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The Essence and Power of Haṭha Yoga

The nature of the Haṭha Yogī is supreme, achieving a consciousness even Śiva respects. Others may wait lifetimes for liberation, but the Haṭha Yogī stands above all, enduring every condition with immense willpower and complete contentment, free from all desire. A story illustrates this: a yogī, baking bread on a funeral pyre, is offered a boon by Śiva. The yogī refuses, asking only that Śiva depart, demonstrating a state beyond want. In contrast, a Bhakti Yogī constantly petitions God, and a Jñāna Yogī argues, while the Haṭha Yogī is the realized Self. Four types of force exist: the stubborn will of a child, the determined will of a woman, the imposed will of a king, and the unwavering will of the yogī focused solely on self-realization. Haṭha Yoga's practical path involves six purification acts—Neti, Dhauti, Nauli, Basti, Kapālabhāti, and Trāṭaka—to cleanse the body and balance the vital energies. This balance of the Ha and Tha energies, the sun and moon channels, leads to union. It is the highest yoga.

"When the Haṭha Yogī comes, then Bhagavān, Sadāśiva, Swayambhū, Bholenāth, with great respect, welcomes the Haṭha Yogī."

"Ask anything, I will give you,' so he said, 'Okay, if you want to give me something, then disappear, go away.'"

Filming location: Sunshine Coast, Australia

Part 1: The Nature of the Haṭha Yogī Oṁ Karavinda-saṁyuktaṁ nitya-dāyanti yoginaḥ. Oṁ Kārayāṇāya namaḥ. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī, Jaya. So much prāṇa. Good evening, all dear ones here in this hall and in different parts of the world. Whether you believe it or not, I see you and you see me. That’s great. The subject is Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha and Yoga is a very great subject, and a Haṭha Yogī has a very easy life to get self-realization. Others have to wait maybe many lives, but a Haṭha Yogī has that achievement that even God himself respects and adores the Haṭha Yogī. When the Haṭha Yogī comes, then Bhagavān, Sadāśiva, Swayambhū, Bholenāth, with great respect, welcomes the Haṭha Yogī. Hatha Yogi consciousness becomes like Śiva itself, and Śiva himself will see the Hatha Yogi as a higher consciousness. Now, who is that Haṭha Yogī? How does Śiva see him? And how does a Haṭha Yogī see Śiva? We are talking today about Haṭha Yogī, Kabitā. If we practice and become a Haṭha Yogī, we don’t have to worry at all. If we will get liberation, or mokṣa, or ātmā-jñāna. But what kind of Hatha Yogī should one be? A Hatha Yogī should stand above all. Hatha yogīs have great willpower, and Hatha yogīs endure immense situations. Hot, cold, hunger, thirst, comfort, discomfort, respect, no respect, etc. So before I tell all this, there is one beautiful story between a Haṭha Yogī and Śiva himself. Shiva is the creator who blessed us with the science of yoga, the science of all mantras, yantras, tantras, all Vāstu Śāstra, yoga, meditation, prāṇāyāms, etc. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā... About 100, 200, or 300 houses were there. I didn’t count exactly how many there were, but there were some. And outside of the village, about half a kilometer, one kilometer far, there was the crematorium. When people die, they burn the body there. So someone died, and the whole village went to the funeral. All persons were very loving, kind persons. The whole village was crying when such a person died. Story in the story. There was a dictator, and he was so angry if people would not greet him and do this or that. So he always used to say, "Yes, sir. Yes, sir." So he had one dog, and his dog died. So the whole neighboring villages and his village all went to the funeral for his dog. If nobody will come, my God, but when the dictator himself died, nobody went. That’s it. So you can see the quality of the persons. Everyone who goes to the funeral takes a piece of wood to offer into that fire. So it was a big fire. After the fire had burnt out and calmed down, they all went home. But still, the coal, which was still having the fire, cool weather—sometimes, like in Melbourne, daytime is good, but night is freezing. And so, with the air, the fire was still active, coal. So there was one Haṭha Yogī. He was collecting, or going sometime to get food, and mostly he said only chapati, flowers, or something, not cooked food. So he got about one kilo of chapati flour. He went. Now he had to make his chapati somewhere. So he went out of that village, and he saw there was a fire burning. There is some fire where the dead body was burned. He went there. He had only one pot for everything. So he brought the water and he made his chapati, or bread. But now I think you people all know what chapati is. From one kilo, it was a nice, thick chapati, and now he’s sitting there as a yogī. He wet his chapati with his hands and put it on the fire, and now he’s baking his chapati. Little drops of water, raining, cold wind, dark night, eleven o’clock in the evening, nobody there, he’s sitting there. So Pārvatī and Śiva both were walking by, and Pārvatī saw that someone was making chapātī there where the funeral place is. And Pārvatī asked Śiva, "Who is that? What is he doing?" He said some yogī is making his food, chapatis. Pārvatī was angry. Women always have a good heart. They are angry also, but angry out of love or compassion. She said, "Śiva, my lord, I am disappointed." He said, "Why, Mahādevī? Why are you disappointed? I am sad, but why?" Look, there are many people who are gambling and doing so many businesses, and money, money. They have a lot of money, and houses, and comfort, and air conditioning, and everything. That time was not this, what you call the microwaves. But she said they have all comfort, and they never think of you, Śiva. They never pray to you, and you gave them everything. And look, this Bhakta, this Yogi, day and night repeats your name: Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya. And you can’t give him even a little comfort where he can make his food? No house, nothing. That’s why I’m angry. Give him something. Shiva smiled and said, "Devi, Goddess, you don’t understand." She said, "I understand, or not?" No argument. Provide him some little comfort. Give him. He said, "Well, I would like to give, but he will not take." You don’t want to give such good excuses. I want to see you give, and I will see if he takes or not. You see, let’s call woman hut, triyā hut, bāl hut, yog hut, and rāj hut. These are four kinds of haṭha. Shivjī said, "Then, Mahādevī, you stay behind this bush so that he doesn’t see you. I am going to give him something and observe what he will take or not." He is making his chapati and sitting very relaxed and happy. No sorrow, no pain, no desires, it doesn’t matter. Cold is cold. And Śiva came and stood in front of the yogī, the hot yogī, and he didn’t look. The yogī didn’t look. He is happy looking at how the chapati, my chapati is. Getting good, baked, or it will burn or not. After five minutes, Śiva said, "He is not afraid, nothing." Oh, yogī didn’t look up. Who are you? Bhagavān Śiva said, "I am Swayambhū Śiva, on whom you are meditating." And the yogī didn’t look up. He said, "And why have you come here? Why did you come here? What do you want?" But he still didn’t look up. Parvati was biting her nails. Bhagavān Śiva said, "I came to give you something." He said, "When did I beg you? I didn’t ask you for anything. Why did you come to give me something?" When Pārvatī is listening, she is about 30 meters behind the bush. He said, "Ask anything, I want to give." He said, "I have no desires, I don’t want anything." Śiva said, "I know you don’t want anything, but when I appear, when I come, then I give something. Ask anything, I will give you," so he said, "Okay, if you want to give me something, then disappear, go away." Śiva said, "Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya," and Śiva went away. Śiva Jī walked away, and Pārvatī was going behind slowly, slowly. Śiva said, "My dear, did you hear?" He said, "Śiva, your māyā, only you know." He said, "You don’t know Hatha Yogī. He is above everything. Therefore, do not disturb them. He has no desires." Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said in Vajan, Jīvatāhi Murdāsam Rahe Nahi Siddha Nahi Pīr, Svāmī Dīp Avadhūt Avaliyā, Mahāvīran Kā Vīra, etc. So that is the Hatha Yogī. Would you like to be like that? If you like to be like that, then walk on my path. That’s it. It’s not easy. Inside, you have to purify, purify, purify. This is a story to understand what a Haṭha Yogī can achieve. Bhakti Yogi is bigger. Bhakti Yogi, God, give me this, please. God, give me your blessing. God, give me a job, please. Can I find a good job? Can my children get a good school? This, that, I have pain here, I have pain here. All the times we are begging from God, all the times. Day and night we are remembering God; God has no rest. So two persons died: one was a bhakti yogī, always remembering God. The other never thought of God. They both died. And they came to the door of heaven, or Vaikuṇṭha, whatever you call it, Svarga. And the doorkeeper opens the door and says, "One moment, I have to go to the Dharmarāja." We went to the Dharmarāja. Dharamrāj, at midnight, who is there? You could bring it tomorrow. He said, "No, no, no. I can’t let them wait. Tell God, there are two persons here." God said, "Go and ask what their name is. From where are they coming?" So they went and asked them. So one is a farmer, and the farmer said, "What, God? I was at the door of God. I didn’t want to come here, but anyhow, it’s good." The other one was a bhakta. So they went and said to God, "One is that he hardly remembers you, God. And the other one is, day and night, he repeats your name." God said, "Okay, bring the farmer in, and the other one sent back to the earth." He is your bhakta? He said yes. His day and night disturbs me, doesn’t let me sleep. I can’t sleep, and he sometimes comes. So he is a peaceful person; they didn’t come in. So Bhakti Yoga is very good, but all the time we beg for something. A Jñāna Yogī, a Rāja Yogī, so Jñāna Yoga, all the time having arguments: "No, this is not like that, this is like that, this is like that." All the time, argument, argument. Rajyogi, all the times making the disciplines. Atha yogānuśāsanam, anuśāsanam, anuśāsanam, all the time. The Haṭha yogī is completely content, is completely satisfied. No desires, neither for God, nor care for heaven or hell; he is the ātmā. So this is heart yoga. Another, we call, we said in India, Bāla Hut, Triyā Hut, Āj Hut, and Yoga Hut. Baal Hut, Baal means the little child. When the child wants to have something, he will get it from his parents. Will not give up crying or say, "Father, can I have? Father, can I have? Father." Father has such a big heart. Mother will say, "No, no." So the father said, "Okay, but I will go shopping and bring something and give it to you." You see, the father’s heart is very, very big. The mother keeps discipline. Baal Hath. Baal means small child. Triyā Hath. My dear, there is a majority of the triyā women. Triyā means woman. So, don’t be angry with me. Triya Hath is what a woman decides she will do. It is a very strong will. Very strong will. So, you never know what’s going on in her brain and her feelings. So, even the husband has to surrender to her heart. Heart means force, a very gentle force. You know, Mahātmā Gandhi, it is said that he didn’t fight with weapons. No hiṁsā, ahiṁsā, we will win. But that was a very fine violence. That’s also violence, where you ask somebody, or your husband or the wife, "What is that? What is that? Tell, what is that?" And he always doesn’t talk about anything. Tell me, finally, tell me. This awakens your aggression, and that is also a very gentle way of hiṃsā. So, but Gandhi did many good things, so Gandhiji, please don’t tell me anything, he’s looking here. So, Bāl Hut, Triyā Hut, then Rāj Hut, Hut of the King. Now, kings are the ministers, and whatever the ministers want, they bring into law in the country. How many people are suffering in the world from this junk food? And how many people are suffering? We know, and they know, that this pollution which is here is destructive for all creatures on this earth. Also for the plants, for the water, for the water life, for the humans, for the animals. But they sign it; it’s by law. We can’t do anything; it’s a law. Now you can’t drink the cow’s milk directly from the cow. By generation and generation, since the cow in Satyuga, Kāmadhenu came. Cow milk is a mother’s milk, but one child died. But you didn’t ask how many children died because of the improper milk. That we don’t know. So, but they are ministers, they have power, and there is a law, and they are doing it. And we can’t do anything. So, the king has his or her haṭha. Mahāprabhudīp Karatā Mahāprabhudīp Karatā He Kevalam Mahāprabhudīp Karatā He Kevalam... He was coming over the face, and the yogī said, "Hmm," again hair was falling over the face. She was again making like this. After a few times, the yogī said to the wind, "Okay, I will go in this direction." That is the decision of the yogī. They have only one target: to come to the self-realization of God. So, these are four kinds of Haṭha: Bāl Haṭha, Triyā Haṭha, Rāj Haṭha, and Yoga Haṭha. This is generally what people are explaining. Now, another, according to the Śāstras, the literatures, authentic ancient wisdom, This Haṭha has six kriyās called Ṣaṭ Karma. In Āyurveda, they have Pañca Karma. So, Pañca Karma comes from Haṭha Yoga, but they left one out. They have only five, but Haṭha Yoga has six kriyās. Six kriyās for the purification of the entire body. When the body is pure, there is no vikāra, no impurity; then our concentration, our feelings, our health, everything is pure and healthy. So these are the six kriyās which Haṭha Yoga represents. Hatha Yoga: Neti, cleaning of the nose with the neti pot every day; Dhauti, the cleaning of the alimentary channel, the food channel; then different kinds of dhautis, Neti, Sūtra Neti and Jala Neti; Basti, cleaning of the entire... Intestines, cleaning the stomach, that all the time the people, they were doing yogīs, they were doing yoga, they were doing yoga,... They were going in the water in the lake and made one yoga posture, and they sucked the water through the anus, half a litre, then went in the field and let this water out. Again come and again suck. Now, everywhere, water is polluted, so it is dangerous to do. We can get infections. Therefore, now we have developed one technique called Śaṅkh Prakṣālana, and this one should be done once a month or four times a year. When one season ends and another season begins, that time also our entire system is changing in the body, so blood purification. So, these four seasons. Śaṅkha means a conch. When we have this conch, we see the conch has the reels. If we put water in, it doesn’t go directly. We put water in, and then we move like this; then water comes out quickly. Similarly, our intense time, the human’s intense time, is 8.4 meters long. Quite long, no? From here to eight meters, till there. The creatures which are not vegetarian have a short intestine. And those who have a long intestine are all vegetarians. So when the human eats the meat, it takes a long time to digest, and often some pieces remain, which can create cancer. Part 2: The Path of Haṭha Yoga: Purification, Practice, and Patience Now, many cancers are appearing in the body. For this, there is Saṅghaprakṣālana. You have the exercises in your Yoga and Daylight book; there are four or five postures. However, you should learn from a master, from your yoga teacher. Do it four or five times with your teacher, then you can do it at home. You have to drink about 25 liters of water. Yes, 25 liters, not a glass. Some yogīs drink only this much, you know; this is just nothing. So, 25 glasses, and then it’s clean? It is not clean. Twenty-five liters, my God—it flows completely filtered. Yes. After 25 glasses, the water comes out yellow. Then comes a little cleaning, and you think, "I’m finished." Drink two more glasses and do the exercise. As you go, again it will come in pieces. Purījī, Purījī... For two months, no meat, fish, eggs, or anything of that kind. Only one month remains, and then you have to do it again. Also, for about ten days, no raw food, no fruit juice, and no bread—only freshly made chapati. Your teacher will tell you what to eat and what not to eat. If you don’t follow the diet after Saṅkt Prakṣālan, you will have gastric problems. Then, instead of having good, you will have bad things. So, prevention is better than treatment. This is Haṭha Yoga. Dhauti, Basti, Kunjal Kriyā—that’s also Dhauti. When we have what we call heartburn here—after eating, something comes out and gets stuck—there is a lot of acidity inside. Then we go and buy medicine and take a tablet, but that’s not a solution. This technique we call Kunjal Kriyā, taken from the elephant. When an elephant feels acidity in the stomach, he puts his trunk inside and sucks all the acidity out and cleans it. So this is done from elephant’s imitation by yogīs, as a Kunjal Kriyā. Also, the elephant goes into the lake, takes the water, and washes his head. So we made an imitation of all that you had. The bathroom shower is coming from the elephant’s technique. Yes, beautiful. One elephant was washing himself and swimming. He was washing—can you imagine, so many kilos heavy body—suddenly in the water you are fluttering; for an elephant it is a joy. He did Kunjal Kriyā, he made a good cleaning, and then slowly he is walking again to the forest, and he takes the dust and puts it on his body. People say, "Look, stupid animal." Just now he was washing, bathing for one hour, and now he is putting dust on his head again. Why? One said, "Well, because of flies and mosquitoes." Mosquitoes, elephant—how skin is thick. He doesn’t feel anything. Others said, "Well, he is stupid." Another said, "Well, too much sun is shining; he wants to put it in the dust." One person, wise one like all of you, said, "Why don’t we ask the elephant?" So they asked the elephant, "Why are you doing this, elephant?" He said, "What? You bathed very nicely, very clean. And now you are putting the dust?" He said, "Yes." Why? He said, "I hope that maybe some time ago some holy saint walked here. So his holy dust of his holy feet, if it goes on my head, I will get mokṣa." Look, animals also have such beautiful feelings and thoughts. Who are we to call them stupid animals? They don’t understand our language, and we don’t understand their language. Every creature has love and feelings. For concentration, gaze on one candle, light, or on the red, black, or yellow dot on a piece of paper. This also your teacher will teach, and then comes the Kapālbhāti. Prāṇāyāma—Kapāla in the forehead, our sinuses. After doing the neti, jal neti, we should do the kapālbhāti. Kapālbhāti is only exhalation. This is a Kapālbhāti. It must go from the navel. Don’t do like this. That’s like a frog. Should I jump or not? Kapālbhāti is only exhalation. Then, those who have problems with headaches from time to time should practice netī. And every day, three times a day, do five minutes of kapālbhāti, and you will not have a headache. But if you are lazy and you don’t do it, then you suffer. The treatment is there. And bhastrikā is different. So kapālabhāti is like this. What happened to my mic? Hey, Mr. Technician, from that side. So, this means, you know, the locomotive—when we are using the coal, the volume is higher. That’s the locomotive starting. And then comes the Bhastrikā. Bhastrikā is Mokṣa. Okay, thank you. Bhastrika is now locomotive starts. Yes? Oh my God, the engine is getting warm from here. Not like this. It’s wrong. When you do the Kapālbhāti or Bastrika, you put a nice water pot on your head; it should not fall down, yes. And if you do like this, it will go like that. Thank you. So these are the correct techniques. You have to get the examples; your teacher will do it. Neti, Dhauti, Basti, then Nauli. Nauli is the churning of the stomach. That is a little difficult to learn, but after two or three months of trying, you can learn. And your yoga teachers, they are experts, and they have to, before they obtain their license, the Yoga in Daily Life license... So, when they can’t come to Austria for the examination, then they have to do it through the web or Skype. And the teacher, looking there, examiners, and the student who is going to be a teacher have to show the nauli. Yes, that one will pass the examination. Yes. So, thanks to God, we have the Skype technique. So, yes, that’s a practical examination. Neti, Dhauti, Basti, Nauli, Trāṭaka, and Kapālabhāti. This is Haṭha Yoga. And in Australia they said, "I want to practice Haṭha Yoga." I said, "Okay, we prepare the warm water for Kunjal, we prepare the Sutradhauti and Saṅkhaprakṣālana water, and let us come drink." No, I want Haṭha Yoga. Yes, we give you Haṭha Yoga. So, Australia completely turned the other side upside down. What is Haṭha Yoga, and what is Rāja Yoga? Rāja Yoga is āsana, physical postures, and prāṇāyāma: yama, niyama, āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, and samādhi. This is Rāja Yoga. If we have time tomorrow, we will talk. And the Jñāna Yoga, philosophy. But philosophy is that finally, Brahma satya, jagat mithyā. The essence, the reality, after all, the world is unreality. Only the Supreme is the reality. The final truth is only that God. The rest is only our struggling. Now, these are the techniques of Haṭha Yoga. Well, classically, and as a philosophy, the definition of Haṭha Yoga. So, in the book, you must read—must not, you should read, because "must" is against human rights. So, about chakras, in our body, there are 72,000 nerves. All these have to be purified through the techniques of Haṭha Yoga. And these 72,000 nerves are a network through the whole body. Our feelings, touch, and pain all depend on the nerves. And there are a few nerves which are balancing and controlling all the nerves. Vajranāḍī, that’s starting from the big toe and second toe. Vajra means strength; it is the foundation of the building. You see the high, tall buildings. The engineers studied, and they put their whole thoughts and brain into making a solid foundation. And so the Vajranāḍī is our foundation, and Vajranāḍī is responsible for our immune system. And so, the Khāṭū Praṇām in yoga and the life which you have, that is training and strengthening our Vajranāḍī to have good immunity in the body and concentration. Khatu Pranam is completely different; you have a chart there. So, the other three nāḍīs are the Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. Ida is the left nostril connected to the one nāḍī, Piṅgalā is the right nostril connected, and the central one is Suṣumnā. The Sushumna nerve is responsible for receiving the cosmic energy, which is what we call prāṇa. Prāṇa is not oxygen. Prāṇa. And that Nāḍī supplies the Prāṇa to the whole body, and that is controlling all. They call the left sympathetic, the right parasympathetic, and the central nerve. The left nāḍī is connected to our emotion. Emotion means we are in motion. Sometimes this motion is so strong, we can destroy many things. The anger, the hate, the jealousy, greed, revenge. These are the emotions. A wise person will wait until the waves in the ocean become calm. Then you dive to search for the pearls. If you will act when big waves are there, what you call the hurricanes, you are a tsunami, do not search. So our emotion, our mind sometimes awakens the tsunami, then we become so angry. The philosopher from Europe, someone wrote him a letter and asked him to answer something. So he wrote him a letter about ten pages back. After writing 10-12 pages, he writes, he signs his signature, and then he writes P.S.: Sorry, friend, I had no time, that’s why I wrote a long letter. I had no time, that’s why I wrote such a long letter. What does it mean? I had no time to think it over. If I had thought, then I would just write a short and sweet answer. So when our emotion, itanādi, is active emotion, then nowadays it is very easy. Sit on a computer, write an email, and send it. Pasta. Ishan Pyaatik. Finished. And not even that, they don’t need a computer. There is a telephone, SMS. Dubis blood, dubis sun. Oh, sorry, I have to talk in German, English. You are stupid, and I don’t agree with this, and it’s finished. And after, you are sorry. Modern technology is very good, but please wait, think it over, and sometimes think for days, and sometimes think for years, years to answer. There was one master, and he was very respected in that village. Whenever he was going or walking, many people came and joined him and said, "How are you, Master?" and so on. So he was walking through the market. It must not be that all are your good wishes; some are jealous, some think, "This bloody man," or "the mad one," or like anybody. So one man came out of his shop and said, "Master," he said, "yes, can you answer me something?" He said, "Yes." What is the difference between your beard and a donkey’s tail? The tail of the donkey and your beard—what is the difference? The master just walked away, and the disciples were so angry they went to play boxing. The techniques of boxing came from the kangaroos, like a shower came from an elephant. You know how quick and how best good boxers are the kangaroos? Yes, it is from the kangaroos. So yoga is a natural way, that everything comes from nature. Master went, all went. The age of the master was about 75. He is coming near about 100, and the last minutes or last hour of his life was there. He called one of his disciples and said, "Please go and call that merchant." Master, you remember him. He was so aggressive and such a bad man. He wants to compare your beard with a donkey. Master said, "Well, it’s my things. Please call him." The man who was humiliating the master was so sorry from age 75 till 100; for 25 years he was so unhappy inside, thinking, "Why did I have such a stupid thought to humiliate such a great, wise person?" He came and said, "Sorry, sorry, Master, I was stupid." Master said, "No, no, my son, no. You had a right to ask the question. You wanted to know the answer. I am sorry that I couldn’t answer you immediately. And I cannot die without giving an answer, so I owe you the answer." He said, "I don’t need an answer, Master." He said, "No, but I have to give." My son, I want to tell you, there is a difference between the tail of the donkey and my beard. And he passed. Sometimes we have to wait a lifetime to clarify something, but don’t die without answering. And don’t answer immediately. That is a wise person. And therefore, computer technology and this SMS, my God, it’s not. SMS is Swāmī Maheśvarānanda’s school. S.M.S., Swami Maheshwarananda School. Go there and learn before you answer or write. So wait and wait. Emotion, mind, the principle of the mind, or the master of the mind is the moon. And the moon changes always. Similarly, our mind, our thoughts change always. So don’t trust your thoughts immediately, and don’t give the judgment. The right nostril is the sun, which is fire, and it gives us strength, creativity, and activity. Our anger also comes from there. This too has to be controlled, so the Suṣumnā Nāḍī belongs to that wisdom or higher consciousness. Now, the left nostril represents one letter called Ha, and the right, Tha. So, Haṭha, okay? This is in the śāstras, in the books, in all literature, the definition of Haṭha Yoga is coming: Ha-ṭha. And Yoga means union, balance, oneness. So when both nostrils, these nāḍīs, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, if we can balance, then we have achieved the yoga. Then our prāṇa and apāna meet together in the navel, and the kuṇḍalinī, our consciousness, will rise up to the sahasrāra cakra. So Hatha Yoga is a philosophy. Hatha Yoga is the way which is above all other ways. That person who achieved Haṭha Yoga is a real yogī. And we are all bhakti yogīs, prasāda yogīs, immediately eating prasāda, this, this, but enjoy. Whatever will happen, we will see after. So this is Haṭha Yoga, and tomorrow morning, a little bit, we will speak about techniques. More, our dear Swami Ummapurījī, she will come about 9:30, in half an hour. Okay? Or quarter to ten, ten, because you have duty and something to do, and then... So tomorrow will be Australian time, Sunshine Coast is Queensland, no? So, according to that time, Umāpurī will also have a webcast talking. You can talk in the webcast, and afterwards I will come and talk about something. Thank you. So this is Haṭha Yoga. How can you ask the questions afterward, because they can’t ask me questions? It’s in the air somewhere. So, thank you. I wish you a very nice Saturday in Europe and Friday in Kannada, Vancouver, etc. Wish you all the best, and God bless you. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. So, do not have the haṭha like a Pārvatī. Let Śiva manage peacefully. Oṁ Adah Pūrṇam Idam Pūrṇam Udāchya Se Pūrṇasya Pūrṇam Ādāya Pūrṇam Evāvaśiṣyate Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...

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