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Sanskrit and Hindi terms include Kuṇḍalinī, bhajan, namaste, praṇām. Namaste, praṇām, namaste, praṇām... namaste, praṇām. Namaste, praṇām, namaste, praṇām, namaste, praṇām, namaste, praṇām... Namaste. "Pran" is in what? It must be Hungarian. Often I give you half, maybe that is a half right. Bhagavān a key? They wish for Mahādeva key? Father Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān a key? So, with adoration to our spiritual lineage, bless us all. Dear brothers and sisters, practitioners of yoga and daily life, spiritual aspirants, this blessing is coming to you from the beautiful country, the Republic of Hungary, from our summer camp dedicated to the mantra and Kriyā Anuṣṭhān, where the sādhakas, practitioners, or the aspirants arrive from different parts of the world. This is the second retreat. Last week we had a successful retreat, and now this is the second. In this way, at least through the webcast, I invite you to be with us during the webcast time, and I am happy to send you many blessings and divine messages. If you have any special event in your life today, I congratulate you. If you have a birthday today, I also pray to the Almighty for your good health, happiness, health, harmony, spirituality, long life, and self-realization. I welcome all of you who came from different parts of the world to this beautiful retreat, Mantra and Kriyānuṣṭhān week. Also, we are very happy that we have so many juniors here, and there will be many programs for the juniors. And also, there are the most senior practitioners of yoga in their life. There will also be a program for the seniors, and there will be Kriyānuṣṭhāna and Mantrānuṣṭhāna. Welcome. You all know that Patañjali, Maharṣi Patañjali, spoke in one of his books, a beautiful book which is adored, respected, and acknowledged worldwide in every university library and also in many countries. The Patañjali Yogasūtra is acknowledged as one of the oldest books, which the Western education system recognizes too. Patañjali was the father of psychology. He was, say, 1500 years before Christ, and perfectly he understood the human, human body, human emotion, human intellect, human problems, social, intellectual, political, any kind of problems, what he called vikṣepa and dveṣa. As well, it is Patañjali who discovered the different levels of consciousness and advised the different techniques for self-mastery. Patañjali has modified yoga very concretely in different ways. Example, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Rāja Yoga, and so on. The kriyās, the mantras, the meditations, the prāṇāyāms, the āsanas, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, and dhyāna. Definitely, you have a problem understanding these words. Āsanas, Patañjali is describing āsanas. Generally, you will find in every yoga book, in your country, in your language, they have writings about āsanas. And that means the postures for your training. These postures are known as psychosomatic movements. These postures are much better or different than sport. Of course, those classical āsanas which are described by yogīs are very scientific, and sportsmen can have immense benefit from them. But as Patañjali speaks about āsanas, it means a comfortable seat. Where you are sitting, how you are sitting, that is your āsana. Āsana has many different definitions. We can, in India they can ask you, "Where is your āsana tonight?" It means, where will you stay tonight? Where are you staying tonight? So where you sleep, the bed, that’s your āsana. Where you sit on the ground, on a chair, that’s your āsana. What they call the yoga mat, that’s your āsana. Asana is for every yogī, it’s very important to have your own asana because it creates a protective border, a safety border, and it’s your energy within on your asana where you are sitting. No one should step on your āsana, and no one else should sit on your āsana. Everyone should carry with them one āsana, yeah. It can be a very thin cotton cloth; it must not be very thick. And wherever you sit, you put this cloth and sit on it. Very good to have a red color, that’s the color of the śakti, that’s a nice color. Otherwise, except orange color, any color you can have for sitting: green, blue, blue. If you can afford to have some āsana, the best one for meditation is called kuśāsana. Kuśāsana. Kusha is the grass, a grass mat. I remember from Zagreb, there is one beautiful shop where you can get many Asian things. Ethno, you see, the soft name is Ethno. It’s a good verbum, good advertising, no? And they gave me one present, asana, to sit. And that was made out of grass, beautiful. So, one of my disciples was looking—a sannyāsī disciple—always at that āsana, and so I told him, "This is for you," and I gave it to him. Kusha asana, and cover over, you can have a cover, should be pure, natural, organic cotton or wool, pure wool. Also, in ancient times, they used to have tiger or lion skin or the skin of the deer. It’s strictly prohibited, strictly banned because the tigers and lions are dying out. Very little difference remained in different countries; therefore, by law, it is prohibited to kill any tiger or lion or use their skin for sitting, because you inspire others to have something like this. That time, ancient time, they used to have, because when the tiger skin was there, the scorpions, snakes, and some different animals were not coming close to your body. From the smell of the tiger’s skin, many other creatures went away. And that’s why they used this. That forget, now there’s no snake. There’s nothing, except mosquitoes. So, some people have from the bamboo, some have from grass, or normal cotton, or ahiṃsā silk. Do you know what’s ahiṃsā silk? Who don’t know? So many don’t know. Oh, my God. Well, you know that for getting the silk, the people, they were cultivating some bugs, or what they call silk bug, silk bug, and putting them in the boiling hot water to gain the... Silk out of them, the life of a daughter-in-law from Indira Gandhi, her elder son, which died by accident in a helicopter or a small plane. And her name is Menkā Gāndhī. She is a very great personality, and she’s working around the world for the protection of animals and the environment. And she was sorry for what humans are doing for the silk, and therefore she found a technique that, without disturbing or killing these creatures—the silk bugs—you can gain the silk from them, and they are still alive, and they can reproduce more. And so she called that Ahimsa silk. And it’s very beautiful, as beautiful as the other. Very nice, and it is only natural colored, no artificial color. So when you like to have any silk dress, then please go for Ahimsa silk. And it is available in India, and it is available in many other countries. You can have a silk asana or cotton asana. And if the ground is very wet, then you can have a plastic āsana. And on the plastic asana, you can put your textile asana. That is very nice. This is also called āsana. Another meaning of āsana is your bed, where you sleep. Another meaning of āsana, you call āsanas. Asanas, it is not, they don’t call asanas, they call asanas. They don’t pronounce the "A" at the end. In English they write asanas. So it is not asanas, it is called only asanas. They don’t pronounce the A. So therefore, it is said, there is no yoga; it is a yogī. Anyhow, we are not here to correct the language. So different postures are called āsana. Bhujangāsana, śalabhāsana, dhanurāsana, sarvāṅgāsana, and paścimottānāsana, ardhamatsyendrāsana—so many āsanas which you have in yoga books, that’s also called āsanas. But the yogīs advise that you should do your āsana exercises very slowly, gradually. Yogī says, during your performance of your āsana, your body should not perspire. If you are sweating, it means it is wrong. You are doing too quickly, and it is wrong. You lose more energy. That is called the high sport, advanced sport. And in this high sport, it is said 90% you lose energy, or 95% you lose. 5% you get back during doing the exercise. You see the marathon in Olympia. At the end of their run, people have no energy. Then the body tries again to recharge the energy. Then, a dynamic movement in yoga for body warming, a little bit. 50% of the energy is gone, and 50% you gain. Then it is stretching. Too much stretching postures or asanas is not good for your ligaments. When you are old, around 100 years, you will have problems with your ligaments and joints. As long as you are young, 50, 60, 70, 80 years young, it is okay. But when you will become 100 years old, above 100 like I am now, then you will see, yes, no torturing body. Stretching is torturing. There is a posture. In the postures, we are also stretching the body, the ligaments. But they are very natural, very gentle. They are 95% energy you gain and 5% you lose. So, therefore, the āsanas are very scientific and psychosomatic. They don’t influence only our body, but also our emotion, our intellect, what we call our psychic, and they develop spirituality. Asana is adopted in such a beautiful way where there is no competition and no challenges, and so that’s what you are doing when you begin to practice yoga. You are saying that I would like to practice āsanas. According to Patañjali, according to the yogīs, the definition of āsana is comfortable sitting, where you can be a long time in that posture, resting. Maybe Padmāsana, what you call lotus posture, Sukhāsana or Siddhāsana, Vajrāsana, where you can comfortably sit and meditate. Half an hour, one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, five hours, six hours, seven hours, eight hours. Like when you are very tired and you sleep eight hours. Hardly you change your sight, eight hours similarly. The sleep is like a meditation, and meditation is like a sleep. You get relaxed, you get very calm. Meditation replaces your sleep if it is a real meditation, because Patañjali said, "Yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ." There are no vṛttis in your consciousness, all vṛttis calm down when you are in deep sleep. When you are dreaming, your vṛttis are not calm. You are active in the dream. In the dream, someone is running, someone is swimming, someone is eating ice cream, someone is meeting the friend, someone is sitting in the cinema hall, someone is riding, someone is biking, someone is eating. Yes, we are doing our dreams, and someone is followed by some people. You are followed by dogs or by the snakes. That’s a dream. That time you are in stress. You are in stress even in the sleep. Therefore, adopt Yoga Nidra. The bhajan "Mā Prabhujī," which was written before 1940: "Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidra Virāla Śānt Janjanī, Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidra Virāla Śānt Janjanī." A rare saint, sādhus, learned ones know what is Yoga Nidra. Then you are sleeping, but it is like a meditation. Or, you are meditating, it replaces your sleep. But you can only sleep if your body is comfortable. Except for some exceptions. You are very tired, and you are going on the train and sleeping. Or in the car, the driver is driving and you are sleeping. That is acceptance. Generally, normally, we would like to go to sleep, and our body should have a comfortable posture so that no pain is there. Similarly, you can only meditate if you have a comfortable posture, one that you don’t have to think about blood circulation. There is enough blood circulation. Some people say, "Oh, there is no blood circulation." Because you did not practice enough āsanas. And some are sitting 20 minutes like this and say, "This is something, no?" It means you were not meditating. You were concentrating on your legs. Therefore, the first step, you are all beginners now. If you cannot sit for one hour without movements, with a straight body, upright, straight upright, and motionless. Kāyā is therium. Yes, master. Kāyā is therium. That’s not a meditation. Therefore, practice āsana. Try training. That’s a training. That’s training. Now, for the last 45 years, I’ve been giving satsaṅgs, lectures, and teaching yoga. I’m sitting in this posture. Now you see, as long as I can give satsaṅg, pravacans, everything, I’m sitting comfortable. My leg doesn’t tell me anything, they don’t dare to say anything to me. So this is a practice. Practice makes a master. So āsana, āsana means comfortable posture where your body feels comfortable. For example, when the body is comfortable, then your mind is relaxed and comfortable. There is a glass of water. Can I have the water glass? Thank you. And as long as the glass is standing here on this table, and this table is motionless, the glass is also motionless. And now the liquid which is in the glass is also motionless. As soon as I move the glass, the liquid will also move. Similarly, when your body is comfortable and motionless, then your mind—now you see, I am holding, but water is moving because I am moving—and now we will see very soon, so then your mind is relaxed, you don’t have restless thoughts. And you can withdraw yourself from the external world to the inner world. Many of you were not here the last three days, or we had a beautiful subject. Unfortunately, we couldn’t finish all. It’s called Navdabhakti, the nine different kinds of bhakti, devotion. And in this Navdabhakti, one is called, first was satsaṅg, harikathā, śraddhā, the faith or confidence. Ishwar bhajan, singing the bhajans and thinking of God. Mantra japa, repetition of the mantra, and then it’s called śam and dam. Śam and dam: śam means withdraw your senses from the external objects, material, and dam means observe your senses, that they don’t run out without your knowing, even your thoughts, because you are meditating here and in thinking you are near your car? Oh my God, I forgot to lock my car. So you are not here, you are moving around your car. So, somehow, withdraw your senses, withdraw your mind from the outer world, and become one with thyself, and nothing should disturb you. Whenever you like, or would like to be extroverted, you can do it. So God Kṛṣṇa is saying to Arjuna the quality or the nature of a yogī: the yogī should be like a turtle. The turtle, which anytime he can take out his limbs from his house, from his body. And anytime he can withdraw the limbs, similarly, a yogī can anytime become extrovert. The senses are outside, active, creative—everything, you said, "Oh my god, so active!" And suddenly, if you want, he or she can withdraw, and that’s called mastery. Master your body, you master your mind, you master your senses. Therefore, āsana, some of them, for what? To meditate and come forward. But some of them, if you cannot master them, you have no contentment, no satisfaction in your heart. Śāntoṣa. Śāntoṣa is the biggest, or the greatest, richness of your Self. Jab aaye śāntoṣ dhan, śabd dhan dhol samān. Gaj dhana, you may have thousands of elephants that belong to you, you know. One elephant costs a lot of money. And if you have thousands of elephants, are you able to take care of them? To have a thousand elephants, we need a country twice as big as Hungary. So much forest, and still it is too little forest. There is no forest anymore, only elephants. Gaj dhana, bhaj dhana, you have the golden birds. Or ratan dhan khan, and you may have the diamond mines, many, many diamond mines, all belong to you. Gaj dhan, the elephants, baj dhan, the garden birds, and diamond mines, tons of diamonds coming everyday out. Jab āy santosh dhan, but when the santosh comes to your heart. Sab dhan dhul samān, then all this wealth is like dust. For you, this wealth is like dust because you have santoṣa. Santoshī nar sadā sukhī. Who is happy? Who is ever happy? Who has the santoṣa? Whatever comes will come. My destiny, what it gives me, it will give. No one can take away my destiny. From your hand, anyone can take away your bread. But what is in your brain, in your destiny, no one can take. In India, when you travel, nearly on every vehicle, something is written. Even on the rickshaw, when you drive behind, there is something written. Deepnāna Bhagavān kī jai bolo, phir calo. Holy Gurujī wrote on his driver’s door side, "Deepnān Bhagavān kī jai bolo, phir darvājā kholo." No, Jai Prakash, true? Still on Guruji’s car. And many, many good words are written behind on the trucks, buses, and cars. So there is one sentence written. Samay se phala, samay se phale, you will not get anything. Before time, you will get nothing. Time will bring. So wait and see until the time comes. Then you will get it. Bhagya se jyādā, kisī ko nahīṁ miltā hai. And more than what is written in your kishmat, in your destiny, you will not get more than that. If you get it, you will lose it. You try to keep it, then family distraction will begin. Your children will begin to drink alcohol, or your wife, or your husband. Or they will begin to abuse some drugs, or go for gambling. Many, many things. So, who has santosh in the heart is the best person, the happiest one. Santosh is the name of many girls, a female name. And anyone who doesn’t have a yoga name or a spiritual name, then call yourself from now onwards Santosh. It means you have to realize that you are now in Santoṣa. Your name is Santosh, but you are greedy. Oh, that’s not good. Your name is Lakshmī, but you are poor? That’s not good. Also, a male can have the name Santoṣa. You can say Santoṣa Purī. Both male and female. Khan jab aaye santosh dhan, sab dhan dhool samān. When the santosh dhana, means the wealth of contentment, is awakened in your heart, then all other worldly wealth is dust for you. And therefore, in Navadhā Bhakti, it is said that... Santosh, try to get the Santosh, and what you got is a great what you got. It, don’t lose it, but of course, your greed would like to have more, and you will lose what you have. Every one of us, we... We had some minutes of our life, most beautiful, and that’s gone. It’s the past. No. Gurujī said, even in the memory, you are still happy with that. Keep in your memory that which belongs to you. Only you and you. That’s it. Santosh, what was beautiful or what was terrible is gone. I am happy on both sides, thanks to God. The terrible thing is not anymore in my destiny; it is gone. Or what was good and beautiful, thanks to God that I experienced that. Maybe if God wishes, or God’s blessing, I will again get, otherwise I have, I need not to get. You get one experience in your meditation, a beautiful vision. Lifelong you will not forget how beautiful that vision was. Śāntoṣa. And śānt means the śāntoṣ, samādhān. Shant, who have the samādhi, withdrawing of the senses or activating the senses. Withdraw yourself from the external world or become extrovert in that sense. That’s it. Before Patañjali said āsanas. And before the āsanas, Patañjali was speaking about yama and niyama. And finally, the seventh, or the ninth, sorry, the ninth, now the bhakti, according to the, according to whom? The girl said, "Nārada, so you don’t concentrate on what the Master is saying." Drink it out. You should support me. So according to the Ṛṣi Nārada, Nārada Navdabhakti, the nine points of the bhakti, final, Īśvara Praṇidhāna. Ishvara Praṇidhāna. What a beautiful word. Surrender your life to God, to Īśvara. Lord, everything you gave me, all that comes you gave me, and all that is yours, nothing is mine. I lose nothing. I surrender to thee, oh my Lord: my body, my mind, my consciousness, my emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, my destiny, my karma, everything, even my bad karma. I am happy to give you, Lord. Oh Lord, it is your karma now. It’s my only dharma to give you, my Lord. That’s it. So give in the hands of God. Sooner or later, we have to give it to them. Sooner or later, we have to give this body again to the lap of Mother Earth. Īśvara praṇidhāna. Mera to kuś hai nahi, jo kuś hai so tera. Mera toh kus hai nahi, nothing is mine. Jo kus hai so tera, whatever it is, is yours. Yours, I give to you back. What do I lose? Nothing. And therefore, in the name of God, in the name of all needy people, all needy creatures, when you help, it is a great thing. What you can do, do it. Nothing will go with you, and the day when you will depart from this body, you will be in the astral world. Somewhere, looking up, then gajadhan, bhajadhan, or ratan dhan khan—this all wealth, which I taught before. In the astral body, suddenly you will see all this money and this, like dust. All relations and money and this, like dust. Bank account zero, okay? Or you have many, many zeros without any number on it. Or you have numbers and zeros, many, many. That doesn’t mean anything for you. Your heart house, your jewelry, your clothes, your cars, your property, zero for you, nothing. You have no feelings toward it, because now you are detached from the material world and also from relations. We people will cry. Our dear one died. We do cry. Though we know the ātmā is immortal, but still the feeling is there because we lost that form in which the divine ātmā was, and with which we had such a beautiful relation. Not that it died or not, but that was some meaning for us. We are a test, but when you go away from the body, it’s like when you take the pizza cheese with the cheese, pizza slice, and the cheese is thicker, becomes less and less and less, finally it’s broken. If it doesn’t happen, then while eating, the whole pica will come up. You cannot depart from this material world and your astral body. You, in your astral body or in your subtle body, will be suffering. And therefore, God made such a principle or law: as soon as we go from the material world, attachment is gone. The person who passed away today, or tomorrow, or yesterday, or someone, looks to us, "My dear daughter, my dear son, my dear wife, or my dear husband, my dear friends, don’t cry. Look, I am happy." I am so relaxed and free. Don’t cry. I was never so happy. But we cannot see him or her. We cannot hear what he or she is saying. We are still in the mortal body. And that one is already connected more to the immortal body, the soul, the ātmā. But still, with this subtle body. That’s thanks to God that we will not suffer because of our material relation to house, car, money, jewelry, belongs this, that. Yes, you will have more love for your dear one. You will have love for all creatures. You will meet different souls. Some souls will be the soul of a dog, buffalo, elephant, or a mosquito. Soul is soul quality, not a quantity. An elephant is very big. Do you think an elephant has a big soul? Do you believe this? And a mosquito or some little bacteria is very small. Do you think the soil is also so very small? Quality. Everyone is there. Everyone has a right. You cannot say, "Hey, mosquito, go away." Mosquito will say, "Who are you, my dear friend? No. Who are you?" I have equal rights in this world, of God also, on this planet, but you didn’t respect me, and I didn’t respect you. I was naughty always, and you were also cheeky. But now we are in another, different world, free. My destination, my destiny. Your destination, your destiny is different, but we are all souls. And so, Īśvara Praṇidhāna, prepare yourself now to learn to renounce and meditate. We will be together, and we will be closer than ever. We will be happy. Everything will be most beautiful. But this worldly material, this disturbs us. That creates the duality between you and me, standing this table. Afterward, there is no table, only our destiny and we are there. And we, especially like a master and disciple, we are all these waves moving, you know. When I die or go away from this world, you will also begin to die. Sorry, not like that. But in our age, by the age, you will all follow me. And we will meet on some different planet or again on this beautiful planet. We are ever together, and we are never together, because we are one. Now, you can divide it however you like. Ātmā Jñāna and therefore Īśvara Praṇidhāna. Every day before going to sleep, Lord, whatever I have done or whatever has happened through my body, through my senses, through my emotion and intellect, through my words and my actions, Lord, I offer it all to you. Forgive me, and you may give what I need. Good morning. Thank you, Lord, for taking care of my deep sleep and protecting me. I surrender my entire being, my mind, my senses, my words, my actions in your hands, Lord. Guide my steps, guide my steps toward you. Deen bandhu deena naath, meri dori tere haath. Deen bandhu, O friend of the meek one, O dear of the meek one. The thread of my life is in your hands. Can you be so kind and sometimes move a little closer to you? You know, this is what you call the puppet dance or playing puppet. So we, all the souls, are the puppets of that cosmic play, and after a long play, he will be tired and we will all be together again. How beautiful, deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. So these are, this Saptabhūmi—no, sorry—Navadhā Bhakti of whom? Thank you. This Navadhā Bhakti of Nārada: first was satsaṅg, second Harikathā, where the glory of God is spoken, or the Divine glory is spoken of, or the third was read: śraddhā, Īśvara bhajan, mantra japa, samādhi, santoṣa, santon kā ādhāra. This must not be forgotten. Respect the saints, it doesn’t matter from which religion they are. Respect the saints, santoṁ kā ādhār, because saints are the greatest ones on this planet. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, "Santose badkar koī mānuṣ tan dharī huā nahī." Sing. Santose koi śiromaṇi manuṣya, dharī huā sā sirumde dhahurām. Paramahasyogirāj Śrī Svāmījī Maheśvarānandajī Gurudeva kī jai. So now, rest is the best. Tomorrow at 10:30, we will have again a Pravacana lecture. So, Navadhā Bhakti according to the Ṛṣi Nārada and Patañjali, Maharṣi Patañjali, he said, "Discipline is the key to self-success." Self-discipline is the key to success. And so Patañjali very clearly wrote the definitions of yoga and different techniques. Yama-niyama, following the ethics, principles, asanas, and pranayamas. Dhāraṇā, dhyāna, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, and samādhi. So, we will continue to talk on these points. So, begin again to practice your āsanas so that you can sit without, because you are going to have anuṣṭhāna, and I am looking forward for you that you will sit motionless. And you will experience many, many experiences. You will make if you will sit motionless. So today, this evening, is that’s all. Hari Om, and good night.