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Om Śānti, Om Śānti, Om Śānti. This is the most beautiful time. It is called Sandhyā. Sandhyā means coming together; it means uniting. It is when day and night meet. This time is for prayer, to thank God for the whole day, for whatever things happened. If they were good, we are happy. If they were bad, we do not know; God knows why. There is a beautiful poem written by Ravīndranāth Ṭhākur. One evening, he was walking near the bank of the river Gaṅgā in Calcutta and saw the sunset. The Ṭhākur wrote: "The sun is sad. 'I took care of all my children. The whole day I gave light, but my time is over, and I am going down. And the darkness appears again. There is no one who can overtake and give light to the world.'" At that moment, a bell rang. It was Sandhyā, this evening time. On one side, the sun was setting. In a Śiva temple, the bell rang. Ravīndra turned back and looked towards the temple. There, a paṇḍit was preparing for the āratī prayer. Now Ravīndranāth says that this light—the lamp—is telling the sun: "I cannot take your place. I cannot compare with you. But according to my capacity, my strength, as a small lamp, I will give light to the world." So, when something happens and you think a dark phase has come, then light the candle of hope. It will give you light. Confucius also said: when the day is dark and dreary, when it is very dark or hazy and you cannot see the path, do not let your heart be worried. Do not give up your hope. Do not worry because it is a dark place where you cannot see the path. Just light a candle. That light will show you the way. It is better to light a candle than to stand in the darkness. That candle is hope. Do not lose your hope. Some say that hope is like a walking stick, which gives us support, a hold. So hope is a walking stick from the cradle to the grave. But do not give up your hope. Ultimately, it will be fulfilled; it will come. Before they let us rest in the lap of Mother Earth, God will not let you go first. He will fulfill your wish first. Do you believe in God? When do you believe, and when do you not? It is when you remember God, and when you do not remember God. So, sooner or later, God will definitely give us what we wish. But when you change your wish many times... You pray: "God, please, can I find a good friend? Can I find a husband or a wife?" Mostly, people pray for this. So God organizes it. Then you say, "Thank you, God," and you never remember God again. Then the relationship slowly, slowly dies and goes into conflict. So you say, "God, please, can you get rid of this person?" God is generous, so He frees you. And then you pray for someone again. God says, "This is not a bargain." When you got it, you were happy, but then you forgot. The entire time, when troubles came and separation loomed—though you did not want to separate—you were praying day and night to the lawyer and to God. Somehow it was settled. Then you try to have another one. God said, "I am not going to trial anymore. Once is enough." I do not want to tell the name, but there is one very rich person in the world. He has many enemies. Out of a thousand people, maybe one or two are your friends. The rest are not in your favor. They come running behind you because of your money, or something else. Dharma, dhīra, mitra, ārī, nārī, āpada kāla parakhahiyo cārī. It is said: in a critical situation, you can test who is yours. If it is Dharma, if Dharma does not help, then what is the Dharma for? Dheeraj—compassion. Mitra—the friend and partner, husband or wife. If they remain with you, then they are your friend. Others will say something: "My friend, we are your friends. We can accompany you till the graveyard, but do not expect that for your sake we will also go into the grave. No, friend, that we cannot do." But the real one, who will go with you so far—is somebody ready? We can make an experiment tomorrow. Do not worry; we will dig a nice hole. You can film it on YouTube, and we all go in and say, "Bye bye, see you in Satya Yuga." So, in this Kali Yuga, when we go down and you go out the other side into Satya Yuga—how many friends are there? So, regarding that rich man: some people were making a trick, plotting how to destroy him, how to bring down his ego. A few of these people slowly, slowly manipulated his wife. They put her in such a situation that she went with other men, and now she applies for divorce. She asks, "Half the money is mine." By court, by law, they decided 50-50. So the richest man was reduced to 50-50. This is how ku-saṅga (bad company) and greed can throw us down. But if we have positive feelings, positive saṅkalpa, then do not give up until the last minutes of life. "Oh Lord, everything I gave into Your hands. Lost or gained, it is in Your hands." So, did we really give our life into the hands of God, or not? What do you think? How many hands does God have? Oh God, then the body must be very big. So His hands are the whole universe. We give our devotion and confidence, and there are many tests. Either you fail or you pass. There are many, many things. Prāṇa. Which one was morning? Finished. All five finished. Udāna. Okay, I will do udāna, no problem. That is very good. I always like udāna. Udāna is very good. So the udāna prāṇa—we had already spoken of prāṇa, but no problem. It is a connection to the heart, to the brain. These are streams of vibration. It is a stream of vibration to the nerves. If these prāṇas are not there, nerves are blocked. So prāṇāyāma keeps our nerves clean. There are different kinds of nerves. You call them nerves, arteries, vessels. There are different definitions. Similarly, the nerves are also different. Sometimes a person can "approach your nerve." You know that? Through which nerve does he or she approach your nerves? "Do not disturb me, somebody. You have unnerved me. Do not talk too much. Enough." So through which nerves? This is a vibration, and this vibration penetrates through and through. We feel it physically, mentally, and emotionally. So there are channels, streams of energies. If you cut one nerve, that channel, the flow of energy will not disappear. But that kind of nerve you cannot purify through prāṇāyāma. They are the same nerves; their physical form is 72,000 in the body. And these we can influence through prāṇāyāma and nourishment. So the Udāna prāṇa is meant for vivekā (discernment) and dayā (compassion). Udāna-prāṇa is directed to the viveka (intellect) and to the dayā (the heart). Therefore, the Udāna-prāṇa accompanies the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī-śakti. The awakening of Kuṇḍalinī śakti is mostly a very fine energy. It is not physical, but it goes through a physical process. If you do not believe that, then you can try. When you die, find out if the Kuṇḍalinī process is still going on or not. It is said: "Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health." Similarly, to understand these three bodies—the physical, mental, and subtle body—you need the body. So the body is not everything, but everything is nothing without this body. You have to understand both. You buy land. Yes, you bought the land physically. But now you are measuring the square meters. It means you are measuring the space. How big is the room? But you wanted land; you did not want the space. The space is occupied by this land, and by the law of your country, even this land does not belong to you. You know we call it agricultural land? You have rights to this land, maximum one meter deep. Generally, when we take the plow, how deep it goes into the earth is on lease from the government. It is not your right. So if there is gold or diamonds or coal or petrol in your field, it is not yours. And some land, on which we can build a house—there you get another kind of paper. So that belongs to you longer. But if they want, they can also take it. Only until the foundation is yours. So this physical body is only till this measurement. Someone wants to have more. They say, "I will have more." No problem. Eat and eat and... That is yours. You occupy that much space. So in reality, neither we nor anything belongs to us. All is God’s. What we have today, yesterday was someone’s. And what we have today, tomorrow will be someone else’s. It was given to you. Why are you sad? This body was given to you for a certain time. Then why do you cry? It was not yours. It was given to you, and now somebody will get it. You have lost nothing. So it is a transaction of the flow of energy into the whole universe. The lamp is burning. Please burn nicely. It is sunset already, and so this is a transaction of the energy. In that, awareness is very important. Consciousness and awareness are different. Space is a room. Consciousness is a room. But awareness is alertness. That is very important. So, being awake in consciousness, awareness of the environment protects. And in that is pure energy or polluted energy. So viveka, which we judge through our brain and intellect, and humbleness and kindness, which we judge from our heart—when these both are coordinating, then the chakras, the vibration and energy of the chakra, the prāṇa takes purification, and that automatically awakens the Kuṇḍalinī. How does it awaken? What happens? It awakens, yes. It awakens something, and it happens. Is it painful? No. But sometimes we do not like it, but we have to do it. So the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī process we can compare, for example, to waking up from deep sleep. It is so deeply dormant. Prāṇa energy awakens into knowledge, awareness, consciousness. So this is the difference. Sleep is ignorance; it is darkness. Awakening is knowledge; it is light. Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya. Lead us from darkness to light. And therefore, the astral body, when it is separating, takes the help of the Udāna Prāṇa. I told one story about this Udāna Prāṇa last week, so I will not repeat it again. That was a beautiful story. You can ask others when you go. Do not be in a hurry. One master was stuck in his samādhi, and how to come out? He went too quickly. So please do not do it quickly. You look like you are gone, then they will put you into the earth while you are still alive, or they will bring you to the hospital and cut and make all tests: kidneys, this, that. In Europe, one must do, no? Or you can say, "I do not want." So Udāna Prāṇa activates the Kuṇḍalinī awakening. And those techniques are just a few described. Do not think that only these two or three techniques will awaken everything. This is only given the time that I have to wake up in the morning. That time, I had to go to the airport. But it is still not awakened. Awakening is that time when the alarm rings. And sometimes you put off the alarm and sleep. It happened to me many times when I travel a far distance. So tired. Again, I sleep. I know a few people; three are here also, mostly the boys. So I cannot blame the boys. To put negativity to the positive—that is a master’s work. So, what are the boys doing? It can be negative. But I support them, and I will turn it into positive. Should I tell you? You see, only girls said yes. You see, boys? But we understand. They have an alarm which rings three or four times, and they put it on the cupboard where you have your clothes inside. So when the alarm is ringing, the hand is not so far. You have to get up and put it off. And after two minutes, again it rings. Again he had to go there and put it on. Now it is awakened. So how wise they are. It means they get a support, a supplementary support, to be sure that they are not mistakenly remaining sleeping. So when you get up from the bed, you put it off. Then you say, "Oh, I have to get up now. I will go to the bathroom or bedroom." Just stretch. And again, train, train, train. This is the man-made technique. That is very good. So for prāṇa, for udāna prāṇa, there are techniques: prāṇāyāmas, bandhas, and mudras. Brahmrī prāṇāyām, ujjāyī prāṇāyām, viparīta karṇī mudra, and nauli and agnisāra—these are all kriyās. So prāṇa is in the whole universe. What we see, this beautiful sky blue, is prāṇa. But we cannot use that prāṇa. We can only go to a certain level high; then this prāṇa has no oxygen. So do not fly in the night to go up. It is easy to go up, and then it will be squished, and then you come quicker down. What becomes our condition? Everything is broken. I did not want to say this joke. There were two friends; one was very thin, and unfortunately, one had too many kilos. He had beautiful long hands, but now he is just only like this, going. So many pounds, about nearly 300 kilos. You know, in certain hospitals, the poor nurses cannot turn them on one side to make their bed. So now they have a crane. Yes. And so they put them under the crane, then lift them up, make the bed, and then put them down. Do not think that all in the world are like you, small people. There are people who, when they come to the aeroplane, need two seats. And still, their hands are there. The people, like from Samoa Island—so in New Zealand, one of the nurses working there from Europe tells: "Even five, six nurses cannot lift them up." So now they have a crane. Lift them up, turn them like this, and with the water, wash them nicely, and again bring them back. So, like this, there are people walking. And now they want to cross the road. So the person who is very thin said, "Wait, we should look at the traffic." The other one said, "Do not worry, we will go. Come on." So the thin one walked quickly. The other one was slow. And a truck came over. The best friend, who was very slim, was standing at the side of the road, and he said, "Quickly, come up, Ketchup." Quickly come up, ketchup. So is the energy, prāṇa. So we do not have the strength to resist this prāṇa. Therefore, we have mixed it. We have in Vienna what is called Heurigen. You see? Heurigen in my webcast, my God. So when they go and they say, "What would you wish?" they say, "Gespritzt." Mixed, gespritzt—so half mineral water and half apple juice. And I was there drinking, do not worry. So you do not think there is always wine. The name Heurigen is an Austrian dialect. Many Germans do not understand it. So Heurigen means "this year’s." So this year’s new pressed grape juice, or they put it into alcohol. So it is new wine from this year, but all do not drink. Some drink apple juice, some drink orange juice, and some drink fresh grape juice. And now, look at the prāṇa. There is all prāṇa: prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, vyāna. At Heurigen, you see there is a grape. Very tasty, very refreshing. Children can eat it, everyone can eat it—this prāṇa of the grape. And now you change into the other, then it is going. Do not worry, it is good, no problem. So what can be? It will be, that is all. Now, that energy, prāṇa, has been manipulated. So I thought it would make a click, but not the upper one, the lower one. All right, so the upper one, not the lower one. The upper one kept, downward not. So the upper one had good prāṇa. And when the peel is down, the grapes are the same. The fruits are the same, but the process is different, and that is why it turns from the grape to the wine. Similarly, we are born as very innocent children, very happy children. We have no mistakes. But the prāṇa develops afterwards; quality develops afterwards. Every prāṇa in the body, every bone in our body is a prāṇa, every flesh is a prāṇa, and every nerve, every organ—and it is the play of the prāṇa. The kidney has different prāṇa than the heart. The liver has a different prāṇa than the kidneys. But all in one body—this God has done. What is everything on this earth or in this space? It is that God who did it, and He is doing it. Therefore, we have to develop one prāṇa—that is called pure prāṇa or positive prāṇa—that will bring us there. So, through body, through food, through sitting, through sleeping, and through laziness, we stored a lot of tāmasic prāṇa. And we began today to get rid of this prāṇa and awaken the positive prāṇa. So today was the first day. We still have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday until breakfast. We will put the last drop of the citron out. That is called master work. How long does it take for one lemon to develop this juice? The juice of the lemon comes from the earth, from the soil, from the water, from the air, and comes through the trunk of the plant, through the branches, then blooms, then develops fruits, then the juice. It is a long, long process. And now we just take a little and throw it. God will see it. These people do not know the value. In the next life, they will be lemonless. So, can someone create a lemon without a tree? No, only God can do so. We have five days, so we will squeeze till the last drops. Oh, Swāmījī, see, that is why Gajanan sings bhajan. Sometimes I think I will go away. No problem, you can go. When you take your suitcase and you go, and the aeroplane... Swamiji said, "Shall we go in an aeroplane? Where are you? Inside you." So when it is in me, you are in me; you have no chance to go out.