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Hari Om, Hari Om, Hari Om... Hari Om, Hari Om, Hari Om. These are called the sub-prāṇas. These five prāṇas and five sub-prāṇas—ten prāṇas in total—are functioning in our body. The major prāṇas are called Prāṇa, Apāna, Samāna, Vyāna, and Udāna. But these two prāṇas, Prāṇa and Apāna, are crucial. Prāṇa means inhalation through the whole body, not only through the nose or mouth, but through our entire skin. Everywhere we have hair, there is a pathway for the prāṇas. Also on our palms, our foot soles—everywhere the Prāṇa enters our body. Similarly, Apāna is what expels from the whole body, from different parts, like the same skin. On one side, when we inhale, it is going in; when we exhale, it is going out. Apāna and Prāṇa are very important. For example, if you cannot pass urine, you must go to a doctor for an operation or a catheter. Similarly, there can be problems with stool—constipation, diarrhea, or normal motion. If our Apāna Prāṇa does not have enough strength, you can sit on your commode, but there is no force to go down. You have no power; you can do nothing. That is very, very important. Inhalation is also vital; otherwise, we die. So Prāṇa and Apāna are both extremely important for our life. According to Kuṇḍalinī science, it is said the Prāṇa comes down to the navel, and Apāna also comes from the navel down to the end of our anus. When Prāṇa and Apāna meet together at the navel, in the pancreas or what we call the solar plexus, from there the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī takes place. Both prāṇas become pure. Apāna and Prāṇa are doing their duties, but that fine quality, fine pressure, or energy which goes through the spine, the Suṣumnā Nāḍī—at that time it is said the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī, or a kind of Samādhi, occurs. The other parts of all the prāṇas continue functioning. The sub-prāṇa is what takes care of the heartbeat all the time, 24 hours a day. We do not take care of our heart. We drink whatever we want, eat whatever we want, do whatever we do, but we never think, "What will happen to my heart?" Yet this prāṇa takes responsibility. Even whatever you eat, that prāṇa does not care about what you do, rejecting all that is not good for the heart. So, Prāṇāyāma—what we did yesterday, I made an experiment, did Prāṇāyāma with you, and it was a miraculous result. All of you, what you did with this prāṇa yesterday, that kind of technique was perfect. Prāṇa is life, and life is prāṇa. We can compare our prāṇa to our soul. Someone will say, "Oh, you don't accept." But we say, if someone dies—any human, animal, or tree—its prāṇa is gone. It means it died. We see the pulse from our hand; there is no pulse. All nāḍī systems, all nerve systems, all our muscles and ligaments immediately give up because the prāṇas are not there. Our neck will immediately just fall down; there is no strength. After death, you cannot remain like this, so there is no prāṇa. Or we say, jīva calā gayā. There is no more jīva, and the soul in the body is gone. So there is a very, very close relation between prāṇa and jīva, or the soul. "His soul went out," or "the prāṇa went out." Now, there is one thing: if the soul is gone, a doctor cannot bring it back. But if the soul is somewhere deep in the heart and the prāṇa is lost, then doctors can help. You, doctor, do not know this; this is a yogic science, what I am telling. But they can give you some kind of injection, infusions, etc., and again your life comes back. So, this medical science can prove that they give prāṇa; they can give life again. But when the soul is gone, they cannot do it. The soul is only there if a yogic willpower is there. Then the soul is there, and prāṇa is protecting the soul. So prāṇa is a guard, which is guarding and taking care of the soul. But when the soul is gone, then it does not matter. The doctor can perform many, many operations and anything—it is nothing. The doctor himself will say, "There is nothing more we can do." The science, the medical science, is limited. But the science of the yogic life is beyond. Our prāṇa is taking care of our life, meaning whether your life will be short or long, healthy or not healthy. So, pure prāṇa means that we first... The first happiness or first wealth is good health. This is said in Āyurveda. The Āyurvedic mantra is like this. First, it is called nirogī kāyā. The first happiness, first joy, first pleasant, first comfortable thing is that our body is healthy. This health exists in the different five kośas: Annamaya kośa, Prāṇamaya kośa, Manomaya kośa, Vijñānamaya kośa, and Ānandamaya kośa. These are the five layers which are in the body, all in our skin and everywhere, in these five kośas. The first is nourishment, the food. My opinion is this: if we humans are clever enough, if we humans are aware enough of our life, if we are aware of our existence, if we are aware that our body must be very healthy and fit, then the person will first bring attention to nourishment, the food. The day before yesterday, I told about the date, the date of food. The food which you cook a few hours before, then there is not much prāṇa there anymore. So the best is, even if you take half an hour more, you should prepare your fresh food. Also, do not boil your vegetables completely. If you boil your vegetables completely, just like a mash, then there is no more prāṇa. So the best vegetable cooking, number one: do not boil oil first. They put the oil and then they put the spices inside; the oil becomes burned. There is nothing nutritional in the oil; it is oily, hot fat. So, people think it is tasteful and so-and-so, the best vegetable cooking. Of course, there are different kinds of vegetables, so every vegetable has different spices and so on. But whatever you want to cook, vegetable, put it in your pot, your cooking pot. How much depends on you, for your wife, for your children, for you or your guests. It depends how much quantity you put inside. Then put the spices you want to put, also put it in the cold pot. The vegetable, as it is, is not on the fire. Then you put all: haldī must be, the cucumber must be. And the spices—spices are Āyurvedic science. Āyurveda said which kind of herbs, or seeds of the different herbs, that we call the spices. And they are for different organs of the body, for the skin also. So, for many, many things, there are different spices. It is like a medicine; it is not a nourishment in that way that you eat, and that is why you put only a little spices. But which one? So, for example, when you make this, a kid, what we had, a kid or ice cream, and then you put salt in the ice cream, will you like it? Like that, instead of the sugar, you put the salt. It is that much. Similarly, a person should know about cooking in the world. Eighty, eighty-five percent of people have lost the way of cooking, that much. Here we are sitting, all maybe, maybe, and maybe that you have the knowledge of cooking. Maybe if you have. The knowledge of the spices, for example, jeerā: for what is the jeerā? Study completely, and everything is written in Āyurvedic books. Everywhere is written about the spices book, so which kind of spices: dhaniyā, jeerā, haldī, etc., all, and where you... You should put the oil, which kind of oil or ghee? Now, Āyurveda does not accept oil. Āyurveda says oil is for the skin. Let the oil go into your body through massage. And if you do not want to have high cholesterol, then eat ghee. And the doctor said, "Are you crazy? Stupid. Don't eat cow ghee." But it has been proved now, really. That person who ate the ghee gave up the oil. And ghee in the vegetable, ghee on little chapatis or on your rice, a little—must not be half a kilo every day. Sorry, but three tablespoons of ghee per day. Three tablespoons warm melted ghee. After two and a half months, please go and make a test of cholesterol in your body. The doctor will say it is very good cholesterol. He will say, "What have you done? Which medicine did you take? Did you take that tablet, that tablet, or this tablet?" I said, "Yes. Which one? Āyurveda. What? Ghee." Let me test again. Your heart must be covered with ghee. So, this is the difference between allopathic medicine and homeopathic. Homeopathy is nature, is prakṛti. Our body is nature; our body is prakṛti. Our body has a relation to this tree, but the chemical does not have a relation to our body. So when chemicals go into the body, our Prakṛti, our nature, does not accept them. But because of these chemicals, and sometimes, of course, they can save our life—I would not neglect that—but that one tablet, a chemical in our body, maybe some disease will be suppressed, but ten different symptoms in the body will suffer. And it will have side effects. Now, again, many doctors, of course, they do not believe because their business will not be good, but it is a big research, a big research of the Āyurveda too, and many doctors they accept this. So, the prāṇa... What Āyurvedic medicine we take, there is a prāṇa and others. What we are taking is a dead body, and it is all these chemicals now. So what we do, whatever spices you choose, which vegetable you choose, and then put it in, put one glass of water—or it depends on the vegetables, quantity—and then you put one tablespoon, if you like the oil, of course, do it: sesame oil, mustard oil, olive oil, almond oil, etc., etc., or ghee, one tablespoon. Do not mix, just put on, upon, upon, that is it. And now cover the pot, put the lid on the pot, and put it on the fire. Not too strong fire, but fire. After 10 minutes, you open the lid, and you see that it is really very hot. The steam comes, finished. Close it and put it away from the fire. After half an hour, 15 minutes, or one hour, that vegetable will have all the nutrition of the vegetables and spices, and that will remain there. And that is like a remedy for our body. Then there are many things, frying and this and that. So, okay, once a week or a month, do it a little bit for your tongue. Tell your tongue, well, you know the taste. Anything that you are eating, the taste has only five centimeters distance. After, when you swallow, it comes to the beginning of the alimentary channel, no more taste. Here is no more taste; you swallow it. It goes, there is no taste. In the stomach, in the stomach, there are many people sitting, pulling this side and that. And the people said, "Oh God, what Swamiji has put inside again." We cannot, we cannot send it to the particular organs in the body. Okay, let it pull it down into the back, quickly to the large and long intestines. Our intestines are 8.5 meters long, all inside. It is said that those who are meat eaters have a small intestine, and vegetarians have very long intestines. So, these people, the human intestine is 8.4 or 5, 8.5 meters, say. It goes and it goes, and it sucks and sucks. Many, many cancers are had by those people who consume a lot of meat, and you do not know what happened to the animals there. So prāṇa, but still our prāṇa, our body—God has done in such a way that our prāṇa will try hard; all nourishment which is not good, somehow it will digest and let it go throughout without harm. So, Prāṇāyāma, prāṇa. So, the soul is very close to our prāṇa. So, like our whole body and skin are over. Similarly, the soul has this prāṇa, good prāṇa. And it is that prāṇa brings us to the higher consciousness, super consciousness. So, let us try again, Prāṇāyāma. Try to do the Prāṇāyāma. Try to feel food. Do not just say, "Oh yes, I want junk food." I always said, many of you know, and some of you know, do not know, if you take a junk food so thick, so thick. I always is envious, no, burger. Okay, burger is back. Okay, so when it is so height, okay, you squishes, goes like a sponge. Okay, there are certain tests. They put some that is only something for your mouth, some, uh, like a test, some sour salt, etc. Okay, now, this burger, what you are getting, the sandwich, chew it for two minutes in your mouth. Do not swallow it. You will feel like vomiting. Vomiting, no good taste. And now, take the organic food, good food, any grains, vegetables, and chew. As long as you chew, a beautiful aroma comes into your mouth. The taste comes in the mouth. This is different. You can do. So quickly swallowing, that quickly it has to go out, thanks to God. Otherwise it remains, then it can harm your intestine, it can harm your organs, it can harm your skin, many, many different things. We are all yogīs, and we should take healthy food. Do not imitate others. If others say, "No, come on, eat. This is very tasteful." Say, "Yes, thank you. But today I have eaten, so I have no appetite. Thank you." Come home and eat what your mother is cooking. And if your mother is cooking something, junk food, you say, "Mummy, mother, I have a stomach pain. I will not eat today." A good child will not eat. Tomorrow I will eat. And tell the mother, "Why did you, or why do you, cook like that?" So our prāṇa, saving our life, long life, happy life, your memory, everything is there. Then why should we spoil our life? And there are so many things to spoil our life: the drug. The biggest drug in the world is alcohol. And this alcohol is so openly sold, and in aeroplanes also they offer you. And when you go to the airport, my God, you have to go like this, chik-chak, through the alcohols. You know how many millions of people are suffering because of alcohol? Alcoholics, like workaholics and alcoholics. How many marriages are broken? How many children are alone because of the alcohol in their parents? But still, the people are there because there is money. So we should not think of the money. If this business, so no alcohol. Alcohol? Yes. Alcohol came out in the Satyuga, during the churning of the ocean for the nectar. First came out poison, then came alcohol. And so alcohol was that Devas and Asuras, so they were winning and Asuras lost because Asuras were with alcohol completely. But this alcohol was as a medicine, that was all. Poison is a medicine also. So therefore, now the alcohol in the whole world, many, many families are destroyed, you know? You need... Not to tell me, I need not to tell you. Sorry, you see every day in your office and everywhere. And if you are working with someone and they say, "What? You do not drink alcohol? Are you crazy?" He said, "Yes, I am still not crazy, thanks to..." God, I am still not crazy. So prāṇa, alcohol is a medicine, it is okay, but not for drinking. Similarly, the eating, the nourishment that can save our life in a much better way, and therefore yoga, but that kind of yoga. Like yoga in daily life, scientific, very balanced, people they go away because they say, "Oh, it is too slow for us," but after a few years, comes back and begins to practice yoga, a real yoga. The other is an acrobatic yoga, so. We will do now the prāṇa and Prāṇāyāma, so I will give you more techniques, and wonderful, go wonderful, this new, new technique. So I close my webcast now, and we will have practice.