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Śānti, śānti, śānti. Peace, peace, peace. Hari Om. Good evening. Welcome. You had a very nice program this afternoon. Now, this evening, we will have meditation. Meditation is the path to peace, to harmony, to understanding, and one can achieve that destination. Meditation brings harmony in our body and releases tension from life. It gives us certainty. There are some people we call nervous or scared without any reason. Why is this? Because of the uncertainty within oneself. So meditation is something which creates clarity within ourselves, our life, and our decisions: what I would like to do, what I don’t want to do. It creates harmony and friendship with good people or friends who have the same aim, and it helps us come to know the sense of life and how to achieve that. Definitely, yoga is the way. Certain exercises are not only for our physical body to make it healthy, like doing them for our muscles and for our good figure, and so on. But the hidden powers within the human body, which are dormant, take time to awaken. How does it happen? Through meditation. There are different kinds of meditation. There is active meditation and passive meditation. Active meditation is outside in the world, working, doing something with concentration, with awareness. And passive insight is to understand our life and the aim of our life, how to master our life. So this practice of yogic techniques—and there are many, many exercises people are developing, some different kind of postures which have not been included with those ancient great saints who designed the postures—is targeted to the particular body of the human, for us. For all other creatures there is, of course, but we are talking about the human. We have five different bodies. It is called the body of nourishment, the body of energy, the body of the mind, the body of the intellect, and the body of happiness. These are the five bodies. Generally, we call them the physical body, the mental body, and the subtle body. Within this, our soul, our self, is dwelling. So, these postures which we have designed, we got from the great Saint Patañjali, as well as there are many other yogīs, and they gave us certain postures for healthy persons, for young people, for elderly people, or for some different. But finally, it gives us something where we feel happy, relaxed, and have a clear destination. But we have to be present when we meditate. This is not, I would not say, meditation, but we are going towards awareness, towards our concentration. Meditation then becomes one with ourself, and then we proceed towards the main aim in human life. So today we do meditation, which will lead us somewhere in a good way, but we should know that we are coming to ourself and peace. It will guide that meditation, and it will be very good. So, sit comfortably, take your posture, however you are relaxed. Place your—if you have a telephone, please put it on silent—and place your hands on your knees. We have these five fingers in our right hand, and five fingers in our left hand. Each and every limb of our body has particular energy. And at the tips of our fingers, there is immense energy, giving clarity in our body. It gives us more energy. So, you can do, or if you want, touch your fingers like this, and roll the fingers, place the fingers on your tip of the fingers. There is an immense amount of energy because so many nerves are ending here, and they are ready to receive energy and feelings, touching, etc. It is not so that this finger is only for our eating and this. No, no. They have so many feelings. And according to yogic philosophy, we can say, sorry, symbolically we can say, this thumb is called Brahman, the Supreme, or Supreme God, or Ātmā. These words you know, and this index finger is our self, our jīvātmā. The touch of these two fingers we call Niśmudrā, Chinmudrā. And when we just move like this, touching, it immediately brings harmony. And if someone is afraid of something, it gives a sense of power and certainty against it. This Jīvātmā is our individual jīva, our soul, and God, let’s say. Now, the aim of our meditation and of yogīs is that the jīvā merges into Śiva. It means from the individual to the cosmic Self. There are already energies running there to lead us. And these three fingers, according to the guṇas, Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas, these are the three guṇas. Sattva is very pure, Rajas is restlessness. Tamas is laziness, drowsiness. Yogīs have to be above this, even this kṣatra guṇa, then we can attain our final goal of Jīvātmā to the Ātmā, Jīvātmā to the Paramātmā. Jīvātmā, Ātmā here in this way is Ātmā, and Ātmā is the Jīvātmā. So, meditate then like this. You can hold your palm upwards, or touch your palm or hand on your knees or on your thigh, however you feel comfortable. Here comes more energy to our body to receive, but there are whole bodies where we are receiving the energy. And this divine energy, we are giving the energy to ourselves if we are like this, so it is your choice. Now, sit comfortably and close your eyes. You need not open your eyes again, but of course, if you want to open them, if you feel to open your eyes, you can do it. But when, as soon as you open your eyes, your meditation is somehow interrupted. Anything you want to see in this room, do it now. After that, there will be nothing new during meditation, except the movement of my hand, maybe. So, close your eyes and be happy, be relaxed, be comfortable. So, place your hands in this mudrā, either on your thighs, touching your palms, or with your hands, palms facing upwards. Make yourself comfortable, feel comfortable, adjust yourself so you are comfortable and need not make movements. Sit straight, relax your elbows so that your shoulders and elbows are relaxed. When the shoulder is relaxed, then our back muscles are relaxed, as well as our stomach muscles, etc. Relax your whole body and withdraw thyself from the external world. For a time being, just feel yourself relaxed, comfortable, peaceful, and harmonious. Withdraw yourself from the external world and feel yourself here in this hall, where we are all sitting and meditating. Relax, relax,... and feel each and every limb of your body: your toes, your foot soles, ankle joints, calf muscles, knees, thighs, and hips. Relax your stomach. Relax the stomach muscles. Relax your elbows so that your back muscles and back are relaxed. Relax your neck and relax your jaw. Do not bite your teeth. Your neck is relaxed and comfortable, your face muscles are relaxed, and your eyelids are gently closed. I am one with myself. I feel comfortable, relaxed. If you still feel discomfort, you may change your posture. Relax. I know that I am inhaling, and I know that I am exhaling. Coordinate your breath and body. Feel your breath going in and out. During the inhalation, the trunk of the body is expanding. And at the time of the exhalation, it’s contracting. Observe the breath. Do not change the breath rhythm. Develop your awareness of your body in and out with the breath. Relax, relax. Bring your attention towards your eyebrow center. Do not give tension to your eyebrows. Let your eyes very gently close. The inner space behind the forehead wall is endless, endless space. Any thought comes, let it come. If it goes, then let it go. At the time being, we are concentrated on our inner space. In this dark space, it’s called Chidākāśa, there is a tiny light, a beautiful flame, very pure and very steady, that imagination of the light. Let this light go far and far with high speed. Your mind and your awareness concentration is with, dynamizing in far distance, a beautiful light like some star, only that one light, otherwise nothing. Relax, relax. It divides our body: physical, mental, and astral. The light is going with the astral body. With your astral body, you see the physical body sitting in meditation posture, engaging your light of yourself. Very soon, this light will touch the awakening of the beautiful dawn from the dark night, with daylight merging into the dawn. That tiny light, what we are imagining, is melting in that dawn, beautiful. And now, with your astral body, you see your physical body sitting. You see from the backside of the body, a very beautiful, very silent, peaceful dawn awakening in your whole body—all three, Purījī: physical, mental, and subtle body. But our aim is beyond these three bodies. I give you a few minutes so that you can have your own visions, whatever you see or do not see. If you don’t see, or you can’t see, any light or anything, it doesn’t matter. Be one with thyself in peace, harmony, and energy. Within thyself is your own willpower. You are full of energy, full of will. You are above the fear, anxiety, or nervousness. Visualize the rising of the dawn in our Chidākāśa with closed eyes. Bring your awareness now to your physical body. Feel your heart, strength, awareness, light, and peace. Further, you have to guide thyself. Peace, harmony, certainty, and light. Bring your awareness to the breath. I know that I am inhaling. I know that I am exhaling. Feel the touch of the breath in your chest, in the center of the chest, the inner touch of the breath, inhalation and exhalation. Relax. Become aware of your physical body, the limbs of your body, the flow of the breath, the ascending and descending breath. Three times, deep inhale and exhale. Become extrovert to the sound of this world. Three times we will inhale and exhale. Deep breath in the stomach, and exhale. Three times we will chant Aum. A U M. Inhale. Peace, peace,... śānti, śānti, śānti. Move your fingers, close your fists, open the palms, close your fists, open the palms. Fold your palms, rub the palms, and place the hands on the face. Gently give massage to your face muscles and open your eyes. Bend forward and feel the circulation towards the head, towards the face muscles. Feel relaxed. Feel relaxed. And now, come up. Hari Om. After this meditation, to have a lecture, you have no sense. You are very peaceful, in harmony with thyself. You can meditate at home every day. And exactly, I gave you that time: quarter past eight. It is ten past eight, so now you can go. Hari Om. Hari Om, everybody. We have a program again tomorrow? Okay. So tomorrow we will go further. God bless you, and I wish you a very, very good evening and good night. Hari Om.