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Gurur śakṣak param brahma tasme Śrī Guruve namaḥ. Dhyāna mūlam gurur mūrtim, Pūjā mūlam gurur padam, Mantra mūlam gurur vākyam, Mokṣa Mūlam Guru Kṛpā. Om Pūrṇamadaḥ Pūrṇamidaṃ Pūrṇāt Pūrṇamudacyate, Pūrṇasya Pūrṇamādāya Pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Sabhī Ṛṣi Munī Mahātmā Kī Jaya, Mātā Pitā Gurudeva Kī Jaya. Blessed self, spiritual seekers, dear ones, blessings of Om Śrī Alak Purī Jīsida Pīṭha Paramparā. On this very auspicious holy day, Pūrṇimā, and especially this Pūrṇimā today is on the weekday of Monday. Monday is dedicated to Bhagavān Śiva. Svayaṃbhū Śiva means blessing. Śiva means liberation. Śiva means the consciousness. Śiva means the beauty, and Śiva means the truth. Satyam Śivam Sundaram. Truth, Śiva, is the beauty. Satyam Śivam Sundaram. When the full moon, the Pūrṇimā, is on Monday, you may call it Śiv Pūrṇimā, and it has special blessings. The blessings directly on this day come from the holy mount Kailāś. Kailash is the holy seat of Lord Śiva. And Śiva is also known as the king of the Himālaya. When the Pūrṇimā, the full moon, comes on a Thursday, Jupiter—Thursday is Jupiter, is Guru—and this is compared as a Guru Pūrṇimā. And Guru Pūrṇimā is the day which has a certain constellation and meaning. When this earth came out of the ocean and the very first sun ray touches our earth, that second is the Guru Pūrṇimā. That is the enlightenment of this planet or Mother Earth. Means, life began. That's why it is called a living planet. Not only humans, birds, and animals, but numerous creatures, 8.4 million different kinds of creatures. And one among that, or the source, the heart, is the earth. This earth is the mother. Earth is living. Don't think there is dry mud. Don't think there is dry dust. No, it's living. And the second form, this is a physical form of the mother. Mātṛ Devo Bhava. The mother is the first god. Mother is God. The second form of the Divine Mother is the universe, the space. So the life, the light from the universe touches this beautiful earth, and it becomes the life in itself. And that's why, because of the water, we call it the blue planet, and because of the life on it and itself is life, therefore, it's called a living planet. Water, it is said, where there's water, there's God. And where there's God, there's life. And where there's life, there's light. And where the light is, there is the knowledge. And where the knowledge is, again, the unity. Second, this Guru Pūrṇimā, the Pūrṇimā is, which I told you day before yesterday, I think, or yesterday morning, about great Ved Vyāsa who wrote the Vedas. And this Guru Pūrṇimā, which comes once a year, is the birth or incarnation of the great saint Vyāsa. And so many call this Guru Pūrṇimā as Vyāsa Pūrṇimā, Vyāsa Pūrṇimā. Many holy saints incarnated on the full moon. Buddha Purnima, Buddha also was born on the Purnima. So many saints are born on certain Pūrṇimās. All who are born on the Pūrṇimā day, the full moon day, you can have a name: Purāṇa, Pūrṇimā, or Purāṇa Rām, Purāṇa Purī, Purāṇa Nanda, Purāṇa Purī, Pūrṇimā—completeness. And third, the meaning of this Guru Pūrṇimā is that "Guru" means the ignorance, darkness, and "Guru" means the light. And this removes the darkness of the ignorance from this soul, which is struggling ages and ages in the space, sometimes comes to this planet or this earth and to other planets. Without light, we can't find the path. So, Guru, who leads us from darkness to the light, Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya—lead us from the darkness to the light. Wisdom, knowledge is that. And therefore, another is that in all the planets, Jupiter is the balanced and is the highest. And when Jupiter is supporting you, then all others become weaker. The effect of all other planets is the subject of astrology. So, the astrologer may tell us much better about this. And in your body, in your hands, for example, when you open your palm, you see that the end, the root of your index finger on the palm, is higher. That means your Jupiter is higher, and you have very great protection and luck. You see? So when someone looks at my hand and says, "Swamiji, your guru is very strong," I said, "Yes, my Gurudev is very strong." Well, this is palmistry. It is called the science of the ocean, Samundar Śāstra. Let's go further. The moon, earth, and Jupiter, these three are balancing. And the moon is in the Vedas, in yoga, in Vedānta philosophy, and in the science of astronomy and astrology, the moon. The Moon is closer to us than the others. The Sun is strong. The moon is what we call mind. So our mind is closer to our senses, and our consciousness, or intellect, surely. Mind is the moon, and moon or mind means the emotion, bhāvanā. Intellect and emotion are two. Intellect is the sun, the light, and the moon is emotion. Now, emotion, generally you translate into motion. When something comes into motion, then there must be something that can control it. Uncontrolled motion, now you can say emotion, is dangerous. But to come into the motion of the emotion is very easy. A very simple example: the young boy or young person, about the age of 25, 20, or 30, made a driving license and got a car which had high speed, and coming on the highway, he said, "Oh, it's very beautiful driving, going quickly." Then it comes to the curves. Highway, you leave the highway, you exit towards countryside. The countryside is more peaceful, there is no traffic, a single road. How beautiful nature is, and now he is driving quicker. It is allowed only 60 miles or 50 miles. He said, "There is nobody. I am strong. My car is good." Driving 110 miles, more and more. That's why it's called addiction. Addiction means we are always, we have to add more and more. The addiction increases; it doesn't decrease. So that the desire for good feeling is always increasing, and he was driving quickly. And now came a suddenly very sharp curve, 130 mile speed, and a sharp curve came, a blind curve. Now he knows everything he knows: where is the brake, where is the steering, everything. But now his emotion cannot control the motion of his car. Now you know what will happen. Therefore, the emotion has to be controlled through the intellect, through the viveka. Viveka is Jupiter. Intellect is the sun. Though the sun is stronger, still Jupiter is governing. Guru. Guru principle. That means your knowledge. Now, the emotion or mind, maṅka devatā, the god of the mind, or you call the principle of the mind, is moon, maṅka devatā, chandra. Now, the chandra, the moon, is in 30 days changing completely twice. From the new moon to the full moon, and from the full moon again to the dark moon, the dark night, the dark moon, and the new moon. These are generally counted as 27, and 27 days change the biorhythm in our body. A big change comes in the body, and the moon is balancing our entire emotion and biorhythms in the body. And it is said, your genetical relation, connection to your ancestors, comes till the 27th generation. Then you are free from there. So the past 15 and the future 15 will become the beginning. So you are now the middle, and what you will do will influence your 15th generation behind, your ancestors. They will be helped. But the 15 who will come, our action, our knowledge, our spirituality, or our spirituality, will also affect our 14th generation. So, fourteen and fourteen days, twenty-eight. And two is for the full moon and dark moon day. That is a process where you step into the new process. Now, whenever the moon is changing, the motion or influence on the water, the ocean, because the moon is water, emotion is water, love is water. And you will see now, and you saw it day before yesterday, there was strong weather here. And you will see now, on the new moon, today's Pūrṇimā, a Māuṣya will come, the dark moon. You will see what kind of weather it will come. On the full moon day, it is mostly the high waves on the ocean, even till the bottom, the motions begin. So, this change of the moon controls the entire biorhythm of this living earth, and we are not a special one. We belong to this nature. We are affected by weather, season, as the trees are affected. And so, full moon day is a complete beginning. And then, from this light of the full moon, and light of the moon, in Bhagavad Gītā, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "Through the moonlight, I enter into the vegetation as a nectar." And through the sunlight, and then through the rain, the humidity, the water, enters life into the entire vegetation and all the life of the earth. The light. So when the good luck has that soul, that individual soul, then comes closure to this earth, then searching the way how to come to this earth or planet. The Upaniṣad declares this. It's not me. The Upaniṣad. Then this Jīvātmā, through the water, comes to this descending on this, and then goes to the vegetations, and then goes to the life, and it is processed. Then it can be animals, it can be humans, it can be fish, it can be birds, it can be... Any creatures, and this will go. The soul will go according to its destination. So, when we practice prāṇāyāms in yoga, and those who know, the yogīs exactly know about these twenty, thirty, seventy-two nāḍīs in the body. Vaitaraṇī. Mahāprabhujī said in the bhajan, "Manvā dhere dhere cal, Gaṅgār chadnā revaī. O mind, walk slow." You have to climb to your destination, that cosmic house. Hajar bahātar nadyā chale. Seventy-two thousand rivers are flowing, which you have to cross. Some rivers are wild water. Some rivers are very peaceful and good. Some rivers are full of crocodiles. Who knows how? Ajaar bahatar, 72,000 rivers, that means the 72,000 nerves in the body. Read again the hidden powers in humans, the book Chakras and Kuṇḍalinī. Ajar bahatar nadya chale, lambi lambi khai, and there are many very deep holes, or what you call clips, between the two rocks. Ajar batara nadya chale lambi lambi khai. Agar se rapti pav tumhara, and the path is very slippery. If you just fall down or slip there, you will fall into a deep hole, which means darkness. Which ones? They can have different lives. Therefore, the science of yoga is a science of body, mind, and consciousness, which means the entire universe. And so, those who know about kuṇḍalinī, about cakras, about nāḍīs, the energy centers in the body, will always begin the prāṇāyāma with the left nostril, iḍā, and this is the piṅgalā. This is the moon, and this is the sun. Moon is ha and sun is tha. So, ha-tha. And when they balance together, come together, then it is joining, uniting. The union we call yoga. So, classical, authentic, the definition of Haṭha Yoga is the union of Iḍā and Piṅgalā to awaken the Suṣumṇā. That is Haṭha Yoga. The second Hatha Yoga, what we have, is a way, a practice, a technique to get union of these two, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, which is Sat Karma. Sat means six, and Karma means to do, six kriyās. And these six kriyās, which will purify the body and will make it easier to unite these two, Nadis, sympathetic and parasympathetic, that's called neti, dhauti, basti, nauli, tratāk, and kapālbhāti. These are the six kriyās. Neti is the cleaning of the nose. There are different kinds of neti: jal neti, sutra neti, ghṛta neti, and so on. Neti dhauti, the cleaning of the alimentary food channel, that's a sūtra dhauti. And vaman dhauti or jala dhauti or kunjal kriya, drinking water and again vomiting out, or with a cloth. All is written in your Yoga and Daily Life book, which is available in many languages. Basti, that is cleaning of the entire intestine. All the time, they used to go into some lake or deep, clean water. That time, everything was clean. There were no bacteria. Nowadays, the whole earth is full of bacteria, not only the earth. I think about 100 meters above the earth, or 200 meters, or maybe 500 meters, is clouds of bacteria. And bacteria are so intelligent, and they arrive before you to the other airport. They travel so that you have some kind of bacteria or flu. You come to the airport, you touch somewhere or sit in the waiting room, and this bacteria is happy and multiplying, and someone catches that. And who caught it? His or her flight is two hours before yours. So bacteria travels with that person, who already landed at that airport two hours earlier. When you come, the bacteria said, "Oh, you are my origin." So that time was not like this, and so they made the naudic kriya, and they sucked the water in through the rectum. And then they went out into the field to eat. In that way, they were cleansing the intense time. Now we have saṅkh prakṣālan kriyā. Śaṅkh is a shell which is like a spiral. You put water inside, it will not go directly. You put the water and move a little different direction, then water will go easily out. So in yoga and daily life, you have the special techniques written in the books. And exercises to purify the stomach, and that is you should do four times a year, end and beginning of the season. Now is actually the best time to do. Now spring is here, summer is still not there, winter just left, so now everything is changing in blood too. Saṅkhya Prakṣālana will help you very much. And you have many good expert teachers here. You should do it now: the churning of the stomach muscles, and that also moves with our intestines. Then comes the tratak, concentration, meditation on the flame. And then, also, you have to know exactly how to do it. And kapālbhāti, the cleaning of all the sinus system. If you have a problem with your sinuses, kapālbhāti is very good. And now, one yogī, one swāmī in India, he made a lot of research work, research work, and he made a research work on the Kapālbhāti prāṇāyāma. If you have a headache, what you call a migraine, migraine, headache, you can get rid of it or overcome it through Kapālbhāti. You do it three times if you have this problem, but you have to do it continuously every day for one year, two years to get rid of that. Kapālbhāti is only exhalation, concentration more. This is kapālbhāti. It comes from the abdominal muscles. So you do it 50 times, then take a deep inhale and relax. Again, do 50 times, and deep inhale and relax. 5 minutes. Slowly, slowly, you increase this to 10 minutes or 15 minutes. You will enjoy. Then bhastrikā, that is a different, but bhastrikā has equal rhythm of the breath. So, this is a Kapālbhāti and Bhastrikā. See the difference. And sometimes, yoga teachers must have a big stomach that can demonstrate it. It's like a pumping, like the pump of the blacksmith's bellows, gallons. Balloons, yeah, so this is, that's called Haṭha Yoga. Now, my problem is, look, sometimes yoga teachers have problems too, our gurus have problems too. When I came first time to the West in 1970, people said, "We want to practice Haṭha Yoga." Then I say, "Come morning 4 o'clock and with empty stomach." They say, "No, no." And they all mean Hatha Yoga asanas and pranayama, physical exercise and pranayama. My dear, for 40 years I am telling, this is not Hatha Yoga. This is a Raja Yoga: Yama, Niyama, Āsana, and Prāṇāyāma. Yama, Niyama, Āsana, Prāṇāyāma, Pratyāhāra, Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna, and Samādhi. Hatha Yoga has only Netī, Dhautī, Bastī, Naulī, Trāṭak, and Kapālabhātī. So, it is a wrong name. You are practicing good, no problem. You are practicing Rāja Yoga. You are practicing Āsanas, Prāṇāyāmas, and relaxation. Dharana, concentration; dhyana, meditation. Very rarely do you practice the hatha yoga. And when you don't practice that real one, of course your kuṇḍalinī is slipping, legy. And when you, in the case of case, you touch your kuṇḍalinī somehow by some techniques, then kuṇḍalinī is like a slipping snake. But the Guru Gītā said, the snake of ignorance bites you, no? So that kuṇḍalinī says, "Pshh, the cobra, don't disturb me, I sleep," and goes again down. So, classical techniques and practicing, that will give you the perfection. So this is a wrong name, wrong name, wrong name. When you go to practice āsana, prāṇāyāma, it is not Haṭha Yoga. But what to do? It's in your subconsciousness. And when you tell it is a rāja yoga, they say, "No, no... I want to practice haṭha yoga." So now you have to correct, and every yoga teacher should explain to students because they don't know. Therefore, the teacher's duty is to explain this. The teachers, when new people come to the class, explain anatomy and the effect of the exercises on the muscles, ligaments, joints, and your respiratory and circulatory systems, and so on. But don't tell them every day. You give an asana, bhujaṅgāsana, good for your back, good for your stomach muscles. Now you remain there stretching, that's good for that circulation. Every day, don't tell them. People think, "Who comes in your classes? I am not stupid, that every time you are telling me this." Do you understand me? The instruction of the teacher of yoga in daily life, which people like very much, relaxes the whole body. Now please give them at least one minute of time to feel the body and try to relax. You see, relax the whole body, relax your breath. Withdraw yourself, don't concentrate. Just relax. Move your leg up. That's good for your back muscles and your thigh muscles. Slowly up, and now down. Just relax. There are some teachers I was surprised by. And that's why people don't like it, they go away. You have to give time to feel your own body and breath. Once I went to the doctor, it was in Slovakia, a very famous rehabilitation center. Name, I can tell, no problem. It's called Bardiov in Slovakia, and it's especially very good for cardio problems. And so the doctor was listening to my lungs, and he said, "Please breathe in deep, in and out." So I breathed deep. And the doctor means to breathe just like this. He said, "Deep breath." So I begin to breathe deep like this, slowly. Doctor said, "A little quicker." And after he said, "Forty years of my practice," the doctor said, "I have never listened to such good lungs and such good breathing, your diaphragm." I said, "Yes, doctor, you must teach all the patients to practice yoga." He said, "Yes, I am doing, but no one told me like this." So you have to learn: first breathe down from the abdominal muscles to support that your diaphragm relaxes deep, and from there suck the air in, then the stomach, then the chest. He said, "Wow." He said, "I don't know anything, but I feel such energy." And then he made some kind of ECG or some different kind of test. And again, you see the picture from the heartbeat and this, how do you call it, resonance, no? And then, always, some kind of light is coming. And then again, he said, "Relax and take a deep breath." Again, I relaxed. I saw many times colors from the heart and also from the kidneys. But I'm surprised, such a beautiful light. I said, "Yes, because you are sitting near me, and so light must be for you beautiful." So yoga is not a competition and challenges; it is to relax. And the teacher is there to support the person, to relax more. Better to do only one or two postures, but slowly and perfectly. That will give you more benefit for your body, your mind, and your consciousness. Relax. Relax. So, the teacher will say, of course I'm not teaching now on the webcasting, but you should say, "Relax the whole body." Withdraw thyself from the external world. Now you have to think over which external world, my office or my house or my parking, searching, everything, my problems, this. Now I withdraw slowly. Relax. Relax your stomach muscles. First, stomach muscles. When the stomach muscles are relaxed, the whole body is relaxed. Many people have tension here in the stomach. So, concentrate to relax the stomach muscles. And the stomach muscles you cannot relax unless you relax the breath. Then relax both hands, elbows. So if you give five minutes or ten minutes of beginning relaxation to your students, they will enjoy your class, and they will be happy. This is, therefore, yoga in daily life. It is there for physical, mental, social, and spiritual health, and as an anti-stress remedy to relax, bringing harmony of body, mind, and soul. Yoga is yoga. Yoga in daily life is also yoga. But it's more concentrated on the original, authentic, ancient system. And that's why yoga in the daily life, the system, the system. So all teachers of yoga, in their life, are prepared in such a way. Now, so Haṭha yoga, so her and her, this is Sūrya and Candra, they harmonize, then the Suṣumnā awakes, and that's why when you make Prāṇāyāma, first you inhale through the left nostril because that's the mind that is connecting our mind, and when the mind is restless, then you cannot relax, you cannot balance, and then you come to the Sūrya, the light. Then you are through the Iḍā Nāḍī. Citta Vṛtti will be calmed down. And then through the sūryanāḍī, your intellect will be purified and colored into positiveness, or into mercy, and will touch the mercy of your heart. Then the heart and intellect, both coordinating, become the divine life of the practice. So, full moon, Pūrṇimā, is very important for everyone, and this day especially, fasting is recommended because the energy which comes from the moon is so strong, and if you fast, then all the rest of the restless energy will be purified, and you will be able to take more of this energy. And that develops the spiritual consciousness. It's so strong, sometimes some people cannot sleep. Some go midnight walking. I knew someone who, on the full moon night at midnight, was walking on the roof of his house and had two pistols. Really? Yes. So on the full moon day, his wife used to go to sleep with her parents, and he said, "My dear, I can't do. I have an inside feeling forcing." You see, the many wildlife is on full moon day also restless. What you call the lonely wolf, howling and looking at the moon. The moonlight is very strong. It balances our body, our mind, and our consciousness. So our body is earth tattva, and therefore it's balancing our earth too, and all the seasons. So about the moon, so much is written in the books, in the Vedas, and you can't imagine. More than the sun. The sun is more stable, but the moon is restless, restless. And therefore, this kind of prānāyāma and practice can help us. And by next webcasting, I will continue. So today is Pūrṇimā. And exactly in one month, it will be on the 23rd of July, which is a Guru Pūrṇimā, the real Guru Pūrṇimā, and all of you are welcome, invited to India. I will be there. If not, then everywhere, wherever we have our ashrams and centers. Don't forget on this day to come and practice and have Bandara listen to Guru Gītā and prayers. I pray to our holiness and all the holy saints and all mighties for your good health, for your spiritual development, harmony, and peace. All those who are devotees, aspirants, and seekers bless you. Till next webcasting. Om Śānti. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Deveśvar Mahādeva Kī Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Nāhaṁ Karatā Prabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatāhi Kevalam. Om, śānti, śānti, śānti.