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So, mantra, mantra japa, or the practice of the mantra, is like an anuṣṭhāna. You all know what anuṣṭhāna means. Just as we have two kinds of incarnations—Nitya and Nimit—where the Nitya incarnation is always present, always here, and the Nimit incarnation comes from time to time. Both are the same, but the Nimit Avatāra comes for a very short time and brings about a great purification, and then leads to an even deeper purification. Similarly, when you receive your mantra, once or twice a year you undertake an anuṣṭhāna. You make a saṅkalpa. For one week or ten days, you make a saṅkalpa that, for example, throughout the whole year, through my ignorance, knowingly or unknowingly, I made mistakes. Perhaps I did not perform my mantra and mālās for a particular reason or purpose—such as a healing process, to cure certain diseases, family problems, direct or indirect problems, health problems, financial problems, mental problems, and many different things. You make a saṅkalpa that these problems should be purified. Every problem has three reasons; they are recorded in the three tapas, and they reflect on us through these three tapas: Ādhibhautika, Ādhidaivika, and Ādhyātmika. In your book Hidden Powers in Humans, and in the Yoga in Daily Life book, these three tapas are explained very clearly. So, to calm down these three kinds of fire, we practice anuṣṭhāna. As our dear Satgurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandajī said: Nāśa sattā Gurujī hovorevāla, Madhavānandajī, tenoyī tapa pāpa mīṭa jāve. All three tapas, and the cause of the sins, these pāpas, are removed. Avichal Sukh Pāve Paramānandan... All the negative energy is cleared up or purified. Generally, people make a saṅkalpa for one week, or what we call Navarātri, the nine nights of the Divine Mother, or nine days before Guru Pūrṇimā. They make a saṅkalpa that they will repeat their mantra 125,000 times. We call it “Savalak” in the Hindi language, and “Savalak” means 125,000. Now, you divide these 125,000 times into the hundred eight. This means you have one hundred eight beads or pearls in your mālā. Numbers are very important. As I spoke on the first night about yantras, maṇḍalas, cakras, tantras, and so on—Gāyatrī Mantra, Gāyatrī Yantra, Śrī Yantra, Śrī Yantra Mantra. It is said that Śrī Yantra brings more money. I don’t know from where, but so, try. It solves your money problems. May you find a new job, a good job, a good business, or suddenly you find a rich husband—doesn’t matter. Or a rich wife, so Śrī Yantra. Śrī is a mantra. Śrī means wealth, Śrī means prosperity, Śrī means happiness. Śrī, Śrī... So Śrī must be written. And children are called Pitā Śrī, Mātā Śrī, you know, always Śrī. So when you write, when you speak, when you pronounce, it influences you too. The very right Śrī is a liquid mantra. So Śrī, then Yantra. And we spoke about the corners or the angles, how they influence the energy. So why do we have at home some kind of disturbances and problems all the time? Because some energy is disturbing. Let’s give a simple example. You have a candle flame, or a flame is burning, and you open the window. The window is not properly closed, and there is always a draft. And the flame goes off. Or you have the ghee flame, and in your room, the temperature is below. So yantra is very scientific, very scientific. Now, where to put the yantra? The best is where you meditate or pray, on the ceiling. If you have exact measurements, you can also paint it. In many temples, they have very nice glass mosaics with the Śrī Yantra. Or you put it inside, above your door, on the ceiling, or on the altar. Now, it doesn’t matter how big it is; it is a quality, not a quantity. So that will help you to purify the energy, the negative energy from your house or from your apartment. Similarly, Gāyatrī Yantra. So there is Gāyatrī Yantra, Śrī Yantra, Vyāru Yantra, there are many, many yantras. You should know which one you should use and which go together. Otherwise, let’s say you have two boxes or cases. In one is a tiger, and in the other is a goat. And they are both beside each other. The goat is hungry, and the tiger is hungry. The goat has grass to eat there inside, but she can’t because she is afraid. The tiger is hungry, and the tiger knows that beside me is a goat, but he can’t catch it. But there is a disharmony, and that’s why many people make the mistake. In their spiritual life, then it disrupts their health, house atmosphere, their mental atmosphere, their intellect, and so on. Similarly, the anuṣṭhāna which you will do: you make a saṅkalpa, and for what? Now, 125,000 times when you repeat a mantra, how many mālās do you have to make? Can somebody, please, speak—one person at a time. One thousand one hundred fifty-eight. So that becomes: one and one, two, and five and seven, and eight, seven and eight, fifteen, and five and one, six. This is such a calling. Very good. Very good. Now, 1,158 mālās. How many mālās can you do in one day? That, in one week, you can finish, or let us say nine days, okay, nine days. So now, divide it into the ninth—how many mālās per day? One hundred and twenty-nine per day. And now, one hundred and twenty-nine mālās in how many hours can you do? Yes, ask your knees. Ask your back. Therefore, during the Anuṣṭhāna, the first thing is purity. Don’t mix others’ energy inside. Don’t mix energy from others. These nine days, no body connection. And no one should sit on your āsana. You should have your own āsana, your seat. And whenever you go to the bathroom or toilet, you have to wash your hands, feet, mouth, face, and everything. Before you begin your morning program, you have to take a shower, and before going to sleep too. Also, you have no time to speak; therefore, mauna. And little eating. Eating will disturb you, because when you eat, then sleep will come. Therefore, it is best to have fruits or salad, a vegetable diet. In these nine days, avoid garlic, onions, and mushrooms. Any kind of grains, no salt. And, of course, no vodka. That you get blessing. If you miss one mālā, your anuṣṭhāna is not completed. Ninety-nine cents is not a euro. It’s only 99 cents. So, or, is that in Germany? And they said, “Okay, 99 cents is one euro, no problem?” No, it’s a problem. Therefore, your anuṣṭhāna is incomplete. And you stop it. Then it can affect the other side direction, and that problem will increase more. Herr God! Yeah, that’s it, that’s it. Therefore, it is said, Mahāprabhujī very clearly, in this bhajan: Manuva dhire dhire chal, Gaganagar Chadna Revai. O my mind, walk slowly, carefully. It means, don’t hurry on your spiritual path. Those who try to hurry, they fail. Manuva dhire dhire chal, Gaganagar Chadna Revai. O my mind, walk slowly, we have to climb to the peak of the mountain. But not that mountain Gagangar, it means into the Brahma Loka. Hazār bohatar nadīyā chale, lambī lambī khāī. Hazār bohatar, 72,000 nerves, according to the yogic and chakra anatomy in the human body. These are like rivers in the body, 72,000 rivers; it’s not easy to cross. Lumbī, Lumbī Khai, and there are many deep cliffs. Śāstra koś gagana ke upara, thousands of miles or kilometers, above this sky what you see, Sahasrāra Cakra, vaha para hai Rāghurāyī, above there is the Lord of Raghu, God Rāma. Manavā dhīra dhīra cala, O my mind, walk slowly. Paach pachisam bhelihokar mohani raag sunai. All these, our senses, our vṛttis, our buddhi, and so on. Karma Indriyas, Jñāna Indriyas, Prāṇas, Apānas, Subprāṇa, Prāṇa, all these 25 together. Pach Pachīsom Berī Hokar. Peć, Indri, and British, and all twenty-five, all come together and sing a beautiful, sweet melody to you. Temptations, many temptations, and that temptation is so sweet, always attracting you. Paach pachisam beli hoker mohani rāg sunāī. Mohan is also the name of God Kṛṣṇa. Mohanī means “one who will attract you.” Who can misguide you? Wrong direction, illusion, monī, rāga, melodies. Yes, I love you. You are the best one. You know, we are the good, the others are the stupid. We don’t want to go there, we go other side. Money, house, this, that, kuśaṅga. Therefore, our ten horses, as... well, as our mighty elephant needs a good rider and a good mouth. Rāg Sunāi Moj Tera Manko. Such a melody will attract your mind. Rastu Dega Bhulai, you will forget your real path, and you will go again to the Kusanga path. And what is there? That is very interesting. Rādhā Andherī Galīya Chhoṭī. Night is dark, there is ignorance. Rādhā, the streets are very narrow, and there are deep holes. And it is a very slippery path. If you sleep there, you will fall into such a dark hole that you cannot come out anymore. All your practice is gone. Years of practice are gone. There is one song. I will find out the text for you. It is a very well-known and famous song. Maybe our Indian guests here know. Kedār sāt jāne, Kedār cale, heknī, ṭūṭ gayī hai mālā, the mālā is broken, moṭī bikhar cale, the pearls are just scattered, do din reh kar sāt, two days were together with me, aiko yadnā mālā. Jodīn Rehkārsat Jāne Kidārcālī, who knows where it’s gone away. So, people who think that on my spiritual path I received everything—I have my mantra, I know how to practice, I don’t need this and that—they fall into the darkness again. Reptiles, they have to begin life again with reptiles. It’s a hard nut to open, God realization, spirituality, you know? One fox found a coconut, and he would like to eat it, but he can’t open it. Now the fox is going away. But his nose pulls him back because he could smell. Again, he’s biting. But he can’t open the coconut, so he goes away again. And again, it comes back. This is a human life. We are foxes, and now we have found that the name of God is spirituality. We try for some days, months, or years, and then we go away. Then trouble comes. Then again, you remember, “Oh, I should go to my satsaṅg and Swāmījī.” So someone said, Rām nām nāriyel hai, man siyar guḍāyon le jāt, phoḍiyo toh phūṭī nahī̃, girī kān se khāy. That Rām nām nāriyel, that coconut is the name of God. And the fox is our mind. Try to roll and break it, the coconut, but you can’t open it. If you can’t open it, you can’t eat the nut. Galiyā choṭī rāt andherī raste me ciknāī, agar sirpṭī pāv tumhārā, paḍegā uṇḍī khāī. Don’t make a mistake. Like a new driver on the first winter, driving 120 km per hour on a narrow curve. And then realize the curve. Break. Then it’s going clockwise and anticlockwise. Luckily, no one is there. So, newly, people who come on the spiritual path read many, many books, many, many books, and now, “I know everything, I don’t need any guru.” Without knowledge and guidance, those who try to climb up will fall down. Without the Satguru, knowledge is not attained, brother; without Gurudev, you cannot realize this, and the path is very narrow. Dev Purī Sahāy, Sāhib Satguru Merā, my Satguru Dev, Dev Purījī, Swāmījī, Dīp, Sanyāsī, Guru Kṛpā Se Pāī, all this you can receive only through Guru Kṛpā. Therefore, the final judgment is this: Guru Kṛipā He Kevalam. Shishirke Ānanda Maṅgalam. So the Anuṣṭhāna. Anuṣṭhāna is beautiful. After Anuṣṭhāna, you feel very relaxed, very pure, spiritual, uplifting. Many sorrows are gone. But you have to follow the discipline. That’s why Patañjali said, “Atha yoga anuśāsanam.” It begins with discipline, anuśāsanam. And “Atha” means now, and now, not tomorrow. Just now. Don’t say, “Oh, next summer when I come for Anuṣṭhāna, I will be disciplined.” Pata nahīṁ, kāl kā pālā kar bāt kartā hai. Kāl kā, you don’t know what will happen in one second, and you are talking about tomorrow and next summer. Therefore, wake up now. Begin now, in this minute, the “yes, I will have my discipline.” So if you make saṅkalpa, you will keep mauna, then you will keep the mauna. If you break in the middle, you speak. You are making your anuṣṭhāna, and your husband is listening to the television loudly, and you are so angry, you get up and go, “Stop your television!” That was some disturbing energy that came to your buddhi and gave you such a pulse inside that you went to the other room and said, “Stop television.” And you came and again began. But those negative energies are happy; we are successful. We did not want this person to progress further toward positive things. So, how is it that negative energies, the Rākṣasas, Asura vṛttis, can destroy everything? Therefore, sattvic food, light food, that makes you sleep, you feel very relaxed and fresh. But you have to do exactly. No compromise. You have a petrol-diesel machine, a motor. And you make a compromise: instead of petrol, I will fill it with water. Nobody prohibits you from putting water inside. It’s your decision. But the motor will say bye-bye. This is that: what are the principles of the Anuṣṭhāna? In Indian culture, in Indian blood, it is very clear. You need not explain. But in this Western culture, it is far behind, ages behind. We don’t have discipline, that kind of discipline. You have to have a discipline like in an operating theater. A surgeon, a nurse, and doctors will not let anybody inside, even if it is your dear father or husband. And when the surgeon or the nurse touches one towel, they will not use it again; they will just throw it away. Because the most intelligent in this creation is the bacteria. Quick, they are very quick. They find a place very quickly. And their families are growing very quickly. So there is a discipline, and the same discipline in spirituality, is that no bacteria comes in, and that bacteria is Kusaṅga. Manasabh kho yore kusangyong ke sang, manasabh kho yore kusangyong. As Mahāprabhujī said in that bhajan, Dire Dire Chaal, then mind told, but I was doing everything. Mahāprabhujī said, “Yes, you were doing everything.” Prabhupāda, Prabhupāda… Chal, Rayo Kudang, and you are now going in the wrong direction. So, anuṣṭhāna and mantra are beautiful things. Without mantra, meditation is like a body without a soul. And without mantra, life is like a body without a soul. The mantra is the prāṇa of spirituality, and the mantra is protection. In the next program, we will continue, especially online, next weekend. So, I hope that finally I can finish these five parts of mantra techniques, and today we finished because many people are in a hurry to go to the bus and have to go home. Wish you all the best and a good journey. There is a question. Is it true that Dhanavād Praṇām is only for a man? No, for both man and woman. Dhaṇḍā is the stick. Dhaṇḍā is the stick. So the stick is for men, but praṇām is for women and men together. Kali Yuga is a woman’s Yuga. So we are in the majority, we are in the minority. So, Kali Yuga is a shadow of the Śakti, and man is that light trying to come under the shadows, above the shadows. Swamiji, you said that in Upāṁśu we are using short mantras like Oṁ or Rāma. But are we not also doing Upāṃśu with our full long mantra? Yes, you have to do the full, long mantra. That was an example, a general example. You can say Rām, Rām,... because this is very easy for the lazy. So, always when we are talking about mantra, it means your full guru mantra. So, mantra, yantra, and these chakras, they are all very useful and very good. Don’t buy the clothes with the yantras on them. Neither a hand towel, nor a bed sheet, nor a t-shirt, because you never know where you put your t-shirt and your bed sheet, and you sleep on it, and this and that. So that can again turn energy in another direction. Therefore, don’t buy these cloths and shawls with “Rām, Rām, Rām” or “Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya” or “Hare Kṛṣṇa” written on them. Don’t buy this because many people put it on the bed sheet as a bed sheet, and they sleep on it. That’s not good. So, no pictures of the gods, and if you buy the t-shirt with the picture of the god, then wash it separately. And don’t wear this t-shirt and go into the restaurant to eat fish and drink alcohol. Or you are not eating and drinking alcohol, but your other friends, they are sitting on the same dining table. And somebody makes a picture, or not making a picture, but Kṛṣṇa, you have the nice Kṛṣṇa here, and Kṛṣṇa will say, “Thank you, my bhaktas, you brought me here.” I have to be now here? Kṛṣṇa said, “Oh, stinky meat.” Oh, that alcohol smell. But you can’t hear him. So, therefore, holy symbols we must respect. Okay, so don’t buy such things. Now, I will have a hard time. Because there are shops outside, and they have many things like this. So you can buy this and keep it nicely at home to support them, but please don’t use it like this and tell everybody, all shopkeepers everywhere, we will not buy such things. Please don’t manufacture this. For death, it does not matter how you die, but the main thing is that you die. For greedy businessmen, it doesn’t matter how you utilize the things; the main thing is that they get money. So people have Gaṇeśas on the suits, and someone then was making a case in Austria in the court, and he won, and it was banned then. Many people have Kṛṣṇas and Śivas and Gaṇeśas on their underdress. And many people have Kṛṣṇas on their underdress. Don’t buy, don’t support. Otherwise, the whole world will become crazy. And if you are bringing your house, definitely you will have disharmony. So it does not matter from which religion, which spirituality, which saint, we should not humiliate. Either you keep the holy symbol respectfully, or don’t do it; don’t bring it. You do the anuṣṭhāna; you do it next time. Either you follow the discipline, or you don’t do it. Therefore, before coming to Dhanuṣṭāna, five months before, you practice fasting by eating a little every day. Then, for one week, you eat a little normally. Then, after one week, you eat normally. Again, one week you eat little. You have to make training, but pregnant women should not do it, a diabetic person should not do it, and those who have very low blood pressure should not do it. In doubt, consult with your doctor. Yoga doctor, your yoga teacher, Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva, Dharma Samrāṭ, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Gurudeva, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī oṁ nāhaṁ karatā prabhu dīp karatā Mahāprabhudīp karatā he ke śānti śānti.