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Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Haṁsa Śabda Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Haṁsa Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Pāṇarāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śuddhi Pāṇarāyaṇam. Haṁsabhāda Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Haṁsabhāda Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Hamsabhādas Prabhusaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Hamsabhādas Prabhusaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Hamsabhādas Prabhusaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Hama Sab Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Hama Sab Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. OM NAM MAUSERĪ PRABHU DĪPA NĀRĀYAṆAM. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Śrī Śrī Dev Purīṣa Mahādev Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī, Satyasanātan Dharma Kī. Blessed self, spiritual seekers, good evening and welcome to our satsaṅg. The subject is chakras, kuṇḍalinī, and the hidden powers in humans. Especially today, I wish you all the best and the blessings of Divine Mother Sarasvatī. Today is the day of Divine Mother Sarasvatī. As well, today, according to Vedic astrology and Vedic culture, is Vasant Pañcamī. Vasanta means spring. Pañcamī is the fifth day, the moon day. A week ago, we had a celebration of Makara Saṅkrānti. Makar Saṅkrānti literally means that Sūrya Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān Sūrya Nārāyaṇa, the sun, now is moving towards the north. As soon as the sun changes its position, the entire nature is influenced. Now, in the entire earth, there is a new life; a new energy is awakening. It is that energy, it is that consciousness which is following the sun’s rhythm. Sarasvatī. Sarasvatī means wisdom. Sarasvatī is that stream or the energy, or it represents in the entire universe what we call Vidyā. Sarasvatī is known as the faithful one of Brahmā. It means that God is the source of knowledge and is accompanying Brahmā. It is Bhagavān Brahmā who brought the knowledge of the Vedas to our earth. Brahmā has four hands, and in each hand he is holding one Veda, and these are the four Vedas. Out of this, the Vidyā is born. So Vidyā is a daughter of Brahmā. At the same time, Vidyā, or Sarasvatī, is known as the consort of Brahmā. Without this pure knowledge, which enters into our Vijñānamaya Kośa, we cannot get education, we cannot learn, we cannot study. In Vedic Dharma, Sanātana Dharma, the speciality is this: that whatever is in the universe, everything has to be acknowledged. Everything has to be acknowledged in its own way. Every planet, every star, moon and sun on this earth, the stones, the caves, the mountains, the lakes, the rivers, the ocean, vegetation and all creatures also have to be acknowledged, respected and adored in their place. To realize and know their energy, their influence, and their importance on this planet, as well as for humans. The humans, it is that body of the humans which carries all the divine energies or all the energies of the universe. Yatha brahmāṇḍe tatha piṇḍe. But the difference between the other creatures and the human is this: the human has got the intellect, and this intellect without Sarasvatī is empty, is seedless. All incarnations, all the twenty-four incarnations, they have this accompaniment of Sarasvatī. No human who is born in human form becomes a great saint whom we adore like a god or the holy. They are all due to the Sarasvatī. If we use the mantras which are given, you can say by Brahmā or by great saints who made the experiences with the mantras. Mantra is a sound, and there are many, many kinds of mantras. Even there are tantric mantras, even there are magic mantras. All this we call, there’s one chapter, Karmakāṇḍa. Karmakāṇḍa means where we do the kriyās, we do the prayers according to those mantras and according to that to which attribute the mantra is directed or concentrated. Mantra is a manipulation of the tattvas, or combination of the different tattvas, and which tattva belongs to that particular alphabet. That’s why the Sanskrit alphabet or the Hindi alphabet is called Devanāgarī. Deva means goddess, Nagrik means a citizen, the citizen of the divine world. This mother language of all languages, Sanskrit, which was realized and experienced through meditation in the sūkṣma loka, the astral world. Each alphabet represents one principle of the goddess, male or female. Each alphabet, which there are fifty-two alphabets in Devanāgarī, and all these have particular energy. Every letter, every alphabet, represents one Divine. Now, because we are here on the subject of the Kuṇḍalinī, when you see the chakras chart, there are many chakras, but out of these, the main chakras are eight, and each chakra has its own bīja mantra. Bija means the seed, and each petal has its own mantras; that’s called the sub-mantra, and from the bija mantra, the seed. Bija has the essence of everything. Bija is life. It may be a tiny seed, but it has immense energy. There is a dormant seed. When we put the seed in the earth, then it sprouts, and this is the spring at the right time. We have to plant it. If it is not the right time, even that seed can get rotten. Therefore, in yoga, this also we should know: which is the right time to practice our sādhanā, our prayers? Which month, which season, and which hours? Then it has a positive effect. Like in nāda, music, it also belongs to the language. There are, when we see the classical, ancient musics, the nādas, which are designed, approved, heard, and put into the rāga, like morning rāga, early noon rāga, noon rāga, afternoon, evening rāga, midnight rāga, and early morning, the dawn rāga. It was the time that once, when you had to listen to a particular rāga, you had to wait for that hour. Not that morning raga you listen to in the evening. Nowadays, in this modern world with modern technology, we have designed many things. We have the musical instruments. We record, it doesn’t matter what you call them, cassettes or CDs or DVDs. And whenever we want, we play the rāgas. But the person, an artist who is very wise and very close to the Brahmajñāna, if he is really an artist who understands the music, first he will not play, even if you ask to play that rāga. And they will tell us, without that particular hour, if you listen to this rāga, this vibration, the sound, it can have a negative influence on your body, on your emotion, on your intellect, and so on. Therefore, rāga has to be understood. We all play whenever we like any kind of music. It has no effect. It has a negative effect. There is one story that, in a small village, a group of musicians arrived. In villages, there were about 50-60 houses only, and they would come to play some concert there. Well, one was playing the sitar, one was playing the tabla, one was playing the vīṇā, and so on, different instruments. People were very curious. Many people from the village came, including the children. They were sitting, and now the artists begin to tune their instruments. They were playing. The sitarist, the guitarist, they were playing, and others thought they were still tuning. After one or two hours, slowly, slowly, people begin to disappear. They couldn’t understand what this is. They thought they would sing, and they would play nicely, what we are always thinking to dance. But the ragas, the music, have their discipline. Then they began to have vocal music; they were singing the classical, and they couldn’t understand. Around midnight, all disappeared except one elderly woman. One elderly woman, she was about 85 years old, and she did not know what music is. And they see growing in the village. She knows the music of the birds and sound, the music of nature, and so on. But she sat there, and she was looking at this artist, those who were there, and they were trying very hard to play. And then they were with the music, and she was looking, and she was looking. At four o’clock, when the dawn begins to rise, all musicians, they thought, "Well, it doesn’t matter for us. It’s a practice. We are doing our practice." People went. But at least one grandmother is sitting, and she’s listening. At least she understands us, so let’s carry on. They were playing. They were playing Sītārām. And she was sitting, and she had a little mālā in her hand, and she was repeating a mantra. They thought grandmother was understanding our music beautifully. As soon as the dawn came, that elderly lady began to weep. The tears came out of her eyes, and the artist was saying, "Oh, she’s so touched by our music, how great." And she was crying and crying. So one of the musicians went and said, "Grandmother, we know you understand our music and you are touched by this, and please don’t cry." She said, "I don’t understand anything, but I am very sad." They said, "Why are you sad?" "Because I had about 20 or 30 goats, bakrā, bakrī, and they got one illness, and the whole night they were screaming like you are screaming, and when the sun rose, they died. So, my dear children, I am so sorry you have got this illness, and the whole night you are screaming, and now the sun will rise and you die. I am so sorry." They say, "Thank you, mother, thank you." So we are that grandmother. We are that kind of people; we don’t understand. When you don’t understand the sound, Nāda, because you have no blessing of the Mother Sarasvatī, only the artist knows, the musician knows. It is said that when a musician is playing an instrument or singing, you can paint the waves. And a good artist who can make a nice painting, his or her painting, you can listen to like music. Not like now, the modern paintings, you throw color here and there, and this and that. We don’t understand what it is, and we call it modern art. So modern art is, we don’t understand. So, each chakra has its own bīja mantra. Through yoga practice, meditation, kriyā yoga, and chakras, Yogīs’ first aim is to come into samādhi. And samādhi, there are many different kinds of samādhis, beginning from the bhāva samādhi. When you sing bhajans and kīrtan, and you are full of devotion, and every day our children are dancing, that’s bhāva samādhi. Bhava, that’s very good, temporarily only. But finally, there is called sabīja samādhi and nirbīja samādhi, or savikalpa samādhi and nirvikalpa samādhi. Sabīja samādhi means that still there is a seed inside. And what kind of seed? That vṛtti, that desire, still icchā śakti is there, icchā, the wish is there. In sabīja samādhi, you can see everything, you can hear everything, you can smell everything, but otherwise, you are gone. That is sabīja samādhi. There are fruits which have seeds, and there are seedless fruits too. Nowadays, in this modern technology, they are making all the seeds and crops seedless. What we call the gene is manipulated. Pity, pity that our ancient seeds and fruits are all disappearing. The strength, the nutrition, the herbal values, the medical values, which those ancient seeds and fruits and flowers and herbs had, now we don’t have. It is not the quantity, but it is the quality. So the seed is very small, but it has a quality, and that can grow and multiply. So the sub-bīja of each petal of the chakra, including the main bīja mantra, is a resonance. That resonance of the particular part of the body, that resonance we have to harmonize according to the time, the season, the year as well. As what we call deśa and kāla, then your chakras positively will awake, and use that mantra for those chakras, that bīja mantra and those sub-mantras, upa-mantras, that will understand the nāda. Therefore, in one bhajan, Mahāprabhujī says, "Daśva dhyāna dharandhathā, or anahada-nāda sunthathā, daśva para dhyāna dharandhathā." At that time, Darsva means the tenth chakra, Sahasrāra chakra, they are unharmed Nāḍīs. Taba dhunī nādh ko sunta tha, that dhunī nādh. Dhuni means two kinds of dhuni. One is the fire dhūnī, where we are making our fire. Second, dhun. Dhun means you are one with thyself, one with God, in divine consciousness. Therefore, it is said that someone has interest in this, someone is happy in this, someone is happy in this. So they are happy according to the quality of their chakras where they are. So this is everywhere: the goddess Sarasvatī accompanies the sādhaka, the practitioner, to lead on a safe way. But it has to be all the time the devotion to all the symbols, the methodological symbols given on the chakras. That is, they are mostly animals, humans, and vegetation. These are the three. All in their place is very important. There is the crocodile in the chakras of Svādhiṣṭhāna, which has its own quality. The holy mother Gaṅgā, holy mother Gaṅgā, she is riding on the crocodile. What means the Gaṅgā? What means the crocodile? Means that she is capable of mastering that energy which this crocodile has. Within us are also many crocodiles sitting. And we are existing or living in a lake where there are many crocodiles. So we used to say in Nepal, and also in India and in the Hindi language, you have to live in the lake and have enemies with the crocodiles; that is not good. So this kind of negative energy is everywhere, in each chakra. And we are going through this. Therefore, we have to respect, we have to give them their place. So, through the meditations, the ṛṣis, trikāla-darśīs, they received this knowledge. So this alphabet, Devanāgarī, Deva means the goddess, and Nāgarī is the citizen. So these symbols in the universe, they are like a goddess, a particular energy to help. You can be a friend with the crocodile too. That is a master work. A mighty elephant is not easy to ride, not easy to control. But there are people who can also become friends and control them. So this is your master work, and you are your master, yourself. First guru is mother and father, second is brother, sisters and friends, and third is your school guru, and fourth is your religious pandit, religious priest, fifth is your sādguru, and sixth you are thyself. Now you have this entire control. In the book, Hidden Powers in Humans, everything is described and practiced, and which mantra and chakra, what it means. So what I want to tell, now come back to the mantra. Now, through their experiments, can you imagine how many years or thousands of years the ṛṣis were making experiments to gain something useful, beautiful, divine for the humans, to be successful, happy, and lead the human life in this world. And finally, to the Supreme. So again, they worked with the tune, the vibration, the resonance, and then they put that alphabet, the other alphabet, together. Sometimes, even they had to take only one part of the alphabet, not the whole, only a quarter of it, or even smaller, just like a dot. And this Devanāgarī alphabet, which is one of the most scientific, from the Nābhi Kamal, the seat of the sound is the Maṇipūra Cakra, from the Nābhi Kamal till the Brahmrandhra, each alphabet is influencing each part of the body. So when you will change this, when you remember each and every atom or the cells of the body is vibrating and recharged with that particular energy, it is a mantra. Śabda, śabda, when certain resonance comes together, then the śabda, formulated a śabda, a word, and that word have somewhere, I mean, kaṇṭhakamal, parā, paśyantī and bekhari. Para is in the navel, Paśyantī is in the vocal cord, and Vaikharī is in our tongue. These are the three levels of the sound. But another sound is within the body that in an Adha Yoga practice we can listen to. There are ten different sounds directing to the ten indriyas, and an eleventh one that directs to the sahasrāra cakra. And that, in short, is very, very interesting: that when you chant "Om," then all are included inside. And automatically, all becomes in your favor. Mahā Mantra, Divine Mantra, Cosmic Mantra, the best Mantra is Oṁ. Akār, Ukār, Makār. Oṁ kāra bindu saṁyuktaṁ nityaṁ dhyānti yoginaḥ, kāmaṁ mokṣaṁ caiva oṁkārāya namo namaḥ. From the beginning of the universe’s creation till now, Oṁ is the pradhāna, Oṁ is the main thing. In 1975, in Prague, at the Medical University, there was a doctor and professor. What was his name? Dostalik, because I have now checked people, so you see this is a, what you call, the proof, you know. The professor Dostalik is very interested in Indian culture, Vedic science, yoga, religion, and so on. He speaks Hindi. He learned Hindi. He learned Sanskrit. Very wise man. I think he is still alive, no? He passed away, unfortunately. He was very good with me. You can say my friend. I wouldn’t say the disciple. And I respected him very much. He was much older than me. He was there, and there was one Dr. Mohr. His name, I don’t remember it, was present. They want to make an experiment of the yogic brain and what we call the vṛttis. What Maharṣi Patañjali speaks in the Patañjali Yoga Sūtra, they would like to know how the yogic brain is functioning or acting during meditation. And they asked me if I was ready to come and do this experiment with them. I said, "No problem." In 1975. How many years already? 35 years. Well, so next morning they asked about 10 o’clock or 11 o’clock. So I went there. I said, "I should be on an empty stomach," but they said, "11 o’clock." Then I said, "Don’t worry." I was young and could digest breakfast within one hour. Breakfast is gone. Now it takes five hours to digest the breakfast. So we went to his laboratory, and there were many, many medical or some kind of modern instruments. So they were putting on my fingers, they’re here like in ECG, on my legs, on my stomach, on the chest, on the brain centers, many, many, even I don’t know where it was. And also, the whole body was completely covered with wires. I told them, "Do we have control over electricity or not?" If they give a little more power, then I have divine samādhi already now. And then they closed the room; there was no noise from outside, and they were measuring. And they had many different kinds of theories or techniques. When I was sitting in meditation, they put about a 500-volt bulb on and off. They want to know when this so strong light comes, how my brain will react. And that was completely dark, and there were different things. After we went more into meditation, then they said, "Swamiji, we would like to have when you are chanting Aum." So with the Aum, they gave the result, which I have somewhere in my file. And the doctor said that they gave some, I don’t know which kind of beta and alpha and like this, all about research work, what they did. They said, "Oh, fantastic, fantastic." Your chitta vṛtti was like a peaceful lake. But one thing was very interesting. I said, "What? When you were chanting Aum, how the entire spinal column and these central nerves were acting, and how these waves of the sound were very systematically directed towards the, here on the fontanel, what do you call it, sahasrāra cakra." And from the whole body, like, energy is directing in that side, so I say, "Thank you." I will perhaps print sometimes in my writing, in my biography or something. So this has been scientifically proved that the mantra Oṁ is the bīja mantra, the seed, the origin, the origin of the entire universe. The cosmic sound is Oṁ. When you say "Amen," it is the form of the Aum. It is a form of the Aum. So this Aum, therefore, in the chakras, there are Bīja Mantras, very powerful, but to make it possible for us to resist that energy, there are sub-mantras on each petal. They are guarding, they are controlling, so that our body does not have too strong energy. If one of the petals or one of the sub-mantras is not properly functioning, then the people, what they call, when they try to awaken their kuṇḍalinī, they have a very strong feeling of pain, physical spasms in the stomach, in the back, in the chest. And you cannot prove physically if you try to make a diagnosis, but they have a feeling that is psychic, but so strong. Why? Because you did not purify that particular cakra with the bīja mantra and sub-mantra. So, therefore, for each you have acknowledgement, you acknowledge, you respect, and you protect. Every creature on this earth, what the Creator has done, is very, very useful. Unfortunately, now many lives disappear, many, many birds disappear, and much wildlife disappears. Why? Because of the greed and cruelty of humans, and because we are just destroying this beautiful creation on this planet. Not only this, wrong way of life, wrong way of eating, wrong way of drinking, we are harming ourselves, we are destroying our body. It’s like this. There is one car you have, and this car has what you call a diesel engine. Now, in a diesel engine, if you put in petrol, I think it will destroy your engine. If you put water in the petrol engine, it will destroy it also. So this motor of the human body is not designed for consuming alcohol. When you put alcohol in your body, all the brain centers and all the chakras, the resonance is in disbalance. And then Saraswati is gone from us. Saraswati is gone, your tongue becomes thicker, you are talking something like, "I cannot overcome, please call me tomorrow morning. I will come to you, hey mister, thank you, nice to see you, but tomorrow we will see, definitely." That is because we put the wrong fuel in our body. We need a sattvic āhār and vihār, āchār and vichār. Āhār, vihār, āchār, and vichār—this yogī has to respect. Aha. Yogī means all humans, my dear. All, all humans. Humans should take care of the four things: āhār, vihār, ācār, and vicār. Āhār means the diet: what to eat, what to drink. Vihār: where to go and where not to go. That’s very important. Two o’clock, three o’clock, you are wandering in the street somewhere, and somebody comes and pulls you down. No, no wonder what you were doing there. Three, you should be in your bedroom and not in the street. But you’re drunken. Pagal bankar uskī botal hastī, dug dug hai duniyā kitnī pagal hai. Āhār, vihār, āchar, behavior. As you are to me, I am to you. And vichāra, thinking, positive thinking, as soon as you begin to think angry, hate, jealous, revenge, then your entire beautiful work of the Divine Creator is confused, and all the cables are disconnecting, not functioning properly. Therefore, the science of Kuṇḍalinī and Chakras is for making human life happy, healthy, and successful, and to achieve higher consciousness. So in all this, Saraswati, today is the day of Mother Saraswati, the Divine Saraswati, the Goddess of Wisdom. Tomorrow, we will again continue our subject. This was today for children’s celebration for Saraswatī. But if you, unfortunately, you are not all in Nepal now. In every house, there were beautiful flowers and watercolors. And Deepak, in every door, they had a beautiful pūjā of Divine Mother Sarasvatī and welcomed the spring today. Wish you all the best, and see you tomorrow. God bless you. Deep Nayan Bhagwan kī, Deveśwar Mahādev kī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagwan kī, Sanātana Dharma kī.