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Every country has its own voice, its own songs and melodies, which are in accordance with that country. This is also true in nature. When the peacock sings or speaks—whatever you say—it has one sound, and the crow has a different sound. One knows, "Oh, that's a crow," and others say, "Oh, a peacock." There is a line, and suddenly the hyena—you know how the hyena makes that voice. They are different; they have their own melody for everything. And so, the yoga people have their own melodies. We should follow. You have to put yourself in Ānandāsana, not in Śavāsana, the dead body's pose. We don't want to put you in the dead body. We don't want to be in the body; we want to be in the Ānanda. There is a very beautiful Ānanda bhajan. So this bhajan, this song—whatever you say—the yoga teacher gets up. Yoga teachers should not always sit nicely in the front and say, "Stretch more, more, touch more," while thinking, "Oh yes, because I can't do it, therefore I'm sitting and telling others to do it more." It is easy to say, but reality is different. That's it. So, a yoga teacher practicing Śarabha Āsana—our Śarabha Āsana is about forty-eight or forty-nine years old—and so our exercises and practice were very hard to change. This is for every yogī, yoga practitioner, yoga teacher, and all students. The first thing is: do not mix all advanced and new students together. One is an advanced practitioner and is very flexible; it is very easy for them. Others cannot move. In a practice, who can go just like that, legs down? I have a practice, so I can go even below my legs now, you see. Others who don't know will say, "Practice, it is abhyāsa, abhyāsa, Kaunteya, abhyāsa. Oh, Arjuna, practice, practice. Oh son of Kuntī, Kuntī Sītā." That's it. So yoga is practicing. Yoga is the practice. And the teacher should be the one who takes you into your heart. Into whose heart? The teacher's heart. Our crying child, when it comes into the mother's arms, is immediately happy and relaxed. So if you are doing the āsanas and relaxation, don't always just sit. And also, don't touch them. Yes, when you look, you need not touch. They will say, "Yes, I will do more." So when you move between the class, everyone should sit nicely so that the teacher can always go between, like a beautiful, beautiful street which is about two thousand years old. Hardly could a coach go through with a horse buggy, here and there. But now there are very nice streets. You see, Ljubljana is different, but tell me any name—Maribor, yes. Now Maribor is a beautiful name, definitely a good name, and you are happy about it, proud of it. "Maribor," but in Hindi language, "Mari" means killed. "Mari Bor"—it is killed, it has suited everyone's. "Mari" means killed, killed, killed. But in your language, I'm sure it's a good name. Can you tell me, please, what does Maribor mean? "Mari," because he killed. Yes, so please tell us, maybe there must be something good in the name. But that's why language is different. Every country is different. We have in Rajasthan, or we have in India, chapati. This is English, and we say "roti." Europeans cannot pronounce "roti"; they say "roti" means a woman is crying. We call it chapati, and this "roti" means bread, and "roti" is masculine or feminine? So, feminine. The woman is crying all the time; she is making chapatis, you know. So I am giving you today these instructions for yoga teachers and yoga students. Always keep the classes exactly as they are: who is advanced, who is a beginner, and who is in the middle. Our professor, Dayālpuri, in his classes in Maribor, everything is very perfect. His friends, his students, they are very, very disciplined. And discipline is called Aṣṭāṅga Yoga Anuśāsana. Patañjali said: "Atha Yogānuśāsanam. Yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ." And then it is said, "Yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ." If you are a yoga teacher, if you are a yogī, or if you are a student, then you should have this. What? First is Aṣṭāṅga Yoga Anuśāsanam—the discipline. Aṣṭāṅga means just now. Don't think that at home I will go and then I will do. This is immediate. How? You are driving a car. You are driving this way, and the other is coming opposite. And the other one is driving a little bit, not in a good line. And you are also not so aware, but you have a very nice wife beside you. And she tells her husband, "Be careful." And he says, "Oh yes, thank you." So ātmā anuṣṭhā, ātmā anuśāsin—immediately. So when you listen, you heard it. And if you tell your husband, "Keep proving," and he says, "I know better than you. Which hospital did you go to, and which hospital should I go to, my darling?" That's it. And when a woman drives, the husband, you know what? The wife is driving so smoothly, and she stops the car at home. And he says, "We are at home already. That's a woman's." But if you are nice to her, otherwise he will not let you sleep; then it will be a nightmare. To whom am I saying? Neither man nor woman. I am talking about vṛtti, our vṛtti, our inner attention, awareness, clarity. This we have to learn. For the students, second: after the class, maximum five minutes you give to the students and teachers. Then you go. Ask Dayālpuri in Maribor. He is a professor. When the hour is finished, he just goes left, door, outer room. No student will say, "Please, can you tell me this? How was it?" He didn't get to tell once more. No, he will not talk to them. Yes, and that's what that discipline is. The professor and student have to learn themselves. But he will tell you, and then you should know what to do. That's all. It is your karma, so yoga needs discipline. And where there is no discipline? The teacher. If the teacher is not disciplined, then you have no more students. From the whole practice, in your teachers, maybe 2% come to you. Why? In the beginning, there were about 30 people, and only 2 remain. Why? The mistake of the teacher: too much attachment. That's it. So you have your discipline in your class, in the ashram, or in your center. There, you have to follow the Aṣṭāṅga Yoga, no? Śāsana. Then it is yoga: Citta Vṛtti Nirodha. Now, if you want to learn yoga, if you want to become a yogī, if you want to come further, then Patañjali said, "Yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ." So yoga is yoga. Now you want to learn yoga. You want to become a yogī. You want to achieve what you want to achieve. It can also be your health. For health, you are coming for yoga. Or you have psychic problems. You have restlessness, many things. So, yoga. We are coming, practicing yoga. Yoga. You cannot learn, you cannot become a yogī, and you cannot be successful. Neither your master will be, nor will you. You are only attached to a few people, and that's not anymore. So that university, school, class hall—very soon the students will disappear because it is that yoga citta. What is citta? Chetan—be alert, be aware, be a conscious yogī. Citta, where is your concentration? That's it. If it's me or you, for yoga, no—how to say—discipline, no difference. Yes? Okay, yoga said that you are a teacher, doesn't matter. You are a master, doesn't matter. You are not doing with the citta. You are spoiling your students. You lost everything. So, your class is given that this time you got a class comes, and that time they will go. So, maximum five minutes. Take your dress and this, and so bye-bye, goodbye, all the best. But my teachers, what students, what are they doing? Teacher and student, after practice, they are laughing, they are sitting, and afterwards, a cup of tea, and then something more. And there, that there, the teacher will not be successful. And a student will also not be successful. It's a guṇa. And if someone said, "Can I talk to you?" Say, "Next time, please. Better you write down on paper, and I will tell you. Thank you. Very nice class. Practice, please." And they are also in a hurry to go home. So the class is one and a half hours, and the husband comes after four hours. Of course the wife will be angry with her husband. "Where have you been?" "I was in a yoga center, and we were drinking tea and this and that." So, your yoga center, your yoga school, ashram, you are practicing class. First, you as a yoga teacher need "atha yogānuśāsanam"—that you should write very big. Yoga citta—citta means awareness, concentration. Yoga citta vṛtti—what is your vṛtti? "Oh, this is good. Oh, today is nice. Yeah, can I have chai? Oh, come. Okay, we drink chai." So, our vṛtti is not balanced. And when the vṛtti is not balanced, you will not learn yoga at all. That is a gāśāpīṅg class. Drinking this and that, and a teacher should not attach to the student. And many people have, "It is my class, and it is my student, I want to have my teacher teach further." There, you should know attachment. It is attached, and how attached? Long ago now, everybody knows, in 1974, five... There was some, I think, cinema actor. Some, what do you call it—for all this now, everybody is in cinema. So he's a very nice, tall man, and strong, and he had completely no hair. Every day he was shaving his hair and this and that, built completely. And people said, "My God." Only that one person at that time accepted some sādhus. But he was making advertising and very beautiful gum. So you put it in, and then it will not get out—glue. So he was giving a name of this glue, and it is so strong you cannot take it out, and then all the hair will go out. Yes. That was discipline. And so now, many, many are without vivek puris like this. Many, many are like this. Our sugandh purīs, you know. And many, many people now, many, many men are getting completely hair finished. And as long as possible, they are getting longer and longer, and their treasures. Yes. And women, they take their hair nicely and fly in the air. All going nice up, and every day, new color. And every month, every year, day by day, those trousers are going up and up and up. And if you don't know, then you go to some ice dancing, and the dancing, and the man has nice trousers, and she has nearly, we call, a laṅgoṭī, and everybody, God is smiling, yes, and if he will behave like this, they will say, "By God." So everything is upside down. Otherwise, our countries—Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria—all countries, the whole of Europe, have a very respected dress. It is not that you want to be beautiful or this. But it is some kind of respect. And that respect has to be, as Patañjali said. So, yoga citta vṛtti nirodha. So what is the nirodha? Completely nirodha, you have to remain in discipline. Then you are perfect. And that's why you are sitting with three yoga teachers. And what will these yoga teachers do? Little exercises, giving lecture, and we will have a cup of chai, and then some fruits and sitting. So, there are two days, three, and next time all are free except teacher. So, we have to learn ourselves. It doesn't matter, teacher is teacher. Teacher, I am a student, and I want to practice. I want to learn yoga. I want to be physically, mentally, socially, spiritually healthy. And for that, I need a teacher. We are searching for teachers. So therefore, the teacher will chill down, lie down, and relax. Ānandāsana. Ānanda means happiness. And then you sit. "Jishe śāstra kate na agni jala ve." This is for those who understand the language, and others will say, "What is he doing?" I want to relax, and the parish will come and say, "What are you doing?" So, therefore, first we explain what it is, then they will be happy. Happy. This is also a lesson. That's it. So this is such a nice bhajan, from Śaṅkarācārya, I think. Now, similar to Kriya Yoga. And many of our bhaktas have kriyā, many are in the line waiting, and we don't give that, that it is only for next day. I give you kriyā. There are some people who go for seminars, retreats—they call them retreats. And they said, "This is a kuṇḍalinī and chakras," and what you call this kuṇḍalinī chakra. It is not possible. And then, out of a hundred, one and a half are confused completely. And this, nobody will admire them, but one who is confused always says, "Oh my God, that is how yoga can happen." Though that was a confused one, so it is like this. I told yesterday, you remember? So, I like ice cream. And I took it, but one piece of something was hanging on my beard. And beer is nice because good air is going. So that drop of the ice cream is hanging here. How should I know? But who is sitting in front of me? A stranger. Many will say, "Oh, God." Others will say, "Oh, God." And one man, a very nice man, like Vivek Puri. He comes in, "I'm sorry, sir, can I?" And he says, "Oh, thank you, thank you." So my whole body, nobody was looking. Nobody admired my body at all, but that spot—if it is black, and there is a white yogurt hanging somewhere—though it is white, the other is black, but this white spot is unpleasant. So what can we do? Kriya Yoga. Kriya Yoga is first. Please try to understand. What is Kriyā Yoga? And whatever books are here in the market, I can tell you 99, they are only gushups, and there are some which are very, very, very stupid things. The Master is not there, and books are coming, and furthermore, one is reading, reading, and then one writes something different and tells you this, and they are confused. They are disciplined, lost, and kuṇḍalinī is not awakening. There is no kuṇḍalinī awakening like we think, but it is the knowledge, the wisdom, the happiness, the joy, the spirituality, etc., etc. God has given in this body only good things. But if we make them bad, that is our mistake. And so, each chakra, first you should study, and when it goes, it is only happiness. And how are you going to practice the Kriyā? And so, this is the energy. And this energy is physically little. But the spiritual and knowledge, buddhi, and in buddhi is a clarity. Another thing, we know that in this Kali Yuga, many people are taking drugs. And now it's in the schools, in the school class, they are giving children something. Children taking the drugs, what can we do? You can't tell your teacher, you can't tell your professor, you can't tell your director. And some, they say, "This is my child by you. Who are you to tell my child?" Then they will say, "This teacher is not good to the students." So the teacher should be at a distance, and the day will come when the teacher should stand behind bulletproof glass. Because we, parents, cannot give that education. Kali Yuga is coming very rapidly, and so, when you want to get Kriya, then, at least two or three years. Practice. Learn. What is a kriyā? Would you like to do it? No, only just trying. There is no doubt. For trying, we have lectures. But when you have it, then you should do it. And if you stop, then all your best qualities are gone. Again you are there. And of course, there are certain principles for the masters. And if you go against the master, or negatively, then all this, all your negative karmas come, and you are lost. This, that, and I gave so many people Kriyā Yoga, and about 100, 200, they just lost. And some fall in the water, some were hanging somewhere. These problems are negative. It comes back to us, so therefore we always protect, and first we say, "God, protect all. God protect all. Please make all happy, and you too. I am, O Lord, please let me come." So you see, many, many things, Kali Yuga is happening. The Krishna that you see in the picture, this is not a Krishna. What we have here, it was a British, some man with the legs, coming like this. No, no, not Charlie Chaplin. That became like a Kṛṣṇa. So, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are only, what are you calling them, I don't know what it's called, the nightclub, or the other one also, disco, disco... Yeah, I never went, so time to time. So that is Rādhā, Kṛṣṇa is all in the disco. This is not my Kṛṣṇa. That is not Kṛṣṇa. Holī Gurujī said, "Who knows the Kṛṣṇa? They understand what is Bhagavad Gītā, and whose mother? Knows who the father is." So this, now, let's say Jesus. Many, many people are giving different commentaries, and in India, they also make Jesus very blim-blam. But who made this so that Jesus is still hanging on the cross? So when you see Jesus on the cross, our heart is pained and we are very sad. And we said we want to help save Jesus. But if they all will make Jesus like that, many will not respect. So that they saw Jesus as he was, whether you understand or not. And that is the originality. So this Krishna and this Rama and this Buddha is not that Buddha. It is like this: it is not that Buddha was completely vegetarian, completely. Even he would not step on the ends, but now they are all so that everything is gone. So let us in Kali Yuga. Save us, and it doesn't matter which God you believe in or which religion you believe in. It is very good, please, but also, how to say, don't talk bad about other religions. Then your God will say, "No, no. No, then you don't understand me." It is this. So, this is the same. The same energy in the body: Kriyā Śakti. Kriya. So, once, there was one Swāmī in America, and he brought this Kriyā Yoga. Otherwise, nobody knew what a Kriyā is. Though Kriyā has many kriyās. You know what is a Kriya? What is a Kriya? So, whatever we need to do is a kriyā. There are some in ashrams, when they have to go to the toilet, they say, "I have to go to kriyā." Toilet. So that is kriyā. Going to toilet, urines. Vomiting, exercising, cooking, eating. Kriya. We are doing something. So, people now said, "Kriya, Kriya Yoga," and very, very few Indians are confused, but thousands of Westerners are completely confused, and then parents are also unhappy. And then they are going with the drugs. So, Satguru is that which leads us to the best part. Nothing happens up and down in your Kuṇḍalinī. This is in the astral body, the outer body, not the physical body. And once I had this angiography. And then Holī Gurujī said, "Did you see Mahāprabhujī inside in the heart?" Or God, I said, only I saw the muscles. Flesh and veins and blood, that's all. He said, "Meat?" I said, "Yes." Wow, meat? But I said, living meat? Okay, then it's all right. So, this is a physical body, but energy, light, abilities, everything is outside. But definitely, our brain and many, many great personalities, scientists, they brought many, many good things, and it is the best. So, mistake is a yoga teacher. It doesn't matter who he is. I'm not telling you, you are all the best. If you are not the best, you will run away now. But you know, today is some magic. No one can go. Suddenly, in everyone, there is no petrol. Go and look everywhere as long as you sit here. If you will go, okay. So this is, my dear, why you have duality. Second, many are doing it for the money. They are then guiding people in the wrong way. So they will say, for example, "Let's go to that lake or beach, and we will practice there." We have the same Gurujī, and Gurujī's exercises we will practice, and we will go there. The whole year you were waiting here for this summer seminar in Vṛndāvan. But in this time, you are gone because there is some selfishness. Or one thinks, "I am already a master." And I know many, many who became masters. And where are they now? Landed where? So, yesterday we were singing one bhajan. "Satguru satsaṅg bina." So, we are longing for that master. And that you should learn. That's very, very important, very, very important. So, in such a seminar, in such places, don't think of earning money, or a little money. You need that knowledge and the presence of the Gurudev. And that's why what the Holy Gurujī said, Mahāprabhujī said, that I'm longing for, my all bhaktas. When I remember them, my tears are flowing. Who said, "Gurudeva"? Similarly, the students also. So there are the clouds raining and the river flowing and merging into the ocean. So who is dripping from the cloud? The water? How all comes together, one drop? Becomes a big, strong river, and it goes to the ocean. But one drop in the sky, and think, "Now I am okay." You will see what happens. So understand, come and practice. Yes, so Kriyā, Kuṇḍalinī, chakras—a reflection in the body only, and it is outside. So we don't know, but there are some physical things: relax, eat well, etc. If a yogī is in the Himalayas and sitting in meditation, then he is out of the body, not this kuṇḍalinī here. There is no snake. This is only energy. So, Kriya Yoga carefully. Learn first, then think. And then some master should give you, and if you give further and you are not a master, you know, many things will happen and that's lost. Many negative things happen in life. So there are kriyās, there are great saints, look them up. Not only someone gives a lecture and that and that. It will talk a lot and best, very good. But nothing is there. It is like there is one song, and it is said about this song, the story I will tell you after. So learn, practice, and I'm sure you will achieve what you want to achieve, but remain on the boat. If you jump out from the boat, it's not the mistake of the captain. But if you remain seated in your boat, your captain, he will bring you to the shore. That's it. So this satsaṅg is a boat, and Gurudev is the captain. But someone is sitting behind there and doing something. What is my mistake? And tell your teacher, master, to the student, very clearly, you may say from eyes to eyes, you know, "Did you use the drug, and how long have you taken the drug? Are you still taking it or not?" Many, they are very honest. And some say, "Oh, half a year I gave up." Very good. But we need at least three to five years to purify all toxins from the drugs. Otherwise, your Kriyā will not function. So therefore, those who want to have a Kriyā, please, don't take drugs, any toxins, alcohol, and this and that, that's it. So, that song is so beautiful, or bhajan, but you should go in such a way that your students are relaxing in ānandāsana. And you only said, "So, Hindi speakers, they understand." And for others, we have to first tell them what it means or translate, and then make the melody the same. I don't know how it will be. This is okay. I will be very happy if you put in this melody that what is different, different, different. So this, we said, is work, work with our students. Five minutes are finished. But they may have to take time to address this and that. You go. Tell them, okay, thank you, all the best. You may go in another room, sit down, and finish your cigarette. Yes, yes. No joke. But you go in your room, you can look at a book or anything. But let the students go, and on the reception also, not too long. When you go to the dentist, and there is someone at the desk, you will not talk with them for half an hour. That's it. So, this is, we shall learn all. It's very important. And this is a very important means to give people something good. They need it. But we have to have a teacher, and don't attach to the teacher. That makes such a, not an atmosphere. "This is my student. I don't like this student. I need only my teacher." I know who said this. Teacher said, "Tell Swamiji that I only like this." Yes, what can I do? But now our committee, our president, they should make the rules and not the teachers. Or day after tomorrow, or tomorrow, no? Yes, put this point, please, okay? Yes, we will say the teacher has to go this and this and that. And this teaching at home, private house, you can hire somewhere a room, but not that attached. And if this attached, neither you nor they will be successful, so it doesn't matter who is who.