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Om śānti, śānti, śānti. Hari Om. Good morning, everybody. Thank you, children. It was a very good performance. They are the future of Yoga in their life. Very soon, they will overtake. Yes, they are already. Already, they are doing. Thank you. It was very nice, children. Also, Amrit, thank you for inviting me. You already said six times I am here. That’s good. Six is fixed. That’s all. And the sixth is the chakras. So the chakras, they count Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata, Viśuddhi, and Ājñā. So these are the six chakras. Today, I was thinking from yesterday’s talk that many students got some good ideas or good instructions for their study, concentration, etc. And this morning, I was thinking I shall talk about Kriyā Yoga. What is Kriya Yoga, and how far is Kriya Yoga connected to the Kuṇḍalinī and chakras? Kuṇḍalinī is the energy in our body. Kuṇḍalinī is connected with our three nāḍīs, which we call iḍā, piṅgalā, and suṣumṇā, and is balanced by vajra nāḍī. In our body, we have 72,000 nerves, and these 72,000 nerves are transferring our energy and consciousness. Kuṇḍalinī is a kind of consciousness which has clarity, and it leads the aspirant to the highest level of consciousness. Kuṇḍal has more meanings. Kuṇḍal is a coil which is coiled around the moon. Sometimes we see the round moon in a light, very clear moonlight, so there is a circle around the moon. And there are three different kinds of circles, and all three give different meanings. One is a kuṇḍal, we call a kuṇḍal, and that is a circle round the moon, but one way is open, so it means the rain will come, but it will flow away; it will not stay too much. Second is only one circle around the whole moon; there is no door, there is no entry. That means the rain will come so much, and it will fill all the ponds. The circle around the moon, half or little, little, less than a quarter, is open. It means it will flow into the rivers, and the rivers will flow. Third, it is just like smoky. It is around the moon, but it’s not, you don’t see the borders. So these are the three indications in the moon. The natives here, what we have, they know very much about this. The people who live in the city have no information about nature, to see everything. The poor children are lost in big cities. Now, the definition of the Kuṇḍalinī. So, Kuṇḍalinī is one circle. Now, because Kuṇḍalinī is energy, it is awakening energy in our body. Now, when we said energy, energy is a masculine, ah, feminine, and therefore in our Sanskrit language it has to be said "kuṇḍalinī." If it is some big, then we call "kuṇḍal," that is a masculine. So, round the moon, that circle is a kuṇḍal, not kuṇḍalinī. That one circle round a full moon, or one day today before, or one day today after, not more. Only this sign you can see in three days; after, will not be so. The kuṇḍalī is that symbol, indication around the moon, and a symbol in cakra. There is also one chakra, but that is called Śakti. Śakti or energy are both the same. Śakti is, it’s feminine, and what you call the Kuṇḍalī is the Śiva. This is the name why we call Śakti or Kuṇḍalinī. Now, if you see Śiva’s picture, sometimes you should look carefully. Here, we don’t have it. Shiva has his earrings, but they are so big, and therefore they are called kuṇḍal. Shiva has a kuṇḍal, and this is one spiritual lineage that’s called Nāth Sampradā. Nath, yeah. Now, I would say Nāth Paramparā. Sorry. So Sampradā, people take it like a sect, and Paramparā, you name the lineage. So Shiva has a kuṇḍal, beautiful. It’s beautiful, it looks nice. Yes, then they have to make a big hole here in the ear. So kuṇḍal is not hanging here on the lower part of the ear, yeah, ear, but lobe, lobe. We say lobe, and we say, in English, we say lobe. It’s the same. But the kuṇḍal, which Śiva has, it is a hole in the middle of the ear. Yes, if you want to make that, you have to make a big hole. Don’t, don’t do it. We will ask Śiva, "Please, you wear it for us." So it is. A here, coming big ring, that’s called kuṇḍal. Clear? You know what I mean? When you have a small ring in your ear, everyone should have. So, this is according to the Vāstu Śāstra, according to the... but yeah, it’s a Vāstu Śāstra, and there’s one more. For the health, something name I forgot, sorry, and so it’s called Karṇa Vedha. Karṇa Vedha. Karṇa means ear, and Vedha means piercing. So there are sixteen saṃskāras, and this human should have these sixteen saṃskāras have to be done in order to cross certain borders of the past lives and enter into liberation, the path of liberation. And therefore, there are sixteen saṃskāras. Sixteen saṃskāras means sixteen ceremonies. Sixteen ceremonies, so Kāraṇa Bheda. So you see, I also have, you have also, no? We can do tomorrow, okay? So it has to be, and if you don’t have, you should do it, yeah. So the boys used to have a little, like a, we call board, like some precious stone, gold, and this, so it is only one, like a dot. This is mostly for the men, or it is from the gold, very nicely designed as a flower. That here they put all the girls, and the ring takes the girls, or the boys also, no problem. So this has to be taken. There was a fashion time ago, and still. Now, it is a fashion that boys have one ring. So now, this is not only a ceremony, my dear, it is a protection against certain diseases. When you have a lot of headache, then find out if your ears are pinched or not. So you should do it, and if you have always eye problems, and your eyes are always red and wet and dripping. You put in some kind of medicine, like something for infection or allergy, etc. That time they said, "Pinch your ear." And if it is too much, a headache, half headache, is this is a science. Old-time people were doing this. When you have a half headache, one side, then you take this lower loop of the ear and you tie it with a thread. Yes, it is a little bit unpleasant. It gets a little swollen, but your eye disease will disappear. I don’t know what the doctor will tell you now, but it is the opposite. If you have both sides, then you have to tie both sides with a good thread. If not, then an iron thread, copper, copper, silver together, a ring, copper, silver together. So this belongs to the kuṇḍalinī science. Now we have one tooth which is irritating, infections, painful, and so on, and we want to take, doctor want to take it out, and we say, "No, no, we should save it," and this, but they said if you have infections in your teeth or in one tooth; you should better take it out. Why? Because that can harm your heart or your eyes. I said, "What? My tooth is here, and my heart is here. How is it possible?" They said, "Yes, yes, it is possible." Dentists sometimes don’t believe. But generally, even Western medicine also tells that this can harm your heart. It can harm many, many things. Better to take out this infection which we have. Remember this, so this is an old time, but they wanted to call the saṃskāras, and these saṃskāras are with us. That’s called the ṣoḍaśa saṃskāra, the sixteen ceremonies. Now, why sixteen? Why sixteen? And why not sixteen? Because our life and the spiritual development and spiritual awakening, the energy we have to follow the moon, and the moon comes complete change again to back the change, 16 days. So it’s called the moon has 16 kalās. Kalā means some changes. Kalā means, kalā means some functions. So every day. The moon is either growing, decreasing, or taking a week of growth. So after the full moon, the moon is decreasing. And each decreasing of the moon changes our biorhythm in our body. After the full moon, the next day, that moon begins already. At that time, we should not cut a tree. At that time, we should not plant any plantations or crops. Wait till the full moon comes, so every day of the moon is counted till sixteen. From the full moon till the full moon is fifteen days, and then coming into the change is counted already sixteen, and that one is counted for the antyeṣṭi ceremony. The last saṃskāra is called the antyeṣṭi ceremony, the sixteenth. Which is that? Oh, you must know. So the antyeṣṭi ceremony is a funeral. So finally, the funeral. Now, for the animals and for humans, it is different. Also, certain animals, like monkeys, they also follow certain days and others. But we have the last ceremony, which is called antyeṣṭi, and this antyeṣṭi means funeral. So, completely, we made the ceremonies that we do not have any more karmic depth in our life from the ancestors. We owe our ancestors our obligations. This all is connected to the kuṇḍalinī yoga and kriyā yoga. By the untasty, it’s not only untasty, but it’s called untasty kriyā. Again, a wedding Kriya. Similarly, pinching your ears, first cutting the hair. So these are the 16 saṃskāras according to the Vedic Dharma, to liberate the soul from worldly obligations, as well as towards different creatures, and to pay back our ancestors. Then your Kriya Yoga will be successful. At that time, your Kuṇḍalinī will be pure, and it will awaken. Otherwise, you know two, three ceremonies, and that is all you have, and further you don’t know. Then a little creek was flowing, and then suddenly it disappeared because there is no further river and no path. So in this, sixteen ceremonies, untested Kriya. And then there is one word more in this Kriyā. Then the word is completed, or the sentence is completed. So, untested Kriyā, Karma. Kriya means doing. And Karma means the action, or Kriya means to, there is one word in English, perform. So, untested Kriya, perform. That time, this soul, our soul, is liberated from this worldly bondage towards water, towards fire, towards earth, towards air, towards space, towards the herbs, towards grains, and towards every culture’s dayā. So, likewise, there are sixteen objects or subjects, which are, this object is subjected to our each kriyā, our karma. Then, that old person who is dying will say, "My children, thank you, now I can pass freely." Now, after doing the uñchā kriyā karma, the final one is left, more. That is toward your parents. Because your parents gave you birth, you owe them something. It’s not for anything that your mother carried you nine months in her stomach and gave the energy, and this and that, and everything. Yes, you owe something to the mother and to the father also. And what do we call them? Yeah, because some, they all don’t understand Hindi, and they think, but Swāmījī can talk however he likes. So that’s what is making, to make sure. Okay. So the last, final, śraddhā, that’s it. Śraddhā, śraddhā. Now, this śraddhā means, for example, husband and wife, when they marry, then they give the word that lifelong I will be faithful to you, I will be for you everywhere, whatever you need, etc., etc., and so on. And after three years, you are divorced. What about your words? These words will punish you, yes? If you believe or not, because you are not an animal. We are not in animal culture. We are in the human consciousness. And that is, it’s not easy to get a human life, my dear. Otherwise, walking with four legs in the forest somewhere. Or, like a reptile, they have no legs, no hands, and no ears. They also survive. So, what do you think? That we were born as human, and what kind of obligation do we have? And so, similarly to your father, you owe them something. Your father and your mother, and so these are called ancestors. Yes? That’s right? So what does a sarada mean? And how are you giving them? No, this is a ceremony. But what does that ceremony mean? So, how many years must you come back? You keep doing it as long as you are alive. Or you can ask Brahmins to do it for you. That is very good. They are happy. They are happy, that is psychological. You think they are doing, but they are not doing. So, I am very straightforward, okay? Kriyā, kuṇḍalinī, chakras, energy, the soul, the ātmā, this all belongs to the yogic life, a human life. So he, what he says it is very correct, that nothing is wrong. So, on the ceremony of the funeral, they said that the body has to be burned so that it doesn’t go to some animals or something like this, and like this, and like this. And the eldest son, or the son, has to open the head so that the brain remains still, so it should be burned completely; otherwise, it doesn’t burn. Yes? There is one name. There is one name who is going to do. You have to take one long bamboo, and you have to beat to open the skull. The father doesn’t feel, the mother doesn’t feel, but it is that soul that is there above. So what is that kriyā? Because you stayed so many years here. Okay, so that’s called Kapāla Kriyā. Kapāla Kriyā, yes. Kapāla means skull, Kriyā means to open, to break, so that inside the brain will burn into ash. Then, and that can only do your own child, son, in India, in the funeral, the ladies don’t go, only gents. And it has a reason why. Then I tell you next time. So if you have no son, then you have brother’s son. And if you don’t have your brother’s son, then you have your uncle’s son. If you don’t have an uncle and an uncle’s son, then you can take some of your family members. That is just so. This is the kriyā for the soul. I am talking for the soul. So six saṃskāras, six saṃskāras. So the final sixteenth saṃskāra is coming, it is called Śrāddha. Now, this śrāddha means that you make a ceremony, a pūjā, for your past relatives’ souls, doesn’t matter if it’s your father or mother or sister or son, etc. And after that ceremony, you will be relaxed. Now, when these two last ones, we have not fulfilled. Kapālīkriyā and śraddhā, then your ancestor is still in this level of this mṛti-loka, the mortal world, and they are suffering because they want to go further and they cannot. This one book, Muddi, what he writes, and in that book he has written that this is a scientist who is living in Washington, and there he said that this all can’t go further, and that he still did not. Nobody told him; I should tell him. Yeah, this you can see through meditation. This you can see through when you have the third eye open; that’s called Trikāl Darśī, a Trikāl Darśī. Gurudev, Trikal Darśī Gurudev kā Anubhava Paramparā, their experience is beyond any borders. So, past, present, and future. The Trikāl Darśī, who is this? This eye is open, what you call here in the Ājñā Chakra. You can see, sorry, past, present, and future. Now, when you... now there is one camera, or you can see the helicopter, or you can see the aeroplane. When you take the airplane off, then you see below, you see all sides, you see up. So similarly, trikāla darśana, see your past, your present, and your future. He or she sees all your karmas, what you are doing, where you have done something, and what is the cause of that. And there are impurities, or sin, or good. So what I am telling you, everyone cannot see. So now, in this, after that, so this is an untasty ceremony, Kapāl Kriyā. And then it comes, Śarad. Now is the Śarad time will come. And in Christianity also, they are doing. In the first week of November, they go to the graveyard and bring flowers to the ancestors. Everyone goes there, and they also call it the day of All Souls’ Day, the day of the holy souls, etc. Yeah, or the day of the dead. Yeah. Yeah. The Mexicans are the first. Then after them, we are. So it doesn’t matter. They can say this or that day, but they are. And in India, there is, I think, 11 days, no? Yeah. So there are a whole week. But also, you can do the ceremony for your parents afterward, also. Now, when the souls of your relatives—you have not liberated them through these ceremonies. Then they will act because then they do not have that relation, "Are you my child or not?" They are asking you for their rights. They will disturb your business; it will not be successful. It will disturb your family; nobody will be in harmony in your house. It will disturb that you met Mary, and again you will divorce and go out separating. You will not get children or a family. All the times will be illness, so this energy comes back to your own self. So there is a... there is a some mantras and ceremonies, and that you can do anytime. If you can do this time, this one week I have, which is coming, and then coming Navarātrī, so if you can do, this is good. Otherwise, we can do on other any times now. So I am going to invite a very expert paṇḍit. I will call in Strelka Ashram. They will stay one month or two months. And anyone can come and make their ceremonies there. For North America, we can also organize in Vancouver. And anyone from North America who wants to do it can come. It’s very scientific. And you will see immediately, you will feel that you are released from something. So these kinds of things, because karma affects humans. Where the action is a reaction, and when there is reaction, there is action. Animals only have to go through their karma. Whatever they do, it will not be affected that much. But human, whatever we do, is involved in the karmic things. And through that, even though we will not be successful, your Kriya Yoga, your Kuṇḍalinī Awakening, your chakras, your Śaktipāt, etc., etc., they remain only a fairy tale. But if you do exactly, my dear, it will be. The sādhanā, there are beautiful sādhanās, many, many... But you have to clean that energy which you stored in your body, the foreign energy, and that foreign energy is coming from human to human, clear? So, ṣoḍaśa saṃskāras. Now, any time you can go, and there is a time in India, a place called, there is one place, I know very good. I was there, and it will come in my name, okay. This, that is where the Buddha, Bodh Gaya, that’s called Bodh Gaya. And on the bank of that river, where there is a city called Bodh Gayā, and there, mostly people go to do the ceremony for the liberation of their ancestors. Otherwise, what he said, every year you have to fulfill, on that day, the days of your ancestors, you have to do. And when finally you want that you don’t want to do anything anymore, all you want, then you should go to Bodh Gayā. You went there? When? Okay. So it is scientific. It is not something that you call hocus-pocus. So this is through the opening of your chakra, your Kuṇḍalinī, your energy, your awareness, your consciousness is widening up. So next, the subject we will continue. I think it is interesting for all our friends, brothers, and sisters who are with us through this webcast. And next we will say, then time is over. Evening is a beautiful program that I think you should not miss. Then, she will announce. So, thank you from my side. Hari Om. Deep Narbhagwanaki. So, Kuṇḍalinī, Śakti, and Kriyā Yoga. Let us have a second subject. It will be very great. Hari Om.