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I am very happy to be here in Novo Mesto, in this beautiful sports hall where everyone has their space. Many of you were at the evening lecture, and our subject now is Kuṇḍalinī and Cakra, especially the Maṇipūra Chakra. It is very important to practice, not only to listen. The name Maṇipūra itself expresses everything. Maṇi means jewel. Pura is the city or the place. It is the city of jewels. Jewels mean something precious, and what is precious is richness. So, what is the biggest richness? What makes you very rich? Not money, but manipura. It means good health. The happiest and richest person is the one who has good health. The first happiness, the first comfort, the first good thing in life is a healthy body. But we cannot realize a healthy body if we do not practice. I have said many times: tons of theory are nothing compared to a gram of practice. All of you who are here mostly came for good health—mental health, physical health, social health, spiritual health. To be happy, to be relaxed, to have good sleep, not to be nervous, and so on. You read about yoga, or someone told you, "Why don’t you practice yoga?" And you said, "Yes, I heard, but I don’t know what yoga is." Then you went to the bookshop and got a yoga book, Yoga and Daily Life. Yoga in daily life, harmony for body, mind, and soul. Yes, that’s what I want. And you came to yoga. While reading, you got inspiration. It gave you very good motivation, but still didn’t give you harmony for body, mind, and soul. For this, you came to yoga practices. You liked it and felt much better. But after some time, you neglected your exercises, and again you lost the harmony of body, mind, and soul. Many, many people sitting here do not practice every day. You can see on their faces who is not practicing. When you come out of your discipline, then many other qualities begin to grow in you. When you don’t practice, many negative qualities come back. It puts you out of harmony, and a kind of conflict is created in you, which is against or opposite to harmony: jealousy, greed, anger, laziness, and anxiety. This element, which is developing in your body, mind, and consciousness, creates this imbalance. You can see this balance on the face. Two persons sit near each other, and I can see one who practices every day and one who does not. That is a completely different aura. The one who practices has compassion in the heart: understanding, forgiveness, kindness, love, and the ability to understand others' feelings. If you do not practice every day, then you do not have these feelings. So, discipline is your inner master. That best master will lead you twenty-four hours. Discipline is the key to success. Discipline is a one-way street. Discipline is a rising horizon. When you lose this discipline, the sun is setting. Everyone prays to the rising sun. No one prays to the setting sun, because very soon darkness will be there. When the sun is rising, the morning dawn begins; very soon, the beautiful bright day will be there. This is that: if you practice, you will have the bright light of wisdom, harmony, and happiness in body, mind, and soul. Many yoga teachers sitting here, or many other people, are allergic to each other, and I am always wondering, surprised. Why is it like this? This means they do not follow Guru Vākya. They do not understand; they do not practice. When negative elements begin to develop in your consciousness, then the positive is disappearing and you lose the wisdom. You should know that, especially, the person whom you do not like needs more love, sympathy, understanding, and respect from your side. The person whom you like, you need no effort to do. In the Ten Commandments, it is said: love your neighbor. People understand: like your parents, your wife, your children. But "neighbor" means all. Next to me, these flowers, because this flower also needs love. This flower is so happy because it was so well taken care of, wrapped in nice paper, and with the love that brought power—the love in it—and handed it over. The receiver who receives is appreciating and is happy. If you give me flowers and I take them and throw them like this, my God, I break your heart. There is like an explosion of a volcano. So, "love your neighbor" means everything. Every creature, every plant, every stone needs love. When this love awakens in you, then you are a holy saint. Whether you are a holy saint or not, you should know. I do not need to declare it. Do you love flowers, stones, birds, animals, humans? You have no enemy. There is no one on this planet whom you do not like. Even if someone slaps you on the cheek, you turn the other side. Please, here also, but before getting here only, when you do like this, and God, you become like... But when someone raises their hand for... The first time, you become like a rock. "Come here, if you dare." Why did you show the second cheek? Because this cheek will be swollen, and this will not. So the purpose of the face will not be equal. Therefore, if you practice or not, you know. If you are really doing it or not, this you should know. Never say that you do not have time. We always find time for what we like to do. An alcoholic person, no matter how busy he or she is, will find time to drink. So, practice makes perfect. Maṇipūra Chakra is that center from where you can win immense treasures. It is a mine of jewels, diamonds. That means good health: purifying the consciousness, purifying the karma, balancing your body, mind, and intellect. You know many things about Maṇipūra Cakra; you read your book, Hidden Powers in Humans. You have it in your language, and you should read again and again and then follow the teachings. Also, you can read a life book which you have in your language. Read and practice accordingly. As simple as that is much better; a difficult one is always connected with dangers. In yoga, there should not be any competition or challenges. Because when you give a challenge to someone or a competition, it means you would like to be the best one and push others down. That is not yoga. So, Maṇipūra is the center of the Dvārapāla, the city of Dvārapāla. So-called followers of the Buddha have one common mantra. So maṇi is the jewel. Padam is the feet of the master, the holy feet. It is called lotus feet. Oṃ Maṇi Padme Hūṃ. And Hūṃ means adore, bow down. So, this jewel and the lotus feet of the master are the jewels of the wisdom, the jewels of the blessing: spirituality. After your good health, the second richness is your kindness. If you are not content, you are the beggar. You are the slave of your senses. Which kind of sense does not matter: the slave of eating, slave of drinking, slave of looking. Some people put on the television and look and look... and sleeping, and looking, and it’s four o’clock, then quickly sleeping and getting up at seven o’clock, is very tired. So there are different habits, and Gurujī said habit is the second nature of that person. Which habit you develop will become your nature. Then, nature is very difficult to change because that takes over your willpower. Therefore, if you are a slave of your habits, your senses, or dependent on someone, that is also slavery. It does not matter if you are depending materially, emotionally, socially, or politically. It is said: the slave is not happy even in dream, because you are depending; you are not free. We are not free from the karmas; we are not free from rebirth and death. That is why we should do some spiritual practices to get self-realization and not be dependent. We are depending on one thing: that is our nourishment, eating and drinking. Without this, we cannot survive. People think that disciples are dependent on the Master. That is a completely wrong conception. The Master is trying day and night to make you free, even leading you to liberation. If you are coming to the Master that you are depending, and you must, then it is not good. There are two kinds of love. One kind of love comes from itself; you need not tell. The second is that you tell someone, "Can you love me?" So the love between disciple and master is not that love for which you have to beg. It is that love which is there already. The child does not need to tell the mother or father, "Do you love me?" When the mother is feeding her child, breastfeeding, and if this small baby asks the mother, "Can I drink? Do you love me, Mommy?" My God, the heart of the mother will break. "Can you love me? Do you want to feed me?" That would break the mother’s heart. Love between mother and child is indescribable. Love between teacher and student is indescribable. Every child has equal access to the mother, the parents. Similarly, every disciple has equal access to the master. Does the master make differences? Then it is not real love. In that case, it is not true love. Therefore, the second happiness is freedom. Freedom is there when you are content. You are not a slave of your senses, your mind, or anyone. Many times, people come for consultation. Sorry, ladies, but many ladies come and tell me, "I hate my husband." Boys, do not worry, none of your wives told me this, or "I hate my boyfriend." So I say, "Then why don’t you go away?" "Because I depend on his money." "But you are also working." "Yes, I don’t earn so much." "How much do you need?" "I need 2,000 euros only for my makeup. And 1,000 euros. I’m going to beauty salons. And I like to go to restaurants, and to the opera, and I like to go on holidays, and I like to drive my big car with my boyfriend." Did you marry his money, or did you marry him? Then it is not love, and that man will not be happy one day with you, and you will not be happy. That kind of love is not a fair love. Better to quit all your makeup than to be a slave to your makeup. Make up your mind to practice every day so that you will not need any kind of makeup materials. If you need red cheeks, then be angry with your boyfriend, and the next day you will have nice red cheeks. You see, I do not have red cheeks, but I think I look good. I have no makeup material on my skin. Śīrṣāsana, headstanding. Sarvāṅgāsana, Śvēcā, Śaśāṅkāsana, all these postures which are bending forward with better circulation towards the face will make your skin very beautiful. And all of you will have a beautiful beard like me. Practice Saṅkha Prakṣālana. That will support your Maṇipūra Chakra to function freely. Agni Sāra Kriyā, Nauli Kriyā, Saṅkha Prakṣālana. This will improve your skin. Your skin will be very, very soft and very nice, what you call baby skin. Or use the neem powder or neem soap. So, the second happiness is not to be dependent. The third happiness is devotion, the love for the Supreme. Anyone can disappoint us sooner or later. We will be disappointed if not, then by death. A partner left you, the partner died. But God will never disappoint us. Everlasting love is that love, which we call God’s love. Those who have this love, bhakti, devotion, are the happiest persons. But without fanaticism; fanatical love is not healthy. It is love without conditions: love God without conditions. There is only one God to whom all prayer is directed. It does not matter which religion you believe; there is one truth and only one love. So, Maṇipūra Chakra will awaken this consciousness within you. It is called the awakening of the spiritual consciousness. When the Kuṇḍalinī is awakening, the Śakti, the consciousness, is rising up and goes through the fire center, through the fire. Fire, its principle is to purify everything. Fire does not make any differences. If fire were to make differences, then fire would lose its principle, its essence. If you put newspapers and money in your bed, the fire won’t say, "Hey, pay attention, this is money." It won’t say that. Or a dead body: anything that comes into the fire is burned into ashes. So all karma is burned into ashes. You come out like a crystal clear, conscious being. That enters into the heart, and then your heart is so happy, so divine. There is only devotion, only God’s love. The fourth happiness, which awakens through our Maṇipūra Chakra, is that wisdom, the knowledge. Yes, I know what God is, I know what Gurudev is, I know what Guruvākya is. That love you cannot compare with anything. The sun, you cannot compare with anything. You cannot replace the sun with anything. Take a candle flame or a matchstick, light it, and show it to the sun, saying, "I also have a light." The sun will smile. So we are this little matchstick: our knowledge, our capacity, our love, we are limited, just like a little matchstick, the flame of the matchstick. Divine love, God, is the sun. Nothing will reach the sun. What has to be burned will burn. What has to be melted will melt. What disappears will disappear. Only comes the cleanness, pure consciousness there. So without this awakening of the Maṇipūra Cakra, this wisdom, this knowledge, your doubts, your fear, anxiety, complexes, jealousy... will not disappear because you took it from Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra, and you have a chance to awaken. Then you will experience, one after another, the beauty of your inner talents. Within you is the fountain of joy. Within you is an ocean of bliss. Within you is the immortal one. Kill this little "I," little ego. Lead a divine life, said a great saint, Swami Śivānandajī of Ṛṣikeśa. Kill this little ego. "I don’t like this person, I don’t like that person, I can’t work with Dayan, oh God, I try but I can’t." You never tried. Who doesn’t? You don’t like the person? Go and clean the feet of the person, go down, surrender, you have to. Die to live. It is said in the Bible: you have to die in order to live. Your ego must die. Yāvalīya Mahā Vīraṅ Kavi Divāna Satguru Nāma Kāma Sthāna Heli Me Paravā Upakī Divāna Satguru Nāma Kāma Sthāna. You have to die to live, meaning kill your ego, your greatest enemy. The thief who steals all jewels of your money, poor, is the ego. It is your ego which tells, "I don’t like this person, I don’t like this person, I don’t like this person." "Why is he sitting near the Swāmījī? Why is she always bringing water for Swamiji? God, I don’t like this person." Oh my God! Are you a practitioner of yoga in daily life? No. That’s it. When these negative elements disappear from your entire being, then you will have pure consciousness, then you will have spiritual consciousness. Then is the awakening of the spiritual consciousness, constantly, crystal clear, and you can use it for everything. That is the biggest happiness, and the seventh happiness: you will have so many good friends. You become one united family, like we are all one united family. It is such a big spiritual family, and when I see you, I am so happy. When you see all of us here, you are so happy. This happiness you cannot buy. This happiness you have to awaken. You have to look into your inner mirror to see how happy you are. Therefore, we always sing: Gurudev darśan dhan ho, Gurudev cetanāyānand ghan ho. Gurudev darśan dhan ho, Gurudev darśan dhan ho. Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Gurudev darśan dhan ho. You have to see your Gurudeva in everyone. This is a darśan, where the spiritual waves, the energy, are there. Then negative energy disappears. There is no black magic which can influence you. The spiritual energy for you becomes a protective power, what we call a bulletproof jacket. Negative magic power, magic energy comes to attack you. What happens with that negative energy, or that person, is like a bird trying to fly through a glass window, or a fly trying to fly through a glass window. Your brain, your energy, is so strong, so when somebody catches your... brain, the sound is like this, it can’t go through. So when the spiritual energies awaken and when you are with spiritual people, then for many months, days, weeks, months, even years, you are protected by this spiritual energy. No negative energy can attack you. But that can come only when pure consciousness is there. Those who are in doubt and jealous, and he doesn’t like her, and she doesn’t like him, and he doesn’t like her, and she doesn’t like him—these people are not protected from this energy. In order to gain this protection, you have to love all of them. Of course, love means not to go and hug and put your thumb, put your finger there, put your finger there. This is not there. That’s it. So this energy is protective energy. That is called Ābhā Maṇḍalam, the auras. And this is the darśan: divine darśan. Arjuna asked Krishna, "Krishna, Krishna, still I can’t believe that you are God. You are saying many things, that you are this, and you are that, and you are that, but I am still, I can’t see you." Krishna said, "If I show you my universal form, perhaps you will not resist it. You are not strong enough." "No, Lord, please, I want to see." Then Krishna shows within himself the entire universe: also volcanoes, hurricanes, fire, and so on. But only Arjuna could see. The people who were standing near couldn’t see anything. They thought Arjuna was in a trance. They thought Arjuna had a hallucination. So only rare bhaktas can see this Ābhā Maṇḍal. Whose Maṇipūra Chakra is in order? The heart is pure, and consciousness is crystal clear. One disciple told the master, "Master, I want to go to a fair, a big fair." Like a Mela, we call it. The master said, "Why? What will you do there?" He said, "I will see many good people and this and that." He said, "You will not see so many good people." He said, "But I want to go." Then the Master gave him one feather of the peacock, a colorful feather. "When you see many, many people, then look through this feather. You will see the reality of these people. Then go there where you see human." He said, "Master, but it’s a fair of the humans, not a fair of the animals." Master said, "You will see." So when he came, wherever thousands of people were, he looked through the feather, and he sees: there’s some pig sitting, some fox is sitting, some rabbit is sitting, some deer is sitting, some crow, many crows are fighting. After looking far, oh, there are two people. And these two people were like you. He went to these two people, and they said, "Oh, dear brother, how are you? Come and sit with us. Are you tired? From where are you coming? How nice to see you." All thousands of people, they didn’t say anything. They were all looking like this: "Who is this stranger here?" But the other one, welcome. That is because they had this human consciousness, pure consciousness, spiritual consciousness. You know, when there are 20 pigs and one new one comes, all the pigs run behind him. Or to the dogs, when another dog comes. Therefore, the development and awakening of the spiritual consciousness from the Maṇipūra Chakra is very important. If you cross the Maṇipūra Chakra without purifying it, then you will have trouble with the heart, with the emotions, with your partner. You will have many, many troubles. All problems: physical problems, gastric problems, digestive problems, blood pressure problems, skin problems. Many, many problems will be solved if you practice techniques for Maṇipūra. The most powerful for this are Nauli and Agni Sāra Kriyā and Saṅkha Prakṣālana.