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Welcome, everyone. The subject we have been discussing for the last two days is Kuṇḍalinī and the cakras. This subject is very interesting, very beautiful, and is like the whole universe: consciousness, energy, and space. We are united with these three principles. Our manifestation arises from the five tattvas: space, light, air, water, and earth. Within this is the light, which is the light of the Self, Brahman, God. We are that one, but we identify ourselves with the body. We have lost our Self. The Self wanders, travels, and flutters in the waves of time in the endless universe. Every experience happening in the physical or astral world is what we call karma. How does karma follow us? Karma is not something like dark clouds; it is not a dog that follows you. No. It arises from an experience, whether a walk in a sphere of happiness or suffering. We suffer because of fear, and fear has its cause. We walk, and on the path, some 50 meters away, a rope is lying. We think, "Oh, it's a snake." We see this snake, so everyone feels fear. We identified it as a snake, and fear awoke. We walked a little closer; it was a rope. Now the snake disappeared, fear disappeared, and we laughed at our own stupidity. This means ignorance. So, karma is created within our own self out of ignorance. That creates fear in us. And though the snake is gone—it was only a rope—such an impression can remain lifelong. When we are in fear, our self-confidence is lost. Our strength is gone; we become very weak. It is said sometimes people think that when you go through a graveyard, ghosts are sitting there. Why are ghosts there? This is a question. If your family member died and you performed a funeral, you performed the funeral of the body, not the soul. The soul is not there; it has gone far away. But we imagine, and we are connected to this body, and we still believe the spirit is here, though it is already gone. You cannot bathe in the river twice with the same water. When we take a dip in the water and come out, we cannot take a dip again in the same water because that water has already gone far away. Similarly, when someone dies, they are gone. What remains? Our experiences, our love, or bad things or good things. This is our own memory that troubles us because, again and again, fear is awakened. And when fear is gone, all these karmic things are more or less gone. There was a man who had no fear at all. He went through the graveyard, walking a shortcut. It was full moon, around evening, 11 o'clock, winter time, cold. About 30 or 40 meters away, suddenly a cat was meowing. The person who doesn't believe in any ghost, boast, host, and has no fear—but he knows he's in a graveyard—suddenly his hair begins to stand up. He thought, "It can't be." Then he said, "Oh, it's a cat." Well, but still his thighs were trembling. He changed his way and went to the other side, and a very big bat flew past to the side. He was so, so fearful. His willpower, his strength, became weaker and weaker. So fear makes one weak, and fear is because of ignorance. He came home and told his wife, and she said, "I know, I know there is a ghost, and you said there's no ghost. You see, your grandparents are here. What to do? Don't go." So even he didn't dare to go through the graveyard in the daytime. What we can say is: we will forgive, but we will not forget. So, this is the fear which is with our subtle body; it is in the astral body, and it goes there because the body doesn't have fear. Fear belongs to the jīvātmā. When one dies, even the ghost will come. The hair will not stand up, so this is evidence. The body doesn't have fear. The fear is inside, that awareness of being one's self. Similarly, these kinds of fears from many lives are stored in certain parts of the body. Yes, karma. There are two kinds of karma: good and bad. And that, in the form of fear or happiness, will from time to time bring in the situation. In every gland of the body where hormones are collected or produced, there is a lot of awareness, life, and strength. In those hormones is the strength of our self. These hormones are produced by the glands and are in a certain area of the body. It depends a lot on our mind, and it can make weakness in the body. When someone becomes 65 and goes into pension, you will see the person is thinking, not happy that they are in pension, but they are in tension—the tension of old age. "Now I'm old. I'm old." It's a midlife crisis and a pension crisis. If we think differently again, the hormones will support you. But the confidence is lost. When confidence is lost, then everything is lost. So whatever happens, don't lose self-confidence. No one can do anything. What can happen more than just die? That's all. It is said: what your belief, no one can take away. In Pakistan, a young girl's father was a teacher, and he trained and educated her in a good way. She got a Nobel Prize because of her braveness, certainty, etc. Once she said, "I'm not afraid. They can kill my body, but they can't kill my belief." So, inner confidence comes from childhood. If you all the time had negative energy, negative people around you, you were getting fear, then you were getting weaker and weaker, inwardly paralyzed. Self-confidence is important. Long ago, in the time of the Soviet Union, in one magazine they described an experiment. One person got a death sentence. They said, "Well, we will hang you tomorrow." Others said, "Use a different technique." So they tied him and covered his eyes. While they were tying everything, they put one soft water pipe. They said, "Let all his blood flow out." They were doing something very hard, so he was screaming. They said, "OK, we took the nerve out now." But in reality, it was only this white water pipe. They let flow water at body temperature. First, a little bit more "blood" was coming, then a little lace and drippings. They said, "Oh God, now his skin is very pale. Oh, look, his skin color has changed. Look, his hands are having spasms." And it was only warm water. "Look, he died. His head is hanging." And he really would have died. Then they gave him a slap on the face. They said, "You didn't die. This was only warm water." But he was in such fear that out of fear you could kill someone. So, anything happens and fear comes; at the same time, you should solve the problem. We can have dreams, and sometimes we have horrible dreams. It is not your karma; it is not your ancestor's karma. Sometimes you heard some horrible things, it went to the subconscious, and today it manifested again. Another thing you will see: when there is a fear which is not visible, one gets diarrhea, or one gets a very strong heartbeat. One contracts the anus muscles very strongly because that belongs to the Mūlādhāra Cakra. Each cakra has those hidden or dormant qualities of our actions, and the reaction experiences of our actions are dormant in those cakras. Similarly, people who don't know exactly about Kuṇḍalinī think that Kuṇḍalinī is awakened. It's only the same condition like that man who had a water pipe, and warm water was dripping, and they said his blood is going. It is our wrong imagination for what we are fighting. "It's mine." Yes, it is yours temporarily, not forever, but this is ignorance. On the day when we die, everything is lying here; we can't take anything with us. So, our imagination, way of thinking, our consciousness, our awareness—these are very strong facts in our life. So, awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī means a healthy body, healthy nerve systems, healthy hormones. That brings strength in the body. So, Kuṇḍalinī, the science of the Kuṇḍalinī, which for three days we are talking about constantly—how that energy is moving, how the universe is, how the earth is, how the light is, energy, everything is around. All is a zero, and finally, in the zero is some sense. So that you know the science. Science means there is some sense. But what kind of sense is that? It is there. It has been discovered by yogīs, but we would like to know again. So science has some sense in it, and research means it has been searched, but now we would like to know again, to research it. So we are trying to again research what is the reality. So that is in our self, in our knowledge, in our consciousness, in our energy. With many things, we lost our confidence. And that's why it doesn't function. So nothing will go with us. All will remain here. Live healthy, happy, long. It's given you for this life only. You can't take it with you. Do you think that when you die, you will take this building with you? Then we will see with an aeroplane. After a certain altitude, where there is little gravity, many houses are floating, but we have no warm water there. God made everything perfect. It gave us some comfort, everything. Do our work, good things, and let's go. Every cakra, by certain situations, becomes active, either turning back or clockwise. Clockwise, anticlockwise. Anticlockwise means here it is withdrawn. It is sunk in, and that creates certain diseases in the body. Then the whole body system cannot master that function. So tomorrow you will have a cakra lecture again. Today is enough. Okay? So, "today enough" means before going to sleep, you have to find out what kind of fear you have in your life. From your dog, cat, ants, mosquitoes, people, money, house, many, many things, enemies. What kind of fear do you have? And now, try to release this fear. Say: it was now, it is not. When we were little children, whatever we wanted, parents said no, and we were angry because we said, "Let me grow up, then I will do it." Counting months and days, when I'm 18, already on the birthday, say to parents, "I'm grown. Now you can't tell me anything. I am free." Or someone dies constantly unhappy because you brought this fear from childhood still with you. Father was angry, not good. And you are now 70 years old, 80 years old, but still you have this problem: "Father was not good." Why can't you say it was that time? That's gone. Why should you carry it with you all the time? You know, carry with you the story, you know, no? That's it.