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Morning Satsang From London

A yoga and spiritual teaching session focused on chakra purification through specific postures.

"In the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra there is mostly pride, anger, hate, jealousy, conflict, etc."

"Our karmas and destinies are dormant in the level of the unconsciousness, the past... it has sensed some qualities in certain numbers up to twenty-seven generations."

The instructor guides participants through variations of the Cobra pose (Bhujaṅgāsana), explaining its direct impact on purifying the Svādhiṣṭhāna and Mūlādhāra chakras. He discusses how these energy centers store subconscious impressions, past life karmas, and familial saṃskāras, while also connecting physical back health to emotional states. The teaching interweaves practical posture adjustments with explanations of the kośas (sheaths) and the spiritual goal of liberation.

Filming location: London, UK

The energy or awakening that makes us humble creates mercy in our heart, calmness, and very logical thinking. The posture we did now was directly purifying the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. It is said in the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra there is mostly pride, anger, hate, jealousy, conflict, etc. In your book, Hidden Powers in Humans, read about this chakra. Now, if you were to do this exercise that we did, you would not be holding the posture so long. But I kept on talking, and your concentration went towards me. So the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra released its negative energy without your feelings. Very good. It was very good. Now, your hands are beside the body. Place your chin on the ground. Try to raise the upper part of your body comfortably, as much as you can. This is so you can see me. In our book on Cakra, where we spoke about Svādhiṣṭhāna, page numbers 92 and 91 begin this one. Leave your hands very comfortable. Just look at me, raise up, that's all. No, no, hands beside the body, because the cobra doesn't have hands; it can't support itself. Though it doesn't have hands and legs, it's known as a king, the king cobra. So you are going to become the king now. This automatically changes our way of thinking. Certain energy glands, the pineal gland and pituitary gland, monitor all other glands in the body, including our thyroid and pancreas, the solar plexus, etc., all limbs of the body, the limb glands. So, these are direct. This one which you are doing now is called Cobra pose, the real Bhujaṅgāsana, is only this one. The other one is not a Bhujaṅgāsana. The other one is a kind of posture which you can have here, given in your book also, and you will be surprised to see, but it is there. This is the one after; you will see in this book, Bhujaṅgāsana also. But after a long time researching and working with this, the influence on the Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra and Mūlādhāra Chakra is this posture. Now you can bring your chin to the ground and one cheek on the floor, or on the ground on your blanket, and relax. Every third person in the world nowadays has a back problem. There are many, many reasons, of course, about back problems, but mostly it is because the back muscles are not strong enough, especially as we are sitting on the chair, leaning on the table or on the computer. This kind of strength or exercise of our lumbar region, and these muscles go slowly, slowly weaker and weaker, so it has a double weight on our spine than usual. Once one explains the spine with the mechanics of the crane—how the crane is able to lift a few tons. Similarly, our spine has the ability to lift tons of weight. But if our muscles are not strong, then we can get a slipped disc or other problems. That person who was talking about this, I have to find that lecture. It's very, very interesting, and especially for our Harriet Bucher. Our Hemlata from Vienna was talking, and someone else from the Czech Republic, I will find it. Therefore, again, please look to me, because I was reading for you now and searching for your postures. So, again, look. Yes, and you should know that a cobra doesn't have a chin, okay? So you can support like this and look like this. When he looks like this, you have to go up. There are different beautiful colors. I'm not enlightened, but I'm lighted, but you are enlightened, that you can see. So our back, spine, and our straight back depend on all the parallel muscles which are supporting our spine. And with that are connected our emotional centers, emotional energies, our anger, our sadness, loneliness. Many, many things are connected with all these back problems. When the back problem is gone, you are happiest. There are many people, many, many, for whom going to sleep is a horror—so much problem. They try to sleep straight, then turn a little left, then turn right, then change the pillows. Thanks to God, we are, you can, yeah, so that we are healthy. So, Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra connects with our subconsciousness. And the Mūlādhāra Chakra connects us with the unconscious, that means our old destinies, our old karmas from past lives, which we don't know. They are dormant in our level of unconsciousness. Our existence in the entire universe, we are like one tank or a balloon. Full of the tank, water, many, many leaves and many particles fall in. After a certain time, it dissolves and becomes just mud, dirt under. So many karmas we don't know, we will not believe, we don't trust, we don't accept, but it is there, which have lost their form, but the quality is there. So relax, relax on the cheek. The cobra never has relaxation on the cheek, but I can let you, because now you are, so you have a little bit of rest. The queen, of course, also. The king cobra, but the female king is a queen cobra. Our karmas and destinies are dormant in the level of the unconsciousness, the past, as we spoke yesterday and we heard and we discussed it, that it has sensed some qualities in certain numbers up to twenty-seven generations. And we have these two generations, two families: the family on the father's side and the family on the mother's side. So when these two release, they give us in our body the saṃskāras, the educations, the kind of knowledge and genetic qualities from both parents. So to release these karmas is not in our hands. We don't know where to press. We can see, definitely we can see. But this doesn't mean for this life only. This is after that, when we go to the astral world, we will leave this physical body. At that time, you can see all your generations, everything, like in a museum. All are designed there. There was your beginning, and there will be your end. But how many steps you have to go through, how many phenomena you have to cross. Then again, we pray to God, or this individual soul, "Lord, give me again the life, the life of the human, that this time I will pray and practice my spirituality to come forward to liberate all." So, the Mūlādhāra Chakra is that which is holding, storing, and providing safety. It is like a locker in the bank; you have something. So this locker is the mūlādhāra, which keeps everything. Any time you can go, take it, you have access. If you have forgotten your numbers, then it will remain forever until this locker is exploded and opened. So now your cheek is on the ground, cheek, not chin. Your toes are standing, legs together. You will not raise up your chin or your cheek. It will remain on the ground. Better not use the pillow. Otherwise, it can cause problems with your neck. Please don't use the pillow. If you use the pillow, don't do this exercise. Now slowly raise both legs up. Knees straight. Just raise your legs up about 40 centimeters. That's enough. Knees also raised up, yes. Legs completely stretched, no problem. Just remain there. So these are certain energies in the body which are connected with our entire being. The annamaya kośa, the body of nourishment, the physical body. Prāṇamaya kośa, the body of energy. Manomaya kośa, the mental body. Vijñānamaya kośa, this is our intellect, intelligence, our knowledge. And I see some legs gone down, and something between, you know. But I will make something more easy for you, which will affect both chakras together, mūlādhāra and svādhiṣṭhāna. So this means it can awaken the memories, and it will dissolve the memory. It will awaken the many, many relations from the past, and it will make clear that because each meeting is an impression, it prints in your level of consciousness, and it goes with you for many, many lives. Once you meet someone, you look and smile, that is printed in your inner camera, in the layer. It may be a tree, it may be a forest, it may be an animal, it may be a lake, the stars, humans—everything has an imprint on our level of consciousness. Some are not very interesting, so they dissolve, and some are intensive. And this intensive feeling, impressions, relations, connections, negative or positive, that will last long, and even it will come in the dream, but you don't know for what and who and why, but energy is there. So, interlock your fingers on the back, yes, and don't raise your hands up, stretch your hands only towards your buttocks, legs together, and chin on the ground, chin on the ground, yes. Now, raise your legs and front body up, yes. Now, I have nothing against how much you want to go up. You may levitate, and we know that we are capable of levitating. We have the abilities, but only one problem. That problem is our stomach. It means our desires of eating, our weakness of eating and drinking. We are very selfish for our stomach. Then you see, it is the stomach that keeps us on the ground. Otherwise, we are levitating. Even the locusts can take off, but our wings are interlocked like this. We can't, we can't go up, but one day we'll come. So now, according to this chakra book again, where are all these positions together? I will find 44. You are raising half a meter. No, no, no. I don't want to give you trouble, only for you. Concentrate on your stomach or navel, the Maṇipūra Chakra. Keep balance, don't move your legs up and down, and have a normal breath. I'm looking to you, don't worry, I'm correcting, yes. But you understand what is 40 centimeters, no? I think 40 centimeters is something. How many inches can that be? One and a half foot, yes, something like that. You know, when the legs are too much changing, then I'm dizzy, I can't concentrate. I see, I see. Your main problem is at the Maṇipūra cakra. Relax. I see your Svādhiṣṭhāna and Mūlādhāra are unconscious; active is Maṇipūra. Closer? Okay, that's enough. Yeah, so it's good, or it's good, very, very good. Better. Thank you. Very good. Better is good. Or here. Go down. Here. One leg can go in. In India, we call it jugāḍā. Dobri. Dobro. Good. Perfect. So, that is how the Manipūr confuses everyone. I'm also confused now. Which posture was it? Legs together. This time, we will do the easiest one. Legs together. Yes. Now, hands parallel to the body. Touching your thighs. Yes, very good. Just touching your thighs sideways. Yes. Concentrate on manipūra. This means navel chakra, stomach. Whenever we eat something, we just eat. We don't look to our stomach. After some months, when we are in the bathroom, suddenly we look at the stomach and we say, "Oh God, without our permission." So, better to check from time to time. So, raise your head up and look at your stomach. Head, shoulders up. Don't bend your neck. No. Raise up the upper part of the body. Yes. Don't look at the stomach. Look to your toes. Pull your toes toward the body. That's good. Yes, more. So, remain there. This means, now please listen very carefully. Don't worry if you feel comfortable or not, forget that. Only listen to me. Now, body, mind, and consciousness, or our intellect, all three are in balance. You are aware of the body, your mind is fixed on it completely, and you have no time to go anywhere left and right. And you know that your knowledge, what is happening in your body, how you feel. Just remain, go up. I will bring a big pillow for you. Wait a minute, very perfect. I will give you now a nice pillow, don't worry, okay? Everyone will get a pillow because we must master these three chakras today: Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, and Maṇipūra. The Yoga and Day Life logo is written: harmony of body, mind, and soul. So these are particular postures where you are aware of your body. You have complete concentration. Your mind is there, and your inner self feels happy that something is happening, something you are doing for your body and your inner self. So, I will give you a pillow. Please interlock your fingers under your head; that's your pillow. Very quickly, got it? Perfect. Now, raise the upper part of your body. Keep your legs and heels on the ground, and look to your toes. Pull your toes towards the body, yeah. Try to raise your back, not only neck. Slowly come back. You put your pillow in the wrong place. Go more to the neck. Thank you, yes. Because Manipur was complaining to me, he said, "That's not correct." Now, your neck, please. Thank you. So now raise the upper part of the body up, shoulders also, back also, Jagadīśpurī, and look to the toes. Don't pull your elbows together. Stretch your heels out and toes toward the body. Look to your toes and slowly come back. Well, you were really perfect. I didn't tell you to move your hands, bend your knees, place your feet on the ground with your knees a little apart, try to relax your stomach muscles, just relax. I didn't tell you to raise up your buttocks. Some are raising up. Just relax, only bend your knees. Now, stretch your left leg out on the ground, and bring your right knee towards the body a little bit. Release your left hand sideways from the body, and with your right hand, just support your knee a little. Turn to the left side, your whole body, head also to the left, and you misunderstood. Your left hand is resting on the ground, right hand is supporting your knee, that's all. And turn to the left side, that's all. And slowly sit up. Yes. You were making a twisting exercise. That's why we are always some kilometers ahead of the master. So you go a little bit somewhere outside with fresh air, and in 15 minutes you have to come in. Thank you, Aryan. If you don't want, you need not go, but if you need, you go.

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