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Oṁ bhuvaḥ svāhā tattvitur vareṇyaṁ vardhi asatubha satgabhaya tamasumatita eṣa svastir bhava śaiśa śānti bhava eṣa. Our subject for this whole year will be Kuṇḍalinī and Chakras. What do people think about the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī? They often have no knowledge of what Kuṇḍalinī truly is. They speak of an awakening that no one experiences, and if they do, it is considered merely psychological. First, we should not run behind the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī in the way many people think of it. Rather, the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī can be understood as knowledge—the knowledge of the Self. That is what we call Self-realization. Now, how far do we understand Self-realization? In a way, we were already in that state of Self-realization when we came into the human body. We, and all other creatures, have that awakening of energies within us; God has given that power to everyone. For example, when a child is born, it is given all kinds of awakening. Unfortunately, we might say someone is born without complete energy or capacities, but it is God—or you may call it nature—that is developing within each and every creature. Our duty is to maintain that development within humans. We should maintain what God or nature has given us. But what are humans doing? They either try to overtake it, to do more, or they divert it in a different direction. It is an immense energy, an immense capacity for what we call kalā, meaning, let's say, miracles. This miracle is not the kind we typically think of, where someone performs a wonder. Everyone has miracles within them. Consider a very nice, green plant with good leaves. It is very good. Suddenly, a flower comes. How nicely it opens, with such good petals, all of the same design, same qualities, same everything. This flower develops, but we cannot see it while it is still a plant. Suddenly comes the blossom, and suddenly the flowers appear. One after another, the petals open. This opening plant is so beautiful; bees and other creatures enjoy this flower. At the same time, inside many flowers, seeds are developing. The creation continues, but we have manifested it in a different way. Now we often have only flowers and no seeds, no fruits. This is because humans are manipulating it, and therefore, it has no creation in it. In our body, we can think of two kinds of science. One science is what, in modern civilization, you call learning and making science: thinking more, developing more, and talking about the body and so on. Of course, there has been immense development in this science. But that which God has created contains our completeness, and it will develop in us naturally. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. So God said, "Just maintain what you have, do not change. If you change, it will not be perfection. So look into your body." This is Self-realization. Now, what do you want to realize? Yes, you are learning biking—that is a very beautiful realization. By birth, you can swim; even humans can. Put a little child in the water, and definitely, that child begins to swim by itself. But after a time, we manipulate them, and they cannot swim anymore. So then, if you jump in the water, you cannot swim because you have a different "realization." It is called water samādhi. Do you know how many samādhis there are? The first is said to be: let this body be eaten by other creatures after your life. It is said, don't die there where no one is with you and no one is there to cry for you, and no one needs to perform ceremonies. It is nature; let it be given back to nature. There is no one crying for you. The second is said to be: let it flow in the water, where many creatures in the water will eat it. The third is interment in the earth, where it will remain; this body also becomes like earth. There is one beautiful poem. It is said that one man is working with the earth, making pots out of nice clay. Clay is the earth. He brings the clay, first makes it into powder and filters it so there are no stones, then lets it wait in the water, and then tries to give it a massage up and down like this. A man comes walking by and listens. "What? This man is torturing the clay." So it is said, "Mati kahe kumāraku"—this clay said to that man, the potter. This is the reality: sooner or later, it will come to you. You may talk well to someone, but behind them, you are what we call a backbiter, or you have negative thinking. Everything will go to you. Maybe you make someone feel bad. That's only one percent, but 99% you will be suffering. So if you are saying, "The František, is there some František?" and someone says to František, "He's bad," and we say, "Oh, he's bad," others will say no, and so on. That will be blamed 99% as karma. That karma will come back to you. This clay, which men dug from the earth and made into clay, was fought with. Now, this clay has a life. It is plastic. The plastic is not that clay, and still, the plastic didn't say anything, but the water in the clay is alive. So we shall try to use many things from the living earth. So the clay said to that potter, "Mātṛī kahe komarko tun kya moi tunde?" "What are you, me, boxing?" One day will come when I will box you. How? In the earth. When you die, and we worry about that. Then the earth said, "Now come on. I will turn you again into my form." So, one day will come, I will take revenge. So, whatever you are doing, good will come good, and negative, bad will come bad. That's it. One day a doctor said, "Don't drink alcohol, okay?" Then after, at the restaurant, the doctor is sitting there with alcohol. So the patient said, "Doctor, you told me not to drink alcohol, and what should I say to you now?" This is what one has to first ask oneself. There is a saying from Gandhi. One lady came to Gandhi with a young boy, about five or ten years old. She said to Gandhi, "Gandhijī, my son eats too much sweet. Can you tell him not to eat sweets?" Gandhijī was making a gesture because of the taste of the sugar. He said, "Come after one month, and I will tell him." She went away, thinking, "What a man! Just for saying to him, 'Don't eat sweet,' I had to wait for one month." Anyhow, after one month, she came with the child, and Gandhijī said, "My son"—we call all as children, as my son, my child—so Gandhijī said, "Don't eat sugar, it's not good." The boy said, "Okay, Gandhijī, when you say it, I will not eat anymore." That lady said, "Just for these two sentences, why did you wait for one month?" Gandhi said, "That time I was also eating sweet. I was eating sweet too much, and I tell this child, 'Don't eat sweet.' It's not right. So this one month I did not eat sweet at all," Gandhijī said. "Then my ātmā said, 'Don't eat chocolate or sweets.'" So it comes back, even if we are reacting only through our body. So, another samādhi. And that is why we go to the crematorium. Burning the body is called Agni Samādhi. So there is Agni Samādhi, Jal Samādhi, Earth Samādhi, and Air Samādhi (Air means somewhere you are lost). Of all, the best is the Agni Samādhi. But for the scent, they don't put it in the fire; either in the earth or water. But don't worry about that; who will do it is their problem. So, these are the samādhis. So, Self-realization. What are you going to self-realize? What are you? Here we have to come first to the fact that we are in five different forms, and that's what we call the elements. The first, we all know, is the physical body: Annamaya Kośa. We create it as a kośa. For example, this box is a box, but in this box, something can be. Yeah, there is something. You know, in Russia, when people go there, they buy some towels. That's it. So, grandmother, why do they give the name babička? That is very, very clear and true. Why Babička? Because grandmother gave the baby, and that baby gave another baby, and another one gave another baby, and that's why, babička. One after the other. Annamaya Kośa, we call kośa, just like one chamber to another chamber. In the Annamaya Kośa is also what we call the water element, included. But our Annamaya Kośa—our hair is not counted inside, nor the nails. Do you know this? Of course you don't know. That's why some are now cutting your hair like this. Why did you cut your hair like this now? I don't know. There is a story, but I will not tell. Or it is like a goat. When one goat goes, all go behind. There is a very big water well, so one goat fell in, the second fell in. Because goats, they are not walking like this; they are walking like this, only on their foot, so all 300 goats, they fall in the... Goats have such a strong willpower; even if you cut their neck, they will not scream. And the donkey, yes, and who is very weak, always will scream? Human. Something happens, a little thorn—how sensitive we are. Very sensitive. Anyhow, in Vedānta, when they talk about this, the hair and the nails are in the ākāśa. This hair is living, but if you cut it, you will not have any pain. But if you cut your hand, I think you will feel a little bit, no? So, Annamaya Kośa is one part of our being. After that, it is called the Prāṇamaya Kośa. This includes the subject of Kuṇḍalinī and Chakras. This chakra, Kuṇḍalinī, is a very big science. That's called the human science. So we shall get this subject as a human science. What is the human science? Where is the human science? How to get it? That's called Yoga. Yoga is the human science. By this science, the Yoga science, all great saints went to liberation by different paths. Yoga is not just your āsanas and prāṇāyāmas only. Even people are practicing yoga, but they don't know what it is. Now, there is junk food. Artificial taste inside, and you eat and eat and eat. Once, one person went with me, and you can't imagine, always eating chocolate, coffee, ice cream, biscuits, fruit, all the time. I don't know where it all goes, and I don't know how the digesting is. Still, the person is like that. That is a miracle. So it is said: are you eating for living, or are you living for eating? As much as you eat all the time, your spirituality goes down. That energy goes down. Energy we have to produce in our body. Of course, there are different nourishments, and so it is called the Prāṇamaya Kośa. Prāṇa is that energy, and this energy is full in our body. It is so much, you can't imagine. When suddenly, if you are, for example, ill, very tired, very hungry, and many different things, you have the whole body but no energy. So that's why the energy is more than the physical body. Strength, power, body building—they are doing and doing and doing, you know, how much energy they are producing. The willpower is also energy, and if one is lazy, then you have no energy. "I will do it tomorrow. I will sleep." A day is dead, lazy. So it is said that the biggest enemy of humans is laziness. What is laziness? That is opposite to the energy, so you have no willpower; you have no energy. The Prāṇamaya Kośa is purified through prāṇāyāmas and good food. Good food has energy, and junk food does not. And natural, where you are natural, there is energy. We people live in big cities, and we are very weak. We can't walk. We are tired. We go to the doctor. We can't survive three days without eating. But the people who live in the forest, in the mountains, the people whom you call aboriginal people—if they didn't get anything to eat for five days, they are still strong, going and running and looking for food in the forest. They will even fight against a lion. For eight days, this person did not eat anything but still has the power. A deer in the forest immediately runs and jumps. The rabbit in the forest, in the mountains. And your house pet dog, can your dog run? Maximum two hundred meters, maybe. Why can your dog not run? Because your energy and his energy are the same. Therefore, one should not have pet animals in the house. Let them be free. Feed them, give them, but do not imprison them in your house. That's it. So prāṇa, that living prāṇa—we people have dead prāṇas. Which dead prāṇa? Junk food. Taste is good. Some days ago, I was sitting in the lounge, and there was some person sitting there. A person brought in three ice creams, different ones, and after that, chocolate, then coffee, and so on. I was looking—of course, the person is someone I cannot dare to say, "Don't do." I was looking there, and that person was so good. He said to me, "Sir, would you like to eat ice cream also?" I said, "Thank you, I had it." So, there is no energy. Prāṇa. Now, we compare prāṇa with what? Our soul. Our soul. We call life life and soul. We call Indians the prāṇa or jīva. So prāṇa is life, and life is the soul. So, how is it compared in your language also, what she's translating? Both. So if someone dies, we say he lost prāṇa, or he lost his soul. So Prāṇamaya Kośa and Annamaya Kośa. This is very, very important for our life. If you want to live long, if you want to be strong, if you don't depend on anything, then go on this path. Take care of Annamaya Kośa and Prāṇamaya Kośa. Let's say a hundred years ago, or more, two hundred years ago. Two hundred years ago, how many hospitals did you have in the Czech Republic? You had to go to Prague, to Olomouc, and there was just a small hospital in Brno, yes, but it's closed. And now, how many hospitals do you have? Very close to us here, there is a hospital in Černová, this village. Kyiv has a hospital, Kroměříž is a hospital, and even we have a hospital here, in our ashram—you know, we have the room for the ill people; this is a hospital. Now, though we have hospitals everywhere, still people are ill; there is no place for hospitals. So, compare this with our life. At that time there were fewer facilities, but we were happy and healthy. Now we have a lot of facilities, but we don't have that prāṇa. And that's why, again, the path of yoga came into human hands. In India, people lost yoga; they lost it. But the Western people began to practice yoga. Let's say, what? Now I am 50 years here in Europe. How many people learned yoga from me? When people go to India with me, and our people practice yoga, the Indian ladies, they are opening their sari and look. "Oh!" They say, "Look, look." And men are also coming and saying, "What are they doing?" Yoga. What are they doing? And now they imitate Western people, how they are doing good now. So now India also begins to practice yoga. And thanks to our government, our Prime Minister, he gave the motivation to the whole world for yoga. But the Westerners, as well as Indians... Indians begin to eat junk food, and Western people begin to eat vegan food. Vegan food. And in India they say, "What is a vegan?" There is one vegetable called Vāṅgan. And this Vāṅgan is what we call the eggplant? No, we here know that Western people, everywhere in the world, they begin to be vegetarian. Because they are killing the animals and torturing the animals, they gave up no milk, no yogurt, nothing from the animals. And not only vegan eating, we have vegan shoes. And this, how did they get it? In India, and it was Batia from Slovakia or Croatia? Czech, from Zlín. Czech from Zlín. Czech? No, no, no. Batia. Yes, yes. Zlín. From Zlín. Zlín, the town of Zlín, and Batia was there. There was some other name, Gottwaldova. Look, I'm talking about Gottwaldova, and you are talking about Zlín. So it is different. So this Batia, who went from here to Canada, made his company, the Suze company, from here to there in the whole world. And he began to do in India what is called Ahiṃsā Sūtra. Yes, so, and that again came here, and that became vegan shoes. So, how we are developing? I brought the shoes here, and I was wearing here, and I said, "Look, these are Ahiṃsā shoes." And I went shopping to Gottwaldov. There was a nice, big market. And I always buy the best shoes here in the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia. Okay, let's move further. So now Indians are practicing yoga. But they got two things at once. Our Prime Minister brought yoga back to there, but at the same time, the Indian got it now: junk food. You can't imagine. Little children, five years old, will not eat anything. "Even today, I will not eat anything." They want to have pizza or spaghetti, many, many things, even names I don't know. Junk food. But now I again make something: the pizza, but Tilak pizza. So if you want to eat pizza, then go to the Tilak. That is 100% vegetarian, organic. That's it. And so, maybe India will one day come there again. It is impossible to talk with them; they will eat junk food. So, prāṇa—I am talking about the subject of prāṇa. Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, and after is called the Manomaya Kośa. And Manomaya Kośa is stronger than Prāṇamaya Kośa. So, in this way, these are the roots of that. The source of that is the chakras. And the chakras, what we are talking about, is Kuṇḍalinī. But the energy in our body, and where we are coming from, is very interesting. I enjoy looking into my body again. In the beginning, when I came to Slovakia and here in the Czech Republic, oh God, they gave me so much bread and butter, bread and butter. There was a slogan within Yoga and Death Life. Every evening, at midnight—what they were doing, what they were doing, you know? Do you know somebody? Let's... what to do at midnight? You know the New Year? What do you call it? Sylvester. So every night we were celebrating Sylvester. Really, is it true? And it was coming, trays and trays: butter, cheese, bread, and whatnot. And then in Yugoslavia, also the same thing. So they gave me, they gave me, wherever I go in the world, they gave me that, that nobody tell the Swamiji he is completely very thin. So I have to give the cloth more cloth because they gave me so much here. So this is, here is the bread, butter, and cheese, and this. But one thing was good: there was no question of junk food. It was good food. The bread was good. The vegetables were good. Everything was good. But the last three decades we are lost in, you know, in what? Ketchup. Ketchup... from the tomatoes. There were always people making jokes. One was very heavy, many kilos, and strong, but heavy. And one was thin. Both were best friends. Now they are going to cross the road, of course, with the zebra crossing. The one who was with a lot of junk food, and the other one was like Vivek Purī, very thin and very nice. They were both crossing the road. The thin one quickly came to the other side of the road, and the other one was walking like this, and a truck came and went over him. Vivek Purī looked back and what he said to his friend, "Come on, ketchup!" Therefore, don't become ketchup. No, no, no unhealthy food. So Prāṇamaya Kośa, Annamaya Kośa—now it will come Manomaya Kośa that we will take in the afternoon. So, it's already 12. Wish you a good appetite. Definitely, here is no junk food, etc. You go to the Tilak, you will go and make the photo of how many are going for ice cream and coffee and ice cream and whatnot. So Tilak said, when Tilak means, if bankrupt, it means you have no money. Then they give you Tilak and go. So therefore, our Tilak has both: junk and this. Ice cream is the junk there. Anyhow, the prāṇa. Prāṇamaya Kośa. Our prāṇa makes the prāṇa. And therefore, it is good, but suffering is that house pet. Let them be in nature. And you know how the animals are suffering and spoiled. Best would be everybody take their dogs and cats in what we call the Tatras. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya.... So, in your body, where is the prāṇa that we will take over in the evening? Good. Hari Om. Hari Om.