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Good morning to everybody. How are you? Did you sleep well? Did you overthink what I told you yesterday? Did you perform, or have you forgotten? Very good. So, we proceed towards our Brahmavidyā, the path to the Brahmavidyā. In this, we need very much the help of our prāṇa. And prāṇa needs our help. Protection is in protection. So, we have to work towards Prāṇa Śakti. And Prāṇa Śakti is our life. If prāṇa is not there, the body is just an empty bag. Nothing is inside. It is that prāṇa which works in the mother’s body. When our body was developed in the mother’s womb, every nāḍī, every nerve, bigger or smaller, was created through the help of the prāṇa. It’s very fine work. All these nāḍīs can be kept clean and purified if we support our prāṇa. Seventy-two thousand nāḍīs in our body are functioning properly because of the different qualities or functions of the prāṇas. In these 72,000 nāḍīs, four are very important ones. Of course, there will come more nāḍīs we will discover. But the major forces are carried on by four nāḍīs: the Suṣumnā, the Iḍā, the Piṅgalā, and the Vajrā Nāḍī. In this Brahmavidyā Kriyā, we will come to more different nāḍīs through which the consciousness can be followed, or guide our consciousness to the highest consciousness through the prāṇa. Vajrā Nāḍī is as important as the Suṣumnā Nāḍī. The Vajra Nāḍī begins from the lower part of the body, like our feet. The Vajranāḍī is very much responsible for supporting the apāna śakti. Apāna śakti, apāna prāṇa, that is very important for our body. It’s not only for rejecting certain things from the body, but to balance your entire body. Like Suṣumnā Nāḍī, it’s also very important, but that begins from the Brahmarandhra side. And both have a very dominating influence on the Maṇipūra Chakra. Vajra Nāḍī begins from or between the big toes and the second toe. This Nāḍī keeps our cittavṛtti in balance. This Nāḍī gives us freedom from anxiety. Vajra means the strongest one. It’s called Vajra Pāṇi. The Pāṇi means the hand, and Vajra means very strong. One of the fighting weapons of Indra is called Vajrapāṇi. So this Nāḍī has its center, the energy center, between both toes, the big toe and the second toe. For this way of thinking, the yogīs were wearing and designed the wooden sandals. And many, even nowadays, are wearing this. Because that hook, which is the only one that supports lifting the sandals, is between two toes. But not only that, when you walk, it lifts up, but it influences that Vajranāḍī between the two toes. It helps you to overcome many desires. Desires are there, given by God or given by nature. Horses are there, created by God. But there is a wild horse, and there is a trained horse. When the horse is nicely kept, trained, and fed, then even the children go for riding. Nowadays, there’s a therapy where you go and lie down on the back of a horse, either on your back or on your stomach, and also small children. It is said that when the movement is nicely calm and relaxed, the horse is moving. Then it has the movement of the mother’s womb for the child who is in the mother’s womb. The horse loves you and feels happy. That horse feels like your mother or father, because that horse is trained or civilized. The wild horse, you can’t lie on it. Very soon, you will lie under him. That’s the difference about the desires. Desire is given, but desires have to be guided. So Vajranāḍī helps us very much. When we sit in Vajrāsana, then you feel immediately the effect of the Vajranāḍī. It goes from the toes. You feel on your calf the ligaments, the stretching of the calf, the thighs. The Vajranāḍī is more connected to the digestion. So, it is advised that after eating, if possible, for at least five minutes, you should sit in Vajrāsana. Of course, if your body allows, that you don’t have problems with the hip joints, or with the knees, or ankle joints. When we sit in Vajrāsana, then automatically our whole back is straight, without tension. Our lungs are more open, more free, and stomach muscles automatically relax. The result is that digestion begins in the proper way. Many we eat, but we don’t give the time or space for digestion. So, the best is Vajrāsana. Or, after eating, slowly walk at least a thousand meters. It means one kilometer, forth and back. And when you are not capable physically, then rest. Rest also means that the stomach muscles are relaxed. When we sit in Vajrāsana, automatically our shoulders are relaxed. When the shoulders are relaxed, our elbows automatically relax. It means our neck is also relaxed. So, the back muscles, the stomach muscles, the shoulders and neck relaxing means the perfect harmony in your body. And we give the time for all ten prāṇas to function or work in their way. So it is that you are supplying, you are guiding, leading your prāṇas according to their duty. So, Vajra Nāḍī, now after that, after the Maṇipūra Chakra, Vajra Nāḍī, which touches your Suṣumṇā Nāḍī, it means they are coordinating with each other. And it is the Vajranāḍī which tranquilizes or calms down your citta vṛttis, the brain function, the brain waves. And you will see that often children like to sit in Vajrāsana. And you will find sometimes, even the children, when they are sleeping, they turn over and they are sleeping in Vajrāsana Yoga Mudrā. Because the body understands, and the body chooses its posture. And that body knows which nāḍī is more helpful. So these four nāḍīs are very, very important. If the Vajra Nāḍī is not in proper function, then you will have a problem with your ankle joints very soon, you will have a problem with your knees, and you will have a problem with your hip joints. Of course, there is a quick help to remove this problem, and then we have to go to the, it’s called, human workshop, operation theater, where you have the rigid parts, and they will replace it, but origin is better. This rigid part is good. Be human, try to imitate and try to do something to replace. So try yourself: if you have a problem with the knees or ankle joints or hip joints, including the toes, then treat your Vajranāḍī and give more quality, more prāṇa to the Vajranāḍī. You shall massage your Vajranāḍī, sit in Vajrāsana, and we have to bring the prāṇa more inside. Well, I am not an Ayurvedic doctor, nor an allopathic doctor, nor a homeopathic doctor. I am a student of yoga, a disciple of Gurujī, and a servant of all of you. But I can tell you, keep better qualities in your life with the food. You can add to your food what we call this very good olive oil, or sesame oil, or almond oil. These are the three oils which are good for you, that will remove many, many blockages. Quality, not quantity, not a quarter liter a day. You can have half a liter a day for ages, and prakshalan four times a year, but constantly, continuously for these things. It is also, I was told and I read, that what you call the apple vinegar, which cleans all the arteries, nerves, as well as the joints. But the best, the golden thing for your joints is the haldi, turmeric, haldi with either the amla juice or lemon juice. Just half a lemon; it depends how big the lemon is. In Rajasthan, there is little rain, little water, so when you cut one lemon and you squeeze it very much, a maximum of 15 to 20 drops will come from one lemon. But here, one lemon is already two tablespoons. So, therefore, we can’t say how much lemon you should take. But let us say one teaspoon and one teaspoon haldi, three times a day, that will influence or affect our Vajranāḍī, that will remove the gastric problems. When the prāṇa is properly treated, then many, many of our health problems which we have now can be solved. We think it is impossible, and suddenly it is possible. Why? Because it received the right nourishment. You know, we have a house plant, and once a year it gives little blossoms. And we said, "Oh, look, blossoms coming and growing, slowly, slowly growing." And one day you brought this plant, coming from its original country, and you put it in the earth. After one month, you will not recognize it as your room plant. Grown big. So that is because of prāṇa in that soil, prāṇa in that air, prāṇa in that water, and prāṇa in that light. That particular plant is a native plant there and feels good. So we humans are human, but our proper prāṇic nourishment is the same. If one thinks that vegetarian is not enough to supply the nutrition to the body, that person has no knowledge about a vegetarian diet. Vegetarian till the end of their life, it doesn’t matter how old they are, they have brilliant memory, except for some illness. Vegetarians have the best bones, and non-vegetarians’ bones are like biscuits. You open the pocket and you take one; it’s already broken. So, for vegetarians who consume turmeric, the bones will become flexible, but they will not break. For a vegetarian diet, there is no lack of any metals, or what you call irons and so on, nor vitamins, nothing. All is inside. Your horse is healthy, your cow is healthy, your deer and rabbits are healthy. They are all vegetarian, you know. From where do they get this nutrition? It is in Mother Nature. Our body has got that prāṇa, like this prāṇa which we call samāna prāṇa. And samāna prāṇa means to have equal vision, like a samadṛṣṭi, samāna. So that prāṇa is like a good mother or a good father, or a good boss, director, manager, or general goes and looks to see that everyone has a good life, equally good, that all are working, and that everything is okay. If one manager or director is not good, the whole company suffers. So we have to find one person, then all is okay. So you have to concentrate on one, and that is prāṇa. That prāṇa quality from the food, from the air, from the water, from the light, and from the environment will automatically balance in our body. Then they know what to do. This technique, we will come to this one day, which has to go through the different nāḍīs. Because the consciousness goes to Brahman through those nāḍīs, the Brahmanāḍī. But Brahmaṇāḍī is the Suṣumnā Nāḍī. So when you hear somewhere written the Brahmanāḍī, then you say, "Swāmījī didn’t tell us the Brahmanāḍī." So there is a Brahma-nāḍī, there is a Rudra-nāḍī, there is a Viṣṇu-nāḍī, there are many names. Vajranāḍī is today, which I am telling you, you shall try to support your Vajranāḍī. It is said to avoid those kinds of food which create gases in the stomach. He Kevalam He Kevalam... Mahāprabhujī dip karatā, Mahāprabhujī dip karatā, Mahāprabhujī. Here in our menu, it means once a month, but there are some other beings this supports in our body not to create the gas, and that is best is the mung bean, and it is best also called the soya beans, but not too much. And for the mung beans, for a yogī, practitioners, more liquid of the water of the mung bean. So, one tablespoon of mung beans and two liters of water. Purījī, Purījī... And you drink this, that is a big—our best purification for the nerve systems. And keep your intestines relaxed and healthy. That’s why in the Saṅkt Prakṣālan technique, we supply, we advise everyone to have a Moong Dāl Khichḍī. Other kinds of dhal will create gastric problems, not only for one day, but until the next Saṅkhya Prakṣālā. So, garlic and onions are avoided only because they create gases. And these kinds of gases can also reach your heart and can disturb your heart rhythms. But there is some prāṇa which is sitting there, especially for the heart and for the heart muscles. So that doesn’t let the gases come near, because that is a strong guard. But when we are constantly bombarded with the gas bombs, then, sometimes this gas steals itself in. And that’s what those who have heart beating problems, rhythms, irregular rhythms. Or you are anxious, and suddenly your heart beats quickly. That means now these gases are going there. Treat that with moong dal water, and the rest, of course, you should eat, but more effective is the water. Similarly, it is said that root vegetables create gas, but you can have a nice root water where it is long boiled. Or, there are certain roots that should not be eaten after 12 noon. After 12 noon, the body’s function is changing; intense function is changing. So don’t eat at lunch or dinner any kind of vegetable which is made from roots. Especially what we call the radishes and carrots. So carrots can create a lot of gas, which you don’t feel, but they have gas. So, lastly, what you can eat, these things, the last border is 11:30. Then our Vajranāḍī will help us to open all the channels and keep all the channels clean. Vajranāḍī supports our body from the foot sole to the head. It supports the Apāna. So, Apāna is not only for the down part of the body, passing the code and urine, but many things. So, we have to learn now to take that food which is good for us. Now in Europe, we love the cheese. When people come back from India, what do they do? They go first to the bread shop, the bakery, and then they go to buy butter and cheese. So they make a thin bread, not thick. Then they say, "Oh, the bread was too thin," so they make it thick with the butter. It’s still too thin, then with the big cheese, then said, "Oh, three stories." So cheese is good, but cheese is considered a tamas guṇa. You may eat, but it is tamas. But the fresh cheese, or what we call paneer, that is not a tāmasika food. So you can make paneer, or what you call cottage cheese, if it’s fresh. Or you can make it at home. So you make it at home from your good, fresh milk, yogurt. And then put the water in the yogurt, and you heat it a little bit, and then leave it for one or two hours. The water will come out, and the down part will remain, that’s like a soft cheese. That is healthy. That is not in tamo guṇa. So there are ways to keep your own native food, your national food, but in a sāttvic way. So any food which is old becomes tamas guṇa. In cold climates, it turns to tamas guṇa a little later, but in hot climates, in summer, it goes quickly. So our vajranāḍī and vajrāsana, and prāṇāyāma means vajrāsana, is more effective. And Vajrāsana with the Jālandhara Bandha and Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma is one of the best purification prāṇāyāmas. But my dear, nothing will help you if you don’t practice. Good to speak and nice to hear. But it should not remain from my mouth to your ear. It should not be there and then disappear. What comes from my mouth enters your ears. And now you have to put it into practice. It’s not very hard. It’s a very simple thing. So don’t eat this, just eat that. Eat that also, but not after this time. So some kind of self-discipline should be there. Then we will also come to the prāṇas in the nāḍīs and what we call our Brahmavidyā, the practice of the Brahmavidyā. Where beautiful bhajan, Mahāprabhujī writes, you see, in our bhajan is the entire science of yoga and everything, and all the Vedas, everything. The Vedas and Upanishads are written in the Sanskrit language, and our bhajans are written in folk languages. Chetan kā chilak, Svāmī ne dikhlā diyā, Devpurī. Milvā. Milāvā. What is a milvā? Moi milāvā? My dear one? Milva. Milva. What is a milva? Milva means coming together. My dear ones, coming together, languages somehow have some connections. Who brings me to the oneness is my dear one. Who is my dear one? He is very close to me. So there are many, many meanings. So, from this prāṇa, apāna, samāna, vyāna, udāna, so, sub-prāṇas, it’s called upa-prāṇa. The main prāṇas are five. They are the streams, the strong streams of the prāṇas. But then you have to take fine qualities. So, there is one prāṇa called kṛkal. These prāṇas all the time have their duties: to watch, to guard, to observe our iḍā and piṅgalā. Any kind of disturbance comes, any kind of blockage comes, that immediately, that prāṇa takes over to remove those obstacles, to push it away. And this prāṇa has a function on the whole body, but mainly on Iḍā and Piṅgalā, and this is called sneezing. When you think that you are catching a cold, or the weather is cold, then this prāṇa sends more warmth to remove the coolness from these two nāḍīs. Now, so silly to see, it’s better to make it a little bit like this. And when you are in the park alone, you can do all; it is free, you see. The lungs’ capacity you can understand from sneezing. Who can maximally do like this? Sure, a long, a short life. Because it is still a power coming from the lungs. And this Kṛkal Prāṇa takes the military force from the lung side to remove the obstacle of the Iḍā and Piṅgalā. Otherwise, it is like a BSF border force, a border force. So this prāṇa, we can support. Keep netī practicing: jalānetī, sūtranetī. After cleaning your nose in the morning, supply this kind of oils, a little, very little, inside the nostrils and move it right this way. Then it will protect us from allergies. It means it will not let go of certain dust in the nose. So try. Now, energy time is coming. Many will have problems. So, Jala Neti. After Jala Neti, Kapāla Bhāti, you can put olive oil, or you can put sesame oil, or you can use almond oil, or a little ghee or butter. Make it finger fat, and then inside. And after, you can clean it outside, so that you don’t come into the office with an oily nose. The second upa prāṇa is called dhananjaya. And Dhananjaya, they have prāṇa, their duty, because they are more intelligent, more strong. They are very strong. They are the best soldiers on the border. And this Dhananjaya Prāṇa is that energy which is supporting and helping our hearts, opening and closing the muscles and heart vessels. When this prāṇa is weaker, then the heart and the blood vessels are suffering. Then, slowly, slowly, the blockage remains there. Therefore, this has to be practiced. That we can support through Matsyāsana, this we can support through Cakrāsana, Dhanurāsana, Bhujaṅgāsana, and Matsyāsana. And best, best of the best is Kaṭhupranām. Or walk quickly. This keeps your Dhananjaya Prāṇa stronger. And eat something which supports your heart. The heart doesn’t want too much fat. But the brain needs fat. The heart needs the sweet. That’s what we call a sweetheart. So, support the heart with sweetness and support the brain with some fat. It means ghee, but not the quantity, the quality. Every day, a little butter. So tomorrow morning when you come home and take your breakfast with the bread, hardly is it visible on the bread, there is a little butter. But when I was in Vienna, I told one of my disciples, her name is Harriet, or Hemlata, and I told her, "Butter should not be visible on my bread." And she said, "Okay, Gurujī, I will put very little." She put, you know what she did? She put the bread in the oven. And the bread was hot, and she put a lot of butter on it, but I don’t see anything on it. So I said, my dear heart, you are cheated. So don’t worry today. So limit, but quality. Food is for living; we are eating to live, we are not living to eat. So give more quality to your life, more sattvic qualities. So this Dhananjaya Prāṇa is mostly watching our heart rhythms. And all our pulse rhythm is waiting and watching, taking care of our Dhananjaya. When the heart is nervous, then all pulse beats are nervous. When the heart is nervous, then everything is nervous. So support your heart with this. Kāṭhuparaṇam, eleven rounds a day must be. Then your heart muscles will be strong. Because the Dhananjaya Prāṇa is strong, today is enough. And now I will give you some techniques. And so, in techniques, we don’t need to disturb the technician. So you can put it on the website. Thank you. Webcast.