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Do you understand the 72,000 nerves and how prāṇa is distributed throughout the whole body? Do you understand those energy points? In acupressure, they locate points on different parts of the fingers, thumbs, toes, or other parts of the body. These are energy centers. To clarify further, they call them meridians. If a point becomes blocked because the nervous system does not function properly, why does it not function properly? Because there is a blockage. What the Chinese know about these techniques actually originated from the ṛṣis of the Himalayas. On one side are the Chinese Himalayas, on the other the Indian side. The Himalayas are one. There is only one Great Wall. Yes, it is a historical wall. The Russian Soviet Union also tried to create a wall. Then they stopped; Berlin, too, was divided half and half. Do you know this? And a beautiful wall stood between. So, in every story, there are great things everywhere. But yoga and these different techniques all come from the ṛṣis. When a person who knows acupressure or acupuncture touches an energy point with a needle, you can see on the monitor that the needle moves. Everyone knows this. Who does not know? Everybody has problems, no? So, everyone is blocked. You see, that is it. And so, that practitioner or doctor activates that point. This opens the blockage, and immediately the energy flows through the nerve systems. What is that energy? It is called prāṇa. This is a network. The nerves are a network throughout the whole body. There are two things which modern medicine does not acknowledge. They say there are no 72,000 nerves. So this is the first conflict between modern medical science and yogic science. Second, they say that Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā do not reach down to the Mūlādhāra. This, too, is a conflict between yoga and modern medicine. How do these 72,000 nerves function? How do we understand that prāṇa is guiding this energy, this strength, the functions of the whole body, even the brain’s centers, through the prāṇas? Consider these three nāḍīs. That is why at times there are vikṣepas—disturbances. There is no coordination between the energy and the centers. So we sing one bhajan, so that it will be clear. And that bhajan is a very good bhajan. If Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai, Oṁ Śānti Śānti Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai. In yogic science, it is different from medical science. Medical science is more or less focused on the physical body. But yogic science is concerned with the ātmā. That is the difference. These three nāḍīs—one is Suṣumnā, and it receives cosmic energy through the Sahasrāra Cakra. But balancing this Suṣumnā and Iḍā-Piṅgalā, there is another nāḍī which is very powerful and important. That is called Vajrā Nāḍī. The Vajrā Nāḍī in the body controls all the nerves, all 72,000, and functions like earthing for electricity—like lightning from the clouds. When the Vajrā Nāḍī does not function properly, then Iḍā or Piṅgalā becomes weaker. And then the prāṇa, which should flow through these two, slowly becomes blocked. Now this prāṇa, the cosmic energy received through Suṣumnā Nāḍī and balanced together with Iḍā and Piṅgalā, is taken care of by the Vajrā Nāḍī. The controlling junction, or center, is the Maṇipūra. The Maṇipūra Cakra is the center of our consciousness, the center of our body. The first creation of our body begins from the Maṇipūra Cakra, the navel. If the Vajrā Nāḍī is not properly treated or exercised, it becomes less functional. Then Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā become weaker because there is not enough prāṇa flowing. And so, in the nerve systems of the body, what modern medicine now calls cholesterol begins to collect in the nerves and arteries. When its blockage comes slowly, slowly, then either one gets a heart attack or a brain attack. Why does it happen? Or there is some other damage in the body. When the blockage begins in these two or three nāḍīs, then our entire organs begin to suffer. So in yogic science, it is prāṇāyāma. Through prāṇa, you can open all the blockages. Therefore, the prāṇāyāma technique is very important. When the prāṇa begins to circulate in the whole body, it starts from the navel. At the Maṇipūra Cakra, both prāṇa and apāna begin to guide the process. Prāṇa has two functions: one is to reject all harmful things from the body, and second, it strengthens the Vajrā Nāḍī. When Vajrā Nāḍī is strong, the circulation of prāṇa is very proper and no blockage takes place. This is the message given over the last three nights by Mahāprabhujī and Devpurījī. Day by day, it is not I but Gurudev speaking within me. “Aise merā satguru andar bole”—thus my Satguru Dev is speaking within me. So, this is a very rare yogī who knows the function of the Vajrā Nāḍī. Regarding Vajrā Nāḍī and Vajrāsana: people say Vajrāsana is good. Sitting in Vajrāsana after eating for five to ten minutes is very beneficial for the digestive system—no gastric problems, no constipation, no diarrhea. Everything is regulated in intense times because of the Vajrā Nāḍī. And the Vajrā Nāḍī is responsible for our body’s immunity. So Vajrā Nāḍī is like the root for a tree. It begins from our big toe and second toe. That is why the ṛṣis and yogīs used wooden sandals, which we call kadao, or you can say shoes. Immunity in the body is very important. Immunity kills all germs in the body, filters the prāṇa, and gives strength to the prāṇa. Nāda, the sound, after it comes to the brain, is originally rooted from the navel. This is a very, very interesting subject in yoga—or you can say Āyurveda, too. When our immunity is weak, then every day before sleep, take nice, pure ghee—cow ghee. Not from goats, sheep, buffaloes, donkeys, or pigs, because many people in many countries mix all kinds of milk and send it to the dairy, so that butter is also mixed. In certain countries, it is said, there is food control, but how much food control there is we don’t know. And nowadays food control means that everything should not be organic, and all should be pesticide-free. This is considered food control. Healthy food is not available now. This is the knowledge of our doctors. Thank you, doctors. You study a lot, and what have you done? You study so much that you spoil our… and organic food, all these pollutions—what do they want? They will be killing us. So this immunity, this food, the sound—everything begins from the navel. And the navel is the center of nectar, amṛta. Ambrosia resides in the navel, and from here the prāṇa transfers this process of the ambrosia into the bindu cakra. The bindu cakra supplies this nectar to the whole brain and to other organs. The seat of sound is in the navel, and everything comes through sound. Our creation begins through sound. All mechanisms in our body, all nerves and tissues, are created and balanced through sound. And that sound is guided by prāṇa. So when we chant Oṁ, or when we inhale and exhale, by chanting, the resonance immediately ascends from the navel to the Sahasrāra Cakra. And from there you will see this nāḍī—Iḍā Nāḍī goes from the right side to the left and enters into the heart. In our book “Yoga and Daily Life” and in “The Hidden Powers in Humans: Chakras and Kuṇḍalinī,” there is a chart about the nervous systems. This nerve system is the channels through which prāṇa circulates in the whole body. And that prāṇa is life. You can say, in some way, it is the soul. When prāṇa is gone, what is the soul? The soul is a bundle of prāṇa. In that bundle of prāṇa, it is like a ball, and all kinds of energy—negative and positive—are stored in it. When it becomes pure energy only, the soul dissolves; the jīva dissolves into the soul. It is very interesting when you see the chart, how these three nāḍīs from their Sahasrāra Cakra go to very important points of the body. And then you see the Vajrā Nāḍī, and Vajrā Nāḍī is like the roots of a tree; it balances the tree, holds the tree. So the tree can stand and remain there. The prāṇa begins through those cosmic energies. When the pure cosmic energy enters directly into the Sahasrāra Cakra, we will die immediately. It is like a bulb getting fused. If a bulb has a 100-volt capacity and a 10,000-volt current is sent directly into it, it will immediately fuse. So, Vajrā Nāḍī is like earthing, and it automatically controls this. And that is also prāṇa, which is in our eyesight. Then there is Upaprāṇa, that very fine energy. It is a sub-prāṇa, designed with the highest quality, and it is mostly for the heart. Our heartbeat comes from this sub-prāṇa. When in that prāṇa there is a little disturbance, it is because our Vajrā Nāḍī is weak; therefore our heartbeat is not balanced. Sometimes the heart beats very high or low. When one is old, there is no strength. So nowadays, modern medicine makes what they call a pacemaker—a pacemaker that supports that prāṇa. My dear ones, all of you who are above 40 years: life is 40 years—you grow for 40 years, and now what will you do? You have to go down. Forty and forty is eighty. From where you began, you came to the peak, and now you are going down. At forty-five years, then ninety years will age. At fifty years, one hundred years. Can we imagine our hundred years, how it will be? Everything is rattling in the body. Yes. So, enjoy—what? Life. Which life? Spiritual life. Then, you will have one decade, two decades more of life. And you will die a little healthy, happy. So, practice, especially for Vajrā Nāḍī, all movements for the toes: Tāḍāsana, crow walk, and the power of what you call Sarvāṅgāsana, moving our toes, stretching the ankle joints. This prāṇa, it is called the Vajra—that is the Vajra energy. Our knees, our joints, why are they hurting? Because we can’t practice. If we practice and have good nourishment, we do not need the replacement of hips, heels, and knees. Because you did not move enough, Vajrā Nāḍī was not supporting their energy. But still, it is not too late. Do it. We all must do this. The Vajrā Nāḍī supports the joints, and secondly, it keeps the nāḍīs clean. That is why Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyāma, Śuddhīkaraṇa, purification, is important. Candra-bhedana, Sūrya-bhedana prāṇāyāma. Candra-bhedana is through the left nostril, and Sūrya-bhedana is the right nostril. So, we shall at least practice for three months only Candra-bhedana and Sūrya-bhedana. Do not go immediately to Anuloma-Viloma. Candra-bhedana and Sūrya-bhedana are also forms of Nāḍī Śodhana. The language is very clear: purification of the nerves. People say, “The modern doctors’ expertise? What is a yogī? Stupid! Clean the nerves?” Dear God! How to clean the nerves? If you pump air inside, you will die. You will have a hemorrhage. How do you clean the nerves? How can you even clean outside? You will damage the nerves. But the yogī said, “No, I will show you how to clean the nerves, doctor. Come on, sit straight and hold your nose. Close your right nostril and inhale and exhale through the left nostril. And then through the right nostril.” Oh, the doctor said, “I feel relaxed. My head feels relaxed.” Why? Because of this prāṇa that purifies the nerve systems. So, there are things we don’t agree with from allopathic medicine, and things they don’t accept are our thoughts and our living. But it doesn’t matter if it is yogic, allopathic, homeopathic, or naturopathic. The main thing is that we are healthy. So in yoga, there is no competition, because in yoga it is said that anyhow the yogic exercises will always win. A lifelong, healthy, long life. To improve immunity in the body, the key postures are: Tāḍāsana, Crow Walk, Vīrāsana, Vajrāsana, and Khaṭu Praṇām, Paścimottānāsana—these postures. Do them for three months, every day. You will see how much you will feel your body becoming very light, relaxed, and healthier. Tāḍāsana, Vajrāsana, Vīrāsana, Crow Walk, Vāyu Yārās—and Paścimottānāsana and Khaṭuparṇa. Write them down and begin tomorrow. Tomorrow morning in the hall, everybody will stand on the toes—not only one or two times, like a ballerina. You have to walk, stand on the toes, and do not go down quickly. Amitābha, Amitābha... Because prāṇa is not inside, the brain is completely filled with calcium, like cement or concrete. This is mostly for meat consumers. Those who are vegetarian, until the last minute of their life, have brilliant memory. And those who consume meat, eggs, and fire on it—alcohol—no wonder what will be the condition of our health. So Prāṇa—He Prāṇanāth, we say He Prāṇanāth. O God, You are the source of my life. You are the Lord of my prāṇas. You are the God of my prāṇas. You are my life. Tomorrow you will experience these few exercises. Vajrāsana, Mārjārīāsana is also very good. Yes. So, 72,000 nāḍīs. We will talk more tomorrow. And now, I wish you all the best. And a very good evening. Don’t ask me any questions, because I spoke more than questions and answers. But of course, you can make a dialogue. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī.