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Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Alakpurī Jī Mahādev Kī, Devādhī Dev, Deveśvar Mahādev Kī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī, Sanātana Dharma Kī, Jaya, Oṁ Śānti Śānti Śānti. Prāṇāyāma. The prāṇas, the prāṇāyāmas, are of three different kinds. These are called Pūrak, Rechak, and Kumbhak. You should know these words. As a yoga teacher, you should know the words in Sanskrit, or something in Hindi. Though Sanskrit and Hindi have a big distance, if you speak Hindi, you can understand 30% of Sanskrit. It is like Slovenian and Czech languages; a Slovenian understands a little Czech, and a Czech understands some Slovenian. Sanskrit is a scientific language and one of the first languages. It was the language of the ṛṣis and the great learned persons, and at that time, people also spoke it. Sanskrit has great meanings. Many of its words and grammatical structures have no equivalent in other languages; it has, if I am not wrong, about 18 grammars. When you speak Sanskrit, it resonates in the whole brain, giving a kind of contentment. It expands the consciousness and makes the intellect very clear. What we call common sense is the understanding between humans, animals, birds, and vegetation. To understand the five elements—earth, ether, water, fire, and air—we know these. But if a Sanskrit scholar begins to define the element 'earth', it is unbelievable. Also, the air—what air means, what prāṇa is in that. But the solid prāṇa is in the earth. The earth is very, very important, and that is why we call it Mother Earth. Mother Earth has all kinds of qualities and all nutrition. What energy does the Mother have? She supplied it to manifest our body. And from where does it come? From the mother’s body. Similarly, this tree in front of us, how does it grow? Mostly it is a part of the earth, then of course water, air, space, and light. This tree also has the five elements. Not only the human body, but when we speak about the earth element and say "Mother Earth," we go far and far. All kinds of energies, the nutrients we need, what kind of tissues, and how our brain, nerves, joints, bones, organs, skin, etc., are formed. In Sanskrit, there is a lot spoken and written, with definitions for what the earth element means. To pollute the earth is a sin. It means you pollute Mother Earth. The Mother has so much respect, and she forgives us. We make stool, urine, everything, vomiting—we throw all this on the Earth, and the mother is not angry. She cleans everything. When we were small children, we were born and made everything on our mother’s dress, on our mother’s body, and mother was never angry. Her duty was just to clean, forgive, and understand the child. I think in the same way, Mother Earth also forgives us. But nowadays, how much does she forgive us? What we are doing with the Earth is unbelievable. Now it is said she can hardly breathe with all this pollution. Yes, but still she has the strength to purify, and with the vegetation, it is the oxygen, it is space. The air tries to multiply, or I would say to expand, and the space gives the space. So it is the air which brings and distributes everything into the space. Our planet, after a certain distance in space, is not visible. And we need a microscope to see very tiny things of this earth. If we go so far, whatever we produce is distributed, and it is not suffering. But now she is suffering very much. We are drinking water, eating, inhaling—and how is our sunlight? The ozone is getting thinner and thinner, so we do not know in which direction the destruction will be. Once it was said it was a big, big bang. But now maybe it will not be a big bang, but burning, burning. This fire and this ozone are going away, and we cannot hide. It is like the fire flames. Yes, it is not easy, not pleasant. But humans still, they do not understand, and they do not want to do it. What we need is enough for Mother Earth. But for greed, it is not enough. One of the greeds is money. Can you imagine? They are having competition. Who is a richest? And if you ask them to give a donation for birds or wildlife, or to clean the rivers, of course they do not have money for that. What will you do with the money? Similarly, if we speak about the earth element, it is a very big chapter. We are existing on the earth. We are walking on the earth, driving a car on the earth. Our airplanes are in this space, but our trains, everything. Can you imagine if the earth will just dry? There will be no more vegetation and 100-degree temperature. How will you live? This hall in which we are sitting is one of the most beautiful and precious halls, and we wish that all our coming generations will have this natural way of living and nature, vegetation. That is outer pollution—what we are polluting the earth. This includes the ponds, the lakes, the creeks, the rivers, and the ocean. Also the mountains; all is included. Now we are not only manipulating and poisoning this earth. That is not enough for us. Suddenly, someone said, "Pollute your body." The junk food, pesticides, alcohol, and drugs. Oh yes, this is something. Now this was very pure. Now let it pollute this. So our body is the second part of the earth. And how much we pollute it—that is why the diseases are there. So many diseases, unfortunately, and we cannot do anything against them. We cannot help ourselves. This is something. It is in your body. Why do you not take it out? Why do you not say, "I do not want this in my body? Do not go in my body. Do not grow in my body. Hey cancer, what are you thinking? Go out of my body." But we have no power, day by day. We are polluting our body. Oh yes, the body is already polluted. Yes, every centimeter of our body has some kind of illness. That is very, very terrible. So, the human said, "Now what should I pollute more?" Someone said, "Do not be stupid in your mind." Oh, mind! Now I will pollute my mind. So the most dangerous pollution is in the human mind. And that mind is so polluted, and of course, everyone is proud of that—how much my mind is polluted. Let us take the guns in hand and let us shoot our brothers and sisters. Kick them out. Oh God! This is a mental pollution, yes? Then say, "Do not be stupid." Do not be in ignorance. Oh yes! Now I remember. I am not going to think that I am Ātmā, I am spirituality, God—no, we do not want this. So our intellect is polluted, our consciousness is confused, our awareness is tired. What a human, what do you want more? And this is that for which yoga is designed. The first science is yoga. Everything that is created, surviving, or existing is through yoga. Yoga means not only physical movements. It is all together: all five different bodies. Annamaya Kośa, the body of nourishment; Prāṇamaya Kośa, the body of the energy; Manomaya Kośa, the mental body; Vijñānamaya Kośa, the body of intellect and knowledge; and which is the fourth, fifth one? Ānandamayakośa, the joy. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Now, these are the five bodies in which we are hanging. So yoga, karma śuklaślam—that your yoga practice will be successful while doing the karma. Karma yoga, niṣkām karma, and sakām karma. Niṣkām karma means selfless service, and sakām karma is selfish duty. Both for doing our self. Karma means not only helping somebody else, but also helping yourself. Like when you sit in an airplane and they say, "Please tie your belt." And then they said, "In an emergency, when there is little oxygen, then the mask will come down." And it is said, first put the mask on you, and then on your baby, on your child. So similarly, first help yourself. Do the karma yoga for yourself, and then for others. So karma yoga means not only that you go and clean the room for someone. So yoga, karma śuklaṁ—yoga will be a successful achievement through doing the work, the actions. There is also negative energy coming between. Oh God! Also, there is an enemy against karma which you are doing for your body, your mind. Oh, a big, big, strong, mighty enemy comes, and that is called laziness. Laziness. How many of us are lazy? It is very lazy, and laziness is a good friend. And he says, "No, let us relax today." So the biggest enemy for humans is laziness. So many things come between and destroy your good work on your body, mind, consciousness, and social service. But a holy guru used to say, "Yoga agni karma dagdhani"—that through the fire of yoga, it means practice. You are practicing. Yoga is like a fire. Yoga agni, the fire of yoga, karma dagdhani—it will burn out all the karmas. All the seeds of the karma will be burned. When there is no more karma, off we go to Brahmaloka. We become one with Brahman: ahaṁ brahmāsmi, eko brahma dvitīyo nāsti. So, how can yoga lead us? That is very important, and so prāṇāyāma is very important. Prāṇāyām. So there are three prāṇāyāms. It is called Pūrak. Pūrak means inhale. Purak comes from Pūrṇa. You know what is Pūrṇa? You know this mantra? Pūrṇa. It means, feel it complete. So, inhale. We inhale this very pure, good prāṇa, the air. Oh, inhalation. It is a great... It is a great... Try to stop your breath now. Stop your breath. Hold your nose. As long as you can. Yes, come on. Hold your nose, okay? Do not inhale or exhale. Be there. You do not need any more prāṇa. Close it. I did not tell you to take your hand away. You see? So, one king asks his secretary, "What is most joyful? Tell me, please. There is nothing else more joyful than this." The secretary said, "To go to the toilet." Oh God, can you say that to your president or your prime minister? Or your professor at university? Ah, the king was so angry. "Always, you talk so stupidly against me. Go away." So he dismissed him from the service. But without him, that king could not do anything. Yes, the secretary works, the boss is only sitting, or giving orders and shouting at the secretary. But one day, when the secretary is ill, and two days ill, and three days ill, the boss is getting nervous and nervous and nervous. Files and files are growing. So, well, he called him back. And they were working. After five years—because the secretary was very clever, very wise, very intelligent—after five years, he asked the king, "Your Highness, we had some parties, dancing, this and that." It was the case of the Mughals. He said, "Oh, yes." So, organizing an evening party, and sitting, and drinking, and eating. And later, the boys danced. Or girls, I think, no? Were there boys or girls? Atamuri, who was dancing there? Girls or boys? When boys are dancing, then they just begin to eat. But when the girls begin to dance, they are paralyzed. That is the difference. So the secretary is called Birbal and Batsa. So Birbal says, "Your Highness, you are the host. And you cannot eat first. You invited many, many kings and many guests, so you do not know when you will eat. So, I think you should eat before going to the party." It is a good idea, so he made for him something like pakora. You know Indians? They are frying something nice in the oil. Very tasteful. Oh God. When pakora comes, the falahārī said, "For a while, I can have two pieces." So that the secretary, he ordered Sonamukhi. And he put it into the dough of the pakoras. Nice, like a spinach, and made a chutney for the dip. And that was also from the what? Soṇa Mukhī. And tasteful, and lemons, and chilies, and salt. A little sugar, and like this. And he said, "A little more, one plate more, please." And the secretary said, "Sir, then you will not be able to eat more." He said, "Do not stop me. I like this very much. Sir, it will not be too much. No, no, one plate more." So he ate two, three plates. And went to the party. How beautiful. Now, all are sitting, and the music is going on, and the dancers are coming. And it was on the highest peak of the dance. And music is going on, and with this, the music on the stomach is vibrating. And the Batshah, the king, he said to his secretary, "Where is the toilet here nearby?" He said, "Your Highness, why are you thinking of the toilet? See this dancing, how nice, beautiful. These girls and boys are dancing. Enjoy. There is no more..." He said, "I cannot. I have to go." He said, "No, no. To go to the toilet is not a joy." He said, "I understand what you mean. You are right. Please, show me the toilet." So he went. And he came back and he said, "Yes, Birbal, you are right. Where is the joy?" You see? So you should know how to enjoy that joy. Otherwise, that joy which you enjoy is not a joy, but it becomes more problems. A little joy in that. You cannot enjoy it. So similarly, in our body, there are many different things, and it is that prāṇa inhalation. When we inhale, we do not see. But if we think very carefully and we observe the breath, it is not only the air going in and out, but how many billions, trillions, some beautiful energies, the cells, the oxygens going into the first inhalation. And what the system of the respiratory, and our lungs, and diaphragms, it is, immediately takes the impurity from the body, and when you exhale, you can see, it is like a coal smoke. Oxygen and toxin, and that is why it is called Pūrak and Rechak and Kumbhaka. You know all? It is the holding of the breath, and this Kumbhaka is done in order to get the more capacity to hold the more oxygen in the body. And collect more of this oxygen from the body, so that with the exhalation we can expel more impurities from the body. So prāṇāyāma is more important than the āsanas. It can protect us even from cancers and certain diseases in the body. But again, our best friend, laziness, and when we begin to do the prāṇāyāma, then we begin to sleep. This is our child. So this drowsiness that is completely filled with laziness, and this toxin which comes out, you cannot pull out completely, and therefore it makes you drudgy. It should make you more fresh, awakened. So prāṇāyāma is that science. Without prāṇāyāma, we cannot survive. We inhale and we exhale, and between inhalation and exhalation, there is a little interval. That is a natural kumbhaka. So prāṇāyāma is very, very important for all of us. And so these three prāṇāyāmas: rechak, pūrak, rechak and kumbhaka. Kumbhaka is also of two kinds: holding breath inside and holding breath outside. So you know that in Yoga and Ledi Life we have a course about prāṇāyāmas. And it is about a two-year or three-year course. It is very systematic. And with the kumbhakas, and then in the kumbhaka, what are the ratios? How many seconds or minutes do you inhale? How many seconds or minutes do you hold the breath inside? And how long should you slowly exhale? And then, how long do you hold the breath outside? And then there are different prāṇāyāma techniques. The very beginning is called the Chandra Bhedan and Surya Bhedan. Chandra means the moon. Surya is the sun. Bhedan means to purify or penetrate through. So, Chandra is the left nostril. Chandra is the moon. And the moon is a principle of the mind, which we call the Devatā. God is. So, the god of our mind is the moon, and the moon is changing, and similarly, our mind is changing. Our moon grows every day, changes every day, and so our thinking, our thoughts, our decisions, our feelings are changing. And the moon principle, Holb, is the water. And water means emotion, so there is a motion. When there is emotion, it means there is a different motion, a different feeling in the body, like on the full moon and dark moon, which means the no-moon night. There is immense energy radiating on the earth, which even moves the ocean and changes the weather. It comes as the air, the clouds, and the rains. The moon is also that principle which balances the movement of the earth. When you see the aeroplane, on the back of the aeroplane, on the top of the back, there is a small tail. There is a long tail also, but in between there is a small tail, and that is balancing the aeroplane. It is little, but it is very powerful and very important. Do not think that it needs to be very big. You know that on my knee, we put some kind of ribbon. And the Harriet said, "We said, 'Put this ribbon, and you will have no problem or little problem to walk.'" And inwardly I was thinking, so stupid I am not. With this little ribbon, I will have no pain when I walk. This is not a miracle, but I must tell you, 100% it was balanced, no pain. And now, when I open it for one day, it begins to have pain. And when it was this side, the pain began on this side. So both have to do it. So, similarly, balance. And so the moon is balancing the movement of the earth. And similarly, that mind and prāṇāyāma which we do first, the chandra bhedana, is balancing our psychic. Balancing our emotions, and therefore, first we begin the prāṇāyāma with the left nostril. So first, purify and calm down the emotions. Then comes Sūrya Veda, the sun. That is very important. That is consciousness, and that is also the light, the intellect, the decisions, the clarities. So both, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, moon and sun, these two, which are our moon and sun, are very, very important for our earth. But similarly, these two meridians of Iḍā and Piṅgalā are very important for our body. And these we have to keep pure. Pollution is a lot of pollution. Inner pollution and outer pollution. But through the breath, we are purifying. So, Prāṇāyāma first, Iḍā and Piṅgalā. That is also, you can say, the purification. Then comes Nāḍī Śodhana. So you can say also Vedān or Nāḍī Śodhana. And then comes Anuloma Viloma. Let us see, morning, we will talk about this more. So prāṇāyāma is the best, the best in yoga. All the ṛṣis, their strength, their power, their energy, and they are supposed to go deep into the meditation. Only one tool, and that is called prāṇāyāma. And with the prāṇāyāma, there is mantra. So what a power of the mantra that we will speak in the next days. So now, wish you all the best. A very good evening.