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Good morning to everybody. Welcome to this beautiful Ṛṣi One. This is the forest of the Ṛṣi. It is beautiful. It is called Āraṇya. Āraṇya means gold, āraṇya means the forest, and āraṇya vihāra—vihāra means wandering or residing. A kānta nivāśa, a peaceful place you make your hold. This ashram where we are is perfect for a spiritual retreat. Here, we are allowed only to do physical, mental, social, and spiritual development. We have many groups coming from different parts of the world, and they enjoy the retreat here. You are the lucky ones that you got this space in this summertime. Many people are asking to have a space, particularly this July-August time. But you have to ask if it is available. Prāṇa. Prāṇa is an energy which turns the negative into positive. It means also this prāṇa, which is here, has a healing process. Illness is negative for us, and this prāṇa, which is radiating here, will definitely give good health. Because, on this spot, all the time, spiritual people are coming. Unfortunately, many of us can’t read the language of the trees, but you can feel the health, the condition of this forest here. It is because here, people, and especially the Czech people in the Czech Republic, I can tell you, they do care very much about the environment, and they protect it a lot—forest and everything. At the same time, those spiritual spots, there come spiritual people. So it’s you who can create the environment. You have to change the inner feelings. Then your prāṇa will become more pure to give to others, and you will receive the prāṇas which support you. Prāṇa is not only the oxygen. So if you do the one week or one month or one year Anuṣṭhāna here, there is a prāṇāyāma system, one course about prāṇāyāma from the scientific system of Yoga in Daily Life. That course is for one year. If you have time, if you have holidays, then I would suggest you stay one year and do this prāṇāyāma course. Your whole health condition will be checked through and through. Of course, you have to follow the disciplines—so, not going somewhere in big cities after a few days and coming. So take your time. When this pure prāṇa enters our area or our earth, when it comes near to the earth, then it is colored, mixed, and takes another energy that is given, mostly given by the ocean. And after the ocean is our vegetation. And that’s what we call the oxygen. So the oxygen and cosmic energy, prāṇa, together create and keep life. So this is the science of the cosmic energy. If you get that one pure, people like us will not be able to resist that energy. We have to mix something, you know, what we call blended. Example? You go to the holy Mount Kailāśa, or you climb to the higher peak of the mountains, the highest mountains, there is a more pure cosmic energy. But without oxygen, we can’t survive. It is too strong for us, so we need a mixer. But there is a training, that you get used to that energy slowly, slowly, then you need not 50-50% mixer or 75-25%. Then again, to come down also would be a problem—that it’s too much pollution, so we have to get used to the pollution slowly, slowly. Like an alcoholic person drinks one glass, he doesn’t feel anything. But you people will drink one glass on the highway, you will make very nice curves—serpentines. So what are you doing? I am awakening Kuṇḍalinī. So prāṇa, this all is the play of the prāṇa, the game of the prāṇa, the creation of the prāṇa, and that is also our health we can support. But unfortunately, our many conditions are not in our favor. You all know, according to the scientific science of Yoga in Daily Life, where you have the hidden powers in humans, and you have the chart inside about prāṇas. And prāṇa, there are five prāṇas and five upa-prāṇas. Upa-prāṇa is a subtle prāṇa. And the five prāṇas are the main prāṇas. But all these ten prāṇas represent the cosmic energy. As I spoke yesterday about our physical body and the construction of our body, the miracle of that. This is our body, the machine, automatically mixing everything and dividing what is needed. Nowadays, there are many, many machines in ICU, in hospitals, in intensive care. There are different computers, and airplanes have different computers. Automatically, they are functioning and dividing their work. So it’s in our body, different organs, and it is a prāṇa which is changing in different qualities, adopting the different qualities of the body and functions in the body. And the secret of the Brahmajñāna is hidden in the science of prāṇāyāma. The science of prāṇāyāma is also the science of mantra and meditation. Meditation is only a technique which connects our consciousness, our awareness, our mind, and our body with the pure prāṇas. That’s called Brahmavidyā. Five prāṇas and five kośas. We know that it’s called Annamaya kośa, Prāṇamaya kośa, Manomaya kośa, Vijñānamaya kośa, Ānandamaya kośa. Literally, it is said the body of nourishment, the physical body, the body of energy. Immediately after the annamaya kośa comes the prāṇamaya kośa. And this is not in one place somewhere; it is complete. You know, in Russia, when you land at any airport, or you go in the market, you buy a souvenir. So you buy one doll, and that’s called a babushka, the grandmother. So you open one, there’s a grandmother again inside. You open her, next one is also inside. So there are five grandmothers, babushkas. What is that? These are the five kośas. So if you don’t understand the kośas, you should ask someone from Russia to bring you this doll. And this has a spiritual meaning: that in you is your child, and in your child you have your grandchild, and in your grandchild you have your great-grandchild. So this is the one-after-the-other layer of the dynasty, and everything has its own technology. If you put some different sizes, it will not be correct. It will begin to rattle. So therefore, there was yesterday one question, and people were laughing: "How to find a husband?" It was very nice of her who asked. Or maybe it was a man; he didn’t want to say it out of his male pride. So, because of his thought, whatever answer will come, if it will not be one-sided, it will be both. And that question was well thought, and in that question, the answer is, Gurujī Mahāprabhujī wrote one bhajan, and if you understand the translation of that bhajan, then you will see what the relation is, and that will come. But you don’t wait. But this is the problem. So if it was she, definitely she has experiences that she was kicked by many boys or many men, disappointed, humiliated. And again you thought, "Oh God, again I found the same fool. Again I find one man. He’s not any better than the other one." Always, you are stuck in those thorny bushes. But what to do? Your emotional control is not there. Your prāṇa is not under control. Or it can be opposite. It can be with the men. It’s our modern way of living. We have lost it all. Before four decades, three decades already, only three decades, when you got a child without marriage, it was not accepted by society. And in the church also, they would not baptize. And now it’s a fashion: first child, and then marriage. Yes? Open both of these here, not that one. But it will come if you can wait. It is an ancient tradition that girls, when they are about nine or ten years old, celebrate a tree, a banyan tree. They go with elderly girls, and they put some tray around the tree. They give the water to the tree. They sing beautiful bhajans. From one village, 10-20 girls go together; it’s like a procession. And they are told that you will get a healthy, beautiful, and good husband. So don’t just look to anyone. Look into everyone with positive thoughts. But nowadays this positive thinking is lost, more or less. You know, any girl who comes to Jādan for karma yoga takes one karma yogī away. So this is a problem in Jādan. They are very afraid to get new karma yogīs and girls. So, it can be from the other side also. Anyhow, Mahāprabhujī said in one bhajan, beautiful, Gaṇādina Bhaṭkireme Kanyakāvarī Nar. This bhajan, you know, and we will translate. This bhajan is entirely connected with our consciousness—our individual self and cosmic consciousness. And many, many wrong techniques, many wrong paths you walked; in this, you lost your many, many lives, but you didn’t find that one. So, kalpa after kalpa passed, millions, trillions of years passed. But when you find that one, like Devapurīṣa Mahāprabhujī said, when I found Devapurījī, then my consciousness was merged into that cosmic one. That’s marriage. So the prāṇāyāma and prāṇas, the kośas, are composed of the five prāṇas. The one primary, the first prāṇa, which is divided into the five types of kośa, according to the movements and direction, accordingly. This is a very important subject in our daily life, in medicine, in Āyurveda, and also for yoga practice, that prāṇa is that which helps all the motoric systems in our body. When you have to walk now with the stick, then your motoric system loses the balance, because now prāṇa has little chance to control those organs, or those joints, or muscles, etc. So it is said, prāṇa, literally, prāṇa is that with the flowing of the energy through, filtering the negative energy away and keeping your organs, as far as possible, strong, healthy, young. There is one technique which we call Kāyakalpa. Kāyakalpa means restoring the body, like restoration for a building. The building is completely damaged and has become a ruin. And now you take the old picture and restore the whole building beautifully, as it was. And even you give now more some facilities. Similarly, this old body, there is the science of prāṇāyāma, which I told you, a one-year technique. So this one-year technique is only a learning process. Then you have to practice every day. So long, till you don’t become young again. Clear? Then you don’t know when I will be. That question, my friends, is blowing in the air, but it will be in this life or the next life. In this life, you will follow the disciplines and practice, definitely, a hundred percent. Next life, if it’s a good karma, but again you have to go through training. In this prāṇāyāma course, sādhanā is not only breath techniques; nourishment is very important, and all surrounding stress has to be put off. So if something happens in the world, bad, anyhow someone will tell you. Or a good thing happens some way, someone will tell you. So, looking every day into the news is a factor of stress. So we have to keep a little distance from all this modern technology. For the Kāyakalpa, one in Āyurveda is called Chyavanaprāśa. Chyavanaprāśa is a very great help, and it is said the reducing of the grains, less wheat, less corn, less rice, so this all has a lot of energy or prāṇas. At the same time, then you learn to regulate the prāṇa. That is through three prāṇāyāma techniques: pūraka, inhalation; kumbhaka, retention; recaka, exhalation; and bāhya kumbhaka. So, two kinds of kumbhaka: retention of the breath outside or inside. Now, pūraka and recaka, inhalation and exhalation, have especially their ratio. So, how long should you hold the breath inside, and how long should you hold your breath after the exhalation? And how many numbers, counting or seconds, should you inhale? And how long should you exhale? So in the prāṇāyāma technique, inhalation is a little quicker, exhalation is longer. In kumbhaka, inner kumbhaka is longer, outer kumbhaka is less. But every technique changes in this sādhanā, that is Brahmavidyā sādhanā. You have to add another technique also, that’s also for yoga, from yoga, and Mahāprabhujī used to teach, give to his disciples, that’s called Svara-yoga. Svara Yoga is very, very important. When you come to know and feel and see how Svara Yoga is, then you are in the perfection of the Prāṇāyāma. And through Prāṇāyāma practice, you can develop this Svara Yoga. Now, Svara Yoga is a science of the flow of three nāḍīs – Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. These three nāḍīs. In that, you must have your Vajranāḍī very strong. Because Vajranāḍī is very strong, it is an additional or reserve force, and if disturbances take place in Iḍā or Piṅgalā, or even in Suṣumṇā, then Vajranāḍī takes over all three functions. This is from the science of prāṇa, not from the medical point of view. That is the science of the prāṇa and prāṇāyāma, so svara-yoga. And in this svara-yoga, you become the master of this. When you want that this channel should flow, it will flow. You say, "Now I will practice one hour meditation, and only Sūrya Nāḍī should flow." Now, you go in meditation, and you will have only Sūrya Nāḍī flowing in you. Others who don’t practice, the Sūrya Nāḍī will flow and Chandra Nāḍī will flow. And the air will blow out of the mouth and do like this. One hour meditation, oh, there’s a beautiful combination of meditation and yoga nidrā. So that’s called cetanā. Chetana, chetana means awaken. When that chetana is awakened, then there is no achetana. Achetana is unconscious, ignorance. Chetana is awakened, the knowledge. You can’t sleep, so there is one bhajan: Chetan ho jāre, musā, phir gaḍī ānewālī hai. Chetan ho jāre, musā, phir gaḍī ānewalī hai. Wake up, wake up, oh traveller, become alert, the train is coming. This train of the day is coming. Whatever you have to do, do it, and don’t miss this train, otherwise you will go somewhere else. Last minute you can miss the train, half minute, 15 seconds. So you practice your whole life, and the last days or months of your life you fall into the lower consciousness again, the sleep of ignorance, and the spiritual train is gone. Again, you are gone, nowhere but in the dark holes. Get ready, all travelers, get ready. The train is coming, and the train will be going. Don’t miss it. The window is open, buy the ticket, the signal is there, the green light is already on, the green flag is up, and you know the final warning is whistling, reserve your seat. So it’s a very nice, how do you call it, song in the form of bhajans, people like it very much. This is our condition. Therefore, Svara Yoga, that’s very, very important. It is said when you have the Svara Yoga, the science of Svara Yoga, which is Brahmavidyā Kriyā, you can see the color of your prāṇa. Yesterday, there was a question, "How to see the aura?" And so, the question I’m answering today. Then you can see the color of your exhalation and the color of your inhalation. There, it’s called Sambhavī Mudrā. Sambhavī Mudrā is Śiva Mudrā. Śambhu is Śiva. That is when Śiva meditates, his eyelids are closed but a little open and gazing on the tip of the nose, and see the color of the prāṇa. This prāṇa is changing according to all surrounding situations. And it is like a kind of signal. It will warn you what is going to happen. So, you know when you will become ill. And you know, when will be the last day of your life? And you know that you can change this, but because you are a brahmajñānī, it doesn’t matter for you, you don’t change. You go like a happy, you go like a hero, you go like a winner. Someone is being on the football team, and everyone congratulates them. And you walk out of the football field, the media tells you, "Please, you go away, let him in." So, divine angels, the goddesses, they welcome you. Science of the Svara-yoga. After the Svara-yoga, then comes the Nāda Yoga, which is also a branch of the Brahmavidyā. But now it’s time for practice. I give you all rest, my dear ones who are with the webcast with us. And we will learn. If you can’t practice, at least you will tell your grandchildren, there was one Swāmījī and he spoke about Brahmavidyā. But it is a pity that I didn’t understand, I didn’t take it seriously, but I have written it. My children, you should read, and you will understand. Try to take the best out of it. That’s it. Our next webcasting will be evening 7:30. I wish you all the best, my dear ones, all. Wherever you are, God bless you. Om Śānti.