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You have to find the way

A spiritual discourse exploring the inner landscape of consciousness and the pivotal role of the Ājñā Chakra.

"We begin again with our chakras... when we go in, then it is a big forest—untouched nature, undiscovered nature."

"Ājñā Chakra, where we put the tilak, that is Anupāda... If we concentrate and create a knowledge or feeling toward the higher, then the Ājñā Chakra will guide us very comfortably."

The speaker leads a satsang, using metaphor and parable to describe the journey inward through the chakras, focusing on the Ājñā as the crossroads between human intellect and divine guidance. He explains the limitations of intellect and the necessity of Viveka (discernment), illustrating these concepts with stories including a dilemma about a woman whose husband and brother are magically revived with switched heads.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

We begin again with our chakras. Many of you know the basic points of the chakras. We know something about Kuṇḍalinī. But when we go in, then it is a big forest—untouched nature, undiscovered nature. So it is a beautiful inner world, colorful and very interesting. All is played within our consciousness. So, consciousness is within the energy. Energy is within the space, and space is within itself. That's called Ananta, endless. Ananta means without end. We can't describe the Ananta. Hari ananta, ananta Hari kathā. God is endless, and the glory of God is endless. So space is within and outside. Space is transparent without any obstacles, but it is something which is existing. In this space, there is that energy which is dwelling throughout the whole space. That energy is like an immunity. After that, within the space is consciousness—individual consciousness. And the greatness of God is that no elements crash together. So within the consciousness is our knowledge, where we can work. And so it took nine months in the mother's body to become an old friend. That was a mistake. That was something which is beyond and out of control. And it is there we lost. Because it is intellect, and when we put intellect between, then generally the reality disappears. If you look at the monkey, it doesn't matter how nice the monkey is. If you gaze into the eyes of the monkey for half a minute or one minute, she will attack. This is also when a little child brings the parents, then you stare into their eyes. Therefore, staring into someone's eyes limits our life, which goes out; some is stuck in some bags. And then we go walk through this space. There are two different things for that. Bhakta and devotees, what will the intellect do? Whatever you will do, the mind will color it in different parts. Therefore, in the dream, don't try to gaze on it long, or when we do the Trāṭaka practice and some symbol comes, the picture disappears. If it's physical, we can hold it. But that which is only in empty space is not visible. So we are totally bounded, but it is said before, somebody attacks you, like a dog. If you can escape… At the level of the consciousness, when the intellect enters in, then argument comes. Then we go to the books. Books are good for reading. Books inspire us. On a certain level, books will guide us, but finally you have to give up. You have to find the way, and when you have found the way, everything you can leave away, only certain things. When you go to the aeroplane, there is a limited number of luggage, a limited weight of the luggage, and checking what is inside. Similarly, by God, He is checking. What have you in the bag? And it's necessary to take with you. The horse has to clean its stomach. Horses are very divine creatures. In this world, what we call the masculine and feminine: as far as I know, and many know, as a masculine, it is only the horse. Not a human. All animals who are born as babies and who feed their children with milk, breast milk—so even if you are a man, you still have the chest. So you are not 100% masculine. You can develop milk in your chest, no problem. But who will drink? So, goats, buffalo, cows, the bull or ox, these animals all have the sign of the chest. But a horse does not. Go and see and check and tell me. Don't walk in front of the car. And don't go behind the horse. That's very important. Or don't go behind a helicopter. Yes, the pilot is very conscious. He will tell you, "Please don't go behind." I don't have certain instruments. So this intellect, according to the chakras, which is developing at the Ājñā Chakra—all the brittleness, all the desires, everything comes to one point in the Ājñā Cakra. And that's called intellect, and intellect is only judging, doing nothing. This is this, this is this, this is this. The Viveka can change. Viveka can change. Preto je ďalší princíp, ktorý nazývame vivekou alebo selským rozumom. Tam začínajú dve veci, ktoré nás zásobujú poznaním. That's why the intellect has a duty to judge, but I can't give further. But Viveka, which is taking in the hands, is the border between our physical consciousness and higher consciousness. Ājñā Cakra, where we put the tilak, that is Anupāda. Anupada Tattva. Tattva means principle. And sometimes Tattva in different languages compares; it is called God, or the messengers. If we concentrate and create a knowledge or feeling toward the higher, then the Ājñā Chakra will guide us very comfortably. Poznanie smerom k vyššiemu potom nás Ājñā Chakra povedie veľmi pohodlne. Preto sa to nazýva Ājñā. Slovo Ājñā znamená dať povinnosť. Befehlen. In German they say. Order. Who can give us order? Your wife. For example, she is working in the kitchen, and she suddenly sees a cobra behind some pots. And she comes outside and tells her husband, "Can you remove the cobra?" She will say, "Stupid. You are stupid. There is no cobra on the 10th floor." She said, "There is. I tell you, there is." And he comes. And she is a cobra. So, wife—I mean, not she. Don't translate wrong. She doesn't tell me. But it can be from a past life. So she knows, and she has knowledge because she has seen. The husband knows what a cobra is, but he has not seen it. So this is the difference. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "Arjuna, the difference between you and me is that I know and you don't know." But then Arjuna asked the question, "When you say, 'Kṛṣṇa, that you know and I don't know,' now, how should I believe? You said, 'I don't know.' So how should I know that you know?" This is the main point. This is a conversation between the levels of consciousness. But there is a very fine level; it goes through intellect, and indriyas make the intellect a slave. So you decide to go this side, to the lower level of existence. "OK, we are young. It's the time for us. Let's enjoy. Let's do this and that. When we are old, we will have enough time to practice yoga." But who has seen tomorrow? Don't be proud of your youth. We never know when the end of our life will come. So it's not only that old people will die and the young will still live long. No, everyone's life is counted. But do what you like. That's Ājñā Chakra. But the Ājñā Chakra knows what it is. That's why it's a command. Below this chakra is between Earth and human quality, animals and human quality. And Ājñā Chakra has human quality and divine quality. So, that is first. In Ājñā Chakra there are two mantras. Either we say Chandra and Chandra. It becomes Haṭha. And when these both harmonize, joining, it becomes one. So here is uniting the human quality and the divine quality. So it is yoga, so Haṭha, Haṭha Yoga. And there is Haṭha Yoga. Otherwise, what we are doing is exercises. Yoga vyāyam. Yoga exercises. And if you want to do āsanas, then according to Patañjali, sukha āsanam. Pātañjalīya Sukhāsanam. Yoga Sukhāsanam. A comfortable position. That's asana, not Bhujaṅgāsana, Sarpāsana, Karpāsana, no. Where you can meditate and sit straight, you are awakened. But you are in samādhi, and it's close to the Jñāna Yoga, Rāja Yoga. So Rāja Yoga brings āsana, prāṇāyāma. There is no name of yoga, mat. Mat is a saṁskāra, a mathematic. Math is a mathematics. So your asana is a mathematics, how many you did. That's why all the time you say one, two, three, four. So, asana, yoga asana. You are sitting in meditation posture. So, but Haṭha Yoga is this position, posture, and āsanas is a yoga vyāyam. The left, Chandra, and the right, Sūrya. The left is Gu and the right is Ru. Gu means darkness, and Ru means light. Darkness of the ignorance we left behind. And the light of knowledge will be your guide. So that's called Ādi. Tattva Ādi. Ādi and Ādi. Śiv Śaṅkar Kī Gāḍī. Is that the bhajan of Mahāprabhujī? Ādi and Ādi, Śiv Śaṅkar Kī Gāḍī. So, Ādi is Śiv Śaṅkar. When he came, it began from there. Ādi Guru Śaṅkarācārya. And so our paramparā is Ādi paramparā. And Ādī, beyond. So now the Ājñā Chakra gave you the seat of... Now you have to go from Ādi to Anādi. So either you go up or down. That's why Ājñā is Guru Tattva, Guru Chakra. When Ājñā is open, then you are sure what you want. Then all these saṃsāras, some worldly things, saṃsār means there is no sār, no sense. So ādhi and nādhi. Then comes Anupāda. Sanskrit word, Hindi word. And one word has so many meanings, many, many. Half a page of the dictionary is full with it. That's why people don't study Sanskrit. It's too complicated. But when once you know, then you know everything. Then automatically, you know where to put this word and how to understand it. I taught some time, some example. And for that, Gurujī said, you need Viveka. Only intellect cannot help you. You must have common sense, Vivekā. So, you know, you are people who are calling it Himalayan salt. And we call it sendhā namak, and some call it rock salt. Best is the black rock salt. There are some minerals and a lot of iron. So that salt has a great medical value, and that we use certain times because it's expensive, and it's not so expensive now, people can buy. But Indians are very conscious. They think if we consume all this salt from the Himalayas, the Himalayas will fall down. So we should only utilize it for medical use, little, little, little. So we call it sendhā, salt. Now, sendhā means horse, and sendhā means salt. Now, the difference between intellect and Vivekā. I am eating, and there is less salt, so I call the person, "Please bring me salt, sendhā," and he goes and brings me a horse because "sendhā" means horse. Or, I go somewhere and I say, "Bring me sendhā," and you bring salt. So this is what is playing between, the Vivekā and the intellect. Now, what should I decide? Sometimes it takes lives and lives to get an answer. There must be some solution, but we can't find a solution. We can pull our hair one by one. This is empty. Mine is not empty, but someone has. It's a sad story. It's a sad story. I don't know if I should tell you or not. But you have to give me a solution, not now, not tomorrow, at least next life. So there was a young couple, and they were just married about one or two months. And after one month, it's a tradition, her brother came and asked her to come home. So she's preparing herself, and her husband and her father-in-law, her family, they say to her brother, "Please stay two days more, and please stay in the hospital." Then finally, they start to go walking. So, her husband said he will also accompany. No problem. So, both men, young men, both brothers-in-law, they are walking together, talking, walking. Newly married woman or girl. It was a tradition to go a little back, and on the way somewhere, they stopped to eat something. So both men were sitting under one tree, and she was also there, and they were eating. She wanted to go to visit some bush. So she went about 100 meters, 150 meters far, under one bush. One thief came—a very bad man. He came and he took all away from these both men. And he chopped the heads off both men, and with the camel, ran away. Poor girl, she came back sad, crying. Two bodies lying there, and two heads lying separate somewhere. Can you imagine how sad it is? Her husband and her brother. She was crying, and she was a Śiva bhakta. And she was praying to Śiva, and Śiva sent some of his bhaktas to help her with whatever she needed. "I give you full power." So, some divine being came, and he asked, "What can I do for you, my daughter?" She said, "What can I wish? Then my brother and my husband get life again." He said, "They are dead. Their heads are apart." She said, "I know that too. If you are a divine being, then please help me." He said, "OK. Bhagavān Śiva said, and he gave me full power." So he said, "Sit down, and I will do." And he took both heads. And he puts the head of the brother in the husband's body. And the head of the husband's head to the brother's body. Both got up, and that creature disappeared. Well, at least they came alive, but now the question is this: Who should she accept as a brother and a husband? You have to think and do something very clearly. Answer me sometimes, not now. Yes, this question is not easy to solve. But there will be. So that is the Ājñā Chakra. There comes the situation to go to the Ājñā Chakra. It is a very hard decision. Therefore, everyone fails. When we go above, then we are called the guru. So, Ājñā Chakra is very beautiful. We will continue in the evening in the field. And try to get the boys back. They are back, both young men. Don't tell me she can marry another. It's not a European lady. They were from the other Yugas. They are not from Kaluga, and not only is she suffering. Her brother's wife is also suffering. That's accepted, nothing else to do. When you sell one thing, and then another one wants to give it back, you don't want to accept. You see? So don't give such a statement. Use Viveka and intellect both. Wish you a good Sunday. Relax. Very nice. This is a really very nice place. To go and disappear in the room is hard. It's easy to read. Relax. Mauna, meditate, mala. Gushing up will destroy everything. Then to go to the Ājñā Chakra is hard—a place to lose it. Strácame sa v tom. Yes. Sahas bhāva, sahas samādhi, sahas nirvāṇa. Hum, hum. What? How? Hum, hum, yes.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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