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Good evening. Today was a beautiful day with a beautiful program here in Cherkassy these last few days. It has been very great with many bhaktas. We had a very historical visit today, which I will tell you about next time. There is a bhajan written by Mahāprabhujī. He gave it in handwritten form in 1944. He dictated and wrote many bhajans. Once, all of Mahāprabhujī's handwritten bhajans were stolen. Later, he continued writing more, so there are many. One of them is about Yoga Nidrā. There is a story about this bhajan. One afternoon, around one o'clock, Mahāprabhujī was doing yoga nidrā in his room in Katha, Brunei. At that time, it was a small room with only a curtain for a door. A group of five, six, seven, or eight sādhus came and asked to have darśan of Mahāprabhujī. Some bhaktas were sitting there who did not know what yoga nidrā or resting is. They said, "Mahāprabhujī is resting." The sādhus were talking outside, saying that a sādhu should not sleep during the daytime—no afternoon sleeping and so on. When Mahāprabhujī finished the yoga nidrā, he sat up. He called these sādhus, who were sitting about 100 meters away under a tree. Mahāprabhujī was in his room doing yoga nidrā; they were 100 meters away under the tree, talking only amongst themselves. Yet, Mahāprabhujī knew everything they were talking about. After that, he called them. They said, "Yes, Gurujī. We were talking because our master said that a sādhaka yogī doesn't sleep; he won't sleep in the daytime." Mahāprabhujī said that's right. If you sleep in the daytime, you will lose a lot of your spiritual energy. Night is for sleeping, daytime is not. "But," he said, "what you were talking about under the tree—that was not sleep." They asked, "How do you know, Gurujī?" Mahāprabhujī said, "I was hearing everything. I know what you were talking about, and I know with what aim you came to me from five kilometers away." They said, "Well, we are sorry, but we just found that you were resting." Mahāprabhujī told them, "It's not sleep; it's called yogic sleep." That is called Yoga Nidrā. Then Mahāprabhujī sang a song, a bhajan. Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, could spontaneously sing a new bhajan within no time, just as we give a lecture. So, Mahāprabhujī sang this beautiful bhajan. You can all see: yogī janakī yoga nidrā, bīrla sant jan jānī hai. I shall translate it for you. Mahāprabhujī sang very nicely; my voice is not like that. But the verse is: Yogī jāno kī yog nidrā, bīrla sant jān jānī, us nidrā meṁ jagrat jānī, rātrī meṁ divas uṅganī hai. Us nidrā meṁ jagrat jānī, rātrī meṅ divas uṅganī hai. Yogī jānakī, yoga nidrā, bīrla sant jān jānīye. This is set to a rāga called Prabhātī, a morning rāga. One and a half or two hours before sunrise is when a yogī should get up. If you are sleeping when the sun rises, it is said your good karma is deleted and tamas guṇa develops in you. There is a saying: "Only to sleep, only to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Morning is called Uṣā time. Uṣā Pāna means drinking water at Uṣā, the time of the first sun ray. At a certain time, the water is like nectar. That's why many girls are named Uṣā. For those who don't have a spiritual name, you could take the name Uṣā, but then you will be too many Uṣās! When Holī Gurujī was singing this bhajan—unfortunately, I did not have the luck to see Mahāprabhujī physically, but he is always with us—Gurujī's voice was so beautiful. I was very young with him, 12-13 years old, 15 years old. At 3:30 in the morning, he would wake me up. Gurujī would be meditating, making his mālā, and he would tell me, "Meditate." And you know what? I was meditating—I was sleeping! And Gurujī would say, "Wake up. The master's training is very hard." Yes, the first training is that the master will not let you sleep. Gurujī said, "This jīva, this soul, your soul, has left many, many lives. Oh man, God gave you now the human life. Don't waste your time in sleep. If you want to have sleep, then practice yoga nidrā. And wake up on Brahmamuhūrta. It is a golden time." Go early after sunset, by eight or nine o'clock. But if you sleep at two or three o'clock, how can you get up before sunrise? In this modern time, we have lost good things. We lost healthy food and are left with junk food, searching in the night. So if you can, go to sleep early, at least by one o'clock, and get up at four o'clock. That's already six hours, which is more than enough. Good sleep for three hours is sufficient, plus three more. Above that is laziness, tamas guṇa. It is said, "Do not eat in the evening. After sunset, do not eat anything." You can have water, or before sleep, a cup of warm milk with saffron. Gurujī was singing in Nipālāśram very nicely. I liked it, though as a young boy I didn't understand what these bhajans were. Gurujī was singing: Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidrā Bīrla Sant Jan Janī Hai... Us nidrā mein jagrat jāne, rātri mein divas unganī hai. Mahāprabhujī said to these sādhus, "Listen, my bhaktas. Listen, sādhus, I was not sleeping; I was in Yoga Nidrā." They asked, "What is that?" Gurujī said that very rare sādhus can know what yoga nidrā is. Yogī Janakī, yoga nidrā vīrā, sant Janjanī hai. The sleep of the yogis, only rare sādhus know. In that sleep of yoga nidrā, you are completely awakened. You are not sleeping like a normal person. This is prāṇa, ascending and descending prāṇa. In such a state, you supply more oxygen than in normal sleep, relaxing your whole body and also your brain. Yoga nidrā is more than normal sleep. So in that nidrā, you should be as if awakened. In the night, you are awakening a day like a day. For a yogī, all are sleeping in the darkness of the night, but the yogī has inside awakened like a sunrise. It means awareness, consciousness. Then you will enjoy your life and have so much energy. But what you do in yoganidrā here—very soon, half of you are snoring. That is not sleep. So, ratnī me divas jāgānī hai. Now, what Mahāprabhujī is saying in this bhajan: Ulta nena sena me laga. Now his vision, he closes his eyes and turns his vision to the other direction. Ultimate nena sena me raga, and your awareness is going in the direction you give it, to achieve a higher level. Ulta nena sena me raga, suna me sahaj vichani hai, and that yogī has put his beautiful bed in the śūnyākāśa. Like when you sleep on a bed or yoga mattress, the yogī is sleeping in the astral world. There is no ground anymore. Sunāmayī says, and he puts his comfortable bed in the astral world, which is Nirālāma, without any base. There is beautiful air conditioning there. That yogī awakes in our breath, in the consciousness. You have all had a very comfortable and best time in your yoga nidrā. In that, there is beautiful, bright light. It is said that in that śūnyākāśa, you find your address, your place, your ātmā, which you can realize at that level of consciousness. How do you find and realize your place, your ātmā, which you can recognize at this stage? The flower has blossomed. Now the flowers, the chakras. All the chakras, the blood gems, are downwards. The flower has blossomed. So now all the chakras, the flowers, the dead lotus, have opened, facing upwards. You could see that everything is opened. The unfoldment of the petals of every chakra is beautiful. Ulta phol khulia hai sanmukh, in front of you. Lakhi urad mukh bani hai. Lakhi means describing, like writing. So, it is as if it is described. Urdh, urad means the ascending, descending breath. Bani. There you listen to the immortal sound of Om. Mukh Bani. Whatever you speak, it is the truth. Satya Brahma, Brahma Satya. Turīya means the three levels: past, present, and future—all is in front of you. You know what was the past many, many years ago, how it is in the present, and how it will be in the future. Tar means like wires, cables, so it means your awareness, your consciousness, is very pure, light. Vyatar laga nidhara, and it is not connected to any base. It is like telepathy. You have the freedom; you can go in any direction, anywhere you want to go. That's yoga nidrā. So when you do yoga nidrā, it is said, do not sleep. But if you fight against sleep, you will not get anywhere. So if sleep comes, let it come; if it goes, let it go. You don't care about the sleep. There is an Urdu word: begam. Begam can also mean woman, but begam kī gam is different—your suratā, your awareness. Begam ki gam janiye: at that time, you understand what is further, the divine, the śakti. Then you will understand what is next, what is this divine śakti. Sunme suraj anant jagya, within no time, so many suns rise in your consciousness. Sunme suraj anant ugya. Anant means endless. Sun means in that astral world; "ugya" means rise. Everywhere, there is sunrise, and you are in the middle of that. That is a Yoga Nidrā. A yogī is having his āsana, where you can sit. This is the takat, what I am sitting on; this is also called the takat, like a holy seat. That yogī himself is residing on such a beautiful chair which is not visible; it is just in empty space. We will not realize, we will not see, but that yogī finds comfort there. Arad, ādhār takhat par āp viraje, nītā nām nirbaṇī hai, and there his resonance, his mantra—so nirādhāra, nirādhārī means nirādhāra, has no base, no support. But there is nāma, mantra; repeat your mantra, "Om Gurudeva." The mantra will help you there; it will lead you there. Arah urad, ascending, descending breath. Noor milia khilya me khilya, Sun me taar kalani hai. Noor milia khilya me khilya. Nūr is also a word; nūr means the face, the light of your face. That aura is spirituality. When you look in the face of the master, Gurudev, you see the aura, a big aura, and the bhaktas are looking there all the time. "Don't look there, don't look there, don't look there." This is a restless disciple. But that's it. Nūr khilyā. Nūr means that light, the aura—beautiful, beautiful light. So nūr mile, khilyā meṁ khilyā. So nur milia means you connected, you united in that light. Within that I played; in that light I played. What did you play? Ānand, the bliss, the joy, the happiness, the light, whatever you said. Khelia means you enjoyed in that. Sunme tar chalani hai. Sometimes, again in that state of yoga nidrā. Tārā means the wires. Chalani hai: this wire lets go and comes, the energy—like we have, for example, a remote control. We don't see it, but it is connecting to that instrument. Remote control techniques were found in South India. But before the inventor could copyright it, someone took the techniques and made the copyright. The person who was doing this was taught by his master the techniques of how to communicate without anything. So there is our ascending and descending breath between the heart and the consciousness in the brain. Those yogīs who are practising and practising: Sant Tant. Tant means their interest, their concentration, their sādhanā. Heran Janana Lagohe, who begins to practise the mantra. At that time, sūrat, our awareness, comes to the house of our heart. That means samādhi. So you are in samādhi. Otherwise, our sūtra is our thoughts or our concentration. We are thinking something like this, something like that. But when we find the right way, then we say, "Yes, this is that," and we go there. And so that sūtra finds its own house. And house means ātmā jñāna, his ātmā. What did Mahāprabhujī say? Śrī Ālāgapurī sā daṇḍīsanyāsī. So Mahāprabhujī said that Ālāgapurījī—I hope our spiritual lineage is from Alāgpuri jī—Śrī Alagapurī Sir Daṇḍī Sanyāsī, a sādhu, he was a sanyāsī, ultī kālā paisānī hai. He realized, he knew, and he taught, but upside down. All the techniques he realized and gave further. He turned the world upside down. We don't understand. We think that when the sun goes down, we are up or down, with how high a speed our earth is moving. But we are not dizzy. We don't feel anything. Can you imagine if Earth stops? Everything will collapse, finished. From these gravities of the Earth, how is it that we know it is a high speed, but we don't feel any imbalance? That technique is used for the aeroplane. The aeroplane sometimes goes more than 1000 km speed, sometimes 900 km, but we don't feel like this. We are relaxed completely, but we are going with the speed of the aeroplane. Similarly, this energy and our being, our awareness—we think it is like that, but it is different. So Alag Puriṣā Daṇḍīsanyāsī gave us techniques which are opposite to everything. Śrīdeva Purīṣa Avadhūta, and our Śrīdeva Purījī, Avadhūta. Avadhūta means the yogī who doesn't want anything, and he has no fear. Avadhūta means the best, the great; even Śiva doesn't care about that. Shri Dev Puruṣa Avadhūta Avaliya, that which incarnated; he was an Avadhūta incarnation. De bina deś dikhāyā hai. He saw that world without the body. Without the body, he saw you as that. Now we can see everything with our body, with our eyes. But Devpurījī could show you that through this yoga nidrā; it brings you to the other loka, where you see everything without this, like a dream. But that dream is a different dream. Is vidhi koi virlā jāne, vohī guru gam jānī hai. Therefore, those who will practice like this, according to this bhajan—is vidhi koi virlā jāne—this technique, only rare ones know. Vohī guru gam jānī hai, sign. So that is who will realize that, who understand Guru Vākya and understand what Gurudev is. Any doubts, anything, you are out. That one who understands the hint of the Gurudev. Mahāprabhujī said that santa, that sādhu, that yogī is the warrior, what you call the hero. You are the hero. There is another word for the warrior who is successful—victorious, but victorious is too little. There is one Hindi word... Swami Deep Sant Janasura. Chetan, chet, chetana hai. That one is cetana, awakened. Cetana ceta. He can also awaken others. Chetanī hai. That master can lead these yoga nidrās, and he can wake you up into the awareness and consciousness of samādhi. Yogī, yoga nidrā mīrā, sant jan, jan us nidrā meṁ jāgrat jāne, rātrī meṁ divasa ugānī hai...