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In the year 2010, there will be a Kumbh Melā in Haridwar, from mid-March to mid-April. It is already possible to sign up; all details will come from your organizers. We have booked a coach for Prague, departing tomorrow at 2 p.m. from the main square in Střílky. The return ticket costs 480 crowns; a one-way ticket is 260. Please pay today after the satsaṅg. We invite you again for planting the peace tree in Prague. For those wishing to stay overnight in the ashram from Sunday to Monday, please announce it today in the upstairs office. We will be very thankful for your help with cleaning tomorrow after the program. Thank you. That is all. To our dear brothers and sisters around the world joining via webcast, a special blessing comes to you from the Czech Republic, from Mahāprabhujīpāda Āśram Střílky. Our subject is Nāḍī Yoga, as well as Kuṇḍalinī and Cakra. If you remember, we spoke yesterday and this morning about Nāda. This morning was about three very important principles in the body: light, energy, and sound. These three—light, energy, and sound—are dormant within our nābhi kamala (navel lotus). They are crucial for our physical health, mental health, spiritual health, spiritual development, and God-realization. To emphasize the importance of sound, there was a disciple of our Bhagavānśrī Dīpna and Mahāprabhujī, Swāmī Śivānandajī—you could say my uncle-guru—who was born in a royal family in Khaṭū, Chhotī. He received sannyāsa dīkṣā from Mahāprabhujī and was a great enlightened soul. He composed many beautiful bhajans; there is a book called Śivananda Bhajan Mālā. There were other divine personalities: Swāmī Lālā Rañjī, Swāmī Śivānandī, Brahmanānjī, and Maṅgīlāljī. Their bhajans are full of wisdom, teachings, and devotion, like those of Mahāprabhujī and Gurujī, Swāmī Śivanānjī, who lived a long time with Mahāprabhujī, practiced yoga there, mostly what we call Nāḍī Yoga. If you practice Nāḍī Yoga and meditate with it, it automatically becomes Kriyā Yoga. It automatically purifies your chakras, and very automatically, your kuṇḍalinī is awakened. Without nāda, without sound, there is no way. It is that sound which guides us through the universe. So these three principles are very important: light, energy, and sound. In techniques that contain these three, you have a perfect technique. Again, these three reside in the nābhi-kamala. Nābhi-kamala is the navel. That is the Maṇipūra cakra. So, nābhi-cakra is a very important cakra in our body. Without this cakra, your body cannot come into existence. Without it, you are not balanced emotionally or intellectually. Without it, you are without energy and vitality. Prāṇa and apāna meet at the Maṇipūra Cakra, and there is the path, the way to enter into the Suṣumnā Nāḍī. There is only one place where you can enter the Suṣumnā Nāḍī—your consciousness. When consciousness enters the Suṣumnā Nāḍī, it means your cakras are completely opened and purified, and the so-called kuṇḍalinī is already awoken. Kuṇḍalinī is just energy, nothing else, and that is the sound, light, and energy. These three are the subject of the three nāḍīs: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā. The only way we can enter our Suṣumnā nāḍī is through the Nābhi cakra. Nābhi is the seed of the soul. Through the practice of prāṇāyāma—there are many kinds, all good—but to enter the nābhi cakra, we must utilize the Mahākumbha. Mahākumbha, Mahābandha, means Mūlabandha, Jālandharabandha, and Uḍḍīyānabandha together. At that time, if your cakra is purified and your nāḍīs are clean, then your consciousness automatically enters the suṣumnā nāḍī. This means your consciousness has a straight path to the Sahasrāra Cakra. Where is the seat of Śiva? Where is the seat of consciousness? Where is the seat of bliss, of ānanda? It is the door to Brahman, the door to liberation. This is a very important point, and it completes your yoga path. At that time, the jīva becomes Śiva. The jīva is the individual soul, and Śiva is that ātmā. That jīva is a Viṣṇu Śakti which takes care of this body, but that Viṣṇu Śakti turns, changes into the Śiva Śakti. Śiva means liberation. Śiva means cosmic consciousness. That is Brahman, the Supreme. The Śiva principle resides at the Sahasrāra Cakra. It is not a person; it is not some form. Do not understand Śiva and Śakti as forms. It is beyond our imagination. Do not misunderstand. Do not say your wife is a Śakti. Of course, she is a very big Śakti, and you have to be very careful, but it is not that Śakti and consciousness. Śiva and Śakti are completely different, without the attribute of male or female. Those who understand this can understand what yoga is. So, try to purify the energy in the body—positive energy. A positive way of living. A positive way of thinking. Never, ever harbor negative words and negative thinking in your mind. Even if you are angry, even if you are right, still, do not be angry. Though you are right, you say it is good, but your anger, your emotion, can harm your spiritual development. It is said a wise one can forgive. So, you know what is right, and that is why you are angry. It means you are not wise. You know others make a mistake. You know the other one is guilty, but still, your heart has a big love and place for that person. That means you are spiritually developing now. Ask your heart—your sweet heart. I never tested if it is sweet or not, but people say blood is a little salty, so it cannot be sweet. But anyhow, your sweetheart—I mean not your husband, because wives call their husbands "my sweetheart"—I mean your heart. Ask your heart: Is there doubt? Is there anger? Is there jealousy? Is there greediness? Is there some difference? Is there conflict? Or is there some negative thing? If so, you are at zero point. You are in a blind alley, going in circles. From Mūlādhāra to Svādhiṣṭhāna, mistakenly to the north, and burning in Maṇipūra. You know your own conditions; I need not tell. Are you a good person? It is your benefit. Are you not a good person? It is your loss. Can you understand someone? Those who have made a mistake, if you can, then do not be angry. The ignorant person is angry. The ignorant person is jealous. The ignorant person is greedy, as we spoke this morning about enlightenment. What is enlightenment? We spoke of that. Therefore, ask your heart, and you know how many barriers you have created against yourself. Yes. You are your own obstacle. You can practice and practice, prayer and prayer, but nothing will happen. Therefore, what is the use? There is no use. What have you learned in all these years of practicing yoga? I hardly see anyone who could be an example of yoga in their life. Unfortunately, because I know you. And the closer I know you, the more I know about you. You are offended. You are jealous. You are selfish. You have ego. What did you learn in so many years? Preaching was like oil in the sand. Did you try to correct yourself? No. I do not see anyone. Did you forgive someone? Really, with your sweet heart? No. Then what to do? Remain there. Wait and see. Time will bring in which direction we will go. Practicing yoga in daylight means twenty-four hours of guarding yourself. Śīla and niyama twenty-four hours, with your knowledge, with your clear viveka, consciousness, intellect, you are guarding your indriyas—which we spoke of this morning: karma indriyas and jñāna indriyas, and which energy influences which indriya. Everything we spoke about, the ten indriyas, is governed and has one supervisor. Which one was that? Be forgotten. Anyhow, I know when you go out of the hall you forget all. That is it, very nice. I am happy that you forget, because then you will come again to my seminar. If you do not forget, then you know everything. That is a good thing. So, the energy, the light, and the resonance. These three are active throughout the whole body and keep our senses very active. Thanks to God our senses are active. When the senses are not active, there must be some defect. Our jñānendriyas, our eyes—when you cannot see properly, you need glasses. Still, you do not see. So something is wrong. Thanks to God we have sound, light, and energy in our eyes. Each sense supports the other senses. What you see—the eyes are not only enjoying for themselves. When you see God, beautiful flowers, a good friend’s photo, a beautiful sky, beautiful animals—you see that. It is not only that your eyes are happy and enjoying, but they share with the entire body. They share with the mind. They share with our soul, and immediately you become happy. One picture can make you so happy, and it can make you very unhappy. Similarly, our jñānendriya, our hearing system: whatever you hear is shared by the whole body. The entire body gets the benefit of what you hear. Therefore, whatever you learn, whatever you have, is in your favor. So, the mind. The mind governs the ten senses and also your intellect, which directs the senses. The light of wisdom: it can be wrong, it can be right. When it is in the wrong direction, then it is selfishness. All of us here sitting, 99%, we make a positive decision for ourselves. Though we are guilty, we know that, but we do not accept it. Did you ever give a judgment against yourself? No. On the day you give the correct judgment, then your Maṇipūra Cakra will blossom. Your soul will be happy because your soul is getting released from tension—the lifelong tension from that mistake you did. But if you accept it, the tension is gone, like this morning’s example about the corn, the young boy, and the grandmother. When we practice Mūlabandha—I do hope all listeners know what Mūlabandha is—Jālandhara Bandha, which we spoke about concerning the Viśuddhi Cakra, and Uḍḍīyāna Bandha. Uḍḍīyāna means flying. Mūlabandha is to contract the perineal or anal muscles. But hardly can you manage two seconds. If you can make two seconds, you have made very big progress, because it is not the physical contraction you can do for a long time. But at the time you contract and hold the anal muscle, a kind of sensation goes through the spinal column. It releases mental tension immediately. It releases a lot of tension from the body. That energy is something very great for us. But what happens with most is that after one or two seconds, that sensation disappears. And what are you doing? Only holding the muscles. The snake is gone, and you are beating the pipe of the snake. The snake is gone. So that energy is gone. Now you are only holding the muscles. Therefore, all practitioners of yoga, spiritual seekers, aspirants, practitioners of the kriyās, you have to learn systematically to master the Mūlabandha. It is a years-long process. It is not the contraction of the muscle, but that sensation which awakens during the contraction. To keep that is called a masterwork. When you can keep it, then I can see on your face a different expression. Then someone tells you, "You are a stupid one." You will not react. You will say, "Thank you for reminding me. I will do my best." That is it. Not to be stupid. Anyone who tells you something negative has some sense in it, because for that person, really, you are stupid. That is it, and therefore accept it. For that person, you are the jealous one, the angry one. We are good to those we like, and we do not wish to have near that person we do not like. Like and dislike are a problem. Study, please. What I tell you, self-analyzing. When you are angry, check your anal muscles—what is happening there? Contraction. When you are jealous, contract your anal muscles. There is a sensation of burning, like a chili inside. Yes. So we call the chili’s burning a jealous person. When you are greedy, check what is happening. Nearly, you will get diarrhea. So all these negative feelings attack our three centers very strongly: Mūlādhāra, Maṇipūra, and our Anāhata. These three cakras are very important for our body, but unfortunately, we have not mastered the negative part of our life. Therefore, our own energy will kill ourselves. We are our own enemy, and we are our own friends. We are our own obstacles, and we are our own liberators. Time is given equally to us. If you utilize it, it is yours. If you ignore it, it is lost. Therefore, learn to make Mūlabandha. Then comes Uḍḍīyāna Bandha. We exhale and have bāhir kumbhaka, retention of the breath outside. At that time, just for one or two seconds, it opens the space in the Maṇipūra cakra where our Suṣumnā Nāḍī is coming, where this energy that awakens from Mūlādhāra, from Mūlabandha, without obstacles from the Svādhiṣṭhāna Cakra, will enter into the navel. The result? Happiness. The result? The light. The result? Resonance. Then, the time of making Jālandharabandha—to close the chin towards the chest—helps us to lead this energy towards our Sahasrāra Cakra and head. When you can master this, immediately tension releases. All your sleepless problems and anxiety disappear, like you press one button and your whole body is relaxed. So there are two buttons. The whole body can be relaxed when you press one button. The whole body is relaxed; no more tension. It is a yogic button from the Maṇipūra Cakra. Then you are completely relaxed. Joy. Then you will realize what joy is. Then this beautiful feeling, this indescribable feeling, begins to flow through the whole body. Each nerve, each blood cell, is filled with that joy. That we call Nāḍī Yoga, that we call Kriyā Yoga, that we call Light Yoga, and that is how we come to our aim. Definitely, our health is the first, but it is said when this energy awakens and becomes active in our body, health will automatically improve. But be sure that health cannot be forever steady. It is nature. It is changing. Ādhibhautik, ādhidaivik, and ādhyātmik—these three tapas. From time to time, we are victims of some tapas. It can happen, and so you are involved in it. So, Swāmī Śivānandajī, disciple of Mahāprabhujī from Bhadikāṭhū, Rajasthan—someone asked him, "Who are your relatives, your parents, brothers, sisters?" Swāmī Śivānandajī said, "Yes, I have my relatives." And he sang one bhajan: "My relatives." Those who love—snehī. Snehī means your beloved, your relatives, your friends, yours. Śabda snehī—who understand that resonance, cosmic resonance—they are my relatives. Dūjanī avadāī, daimārī helī—others I do not like. Oh, my friend, others are only disturbing, gossiping all day. So who is gossiping? What will be in the next life? And who is listening? By negativity from gossiping, what will be the snake? And what will happen? That snake will swallow the frog. So, would you like to be the gossiper? Will you be gossiping anymore, or will you listen to negative talks? Do you want to be a snake? How poor is a snake? No legs, no hands; everything has to be done through the mouth. There is a beautiful bhajan about a frog. Perhaps tomorrow morning I will translate that bhajan for you. We have a beautiful DVD of that bhajan. It is a very nice bhajan. I must translate it word by word. "Vajana, O my dear frog. Give up the hope of a little pond. Kar samundriyo vāsa. Go and live in the endless oceans. Deidarya Chod Silvaryari Asha." It is a beautiful bhajan. It is not a joke. That is why I told you. So those who understand my words, the divine sound, they are my relatives. Because śabda se lenā, śabda se dānā, Rāma, śabda se lenā—through the words, through the sound, we are given, and through the words we receive. Thanks to God who gave us this speech, these words. Every creature has a language; even plants have a language, but we do not understand. We should be like Devpurījī or Mahāprabhujī, who understand the language of all creatures, or like Saint Francis of Assisi, because they developed universal love. When you have universal love, then you understand. We understand only those we love. And when we do not love anymore, then we hide like a snake. Mahā Holī Gurujī said all sinners like to hide in darkness. When darkness appears, they are active. When light comes, they go back into darkness. The thief, the tiger, the lions, the snakes—all these. So when you are hiding—there are some people who do not want to look at Swamiji; they sit like this, because Swamiji will look like this. It is very hard to be with a master, no? But it is your karma that you have got such a master. I am not the guilty one. It is your karma. Nirmala Kālī Bābā, a very great saint, said, "I am like air; no one can hold me. I am like the sky. No one can own me, and I belong to no one. No one can hold me; I belong to no one. But still, I will be with thee. I will not leave you alone." That is it, through the words. We communicate through the words we take, the language of the heart, the language of your eyes, the language of your body. And though your eyes are closed and the body is peaceful, still there is energy coming, talking to you. Prem chupāyā na chupāy, prem kare prakāś, dhabī dhubī rahe nahīṁ, kasturī kī bāś. Prem chupāyā na chupāy—love, even if you try to hide it, it cannot be hidden. Love cannot be hidden. Prem chupāyā na chupī, Prem kare prakāś. That love makes the light. You want to hide, and someone puts on light. So love is a light. Prem chupāyā na chupī, Prem kare prakāś. Dabī dubī rahī nahīṁ, Kasturī kī bās. There is one kasturī—it is called like pañcolī, or the musk—it is so good-smelling you cannot hide it. Even if you close it in your suitcase, the smell will come. So love cannot be hidden. But hate cannot be hidden, too. Jealousy cannot be hidden, too. Offending cannot be hidden, too. When you are offended, you do not say any word, but your face tells everything. Immediately, your face is different, and Mūlādhāra is burning like a coal and getting cramps. Healthy energy is lost. So, śabdāṁśa dena—through this language, through this sound, we can give. Śabdāṁśa lena—and through the same sound resonance, you receive. Those who understand this are my relatives. Through the words we speak, yes, and through the words we understand. Through the words we get knowledge, and through the words we understand. We receive everything. Through the words, through that resonance, things go with you. Yes, my friends. It is that resonance which goes with you. One man told you while boarding an aeroplane, "Bloody stupid, one man is gone. You are in an aeroplane." Aeroplanes flying towards India or any other country. Now, this word is going with you constantly: "That one told me, 'Bloody stupid one.'" You know how things go with you? So make a saṅkalpa: you will never tell anyone anything negative. Even if someone is guilty, even if someone is stupid, do not destroy your energy to tell someone. Your beautiful energy should help someone to understand. That is it. You know what we say in India? When someone tells you, "Bloody one," we say, "Do not worry. Do not take any reaction." You know, when a dog bites you, will you run behind and bite it back? You cannot bite the dog back. That is it. You will say, "Only naughty dog, next time be careful, do not come near." Avoid the situation; that is it. Śabdāṁśī cāle māre, sat sat mārī helī, śabdāṁśī bhelā Rāma, śabdāṁśī hemelā. Through that sound, through the words, through the resonance, we are together. And it is that resonance which brings us together. Śabdaun pavesab jñāna, jñāna mariheli. And through those words, you can get knowledge. Through those words, you become a yogī; through that sound. And it is that sound which teaches you the techniques. Śabda says, "Udhāra Mariheli." Through that sound, śabda, you get liberation automatically. Savadasi nirgun. The knowledge of saguṇa and nirguṇa, the formless and form, omniscient and omnipresent—only we can understand and make differences through the words. Or śabda se dīp didār, didār mari heli—and so through those words, also, we can see the divine face of Mahāprabhujī, and through that resonance, we can see the radiance of the master’s energy. Śabdī Brahma—what we call Brahman, śabda brahman, nādarūpa para brahma. So sound is Brahman, the Supreme. And śabda is māyā also; the words are māyā. Śabda says, "Śivānanda pār paramārī heli." Śivānanda said, "Through that vākya, through that word, that through sound, I came across the ocean," meaning liberated. So understand that inner language and try to listen to your inner voice. Use your inner energy and the light of your vivekā, the light of your wisdom. So light, sound, and energy—these three are very important for our physical being, for our family life, social life, as well as for our spiritual development and liberation. And that is located at the navel, Nābhi Kamala. Always we say Kamala. Kamala means the lotus. The unfoldment of the lotus, one petal after another. And each petal opens to an immense beauty. Early morning in Brahma Mūhurta, you must wake up and sit near a pond. As the dawn begins to rise, the lotus opens. So gentle—no one came and said to the lotus, "Get up." And when the lotus opens, it is completely fresh. It is not like me, needing a lot of coffee. You know, we are still like this, hanging. But the lotus flower’s nature is very fresh. So each petal, when it is opening, a dimension is opening. As the dawn rises, so the dawn of knowledge, the light of wisdom, and with the dawn, a beautiful resonance is there, and that resonance awakens that energy so the flower opens. It is beautiful to see. Similarly, when clearness comes, the darkness of the night, the negative energy, the negative feeling—all which is damaging us—is gone. Love, happiness, and you are blasphemy. So tomorrow morning at 9:30, we will continue with this subject, and tomorrow we will see how the resonance is coloring and changing in our cakras. And we have to come to Bindu Cakra. Tomorrow evening we will be in Prague, and we will continue this subject. The day after tomorrow, again we will continue. Then, two or three days rest, and we will continue in Hungary. It is a big, big subject. Really, I am surprised. Sometimes I think I should not have touched this subject. I saw the beginning, but I do not see the end. It means you have to go with me. Now we are sitting in that boat, but definitely we will come there. So I wish you all the best, and good night. Sanātana Dharma kī Jaya! Guru Deva Niran!