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Sit in a meditation posture, in praṇāma mudrā, the prayer mudrā. We are going to have today, again, our subject: Haṭha Yoga. First, we pray. Keep the mudra of happiness. Give a little smile on your face for our journey with Haṭha Yoga. Close your eyes. Make the salutation, the praṇām, to the Supreme, to the Gurudev. Merciful one, bless me with your mercy. Bestow upon me good health, harmony, peace, and protection for all creatures and all our beautiful nature. God protect that, and God will protect this whole beautiful nature. Oṁ Asato mā Sat gamaya, Tamaso mā Jyotir gamaya, Mṛtyor mā Amṛtaṁ gamaya. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Rub your palms and place your warm palms on your face. Move your hands, open your eyes, and remain in a comfortable posture for Hatha Yoga. Nowadays, Haṭha Yoga is misunderstood. Many think only āsanas and prāṇāyāmas are Haṭha Yoga. In a way, every yoga is haṭha yoga. But when our ancestors or our great ṛṣis and masters gave us different paths or branches, they were like branches of one beautiful tree under which we are sitting. We can see there cannot be any more beautiful conference hall than this one, where we are sitting in the lap of Mother Nature. There is one trunk, and that is yoga. Each branch is a different call; we call them different techniques of yoga. Day by day, new techniques are coming, meaning new leaves or new branches. So yoga is only one, like the trunk of this tree. The branches grow in different directions, and it is the beauty of these branches for this trunk. The trunk alone is also good, standing as a pillar, but it doesn’t give shade to anybody. In this world, there are two things. One is that we know what is the reality, what is correct. The other is just dogma. Similarly, there are different branches of yoga. We have the subject of Haṭha Yoga. In Haṭha Yoga, if we do it, there are six techniques. That is called ṣaṭ karma. These Haṭha Yoga techniques are physical, mental, and spiritual. Whatever miracles appear in that branch of the Himalaya or the rock, what do we try to get from Haṭha Yoga? In this ṣaṭ karma, the six techniques, there is nothing to do with āsanas. But for those who do not know, everything is yoga. And, of course, yoga is everything. When we begin with Haṭha Yoga, people have to purify and renounce. Our Satguru Dev Swami Madhavānājī said, "Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice." He was carrying it, and no one could search—I mean research—and throw it away. In this Sat Kriya yesterday, we had the practical Jala Netī. 'Jala' is water, 'neti' is the cleaning of the nostrils. The second is called sūtra dhauti. When we do both netis—the jala neti and the sūtra dhauti—they are not 'dhoti'. Then you need not have a neti pot. You can do it without the water pot. You can drink water through the nose. So you can hold the water near your nose, not the lips. You hold it here, and you open your mouth a little and try to inhale, not so far, not into the lungs, but only till the throat. So you are drinking water, and it comes into the mouth. You can spit it out the first round, first or second round. Then, if you want, you can drink it. And then, with the pot—not the sūtra or the sūtra dhauti, the water dhauti, jala dhauti—what we do like this with the neti pot, you can do without. And that cleans better. So you drink water, fill the mouth, make the whole mouth hollow, and you exhale through the nostrils. When you are swimming in the water and you have the snorkel, what they call a snorkel, you are breathing there. Yes? Similarly, you fill the water through the nose. All water will come through your nose. That is the best cleaning. But it takes time. Sometimes water goes on the wrong side, and you will be coughing because water went on the wrong side. But these are techniques to learn. The child is learning walking, and how many times does the child fall down? So fill the water in the mouth, and all the water comes out. So this is also the Jala Neti, Jala Neti with the water, with the Neti pot or without. It cleans better, and if someone has a sound in the head, something like this, that slowly, slowly will disappear. And those who have problems hearing a little bit, this kind of jala neti will again open everything. Drink the water; 80% or 70% of the water will come out. And then you inhale through water in the nose; you can drink it or you can spit it out. That cleans very well. Then, as we taught yesterday about sūtra netī. The sutra is a cotton, a very nice little rope. We make it nicely, and we first sink it in the water—never dry—and then hold it like this and let it go in. And then you can do it like this. Or there is even a catheter; it also goes in. When someone has the apāna prāṇa, it’s very weak. And when apāna prāṇa has no power, no energy, then the first thing that happens is that you can’t pass urine. The water is full of what we call the gallbladder. But there is no apāna prāṇa to give the pressure for urine to come out. Doesn’t matter, male or female. Then they push that catheter. So this sūtra dhāri will go in an astral and comes; you hold it with the two fingers, and then like this. And pull it from the mouth out. Clean it. Clean the nose. And then with the other nostril. So first right, then left. Sorry, first left and then right. Again, let’s go in. Two fingers deep in, and then you can hold it like a buffalo. Now, after that, you clean with the water, clean your throat. You will have very good, fresh air and good, comfortable breathing. So now, our dear sister Madhu from Zagreb, Madhu from Zagreb, Croatia, will demonstrate the sūtra dhauti. I said sūtra netī, the sūtra netī. So this is Madhu. She is very nicely prepared, everything very scientific. Something is missing: scissors, and this and that for the doctor. Now, bring the mic near her so that she can tell what she is doing. What you are doing is... speak, Madhu. You hold it, okay? So, first we have to prepare. The water, the same water like we did yesterday, like Umāpurī showed. So now we will do the technique without the neti pot, like a glass. We will put a little bit of salt, and then we have to mix water so it’s warm, not too warm, not too cold. I don’t know which one is what water, so I have to try it. This is proper temperature water. This is sūtra neti. So we have first to soak it in. This is not a sūtra, this is a catheter instead of the sūtra, but it is the same. Basically, this stays somewhere. I will put it just temporarily here and then soak it again later. And now we have to prepare the mouth and the nose, so that everything is wet in the same way. If you are under the tap, you can even do it, but soak the water in your nose. It went down through the mouth. I’ll do it once again. Now, we will soak this again. Just put it in the pot. Just put it in the pot, everything. And the thermos away. Put it down. Yeah. Other side also. And the cutlery also, and the towels also. And the tongue cleaner also, the only catheter and the parterium. A little bit of water. This was the left one. And we do the same for the right one. So, and then we have to dry the nose the same way that Umāpurī showed yesterday. And it’s much faster to dry than with Jalaneti, of course. And then after this, Jalaneti. So it cleans everything better. Okay, thank you. And then, yes, the second is put in from inside out, and then with both nostrils. But that will be next time. So, this is also very nice, very nice. Thank you, Madhu. Perfectly, very good. Thank you. You did very quickly. Many will say, "Ah, ah." This is a beginner, but the other one goes like this: clean it this, clean it this also, no water, and then with the water. Very good, thank you. So this is the first technique of the Haṭha Yoga Sūtra: Netī and Jala Netī. After that is called kunjal kriya, and kunjal kriya means you drink the water and then again put it out. This is mostly done by the elephant when they have something with the stomach or in the throat. Then they clean; they go to some lake and drink the water, and then again pull the water out. So this is, that’s called Kuṇḍalī from the elephant. And then it’s also called, this is Jala dhautī and Sūtra dhautī. Sutra is cloth, cotton, and about two meters long and 5 to 10 centimeters wide. Very clean, soft, pure cotton. That’s also very, very good. So, Kunjal Kriya and the Jal Kriya, or what we call sūtra dhauti. So, sūtra is that cloth, and dhauti here is to clean. So you have to swallow a 1.9-meter-long cloth. And this we will do tomorrow. This is Haṭha Yoga. So, all the observers who are listening and seeing our webcast, it is very good for you to know the Haṭha Yoga, exactly what is Haṭha Yoga. Otherwise, everything you do with your willpower, that you can also say is Haṭha Yoga. So you can climb the palm tree, take the coconut off, and come down. And it is not easy to climb a coconut tree. But those who are in the coconut farm or on the beach somewhere with coconuts, the people who live there, they learn; they climb just like a monkey. And the coconut is not easy to break. You can hang yourself, but it will not break unless it’s ripe and dry. And never sit under the coconut tree; you never know when a coconut will come on your head. So, for example, in Fiji, it’s called Raki Raki, one city, and there are some trees. And you go under the tree, and you have to go to the door of the hotel, your rooms, so there’s written, "Please be careful, the coconut can fall on your head." So it happens. It happens. So, but coconut or the big palm tree, so it is said, "Baḍā huā to kyā huā." If one is a big one, we can say this is a big person. You can say some higher person, minister or anything, or this man, like this. So, baḍā huā to kyā huā. This is one poem. If one is very rich or this or that, or has a big position, but he doesn’t help anyone. Only he has his own ego. Toh kiya hua, jaise ped khajur, the big palm tree, which are not coconuts, but nettles. So bada hua toh kiya hua, jaise ped khajur, this big tree, this khajur, jaisi ped khajur pantiko chhaya nahi, and a person’s travelers, very hot day sun, very hot sun, but this tree has no any shadow, so there is a tree on the border near the road, but the shadow is 50 meters somewhere else. So bada hua to kya hua, jaise ped khajur panthike chhaya nahi, the traveler can’t enjoy or get a shadow. Jaisa ped khajur, shadow is very far, and if someone is hungry, the fruit is so high you can’t get. So this is a very nice poem by someone. I have written, "So if someone is a great or this." Who can’t help others? It has no sense. The big, long, thin tree. The shadow is somewhere else. And there are small fruits. If you want to taste these fruits, it’s very far. Who’s there to climb there? So it is similarly when someone is talking about yoga, just talking and talking. But there’s no practical. So that’s why it is said, tons of theory is nothing compared to a gram of practice. So let’s come to the Sūtra dhauti and the Kuñjal kriyā. So tomorrow it will come. Aum, sit in a meditation posture. Aum, sit straight, in the Chin Mudra. Aum, very good, make yourself comfortable. Eleven times we will chant the OM, this OM Kriya, four syllables from the nābhi, from the navel to Sahasrāra Chakra, from Sahasrāra Chakra again to the nābhi, āra-urad. Inhalation and exhalation, so we are learning first only āra and urad, coming back again. Ascending and descending is called āra-urad, so we do only first the āra. It is like that on the Romanian border, the one village, the city called Arah, no? Is that? Concentrate on your whole body. And feel this resonance. Mahāmṛtyu mantra: Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭi Vardhanam. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Grab your palms, place your hands on your face, open your eyes, move your hands, place your hands on the ground, and bend forward. Touch your forehead to the ground and feel the circulation towards the head or the brain, all fresh and good air or the blood flowing towards all jñānendriyas towards your eyes, ears, your whole face, the face skin, and slowly, with the help of the hands, first raise up your forehead. Come to your normal posture. Adió.