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Yoga means balance. Where there is balance, there is harmony. Where there is harmony, there is unity. Therefore, yoga literally means the union—the union of the individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. Baccha Baccha Rām Hai, Baccha Baccha Rām. Yeh śarīra mandira sāpavana hara mānav upakārī hai. Jahā siṅgha bana gahe khilone, gāya jahā mātā pyārī hai. Jahā savera śaṅkha bajātā, loharī gātī Śyām hai. Harabālā Devī pratimā. Bachcha Bachcha Rām Hai, Bachcha Bachcha Rām. Jiske Sainik Samar Bhūmi Me Gāyā Karte Gītā Hai, Jahā Khet Me Halke Nīche Khelā Karti Sītā Hai. Jīvan Kā Ādarś Jahā Par, Parameśvar Kā Dhām Hai. Har Bālā Devī Kī Pratimā, Bachcha Bachcha Rām hai, Bachcha Bachcha Rām, Jahā karma se bhaṅgyā badalte, śrama niṣṭhā kalyāṇī hai, tyāga aura tapa kī gāthā hai, gati kavi kī vāṇī hai, jñāna jahā kā Gaṅgā jalsa, nirmala hai abhirāma hai. Har Bala Devī Kī Pratīmā Bacchā Bacchā Rām Hai, Bacchā Bacchā Rām Chandan Hai, Is Deś Kī Māṭī Tapo Bhūmi Har Grām Hai, Har Bala Devī Kī Pratīmā Bacchā Bacchā Rām. It is a very great and divine constellation this evening. It is a divine blessing of the Almighty that we can be together to know something about the hidden treasure within our body and in our consciousness. The subject is yoga, and in yoga, there is Kuṇḍalinī and chakras. This time, the subject is the hidden power in humans. Let us see which kind of power, talents, or abilities are hidden, about which we do not know still, or we know but we do not know how to master them to relax and enjoy. I wish you a divine consciousness to receive the wisdom which is spoken through me by the Supreme. We are not the doer. He is the doer, Mahāprabhujī. Mahāprabhujī, the Lord is only the doer. We are only the instrument. When His divine grace, divine will, appreciates us, then He makes a man as a channel for His divine love or for His divine wisdom. On the day when we will think that I speak, I give the lecture, then everything will be confused and the person will fail. So, at the beginning of every lecture or speech, we have to dive within and see on the inner altar that your personal God—it does not matter whom you believe in, in which form, He has no form and He has a form—has blessed you with that divine knowledge, which you can distribute as a prasāda, we call it, as a blessing of the divine. Yesterday we spoke about the universe, the universal consciousness, the divine will, the creation, how the elements were created, the different planets, thousands of sun systems, and this planet, where the Creator has created 8.4 million different creatures. Among them, one is the human, and the human is only special because of the human intellect. The human intellect is the most powerful tool which this creature, as a human, has got. Then we spoke about the human body, literally about nerve systems and how the chakras are formed, and we will now continue further, coming to the chakra Mūlādhāra. Literally, I will repeat: it is an endless universe, empty, and we do not know where the end is and where the beginning is. That is called Ānanda. Ānanda Brahmāṇḍa, endless universe, and Sahasra Sūrya, thousands of sun systems. In that Ānanda Brahmāṇḍa, there is also what is called the cosmic consciousness. The universe is like a mother’s body, and consciousness is like the embryo or the child which is residing in the body of the mother. Between the space and the consciousness, the perfect balance, maintaining perfect balance—that balance or that power is called yoga. Yoga means balance, and where there is a balance, there is a harmony, and where there is a harmony, there is a unity, and therefore yoga means literally the union: the union of the individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. In that endless universe, where the cosmic consciousness is spread throughout, within that is another tendency that is called "Eko’haṁ Bahusyāmi": I am one, and I will multiply myself. That is called divine will. And with that, the first movement which began in the universe was the sound that is called Oṁ, which I was singing in the beginning. And that Oṁ, the resonance which awoke in the cosmic body—and the cosmic body is so far, as far as big the universe is, we do not know how far. Now, yoga is so old, as old as the universe. Physical exercises, breath techniques, relaxation, and meditation are not yoga, but these are the exercises in order to create the balance between body, mind, emotion, intellect, and our memory. That creates the balance, because yoga is a balancing principle. When the balance is achieved, then harmony appears or is created in the body, so that you feel happy under your skin. You feel happy with your body. Your body is very delighted and joyful. Your body is healthy. The first wealth is good health. Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. Therefore, exercises, breath technique, and meditation are for achieving good health: physical, mental, social, and spiritual health. From that cosmic sound or resonance, the elements were created. First, the fire element; then, the air element; then, the water; and the fourth one is the earth element. The space was, is, and will be. So these are the five elements, and out of these five elements, on this planet, the Creator has created 8.4 million different creatures. These different creatures are divided into three categories: Jalcha, Thalcha, Nabcha. The creatures which live in the water, the creatures which live on the earth, and the creatures which live in the space. Together they are 8.4 million, and out of them, one is the human. And now we come to this human body. So the human body is because of the human intellect. The human intellect can be educated, trained endlessly. Also, the human intellect can be manipulated in different directions. Education for humans is very important, but free education. If there is one-sidedness, one becomes what we call fanatic. If one is educated in a different profession, then due to or according to the education, one is a doctor, one is a driver, one is an engineer, one is a builder, one is a swimmer, one is a sportsman, and so on and so on. That is education, how the intellect is educated. And according to the education, the human consciousness, the human mind, the human emotion adopts the way of life. This has been spoken yesterday, so you have not missed it. Then we came to the body, that in this body there are numerous energy centers or cakras. So we came to the one subject, and that is called the nervous system. Now you have this picture here, and in the human body, yogīs say there are 72,000 different nerves. Now, with the nerves, it is a little bit of a problem to translate. We call it Nāḍī, and in English you say nerves. But the Nāḍī is not the nerves. Nāḍī is different. Because there is no translation of the Nāḍī in the English language, or in some other languages, therefore, simply we call it the nerves. But these nāḍīs are the energy channels which are transferred or transmitted throughout the whole body. And these are 72,000 channels through which our body is receiving cosmic energy constantly. The cosmic mother is nourishing her child, what we call the light of life. That light of life is that cosmic energy which is constantly moving through the body. And the day when the soul will depart from the body, all channeling systems will stop. Then what will happen? The elements will unite into the element. Water in the water, fire in the fire, air in the air, and earth in the earth. All these five elements will merge into their origin. And so, when this body, the physical body, what we call it, dies, it does not die. Because elements, again, unite with the other elements. And it becomes what we call the cycling, recycling process. Recycling. Again, this body will be born in different ways. The body which you put into the earth, buried, after some time will become good fertilizer. And then you plant there some fruits or tomatoes. And it will be very nice, big tomatoes. And then some creatures you will eat. That will again transfer into the different forms. So this is the recycling system, the recycling of the elements. Similarly, there is a cosmic recycling system, and that is called the reincarnation system. Do you believe in the recycling process? No. Yes. If you believe in the recycling process, then where is the problem in believing in reincarnation? That is it. So, the nāḍīs, 72,000 nāḍīs in our body, out of 72,000 nāḍīs, some of them are designed in this picture. It is written in Sanskrit, and I think it is not readable. You can read if you can. You are welcome. From the 72,000 nerves, some of them, which are very important nāḍīs in our body, are designed in this picture. Now, from these three, very important, they are governing our entire being, our physical being, mental, emotional, and intellectual. Everything is guided by these three nowadays: the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and central nervous systems. Both begin from here, or three, all begin from here, the small of the brain, which is reflection, is at the center of the eyebrows. This nāḍī represents the emotion, controls the emotion, and it is the moon. The Moon means the emotion. The Moon never rises equally. Every day is different. Similarly, our mind is different every day. Our thoughts are different every day. The sun is our activities, our creativities. And the central nerve is called the consciousness. In yoga language, Sanskrit, we call them Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā. Iḍā begins from the left side, and Piṅgalā begins from the right side, and that is the central nerve. Now these nerves are traveling. Wherever the main nerves have their stations, junctions, there are chakras, like the wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck, ankle joints, knees, and hip joints, and so on. Throughout the whole body, there are many, many chakras, many, many chakras in the body. Now we come to the other part. Please, can I have the body with the chakras? Very good. So we spoke yesterday about all this. This Nāḍī begins from here, and the left immediately comes to the right, and the right one travels and comes to the left. And where the Nāḍīs are crossing each other, that becomes a junction. And this junction is a very powerful station, and there is a chakra, there is a center, the energy center. Out of many, many centers, these eight centers are most important: Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, Ājñā, Bindu, and Sahasrāra. These are the eight chakras in our body. Now, in some languages, they call Kuṇḍalinī a serpent power, the snake. And when it awakens the energy, some feel like a snake is going through the body. Now, I do not want to awaken such energy that I sit here in meditation and suddenly some cobras are moving. So, it is not like that. It is only symbolic. Symbolical, because the attitude of the nerves is moving like a serpentine. And that is why it is called Kuṇḍalinī, as a snake power which is awakening. When the Kuṇḍalinī awakes, it means when the super-consciousness is achieved, then all these three nāḍīs become one and coordinate the energy through the central nerve that is called the Suṣumṇā, the white one, the consciousness. Unites from the here, from the navel center, where we will come after, and this is going up, and here is this energy, they call Śakti, and here is the consciousness, they call the Śiva. Shiva, the word Shiva, Shiva means consciousness, Shiva means liberation. Shiva means bliss, Shiva means beauty, and Shiva means the truth. Satyam, Śivam, Sundaram. Satyam, the ultimate truth. Śivam, that is Śiva, the bliss or liberation. And Sundaram, the beauty. So Śiva means consciousness. Śiva means liberation. Śiva means bliss. Śiva means the truth. Śiva means the beauty. And so this is the pure consciousness here, which we have to achieve, and the Shakti, this is Prakṛti, the energy. Our consciousness at the present is residing more or less here, though the seat of the consciousness could be here. Here, this is the seat of the intellect. But most of the time, our energy is dormant here, and we are pendling up and down, up and down. These are the lower chakras. In our body, chakras have also different levels. From the toes till the heels, this is what we call the earth chakra. If you want to see, you come to this side. Okay? So you do not have to turn. Come here. Okay. Good. Very good. Otherwise, always your neck will be from the ankle joints till the knee is the vegetation chakras, and from the knees till the hip joints belongs to the animal kingdom, and from the hip joint, where the end of the spinal column is, where our Mūlādhāra Cakra is, from here. Till here, the chakras which belong to human consciousness still have the touch of the animal qualities. When these lower chakras become active, then the human behaves like an animal, and many times, many habits of the human are like that. Animals, no, they do not use logic. Always, humans should use what God has given between the two ears. But if we use only the brain, then it becomes a negative intellect, a dry intellect. A dry intellect is like a beautiful apple, but it is made of plastic. Therefore, we shall coordinate this chakra and the heart chakra together; then, life becomes perfect. But what we see in most people is that this chakra and this lower chakra are coordinating. And therefore, life becomes very critical, very difficult. There are many qualities, what you call jealous. Jealous? Oh, my God! Do you know what jealousy is? No, no. The person who is jealous is, in modern psychology, said to be an undeveloped personality, still not self-conscious, depending on something. And when someone takes it away, you are angry, and if you cannot fight against it, then inside... You are burning, you are jealous. So jealousy is a fire which will burn you. The emotion which began from this side, left nostril, we spoke that time, moon principle. With this nāḍī comes here, emotion has many different qualities. Anger is emotion: hate is emotion, fear is emotion, restlessness is emotion, jealousy is emotion, greediness is emotion. There are many qualities of the emotion. How the emotion is filtered, by which filter, and then according to that we become angry or something. Emotion, emotion means motion. We are in a certain motion that we cannot master our life. Emotion should be controlled, and emotion attacks through the senses, karmendriyas or jñānendriyas, which yesterday was spoken. Yesterday I explained what is a mind. I will not repeat completely, but the mind is a coordinator between the subconscious and the conscious. Consciousness is connected to intellect, and intellect is connected to all senses, the five senses of knowledge and the five senses of action. Whatever is achieved from the external world through the jñāna-indriya, the senses of knowledge, is taken by the mind to the subconscious, and the subconscious is a storeroom of all our impressions. And then from the subconscious, the impressions in the subconscious, they work out and become desires. And those desires from the subconscious are brought up to the conscious mind. That is the function of the mind, up and down, an ascending and descending process between subconscious and conscious. That is the mind. The mind cannot be controlled. If you control the mind, then psychic problems will appear. You cannot control the river, you cannot block it, you can guide the river. Similarly, we can guide our mind, but we should not try to stop the mind, thinking, "I will not think, I will not think," and when... You think that you will not think, then you think, but you should not think, and that is not the thing which we should achieve. Therefore, the mind has to be guided in a particular direction we need, and then you will be successful.