological fighter for banknotes” - all this is Ostap Bender, one of the most popular heroes of Russian literature. Almost every phrase he uttered has been a cultural code by which people recognize their own people for almost a hundred years. To achieve this is a sign of the greatest writing skill, which, without a doubt, was possessed by Ilya Ilf, born Jehiel-Leib Fainzilberg, who would have turned 118 years old today.

Irish newspapers in 1930 actively discussed the personality of Derek Lyman, admiring his illegal, but very comical and seemingly original idea. The articles talked about an incident at the Cork chess club, where, lured by loud posters about the arrival of the “famous Russian grandmaster Tsaritsyn,” chess lovers gathered. After the “famous grandmaster,” who unsuccessfully tried to play 50 boards simultaneously, lost 14 games in a row, a local librarian determined that there was no such thing as Tsaritsyn in nature. Apparently, Derek was one of the first Irish people to read the novel The Twelve Chairs, published two years earlier. True, Bender was not distinguished by his agility, and therefore was caught and brought to justice.

It is unlikely that the co-author of the novel, Ilya Ilf, has heard of such plagiarism of the image of his hero, otherwise it could well be reflected in the new novel about the adventures of the great schemer. However, at that time he also had no idea that the popularity of the novel and its film adaptations would not only be loved by readers and viewers, but would be popular and in demand for almost a century.

His father did not know this either, shocked by the statement of his 23-year-old son Yechiel-Leib that his vocation was literature and that he was quitting his job. Looking at him lying on the bed and thinking about something for hours, doing nothing and just making up a pseudonym for himself - Ilya Ilf, his father most likely recalled with bitterness the hopes he had for him at the time of his birth on October 15, 1897.

Arie Benjaminovich Fainzilberg was an employee of the Odessa branch of the Siberian Bank. He moved to Odessa from the Kyiv province with his wife Mindl Aronovna and two sons. In Odessa, after two years, their third son was born - Yechiel-Leib. In a few decades, the phrases he invented and put into the mouths of literary heroes will be quoted by almost the entire population of the country, reading his books, as they say, “bingely.” And some of these phrases will shape the image of the country’s population abroad. For example, during his lifetime, Ilf will hear from a waiter in one of the French restaurants: “You know, monsieur, all your compatriots are very religious people and, apparently, strictly observe fasts. Everyone, starting a conversation with me, says that they haven’t eaten for six days. Now I believe that Russia is a country of very high spirituality!” The whole point is that anyone who read Ilf’s novel could demonstrate their knowledge of the French language by quoting Kisa Vorobyaninov: “Monsieur, don’t mange pas sis jour!” (Monsieur, I haven’t eaten for six days - translated from French).

All this will happen later, but for now Yechiel-Leib will have time to graduate from technical school, work in a drawing office, at a telephone exchange, in a military plant and in accounting. Having stunned his father with the above statement, he becomes a journalist Ilya Ilf, and then an editor in humorous magazines. In 1923, Ilf moved to Moscow and worked for the Gudok newspaper. It was supervised here by Valentin Kataev, a fellow member of the Odessa “Collective of Poets”, who by that time had managed to make a rapid literary career in Moscow. In his recommendations, in response to the editor’s question “What can he do?” Kataev, who knew Ilf for a very long time, answered briefly: “Everything and nothing.”

Initially, Ilf prepared letters from workers for printing, but instead of simply correcting mistakes, he began to remake the letters into small feuilletons. Soon his column became a favorite among readers. Kataev introduced Ilf to his brother Evgeniy, who bore the pseudonym Petrov. They had an age difference, different tastes and characters, different lives, but suddenly they were able to write together much better than separately. Some time after the start of their joint work, Ilf was already joking: “Won’t Zhenya and I be counted as one person?”, and after some time, their first joint legendary novel, “The Twelve Chairs,” was published.

In his book “My Diamond Crown,” Kataev recalled that he proposed to Ilf and his brother a story about diamonds hidden during the revolution in one of the twelve chairs of the living room set. They had to develop a theme, write a draft of the novel, and Kataev had to simply go through their works with his “brilliant pen.” But after reading the first drafts, Valentin Kataev realized that his participation in the novel was not required at all. The plot is based on A. Conan Doyle's story "The Six Napoleons", in which two bandits hunted for a precious pearl hidden inside one of Napoleon's plaster busts. They say that after the publication of the book “The Twelve Chairs,” friends of the writers who knew this plot presented the authors with a box, upon opening which they discovered six Napoleon cakes.

If the plot was clear, then there is still debate about the prototype of the main character. Without pretending to be unambiguous, it is still worth mentioning that among Ilf’s acquaintances in Odessa there was a certain Mitya Schirmacher, who reported only one thing about himself: “I am the illegitimate son of a Turkish subject.” They met in the Odessa “Collective of Poets,” although Mitya had a very distant relationship with him. Mitya only managed to get premises and money from the Odessa City Council to open a literary cafe, where many of the future literary stars read their works for a free dinner. The cafe was popular, and the income ended up in the pockets of Mitya Schirmacher. At a time when families of five huddled in small rooms, he alone occupied a three-room apartment, justifying this by the need to hold creative evenings.

If Ilf drew many of the hero’s mannerisms from the outside, then the appearance of Ostap Bender, most likely, was a direct reflection of Ilf himself in his younger years. Friends then called him “our lord” - for his elegance, expressed in a long narrow coat, a colorful silk scarf and an English pince-nez obtained somewhere.

The resounding success of the first novel contributed to further creativity: the continuation of the novel, the book “The Golden Calf”, was published, the short stories “Extraordinary Stories from the Life of the City of Kolokolamsk” and “1001 Days, or the New Scheherazade” were published, the fantastic story “Bright Personality” was published, and then - the documentary story “One-Storey America,” which he traveled far and wide.

By the way, Ilf’s father was the only one in the family who did not emigrate to the USA, so by the time Ilf arrived there, almost all of his relatives lived there. Ilf never hid his nationality. He liked to repeat: “They will still write about me: “He was born into a poor Jewish family,” and one of his stories begins with the words: “Sometimes I dream that I am the son of a rabbi.” Quite openly, he goes to visit certain Finesilvers, relatives who have adapted their surname this way. He visits them in Connecticut and openly writes letters to Moscow, proud that his uncle, the elderly Nathan, was personally acquainted with Mark Twain. There, Ilf is impressed by several ideas that will later form the basis of his script for the Soviet blockbuster - the film “Circus”.

In America, according to the recollections of his co-author Petrov, he suddenly began to “look pale and thoughtful.” “He often left alone and returned even sadder and worried. In the evening at the hotel, Ilf, wincing, said to me: “Zhenya, I have long wanted to talk to you. I feel very bad. I've had chest pain for ten days now. It hurts continuously, day and night. I can't escape this pain anywhere. And today, when we were walking, I coughed and saw blood. Then there was blood all day. Do you see? He coughed and showed me a handkerchief. A year and three months later, on April 13, 1937, at ten thirty-five minutes in the evening, Ilf died,” Petrov wrote in his memoirs.

However, his lively mind and sharp, ironic spoken language live on. With his books, Ilf managed to do something that no one else had managed to do at that time - to make the main character a handsome swindler and swindler, whose language and phrases, sometimes without noticing, we still speak. And thanks to him, we know exactly how to characterize in one word the people we meet in our lives - sultry women, a poet's dream, giants of thought and the fathers of Russian democracy.

Alexey Viktorov

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Ostap-Suleiman-Bertha-Maria Bender Bey (Zadunaisky), or simply Ostap Bender - the main character of the novels by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov “The Twelve Chairs” and “The Golden Calf”, “the great schemer”, “the son of a Turkish subject”, “an ideological fighter for banknotes”, who knew “four hundred relatively honest ways of taking away (withdrawing) money.” One of the most popular heroes of a picaresque novel in Russian literature.

1. Kitty, you are a dense provincial! Nowadays no one uses the cash register anymore; there is an administrator window for this.

2. Keep in mind, dear Shura, I don’t intend to feed you for nothing. For every vitamin I feed you, I will demand many small favors from you.

3. Everything is taken into account by a mighty hurricane...

4. I have all the vulgar signs of being in love: lack of appetite, insomnia and a manic desire to write poetry. Listen to what I sprinkled last night in the fluctuating light of an electric lamp: “I remember a wonderful moment, you appeared before me like a fleeting vision, like a genius of pure beauty.” Is it really good? Talented? And only at dawn, when the last lines were written, I remembered that this verse had already been written by A. Pushkin. Such a blow from a classic! A?

5. Mother-intercessor, three-handed police! What kind of banal, disgusting bureaucracy is this?

6. Don't overthink it. Keep quiet. And don't forget to puff out your cheeks.

7. Well, Adye, it’s a great country. I don't like being the first student and receiving marks for attention, diligence and behavior. I am a private person and have no obligation to be interested in silos, trenches and towers. I am somehow of little interest in the problem of the socialist transformation of a person into an angel and a savings bank depositor. Vice versa. I am interested in the pressing issues of caring for the personality of single millionaires.

8. You need to think. For example, I am fed by ideas.

9. Tell me, Shura, honestly, how much money do you need to be happy?... Not for today, but in general. For happiness. Clear? So that you feel good in the world.

10. There are people who don’t know how to suffer, somehow it doesn’t work out. And if they do suffer, they try to do it as quickly as possible and unnoticed by others.

11. Here's some gray hair in your beard! Here's a devil in your ribs!

12. - What does this mean?
- This means that you are a retarded person.
- Why?
- Because! Sorry for the vulgar question: how much money do you have?
- What money?

13. - Is it possible to do this - chairs in the morning, and money in the evening?
- Can! But money goes first!

14. The first move is E2-E4, and then... And then we’ll see.

15. You are amazingly resourceful, dear stool hunter, as you can see, there are no diamonds.

16. Why are you looking at me like a soldier at a louse? Stunned with happiness?

17. Half of mine is half of ours...

19. You workers are like a sieve made of a dog’s tail.

20. Transport has completely gotten out of hand, there is only one thing left - to convert to Islam and travel on camels.

21. And in general - the gasoline is yours, and the ideas are ours!

22. I am an ideological fighter for banknotes!

23. In passion, as in happiness, we all seek constancy,
But nothing lasts forever under the sun - no.

24. - Never, never did Vorobyaninov extend his hand!
- So stretch your legs, you old fool!

25. It's hit or miss. I choose the gentleman, although he is clearly a Pole.

26. Cold soft-boiled eggs are very tasteless food, and a good, cheerful person would never eat them.

27. Well stated, dog.

28. This is all that remains of the ten thousand. 34 rubles. And I thought. that we still have seven thousand in our current account. How did it happen? Everything was so fun, we were preparing horns and hooves, life was delightful and the Earth was spinning especially for us, and suddenly...

29. For some reason, in the sandy steppes of the Arabian land, three proud palm trees grew.

30. What a cold country we live in! Everything is hidden with us, everything is underground. Even Narkomfin with its super-powerful tax apparatus cannot find a Soviet millionaire.

31. Don’t make a cult out of food!

32. There is no girl in the world who would not know, at least a week in advance, about the impending expression of feelings.

33. Statistics know everything.

34. Let's walk on the lawns and be fined.

35. I would stuff your snout, but Zarathustra does not allow it.

36. Be strong! Russia will not forget you! Abroad will help us!

37. “There’s no time to hug,” he said. Goodbye darling. We separated like ships at sea.

38. The most important thing, said Ostap, walking around the spacious room of the Carlsbad Hotel, is to bring confusion into the enemy camp. The enemy must lose his mental balance. It's not that hard to do. In the end, people are most afraid of the unknown.

39. In our vast country, an ordinary car, intended, according to pedestrians, for the peaceful transportation of people and goods, took on the menacing shape of a fratricidal projectile.

40. You always think: “I’ll still have time for this.” There will still be a lot of milk and hay in my life.” But in reality this will never happen again. So know this: it was the best night of our lives, my poor friends. And you didn't even notice it.

41. I have often been unfair to the deceased. But was the deceased a moral person? No, he was not a moral person. He was a former blind man, an impostor and a goose thief. He put all his strength into living at the expense of society. But society did not want him to live at its expense. But Mikhail Samuelevich could not bear this contradiction in his views, because he had a hot temper. And that's why he died. All!

42. No need for applause! I didn't make the Count of Monte Cristo. We'll have to retrain as building managers.

43. I am 33 years old - the age of Jesus Christ, but what have I done? He didn’t create a teaching, he squandered his students, he didn’t resurrect poor Panikovsky!

44. Here I am a millionaire! An idiot's dreams come true!

45. Panikovsky will sell you all, buy you and sell you again... but at a higher price.

46. ​​The main thing is to eliminate the cause of sleep. The main reason is the very existence of Soviet power. But at the moment I cannot eliminate it. I just don't have time.

47. Since you live in a Soviet country, then your dreams should be Soviet.

48. I'm certainly not a cherub. I don't have wings, but I respect the Criminal Code. This is my weakness.

49. Comrades!.. The political situation in Europe... Our response to Chamberlain...

50. Serious disagreements have arisen between me and the Soviet authorities over the past year. She wants to build socialism, but I don’t want to. I'm bored of building socialism.

51. Abroad is a myth about the afterlife. Whoever gets there does not return.

52. Since there are some banknotes wandering around the country, there must be people who have a lot of them.

53. Women love: young, politically literate, long-legged...

54. I don’t need an eternal primus needle, I don’t want to live forever.

55. “It seems that the psychological moment for dinner has come,” thought Ostap.

56. Don't be a lady's cow.

57. Well, what do you say, Shura?! Maybe we should go for a ride too!?

58. A sultry woman, said Ostap, is a poet’s dream. Provincial spontaneity. In the center there are no such subtropics for a long time, but on the periphery, in the localities, they still occur.

59. The time, he said, that we have is money that we do not have.

60. I will ask you, citizen, to clean the chair.

61. It’s time for you, leader, to be treated with electricity.

62. “You are a rather vulgar person,” Bender objected, “you love money more than necessary.”

63. You are a dude, the son of a dude and your children will be dudes!

64. Why are you yelling like a polar bear in warm weather?

65. The financial abyss is the deepest of all abysses; you can fall into it all your life.

66. When I see this new life, these changes, I don’t want to smile, I want to pray!

67. Speaking of childhood, when I was a child I killed people like you on the spot. From a slingshot.

68. We don’t need rude people. We are rude ourselves.

69. - Life! - said Ostap. - Victim! What do you know about life and sacrifice? Do you think that if you were evicted from the mansion, you know what life is? And if a fake Chinese vase was requisitioned from you, then do you know what a victim is? Life, gentlemen of the jury, is a complex thing, but, gentlemen of the jury, this complex thing opens simply like a box. You just need to know how to open it. Those who don't know how to do it disappear.

70. You are an interesting person! Everything is fine with you. It’s amazing, with such happiness - and in freedom!

71. In the big world, people are driven by the desire to benefit humanity. The small world is far from such lofty matters. Its inhabitants have one desire - to somehow live without feeling hungry.

72. Kitty, let us also be immortalized. Let's fill Mika's tanks. By the way, I also have chalk! By God, I’ll go ahead and write: “Kisa and Osya were here.”

73. Give me the sausage, give me the sausage, you fool! I will forgive everything!

74. An idea is a human thought, presented in a logical chess form.

75. - Well, uncle, are there any brides in your city?
- Whose bride is the mare?
- I have no more questions.

76. He loved and suffered. He loved money and suffered from its lack.

77. Life dictates its harsh laws to us.

79. Or maybe they’ll give you the key to the apartment where the money is?

80. Closer to the body, as Maupassant said!

81. A car, comrades, is not a luxury, but a means of transportation!

82. Secret alliance of sword and ploughshare! Complete secret of the organization!

83. I consider the evening of memories closed.

84. Well, you, a victim of abortion!

85. What money? I think you asked me about some money?

86. The ice has broken, gentlemen of the jury!

87. All smuggling is done in Odessa, on Malaya Arnautskaya Street.

88. Boy... Is he bad? Whoever says it's a girl, let him be the first to throw a stone at me!

89. I will command the parade!

90. - For what purpose is the fee charged?!
- For the purpose of repairing the failure.
- So as not to fail too much!

91. We are strangers at this celebration of life.

92. When they beat you, you will cry!

93. Rio de Janeiro is the crystal dream of my childhood: don’t touch it with your paws.

94. We will wear cambric foot wraps and eat Margot cream.

95. - I'm buying a plane! - the great schemer hastily said. - Wrap it in paper.

96. Fate plays with man, and man plays the trumpet.

97. Only an insurance policy can give a person complete peace of mind.

98. The investigation into the Koreiko case can consume a lot of time. How much - only God knows. And since there is no God, no one knows. Terrible situation.

99. You are not in church, you will not be deceived.

100. The hearing continues, gentlemen of the jury.

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“The great strategist”, “former hereditary honorary citizen” and “ideological fighter for banknotes” - all this is Ostap Bender, one of the most popular heroes of Russian literature. Almost every phrase he uttered has been a cultural code by which people recognize their own people for almost a hundred years. To achieve this is a sign of the greatest writing skill, which, without a doubt, was possessed by Ilya Ilf, born Jehiel-Leib Fainzilberg, who would have turned 118 years old today.

Irish newspapers in 1930 actively discussed the personality of Derek Lyman, admiring his illegal, but very comical and seemingly original idea. The articles talked about an incident at the Cork chess club, where, lured by loud posters about the arrival of the “famous Russian grandmaster Tsaritsyn,” chess lovers gathered. After the “famous grandmaster,” who unsuccessfully tried to play 50 boards simultaneously, lost 14 games in a row, a local librarian determined that there was no such thing as Tsaritsyn in nature. Apparently, Derek was one of the first Irish people to read the novel The Twelve Chairs, published two years earlier. True, Bender was not distinguished by his agility, and therefore was caught and brought to justice.

It is unlikely that the co-author of the novel, Ilya Ilf, has heard of such plagiarism of the image of his hero, otherwise it could well be reflected in the new novel about the adventures of the great schemer. However, at that time he also had no idea that the popularity of the novel and its film adaptations would not only be loved by readers and viewers, but would be in demand for almost a century now.

His father did not know this either, shocked by the statement of his 23-year-old son Yechiel-Leib that his vocation was literature and that he was quitting his job. Looking at him lying on the bed and thinking about something for hours, doing nothing and just making up a pseudonym for himself - Ilya Ilf, his father most likely recalled with bitterness the hopes he had for him at the time of his birth on October 15, 1897.

Arie Benjaminovich Fainzilberg was an employee of the Odessa branch of the Siberian Bank. He moved to Odessa from the Kyiv province with his wife Mindl Aronovna and two sons. In Odessa, after two years, their third son was born - Yechiel-Leib. In a few decades, the phrases he invented and put into the mouths of literary heroes will be quoted by almost the entire population of the country, reading his books, as they say, “bingely.” And some of these phrases will shape the image of the country’s population abroad. For example, during his lifetime, Ilf will hear from a waiter in one of the French restaurants: “You know, monsieur, all your compatriots are very religious people and, apparently, strictly observe fasts. Everyone, starting a conversation with me, says that they haven’t eaten for six days. Now I believe that Russia is a country of very high spirituality!” The whole point is that anyone who read Ilf’s novel could demonstrate their knowledge of the French language by quoting Kisa Vorobyaninov: “Monsieur, don’t mange pas sis jour!” (Monsieur, I haven’t eaten for six days - translated from French).

All this will happen later, but for now Yechiel-Leib will have time to graduate from technical school, work in a drawing office, at a telephone exchange, in a military plant and in accounting. Having stunned his father with the above statement, he becomes a journalist Ilya Ilf, and then an editor in humorous magazines. In 1923, Ilf moved to Moscow and worked for the Gudok newspaper. It was supervised here by Valentin Kataev, a fellow member of the Odessa “Collective of Poets”, who by that time had managed to make a rapid literary career in Moscow. In his recommendations, in response to the editor’s question “What can he do?” Kataev, who knew Ilf for a very long time, answered briefly: “Everything and nothing.”

Initially, Ilf prepared letters from workers for printing, but instead of simply correcting mistakes, he began to remake the letters into small feuilletons. Soon his column became a favorite among readers. Kataev introduced Ilf to his brother Evgeniy, who bore the pseudonym Petrov. They had an age difference, different tastes and characters, different lives, but suddenly they were able to write together much better than separately. Some time after the start of their joint work, Ilf was already joking: “Won’t Zhenya and I be counted as one person?”, and after some time, their first joint legendary novel, “The Twelve Chairs,” was published.

In his book “My Diamond Crown,” Kataev recalled that he proposed to Ilf and his brother a story about diamonds hidden during the revolution in one of the twelve chairs of the living room set. They had to develop a theme, write a draft of the novel, and Kataev had to simply go through their works with his “brilliant pen.” But after reading the first drafts, Valentin Kataev realized that his participation in the novel was not required at all. The plot is based on A. Conan Doyle's story "The Six Napoleons", in which two bandits hunted for a precious pearl hidden inside one of Napoleon's plaster busts. They say that after the publication of the book “The Twelve Chairs,” friends of the writers who knew this plot presented the authors with a box, upon opening which they discovered six Napoleon cakes.

If the plot was clear, then there is still debate about the prototype of the main character. Without pretending to be unambiguous, it is still worth mentioning that among Ilf’s acquaintances in Odessa there was a certain Mitya Schirmacher, who reported only one thing about himself: “I am the illegitimate son of a Turkish subject.” They met in the Odessa “Collective of Poets,” although Mitya had a very distant relationship with him. Mitya only managed to get premises and money from the Odessa City Council to open a literary cafe, where many of the future literary stars read their works for a free dinner. The cafe was popular, and the income ended up in the pockets of Mitya Schirmacher. At a time when families of five huddled in small rooms, he alone occupied a three-room apartment, justifying this by the need to hold creative evenings.

If Ilf drew many of the hero’s mannerisms from the outside, then the appearance of Ostap Bender, most likely, was a direct reflection of Ilf himself in his younger years. Friends then called him “our lord” - for his elegance, expressed in a long narrow coat, a colorful silk scarf and an English pince-nez obtained somewhere.

The resounding success of the first novel contributed to further creativity: the continuation of the novel, the book “The Golden Calf”, was published, the short stories “Extraordinary Stories from the Life of the City of Kolokolamsk” and “1001 Days, or the New Scheherazade” were published, the fantastic story “Bright Personality” was published, and then - the documentary story “One-Storey America,” which he traveled far and wide.

By the way, Ilf’s father was the only one in the family who did not emigrate to the USA, so by the time Ilf arrived there, almost all of his relatives lived there. Ilf never hid his nationality. He liked to repeat: “They will still write about me: “He was born into a poor Jewish family,” and one of his stories begins with the words: “Sometimes I dream that I am the son of a rabbi.” Quite openly, he goes to visit certain Finesilvers, relatives who have adapted their surname this way. He visits them in Connecticut and openly writes letters to Moscow, proud that his uncle, the elderly Nathan, was personally acquainted with Mark Twain. There, Ilf is impressed by several ideas that will later form the basis of his script for the Soviet blockbuster - the film “Circus”.

In America, according to the recollections of his co-author Petrov, he suddenly began to “look pale and thoughtful.” “He often left alone and returned even sadder and worried. In the evening at the hotel, Ilf, wincing, said to me: “Zhenya, I have long wanted to talk to you. I feel very bad. I've had chest pain for ten days now. It hurts continuously, day and night. I can't escape this pain anywhere. And today, when we were walking, I coughed and saw blood. Then there was blood all day. Do you see? He coughed and showed me a handkerchief. A year and three months later, on April 13, 1937, at ten thirty-five minutes in the evening, Ilf died,” Petrov wrote in his memoirs.

However, his lively mind and sharp, ironic spoken language live on. With his books, Ilf managed to do something that no one else had managed to do at that time - to make the main character a handsome swindler and swindler, whose language and phrases, sometimes without noticing, we still speak. And thanks to him, we know exactly how to characterize in one word the people we meet in our lives - sultry women, a poet's dream, giants of thought and the fathers of Russian democracy.

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Jivamukti (in Sanskrit means “saint” or better translated “a person who has achieved liberation from the laws of karma”, “freed from the (endless) chain of rebirths”).

- Where did yoga come from?

Sharon Gannon: - Nobody knows that. Some suggest that the true roots of the teaching are in Ancient Egypt. It is known for certain: more than 4 thousand years ago the first Indian evidence appeared that speaks of this. However, most Indian yogis argue that yoga has always existed and we have always been surrounded by it.

David Live: - This sounds unusual to Western ears, but it still remains a commonplace that a person who continuously observed nature - wind, clouds, water, fire, flora and fauna - invented yoga.

- Why are all these acrobatic stunts in yoga good for the soul and body?

David: - Yoga is more than just asanas or physical exercises. Yoga is a way of life, a philosophy that teaches how to be and remain happy and content in this life. Despite external circumstances. And yoga exercises help you feel this philosophy.

- Can gymnastics on the verge of extreme make you happy?

Sharon: - Yes. A person who practices yoga is engaged in some degree of deep-going bodily psychotherapy. After all, we carry all our disappointments, anger, pain, fears and unresolved conflicts not only in our memory and subconscious, but also in our body. Everything that we have experienced in our past accumulates somewhere in our organic system. A good yoga teacher knows where negative emotions sit in his students and unobtrusively, with the help of special exercises - asanas, unblocks them.

- What do yoga teachers pay attention to when they realize that negative memories have accumulated in the body?

Sharon: - The way you carry yourself, posture, gait, gestures, tightness, limited mobility when moving, pain points. Good indicators for determining the general condition of the body are also facial expression, language, and above all. Most breathe short and fast only in the upper chest. They are constantly afraid of not getting enough oxygen. Yoga deepens and increases the duration of breathing. The eyes begin to glow again, the facial expressions become softer, the posture becomes straight, but not cheeky and loose. Thoughts become clearer, balanced and calm.

- There are many types of yoga. Which one is better?

David: - There is only yoga. It does not matter whether it is called hatha yoga, sivananda yoga or jivamukti yoga, it is all yoga. For comparison, apricot juice remains apricot juice no matter what bottle you pour it into and no matter what label you put on it. Of course, there are minor differences among yoga schools, but their content is still always the same. Which method to choose is something everyone must decide for themselves.

- Can a completely unathletic person do yoga? Overweight or sick person?

Sharon: - Of course. A yoga teacher creates a completely individual program for each individual person. It is amazing how quickly those suffering from migraines and chronic infections, people with circulatory system disorders, digestive problems, etc. get back on their feet. Those who are forced to regularly take medications, such as asthmatics, diabetics or people with high blood pressure, can with the help of yoga, reduce the required doses of the drug, and after a while even stop taking them completely.

David: - Yoga amazingly quickly cures all types of nervousness, sleep disorders, stress and depression. Smokers, alcoholics and drug addicts find true freedom in yoga, find the courage to overcome their illnesses and any addiction to any drugs. Youthful freshness flows into their souls and every cell of the body. Yoga rejuvenates better than any cream or cosmetic surgery.

- Does yoga smooth out wrinkles and shape your figure?

Sharon: - Anyone who regularly practices yoga automatically removes harmful toxins from the body and gets rid of excess fatty tissue. Yoga optimizes all body processes: metabolism, hormonal balance, blood circulation and cell regeneration. Connective tissue and skin become tightened. However, yoga is not a wellness program for a fitness club or nursing home. Yoga is a way of life, the “Tao” or Way of Life.

David: - There is a misconception about yoga. Those who begin to study it in order to solve exclusively their narrow personal problems, for example, career issues or to fulfill the dream of becoming younger, slimmer, healthier and happier, very quickly lose interest in studying it and are disappointed in the results. There is a paradox here, because yoga is able to solve all these needs.

- Why should you study yoga?

David: - Because of the passionate desire for internal and external harmony and the desire for real and lasting happiness. Out of interest in understanding the meaning of your life, the reverse side of existence. You can say this: I want to do yoga to overcome my egoism, my fears, curb my anger or overcome my insecurities. However, yoga also shows the path to the Highest. It gives faith in the Divine and the desire to serve Him.

- Do you need to believe in God to benefit from yoga?

Sharon: - Not necessarily specific. It doesn’t matter what you call the Supreme Intelligence or how you imagine it. We have Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jews and representatives of other faiths. All significant religious leaders, like Moses, Buddha, Jesus or Muhammad, all practiced and studied yoga. Because yoga ultimately represents the connection between man and the Divine.

- Is yoga a type of religion?

David: - Yoga is a spiritual path leading to absolute happiness. Physical exercises, asanas, are only a small part of the teachings of yoga. Overall, it's about feeling happy 24 hours a day.