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Very good evening, dear brothers and sisters. Welcome this evening. This microphone makes a theater of technique, a decoy. That’s it. We shall speak about technique, to know how. As usual, I’m very happy to be here in this beautiful city, Košice, where I have been many times. Today is a beautiful day; the sun is shining. It is a beautiful time of the year, and it is a beautiful time to begin again with yoga exercises. This is a very practical explanation. We are now on the border of two seasons. Summer is coming to an end, and autumn is beginning. Mother Nature has a lot to offer us now. What does autumn mean? It means the end of, or the highest peak of, life. Everything will turn into different colors: yellow, red. Leaves will fall down. Leaves are falling. Fruits will fall down. Nature is renouncing. Similarly, one day, we also have to renounce. It is said that at this young age, the youth which we have, or what we experienced, is like a morning thaw. It doesn’t last long. Similarly, life is like a morning dawn. You cannot exist forever. You have to renounce. And even if you don’t want to renounce, our senses begin to renounce. You wish to do, but your body doesn’t help you anymore. Finally, we have to renounce everything. Secondly, the changing of the season does not influence only vegetation. Our entire planet, every creature, is affected by that. The soil, the earth, is affected. The flow of the water is affected. And so we humans are also affected. Now, new cells are regenerating, and old ones are reducing. Different kinds of energy, the strength, are developing now. Our body is preparing to be resistant against the cold. Our immunity is getting stronger, and so this is the right time to begin with some yogic kriyās—to reduce all the toxins from these four months of summer and to purify the new blood in the body, the new tissues. This is the time in yoga, especially, to do Haṭha Yoga Kriyās. You have heard many times the name Haṭha Yoga. In entire Slovakia, people are saying, "We practice only Haṭha Yoga." But since 1973, I’ve been coming to your country, and I know the hundreds and thousands of people who went through practices. More than one million Slovaks have experienced practicing yoga in their life. More than 700 teachers have developed around the whole Republic of Slovakia, and they are teaching, practicing individually with groups, in schools, spas, hospitals, sports centers. But very few are practicing authentic Haṭha Yoga. So the śloka says Haṭha Yoga is just physical postures and breath technique, which it is not. According to the authentic literatures, which were written before 20,000 years, maybe, or from Satyuga, which is millions of years, the information was given from master to disciple, not in written forms. That was known as Śruti and Smṛti. Śruti means what you have heard, and smṛti is what you speak from your memory. But after some time, now in this Kali Yuga, some saints began to write things down, and thanks to God that this system began. Which system? Education, writing, reading. You will be surprised that the educational system first began in India. Anyhow, they modified yoga into different kinds: bhakti yoga, devotion; rāja yoga, the yoga of self-discipline. Rāja means the king, but here it means you are your own king. The key to success is self-discipline. Jñāna yoga is the yoga of philosophical inquiry, to know what is the final truth. And karma yoga, the science, the philosophy of action and reaction, the cause, the action and fruits, or reaction. Besides this, there are many different kinds of yoga: Haṭha yoga, Kriya yoga, and Nāḍī yoga, and so many. And it developed, also called yoga, in their life. You know that? You don’t know. OK, how many know? Oh, congratulations, my God. Slovaks, so you are included in more than one million people. Now I come back to Haṭha Yoga. According to the yogic human anatomy, there are seventy-two thousand nerves. This body is made out of five elements: aether, the space; air; fire; water; and earth. Every individual is its own phenomenon. Imagine this glass. This glass has an inner volume. This is the phenomenon of that glass. Similarly, you have like one big balloon or a small one. There is one thing which is very important in every creation, even in the day fly, everyone, and even this plant and flowers, and even this metal, representing the divine consciousness: space, consciousness, and energy. That consciousness, you may call ātmā, the self. Now that ātmā has its own; we call it the individual soul. So ātmā je univerzálna. Soul is individual. Now, within this individual phenomenon, there is mind, intellect, consciousness, emotion, anger, jealousy, hate, love, kindness, mercy, feelings, goodness, badness, pain, pleasure, experiencing everything. You have it in your phenomenon, and in me too. How much jealousy is in me, you don’t know. How much anger is in me, you don’t know. You see me only as a physical body, that’s all. Anything you do physically, mentally, thinking, or verbally, all influences you. It influences your life. So if you have a happy life, that’s your good karma. You did good things. And you have an unhappy life, that is your bad karma which you made; sometimes you did bad things. In this, all this system, in yogic philosophy, it is said there are 8.4 million different kinds of creatures. Out of them, one, we humans—it doesn’t matter if you are Slovak or Hungarian, African or Indian, it doesn’t matter. Human is human. Finished. Human. So there is no racism. That is wrong. According to even modern science, there is no racism. No race. There is only one race, and that is human. Or one race: dog, or a cat, or a horse, or a mosquito, and so on. So, 8.4 million, and these are divided into three categories: creatures in the water, on the land, and in the air. Now, recently again, scientists discovered very deep in the ocean thousands of different creatures, thousands. And still, they are not finished counting. So again, we are there with the yogic knowledge. Yogīs discovered this all through meditation. Out of these 8.4 million, one is human, who has a very powerful tool: good intellect, powerful intellect. But that intellect needs education, proper education, and only the chance to realize or come to God is a human life. Now, try to keep this life long and healthy so that in this life you can complete your work, or your aim. You and me, we were traveling through many, many different lives. We, as individuals, were floating on the waves of time, to the endless universe, through darkness and light, experiencing love and hate, pain and pleasure, happiness and anxiety and fear. We left behind us a lot of pain. Symbolically, let’s say, we say to God, "Lord, enough. Enough. Be merciful to me and liberate me." He gave us human life. Now it is in your hands. If you want to come to the light forever, or again you want to repeat all these terrible situations. My dear ones, life is a mystery. Be human. Out of ignorance, we fight each other: my country, my culture, my religion, my house, my money. And one day, everything will remain here, and they will bury us deep into the earth so that we can’t come out again. What is the sense of this life? Think over. In this body, there are many, many systems. Thanks to modern medicine, too, they discovered many things in our body, anatomically, also psychic, mentally. But all this work till now, humans have discovered through medicine or anything, is only 1% from 1,000. One percent from one thousand only. Nine hundred ninety-nine we still don’t know, the mystery of our life. But it is meditation that can open the door, and you become the knower of all past, present, and future. Yes, you can. Now there is a developed camera called a fish-eye, and when they take a photo from this fish-eye from one point, they get the whole room from behind, from below, from above, everything. It’s very interesting. Even we can see only that much, and sometimes that much. So, if this technology now, modern technique, the camera can take all the pictures, view all the view, then where is the problem to accept that a yogī sees everything, past, present, and future? But we don’t trust. We don’t know, and we don’t trust. What should God do with us? So, the best is you should realize, and I wish you that. There are 72,000 nerves in the human body. These are 72,000 channels through which the cosmic energy is flowing. These 72,000 nerves, through which also the consciousness is flowing. It’s like an antenna between the universe and ourselves. Now, there are three primary nāḍīs, nerves. They are very powerful ones, responsible for and governing the entire body. One is called Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā: sympathetic, parasympathetic, and central. These three nerves: the left is called Gaṅgā, the emotion, the moon. The right is called sun: creativity, activity, temperament. And central is called consciousness. The left is known in Sanskrit as Ha, representing the energy in the body, like in Tibetan Buddhism they say, Tibetan they say, Hara energy. And the right one, Surya, is called Tha. Ha, th. Now intellect. Intellect. And emotion. An emotion. It is emotion. They are emotions. This is intellect, activities. This is intellect and activity. Now harmonizing them together, balancing together. We need to put them into balance. Uniting, spojiť, so the word uniting means yog. Now, if you have under control, Haṭha Yog. This is the definition according to the very ancient scriptures and yogīs’ explanation of what Haṭha Yoga is. And that’s not very difficult. We can do it. Haṭha Yoga has got six techniques only. When you do these six kinds of techniques, number one, your health is perfect. Perfect health. You go to visit your doctor as a friend, not a patient. You go to the hospital as a volunteer, not as an ill person. You go to the medical shop as an employee, not for buying medicine. 99% of our physical problems and mental problems, 99% of our health and mental problems, you can solve without money, without injection, without tablets, and so on. Nice. We should begin, both of us. Okay? Tomorrow? Good. Our classes begin tomorrow in the High Tatras. I’m going tomorrow to High Tatras to begin this. Thanks to God, many of us here, our yoga teachers sitting, Yoga in Daily Life teachers, they know all these six techniques practically. Yoga is a practical way, not a theory. Tons of theory are nothing compared to a gram of practice. If you practice, you will gain. If you don’t practice, then I spoke, you heard, that’s all. So now is the right time to begin yoga. Summer is ending. Autumn has begun. Now, you have to create a lot of immunity in the body because the time is coming, the time of the flu, many different kinds of infections: flu, coughing, headache, nervousness, sinus problems. Okay. You know, when you go to your farm or when you go on a journey, you should be well prepared. Similarly, when I come to give a yoga lecture, I should be well prepared. But always I forget. I always tell to Mahāprabhujī, "My Lord, don’t bother me to prepare something. I will sit, and you will speak in me." That’s all. So believe me, what I’m talking, I’m only a medium. But he is talking in me. You must have a mentor, a master. Otherwise, I will sit at home and write Haṭha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and so on. Then I will come here: "Ladies and gentlemen, very happy to see you. We are talking today about Haṭha Yoga, Jñāna yoga, and so on." Then it’s not your wisdom. It is just conserved. You know, you put your Swedish case in the water, or you put your mushrooms nicely in the jar. That’s a preserved material, not fresh. We must have fresh. So I’m serving you fresh and very organic first-hand information. What I told you today, you have to look five years in the books to find out. Haṭha yoga. These three nāḍīs, Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumnā, they are passing through the spine. Now here, allopathic modern medicine and yoga have some conflict. They don’t agree, and I can understand them very much because they are very truthful doctors. They don’t agree, but they don’t know. These are energy channels, and there you don’t understand as a medical doctor. And I don’t understand what the doctor says, because I’m not a doctor. I’m only a yogī. I have many doctor friends and many disciples. But we have our... When the subject comes, medicine and this, then we keep quiet. But then my doctor’s disciples come and say, "Swāmījī, what you said is right." So there are chakras in the body, energy centers. These two nāḍīs, or three, they begin from the Ājñā cakra, the small of the brain. The central nerve stream, the energy is going through straight. And these two nodding streams are going like that. And that’s why it’s called snake power, serpent power. When you go from here, Košice to Levoča, through the mountains, the way is like this. That’s Kuṇḍalinī. The highway is straight. So when you realize, one day you will be on the highway. Now, where this Iḍā and Piṅgalā, the emotion and intellect, come together. Balancing then, the Piṅgalā goes to left and Iḍā goes to right. It’s a crossway, and that’s called one chakra. Like this, there are, from Ājñā cakra to Mūlādhāra, the six cakras. According to allopathic modern medicine, this nāḍī disappears after the abdominal level. But the yogī said no, it goes till the end of the spine. So, many problems, psychic problems, and which now in autumn will come. Dark days come. Many people will have depression. So practice this yoga and death life exercise. It is called Anuloma Viloma Prāṇāyāma. Your teacher will tell you. There is one book called Yoga in Daily Life in your language here. I don’t have here my table, but it doesn’t matter. There are descriptions for any mental and physical problems; all exercises are nicely described. Haṭha yoga. First technique, neti. We practice cleaning of the nose. There is a particular pot, a water pot. I wish I could have brought it with me. Next time, I will carry it in my bag. Morning only, not before going to sleep. Never do netī before going to sleep. So, half a liter of water, about 39 degrees warm, and in one liter of water, three teaspoons of salt. Now, your water pot for the neti has approximately a little less than half a liter of water. So your teacher will teach you; don’t do it yourself. Morning, that pot, you can imagine, here is one pipe made out of brass, and this pipe is a very special form. But this photo is too little. They cannot see it. You don’t see it too far, but you can see it in the book. You will find the book, Yoga Veda, in life. That pipe you put in your left nostril, you are standing. You lean to the washing machine. Open your mouth. Only breathe through the mouth. And you fix this pipe, and you lean a little like this. Automatically, water will go into the left nostril and will come out through the right nostril. Only inhale and exhale through the mouth. It’s about 38–39 degrees warm water inside, a little salt. It feels so beautiful. No pain. Your eyesight will improve. You will have no more sinus problems in winter, and you will have no dust allergy, no cat allergy and no dog allergy. Maybe to someone that I cannot tell you. You know what I mean. Yes. After cleaning this, half a liter of water is flowing. You do kapālabhāti prāṇāyāma. Kapāla means the forehead and the sinus. So water goes in, a little bit in the sinuses. It should come out. So you do kapālabhāti. Mouth a little open. Like this. Sorry. You do try with me. Come. Experience. Come on. Oh, my God. I thought the Košice people are very good yogīs. You know, in my language, "Košice" means try. Try. That means in my language. Try now, not from here, not like this. From the abdomen. Is there some demonstrator? You can become a demonstrator. Stand up. Only show the stomach. Yeah, only. No, no, no. Just like this. Look there. Look to that side. Yeah. Perfect. Near. Good. Now do it 20 times. You will see how fine you feel, very light, very fresh here. Sit straight. Mouth a little open. Otherwise, it will happen like this. Not like this, not like this. Yes, when the locomotive starts, very good. Come on, very good. Okay, after that, you come in your room and put your hand here, and then you do Bhastrika prāṇāyāma. It is like... What we did, that was a kapālabhāti, half. And bhastrika is balanced. So, this one is like we are trying to start a locomotive. Ano, začněte. Very good. So now, if you do this exercise, you will have no winter problem of getting the flu. Your nose will not be red. You will not always do like this. Next tissue. Third tissue. And in the bus, people will say, "What happened to you? You give the bacteria to everyone." But it can happen that someone is sitting with you and gives you this bacteria, so you have to protect yourself. Do morning jalneti and this kapālabhāti prāṇāyāma and bastrika, Kapālabhāti. So all water comes out. Bāṣṭrika. All from here. Next time when I come, tell me how it was. Or tell your teacher to send me a message about how you feel. The second Kriyā of the Haṭha Yoga, before doing Jal Neti, is you drink two liters of water. Minimum one and a half liters, or one liter. Depends on the person. Same quantity of the salt inside. And same temperature water, 38 to 39 degrees, early morning. Before coffee, before breakfast. Drink quickly. Then again, you lean on your wash basin, hold your left hand on your abdomen, brace a little, and with two or three fingers, press the tongue root and bend forward. All two liters of water will come out. Clean everything. No acidity problem. No acidity. No gastric problems. No asthma problems. Oh, beautiful. Three times a week. Neti every day. Very perfect. Now you have two weeks’ time to prepare for the autumn and winter. In two weeks, you should do one very powerful kriyā. 100%, it will protect you from many diseases, especially from the stomach problems, and that’s called Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. Your yoga teacher is a perfect one in this. And here, in this book of your yoga and daily life, on page number 395, it describes the practice and five exercises. Though the technique is here explained, it is still a theory. Your teacher has to do with you, of course. You should not be pregnant. If you are pregnant, you should not do this. The women, those who have menstruation on that day, should not do. If you have had some operations recently, do not do this. If you have a heart problem, then consult with a yoga teacher or your doctor. If you have diabetes, then also you should consult with your teacher. And these problems, which I told you, blood pressure, diabetes, and certain problems you can have under control through this exercise. It’s beautiful, beautiful. Don’t miss it. It is the most divine blessing for your body. It’s wonderful. So I think your yoga teachers know; they will tell you when and where they can do it. They are organizing in the groups, and also, you have to follow some diet. So, one to two weeks, no alcohol; also, about twenty-five days, no meat, no fish; one week, no salad, no raw food. So, your teacher will tell you what to do. This is called Śaṅkha Prakṣālana Kriyā. Śaṅkha is the conch. When you put water inside, it doesn’t go directly. You have to turn, then water will come out the other side. Similarly, you drink one glass of water, and you do five exercises. One glass of water, and five exercises. You have to drink about ten liters. Of course, after every exercise, you will go to the toilet. So it means water will come out as clean as you drank. And that is the specialty of this āsana. I am looking here that one posture is missing. This is a mistake of the Czech or Slovak who translated the book. Anyhow, your teacher knows. After that, there is another exercise called Nauli. And there is coming kapālabhāti, which we did already. And then comes tratak for meditation, cleaning of your eyes, to clean the eyes and clean the tear channels. And for imagination, for an artist, it is beautiful. So this is the hatha yoga: cleaning nose, drinking water and vomiting out, cleaning stomach, churning of the stomach, and kapālabhāti and tratāk. This is Haṭha Yoga. Now in Slovakia, what the people are teaching and they are saying is Haṭha Yoga is not correct. It is like this. In India, I eat polenta with yogurt, and I am calling it halushki. Now I invite a Slovak for eating, and I cook polenta and give the yogurt and say, "Today is halušky." As a Slovak, what would you say to me? You will smile and say, "Yes, thank you." But when you will be a good friend to me, then you will say, "Swāmījī, haluski is different." Similarly, normal yoga, what people are teaching in your country, I’m calling it haṭha yoga. And the Haṭha Yoga is completely different. So when I’m not giving you haluski, it is a hallucination. So we have only hallucination, not Hanuski. So not Haṭha Yoga, it’s only some Rāja Yogas. So the doctor gives you medicine against headache pain. But he doesn’t give you for headache pain; he’s giving for diarrhea. Then he is not a doctor. That’s it. So you should know with which kind of teacher you are learning. Nowadays, you find yoga in every corner, but if you then practice authentic yoga, you will have the right benefit out of it. I spoke too long. So with this I will finish. If you have any questions, you are most welcome to ask, and thank you, organizers, for inviting me here. It was my great pleasure to inform you what yoga is. Now, practicing is your decision, your choice. I can do only one thing more: I wish you all the best. Good health, long life, happiness, harmony, and love in your life. And God bless you. Adió. Thank you.