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I am very happy to be here at this Yoga in Daily Life center in Prague. I must say that all Yoga in Daily Life teachers are very successful and active, and all the practitioners are very successful and active in their daily lives. It is good that more and more practitioners are coming. This means that people here in Prague and in the Czech Republic are becoming more health-conscious and more conscious about ecology and the environment. This is a good sign. I wish that day by day it will increase. Yoga in Daily Life around the world is doing miraculous work. A lot of work is done towards the protection of the environment, the protection of animals, and supporting poor people with medical aid, as well as children—girls and boys—from poor families, without any conditions. I am happy that Yoga in Daily Life people are supporting those children. We keep all data very secret. We do not put a condition on those children or their parents that they have to change their religion, do some work for us, or make propaganda for our organization. There are no conditions. We are only helping without any expectation. Let them believe what they believe. Let them follow the culture to which they belong. Let them be happy with their family. This is something great. So, I thank you for your kind help for the poor children, girls and boys, and I welcome those who are willing to support this. Many brothers and sisters around the world are probably waiting for something about yoga. That is the truth. We know so many theories. Many people give only theoretical lectures, but very few will talk and show us the techniques. Many viewers from our webcast are practicing and have an interest in learning something. I am very happy that every time we have a webcast, there are more than 85 to 100 countries watching. That is another symbol, or meaning, that Yoga in Daily Life is such a practical path. Yesterday we spoke about the Anāhata Chakra and three very important systems in our existence. In each phenomenon, in each individual phenomenon—it doesn’t matter if it is a human, an animal, vegetation, or water—there are these three principles. In every country, we used to say water is life. In India, we used to say, "Jahā̃ pānī, vahā̃ Bhagavān"—where there is water, there is God. Because in the water, numerous creatures exist. It is itself a protector, a supporter; it is life for us. Nowadays, there is a question mark about water. I remember, you may remember, just 15, 20, 30 years ago, we could drink water from anywhere—from rivers, lakes, waterfalls, fountains, mountains. But now the question is if that water is drinkable or not because it is polluted. That pollution has created more bacteria, and it is dangerous for our lives, not only for human beings but for all creatures and for vegetation as well. Do not forget, Mother Earth is also living. Our planet is known as a living planet. All around this planet, within the planet, over the planet, there are a number of lives existing. Every entity is its own phenomenon. All these entities, in their phenomenon, have three very important systems or principles, which I explained yesterday and some days ago, because it is a subject of chakras and Kuṇḍalinī—the awakening of the dormant powers in our body. We call these the three principles: sound or resonance, light, and energy. These three—light, sound, and energy—are keeping our body, existence, consciousness, emotion, mind, intellect, everything together. The day when your Anāhata Chakra becomes pure and you enter into meditation, you will discover these three principles, or these three channels of energy: resonance, energy, and light, or consciousness. When these three come together, then you are in such a phenomenon where this material world disappears. Nothing is in existence. Whatever we can touch now is only our imagination. There is nothing. Finally, there is only that consciousness, that resonance, and that energy. So, when the Anāhata Chakra is pure, then we call it the holy heart. The holy heart means the divine consciousness awakens in your heart. And in the holy heart, there is only mercy: Karuṇā, dayā, mercy, compassion, love—all these beautiful energies. At that time, your consciousness shifts from the Anāhata Chakra to the Sahasrāra Chakra. This means you now cross the borders of your karmas and your destinies. Nothing can influence you anymore. You are free. You are in the divine. So, when the energy from Mūlādhāra begins to rise up, the first awakening is what we call Ānanda—Param Ānanda, cosmic love, love without conditions, love without expectation. It is like our love for a small baby. It doesn’t matter which baby, human or animal, or whose baby it is; our love flows to that pure, innocent soul. Like this, that Param Ānanda awakens. When the supreme bliss awakens in our Mūlādhāra, you begin to feel joy in your body—very fine feelings. It means a new life is in the body. After that, love, Ānanda, begins to awaken the resonance, because it is the resonance that leads the feelings into the whole body and to your consciousness. It means the unfoldment of those lotus petals of Mūlādhāra, and suddenly the light comes. Not this physical light. When we speak about enlightenment or inner light, it is not like this physical light. It is that light which our words cannot describe. Our physical eyes cannot see it, but your inner self knows. So when the Paramānanda, the supreme bliss, begins to awaken and flow from the Mūlādhāra Chakra, that sensation, the resonance, the vibration—very subtle—and that light of wisdom awakens. For example, there is a combination lock. You don’t know the number. So you have ignorance about that. That is the darkness. Now someone tells you the number. Now you have the knowledge. You know the number. How will you describe the light of this knowledge? You can open the combination. You know that. That is the spiritual divine light. That means the light, the wisdom, awakes. And when the light awakes, then what happens? Everything is clear to you. This means Śāntoṣa in your heart. There is a very beautiful poem: Gajdhan, Bajdhan, Orratan, Dhanakhan, Jab āyā Śāntoṣ Dhan, Śab Dhan Dhul Samān. I need to translate. "Jab āyā Śāntoṣ Dhan, Śab Dhan Dhul Samān." 'Dhan' means prosperity, wealth, richness, gold, or money. In one word, it is wealth. So, 'Gajdhan'—you may have thousands of elephants. We are not capable of having one elephant. You can buy one, no problem, but what will you do? You know how much he eats every day. An elephant needs a master, otherwise he will destroy everything. But there were people who had a big piece of land and many, many elephants. And they had, symbolically, the golden birds. 'Bāz' is a hawk bird. 'Bāz' means a bird, the golden hawk. 'Or Ratan Dhanak Khan'—and you have the diamond mines. "Jab āyā Śāntoṣ Dhan"—but when you get Śāntoṣ Dhan, the wealth of contentment, "Śab Dhan Dhul Samān," then all this other wealth is for you like dust. Because contentment is satisfaction in the heart. Who is happy? One who doesn’t have any requirement, any desires. Who is unhappy? One always wanting more and more. "I want more money. I want a house. I want a car. I want a girlfriend. I want a boyfriend." For what? You are begging because you are missing something; you don’t trust yourself. And when you can’t trust yourself, you will not trust your girlfriend. And when you don’t trust her, she will not trust you. So that will be a burden in your life. But when you are happy, relaxed, you need not search. There are so many good girls, so many divine girls. Their problem is they don’t find some nice boy who is completely relaxed, who has contentment. So, all boys, don’t go anywhere. No longing. Correct yourself. Relax. Practice yoga in your daily life. Wash yourself every day three times, yes, and purify your heart. Then the Lakṣmī Divine will come to you. Females are the symbol of the Lakṣmī wealth, the symbol of purity. They don’t like dirt. They like pure: pure consciousness, pure love, pure words, pure feelings. But the girl should know: boys are not beggars. They have big egos. Yes. If you come, come; if you go, go. That is not good, boys. Boys have a very big heart, a divine heart. Only they don’t know if they can trust you or not. So the problem between you and him or her is that trust is missing. And why is there no trust? There is no Śāntoṣa. We are not longing for physical love. That is the last of the last. We are longing for someone who has kind words for us and whom we can trust, who is there for you. You see that we need that, and that is very hard to find. But when the Śāntoṣa appears in the heart, then automatically your partner will share this Śāntoṣa with you. Your partner will say, "What happened to my partner? So beautiful, so relaxed, so kind, never nervous, never aggressive, not utilizing, abusing drugs, no alcohol, divine." Therefore, the first awakening, the sign of the awakening: How should I know if my Kuṇḍalinī is awakened or not? When Kuṇḍalinī awakens, you don’t feel inside movement. You don’t feel spasms. You don’t feel unpleasant. You feel nearly nothing physically. But the happiness appears. When you are happy, you don’t feel tickling in the body somewhere, but automatically your body is relaxed and comfortable. Similarly, the light, the wisdom, that energy, and the resonance result in Santoṣa—immense happiness, contentment in the heart. Nothing is lost and nothing is gained. Everything is there as it is. Then that energy begins to go up. From Svādhiṣṭhāna and Maṇipūra, it comes to Anāhata. When this appears, then your health condition will be better, your social relationships will be better, your psychic condition will be perfect, and you will realize what it means to be a human. You become the giver—giver of love, giver of blessing, giver of kind thoughts. This all is within you. You need not buy it anywhere. You cannot buy happiness, you cannot buy love, you cannot buy wisdom. Everything is within you. That’s called inner treasure. Therefore, you are the rich one. Never think that you are poor. How do you think you are poor? You have all within you, and God gave you two beautiful hands, two legs, two beautiful eyes, nice ears. You have everything. Why do you say you are poor? Poor is that which desires in the mind because there is no Śāntoṣa. Meditate on your heart chakra while sitting in meditation. First, eleven times, make Aśvinī Mudrā. 'Aśva' means horse. When the horse passes what you call the knudli, the beam, after that, the anus of the horse is contracting and relaxing because that gives a kind of relaxation to the horse. It goes through the whole spine, and it helps the digestive system again. It releases the tension, so the yogī imitated this exercise. So while sitting in meditation, eleven times, contract your anus muscles and relax. Contract and relax. This is the first technique. Second, when you are contracting the muscles, you will feel, just for a second, a very pleasant resonance, a vibration going towards the head, through the whole body. Also, when you relax the muscles, resonance is also flowing—ascending and descending energy, light, energy, and resonance. Eleven times. After that, eleven times, you come to your Anāhata Chakra. Now, put your awareness on your breath. Breath is a mighty power in the body. Breath is something miraculous. So, while inhaling, let the ascending of that vibration come up till the Ājñā Chakra. While exhaling, the descending of that consciousness, breath consciousness. Here is a glass, empty. Now we put water inside. The level of the water will go up. While putting it in, the level is ascending. Now, we suck the water out. The level of the water will go down. Similarly, when we inhale from the abdomen, we inhale. First, this must blow. That’s why the master has a hollow stomach to demonstrate, and if you do correct breath, then you get this Prāṇa. This is only Prāṇa, nothing else. Yes, it’s years and years of work. So when we inhale, we should not expand the chest first, not like this. This is wrong breathing. It’s wrong. First from the stomach, and then here. Exhale first from here, then from here. It means that our diaphragm, it doesn’t go till here, it’s only here, but we make the volume, the space, while expanding the stomach, so that the lungs’ capacity increases. That our lungs remain healthy, that we can consume more oxygen. Therefore, correct breath can release the nervousness, the anxiety, the tensions, and even can cure a lot of diseases. Then, second, concentrate on your breath, which you are doing now: inhalation from the abdomen till the Ājñā Chakra, exhalation from there down—ascending and descending. In different yoga books, they are writing differently. And then the third technique is to concentrate that you are breathing through the whole body. At the time of inhalation, your body is expanding—not only the trunk of the body but the whole body. And at the time of exhalation, the body is contracting. So, expansion and contraction of the body. After that, the fourth point: at the time of inhalation, imagine that the cosmic light is entering your body, like a milky light, very beautiful—not only through the nostrils but the whole body. Imagine your body is like a round balloon, and this balloon is based on some light bulb. So the light is around the whole balloon, as well as inside—transparent rubber. So imagine, at the time of inhalation, your entire phenomenon is filled with the light. And the time of exhalation is when all the toxins of the body are exhaled. It’s a beautiful kriyā. Again, I will repeat. Sitting in meditation: 1. Eleven times Aśvinī Mudrā. Each time, while contracting and relaxing the muscles, feel the sensation go through the spine, through the whole body. 2. Then, second, you come to the breath—the ascending and descending breath from the abdomen. 3. Third, you are feeling the body expanding and contracting. 4. Fourth, that you are inhaling the light and exhaling all the toxins. This means you purify your body, and many diseases will disappear. And then the fifth: you come to the Anāhata Chakra and become aware of the body again—the motionlessness of the body. Now your body is completely motionless. Nothing is moving except the respiratory system. How beautiful—such a beautiful feeling. If you move a little finger, it disturbs you, like in a peaceful pond. You throw a small stone in, and waves are created. Similarly, when you make this kriyā that I am explaining to you, then you have to concentrate on the motionlessness of the body. As soon as you follow the motionlessness of the body, your astral consciousness will begin to awaken. At that time, you enter again into the heart, so that you don’t go too early out of the body. Again, coordinate your consciousness with the breath. Inhalation and exhalation are targeted to the Anāhata Chakra. That Anāhata Chakra, and this light which is flowing in and out, is purifying. Then use one mantra: OM SO HAṂ. OM is the cosmic resonance. 'SO' means that Brahman, the Supreme, the Highest. 'HAṂ' means "I." I am that, that I am. I am part of the Brahman. I am the essence of that Supreme Ātmā. Supreme Ātmā, I am the pure Ātmā. No karma, no pain, no relations, no troubles. Nothing can disturb me. I am the divine. At that time, what will happen in your heart and how you will feel, that I will tell you next time. Today is enough because you have to go home. I was two hours late once more; sorry for that. In the next session, I will continue to come to this kriyā. Until then, you shall practice. Whatever I told you, this should be about a 15 to 20 minute technique. I wish you good night. God bless you. And those who did not understand, especially on the webcast, you are most welcome to send me questions. I will answer them. With this, all the best. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ