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When there is no impurity in us all day, consider what you have done: positive thinking, and how many times you were not thinking positively. There are many different ways—physically, mentally, and in terms of thoughts and knowledge. We must have that purity so we can accomplish many, many things. We don't use too much, but when something must be done, it is only the Haṭha Yogī who can do it. We are doing a technique called trāṭak. Trāṭak means we concentrate. Until you have clarity and purity, your or our trāṭak sādhanā is not complete. We come first for our good health and for our concentration. Trāṭak means we gaze on one object. You can look at a tree or a stone, at a star, at the moon, and at the very moment of sunrise—just for a few seconds we can gaze towards the sun. If we gaze on the sun a little longer, it can harm our eyesight. Some people think they will look at it, but we should not gaze too long. Some also gaze at the setting sun, but it is said the setting sun does not give us that energy; it sucks our energy. Therefore, we like to see the sunset, but it is not for concentration with our eyes. It is said everyone worships the sunrise, but no one worships the sunset. It is like that: a newborn child, everybody loves and is happy. But a very, very old person who has no more power—nobody will worship that person. Of course, it is our family member and we are sorry for that, but it is gone. So there is a difference between sunrise and sunset. If you are doing something to concentrate for the inner light, it is a technique that opens the third eye. People think about what opening the third eye means. They imagine something is opening—it is not like that. Holī Gurujī said one day that even Śiva said opening the third eye is wisdom; it is knowledge that is the light of wisdom inside. You cannot see with closed eyes; it is imagination only. Sometimes when you touch your eyesight, then light reflects here. These are the nerve systems. But in the Ājñā Chakra here, that is known as the light of wisdom. So we give Tilak here. If you put the Tilak here, it is a symbol of wisdom, the light. Another thing: when we have a tilak here made from ghee, oil, ash, or some good color, it means it is constantly balancing both our hemispheres. It is our balance of the Iḍā and Piṅgalā. That’s why it is a balance to have a Tilak. It is always creating balance and energy in one part. So Tilak is very, very important and very spiritual. Some people don’t like it, but I have heard that even in Christianity, they don’t want it every day—only once a year they put the tilak with ash. I don’t know which time it is; I think in May, June, or Easter time. Yes, on Easter time. So it is everywhere in every religion. But somehow we lost it, and when lost, the balance is also lost. So Tilak is very, very important. And Tilak always goes up. We give Tilak with the ring finger. When you take the ring finger of one hand, touch it, and then make like this. Then you also take from the thumb and make up. It has that which is the third eye, and the light goes up, meaning towards our brain. So it is not a religion. There was no religion. Religion is all now, in this Kali Yuga. Before, there was no religion; it was only Sanātana Dharma. And Sanātana Dharma was not only for humans. These trees are Sanātana, and this beautiful greenery is Sanātana. The fruits coming are Sanātana. The balance of this earth is Sanātana. Everything is one. Yes, we see the sun. If for one or two days there is no sunrise, you know what happens? How many creatures will die? So many, many problems will come. Can you imagine if for one week there is no sunrise? Oh God! We die. Immediately, disease will come. We will be cold. We will not remain alive. So if we see the sun, we look to the sun, we worship the sun, and that is a God. That is the sun God. So everything, the whole universe is on that sun, or the new moon, the light of the moon, the crescent moon. We all worship; we see that and then we bow down, or we are worshipping. And we also celebrate the full moon. In Islam, they also celebrate the crescent moon. And they have a fast. And only when the moon appears in the sky—that much that even they don’t want to swallow their own saliva. You cannot drive, yeah. They will spit it out. No drinking, no eating, no chewing gum. And you, what are we doing? And these people, what are we doing? I have fasting, but ice cream I can eat, fruit I can eat, milk I can drink. So everything—we have no discipline on this point. We are completely weak. And when Islam has this festival, then… until the new moon rises, they worship. So why? The moon, and why not the sun? Without the sun, there is no moonrise. And without the moon, the sun will not rise, perhaps. And the moon is closer than any other planet. So this is Trāṭak. You are looking, and we are also looking. We will see now: when is our new moon? Do you know that? Not three weeks. When was the full moon? Last year, last month. Okay, we will see. And do you remember? One day we all went to see the moon, the new moon, and then it is said it is your trāṭak. You see the sun—no, moon, sorry, new moon—and that is silver. It looks like gold, but it is silver. For astrology, gold is not good. Silver is very good. Copper is better, and iron is not good. So that’s why we worship the silver. And that is the moon, and that is the sun, the light. So on this day we are worshipping, and this silver should remain in our tilak. So that was worshipped as Sanātana Dharma. Now, on the forehead of Śiva—because the whole Śiva is the universe—this moon, the half moon, the crescent moon, is just on Śiva, because Śiva is a blue sky. So if there is a head and hair, some holy saint who wants to make a theatre as a Śiva will keep the moon, and that moon will bring the sun. So if you don’t worship others, then the Muslims should also worship that moon as Śiva. So Trāṭak is in the forehead, and new moon means day by day becoming bigger and bigger, becoming complete and complete, then becomes the full moon. And that full moon is that, the Pūrṇa. Pūrṇamadaḥ, Pūrṇamidaṁ. So completely, when the moon is complete, then it is the Pūrṇa. That’s why we call it Pūrṇimā, the Guru Pūrṇimā. We worship that full moon. That is the Guru Pūrṇimā. That guru is that moon. So in this Haṭha Yoga, it is not something fanatic, but it has that power and our spiritual awakening. So if you do not have a tilak, then your bhāgya is gone. So what is bhagya? This is the luck. The luck is not there. So the luckiest is that one who has this tilak. And this tilak is that pūrṇa. And that Pūrṇa is Śiva. Śiva is not a physical body. Don’t think that Śiva is this. Śiva is only the energy. Beautiful, beautiful. So the whole moon, half moon, or the full moon, it is a reflection from our Iḍā Nāḍī, so the moon should be on this side. But people are painting this and this—no problem. And when someone is making some joke or some drama, then put two moons here: this side half moon, this side half moon. And the second one comes and comes like the horn—animals. So nowadays, you know, people are making human’s body would dress, but it is a bird or with horns. Because humans have nothing, a rest. They have nothing. Therefore, they again come to the animals. May, we said no. It is because people will look to me. They will buy, they will get from me, because they will see the fox. But it’s very interesting. These are such kinds of monuments. Only the men; there is nothing from the ladies, neither horn nor edge of fox, because they don’t have a dress. There is no woman’s dress like this. Complete ladies, they have only a very little dress, so a fox cannot have a little leppy. A fox cannot have just some swimwear, so ladies are very intelligent. Women are very wise. They don’t want to look like animals. They are human. Human women. Women are people. That’s it. But man is different. Men, that is something else. Everyone looks up to certain men. That’s it. Anyhow, again, let’s come further. So it has its meaning. The stars, the sun, the moon, all these planets, what we have here. But our Earth, in reality, with astrology, our Earth is not a planet. This is Earth, mother of the living, the living plant. That is a living now. Others, not that much. They are going with it somewhere on another planet, and they’re so-so. Oh, there was some water, maybe. How many millions of dollars are used, and how many days of training? And then it goes into the Moon or Jupiter, anywhere. And what are they doing there? Oh, there was water. Have you not seen any water? We have enough water here. Why? No, we want to know what is there. Meditate and pray. That will be more useful than doing all this. Then we will have from that what we call, again, the planet, and that we will bring from this, and we will wear a jacket there and wear this. Why? And if we have done, okay, you have done, that’s all. But we cannot worship that. And if you worship, then that power is only here. You cannot come to the moon. And when you come to the moon, there is no more power. The power is here, Tilak. And that’s why, you know, from this side of the road coming to the strilky, from that side coming to the strilky, that strilky, everywhere on the road it’s called Tilak Pichā. Why do these people like Tilak so much? Yes, everybody says, "Let’s go to Tilak." So why don’t you make the tilak here? This is Trātaka. Trātaka is different. When they look to the tilak, they make a trāṭak to the piṇḍa. Yes. And sometimes they turn back. And they come and slowly, aha, this pizza, tilak. Oh, where to go back? Yes. Or maybe something, ice cream, Tilak. Ice cream tilak. So every morning, after you’re bathing, washing, dressing, and everything, you can take water—just water. Like this glass is very pure. With this ring finger, take water and do it yourself like this. A whole day, it will be that feeling like you put, and now you know everything is there. Many people have problems with headaches. Make the tilak, and make the tilak with the sandal oil. And it has no color. Some people don’t like the color because they have no eyes; they can’t see. So they don’t want the color back on the black; they don’t see. So take a beautiful oil of the beautiful, beautiful wood. And that, just very—don’t take it too much. Which is very expensive, just very fine, and you put it here. Do it yourself, but don’t go like this. If you go like that, then bad luck. So here, and see, the whole day you will have such a balance in your thoughts, feelings, understanding. And head, everything very good. The trāṭak. The trāṭak is beautiful. Or sometimes you can take other kinds of oil, what you call perfume. I only tell them oil, you know, but people say perfume. And so, par, you know, par means the wings. So, perfume, pium, you know. And you know the word pium, piumel. So this is, okay, very good. That is intensive, and oil is for the gentleman. And perfume for the quality of persons. So the man said, the neighbor, he said, "Perfume is too expensive," but he said, "My neighbor"—so this one couple, husband and wife, and every day when I’m going to the office, they are coming, meeting out always, and his wife has perfumes. So neighbor said, "Just I say hello, how are you?" and perfume comes into me. Whole day in my office, I have this perfumes in my dress. And the whole day in the office I smell that perfume and thanks to that I don’t spend on perfumes. That my neighbor is so kind, she gives out the scent two, three houses around. And when you go to the laundry house where people are washing the laundry for us, they said some ladies or men, they have the dress also laundering. But they’re washing with other dresses also, cloth. And on that day, when other people dressed, they are getting, they said, "Oh, how nice perfume inside." Yes, because the good ladies have money and bring a lot of perfume. When you go to the aeroplane, there are two kinds of smell: the perfume or alcohol. That’s it. Anyhow, tilak. Trāṭak. So other trāṭak is what we are doing, that we have a candle or from the butter ghee or pure oil—but you can eat, do it also, even what you call it, it should be pure oil. That is very good. So this is a trāṭak. And you see everybody, yes? And this, you hold it at that height. Then you concentrate between the cotton wick, and then in the middle is a very pure light. And in some, which oil is not clear, then there will be more smoke also. But look at that. It is only the top of this light and this flame. Look and close your eyes. You open them, and inside is also the light. So this is a reflection. It will remain for a few minutes or some seconds. Then slowly the flame will go, there on this side will become red or white, and disappears. It’s a reflection. If you want to save more, then look like this and put your battery on and off. Not so long, light on, off, and then you will see light in the forehead. This is because of the reflection of our eyesight. Otherwise, inner light is wisdom. That’s very important. But trāṭak, we do to concentrate, and there is some spiritual development. Now, if a little child—5 years, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years, 3 years, 2 years—urinates in the bed, if you do the trāṭak just for half a minute and let us show this child, in the night it will not go to the toilet in the bed. This is one of the best techniques. And if you don’t do this, then you can only do this to show this child, and make this matchstick fire and saw it, and said, "Okay, let’s go to sleep." It is really 100%—this habit of the child will go on. So this is also the Trāṭak. When we make a Trāṭak, there are some different kinds of things coming: some bubbles, some rings, and so on. When we do trāṭak every day, then we can have various visions; we can see various circles, rings, and similar things. We can do trāṭak, for example, on one green leaf of a tree and concentrate on the tip of that leaf. Also, you will close your eyes, and the longer this leaf remains on your forehead… Some people are doing many other things with the trāṭak and looking into your eyes. That we don’t do. But there are some siddhas. There is a story of Devpurījī, and it is written in Līlā Amṛt. It was the time of the British people, and once one journalist asked a question to Indira Gandhi. She was in India, and she was the Prime Minister. So one journalist asked the questions to Indira Gandhi. He said to her, "Indira Gandhījī, I have a question." Everyone knows that Indians are not happy with the British, constantly accusing them of something, and Gandhi also fought for freedom, independence. And they said, "The British took away this and this and that and that." But is there something you have to tell, something that the British have given or done for you, something good? She said, "Yes, of course. Great." First of all, they brought us the railway. The British brought the railways, so they connected the whole country. Otherwise, India was a big country. Second, they brought the English language, so India has 35 languages. And we don’t know all these languages, but the British brought English. At least we are connected to each other, that we can talk to each other in this language of English. So in this way we get the connection. So it was in the train railway, and that time all sādhus were given free to travel in the train—British time. But sometimes the person who is on the train and gets a ticket from us, we call Titi. And one Titi, and he was very negative, and there were about 30-40 sādhus. And he put all of them out at the railway station. Either give them money or get out. Well, there was a Devpurī inside. So Devpurījī, he said, "Let us go, don’t worry." He said, "Who are you? Get out. It’s not your trail." So Devpurījī was there, and he looked with his trāṭak eyes at the fire in the rail, in the train. And the whole station was burning. Now what to do? So someone said there is a standing sādhu looking like that. It’s a rule, truth, truth. So he ran, the officer ran to Devpurījī. "Guru Dev, Bābājī, Mahārāj, please, please save us." Then he said, "Let all my sādhus go in the train again." "Please, from today on, in all railways, all will go free." And again, Devpurījī looked at him. He looked down. There was no fire. Nothing burned. That’s called a trāṭak. Yes, not a single paper was burned. And they also heat fire flames in their eyes. Wherever they look, there’s a fire. But the priest said, "Why? There is no fire. Close your eyes." And they say there’s no fire. So that was the trāṭak. And trāṭak will be done always, no? The siddhi you should not use. But when it has to be, then you have to use it. So there is also trāṭak. You can do it with your own hand. Look at your palm or at the tip of your fingers, then you will see your hand. But the trāṭak you should not do without your master, your teacher. Otherwise, I tell you now, everything you think is beautiful and good, but it’s not like that. People are doing how they want, but they cannot be successful. So if someone is doing the trāṭak, you will get schizophrenia. Yes, yes, yes. So please don’t do overtraining. Practice, ask the master or teacher, and you should have a limitation on when and how long you can do it. Otherwise, you’re looking for a long time, a long time, then you are whole night. Everything is burning. Yes, it can happen. Please don’t do that. Don’t do trāṭak in the sleeping room. And if you do, after that you finish the flame, blow off the flame. So please don’t do like that. And if you do, then slowly, slowly, second, not minute. That’s very important, very, very important. You can do it on white paper. Make one dot and put it there. It’s also a trāṭak. It means concentrate on a point. And concentrate on a point means bring all your thoughts, your feelings, everything, into balance, and control in your hands. Or there is a trāṭak: you close your eyes and gaze at your forehead. Definitely, there will come a flame. So Trāṭak is a very powerful point of Haṭha Yoga. So Hatha Yoga is a great, great, great technique of Yoga. But you have to have discipline, purity, and a good master. That’s Hatha Yoga, what? Haṭha Chodamana Saṅgamere Yatamabe, that’s it. So, all my disciples, all my bhaktas, don’t run here and there. "I want to take, I want to do, I want to see this." Don’t run. See this. Be this when you want. To have a siddhi, then we have an ashram in Delhi, Siddhi, very nice. Our siddhi, samādhi. Yes, samādhi, samādhi. Yes, sādhanā, siddhi is in Hamburg. And siddhi is in… So now… Okay. So this is how we are concentrating, and anywhere when you concentrate, you should be very careful. Or, if someone has a mental problem, then within one or two days you will know that this person has a problem. And that is suddenly, while eating, sitting, or talking, what one does like this, then you should immediately say, "And you know how hard it is?" Take it away, this person’s vision. You know that? That some person who’s sitting, and that’s why sometimes we are sitting together, two or three people together, at the table, and we have a candle. And we are all looking nice, but suddenly one person, then it means now this person is not balanced. Then we should not have this fire there. So when you see anyone, your child or anyone, you can look, no problem. You can look at your tree, but your eyelids should move. How nice, I like this tree very much. How many cherries. But our eyelids are moving. It’s okay. But if you are gazing on the cherry, and your mouth little opens, yes, so trāṭak is very powerful, very good, but also very dangerous. That’s why Ayurveda has only five, and Haṭha Yoga has six. That’s it. Thank you. Now we will think more about this, okay? So please, don’t gaze on something. And if you do gaze, then gaze in your Ātmā, in meditation. And that’s why some people are giving instruction in meditation on the raising of the dawn, the rising sun, ocean, trees, beautiful, beautiful mountain. So it means that they take us away from that heavy something in our heart or in our thoughts, which we cannot solve. Therefore, these instructions are given. But when you are very pure and clean, then you should be within thyself. Your wisdom, and you should always think of others, good things. What good can I do? What can I do? So, Haṭha Yoga is beautiful, great, and definitely successful. Yoga in their life. Go and work according to the yoga in daily life. It is simple. Truth.