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How are you? So, the sādhanā came. We said, "Continue." Every day, there is something to learn, something more and new. It was nice. Now, it is said: the doctor said that if you help me, I will help you. Similarly, if you follow the instructions of the instructors, then they will also help you. This means the sādhanā. Here, we do everything very systematically, which is needed. But at home, you can reduce it by 75%. It means that you practice your Kriyā, but this Anuṣṭhāna Sādhanā you should not do. This is reserved for us all, once or twice a year. So we do have programs for Kriyānuṣṭhāna and special techniques. There were also questions about chakras, and you did not read the instructions properly. So, you should read the Hidden Powers in Human Chakra book, not just at one time. More or less, every day, read one chapter and one story of Mahāprabhujī's Nīlāmṛt. Every time you read the same chapter, you will understand more and gain more knowledge. Such books are like the milky cow, which gives you ever milk. Here, the cow means our buddhi, intellect, and the milk is the knowledge. As many times as you read the Hidden Powers in Human, Chakras and Kuṇḍalinī book, it will become clearer for you, and it will be easier next time for your Kriyānuṣṭhāna Sādhanā. Generally, it is written and said that chakras are along the spinal column because of the flow or connection of the three nāḍīs: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā. These three nāḍīs are more responsible for our mental, emotional, intellectual, and physical balance. The fourth nāḍī, which balances and gives strength to these three nāḍīs, is the Vajra nāḍī. About Vajra nāḍī, a little is written in Hidden Powers in Human, but the next publication will have one chapter added. However, in the last few years, you have always had the lesson of the Vajranāḍī. In order to achieve perfection in these four nāḍīs, you ought to practice eleven rounds of Kaṭhuparaṇam every day. Do not think and mix Kaṭhuparaṇam and Sūrya Namaskār. They are completely different. There are two different cars made by different companies, so don't compare them as one. The carousel may be like this, but the technology is different. It's completely different. There are many telephones, but some are completely different from others. No doubt, Sūrya Namaskār is good, but Kaṭhuparaṇam is more concentrated on Vajranāḍī, as well as these three other nāḍīs. Suṣumnā nāḍī is also known as Brahmanāḍī. There are different Sanskrit names. So when you have such a question, you should keep it and next time ask your teacher or in the seminar. The Khaṭoparaṇam supports Vajranāḍī very much, and through that, it is said that it develops and improves the immune system in our body. It is Vajra Nāḍī which balances even the three nāḍīs, whether Piṅgalā or Suṣumṇā. The strength of the spinal column is Vajrā Nāḍī. Prāṇa and Apāna are two of the most powerful energies or forces in our Maṇipūra Chakra. But the Vajranāḍī is very important for that; it is like a balancing system. It is like a ventile which closes automatically and opens again automatically. These are more to feel and to make control and perfection through the Kaṭhu Praṇām. Now, it is described that chakras are along the spinal column, and we speak about nāḍīs and glands. But chakras are not dependent on or connected to these glands and nāḍīs. If you have an operation, let's say on the lower part of the body, the end of the spine, then you have not operated out your Mūlādhāra cakra. All karma is gone? It's not like that. This is in the astral body, which is reflecting on the physical body. So, we imagine that in a certain part of the body, they are in that part. Each chakra has a function, principle, or rules, and influence on that part of the body. It is not negative. Everything is positive. What the Creator has created in our individual phenomenon is well thought out, and everything is given very well. But if it is misused or not properly taken care of, it is suffering. Therefore, it is said: machines, mechanical things, or the car should remain in one hand. As soon as your car begins to be driven by another family member, that car is already suffering and exhausted. So there are certain things which should remain in one hand. In the same way, whatever is in the body, God gave us; if we use it in a different way, then it is disparaged. It's like in a mechanism: when one wheel of the car is a little bit moving, disbalanced, there is very little movement, but driving thousands of kilometers destroys the wheel as well as the tires. So here it means: if you would like to be successful in Kriyā, which you always speak about, then first control your diet. Check your diet. This is not easy for many, many, many of us. I didn't say you. When I say us, it's different, so you understand. One person said that everyone is flying, and you admire their flight. It's like a game, an art. Every bird is flying. But he said, "If you want to see my art, and you want to see my flight, then please, a little high up in the sky, lift the sky a little higher." So, how are you going to lift the sky higher? Very difficult. Similarly, to change the way of the diet is hard work, very hard work, but where there is a will, there is a way. If you can change the way of your diet, many other things will become easier for you to change. We have no problem, only one problem: the habit of eating. And our biggest problem is that you can't cook. If you cannot cook, then your human life is 40% less. Then the cows and the rabbits are better; they also graze, and they sit down and again they chew. They know how to eat, how to chew, and how to digest. So the second point is: if you would like to be successful in spirituality, in health and self-realization, learn cooking, my dear, learn cooking. And I can tell you, nothing is easier than cooking. If through cooking I get my liberation, then I am a blessed one. Cooking can cook many cooks in the restaurants, but that is not cooking. They put only different tastes. And when you eat for the taste, it's not good cooking. That's it. The taste, the most delicious food is when you are hungry. The food is not delicious. Hunger is delicious. When you are ten days hungry, you have not eaten anything, and you find ten-day-old bread slices already drying, and there is no butter and nothing, you enjoy this ten-day-old bread, and you drink water. So, food is not tasted. The test is the hunger. Therefore, it is said: another success towards your health and your spiritual achievement is to eat only when you are really, really very hungry after waking up. Write down in a notebook one day: when you woke up, how many times did you take water in your mouth? It doesn't matter if you're brushing the teeth or cleaning the mouth. How many times did you drink tea or coffee or beer or alcohol? How many times? And after breakfast until lunch, between these, how many times did you put something in your mouth? Even maybe chewing gum, which is not healthy, or a little chocolate, or a bite of an apple. Write everything. So from morning you wake up until you go to sleep. Even when you take medicine, you take a little water; it also has to be counted. Now count breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Between, you can drink water. Do not replace thirst with water, tea, coffee, or juice. Tea, coffee with milk, milk and juice, and fruits are not included as drinks for quenching your thirst, but as a diet, as food. So when you take a really strict and good, good portion of your food—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—if you follow the second point, your health will rapidly improve: the pain in the joints, the overkills, and many, many other problems. So this is also why it's called yoga anuśāsana, the discipline. After the physical nourishment, spiritual nourishment is very important: how you think. From morning till evening, what kind of thoughts went through your mind? When we have a lot of smoke in this room and dust, and we have a ventilator or an exhaust, the exhaust is running all the time. But who is suffering? The filter. And the filter becomes thicker and thicker, smaller, and it's not penetrating the air through. If the room is very nice and clean, you need not change the filter so often. So our brain is that filter through which vikṣepas, kleśas go. So, there is what you call, you say, you are burned out. So, where is the ash? If you are burned out, then where is the coal? But this is what we call electronic fog and mental fog pollution. So, what you thought from this point to this point, and according to your own opinion, please think: what could be positive and what could be negative? This is purification of the mental field. All emotional problems, all intellectual problems, all psychic problems, they are coming from these two things. So, to clean the filter is prayer, meditation, and satsaṅg. But again, I tell you, if you can't cook, changing the filter will not help you. Therefore, next time you bring your own gas, and we will cook in the garden, and everyone will have to cook exactly what I tell you. Don't imitate others. Six days, six menus, and spices and everything will be available here. You can buy everything. Bring your plate, cooking pot, and spoons. Water we will provide you somewhere near the river so you can wash. So nothing is easy to cook, and that is more healthy and love. That's it. Not cooking means that you never went to school, and you don't know how to write and read. Another can read so quickly, so we let another read for us. So, I know you know how to feed your stomach; you are very expert. Very expert, even if you can cook or not. You go to a restaurant, you go to eat that. You feel this bag, but you don't know what is inside. If we were wise enough and clever enough about what we eat and what we don't eat, we would be so wise and clever to take the advice of the Gajanan original healthy seed. He is talking only about healthy seeds; he doesn't eat. If you give him one flat somewhere alone, he will starve because he doesn't want to cook, and when he wants to cook, he doesn't know what to cook, so he cooks himself in early. But he knows that he would like to eat healthy. Who should provide you health? No restaurant is cooking with love, except our Sevapurī here. So again and again, I tell you three things very important for your spiritual development and for your health. Four, sorry. 1. Āhār. First comes āhār. Āhār is diet, eating. 2. Vihār. Walking. Or where are you going? Where do you spend your time? 3. Ācār. The behavior to others. If you behave to yourself good or not, that doesn't matter. You can look in the mirror and say, "You ugly one." You are crazy to say that to yourself in the mirror. But to others, you have to be nice. 4. Vicār. The way of thinking. Āhār, vihār, ācār, vicār. These are the four points. And this is for yogīs very important, because these four things—āhar, vihar, āchar, vichār—purify the antaḥkaraṇa. And antaḥkaraṇa is the inner functions: manas, buddhi, citta, and ahaṃkāra. This has to be purified, and these four can be purified through these four principles: āhār, vihār, ācār, vicār. Manas, buddhi, citta, ahaṁkāra. That's it, how things function. So not only Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumnā, but also the Vajranāḍī. And Maṇipūra is the most important Chakra in the body. You remember, one whole week we had only Maṇipūra Chakra on the web, and we did not finish it. So Nābhi Cakra, that's most powerful. And nābhi needs health and nourishment. It's called: a yogī should be called svayaṃpākī. There is one philosophy, a chapter called Pākśāstra. Like Vedānta, Sāṅkhya, etc., Pakṣāśāstra. Pakṣāstra means the philosophy of cooking. If you can't cook, you are out. The best cook, Āyurveda said, is that you give the iron grain, like a grain, iron—little iron balls—and that best cook will cook that and serve you, and you will think, "Oh, they are so tasty, so soft." That is a Pakṣastra: to turn the hard into softness, and turn the soft into hardness. Mercury changes into the hard. Make the Śiva liṅga, and they purify in such a way the mercury that when you go climbing on the mountain, they give you one small ball of the mercury, and you keep it in your mouth, you will not feel exhausted. And here, even if you touch the mercury, you have to call the fire brigade or ambulance to clean and see what it is. So this is the evidence of the Āyurveda. How to bring this into solid form? It's not easy to bring the mercury into solid form. So, Pakṣāstra. Then in Pakṣāstra there is one chapter: to become a yogī or to be very spiritually developed, you have to become Svayaṃpākī, which means that you can cook. And then there is sādhanā. You will see in Holy Gurujī's biography that Holy Gurujī, though he was only about eight or nine years old, was cooking for himself. He didn't even eat what his mother cooked, though we say, "Eat food cooked by your mother, even if it is poison. Sit together with your brothers, even if there is an enemy between you." So that yogī, when he doesn't want others' energy at all, then he or she should cook for themselves. No question of eating outside. Then you will suddenly know how you can meditate. So, Pak Śāstra, cooking knowledge. Many of you, you don't have the second one at home, so you are cooking anyhow for yourself. That's good. But you are not cooking every day. You eat always junk food, and there is a certain kind of taste they put in, you like it. So, the most spoiled one, who spoils us, is our tongue, our gums, the taste. So, chakra is in the astral body. It is only their controlling, reflecting the glands and that part of the body. And you cannot imagine in the front. If you imagine in the front, you see your thoracic, your heart, and what is in your intense time? The stomach. Is it digested or not? So it's a reflection from the backside always. Feel the chakra more towards the spinal column, and always clockwise turning. So from my side, when I look like this, it's clockwise like this. But when you look to me, it's clockwise like this. Similarly, when you look inside, you have to look clockwise. And then, from Sahasrāra to Mūlādhāra and down to the foot soles, there are many chakras. So the strength of your meditation and the success of your sādhanā is your Vajranāḍī. Otherwise, your suṣumnā and other nāḍīs are suffering. So, Kaṭhuparaṇam: eleven rounds, five morning and five evening, and one extra. In this way, you had a beautiful sādhanā, and you had very nice, experienced, expert teachers who were giving instructions. So I am very happy and thankful to your teachers that they took care of you. So, thank you, and wish you all the best and a good journey. Drive carefully, and looking forward to seeing you. Blessings of Mahāprabhujī.