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The awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī means happiness, universal love, and wisdom. It is a state where every human being is a helper, where lions have become toys and cows are loving mothers. It is a realm where the samba player plays in the morning and the lullaby singer sings in the evening. Every child is a statue of the Goddess. Baccha baccha Rām hai. Baccha Baccha Ram, iske sainik samar bhoomi gaaya karte Gita hai, jahan khet mehal ke niche khela karti Sita hai. Jeevan ka adarsh jahan par Parameshwar ka dham hai, har bala devi ki pratima, bachcha bachcha Ram hai, bachcha bachcha Ram. Jahān karm se bhāj badalte, śram niṣṭhā kalyāṇī hai, tyāg aur tap kī gāthā, gati kavī kī vāṇī hai, gyān jahān kā Gaṅgā jalsā, nirmal hai, abhirām hai. Har Bala Devī Kī Pratima Bachcha Bachcha Rām Bachcha Bachcha Rām Chandan Hai Is Desh Kī Mati Tapo Bhumi Har Grām Hai Har Bala Devī Kī Pratima Bachcha Bachcha Rām Bachcha Bachcha Rām. Our being in this universe spans many, many lives—thousands or perhaps millions of years. We are on a journey through the universe, involved in our lives with individual consciousness. We are continually developing. The individual is a part of the cosmic Self. The practice of yoga means reunion. Yoga means union, and practicing yoga means reunion. We are part of the cosmic Self. Between that cosmic Self and us lies only the quality, which every human possesses differently. Chakras, which rotate constantly, are how energy from the cosmos is received and circulated in the body. This energy is transmitted further to the different functions of the body. Our body does not have only a physical function; it has more. We have five different bodies, called kośas. Kośa means the quarters or the layers: annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, and ānandamaya kośa. Annamaya kośa is the body of nourishment for this physical body. Prāṇamaya kośa is the energy body, which we saw in this video. Manomaya kośa is the mental body; the mind has different functions. Yesterday, the mind was explained: what exactly is the mind? The vijñānamaya kośa is the intellectual body, our intellect. The ānandamaya kośa is the causal body, the body of our desires. Now, this ānandamaya kośa has two levels. One is happiness, ānanda, or joy, which we normally try to fulfill in this life, in the material world. But the joy of that joy is little compared to the sorrows of that joy. Where there is joy, there is limitation; it is limited. It doesn’t matter which kind of joy. But there is a second level called bliss, everlasting happiness. Is there really everlasting happiness? Yes, there is. That everlasting happiness, the bliss, divine bliss, represents the divine Self within us, the ātmā, the Self. The soul is not the ātmā. The soul is only the collection of our karmas, destinies, and our qualities. When we enter into cosmic consciousness, or we get self-realization, at that time the soul dissolves. Nothing remains that takes the quality of the cosmic one. If the physical body dies, it does not mean that your soul is now liberated. It can be, or it must not be. That depends always on our way of living and our practice. I give a nice example to understand this more. You see here this glass, very clean, with very clean water inside, transparent. Nothing is inside, only water. The person who brought me the water put 10 grams of salt inside, solid. But meanwhile, the salt is dissolved, and we don’t see that. We think the salt has become one with the water. Now, I drink. Yes, inside is salt, and the salt didn’t become one with the water. It means the salt changed its form but didn’t change its quality; saltiness is still there. Therefore, out of these five jñānendriyas, which were spoken of yesterday—of those five jñānendriyas, one is our tasting, our tongue, gums, which tells us there is salt inside. Similarly, when this physical body dies, and our other bodies and soul, and whatever you may think, all are gone, we think all problems are finished. No, problems are not finished. The karma in the form of destiny, the problems or happiness, goes with us like the shadow of the body. So qualities, they are in the astral world; these qualities go with us, and those qualities decide, or according to qualities, it is decided in which direction our destiny will lead our soul, in which form it will be born, and what will happen in the life. The chakra is that which is purifying our body, mind, and consciousness. The chakra has to be purified through the practice of mantra prayers or some yogic kriyās; then the Kuṇḍalinī will awake, the energy will awake. But at the beginning of awakening, you never know how it will awake, what will it awake. If you have mantras, if you have spiritual guidance, then be sure that your awakening will be pleasant and stable. If you have no spiritual guidance, if you have no personal mantras which you have to practice all the time, then it will be imbalance. And that imbalanced energy, which you saw in the beginning, can cause unpleasant feelings. There are thousands of chakras, and every chakra has its own principles, its own qualities. Kuṇḍalinī. We come to the word Kuṇḍalinī. It’s a Sanskrit word. You know, Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages. All the spiritual knowledge, science, is written in the Sanskrit language. And spiritual science, the civilization, is coming from Lord Śiva. Kund means a deep place, water, deep water, pond, or you can say a swimming pool is also kund, or a very big tank. Now, in this pond, whatever dust goes in, anything that falls in, it remains for some time as separate particles. After a while, it dissolves, and it becomes only the dust inside. It loses its form. Similarly, the deep tank or the pond means our level of unconsciousness. From many, many lives, all that we experienced, what happened with us, and what we did or how we acted, all of that is lying there in the kuṇḍa, in the deep place of the unconscious. Now, Kuṇḍalinī—because the Śakti, the energy, is feminine, not masculine, and therefore "kund" becomes "Kuṇḍalinī." That’s just in the language. Another kund means kundal. The kundal means the earrings, or a big ring; also, like a chakra is a kundal. Sometimes you see, when the moon is full moon or visible moon, you see around the moon a beautiful circle. That’s called a kuṇḍal. And there are three kinds of circles, always different. That’s an indication from nature itself about 48 hours before rain. Storm or rain and storm together—this you can see. There’s a beautiful kuṇḍal, beautiful light around the moon, little clouds, gentle. And sometimes you see a circle, but it’s open. Kuṇḍal again. Kuṇḍal means the circle. Everything is round. Energy is... round drops, water is also round, and that is called Hiraṇya Garbha, the golden embryo or the golden womb. Hiraṇya Garbha is the golden egg, and you have now also some people thinking of Easter time and the Easter egg. That egg is the universe, and the consciousness in which it is developing. So Śakti is circulating, moving. What is moving is developing. And what is moving, developing? There’s life. So similarly, the Kuṇḍalinī—now the snake. In some book you read definitely about Kuṇḍalinī yoga, you read definitely about cakras. Some call it serpent power, some call it snake power, and some call it... Kuṇḍalinī awakening. Why snake and why not something different? Snake is not new for you in this country; there are also plenty of snakes. A snake means poison, and poison means death. If you know how to utilize it, then poison can save your life, or poison can take your life. A snake means call, and call means death, and the call means... past time, bhūtakāla, vartamāna and bhaviṣya: past, present, and future. Kāla means death, and there are two principles or powers in the universe. One is called the king of death and the king of dharma, Yamarāja and Dharmarāja. These are two which we will come to later on. So Yama is the king of death. When one dies who has bad karmas—you all know what karma is. Who doesn’t know about karma, please? You see, karma is something everybody knows—then Yama comes to take them away. And those who have good karma, who purify their consciousness, Dharma Rāja comes, or his messengers come to take us. How to die, how to leave the body, through which chakra is a science here, and we will come after to the prāṇa. Everything is prāṇa, energy. So a snake means death, a snake means poison, kāla. Kāla means black, ignorance, and kāla means the past time. Now it means that in our unconscious level, we don’t know what is hidden from the past. We are pendling every day through the three levels of consciousness: unconscious, subconscious, and conscious. So from the past, which kind of karma, which kind of destiny is dormant there? What will it bring when that will come up or awake? Another meaning of the serpent power: this is the function, or how the nāḍīs are moving. Can I have the chakra picture of the body? Thank you. Yesterday, we spoke in detail about the nāḍīs, which was one picture before. Can I have one picture first? Nāḍī picture, please. Thank you. Just for those who were not here yesterday, maybe to repeat: in the human body, there are 72,000 nāḍīs, nerves. Out of 72,000 nerves, there are three very important ones connected with the mind, intellect, and consciousness: the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and central nerves. These nāḍīs begin from the small of the brain or eyebrow center, where we call the third eye. Can we go further? Next picture, please. Thank you. And so the nāḍī which is on the left begins from here, immediately goes to the right side and joins here on this chakra. So the left nostril, left nāḍī, it moves here and the right one comes to the right, and the right one moves here to the left. Likewise, the path of the nāḍīs is like a serpentine, like how the snake is moving. And that’s why it’s called snake power, awakening of the serpent power. Because when the nāḍīs, when the chakra awakes, the energy awakes, and the energy must first find its way through these three nāḍīs. Otherwise, awakening is throughout the whole body all the time. Constantly, there’s awakening something, but when we purify our consciousness and spiritual awakening takes place, then from here the vibration takes place. The resonance and that vibration, then for a while it goes like this, all three nāḍīs. Finally, the third nāḍī, the central nāḍī, which is very strong, again will balance them, and the energy will flow freely. These chakras are located at the spinal column. But it’s not like that, that you will feel something, a stake is going up. You will not feel something like ants are crawling up or walking up through your back. No, that’s not like this. If you feel there is something hot here and something is moving up and down, then it is high time to consult with a psychiatrist. Or if you feel that during meditation you are feeling some ants or something is itching, then it is high time to change the cloth. The awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī means something different. The first reaction which will take place is that it will awake happiness; second, universal love; and third, wisdom. Happiness, universal love, and wisdom—these three are connected by these three nāḍīs, and it begins from this. Every step, every milestone, the qualities will become more and more pure. So don’t be afraid if you have read something about the awakening of Kuṇḍalinī and that something unpleasant can happen. It will not. If you do some wrong exercises, then, of course, yoga is not responsible for that.