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Oṁ Vara Sākṣa Para Brahma Tasmai Śrī Dhyāna Mūlaṁ Guru Mūrti Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Padaṁ Mantra Mūlaṁ Guru Vākya Mokṣa Mūlaṁ Guru. Oṁ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavānakī, Oṁ Śrī Deviśvara Mahādevakī, Oṁ Śrī Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavānakī, Satya Sanātana Dharmakī. Good evening. Blessings to all from the Ālagpurījī Siddhāpīṭ Paramparā and our adoration to our Holy Lineage. Today is the best day because yesterday is gone, and today is the best. Also, the temperature was good, and you had the opportunity to practice more sādhanā. Sādhanā means practice, and sādhan means the technology, the tools, or some wealth. One has a sādhan as a car to drive quickly to Prague. Another has a sādhan bike, and the third has a sādhan horse buggy. The other one doesn’t have a sādhan, only two legs. So this is also called sādhanā. Those who have a sādhanā come quickly. For those who have no sādhanā, walking by itself will take time. Also, spiritual practice—āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditations, mantras, etc.—this is also sādhanā. Prāṇāyāma, meditation, and so on, that is also a sādhanā. What kind of sādhanā are you doing? So you will tell, "I do Kriyā Yoga, I do Anuṣṭhāna, I do āsanas, prāṇāyāmas." You are a yoga teacher, so you should know. What means the sādhanā? Compare with what subject we use the sādhanā. For example, we have a lecture hall. We hire the lecture hall and we ask, what kind of sādhanā you have? Equipment. Lighting. Sound techniques, and also the projectors, microphones, chairs—so this is a sādhanā. So sādhanā is equipment or tools or certain things, and sādhanā means to utilize that, to utilize in a positive way. So if you have the sādhanā and you don’t utilize it, it is a loss. There is one little story; some of you know, some of you don’t know. The story is that Śiva and Pārvatī were traveling. The whole Śiva’s family: Pārvatī, Gaṇeśa and Kārtikeya, Śeṣanāga, Nandi, etc. One day, Śiva and Pārvatī were traveling, going somewhere. And they had only one sādhanā, and that was Nandi. So Shiva and Pārvatī were walking through the valleys, and Nandi was walking with them. People began to talk. "How stupid is this old man? And this young lady. They have a strong, good Nandi. Why don’t they sit on it? At least one can sit. Utilize the sādhanā." So Pārvatī said, "Lord Śivjī, people think we are stupid. Why do you not sit, Lord, on the Nandi?" So Śiva sat on the Nandi, and they came to the Kaurī Chānī. And people said, "Our God, it has no compassion. This young lady, she’s walking. She will have her foot so very sore. Rao, and this old man, who knows how long he will live, so he could walk and let her sit." Shiva said, "Did you hear her? Did you hear my Devī?" She said, "Yes, Lord." So he said, "Okay, after we go to outside of the village, you will sit on Nandi." And I will walk, so she sat on Nandi and came to the second village. People said, "This is the Kali Yuga. These young children have no more respect towards the old people. She’s young. She could walk. And this poor old man, he’s walking." Next house, they’re talking the same thing. Shiva said, "Parvati, did you hear?" She said, "Yes, Lord." She said, "I think we should sit both." No one is to be blamed. So they asked Nandi. Then he said, "Yes, God, I’m fit enough. Sit on my back." So Pārvatī and Śiva both sat on Nandī. The next village came. "This is completely the middle of Kali Yuga. No dayā. No love, no compassion. Poor animals. Both are sitting on it. One can walk and change to the other side." So after that, Shiva said to Parvati, "Did you hear what people are talking?" She said, "Yes, Lord. When we walk, all three, they tell us we are stupid. If we are sitting, one of them thinks we are stupid. And if we sit both, they say it’s cruel." So Pārvatī said, "Bhagavān Śiva, so what to do?" He said, "Don’t listen to people. You do what you like, and let’s walk." So it is like that: sometimes someone tells this, sometimes someone tells that. So our own sādhanā, this sādhanā what we have, we should utilize. Sādhanā, sādhan, and sādhan. Sādhan means equipment. Availability is called sādhana. For example, you want to go somewhere, and you call a taxi. So, taxi came as a sādhanā, and now you will utilize the taxi, the sādhanā. Clear? So, we have our techniques. We have perfected our Kriya Yoga, and there are many Kriyas. But you cannot finish all this, 72 kriyās. But we are still not completing the one, but what we have is very powerful. But there is another Kriya, very nice, Somnus Kriya. Trāṭak is also Kriya. Agnisāra is also Kriya. So these are many kriyās. So now you have sādhanā. So sādhanā is a siddhi. Then this, our sādhanā, we utilize as a sādhanā, and through that, the siddhi will come. Then we will come to our destination. So we should not neglect our sādhanā. The sādhanā is our success. Otherwise, we will get nothing. A musician who plays an instrument, if he is really a musician who loves the music, who likes to play, for that person the instrument is for him or her a God, because without this instrument the musician can’t do anything, and without the master the instrument can’t produce any tune or rāga. This is his instrument, and I am moving so much, you see? No sound. Pity. But then one says, "Swamiji, you must practice." Then I will practice. No. He said, "You must hold properly." Okay. The same one. So, practice makes a master. So, only if we practice, then we can bring a melody out. Otherwise, we will destroy the instrument. Neither will we have nice music, nor will people enjoy it, and the instrument will be destroyed. So this is a practice, and when the practice is there, then everything takes place. Otherwise, nothing is there. There should be interest. There should be some aim. It is said, in your temple there is no God. You can ring the bell as much as you like, but God is not in the temple. So where is your master? Where is the audience? Where is the interest? And where is your siddhi? The playing of that tool, so when you get a sādhanā or sādhana, then you should utilize that, and that’s called sādhanā. So, human life is the most powerful tool, or human life is the best tool to achieve anything; it will be lost otherwise. So this body is a sādhanā, this instrument through which we can do sādhanā. Gurujī said, Jinn se hove mokṣa tumhārā, sādhan cārā. Sādhan cārā karo hari pyā. Pēlā sādhan bheve kavicha, pēlā sādhan vivek, yaya sathya karo, nyā rānyā sathya. Yaya sathya karo, nyā rānyā sādhan cārā. Vivek is the cream of our intellect. Vivek is that which gives the result between reality and non-reality. So, what is that vivekā? So, to get the right viveka, we need a guru. Which guru? Mother and father. Then, your school teacher, then from the high school. Then from college, and then university. And then, further, something. So, until you study medicine, for example, a doctor will tell you, your surgeon will tell you what instrument you should use, which you should not use. You should think before, diagnose exactly. So this is a sādhanā of vivekā. And if you didn’t go to school, yes, we will talk about something, but not something different. So for Viveka we have to do the sādhanā, for Vairāgya we have to do the sādhanā, so for everything we need a sādhanā, and for that sādhanā we need a sādhanā, and that sādhanā is this body. So without this body, we can’t get God realization. Why did God give us this? So this śarīra, this body, is sādhanā, and now we have to do the practice, sādhanā, utilize that. And if you stop, it will go back. We clean our glass table. The morning is very nice. All windows are closed. The door is closed. And you go. In the evening, when you come, you see the layer of dust on this. The door was closed, the windows were closed, and it was nicely cleaned. But pollution came. Similarly, if we give more time that we don’t practice, even if we don’t practice, there is a layer of pollution. First, what was the reason that you couldn’t practice? That is the first cause, so find out why you didn’t practice. "I had no time." Good. Second point: Why didn’t you have time? "Because I had a lot of work to do," okay. Did you eat yesterday? "Yes, that I did." For eating, you had time, but for practice, not. From three meals, only one meal you could have avoided and do your sādhanā. It will be balanced. "I was tired." Why were you tired? "A lot of work in the office, and I watched TV in the evening till 3 o’clock." No wonder that you are tired. So, you could see the television, but you could not practice if it is a very interesting film. Then let it run your computer, or your telephone, television, and do the kṛpā now if it is so important. It can happen that your wife will be wondering, "My husband is out of control. He doesn’t bow down to his guru, but to the computer and television also." Yes, you can say, "Don’t disturb." I will explain to you. It’s a guruvakya. Practice and fulfill your wish. So sādhanā, if you have time to inhale and exhale, then why don’t you practice? So it means tāmo guṇa: laziness, drowsiness, and no interest. So when interest is lost, everything is lost. So how to get interest, motivation? For that, you read the book; for that, you go to the satsaṅg; and for that, you think. What is the aim of my life, and how can I support to achieve my goal? So, prāṇāyāma will help us very much, and the sādhanā. We have the technique, and we are doing our sādhanā. We will be successful. We like to do it. And we want to, and we have opportunities, so possibilities, facilities. The facilities, possibilities you have, possibilities and facilities. If you don’t do any more utility, then it’s stupid. So you have the possibility, and you have facility here, and you are doing, practicing, utilizing; everything is very good. I think tomorrow is a fasting day. Tomorrow is Ganesha’s day. Oh, you are so happy that you have a fasting day. I never find some disciples like this. Tomorrow is Ganeshji. And then, Gurudev. Then Friday. It’s Krishna’s birthday. How lucky we are. Okay, so tomorrow will be light food. It could be mānas food. So tomorrow is a good day because Gaṇeśa said, "If you fast," you know what Ganeshajī will do? He comes with two hands full of the laddus. And he said, "Children, why are you hungry? Eat." Oh, Gaṇeśjī gives such big laddus. But you said, Swamiji said, "Fast, eat." So Ganeshji said, "He’s already midday resting. You just eat, then make yog nidrā." So Ganeshji said, "Ganeshji, eat a little. We want to have these three days more nicely utilized: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday." Only three days more. So, Sadan, we have possibilities. Facilities, and we have to use them. Thank you, and wish you a very good night. Nāga Prāṇa. Upaprāṇa, it is sub-prāṇas. First we had prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, vyāna. And now it’s called nāgaprāṇa. Nag also means snake. So now we should know what we should utilize. A nāga has some connection to this prāṇa. You know what is nāg? Cobra. When somebody comes like this. What is that? Yes, and what is like that? This is an African language. The deer. Okay, so nāga removes blockages of the prāṇa and apāna. That’s it. That’s why the cobra pose makes, like, we give the water pressure to clean the water channel. It prevents the gas formation in the stomach. And it triggers the vomiting reflex. This is a function of the Nāga Prāṇa, inwardly in the body. Supporting and harmonizing Prāṇa and Apāna. Helping to remove the apāna, the gases from the stomach. And that’s the apāna, which takes the used and not necessary things in the body. So, this is very important. This is a very fine function. And if it is something my stomach doesn’t adopt, accept, or rejects, it can poison us. That time, this Nāg Prāṇa takes over the duty. To turn the prāṇa upside down, to turn it upside. Or diarrhea. But this is so urgent that it has not gone down. There is a blockage between prāṇa and prāṇa. And it is vomiting out. Then he said, "I feel better. I feel better now. I don’t know what I did." You see? So, thanks to Aparnā, Prāṇas, the Nāga, think over. Tomorrow we will speak.