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We come to this one part of yoga. Many of you know, but that wisdom which is written by great yogīs—it means they know the future. They know the past, and they know the present. From that, such a great saint gives us that wisdom. And there are many, many masters, and there are so many scriptures. You don't even know, or how long a time you can count, how many scriptures are there. In South India, North India, Western India, everywhere there are immense scriptures. There were very valuable scriptures or holy books, which, when the Turks arrived in India, they burned the books in the university. That was one of the first universities in the world that was in India, and there the people, the Turks, burned all the books for six months; it was burning continuously. But still, light is always light. The Sun is everywhere. Maybe just for a little time we have a little bit for us to relax, that’s why the Sun is going in the other direction. People who went to the sky, into space, as high as they go, they see that fourteen times the Sun was setting and rising. So as far as we go, the earth becomes smaller, and we see the sun all around. So there were great, great saints, and they gave immense wisdom, still now. But they are all in the cupboard, closed. It’s closed, that is, nobody is interested in reading, and very rarely are they reading. But there are great, great scholars, and they are still sitting and reading. So there are two kinds of knowledge. First is knowledge through the scriptures, learning. And the second, within, from thyself, from the Guru’s Vidyā. So, go to any university, you see the immense number of beautiful scriptures. Mostly in South India. Anyhow, so there is no end. You cannot imagine the wisdom, the knowledge, and the scriptures in India. Many, many thousands of years, they kept it on the paper of the bark of the trees. And someone was writing on a very nice wooden plate. And the writing is so beautiful. There is also someone reading your future. They are horoscopes, and they have written in such a way that, for every one of the humans on this earth, in those letters their destiny is written. How do you know that? How do they know? It’s very interesting, very interesting. So the ṛṣis, someone told, it was a long time ago, there was one doctor, and she was my disciple, and she was a good yogī. She was a good yogī, and she was a translator for me, but she died now, and she told me many things. It is said that Russia, the name and countries... and so on, called Russia, was the country of the ṛṣis, Russia. It is coming there, and you know that the Russians have immense scriptures and knowledge. We don’t go too much to that side, so now we will move towards Russia. They are waiting, they are waiting with waiting. Those scriptures they left, many were destroyed. But we have part of the yoga, which we are saying. All who are practicing in India, and out of India. What we are learning, yoga, what we are teaching, the yoga in India and out of India, 2%. The real yoga is not still there. Okay, Patañjali brought together all the different kinds of yoga—Patañjali tried to modify the four parts, then that is Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rāja Yoga, and Jñāna Yoga. In this, he put all in it, and that is immense knowledge there too. But if you read all others, you can say Patañjali is only one paper, knowledge, knowledge, my dear. And if this becomes, it’s something, while reading the scriptures, looking to the scriptures, it changes our inner self, then understand, yes, I want to be a human, and I want to live long, because this should come to the human’s brain. And you know, still there is no end. Because each of us has immense wisdom in our brain, everything we call science. What we are doing now in this modern time, all machinery, everything, it’s coming from the thinking of humans. And it can be, there is more. So it’s called Vācārthī Lakṣārthī. Vācārthī is that one who is reading, and who is reading this? You can say that becomes like, you can say that you are like an addict. You cannot sleep without reading something. You know, there is one book called The Night Reader. They can’t sleep without reading a book. And in their brain, they sleep. But there is a further knowledge; the wisdom is there. So one said that before going to sleep, you should read something. If nothing, then newspaper. So one of our great persons, who was good, was with me. He had a big newspaper. Now he has died, but his son is also there. You know Gulab Kotari, Gulabkotari, and his father. So his father, he came three times with me to Europe and Hungary, and we were in depression, and we stayed in one hotel. And what he did in the morning, he had nothing to read. What he did, he was looking around under the furniture, and there, one piece of furniture which was making... duck, duck... like this. So he folded the paper and put it down there. Then he took this out and he read it. Luckily, it was in English. And he slept. At breakfast, he told me this story, and he said it was so valuable, letters or somewhat, what we say, stories or news or anything. So, those who cannot read and go to sleep, or, during the daytime, do not read, you will lose slowly, slowly; you lose everything. And if you have a problem with your memory, you can only bring your memory back again by reading. So, I’m also now trying to read. I’m also old. And my memory is somewhere. Where? Sleeping? So wake up. Wake up, wake up. So this is very important for us, that we should read. And who does not read? Then they are taking on, coming to other habits. So the human brain needs nourishment. And so, either you read, you meditate, or you sing the good things. Or suddenly, one falls into something, like a drink or a drug. In the beginning, it is very good, but then, in the brain, they put something inside, so it goes in a different way. Okay, do it, but then you lose the human mind, so it goes in a different way. Do it, but then you lost the human mind, so it goes in a different way. Do it. You lost the human knowledge with any kind of, I don’t know what is a, how many drugs? Drug, what is a drug? If you like to eat good food, it’s also such a drug. Every morning you get up and eat a few almonds. Ten, fifteen, that’s all. Ten, fifteen, that’s all. But this is for your brain. But you don’t understand that. But you like to eat some almonds every morning. And they said, "Those who do this have a great memory further." So our brain gives us everything, and we try to direct ourselves there. Let’s say alcohol, well, alcohol is completely, more than water, more than water, alcohol is a drink. Yes, many, many, many. I don’t know how many big, big, like fabricates. Okay, this is good. Why not? Alcohol is okay. Opium is okay. Marijuana, what is it? That, even I don’t know these things, or perhaps many things, but those who have the best brain inside will go away, because I want to research my human being, my human, that my soul, what will bring further. What will do my... Who gave you birth? Your father and your mother. And if they are also taking marijuana, then you have it in your blood also. But some parents are so holy, so wise, so humble, they build a channel of good humans towards the Brahmaloka. There is a good water which is always raining, but this good water is directed by someone into the channel; this is the canalization. And another one drops towards a beautiful river. We call in India, Yamunā, Gaṅgā. But for me, it’s also, the Danube is also Gaṅgā. You don’t feel it, but I feel it. And near Prague, this river, the Vltava, the Vltava is a beautiful river. But so far, we have just here one river. There is a flow of that water. If water is standing, then it is stinky. Water is flowing, is purifying, and very clean. Or that is a very deep lake, then. Water is again pure because itself is changing. So, parents, I thank you. Please don’t get a husband, a man, or a woman only for your emotional life, but you should give your light, your knowledge. It is already in your children, and you go further and further. And if one from the family is going in the wrong direction, then you know what happens. It’s a beautiful apple, and suddenly a wasp comes and bites that apple. And after a few days, this apple is getting rotten. Similarly, if someone in the family takes some drug, it is getting rotten. It’s your brand, and it will now come to the family. And if not, because they all know you are a very good family, good people, and when it comes to disease, it’s like a cancer, and everybody says, "Oh my God, this family, in their family, they have never had any cancer." Oh God! How does it happen? It happens because that wasp came and bit you. So, other apples, how nice we have. And we preserve them in a cool room, and always we have good apples. And you know, everyone said, "Oh, this is this apple." Every apple has a name in every country. The Indian will tell the name of the apple. The British will give another. And the Czechoslovakian will give another name. Doesn’t matter, but the quality is that of an apple. So, what I want to talk about today about two things: there is reading and understanding, and meditation. There are readings which lead you in the wrong way. And other leads the other way. Nowadays, that is called a navigator. And when we type our numbers and street, house number, and we type it. You need not ask anyone where that way is going. And you have a very nice guy with you, like a friend. You are not alone. So, in the nice language, he or she, and in Switzerland they have something like that, where on long road driving, this lady will not always speak inside, but in New Zealand they did something, they are very, very joking. So, while driving on the highway, long, what? Is it long? About 30 kilometers, 50 kilometers. So there I say, "Baaah." What is that? A cow. In Switzerland, no? Yeah. So everybody begins to laugh. Why? Because it keeps you awake. That’s it. So cows are coming with you. Anyhow, this, the way we are writing on your machine, lead us there, but sometimes someone can go the wrong way, again and again, again and again you are going, but you don’t get there. Then you are looking carefully, oh, one letter was missing. So what can the machine do? Like that. And so is our brain. Our brain is slowly, slowly getting sleepy. And we don’t know. I may, you know, you are many, many of you, many good people here because you are yoga practitioners. But we can make tomorrow a competition. Who will get the gold medal? The silver medal? The bronze medal? What? Who has in your mind a hundred telephone numbers? I have a gold medal hanging in my room. Yes, and a silver medal. The fifty numbers. So, do you have the fifty numbers without any thinking? And the 40 numbers, bronze. We have a medal, and we make the competition. That’s it. Don’t ask me, because I know. Only 100, 200, 500, that I know, but 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, I don’t know. Anyhow, it means we lost. So someone said, when he went to the school, his father said to the child, "My son, don’t worry. If you don’t have it in the brain, keep it in your..." Hand this, so everything is here inside now. Our brain is already here, but it is not that. We should be different, so you cannot get mokṣa or kuṇḍalinī awakening in this. Yeah, of course, with the picture inside, you can awaken your kuṇḍalinī. That’s very important. So this is similarly, now, for example, I am sitting here, and I am the one after other lineages. I sit on this seat. Who am I? But still I have to sit, because it’s coming: Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, and now I have to sit here. But this seat automatically gives me that siddhi for you, a blessing for you, that you have this, maybe not this Maheśvarānanda, but now it is. This seat, so that is what we call the successor. And so, Alakhpurījī got Devpurījī, Devpurījī gave to Mahāprabhujī, Mahāprabhujī to Dholīgurujī, and Dholīgurujī to me. Now you see, Devpurījī never said, "I will do this for you." Neither Mahāprabhujī said, "I have siddhi, I give you." No, nothing. But only blessing is looking. You have the blessings, and the holy Gurujī, you have seen holy Gurujī? Did you ever hear from Gurujī’s mouth that I will give you mokṣa, I will give you liberation? Did Holī Gurujī say that? Always, Gurujī said, "Mahāprabhujī, Mahāprabhujī," though it is a glory and siddhi of Mahāprabhujī’s, Devpurījī’s, Gurujī’s. As long as your father is alive, you are only a prince. You are not a king. That’s it. So similarly, if you keep this lineage, it’s not easy to keep it. But we are all one. And that’s why I said, I will do, no, I will pray to our Mahāgurujī to give it to you. And so are your parents, your house, your family, your ancestors, and your future. It is your duty, because we are humans, at least one thing we can understand. When I drive from Vienna to Salzburg, even though there is a highway, in some places there is one sign: the path of the wild animals, and from their... Generation after generation, these deer always cross this place. It was a little street, then a little road, then a little bigger road, and now it has become the highway. So these deer, they will wait, but they will jump there. Now we are making the path under. Okay, that can go. So even animals are following their ancestors. Now the birds. Beautiful winter, no, summer. Many, many nice birds here. As soon as it gets cold now, they will come. All birds are flying. They are flying to Tamil India, Tamil India, and other Africa, Africa, and they have memory. They know where they will come back again. There is a big bird sitting on the chimney. Especially in Hungary, and some parts of Austria and Slovakia, animals also remember. Some are killed, some die, but they are members of this all. They know our path is still here. Similarly, my dear, I will follow my Master, Gurudeva. I am on this path, and I will guide all. Don’t think that Swāmījī can’t give us anything. How it is. Just a touch of this. You will feel it, but I don’t want to tell you to feel it. In the Rāmāyaṇa, there are beautifully written ślokas. And it is also said in this one śloka: Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Then what is it? Dhyāna Mūlaṁ Guru Mūrti, Pūjā Mūlaṁ Guru Pādam, Mantra Mūlaṁ Guru Vākya, Mokṣa Mūlaṁ Guru Kṛpā. Pādam means the foot. Pādam means, and in the foot, the nail of the toes. It is given to that power, the energy, and so we drink the water, we kiss the toes, this prāṇāmṛta, but of course, who understands? You are people asking many times, saying many times, not asking, that Jesus also got blessings, washing, his gurus in the river put him water on his head, but disciples didn’t understand. Then the master teaches them how to drink the holy water from the feet of the master. But the person who has that devotion will receive this as amṛta. Others will say, "Aha, okay, doesn’t matter." So, therefore, the water, the holy water from the toes of the masters. At that time, you will see that in every hair, something is vibrating. When you come home after two weeks and you have some nice plants, and they are dry and the leaves are hanging like this, and you will come there and view them, if you love your flowers and this, you will first give them water, and as you give the water within any time, quickly, it gives life again, and that is what is called Guru Charaṇāmṛta. Charaṇāmṛta and Charaṇārajadhar, who doesn’t understand, then misunderstands. Then they misunderstand, then they lose everything. Lost in that way, even though from the past you have gained, it is also gone. So, if you want to have a drug, then the drug is to drink milk. Drug of the yogurt water, yogurt, the fruit juice, everything, and bhakti, yāna, talk with the parents, your mother, you know, more feeling has a mother. Father has also very, very much, but still, because she is from her mother. And when the child goes in a different direction, then the mother will say, "It doesn’t matter what you will do, it doesn’t matter what your daughter is doing." Still, your mother will tell her, "He is my child. Still, I am connected." So though you cannot understand the language, you will get the feeling. So language sometimes is different. We have in Austria, and we are in Vienna, and in Vienna we have two, three ashrams. And one ashram, there is the Holy Gurujī’s ashram. And where is that one? Holy Gurujī’s āśram? Trubelgase. And when you give the, in English, this navigator, then this person, the lady, she is speaking in English. So she cannot pronounce Trubengase. And she said, "Trouble, guess." Really, I am very careful learning everything. So, put that in your navigator in English. And she will say, "Now turn in the trouble gas." And she will say, "Now turn in the trouble gas. Trouble gas." So where is the trouble? Gas and tribhāgāśa. So, these are the differences of the language. So, what I wanted to give you today is the subject of purification, and first, that is called Haṭha Yoga. Hatha Yoga. Now there is also misunderstanding. When I came first time to Europe, people said, "Do you teach Haṭha Yoga?" And I said, "Yes, so come with the Śaṅkha Prakṣālana and so on?" No, no, Haṭha Yoga. I teach you Haṭha Yoga, Netī, Dhautī, Bastī, Naulī, Trāṭaka, Kapālabhāti, and Uttara. Finished. You say, "No, no, this is not Haṭha Yoga." What is Haṭha Yoga? Only asanas. So there are two persons born to Sivananda. Sivananda gave—it is a Haṭha Yoga—and one other. This is what was very good, and he made very good schools and name and everything, and Iyengar, but also he put it as a Haṭha Yoga. So now, is this Hatha Yoga, or is that Hatha Yoga? So that side is a buffalo, and the other side is a cow. So you said, "I want to have a cow," but you said, "No, no, this buffalo is a cow." So, how can I tell a buffalo from a cow? So, always don’t say that Hatha Yoga and āsana are the same as what you are doing. But everywhere in the whole European world, they always call it Haṭha Yoga. Āsanas and a little prāṇāyāma, and finished. Now, either I become stupid, or I take them as stupid, or both of us have to become stupid. So that said, I want to practice Haṭha Yoga, and I am teaching other Yoga. This is a big problem, and therefore people cannot come further to a higher level of yoga and everything if you don’t do it properly. You are in school, primary school, and you say, "No, I’m in university." What is that? I can’t understand it to this day. You are saying Hatha Yoga, Hatha Yoga... it’s not Hatha Yoga. Anyhow, then there is Rāja Yoga, and that’s very hard, very hard. But they don’t know what that is. They say, "We have Rāja Yoga, we have Rāja Yoga." Now they don’t understand Rāja Yoga. So what they say is, "Aṣṭāṅga Yoga." My God. And Aṣṭāṅga was a great saint. He was the guru of Sītā’s father. What was the name? Aṣṭāvakra. But who was his master? The father of Sītā is Janaka. Janaka, yes, King Janaka, so we have to come point to point. Hatha Yoga is a beautiful subject, and before going through Hatha Yoga, you cannot come to Karma Yoga, that is different. So, before studying primary school, you want to go to see the college. Of course, you can go to college, you can sit in there, you can listen to everything, but they will not give you the certificate of that as the college certificate. So we have to go through Haṭha Yoga. So today is too much, I talked already. Hatha Yoga means also, "I will do, I will do." Father said, "Don’t take perfume, don’t take perfume, no?" And Mother said, "No, and no, no." Father, Mother, then child—is it a triangle? And a triangle is not balanced. That’s why when you are a member of some company or some organization, then you must be either three, or five, or seven, or nine. You see? So it should always be the triangle. From the three, two may say yes, but one will say no. That’s it. Hatha Yoga, beautiful, very good. So, let us do something, Hatha Yoga.