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We begin now, and I am sure you all know the sound of Om and what Om means. This sound has no meaning other than that resonance which harmonizes everything in nature—in the ocean, on the earth, in the air, and within our body. According to yogic teachings, if we learn how to harmonize, then we can accomplish everything. Within our body, and within all living beings—animals, insects, trees, everywhere life exists—there are five principles. Beyond that, there is also life in stones, meaning sand and the various kinds of precious stones. The clarity of crystal stones gives them more resonance and connection with the moon, sun, stars, and space. This is what we seek to practice in yoga: how to balance our body. Our body, composed of five elements, is called the body of nourishment. It is built by eating and drinking, whether liquid or solid. This is the Annamaya Kośa. Anna means nourishment, the food we eat, and this forms our physical body. Of course, the body has many parts: bones, flesh, glands, organs, and so on. If you practice yoga, you likely begin for good health, harmony, and peace. This involves not just the physical body, but also what we eat, where we go, what we say, and what we drink. There is a resonance, a beginning resonance, and that is energy. From nourishment, we derive energy. This power energy is not visible; we cannot catch it, see it, or move it about, but it exists within our body. Our physical body, the Annamaya Kośa, has that capacity, but it is very weak on its own. There is no inherent energy, and energy itself has different kinds. When one drinks alcohol, there is also energy, but it is negative energy. There are other things our body harbors: hate, jealousy, and great anger. Hate, jealousy, and negative thinking have no visible form, but they reside in our body. They emanate like heat. We cannot see it, but it is said that if someone is angry, everything can be destroyed by that anger. We bring a treasure into our house. When we come to our door, if we carry anger, that anger will take all your prosperity away. It will not allow it to enter your house. This means it will not allow good qualities and everything beneficial to enter our body. If we are angry, hateful, or jealous, then our nourishment brings forth this energy, and that energy can be positive or negative. If we have good food and good friends, then we have a very harmonious life. So, Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa. Prāṇa is the energy, and prāṇa we can also say is life. And life we can say is our soul. We do not know how our soul is, but that... is the energy also, we can say, that power energy. After that, the third sheath is the energy of the mind. The mind and brain are very mighty. Can the mind control our energy or our body or not? The mind is very, very quick. You know this well, but I will give an example. We all have our brain and mind. Let us all come together and imagine something we cannot normally conceive, reaching a place so quickly. Let us say I tell you one word, and you are already there. I will say, "Jupiter." Now, when we say Jupiter, you all, including myself, are on Jupiter—but mentally. Animals also have a mind, but not to this extent. They do not understand. But as humans, we can achieve so many things through this mind. The mind can be positive or negative, good or not good. Sometimes we say, "I change my mind." How do you change your mind? Why not change your body? So, this is different. The mind is the best, but if we always bring into our mind anger, hate, and jealousy, then our life is no more. After that comes knowledge, and that is called the Manomaya Kośa. There is also Prāṇamaya Kośa, Ānandamaya Kośa, and another is this: our intelligence. We have much intelligence, but we have not made a control and we have not practiced. So, that is called, in our brain-mind, when you say, "I want to become a doctor, and I will study medicine," our brain and intelligence go in that direction. Another might say, "I am interested in allopathic and Ayurvedic medicine," so the mind leans more toward Ayurvedic. My brain is toward Ayurvedic, and another's is toward medical medicine, the doctor. So how do we train ourselves? We can train ourselves for living, for money, eating, etc. But this doctor will not go with us when we die. Then our science of medicine—whether homeopathic or Ayurvedic—is there, finished. It means we came, we brought a basket of water from the well, but there was a hole in the bottom. By the time we reached our door, the water was gone, empty. Therefore, do we understand that our life is going further or not? Some say, "It is only this, all disappears." The body, all elements, water, bones, everything is finished. Yes, that goes, but have we solved it? Many of us go to the graveyard and say, "My parents are here." Where the soul is gone—so doctors or engineers are very good. There is nothing negative, but after that, it is finished. You come to a new birth, and you will learn many different things. Sometimes it is said that this knowledge or these talents come to a person from what one is doing. I would like to come again without saying anything; you want to choose medicine. It can be coming back to our soul, but we cannot say. And then the fifth point is that we are free from all these problems, all the karmas, what we call karma. Karma, we can say destiny, and destiny is from the left side or right side or that side. This is a very short glimpse of yoga, to give the knowledge to persons to practice yoga. So, yoga, it is said that you have to lead your life healthily and try to eat naturally. Now, chemical medicine, it is also medicine. All the names of medicine are also from Ayurveda or what we call allopathic. So it is. Language is good. But the medicine we have is very good. We should not neglect it, and we should not be angry, and we should not say it is not good. But for always little things, taking tablets, that is not good. You all know about this one question, one joke, or whatever. There was one lady or one man. Okay, please note the ladies, let's put on the boys. So one man came to the doctor, and he was always coming and saying, "I am ill, I am ill. I have fear, fever, I have a problem, I have a stomach problem, I have this, I have this. I always have flu, always have flu." He came after one week, and again came one week, and one day he said, "Doctor, please, can you give me..." such a medicine that you can cure me, he said. Yes, that I can do, he said. Why have you not done before, he said? Okay, you did not ask me, so how? It was very cold, the snow, and the temperature 20 percent down. Malik, and he said, "What doctor said, 'Go on your balcony and take cold water and wash yourself, very cold'?" He said, "Doctor, then I will be more ill." He said, "Yes, then I can heal you, otherwise not." "And how will you heal me?" He said, "Yes, at least 10 days, and in 10 days..." you will get medicine, you will be healed. And he said, "But can I do without medicine?" Then, "When? How will you heal?" "Yes, in 10 days also without medicine." So it is both. For little, little things we are taking medicines, it is not good, but we... have an accident, and we are really painful, and we can die. And the doctor will come and give an injection; the pain is less, and they can do something. So medicine is also good, and naturopathy is also very good. Similarly, yoga says, "Please do good in this way." Our body has 72,000 nerve systems. When we are born, at that time there are 72,000 nerve systems. Here it is. We see? And all these nerves go through the whole body. Out of these, there are four nerves which are the best for us in yoga. You can learn today these four nerves. Three nerves come from the brain and control the whole system: either Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā, or Iḍā—the Sanskrit names. But we can see the left nostril, right nostril, and center nostril. These both, we... this is the moon, that is the sun, and that is the pure balance of the body, we know. Everything knows this. The moon goes from left immediately to right, and this comes to that side mostly when we have problems with the brain, and because of that, we get brain hemorrhage or something like that. This down, then, is prāṇa energy. So when you practice your yoga posture at home, at least when you practice, think: where is your breath? Is it coming more on the right or not? Both are... very good, and it is going like this. It is called, we call, the serpent eyes. Like a snake is going like this, and so these two nāḍīs from here, from our two hemispheres, are going, and there are the chakras in the body, and that you have here. I will... not open your center again, so this chakra is one on the top of the head, then on the opposite of the head, and here, everyone, everyone you will see, if you have cut your hair, or you have seen your child or anyone, if it is small. You will see here, it is like a chakra, yes? And some have it, too, really. So, see here where it is that prāṇa is going. And so, from here, between the eyebrows, and this is which is keeping the meditation, concentrations, and all, we have balance from this. This point then is coming the vocal cord, then heart, then... navel, then the svādhiṣṭhāna and mūlādhāra. These are the chakras which balance our whole body. Then one is which is very powerful, that is strong for the whole body too. And even these nāḍīs, which we have in the brain, are controlling this one that you are practicing in your yoga. And that is called the vajrā nāḍī. Nāḍī means the nerve. Vajra is iron. It is like iron power in that Vajrāsana. And you should practice. You will see how good you will feel. If there are all chakras, you have them there on the body. And so we can try to practice today. It will help you with many, many things in your body, this chakra. Only that we can do, if you can. And so, is there any boy who can do the sitting Vajrāsana? If you have gastric problems, this posture you should... constipation you have, this will heal it, and many, many things. This posture is called Vajrāsana. So Vajra is the strong power, iron belt, but after that is called that which we... stand on our toes, but not toes like this, but like that. So no, no, do not go like that. You are destroying my whole structure. So now he will just stand on the toes and knees down, knees down. Yes, that is it. Now you can go there. Yeah, look, look to me, and they can see. Thank you. So now you see that, and now, little apart your toes, your toes. Yes, not so far. Okay, now slowly, hands like me. Very good. And again, come. Now this posture is going through all this nāḍī system now, and now. Raise your knees up a little. Yes, very good. Now you know that all the systems, nāḍīs, nerve systems from the end, from our foot soles, from there it is going, and now you can go like this, and concentration goes from here only, otherwise you can fall down, you can move. So your concentration should be here. Do not look anywhere else, and now concentration is here, but hands up, yes, very beautiful. And come in the front again like this, and go again sidewards, and hands palms up, and go up. And if you can stand up on the toes, stand up, but I, I did not say that the heels on the... floor, yes. And then hand sidewards, and again sit on the toes down, and fold your arms near the chest, and place your hands on the thighs and on the toes. Just walk, look to that side, yes. Very good, and place. Your knees on the ground and your toes again flat, raise your hands up slowly. Turn to the floor, the elbows relaxed. Around normal breath, and slowly again, hands up. Hands on the thighs, hands on the knees. Toes again, and hands in. The front raising, knees up, hands sidewards, and hands up, palms together, and stand up on the toes and walk on the toes, 10 steps on the toes, and it is then finished. Okay, again, go on the, yes, hands sidewards, fold your hands to the chest, hands on the. Tuck your knees, knees on the floor, and your toes again. Another push, raise your hands up and relax, and go down. Elbows on the floor, normal breath. Relax in this position and come up. Hands on the thighs, and change your posture. So this is one of your programs which you are doing: yoga for your physical bodies, the breath, energies, balance. So it must not be that you will practice now twenty postures. No. One or two postures are enough. But exactly and slowly, and a long time is changing. Then we have more and more effect on our body. For example, make your hand like this, yes. It is also very good. And now tight is strong, thumb inside, the thumb inside, and see your wrist and... open your palm, fold your elbows, looking towards your palm side, and now release your wrist. Now we did like this and this. We did day and nights different, and so practice yoga in daily life with the best slow, exact, and your teachers. It is very expert, according to yoga and daily life, if you practice 20 postures, and if you practice only five, these five will give you more benefit than the 20 others. So, if your time, you can do, if you practice, then about 45 or 50 minutes your āsanas, then 20 minutes your prāṇāyāmas, and 10 minutes relaxation. So it should be about one and a half hours for your yoga practice, which you are doing for physical bodies or more concentrations of our relaxations or meditations, etc., but take time for your bodies, everything. Not only that, I like to have my muscles and this and that, no. We have to go to all inner, inner power, the inner energy, inner all organs. That slowly we have to come to. That, and not quickly, quickly... So that is the best way to practice yoga. Further, if you will or you do further the spiritualities, that also goes with postures, āsanas, and prāṇāyāmas, also concentration. And when you meditate, do not give the instructions to yourself or to your teachers or to your students. Do not tell to send your... consciousness, with your instructions now, a beautiful ocean and the horizon. There is a beautiful color. Then, while you are closing your eyes, you can open and look there. So, look within thyself. The whole day you are working this and that. Now, the best thy meditation is that you go inside. We have the ocean within us. We have a light. We have all, everything. So that is that we, our inner self, will expand so far that the whole universe is within ourself. That comes slowly, slowly. And it means health, happiness, relaxation, and a good life. Hari Om. And next time. Om Śānti. Peace, peace, peace. Fold your palms and rub your palms. Give the energy in the body and in the palms, and place your palms on the face and your whole body. Hands down. Fold, bend forwards. Touch your hands on the ground, your forehead, and feel the relaxation and stretching of the back muscles, and blood circulation more in the brain, eyes, and face. Relax, relax, relax. And with the help of your hands, slowly raise your head up. Adió.