Don't expect miracles
The soul’s journey to Brahmaloka through the guru’s grace demands endless patience, for the guru shepherds the devotee across lifetimes until liberation.
Worldly life is everything, but the guru follows the soul to Brahmaloka over vast time. The greatest error is to postpone spiritual effort, saying “Tomorrow” or “Next year.” Expecting swift miracles leads to psychic illness—depression, hallucination, false imagination. The only miracle is death; otherwise, the soul waits long in the queue of other realms. The guru’s blessing, given as shelter, protects the disciple until the journey’s end. Purifying the soul’s accumulated karma, heavy as tons of debris, requires ages. Negative thoughts create parallel difficulties. The guru can grant instant liberation but refrains. A farmer delayed joining the guru due to attachment to his son. He waited for his son’s marriage, then a grandchild, then to repay debts. He died and was reborn as a cow, still attached to family duties. The guru visited, offering liberation, but the soul postponed. As a dog guarding the house, it again delayed. As a cobra shielding its grandchild, it was killed by family. The soul became a worm, the lowest form. The guru placed the worm in a lotus offered to Vishnu. At Vishnu’s lotus feet, the worm attained moksha. The guru’s grace carries the soul to Brahmaloka even when karma worsens.
“Do not expect any miracles. And if you want to expect miracles, then you will become psychically ill: depression, hallucination, wrong imagination.”
“Even if your karma is getting worse and worse, one day it will be that you will get into the Brahmaloka.”
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
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Pranayam and peace
Prāṇāyāma leads the practitioner through peace to concentration, meditation, and Samādhi.
During prāṇāyāma, the vṛttis realize deep peace. This brings dhāraṇā, complete awareness of one object. Concentration is like a steady candle flame. From it comes dhyāna, merging into oneness with the object. Knowledge, knower, and object unite, beginning Samādhi. Samādhi resembles deep sleep, where the soul rests. But meditation offers more than everyday sleep. It is not achieved by expecting or forcing. Just be, and techniques will lead there. Prāṇāyāma purifies body and brain. It develops concentration and joy in the heart. The mantra sustains the flow, like a waterfall from above. Realize the ātmā in all beings. Sacrifice kāma, krodha, and other vices. Prāṇāyāma raises prāṇa to the sahasrāra cakra. This brings Brahmānanda. Practice systematically in Yoga in Daily Life.
"Peace and bliss are the result of the satsaṅg."
"In meditation, there is more than that. That is called everyday samādhi."
Filming location: Vép, Hungary
The Awakening of Consciousness: Kuṇḍalinī and Cakras
The science of yoga is the science of body, mind, and consciousness. Yoga is the eternal balancing principle in the universe, not a religion or dogma. The cosmic vibration, declared as OM, exists within and outside us. Human life is a precious chance within the cycle of rebirth. The human intellect can be trained endlessly, and dormant abilities within are connected to the cakras, or energy centers. The subtle body has 72,000 nāḍīs, or channels, for transmitting consciousness and energy. The mind functions between the subconscious and conscious, taking in impressions that become desires. The intellect's duty is to give judgment. We normally experience three levels of consciousness: waking, dream, and deep sleep. Past deeds create our destiny, or prārabdha karma. The Kuṇḍalinī energy and the cakra system are responsible for developing consciousness and freeing it from subconscious fears. The major nāḍīs are Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā, balancing emotion and intellect. Haṭha Yoga unites these sympathetic and parasympathetic principles. The awakening of Kuṇḍalinī is a divine process of becoming wise and calm, not a physical sensation. The cakras are located along the spinal column and are psychic energy centers. They are connected to the five elements and influence the body. Mastery leads towards liberation, the union of individual consciousness with cosmic consciousness. This requires lifelong practice and guidance.
"Yoga is not a religion, it is not a philosophy, it is not a dogma, but it is the eternal principle in this universe."
"The awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī is a divine process; you don't feel it as a physical sensation. You feel happy, as if in the lap of the mother."
Filming location: Zagreb, Croatia
DVD 188
Meditation on the Inner Sound
This is a meditation on the inner sound.
Sit comfortably, close the eyes, and produce a single pleasant sound without any specific name.
Raise four fingers, listen carefully, place them, and repeat five times.
If two teeth are missing, the practice is ineffective.
Bring teeth slightly upward, lips together, and press gently if teeth are intact.
Ensure both sides feel the sensation and sound equally.
This practice awakens both inner hearts, uniting them in the sound for great benefit.
Later the sound rises into the brain.
Not all languages can express this fully; in German, the sound remains only half inside.
Many people cannot grasp it fully, even in India.
A Swami from Yugoslavia learned it and demonstrates its best effect for the brain.
Now, be aware of both sides, experience pleasantness.
Go inward, repeat five times, and then lower the hands.
Concentrate deeply on where the sound is perceived—left, right, shifting, or both.
When both sides become one, keep eyes closed, let the sound resonate intensely inside, with no perception of self or others.
Then rest, lie down, hands straight, surrender to the sound, feel it throughout the whole being, stretch, roll, stand, sit, and observe the sound lightly near the ear with the mouth.
"If some teeth are missing—not just one, but two teeth are not present—then this practice will not be effective at all."
"When you achieve this, you have learned to awaken both inner hearts, so to speak."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
Bhajan evening in Jadan Ashram
The yogic sleep of the realized being is a state of wakeful awareness. In that sleep, one knows wakefulness and makes the night bright as day. The senses are withdrawn yet perceiving, unattached like a white lotus in muddy water. One abides in the self, radiant on the throne of the heart. Wherever one looks or hears, there is no ordinary thought or sight. This is the sleep known to saints and sages, where consciousness remains fully conscious.
"In that sleep, one knows wakefulness and makes the night bright as day."
"Wherever one looks or hears, there is no ordinary thought or sight."
Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India
