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The second aspect is in the energy part, concerning the touch we learned about this morning. The third is the spiritual consciousness of those chakras. Within this lies that Śakti, what we call Kuṇḍalinī. So, go ahead and practice. Do not change the path; do not change any of the practices we have done. You should practice continuously. It is said, for example, that modern chemical medicines have both a good effect and a negative effect. Of course, in many urgent cases we need immediate treatment, and we get it. If you have an accident, you get injections and medicine; for a heart attack, you act immediately. This modern medical treatment is also very good for emergencies. Otherwise, it is said that whatever chemicals, tablets, etc., we take have some effect, but mostly they make the body ill. Because our body is a natural body, and medicine is developed as chemicals. Though these chemicals also come from the earth—they didn't come from anywhere else—their nature has been changed, so they are no longer that original nature. Like when you eat very nice grapes. Everyone, children and parents, enjoys them, and they are very good. The body accepts them. But when these grapes are turned into alcohol, then it is not good for the body. Yet alcohol is not poison, and it can also be poison. This is not about drinking bottles and bottles, which destroys our liver, kidneys, and everything. But alcohol is also a medicine if given for medical treatment, not for a whole month. It is a maximum of only one week; after that, it will not function properly. This is because alcohol came from the churning of the ocean in the Satyuga. From that churning came the fourteen jewels—'jewels' meaning things that are very precious. Poison came first, and poison is also very helpful. In many medical stores or chemistries—what we here call "Apo teke," where "Apo" means "give it" and "teke" means "take it"—there is a label written: poison. The chemist writes there that it is a poison: "Please don't touch," because we don't know which medicine or how it will react. Therefore, it can react as a poison. Poisonous animals, like a snake or scorpion, etc., their poison kills us. But if there is a laboratory and a doctor knows how to give you that poison to save your life, then at that time, the poison came first. Poison can save our life, but the question is how to take it. Therefore, even don't touch it. Don't come close. Don't inhale. You know with pesticides, you get some kind of chemicals, and you must wear a mask or other cloth, and then you spray. And then you open the lid from that bottle? But there are some people who say, "I am an expert," and what they do is open the lid with their mouth. The gas goes in and the body gives out; many, many people die this way in India and other countries where they are not careful. So poison can kill us or can save our life. Similarly, in this, there are all the fourteen. They are called jewels, but not jewels in the sense of stones, but rather the quality. They came from the ocean, and then came the alcohol. Also came the Kāmadhenu cow. 'Dhenu' is a cow, and 'Kāma' means desire. The very useful cows have great qualities. The Kāmadhenu cow is that whatever you ask, she will give you. There is a story where one cow is standing there, and the ṛṣis were showing videos of a hundred people coming to an āśram that had only five or six disciples. How to feed the people? So the wife of the ṛṣi goes to the Kāmadhenu cow. What to do? The cow said, "No problem." She had them sit down all in line—how do you call the four bandaras?—and ten people were in seva, service. The cow is standing and coming, completely saved, and plates completely filled with many, many vegetables, sweets, fruits, chapatis, and whatnot. It's coming from the cow, and they are taking it. All are surprised. So that is how it is. Very good. That protects us. Then came the alcohol. The devas got the cow, and the Rākṣasas said, "What can we do with this cow? We have no time to feed this cow." And then came the alcohol, and all was like this. So they took the alcohol and were drinking and killing. That way, it was negative, but that alcohol can be like a medicine. So these fourteen jewels given from the ocean were a great gift. Similarly, we should know that this chemical medicine can save our life or slowly, slowly kill us. And, of course, we are depending now on medicine. You have medicine for the heart, and if you don't take it, the heart will stop. So the medicine says, "Die or live, use it or lose it." But all the time you are on it, and many, many other organs are destroyed. Now, Āyurveda is from that time. When the Amṛta came, from Viṣṇu as Dhanvantara—Dhanvantara is the God of Āyurveda—you have to worship Dhanvantara. Now, all these so-called educated people say, "We don't need to put..." They don't even speak about Dhanvantara, and that's why Āyurveda is not anymore so effective. Āyurveda is life. The body accepts Āyurveda because Āyurveda is nature; the body is nature, and therefore it accepts. We have to go, but which kind are you going? Where are you going? I told them, "Who is going? And you don't go there." He thinks it's a lecture. Okay, so Āyurveda, the body accepts; allopathic medicine, the body does not accept. Though it is from the earth—it didn't come from somewhere else—its qualities have changed. Similarly, one person... For what is a human born? But when they change in another direction, then they are like a medicine that will disturb. Āyurveda is definitely good, but now who knows? This is the question. Many, many Āyurvedic people are working very hard to find something, but nature doesn't accept because we have destroyed everything with chemicals and pollution in the whole world. Another problem is this. When a child is born, immediately chemical things are used for the child, and whatever they are giving in the mouth, or some medicines or something for mother and child both, so we are completely adapted to this nature of medicine. If you have not used, or you don't use any medicine—maximum you can take homeopathy and Āyurveda; they are a little closer, but all natural—then you will live long. And if mistakenly a doctor gives you only a tablet for a headache, a person could die. Therefore, if you are careful, then don't take any chemical things. Take the natural things. Now, let's say you have flu or a cold, your throat, your chest, etc. Āyurveda will say, "Just warm water with Tulsi, and drink only warm water," that's all. And the doctor will give us medicine. It will be a little better, then again not. A little better, again not. But the doctor said, "In seven days you will be healed." And Āyurveda said, "In one week you will be sealed." So then, what is that? But we are so afraid we will die, that's why, from fear, we run to the chemicals. Many, many people, therefore... Āyurveda is not like that chemical medicine, and also not in the chemistry store. You all are saying, also in Europe I hear very often now. This also they've forgotten in Europe. Before 20 years, 40 years, people were very often saying something, and they said that the grandmother's apotheke, in grandmother's kitchen, is the apotheke—meaning the medicine. That was how we all got quickly healthy. But now, what happens? We sent grandmother into the hall of the old house, and you changed your flat, and you threw everything out from grandmother's kitchen. We lost it. So still I can tell you, please learn cooking. You are not available. I can tell you, 85% of people cannot cook. Here, who are here, you cannot cook. They are cooking for me every day. Four or five are in the kitchen, of course. They want to do it as a service. Everyone wants to come in the room, but the cooking, I think none of them know this. That is this. Yeah, they are cooking very nice vegetables, shaping nice, they will boil, but too much boil, this boil. They are putting inside milk, very nice milk, then they put lemon inside, then they put, what do you call this, Bengal, what do you call the Bengal? And then you think, "Swāmījī, please eat." It is that I can tell you every day, so I say to myself, "Take it or lose it." I would ask you, our people, women or the men, elderly people from the village, and they should tell us which kind of herbs are usable, and what do we do? Of course, they will show us very nicely these herbs, and this and this and that, and they will go in the forest and they will collect. And what will my cook do? Bring all together and chip it inside and make it vegetable, and what spices should not be, or what? This is completely so. Our whole body is chemical. I will be very, very happy if you know that someone knows which herb, which kind for chapatis or for vegetables or anything. So those who don't know anything, they have one mahā mantra, and that is called pasta. Yes, so, but they did not know anything. Yeah, there is a pasta. So this is how our chakras in our body, our glands in our body, the nerve systems in our body, our organs, and our bones, everything is out of order. A person living in the mountains, let's say in the Alps, how many times women and men are going with the cows down and up and here and there, how strong they are. And when we go, how many times we say... And then, water and sit, and take out the chocolate from the pocket. They don't have illness, but we have, because we lost that nature. And everyone, if a little bit I'm coughing, and like this, they say, "Swāmījī, please take this, Swāmījī, please." Oh, my God, on my table, you see, I have one here, I have this, in every five minutes, I have this chocolate, and then I have this chocolate, then I have this chocolate. But this I will not take. That's only one, that's it. Therefore, yoga is this. We need very much prāṇāyāma, very, very much. We shall make prāṇāyāma really, at least one and a half hour must not be constantly, but 15 minutes now, 15 minutes then, 10 minutes there. Purify, get out from our body through the prāṇāyāma, and of course, the movement. And the best movement, who is making so many movements, is myself. How much I'm moving: going to eat, walk to the bed, get up from there, sit on the table, drink the coffee, don't try, then talking with you, and then I'm relaxing, and then coming to satsaṅg. That is my exercise. I'm telling myself, so how long will I survive in this body? So I'm trying to do something, but I always said, you said the Guru does for me. "Gurujī, do for me." We all said Gurujī will do, yes? So Gurujī is saying also something. Gurujī said, "You all make movement for me. You run, you work, I'm sitting. It's a good masala." So, my dear, our body, God gave us perfect, and we shall practice. Otherwise, death is anyhow for everyone. So prāṇāyāma, prāṇāyāma, you were doing anuṣṭhān, you should do very much prāṇāyāma, morning, many times. Now we have this one Swāmījī, that is Rāmdevjī in India. Yes, he is really a very good yoga person and yogī, very nice. He is technical, not theoretical. Not theory, only practice. And while giving lectures or doing between, for half a minute he will do his kapālbhāti. You know that? And then you see, you do all yoga all the time, and his memory, everything is very good. I admire him. So, you should also, we should do the Kapālbhāti or Bhastrikā. We are purifying our lungs, as well as the brain tensions, and the Iḍā, Piṅgalā and Suṣumnā. It is very, very, very important. So, this is the chakra coming, what kuṇḍalinī we are doing. You will enjoy what kuṇḍalinī is and what cakra is opening in your heart, in your thoughts, everything. Suddenly, you see there is a grass, and suddenly the blossom is coming. You know how beautiful these are, the chakras of our life, this chakra of our knowledge, and chakra. It means achievement. Which kind of achievement? Mokṣa or Parabrahma. So, Kuṇḍalinī, we are doing, we will see the chakras. Each chakra's petals have their own energy, and you should again reread your book, "Hidden Powers In," and there you should, each petal—don't sing Ahaswadhisthana with the four petals, no, no. The four petals, but it is many, many energies and some powers in that you should know. Gaṇeśa, the elephant, Śiva, Śiva Liṅga, the Kuṇḍalinī, the mantra, everything. And every letter has its meaning. I knew it by heart, but the last ten years I've neglected it. Why? Because I gave my disciples everything. So when I need, they will tell me. So neither they are not anymore anywhere, and I've forgotten. But then I asked Mahāprabhujī, or Gurujī. Gurujī said, "I gave you. Don't ask me always. I gave you the children. Please, can you tell me?" They are gone, so I have to practice again? Oh, thank you. The hidden powers in the human, the book that answers immediately. But you don't know, you did not read properly. You have the book, but you did not read it completely, and in the last pages, you did not answer. There are a few pages that are very, very important to understand the chakras and kuṇḍalinī. And then the higher level of the chakras and kuṇḍalinī is called Svarayoga. The Svarayoga. And Svarayoga is the breath through the nostrils. Iḍā, Piṅgalā and Suṣumṇā: why and what we should do, or not. That is really, really, I can tell you, very important. Otherwise, your asanas and your pranayams and your little bit of meditation, and in the Kriyānusthān, in the hall, when I looked from the ventilator from above... And even the instructor, Niranjan. So Niranjan means happy. And so he is doing like this, he is doing this side, the other is doing this side. Between comes who? Awakes you, mosquito? So, O traveler, wake up, wake up, and wake up. The train is coming, and the train is going. The train will not stop for you only, so pack your luggage, be ready. The train will come only for this time, so this time, how long time we have? It means, symbolically, from birth to death. So take with you good karmas or bad karmas. So that's a beautiful bhajan. I always forget to tell you the complete story. Next time I will bring you this mantra. So, kuṇḍalinī. Think of the kuṇḍalinī. So today and tomorrow, you should concentrate on your whole body. The whole body is one chakra. And then, how many energy points, etc. That you will see your whole existence, physically, mentally, spiritually, and the consciousness, which is minding you. Conscious means aware. And you will see the different energy points and your existence on a physical, mental, and spiritual level, which makes you conscious. Therefore, now we should say... Sarveṣāṃ svasti, sarveṣāṃ maṅgala, sarveṣāṃ bhavatu, sarveṣāṃ pūrṇaṃ bhavatu.