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Part 1: The Guru, the Disciple, and the Awakening of Kuṇḍalinī Mahādeva’s righteous and harmonious Guru Svāmījī, Śrī Madhavānandjī Gurudev’s true eternal dharma-loving devotees, all practitioners walking on the divine path of yoga, worshippers of the cosmic divine power Mātā Kuṇḍalinī, and all disciples who practice yoga daily in their lives—today is a significant day. This is a sacred day in this sacred month of Śrāvaṇa. You are very fortunate to hear about the union of these two based on kuṇḍalinī yoga and cakras. Yesterday, you were told about Śakti and also about Śiva. Between these two, there is a divine power, or you may call it the guru tattva, which is called Gurudev. A guru is one who imparts knowledge to us. There are many kinds of gurus, and we regard all of them with respect—whether someone is your artistic guru, or teaches you sitār, or teaches dance, and so on. But above all of them stands the supreme Brahman-centered, scripturally learned Satgurudev. Such a Gurudev is said to be greater than Rāma and Kṛṣṇa; who could be greater than Bhagavān Rāma and Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa? Even all the avatāras considered him their guru. Being the guru of the three worlds and the master of a hundred gurus, he too remained immersed in the service of the guru, just like Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa and Bhagavān Rāma. It is said that Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśa are also engaged in the service of the guru. But the guru who is established in Brahman, a śrotriya perfected in Brahman, whose consciousness has become one with Brahman—such a guru is Gurur Brahmā, Gurur Viṣṇu, Gurur Devo Maheśvaraḥ, Gurur Sākṣātkara Brahma; therefore, salutations to that revered guru. As soon as one receives the āśīrvāda of such a guru, the awakening of divine powers begins spontaneously. The intellect becomes alert on its own, just as when dawn breaks, darkness naturally disappears, and the lamp we had lit for the dark is illuminated. We extinguish the lamp again; there is no need for it because the sun is there—it is the power and the light. The luminous orb dispels the darkness of the entire globe. Similarly, when a Brahmaniṣṭha disciple beholds the Satgurudev, our inner self... The darkness of ignorance within our heart is dispelled, and when that ignorance is removed, the kuṇḍalinī śakti immediately begins to make its way from the mūlādhāra cakra. Only the Satguru can suddenly free us from the bondage of karma. The sole purpose of all spiritual practices is to be liberated from the bondage of karma. What you say is that liberation from the prārabdha of past lives can be attained only by Gurudev, no one else. There is an example: there was a righteous king, a dharmātmā king, who would pray to every ṛṣi, śānta, and god. But the king was very discerning, very intelligent. He was very clever and wise as well. One day, what happened was that a storyteller came—call him a co-scholar or simply the one who narrates stories—and he approached the king and said, "O King, I am here to..." This is a great fortune, a blessing for me, a blessing for my kingdom, but tell me, what will I gain from listening to your kathā, what benefit will there be? Paṇḍitjī says, "Rājan, you will attain your welfare, you will attain mokṣa. You are bound—begin your kathā from tomorrow." Then he said, "Rājan, as long as my kathā continues... Until I sit on the Vyāsagāḍī, you all will have to sit down there holding the saṅkalpa in your hands and listen attentively, promising, 'I will definitely do it, I will also do it, I will sit.'" And my queens will also sit; it has been ten days since the kathā began and it has now fully arrived. Now the paṇḍitjī says... "O King, my story has now fully come to an end, it is complete. Whatever charity, virtue, or righteous deeds you wish to perform now, you may do so. That by listening to my discourse, your welfare will be attained, your liberation will be achieved, you will become free from bondage, and you will be liberated from karma. But I have not even begun yet. You just sit here in this room, close the door, and keep narrating the discourse." At the right time, something went wrong; it did not come under any auspicious planets. What to do now? A year or two had passed when a Brahmajñānī saint came. The Brahmajñānī saint came to the king. The king welcomed Mahātmā Jī, offered his respects, seated him on the caraṇa sevā āsana, and said, "Gurudev, please be gracious and stay here today." Two or three days passed, and Mahātmā Jī remained seated there. The king is very happy. The service of noble devotees and saints is a blessing that fortune grants. The house where there is no devotion to Hari and no saints is like a guestless home. Fortunate indeed are those awakened saints who cross the ocean of worldly existence, who cross the ocean of birth and death; fortunate indeed are those awakened saints. Whom you praise so much, who is that? Bhagavān Viṣṇu says that the saint is our ātman, my own personal ātman is the saint, and I am the embodiment of the saint’s body. I, Viṣṇu Himself, dwell in every pore, just as every hair of mine is immersed in the clouds. I have experienced moments of peace like rain falling within the clouds. The king is performing Śiva worship, a hundredfold. Now the king is thinking that today he wants to ask Gurudev some questions. What, what do you want? There is a big problem, a crisis has arisen. Why, what crisis has come? A priest had come and he said that he would conduct the kathā, and he said, my mokṣa will happen. But the kathā was completed by them, yet my mokṣa happened not. Now what should I do, Gurudev? Gurudev says, "O King, to you..." The answer should be direct, or say it aloud: if the Lord can appear directly, then what else is needed? Then it was said, "Call Paṇḍitjī." Paṇḍitjī came, and since Gurujī has arrived today, they will surely make some decision. Gurudev says, "Rājan, for some time, you must endure hardship. Do not take offense, do not get angry. What I am doing with you is to act as a witness; this is the right way. I also told Paṇḍitjī, 'Paṇḍitjī, you too should not take it badly.' This is the solution to your problem, it will last forever, for ages and ages, not only for you but also for others who will be like this. Bring many more and to the king as well." With one pillar tied, hands and feet bound... Gurudev says, "O king, you are very powerful, you are very powerful, you are a king. So, these disciples of ours who are bound, please untie them, set them free." The king says, "Gurudev, when I myself am bound, how can I free them?" When you yourself have acknowledged, O King, that you are bound in bondage, how will you liberate others? Gurudev says that one who is bound in bondage cannot free another; how can an egg show the way to another egg? Therefore, Rājan, you should respectfully excuse Paṇḍitjī from here. He has done his work, chanted the name of Bhagavān, and you will surely receive something from it. Paṇḍitjī was very pleased and left. So, dear ones, merely listening is not enough; whatever... When we listen and then practice accordingly, our siddhi or our sādhanā will be successful; otherwise, the sādhanā will not succeed. Properly understood, our sādhanā will be successful only when the kuṇḍalinī śakti awakens and, as a divine power, creates its path from the mūla kamala, filling every fiber of the sādhaka with joy. Waves of bliss begin to arise, but they are not physical; they arise in the soul and mind. The body becomes completely healthy, as if free from all ailments. A divine power begins to manifest in the world. When a doctor performs an operation or gives an injection, there is some pain from the needle, of course, but as they say, it is over in no time. In just a short time, the entire body will become completely void, and in the same way, the waves and light of bliss begin to be perceived. As one moves forward, that divine power merges with Śiva. Śiva and Śakti are not differentiated by gender. What we say as woman and man is only physical form. Beyond the distinction of gender, the creator—if some people think that the essence of Śiva-Śakti is this—there is no male and female, no puruṣa and śakti. It is said that within prakṛti, the consciousness is puruṣa, and within prakṛti, the power is śakti. That energy is śakti, present within every living being, within every plant, within every... Within every leaf of a tree, within the flowers, within the fruits, within the roots, and even within stones, within all metals, that śakti is active in some form or another. It is active, functioning; it awakens during sleep and remains awake even while sleeping if the kuṇḍalinī has fully entered the suṣupti state. Your body will not remain once you are gone, so if someone says that kuṇḍalinī is completely in a dormant state, then without that kuṇḍalinī śakti in your hands, not even the eyelid of your eye could move; it is awake. During the day, its kuṇḍalinī state changes ten times, gradually, gradually, and that state changes. With Īśvara Yoga, when our Candra Īśvara moves, the kuṇḍalinī and the nāḍī become different, and when that same kuṇḍalinī begins to move through our suṣumnā, its Īśvarūpa transforms into a divine form. If good thoughts arise in your mind, waves of divine power surge within the kuṇḍalinī śakti, and your mind... If negative thoughts arise within me, the very power inside you begins to work in a negative way. Every drop of blood, every microorganism within, or within every pore of our body—when a good thought arises, divine power enters there, and a vibration is created within. There is vibration, and the diseases that occur are due to excessive anger, pride, greed, attachment, ego, hatred, jealousy, and so on. If these arise even halfway, then the healthy cells in our body begin to die, start to perish. When you worry, even by worrying, your lifespan decreases. Those who worry... What to do today? If I go home, there is worry; if I go out, there is worry; and there is no time even to meditate, Gurujī. There is no time even to die, and I am completely poor. Oh Gurujī, I don’t even have money to eat. Worry, O queen, this worry has accumulated so much, that is why it is said that the mind dies when attachment dies. And the body dies repeatedly, but hope and desire do not die, says Dās Kabīr. I am myself, and I dissolve the essence of the elements. I offer my salutations to myself. As soon as this knowledge arises, all our worries can be freed. Any kind of worry diminishes your lifespan. When you get angry, it shortens your life even more. Anger and worry—these... There are two things, and desire is one of them, that reduce our lifespan. Within our body, the glandular system—the glands and the essence they produce—will be affected. Either there will be a blockage, the glands will become dry, or there will be vibrations within the glands causing what is called anxiety, which then manifests as an out-of-order condition. It will happen just like when you are driving a vehicle and the brakes fail; the inner mind should always remain joyful. There is a scientific magazine, a scientific journal, and once a very good article appeared in that journal. The article stated that after many years of research, it was found that Bhagavān has also given some power to animals and other beings. You have been given certain arts, certain abilities that humans do not possess. See, in your garden, in your house, or anywhere nearby, ants carry their eggs in their mouths. Their eggs, if water fills there, observe how much knowledge nature has given them. When there is an earthquake, then in your house... Cats, mice, cows, buffaloes, whatever they are, the horse, the mattress, everyone realizes that something is happening. Birds, too, there is no need to tell them; they will only know when it falls on their head and they will wonder, "Where did this fall from?" There was a research done on three small baby rabbits, these were Soviet... This happened in the union on this occasion when the baby rabbit... Part 2: The Essence of Fear and the Path of Purification They are measuring the heartbeat of the children’s mother; the heartbeat is increasing. Inside, she is feeling a great deal of pain and worry. The children are small, and one child was taken 200 kilometers away to another place, separated from the others. Her nervousness increased greatly, her heart started beating rapidly. The poor rabbit was running here and there, looking around—mother’s love, brother’s love. Then it even attacked others. What happened to its mother? And when they killed its mother, the animals would know ten days in advance what was going to happen. Ten days before killing them, the animals would know what was about to happen. Suppose you come to know that after 10 days you will be hanged. Now, what will be your condition? Will you be able to sleep, will you enjoy your food, will you drink water? How much will you enjoy, how much will you sweat, struggling somehow, praying, "O Bhagavān, please postpone this hanging." And you don’t even have any money for that, nor do you have your husband or wife with you, Santa. They are taking you somewhere else, and then showing you the noose, saying that only 15 minutes remain—what condition will you be in? Similarly, when an animal—be it a cow, goat, dog, buffalo, rabbit, or any creature that is consumed as meat—is killed, within their flesh, there are certain hormones that are said to be present. It is the essence, the essence of fear, which enters into the mute creature, the mute creature, the innocent creature. The animal is killed, it is meant to die, but the essence that has entered through the glands into its flesh remains there. Now, whether you cook it and eat it—how they eat it, I do not know, but people do eat it. Kumāva sāhā, how do you eat—do you cook it before eating? No, that is not good. When it enters the body, it becomes the cause of a disease. But why do most diseases occur? It is because the person has a great fear of death and is afraid of Bhagavān. They will not be able to meditate; they will close their eyes but after a while, they will open them again. One will not feel inclined to be with the great souls in the temple or to read the scriptures because it becomes clear what is within oneself. This is why a certain scientist wrote that in today’s modern world, in this Kali Yuga, why humans are gradually moving away from God, why they are distancing themselves from temples, churches, mosques, and so on. They are burning far away, no one is going there. Look at the Western world, many churches are empty, empty because their diet and lifestyle have changed, and with that, the inner faith has diminished and there is fear. Some people say, "No, do not go to Baba Mahārāj’s place, who knows what might happen." Inside them, their psychological nature becomes just like that. Similarly, if a person’s diet is not pure, when their energy awakens, it will inevitably cause some harm. In the same way, when the kuṇḍalinī energy rises from the mulādhāra, it brings forth desires, anger, greed, attachment, ego, cravings, and all the cakras. The cycle of various desires remains full, and that Shakti Māṅ comes and makes you dance, makes you dance. You go on a different path, but then it will move in another direction and be lost. The same Shakti, when it enters the Manipūra, enters the fire within the world, within the fire. What is the use of being if your true form does not manifest? Have you realized this? Nowadays, people even say to their wives or husbands, "I love money, not you, my dear." And 90% of the time, women say to their husbands, "I love my dog more than you." What do you think—who are you? Oh dear! I love my dog more than your hundred. Which field’s radish are you from? Alright, if you say this, then I say that. That’s a door you can go through, no more problem. Or you give the money, cosmetic, this, this, the ruin of marriage. Everyone is thinking that as soon as you marry, half... Nowadays, a part of the salary goes for cosmetics. In our Rajasthani language, we call cosmetics "na kharā, na kharā"—it is neither real nor genuine; it is false, just for show. Go and wash your face with water, then your real truth will be revealed, whether you are a man or a woman, anyone at all. In the same way, whether inside the herd or the crowd, you will either be driven by money or become a workaholic. Nowadays, people don’t even have time for their spouse; it’s just work, only my work matters. How much my value has increased! These days, most of the people have fallen in love with the computer, that’s all. Computer, internet, you enter into that net, and you cannot come out anymore. That is why you enter into it, like with television, radios, and newspapers. You have to give an interview—what does that mean, the interview? You enter into the perception of others so that they can see who you are and how you are. That’s the interview. Isn’t it true? In the same way, when the śakti comes there and enters the viśuddhi cakra, see, if your thoughts were not pure, if the purification of your viśuddhi cakra has not taken place, then that śakti will come and grip your neck as if someone is strangling you. When the kuṇḍalinī śakti awakens, the purification of the viśuddhi cakra occurs. You did not chant the vekharī mantra, you did not perform the kriyā, and yet that śakti came. If your thoughts were not good, then there will be so much blockage within you, and your head will not bow down. Or else, a disease will arise—such a disease that trembling will begin while sitting. Sitting like this, or doing it repeatedly, your nāḍī begins to falter, oh dear, now your nāḍī is trembling. It is possible that some srotāgans are listening, and it may be their problem, and also, it is not their fault. Never think that it is your fault. Yes, it is not your fault, but there is a fault, because you must have done it out of ignorance, as they do not know what they are doing. But, dear ones... Whether you consume poison out of ignorance or knowingly, the poison will certainly show its effect. Now, what needs to be done is this: when the kuṇḍalinī descends to the svādhiṣṭhāna for indulgence, and then moves to the maṇipūra, you will either suffer from diarrhea or constipation, or experience symptoms according to your constitution. But it will still be so. It is not the kuṇḍalinī; it is some other power. You thought it was this, but when you saw, it turned out to be something else. The same Mahāprabhujī said that such a thing was done by Gurudev—he broke the bonds of my attachment, broke the bonds of my attachment, and transformed my restless mind. Some would bring rituals, some would teach religious duties. He shattered this bundle of delusion and unlocked my restless mind. When our sthūla śarīra—our gross body—leaves the body, it is not from the suksma śarīra, nor does the sthūla śarīra leave the suksma śarīra. When the suksma śarīra leaves the sthūla śarīra, it passes through the viśvadhī cakra. And every day, every night, when you sleep in Jaipur, you enter into svapna—dream—state. Where are you, Mumbai? You are sleeping in Jaipur, and in Mumbai, you are eating chaat made from chapati. Who is eating the chaat? Who is tasting it? Is the stomach satisfied or not? Neither the chapati nor the chaat is digested by the subtle body. Actions are performed by the gross body. If someone says that we can perform actions through the subtle body, so I will give you an example. You were asleep, you had a dream to meet a friend, but the friend was not at home. I received news from the friend about where and when. I had placed it under your pillow at night, whether it was there or not, I did not see it, it was not found. I said, I had come in a dream and had placed it there. They will laugh and say that you have gone mad, that you did not send the letter. But in the dream, the vasanā that awakens is the desire to now undertake the journey to the Himalayas, to go to the very high peaks of the Himalayas. You saw this in the dream, then returned; that vasanā has formed and will now take the body along. When pressure arises, the person’s choice hour remains focused there, and if you try to come down from there, either you will become nervous, or you will faint, or the energy will get exhausted in the body. So what happens is that the power no longer manifests in the world. On the other hand, if there is an obstruction, dear ones, the very first step is to practice Sūrya Bhedana and Candra Bhedana for about one minute—that is, we will inhale through the right nostril and exhale through the left nostril. If the capacity of your lungs is somewhat less, it will gradually increase. Take twenty breaths through one nostril, then twenty through the other nostril, and then rest your hand down for some time in meditation. After that, take twenty breaths through the sūrya nāḍī, then through the candra nāḍī. Following this, practice anuloma for fifteen days—just do not change the method. Do the kapal bhāti, but do not force it; if you force it, more problems will arise. If you have made a mistake and it has caused harm to others, then humbly say, "Brother, a mistake happened." What happens if you forcefully awaken? The more subtly and humbly you practice, the more benefit you will receive. After this comes ujāyī prāṇāyāma. Ujāyī prāṇāyāma you can do anywhere. You can also see in the book on yoga or in your own book "Yoga and Daily Life," if you apply pressure on Jalandhara Bandha, what will happen is that automatically the pressure in your neck will be released, the kuṇḍalinī śakti in the kuṣvā will open, and any other blockage of energy will be cleared. The second practice will follow after that. When the prāṇa vāra sound or vibration is heard in your head, similarly, by producing nāda within our chidākāśa, that power is relieved. Take a deep breath, close your ears with both fingers, take a deep breath, and the breath should always expand in the abdomen, then the abdomen... Go deeper, then into the lungs, continue in this manner, until your ears close, whether you do it from the side or with a finger. You have not cleaned your ears properly with water and soap, otherwise there could be an infection in the ear. Fifty people did not get an infection, but one person did. You are also mistaken. Due to this negligence, some people experience ringing in their ears. They are very distressed; some say it is the sound of flowing water, some say it is the train, the locomotive, and some say that inside, there is some kind of buzzing or humming. This circulation of blood through this nāḍī has caused it to contract and shrink. Therefore, by purifying these nāḍīs through the flow of blood, they will awaken again, and that sound will cease. Sun pain, moon pain, first the moon pain, then the sun pain, after that Ujjayi, and after two months I closed Jalandhara, along with Jalandhara bandha, Ujjayi prāṇāyāma, and then Bhrāmarī; the problems you have from here to there, those problems will be removed. We all have deficiencies everywhere, this will be the teacher and spirituality of yoga. You should come to a guru who can show us the path, who can assist us in our sādhanā. It is only that which is a bandhana that can liberate us, and that which is bondage cannot liberate us. Along with this, conduct your behavior with great care and love, and if you apply this power on a divine path, then... May your welfare be assured. The next steps I will share with you next time. For today, I conclude my words here, wishing that your sādhanā be free of obstacles and successful, that your spiritual power increases manifold day and night, that your strength grows, and that Gurudev’s blessings be upon you for your well-being. Om sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ, sarve śāntu nirāmayāḥ, sarve bhadrāṇi. May they see, may they not suffer, O Bhagavān, Om Shānti Shānti... Hari Om Sridip Narayan Bhagavān, Deveshwar Mahadevaki, Madhav Krishna Bhagavānaki.