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Understand your Atma

A spontaneous spiritual discourse on ancestry, karma, and yogic practice.

"Similarly, also the plants and the trees. They are in seed, and branches will go like that with one little seed, but we cut the branch and we put some other plant on it. That is confused."

"So, the human should understand animals, understand the trees, understand even the water. It has its path."

The lecturer addresses a morning gathering, speaking extemporaneously on themes of ancestral lineage, spiritual confusion in the modern age, and the law of karma. He uses analogies from nature, such as migrating birds and grafted plants, to illustrate the importance of balance and following one's true path. The talk transitions into a detailed explanation of prāṇāyāma techniques—Nāḍī Vedanā, Nāḍī Śodhana, and Anulom Vilom—for purifying the body's energy channels and achieving inner union. He concludes by discussing the omnipresent divine consciousness, referencing a prayer to the Guru.

Filming location: Slovakia

Have a nice day. Did you sleep well? You had a dream, someone? Yes. What? I see. Parents are very great. Yes, and parents also, and children also, but it should be in one equality. Yes, grandmother is from another man, and another man is from another grandmother. Other father and other mother, and this is Kali Yuga. And that's why you have confused dreams. Have you had some confused dreams? Yes, it is the truth. So, from our heart and the soul, that soul follows. For example, we have now many highways, and time to time they are writing there, "Careful, animals are crossing." Different kinds of deer and other kinds, and like this. But this present animal, they don't know, but the highway is there. But how does this new generation know where the ancestors were passing? So even the animals and the birds, now, the many birds fly to Africa or somewhere in warm countries. And they come back again to this, your village, on your house roof. They are coming back again. The ancestors died, but that egg which came out has the feeling that that is my ancestors. Similarly, also the plants and the trees. They are in seed, and branches will go like that with one little seed, but we cut the branch and we put some other plant on it. That is confused. And when it is confused, then that fruit, which you cut it and put it on the other, maybe the fruits are okay, but it will not grow that seed further. Yes or no? So similarly, when we are disbalancing our ancestors till today, your children, till today, that ātmā, the soul—that soul is constantly coming again there. Yes, it must not be in Martin, but it can be somewhere. But it is there. And so now we confuse a lot. Temporarily you are changing, but after that, this soul will go with a lot of problems, a lot of problems. It will be only in the space; it is like an aeroplane, and that aeroplane is now. Want to land it because there is no more petrol, but there is still what we call in the runway. They still cannot give them to land it now; it may crash with another plane. Similarly, your parents have disrupted your ancestors, so your father or your mother goes to the wrong side, to other men or women. And the children will go here or there. Their soul will be very much confused, and you will not have further, again, long, long the runway there. So, therefore, the human should understand animals, understand the trees, understand even the water. It has its path. You may make a big city there, but sooner or later, that big flood will find the way, will destroy the buildings, because it is their path. So this is, we have to understand. We have to understand, we are humans. Our soul was straight forward to the Brahmaloka. But it is not anymore. It is gone. And if it is gone, it is confusion. Where should this seed go? Because this seed will not, how to call it, grow again. And so we humans have all seeds of the old grass, our corns, our fruits, our animals, our animals like donkey and horse, you cross, yes, these donkeys that will give the baby, but that's all. That's all. Nowhere. You know that? The donkeys cannot get again that we call, what we call, the what we call? It's called, "We were riding when we went to the Himalayas." Pool, yeah. And so will you. You will be like that. It's not me; who am I to tell you? I only tell you that it is like that. So, many, many went with me to the Himalayas, and they had to lead, Lord, so many luggages. Very much. But still, they are walking through the rocks and waters and getting on the buttocks, that's all. That will be like this, so we have to become a pure human, you see. It is a love that is different: the father's and mother's love that came to the child. And is that child now confused or not? So, mother, the father, the second father or second mother, and the children are completely confused. Yes. Still, you are feeling when somebody tells you, "From where are you?" I am from Slovakia. I am Slovak. Slovak, Czech, Slovak, yes. We are the Slovakians. Slovaks and Czechs, we united, but still we are separate. We were Czechoslovakia. We have good harmonies and everything, but when they separated, automatically you as a Slovak came back, because it is in your blood everywhere. But now we don't know, confused, and so you are the mule, yes. How the soul will go, not this body. The soul, therefore, we shall come and purify. In this world, we should purify all our karma. We do believe in karma. Yes. In Christianity, we believe very much in karma. So you come to the hell or the heaven. What is the hell? Which kind of karma? That's it. I don't know very much about Christianity, but something I know: it is said you married in the church, and now you cannot marry a second. They will not make it; no ceremony will be there in the church. Of course, nowadays, office is okay, but still, the person who marries second time, emotionally good, everything is good, but still the heartbeat is different. But if Jesus or Jesus' other devotees talk, they make this. And this is everywhere, everywhere. I did not think to talk about this today, until I stepped here and then I sat down. I don't know why it came, but I think he always gives me the thoughts. I don't take the books and read. Yes, and now we can say it was written like this, and this is this. Do you like that? You know, this is good. So looking, checking my thoughts, my heart, and my brain, and my ātmā is giving that which is coming to me. So, it is said you enjoy something, eating. But you don't know there is a poisonous fruit. That's it. Anyhow, let's come further. Our many elderly brothers and sisters are here. And whom do you count now? How old should he be? Eighty years is okay, or ninety years, okay? Or a hundred years, okay? Yes, why not? One hundred ten years. Why not? But when you are a hundred years old, it means that you climb the mountain to the peak of the mountain. That is 50 steps. Where are you going now? Back going. So, our age is 50 years, and then we are going down again: 40 years, then it's 80. But after 40 years, our age is going down. When we were born, we couldn't walk. Slowly, slowly, slowly we became bigger. We played football, we skinned. Everything, because we were rising up. And now we will go, but it is still we are going down. So God has given us the time, oh human. Concentrate. Do believe in that God which you believe. It must not be that the Slovaks believe differently and Poles differently and Hungarians differently. We don't care or think that we must believe in Hungary or in Poland. We are in Slovakia, and we adore our land. And what we believe, we should believe, but finally, there is only one. Morning, when you look and you open your eyes, there is only one sunrise. So we are all the rays of the sun. But one day we will be there. We don't know what God is, how God is. Do we trust God, etc., etc.? But in our heart, there is some movement that God is there, and God is in each and every entity. In each and every green leaf of the plant, and still we don't understand. And our whole globe is God's energy. We are the cells of God. We are here. But our ancestors gave us, and we are following. So, elderly people, you can now tell yourself, "I am on the path of the old." Who is 40 years? Yes. Now you are on the path, but who am I to judge you, 40 years? Who am I to judge you? Sixty years or a hundred years. Because even a small child can die. This is another thing. We are very sad. Even the child embryos died. We don't know why it's happening like this. This is a miracle, or whatever God's in it. So, there are some people who don't believe in God. They believe more than we do. Because they love all equally. They know in their innermost being, they know what God is. But not this. So there is no one who is without God. And every cell within us is a life of God. But we tell God, "Please, ten years more." Because my daughter has to be married. When I see my daughter coming out of the church with a white dress, married. Yes. And my son is also coming, married, hand in hand. And we will be happy and joyful. Then we have finished our duty. Oh, my children, you should take this duty. This is not a joke. It is not a joke. It is like that. What is the difference between humans and others? God said, "I give you free." Finished. But I'm observing. And what is karma? And karma is only for humans, not animals. And so, destiny. So that you believe or you don't believe. Finally, it will be counted there in your bank, how much money you have. And he will say, "Oh God, so little." I was working so hard and putting money in my bank. He goes home and he tells his wife, "Darling, I put so much money in the bank, and why so little?" She said, "Yes, my darling, you don't know. I bought many things yesterday. Včera som kúpila veľa vecí." When? Kedy? When you were in the sauna. Ked si bol v saune? Who? Who? This wife said. Manželka povedala, "Darling, when you were in sauna." Miláči, keď si bol v saune. You mean? Ako to myslíš? I told you, darling. Hovorila som ti, miláči. I telephoned you. Volala som ti. Yes. I telephoned and I said, "Darling, I want to have today the best of the best Mercedes." First, Mercedes, I want to buy. It is only 200,000 euros. Can I have it, darling? Okay. After, again she said, "Darling, there is so beautiful this necklace, and we go tomorrow dancing, but it's very expensive. Can I have it?" Yes, so like this, he said this three, four times, and he said, "Yes, yes," and she dipped in the bank and the money is gone. And when that man came out of the sauna cabin, one man said, "Whose telephone is that?" He said, "It's mine." Then quickly call your wife. But the money was gone. The husband said, Darling, you are for me more wealth than money. No problem. So you should be. To your wife. And there is a story on the other side, from your wife to your husband. I will tell you next time. It's more beautiful and... OK. So this is how we understand our soul, our ātmā, our self. Nothing will go with us. Nothing. It doesn't matter, money in your house or the bank. Your jewelry, your dress, everything. When the soul is gone, all cells will die. It means they also go, like the beautiful bee here, where there are thousands of flies and there is one queen. When the queen will fly away, all will go; everything remains there. So similarly, our soul and all that is living inside that is great. So understand our ātmā. The beauty is your soul, and therefore it is said there is what is called astrology. You must know when you were born, which second you were born, and then you will find your partner, where your partner was born. And then the astrologer will check both, then it will be correct, so definitely. It will tell this and this, then you both will be more happy. You will love each other very much, and you will be like one, ever and ever. So you should know, if you see somebody like this and they are not okay, we are going in a hurry home. There is not a hurry home. Emotionally okay, but after some months or years, you become like an enemy. So therefore, there are very many good things we have to follow. And follow your parents. Many children, after 15, 14, 16, or 20 years, say to their parents, "I don't like you. You are not good parents." This society has now become different. That is another thing. So, old and young, we cannot choose, but we think now we are getting older sooner or later. This is the one. Okay. Now, the second point, third point. Now, you are young or old. Yesterday we had beautiful exercises from our Yoga in Daily Life book. We were choosing many postures, especially for the elderly persons. I'm sure that you have many of our books for the children, for the kuṇḍalinī, etc. And now we will try, I said that without any money, anything, we shall give from our side for the elderly people one and a half hour once a week, according to your, any yoga teacher should go, not only one. So we shall give them something good for their health. That's it. Now, our balance in the body, we have within us both the male and female, is within. What we call, you see, Śiva and Śiva appear again, one as the female and one as the man. So, from where there is separation, like man and woman. It is within and outside. In that way, many things in our body are balancing both of us. And the left nostril is the moon. And that right is the sun. So now you know all, many, many know, there are very, very experts sitting here, but some don't know. So first, when we make any action, stepping, walking, sleeping, many things in the left side. The left side gives lots and lots of balance to our whole body. And in the household, the best keeping good house tip-top clean, nice flowers and this and everything. Who is keeping? See one man who is living alone and one female living alone, and see which house is better. So this one is the most humble, kind, pure, with purity, pure thinking, etc., etc. Male also, but balancing, protection, many things in that right side. And that's in the Kuṇḍalinī book. Do we have this? You know, with this Kundalini book, you have everything or not? And if you have not read this book, you have read nothing. All holy books are behind. Now you have to do it. So there are many, many things which, okay, you will read it, very good. So, each cakra which we have here, we have here, there is a balance, both. Iḍā and Piṅgalā, so left and right nostril. And mostly we have the brain damaged, or the brain we call paralyzed. So when the sock is mostly from the left side, we are paralyzed. The hand is paralyzed, many things, the left one, but the doctor says, "Rest, relax, give some kind of medicine, and it can recover better. It will recover." So, female can paralyze you, but then she said, "Okay, again you become healthy." But this right one, when that is, then more nearly one can die. So male and female are within ourselves, and it's going like this. That's called the serpentine, but it means only we have the road. When we go to the Tatra Highway, we are going like this, that's it. So the prāṇa is going like this. So, first, always prāṇa, prāṇāyāma through the left nostril. Close the left and right nostrils, and inhale. Only with the left nostril. Five minutes, ten minutes. And then, with the right, that is balancing our whole body and mind. Our thoughts, our feelings, so this is called the Nāḍī Vedanā. Means go through Iḍā and Piṅgalā. When we practice prāṇāyāma, if you cannot do āsanas one day, it doesn't matter. But prāṇāyāma we should do every day. That's very important. Now, many people are doing prāṇāyāma like this. That's wrong. Disbalanced. And block the breath. That's not good. These are two fingers, Iḍā and Piṅgalā. Females are always friends. This middle finger is balancing. So these two fingers, the index finger and middle finger, we balance on our eyebrow center. Then these nāḍīs, these nerves will balance very nicely. And second, when you have like this, then you sit really straight. Otherwise, you go like this. Yesterday, some people were doing pranayama, very little. And prāṇāyāma like this. It was sleeping very little, so these two fingers are here. The thumb is blocking the right nostril, and the ring finger blocks the left nostril. And these are always like this. Now the breath is flowing free. Balancing these nāḍīs, keeping the body straight, then you will understand the yogic feeling. And then, with the ring finger, we close the nostril, and the thumb is away, and we inhale and exhale with the right nostril. When we do only inhale and exhale with the left nostril or right nostril, that is called nāḍī bhedana. It means we are going through and through these nostrils, cleaning it. The left and the right, so this is called the nāḍī vedan. Vedan means go through. Then comes the nāḍī śodhana. Nāḍī śodhana. So purification, now we inhale and exhale on the other side. So we are cleaning from the left nostril to the right nostril. This is very, very important; you must know all. And then, after five minutes, always have a little interval, one or two minutes, and then from the right side. So, inhale through the right, exhale through the left. Inhale through right, exhale through left. Inhale through right, exhale through left. That's also called the bedan, or the purification. We call it moon and sun. So we clean the nostrils, going through, sorry, opening, then purification, cleaning. Then the third step: understanding. Yes. You didn't sleep in the night, I think. Okay. Then it is called anulom vilom. The yogic word, okay? Anulom vilom. That means balance. So inhale through the left. Exhale through the right. Inhale through the right. Exhale by left. This is one round. That's called anulom vilom. Inhale left. Exhale right, inhale right, exhale left. This kind of pranayama should be done very peacefully and with full concentration. If someone has a brain hemorrhage, this prānāyāma which I gave you now will help you very, very, very much. But no holding breath. Don't stop breathing. Only let go. Left nostril, inhale, exhale, inhale. And then, the other side. And in the very beginning, when you do the pranayama, two, three minutes, be very aware. Breath in and out. Not too long and not too close. It will help us very, very much. So, the Nāḍī Vedan, Nāḍī Śodhan, and Anulom Vilom. That is that. Very, very important pranayama for all of us. For eyesight, for many, many things, it's good. But always have these two fingers here, please. Many are teaching yoga and coming here, yoga teachers, and doing like this. But blocking is not good. We have to have a balance. So, the Ājñā Cakra, and so is the Ājñā Cakra here, is the Ājñā Cakra. Now, left is the nāḍī Candra, and the other is Sūrya. But here is the center of Śiva. The eye of Śiva, the third eye. And now you will see in this picture. Little color is like, which color is this? This. And the other is orange-red, so this is the Śiva Liṅgam, and this one, this is the male and female together, left eye and right eye. So now here you see, the left nostril is "ham," and the other side is "kṣam." So ha-kṣa ha-kṣam. It's called ha-kṣa. It becomes yoga. Yeah, so left and right become yoga, union, so that is called yoga. So when we enter into the yoga, that is here in the eyebrow center, and then it is called the Śiva eye, or the eye of Śiva. Or the light, etc. Above that will come then the bindu. There comes the nectar, but nectar is not sweet like honey. This is a different nectar. But you have to purify for a long, long time. I tell you only the theory. But one of my friends, he is a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, and he is doing this, what's called Kecharī Mudrā, and really his tongue goes in the palate, and one hour he can stand, and he said there's so much is coming now, sweet and different things. After that, he takes about this much, half a cup of the ghee, melted ghee, and half a litre of milk. He said he had to drink. I can bring you here. Do you want to have it here? "You want to learn it?" He told me many times, "Swamiji, I can do it." I said, you do it and I will see. But then you are free of all diseases. There are still many yogīs who are doing this Khecarī Mudrā. So prāṇa, the prāṇāyāma, in this anuloma viloma, and then we come to the bindu, and then the śāstra. This book you have, read it once more. You must see the colors, everything, and you don't have it. You should have it now. It's coming, Christmas, and you should buy it for your friends. You can buy it for your wife or for your husband. What shall I do with this? You should read. I will not. You will read it and then finish. And when you read, you open the treasure. The treasure of the wisdom of your being, your body. So, my dear, in our yoga in daily life, and this bhajan, I wanted to translate, but I will not translate anymore because it is a very big and very nice. So according to the pranayama, pranayama is a mold, then the āsanas. But āsanas are also not just like this. It is very important. And then prāṇāyāma. After that, meditation is better. And after meditation, it will be more different, experiences, samādhis. Now you see? But be very careful and practice according to our book. Otherwise, one can become confused. And don't run behind the kuṇḍalinī. You are a kuṇḍalinī yourself. So, this is a science of yoga. And yoga is very first. That's why I said there are two things: space, endless. We don't know how far is the space, and then it's consciousness. That consciousness is also endless. We have a little bit closed, but our consciousness is big, far and far, endless. Now, from these two, the space and consciousness. So, who is in whom? Consciousness in the space, or the space in the consciousness. Beyond our mind, beyond our mind is our consciousness, that conscious beyond. Space is inside, or is outside. A balloon. Space is in a balance. Or outside. So we should not run behind this. But there are three principles. It's called balance, harmony, and balance. Harmony, balance, and oneness. This is called garbha. It is like an egg, you know. Many times people ask you a question, and this is a question which a person doesn't think like that. And so many times people ask, "Then tell me, who was first, the bird or the egg?" What should we order? Now we know. You should know. It is Śiva. Yes. So it is that egg of the entire space. So space and consciousness are brought to Śiva. So, who made this? What is that? The space and consciousness. From there begins Śiva. He had no mother and no father. No one gave him birth, but he himself manifested that egg and form. From there, we begin balance, harmony. In that egg, harmony, balance, and one point forgotten, and unity, and unity. From there we are coming, and so from there our generation begins. The first was Śiva. So these three principles are yoga, union, that was a union, harmony, balance, unity. Now, there is a mantra: "Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā Ho Mahātmā Puruṣottama." So, yesterday we were chanting this prayer of Mahāprabhujī's disciple Śivānanda: "Śrī Guru Ātmā." The Gurudev is Ātmā. Your Ātmā is Gurudev. You are the Guru, but you are dormant, dormant. There we have to awake in that. Ale musíme to v sebe prebudiť. It is you, your Ātmā, your soul. Siri Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā, and that is the highest one. O Mahātma! And that's called Mahātma, the self-realized. You know someone whom we call Mahātma? We call all sādhus Mahātmā, but we also call Mahātmā Gandhi "Mahātmā" for his thoughts, his love, his wisdom, everything. So he was called, Gandhi, you are a Mahātmā. And so it became Mahātmā Gandhi, given to him, I think, by one of the poets from India. So, Mahātma, Puruṣottama. Puruṣottama means the highest one, Śrī Guru, Ātmā, Paramātmā. Ho, Mahātma Puruṣottama. In the humans, in the humans, the highest is called Puruṣottama. Nabha means the space. Whole space, nabha rūpa, and that Mahātmā, that Gurudev, that is called endless. The space that is the form of thy ātmā, that you are, that is your consciousness, that has no quality, no quarreling, no anger, no jealousy. It's not easy, is it, to say hate, jealous, anger, etc. Then we are not there, like a clear sky blue that is in this prayer. So there is one line I have forgotten: "Sakal Jagke Antaryāmī." And that one is in everyone. That Mahātmā, that Gurudev, that God is within. It means feel in each and every entity thyself in you. And it is in you. Everything is in us, but we cannot look within ourselves. We are always outside. We are always outside. We have mistakes within us. But we give these mistakes to others outside. That's a big problem. But if that Gurudev, that Bhagavān, that Highest, that One is in everyone, That dwells and that accepts or sees every call. He said, "Every entity is my ātmā." So your soul, your realness, you, who are you? You said, "Yes, I am." What's your name? "Yes, my name." Where are you going? I'm going to my house. Where are you? I'm in my house. Where are you? I'm working, I, I, my, your soul, and that you are in everyone. If you are hungry, and all are also hungry, but you ate and you said, "Now, okay, let's go," your stomach is full, but others are still hungry. So see within all. Holy Gurujī used to say that when there was a big satsaṅg. In the ashram, many people were getting food, and then there was a bhajan singing, Guruji, and this. Mahāprabhujī did not eat yet. He first ate when they all had eaten. And there was one man who came a little later and was sitting there, and Mahāprabhujī said, "You come here, you did not eat, come on." They all said, "How does Gurujī know?" He gave everybody eating, and sometimes Mahāprabhujī took the prasāda, eating and gave. To that person who is hungry, that is that. That ātmā is clearly in everyone, equal. That's why Bhagavān Dīpnā and Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Gurujī. And therefore, it's equal like the sky, and that is the truth: vimala cetanā ātmā, and that ātmā is without any spot. Who are we? We have to clean more and more laundry. We have to clean the laundry. Vimal, chetan, ātmā. Vimal means pure, chetan means aware, ātmā. So my ātmā means you are all, not me. Me too, but all. So all this, ātmā, parāśī, parvat, and that is beyond all. And next, in Strelky or in Gryph Strelky, are first in December, beginning of December in Strelky. Then we will have further this translation. I can say you just this is like that, and this is this, that is not when then I translate, and it. Goes to each and every cell of your body. Like this one here said, "Sakal jag ke antaryāmī." That one is antaryāmī, meaning he is dwelling in every creature. Charachar ke ātmā and his soul and the heart of him are all equal within them. And they are nābha rūpa. Nābha is the sky, and rūpa is the form, the beauty. So when the sky is very clear, it's really beautiful.

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