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When I say “Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya,” you say it in a louder voice. You know why? I have a microphone, and you don’t. So your sound, nobody listens or hears. They think I’m only sitting alone and saying, “Jai, Jai, Jai.” You have to make sure that people know there are some people also there. So, once more, okay? Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī. Yes, that’s it. Today is a very beautiful day. The first of July has come, and August is coming, so the students and children are very happy. They have two months of holidays from school. School is not bad; it is very good and very important. Children should go to school and learn, but two months of holiday is also very good, where you develop more. The children, the students, can learn more from the worldly side: the holidays, the friends, the beach, the forest, flying to different countries. That’s something nice. And also we have time for yoga, because nowadays tourist places become very noisy. Every restaurant on the beach has big, loud music. It’s like a Kumbha Melā. Every tent has its loudspeaker, chanting and singing. This year in Ujjain, opposite my room—about 30 or 40 meters distance—there was a small camp of one Swāmī. We had a camp of about eight hectares, or maybe more, and he had about 3,000 square meters. But he brought with him big loudspeakers, they call them DJ, and it was just towards my sleeping room. The sleeping room was only with one cloth, so transparent everything. We told him to please turn it down a little, but he didn’t hear. For one week we tried to tell him, “Please, turn this loudspeaker to the other side.” Well, the other side was another camp. They just came and said, “We will break all your cables.” So again, it was towards me. Then we put on our loudspeaker, and all our Rajasthani bhajans, so loud. So he came and said, “Please, can you put it a little slower?” We said, then you do too. So it’s like that. It’s a Kumbha Melā, a different kind of Melā. A big Melā, two months, Adriatic Coast Melā. Holidays are designed to rest, relax, find peace, and regenerate energy. There are rare places that are peaceful. When we are here, here in Hungary, this big place of the college, an agriculture college, it is free from pollutions—no sound pollution, no physical pollution—and it’s beautiful. In the hall where we are sitting, it is very rare; it is one of the most beautiful halls in the world. You look up, you can open the windows, and you can close the windows. This is the great. So, welcome you all here. Very soon we are celebrating the Guru Pūrṇimā festival and will enjoy here. The subject is Prāṇāyāma. Prāṇāyāma is from the side of spirituality. Spirituality means not only towards some religion, or only meditation. Spirituality is different. Spirituality means the crystal clear, with no differences and no conflicts among the religions. The prāṇa is equal to all, even animals also. This prāṇa, God gave us free. Can you imagine how many creatures, just in this hall where we are sitting? Billions of creatures are here, very tiny creatures here in the ground, in the trees, on the trees, and so on. And the tree itself is also surviving from the oxygen. So, who are we as humans, saying that we can feed the people and we should do humanitarian work and this and that? God is supplying everything. Even to the human, God is giving. And that God—is that God? He sees every day that not any creature goes hungry sleeping. No one should sleep hungry. The mother, the young mother, when she gave birth to the child, for months long, or years long, the mother makes sorrow. She pays attention to her child so that her child doesn’t go to sleep hungry. So similarly, God takes care of every creature. And when you see this, who is great? Who is rich? God, or we so-called people, very rich people? So, we call it a humanitarian project. It’s very good. There is nothing wrong. But since we begin to say humanitarian project, the humanity, protection of the humanity, it means psychologically the people think only to support the humans, so they just kill the animals as they like because nobody is protecting them. Now we have animal rights and animal protection, but in a different way. No one stops their slaughter. They only say, “Feed them well and take care of them, transport them comfortably.” They said, “The service to humans is the highest service,” and this is totally wrong, completely wrong. There is a discrimination toward other creatures. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said, “Love each and every entity, if not more, then at least that much, as much as you love thyself.” Don’t do to others what you don’t like to be done to you. And others means not only the humans, but all creatures. God gave the human that kind of emotion, feelings, and understanding, the intellect to understand the pain, to understand the suffering for every creature. And that’s why it is called Samadṛṣṭi, equal vision to all creatures. Animals can do wrong. Animals kill animals. It is said, animals, jīva jīva bhakṣate, life eats life. But humans, they are above. Above human consciousness is divine consciousness, and so the human understands what prāṇa is. Animals also know what prāṇa is. When there is no good air, they move to another place. Many animals, the birds especially, go and sit somewhere high, a place where there is good air, good prāṇa. The big birds, eagles, when they want to enjoy and sleep with good air, they go high up in the sky. You will not see that their wings are moving, no, just fluttering, and good air. Therefore they have a long life also. Prāṇa is the source of life. Now, if you pollute the prāṇa, then you suffer. So also, what we eat is vegetarian because in a vegetarian diet there is more prāṇa, and that is designed for humans, for their brain. The brain needs an immense amount of fresh blood, a good flow of blood, good circulation of blood, and good prāṇa. So, every prāṇāyāma that we do, we are supplying the best quality of prāṇa to our brain and, of course, to the heart. With that nourishment, we supply the good prāṇa to our blood. Through the water, we supply the prāṇa. Through the solid food, liquid food, and with the breath. So, what is it? We are only prāṇa. Our lungs are prāṇa, our liver is prāṇa, the kidney is prāṇa, every organ is just prāṇa. If you squeeze it, it will finish; it’s full of prāṇa. As long as good prāṇa is there, you feel comfortable, happy, relaxed, and you enjoy life. But when any organ is damaged because of the lack of prāṇa—lack of prāṇa means the wrong way of nourishing, and through that nourishment we supply to the body not proper prāṇa. So, the techniques in yoga, the prāṇāyāma, prāṇa-vyāyāma, like exercise of the body, āsanas, this is called the vyāyāma. Vyāyam, vyāyam, which kind of vyāyam? A physical exercise. All the time there were two kinds of Vyāyam. One was like wrestling, and that time we call it Akhāṛā. Akhāṛā means that every āśram, every village had an akhāṛā. That means the place where you can do your heavy exercises: wrestling, body building also. Now it’s developed with instruments and so on. Otherwise, that master says to disciples, “Go to the Akhāṛā,” and for two hours they have to do the exercises. Oh my god, they were coming back sweating. The master said, “No, go, still 20 minutes left.” So, they all had different kinds of exercises, and then they would wash themselves, and then they had a good appetite to eat and drink. So also, good nourishment. And then there were the āsanas, the yogic postures, which were better than Akhāṛā exercises. When you go towards bodybuilding, then you cannot do those postures of yoga. You cannot twist your body as you like. As many muscles you grow, that stiff your body becomes. It’s not bad if you have strong muscles and strong things, but in old age there will be a little problem. In old age, you will beat your thighs because the muscles need the circulation, need the blood. But with āsanas, twisting, stretching, there is a lot of prāṇa that comes and goes to the body. So this is called Vyāyam, two kinds: the Akhāṛā exercises and yoga posture exercises. This is physical, but physical means not only this body. We produce in our body that kind of energy, strength, hormones, and prāṇas, distributing to the whole body. After that comes prāṇāyāma. Now it was vyāyāma, āsanas, vyāyāma. So āsanas are a kind of sport. It is a posture, but you still have to do something with the body. Then comes prāṇāyāma. So again, the vyāyam, like physical vyāyam, is the prāṇa-vyāyam. And so it’s called prāṇāyāma. Prāṇāyāma, through which we supply good quality oxygen to the body. It is through the whole body that we are inhaling. Every part of the body, everywhere, the hair, there is the prāṇa going in and out. The skin is inhaling and exhaling, that we all know. But more we are supplying through the nostrils, and when we need more, through the breath with the mouth. This too has to be very healthy. Now, when the fresh air comes into your room or window, but if the window is something not good, stinky, or on the door lying something smells bad, so fresh air comes from outside, sure, there is something wrong and the whole room air will not be good, an unpleasant room smell. So, now, how is your mouth? When someone is sitting beside you and you speak, “Friend, how are you?” and the other friend says, “Yes, I’m good.” Yes, yes, friend, you want to drink some water so that maybe your mouth will be clean. You don’t smell yourself sometimes, but others do. So that means there is no purity in the stomach. We need Śaṅkhaprakṣālana. Yes, we need Bāstidhāti. We need nauli, and we need to change the nourishment. When we eat grain, then we have gas inside, and it has a smell. But if we eat only vegan, then we don’t have that kind of gas, and not bad smells. It is but 80% little. So we can brush our teeth three or four times a day and clean our mouth, but still the smell comes. And what does the smell mean? Smell means dead energy, dead prāṇa. It’s not prāṇa, it is apāna. So, when we exercise with prāṇāyāma, we supply directly and quickly to the whole body the good prāṇa. The whole body needs that prāṇāyāma. But, yogī, that’s why I said the sāttvic nourishment. Try to use some kind of spices in your mouth, like cardamom or some black pepper or some mint, certain things which keep in your mouth a feeling of freshness. The mouth is the biggest door for our body, and this door should be clean, including the tongue. The mouth is very sensitive, and whatever we call tasteful is only in this part of the body. Whatever taste you have in the mouth, the taste of the throat is very tasty, but as soon as you swallow, you come to the elementary channel, you don’t feel any taste. When you just come near the tonsil, to the throat, the taste is only on the tongue and gums. After that, for example, sugar, after that if you don’t wash your mouth properly, the sugar produces not good germs. It develops more bacteria, and that begins to smell. Second is the nose. We inhale fresh air, but the nose inside is not clean. So all fresh air is filtering through the not-so-clean nostrils. That’s why neti, we should practice jala neti. Even if nothing comes out, your nostril is okay, but still there are certain germs which have to come out. Then you will feel your lungs very fresh and clean. You enjoy inhaling. And when you open the window and look, oh, good air. So it is, it depends on us. We should go to such a place where there is peaceful and clean air, and these trees, the trees giving us good prāṇa, are filtering everything. What a beauty, our life. So, Prāṇāyāma. Vyāyam, the exercise of the Prāṇa. There are different techniques for different things. The Prāṇāyāma practice has two effects: help for the body and development of the spirituality. Prāṇāyāma brings you close to your soul. You feel your soul; your soul is happy. You feel pleasant under your skin; otherwise, you say, “I don’t feel good under my skin.” Many people want to die because, inwardly, they have no happiness, only disappointment. And that’s why many people commit suicide. Why? It’s not easy to make such a step. It’s not easy, but it is because inside there is a pain, and the depression is such a pain, so one thinks it is better to die. Why does it happen like that? Because there is no prāṇa inside. Happiness is prāṇa, kindness is prāṇa, love is prāṇa, good words are prāṇa, everything. So you have to give to others, and then even if others don’t want to give you back, you will feel it from her or his happiness. It is said, if you give someone food, a hungry person, and it doesn’t say to you, “Thank you,” but the stomach says, “Thank you.” Do not expect and wait until the person will say thank you. You need not. Without saying this, the stomach blesses you. Every creature is hungry; you give them something to eat. Their stomach blesses you, my dear. The Jīvātmā is blessing you. There is one monkey. He is hungry. And when you feed it, it gives you a blessing. A hungry crocodile, and when you feed him, he also says to you, “Thank you.” So you should feed the crocodile, but carefully. So, every creature, the birds, the ants. So this is a prāṇāyāma, a life, to save the lives. So nature balances nature, jīva jīva bhakṣate, life eats life, but humans are above this. For our nature here, we need many different creatures. We need the butterflies. We need the bees. If there is no bee, no butterflies, and no wasps, we will have no fruits. If there is no bee, we will have no honey. And no one can make honey. To this day, no scientist can make honey. We can melt, boil, and burn sugar. Sugar will become liquid, and then it will remain like that. So, you think it’s honey. But the difference between honey and sugar water, how should we know? The people are selling honey, but actually it is sugar syrup. They put some piece of the wax inside from honey, but the taste is that. Do you want to know if it is real honey or sugar syrup? Yes. How do you know? Tell me. Yeah, but you are not waiting until it crystallizes. And honey is also crystallizing. Okay, so you take your cloth and drop the honey on it. It will slide down. And drop the sugar syrup, and it will stick here. Very easy. We learned something today, no? Very simple, but very good. Anyhow, so, what we call, save the bee. Many countries are buying bees from other countries because, through this pesticide, many flies die. Soak, leaves, flowers, butterflies, wasps, honey bees, and many others. So what we call eco-balance, and how will we manage this now? Only if you become a yogī, you practice prāṇāyāma, mantras, you practice ahiṃsā, no violence, yes, thou shalt not kill, then again our world will become very nice. You see, there are rare places in the world, like here, where we are sitting in this college. How nice! There are some countries in the world, big countries, but you hardly see a nice, green tree like this one. You go to Dubai, it’s a rich country, and the skyscrapers, buildings, but like this you don’t see. I was there a few years ago, and I stayed there three, four days, maybe five days. But I didn’t hear the birds. When I came to Mumbai, I heard the birds. That’s it. So in the Sahara, in such a sandy land, there is no vegetation. So how lucky we are to have this climate. The trees, to make a shadow, artificial or a shadow of the tree, this is different. So here we feel very comfortable. Try to preserve more and more good prāṇa. Speak good. Think good. Communicate well, and meditate and do the prāṇāyāma. We were doing prāṇāyāma lectures for the last five days. I came on Saturday. And I think Saturday, tomorrow is Saturday too. Yeah, so seven days already, eight days. So we were talking about prāṇāyāma. From the aspect of the prāṇāyāma as spirituality, we talked about Iḍā and Piṅgalā, and we come to the Suṣumnā. It’s a long way. It will not finish even in the Strilky. You know, when I take one subject, then I can carry on for one year or two years. So it’s good. So welcome, and think of the prāṇa. Leave the window open, and if a mosquito comes, he sucks the bad blood so that we can produce more good blood. That’s it. They are doing good karma. They are doing your seva. Śiva, so that’s very good. So relax, and in the morning, at five past five or something like this, the sun shines, the sun rises. Through your windows or staircase from this building, from the last floor, you can see the beautiful dawn and sun rising. If you want to see more, better, then you have to go to the other side of the field, within walking distance. Otherwise, you will see the sun definitely, but not that color, a golden color, beautiful. At that time, you do the tratak for just half a minute or one minute. And then you have the sun’s reflection. So, welcome everybody, and today we will speak about Alakhpurījī. Now, this subject is a big subject. We were talking from time to time about Alakh Purījī, but now we came more close, and it is part of the Himalayas and very high hills, the mountains, and that’s called the kingdom of Alakh Purījī, and from there this river comes. So there was a divine mother, the Śakti, or a Devī, and she is known as Nandā, and so she was there, divine energy, divine mother, so that became Alaknandā. And the other side is called Kubera, the treasure of the gods. God is a mysterious, spiritual, and there is other prāṇa. There is other prāṇa; they don’t like our prāṇa. Our prāṇa is more missy-mashy, but there is pure and pure, and so we are not used to that. Like a fish comes out of the water, tries to open its mouth to get the oxygen, but this oxygen, she can’t survive. Her kingdom is the water. So similarly, our oxygen, our kingdom is this lower part, a thousand, maybe two thousand meters above the ocean. So mostly oxygen, the oxygen is supplying the ocean. But when we are coming to three or four thousand meters height above the ocean, then our prāṇa and that other prāṇa don’t match. So we have to be very kind and friendly to that prāṇa. And very gently, and slowly, don’t be angry, and stay there. Wait till they tell you to come further 50 meters. Yeah, so each step is like you have already been walking for one hour. So is the prāṇa. One step. Bah! Then we know what prāṇa is. Then what will they say? Oh my vape! In Magyarra. How nice prāṇa! Alakhpurījī, please bless me from there. I am comfortable here. So it is like this: we have to purify the prāṇas, and our system should get used to it again. It’s like a diesel engine, a petrol engine, and a water engine—the steam motor. So there is water steam. Then there is diesel, there is beer, and there is alcohol, the petrol. So we are polluted with this. But as soon as we come higher, our consciousness becomes clear and spiritual. It is indescribable when you go high in the mountains. So, welcome, wish you all the best, and we will give you the other instructions. So, prāṇāyāma, we will talk about chakras, prāṇāyāmas, samādhis, many, many things. Thank you.