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Part 1: The Glimpse of Yoga and the Eternal Journey First, we will chant Oṁ. I think you know about Aum. You are all practicing yoga here. Who is here for the first time? Please raise your hand. So, everyone knows it very well. We will chant Aum. Deep inhale, exhale, relax. Feel your whole body and relax your whole body. Be aware of your being here in this hall. Relax, relax. Deep inhale and exhale. Again, inhale and we will chant Oṁ all together. Oṁ. Peace with the body, with the mind, and consciousness. Be thyself. In this part of our life, let us feel: Who am I? From where do I come? And where will I go? Where am I now? Just be present here. Relax and be happy, be very happy. Feel yourself. This is a glimpse of the yoga to achieve our aim, the supreme. Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Open your eyes. Good evening, dear sisters and brothers. Today is the best day to be ourselves together and understand yoga. We all know what yoga is. Many don’t know what yoga is. And what means that I am here? And what is the eternal journey? Many times I have been here, and I have given many lectures, but this time it is the eternal journey. This eternal journey is that reality where I am, where I am going, and where I will be. But let’s come first to yoga. And if we come to know what yoga is, then we will think a lot. This yoga is not some kind of exercise. This is all for, like, a kind of exercise which we can do, like swimming. We are playing football, many things. This is not yoga. Yoga means union, union of the body, mind, and soul. And this body, mind, and soul—where is it, from where is it coming, and where will it go? We are one out of 8.4 million different creatures. And all this, the soul has. Life has a soul. This plant is here living, and it also has a soul inside. It is a life. And if we cut off this branch, after a while, it will fall down and it will die. So don’t think that only we humans have life. We think we are the best of all. It can be that your body is different, but life is life. And the life is one, and from that, we became more so. This yoga means the union. Yoga means oneness with the cosmic self, etc. The yoga where we are bringing is that there are certain elements, and from this we become one. It is said in scriptures, which are from thousands of years, written and spoken by great saints or yogīs. What I am telling is not my thoughts only, not my knowledge, but it is from ages and ages, because I am talking about the eternal journey. So that eternal journey is there: where, how, who. So it is said there was nothing. There is nothing. It is empty space. As long as we are in the body, we are here. We are, but still you and me, all we are not one in our body. Don’t think that I am the human, and I have a soul, and I am everything. Yes, you have everything. You are humans, and you think you are a soul, but do you, or me? I ask myself, what is this soul? Where is that? Where is it in the body? Eternal journey in the body, but where? In this life, it’s not only one soul, but still we say the soul is that, a kingdom. In ancient times, we always said the king and the king has his kingdom. And all who are in the kingdom, all belongs to the Father. Even the vegetation, the forest, the different kinds of animals, all are in my kingdom, the king will say. But still, that king has only that one. Without a kingdom, there is no king. And without a king, everything is gone. So, in our life, how many souls are in our body in different forms? And all of these will never die, never die. You will always be life. What is that separating the elements, and from where is it coming? That many times, many, many, we call... The yugas, the ages and ages, there was nothing visible, invisible, feelings not feelings, that’s called empty space, empty space, nothing also not this vegetations, nothing, only the space, and within the space is called resonance, in resonance. Sense, it is said, nādharūpa-parabrahma, nādharūpa-parabrahma. The sound is the highest. We call God, or we call the Supreme, we call ourself or my life, etc. Only the sound. Everything is coming together in our body, together. And the body is something we cannot keep forever, and so it is said, the sound comes, but who makes the sound? Who is there? So this is to understand. Then we will know that we, I am, you and me, we are only one. But one, I want to multiply, but how? And that is Śiva. Shiva means that resonance, and so it comes first. No, the Viśva, I spoke about the Oṁ. In this, the first is the sound, and then is the fire element. So these are the five elements which come together, and that makes inside that which is the life or the soul or whatever. So space, and the light, the air, the water, the earth—five elements. But who is doing, how, and that? And that is coming through, then sound coming all together. For example, we spoke to you, they told that we will have a Swamiji here, and we’ll give the lectures. But who brought you here? And who brought me here? Must be something which nods the sound, and in the sound, then see some letter or something. And so, in this, it is said, then the space and consciousness, the consciousness and the space, the space eternal. So, who is that? Who is that? Is that space? Or when there is also the life called the conscious? But it is said, who is conscious has no desires, no desires. I have no desires, finished. And without that, no one can do anything. In that, fine, so Śiva, conscious, becomes there. Now, the conscious and space, how do they remain together in that too? And that is called yoga. So there were no humans, there were no animals, there was nothing. But only the space, consciousness, and between, that is what we call yoga. Balance, harmony, and balance into oneness. That is called yoga, and from this, the jīva begins coming, the jīva. How is the jīva going? We have some kind of fruits or something, and somewhere, a few days were there lying. And how many animals came inside? From where did life come? From where is life coming? And therefore, that is called the yoga. And so, this is coming from this element, and that is Śiva. And Shiva is not like a human body or this, but that power. And through the power, it’s coming further, which I will not talk about. I will come to our human life. From these 8.4 million different creatures, out of them, one is the human. All we have is that kind of knowledge, and we can do something. And all other creatures have no life of that kind, which we call sin or good. But for animals, not. Animals don’t know. Animals, animal, so we, God, whatever we call God or anybody, who is who? But we have that knowledge and science that we know who am I, and where I’m going, from where I come. So, to be human, the Christian people said either is in the heaven or in the hell. Who said that? What is that? Who is? In the heaven. Where is that heaven? And who is in the hell? But heaven, it is like that. And others, the Muslims have also said, and also the Hindus, the Buddhists—Buddhists and Hindus are the same. So how did they come into this? And therefore it is said, the human has given, God said to us, "I am within you as God." God said, "I am within you, and now I will give everything to you." That’s all. God has given us this, and so that God won, and then after all, humans, because humans have mercy on humans. They have feelings, they will protect everything, the animals, not the humans. And so we are human, but still, the humans, which I taught before, is the example that our body is our kingdom. Everyone, you have your kingdom, and you can destroy your kingdom, or you keep it and take all your parts of the kingdoms, all your, let’s say, people, animals, let them talk all with. So that’s it, king. The king is that which is a yogī as well as the protector. So the king is a protector, and the king is like a yogī. Yoga and this protection knowledge is a king. Who is not a yogī cannot be a complete king. And similarly, in many, many animals also, there are their kind of kingdom. They are taking care of everything, protecting. This is the life this year. Now we are coming to our journey, the journey of where we are going, where we are sitting now. So there are many different ways. Where is our soul? Maybe the whole body is a soul, or there are many other ideas. Sometimes I’m asking myself, and asking you also, what is the soul? Where is the soul? And in any language, have you different anything? Everywhere you are, 99.9 percent we know, "Where is my soul? Where is my soul?" And perhaps, let’s come to get the knowledge: where am I? Where is my soul? When I said, "Hello," he said, "Yes, who are you?" I am, but where? When I knock on the door, I’m coming there and said, "Hello, who are you? I’m this." Come in, please. You touch the shoulder. Who is that? Are you? Say, "No, I’m not this." It’s my shoulder. Okay, your head. It’s my head. Anywhere I touch, it said, "It is my." Very good. Anything you are asking, yes, it is my. But who are there, my? And a little bit we can try to get which part we should take very much care of, and so sometimes one after the other we make the, how to say that, we will say yes and yes. So we do today an exam, how is it? Is so, you know, we have five fingers. Someone... it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter what it is, it can be also. But just I am saying this hand only. And from that, also, I will take one finger, the index finger. And I will ask you that with this finger, you will touch on your body. Where is your soul? Where are you? It can be from the toes, foot soles, ankle joints, any part of the body. It is your freedom, your body. So where is your God, your life, your height? So I will raise this hand up, and you will close your eyes. Otherwise, we are saying, "Oh, he will do like this." Therefore, only come to thyself. Then I will tell you where your soul is, and touch this finger there where your soul is, where you are. So now, I say, don’t worry, otherwise you will be in the wrong place. Don’t close your eyes, hands are still up. Yes. And now, close your eyes. No imitation. And now I tell you, where is your soul? Where are you? Touch that finger on your body and keep it there, this finger on your body. Touch there. Where is your soul? Don’t open your finger, please, otherwise the whole game is finished. Touch that finger on your body. Where are you? "I am." It is my "I." Leave it there. Your finger, you have to touch it to your physical body. And now, do not remove your finger, and look at your finger. Where is your... Now, finger, don’t remove it. Now, leave it only there. And now, let your finger still be there and look to the left and right: who has it on the wrong side or not? So, we put our finger on our heart. There, we are. The kingdom is here. And we said, "Is my?" Who said? I said everything is the point. It is there. Here I am. Here we are now. This is a thing if it’s in the heart, but what is in the brain? The brain is gone. Everything is gone, or other points in that is the eternal journey of this all of your life. Your life is traveling 24 hours in the whole body, the five elements, the space without space. We are like a stone or a brick. So if we don’t have this space in our body, we are not there, and therefore we are there. Everything, the fire, if the fire is not there, we die, Hari Om. So it is the yoga which is taking care of the five elements to balance them. When you feel that, "I am feeling very cold, and I have no fire or heat in my body," then one element is not in order. So all this fire is within ourselves, but still we have it in us, which is connected everywhere. And now, in our small toe, left foot toe, and we are sitting here. And a tiny, a tiny mosquito will bite on our left toe. And within no time, you will say, "Oh, mosquito." Why is that mosquito and feeling that I saw immediately there? So, is that perhaps God is here, or soul is here? So, there it is said that God has the connection complete in your kingdom. And it is like the queen of the bee. And how many are there? All together. When she goes, all will go. We are coming in our body, and now in this, how shall we take care of our body in a good way? Now, how do we take care, and which soul in our body, or the feeling in our body, is telling us? And therefore, it is said, for example, you have one car, a very good car, and it has petrol inside. But you will put it inside kerosene. The kerosene and that other petrol are different, so your motor will stop. Oh man, your mother gave first very good milk. Yes, mother gave the milk, and it also gave the water. But now, Mother will not give you the alcohol. Thus, these five elements have told us that we should not take alcohol into our body. If you do not take alcohol or drugs, you will have a long life, a brilliant brain, and you will be very healthy and will die peacefully. So, what we are eating, that is the first thing for us. Often we are eating different things. Always we eat ice cream. And the body says no, but somewhere our soul always wants to have the ice cream. Which soul? It’s only in the tongue. Any kind of taste—sweet, bitter, salty, etc.—is only in the mouth. As soon as we come near the vocal cord, there is no more taste. It goes in the stomach. What will it be? A problem or not a problem, good or bad, and all that. And we shall take care of our body. So there is one example: my husband and wife went shopping. And they were walking there, and there was a very nice ice cream shop with very nice ice cream. Yes, the husband told his wife, "Dear, come, I will give you the ice cream. We should skim ice cream." She said, "Yes, that’s great." But, she said, but, he said, what is that? You know, you are a singer, you have very good vocal cords, very nice, and now you have a cold. And the doctor said, "Don’t eat anything cold, cold water, or ice cream for a while." Then, after, you cannot go. She said, "So, my dear, we will have ice cream after, when you are healthy." Okay. A good wife keeps the husband always healthy. And a good husband always follows the wife’s instructions. That’s it, both. Yeah, this is our journey, my journey today, Mr. Naginbhai. Our journey. My ice cream is here. Don’t forget, I will tell. Something is coming in between. The brain gives the instructions and everything, the men. And so they said, the men. So everything, you are a doctor, or you are this, or you have companies, you have lots of money, and this and that. Or I will say it again, but you know, good or not, and this and that. Everything is here. But you should always ask your partner, who is the wife. And if you don’t ask her, there will be some not good, why and how. So the husband first asks the wife. Part 2: The Eternal Journey Within: From Awakening to Dream This is the head, and the wife is the neck. This neck here is a very great thing. If she says yes or no, it is her point, and thus it becomes the man's decision. But the yes or no is the neck. So both are together. This is called Śiva and Śakti, male and female. They exist as a principle. We humans are everything that is there, but there are certain principles within that. For instance, the wife says, "No, you should not eat ice cream. We will take it later." She goes home. A good man always follows his wife's instructions. The wife also says she keeps her husband healthy. After a few days, he says, "I didn't eat ice cream." She asks, "How is your throat now? How is your this and that?" He says, "I cannot speak like this." She says, "We will take warm water, and it will be good." After two weeks, that man is sleeping. Where is our body going? Our journey begins from us here. This journey is lived in the awakened state. I am awakened. Everything we do in awakening—it means are we careful or are we not careful? We are awakened. It doesn't matter which way; if we do something wrong, then it will be wrong. After that, the journey begins when we go to sleep. We just go, and now we are sleeping. I will sleep now. Good. Suddenly you are sleeping—you, me, anyone. Do you know in which second you fell into sleep? That is called... There are three principles. I am talking about the eternal journey of the human; animals also have something like this. So, this journey: The first journey is you are born, you are playing, going, eating, everything—you are awakened. The second journey is going to sleep. We call it in Indian language sonā: jāgrat (awakened) and sleeping, the sonā. The word "sonā" has two meanings: sleeping or gold. Gold is a very precious metal; that is why we call it sonā. My Gurujī, Svāmī Madhavānandajī, said, "Sleep is for all creatures." Sleep is very important for our life. Again, all mechanisms come in the night. Again, good and tiredness goes, everything comes. But do you know in which second, at which time, you crossed over from being awakened to sleeping? You are sleeping; we don't know. When we ask which second we were sleeping... The second is this, the third is the dream. The dream is where our consciousness, our soul, is traveling as a dream. How did you get into the dream? How did you dream from here and go to Germany? Here is New Zealand, and sleeping and dreaming is in Germany. How quickly! And that little mosquito sticks somewhere from there to here, and you are in the body again. You are there. How alert we are! Like a little child is born, and the husband will sleep. That’s why mostly the husband takes his mattress and goes to the kitchen to sleep there, because many times the child is crying and wants milk, and the mother is a mother, so she is coming and going. These are the three states: we were in the dream, something good. There are many stories, but I will not tell them. And how did you come back again? How did you wake up? How did we come to these three? We call them jāgratā, svapna, and jāgratā, suṣupti, and the dream, svapna. These three are the journey of thyself within, in this part, in your body, in your consciousness. And then going farther and farther and farther, anywhere. So, how our brain is going there... Our journey can go very quickly, very quickly. Now, I will tell you where I will bring you, and within, like that. So, we are all sitting here, and we will go like that. You will say, "Oh, Swāmījī, you brought us there." And that is, let us go there. But not physically—not physically—but the body... we have different bodies. I said to you, Jupiter. Now we are all at Jupiter, yes or no? Our body, our thinking is there. So the journey, the eternal journey of that soul, is always going on with everything. And there are those which are taking care, still in our body: awareness. That awareness is within. So yoga is a practice. So first, be aware of your life, awakened. Exactly. We can fight, we can do; there are many things we can do. So what is that about ice cream still? Now he is sleeping, dreaming. And in the dream, he gets a nice dream. In the nice dream, he says to his wife, "Let's go. Now you are healthy, and we go for ice cream." They come to the ice cream shop, and he is ordering ice cream for his wife and for him. He says, "Very nice ice cream." He takes the spoon, nice, and brings it near the lips—it has not touched yet. And what happens? The dream is gone. We came from Jupiter to where we are here. He opens his... The wife is sleeping; he is sleeping. What is that? He says, "I am not normal. I was just now having ice cream in my hand, and now not this and that." Is that house? We are all animals also like this; they are dreaming also. Our scale, many, many animals. So this is our three levels of jāgrat, sasubhati, and svapna. These are the five in which we are traveling into the whole universe, even anywhere. And there is our soul; all the five are there. And this soul, which is within us, is not only one soul. There are millions of souls in our body. In one little drop of blood, everything is in our life. But who is in this body? How many are within you? You can lead thyself all as to God, or the one with God, or heaven, or whatever. However it is, heaven or no heaven, it does not matter. This is the journey of our life. In this journey, we come back again. It is our self that can do something for our body. Many times, our eating problems—we are not aware. We drive a car, we don't breathe, we have an accident. For others, an accident comes, then destiny. So the destiny is also coming; not only that you made an accident, but others create it in you. And that is also my destiny or your destiny. So, how we can protect this destiny is not so easy. So one is conscious, aware. Be thyself, all my feelings, and then I will take care of my body. But time will come; it has to go. But you will go on the good things. Maybe you had an accident with a car or anything, but you died. It was that our time was finished. And with this finish, all your feelings, everything goes with us. How many, like a bee, fly from one point to another point, all with that. So, yoga—again we come to my yoga. So first is that now come and feel your body. Now, you have any kind of illness. Of course, we have doctors, we have different kinds, but still we can heal ourselves. And ourselves is with the food: what I should eat and what I should not eat. So we have to come to the natural: what to eat, what kind of water we should drink, and what kind of milk we should have. Or maybe someone cannot anymore take the milk or yogurt, these things. Everything is coming in the right way when you practice your yoga exercise. Our car will come on the right path, then we will be comfortable, we will drive. Eating and exercising, and mentally thinking, are very, very important. Everything. So the husband has to be very alert and everything. And at the same time, the wife will tell, "Now what should I do and what not?" Yes or no? Yes. No. I said no. He said, "Yes, I want." No. They are fighting sometimes. So exercise, yoga exercise. Now yoga exercise means no competition. No competition. Competition, you have, you know, there is jockey, jockey. What is this? Indians are making jockey, or what is that? Hockey? I never go to the hockey. You know, cricket—oh my God. So we have cricket, we have the... no, no. Cricket is an animal on the trees, yes, a cricket, you know? This is a many-legged animal that is eating all these leaves. The whole of our farm can be destroyed by so many crickets. That’s what we call the crickets. What do you call that cricket after that? In your language? No, no, rugby. Rugby is a... rugby? Cricket. Cricket is that which eats all of our, yeah, all our crops. Every crop is finished. That is a cricket. So always he said, "Can we go with the cricket?" He hits on me. I say, "No, no..." I don’t want cricket. He’s climbing slowly, slowly up. Sorry, sometimes a joke is good, yeah. But still, I don’t say that joke. It is, we have to practice, we have to be happy, we have to have a joke. And that’s why there are good people sometimes; they make some joke. And people are sitting there, and one comes and makes some kind of joke, you know. And how we are laughing, and we are laughing, and we are… And after every show, how happy we are coming. There is one person who made a program; he called it Laughing Yoga. Do you know that? In the beginning, everybody said he is mental, not in order, not in order. And now, also in the aeroplane, once he was with me and suddenly he said, "Ha ha!" He said, again, then again, he said, again, ha ha, my God, he said, mad. Again he said, then he said, look, I will make you happy, so that you will be relaxed, your jet lag will be better. And so it is like this: we have to have a nice life, love, good, everything, but good things. Don’t be sad. Sad is this: your soul is going lower and lower and lower. So we should be happy. Family should be happy. Children should be happy. Neighbors should be happy. All people should be happy. All should be good. And sometimes they don’t like this, okay? Or we want to have everybody come and, "How are you?" and like this, you know? But sometimes we should not go close. The lion is very beautiful and very good, but go and see what he will do. So, our inner feelings and so... Is that eternal journey from within to the Supreme, and come back to this? Tomorrow, we will continue again. Why? If you have any questions, you can tell about this. But this journey, and then I will tomorrow talk about some organs and a yogī’s, my master’s. Guru brother, and he wrote a very nice bhajan, prayers, yes. And how he’s bringing all oneness, one God, into the all, God into the all, everything in your ātmā. How is that ātmā? Tomorrow, I will try to make it a little clear how it is. And that in that, Mahāprabhujī said: "Śrīguru, ātmā, paramātmā, homātmā, puruṣottama." In these two lines, he gives the whole life of all creatures, everyone, and the soul. And then not only like this: "naba-rūpa-vyāpa-satyayāpa-vimala-cetanā-ataḥ." And then also, about in the universe, you are there. It’s a beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps I will make it, slowly, slowly, try to give an explanation. Sometimes we cannot, and sometimes we will come together. So when we don’t understand, then I have to take other training, other techniques. And that’s why I said, when husband and wife cannot come together, then you should make them this and that. Yes, you think everything, but I have to do. So this here, yes, inside, and next said, "Yes, this, or inside." You earned a lot of money. Now you have it. But now, what will you do with the money? And so, your wife, or your mother, or your sister will say what to do, how to do. And when your wife will not follow, and you will not follow her, then they call, you know, Mr. Naginbhai. No, no, no. There is no fight, yes. Then your wife does not wash your laundry, you know? She doesn’t wash the laundry, but you are making the laundry cleaning. And then you are in the where? No, no, no. In the jail, yes. You know? You said or no? The laundry. The money laundry. Yes. So there’s money laundering. You try to launder the orders because you did not ask your wife. And if your wife asks, that will be nice, washed, but not negative, both sides. Similarly, in our food also, our heart, our organs, that many things, this is within our body, within our self. God, tomorrow I will bring God. I will say, "God, please, for a few minutes, can you stand here?" And God will come and stand here. Yes. And God will say, "Yes, but what do you want?" And I said, "Yes, please, this." And then you will see God, and that is how nicely it will be. So God will go. And you will again still be there. Why? Tomorrow is a joke. Very nice for the cat. So I want to tell that eternal journey within our body, our knowledge, our thoughts, in our world, and further, to come to God. But if you are drinking alcohol, then your wife said, "Close her door." And he’s sitting there in the kitchen all the time, and in the morning she comes there and she pushes him to one side and goes, "Yes, they can." Many people are there like this. Drugs, drugs. Alcohol is a drug. And this destroys many things, the humans, many, many, many. And alcohol is not bad, not bad. The alcohol came from the churning of the ocean. It’s a big story coming, and so there are twelve nectars coming out, and one is alcohol. And this alcohol is the best, but not for drinking, not for taking too much. Too much is not good. You are going in the wrong direction. So, alcohol is good, but not for that. But on that day, when it needs something for your body to give the alcohol, the doctor will give it. Then yes, it is very good. So there is a poison, or the nectar can be. Both in this. Tomorrow, a little bit comes. My dears, thank you. If you have any questions, ask. And practicing, practice yoga, yoga practice. This is another yoga exercise, exercise. I’m making so much experiment, many, many experiments, yes, I was doing. And eating good, and this and that, and my friend, my stomach, was always like a watermelon. And I’m going very nicely. You see, now my cloth is, now, yeah. And everybody says, "Swāmījī, what happened to you?" I say nothing. Now, for ten months, I have again put my diet in such a way that people who were over-laden have become very peaceful, very nice, and very good. No weakness, no weakness, lots of energy, lots of energy. And so they said, "Yes, you are so thin, but your face is very good." I said, that’s enough; body should not be so. So everything is good, the nourishment, the nourishment. We have to change our diet. We have to change our diet when we are after 35 years, yes. After thirty-five years, we should control. If not, then our life is only fifty years. If you have a fifty-year life, great. Now, because fifty years we were there, and now fifty years we have to go down. We climb on the mountain, on the peak of the mountain. Now, where are you going? We are going back. So, fifty years and fifty years down is one hundred years. You will say, "Oh, my grandmother is one hundred years." Before, people lived longer, but now it’s 65, 70 years maximum, 80 years. So it means in 40 years, your age is finished. So for 35 years, enjoy your eating, but not alcohol and not this. And then go down to the diet and movements and eat. Then you will live 100 years, or you will go with me for more than 200. We have no problem. We will go. Yes. Yes. Eternal journey with me. What about this one? How do y’all? Thank you.