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Good evening. Today was a beautiful day, with a beautiful program here in Cherkassy these last few days. It has been very great, with many bhaktas. Today we also had a very historical visit, which I will tell you about next time. There is a bhajan written by Mahāprabhujī. He gave this handwritten bhajan in 1944. He dictated and wrote many bhajans. Once, all of Mahāprabhujī's handwritten bhajans were stolen. Later, he continued writing more. Among these many bhajans is one about Yoga Nidrā. There is a story connected to this bhajan. One afternoon, around one o'clock, Mahāprabhujī was practicing yoga nidrā in his small room in Katha, Brunei. The room had no door, only a curtain to block the cold air. A group of five, six, or seven sādhus arrived and asked to have darśan of Mahāprabhujī. Some bhaktas were sitting outside. They did not know what yoga nidrā or resting was. The bhaktas told the sādhus, "Mahāprabhujī is resting." The sādhus talked outside amongst themselves, saying that a sādhu should not sleep during the daytime, that afternoon sleeping was improper. When Mahāprabhujī finished his yoga nidrā, he sat up. He called the sādhus over. They were sitting about 100 meters away under a tree, while Mahāprabhujī had been in his room. Mahāprabhujī knew everything they had been talking about. After he called them, they said, "Yes, Gurujī. We were talking because our master said that a sādhaka yogī does not sleep; he won't sleep in the daytime." Mahāprabhujī said that was right. If you sleep in the daytime, you lose a lot of your spiritual energy. Night is for sleeping, daytime is not. But what they were talking about under the tree was not sleep. They asked, "How do you know, Gurujī?" Mahāprabhujī said, "I was hearing everything. I know what you were talking about, and I know with what aim you came to me from five kilometers away." They said, "Well, we are sorry, but we just found that you were resting." Mahāprabhujī told them, "It is not sleep; it is called yogic sleep." That is called Yoga Nidrā. Then Mahāprabhujī sang a song, a bhajan. Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, could spontaneously sing a new bhajan within no time, just as we give a lecture. So Mahāprabhujī sang this beautiful bhajan. You can all see: yogī janakī yoga nidrā, bīrla sant jan jānī hai. I shall translate for you. Mahāprabhujī sang very nicely; my voice is not like that. He sang: Yogī jāno kī yog nidrā, bīrla sant jān jānī, us nidrā meṁ jagrat jānī, rātrī meṁ divas uṅganī hai. Us nidrā meṁ jagrat jānī, rātrī meṅ divas uṅganī hai. Yogī jānakī, yoga nidrā, bīrla sant jān jānīye. This is set to a rāga called Prabhātī, a morning rāga. It is for one and a half or two hours before sunrise. A yogī should get up before sunrise. It is said that if you are sleeping when the sun rises, your good karma is deleted and tamas guṇa develops in you. Someone said, "Only to sleep, only to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Morning is called Uṣā time. Uṣā Pāna means drinking water at that time. Uṣā means the morning, the first sun ray. At a certain time, there is like a nectar in the water. Uṣā Pāna is a very great thing. That is why many have the name Uṣā, mostly for girls—the first ray of the sun and health. For those who don't have a spiritual name, you could take the name Uṣā. But then you will be too many Uṣās! So quickly write Uṣā: number one, number two, number three, etc. When Holī Gurujī was singing this bhajan—unfortunately, I did not have the luck to see Mahāprabhujī physically, but he is always with us—Gurujī's voice was so beautiful. I was very young with him, 12-13 years old, 15 years old. At 3:30 in the morning, he would wake me up. Gurujī would be meditating, making his mālā, and he would tell me, "Meditate." And you know what? I was meditating—I was sleeping! And Gurujī would say, "Wake up, the master training is very hard." Yes, the first training is that the master will not let you sleep. Gurujī said, "This jīva, this soul, your soul, has left many, many lives. Oh man, God gave you now the human life. Don't waste your time in sleep. If you want to have sleep, then practice yoga nidrā. And wake up on Brahmamuhūrta. It is a golden time." Go to bed early after sunset, eight o'clock, nine o'clock. But if you sleep at two or three o'clock, how can you get up before sunrise? In this modern time, we have lost good things. We lost healthy food, and we are left with junk food, searching in the night. So if you can, go to sleep early, at least by one o'clock, and get up at four o'clock. That is already six hours, which is more than enough. Good sleep for three hours is more than enough, but we take three more. Above that is laziness, tamas guṇa. It is said, "Do not eat in the evening. After sunset, do not eat anything." You can have water, or before going to sleep, you can have a cup of warm milk with saffron. Gurujī was singing in Nipālāśram very nicely. I liked it. At the same time, I was a young boy and still did not understand what these bhajans were. Gurujī was singing: Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidrā Bīrla Sant Jan Janī Hai. Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidrā. Us nidrā mein jagrat jāne, rātri mein divas unganī hai. Us nidrā mein jāgrat jāne, rātri mein divas uṅganī hai. Rātri mein divas unganī hai. Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidrā Birla Sant Janajan Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidrā. Mahāprabhujī said to these sādhus, "Listen, listen, my bhaktas. Listen, sādhus, I was not sleeping, I was in Yoga Nidrā." They said, "What is that?" Gurujī said that very rare sādhus can know what yoga nidrā is. Yogī Janakī, yoga nidrā vīrā, sant Janjanī hai. The sleep of the yogis, only rare sādhus know. In that sleep of yoga nidrā, you are completely awakened. You are not sleeping like a normal person. This is prāṇa, ascending and descending prāṇa. In such a way, you supply more oxygen than in normal sleep, relaxing your whole body and also your brain, because our brain needs sleep. But yoga nidrā is more than normal sleep. So in that nidrā, in that sleep, you should be like awakened. In the night, you are awakening a day like a day. For a yogī, all are sleeping in the darkness of the night, but the yogī has inside awakened like a sunrise. It means awareness, consciousness. Then you will enjoy your life. You will have so much energy. But what you do in yoganidrā here—very soon, half of you are snoring. That is not sleep. So, ratnī me divas jāgānī hai. Now, what Mahāprabhujī is saying in this bhajan: he closes his eyes and turns his vision to the other direction. Ultī naina sena meṁ raga—your awareness is going in the direction you give it, to achieve a higher level. And that yogī has put his beautiful bed in the śūnyākāśa. Like when you sleep, you have a bed or a yoga mattress. So the yogī is sleeping in the astral world. There is no ground anymore. Śūnyāmayī says that he puts his comfortable bed in the astral world, and there is a nirālamba, without any base. There is beautiful air conditioning there. That yogī awakes in our breath, in the consciousness. You have all had a very comfortable and best time in your yoga nidrā. You have the best and most comfortable time in Yoga Nidrā. And in that, there is beautiful, bright light. It is said that in that śūnyākāśa, you find your address, your place, your ātmā, which you can realize at that level of your consciousness. How do you find and realize your place, your ātmā, which you can recognize at this stage? The flower has blossomed. Now the flowers, the chakras. All the chakras, the blood gems, are downwards. The flower has blossomed. So now all the chakras, the flowers, the dead lotus, have opened, turned upwards. So you could see that everything is opened. The unfoldment of the petals of every chakra is beautiful. Ulta phol khulia hai sanmukh, in front of you. Lakhi urad mukh bani hai. Lakhi means describing, like writing. So, it is like it is described. Urdh, urad means the ascending, descending breath. Bani. There you listen to the immortal sound of Om. Mukh Bani. Whatever you speak, it is the truth. Satya Brahma, Brahma Satya. Turīya means the three levels. Past, present, and future—all is in front of you. You know what was the past many, many years ago, how it is in the present, and how it will be in the future. Tār means like wires, cables, so it means your awareness, your consciousness, is very pure, light. Vyatar laga nidhara, and it is not connected to any base. It is like telepathy. You have the freedom. You can go in any direction, anywhere you want to go. That’s yoga nidrā. So when you do yoga nidrā, it is said, do not sleep. But if you fight against sleep, you will not get anywhere. So if sleep comes, let it come; if it goes, let it go. You don't care about the sleep. So it means that it is an Urdu word. Begam kī gam—you have realized beyond your border. Sūratā. But in Urdu, begam also means woman. But begam kī gam is different—your sūratā, your awareness. Begam kī gam jānīye—that time you understand what is that further, the divine, the śakti. Then you will understand what is next, what is this divine śakti. Sunme sūraj anant jagyā, within no time. So many suns rise in your consciousness. Sunme sūraj anant ugyā. Anant means endless. Sun means in that astral world; "ugyā" means rise. Everywhere, there is sunrise, and you are in the middle of that. That is a Yoga Nidrā, and this is Yoga Nidrā. A yogī is having his āsana, where you can sit. This is the takhat, what I am sitting on; this is also called the takhat, like a holy seat. So that yogī himself is residing on such a beautiful chair which is not visible; it is just in empty space. We will not realize, we will not see, but that yogī finds comfort there. Arad, ādhār takhat par āp viraje, nītā nām nirbaṇī hai. And there his resonance, his mantra—so nirādhāra, nirādhārī means nirādhāra, has no base, there is no support. But there is nāma, mantra—your mantra. Repeat your mantra, "Om Gurudeva." The mantra will help you there. It will lead you there. Arah urad, ascending, descending breath. Noor milia khilya me khilya, Sun me taar kalani hai. Noor milia khilya me khilya. Noor is also a word. Nūr means the face, the light of your face. That aura is spirituality. When you look in the face of the master, Gurudev, you see the aura, a big aura, and the bhaktas are looking there all the time. Don't look there, don't look there, don't look there. This is a restless disciple. But that's it. Nūr khilyā. Nūr means that light, the aura—beautiful, beautiful light. So nūr mile, khilyā meṁ khilyā. So nur milia means you connected, you united in that light. Within that I played; in that light I played. What did you play? Ānand, the bliss, the joy, the happiness, the light, whatever you said. Khelia means you enjoyed in that. Sunme tar chalani hai. Sometimes, again in that state of the yoga nidrā. Tārā means the wires. Chalani hai—this wire lets go and comes, the energy. Like we have, for example, the remote control. We don't see it, but it is connecting to that instrument. Remote control techniques were found in South India. But before he could make a copyright, someone took these techniques and made a copyright. But that person who was doing this, his master taught him the techniques of how to communicate without anything. And so there is our ascending and descending breath between the heart and the consciousness in the brain. Those yogīs who are practising and practising—Sant Tant. Tant means their interest, their concentration, their sādhanā. Heran Janana Lagohe—who begins to practise the mantra. That time, sūrat, our awareness, comes to the house of our heart. That means samādhi. So you are in samādhi. Otherwise, our sūtra is our thoughts or our concentration. We are thinking something like that, something like that. But when we find the right way, then we say, "Yes, this is that," and we go there. And so that sūtra finds its own house. And house means ātmā jñāna, his ātmā. What did Mahāprabhujī say? Śrī Ālāgapurī sā daṇḍīsanyāsī. So Mahāprabhujī said that Ālāgapurījī—I hope our spiritual lineage is from Alāgapurījī. Śrī Alagapurī Sir Daṇḍī Sanyāsī, a sādhu, he was a sanyāsī, ultī kālā paisānī hai. He realized, he knew, and he taught, but upside down. All the techniques he realized and gave further. He turned the world upside down. We don't understand. We think that when the sun goes down, we are up or down, with how high a speed our earth is moving. But we are not dizzy. We don't feel anything. Can you imagine if Earth stops? Everything will collapse, finished. From these gravities of the Earth, how is it that we know it is a high speed, but we don't feel any imbalance? That technique is taken all for the aeroplane. The aeroplane sometimes goes more than 1000 km speed, sometimes 900 km, but we don't feel like this. We are relaxed completely. But we are going with the speed of the aeroplane. Similarly, this energy and our being, our awareness—we think it is like that, but it is different. So Alag Puriṣā Daṇḍīsanyāsī gave us the techniques which are opposite to everything. Śrīdeva Purīṣa Avadhūta—and our Śrīdeva Purījī, Avadhūta. Avadhūta means the yogī who doesn't want anything, and he has no fear. Avadhūta means the best, the great; even Śiva doesn't care about that. Shri Dev Puruṣa Avadhūta Avaliya—that which incarnated; he was an Avadhūta incarnation. De bina deś dikhāyā hai. He saw that world without the body. Without the body, he saw you as that. Now we can see everything with our body, with our eyes. But Devpurījī could show you that through this yoga nidrā; it brings you to the other loka, you see everything without this, like a dream. But that dream is a different dream. Is vidhi koi virlā jāne, vohī guru gam jānī hai. And therefore, those who will practice like this, according to this bhajan—is vidhi koi virlā jāne—this technique, only rare know. Vohī guru gam jānī hai, sign. So that is who will realize that, who understand Guru Vākya and understand what Gurudev is. Any doubts, anything, you are out. That one who understands the hint of the Gurudev. Mahāprabhujī said that santa, that sādhu, that yogī is the warrior, what you call the hero. You are the hero. What they call—there is another word, the warrior who is successful. The word I forgot. Victorious, but victorious is too little. There is one word. No, but that's a Hindi word. Okay. Swami Deep Sant Janasura. Chetan, chet, chetana hai. That one is cetana, awakened. Cetana ceta. He can also awaken others. Cetanī hai. That master can lead these yoga nidrās, and he can wake you up into the awareness and consciousness of samādhi. Yogī, yoga nidrā mīrā, sant jan, jan us nidrā meṁ jāgrat jāne, rātrī meṁ divasa ugānī hai...