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Strength of the Hatha Yogi

Haṭha Yoga is a path of determined will leading to divine union beyond the physical body. It begins with worldly forms of willfulness: a child's insistence, a woman's resolve, and a ruler's command. The yogi's will, however, transcends desire and fear, seeking nothing, as illustrated by a yogi who refused Lord Śiva's offer. True Haṭha Yoga involves purifying the body through six techniques and awakening subtle energy. This energy moves through major chakras, culminating in the Ājñā Cakra where the mantras "Ha" and "Tha" unite, symbolizing the yoga of sun and moon. This practice leads consciousness beyond worldly attachments, which are as temporary as the juice of a cherry.

"He said, 'If you want to give me, then I give you this. Just remove away, go away. I don't need you, so please go.'"

"‘Ha’ and ‘Tha’ become Haṭha. ‘Oṁ’ is yoga. So, Haṭha becomes Haṭha Yoga."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Oṁ Devatā Purījī Mahādevakī. Devādhi Deva Deveśvara Mahādevakī. Ārādhy Bhagavān Siddhip Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī kī. Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān kī. Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. Good morning to everybody, welcome. Someone is going, someone is coming... We will have a very nice program today, which is Anuṣṭhāna, the practicing of yogic exercises and karma yogīs, and our very dear little golden children. This is the future of Yoga in Daily Life. We are getting younger and younger. What is that? That means we are coming closer and closer, younger and younger, and we will prepare ourselves for different lokas. And maybe these lokas, but our children—the children are the culture of tomorrow, and they are also the yogī in daily life. So we have to educate them nicely. Education, schools, colleges, profession, normal life, and of course, very sattvic. Sattvic means living like all the time people were living, so disciplined and in good health. Unfortunately, there are different, even chemical drugs. And it is not good for our children, and we should teach our children also that their children should continue. After this, two or three generations, all will get tired of these drugs. And people, the young generation, are coming back again on the very healthy way. So we have to give them very good education. Now another thing: Haṭha yoga... Haṭha yoga has many meanings. So one is called "haṭha," meaning "I will do, I will achieve, I will come through." It is a haṭha. And there are different kinds of haṭha. First is Bāla Haṭha. Bāla means the child. And this little child may be four months or ten months or one year, or ten years or fifteen years. So when children want to get something from parents, they will get it. Little child, five months old, crying and crying, and when father or mother takes the child in their hands again, he says, "Yes," again he says, "Okay, we have to work something." We put the child in the cradle. Again, again crying, crying, but this is not a real cry, it's only haṭha: I want to have this. And we all, not only your father and your mother, but all of us, we are also so much. Because our heart must be, we must take that in hand. And children need this. I think this is also a love. So it's called Bāla Haṭha, Bāla means childhood. Second, Triyā Haṭha—this is not my philosophy, is not my words have been done, but it is written in Haṭha Yoga. Triyā Haṭha. Triyā means woman, female. It doesn't matter, young or old. When she wants, she will get it. So the man must be very humble, careful, alert, and kind; then it's okay. But Triyā Haṭha, they will come through. One day I was somewhere in the office of some, I don't know what kind of visa or something. And one man was there and asked for this and that. And they said, "No, this is not possible. You are coming late," and this and that. And the man said, "Okay, sorry." And then came one woman, you can't imagine, yes, and you are still in office, and I had to go. My flight is there. My father has died. Only give the stamp, that's all. I want this. But it's finished. Yes, I know, but it's not finished. You are here. And the officer was just going out of the office. And he turned back and he said, "Okay, bring me that paper, okay, go." So this is the woman power. So now again, it has come into this; they are writing the girl's power or the woman's power now. Yes, it's very, very powerful. So, you know, the men are getting longer and longer dresses. And women are taking a little shorter and shorter. Why not? It's okay, but it is. So that's why, if the wife wants, her husband will be perfect. And you know, without a woman, the man's house is chaos. Socks under the bed, one shirt somewhere. For two weeks, no laundry has been done. And the knife for the bread is all the time lying there. That means the man's energy is lost, but if the good wife is there, then the whole house is in order, and she can definitely bring the husband into a nice education. So, Americans say, the good husband dies in the kitchen. Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ Namaḥ Śivāya, Oṁ... Namaḥ Śivāya. So, the Bāla Haṭha, then the Triyā Haṭha, and then the Rāja Haṭha. So the king, or your prime minister, or your president, they have power in their hands, and they will do what they want. So also the haṭha, we will do like this and not like that. Or your boss, and under 3,000 workers, he can tell anybody now, "You will not come tomorrow anymore." He's a power, that's a haṭha. But this is haṭha, and the fourth one is called Yoga Haṭha. So yogīs also have haṭha. So there was one yogī, and he was going somewhere in the forest, long hair, and from the backside was coming air, strong air. So always the hair is going in the front, again he is putting it up, again it is coming to the other side, he is putting it on this side. The yogī said, "Let's go to the other side, opposite to the air, the wind." So hair was okay. So Yogi said, "What will you do now?" I will go that side. I have no destination. I am all directions of the world. So these are Bāla Haṭha, Triyā Haṭha, Rāja Haṭha, and Yoga Haṭha. So this is one kind of Haṭha. And there is one more about this Triyā Haṭha. They are always giving us instructions, and they are giving us very good knowledge. But sometimes it's different. And so there is one story many of you know, that one day it was cold winter and a little snowing and windy. About eleven o'clock at night or twelve o'clock at night. There is a small village about half a kilometer or one kilometer away, and there is a graveyard. So, there are some people who are burying and some who are burning. So when someone died, they put a lot of wood, and this dead body was burned. It is not so easy to burn completely all bones and everything. Therefore, there are big, thick woods there. And people went, but there is still the fire burning a little. So Śiva and Pārvatī are coming. Was it in Czech or Slovakia? We were together, did you know? You know, yes. We were looking, no? It was at the border of Czech and Slovakia. And we had a very nice hut, and we were inside, very cold, and we had a very nice chimney, and I said, "Prem Lata, can you sing bhajan?" She said, "Well, Gurudev, I will do it." But I have no melodies, I don't know. I remember her when she was about seven years old, six years old, yeah. And she was singing for me, something, not a joke. She said a joke. Joke? Okay. You see, that's called a disciple, always keeps the Master's. So, what she was singing in the beautiful hut, and she was seven years old, and what she was singing—can you, I've forgotten the song—can you see? I invented my own words in Czech language. Yes, in Czech, of course in Czech language. Thank you. So what? Yes, like little babies bring to the sleeping, you know, and see. Anyhow, there in the graveyard, there was a fire, and one man was sitting there making his bread, a big chapati, no? On the fire. Eleven o'clock, and Pārvatī and Śiva were passing by. Śiva went straight, and Pārvatī was looking and looking. After about a hundred meters, Pārvatī was stopping. She said, "Lord Śiva, I cannot understand you." Śiva said, "In midnight? What do you understand? Tell me that I don't understand you." She said, "Yes, so what? Who is there?" He's sitting near the fire and making bread. Śiva said, "It's the yogī, and he's making his bread." Yes, I know this, sir. But she didn't say "sir," but I'm saying "sir." I know, Lord. But why can't you give him some hut or some cave or a house to make a chapati? Even not amrila, poor yogi, hungry, cold, midnight, making his bread. Why don't you give him facility? There are so many people who don't trust you, Śiva. They don't believe you. But they have a beautiful villa. They have all kinds of facilities. And they never say, "Namo Śivāya." And day and night, he is chanting your name. Śiva said, "Better we go away." Why? Because you don't want to give. You may go, I will stay here. Give him something. Śiva said, "He will not ask, he will take." I look, I am looking. And you go and give something, I will see. Why will he not take? You know what that is? Pārvatī, Triyā Haṭha. In the middle of the night, cold, a little, little snow, and cold wind, and she had a beautiful sārī, but I want, Śiva said, "Then darling, go a little behind the bush, why behind the bush?" I don't need to tell you, otherwise the whole drama will be gone. You can look and you can hear, and then Śiva comes with all his triśūla and this and tilaka and everything. And go out with a friend of the yogī. And there's a fire burning, and he's moving the chapati up and down. Śiva is standing. The yogī didn't even look at what that is. After a few minutes, Śiva said, No answer. She said, "I think he's deaf. He cannot hear." Lord, give him ear. Again, Śiva said, "No problem." He's happy with his chapati. It means he has no desire. He has no fear, neither hot nor cold. Haṭha yogī? That is Haṭha yoga. Again, Śiva said, "Bhakta," he did not look up. I know, I know. He said, "You know who I am?" Why do you want who you are? I didn't ask you, me, that, "Who am I?" I am happy with my bread. He said, "I am Śiva." And? What do you want from me? He said, "No, I want to give you. When did I beg from you?" I didn't ask anything, Śiva said. But I came to give you. He said, "Give to some beggars, but I come to give you." But still he doesn't look up. So Śiva said, "When Śiva comes, then he gives anything. He asks you." Then he said, "If you want to give me, then I give you this. Just remove away, go away. I don't need you, so please go." And Pārvatī was like... Cold, cold, cold. Go, go, go. And Śiva passed away, and she is coming behind after two kilometers. Śiva said, "Darling, let's walk quickly, it's cold." She said, "Lord, I'm sorry." Śiva said, "I told you, this is the Haṭha Yogī. Everyone can." Have a conversation with Śiva, but not with the Haṭha Yogī, and he is a Haṭha Yogī. So that is called Haṭha. So it means that you have no fear, you have no anger, you have no anything, and you are divine in this world. But we are very far from this. We have good words to talk, we have in the brain something to talk, we are beautiful with our body, taking care, and if something happens to our body, we are completely down. But that haṭha yogī is not. So from the millions of yogīs, there is such a haṭha yogī. Do you want to learn haṭha yoga? Yes or no? Yes! And it means you don't run away. Be at home, work at home, eat at home, and respect your husband, respect your wife. But don't turn this, and then after that, and this guru and that guru and that master, and that is it. What is that? In Haṭha Yoga, yogī, namaḥ śivāya hara hara bhava, namaḥ śivāya hara hara bhava, namaḥ śivāya oṁ namaḥ hara, oṁ hara hara bhava, oṁ hara hara bhava, oṁ śānti oṁ śānti oṁ śānti. Part of the Haṭha yoga, and this is coming to the Kuṇḍalinī. And this Kuṇḍalinī, this is the... Center of the energies, immense energies, and something disables this center, the whole body is gone. So these chakras, which I tell you many times, there are many, many chakras. There are hundreds of chakras in our palms, in our foot soles, and in the whole body. But the major centers are, this is what we have, cakras, Mūlādhāra till the Sahasrāra. And that's what we call the serpent, and serpent means not snake. But it is the channels and movements of the energy that balance the whole body. And it is not awakening something, bum, bum,... There is nothing, bum, bum, bum. Or, don't think that something is burning in my spinal column, and it's painful. Of course, it is there, but it's not a kuṇḍalinī. You don't need, you don't need to come to me. You go to the doctor, Martin, doctor. Martin in Brno, he is the master of the spinal column. Now, it's not a joke, he is the master of the master of the spinal column. And always I'm thinking to ask him, because he opened really the whole spine. He showed me the picture, which was like a serpent area, and it took some time. And then he saw the picture completely straight. That's a master. So we should have a master to keep you all very straight. But I can't bring you straight. I tell you, sit straight, after two minutes, like this. So that's my disciple and your guru, same. Well, my dear, I will ask this time, Dr. Martin, where are the chakras? Yes. Practical, he opened that. So where are the Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā? And where are the Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, and Anāhata? Maṇipūra. Now, therefore, the Haṭha Yoga, the Yoga, the many things, it is above this physical body. A physical body is only for the exercises. That we can do all, but how do we come to the above that? And it is the energies flow, as the chakras. And when he opens his body, tilt it down. Many times we open also our, our, what is called the hips, and below, there is no chakra. It is the other chakra, where the doctor is making the cutting. So, where is the chakra then? Where is the kuṇḍalinī? Where is it in this chart that we say this is this? You have to awaken that knowledge of the Ājñā Cakra. So, there are fifty-two petals in these eight chakras. But the only measure we said, the last one is the Ājñā Cakra. Bindu is the center, energy. And Sahasrāra, that is a thousand petals, means the energy is inside the body here. And we have the bīja mantras and the mantras of each chakra, that is the vibration. And the bīja mantra and petals of the vibration, what we call, is all of the Sanskrit letters. And there is that resonance, that is sound. So we give the bīja mantra, plus on each petal, one sub-mantra. And on this center, on the energy center, there is no physical. And there are different kinds of energy, which they counted as animals. Gaṇeśa, elephant, Śiva Liṅga, Śiva Pārvatī, Lakṣmī and Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Sarasvatī, these are all in our body, but not physically at all. And we have to concentrate on that chakra, that kind of goddess. And finally, it's coming to Ājñā Cakra, where there are three mantras. And one mantra is "Ha," and the other is "Tha." So "Ha" and "Tha" become Haṭha. "Oṁ" is yoga. So, Haṭha becomes Haṭha Yoga. And so, Haṭha Yoga is here. So, "haṁ kṣaṁ," this is the Bīja mantra. Haṁ kṣam. So, Haṭha Yoga, oṁ. There, you can go further to your higher consciousness. So this is the second definition of Haṭha Yoga. In the whole body, and then there is another part of the Haṭha Yoga. That is for our body and energy. And that we call the Jal Netī, Sutra Netī, like this. So, what we have here are Netī, Dhautī, Bastī, Naulī, Trāṭaka, and Kapālabhāti. So these are the six techniques. And in Āyurveda, they have only five Haṭha Yogas. So they have five, what they call in Haṭha Yoga, in Āyurveda, pañca karma. So they have only pañca karma, but we have six karma, best karma. So these five karmas, what they have, five, five, what is prakriyās? Five kriyās, no, no, what do you, no, no, what do you say? Five, pañcakarma, thank you. And in these five karmas, they are connected to the five tattvas. Annamaya, Prāṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijñānamaya, and Ānandamaya. These are five according to the Āyurveda, but for the yogīs it is more, six Haṭha Yoga Kriyās. So, netī, dhotī, bastī, naulī, kapālabhātī, and this is the haṭha yoga. Now, when we will take the subject tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, about the Haṭha Yoga. So you don't have to run somewhere. This is just practice every day. It's a purification, innerly, in the body. So that is what we are talking about, and we will speak about Haṭha Yoga. So first it's like this: Bāla Haṭha, Triyā Haṭha, Rāja Haṭha, and Yoga Haṭha. Then, through the chakras, and then it is the center of our Ājñā Cakra, there is the unity. There is a light, and then we proceed further. All is written in our Gurujī's bhajans, Mahāprabhujī's bhajans, and all other masters. So when we are singing some bhajans, it's not only singing. And with each letter, it is touching our inner whole body. And so we have to come into that way, otherwise the worldly things are enough to enjoy. And it is like this, how you don't, how you will? You have here also, when you take a cherry, as long as the juice of the cherry is in the mouth, you are enjoying, you are chewing, and when there is no juice and nothing, you just spit the stone out. That is the world. As long as you have, you are. When not, then are you home? This is more because the people don't understand. I told yesterday, When you have one child, now you have all that you wanted. Now, don't go towards the different energies. It's okay, you are living together, husband and wife, but don't tell your wife, "I will go away now to some other wife." This you cannot do. It means you did not understand human life. I'm not talking about animals, so this is how we have to come.

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