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Listen to our divine masters, dear brothers, sisters, and our dear Amṛtsāgar. Thank you for organizing this program. You are truly Amṛt Sāgar. Do you know the meaning of the name? Amṛt means nectar, and Sāgar means ocean—the ocean of nectar. It is a good name. This is because yoga leads us to immortality. There are two kinds of expressions for the immortal. One is physical, and that is not possible. It is not within that law. Who is born will die, and who dies may or may not be born. Who came will go. What is created will be destroyed. So physically, we cannot be immortal in the sense of everlasting or lasting forever. But our soul dissolves into the light of the supreme Brahman so that all this merges into the Ātmā, and that is everlasting, immortal. It is not easy to achieve this immortality. It takes ages and many, many births. According to the Vedānta, the creator has created 8.4 million different creatures, divided into three categories: Jalchar, Thalchar, and Nabhachara—creatures in the water, on the earth, and in the space. Individual souls have their own destiny. There is a philosophy called Dvaitavāda and Advaitavāda. Dvaitavāda means dualism. Duality is also true. But Advaitavāda says there is no duality. That is also true. It means if we see as ātmā, then we are all one; there is no difference. The body is different, language is different, our soul is different, our habits, etc., all are different. There is a duality. The soul is bound to karma, and the fruits of the karma are what we call destiny. So whatever happens to us has its cause, its reason. So what happens now? Our action immediately will become a fruit, a destiny. Every action will have a reaction, and every reaction will have an action. For this individual soul, it is very difficult to come out of this cycle of birth and death. But when one will manage, by the blessing of God, or your destiny, your luck, whatever you call it, whatever you believe, through what you got—a human life—so human life is the chance. This is the last milestone where we can come to the absolute, or immortality, or God consciousness, or oneness with God. If we miss this, then again we have to repeat the cycle of birth and death. We do not know where we will go. So, when our destiny, our karma is purified, then this soul melts into the Supreme Ātmā. And so, as Ātmā, we are only one. Therefore, there is no duality. If we put a few cups of water in different pots in the evening and put them in the garden, a full moon is shining, and you look at every cup; there is one moon. In the sky, there is only one moon. But in the 20 glasses or cups, there are 20 moons. So, one philosophy says it is a duality; everyone is separate. But other Śaṅkarācārya said, no. This is a form which creates the duality. When the form will be dissolved, there will be nothing. There is only one. As long as you look in the individual cup, there are many moons, but when you look in the sky, there is only one. So as long as we have our body, and we have five different kinds of bodies: the body of nourishment, the body of energy, the mental body, the intellectual body, and the causal body, the body of the cause, desires. To become one and purify everything, to liberate our soul, is spirituality. Spirituality, everyone understands differently. Spirituality means purity, crystal clear, pure, transparent. Only going to the temple, church, ashram, or somewhere to pray is not the only aspect of spirituality. To meditate, sit down, is also not that spirituality. To repeat mantras, read holy books, yes, but that is also not the spirituality. Spirituality is 24 hours. Whatever we do should be pure: eating, drinking, behaviour, working, relations, etc. If then we are like a sun, which gives light to all. So, there is no duality. A well-wisher for all. Sarve bhavantu sukhinaḥ. All should be happy. No one should be unhappy. Every creature, you know, out of 8.4 million which I spoke of, human is one. But humans are special because God gave them a very powerful tool: intellect. Intellect needs proper education, not the education we learn in the university, school, or college. This kind of education is for our butter and bread. The real education, which makes a human a human, is an education in the lap of mother and father. The education from the mother tongue and from the father makes the person a human, or different. Dharma has two meanings. Religion, we also call dharma. Or dharma means obligation, dharma means duty, principle. Dharma of the eye is to see; if this eye cannot see, then one is blind. Dharma of the ears is to hear. So similarly, humans also have that dharma. If you protect the dharma, dharma will protect you. And so what is the human morning? When we get up, first what we do? We open our eyes and look to the picture of the god, whatever holy picture, our parents, mother, father, or your children's face, or your wife or husband. The whole day, this will remain in your memory: good pictures, good things. Second, think, "I am human." And if we think that I am a human, then many, many problems we will not face. Because something is doing, we say, "Oh, that was not a human." A human cannot do like this. So it goes in our subconscious: "I am a human." Okay, if others do like this, let them do it. But it is not human. It is inhuman. It is one of the greatest protections, the biggest protection for a spiritual person, to realize God and maintain a harmonious life in this world: without fear, without doubt, without greed, without anger, without hate, without jealousy. The third thought: what makes me human? Two legs, two hands, two eyes—other creatures also have these. Monkeys also have it. So what makes me human? And these are the human qualities within ourselves, tormented or objective. And finally, then we think during daytime, what makes me human? These qualities, and how to have these pure qualities, that comes through our behavior, our actions, our thoughts. When we think negatively, everything is poisoned. Modern psychology says negative thinking means poisoning yourself. And positive thinking means liberating, purifying thyself. And that is what we always say in India. In the four Vedas and six philosophies of India, the essence from all this is only two words. And these two words: do good, get good; do bad, get bad. This essence of all wisdoms, everything. So that person has the blessings of parents, and the parents give a good education, including school education. That is spirituality for me, not what we call fanaticism, not only wasting your time and sitting for hours and hours and only meditating. When you are meditating, two hours sitting, then in one month, 60 hours. And 60 hours, if you work on something good, will be a good achievement. But meditate, meditate that time that you do not take time of others. Meditation is very important. Meditation is a way to our self, to achievement. Life is a journey, not a destination. The destination will be achieved at that time when the last milestone is covered. Many things happen in a human's life, good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy which will happen is that man will die, the human will die without God realization. It is a pity, it is a pity. So Ātmā is one, sky is one. We cannot destroy the sky. You can move the knife a thousand, a million times like this and look with a magnifying glass. Look. If there are in any way creases in the sky, no. Make a big fire and burn it and look afterward if the sky has a black spot, no. So when we achieve that higher consciousness, then all karmas that we do have no effect on it. They will go to them. The good karmas will go to those who are thinking good, and the bad karma will go to those who are thinking bad. The person, the liberated one, is neutral and free. So this is the human life. We have to do many things, and we should do good things. We should create good things. We call love God, God is love. We should love all creatures. We should love the forest. We should love everything. Love your neighbor, what they call in Christianity, means not your father and husband and wife. There, you need not be told to love your wife, your husband, your children, or your parents. That is natural. Love your neighbor means every entity, every entity. Love each and every entity, if not more. Then at least that much, as much as you love thyself. That love is known as God is love, and love is God. Yes, everyone said, but they say God is love and love is God. And then Americans, they do not love one country. And other countries do not love America. And fighting each other, killing each other. So where was the love? So love has become for us a rubber stamp, nothing else. Every religion on this earth became a rubber stamp. They do not follow their religion 100%. If each and every religion will follow their religion as it is written in the book, there will be no war, no fighting, and no missionaries. You know, the biggest problem in the world is missionaries, yes. You know why the terrorists developed? Why it began from the very beginning, time of the... Libya and so on, because the missionaries went there to convert the Muslims to Christianity. So, roots begin from that point. So, if your religion is good, why are you damaging or attacking other religions? It means you do not know. Your religion is my religion, and my religion is your religion. Because love is one. Support them, do not misguide them. Guide them. In India, it is one of the biggest problems. They bring a lot of money. What you get for the children, and this in aeroplanes, this all goes to the missionaries. And there they go, and they said, "We give you school dress, we give you this, we give you this, and you become the Christians." They just send people and tribes. They think, okay, so you do not know how big a problem is there. Muslims do not do that much. No. They are only because they are attacked, and therefore they are trying action and reaction. Therefore, spirituality is love, God, and so we in India we call, "Ishwara, Allah, Tera Nām, Sabko Sanmatī De Bhagavān." Ishwara, Allah, all is Thy name, O Lord. Give us good thoughts, positive thoughts, so that we may respect every God. God is in each and every atom. Then we understand what is the love. And so, this is what we call the yogīs. We are thinking, and still yogīs are thinking, so to make a human life successful. Otherwise, you do not know. The next life, you will be human or not, it is not in our hands. It is a wind which will take our boat in the direction, and that wind is our destiny, what we did good and what we do. So that spirituality is what we call the mercy in the heart. Compassion in the heart, love in the heart, understanding, forgiveness, everything is in our heart. When we go away from the heart, only into the brain, then it is dry intellect. It looks like a beautiful apple, a very nice, shining, big apple, but it is a plastic apple. And maybe it is a little bit, have a black spot on it, and this beauty, nice apple, it is an organic apple. It is a real apple. There is a love from the heart. So, spirituality, I am talking about spirituality. Spirituality is when you do not harm anyone, when you do not take away from someone. Be kind, be humble, see God in everyone, see the divine love of God in everyone, see the children of God in everyone. That person does not need anything because he or she is content. What do we need? Little eating and drinking water, that is all. People now have competition over who is going to become the first richest person in the world. But this richest person in the world, who is getting a lot of money, cannot eat properly what he or she would like to eat. Because so much stress and illness is that you cannot eat. And a person who is working very hard all day and gets a few dollars in the evening for food, he or she can eat a lot, as much as they like, and sleep very peacefully and go into a deep sleep. And multimillionaires or billionaires, they have pistols. They have sleeping tablets. They have guards, and they have something called a very good Doberman, the dog. And he still cannot sleep peacefully, never knows when what will happen, you see. So, these persons who have a lot of money, they are—they do not have the money, they are the slave of the property. They are looking after the properties and money. What a life! And when you die, not a single dollar will go with you. All will remain where there it is, so best would be for them. Unfortunately, they do not come to me, you know. Otherwise, I will tell them, "Give all these poor people, you will be the richest of the richest, not only here but in the heaven too, that God." That is a love given for what you are, just putting money in the bank. And these spiritual people are the richest people. They do not build any church or a temple or ashram or school or college, very rarely one. And if they make a college, it is again to make their business so, whose heart is spiritual and rich, generous. I tell you one story, a real story, about 15 years ago for me, the midnight in from where I am coming. You know, the story is about Waterloo Railway Station, where is that? London. And so one of my bhakta, he had a shop there, so he told me this story. And at the railway station, there are many poor people sitting, beggars. I would not say they are beggars, but they are poor, needy people. So people give them some money, like this, like that. At lunchtime, one man came and he bought two or three bottles of alcohol, and he bought some chocolate and certain other things. At the same time, there came one needy person, because they were all sitting together on a platform outside the railway station for a little while and also having their meal. So whatever they got, they were sharing. It was something missing. So one needy person went to the shop to get something, to buy something, and another person who had money bought a few things and came to pay. The money was in pounds. Sale men, the owner of the shop, he said, "This was 18 pounds, please." He is okay. Then he takes his pocket and he counts, and then he takes the other pocket, and still, 18 pounds was missing. How much? 18 pounds. So that man said, "Okay, sir, please take certain things out for a value of 18 pounds. Tomorrow I will buy." And that needy man, what we call the beggar, he was also buying something, and when he heard this, that he had no 18 pounds, he could not buy what he wanted to buy. He immediately jumped in, "No, no, sir, please, here are 18 pounds." Take all he gave, the 18 pounds, and the person went. He said, "Thank you, sir. You know, probably I will give you tomorrow." "Take it, it is my pleasure." Now, the businessman told me this story. The needy person, when he is standing somewhere, we try to see the coin, which is a small coin, and give it to them. And we have more money, but these needy people do not have so much. But how generous he was. I would say, there cannot be better spirituality than this one. Give money without any conditions. He did not say, "Tomorrow you can pay me back." No. He, the other person said, "I will give you tomorrow." He said, "No, no, not necessary. Please, sir, take." This is a way of understanding life. And it must not be only for humans, for animals too. If you throw everyday little seeds, grains, the birds will sing for you every day, nicely. And they will wake you up. And when you come from the office, then they all are coming, sitting there, and when you are going, they are also looking and singing. It seems that they tell you, "Come back earlier, quickly. Have a good day." Animals' language we do not understand, but they understand us. In Vancouver, there is one park, Stanley Park, you know that, many or some may not know, and there are many ducks and like this. We were walking around the lake called the Lost Lagoon, Logan, what is the name? Lost Lagoon. And it is now the time for the babies to come, so the beautiful swan had a nice egg there. The mother was sitting on the eggs, and the swan was far somewhere observing. And when we came, he came there, not that we will put something eating, and I had something, a little thing, in my... He had to give, and he came near. The mother was only two meters, three meters far, and he tried to attack me. He wanted to take my dress away. Oh God, I felt like this. I fell down. People pulled me away. He was coming like this. So, you know, the father and wife told him, "Be on guard. Do not go here and there, no rendezvous." So, on the other side, two ducks and three small babies were coming. The babies were swimming between these two ducks, and they were going. So, that swan that came to us before went to attack these ducks to go far away. So what the mother and father have told these little babies, the mother and father came towards the swan to defend. And what they told the baby, they were in the far distance. Immediately, they came together, and they went straight to the far distance on the other side. We did not hear anything, but these ducks, where mother and father told them, "Children, be together and go away. There, we are coming." That is it. Before that, about 50 meters far, there is little rocks and water, and a few ducks were there. And there are about six or seven babies, and as we came, one duck got up and made something, oh, something like this we do not understand, and all the babies who were sitting, walking there, they disappeared behind the rocks and sat. Look up, so it means everyone understands: the ants understand, animals have their language, and that is a language which is radiance, the love. But the humans do not have that energy, pure energy, so the animals do not trust us. A bird is there to sit on the top of the tiger's head, or the shoulders, or the back of the tiger, or the lion's. The birds are there to sit there. But not on the human shoulders. Even you are feeding them, but they know that you never know what you will do, so they are always going away. Maybe we have to be so far, like friends from Assisi, no? That birds could come and sit on his shoulders or there, when he did like this, birds were coming. That much love, that love is God. You have to become one with them, without doubts, without any asking, no greed, only giving, harmony. Not that I give you all this, no. Just become one, and animals will trust us too. So spirituality is something which we should understand: to not do to others what you do not like to do for yourself. Five thousand years, more than five thousand years, Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gītā. Do not do to others what you do not like to do to yourself, in the twelfth chapter of Bhagavad Gītā and in the third chapter of Karma Yoga. Well, after all this, a human can achieve everything. But still, humans have the same five elements that other creatures have. But humans have this body and this consciousness. God has given all abilities that God himself has. God created humans as protectors, not destroyers. But as soon as God gave everything, handed it over to the human, then humans said, "Okay, we have everything. Now we do not need God; we will kill him." So God, whatever He gave, He did not take away. Humans have the full power of God. But God put a combination lock, so you cannot utilize it. All is within you, but you cannot utilize it. So we know that in the world, everyone in every religion, we know that when the holy saints or God came, they killed them. They hurt them. After they were crying, "Oh, God." So the human does not understand, and they have agreed they would like to be the first and the best. Well, that number combination number have got the holy saints who are really pure in their heart. So there are yoga techniques: kriyās, bandhas, mudrās, etc., and through that we can awake or open that combination lock. So in our body, the human body, there are 72,000 nerve systems. And nerves serve to distribute the energy, the cosmic energy. Which, with the support of that liquid, the water element, means the blood. When one nerve is damaged, that part of the body becomes senseless. So the feeling of life, the touch of life, it is through those nerves, and in the nerves, that cosmic energy, or the energies, are kept flowing. So it is that Divine Mother which is supplying energy to each and every entity. She is nourishing her children. That energy is received by even the plants, even the stones. Mother's love is one of the greatest loves. So the father, the mother, no, mother, the father, and beyond that is God. I read in one book, there is a beautiful poem from one saint, that more than your brothers and sisters love you, your mother and father. And more than mother and father, God loves. And more than God loves your master. With that love, the master brings you to God. Guru Nānak said, Guru Nānak said, My Gurudev and God both are standing in front of me. Whom should I first greet? If I greet first my Master, then God will say, "All the time he was praying to see me, and now he neglects and he first goes to the Master." And when Nānak thinks, "I first go to God to greet," the Master will say, "Always I was first for him, and now God came, I am the last or second." Nānak did not know what to do. So, he closed his eyes and inside an answer came, "Balihārī Gurudev kī, Govinda diyā batāī." It is the greatness of my master who showed me God. Therefore, first I am obliged to greet my master and then God. So, cosmic light, energy. These nerves, 72,000, among them four are very important. One is called Vajranāḍī. That controls our solid ground, our movements. All motoric systems in the body are controlled by the Vajra Nāḍī. And Vajra Nāḍī begins between the big toe and the second toe. And that was controlled by the Ṛṣis, so-called the wooden sandals, shoes. And that always gives, like, an acupressure. Other, they are also very important, are Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā, three nāḍīs. Vajrā nāḍī, which comes from down the tail up, she joins tail over Mūlādhāra and then gives the energy further. And that is responsible for the immunity system. So there are some exercises which you have in the Yoga and Life book, how to improve the immunity in the body. Ida, Pingala, Sushumna, these two, three nāḍīs, one is connected to the left nostril, which is called Iḍā, the right nostril to the Piṅgalā, and the center one is Suṣumnā. When mostly the brain hemorrhage takes place, it is always with the left nostril. The left hemisphere is attacked by it, because the left nostril is the moon, or water, and the moon is emotion. Water is restless. And water is emotion, emotional love. And that emotion has many forms. When you are angry, it is emotion. When you are jealous, it is emotion. When you are greedy, it is emotion. When you are happy, it is emotion. When you are joyful, it is emotion. So these are the different positions; qualities have this in the emotion. So, which kind of emotion can harm us, and which kind of emotion can help us? Working hard is also an emotion because you are working for something, and then there is stress. Then blood pressure goes high, and you... Do not take care of it, you cannot sleep, and so on, then the brain hemorrhage or heart attack happens. So, these three nāḍīs are very, very important for our body, for our consciousness. And there is this chakra, which tomorrow we will talk about. So, sympathetic, parasympathetic, and the central nerves. So, this is the moon, and the moon is the principle of the mind. Mānas devatā, the god of the mind, is the moon. And the moon never rises equally. Every day is changing. Today is a new moon. Today. And if you see the new moon today, the whole month will be lucky for you. Yes? It is very important to see the new moon. And when you see the new moon, first, you must see from the moon directly in your hand something from silver. Because the moon is silver. Try. You can have a silver ring. You can have a silver coin. Take it in your hand and look, where is the moon now? Maybe cloudy, you do not see. Otherwise, if you see, greet it and look in it. Try once. It is not only psychological. It is a fact. Well, the moon is changing. Similarly, the mind is changing. So the mind is never equal. Always, mostly Americans said, "Oh, I changed my mind." Welcome. So I used to tell them, "Why do not you change your body? Always you change the mind." To change the mind is easier; to change your body is not easier. So, because the moon is always changing, and the moon is that one which brings the... big hurricanes, big waves in the ocean, and big earthquakes are through the moon, not the Sun. On the dark moon, you will see the ocean is mostly very peaceful, and when it is full moon, there is a movement inside, my God. So this is how. So, our consciousness, our emotion, our decisions depend on the left nostril's condition, the Iḍā Nāḍī. Piṅgalā is the sun, that is steady; it is creative, activities, etc., etc. And the center one is called Suṣumnā, that is balancing both hemispheres, that is balancing the whole body. So, these three nāḍīs are very important for our spiritual development as well as for our health. So, if you notice that you have high blood pressure, just now a doctor told you that you have high blood pressure, you must take tablets. I would say, do not take tablets in that case. If you take some tablets for one month, then forget it, you will give up. The tablet you want to give up, but the tablet does not give you up. So, very easy techniques to get blood pressure completely down and balanced: one month flowery diet, one month do not eat any kind of grains, no rice, no wheat. No corn bread, butter, lentils, and potatoes and bananas. Potatoes, bananas, make you like this, so you know, many people say, "Oh, I am evening, I am tired, I will not cook. I have to buy five bananas, I will eat it. They are nice, tasty." But after a few weeks, you are saying, "Oh, I must..." Go now to somewhere, gym, that is it, fitness center. So, if you become flowery, eat vegetable, eat salad, cook vegetable without cooking. This milk, only one cup tea and one cup yogurt per day, not more. I can guarantee you, in three days your... blood pressure will be on the level, only three days, mostly in two days, but maximum three days. Your blood pressure will be very normal, but now you have to support this so that you should go only vegetables for some days, and of course, no alcohol. And no meat. Then you can eat normal after one week or one month, sorry. So these four nāḍīs, Vajranāḍī, Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā, and the rest of the 71,998 nāḍīs or 96 nāḍīs, they are supported and balanced by these cakras. There we have glands, hormones. The glands are responsible for the hormones. And there, these chakras and particular postures in the body, in the āsanas, we shall practice. Now it is called haṭha yoga. So, ha is the left nostril, ṭha is the right nostril. And yoga means balance, joined. So ha-ṭha. This is a ha, this is a tha. These two nostrils, balance is nāḍī, iḍā, piṅgalā, becomes haṭha, ha-tha. Union means yoga. So hatha yoga begins from this part of the body, controlling, balancing of iḍā, piṅgalā, suṣumṇā, not others. Hatha yoga, what you think. So, postures, which are very gentle ones, do not give a hard time to your body. That will help you very, very much. So the gland systems, they need a very gentle support. So that may be the main glands, like the pituitary gland, pineal gland, thyroid gland. It is all these different kinds of glands in the body. For them, we have these exercises, very gentle. And so there are many cakras. Below the body, on the foot sole, from here till the ankle joint, is the earth chakra. The earth chakra is always alert, aware, balancing you. You can be deep sleeping and suddenly you get up and run, you can. They are ever supporting you, ever. From the ankle joints to the knees are the vegetation chakras. They belong to the vegetation kingdom. And from the knee till the hip joints are animal chakras. And from the bottom of the spine till here, our Viśuddhi Chakra, or the joint of the spine to our skull, is called the Human Chakra. And above this Human Chakra, there is the Divine Chakra. So this is a science of the human body, human consciousness, human mind, etc., etc., which is hidden, locked with a combination lock, and through yogic exercises you can utilize and open it. Very important to practice āsanas, prāṇāyāms, which you practice here with the Amṛtsāgar. Very, very important, because that keeps the energy flow. So you will have less chance to have brain hemorrhage, heart attack, gland disturbances, spine issues, and many other organ problems. So we will have tomorrow about this: yoga is a completeness. It is designed for the human to work for all, protect all, and liberate thyself—happy life, healthy life. But practice, practice. So you have a very good teacher here, Amrit Sāgar, and I think she is a good teacher, no? Ok, so I wish you all the best today and tomorrow. When the program is, we will speak. Thank you. All the best. God bless you. Om Śānti.