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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai! Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai! Satguru Swāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī Jai! Good morning to everybody. Welcome. The blessings are coming from our beautiful city, Alachandria, Mahāprabhujī Deva's ashram, Yoga and their life. This weekend we had a beautiful topic, and I do believe that many of you will learn more and come to know more about yoga, especially yoga in daily life. Yoga is yoga, but we sometimes try to give it a subtle title. So, yoga in daily life means practice every day. Yoga is misunderstood very much nowadays as only body movements and body forming in different ways. When you read the yogic literatures, which were written long ago, more than 5,000 years or 10,000 years—Gheraṇḍa Saṁhitā, Śiva Saṁhitā, Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā, etc., and Patañjali's—the yogī's aim in life is to keep the body healthy, to live long. But for what? Some don't want to live long. But to live long means that in this life, we are blessed to have a human body, and we are not sure in the next life if we will get a human body or not. Every creature is holy because it is a creation of holy consciousness, or God, whatever we will call it. The light of that Supreme is in each and every atom of this earth, planet, or in every vegetation, each drop of the water, and every creature which is not even visible with our naked eyes. We have to use a magnifying glass, a telescope, or a microscope. So it means that God's energy, God's light, God's love, God's presence is within us and in every other creature. What modern science is saying is that you have the symptoms of your ancestors, your grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. It doesn't get lost. Last year, or two years ago, there was research talking about different tribes, countries, or cultures. And there was a question: who came first to Australia? That was a very interesting subject. The British colonies discovered it; they came just some years ago, some centuries ago. But before, the Chinese were saying that they were there on the Chinese map; they have Australia on it. So the scientists were researching, and the scientists found in Aboriginal peoples the genes of Indians in their body. So after long research work, they said, "No, Indians were the first there." Now, it doesn't matter whether Indians, Africans, Chinese, or Europeans; this is not a question of that. But what I want to tell is, this subtle energy of God, which is like a very fine layer over our consciousness, but also over all the five kośas. Now, kośas, it is a Hindi word or Sanskrit word. Kośas means also something else for the Jewish people. They eat the kośa meat, the white one. So, I mean, not these kośas, please. Kośa is like a quarter, and these are the five quarters or five layers within which the soul, the individual soul, is residing. And this kośa is known as the body of nourishment, our physical body. So this is a physical body. And after the physical body, the second kośa, the second layer, is called the energy body, the prāṇamaya kośa. Annamaya kośa is the body of nourishment. Prāṇamaya kośa is the body of the energy. My energy is different from your energy, and her energy is different from his energy. We all have different kinds of energy, but in reality, there is only one energy, like this water is water. In this water, there is no color, so it is completely neutral, white, or whatever we call it. Now it is my energy. I put it inside orange color, and it became orange. And he put it green color. He will have a green. So water is water, but different energies. Condition means color, and color means our qualities. Our qualities here mean positive or negative. And in positive and negative qualities, again, defined, if you are sad, if you have fear, you are scared, you are jealous, hate—all these qualities develop automatically in our energy from one thing, and that's called fear. From the fear comes the greed also, and you know, when the greed is, then everything is like this. Or pure love. Love has no color. It is like crystal clear, clean water, transparent. That's called divine God's energy. So, the energy body, the subtle energy, the subtle body. After that comes manomaya kośa, the mental body. How far our minds can expand and come quickly back? The strongest power, the quickest, is the mental energy. We are sitting here, and I tell you one word, a name, and you will be there already. So let's say, Japan. Now, our mental body has expanded already to Japan, or Mexico, or anywhere, or on Jupiter. So with our thoughts, feeling is so high speed, no instrument can go, or even light can't go so quickly as the mind is going. So the yogī, through mastering these elements, was able to reach the 2,100 sun systems beyond these sun systems. Two thousand eight hundred. Fourteen different kinds of worlds exist within our sun system, and this is called Chaudha Loka and Ikkīsa Brahmāṇḍa, two thousand one hundred Brahmāṇḍas. One Brahmāṇḍa is one sun system. Now, this all is a subtle energy in you, in me, in everyone, and in animals and everywhere. So this is immortality, the light of God, equally. After that comes the vijñānamaya kośa, where the mental and energy go. The physical body is very limited. Then, the viveka or the intellect, vijñāna, is translation, is not as an intellect. Vijñāna means also science. Vijñāna is science, isn't it? Doctor, you speak Hindi, no? So you must support me, otherwise people will say, "What is Swāmījī talking?" Thank you, thank you, Mātājī. Very good. Thank you. So, vijñāna. Vijñāna means knowledge. Vijñāna, to discover something which is not known to you, becomes science. Science means there is some sense in it to research. It has been declared by yogīs and holy ones, but still we would like to research, to recheck. When you go to the aeroplane and the security, then you go to the magnetic screening, scanning, then they say, "Please go back and again, research it." So, by a great sense, they have been declared, but we are not satisfied. Therefore, we said, research, the science, jñāna-vijñāna-tṛpta-ātmā, jñāna-vijñāna-tṛpta-ātmā, those who, through that jñāna and vijñāna, who have realized, this is called tṛpta-ātmā, that ātmā have no more karmas, will not come to the distraction, subtle energy. And then comes the ānandamaya kośa. Ānandamaya kośa. Ānanda means bliss. Ānanda means happiness. But which kośa? That's called a kāraṇa-śarīra. That's called a kośa body. Now, what means the kośa body? God gave so much freedom, but again he pulled us back. Kośa is our desires, the kośa of our problems. Kosha of everything is the kośa body. So these are five kośas: annamaya kośa, the physical body; prāṇamaya kośa, energy; manomaya kośa, the mind, or subtle; vijñānamaya kośa is the knowledge; and ānandamaya kośa is called the causal body. So the causal body is connected to our desires. That is the causal body. Whatever you wish that you would like to do, that is desire, and desire pulls you back. Now, yoga and the subtle energy. So, yoga, who understands yoga, will practice very gently and subtly. Yogī says, and even now the experts are researching a lot about yoga. You will find on the internet many, lots and lots of positive research on yoga practice. Little side effect and immense good effect on the body. But again, Patañjali said, "Atha yoga anuśāsanam." Anuśāsan is a discipline, and when there is no discipline, then you damage your subtle energy in the body and your gland systems. For a time being, you will feel good, light, and sweating, and, "Wow, I am so good." But in the long run, it is harmful. So, too much stretching of the body can harm your ligaments very much, and with all these, you will have no control; you will fall down. So many, many glands in the body. So yoga and daily life are such subtle and fine exercises which balance all our five kośas. It's long and hard and disciplined work, but it is said, really, if you dedicate time, your body will be thankful and you will become healthy again. Subtle movements, also thinking mentally, that's yoga. If you sit and I ask you to think about something, sadness in your life, suddenly your aura will become gray. Or you think of something, what was most beautiful, joyful, the happiest minutes of your life, suddenly you will have that joy, the light inside. So, you know, I mentioned the day before yesterday or yesterday, there is one exercise which they are doing, I think in China or Japan, it's called Tai Chi. Chinese or Japanese? Both are doing. This needs very, very much concentration, awareness, and so body, mind, consciousness, and your soul, all at the same time harmonizing. Yoga and life harmonize your body, mind, and soul. So, I didn't practice, and I don't know the Tai Chi completely, but you know, you need certain movements. It takes years and years to get that balance, like a person who is dancing. You know, these are called the Swan Lake, in the Swan Lake, you know. How, but ask the poor girls, how much pain they have in their toes, walking on their toes. And if we do it now, we will break our toes. So they have to practice more and more and more, eight hours a day. After ten or fifteen years, then you are just like a train. Similarly, if we can harmonize our body with subtle understanding, everything will turn positive in our body. So we do one exercise from Yoga in Daily Life, okay? You have any questions about it? Number one. Number two, have you any physical difficulties? If you don't mind, you can tell, and then we will concentrate all on that particular problem which you have, or I have, or she has, and this energy from all of us, I will do it, even if you don't know. I will try to direct this energy towards you from all of us. That is our nonprofit interest. So if someone has some, otherwise, no problem, we will do it. Back, back, and leg, okay. It is a more, how do you say, physical, what do you call the mechanism, yeah? Muscles, okay, not joints. Okay, we will all try to help, yeah? Everyone, please stretch your legs, because we have to help our sister with her legs. Yes, you can stretch towards me, no problem. Yeah, you have beautiful feet, and you have beautiful lines and ears. And it is very interesting. It is like an exhibition of the different socks. Very good. So, place your hands on the thighs or knees, and try to keep your back straight. Lakshmi, you've forgotten your socks. You were in too much of a hurry to change, no? Or is it more done? Okay. Relax your shoulders, close your eyes, and keep your elbows relaxed. We are going to use those kinds of subtle energies to influence our body in a positive way. Imagine while inhaling, some light is going into your body, like a milky light, like a fog, or like some radiance. And when you exhale, it's like a gray cloud. 11 times. After 11 times, observe your navel and feel the expansion and contraction of your stomach when you inhale and when you exhale. Now slowly raise your hands up while inhaling, above the head. And slowly fold your palms above the head, and feel the side muscles stretching. Non-move, just fold your hands, fold your palms, yes. And now try to make your elbows straight, yes, and imagine your body is like a beautiful flame, light, or it's like an antenna receiving the cosmic light and radiating through the whole body. Specifically, it goes to our muscles: back muscles, thigh muscles, and calf muscles. And while exhaling, open your palms and slowly bend forward comfortably, as far as you can bend forward, and place your hands on your thighs or on your knees, or hold your toes. It depends how far you can bend. Do not force, try to be relaxed and feel this subtle energy. And again, inhale and slowly bring your hands up above the head, and fold your palms. Open your palms and stretch your hands towards the shoulder side, just to shoulder level, and... Slowly, hands beside the body on the ground. Touch your palms beside the body. Try to keep your back straight, and you will feel body, breath as energy, and mind as observation of your movements and thoughts, and awareness, the knowledge that you are receiving or giving. And the causal body is for what I am doing; I would like to get this energy for me and for others to become healthy. Slowly, sidewards, stretch your hands like your wings and feel the fingers. Oh, like when you go up, going light with your fingers, like you come from the water and water is falling from your fingers again. And go up, and go slowly, slowly, and bend your palm, or fold your palm three times. Deep inhale and feel your navel. And again, hands sidewards, very slowly. Now, when you go down through your fingertips, energy is transferring. Hands down on the ground, Govind Purī, and give that pillow to the doctor, thank you. So do it yourself, please, and you will feel really, I feel, I don't know if you feel it on the fingers. When I go up, it's not like after cheese, pizza, slides it, you know, or like this energy is coming or water. When the big whale dives and a tail comes out, see how the water falls. And feel this energy on the tips of the fingers. You feel in the palms and on the tips of the fingers something like moving, trickling. As slow as you go, you feel strong energy in the palms. And that brings the light and energy into the whole body. Now we do one other experiment. We do like this: one and two. How do you feel? That's it. So sit on the pillow. Yes, more and more. Turn the pillow in this direction. Yes, and now sit on it. Complete this way, on the edge of the pillow. Yes, now. Now, hand, leg. Now, do you feel better? But still, you have to come a little more on the edge of the pillow. No, don't put the pillow. But not so far back. Yes, that's clear. Now it's good? So, therefore, when we do like this, you don't feel these subtle energies. So again we go, and please try to direct this energy to that part of the body where you have pain, in the muscles, in the joints, ligaments, in the trunk of the body somewhere, or a headache. Try it, come on. I like it very much. I also do. I can't stretch my leg because I have a table-toothed sword. As slowly as you can, normal breath. The main thing is that you feel on your fingers and palm. When you come to the level of the shoulder, you feel more, and when you come more near the level of the heart, the strongest energy is there, and you come down. So, do five times, please. Good, very, very good. Very good. Now we do another subtle energy exercise that's a little bit hard, but slowly it will give you a lot of energy, and you will find out how far you can do. Of course, it's like somebody who can do the bodybuilders. Or something like this. It's not easy. We will not be able to do this. Maybe one or two boys here, or girls, they can do. Place the hands on the ground, not behind, near the sathai. You know what I will tell you? Now you have to raise your buttocks up, yes, and the heels also. Yeah, but slowly, okay? So, try slowly, slowly to go up, and it is a must, not that really you come there. Okay, professor, the elbow is doing very good, yes, because he's practicing yoga in his life the last 20 years, so we must. Not imitate him. We should not lean back side. We should lean a little more in the front, and maybe one centimeter, hold the breath. Now you will see, though you are trying to, that you are going in your arms, but mostly it goes in your thigh muscles and calf muscles, and that energy is directing there where you have a problem on the thigh muscles or the calf muscles, but very slowly. Look to me, please. Like this, I'm sitting, and then now again. So you see, it's not only boys who can do it, girls can do it too, but they should practice yoga for many years in their life. So you see, our Arundhatī, Arundhatī, Ava can also raise up, you know, not only he. Can you show us a little bit? Yeah. Thumb, press it. No, don't go away. She can do it here, facing me. Yes, like this. Yes. So, she is practicing yoga in her life, which means since she was small. Thank you. That's called a subtle power, and you know she doesn't have muscles like this. But she practiced slowly and got this energy in the body. So, it's my mental power, which can, and your energy body, that can help us to come. Slowly, we must not be doing that. We slowly just go and relax. If you think that tomorrow you can manage, you will not. It is, until I come next year, and you do every day 10 to 15 minutes, then it will be. So it means 365 days, 10 minutes every day. How many hours is that now? So, you know that sometimes I demonstrate, and we all do the subtle energy, how it runs with the blood. It goes energy. This is a layer of energy, the annamaya kośa, so where the blood and muscles and joints, this is annamaya kośa. Prāṇamaya kośa, which helps the circulation to go, the blood in and out, and that blood is full of that energy. So, energy and the physical body are together coordinating. Muscles, we can, the tension in the muscles can be very quick, but relaxing, and then comes energy, that's a little slow. So we always do this experiment, many of you know. Hold your wrist, make your thumb inside. And hold with the other hand, the right hand, your wrist, tighten it very strong, and only open your palm and look at your palm and the tip of the fingers. And now the energy should flow with the blood, so release your wrist. Now, this is what happens when we do it slowly: then the energy is flowing in such a way that all blockages in the body, which cause the pain or something, are released—self-healing. So we can do it with the other hand also. Otherwise, the other hand is jealous, or offended, or sad, deluded, and released. So, yoga and subtle energies from the body to release. You see, if we love our body, if we love our life, and if we love to live long and we love to be healthy, then you should at least two, three hours dedicate for your yoga life, not only half an hour, this and this, and, "Okay, oh, this was very good," now just... Lie down. Now sit up. Lie down. Oh God. Praṇām. Very relaxed meditation. Okay. Oṁ śānti śānti. This is just nothing. I did the whole program in one and a half minute? No. Slowly. Therefore, Brahma-muhūrta. Brahma-muhūrta means the dawn, early morning. This is the best energy, clean energy, and Brahmā means the supreme. That time when the sun rises, the dawn breaks, that supreme cosmic consciousness is awakening. So, morning from 4 o'clock or 3:30 till 8 o'clock, or 7 o'clock, is your yoga practice time. Then have breakfast and go to work, and come evening, again go to your yoga class and do some karma yoga. That releases your negative layers of the karmas from many, many past lives. So in all of us, we have the jyotī of yoga, or what we call the light of God, the light in everyone. And then you will be feeling so relaxed, you will go early to sleep. Early to? Early to sleep, early to? Rise. It makes a man so healthy, spiritual, and wise. But we put the wealth inside, no? And therefore, Āyurveda said good health—first, happiness is good health. So, wish you all the best, and try to do this at home, and something good will come. We come this evening, and the evening will be a very nice subject. Today, this was an exercise with an explanation of these five kośas, in very short, how they are working in our body. Hari Om.