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The Yogic Anatomy and Practice

An evening satsang on Kundalini, chakras, and the layers of human existence.

"Humans can realize that energy which God is."

"God is not to be seen here as physical in front of us... God is in you, God is in me, but it is hidden within ourselves."

The lecturer leads a discourse exploring the subtle body, the five kośas (sheaths), and the path of yoga. He begins with a participatory exercise on locating the soul, discusses the 72,000 nerve systems and chakras, and outlines various yoga paths including Hatha, Karma, and Jñāna Yoga. The talk weaves in practical advice, analogies, and traditional teachings, emphasizing self-realization and the divine within.

Filming location: Vancouver, Canada

We will chant Oṃ three times. Take a deep inhale and exhale a few times. Sit straight. Inhale deeply, and we will chant Oṃ three times. Inhale: Oṃ, Śānti, Śānti... Peace, peace, Hari Oṃ. Good evening, dear sisters and brothers. Welcome to this evening. Our subject is Kuṇḍalinī and Chakras. What gives us the chakras? What is between all these chakras? What is Kuṇḍalinī? And what gives us something more about this? In creation, there are 8.4 million different creatures. The existence is there: Jalchara, Thalchara, and Nabhachara—creatures in the water, on the earth, and in the space. Out of that, one is the human. Every life is a life. Everyone has the same feelings. Any creature, even vegetation, also has feelings. It is a life, and life is always life. These are the different levels of existence, and we humans are more highly developed than others. We have more intellect, we have more capacities, and we can achieve the highest consciousness, the highest level. If you understand, or you want, or you feel, or you say, "Believe in God," we all, mostly people, are believing in God. It doesn't matter which religion. Every country has different languages, different beliefs, many religions, but at the end, finally, it is only one God. It is not to be seen here as physical in front of us. We are all believing, we pray, we are thinking to see God, but still, I think, if you have seen God somewhat, hear me. Not only is God in you, God is in me, but it is hidden within ourselves. Humans have those qualities, and this is that: humans can realize that energy which God is. There are two paths: either we go down again, or we go higher. As a human, after the human, there is divine, etc., and that is not in this form. As long as we are in our body, we do have all the capacities, and we have all different levels. Our body, generally, we call three bodies: physical, mental, and subtle body. But if we count exactly, then we have five that we call Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. Now, the kośa means the quarter, or one after the other layer. Annamaya Kośa means our physical. With this nourishment, what are we nourishing? Solid or liquid nourishment, we have our body, and this body has many, many systems, many glands, and we have many thoughts, our knowledge. This is the first body, and we have five. Now, bodies. This body, what we have, the physical body. We saw here one video, but I will come further. The subject is Kuṇḍalinī, Chakras, and meditation. Yesterday we had a meditation. I made it very, very easy for people, and I made it together. The meditation and the chakras, this morning, evening also, but I thought I shall make something more clear. It is so. Our first physical body, in our body we know everything what we have: skin, bones, tissues, blood, everything. So the first is called taucha. Taucha means the skin we touch, and we have sensation in our body from the toes till the top of the head. There is that sensation that gives us the information. Under this, there is another part, many, but I will take first the nerve systems. In the beginning, there was one picture that came: one body is sitting like this, and there are many, many nets. That is called the nerve system. According to the yogic anatomy, we all have 72,000 nerve systems. And these 72,000 systems, which are like a net, and all our skin is covered and in touch, and all others in this—the tissues, the cells, the glands, the organs, etc.—all this is what is in our bodies. Now, this nervous system is life. Now, where is our soul? Where is our soul? There are two ways we can think about where the soul is. So, for example, I will try to explain it to you in a good way. So I will tell you, ask you, where is your soul? Where is your self? And I will ask you, and I'm sure you will give the answer. I will not tell you where. I will tell you where your soul is or where your self is. You may touch on your toes, or on your knees, or on your head, or on your stomach. You have a beautiful body, a whole body. But where is it? You say it is mine. It is mine. Now, when I will tell you where yours is, and then you will touch your hand or a finger there, where you believe in your body. Where I am, I am here. I am. I will not tell you, and please, don't imitate. Therefore, I will ask you, you have to close your eyes. For example, that you shall raise your finger up like this, or your hand like that, it doesn't matter. For example, okay, and then I will tell you where is your soul, where are you? So you touch the knee here, or here, or... here, or... here, I don't know. So, I will ask, who is this? For example, this telephone. Who is this? Lost. So either you raise your hand up, or you touch your body. Who is this glass? I will say three different, "Is my glass?" "Is my?" or "I will touch," because I don't want to make a disturbance. I will say it's mine. Understand? Clear? So please, raise your right hand and close your eyes. And I will tell you who is on the telephone. And you will then say, "It is mine," you don't speak. But put your hand there, you say it is mine. So please, eyes closed, hand up. And don't open your eyes again until I ask you to open your eyes. Now, who is telephoning this? Please indicate on your body. Don't open your eyes. Touch your hand; there is mine. You have to touch your body somewhere; it is mine. Okay, don't open the eyes. Please look, where is your hand? Look to your, where is your hand? And now, look where the others' hands are. Don't remove your hand. So, everyone asked: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. The majority said, "Here is mine." Who said, "I"? Whose is mine? Will you say something? Yes, I will tell you. So, there is our heart, here is our soul, here is our life. And thank you, you can raise your hand down. Yeah, thank you. So, it is here, but though it is here, yes, but I am... I am here, but I am everywhere. I am here, and I am everywhere. Now, it means when a small mosquito or little ant bites your small toe, immediately, you feel, "Oops, something." It goes in formation from there to here, goes to the brain, and comes to the heart. Did you understand what I want to tell you? Yes, so here is my soul, myself. This is the one thing that is clear. We will go continue further. So, this is our physical body, which we are nourishing with different elements: the solid food, liquid food, the air food, etc. So, this is one part of our life, our body, and this... Generally, we say the body is like our clothing, like you have a cloth, a shirt, a jacket, whatever it is. So, it is your clothing; you are not this yourself. So, what I'm giving is this: a body, the skin, the bones, etc., but this is not me. Is my body what we are? In this subject, we are coming to the path of self-realization, or to become one with God, or immortality. Whatever we, everyone, have different meanings, like she, you have a black color, she has a green color. He has other, what is this? This is not a green, and this, what is this? Blue turkeys and different. So one likes to eat pizza, another one likes to eat the bread, another one to eat only fruits. So similarly, it is our, our interest, but finally, for what you are eating, and that is a nourishing for us, so one body which we have, Annamaya Kośa. Anna means the food, and kośa means this body. Then it comes Prāṇamaya Kośa. This all these chakras, where is there? Or you can see in this. Best would be that we should have three lessons a day, but everybody is working, so there are many different things. This is not like this in our body, but it is a symbol, and we are telling this, and this, and this is like what color, and it has. In our body, these chakras are in our body, but not like this, not like that. But some artists, he exactly, he told the lotus. I will explain to you after these words a little bit: Prāṇamaya Kośa, prāṇa, many you know, and others I can tell you. Energy, energy. So this energy is life. It is the body's life, or energy's life. Without energy, this body is just a dead body. From where did we get the energy? And sometimes we get a little ill, and we say, "I have no energy, I can't get up." Where is this? Energy, this is also nourishment. The second is called our strength. Our body is the prāṇa, and when we are hungry and very tired, we can't walk. We give you some food to eat, or give you two, three glasses of orange juice. Or some coconut water or something, you have energy. Or you eat ice cream a little bit, no? That gets this food, both. It has energy, power in this. So physical, and from physical comes that energy, power. That's called prāṇa. And when one dies, we say prāṇa is gone. Energy is gone, so we call it prāṇa chodhya. Prana is gone. Now, is that a soul a prana, or is prana a soul? Also, we have to realize ourselves, right? Means no prāṇa. Prāṇa is gone. So if the soul is gone or the prāṇa is gone, that will come one day more when we will practice on this. So mind, mind and mind have its energy also. So this mind, mind is a mighty power in us. And with mind, your mind is so quick that within a quarter second, you can be where you want to go. I will just tell the name, and you are already there. So let's say, moon, you are already there. Who? The mind. Mind is one of the quickest speeds. And with this, your soul is admitted. Our soul is that far. So energy we left behind, but still, mental power, the mental power is the strongest power. Everything we can do, we do best to do something in our mind. It is in man, maraṇa mamatā mari. The mind will never die. And mamatā is a desire. Desire and mind, what is connected to them? We come furthermore, so the physical body, which is with the nourishment, prāṇa energy, mind. The mind is very strong; the mind is all the time, all the times, very strong. But the desire, the desire will pull the mind this side. Which kind of desire is different? Many different desires. And so we are connected and covered, and in the prison of our desires. There's one little example, should I tell you? Nice. One husband and wife, one couple, very nice. The husband is very humble and kind to his wife, and the wife is also very humble and kind. So they are, we call, two bodies but one soul. How? We call the one, when husband and wife have that oneness, happiness, joy, everything, then we call husband and wife like a bird, and that bird needs two wings. One is the husband and one is the wife. The soul is with that. Of course, sometimes your wife doesn't like you. That's why did you buy this vegetable? I want you to have this one. She says, "Okay, sorry." Or the husband says, "No, you didn't cook yet." I'm so hungry. She will say, "Then why didn't you cook yourself?" But it is on the surface. So if you are married, you should overthink. And when you marry, God has given, or this creation has given, you such a help. It's like your God. Beside your wife is a God for you, or he's a God for you. Harmony is when you... Say to your husband, "But I don't want this," and now it's a little bit unfortunate. There are two or three examples I can tell you. Well, the husband and wife were walking, going to the market, and her husband was the best singer, an opera singer. And in the market, there was a very nice ice cream shop. And the ice creams are so colored and nice, so ice cream is there, but it's already in your mouth. No, I like to have it, to eat it. So the husband said to his wife, "Darling, I invite you for an ice cream." She said, "Yes, my dear, of course, but you know the doctor told you that your throat is not in order, and you are a singer, so don't eat cold things." He said, "Yes, you are right." But she was disappointed. My wife didn't let me have the ice cream, but I understand what she said. She's right. Well, they went home now, nothing, but he's thinking about ice cream. Why she didn't give me ice cream? We could have after drink a coffee, hot, but like this one days, five days, one month, one day in night, what happening? He's dreaming, and he's dreaming that his wife said to him, "Darling, we go for ice cream now, you are healthy." The doctor said, "Okay." So they went to eat ice cream in that shop. They're sitting, and his wife is ordering nice ice cream. And what was that in the dream the night he... I was dreaming, sorry. Look, my throat is also said, "Don't eat nice balls of the ice cream." And he took the spoon and wanted to bring it in the mouth, and the ice cream came about three centimeters close to the lips, and what happened? Alarm. Alarm was picking up. Where is ice cream? No ice cream, nothing. It was so, so disappointing. Even in the dream, I couldn't eat ice cream. That is a desire. But after a few days, his wife invited him and the doctor, who said, "You are okay, you can eat." And he ate ice cream, but the... Desire, so mind, mind, my dear man, mind desires and energy, and these are all sitting in your chakras. They are not reading every day. These people who are here all the days, you know, they are very nice, but don't touch that. When you will read everything, then... I don't know what you will do and what you will not do, but when you do good, things will be good. So, this kind of desire, and then comes the knowledge that we should know what we should do and what we should not do. Even animals also don't do what is not, they should do, and humans are also, but humans sometimes they do out of their capacities or anything. So, Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and then comes Ānandamaya Kośa. Ānanda means bliss, ānandamaya means completely in the supreme, or the ānandamaya kośa is a desire. And all your four levels of this energy, that desires can destroy everything, Hari Om Tat Sat. And so, control first the human, your consciousness, yourself, and this is in our body. So, energy and nerve systems. And the nerve systems in our body, there are so many cells, tissues, and everything. Nerves don't tell you not to do or to do, but they are constantly bringing that energy. And if we are not doing right, the nerves will be disturbed. Nerves will be, some nerves will die or be damaged, etc. So, prāṇāyāma in yoga, we are doing the prāṇāyāma, you know, everybody knows this now. Prāṇāyāma without knowing the knowledge of the prāṇāyāma, we can damage anything, or we can't get that benefit. What we said, like yoga, there is Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha Yoga, people think it is Haṭha Yoga, means āsanas. No, hatha yoga, I have six techniques: neti, dhauti, basti, nauli, tratak, and kapālbhāti. Neti means cleaning of the nose, and dhauti, cleaning of the, uh, the spice, or what you call? Basti, basti is for stomach. Neti, dhauti, basti, tratak with the candle. And Kapālbhāti, these are the six techniques for Hatha Yoga. And now you will telephone to this mister, "Hello, say yes, is your yoga center? Yes, have you the Hatha Yoga? Can I have?" Comes he will say, "Yes, come." And what are you doing? The asanas, neither he knows and you don't know. And then he calls me next year and says, "Swāmījī, Haṭha Yoga." So I said, "This is not āsanas." So we have yoga classes. We have a master teaching us. But we should know which kind of yoga, how to do Neti, Hatha Yoga. Then comes Karma Yoga. In the Bhagavad Gītā, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa said, "Yoga karmasu kauśalam, yoga karmasu kauśalam," that your success in your yoga will be through doing karma, meaning helping, doing something, helping, helping, and doing your own work also. There are some persons, you can't imagine, who cannot cook at all. The husband can cook, but she cannot cook. Or the wife can cook, but the husband cannot cook. Though he or she can eat, if they like very much, everything, very tasteful, not tasteful, but when to go to cook, she said, "No, I cannot cook." And you know, 35%, 30, no, 85% of the people in the world cannot cook. Just putting bread and juice and this, that is not cooking. Putting all vegetables inside and then rice inside, this is not cooking. We should know what we cook, which spices, which spices not. So we lost, we lost, and that's why, unfortunately, the people are going to eat meat and eat meat and... Or you bring everything from the supermarket, and you don't know, we don't realize that it is a killed animal or something subject put out. So this is that we don't know that knowledge. We have to have that knowledge, so karma, karma yoga. Then it comes the jñāna yoga, and jñāna yoga, what you people call aṣṭāṅga yoga, some ashram, some yoga classes, yoga masters, they are calling the rāja yoga, yeah, rāja yoga, aṣṭāṅga yoga. Aṣṭāṅga means there are eight different branch of yoga, and that's very good, very good. The teacher is very good who teaches you Aṣṭāṅga Yoga is very, very good. Aṣṭāṅga Yoga is that: yama, niyama, āsana, prāṇāyāma, pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, and dhyāna till samādhi. This is all. There are nine different techniques, and the fourth one is called jñāna yoga, knowledge. And that knowledge has again four techniques, and these four techniques are a bundle of the yoga. Now, beside this, kuṇḍalinī yoga and the, what you call, the... Many, many, which name should I tell you? The many, many yogas. That's also called the laughing yoga. And there is yoga, one in San Francisco, it's called wine yoga. And now they said other schools said, "This is too strong, alcohol." The beer yoga, and also. It's called naked yoga. You're not allowed to have any clothes on. You come in, you have to change everything. Light, dim light, but it is a naked yoga. It is, it's not a joke. I will not say the joke. Maybe not so many, and they say there's a one. Big book, a very thick, big book, and there are many, many posters, but all is in the naked. Why not? You are born. When I'm telling them, they said yogīs were naked, and they said, "You were born naked." Why? Anyhow, there is some, this difference we should do. So, yoga is very, very good. One, and every school—there are many, many yoga schools—there are many different masters, and I admire them, that they are doing good yoga classes, giving them good classes. Some have only, you call... Hot yoga means exercises only, but also that's very good. The whole world is turning towards yoga now, you know, last three years and everywhere. Yoga is for our good health. The good health is the best wealth. The best wealth is good health. Otherwise, not this. So, Kundalini Yoga, Kundalini Śakti, and so in this body. Now, again, I'm coming to the net of the nerves. Now, in China or in India, and many... there are two techniques? There are many techniques. You know, there is one called moving slowly. It needs concentration. It needs all your nerve systems, all your muscles, all your movements. It's beautiful. But it's not for one day or two days. It is every day, every day balancing. So, there are many other techniques. What I'm calling this one is acupressure and acupuncture. Now, in acupuncture, when we have some problem, then we go to some acupuncturist, and he or she has the machine, the needle, electric, and there's one like this screen, and the... Doctor or he or she will take this needle and touch some part of the body anywhere, but let's say here, and now here, if this needle touches exactly on that point, then the needle on the monitor is moving, and if not, there is only like, is... Moving, so this is what you call this point. We call it the medial, and that means on one touch, there are five, six nerves connecting, coming, and that is as a gland. And many nerves come together; there is a gland, and if you only... One nerve is going, and you touch it, it will not be so. That is why, how the 72,000 nerve systems in the body? Now we are coming to the glands, and so the energy course flows and comes to the glands. And in that gland, there are certain different... Kinds of hormones, according to this all. And those hormones are giving the strength further. And now, out of 72,000 nerves, they are coming in the body, and there we call the chakras. And many, many nerves come together, glands, then it's called one chakra. Now, our body, the human body, we tell, we have the foot soul. In the foot, soul, there is a strong power, energy, everything. And all the nerves end in that part, and so, on our foot sole. And this is coming to the ankle joint. Now, you or me, if we can do every day two to three times on the mud, on the earth, we touch our body. Earth. Or some people are having, like, one yoga mat in the one corner, and they put their sand or little, like, stones. And you walk there. That is acupressure. But if there is mud, earth, then we have direct sunlight. So that is what we call the earthing. We make this building, and we have earthing on this. Otherwise, the lightning from the clouds can destroy the whole building. But only that one earthing from the top in this house, and down there is earthing. That strong power will go there. Similarly, in our body, we have this from the sun's energy. It doesn't matter even if it is night; don't worry, because the sun is on the whole globe, and the whole globe is... Connecting to the sunlight, so we are not out of it, and second, work a little bit with your hands in the earth. If you don't have it, because you are in many high buildings, I see in Vancouver, no, very high, there is no earth and nothing, but our thing. Is there definitely a thing or not? So also work with the hands. So you can have one flower pot, and so like this, put this earth and water and a little bit work on it, work on it. You will see that your many diseases and many things will disappear, so this is the science of the body, mind, and soul. That is yoga, what we are having, this energy. And so from this energy come glands, and the first is called the earth chakra, earth from the ankle joint till the knees. This is called the vegetation chakras, the vegetations, and from the knee till the hip joints, the end of the spine down, it's called animal chakras. So the animal desires, animal, this, this, that, all in this part, and from down. The spinal column will be coming next time. We will give this top picture, and there is, from the last, the last is like this, our spine, yes. And so here is that animals and human energy, and here is coming Mūlādhāra Cakra. Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra, and that is full of the desires, jealousy, hate, anger, etc., etc. They have about six very strong energies, and that doesn't let us come up. It is, and sometimes I said, "I'm not angry, I'm not angry." Everyone is angry, but one day... Suddenly, you will do such anger, you can't imagine. So, there was a story. This, I don't... I will not tell you, but there was a story, yes. It was a story about Buddha, yes. And Buddha, and there was some other yogīs, they were together. So, Master, the master was very humble, kind, and he sent disciples for a retreat. It is said, "After 25 days, you will get samādhi, you will get supreme super consciousness." Well, every third day, Master asked, "How are you?" They said, "Yes." Master, I'm good, I'm good. One disciple, he was so... I am in supreme consciousness. Again, I am in good consciousness. After 25 days, there was a test examination. Have you any kind of anger, hate, jealousy, etc.? Some said, "Master, still I have." Some said, "I have." One disciple was sitting like this. Master said, "Yes, my son." Our disciple, we said, "My son." What about you? No, Master, I don't know anything, I say. Have you anger? No. Hate? No. How are you? He said, "Master, I can't speak." I am one with the Supreme, I say. What about me, Master? It is very hard to talk with you because I have nothing. No anger, nothing, Master. In your subconsciousness, I am clean. Master, don't talk too much. It is difficult to speak. Master said, "No jealous, no anger, no hate, no this." Hello? Then master took one bamboo and on the head button, and he said, "Cruel master, how could you do this?" He said, "Oh, my son, okay, okay..." From where did this anger come? You said there is no anger, but how did this anger come out? Go and meditate for 25 days again, and then I will tell you. So, my dear, there are sudden things within us we should never... Never said I am the supreme. We are, we're doing good. We try. Some of you have that kind of energy or something which I don't have, so I don't have. You give me something good, and which you don't have, I give you something. But finally... Coming, it will be coming on the last minutes of life, the last minute. Because if today you get realization and you say, "Yes, now I am a perfect master, you are today," but tomorrow you are not anymore, because every second, every minute, every... Hour after hour, every day, the mind is changing. Man maran, mamta mari—we cannot kill our mind because mamta, the desires, are there. So the mind tries to go, but the desire is there at every moment, like this. So in this, all chakras we have here, energy we shall go from chakra by chakra. This book you have. Here, and you read, but don't read this book like this. It's a very good book. That is, you read only the newspaper. This one page, you should read for one week. Again and again. Again and again. And then there are many, many other things in this book. All this chart, that we have to learn everything. And these are all in our body. Everything is in our body. In one year, if you will read and learn, you must have a dictionary beside you. Next year when I come, then you will ask me some questions. And I will tell you with a bamboo stick. So the chakras, the desire chakras, are from the bottom. And there is human and animal energy together. That's called Paśupati Mahādev. If you have been in Nepal, you see there is a beautiful and very, very ancient temple. Pāśupati Mahādeva is an energy or a Lord which is balancing the animals and humans, or the devils and the goddess. Shiva, keeping in the balance after that, till our throat, these five chakras: mūlādhāra, svādhiṣṭhāna, maṇipūra, anāhata, and viśuddhi. So viśuddhi, it is an animal and human energy mixed, so suddenly anger, hate, jealousy, desire can awake in our body anytime, and then it is coming. Between here, between the humans and divine, here is the border. In this border is a... this is called the Ājñā Cakra, the third eye. This is of that which will be tomorrow or day after tomorrow. I will open this one, I will open that. Yes, yes, of course you can see, but it will not be. So this is the chakra, the ājñā chakra, and here is then one, Śiva and Śakti. There is Śiva and Śakti here in this part, so one is the human man and one is the female. It is half. Half, and that means this Puruṣa and Prakṛti, Purusha and Prakriti. The Purusha is that consciousness. Prakṛti, the nature. So this nature and consciousness come together. Then it comes, the highest point. First comes the Bindu Chakra, the nectar dripping. It's very beautiful, it's beautiful. Then, the final here is the Śiva or Śiva Chakras. What is that tuk-tuk? So here, finally, comes the Shiva dancing, and we have to come right here, all together. Where is that? Oh, Śiva. That is that. So here we have to come. Then our yoga is completed. And yoga is made or brought by Shiva. No one and the other. There is one book we have, and we are dividing. That's called Patañjali Yoga. And Patañjali, a ṛṣi, yogī, a very great yogī, he is Trikāl Darśī, the knower of the past, present, and future. We don't know about the past. We know the present, what we're doing, and we don't know what is tomorrow. After one second, what can happen, we don't know. But that yogī we call Trikāla Darśī. That's it. Three kāla means three times: past, present, and future. Forget the past. Forget? Not "not." We are not... don't cry about the past, yeah? Now, what you are doing, we are doing, we should do good, but... Does it desire this? That everything but the future we don't know what will happen. So the past is gone, the present is here, and the future we don't know. But those yogīs, they knew everything, and so there was a great yogī, and that is called Patañjali. And he was about 7,000 years before, in the time of the Mahābhārata. And in Mahābhārata times, this ṛṣi wrote a book, and that's called Patañjali Yoga Sūtra. That's a very, very good book. One should read and come to that. And so the ṛṣi Patañjali, his name was ṛṣi Patañjali, and he divided all this about yoga, and that is called Aṣṭāṅga Yoga. So there was also Haṭha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Rāja Yoga. And in that, there are many, many principles in this yoga. So this, but what we call, we would like to become one with the Prakṛti and Puruṣa, Consciousness and nature. Nature, not only this, but also our nature. We are, how are we? And so, the soul tomorrow, oh God, tomorrow we will talk about this. This is soul. This is a very important and very interesting topic. Is your soul and my soul separate? Is my luck and your luck, of course, in which way? But how is it that we come, like today we are, came into these five kośas: annamaya, prāṇamaya, manomaya, vijñānamaya, and ānandamaya kośa. In this ānandamaya kośa, my dears, is all about these chakras. Asanas, there are many, very good. Meditation, very good. Kriya Yoga, very good. Everything is in this for us to practice, but slowly, slowly. Don't think that you will get tomorrow. God realizes, "Even God will come to give you self-realization? Who are you?" said God. "For what? Give you liberation? I didn't ask you." To come, I don't need this, go, yes, because you don't know if some stupid man came and said, "I'm God," or is it really God? So, this is God is not like this. God is you. It's your qualities, your purification. Your father is God, your mother is God. Your sister is God. Everyone is God. So everywhere is God. Left is God, right is God, above is God, below is God, behind is God, and in front is God. Everywhere is God. Oṁ God, Oṁ God, Oṁ. That's it. Good? And so it is that we have to come to oneness in that. So today, because many of our friends came, I thought that I have to give them the glimpses of the different kinds of yoga and everything, the Ājñā Cakra. Ajna Chakra is, I say, to whom open the Ajna Chakra here? But whose Ajna Chakra can I open? Every time, different people. Every time, different people. So I cannot give every time to open your eyes, third eyes. But it is very nice, and this book is not only because I say it is my book, but it is a very great, very great, and very simply written. So, see you tomorrow. I wish you all the best. God bless you, my dear. Adios.

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