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We will continue speaking about the chakras for three more days, beginning with the Viśuddhi Chakra. Generally, there are 72,000 nerve channels in the body. It is like a network, and mostly the nerves are touching our skin. Therefore, from these five kośas, the nerve systems, the jñānendriyas (the sense organs like the eyes) have connections. Our eyes have a connection to the solar plexus. Our eyes are connected to the sun, and that sunlight is reflecting through them. Coming to the Ājñā Chakra, which we will not touch upon yet, the whole energy and the rotation of the sun comes from our navel, the solar plexus. The solar plexus, which is the Maṇipūra Chakra, is one of the powerful chakras for healing many diseases in the body because it is the sun and the seat of the amṛta. That amṛta comes from the Bindu Chakra at the top of the head down to our nābhi, the navel. Our life, what we call life, is in the navel. This is the most powerful sunlight, the sun ray, what we call the svastika. The swastika, which is a symbol in India, represents pure light. Swastika means it is the sun. It is a symbol of the sun, which is rotating, the sun ray. That is in our navel and in our Ājñā Chakra, reflecting all this light through our eyes. With the techniques of Agnisar Kriyā, which we have done in the past, we awaken the sunlight, the sun rays. That's called the fire. Agni-sar-kriyā: Agni is fire, and that Agni-kriyā is Sūrya, the sun. When the plexus center is healthy, then the whole body is healthy. When the plexus is not healthy, then many illnesses will appear. Now, we are bringing this part to our throat because the resonance which is in the entire universe as an OṂ is concentrated more on our Viśuddhi Chakra. The Viśuddhi Chakra is a filter, purifying all the negative energy from our body. There is a technique we have, especially involving Nāda, the sound: Akāra, Ukāra, Makāra. These are the three alphabets: A, U, and M. It is AUM. Generally, people write 'O', but it is A-U-M. The chakras have petals, and each petal is counted. In each petal, there is an alphabet of the Devanāgarī script. Devanāgarī is the alphabet of Sanskrit, and the same alphabet is in Hindi, as the Hindi language comes from Sanskrit. There are 52 alphabets. Each petal on the chakra bears one alphabet. For example, Mūlādhāra has four petals. Our second chakra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Anāhata (the heart), and the vocal cord area (Viśuddhi) all have petals. Mūlādhāra Cakra, Svādhiṣṭhāna Cakra, Maṇipūra Cakra, Anāhata Cakra, and Viśuddhi Cakra—all these petals represent the resonance in our particular cakras. Each has its resonance and awakening of that energy in those letters. For example, how many petals are in Anāhata and Viśuddhi? Sixteen. Finally, coming to Viśuddhi, this energy is awakening from the Sūrya center, the nābhi (navel), and purification takes place in the Viśuddhi Chakra. "Viṣa" is a poison. "Śuddha" means purifying. So it is the sunlight; it is the sun; it is Sūrya. This is a kriyā of the Viśuddhi Cakra to purify all negative qualities, meaning physical disease and mental disease, which we call psychic—the disease of our way of thinking, etc. This different energy of the chakras, according to what we see in our life, is the best purification for physical, mental, and emotional disease, or what we call stress. It brings clarity about what I should do and what I should not do. At the same time, it is called āhāra, vihāra, ācāra, and vicāra. Āhāra means diet. Vihāra means your society, where you are going. For example, how do you feel when you go into the forest? When you come into a park? When you are in traffic? When you go to your office? When you come home? With your partner? With children? With your grandparents? Different situations change the petals of our thinking. When we come to that sound, it is like one after the other, petals of the lotus opening. The sound comes from the universe that touches the sun. You know that in NASA they used a telescope and found a way to record the sound of the sun. It is on YouTube; you can listen to it yourself. That has exactly that sound called Aum. So Aum is not man-made; Aum is that universal sound which creates the sun, and that is the sound of the sun. That sound comes to our navel, and from our navel, it sends radiance through the whole body. It purifies and moves the light upwards to our brain through the Viśuddhi Cakra, and then to the five Jñānendriyas we spoke of yesterday and the day before. In this kriyā of purifying the Viśuddhi Cakra, we have to go through the Aum. So, A, U, M. 'U' is the center. That is the Viśuddhi Chakra. 'A' is the Maṇipūra Chakra, and then 'M' is the humming sound, the purification of the brain centers, bringing positive feelings, positive energies, positive thinking, and letting negative energy go out. These three chakras are very powerful: the navel, the vocal cord, and the Sahasrāra Chakra, where the bindu, the nectar, is connecting from the top of the head down to the Maṇipūra Chakra. We will practice this now. At the same time, we have to purify our nerve systems, which are 72,000. If nerves do not function, you have no sensation in your body. If you touch it, there is nothing. It is like electricity. The energy goes through the nerves and touches the whole skin, and that is coming from the navel. That is the center of our being. Our life began from the navel. This means we have to go to prāṇāyāma, purification. There are different kinds of prāṇāyāmas. According to Jñāna Yoga, the yoga of knowledge (there is also Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rāja Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and many others; according to the Bhagavad Gītā there are eighteen different kinds of yoga), there are three kinds of prāṇāyāmas. These are inhalation, exhalation, and retention of the breath: Pūraka, Recaka, and Kumbhaka. Pūraka means inhale. We inhale into our lungs. Exhale is Recaka. And Kumbhaka is retention of the breath; we stop the breath. But with normal inhalation-exhalation, we also have retention of the breath automatically. When we inhale and exhale, between inhale and exhale there are a few seconds of retention because when you exhale, it is blocked; when you inhale, it opens. This supports our lungs, giving time to take oxygen in, keep it in, and push toxins out. So prāṇa and apāna—this is automatic, the kriyā we have with our pūraka, recaka, and kumbhaka. But there are techniques. What yogīs and great saints do is create specific breathing techniques. Then come these three nāḍīs, which we often speak of. In every chakra, you will see three nāḍīs going through. In your book, The Hidden Powers in Humans, where we see the chakra—for example, I opened here the chakra of Maṇipūra—in the center of the spine you will see three nerves going like a serpent. That is why they call it Kriyā and in Kuṇḍalinī, the snake, the power of the snake. But it is not a literal symbol; there are no actual snakes. These three nerves come from our brain, starting with Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā. Iḍā Nāḍī is inhalation through the left nostril, connecting to our left hemisphere. The right one connects with our right hemisphere, beginning from there. The central nerve, Suṣumnā, begins from the center of the brain. This knot moves, going left and right, changing the path, then again changing. So from the brain, it comes and touches our forehead. That will come next; that is called the Ājñā Chakra. It is wonderful, very interesting. That is the third eye. That is the light. From that point, the left goes to the right and the right goes to the left. And that is the Viśuddhi Cakra. You can see in your chart: from there, again, the Iḍā Nāḍī (the left one) goes to the right, and the right one goes to the left. They are changing like this. Where there is a junction, that is a chakra. There is a power, an energy. These are the three nāḍīs. But there is another nāḍī we are talking about, called Vajrā Nāḍī. Vajra. Do you know Vajrāsana? So, one, two, three, four, five, six. Okay. Vajranāḍī. We shall sit in Vajrāsana. Why is this āsana's name Vajrāsana? Vajra means iron, strong like iron. That Vajranāḍī has that energy—strength. All our 72,000 nerve systems are balanced. Even Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā are balanced with Vajranāḍī. Vajranāḍī begins from our big toe and second toe, from both sides. If we see, many times, even nowadays, certain yogīs or sādhus wear wooden sandals. Those wooden sandals are just a wooden plate with one hook that goes between the big toe and the second toe. Because here, on the big toe and second toe—let's say this is the big toe and second toe—here is the beginning of the Vajranāḍī. Here, acupressure: if you feel, you will feel it. If you touch a certain part of your body, the monitor's needle moves like a compass. If you touch an electronic point and the needle doesn't move, it means we've missed the center. If we put it in and the needle moves but not very far, then that center is blocked. Every nerve has glands, like when there is a kind of grass or any plant, it has knots. Where the knot is, there come the leaves or a branch. Similarly, our nerve systems also have this energy. The most powerful energy is in Vajrāsana when we sit. The Vajranāḍī is the root of the tree. If the roots are rotten, the tree will fall down. So this posture you are sitting in today is called Vajrāsana. After eating, if we can sit in this posture for a minimum of five minutes, it is said to be best for your digestion. Why? Because this Vajranāḍī immediately touches our connection to the nābhi, the navel, the solar plexus, the Maṇipūra Cakra. There, this powerful energy from Vajranāḍī digests everything and distributes all the hormones to different parts of the body. You will have no problem with digestion, no problem with constipation, no problems of diarrhea. Everything will be controlled by the Vajranāḍī. Then automatically our Viśuddhi Chakra will feel free, releasing those tensions and depressions. Our thyroid gland will automatically get that energy so it functions properly. Because it's the nerves; our body is repairing itself. If we touch the same point of the Vajranāḍī, it is responsible for our immunity in the body. When you have some kind of allergy—winter allergies, summer allergies, allergies at different seasons, allergies to foods, allergies from cats, dogs, different things, allergies from husbands and from wives, etc.—through our Vajranāḍī, we can clear everything via the Viśuddhi Cakra. And our emotional feelings, our unclarities, then without anything, we just do what we should not do. We should have that power in our body. Understand? Now, every alphabet we have—these 52 alphabets in Sanskrit, that's called Devanāgarī—if you ask anyone in any country, in any university, any professor, "What is the name of the Indian alphabet?" in Hindi it's called the Hindi alphabet, they will say Devanāgarī. We know that Sanskrit is the mother of almost all other languages. "Deva" means goddess. What does God mean? Our eyes, light is God. Our breath is God. Our heart is God. Without that, we cannot. There are elements from the universe, not only from physical things. Therefore, these 52 alphabets have their resonance, and all these resonances are connected to these three centers of our chakras: the Maṇipūra, the Viśuddhi, and Sahasrāra Chakras. We will learn to chant the Aum. Now, if you have discomfort, you can change your posture. If you feel good, you should stay in Vajrāsana because it is very good for our heart, for our solar plexus, for our Vajranāḍīs, and all will benefit our Viśuddhi Cakra. When we sit in Vajrāsana, our whole spinal column, the spine, is straight; it's completely straight. When the spine is straight, automatically your stomach muscles are relaxed, but still the spine is straight. When the stomach is relaxed, digestion functions comfortably. Automatically, our shoulders are relaxed. When you sit in Vajrāsana, your shoulders are relaxed. When the shoulders are relaxed, the neck is not in tension. The neck is very relaxed. At that time, our whole back is relaxed. When this is relaxed, the neck, then all our jñānendriyas are relaxed. Your eyes, your eyeballs, they are very relaxed. So Vajrāsana is a very powerful posture we shall learn to sit in, except if someone has problems with ankle joints or knees, of course you should not sit. Second, after this kriyā, the solar plexus kriyā, which is dissolving tensions from the thyroid, veins, shoulders, and neck, at that time one of the chakras, the Bindu Chakra in the body, awakens. When the Bindu Chakra is released, at that time it again awakens and receives the Maṇipūra Chakra—that nectar from the Bindu Chakra—and this reflects vibration in our center, that's called Sahasrāra Chakra. The one sun is here (at the navel), the second is here (at the crown), both are the same. After that, what happens? Vibration begins in our brain, and that is another prāṇāyāma technique. All the nerve systems in the brain receive the energy and vibrations, so blood circulation goes through very well. It is said in the yoga books that no one will have a brain hemorrhage if you do that technique. Second, it will develop your memory. So these are three: the thoracic, awakening from the navel; balancing the Vajra Nāḍī; and through that particular technique we will do, we will bring our memories. That memory improvement is because of good blood circulation, and it opens all blockages in different kinds of nerve systems in the brain, in our neck, in our whole body. Okay, where are we now? Viśuddhi Chakra. Where is the Viśuddhi Chakra? Okay, here, the vocal cords. We can connect near to the vocal cords. Now we will have a technique. We will practice and then have a 15-minute interval. After that, we will do the techniques practice. Hari OṂ. See you again this evening on the webcast. Dīpa Nayana, Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Hari OṂ, Jaya Satya.