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All these are the problems faced in the course of destiny by creatures on earth who are in a position to understand the flow of life events. Innately, there also exists in humans an even more wonderful and miraculous potential, the existence of which is hidden from most of us. As we begin to awaken this inner potential, we can utilize the dormant powers of our energy for our own well-being and for the blessing of the world. Pūrṇālīnī Yoga is a pure spiritual science. It leads an aspirant to enlightenment, to the reality of realization... written thousands of years ago... to awaken one's inner knowledge, that innate potential which exists in each and every person as our birthright. The awakening of the Pūrṇalinī means the awakening of wisdom, the awakening of your knowledge. You become master of yourself. You become very clear. You're not confused. It is an awakening of consciousness, and it happens when the cosmic energy contained within the human body is purified and directed upward to the highest spiritual centers. The same energy that pervades the cosmos also pervades the human body. This cosmic energy is accumulated in the body at certain locations called cakras, like a vortex. Chakras pull in the energy from the cosmos in a circular motion. Chakras function on several aspects of our human existence, with important glands and nerves located in the region of each energy center. Of the thousands of chakras distributed throughout the body, eight are the primary focus of Kuṇḍalinī Yoga. The five chakras associated with normal human existence are situated along the spine, and the three divine chakras are related to spiritual development. They are located between the top of the spine and the crown of the head. Through the practice of yoga, prāṇāyāma, meditation, kriyā, and repetition of mantra, we can influence and harmonize the chakras in our body. However, the guidance of a spiritual master is essential on this path. Like every form of energy, one must also learn to understand spiritual energy, and only that one who has traversed the path to enlightenment before us is fully competent to be a guide. The Sanskrit word Guru means the remover of darkness. It is that one who removes the darkness of our ignorance and kindles in us the light of wisdom. The Guru is that spiritual master who inspires, instructs, and guides us to enlightenment, the ultimate realization of our inner potential. This is the aim and purpose of human life. Om Guru Kripa Om Śānti Śānti... Good evening, all dear sisters and brothers. Welcome. Yesterday we spoke about chakras and also about the nerve systems. Now, today will be meditation. There are different kinds of meditations. There is active meditation, passive meditation, and meditation for a certain aim, for what you would like to meditate. Someone meditates to get peace, harmony, and to overcome tensions—also family problems, also social problems. So there are many different problems that humans have. Animals also have, but not that many problems which humans have. The other creatures don't have. They can solve, or they cannot solve. Sometimes we can create more problems while doing the meditation. It's like the doctors. Doctors should give which kind of medicine for which kind of problems, and if we just take any kind of tablets, it can be problematic. In the medical system, it is very strict. Like if you want to have just a little for your headache, or you need something for your diabetes, the medicine is out of it, and you go to the chemist's shop, and they will not give you the medicine. You go to the doctor, the doctor will write, and you have to have this on the piece of paper written. You bring it to the chemist shop, and they will say, "Okay, but sorry, there is no signature of the doctor." So, after that comes again, that doctor's signature is there, but there is no stamp on it. We don't know; anyone can write. So, similarly, there is very, very... very sure, clear to take remedy, not only because you want to have it, but not only that your parents want to give you this, but we have to go to the doctor. And the doctor doesn't have the medicine; you have to go to the chemist. Similarly, there is Āyurvedic medicine. Do you know the Āyurvedic medicine, please, here? Or, who don't know, please, no problem. If you don't know, then hands up, please, about Āyurveda medicine. So you don't know. Thank you. And you too don't know. Very good. All others are experts about medicine? Okay. Āyurvedic medicine is famous. We used to say that Āyurvedic medicine is also grandmother's kitchen. You know what this means? Or, as we say in Europe, the grandmother's kitchen, which has many, many remedies in the kitchen. What mother or grandmother will give to a little child what they need for a headache, or for diarrhea, or the stomach, and etc., etc.? And these are the medicines, very clear. Another thing is the chemical or the school medicine. We used to say it is a chemical, mostly. But the chemical is also coming from Āyurveda. And Āyurveda is from the herbals, the natural. But it is changed, and therefore, when it is changed, made into chemical things, then it is different. For example, how? We know everything by idea once. There is a beautiful bunch of grapes; they look nice, tempting, and we just take one in the mouth, a handful. It's okay. Everyone can eat the grapes. Now, we make the grape juice. It's okay, also very nice. But then it turns into alcohol. So it is the same grapes, same juice, and after a certain time, it is changing into alcohol. And now, alcohol: someone can endure to drink, someone cannot. Likewise, the chemical medicine is sometimes immediately reacting. So I am not against the medicine. I am not against the doctor. And I am not against Āyurveda or homeopathic or other medicines. Suddenly, an accident happened, then we need that kind of medicine and injections immediately, otherwise we can die. And there is also a doctor needed; without a doctor, nobody will give an injection. I don't know in your country, but in... In some countries, if there's an accident, no one will take you in their car and bring you to the hospital. It's not allowed at all. It will be a telephone, and the ambulance will come. And in the ambulance, only the driver will not do. There must be doctors and this and that. Similarly, so I will not say that I don't like medicine. Chemical medicine also I don't think is good. But little, little things we should not use the chemical. So, from this allopathic medicine, the body does not accept it. The body does not expect. And if, then for something, for a temporary, the problems can be solved, but five problems will come beside it. Therefore, we shall try to take little medicine. But I am not against that. In Āyurveda, there are perhaps one or two rapid medicines or remedies which can help immediately, and that may be not so immediately. But it is natural, and the body accepts. It takes time, but it will be the proper treatment, and there will be no side effect. So that is Āyurveda, and this is allopathic. They are different in our bodies. Similarly, what I am telling you is that you need the master, you need the surgeon. You see that doctor? You need the nurse and the doctor who will write for you and go to take the medicine. This is in modern times now. It is very strict because sometimes people give wrong things. Now, what is happening with yoga? So Āyurveda, allopathic, homeopathic—and homeopathic is also medicine, like a miracle. There is only essence, essence. One drop will create, I think, five buckets of water as this medicine. Because it is that form is always like a miracle. And that master who has brought this homeopathy is great. Now, that's okay, good or not, but it has an effect. Similarly, I am talking to you about yoga. Now, yoga has become more than Āyurvedic. Everyone is a yoga master, everyone. And now our respected Prime Minister of India, he made from the United Nations an international yoga day. Very, very good. Otherwise, there were big problems. Big problems of the religions, the culture, etc. And now it is, because of the United Nations and so on, so now everyone begins to do yoga. And I don't want to tell you, but I must tell you, now it's called the wine yoga. Did you hear about wine yoga? Yes, wine yoga means it is a beautiful yoga. Center like this, and the teachers come announcing, "Vinyā yoga," so everybody goes. Now, when we come into the aeroplane, there are different classes. In the first class, the other class, and sometimes in all, the whole aeroplane. Because alcohol is a business, like this they come to the door, open the door, and there is one tray. In the tray, alcohol in the glass, and they offer it to you. You take one sip, or you can also take two, and then say, "Please come and relax." So with alcohol, they are relaxing. After, the teacher comes, after 10 minutes, and again offers a little bit, and then they are practicing. And after the interval, they again take the alcohol. So they are coming mostly for the alcohol. Now, what is happening? They go home, not walking; they have a car. In a car, they are now. The car is like a boat on the ocean. So it happens. There is nowhere written in the yogic philosophy to give the alcohol. That's called naked yoga. Strictly, you have to take your dress off. Doesn't matter, male or female. And so, because they sit in the Himalayas, all yogīs are practicing only naked. Himalaya is so cold. So, they are making more something on their body, and not like this. Like this. Or people are doing something wrong. No. Then they have no master. We need a master. You have learned just to pass your major medical, and you are now a doctor. And you can immediately go and make an operation for the brain as a surgeon. Impossible. So the master is that master. And others, I have to learn. And if you do not, you change your master, you do this, then you will do harm to others. Similarly, yoga, my dear, you should have one master, which master has the master, and his master has a master. So it means it is a lineage; the tradition is given, this tradition. For example, this country, Wellington, no, no, New Zealand. So, it doesn't matter who comes to New Zealand; there are rules and regulations, and everyone must have a passport. And this passport, you cannot give your passport to somebody else. No, not even you are a citizen of New Zealand, and you have no passport. They will say, "Please come this side and let me see, or make a document," and like this. You cannot go further. If you give your passport to someone, you will go to prison. Every country. Similarly, if one is changing the masters, becoming a master, that's why these people cannot achieve what they want to achieve, and they go to prison. Which kind of prison? Mental. So they are in a mental prison. Again and again, they do it completely. Therefore, your father is your father. My father is my father, and all the time, whole life on the document will be your father. On your document, it will not be my father, yes. In the same way, yoga is that which is very, very serious, and that's why many, many masters do not give certain knowledge to them until the disciple is not a real disciple. Posture is okay, posture is okay. We can walk, we can move left and right our shoulders, okay? That physical is okay, but also very careful, very careful. Otherwise, we can harm our body. The same thing applies after that. What is very, very important for our body, or for a tree, a big tree or a small tree, or a small plant, an herbal plant? What is very important? And that is called, here I think, this. What is this all? These are like roots. And when we take these roots away, the whole tree will die. And these roots, we should not cut them. If we cut them, then the tree will be harmed. It will not be that which it was before. So, these are the nerve systems. According to the yogic anatomies, it is said that there are 72,000 nerve systems in the whole body. Small bone, fine bone. There are some nerves so fine, if you touch them, they will break. Also very fine in the brains, very fine in our eyeballs, yes, and it's only our doctor can do, okay. Doctor, I was with a doctor, and the doctor saw me, and he made me an operation. I was carefully checking everything, how it was, now. I come home and I tell to my, "You come and tell your husband, 'I can do your eye now, please don't do that, don't do that.'" And your husband will say, "No, no, I don't." She said, "I know, I know the tools, how he was sitting and doing, and injection I give, and I will do it." Cannot be. So be careful what I am giving you. I am giving you the alertness. Be alert. Otherwise, we have words in the Hindi language. We are saying, "You are practicing yoga just by looking only." It will seize your body. And more and more disease will come. The physical disease, the emotional disease, the mental disease, etc., etc. So, nowadays, yoga is in many, many, many places. Every street, maybe two in yoga street, but they are young people. They are jumping and this and that. Okay? We were also jumping, but these people are jumping, and there is sitting one, my friend, he is about 60 years already. Can he jump? A little child will jump down here, and when I jump, I can jump twice: the first and the last. So, therefore, we should know with which master, which exercises we do. And therefore, when I came to Europe in 1970, there were yoga classes. People came for five days, others didn't come, then others came. The new people and long-practicing people are all together. So one day, someone said, "Swāmījī, does yoga have a system?" I said, "A very strict system." Then why is there no strict yoga? I said this yoga is not a yoga. Now, many people are saying, "I want to practice Haṭha yoga," and Haṭha yoga is completely different. So the master is also confused, and the disciples are also confused. That's why there is no success of yoga. And that master should be strict in teaching, not give instruction, meditation all the time, just said, "Go there, go there in meditation, sun rising, water falling, forest." Why? Why are you talking about water falling? Someone said, "I had all the times I'm swimming in the water, working there, I want to be in my home, peaceful." So, masters should think and see, "What can I give this person? What is good for them?" And therefore, meditation has different types of techniques, and that is what we are doing. So in that, these are only some surface nerves which are saying, but 72,000 nerves are everywhere in the body, which is very, very important for us. Our whole health system, our memory system, our emotional system, our everything is dependent on this, called the kuṇḍalinī and chakras. Now, this is a kuṇḍalinī we are calling there, here, sitting somewhere, and these are the nerve systems. All control from these nerve systems, they are connected to all that, like the powerhouse. And every day they are in different parts of our body, in our spine, along our spine. And there are three nāḍīs: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and the Suṣumṇā. These three are what's called our sympathetic and parasympathetic. And these two nāḍīs are balancing like the two wheels of the vehicle. Exactly. If there is a little air in one side, all the time it is going like that. So we have to give the same energy, the same awareness to both sides, left and right, then you can be balanced in the body. The languages, I am not talking about today about languages, but it came between, and it is said there are different kinds of languages, and those languages are the best which have both hemispheres equally balancing. The Sanskrit language is mostly the mother of all languages, and in these languages, which are the best ones, only a few, and that is that when you are dreaming, you have a dream, or is there someone who has no dream? You don't have one? You didn't dream? Everybody does, okay. When we dream, and this is again a very, very careful, we are working and doing. Now, about these dreams. First, your master. First, your mother and father. First, your friends. And they should do what you should do, good and how. And then the spiritual master comes. Now, our consciousness, which you know very well, but I will just talk on that point. We have in 24 hours three different states: the awakened. Now we are sitting, this is we are awakened, that's called jāgrat. Jāgrat means we are awakened. Alert, second, suṣupti, sleeping, so we are sleeping. And the third, the dream. I am coming to the point to come to this. There are many masters who taught us the master to master to master. And if that is, you are really not a master, and you are giving instructions, you will also be mad, and the other one will be the mad. Therefore, very seriously, the master will not give those instructions which are not perfect. So yoga for us became a gymnastic. For our body, that's also good; that's not bad. But disciples came for spirituality, to know myself, this and that, and to know God. Though we have not seen God, we have a God. We believe in God, but though he is not there, maybe someone will come, but we do trust. In this Kali Yuga, we have many religions. The major religions: the Hindu, Sanātana Dharma; after that come the Jewish religions, the Christianities, the Buddhists, the Mohammedans; there are Parsi, etc. Many, many, many. And in this, they have their masters. They believe in God. Some religions, their border is finished. There is a living God religion and a dead religion. So I would not say dead, but limited. In Sanātana Dharma, Hindu Dharma is a living Dharma. Master to master to... master. Others, it is there, and that's the only book that is there. We believe that God is okay, very good, perfect, that I'm not making neglect or something. But in the Sikh religion, Guru Nānak, you know the Sikh Hindus, Sikh means not ill man, okay, that means the turban. Have you seen some Hindus like this? Yeah? And so, there is a minister. He was in New Delhi, then after he came to New Zealand after studies. He was studying, and now he got citizenship and he became involved in politics, and now he is a minister, a member of parliament, and he is very, very nice, and why not? Some countries have different rules that only those who are born in this country can be ministers; otherwise, not. So this is not a subject of difference. So, Guru Nānak, the last one, it was that. And now he wrote a beautiful holy book called the Guru Grantha. Grantha means all collected from all the great masters of their lineage. And now he said, "There will be no more guru." Only our guru said this. One and that one say, "Guru Grantha," the holy book. And then at the end, he writes here something, and it is written that, "Guru Grantha ko janiye." Know this book of guru. Guru means the master who writes, and holy. Guru Grantha ko janiye, pragyat gura ki de. Now, this book, you should take it as the reality that is your master. Those who understand that God in this book as God, then you have a faith in your heart, and when you will take this in your... heart, you will have the knowledge of that God. Bible also we are taking, Bible as this, Quran also, Torah also. So everyone, and in Hindus is this Sanātana dharma, and it is going further, this tradition. So it is different here. So in this masters. So, sleeping, awakening, sleeping, and dreams. Now, how did you wake up? How did you wake up? Who wakes you up? Where are you going? Half-bored, half-yodeled. So wake up. Now you are awake. Me, I am also awake. This is called the waking state. Now we come to that point where we are tired and we are going to sleep. Do you know in which second you slept? How was overcoming from awakened to dream? And that's relaxing, very good. I didn't need even that many. The trees are sleeping, the fish is sleeping, the animals sleeping, all. And we too. So, do we know animals? And they are doing, but we are human, my dear. Do you? Know how you go into sleep, that's very important. Otherwise, we don't know where we are. Good, okay. When we try to learn that, "Now I will sleep to know how I am sleeping," your sleep will be disturbed, always. You will turn this side, I will turn this side, they will turn this side. I will take the pillow, we will change the pillow. Now my sleep is disturbed, so which consciousness is here by me to go further there? That's again this, perhaps. We can see suddenly our consciousness is changing, and that's called a dream. Suddenly in the dream, you are in Oakland. We sleep here, but we are in Oakland. We see Oakland, we see our friend, and we go there. Then we want to go to the friend's house, but the friend is not there. We were... Knocking a few times was not there. We come and we are walking. Something in the dream, and something, a mosquito bite, you within no time you are awakened. So you are coming out from the dream automatically, and we know during the dream that I am dreaming. Many know that I am sleeping, but I am dreaming. But we cannot catch this. And this is our, and so these are the three stages of the consciousness for us, for the yoga or humans, very alert, very this to know. So, how to come to the dreamer? And you know, dreams can make you good and may make you confused or a little bit unhappy. When husband and wife were walking, there was a very nice ice cream shop, and so the husband said to his wife, "Darling, let's go and have an ice cream." She said, "Yes, my dear, but you know that you are a singer, and your doctor said, 'Don't eat ice cream because you have some problem still with the throat.'" He said, "Okay." Wife is very good. She is very nice. He said, "Yes, my dear." But inside he said, "So good, ice cream." I could have eaten a little and then drunk warm water. In inner day. Well, day by day, one day a dream came. Dream came. And in the dream, his wife said, "My dear, let's go and eat ice cream." And this is a desire. This is the Kuṇḍalinī. Here is everything. All is happening as I am telling you. Please, there is no story only, but it is that all is from this side. The dancing, your consciousness there, and everything awakes from this part of this. Now his wife came with him, had a nice table, and she ordered the ice cream. And good night, big bowl. I came to ice cream. The man was so happy, now I will eat ice cream. So, he took the spoon, took the ice cream, and the ice cream came one centimeter near our lips, and the alarm began. Alarm, he's sleeping, he woke up and he said, "My dear," he said himself, "even not in the dream, I could enjoy my ice cream." So sometimes, and again, you will come there. Again, you will come slowly, slowly. It will go to the subconscious. And that, what we doctors will say, it is the psychic. It is psychic. So what is a psychic? We don't know. What will they give? Some chemical, and what will he see? So you sleep, and you sleep, and he will sleep, and slowly, and when the man will come home from the doctor and look in the mirror in the bathroom, he will say to his wife, "I am psychic, I am psychic." But what is psychic? So we need... In our yoga, we should not believe in certain psychic things. We should not become like that; always be awakened and come to these three levels of consciousness. This is jāgrat, suṣupti, and svapna: awake, sleep, and dream. In these three also, so I have, these are in this part of the body that goes into this one, and then it comes to this. So in this body, in one of these chakras, our consciousness goes as a dream, and again comes to that chakra. Which chakra did it go to today? So it is, in this chakra there is, our dream will go, awakening or in desires, or the people. Have the, what you call the teenagers or the people, young people in the night, they are dreaming about sexual. And that is because this chakra and this chakra, this doesn't let you go to the higher consciousness. And someone has these desires in such a way, even they are old, but they are only hanging here. It will not let you go, your kuṇḍalinī, your... chakras in that upper, and therefore what we call this energy, and we are in the energy. So there are many, many different techniques. It's called the kriyā yoga. What is the kriyā? Kriyā means do anything. Any work you are doing is a kriyā. Now, you are praying, that is kriyā. You are concentrating, that is a kriyā. And there are sometimes you come, and only that master can do. You can read the master's book, but you have to give that hand of that master, and at that time, the master's energy flows to you. Immediately, your chakra, and yeah, that's called kriyā. So kriyā means we are doing sādhanā, we join sādhanā, etc. So, my dear, these are the chakras and all. We will now, one after the other, chakra. But this is very, very powerful. This we must know by our nerve systems. And these nerve systems, first we have to purify with the pranāyāms, very good pranāyāms, very clean. And then also we have to purify our eating. What kind of eating? It will bring you dreams. Which kind of desires will come in the dreams? We are going there. Our soul is one soul. Our soul, my soul and your soul and every soul, is one. Like what? Like an ocean. Now, an ocean from the river, it goes, water like a fog. It is going up, becoming clouds, raining, dripping, flowing, but water is the water. It is in the clouds, in the fogs, in the rains, flowing on the ground, in the creek, in the rivers, and again joining into the ocean. So we all are one. It is the water element. But quality, something is mixed in that. So, canalization water, or we have that very nice, clean water in this glass. And that canalization water, nowadays people are purifying, cleaning, purifying the water and making that water as like this. Similarly, my soul and your soul are involved in that vāsanā. In Hindi, Sanskrit language, vāsanā. And this vāsanā is the problem. When this vāsanā, the desire, is overcome, you will awaken. Suddenly, you will come to that master's path. No aeroplane, the only one who can pilot you many times, you many times were sitting in the aeroplane, I was also sitting, and we all think we know some tools and this, but a jumbo jet, and there are nearly a hundred, more than a hundred people in the aeroplane, and it is only when the pilot is not very... high, so can be small, but my Chinese personal, sorry. I am not humiliating them, but now we tell you, Naginbhai, you take, come up, take off. He will be like this, "No, no, no." And that pilot, he will sit there. Everything, this is what he has to do and start. Smoothly going and exactly centimeter to centimeter, landing there like a bird will land in its nest. And so we have to become like that master. Like that, you have to become a yogī. Otherwise, lost. We lost this life. We don't know where this soul will go again. In which incarnation? That's called upwards or downwards. And our sādhanā, we should have our vṛtti. The vṛtti means our thoughts. We have to purify. Our soul comes to purity. Then we call jīva. Jīva means the soul. Then come the jīva and the ātmā. Ātmā is the all together, and Paramātmā. Jīvātmā, Ātmā, and Paramātmā. Paramatma. These are three levels. Jīvātmā is a dream, and Ātmā is a dream, and Paramatmā is your, that kind of dream that you are supreme. So, my dear, this is Chakra in your, do you have these books or not? This is a, you should read. You should take it. If you don't want it, you can give it back to me. But if you want to learn, then see the best: this book of the chakras. There are many, many books, very good, and it is written in this book. Please, my dear disciples, do not change the words. Like the Guru said in the Sikh religion, they know every word that is written. But some other holy books, even they are changed, and that is not. Bhagavad Gītā, you know the Bhagavad Gītā book? And who doesn't know about God, Kṛṣṇa? That book is written in all languages of the whole world, but they translate it. No one, the best of the best Sanskrit doctors or Sanskrit PhDs, is able to change half an alphabet. That is such a language, if you change a little, everybody will say this is wrong. That's it. But translation everyone can do, that you cannot. So, Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā is such a book. And every day, you can read only one line. You will get new and new meanings every day. Every day, and that we call a milky cow. Every day you can milk and milk and... milk and... Who is that one cow, and who is the milk? So that's a very nice point. Chamade kā bachhṛā, the calf, is from the skin, hair, skin. The calf, chamade kā bachhṛā, and chamade kī gāy, and the cow is also from the skin. Who is milking is also the skin, and it is that. Skin, we drink the milk. It means, "Oh man, you are, you are everything." And what is the reality? Inside is that milk, and all milk is in that part. So, there is lots and lots of knowledge to learn. Then you will understand your Kuṇḍalinī, the Kuṇḍalinī and chakras, and Kriyā Anuśādhana.