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The Path of Oṃ, Yoga, and Inner Purification

A satsang discourse on yoga, the power of Oṃ, and inner purification through the chakra system.

"If we are able to attain the path of Mokṣa through yogic power, yogic knowledge, and yogic practice, then we can attain it very easily."

"Anger is the poison, the first one... this kind of poison is for everyone."

The teacher explains the profound simplicity of chanting Oṃ and its connection to meditation and the nāḍīs. He details how unexpressed emotions like anger become a poison stored in the body, using the story of Lord Śiva and the Viśuddhi cakra as an allegory. Through personal anecdotes, including a story of a married couple's long-held grievance, he illustrates how small, unaddressed upsets cause physical and emotional disease, emphasizing the need for immediate clarity and the practice of Svara Yoga for purification.

Filming location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

In the evening and afternoon, we discussed yoga and Oṃ. Yesterday and this afternoon, we experienced the sound of Oṃ. To learn the sound of Oṃ is very easy, but many people cannot completely understand it. Sometimes, they recite Oṃ, but only half of it. If we are able to attain the path of Mokṣa through yogic power, yogic knowledge, and yogic practice, then we can attain it very easily. So that is about the resonance of Aum, which is very easy, but many people cannot, and they have no time to intone the sound. According to yogic sādhanā, if we can understand what yoga is, then the first path is definitely Aum. That Oṃ which we were chanting this morning and yesterday evening is what we have to learn. If we can learn that, then the yogī, through meditation, immediately finds a path, a beautiful path. It means it is a light, and the light goes far and far and far. It is like a horizon. When you want to see the horizon and how far it is, you want to go closer to see the origin. The closer you go, the farther the origin goes. Similarly, when we are chanting Oṃ from the Nābhi to the Sahasrāra Cakra, you will see that your path of meditation will be very easy and very peaceful. Yesterday I spoke about how the sound travels. In Prāṇāyāma, there are two kinds we do. One is for our physical health, and one prāṇāyāma is for yogic consciousness, to follow far and far, to the Brahmaloka. This is Svara Yoga. There are many different kinds of yoga, and people nowadays, they don't know; they only practice different kinds of postures, torturing the body and making competition. In yoga, there is no competition and no challenge. We do not give the challenge. If you want to give the challenge, then it means you have lost, because now you are the ego. As soon as the challenge is there, then our ego comes out. But there is more challenge in India. In other countries, there is a challenge, but not in that way like India. Indians are perfect, Indians are great, and Indians are enjoying the competition. If you don't know how to see how Indians give the competition, then you have to go to the bus and see how quickly they try to push themselves in the bus or in the train also. In the train, when the train is stopping, there is a competition. I go first, and you go first, and luggage there—that is a competition. But more or less, sooner or later, they are all inside. So that is a success of the Indians, definitely. And when there is some work to do, how should one work? Seva. Seva, you all know, and of course, it is an Indian word, a Hindi word. So when we say, "Come, please, can you help us do this?" Yes, of course, yes. Oh yes, "sa ye" or "sa sa" means "sa," that's it. It is said that I don't want to tell them because they will not understand, you see. This is a very, very complicated word, this, you know. So next time I will try to explain. For Indians, that is very easy. That's it. Anyhow, the practice which we are doing, there are different kinds of yoga. Śvara Yoga, if you can do the Śvara Yoga, then it is sure. It is 100% sure. And there are certain yogīs; yogīs means also sādhus, yogīs means also spiritual. It doesn't matter if he's a sanyāsī or gṛhastha. Though both can achieve everything, do not think that if I marry, I will not get liberation. Oh my God! Ask your mother. She can give you liberation. Yes? Be careful. Tell her, please wait for my liberation. Not now, after. Yes? The same thing can be on the other side. Which kind of liberation do you want? Liberation has many difficulties and differences. If you are in prison, when they give you freedom again, it is liberation from agony. So there are many, many different kinds of liberation, but I am talking about yoga, and yoga is not only for yogīs or sādhus or the householders. Sādhana, you do, definitely you will achieve what other yogīs want to achieve. Many yogīs and many people, they think that they are a yogī, but they are lazy. They are very lazy. Okay, how will I sleep down? No problem. Somewhere I will eat, and that and that. This is not a yogī. Anyhow, let's go further. Svārṣadhāna. Svārṣadhāna. So this is mostly from both nostrils. Svārśadhāna is coming through our nāḍīs. These are the nāḍīs which are in a human body. It is said there are 72,000 nerve systems in the human body. Our bones, so when we are born, when we are born, perfect all 72,000 nerves. And when we die as old, we have nearly, how to say, 2,000-3,000 nerves missing automatically. It is that, but the sādhanā is yogic, so the first are what we call the nāḍīs, three: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. Suṣumṇā nāḍī is in the center of the hemisphere here, going balanced today, and there are two nāḍīs which are connecting with the nostrils. But as soon as the breath is coming out from the left nostril, which is Iḍā, it comes from the Iḍā out, and then it goes to the right. And the right one goes to the left. That's from our Ājñā Cakra. At the same time, after a while, both nāḍīs connect together, and that is called the Sahasrāra nāḍīs. All is very, very much depending on our health, our meditation, our thinking, our restlessness, our anger, our hate, fear, etc. All is through these two nāḍīs from there. Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā, these nāḍīs, and now it is going from the hemispheres from there to the nostril. From the side, it goes down through the spine. Now, I don't know so much anatomy, but of course you are many doctors here, you know. So, I am so, doctors, they are helping me. Thank you very much. So, this is the left nostril goes to the right, and the right goes to the left. Crossing. And where is the crossing? It is one junction. This is a junction. So from left to right and right to left, they are crossing. And where there is a crossing, that is a center. And that center is now, we can say, one cakra. So it is Viśuddhi Cakra. And Viśuddhi Cakra, there are many things to tell, but generally we will say that the Yenadi, which is purification of the poison from the body. Viśuddhi Cakra, we know that about God, Bhagavān Śiva, when they were churning the ocean. And first, what comes out is poison, and now, poison, what to do? Where to throw it? It was saying that we will throw the poison towards the Rajasthan desert, yes, Sunātakne Sunāpne, because the samudra from the south. Indians, where the ocean... from there, the churning of the ocean, and then where to throw? So they think, "To the north, to the desert." But that will also destroy everything further and further. So they went to Śiva and God. Śiva will do everything. Yes, he is humble, and so they said, "What to do?" God Śiva knows that they will destroy the whole earth. He had that power, the Śiva. He said, "Okay, you give me." And he drank that poison. But Śiva is a yogī. You can say whatever, but Śiva is a yogī. And he drank the poison, but he kept it in his throat. And there, there was a poison that's called Viṣa, Viṣuddhi. From this, we have purified that poison. Now we see Bhagavān Śiva's throat is blue, but not in his stomach. If God or Bhagavān or Śiva would have swallowed it in the stomach, then Śiva would have been in samādhi for many, many ages, lost. So now, according to the techniques of the Śiva yoga, Śiva immediately brought the nāḍīs to purify the poison out again. But he purifies that, and so from the left, right, and center nāḍīs, all these three together form, that's why I call it Viśuddhi, Viś and Śuddhi, here these nāḍīs. Now, this is very interesting. We are, whatever we are swallowing, liquid, solid, or air, through our throat here. And that is what we are bringing. What are we drinking? Now, still constantly, that poison is stretching out in the whole body, everywhere. Which kind of poison? Your krodha, your krodha. You know what is krodha? Kāma, krodha, all. So, anger is the poison, the first one. Now, there are two persons, male and female, and mostly the females, women, they are very soft. She tries to be peaceful again, but she has a very strong anger, and she doesn't want to bring the anger to her husband or to others. But the ladies, they are swallowing this near the throat. And that's why mostly women have problems with the thyroid gland. Definitely, of course, there is more, also different, according to doctors, and this, that must not be only the anger, but still more is from there. Also, men have anger, but their anger is in different parts. And that will come to our heart, problems. It will be different organs of the male, also a big problem. Or the tension constantly in the brain. So this kind of poison is for everyone. And now, this which we swallowed, someone on the glands, here, Viśuddhi Cakra, the lungs. You know, you are drinking alcohol, you are using tobacco or different kinds, and you are attacking your lungs. Why do you drink this? But it is like this. If someone is an alcoholic, and you tell them, "Don't drink alcohol," don't tell that, "Don't drink alcohol," but ask the person, "Why do you drink alcohol?" This is a very big point. Why do you drink alcohol? That will give the answer, and mostly they will come at home, and one of them begins to drink. Why? Because one of the couple has such a poison of anger, and you try to make yourself lose something, drink, drink, and fall down. Yes, it's not only the men, there are the women also. In India there were very few women drinking, but now they are more forward than the men sometimes. And that's what? That is a poison. Lungs, the kidneys, the heart, and many others. Similarly, that comes from the Viśuddhi Cakra to the heart, Anāhata Cakra and Anāhata. Anāhata has many meanings, but Anāhata is also a mantra, kind of some prāṇāyāmas, but also endless, Anāhata. There is no limit. That is why there is a heart problem. There are some who are hungry and angry. Also, that poison is there, and that is in the stomach here. So people always have problems with what we call, Amar yaha kehte hai ki wo nabhi chal gayi. Kyo chal gayi? There is left or right, where side is wife and where side is right, left. Similarly, constantly, that one part is going there because this one is here. There's one beautiful story. There was, in the school life time, one boy and one girl. And slowly, slowly, they grew. They became about 20 years. They would be thinking that they will marry, so about 25 years then. They decided that they should marry. She loved him very much, and he loved her also very much. Not emotionally, but be together, be together and live a good life. But he and she, but she had a problem. She had one problem. Except this one problem, everything was best. But she thought that when we will marry, then I hope this problem will go away because he will be humble for me. They married, and they, nowadays you said honeymoon, honeymoon, there is no honeymoon, but anyhow they were. At the dining table at lunchtime, no breakfast, and from that day, that young woman who married him, she was completely away. She said, she didn't say to her husband, "Good morning," and he said, "Good morning." She said, "Good morning," looking there. She takes... She took her blanket and slept in the other room. Maybe she didn't want this whole life going and going and going. She had tension, she had anger, and she was so sad. That is a poison, and he could not understand why it is. But of course, she doesn't want to force her. So he is sleeping in one room, and she is sleeping in another room. They are working. She comes home. Okay, she will cook. She will cook. But it is something like she will make her cup of coffee or tea. Yeah. Make the tea, and like this. What happened to me, he said. And she said, "I know what happened to you. Only one thing, look, this is a problem with the couples." It was what? Yes, like my Arjuna? No, Arjuna? Yes, Krishna? Yes, Arjuna will come. Oh, he's flying on a different kind of... yes. He said, "I will make a surprise." Good. He's very strong because his father is in the... You know, going on some, some kind of now time, one day he said to her, "Darling, is today our golden jubilee? And I would like to bring you somewhere for the honey, not honey, the golden jubilee, in a beautiful hotel somewhere, and nice." She said, "Okay, okay." He said, "Not okay." He said, "I told you, okay." That was a heat inside, and man was also inside his stomach all the time, twisting. They were in a hotel, a beautiful hotel, a very expensive hotel, about, it was a $22,000 hotel. And that man went to the persons of the hotel and asked, "Please, can you make a nice lunch, dinner, breakfast? My father and I, we have a golden jubilee of breath. The marriage said, okay." So they made a very nice table, breakfast very, very nice. They are sitting, and they are sitting both sides. She is coming and sitting, and he is also there. So her husband said, "Darling, you know, it's our..." Golden Jubilee, she said, "I know very well." He said, "What is something wrong? For in towards me, for to you?" She said, "I know, and you know I say, please, may I have forgotten? Can you tell me what? There's little things, but that is a thorn. A small thorn is more problems and has pain." She said when I was about 12 years old and so on. So we were always nearby the neighbor's house, and so, and you were making breakfast for me and these parents, and so, and I brought nice bread, and he said, "I will do for you." So I said, "So you took the knife and you cut the edge of that bread, which is very hard." So that you put it on this side, and then the soft one you put on your side. My dear man, I was longing to have this achhā kaḍak bread kī. I was always thinking like this, and always you took, and that you take this side, and you gave me only the soft part. Only she said, "Darling, this is that." All she said, "Yes." Then he said, "Take it like this." He said. He cut the hard bread. Of the here and here, so this was hard work. He gave it to her, and he said, "Here." She said, "For 50 years I was suffering." Darling, I am so happy now. Then her husband said, "Then real journey, or what?" Honeymoon. Honeymoon. And so, for little things you are angry. Maybe to your husband, to your wife, to your child, your neighbor, your boss, or your secretary, anything. So if there is something, immediately clear it up. Please clear up. Then everything will be okay. So, why are you angry? Why does your boss make you angry and shout at you? There is also the boss, whose company, and always you said, "My boss is so hard," and this is everyone. But someone, they are not so nice. He says, "There are such small things that make you so dull." So there was one company, and there are about 50 or 100 people working there. And there are different kinds of workers. So they have this trolley, and he has to bring the sand from here to there, or this to there, and like this. One day, that worker with the trolley came to the boss. He was asking others, but nobody did anything, so he went directly to the boss, and the boss said, "Yes, please." What? And he said, "Please, boss, this trolley is broken or something." He said, "What? They are making sound? What kind of sound?" The far sound is like tick, tick, so we need some oil on it. He said, "I see, but I give you up. You can go home, I fire you, sir. Please, I have done nothing. I don't think why you said me." He said, "Yes, because this sound, this is not my mistake." "Then show me how sound is going on." Then he said, "I can show you the sound." So he said he was making. Sound walking, he said, "That's why I send you away, but this is not my mistake." He said, "Because the sound is wrong." "This is not wrong, sir." It's a mechanic. He said, "No, I know that is a sound, and the sound we will repair, but you don't know." He said, "Please, then tell me how. How should the sound be?" He said, "Tick, tick,..." Working, go and work quickly. You are going to slowly go away. So the anger was that him and here, they both came together, and he said, "Sir, I will be pleased. Take care, so that take care. I will always observe you." So always was working quickly, quickly. He was working quickly. So this is how little, little things. Which we can... So this is a Svara Yoga. In that Svara Yoga, which comes the energy, the prāṇas in the whole body, in different parts of the body. So Svara Yoga can tell us, so yogic, different yogic chādanas. So, from the Viśuddhi Cakra to Anāhata, your heart, the heart problem you have, either you took many drugs or you were angry for something, either to the husband or to the wife. My heart, my heart. Or third is the Viśuddhi Cakra, or the Svādhiṣṭhāna, or Mūlādhāra. Mūlādhāra, you know, we in India used to say, and maybe in some European countries also, when one is angry, and then you say, "What was that?" He was angry; he had a chili in his buttock. Mirchi daal di iske andar mein. So that paper, this kind of, that is a disease between person to person. And that we have to purify through the cakras. That's called cleaning of all the negative, anger, hate, jealousy, which is in our body. We can't become a yogī. We can practice. We can close the eyes. All the time we will do. Always you are sitting in meditation. What is that? It means you are a lazy person. You are a lazy person. Morning, six o'clock, you have to come to the work and this. Or five o'clock. Five o'clock, get up and take your dress like this. Four o'clock, from four to five, meditate. And also, same thing, evening till nine-thirty, you should work and take care. After, meditate and sleep. That's it. But what we are doing, we are lazy and we are trying to hide ourselves, but it is not right. That is why it is said, first, atha yoga-anuśāsanam. Patañjali says in the Patañjali book, first, atha yoga-anuśāsanam. Anuśāsanam. And atha yoga-anuśāsanam, from when? Just now. Not tomorrow. Atha. It means just now, begin. Atha yoga-anuśāsanam. Begin with yoga means you put your hangers out. Many are coming like this. Then I have Swāmījī is coming. Everybody sitting other each other, yes. I see the faces, you know, the Facebook. Yes, there was one person, that very famous man, and he had these problems, and so that he in the... Like in some conference, there was, and he was taking the different faces. So he really said, "I would like to see the faces, and how is that face? This, this, everyone is different." So he was making a book, yeah. All pictures. And then he said, "I have my Facebook." Yes. He began with his Facebook. White. Yeah. And then he said, "My book will be..." He showed me how and how they are doing. Slowly, slowly, he made the Facebook. So, in everyone's hands is Facebook, and no one knows. Everyone's face is in the face. All in the face is in the face of all the different kinds of machines. Maybe on Facebook, or in the other, whatever we have. Yes, I was surprised. I want to ask, there was one, there is one girl, she is my very dear, and she is a scientist, a very good scientist, and is in San Francisco in the college or the school or university. She is working there and is a very great person, she is very nice. And one day, she suddenly fell down, and they had to take her. In the hospital, she can't speak, she cannot walk, and no one knows her except in the hospital and the doctor. But they said, "This person from there and this," but which person and that? And her parents still did not act. And the message came from San Francisco. There is a yoga student, and there is a master, or this one is there. This and this and that. And then I said, "Which one? My name?" Because I have so many names. Now, thousands of my disciples always give me a yoga name. So I have many, many yoga names. Bhakti, Bhakti. There are many Bhaktis. Agni Devī, Agni Devī, how many? Already two Agni Devīs sitting here. Now I don't know which Agni is sitting, no? Where's Agni Devī? Yeah. And second? And both are from your country. Anyhow, so my disciples, they took this, and what was her name, and like this. Her face is there. Really. Yeah. Our face is a book. Yes, our book. Our face is our book. We get our face off, and we read the book, but how will we read the book without our face? Yes. So, you cannot hide. You cannot hide. Well, we are coming from there to there. So, Śrī Yoga, Kuṇḍalinī Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rāja Yoga, etc. That is all we have to come to in yoga, and not only the postures, āsanas and āsanas. This asana, good, is only for young children. About 25 years, 30 years, considering who is practicing all the day, maybe 40 years also. But this is not for all, but that we have to have, which is we are for our human life. Human life is to bring ourselves to the supreme consciousness, the highest consciousness, liberation. But for that, guru-kṛpā hi kevalam mantra, and both sādhanā dhire dhire. So this is inner sādhanā, inner yoga. You know, everything we can make good, our heart from inside. We can make our everything, our organs in our body, through that our love, means peace, harmony, happiness, no tensions. And that's why meditation, that we come at home and at least 10-20 minutes meditate. What means meditation? That's a very beautiful thing. Don't think anything except your mantra. Don't think I will go there and light this and that. That's not. Why are you going out again? You were out the whole day. And now again, you close your eyes and you are thinking out. No. Peace. Peace. Peace... And peace is what the Gurujī said through the satsaṅg. Asaṅga. Peace, peace, peace. So we will continue to say, so about this Śavarī Yoga, that's very powerful. And that I can tell you now, a little bit. Now let, for example, your left or right hand. Yeah? And I don't have anything to practice. Can I have your tissue a little bit? So, we try, okay? Aap sab ke paas hai ki nahi? Nahi, yeh toh koi baat nahi. Bas. Nahi, yeh toh teñjī baḍā hai. Aap dekhiye ki aap hold your hand like this and exhale the breath through the nostrils on the hand. Kera swas leo. From which nostril is the air coming more? Jis nāḍī se śvar cal rahā hai, from that nostril the more air is coming, here it is going. It went to that side, it went to the right side, so we can manipulate the prāṇas. Of the nostrils, and then both at the same time, it will go. I cannot all will give them, but I will say, "Hey, come on, yes, it went with both, and you are good, anyhow." So, similarly, Svārī Yoga we can do like... What they had today, the Jyotiṣ, in the Jyotiṣ is the Svārī Yoga also. So that we will next time again bring you this practice, Svārī Yoga, and Mahāprabhujī was practicing, and Mahāprabhujī Śvara Yoga very much. And it is said that in Īśvara yoga, a yogī can tell when he will give the samādhi, or let's say, die. And Mahāprabhujī, for more than one year he said to Holy Gurujī that, "There and there I will go," but Gurujī would not believe. He said, "Don't, please, tell me this, even this name, that you will go away." But it was, and it is. And then also, Mahāprabhujī taught everything. And he taught very, very, very beautiful or very good things. He said before going in his bhajan, that in New Delhi, he will come again, like Holy Gurujī said to Mahāprabhujī in the book. And then I read this, and what Modījī was talking one day, the same words that Mahāprabhujī said. And that I will show them, and Modi is like that. Yes, that was the Vākya of Mahāprabhujī. Time has come. Time has. So don't worry. Rāma, Bhagavān Rāmakā, Mahāprabhujī said that exactly. There are many things about Mahāprabhujī we will talk about, we will tell you. So Mahāprabhujī was the great, great. And so Mahāprabhujī now very much loves the Mahāprabhu, Holī Gurujī. Love is also very strict. And if you are not strict, then you are spoiled. That's it. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Chant, Satguru Swāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī Chant, Devādhi Dev Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Chant.

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