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This is called Svara Yoga. It is a very easy sādhanā for those who truly want to do it. For others who merely try, it is very hard. It is like jumping into wild water; even if you can swim, the current is very strong. The distance may only be 150 meters, but it is not so easy. However, one who truly wants to survive, who wants to cross this wild water, will come out very easily if they swim with determination. Svara Yoga gives indications about your whole life. It provides information about your past, what is happening in the present, and offers indications for the future—past, present, and future. There are advanced Svaryoginīs who can tell a few years beforehand on which day and at what time one will pass away. The exact "how" is not known, but generally, it will be a healthy passing. You know you are going, and it renounces this life. This is not suicide. Forget that. Suicide is not good. The soul has to suffer for a long time afterward. One asks, "Why did you commit suicide?" There are definitely problems, and with your thinking, you feel you cannot live anymore and see no other option. But this idea of suicide is itself a weakness and a path into darkness. Life continues, moving towards difficulties or good things. It is said that those who commit suicide will suffer more from the injustice. Now, if some of your relatives or close family members have committed suicide, I am sorry, as it makes you feel very sad. I did not want to make you sad. Destiny, or God, or Dharmarāja—who gave us this human life? My dear, it is not easy to get a human life. We are the luckiest of the lucky. We are the fortunate ones. Our destiny, or God, whatever you believe, gave you this human life. We have to face all difficulties and good things. Our own thinking, our attachments, create sorrow, weakness, and desires. Attachment is not easy. As long as you are with that attachment, it is happy and good, but when you separate, it is painful. For example, you marry happily, and then one of the couple wants to separate. One thinks, "I am sure I am stepping into greater future happiness." But that means you are jumping into darkness. In darkness, you jump without knowing how deep the water is. The other person is also in the darkness of attachment and suffering. With this, one becomes so sad, and problems arise. Someone loses their appetite. Someone feels a little pressure in the chest and cannot eat. This is very common, so your doctor will say it is anxiety. You say, "No, I have no anxieties. I just have no appetite." You want to eat, but you think you have high blood pressure there. I am sure many of you know this problem, and the doctor is right. He will give some tablets and say it will be okay, that slowly you will overcome it. Then what happens? You lost gold, but now you find a diamond. How happy you are! You have diamonds, so the gold has no value. But the other one was thinking, "I am getting gold," while you are getting aluminum. That is our human weakness. Therefore, in such a situation, a person who is not strong enough, who has no vivekā (discrimination), makes such a step. It is said that destiny, or God, gave this person life as a human. Humans are very emotional and also very brave. You should not attach and depend. This is a very big problem; it is not easy. All that nervousness, lack of appetite, inability to sleep, heartbeats sometimes quicker and slower—if we practice Svara Yoga, then suddenly your inner reality will emerge, and your life will be very happy and very good. So Svara Yoga gives us a very clear indication. But it is not that you practice for only one or two years and then know what to do. It is a sādhanā. This practice concerns the two nāḍīs, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, and the Suṣumṇā. One must know when the Iḍā-nāḍī should flow, when the Suṣumṇā should flow, and when the Piṅgalā flows. Now, at this time, as the sun sets, we are going to see the new moon. You may remember once we were looking at silver, but many did and many have forgotten. It was good if you had a silver coin. Someone from Hungary brought very nice silver coins. In Hungary, it was a little cheaper than in Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Austria. So, of course, they bought the expensive ones. People said, "Oh yes, I also got one coin." Some people were from Australia and bought a few. After two years, they said, "Swamiji, can we sell it to you, or give it to you?" If they had practiced until today, their Svara Yoga sādhanā would be on the right path. When we see the new moon—some people do not believe, and that is your choice—but you know that in Islam, the new moon has great meaning. Twice a year they have a festival, and they only eat or drink when they see the new moon. The whole day they will not drink at all; they will not even swallow their own saliva. There was an elderly woman, nearly 100 years old, a Muslim from Pāli near Jārdan. She was very old and weak. Something happened, and they brought her to the hospital. She said to the doctor, "Do not give me any liquid, even insulin or any injection, until this time," because it was her sādhanā. The moon is silver, and silver is connected to the moon. The moon is connected to emotion, and emotion is connected to water, and so on. So it is not only silver; it has its meaning. This meaning is not merely blind belief; it has been experienced by great people. Now, we want to see the new moon, but there are clouds. What should we do? At least we will stand there. We know when the moon will be visible, even with clouds, and at that time you must look at the silver and look to the sky. Sometimes it happens that you see the moon when nobody else will. It is your awareness, your consciousness, your belief. Even with very thick clouds, the vision may disappear. You close your eyes, and there is the crescent moon. From then until the full moon, this energy is growing and gives you many good things. Every day has meaning regarding the decreasing or increasing of the moon. From the morning when you awake, which svara or which nāḍī should flow? If you are practicing, you have an automatic feeling. If not, then breathe out onto your hand. You will see where the air is flowing more onto your hand. Then you should cover yourself on that side and get up. Get up in the direction where the Iḍā or Piṅgalā is flowing. Then you step out from your bed. At that time, which foot should first touch the floor or ground? According to which nāḍī—Iḍā or Piṅgalā—is flowing. Iḍā is the left foot, and Piṅgalā is the right foot. Even before that, when you take water in your mouth to clean it, you should take water with the hand on the side from which the breath is flowing. As soon as you come close to water and hear its sound, automatically the Iḍā will flow. Similarly, when you should eat, the breath should flow with the Sūrya (sun) nāḍī. It will change automatically when you are trained. Likewise, when you wash your body, put on your dress, eat, and go to your work or office, you take your first step out of your door according to which nāḍī is flowing. If it is the right one, step with your right foot. If the left is flowing, step with your left foot. You must not just stand and go out; you have feelings. After one week or ten days, you will have them automatically. There is one technique given to you in your Kriyā Anuṣṭhān. I do not know if you are still doing it. You breathe in and out with the left nostril or the right nostril without closing one nostril. Yes, you feel it. This is a practice, and automatically it will guide you. Now, let us say you have to go to a very important meeting, or to court, school, or an examination. What to do? Try to go with the right nostril flowing. If it is not, then put the foot forward that corresponds to the nostril which is flowing. When you enter the office door, or wherever, inhale and exhale. What will happen? Your anxiety disappears. Otherwise, you are so nervous. Questions arise. Why? Because you did not learn. You were looking more at the telephone or television, or going to discos and many things. You did not think, "I have to study." If you had studied, you would not have to be nervous. Your answers would be so clear that your master, the examiner, becomes nervous. He asks a question, and you give a doubly clear answer. Why? This is because of your Svara Yoga. This is your Svara Yoga here, and it is very, very powerful. One part of yoga is called Svara Yoga. When you want to see the moon, the breath must flow through both the right and left nostrils. What to do if it is not? You cannot say, "Moon, stop for a while; I will open my eyes then." Time does not wait for anyone. I was often observing Gurujī. The shawl that Gurujī had, he would come immediately and arrange it like that, on the right side. Immediately, the correct flow is established. These are the techniques. Do you remember? We were placing all the objects like this, and we saw the golden coin or the silver coin. One did not have one and said, "Please, can I see also?" Everyone can see. I have a silver ring. So Svara Yoga is very important. When you drink water, let the left nostril flow. Wait for one minute, or half a minute. You can change because you are practiced. Eat when the right nostril is flowing. So Svara Yoga—we will begin to do more trainings about this. It is a very big subject, and I think I will find that one book. To be honest, I do not know exactly what is written in that book. My practice goes automatically. Also, when you sleep, you should sleep on the left side so that the right nostril flows. Some people think, "Do not sleep on the left side because you press your heart." No. Our God was very clever. The heart is under the ribs, so it cannot be pressed when you sleep like this. Even if somebody steps on your ribs, the heart will not be pressed. Even if someone steps on you with one foot like this, the ribs may break, but the heart will not. But please do not try. Okay? So, sleep on the left side. Then it is said, "Your son is moving." So, live the night with the sun and the day with the moon? Because the moon is for night and the sun is for day. So it is said the yogī is awakened at night and sleeps during the day. This does not mean really sleeping. Do not go home and say to your husband or wife, "Now in the daytime I will sleep." She will say, "I believe Swamiji everything," but this I cannot do. So it is different, the flowing of our nostrils—the svara, it is called svara. It is said we cannot see the plant growing, but the next day we see it is already bigger. We cannot see it moving incrementally. Similarly, we cannot see the sun moving, though it is the earth moving, but we cannot see the sun going like this. Yet we see the sun rising and setting. Similarly, the process is like that. If the sun rises at 6 o'clock in the morning and sets at 8 o'clock, you cannot change that today. You cannot demand that the sun rise at 5 o'clock and set at 6 o'clock. The sun will not follow. But one thing we can do is fly in an airplane in that direction, and then you can see the sun setting at this time or from another country on the other side. So Svara Yoga is prolonging our health and life. Our life will be prolonged. Many things will become clear for you, and you will not be sad anymore. You will have your own energy and your own willpower. Svara Yoga. Next time we will again begin with Svara Yoga. That is all today. Hari Om. Dīpa Nama Bhagavān Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān. Om Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...