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Good evening. Blessings of Śrī Alagpurījī, Siddhāpīṭ Paramparā. How is everyone? Warm, that’s right. Do you remember the last seminar in winter? One opens the window, the other closes the window. That is Sanātana Dharma. Every season changes according to Sanātana Dharma. The entire function, what we call nature—all the seasons, day and night, Pūrṇimā and Amāvasyā—all is according to Sanātana Dharma. Whatever we can see through the eye is Sanātana. What you hear through the ears is Sanātana. Everything that is functioning in our body is Sanātana. Sanātana Dharma is the eternal dharma. It is not a man-made dharma; it is the eternal dharma. Ādi and anādi—there is no beginning and no end. That is Sanātana Dharma. So, Sanātana Dharma kī? Very good. How do you know? Alak Purījī Mahādeva Dev Purīṣa Mahādeva Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Hindu Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana Dharma Bhārata Mātākī Gajarāṇjī Mahārāj. Very good, very nice. Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, Satya Sanātana Brahma, Alak Purījī Mahādeva. Satguru Charaṇamalagi, Holī Gurujī says, "My eyes, my look, my visions are all the time on the lotus feet of the Gurudeva." Holī Gurujī says, "My eyes are constantly on the lotus feet of the Gurudeva, and through these lotus feet, my kismat has awakened." So you know all this. Well, prāṇa. And yoga teacher training. How do you forget again? All the questions will be asked. So you never know in which words Swamījī speaks. You have to swallow each and every word as a nectar of knowledge, wisdom. Yoga. Yoga is one. Yoga means union, joint, oneness—our Ātmā and Paramātmā. Both are the same, but at present, this Jīvātmā is far from Paramātmā. Jīvātmā dāleko od paramātmā. Far means our ignorance is between. So, otherwise it is said: "Every entity is my ātmā." At that time, you are a perfect yogī. At that time, you are self-realized. We are very far from that. Sabhī prāṇī merī ātmā prāṇī. You see, again we are in the prāṇa. Who is having prāṇa? That is the prāṇī, the living life, the living being. The tree is also prāṇī. And this prāṇī, all is my ātmā, myself. Ātmā, so is Paramātmā. And this ātmā is the Paramātmā. So yoga unites. Yoga unites. Ignorance divides. Knowledge unites. Ignorance divides. The aim of yoga is to become one. When Kṛṣṇa left this world, all his bhaktas were crying. Gopīs. Gopīs means the female disciples, and gopā means the male disciples. That’s it. So you see how many gopīs are sitting here. And how many gopīs are sitting here? And Kṛṣṇa is sitting here, Mahāprabhujī. So we are all bhaktas. When Kṛṣṇa left this world, the bhaktas were crying, and more pain was felt, mostly by the gopīs. We know that women are more emotional, that emotion of the bhakti. So Uddhava was Kṛṣṇa’s friend. In Ujjain, where the Kumbh Mela was, there is a school where Kṛṣṇa went to school. So, there are so many people going to see. Ṛṣi Sandīp was the name of Kṛṣṇa’s master. And Rāma’s guru, master, was Vasiṣṭha. Rāma, Kṛṣṇa—who is greater than Rāma and Kṛṣṇa? They also had a guru. Though they are the god of all three worlds, still they surrendered to the guru-deva. So who are we? That we can’t surrender. So we have here a row here. We can’t surrender. So, this arrow we have to take it away. Then we can go. Then we can go down, you know, the men. The men. The men. Men are the men. Always. Vždycky. Men are here. Mind decides. Myśl rozhoduje. Man said, "I have knowledge." So this is the man. By the nice of her. Je to od ní moc hezké, carrying all the weight of the man. So man decides. Man decides, but man cannot say yes or no. He needs permission from the woman, the neck. If the neck allows, you can say yes. And if the neck allows, you can say no. So this is just frozen knowledge. It has no flexibility. So, thanks to the neck, the woman. So, you know, at home, the married man knows very well. Yes. So the women are bhakti, devotion. So both should be together. Don’t only use this one, but you have to come from here down to here. Then the message goes from here to here. Then it validates your decision. So decide, and speak with love. Humbleness, mercy, kindness, respect. Tolerance. All these signals come from the woman. That bhakti, but if one only decides here, what happens? You can’t imagine. Carpet bombs are falling there. Carpet bomb. The bombs are falling down. That is without devotion, without bhakti. Dry intellect is very dangerous, and colored into, or sunk into, bhakti, it becomes divine. So even God, said Kṛṣṇa, well, he was a little naughty boy. We must tell, yes. But we love; where there is love, there is no naughty. So every little child is a Kṛṣṇa. He was a spoiled child. Very spoiled, but he had miracles. So the gopīs were very angry with him because he used to go into their house and take the butter and this and that. And they went to Yaśodā to complain, "Your child is so naughty. He broke this, he broke that in my room, my house. We closed the room." He’s inside, come and see. So they locked the door. They locked Kṛṣṇa inside. The windows were closed. And just 50 meters away, Yaśodhā’s house. To complain, they went there. And Kṛṣṇa was nicely sitting there and eating his food. Looking like this. Oh, sister, praṇām. Now, how can they complain? He is here, other dress, eating. Saying praṇām, they go home. So many, many, many times. So all these Gopīs, ladies, they were very angry. So one day they caught him in the room, and they said, "We will tie him to the pillar." So they tried to tie him with an iron chain, but it broke. They tried other ropes, and even cloth to tie him, but they broke. Nothing can tie him. So one Gopī was very clever. Yes, she was very clever. She said, "I will tie him here." And Kṛṣṇa said, "Yes." Kṛṣṇa was not sure, but that Gopī went to her room and found a little piece of rope, nearly rotten. You can break it like that, and she said, "Kṛṣṇa, now you cannot break the rope. This rope is a rope of love." So he holds his hand like this. They tie him to the pillar, and they all went to Yaśodā. "See, Yaśodā, where is your Kṛṣṇa? What is he doing?" And all the gopīs were standing there. So Kṛṣṇa’s friends, Gop... They say, "Kṛṣṇa, what are you doing? You can’t tear or break the rope. Do it. Don’t stand here like an innocent. Yaśodā will come. She will pull your ears." He said, "It will not be." Then why don’t you break the rope? Kṛṣṇa said, it’s written in the Bhagavad Gītā. So Kṛṣṇa said, "My friends, in the entire universe, there is no power that can tie me, but there is one power that I can’t break." They say, "Which is that?" Love devotion, because Gopī said this is the rope of the love. So, love I cannot break. You know the story? If there is a letter, I can read. But I cannot read to you my kismet. If there is a wood, I can break it, but love I can’t break. And that love is bhakti. So from the heart, the message goes to the brain, and from the brain comes the request to the heart. Both together give the best judgment. So, before you talk about something, from here, you should come here, and let it go from here to here. So these are both together, māyā, the Brahma and Prakṛti. These are the two, but they have to be in harmony. So, yoga. So these gopīs are crying, and they went to the Yādhav. So one gopī went and requested, "Hi Uddhava, please tell us what is the difference between yoga and yoga means separation." Yoga, when it is yoga, becomes one. And when there is separation in yoga, there is also one. Yogīs are living in the forest. But those who feel the separation, they have pain, they live here. So what is the best yoga? Show us. So when you unite, you become one. And the separation, you are again all one. So yoga means uniting. Yoga is that prāṇa, that principle which unites the space and consciousness and harmonizes the entire universe. That’s yoga. Now, this is in our body, many different kinds of yoga. Yoga is only yoga. That has a copyright, Śiva. Śiva gave the knowledge, or vidyā, of the yoga. He taught Pārvatī. He taught for the well-being of the humans and different kinds of yoga. So Patañjali modified the definition of yoga. Before, once also same, but Patañjali put a little bit systematically, and there he writes four yoga: Bhakti, Karma, Rāja, and Jñāna Yoga. Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rāja Yoga, Jñāna Yoga. Patañjali was one of the best psychologists. Patañjali was one of the best psychologists and one of the best scientists. He knew everything about the body, mind, consciousness, awareness, everything. Patañjali Ṛṣi, but before also, before, I also knew. So there comes Haṭha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rāja Yoga, Kriyā Yoga, Sahaja Yoga, Haṭha Yoga—many, many yogas. So, Haṭha Yoga. And the definition of Haṭha Yoga goes to the prāṇāyāma. In nāḍīs, iḍā and piṅgalā. Yamunā and Gaṅgā, so Iḍā and Piṅgalā and Suṣumnā. So iḍḍhā is the ha, and piṅgalā is the ṭha. So haṭha, and the suṣumṇā is one. So haṭha becomes yoga—haṭha yoga—when these two nāḍīs join together, then it becomes the yoga. That time, our individual consciousness, individual awareness, our sūrat, our awareness... It is joining with the Suṣumnā Nāḍī, and it leads the yogīs’, the Haṭha yogīs’, consciousness to the Sahasrāra Cakra. This is the definition of Haṭha yoga. Now Haṭha has another meaning, a definition in the local language, and that’s called willpower. Hatha means will. You say, "Don’t do this." I say, "I will do. Please don’t do. I will do." I tell you, "Don’t do." Why does the husband come? Don’t do this. But he is so angry. He has so much prāṇa, anger prāṇa. So he hits through the glass door, then he realizes his stupidity. His willpower, his anger, so he has to hold his hand like this. The doctor said, "You have to hold like this for two months." So whenever he looked like this, this hand tells him, "Such hatha is not good. Don’t do it again." This is evidence of your ignorance, Hatha. So when we have little children, then also the hata is completed. Baal hat. Baal means child. When a child begins to cry and tells their parents, "I want to have this, I want to have this." And we say no, but they cry further. Okay, so you have here ice cream, and he said, "Ha ha... that are the children. I am the winner." So that is the hata. Then second, triyahat. Triya means woman. The women have very strong willpower. Even the husband will say, "Don’t do." But if she decides to do something, she will do it. Husband doesn’t know anything. So trīyahatā. And trīyahatā, trīyācaritra, and the trīyāls, the woman’s nature and willpower, that you can see in the Rāmāyaṇa. Where the mantra she blackmails to the queen, and she sends the god Kṛṣṇa in asylum. So you know the whole story. So triyāhat. Then comes rājahat. Rājahat means king. What kings want to do, they will do it. Now you have presidents and ministers. They decide where to give money and where not to give. So that’s Rāja, king. Then comes Yoga Haṭha. Willpower of a yogī. So he will, hatha yogī, and will strong willpower and will achieve the brahmajñāna, hatha yogī. Now generally in the scriptures, hatha yoga is known as a ṣaṭ karma, six kriyās. In Āyurveda it’s only five kriyās. In Āyurveda it’s only five kriyās. But yoga has six kriyas, ṣaṭ karma. And these six kriyas are meant for purification of the body. If the body is very clean, very pure, then we are free from the disease, but we don’t have willpower. So we are suffering. So ṣaṭ kriyās, six kriyās: ṣaṭ karma, neti, you know the neti? No, neti, dhauti? Who don’t know, say yes, yes. Because you are not in yoga teacher’s training, we took you exceptionally, so you become now already yoga teacher, will be. So, neti, dhauti, basti. And basti we converted into the śaṅkhaprakṣālana. Nauli, tratāka, and kapālabhāti. These are the six kriyās for yogīs and yoga practitioners. Now, these six kriyās you must learn practically, not theoretically. And it should only be practiced under an expert teacher. Don’t do it alone at home. Because sometimes we say, I think it’s now finished. But it’s not finished. The teacher will say, "No, five glasses more." God. Okay. But the teacher knows how everything has to be cleaned. So, practice with a group. It gives motivation. And so, Śaṅkha Prakṣālana generally we should do four times. Ending and beginning new seasons, and all who are doing more seriously than every month, you can do Saṅkīrtana Prakāśana. Don’t do too much. Otherwise, you can have some problem with your intestine. And nauli you can do every day. Kapālabhāti every day. And Tratak. Tratak is good for eyesight, for willpower, for concentration. For meditation, for imagination, for intuition, many, many things. Tratak is very good, but also learn with a good teacher. So, haṭha yoga, when I first came to the West, people said, "I want to practice haṭha yoga." So I said, come morning, six o’clock. They said, "No, this is too early. I want to come in the evening after class." I worked, and I did not know, so I prepared for this person hot water with salt and this and that, and I saw the toilet, and there were three ladies. They came directly from their work, and so I said again, "Drink all the salt water." They said, "What is this?" I said, it’s for Śaṅkarācālana. What is that? Haṭha yoga. No. Some exercise. I said, this is not Haṭha yoga. But in the whole West, now they are talking Hatha Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Hatha Yoga. But still, I don’t say Hatha Yoga. So a yoga teacher knows, and a yoga teacher should correct, make corrections. What is the definition of each kind of yoga? So that is the first duty of the teachers. So then, slowly, slowly, even they are calling, "Do you teach your Hatha Yoga?" So I said, "Yes, that’s it." But in ancient and the real classical literatures, they explain, and according to that, if you practice, you will be healthy and most probably you will get self-realization. There, we need Guru Bhakti and mantra. And for Hatha Yogīs, there should also be mantra, and the Mahā Mantra of the Hatha Yogī, you don’t know? Oh yes, you all know. Maha Mantra is your Sankalpa: "I will do, I will achieve, I will achieve." You said, but today you can eat a little sandwich. Or a white bread? The Hatha Yogī will say, "No, no, no." I don’t take such junk food. Hatha Yoga means willpower. Positive willpower. So next time I will tell you a story about a Haṭha Yogī. Today that’s all. So, Hatha means yoga. Willpower will join to it, then it becomes yoga. Hatha yoga. Hatha yoga. So, Hatha, then uniting yoga, Hatha yoga. So, learn, please, practically learn to swallow a two-meter cloth, yes. That’s very good morning without drinking coffee, no tea, no bread, no fruit, nothing. And about so wide, cotton cloth. Linen, very thin, and two meters long. And you suck it in, the salty water, salt, warm, like Netī water. Then you sit in Utkatāsana. You sit on the foot, like you are going to the WC in the toilet or in the forest. And then you catch this cloth on one side and fold it. It’s very simple. And dip it deep in the water. Then? Now, so, you know the hedgehog? The animal hedgehog? Hedgehog, yeah. When he drinks milk, and so, Hatha Yogī also. Yes, like a python, a snake. And when it doesn’t go down, the salty water. Oh, it’s very good. It goes, slides down the whole elementary channel. And it’s hanging this much out. Don’t swallow completely. And if you swallow completely, then don’t try to bring it out. It will take two days. The stomach will solve the problem. So then you pull out. Suddenly, it’s stuck. You can’t take it out, so don’t be nervous. Don’t be afraid. So this is how the master must be there. The teacher explains exactly to you. Otherwise, you say, you call your wife, and your wife will say, "What are you doing? I do Hatha Yoga." Call the doctor, the doctor will say, "Are you doing self-murder?" But it is not so dangerous. Not harmful. What do we do? We take a little sip of water, drink water, and again it will come out, about 80 cm. It comes yellow and bitter, and so on. All that is here, what we call the heart burning, gastric. Everything releases. Wash this cloth properly. Very nice. And dry it. That is this. So someday you do sūtra dhauti, sometime you do kuṇḍal dhauti. So that’s why the teacher should be perfect. And the teacher has to demonstrate himself. So once it was in Vienna long ago, in ’72. I told them, "Tomorrow I will introduce you to Haṭha Yoga." So fifteen people were there, and they said, "Yes, tomorrow we come for practice." And I saw them, Sūtradhauti. The next day, no one came. I prepared everything, and nobody came. So, salty water, I cannot drink alone, so it was like many, these are good, many experiences. So a yoga teacher should know practical, theoretical, and techniques for how to teach. And you should answer everything. You are teaching Hatha Yoga or Āsanas. And someone asks you a question about Kriya Yoga. So don’t answer something properly. Or someone asks, "What is Vedānta?" So we should learn from the yogic philosophy. So, the theories and practice both. So, tomorrow we will buy cloth to do the sūtradhāti. It’s all who came for yoga teacher training. Yes, and we will sit near the lake, and everybody will get one mug of water. And two meters long cloth, so those who are on the list. Buy the cloth, and take care that in the night they do not disappear. So practical knowledge is very good. Theory is something, but not all, so that’s very important. But don’t worry. Two meters of cloth goes and comes. Five liters of water comes and goes. Many, many things. So, don’t worry. Thank you. Don’t worry, Gurudev will do all. Means your teacher. Let him first follow. And then let him come out. Then you do, okay? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.