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Kundalini yoga is deeply connected with our destiny. Kundalini is the Śakti, the power that directs our life. It is the dormant energy within our consciousness, connected to certain physical centers in the body. It is like a generator formulating a kind of power. If we start the generator, it produces energy; if it stops, it does not. The energy is there, but in a dormant form. So, Kuṇḍalinī is there within our consciousness, but in a hidden, dormant form. Kuṇḍalinī is understood and a little bit translated as a serpent power. In Indian mythology, the serpent has great meaning. The snake is the beginning of life, you could say first. It has no organs, no limbs like hands and legs. It belongs to the reptiles. Though it is an undeveloped creature, it has immense power. The snake we call Kāla. And Kāla has many meanings. Kāla means past time: Bhūta Kāla, Vartamāna, and Bhaviṣya. Bhūta Kāla means the past time, pretīkta is the past. Vartamāna is the present. Bhaviṣya is the future. Kāla means time. Deśa (place) and Kāla (time), these two things are very, very important in our life. The person who acts according to the deśa and kāla will have few problems in life and will be successful. Often, people ask me a question: how to maintain or realize in life harmony and happiness? Harmony with friends, with colleagues, with a partner, with family. There is only one way: be aware of the deśa and kāla. Deśa means the place, the country. Where are you? In which country? In which place? And kāla means the time, the circumstances. So act according to the time and place. Whoever can adjust himself or herself to this time and situation will be successful. You may call it positive spiritual diplomacy. We always call them diplomatic; a person is very diplomatic. Yes, you have to be diplomatic to come through certain circumstances. When you are in Slovenia, you should respect Slovenian law. When you are in Croatia, you have to respect Croatian law. When you are in Bosnia, you have to respect Bosnian law. If you do not respect it, you will have a problem. So, in whose house you are, with whom you are talking, you have to use your viveka—your intellect, your logic. Deśa and kāla. So if you want to have harmony in your life and happy, good relations with others, then be aware of the deśa and kāla. And there, control your emotions. Emotion has many sides, many colors. Anger is an emotion. Hate is an emotion. Restlessness is an emotion. Fear is an emotion. Sadness is an emotion. Nervousness is an emotion. To run away is an emotion. Screaming is an emotion, and expressing your opinion without awareness of deśa and kāla is also an emotion, and that emotion will cause the problem. So, in the chakras, on the different chakras, a different kind of energy or emotion is hidden. So, kāla is the time. Second, kāla means death. Death comes to take someone away. Not dying, but Death. Death is the messenger that is also called Yama. Yama is the king of death. That’s called Yama Rāja. And the messenger of the Yama Rāja, you can call the Yama or the Kāla. Now, our life is accompanied by two constantly. One side of us is walking with us, our destiny or Viveka. Someone said jñāna, the knowledge. So one side is knowledge, and the other side is called the knowledge which leads us constantly, and Kāla will stop our life, kill us constantly. Kāla is moving with us like the shade of our body. You cannot run away from the shade of your body. Similarly, jñāna is also running with you. If there is light, there is shade. And if there is no light, there is only darkness. So whenever jñāna awakes, the shadow is there. The kāla is there. So kāla is looking for the chance to take you away. It can happen by accident or through illness. Sooner or later, we have to become the victim of the kāla. And therefore, always you should greet and make praṇām to the Kāla and tell, "Please wait." So Kāla means the death, and the Kāla means the black darkness, ignorance. Lead us from the darkness to the light. Because where there is darkness, there is suffering; there is ignorance; there is pain; there is misunderstanding; there is doubt, duality. And where there is duality, doubt, there is separation and suffering. And where there is knowledge, there is unity, love, oneness, clarity, trust, confidence, faith, love. So develop the love. Don’t tell anyone, "I hate you." Tell, "I love you." Maybe someone will misunderstand you. But still, love and hate means the call of death. So "kāla" means also darkness, ignorance, suffering. And the snake, which is producing poison. Poison means kāla. Poison means death. When the snake bites you, it’s not the snake that is biting you. Kāla has bitten you. But there is also help, not only that one dies. No, no, not only that one dies, there is help. So we are all bitten by that call of ignorance. We are in the mouth of the cobra, and only the Brahmaniṣṭha Śrotriya Gurudev can free us from the mouth of the cobra. Poison can kill us, but poison can also save our life. Snake means this reptile, when it’s moving, has no legs and no hands, but at a very quick speed you cannot catch that one. It’s quicker than you. A human cannot run as quickly as a snake runs. But when he’s running, he’s making curves. So the serpent energy, the attitude of the central nervous system, Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā, is going like a serpent, serpentine, the path curves. That’s why the name is given, Kuṇḍalinī. Kund is a deep water place. And whatever you throw into the tank or in that water, deep place, everything goes on the bottom. After some time, it is rotten, and it loses its form, and it just remains like dust down. Similarly, from many, many lives, our destiny, our karma, is dormant very deep in our subconscious and unconsciousness. Consciousness is masculine. Energy is feminine. And so, because the energy is dormant in our consciousness, that energy is representing a feminine power, and therefore it’s called Kuṇḍalinī. "Kuṇḍal" means the ring, especially the ring which you are hanging in your earrings. Or sometimes you see around the moon, our full moon. Our moon is nearly going to be full. You see a circle around the moon, different kinds of circles. One circle, which is significant of the strong wind or the storm. There is another circle which is significant; it is a sign for us, the flood. And the third is the rain. So this is an indication. So there is a kuṇḍal. We call it kuṇḍal. Now, kuṇḍal is masculine, but when the energy is connected to it, that’s why it’s called Kuṇḍalinī Śakti. That Śakti is dormant within the consciousness. If you remember from last year’s lecture, I said the first is the endless universe, which is a mother, cosmic mother. Within that universe is a consciousness, the cosmic consciousness, that is masculine. And within the consciousness, again, dormant energy, which is feminine. So, there is always a togetherness; there is no separation. There is a male and female, masculine and feminine. This both energy power has one after another layer. And that’s why we call this Kundalini. When the Kuṇḍalinī awakens, then the experiences of the past life take place. And therefore, it’s very important to know what the destiny is. And how can we be free from that destiny? Now, about destiny, I told you many times, but very short, I will repeat once more. Destiny is the product of your own actions. No one is there to be blamed. You are only yourself responsible for your destiny. You have caused the destiny. I give many times example. For example, you have a stone in your hand. As long as you have it in your hand, it’s in your hand. You can decide if you want to throw it away or if you want to keep it. But as soon as you will throw away, it’s gone, that stone out of your hand. It’s gone from your hand. And that stone will hit that target which you made the target to throw the stone. Now, the target which you made to hit that stone, suddenly someone appears there. Maybe your child, your parents, your brother or sister, or some animals, and now you say, "No, no, I don’t want this." Now, even if you want or you don’t want, the stone will hit that person, and you cannot run behind that stone to catch back; you were the cause of that accident. What happened because you threw the stone? If you would have kept the stone in your hand, it would not have happened. Though you have a good intention, it ended with a bad intention. So whatever we do through the five karmendriyas, that which is done becomes our destiny. And that destiny is preparing our nest for the next life. The nest means the next life, in which body you will enter again. We do not have the power to say and enter again into the human body. Now, only your destiny can give you again human life. Therefore, Śaṅkarācārya said in his Vivekacūḍāmaṇi book, a very beautiful book, the rarity for the soul is to be born in the human body. And if then in such an educated, spiritual family you are born as a human, but still you have not such a family which can educate you with free education, spiritual education. Third, you may have a spiritual family, but you do not have a spiritual interest yourself. So blessed are they, or rare are they? There are rare who have the spiritual interest and finally to have a spiritual guidance, the master, the guru. So blessed are they who have the guidance of the guru. Does it, if these four things happen in the life? Liberation is there. Which are the four? First, the human body; second, spiritual parents; third, having one’s own spiritual interest; and fourth, the spiritual master. Parents are spiritual, but children have such a bad society they don’t listen. Parents can give you only the birth; parents cannot give you destiny. In one family, there were three children born. One became king, the second became a hunter. And fourth, he became a saint. You see the destiny? All three of them were born from the same mother, from the same mother’s womb. But destiny is different; karma is different. So this is karma which you earned in a past life. This is your credit. Now, what you are receiving, we will see how much you have in reserve, how much you have deposited, and how much interest you are getting. That’s it. Therefore, a great saint, Kabīr Dās, said, Kabir Das said, "The whole world is poor, no one is rich." The rich are they who have the knowledge and bhakti. This bhakti, the devotion, the richness of the devotion, through that positive viveka knowledge will go, janam janam saṅg chalegā, will go with you for many, many lives. So the destiny is our own product from the past life. And whatever is happening is happening according to the past life. You met me; it’s your destiny. I don’t know if you take it as good or bad. Are you happy? It’s a fishing compliment. But it is like this. Mīrābāī said, "Mīrā is your servant, oh Lord, in many, many lives, with you all the time." And that’s how the master and the disciples are moving through the whole universe. We are born here to play one theater, you know. So one is playing as a master, the theater. And others are playing as disciples, and when the theater is finished, again, we are all one. And so when this theater of this life is finished, again, the master and disciple, they will be one in oneness. But it has to be the disciple, a good follower, not follower, that’s it. So many, they are followers. And some are the followers, and they are like flowers. Even hanging in the neck of the master, so destiny. So no one is to be blamed for your destiny. Where you are born, how you are born. Who are your parents, who are your brothers and sisters, and who is your partner and children, and how are your colleagues? All is your destiny, my dear. You can’t run away from this. Because if you try to run away, the destiny will go with you like your shadow. The other world will again manifest it with you. I know some people, they immigrated from Europe to America. He had a problem with his wife, and he studied and became a lawyer there. But he had a problem with his wife there. He escaped from there and came to Australia, to Melbourne, alone, completely finished all problems, and he left everything back behind in America. And he married in Melbourne. It was the same problem, so he got divorced there. And he got married in Bangkok, and all his wives are disciples. He said, "Swamijī, I’m a good disciple, at least all my ex-wives are your good disciples." And now he divorced there also. And now he’s thinking to marry in Singapore. So, it’s not a mistake of those ladies. It’s destiny. Your quality changes the quality with Deśa and Kāla. Deśa and Kāla, the situation, even you are with your wife in one room, you should understand the situation. You want to understand his or her feelings and what to speak and what not to speak. Don’t fight always only for your rights. Learn to maintain your life with others. Deśa and Kāla. Similarly, try to learn to be with yourself. If you are searching for happiness, it’s not in a husband or wife. Not in money or children. Happiness is within thyself. You have to realize that happiness is within you. And so the destiny is that which is putting you in different situations. God protect us from our negative destiny. And before everything happens, we get self-realization. Then destiny has no power over you. Before it happens, we are free. That’s it. So the kuṇḍalinī awakening is the awakening of the wisdom, the knowledge, the light of knowledge in your consciousness. That’s called enlightenment. Enlightenment means not like this physical light. Not that with closed eyes you see the light inside. If you want to see the light, then don’t close your eyes. Open your eyes and see. But that is a light of wisdom, love, clarity. And every station, the kundalinī, has a different color, a different attitude. So tomorrow will be Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra. And we will see what Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra is doing with us. It’s a most beautiful chakra. It is a chakra which gives us many, many lessons in life. It’s very good. If it were not good, God would not give it to us. Whatever God has given us is very good. Now, if we misuse it, misunderstand, that’s our problem. We should deal with everything with love. Deśa and Kāla, tomorrow we’ll be again there. Different days and calls will be tomorrow. In the dream, it is also different days and calls, though, in the dream. But you are dreaming. You are not causing any karmas, but that dream can become the cause of some karmas because the dream inspires you, and then after the dream you try to do something. And in this way, even the dream can cause the karma, so the kuṇḍalinī. It is the śakti which is changing the situation in our consciousness, in our attitude, in our life, in our emotion. And when some borders are over, then everything is purified. Now, there is a Kundalinī constantly awakening in us, but this is only going up and down. We want to have stability without changing. So when your mood is changing, your temptation is changing, your attitude is changing, your words are changing, your opinion is changing, then your kuṇḍalinī is confused. So, remain strong, solid. Even the moon and sun can change direction, but my decision will not change. That is it. The mighty Himalaya can say, "Move," but my confidence, my decision will not shake. Mahāprabhujī said in one bhajan, it is said, "The solid, strong, like a mountain." And he’s one of the bhajan, which Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī sang: Upajānū Kī Gaipīo Mahāprabhujī Devānā Satguru Nām Kāmās Tānā Helī Veparvāo Phakīr Devānā Satguru Nām Kāmās Veparvāo Phakīr Divānā Sattā Gurū Namah Kāmā.