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How to get freedom

A spiritual discourse on the power of the word "Jaya" and the Maṇipūra Cakra.

"Jaya means victory. Victory over what? Victory over negative energy, and victory for spirituality, for harmony, for peace, for brightness—everything."

"The Maṇipūra Cakra is the center of our body, the center of the universe, the center of our consciousness, and our origin—how we begin to develop in this worldly saṁsāra."

A spiritual teacher explains the meaning of "Jaya" as a selfless blessing and victory over negativity, linking its vocalization to awakening the Maṇipūra Cakra. He describes this energy center as the seat of sound and origin of life, using an extended allegory of being trapped in worldly illusion (prapañca) to illustrate the need to call for help. The talk covers themes of health, traditional cooking as medicine, and includes a recounting of the story of Hanumān fetching the Sañjīvanī herb, ultimately connecting physical well-being and spiritual practice to the health of the Maṇipūra Cakra.

Filming location: Vancouver, Canada

O Sākṣāt Parabrahma, tasmai Śrī Gurave namaḥ, dhyāna mūlaṁ guru mūrtiḥ, pūjā mūlaṁ guru pādam, mantra mūlaṁ guru vākyaṁ, mokṣa mūlaṁ guru kṛpā, oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Jaya means victory. Jaya means glory. Jaya means adoration. Jaya means a good wish. It means that all good things come to you. The word "Jaya" is not selfish; it is selfless. It brings good energy to the one who is going to change, and it is good for others to have a long life. So Jaya means victory. Victory over what? Victory over negative energy, and victory for spirituality, for harmony, for peace, for brightness—everything. So Jaya also means a blessing. A blessing is a very powerful energy. When you say a blessing, in your consciousness there are no negative thoughts. In your awareness, everything is very clear. And in your heart, it awakens compassion. Therefore, when we say "Jaya," you should pronounce it loudly and multiply it. It is like Aum. The first resonance was Aum. And when one "Aum" comes, then how many hundreds, thousands of people will say "Aum"? You see how it multiplies. So when we say "Jaya," you should say it loudly. It opens your lungs. It opens your Īḍā and Piṅgalā. It opens your vocal cords. It awakens your Maṇipūra Cakra, which is the feedback energy. Then the energy dwelling in your body circulates from the center of the Maṇipūra Cakra. So once more, we will say "Jaya." Say it nicely and loudly. That is how it develops. Otherwise, it is just a weak "jai." It is said that one person falls into a deep hole beside the road. He cannot come out, so he needs someone to help, but he has to call out, "Please come and help me." We are all in the deep hole of this māyā, this illusion, this worldly prapañca. Do you know what prapañca is? Prapañca is the situation like a fish caught in a net. Though the fish is in the water—its kingdom—it cannot come out. It is in the net. In Hindi, we say it is a jālī or a jāl. Jālī means a trick, and jāl means a cheater, cheating you. So you are caught in that greed of cheating; you cannot come out again, just as the fish cannot. Similarly, we are all caught by this net of prapañca. A little more explanation: problems with your mother, father, brother, sister, neighbors, uncle, teacher, school, learning, friends, anger, hate, jealousy. Problems: there is no work, no good house, you cannot repair your house, the electric bill came and you have nothing to pay. All these problems... this is called prapañca, and we are all caught in it. Tomorrow morning, this beautiful seminar we have here, but you will say, "No, I have to go quickly to work. Tomorrow is Monday." This is a purpose. You are falling into that net of worldly restlessness. Why can't we come out? We cannot. There was a time, a golden time, Satyuga time. That was freedom. You had a little piece of land. It was a big land, but you could not cultivate the whole of it. So you had a little land where you had your crops, your vegetables, everything. You had a cow, your own milk, butter, yogurt, buttermilk, everything at home. At most, you would go to the neighbors and come back. After sunset, half an hour or one hour later, we were sleeping. Early morning, we were automatically awakened at Brahma Muhūrta and worked in this light. We were going with the sun, sleeping and awaking with the sun. That was a very beautiful time. But now, even at night we have to run, drive, come home, do this and that. That is prapañca. That is called prapañca. So, to get freedom, one falls into a hole. Now, many good people went for a walk, but they were just walking by. Nobody thought that there was a hole and someone had fallen in. The person inside thought, "How stupid these people are. I hear them walking, but nobody helps me." God said, "It is your mistake." "Why my mistake? I fell in innocently!" God said, "Yes. Why don't they help you? You should call them. You should speak: 'Please help me.' Open your mouth. Without opening your mouth, even your mother will not give you milk." So then the person said, "Oh, there is somebody in the hole." He said, "Please help me." "Yes, of course I can help you, but it is two meters deep. Help me to come out." "But how can we help you? You just called us to help, but do something." "What?" "Raise your hands up so that we can catch you and pull you out. If you are lying there doing nothing, nobody will come into that hole of saṁsāra." So then he raised his hands up. Only a few were coming out. And so God said, "If you say 'Jaya' and just stay there, you said 'Jaya, stay there.' But if you raise your hand up and say 'Jaya,' then we all will help you to come out." So, when we say something, our heart opens. The depression is gone. This is a medicine against depression. The Maṇipūra Cakra is... that is why, when the Maṇipūra Cakra opens and is healthy, then comes this music, drum, drum... let's go. Anyhow, thank you. So, Maṇipūra. I told you, it is called the city of jewels. The Maṇipūra Cakra is a center. It is the center of the entire universe. The Maṇipūra Cakra is the center of this roof. This hut where we are sitting, this cottage, is in the form of an umbrella. It is a circle. This is the form of the universe. The sun's rays do not come straight; they go like an umbrella. That is the Sahasrāra Cakra open. This is here, and here is Mūlādhāra. We do not know what is hidden down because it is the Earth Cakra. So, whatever we speak, the sound goes up. Everything rises to the Sahasrāra Cakra and comes out. So, from the Maṇipūra is the seat of the sound. The Maṇipūra Cakra is one of the first cakras. It is the center of our body, the center of the universe, the center of our consciousness, and our origin—how we begin to develop in this worldly saṁsāra. It first begins in the navel. The first manifestation of the embryo begins with the navel. The navel is where the embryo gets its nourishment. So it is a seed. That seed is in the earth. The earth is good soil, very good soil. The mother has everything: the right hormones, energy, temperature. Everything is perfect, and we were so happy, so relaxed, and we developed everything. Engineers came. They came by airplane, quickly. God sent the engineers. That mother became pregnant. Now, go and do all the work. So there is someone coming for electricity, the cables, the nerves, the glands... Can you imagine? In nine months, what a miraculous creation Mother gives into our hands, onto our lap. Complete, perfect. Nothing is missing. But when something is missing, it is a mistake of humans. Now we have so many chemicals, pesticides, etc. So many children are born abnormal: a hand is missing, a leg is missing, sometimes mentally not in order. This is because from outside, that affects the Maṇipūra Cakra. The duty of the father is to be with his wife for nine months at all times and always keep her happy. If you make your wife sad and leave her alone, that child will be lonely because it affects the embryo. So, tell your husband, everybody, okay? When you are pregnant, he should not go to the pub. He should not go to the pub and gamble there. Go from work, immediately come home. And when the husband comes immediately home after work, the wife will say, "Have you been to yoga class? No? Then go there first." That's it. And when he comes back, then go into the kitchen and work. Clean the kitchen, laundry, everything. The mother, or your wife, should have a very comfortable, good life. Therefore, somebody told me that Americans say there are rare Americans. We are all, even these Americans, they are not Americans. The real Americans are our Indian natives. So it is said, the best husband dies in the kitchen. So boys, all be the example. Keep your wife happy. Help her physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, in every aspect. Then your child will be a jewel. Your child will be great. The divine soul will have no mistakes in consciousness, emotion, or awareness. The heart of spirituality is that there will be nothing missing. For nine months, the father and mother are taking care, and after nine months, you have to take care for the next nine years. Nine and one is ten. Ten years. Now, what do you need? Now you have to work to bring the money to feed and give good things to your child. So when the child is 25 years old, then you should say, "Please, now you find a job." And then he or she finds a job and says, "Father, I am happy." Father and mother are very happy. My child is healthy. My child has good studies. My child has good notes. Now the child got a very good job and everything. We are very happy. So the wife tells, "What to do now?" He said, "Well, you decide." The husband always gives the choice first to the wife. So the wife said, "Tomorrow at breakfast, I will tell you." Okay, good. The husband waits, and in the morning, what does the wife say to the husband now? Okay, the answer is there. He said, "Why? What is it?" I told you yesterday morning, "I will answer. Do everything." So, what have you done? I have packed the suitcase. I have packed the suitcase, and we go for a journey around the world. Where does it begin? Yes, it begins with a... you don't know. She said, "No, I don't know. Oh, my darling, you don't know." The whole world knows. Where should we go? So then she said, "Well, there is one Swamījī giving a seminar." And when he goes from Kannada, Vancouver to America, we go to America. He said, "Oh, how is America?" I said, "Yes, you will see." Then you go to New Zealand. Oh, my God. So let's travel. Now we are free because the children are healthy, happy, have good jobs, work, are married, and are good couples. They are very happy. Now, parents have nothing to do at home, so the children said, "Father, go and enjoy the world." And so that goes. This is the Maṇipūra Cakra. That Maṇipūra Cakra has developed our whole body. So, this is the Maṇipūra Cakra. It is a center. From here, again, a baby will come, and then your baby's... Maṇipūra Cakra will be produced further. So this is like a mālā. One after another, creation continues, coming and going, coming and going. The United Nations is declaring and talking about many things, and the United Nations has certain aims. One of those is "sustainable development." But what they are doing sustainably is not sustainable. Making highways, factories, skyscrapers, buildings, digging, plastics, chemicals—this is not sustainability. Sustainability is what God has done, and now God has no problem anymore. He has done it. What kind of sustainability? God said, "I made such a perfect mechanism, perfectly sustainable. The path, what you don't know." God said, "My... the world is sustainable. I have nothing to do anymore. I am sitting and observing." What is that? Birth and death. One is going, the second is coming. One is going, the second is coming. There is no end in the cycle. It is coming, going, coming, going. It does not matter if it is human, animal, vegetation, fish, or water. Even water is sustainable: from the ocean to the clouds, Meghna, Meghdoot. From the ocean to the clouds, to the rain, to the rivers, to the ocean—this is also a cycle, the water cycle. In the trees, in nature, in the earth, the earth is making a cycle. So, this is our Maṇipūra Cakra, which is very, very important. Now, there is a lot of illness called cancer. If there is cancer in the brain, the doctor can operate and give you life for some years more, or anywhere in the body. But when under the solar plexus, when cancer comes there, then the doctor will say it is 14 days or one month. That center they cannot repair, because that is a very hidden center, a most powerful center, and it has its complete mechanism in the Maṇipūra Cakra. So, let us thank God that our Maṇipūra Cakra is healthy. And when the Maṇipūra Cakra is healthy, then it is a healthy sound. When there is sound and it is the best, everything is very good. So, Maṇipūra Cakra. Now, what to do to keep the Maṇipūra Cakra healthy? Sometimes, jokes are good. We call in India the joke is like chutney. Do you know what chutney is? Chutney is something like what you call ketchup. And what is ketchup? So when you eat something, you dip it in and then you eat. So bread is good, butter is on it, everything is very good, but from time to time you have something to dip in, oh, masala. Do you know what is called masala? You do not know the masala. That is why you are so ill. Yes. Masala is the medicine, and this medicine is in the hands of the mother or grandmother in the kitchen. Every kitchen of an Indian is a chemistry shop. Everything that you need, all treatments, grandmother has everything ready. When the child has stomach pain, she has immediately to release the... what is that? Ajwain, many, many things. So, for fever, headache, stomach problem, joints, coughing, stupidity, everything, including hunger. Everything is in one kitchen. What do you want more sustainable than this? You do not need to go to a doctor. Now, in modern times, when something happens, we go to the doctor. And what will the doctor give? Chemicals. And chemicals inside again. So, those who follow the grandmother's system, then you are healthy. That house is healthy. Now, people did not listen. The young couple did not listen to their grandparents. Now they do not know how to cook. 85% of people in the world do not know how to cook. You know, just to cut the potatoes and put them in hot water and take them out and have a little salt and butter on it, that is not cooking. Cooking is something that is nourishment; our eating is a medicine. Our eating is that nourishment which is a medicine for every gland. All different glands in our body need different kinds of spices. It is said in your kitchen you need at least 108 different kinds of spices. But, you know, when you come to the chemistry shop and there is written "Poison, poison..." Though everything is a good medicine, there is also written poison. Because if you do not know, then it is for you the poison. So there are so many spices; it does not mean that you put everything inside. People have only one formula: cut vegetables, fat inside, salt inside, chili, and a little cucumber, finish, and you, "Om tassel." That is not. Every dish must have a different kind of spices. Then it has its taste, otherwise not. So, a cooking course takes you time, five years. A five-year cooking diploma I will give you, and then you will be the best cook. And what is the best cook? Once you can awake the dead body, "Yes, get up, go home, and work, help your wife," that is it. That is food, nourishment. And what was that? It is not a joke. When Lakṣmaṇa, the brother of Rāma, was in Laṅkā, he was injured, fell down, and died. Prāṇa is gone. Now Bhagavān Rāma said, "My brother is dying." So they called the Āyurveda doctor, and the Āyurveda doctor said, "Yes, this Lakṣmaṇa will die when the sun rises." And it was 11 o'clock in the evening, 10 o'clock. What to do? God Rāma said, "What to do?" So they called the Āyurvedic doctor. The Āyurvedic doctor said, "Yes, when the sun rises, he will die." But God Rāma said, "Tell me something. Is there any medicine, anything? You are a doctor." It is said a doctor should give treatment correctly and loyally. When in the army or on the battlefield, in the war, it does not matter which soldier is wounded. A doctor's duty is to give treatment and not to say, "Oh, it is our enemy, let him die." A doctor will not do this. A doctor should not make differences, whether it is my friend, my wife, or this or that. Equal treatment. That is the doctor, and they teach the doctor always, "Doctor, your duty is only to save life." It does not matter who is who. Well, that Āyurvedic doctor from Sri Lanka, he said to God Rāma, "There is only one medicine, but it is very far in the Himalaya." And Sri Lanka is South India, and the Himalayas are North India, the border of China. An airplane from the Himalayas to China takes more than five hours. It is also a big land. So Bhagavān Rāma, who can bring this medicine before sunrise? So Bhagavān Rāma told Hanumān what to do. Hanuman Jī said to the Āyurveda doctor, "Hurry up, tell me where it is and what it looks like." He said, "Yes, it is there." He said, "Do not tell me 'yes there and there.' Give me the exact address with your GP." So Hanumanjī typed the address into the navigator, and off Hanumanjī went. Hanumanjī said, "Jai Śrī Rām," and he was within no time in the Himalayas. But negative energy in the body is all the time ready to kill us. And positive energy all the way is protecting us. So, there is both, parallel. One side is your life, and one side is your death. And Death said, "I will be the winner." Death said, "I will be the winner. How long will you live? Finally, you have to give this body to me," death says. So, our life and death are walking with us. Be careful, be aware. Drive carefully, eat carefully, walk carefully, everything. So the negative Rākṣasas, they are very intelligent. They are quick, they know, they get all information, the spy. So they went to Rāvaṇa and said to Rāvaṇa, "Hanuman is going to bring the herb, it is called Sañjīvanī." He said, "Okay, no problem. Tell my inspector there, like a police inspector, no? So all the vegetation there should be looking like Sañjīvanī." So Hanuman did not know what to bring or how to bring it. So there was a beautiful lake. So Hanumānjī thought, "I will take it deep in the lake." Though it was a time that Hanuman must come there on time to bring the medicine, Hanumānjī jumped in the lake because he was flying at such a high speed. So he said, "My muscles are a little bit relaxed," and so he jumped in the water. So the Rākṣasa became a crocodile and caught Hanumānjī to kill him there. But Hanuman was also an incarnation of Śiva. So, Hanumanjī tore the rākṣasa's crocodile mouth, held it like this, and this part, this side and this part said, and came. Now, Hanumanjī was in a situation. Everything looks like Sañjīvanī, because Sañjīvanī is in the night, this herb. Sañjīvanī means to wake a dead body into life. And this herb is lightning, like we have the lightning bug. So Hanumanjī comes, and all plants are lightning. This is a Rākṣasa Siddhi. Hanumanjī said, "Oh, Rāvaṇa is acting inside, but time, I should not wait." So Hanumanjī took the whole hill, the big mountain hill, because there is one siddhi. There is one siddhi that goes from the Maṇipūra Cakra. Hey, everybody, concentrate on the Maṇipūra Cakra, okay? And this siddhi, a siddhi in Maṇipūra, your stomach can become big or it can go again back. Yes, that is a miracle. So when Hanumanjī went to Laṅkā, everything was closed. That is called Golden Lanka. The palace of Rāvaṇa, the king of Sri Lanka, had golden walls, golden doors, and everything was made of gold. And Hanumānjī could not come in. Laṅkā was a woman. Her name, she was a guard on the door of the palace of Rāvaṇa. And her name was Laṅkā. Hanumanjī came and he wanted to go to the Lanka interior. She did not want to let him go. So what did Hanumānjī do? He became the smaller of the smaller, like a little mouse. He remained as a monkey, a small monkey. And under the door he went in, and he went to the other side of the door. He became again, Jai Śrī Rām. And he became... oh, this is a beautiful story. If you read the holy book Rāmāyaṇa, so Hanumānjī took the whole hill on his one hand, and with the other hand he has his gadā. Every holy incarnation, what you call the gods, they have a weapon in their hand; in one hand is a blessing. The second hand is for prasāda, the third hand is a weapon, and the fourth hand is for giving blessings. So, a weapon is for the negative, to destroy, and the rest is prasāda and everything for the positive, for the good thing: dharma and adharma. Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said in the Bhagavad Gītā, in the 14th chapter... Whenever the dharma declines, on the 4th chapter, whenever the dharma declines, adharma comes up. Oh Arjuna, for ages and ages I incarnate again. In every yuga I am coming. So this is another subject I will talk about tomorrow. Well, Hanumanjī was coming with the mountain, a big mountain. It was big, like a jumbo jet, like the sound. And Hanumanjī was flying over Ayodhyā, the birthplace of Bhagavān Rāma. And his brother Bharat, he did not sleep. Until 14 years, he did not sleep until his brother came back. And Arjuna, Hanumanjī, Lakṣmaṇa did not sleep. So the spies who have the navigators at that time, and they had all kinds of information. So they said, "Some enemy is coming, going to fight against Rāma." So, Bharat, in the night, he shot the arrow, and it caught Hanuman's knee. And it was so painful, Hanumanjī came down to take out this arrow. He said, "Śrī Rām, Jai Rām." Then the brother of God Rāma realized, oh my God, it is my brother, Hanumānjī. So now he took out the arrow, and Bharat said, "I will give you some remedy. Please rest." So Hanumānjī said, "Rest? My brother Bharat, there is no time for rest. Rām kāj kiyā binā mohe viśrām." Before doing the work, duty to God Rāma, I have no time to rest. Again, he jumped, and he came to Sri Lanka. And before sunrise, he gave the herbs, the whole mountain, to the Āyurveda doctor. He said, "Now find out which is the Sañjīvanī." And then he took the Sañjīvanī and made the juice and put it in the mouth of Lakṣmaṇa, and Lakṣmaṇa woke up. That is called Sañjīvanī Bhuṭṭī. Until Hanuman did not come, God Rāma said, "Śaśī dhālarā, śaśī dhālarā, śame talarā, Lakṣmaṇa ke prāṇa jāra, Hanumān kab āogā, na mālum mere kis janam kā karm phal rahā." Even God said, what did he say? "Śaśī dhar rahā, śame ṭar rahā, Lakṣmaṇ ke prāṇa jā rahe, Hanumān kab āhoge, na mālūm kis janam ke pāp phal rahā." You understand all my sentences, no? That is it. So Bhagavān Rāma, even the God, he is standing in the night, and his brother Lakṣmaṇa is lying on the earth, and Rāma is looking, "When will Hanumānjī come? Where is Hanumānjī?" And the moon was going down. So Rāma said, "Śaśī dhara rahā." Śaśī means moon. The moon is going down. Same dhar raha. The time is passing. Lakṣmaṇa ke prāṇa jā raha. Lakṣmaṇa is going to die. All the prāṇas are going away. Hanumān, when will you come? Oh Hanuman, when will you come? Bhagavān God said himself, "Na malum, I do not know, from which life, my past life's karma is now active." So karma, even God has to suffer the karma. Though they know they can finish karma, they are not going against the karma. There is justice, Dharmarāja. When Jesus' time came and looked at his karma, he had to carry his cross and he was crucified. If he was divine, he could have made miracles. Everybody goes to sleep, and he will come to the Himalaya to do tapasyā. No one will find him again. And it is said his grave is in Kashmir. Anyhow, there is another story. So even God has destiny. So who are we? We have so many destinies, good and bad. Which do you want first? So if you alone try to get rid of your destiny, your bad destiny, it is so much; you will be tired and tired and tired. Therefore, it is said, only one can save us, Gurudev. The Guru-kṛpā hi kevalaṁ mokṣa-mūlaṁ guru-kṛpā. That mokṣa will be only, the liberation will be only given by the Guru-kṛpā, the mercy of the Gurudev. Brahma, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, they have different duties. But to give the liberation from birth and death, birth and death is the principle of the guru, not the physical body of the guru, but that knowledge, that kṛpā, that blessing. We are praying for the blessings. And so Hanumanjī brought the Sañjīvanī herb, and Vaidya, the Āyurvedic doctor, found the right herbs, Sañjīvanī. Then he was grinding it like a chutney. Now we have the mixer, but this mixer is not powerful. It is not that much. On the stone, you must stone to stone rub. That is a real medicine. When it goes through the knife of the mixer's energy, it dies. And you will see one side is water and one side is stone. But when you are grinding on the stone, that becomes a real medicine. So now you remember why I told you this story? Of course, you are hypnotized. You do not know. I told you this story, that the mother's kitchen, the best cook, can once bring life to the dead body. And that means the spices. That means the science of cooking. That is called, in the Vedas, there is one Veda, and that is called Pakṣāstra. Yes? Pakṣāstra. Can you translate what is Pakṣāstra? Yes. Science of cooking. And that is a scripture, a book. Śāstra means the book, ancient times. Nowadays, everybody making books is just nonsense. One reads, writes, and reads; the second gets it in hand and puts it in the chimney. But those granthas, that is wisdom, and that is written. A best cook, an Āyurveda cook, can cook the iron grains like chickpeas, chana. You boil and you cook. So Āyurvedic medicine can make the iron so soft that you can enjoy and eat it as a vegetable. That is Āyurveda. That is a cook. And there are also the best cooks, but in a different way. Yes? They give you forever one food. Eat and die, are you? Yes? So when you have no knowledge, you take the mushroom from the forest, tasteful, full of spices, but you eat and sleep forever, forever you are sleeping. So, knowledge about... now, what knowledge do you have? You have no knowledge. The innocent animals are slaughtered, and just their meat is put in the fat with a little salt and some green leaves, and that is all. That is not food. The dead eat the dead, and will be the dead. So, life you should have, and life is called the greenery. You see how the animals are happy and healthy, those who are free in the forest? So natural food that affects our Maṇipūra Cakra, and our good health is coming from the Maṇipūra Cakra. And so, Maṇipūra Cakra, to protect from cancer and these different kinds of diseases, especially on the solar plexus, is Agniśar Kriyā, Nauli Kriyā, Bhastrika Kapālabhāti Prāṇāyāma. When you do the prāṇāyāma, let us say Kapālabhāti, then it goes from the navel, from here. Bhastrika from here. Yes? Then Paścimottānāsana, Bhujaṅgāsana, Marjārīāsana, Trikoṇāsana, all this influences our nābhi, our navel, our solar plexus. And there remains the energy, changing constantly. So, 90%, 99%, you will not be attacked by cancer. And Agniśar Kriyā and Nauli Kriyā, Bhastrika Kapālabhāti Prāṇāyāma, give you that certainty, the promise that cancer will not attack you. End. Twice a week fasting. Twice a week fasting. It means in 24 hours, only eat one meal. Rest of the day, only water. Not coffee, no tea, no ice cream, no fruits, no fruit juice, no milk. Then all is already on the food, only water. Eat, drink more water so that all purification will take place. Your body will be so healthy, no cancer comes, and of course, organic food. And you are all searching for organic food, you are not eating junk food. This is very, very important. So, the Maṇipūra Cakra is our life. The Maṇipūra Cakra is our... health. Maṇipūra Cakra is our awareness, our concentration. Everything is the Maṇipūra Cakra. So, prāṇa and apāna. The first day we spoke about prāṇa. Prāṇa is the incoming force, and apāna is the outgoing force. If the prāṇa fails, we die. And if apāna fails, we die. Because apāna has to reduce everything from the body. The body, what do we call this also? In normalcy, they have all the toxins, everything. When the apāna prāṇa, which is a force putting everything out, if you have apāna prāṇa missing, then you cannot pass the urine. Apāna prāṇa is missing, then you will have constipation. And you will try to get everything out, but prāṇa is not there, apāna. So, everything, sweating is apāna, everything coming out from this. So, prāṇa and apāna, when both come, and they come together to the Maṇipūra Cakra. And there in Maṇipūra Cakra, this energy is getting, kuṇḍalinī awakes in the navel, not in Mūlādhāra Cakra. Kuṇḍalinī is already here. You are searching down there. "Down" is some different energy. So then from Buddha dhāra, apāna turns up and prāṇa comes in, and it makes a vacuum. So Suṣumnā nāḍī, where the consciousness rises up directly, straight highway to the Sahasrāra Cakra. Then what you said there, "Om Aum. Aum." Everybody say from here to here. Aum. Aum... Like a bell. Aum. Go ahead. Aum. Aum. Very good. That is it. You see energy. That is the Kuṇḍalinī Śakti dwelling in our whole body, mind, consciousness, and in our soul. Next time, we will continue with the Maṇipūra Cakra, and then another beautiful cakra.

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