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Good evening to everybody. Blessings of Mahāprabhujī to all of you. Also, dear brothers, sisters, spiritual seekers, and practitioners of different spiritual paths around the world: blessings are coming to you from the beautiful country of the Czech Republic, from the Mahāprabhū Deep Satsaṅg Foundation Ashram. It is a blessing to be here in every aspect. The air is very good. Today I was thinking about holidays on the beach. Then I imagined the ocean and the hot sun. That’s all. It’s boring. You are either in the room or in the water. There are no green trees on the beach. The night is restless with a lot of discos, and the daytime is hot. So I thought tourists should know the beauty and air of nature like this. That is why most tourists, the elderly generation and now also the young generation, are going more and more to remote areas. This ashram is the heart of Europe. It is the center of Europe, in the Czech Republic. The air and climate are very good, and it is beautiful. On one side is the most beautiful country, Slovakia. There are also the beautiful countries of Austria, Ukraine, Poland, and, of course, Germany. So it is a center of Europe. The most beautiful city is called the Golden City. Those who have not seen this city have not seen what Europe is: mystic Prague. That is why yoga and spirituality, and yoga in daily life, are very much practiced here. Anytime you come, all four seasons are very vivid. We are talking about prāṇa. Prāṇa Ādhāra God is the source of our prāṇa. Prāṇa is the source of our life. "O Lord, thou art my life." Prāṇa Ādhāra Satguru Śyām—Śyām is Kṛṣṇa, that blue Kṛṣṇa, Satguru Śyām. Why is he blue? He is very dear to me, and he is the source of my prāṇa, or my life. This can only be understood by a devotee who has completely surrendered. The subject of prāṇa is very beautiful. According to yoga, this prāṇa is divided into ten different qualities. First is prāṇa: what we receive and how we can charge this prāṇa in our body quickly. There are certain prāṇāyāma techniques advised in yoga and daily life, and in some yogic literatures too: Bhaṣṭrikā, Kapālabhāti, and Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma. Of course, first is the Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyāma, Sūrya Bhedana and Chandra Bhedana. Sūrya is our right nostril; it represents the intellect and also the rajas guṇa—it is activating. Chandra is the moon; it is like a sattva guṇa, harmonizing and balancing. So the moon is emotion. Māṅkā Devtā Candra. The principle of the mind is the moon. The moon is everyday changing, so similarly, our mind is changing. Now, during my lecture, you are changing many things in your mind. And after the lecture, you will change many things again. So, the mind you cannot stop, and it is the emotion. And emotion means the motion. You are in the motion, and that is like you are in the waves. So Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyāma, Chandra Bhedana, or the Iḍā Nāḍī, calms down and harmonizes our mind and senses. And the Sūryanāḍī, the Piṅgalā, purifies our thoughts; it means it creates positive thoughts. That intellect is changing; buddhi is changing into viveka. Viveka is the cream of the buddhi. The cream of the mind is intellect, and the cream of the intellect is viveka, or intelligence. Then it means our vṛttis are balanced. So, anyone who would like to achieve these should first go through Chandravindra Prāṇāyāma or Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyāma, according to your yoga and daily life teachings. There are many other scholars who are very knowledgeable about the science of prāṇa, like Swāmī Ānandanājī in Jaipur. He also wrote about prāṇa, the science of prāṇa. But to explain it so detailed, so nicely, with so many examples, is only possible now with one person called Swami Maheśvarānanda, the author of Yoga and Daily Life. Because he tried so much to explain to you, that’s it. So we should go to him. I should, Śāntī, tomorrow we go to him, okay? After Nāḍī Śodhana, this is also a question: what is a nāḍī? We translate it simply as "nerve," but a nerve is not a nāḍī. A nerve is something different. In Āyurveda, it is called Nāḍī-Vedya, and he reads your pulse. This vein is not a nāḍī, but he is reading the vibration of that nāḍī, or that pulse. And that is prāṇa. This is known as 72,000 nāḍīs, or 72,000 channels through which cosmic energy enters into the body. The Nāḍī Vaidya can diagnose your body completely, like what we call now—we have many, many instruments, magnetic resonance and that resonance and many, many. But a Nāḍī Vaidya can tell you immediately. It takes him one and a half minutes to assess your whole body: if you have a heart problem, a kidney problem, a liver problem, or a gallbladder problem; prostate problems; if you are dizzy, something with the brain, and so on. So that is a nāḍī. Now, prāṇāyāma nāḍī śodhana. That again indicates purification of the prāṇa. That prāṇa which is already in your body has now a different quality according to your body condition, way of eating, what you ate, if you could digest or not, if you have gastric problem, constipation, thinking. If one negative thought poisons your entire body—you know, people say one ill fish destroys the whole pond. So that fish, the ill fish, is our ill thinking. And you know that in half an hour you have to go to bed and go to work, but your inner self will tell you, "Five more minutes." Otherwise, you would have stopped five minutes before. After Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyāma, you have to step into the next technique, and that’s called Anuloma Viloma. Changing, and this is all we have to change very carefully. So first, only that you inhale through Iḍā and exhale through Piṅgalā. Only. So, inhale Chandra Nāḍī, exhale Sūrya Nāḍī. Inhale, Chandra Nāḍī, exhale, Sūrya Nāḍī. Then inhale through the right, exhale through the left. Inhale through the right, exhale through the left. So you make one triangle. It looks like a pyramid. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. After three months of practicing this, then you change. Inhale left, exhale right. Inhale right, and exhale left. Experience the joy of life. The joy or happiness which you search in your life, that will fulfill it. Nothing and nothing can give you that happiness. With this prāṇa, this energy will balance your body, and hormones, and everything. But what we need to take is time. Time. Tak indický biznesmen řekne, "Oh, I wish very much." But you know, I have no time even to die. Mardegī livisu menī. So, no time. And so I give you today time: 24 hours, one cycle of the day. Sunrise to again sunrise. And now you have to fly to Australia, which takes nearly 25 hours. And you know how many times you look at your watch, how long it is? Oh God, endless. Now you are aware of the time. The time is very long. So, imagine, what are you doing with your time now? Eight hours sleeping. Who is a blessed one here? That one can sleep eight hours. If you can sleep eight hours a day, you are the richest man in the world. What is richness? Happiness and relaxation. But what you call the material richest man in the world can hardly sleep six hours, four hours. Work, everyone, eight hours. The economy of the Czech Republic will go above the Himalayan, what you call the mountain Everest. But you know what you do? Now, I don’t know, but in the time of communism, people used to come to the office and make coffee. And drink the coffee, then sit down and telephone at home with friends, then do a little work. Go for a coffee, and tell the office I have to go to the doctor. No problem. You come back, relaxed. That time was no stress. That was something. But of course, that was not a lifestyle. Eight hours working. You still have eight hours. Eight hours for sleeping, family better, eight hours working, and now you have eight hours. Four hours for your cooking, eating, going to the office, and coming. And four hours still left. What are you doing with that? Two hours for gossiping, you tell your friend, "Tomorrow I will come to you for a cup of coffee or a chai." Thank you, very good, that’s all. Welcome. This was 27 seconds. But just to tell you that tomorrow I will come to have a cup of tea with you, we spoke for nearly twenty-five minutes, and that’s how we killed the time. In India we say, not respecting the time is a sin. Therefore, take time. Therefore, take time. Swami Śivānanda of Ṛṣikeśa wrote one book called Sādhanā, a very nice book. And he writes in that: from the 24 hours which you spend on worldly matters, perhaps take two hours for your own self. Twenty-two hours for this worldly matter, but two hours for you. For what are you living? For what are you working? In reality, you are working, living, going to be happy. So he said, "Śivānandajī, there are a hundred things which spoil us. But one thing you can do which can repair everything: prayer, meditation." How great. That’s my nourishment, and my strength, mental strength, is my prayers. So in the prayers, in meditations, in prāṇāyāmas, what happens? We purify that energy, and when you begin to meditate and pray, you begin to gain. Why are you gaining that time like this? It’s not that Tamas Guṇa is coming when we pray. We can only pray if we have trust. If we see, to whom we pray is the Almighty, and we trust, we love, we belong. So it means, one day Holī Gurujī asked me a question. When Holī Gurujī asked the question, then, you know, I said, "Better you tell me." Like a small child is crying, unhappy, scared. As soon as the mother takes the child in her lap, the child is relaxed and sleeps. So we are the children of God. And prayer is that we are sitting in His lap. We give all in His hands. "Lord, now I surrender everything in your hands." That’s it. So, prāṇāyāma, meditation, mantra—this is the source of our happiness. From there we get strength. And those who have lost this, they have existential fear; they have all these worldly problems, and even depression and loneliness. So after practicing Anuloma Viloma Prāṇāyāma, then you can come to Bhastrikā. And many of you know Bhastrikā. Last week we introduced Bhastrikā also through the internet, so many friends know. Every prāṇāyāma is done through the abdominal muscles. So when you do the bhastrikā, your head and your shoulder should not jump. You are just doing; you can have your pot on your head, it should not fall down. And if you don’t know, you have to practice. Fill the cup with cold water and put it here. And then you do it, and then to get more practice, hot water. Then you will do like this. So, Bhastrikā. Not like this. That is not a prāṇāyāma. It’s something beautiful. You know how to ride the horse. Then it should not move even the water in your stomach. Or, like your car is driving now on the beautiful new highways of India. Oh my God. Your stomach then knows that you are on an Indian road. Everything is in motion. But you are not in emotion; you accept it. Then comes Kapālabhāti. Kapālabhāti is more exhalation. Like this. Also, the water pot should not fall down. So, try here after this lecture: every day, walk, put your handbag on your head, and just walk. Find your shoes, take your shoes on, talk to the friends, say, "Hello, how are you? How beautiful you look there, you look there." But one thing: your attention is that what you have on your head should not fall down, like a rope dancer. A rope dancer is going on the rope and looking to us, smiling, and we are all happy, and he is looking to you, and say like this, yes. But his main concentration is on his balance. Similarly, whatever you are doing in your life, it doesn’t matter where you are or in which situation, you should know that you are connected to God. My spiritual saṅkalpa, not this material, you know? I want to pay money, I want to have that friend, I want to pray, and I will get that friend. These are certain problems. You make a saṅkalpa, and it comes true. You get that friend. Then after one month, you renew the saṅkalpa in a different way. "Please, God, help me. How to get rid of it?" like a story of a monkey and a snake. So, prāṇāyāma. Prāṇādhāra. The source of prāṇa is our Brahman, the Cosmic Self, Nirguṇa, and He is the omniscient and omnipresent within and outside of us. So then, to support more prāṇa, to that serve Bhastrikā, Kapālabhāti, and Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma. It’s rejecting all dead cells in the body. All used prāṇa has to come out of the body. So the apāna functions also in the whole body, though it is more for the lower part of the body or the trunk of the body. All this virus from the body comes again out, and plus, exhalation without that prāṇa—prāṇa, you cannot exhale. You cannot pass urine, and you are suffering from constipation because the apāna śakti is weak. And so, about this, we will talk tomorrow morning. Now, I wish you a very good appetite. The time has come to have a little other prāṇa, pure prāṇa, solid prāṇa. We have this astral prāṇa, and we go now to the solid prāṇa. And that solid prāṇa has some interesting things. Yes, sometimes a cook was in love. A cook fell in love. Nejsou ani uvnitř, ani vně, without any doubt. We have the best cook in Strelka, and he prepares food with love. So when you cook something with love, it develops the quality of the prāṇa. And when the food is not cooked with love, and the food is not developed or cooked with love, then little quality. Therefore, it is said there are certain kitchen laws: before you enter the kitchen, or when you go outside and again go to the kitchen, you must wash your hands, change your shoes. If it’s a warm climate in your country, then wash your feet and no shoes. And nobody should enter who is not the cook, and this you have also here. Law. Second law: before you begin to cook anything, clean the whole kitchen with water, nicely, and then you cook. So you take the things you will cook: fresh vegetables, the chapati flour, the rice, the spices. And then you begin to sing your bhajans or mantras. And imagine that you are cooking for your children, for your wife or husband, parents, guests. They will appreciate, they will enjoy. Hunger is another fire; it’s called jāṭharāgni, digestive fire. When the creation began, there were many questions. You know, the book of the law of this creation is very big, very thick. If it is created, they are born and born and... Born, there will be no more place. So, what will we do? There it is said, they ask in parliament, the cosmic parliament, all elements sitting. Then Brahmā said to Agnideva, the god of fire, "Have you any suggestion?" He said, "Yes, I will enter into the stomach of the creatures." All the devas said, "What? You will enter this tomb?" He said, "Yes." What does it mean? I will burn all the energy. They will feel energy less. What does that mean? They will be hungry. And if God didn’t give us this hunger in the stomach, we would be lying somewhere like a stone. We will not work. For what should we work? So hunger came, then other ones eat. But what will they eat? Now it’s burning. The fire needs fuel, said yes, Jīva jīva bhakṣate. The life will eat life, and what we call nature’s balance, the nature. But Karuṇā Devī and Dayā, and my God, that’s horrible. Then how will they come out of this cycle of death and birth, when they will eat the living beings? What to do? So again, the parliament sitting, we have to create one creature who will have the ability to think, "What am I eating, and what should I not eat?" What is karma? And that one then will not eat this living creature. What will they eat? They will eat from Mother Nature, which has rejected and given to us fruits and nuts, and things like this. Vegetarian. So that’s how it began, the philosophy of the so-called Pakṣaśāstra: what and how to cook, and when to cook. So, you tell God and Mother Nature, Mother Nature, God, Lord Śiva, or Viṣṇu, or Brahmā, or any, "Please bless this food with the nectar. That makes them healthy, happy, and long-living." So, mantras, sing bhajans, kīrtans, and that vibration goes into your food. And that also, whoever eats will get good prāṇas. So the kitchen is a very important place. You know, sometimes husbands have to go begging to their wives. So he’s standing outside the kitchen, and she’s inside the kitchen. And he says, "Please, one chapati more." This is it, of course. Wait a minute. So he cannot enter the kitchen unless he has washed himself properly. The kitchen is called the Temple of Annapūrṇā Devī. Annapūrṇā, she is the goddess of the food. Therefore, it is said, "Annapūrṇā Sadāpūrṇā." Where the Annapūrṇā is, there is everything, completeness. This eating mantra: Annapūrṇā, Sadāpūrṇā, Śaṅkara, Prāṇa, Vallabhe, Dhyāna, Vairāgya, Siddhārtha, Bhikṣām, Dehi, Chāparvatī, Mātā, Chāparvatī, Devī, Pitā, Devo, Maheśvara. You know this eating mantra. Then you serve them with love. And then we say again, "Lord, I offer you whatever I got from you, and I would just like to offer it to you, that you bless it again, and then you eat." That becomes Mahāprasād, and that’s very important. So, almost every culture or traditions or religions have blessings. So, blessings are given and also for the food; eating prayers and blessings are received. That’s called Mahāprasādam. So we have many, many occasions to get good prāṇa. And with which kind of feeling a mother cooks and gives to children, that feeling doesn’t have somebody else. And with this feeling, your father is shopping, with which love. And always he thinks, "These are my children, my wife will like." Every cook is a good Āyurvedic doctor. Every kitchen is a very good Āyurvedic kitchen. In the kitchen, if you don’t have all these different spices, it’s not your kitchen. So your mother, your wife, or your husband, who’s cooking, is the best doctor. And they know the varieties: what to cook today and tomorrow, and this evening and morning, and like this. And those who don’t know how to cook look in a vitamin book. In the morning, they begin with watermelon. Others said, "No." Because it’s cold, it will dim your digestive fire. Then what? Others say with hot water. That’s good. Otherwise, no, no, no. Hot water. Coffee. With milk. The stomach said, "Oh, God. Why does he put this black water in me? When will he learn?" He or she will learn what to put in me. So there are many, many things, so love the food. And that’s a part of our life. Though we are not eating for joy only, we are eating for living, and we should live a good quality life. We are not living for eating. So, people every day go and eat junk food; they are living only for eating. And their cook, eight hours he or she is working for a few hundred people; of course, the love becomes weaker and weaker and weaker. Now, evening, ten o’clock, eleven o’clock, the last guest was there, and you cook in the restaurant. And you prepare it, thanks to God. Now I go home. And suddenly three more guests come. And your employee? He said, "Please prepare three more plates." Okay, so there is no love, so we should go to the restaurants where it’s really very important, necessary. Otherwise, eat at home, drink at home, then sit outside if it’s warm. And sing nice bhajans. That’s it. So enjoy your dinner, and we will see you here in one and a half hours. I will try to translate some bhajan. Nice satsaṅg. And that’s tomorrow evening. Dr. Śāntī will speak. So we have 24 hours time. Tomorrow evening satsaṅg, it means our time 8 o’clock, the Sādhvī Śāntī is speaking. Yes. Hare Om. Deep Nayan Bhagavān Devī Śvara Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Sanātana Dharma.