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Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Kī Jai. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jai, Alakhpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jai. Blessings from the Alakhpurījī Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā. I wish you a very nice day. It is beautiful. It was raining in the night, so Mother Nature did good. I gave water to all the plants, and now there is sunshine and good light. That is how it should be. We sleep, but Indra does not sleep. Haṭha Yoga. Yesterday we had the definition of Haṭha Yoga. Now it is your work. You have to practically master the six techniques of Haṭha Yoga. These are the six techniques: Netī, Dhautī, Bastī, Naulī, Trāṭaka, and Kapālabhāti. First is Netī, the cleaning of the nostrils with lukewarm water and salt. There are different kinds of Netī. This one is called Jala Netī. Jala means water. You should have a Jalanetī Loṭā that you should utilize. Every yoga center, everywhere you are teaching, you should have this Loṭā with you. You can also buy more and sell them. You should explain to your students exactly how to make Jalanetī. After Jalanetī, we should practice Kapālabhāti Prāṇāyāma. Kapāla means the forehead and our sinuses. When we do Jalanetī, some quantity of the water may go to the sinuses. That should be emptied and cleaned. There is a Bhastrikā and Kapālabhāti Prāṇāyāma. First, you do like this, exhaling, not inhaling. So, from where should we get the air? That is a miracle you have to learn. You only exhale. But how to inhale? You need a big stomach so that you have enough air. We inhale through the mouth. Then we clean all the water out. At the same time, we get very good oxygen. You will have a very good feeling in your brain, in your forehead, behind the forehead. Kapālabhāti and Bhastrikā should not be done like this. Someone is driving a car and doing this. Always do it only from the stomach. We don't have locomotives with coal, with the steam engine now. But when they were starting, you know, in Ostrava and Havířov and all that area—be careful, there are many holes maybe 100 meters deep, coal and coal and coal—it was supplied to the railway company and for electricity. At that time, when the locomotive starts, first they give the signal, both sound and visible, the light signal and the barrier signal. When the locomotive was beginning, then it was doing Kapālabhāti, and it went speed. So, how to do the Kapālabhāti? Demonstrate, give the example. Our young generation doesn't know, but in some films you can see, yes, cowboy films. And then it goes through the tunnel, disappears, then goes through the mountain. Bhastrikā. That was an imitation from Haṭha Yoga. At that time, all this was in Soviet Union territories. They learned this: how to clean the Kapāla, sinuses, and the lungs. It should be done from the stomach so all water goes out. Write this down. Second, only do it in the morning time. If you do it in the evening and go to sleep after, you will get sinus problems, and it will be difficult to get rid of them. You will have a headache and many things, and your nose will be running. So never do Netī before going to sleep in the evening or daytime either. After doing Jalanetī, you should not sleep for at least two hours. It is better to stay in the same temperature. Do Jalanetī in the morning, then do Kapālabhāti a little, and then immediately go to work. Especially in winter, otherwise you will catch a cold and have sinus problems. This is a precaution we should understand: benefit and precaution. Those who have sinus problems can get rid of them through Kapālabhāti and Jalanetī. Also, people have allergies from the dust, flower dust, or different seasons; that can also be controlled or cured through Kapālabhāti and Jalanetī. After that, apply a little oil in the nostrils with the fingers, just a little bit. If you apply the oil in the navel, it will not work in the nostrils. That is for the lips, for good lips and mouth. Then we will have a little attack of energy. Practicing Kaṭhūparāṇam, Vajrāsana, Tāḍāsana, Vīrāsana, Utkaṭāsana, the Cray Walk—all these postures are in the Yoga and Daily Life book. For what? They will develop immunity in the body. In your lecture, you heard that Prāṇa is not only in the food but also in the mental and spiritual way of thinking. Everything is together. The human, or any creature, is complete with all five bodies: Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. This applies to Haṭha Yoga also. Eighty percent or more of getting an allergy is due to a lack of immunity, and the chemicals: medicine, washing powders, and what they spray on the vegetables and fruits, trees—pesticides—that damages our immunity. So Netī, Jalanetī, is great. The whole day you will have very good thinking. You will not have tension; you will feel very relaxed. Good concentration, and your eyesight will be good. We know that in this modern technology, especially the women who are secretaries, how many hours are they looking into this box, the computer, all the time at this light? If you are looking and talking to your neighbor, then big brother is watching with a camera. They count how many minutes you are talking with your neighbor and how many times you are telephoning. They count the minutes in the evening to see how many hours you did not work. We are human; we should talk. A little bit of talking and relaxing is also good. But what do they do now? This much space and the wall on the other side, and not a transparent glass, so they squeeze us like a lemon. For them, it is allergy and headache and many problems. For us, here, it is the greatest blessing and a retreat, rest, relaxation, recovery. These trees, our garden, our grass, our ashram, are a blessing for our eyes. When you do the āsanas, don’t close your eyes. As much as you can, spend time outside. And don’t just talk to people with "How are you?" Look at the greenery. This is nature. This is more than any kind of treatment in hospitals. How much good Prāṇa we are recharging every day. The trees are our life. So it is said: O my mind, be like a tree. That tree stays in one place. It doesn’t matter which season it is—snow, frost, heat, rain, hail, storms—that tree is standing there in every condition. A tree doesn’t say, "I want to go on holiday." One day, we came here for a seminar and there was not a single tree. Where are they? They went to the Arctic coast for swimming? Then they will not come back. So it is said, in the graveyard or crematorium, when you go there, even the bones will not come back. At home, it’s gone. When these trees are gone, they will not come back. These trees have a tapasyā. Liking and disliking, she does not care. She will endure all kinds of situations, and she will never refuse us to come and sit under her shadow. If she has fruits, we throw a stone to get the fruit down. We throw the stone, but the tree doesn’t catch this stone and throw it back to us. She gives us fruits. All creatures come and sit. Any kind of birds will come and sit. Or someone cuts the branch. O my mind, be like a tree. If we begin to write a book about a tree, it will be a beautiful, big book. What this tree gives us: everything—roots, shadow. How many millions of creatures are on this one tree? Not only for humans. In some trees, big snakes live. No problem. So be like a tree. Therefore it is said: Sarvar, Tarvar, Santajan, Cothā, Barsemī—the four things are holy. Sarvar, the lake, is holding water for others; the lake doesn’t drink water itself. And the lake will not refuse you to take water. You can swim, wash yourself, wash your laundry, or protect the water. You do anything. That lake is like a mother. A little baby makes toilet, makes urine on mother’s lap, father’s lap, brother’s lap, but mother and father are not angry. So the lake is never angry. You may throw a stone or a flower, or you may make Praṇām. Sarvar, be like a Sarvar. Tarvar is a tree. And about the tree, I told you. Santjan are the saints, the Sādhus. And Cothā is rain. When the rain falls here, it will not say, "I will rain here and not here, because here are the thorns or here is the dirt." Rain doesn’t see the thorns, the stones, or the dirt. It rains equally. So these four are holy: lake, tree, saint, and rain. Pada pada sarvar tarvar sant jan, cothā barse meṁ paramāratha ke kāraṇe cāro darīhe de. For the doing of good things, these four have manifested themselves here. Now, what are you doing to the lake? How much are we polluting? All the time, the lake’s water was so good you could just drink it. And how many trees did we chip? And where are many saints? In Kali Yuga, they disappear. And rain is little and little and little. This rain we had in the night, if you dig the earth, is only three centimeters deep. It doesn’t even go to the root. That’s why the forest is also getting destroyed. We can make more and more trees, and more rain will come. Because the rain is coming for the trees, not for the humans. Don’t think it’s raining for us. Of course, rain is very kind, and it also rains for you a little bit. But again, the rain is angry? The rain begins to come. We put up an umbrella, so they said, "Okay, they don’t want us." We are spoiled. It doesn’t matter. Let the little gate wait. Why not? It’s best to bathe in the rain. Those who have many pimples will be healed. Half an hour in the rain is intense. But when it’s raining for half an hour now, we can put it for the bathroom, but that is not rain. The rain is nectar. So people in Britain and all these other suburbs of England, there is a wetland. It’s raining a lot. Maybe it was raining, but not anymore. In the school, teachers were making some songs, and they said children should sing the song: "Rain, rain, go away." And all children say, "Rain, rain, go away, go away." They taught the children in our Jadan school. We are looking forward to rain, and that stupid English teacher teaches an English song. So all the children say, "Rain, rain, go away." Oh God, so our talab, our lake, was empty, and there was no rain. One day I told them, all your school children should go in the lake. It’s a dry bottom, and children were sitting there, and for one hour they were singing, "Rain, rain, come please, rain, rain, come here, me-ow, me-ow." "Me" means rain, and "ao" means come. A cat, meow. So all our karma yogīs in Jadān who are working, they all say, "Meow, meow." And since that time, we have four cats in the ashram. When I come, they disappear and look somewhere else. I say, "Ahem," and they disappear. Now, the problem is this: the cat should be there. Jīva jīva bhakṣate—life feeds on life. But our karma yogīs, they feed our cat so much that it can’t even walk. When somebody comes, our cat cannot walk, so she lies down and makes Sarvahitāsana for digestion. So Netī, Dhautī, Bastī, Naulī, Trāṭaka, Kapālabhāti. Every part of yoga has its meaning and is connected with nature. When you are here, try to look at this green. Greenery is a blessing for our eyes to see. Don’t put sunglasses on; then you are changing, manipulating the color. Of course, when the sun is too strong and you have a problem with your eyes, you can put on your eyeglasses. Otherwise, look down at green grass; look up at a green tree; look far at all beautiful trees. As you walk, sitting under the trees, what good Prāṇa you have. That is energy, Prāṇa, not physical diet. Just touch the tree, the trunk of the tree. You will feel immense energy. So love the trees. Don’t chip the trees. So Netī. Then comes Sūtra Netī in the subject of yoga. Sūtra means thread, a little string made from pure cotton thread. Nowadays they have from the hospital what is called a catheter, in different sizes. If you do it with cotton threads, you make that size like a catheter, thick, and then in pure beeswax—make the wax hot so it becomes liquidy and suck this cotton thread in the wax. It will become smooth, and you will not get infection in the nose or sinuses because this bee wax is very important. You let this thread go inside. In the beginning, you will make it like this—"Jesus Maria! Swamiji, what have you done?" But if you put it slowly, you will begin to sneeze. If you let it go quickly, nothing will happen inside, and it comes out near the tonsils. With one finger, like you catch a fish—but don’t catch fish—you catch it. Now you see the thread in my nose? Yes. Then don’t make jokes with your husband. Otherwise, tell the husband, "I will hold your Sūtra Netī. My dear husband, get up. Sit down. Look left. Look right. Will you be nice to me?" "Yes, I promise you." So, Sūtranetī. Then, don’t take it out from the nose on this side, but take it through the mouth. Then, lukewarm water, nicely clean it. Very nice. Sometimes you can also use natural soap, neem soap, and then dry it. Every day you should do this, so you will have good breathing. Don’t change the Sūtra Netī. Your husband’s Sūtra Netī, you should not use yourself. Our husband should not use the wife’s Netī. There are some other people: they go in here, take out here, then again take in, and it comes with the other nose, and then going like this. Your cat is looking, yes, the cat is doing so. That’s it, it means you succeed. Then our nose is very good, and many, many diseases go through the dust. So Sūtranetī is very good. Sometimes people use some oil. Some people use their own urine instead of water, but that we don’t need; we are not so orthodox. So Jalanetī and Sūtranetī. Then it is called Vāyu Netī, air netī with the air. So you do the Kapālabhāti again. This is air netī. And then you do like this. Yes, this is Kapālabhāti. Look how quickly you exhale, exhale. How do you inhale? You have to inhale through the navel. That I will tell you next time, how to inhale through the navel. I can do, but you can’t. Oh, now I just have such a good feeling. The ladies, and mostly ladies, have headaches, and some men too. If they do Jalanetī, Sūtranetī, and drink enough water, your headache will be okay. Those who drink too much coffee get a headache. It affects the liver, and the liver also affects the head. Our liver—coffee destroys the liver. Alcohol destroys the liver less, but coffee more. But that coffee which is black coffee only; with milk, the caffeine is a little bit neutralized. Black tea is also very bad, but with milk it’s okay. You can make a netī with beer. Yeah, our Rām Dev Jī said Coca-Cola is the best for cleaning toilets. The company Coca-Cola wanted to make a case against him; they sued him. He said, "Yes, first come and see how it’s cleaning, true or not?" He said yes, so finished. If we drink beer, we do it, then all germs will burn. But again, we are not so orthodox. We are sāttvik yogīs, good yogīs. We are not extremists. So, Netī. Netī, netī, netī. And now, what is the Netī? Another definition of Netī in the Hindi language: in the Netī, they put one word before rāj. Raja means king, and nīti means politics. So Rājanīti is politics. But in other words, Nīti is ethical principles. So Netī, Netī... the Ṛṣis are saying Netī, Netī, Netī. Such an ethical principle. So today is finished: Netī, Netī, Netī. Politics cleans everything. A yogī cleans everything. And we are very clean. So, this is only the Netī. Dhautī also has its principle, Kuṇḍalinī Kriyā. That’s why his wife, Rampuri’s wife, Duryānanda Rampurī, Tyāgpuri—Tyāgpuri’s wife is always sitting facing towards me, because we understand more with the lips. Thank you. All right, so I wish you a very nice day. Try to spend more time in the park. Don’t talk too loud. And of course, if you want to rest in your room, you can go. Did you practice the demonstration? Alakh Purījī Mahādev, Dev Purīṣa Mahādev, Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān, Satyāsana Tandar, Kī Jai.