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Oṃ yam vakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt. Namaḥ kartā Prabhu Dīpa Kartā, Mahāprabhujī Dīpa Kartā hī kevalam. Oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntir bhavatu. Śrī Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya, Devīśvara Mahādeva kī jaya. Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Jaya Satya Sanātana Dharma, Jaya Satya Sanātana Dharma, Jaya Satya Sanātana Dharma. This blessing comes to you from the beautiful city of Warsaw, Poland. The subject is Kuṇḍalinī and Chakras. Welcome all, and bless you. We speak of chakras in the body, the subjective chakras in the human body. There are also chakras on this planet, on Earth. Trees have chakras, animals have chakras, lakes have chakras, rivers have chakras. Everywhere energy exists, there is a chakra. Energy is always circulating, and that is why it is called chakra. What is involved in these chakras? That is very important. We have been speaking the last three days—Friday, Saturday, and today—about Cakra and Mūlādhāra Cakra. From the beginning of our foot soles down to the ankle joint is the Earth Chakra. It means we are more connected to the earth, and that is very important. This chakra, connected with Mother Earth, gives us energy, takes energy, and connects us with Mother Earth. It is advisable to walk a little bit on the earth every day without shoes and socks. There is also a technique you can use at home, perhaps if you have no garden, or a small garden enjoyed by many dogs where you would not like to go barefoot. Make at home a one-square-meter space with a wooden frame. Fill that frame with small stones from rivers—gravel, like nuts—mixed with fine sand. Walk every day a few minutes on it. This will give you good health and activate all energy centers in the body. You know something about acupressure; this is a kind of acupressure. Do some yoga exercises on that spot. The sand or stones should be filled to a depth of at least 10 to 15 centimeters, not just a thin layer. The soil, sand, and stones are connected to Mother Earth; they are a part of the Earth. And we are also, as it is said, "Thou art the salt of the Earth." It means you are the essence of this earth. In yoga and daily life, there are exercises you should do on those fine stones and sand. That will develop concentration, balance, and exercise our leg muscles very well, especially the ankle joints and tendons. That is called ek pāda praṇām āsana. In your Yoga and Daily Life book, is it translated well? Ek pāda praṇām—that is love. When you walk in a park with beautiful trees, flowers, plants, and birds, you like to walk there. Why? Because that park, those trees, all love you. And you are now free; you are manifesting your love in freedom. Love means oneness. Where there is love, there is no fear. Where there is love, there is little Buddha. Where there is love, there is no hate. Where there is love, there is no cheating. Where there is love, there is understanding. Therefore, it is said that one of the forms of God is love. So love means confidence, love means pleasantness, love means fearlessness. You feel that in nature, so the third petal unfolds, and you feel universal love. No one can give us that love which is dormant in you. It is within you. In reality, we are not searching for someone who will love us. No, that is a wrong expression. We are searching for an object to which we can give our love. That is it. As soon as you think that someone will love you, then it will close, because you do not need that. You do not need that love. You are the love. You are the giver, and when you give, it is flowing. It means mercy, understanding, peace, freedom. So we are always looking for where we can give our love. And when everywhere we are disappointed, then we go to the temple and pray. We give our love to God. We do not know if He is taking it or not, and we do not know if that is God. Because God is created from the human brain. If there were no God, there would not be God. So God should be thankful to us that we recognize Him as God. Therefore, He should always be here. If He will not be nice to us, He can go where He wants. So God is a projection of the human brain. Again, it is your love. That God is your love, your devotion, where you can send all your energy to transfer into the universe. How beautiful. So do not expect that someone will love you, but always give love. Give, give… then it will flow and flow. When you give one percent, you will receive a thousand percent back. That is called the recycling of divine energy, love. Then you become the form of that divine energy; you become that form of God. You are that one. Everything is in you. So, wisdom, light, freedom, love—when we have these three, then what is missing? The fourth petal will open, and that is called happiness, bliss, divine bliss. Nothing is missing. These are the four petals of the Mūlādhāra Cakra which represent within you. This is the foundation, the fundament of all four principles: wisdom, freedom, love, and happiness. That is called divine bliss. Now, what do we call joy? That joy is limited. Material joy, worldly joy, is limited. When you realize that joy, you are happy. But when you lose that joy, you will be unhappy. So worldly joy, happiness, is connected with both happiness and unhappiness, and it is changing constantly. We are the victims of these two. Therefore, we are searching. It is called Paramānanda. If we empty everything we have inside—meaning the worldly joy—as long as you are attached to these worldly things, that Paramānanda will not project in you, because you have something. You have happiness; you have unhappiness. And that Ānanda does not want to disturb you in this. Therefore, it is said: renounce. Renounce and enjoy. Mahatma Gandhi said, "Renounce and enjoy." If you would like to be happy, then renounce things. Reduce everything. As many things we have, that many problems we have. It is also said in the Bible: "Those shall not carry." Do not carry with you anything. Believe in God. He will give you everything you need there. You do not trust Him? That is why you are carrying all the time a lot of things with you. But if you trust in Him, He will give you more than anything. But our belief is on the surface only. Still we have doubts. Still we are not sure about God. And that is why we are collecting, we are caring, and we have sorrows. As much money you have, and as many properties you have, you know who you are? A poor one, not a rich one. You are a caretaker of those properties, and you need a watchdog, an alarm, and to sleep you need tablets. How poor you are. Who is the rich one? It is said the rich one is that one who has no desire to have anything. He takes only one thing to pray to God: "Lord, give me that much only, that I can just feed my family, that I am not hungry, and anyone who comes to my door does not go hungry." But we are in a marathon: "How much money I have, how much I need more, how much I collect." But God tells… It does not matter how much you have. Even if you are a king and owner of the whole planet, all the gold and diamonds, all the mines belong to you, but you are not happy. And one day you have to leave everything here, and you will go without anything. Therefore, joy, happiness—the material happiness, the worldly relations—it does not matter which relation: with parents, children, husband, wife, friends, and so on. It is very nice, but one day it will bring you sorrow also. When a mother dies, you will be unhappy. That joy is finished. But the day you realize Paramānanda, then you will understand: yes, my mother is a divine mother. My mother is a holy mother because she brought this soul onto this planet as a human, and she did her duty. We understand everything is passing, so the mother’s body died, not her soul. We have attachment. Humans have attachment, but animals also have attachment. In 1977, someone told me that some Russian scientists made an experiment with rabbits. One mother rabbit gave three babies. They took the three babies away from the mother when they were about two or three weeks old, in different directions. One baby they took to the north a few hundred kilometers, the other to the south, and so on. They killed one baby and measured the heart rate of the mother and the other two babies. At that minute when they killed that one, the heartbeat was so strong and restless. They were restless, fearful. Then they killed the second one. The same thing happened. The mother was eating, and she stopped eating, and her heart was beating very strongly. Then they killed the mother, and only one baby was left, which fell down and died. So you see how animals also can feel pain, and they also have love for their parents. Do not think only we humans can. Therefore, the killing of animals comes back to us. "Those shall not kill," it is very clearly said. Do not kill. The bliss, and to realize that bliss—yogis and monks pray and meditate for years and years. Awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī will make it possible for you. Kuṇḍalinī is that science of body, mind, and consciousness. The Kuṇḍalinī science is that which will liberate the soul. The soul is a bundle of karmas, nothing else. The soul is like an onion. When you take one layer of the onion away, what is that? There is one layer of onion, a second layer; we take one after the other layer of the onions away, and at the end there is no onion. Similarly, the soul is that which consists of all layers of past lives and karmas. When these karmas are purified through your mantra, through your meditation, then what remains inside that soul? That onion is nothingness. And nothingness is that ātmā that is omniscient and omnipresent—everywhere, one without seconds, the entire universe, and in every atom. That is called Self-Realization, or the highest level of consciousness, samādhi. At that time, your body will begin to cease. Then you have no wish to live anymore. It is like a bulb which has a 100-volt capacity, and we connect it to 1000 volts. It will fuse. Similarly, we have only one percent of the thousand, and when a thousand times consciousness awakes in us, this body cannot bear it. And so, also, many great holy saints become ill. We think, why are they ill? Because they take the karmas of others to work out. At the same time, the consciousness is becoming strong and wide. That realization takes place. On the border of animal consciousness and human consciousness sits the Śiva Jyoti, the light of Śiva. That Kuṇḍalinī, coming with these nāḍīs—three, Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumnā, which we spoke of before—is coiled around the Śiva Liṅgam three and a half times, head down. That is symbolically a given picture of a snake. Why three and a half? Three means these are the three times. Three kalās. Kalā means time: past, present, and future. All this knowledge of past, present, and future is dormant there. Snake means also kāla, and kāla means death. And kāla means darkness, and kāla means the past life. And Kāla means all the three times. So when you speak about Kāla, you should know in which connection you are using the word Kāla. Therefore, this is the serpent power. First, because these two nāḍīs are moving like a serpentine, and second, the poison—and that poison means death, that poison means the dark, and that means ignorance. This ignorance will lead us to death and rebirth, and death and rebirth. Therefore, it is said: "Mṛtyormā amṛtam gamayā"—lead us from mortality to immortality. It is a beautiful mantra, and that is called the Mahā Mṛtyuñjaya Mantra. This is a Mahā Mantra, the greatest mantra to get victory over death. This is victory over the three times: past, present, and future. Therefore, the Kuṇḍalinī is residing there. That energy is residing there. Now, kuṇḍal, kuṇḍal means a circle. Kundal means a ring, or kund means a water place, like a swimming pool, or a small lake where water falls from the mountains and collects. So circle, the cycle, means the energy. It is like a spiral. Energy comes from the universe. We catch that energy through our chakra systems, and everything comes and goes down and calms down there. It is like an earthing system for electricity when you build a house. That resonance is like a key to open the door, and that is why it is called a Bīja mantra. Bīja means the seed. A small, tiny seed represents the whole tree. When that seed grows, one day it will be a huge tree. Similarly, your entire being, from the very beginning until today, from your past life to today, is concentrated in that seed of the Mūlādhāra Cakra. That seed, the mantra, is called Laṃ. That resonance is Laṃ. Then there are sub-mantras for the four petals. So this is literally for this. There is a deity sitting there. You see how interesting it is. Gaṇeśa is there, Viṣṇu Śakti is there, Śiva is there, and Brahmā and Sarasvatī are there. Brahmā means creator. All your creator abilities are Brahmā. So Brahmā, the creator, is sitting there. And Sarasvatī, the wisdom, the knowledge. So the deities of this are Brahmā and Sarasvatī. When you begin to practice, it is a long year’s sādhanā. We will do one simple exercise after an interval. Now you have an interval of about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, we will continue again. Okay? Adió. Adió. Sit in meditation. This technique, which we will do, is called Śaktipāt, the awakening of the dormant energy Kuṇḍalinī. It should be done for five minutes every day, three times a day: morning, noon, and evening. Five minutes is not very long. Imagine that the seat of the Mūlādhāra Cakra is the very end of the spine. We will do one kriyā, called kriyā aśvinī mudrā. It means we have to be able to tie in our chitchat, Sahasrāra Cakra. Man, you relax, and then you relax again. The energy is going up, again the energy goes up. It goes through the spine, goes up through the spine, Sahasrāra Cakra, and then that energy again merges into the… Contraction should not be too long and not too tight; it is very gentle, like a heartbeat. Because awakening is only a quarter of a second. This quarter second, if you can reach one second, is a great achievement. And if you can achieve one minute, super. But it is not easy. It is not under your control. Because with the same intensity, it should awaken that energy. So when you contract, it is just like electricity, four quarters of a second. You have to observe that very nicely. Do you understand me? Who did not understand? Come to Vienna, okay? And if you do not see him, find me in Vienna. If you do not see him, find me in Vienna, then come to India, Abri. Sit in meditation posture, chin mudrā, and those who have a mantra can practice with mālā. Their mantra: Close your eyes, sit straight, and relax the whole body. No tensions, just relax and withdraw yourself from the external world. Be aware of your being here in this hall. Relax the whole body. Just relax. Relax, and feel your whole body from the toes to the top of the head, and from the top of the head to the toes. Relax. We will chant Oṃ once, and while chanting Oṃ, concentrate, collect your energy at the Mūlādhāra Cakra. Relax. Once, deep inhale and exhale. Deep inhale. Concentrate at the Mūlādhāra Cakra, at the end of the spine. We will chant the mantra Laṃ. When we chant Laṃ, you contract your perineum muscle and relax. Both times, the time of contraction and the time of relaxation, the vibration is ascending through the spine, passing through all the chakras. We will chant like this. Listen to me: Laṃ, Laṃ,… Laṃ chanting. Feel the after-effect. If you cannot feel it without chanting a few times, do this mudrā. Contract and relax your anus muscle. Just remain relaxed. Keep your shoulders relaxed. Your stomach muscles are relaxed. Your breath is relaxed. Body is motionless. Relax. Feel your breath, that you know you are inhaling, and you know you are exhaling. Concentrate on ascending and descending energy through this spinal column. Relax. Keep on repeating your mantra. Be aware of your body, that your body is relaxed, comfortable, and motionless. Ascending and descending energy through the spine. You know that you are inhaling and exhaling. Relax. Relax. And now, extrovert yourself. And live with your Kriyā and Oṃ. Deep inhale. Or chant after me. Sing after me: Nahaṃ karatā prabhūdīp karatā prabhūdīp karatā. Put your mālā around your neck and rub your palms. Place the palms on your face and open. Touch your palms on the ground. Bend forward, try to bring your head down to the ground. Bend your elbows and feel the circulation towards the head, the circulation towards the head and the face. That will develop your memory, improve eyesight, hearing, and everything. After meditation, it is very important to let your blood flow toward the head. Slowly come up. That is all. Wish you all the best and divine blessings. Practice every day. Practice makes a master. Without practice, we will not be able to realize anything. Through practice, your every wish will come true, and you will feel day by day much better, different, with Mahāprabhujī’s divine blessings. Let us hope to see somewhere. I hope there will be many more meetings, and Swāmījī will visit us more often. The open heart is waiting for him, always here. Thank you. This is for our dear J. David. Thank you. This is for you, boy. And Sūryā Devī, who was always looking after me and her husband, for giving chai and water. And for Sūryā Devī, who was giving drinks and children. And our webcasting people, coming from Austria, Serbia, and Croatia, have a long drive back. So come here, to you and them, for all of you, one in all, all in one. You can see our every program, and these programs, these lectures also, will be played many times on the internet, on swamiji.tv. Already, tomorrow will be the Warsaw program on that. You can also introduce your friends. We have also some who made the videos from our, this, from Warsaw. I have the best. Thank you. Thank you. What is your name? Thank you. What is your name? Stefan. Stefan… Very good. And your name? What is your name? Name? Maria, very good. Thank you. And then we have here a nice singer who kept us busy and playing. Three of you, come here. Danusia. Danusia… There were some people doing sevā on the front desk, providing you some CDs and photos. So who was that? Please come. Thank you. You know, all the times we have… One junior here, he was very peaceful, and all were listening very carefully to satsaṅg. Call? Yes, very good, okay? Prosim. Good. And our birthday girl, she got only her chocolate. There is some prasāda left for your next meetings. I wish you all the best. I think it would be good that all of you come together and create this society: the Poland Union of Yoga and Daily Life. That will help you again to organize more such seminars. The three books at once should be translated, and find some publisher in the Polish language. Znajdźcie jakiegoś wydawcę w polskim języku. To byłaby wielka sevā.