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Awakening of the Kundalini

The sustainability of life is found in ancient spiritual traditions, not in modern technology. Traditional villages preserved sacred lakes, ensuring clean water for all through reverence, not plumbing. This reverence protected nature. When spirituality is lost, mental and environmental pollution follows. The body's energy channels, like rivers, must be kept pure. Practices like pranayama filter these inner waters. Going against nature causes disease. True spirituality brings contentment, compassion, and love, dissolving the ego that pollutes. Awakening is marked by bliss, contentment, compassion, and love, not by physical sensations but by clarity of mind and heart.

"Where you lost the spirituality, you lost everything. Then the mental pollution comes, and mental pollution is the most dangerous pollution."

"Ānanda and happiness, and the third quality, is called Dayā. Daya dharam ka mool hai, the root of mercy is Daya."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Gaṇādīn batakīre me kaṇyā kuvarī nār. Ne pīrī batakati nāi pāyā bharatār. Gaṇādīn batakīre me kanyā kuvarī nār. Pīva vinā parani me bhajī, pīva vinā parani. keevanayi mera re, karma kiyabe kar, keevanayi mera re, karma kiyabe kar. Gannadi, batakire me kanya kuwari naar, gannadi, batakire me kanya kuwari naar. Takati, takati, naipa gannarin, vata kireme kandya kuvarin, nar gannarin, vata kireme kandya kuvarin. Manuṣattana me payo svapanna me, Manuṣattana me payo svapanna me, Rulti piri hirani juvanna me, Rulti piri hirani juvanna me. Kalpake bityare papuruṣo kelar. Gaṇadin bata kireme kanyā kubari nar. Gaṇadin bata kireme kanyā kubari nar. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do.... Anani me agyāni Brahma svarūpa bani me agyāni. Pīvanāi pāyāre Brahma veta avatār. Pīvanāi pāyāre Brahma veta avatār. Nar Gannadin Bhattakireme Kanyakuvari. Nar Gannadin Bhattakireme Kanyakuvari Nar. I drink Bhatṭakāṭī, I drink Bhatṭakāṭī,... I drink Bhatṭakīrī, I drink Bhatṭakīrī,... I drink Bhatṭakīrī. I. God bless you. Paramparā kī jay, viśva guru mamadaleśvara paramahaṁsavāmī maiśvaradānanjī gurudeva kī jay. Good evening, dear brothers and sisters. Blessings come to you from Holy Bhārat, the Divine Place, Viśvadīp Gurukul Jhaḍam, Pālī, Rājasthān. Welcome. Unfortunately, I was not here yesterday because suddenly some program came. In India, they are celebrating these fourteen days, the manifestation of Lord Gaṇeśa. And it is said that the two months, Śrāvaṇa and Bhādra, according to astrology and according to the Jyotiṣa Vedic calendar in Sanskrit, the Śrāvaṇa, which begins after the Guru Pūrṇimā, is the rainy time, and Bhādra is also the rainy time. It is believed that at this time, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, and all other divine incarnations and goddesses go for rest, for holidays. It is believed that between Kedarnath and Badrinath, where our universally worshipped great incarnation Śrī Alāpurījī lived, or is living still, there is a beautiful lake called Sattva Path. And in Sattva Path, yesterday was the day when they all bathed. And then they again come to their, in normal language, it’s from the holidays, they come to their workplace. So yesterday was known as Dev Jūlanī Īgyāras. The eleventh moon day is Yara’s Chandra Paksha, Shukla Paksha. The month is divided into two parts. Krishna Paksha is that where the moon is decreasing from the full moon till Amāvasyā, to the dark night. And from Amāvasyā begins Śukla Pakṣa, the moon night. The moon is increasing or growing until the full moon day. These are fourteen or fifteen days, and this is also fourteen or fifteen days. It depends on the constellation of the planets. And so this month is Dev Jhulani Gyarash. Jhulana means bathing. So, according to the ancient tradition, culture, and belief, every village has its own village temple. And they take the god statue and go to the beautiful lake. We call it Talāb. They bathe them there. People are going with big processions, big ceremonies, music and dancing, and colorful displays. And the farmers are very happy because now the harvesting is beginning, with many different kinds of fruits like melons, cucumbers, and different things. Children and some people are swimming in the talab, and they are throwing these fruits inside, and the children catch them and have fun. There is a question of sustainability. Sustainability, which is the challenge of the United Nations and working the earth shutter around the whole world. But the sustainability is in the ancient cultures around the whole world. So the water problems, the clean water, the drinking water, the groundwater, and so on. In almost every village, they have a very beautiful lake or pond. And about one hundred to two hundred hectares, sometimes five hundred hectares, in some villages one thousand hectares, the ground is preserved and protected. No one is allowed to make pollution or dirt in that area. We also know that in many parts of the world where the drinking water, water wells, water fountains, water reservoirs, it is not allowed to create any kind of garbage, and it is written as an area for drinking water. If that is preserved, then there is sustainability there. But this modern technology is not sustainable. It doesn’t matter how good your technology is. All your plumbing, water sources coming, this plumbing system will fail. You have to again get repairing, you have to get again this and that, and the burden is very big. That water, or that lake, has access for everyone, free without any charging of money or anything. People feel happy, people love their village, they love their lakes, they are proud of it, they pray to God that good rain comes and it lasts water the whole year. They have two kinds of pots, and they are settled. It’s like a man-made lake. According to Vastu Śāstras, and then the village is there, also they see the flow of the water. One pond is where people can bathe, and it is also for the animals to drink. The other word: drinking water for humans, and to take away for the animals. Drinking water does not allow that any animals, buffaloes, water buffaloes swim or this and that. No cost of money, no problems, everyone has access to that clean, pure, good, sweet water. If the United Nations adopts this project, this model, again, the water problem can be solved. But strictly, that area has to be protected from the source where the water from the rain flows therein. Unfortunately, eighty percent in India, or eighty-five percent in India, all these ponds are destroyed. People built houses, they occupied the land, they created a lot of pollution. It’s a pity. You can cry when you see what the humans have done. The so-called big questions, Africa, in some African countries and some other countries around the world, the question is water, and not only this, but clean water, drinkable water. And why did this happen? Because the pollution is not controlled. It’s not clear to the human what it means. And humans nowadays do not value water because they think clean water is what’s coming in their water tap at home. Children don’t know. Children think water is only coming from the pipe, like milk comes from the cows. Therefore, they lost the knowledge and consciousness about that reservoir where the clean water is supplied. If it goes like this, it will be a big problem. Now, if you see the spiritual part, if you see the religious part, or if you see the source of human life to live, that talab, that lake, that pond, they said where God bathes, you should not make dirty. Now, everyone having their consciousness, oh, I should not pollute this lake because on the Devjhulani Igyarash, God will bathe inside. So, people who don’t have that consciousness towards the pollution, but they believe. They believe there is a God, and God will bathe, and the statue of the God is bathed there. So many things which come to the fore—festivals, traditions, religion, and spirituality, and the protection of nature—it has to be connected with spirituality. As long as the Gaṅgā, the holy river Gaṅgā, was accepted by the entire population of India as holy, the river was very pure, very clean. And as long as so-called modern education, modern academic education, so-called science, where people lost their spiritual feelings, they neglected all this, and now you see the condition of the Ganges. It has become a canalization. Look at the Ganges or other rivers: Yamunā, Godāvarī, and many more. Look at the rivers in different parts of the world. All the plastic and all this garbage are thrown into that, and canalization is flowing in that river. If you believe and respect that the Ganga is holy, you will not allow canalization into the Ganga. But somewhere different, and to purify. Similarly, in Kuṇḍalinī Yoga, what we are talking about, that in this body, our Iḍā, Piṅgalā and Suṣumṇā, this is a Gaṅgā, Yamunā and Sarasvatī. If you get good, pure air, then it will create holy feelings in your body. If you create pollution, dirty air, then these nāḍīs will be polluted, and that will cause lots of illnesses and health complications, emotional complications, intellectual complications, and so on. The science of kuṇḍalinī and chakras is there, where the very important process is the pranayama process. And prāṇāyāma is that which filters the Gaṅgā, which filters the Yamunā, and which filters the Sarasvatī. In case there is some pollution coming. That means purifying the entire nervous system. It means the purifying and keeping the pure, the pure channels, the streams which are flowing underground. Everywhere in India, anywhere you could dig a few meters, pure, clean groundwater was there. Now, even if we have two hundred meters deep groundwater, you can’t drink it if you pollute it. How does pollution come so deep in the earth? It’s very sad, very sad that every year, one or two meters, the groundwater level is going down. It’s very sad. From where do the trees and forests and nature, the vegetation, get water? In the monsoon, it’s okay, but this monsoon is only for one month or two months. Ten months it’s dry and dry. We call, we had a good rain in Rajasthan, but this rain was not enough or not good. Yes, good for the grass and good for the crops, but not for the ground waters. Hardly any river flowed. And so-called educated engineers and specialists, they designed, creating the little, little dams. They blocked waters in many, many places. And through this, what happens? The rivers died. Rivers and creeks are like our nerves in the body. If you tie it with a rubber band, your arm, in a few days, your lower arm will fall off or will break and die. So, making all this, blocking the waters, means that you are killing, you are killing the earth. And I also realized that, in the last few years, our European experts came and they made a kind of chambers from this land and blocked the water. We have eighty hectares of land, and from this rain, our talāb could be full. And that we could have utilized again for our fields, but it’s blocked. The terrain went far, and in the heat, the water went away. So, this all has to be opened if you want to have water. Similarly, all kinds of pesticides, and the milk of those cattle which are fed with chemical, unnatural feeders—their milk, butter, curd, and all the dairy production from that milk—is blocking our channels in the body. The result, day by day, month by month, year by year, the disease of cancer is rapidly increasing. The disease of heart attack is increasing. The disease of paralysis or brain hemorrhage is increasing. Many, many diseases, which we don’t know where they come from. This all is because the man goes against nature. But our beloved Bhagwan Śrī Deep Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, he said in his golden preaching, for upliftment of the human consciousness, don’t go against the nature. If you go against nature, one day nature will take revenge. And that is what Maa Prabhuji said, maybe sixty, seventy, or eighty years before. At that time, there was no pesticide at all. Before eighty or one hundred years, nobody could think, "What is non-organic?" when you begin to talk organic? People said, "What are you talking about?" But now we know everyone is thinking, "Where to get organic grown vegetables and milk, and this and that." Can milk be organic? Yes. So our cows in the Jardin Ashram, we have all our Gaushalas, we do not feed them with unnatural feed. Our cows are healthy, our cows are strong, sporty, relaxed. They are not nervous, they have no depressions, and they enjoy their life. They are friendly. They are very good. When you see our cow, even if you have depression, you go near our cows and your depression will go away. Our cattle, the cow babies, they smile, they look at you, the beautiful eyes, the beautiful ears. If you have depression, you just go to our cow babies. They will love you so much. They will hug you. They will lick you here and there, and you will say, "Oh, how beautiful animals are." Animals are one of the best therapies. Those who have psychic problems, the nerves, the breakdown, depressions, or emotional problems, or any, just go to such animals. But those animals which are living as house pets, they get the disease from their master. House pets, your dogs, your cats at home, they get depression. And now you know that in America they have yoga for dogs. Yes, yoga for dogs is a very famous, very novel idea. And they go with their dogs to make a yoga. So that their owner practices yoga and a dog sits there, and the dog is also stretching there. You see? Yes? You know that? Yoga for dogs and yoga for cats, even though you have a nice book existing. So come to Jadan and experience the friendly, wild, natural life, untouched forest, for example, free from all these pollutions. The pollution-free spot in the ocean of pollution, a small island, pollution-free. That’s called Jādan Āśram Viśvadīt Gurukul. And you see how beautiful it is. So, sustainable development, and to preserve and protect this sustainability, you have to connect with some spiritual thoughts. Where you lost the spirituality, you lost everything. Then the mental pollution comes, and mental pollution is the most dangerous pollution. A real devil, a real rākṣasa, drinks only the blood of others. But the rākṣasa of your anger, your hate, your jealousy, or your mental pollution drinks the blood of others and yours also. Like fire breaks in the forest, it burns the forest and it burns itself also completely. Therefore, humans ought to lead a spiritual life. And therefore, great Swāmī Vivekānanda said, the prāṇa of the nation, the strength of the nation, is spirituality. When spirituality is gone, that nation again will be in trouble. But spirituality with viveka, spirituality with clear thinking, with a free mind, not a narrow mind, not a conflict between my God and your God, and my religion and your religion. This is another dangerous pollution which awakes in the human mind and intellect, and that is conflict between religions, conflict between nations, and conflict between races. The races, nations, and religions. This conflict is one of the main causes in the world, the wars, disturbances, and all. Therefore, from time to time, the great saints incarnate. They are teaching, they are telling, but now very few people are following this. The science of kuṇḍalinī, the practice of kuṇḍalinī yoga—first, you should know if this master knows something about that. If the master went through these experiences in kuṇḍalinī or not. And then, systematically, you practice. Awakening of the kuṇḍalinī, many people think it can be dangerous. Yes, I can tell you that the awakening of the kuṇḍalinī is not dangerous, but whose teaching is his teaching or her teaching is dangerous, because he or she doesn’t know how to practice. Any kind of exercise can create physical or mental problems. If you lift a heavy weight and you don’t know how to keep your back while lifting the weight, it will create problems for your back for many days, months, or years. So problems can create anything, but the awakening of the kuṇḍalinī in the first place is that ānanda. Mahāprabhujī said, "Ānanda so’haṁ brahma." The brahma is the ānanda. So that ānanda which you can get through meditation, through mantras, through guru-kṛpā and practicing of your kuṇḍalinī, that will lead you to ānanda. When ānanda is there, it is called the ocean of bliss. Great Swami Sivanandaji of Rishikesh. There are many Swami Sivanandaji, but I am talking about the one from Rishikesh. Long years ago, he was living there. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Within you is the fountain of joy, and within you is the immortal Ātmā. If you want to experience this, he said, Kill this little "I", your little ego. Kill that ego and lead the divine life. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Within you is the fountain of joy, and within you is the immortal Ātmā. Kill this little I, little ego, and lead the divine life. How far are you? How quickly you are you angry? How quickly you tell people, "This is not good, and this is not good." You are not in the joy, but you are in the toy of anger. There was one man, one master. And one master, he got one disciple. And a disciple came and asked the master, "What can I do? Seva for you, this and that and that." Master told, "Meditate, practice āsanas, prānāyāms, do svādhyāya, read everyday good books." If you can, clean the ashram, and if you can, then cook. So he said, "Yes, Master, I will cook." He used to cook always rice and dosas, masala dosas, and such things in South India. And Master was here in North India. So one day, Master said, "Today we will have chana and moong dal." Now, he never cooked the moong dāl and chana dāl. And the master told him, "Cook, and after satsaṅg, we will have our dinner." Many people are married. So he was cooking dal, but he did not know when the dal would be through, when it would be finished. When a disciple doesn’t listen to the master like this, sitting, then no more knowledge goes inside. The disciple who is sitting like this, his knowledge goes out. And don’t hold your legs like this, sit in this position. When you go to your school and your teacher is teaching you something, do you put your legs on the table and do it like this? Master is giving a lecture. There are sitting bhaktas, about a hundred, two hundred. A disciple came from behind to the master and asked the master very silently, When will the dal be through? Because he was afraid, is it too much cooked or too little cooked? So the master could not answer him, because satsaṅg was going on; he was talking. So the master said to the audience, "My dear devotees, those who have not yet purified their ego, whose hardness of heart is not dissolved, cannot have humbleness." There is anger inside, and the Master said, answer to the disciple, but not directly like this, indirectly. The Master said, "Jab laka haṇḍī khaḍ vade, jab tak haṇḍī khaḍ vade, tab tak sī jī naye, sī jī tab hī jāniye, nāche kūḍe naye." The disciple understood. Okay, Guruji gave me the answer. Jab laga handī khaḍā bade. Handī means the cooking pot made out of clay. Now we are all out of the metals, which is not so easy, not good, healthy. So Master said, "Jab laga handi khada bade." As long as the daal is jumping up and down, each piece or each grain of the daal is separately dancing until it is cooked. Individually, everyone has an opinion, ego, jealousy: "You have not done this, you have not done that." I am individuality, and now the modern way of the system is to make individuals, everyone. There are no joint families. Love and living together. So Jābāla Khaṇḍī khaḍ bade, as long as the things are inside, jumping. Tablāk siji naye, that means still is not through, cooked through. Siji tab hī jāniye, know when it is through. Nāche kudde naye, not anymore dancing and jumping. It is altogether a little bit of movement. And that is when the kuṇḍalinī divine śakti begins to make the way to the pure consciousness. Then happiness comes, and that happiness you distribute to everyone. In your words, in your behaviors, in your look, in your actions, in your walks, everywhere, such a kindness that you look, you like. There are some people, now in India it is very strictly prohibited, I hope in the world, everywhere. But the people used to have the bears, and they put the ring in their nose, and they were taking the bears for money purpose. And they taught them how to dance and walk, and they used to say, "Play the Damaru," and said, "Balu, the rich people, how they walk." Balu goes like this: a person with an ego, how he is walking. He is showing like that: a newly married couple, how they walk, and how a mother-in-law behaves toward her daughter-in-law. He is so nicely playing. That is a reaction. Our inner reaction is what comes out. Santosha is very important. aur ratan dhan khan jab aaye, santosh dhan sab dhan dul shaman. Contentment certification, so the second step of the awakening or lakṣaṇa... means the second quality or feeling, that’s called santosha. Santosī nārāyaṇasakī, who has contentment, is ever, ever, ever happy. Then one is not greedy, then one is not jealous, then one is happy. Ānanda and happiness, and the third lakṣaṇ, the third quality, is called Dayā. Daya, Daya dharam ka mool hai, the root of mercy is Daya. Dayā dharm kā mūl hai, pāp mūl abhimān, Tulsī dayā na chhoḍīye jab laghatme prāṇ. Great Tulsidājī said, "Dayā dharam kā mūl hai, dayā." Compassion towards every creature, towards everyone, to your children, to your partners, to your colleagues, to your friends, to your animals—all dayā. When Dayā is there, then there is no suffering. When Dayā is there, everything is clear sky. Where there is no dayā, there is thunderstorm, thunderstorm, lightning in the clouds. You know, I told you, I will do lightning in their brain. And this lightning means negative energy has awakened in you, and definitely one day you will have a brain hemorrhage. Definitely, one day you will have a neck problem. If not, then you will have a thyroid gland problem. Or you will have problems with your pancreas or your heart, and so on. Daya, therefore, dayālu dātā, O merciful one, O giver, Dayā. Daya dharma ka mool hai, the root of dharma, the house of dharma, is the Daya. Or pāpa mūla abhimān, you begin to do the sins when the ego is there. Then you are blind. Day and night, you are thinking how to make someone unhappy, how to make problems for someone. What can I do so that tomorrow I will not shout at my wife? What can I do so that tomorrow I can tell my husband, "I will not cook for you anymore"? Searching: pāpa, mūla, abhimāna. So the roots of the sin are your ego. Ego is blind. Ye man mota bail hoi kar khiche jagat ki gadi. Andha dund me jāye daud to paḍe biṣyārī khaḍī. Sāḍo bai oman bāḍo anāḍī. Saṁjayon saṁjit nahī̃ aisā murkh nī̃ calāvadī. Sadō bai ye mana badā anāḍī. Are bina mukh charo charo charāy rāt din. Bin mukh charo charay raat din, fir bhi bhukh nahī̃ kaḍī. So, this mind is so uneducated. Always pulls your consciousness down, to the destructive thoughts. Mind is eating day and night, day and night, without a mouth. The mind has no mouth, though it does not have a mouth, and it eats day and night. Oh my mind, what should I tell you? Are you a buffalo, or the cult of the buffaloes, so day and night? Our mind is fed by the blackmailing of thought: what to do, what is this, what is that. That is not the nature of the human; now it is called the Rākṣasa or Asura. And the fourth is love. Love is God, and God is love. What is love? Just you say, okay. A gentleness, see beauty in everyone in God’s creation. See the divine light in everyone. See the good quality in everyone. Guru Nanak said, "I went to see the bad people outside." I didn’t find anyone. But when I searched myself, there was no one worse than me. So, look in you. What are you doing? Who are you? How are you? The Yoga in Daily Life, Self-Inquiry Meditation shows you clearly, not who you are, but how you are. So the first symptoms of the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī are Ānand, Dayā, love, and what was more? Santosha. If you have this, your Kundalinī has already achieved the Anāhata Chakra. If it is only somewhere down, then it goes again and comes up and comes up. There is no physical feeling in it. It’s changing clarity in your viveka and intellect, in your mind and in your heart. So great are they who can practice the kundalinī sādhanā, purify the chakras according to your yoga and daily life. And please order or read this book. It will become very clear for you what it means for you, the Kuṇḍalinī Yoga. This is called Hidden Powers in Humans, Chakras and Kuṇḍalinī. And you can get anywhere in the world, anywhere in the world, where the Yoga and Divine Life Center is. In the twelve languages of the world, this book is available. Tomorrow, this is in Hindi language. Good? So tomorrow, again, we will speak about Kuṇḍalinī and chakras. At the same time, day after tomorrow is our beloved Holy Gurujī, His Holiness Swāmī Madhavānandajī’s birthday, Incarnation Day. And so tomorrow evening will be satsaṅg about that. And we may translate it into some more languages. At the same time, European languages, the Czech language, and ex-Yugoslavian languages. So that our many bhaktas around the world can profit from that. So, till tomorrow, my dear bhaktas, devotees, brothers, sisters, practitioners, seekers, spiritual aspirants, wish you all the best and divine blessing of Om Śrī Alagapurījī Siddha Pīṭha. Om Śānti, Śānti,... Śānti.

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