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Be comfortable and repeat your personal mantra. Be aware that your right hand is in the middle of the room. Take your mālā in your left hand. Now, place your right hand fingers at the eyebrow center—index and middle finger at the eyebrow center. With the right thumb, slightly close the right nostril. With the thumb, slightly press the side wall of the right nostril. Without counting, just inhale deeply and exhale long. Feel the breath from the beginning of the nostril, the left nostril, till the center of the chest, and then further into the whole lungs, the whole diaphragm. Be aware of the breath. You should know that you are inhaling and exhaling with the left nostril, the prāṇa. Prāṇa. Deep inhale and exhale. Inhalation and exhalation. Place the hand on the knee. Place your hands on your knees. Take a deep inhale and exhale two times, three times. And relax. Just relax. Always observe the breath. Feel your breath ascending and descending. Breath awareness between the navel and throat or the nostrils. Elbows relaxed, shoulders relaxed. And now, place the hand on the knee. Be aware of the bīja mantra. And now make ujjāyī mudrā. The chin is pressed towards the chest. Be relaxed. Inhale through both nostrils. And exhale through the mouth slowly. Don’t make too much noise. Breathe in and out, from the navel to the Ājñā Cakra, and from the Ājñā Cakra to the navel. Likewise, go ahead, of course, no sound of the breath. What I made, it was only a demonstration. Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma. From the navel to the Ājñā Cakra, to the middle of the eyebrow center, and from the Ājñā Cakra to the Maṇipūra Cakra. Now release the Jālandhara Bandha. Head straight. And deep inhale to the nostrils and exhale to the mouth. Feel the fresh air going through the nostrils, and when you exhale, you feel the warmth on your lower lip. Keep your body relaxed, relax your elbows, relax your shoulders, and feel the prāṇa between Maṇipūra and Ājñā Cakra. The physical form of the prāṇāyāma is strengthening all the organs and our health, and it supplies the maximum quantity of oxygen. Inhale through the nostrils and exhale through the mouth. When you inhale, then you feel fresh, cool air flowing through the nostrils and from the Ājñā Cakra till Maṇipūra. And while exhaling from Maṇipūra to Ājñā Cakra and exhaling through the mouth, you feel warm air on the lower lip. O Jai Prāṇāyām. Still, your head is straight. Eyes are closed. Body straight, upright, and relaxed. You are inhaling through the nostrils and exhaling through the mouth. Breath, a little deeper than normal breath. Ascending and descending breath between the navel and the eyebrow center. From ājñā to maṇipūra, from maṇipūra to ājñā. And the prāṇa is spreading in the whole body, supplied to the whole body, to every organ, every muscle, every system of the body. Prāṇa. This kind of prāṇāyāma leads us to the sahaja samādhi. Spontaneous coming to samādhi, that’s temporary. Vṛttis are very calm, and your mind is peaceful, and you feel very deep within thyself, one with thyself. The vṛttis become calm, the mind... The body is like a vessel, like a pot, and mind is like water. If the pot is moving, the water is also. If the pot is steady, then the mind is also steady. To master thy body means to master the mind. This kind of prāṇāyāma is a technique of meditation which leads to self-inquiry, ātmā-anubhūti. This prāṇāyāma is a technique that leads us to self-examination, to the ātmā anubhūti. Deep inhale, exhale three times, and normal breath. Be straight, upright, sitting, no movements. Just relax and be aware of your being here in this hall with your guru brothers and sisters, and remember the celebration of the Guru Pūrṇimā. Remember your saṅkalpas to fulfill your saṅkalpa. To develop your willpower. And that develops through Ujjāyī Prāṇāyām. This meditation, self-inquiry, meditation of yoga and life, Ātmā Anubhūti. And now, deep inhale and chant OM all together three times. When you chant the OM, you need not move the body. Let your body be in peace. Breathe in, inhale. Open. Śānti. Place your mālā around your neck. Fold your palms and repeat your saṅkalpa. What you made yesterday, with folded palms, the hands near the chest, remember your saṅkalpa and pray to Alak Purījī, Dev Purījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Gurujī to protect our saṅkalpa, protect our spiritual path. The whole creature should be happy on this planet. Oh, Śānti! Śānti! Śānti! Rub your palms. Place the palms on the face, warm your eyelids and your face. Open your eyes and place your hands on the ground. Bend forward, touch your forehead to the ground, and relax the whole body. Feel the stretching of your back muscles. And feel the blood circulation towards the head and face. All five jñāna-indriyas are getting the fresh blood, which means more oxygen. And slowly, with the support of the hands, slowly get up. And inhale and lay hands up. And exhale, hands down on the thighs. And turn into the Vajrāsana. And stretch the hands up. And interlock your thumbs. And look to the ceiling and exhale. Bend forward and inhale. Come up, interlock the thumbs, stretch the body up, and look slightly up to the ceiling. Release your thumbs. And slowly bend forward, come down. Inhale and come up, hands up and interlock the fingers, palms towards the ceiling. Slowly bend to your left side, your left side. My left side is this side, and in the middle, and your right side, and middle. Left, inhale. In the middle, exhale. Right, inhale. Middle. Exhale left, and inhale in the middle, and open your palms and hands down on the thighs and knees on the ground, toes standing. Hands on the thighs, stay there. Through this Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma and this exercise, you are grown up. How did you manage all that higher? Then, hands sidewards and knees up. All balance on the toes. Knees in air. Don’t hold each other’s hands to the head. Hands on, fingers on the shoulders, and a little bit of Sarvaitāsana. You are sitting on the toes. But concentrate on Sarvaitāsana. Forget the toes. Other direction. Very good. Hands up. Who can, without support, can stand up? They will stand up like this. Those who cannot, who cannot, put your hands on the knees, support your knees, and stand up. Perfect. Perfect. Slowly to the hastapādāsana. Bend forward and touch your toes or the ground, and come up. Interlock the fingers, palms facing toward the ceiling. And Tāḍāsana. Again you are growing, oh my God. Up and down. Up and down. Up and down. Legs apart. And your hands bending toward the left side. Left side. In the middle, and your side, right side. And up. And up. Left, middle, right, middle, and hands down. Legs together, and fold the hands, and you can say, "Hari Om, Swamiji." Bless you all, please take a seat.