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Eternal journey within orselves

A spiritual discourse on the eternal self, chakras, and destiny, blending guided meditation with storytelling.

"If your eyes are open, there will be disturbance from your being. Therefore, close the eyes and be thyself within the self."

"The eternal journey within ourselves is that first we get out these organs in the body... I'm bringing you to thyself, that you are the cosmos."

A spiritual teacher leads a session beginning with a guided meditation on breath and loved ones. He then discusses the eternal self, yogic science, and the journey within, using stories from Indian tradition and Greek myth to illustrate concepts of destiny. He explains the significance of chakras, foot soles, and certain animals like the horse, emphasizing self-knowledge and the divine within the human body.

Filming location: India

Let me first call upon someone from the Supreme God. If you believe in energy, you believe in God. Happiness, joy—whatever you feel is the best and highest for you. Your father, mother, husband, wife, children, friends, God—anything. For one minute, close your eyes and give yourself into yourself. Relax. Close your eyes and just be thyself with the highest of thyself in your heart, in your thoughts, in your feelings. Just relax. Relax. Relax. If your eyes are open, there will be disturbance from your being. Therefore, close the eyes and be thyself within the self. Close the eyes. I will also now close the eyes. When you close your eyes, you don't know anything, so you should also close the eyes. Now, understand and feel and consciously know thy breath. I know that I am inhaling, and I know that I am exhaling. Our life is our breath, and our breath is the life. Our breath is our life in that way. It doesn't matter where we are or what we are doing, even if we are diving in the ocean. But our breath is always and always aware. With this, try to remember your very dearest. What is yours? Mother, father, brother, sister, children, dog, cat, cows—whatever is very, very dear to your heart. Very good. Now, rub your palms and place the palms on your face. Gently touch your eyelids, your face. Good evening, dear sisters and brothers. The beautiful day today had many good things, and now I am with you. The subject is eternal peace and eternal being with ourselves. We shall understand that our body—you all know it very well—but I am here to tell something like this. So, life—what we understand, what is life for everyone—we all know everything. But still, according to yogic science, what does it mean for me to be alive? And this life—why are we trying to live long? What is that? Who is that which keeps our life here? We always feel that someone is within us who keeps us in this. What was that? Sound, power—that is a very good power. Someone was preparing coffee; that's a good idea. We'll get everybody one cup of coffee. That's good. So, who is there taking care of our self? And where is it like this? You know yoga very well, I'm sure. Some may want to, some may not know, maybe. Otherwise, we are all yoga practitioners. And that is what we are doing: some posture, jumping up and down, stretching, sleeping, many postures. And at the same time, we are trying to understand our breath. We concentrate on the breath, but how long? How long do we concentrate and see our breath? When I look at some problems, then we understand the breath; otherwise, we forget it. And that is forgotten, which was very important for us. But there is somebody else—not you, not me—or I can tell myself. So there is something that has a system in our body, as a life. That one which is in us—if it is not with us, then it doesn't matter if we try to pump a lot of air or oxygen. But how long? The difference between that which is within our self, which is our self, and that which others try to pump into us about our breath. But similarly, the breath is okay, but our circulation in our body—and that we can do many, many things; the doctor tries very much. But how long will this rest in our body? So what is that within us, and what is in us? What we try to take—the nourishment, our food and water—and how is it going inside? Which direction to which direction for we were? And this, our doctors know very good surgeons; a doctor very good, better than myself, but you are maybe very perfect. But still, how is that? So then, when, let's say, we eat one mango—do you have mangoes in your country here? No, you don't have a country you buy that is a good. So, anyhow, if not a mango, then we can take the other—kiwi, apple. So, this is what? Then we are eating very tasteful. But the taste is only till the mouth. Inside, after the vocal cords, there is no taste anymore. Yes, if you eat very much chili, then you feel it through and through. But the rest we don't, we cannot. So now it is our body, the mechanism in the whole body—either humans or animals, even the trees also. And that is called, for me, the eternal journey within ourselves. Another thing is that all is God. We believe in God. You don't believe in God, or I don't believe in God—doesn't matter. Or, if not God, then different things we can say. What is within that, that suddenly we are gone? We have beautiful eyes, beautiful. But suddenly something has gone out; the eyes are also not anymore. That is also within our self—where it has gone and how it comes back. Yoga practice, we are doing very good, and we are doing some prāṇāyāma. You know, prāṇāyāma means inhale left and right, left and right, many things. But still, within them, how is that? If that one principle is not there, then we cannot breathe in and out. So, within our self is something all creatures may know, but humans we know, and animals also know. There's a monkey, and really, we saw one day in India. There was a Kumbh Melā in Allahabad, and people were in the train, just like you put it, bananas. And there, one monkey fell on the rail and was injured. People are looking. Another monkey came, and he was really giving a massage, putting down, winding up. Really, he gave life to one monkey. There was in the web, in what we call YouTube. Really, the animals to the animals. Similarly, many others tried this. So this is an eternal journey within everyone, as in ourselves too. And so, yoga, practicing more or less, we are doing only coming, lying down, relaxing, practicing. I feel comfortable. It's like, it's good. It's good, but we cannot get that which we want. And there are the techniques, the kriyās. And in the kriyās—can I have this book? What do you call the other one? Yes, thank you. You see this one picture, what it is. Many of you know, many may know why it is like this. Is it different? And there are other parts. There are some. It is also one picture, and this picture is different. Now, this is some yogī, the master, and the master of that master of the body. And our soul, our self within the whole body. Many people are trying to become a yogī. I am a yogī. They are sitting in meditation for a while, and you see, sometimes, you know, how they are doing. Sitting, sit meditation straight. My god, my master also said, "Sit straight." After two minutes, even the yoga teacher also sits like this. And once I was looking at my master, another master, sitting like this, and I saw all students. After two or three minutes, lying, why? Because that energy, concentration, power in the body, we cannot master it that way. And if we keep it like this, then you will be very stiff. There is one story or a joke. Sometimes jokes are good. Otherwise, whatever I am telling you, you say, "He's talking," and so there it is. It's beautiful. That joke was beautiful, or a story was very beautiful. Every country has some tradition, and it doesn't matter in which country, or how you eat, and how you are doing it. About the Indian story, this is so when the girl is, it is, and that time the parents were choosing the boy and the girl, and the parents, and how the parents are, etc. Everything is still now, they are doing. But did your father choose you for your wife? He ever did? Okay, that's why she's a good girl. Lady, on still no, you know how is your wife? Yes, I told yesterday, starting about very nice about the man and wife, man and wife. Those are very good, but which is powerful? Who can do something? That was yesterday's story, beautiful. I remember today, no? But I will not tell them because they were not here. Anyhow, sorry. So, what are they doing? So when they marry, their parents come, see how is my daughter, how is my son, and then we ask them, "Do you like?" And this is very lifelong, because once this comes, it means it's lifelong. And this is our partnership, and we are partners, and it is forever. That's it. Your grandparents were like this. Now people are not like that. Now we have, after some days or months, or even in two years, years and going so, and there, all are suffering. This is why mankind is suffering very, very much. Anyhow, you see that the Indians are sometimes very hard, because they give so much to the girl, gold and this and that, however much, otherwise they will not accept, and this is also a problem. But everything gives the mother and father their daughter, everything. So you can't imagine it costs so much money, and the girl, she's so happy, and her husband is very happy, and then, anyhow, that's also. But now the government of India banned this because it is not good. But at that time, it was like this: they banned it. The story is coming now, and I will tell you the stage of how to do so. Their marriage ceremonies, and there are many, many ceremonies. Christians have in the church, and the priest will give the blessings, this and that. And that's all, but that other one is so far mourning that they have marriage ceremonies, but still they don't take a girl with them. No, he said, very difficult to get that boy, that girl. Still, many, many things. Anyhow, next morning, there's a tradition to go for breakfast. And so they're going to the breakfast, and they said, "Who is the very closest family person for this boy who is married?" And that will be a good breakfast, very nice. And so he said, "I am." Others said, "I am." They said, "Very good, great." But you know that if you are a friend or a brother for this boy who is married, then about 25,000 rupees everyone has to give. He said, "No, no,..." "I am not that one," he said. "No, no, you are good. Oh, but you are. Come, please, we have such a nice, good breakfast," he said. But he is that one. He is that one. So, how they went a little back now? They made a joke. Sometimes you're making a joke, and that is what I want to tell you now. So, the few boys, about ten... 15 or 5, I don't know, but they had one elderly person, very, very good and very intelligent, and that elderly person was going with them, and he told the boys and girls, "Be careful, you go there for breakfast, but they can make..." Some kind of the word which I can't get, but complication: they will not let you eat. They will bring you the food, very nice, but still they will not let you eat. And so they said, "Yes, why?" He said, "Why? There is, I will tell you." So that elderly person said, "Let's have a bamboo stick for everyone, about one foot long." Bamboo stick, little. And they said, "What do you want for this? Will you beat somebody?" He said, "No, no... We don't need it, but this is something nice. Leave it with you, and I have to do something to take it with." So they asked us to give them, and they said, "Everybody from the girl's side, who is the guest for I Am, I Am, I Am?" I said, "Okay, we have this little stick in both hands." It is a tradition, they said, "Otherwise, we will not let you go. We will not send our girls with you." So this is a tradition ceremony, they said. Okay, so they took this bamboo and tied their hands on both sides, so they gave their hands. They are doing like now. They said, "Please eat." So now you can get the food, but cannot come to the mouth. And he said, "Please, it kept becoming cold. Eat good food." Everybody's looking. What should we do? So the elderly person who was there... He said, "Don't worry." So what do we do? He said, "Yes, eat, but how? I know it is a tradition, my dear. Say what? In our village, we have our tradition. Say what? We don't let you eat by yourself. Then why? We offer you, at least eat. Understand what I mean? Take the food and give it to your other brother, and the other brother gives to you. So what to do? Say, 'Like, eat.'" So everybody began to eat, and their hands were tight, but they ate very nicely. This to this, and that we call the brotherhood, that when brothers or families want good things and ceremonies, or Christmas or something, they say, "Please, eat nicely." That is a tradition coming. So these are the traditions like this: how to live, how to do many things in this. So this was a joke or a story. So if you go to India, and all tradition is there, then don't go for breakfast. Yes. First you have to give the money, second your hands are tight, what will you eat? Like this, life is like this. So, yoga, practice this. We go within ourself. Now, this is a book. I am showing you this. This is a very beautiful chakra called Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. It is called Svādhiṣṭhāna. There are many, many chakras in this body. Now, why are these chakras here? Many will understand, many will not understand why you made this picture here and why it is like this. Now, how many petals are in this one, and why in this one? So, this is the anatomy of the human spinal column, and inside it is the energy flowing. And within this energy, there are many, many... Many energies are in the human chakras. It's called chakra. Chakra means this circle. In these circles, what we are talking about, and that in the human body, every animal also has many, many chakras, but they don't know. And they do. But we know, and so there comes first that we have to take care, we have to take care of our inner journeys of our whole body. And so our foot soles, everything printed in our foot, our life, and not only this very nice skin and this and that, but even this has a symbol on every line here. This is what it means. Many you know, many you don't know. Let's see what it means in this palm. And what about our feet? In our feet, everyone has some kind of lines on your foot soles. Now, tomorrow or evening before going to sleep, you can see, or after the bathroom you come and wash, and then you see which kind of lines you have in your, and that means a great. It is a symbol. You think it is a symbol, but this is an eternal journey of the humans within their chakras. Everything is in our foot soles for a while, and there are some lines there inside which are very negative. And that comes to your family, in your house. It makes negativity, and it makes many, many troubles. The one who comes into a family, then so many problems, trouble—the whole house, the whole family is disrupted. And if there is someone who has good lines here, the whole family will come into harmony. And there are some lines. I don't want to show you my foot, because I didn't wash today, so it's okay. So, it is really a chakra. I'm talking about a chakra, an eternal journey. And this, when it comes to your house, it brings prosperity and money. Money, hey, yours is a little bit going in the wrong direction, I saw it. So that's the one, you know, that always when you go to India, and you go to some sādhu or this, who will become a sādhu, that only sādhu, that one has. Such a line, and if you have, sooner or later you become a sādhu. Sādhu means a monk. And there, people see, one will see maybe, Then he said, "Okay, there he had a..." and they will always come, "Please, Swamiji, come in my house, please, please... just come." And then many, they give in one plate, red color, and they are putting a white cloth, and they say, "Please step on it." And then they put it, and exactly all the print of the foot is there on that paper or cloth. And they know that it is, so they will keep this as a goodness in the house. So this is an eternal journey which is going within ourselves to understand we are not, and everyone cannot. Also, in the hands, every ten years, the lines turn a little bit in a different direction. So here we know what is and what is not. This is a journey going on in our foot soles, and these are the chakras of the earth. Earth is our mother, and the whole of this earth is called earth, not only some kind of other term. So there is our land, our everything, and now it can be only for one day. It can come as a very negative energy from the outside, from the earth, and it can make a big distraction, a very big distraction. But the next day is completely very good. This is within our body, and so we have many chakras. So these are the chakras for the foot soul, and this foot soul is very, very good, and you can see who is there. Now, there are two signs in the body. Which is what? If your child is born, but first the feet came out. That is very rare, and also it has to be very quick. Otherwise, mostly, first comes the head. Sorry. It comes; our head and face come first. And then, otherwise, the child may die. But when it comes out, and they keep thinking, then this one has such a great energy. Let's talk about energy, not divine things like this. When you have some problem, painful in your back, and that person will step on your back, that pain will go out, really. It is not a joke. You were someone of your mother, or your mother did not know, but a doctor said. Where was your first? You came out from your mother's womb—head or the foot? Do you know anybody? You had? You were head, only head. She cut your head? No. Yeah, but which part came first? Yeah, when she cut the head or the legs? That was the deconstruction, how it was. That, anyhow, so this is the center, and in humans there is that. And this, if you go to someone, maybe the person is very beautiful or nice and humble and everything, but that person will be a distraction for you, or you will make the distraction for them. This is, and that's why someone wants to be married, has so many boys, but always has problems. Or the boy, he's searching for girls, but has no luck with this. Why is there no luck? Because that is insight which did not follow that one to that one to that one. That I will not say. After that is our, from there, from the ankle joints till here, is the energy of the vegetation. All vegetation, where it is, it is in this part of our foot. And so is that which is very nice and soft and good, and this, and fruits, is called. That is a very good one, like we eat very nice fruit. And we eat very nice vegetables and salad. Yes? This is a very good one, but something is thorny. Thorny things are nothing. All the poisonous fruits also. And so this is also from that person's destiny. The destiny from this life now, and to that, it is all there, destiny, and you know the destiny. We can try many times, but it will not be good. Only one, if you follow and understand, and someone holds you, maybe it will take. But how is that? There's one story, a real story, you know. Many of you people may know, otherwise some people know who are from Europe, and that story is in Greece, yeah. And that was a long time ago, and there was a king, and the king had got a child, a boy, and then someone went. There, some person who was reading foot soles, so don't, so learn, don't tell anything. You can see, but don't, yes. Then, so the astrologer came to the king, and the king said, "My son is born, and look, please, can you show him?" He said, "Very good, the best warrior. He will be very beautiful, very strong, everything. What a great," he said, "Oh, that's something more." He said, "Yes," and he said he became a little back, a real historian, you know that. And what happens? The king said, "But you know... You are an astrologer, and you know everything, please," he said. "Your Highness, if I tell you, you will kill me, and if I will not tell you, you will kill him." He said, "What?" In your destination, there's written, "Your son will marry his mother." What? I'm sorry. The next one came and also said yes like this. What they said: "Put him in the bag and give it to the shepherds to kill." Or throw it in the river or in the ocean. Take it immediately. I don't need such a person, child, or this in my kingdom. Well, this little child, four, five days old, or little, the shepherds, they said, I cannot kill this child. I can't throw him in the water. So what he did, he went to the rocks, and under some bush, he put the child there and said, "It's your destiny, whatever it is, I go." He went away. And next, another shepherd came with the goats and these animals, and he said, "Oh, there's a little child." He took this. And the child was crying a little bit. He took that, washed the child, gave him good cloth, and brought the milk from the goat and took it home. There was no wife, no husband, nobody was there. The whole day, he was sitting there. And he brought it home, and his wife said, "Oh, we have no boy, no son, no daughter. We take this." They took it, and they let him, and so he went. He became big at about 25 or 20 years old. And people also said, "You are not good, and you are not good," and someone told him. So there is one woman in Greece, what is her name? Anybody who knows? And she used to speak, "Your future, your future." And so he went there, Sophia, her name was Sophia. And so he said he was going to go to her and say, "Please, what is my future?" And after about 40 feet before that coming, she said, "Stop, don't come near to me." He said, "Why? Because you will marry your mother. It is in your destiny. Don't come close to me." Now he went, he was crying. He went far. It's a real story. There's a book; you can see it sometime. So, there was a film made once. So he goes there, and he closes his eyes, and makes his hands like this, and he's turning, and he's turning, and turning, turning, then the other side turning, the other side turning. And then he says to himself, "Now I step." In which I say, "I may open my eyes, I will go in that direction." Similarly, many times he was turning. He went for one kilometer, then again he turned to the other side, and like this and like this, so he was going further and further. Then, Roger was born. The kings were always fighting; they had nothing, no work, then to take this one and that one. And the father died in the army. And his wife, she was a queen, very strong and very good, and she was fighting also. And the soldiers were there, very good soldiers, very strong fighters, and they said, "Who is that?" And she said, "Who is that warrior?" They said, "This one, this one, this one." And somehow, to bring me that, who is that? And was a very nice and strong and this beautiful, and she somehow married to him. She came, and then when he, and he did not know that is she. He don't know the king, my wife, or the queen, and so he. He married her, and then someone again told him, "This is your mother," and I think he killed himself then. So the destiny, the eternal destiny within thyself, you should also not say what you will do and what you will do. Do not say this is only stupid; people are talking like this. Yes, we can say this is stupid and like this, and don't think. And it is said, because you do, but others you said, no, you do, and you said, no, they are not doing. So this means that your destiny will be on such a negative way that, at the end, you will only remain alone or will be killed on that side. So within, in this, so that all the signs on our humans, we are talking, animals have also. I could tell you many stories, but today I will tell you of the eternal. You know the horse? Have you seen the horse? Who has not seen it? Yet, no one has truly seen it. If you live as you do, you have not seen the horse. I tell you, you have not seen it. That is not just a story; it is the reality. You must go to see. Then you will say, "Yes, I see the horse now." But you have not seen it. It is there. Why? It is said that in creation, whoever is born from the mother's womb—human or animal—is number one. Number two: we know one child is called a girl and one a boy. The mother has breasts to give milk to the baby. Who has this? Only women. But it is said you are only half, and the man is also half, because the man also has the breast here, only it does not give milk. But he has the sign of the woman's breast, yes or no? Perhaps when you go to the sauna, look carefully at the other man. I will show you this next time. That is why I said, "Who are so?" It means only the pure man. It doesn't matter, the man or the animal—the cows or animals that have the breast. For cows and goats, they have what we call the udder. Does it matter? Bulls, buffaloes, everyone also has the sign there, so they are half men. Half woman and half man—this is called Śiva and Śakti. It is a picture I showed yesterday. I don't know how it is with me, but it can be. It's not a joke, my dear. You will smile, but I will make it clear for you today. This is another thing about our cakras, which are in our body. You must buy this book today. Then it will be complete. My lecture. Thank you. So then, you will—only this picture will bring you good luck in your house. But please don't tear this paper and take only the paper, okay? The whole book. Sorry. This is a picture of Śiva and Śakti somewhere. It is in this book, but I don't know. Anyhow, I go further. We are searching for a man from all these creatures born from the mother's womb, animals or humans. Only that horse doesn't have this sign of the other. Now, go to see your horse. You have not seen the horse. So now, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or today, or any time. But while looking, yes, you will say, "Swāmījī, so you have to first befriend the horse, wash him, clean him, massage him, and look, and then slowly look if there is, and it is, it is." So complete is called real. Puruṣa, we call the Puruṣa. The complete Puruṣa, male, you can say male. And that is only the horse. You will see in many places, like in Greece, half horse and half man. Also in India. This is what I am calling our destiny. So if you have a horse in your house, male or female, it is good luck. If you are afraid of ghosts or negative energy there, keep your horse there. No animal will come. Also, if an earthquake is happening, whether to the cow or the horse, it will not cause damage. See in the Krishna scriptures, how did some animals die there? Cows or a horse? There was not. It is a reality that if you have certain problems—for women or also for men, the back, or certain issues—go to the cow and massage, or just place your hand there. You will see how much negative energy goes out. If you have some kind of allergy, many go for one holiday for two, three weeks. Go to where the cows are and be with them. Take the dung out and put your foot in it. In two weeks, you are different. I did really 100%. I give you my writing, it will go away. That is from that energy from the cows, cow dung, and the horse. So, horse, if you see somewhere, then you should not look like this completely, but just look: it is a horse. Horse is something, and horse is a very, very best friend. Best friend, let you go down somewhere. Horse, right? In America? Here, yeah. They don't kill a horse here? Horse meat, no? That I don't know. In Cuba, I was in Cuba. My yoga centers, a few yoga centers, and about 2,000 yoga teachers and yogīs there. They said when I was there that in India people are killing the cows because they are Muslims and this and that. But in Cuba, anyone who kills one cow gets 25 years in prison. And if you kill a horse, 35 years and very hard punishment. In Cuba, you can go, or if you can go to the Cuban embassy here, if there is one, you can ask them. I was surprised, but it is like that. So there are people who, how they are living, how they are doing, taking care of certain... All animals are good, but there are certain which are great for us. This is what I am going to say about these cakras and destinies. So again, it comes to me, the same thing. You have good luck. You know what good luck is? That crocodile. Yeah, and crocodile, good luck. And what is good luck? That you should be very alert. Don't go near. Otherwise, a crocodile is here. You know, the crocodile is there. It is because these cakras, till the knees, and then from the knees till the hip joints, is the animals, all different kinds of animals. And all these, so this one, two, and three. And the fourth one is coming now, our animals, all different kinds of animals. And animals, these all have the half humans and half animals in this, our body, in this, our cakras. So, there is one. Have you seen Nepal? You have been in Nepal, somebody? More? And in Nepal, there is one temple, a Śiva temple, but they don't let any Westerner go there. Only Hindus can go, but I can tell there is a book and everything. The name of the temple is called Pāśupati Mahādeva. First is a paśu, and paśu means the animal. Paśupati, the lord of the animals, is Śiva, and the Hindu, the humans, and these both are together. So Śiva is that, protecting the devils and the goddess, both. If you will only take care of this one and not that one, it will be a disaster. So Śiva is an energy. I will not say Śiva as a human or God, but it is in these cakras. It is in this point of your body from the bottom, where the spine begins to stop. So first there is an animal cakra, and that is called the seat of the animal. That animal is called the elephant, and the elephant is there, called Gaṇeśa. So God Gaṇeśa is sitting there on the bottom of our human being. Elephant, and that's the Gaṇeśa. And elephant have seven trunks? In my life, I didn't see even two trunks, only one. I was all the time always get, but they said, and it is, it is in this cakra. The cakra book you must read very, very carefully, so you will come to understand. The crocodile is big. He likes me very, very much, so I said no. Anyhow, here it is inside. You will read it. I don't want to take too much of your time. It is here. So now the trunks of the animals, and we have seven trunks of the elephant. Now we are calling it sometimes the symbol, but that is only the symbol, but it looks like this and that. So, seven. The elephant is one of the very oldest elements, elephants or animals, and their trunk is called seven. And seven trunks, we call seven saptadhātu, saptashevan, saptadhātu. This dhātu means the seven metals, the minerals, and these are the seven minerals of the humans. When all this is in balance, then we are healthy, and when there is something, then you are not healthy. So that's why we come to this Mūlādhāra Cakra, and there to begin to make your body strong, clear, everything. So it is not only like that. Now, people are thinking wrong. That's called, they call it, many people think about some kind of magic and cakras, and in that, they are calling it some sexual activities. But it is not. It is not. It is other, but people wrote it and they put it in. And the Western people, they like to have a book which is full of different postures, the wife and male and females. But this is not. Now, what I have given you is the clarity of the elephant, the horse, and others. What does it mean? Similarly, symbols are there, and not like this. So, this is a very big difficulty for people to understand. They have all the books about it here, but it is not. You have to have a real book and a real master, and real giving us things to do. This cakra is going from our body, from the bottom of the spine till the head, the end of our spine. And there are the most powerful cakras, the seven cakras in the body. Now, each cakra has different kinds of energies, good things, bad things, this and that. And always, in each cakra, there is always something beautiful. So this is the Viśuddhi Cakra, the vocal cord, and this is the finest. And then comes the other one here. And here are humans and God's border. So you see, till here, here is always male and female. So there is both, and these are the gods. Man is a god, and woman is also a god, but people understand wrong. For example, Sarasvatī. Sarasvatī is a female, knowledge. She is the lord of the study of knowledge. If you want to study, then you should worship. If you have problems—that I cannot learn properly, and I cannot get my examinations, and I will not get my... Why? Go to Sarasvatī. And Sarasvatī is the goddess of knowledge. So why? Why don't you see that women are not good? We say in our holy literature, the Upaniṣads are very ancient. That is first called Mātṛ-Devo-Bhava, the mother. First, first God is a mother, or first God is a female, first God. Then, Pitṛ Devo Bhava, and then the second is God, the father. So I'm sorry, please, boys, don't be angry with me. And girls, at least you should be happy now. Yes, you are. But it is, I'm telling you what the scriptures are saying, from ages and ages. And that we worship. We worship that. If you have a good husband, there are particular days he should worship your wife. Yes. And your husband will not worship you in that way, but your wife will worship your husband. There is one day in the whole year, one particular day, 24 hours, when she doesn't drink and she doesn't eat for her husband's good health. Who is now such a good wife, no? She will say, "You can have fasting, I eat for you." So there are many things, my dear. This was all divine. We are human, divine. So mātṛ deva bhava, mātṛ means mother, so first is the mother, then pitṛ deva bhava, then is the father, then ācārya deva bhava, the teacher, school teachers and this, all who give us the knowledge, and then it comes the master guru, and that is the final there. So these cakras, every cakra has different petals, and each petal has here one mantra. Mantra means the letter, letter, A, B, C, like this, there. And this is this cakra, and in Sanskrit letters it is equally. So, there are 52 alphabets. In Sanskrit or Hindi language, we have 52 letters. And all these twelve letters we have in our... I say, thank you, I will be finished quickly, don't worry. And so, each petal you have here in this or other, I will tell in bigger, perhaps. Let's say here. And this is here on the Ājñā Cakra. And this Ājñā Cakra is another border between the... you can put your, this one here, put it on it. Good. That's called technology, eternal science. External knowledge. Yes, now put a cloth on it. Anyhow, please, I am coming further to this program. So these are all within our body. Every part of our body, every cell in our body, is the divine, God's part in us and in others. So, how are we going? How together are we coming? And God has given us double, double. That if something happens, one kidney is finished, but God has given, if not, don't worry, child, you can live with one, and you can work on it. Though two eyes also, God said so. God gave us double, my dear. Live happy, live good. But if you are... not doing and not eating wrong, wrong eating, and this: what can I do? So eternal within ourself, one eyes and other eyes, and eyes is another very nice story there about eyes. The eyes is male or the female? Female. And in Hindi also, it's female. Yeah? What is that? Female or the female? Yeah? Okay. Now these are our two eyes, and these two eyes are two sisters. And this puts those two sisters. They are there, but only one wall is the other sister, on this side and this. Lifelong, they cannot see. Yes, the eyes want to see this sister, but this sister is tearing, and she said, "I want to see also this tearing." But still, they are, the sisters, are taking care of our being, also other animals also. I don't know if we have one eye. There is one eye, one also. I will show you now one. And so these two eyes are the brothers and the sisters, both, but they are completely taking care of us always. So God gave us many, many things, which are all ours. And God gave the eyes here. Why? He took them to the backside. So everything God has given is perfect, and God can now, amen, why are you suffering? He said, "I am within thyself, I, God." But if you do the bad things and good, you will not be a man, not a God, but you will become in other animals' life. You will suffer in animals' life. So this book, you have to look very much good in this. So finally, when the final meditation we are doing, Kriya Yogas, and this Kriya Yoga is not easier. Don't think that one will say, "Hmm, hmm... no, no... no." That Kriya, no one has taught anyone, and if they taught, you didn't understand. And if you didn't understand, you were lost, and again you begin. The Kriya is different, not a prāṇāyāma, not what you call the mudrās, many things. That is only for the master to master that energy; it has to go automatically. And guru, master, if you are a little bit out, lost, you are changing so many gurus. That's not right. It is said, you have, did you, were you born with two mothers or one mother? We are all born with one mother, now, okay? But we see all women like a mother, like a mother. Not a mother, but like a mother. So it means, sorry. So we see, we see in India, this is our tradition and culture. If there is a little child, it doesn't matter who you are—father, grandfather, anybody, any man—you will sit, "My child, my child, where are you? What are you learning, Betty? My daughter." Daughter, what are you learning? Everyone will call you daughter. Why? Because we shall adore and take care of this child as our own children, and not do something wrong with the children. And when the equal age is from there, then we are saying, "Sister." Anywhere in India, anywhere, but now Kali Yuga is getting different. Because the language is not there. Long, long ways, in English language, there is no word like that which we want to speak. Yes or no? So we always tell sister, it is my sister. And when you once say that it is my sister, then you cannot do anything against her, do anything to her, or try to marry her or this, no. That is a sin. That is a sin. And also, on the other side, the boy, the mother, the old lady, the little boy will say, "My son, how are you? How are you?" If it's your side, my brother, my brother. And when old, then we call the mother or the grandmother. So mother, brother, and the boy, what you call, son. So if you have this—the daughter, the sister, and brothers—then you will never have any black spot on your side. But you never thought that someone is like this. And that's why this otherwise Śiva is like, this is called animal's action, it is animals, it is animals jumping on others, so to jump, this is that, but a human, I gave you everything, but still you have not, like... This, then you will go again into these animal qualities. That's very, very beautiful in these books. And so finally, it is that which is God Śiva, and that Śiva is this. You have all the eyes and dance and many, many things in this book. You... We will see, so eternal journey from us. So now, there are 52 letters, and 52 are the petals in the cakras, and each cakra, each petal has the mantra, and this mantra is everything, the resonance in this. And then one, the bīja mantra. And that bīja mantra has that resonance in that kuṇḍalinī or anything you want. Kuṇḍalinī is not a snake or anything; it is knowledge. It is a knowledge. And if someone says, "Oh my God, there are some people here doing some kind of kriyāśakti and this śakti, my God, which kind of śakti?" Everyone is a Śakti, no? Mother is a Śakti, daughter is a Śakti, husband is, wife is a Śakti, all is Śakti, no? But he is not like that kind, so therefore, we have to go through this. So, once Śakti means this tree is here, but this one trunk, this trunk is that Śakti, and keeps all the petals and all branches and all fruits and things. So, understand that this is a Śakti, and in this, each and every seed of the fruits is like this. So, there are 52 letters in Sanskrit, and that name, you know, or I don't know, what is the name of the Hindi or Sanskrit alphabet? Yes. So, what is that? Tell me quickly. Each alphabet, each letter is called a god, and what are they calling them? Deva, Nāgrik. Deva means God, Nāgrik is the citizen. This sound, this resonance is the citizen of the cosmic, and that enters into humans, not into animals. But, oh man, you lost this. Everything God gives you, and you don't respect that, and so it's gone. And in this, everything comes, and then, so it is a mantra. How mantra or oṁ should be chanted is completely different. Generally, we say three numbers: akāra, ukāra, makāra. These are three letters. But even not this. There is more we say in "Om" that I will tell, and that mostly otherwise I will tell you today, and you will chant tomorrow wrong. Then you will go from not this side, that side. You are driving the car on the highway, but you will drive in the ocean. Yes? If you make a mistake, again, why? So, who is like that? Drunken and driving in the ocean, and not drunken, going on the straight road. So learn to do this and to know the Master. Don't think this and that, this and that, and lose everything. The eternal journey within ourselves is that first we get out these organs in the body: the lungs, the heart, the kidneys. All these organs in our body to take care, and why God gave us two, two. That's also very much. And then our eternal journey, so not that I am sending you to the cosmic world, but I'm bringing you to thyself, that you are the cosmos. Everything is within ourselves. And so yoga in daily life has immense science and knowledge, but people cannot understand. And I'm trying to talk and talk, and now, 52 years. But out of 52, if I will have 50 disciples, I will be liberated. But it is not that. It's not easy. All are very good. They are very dear to me. But even one you can get, you will get liberation. So that is how to get that purity, a very, very pure and very good purity. And sometimes I'm thinking about doctors, you know, and surgeons, a very good doctor, a surgeon who makes the operations and medicine, and his brain operations are something. And that is something. I'm a master, I'm a yogī, and I will say, okay, I will open the brain, oh God, he will say, Swāmījī, okay, not today, not today. So that is that master to master, and again that master is a living master. So now this is my living book, but one day I will be only in the picture. And now you will say, "Swāmījī, please, can you make us this Kuṇḍalinī Cakra?" Still, I will smile. But with whom I gave further my energy and everything, that my disciple will be like that. Others are dust here and there. Yes, it is like this. Try, try... but one is very hard, very, very hard. Hope to see one day that many, many will come. Naginva, you can come. Yes, tell your wife, let's go with me. Your wife will not let me go at all. So it is like this. It is not something serious. It is very serious. So first, know thyself. And what is thyself? My whole body, from down to here. And how many are there? Yesterday I taught, today I only tell you. That you are the whole universe. And you are the king, and the whole kingdom is in your body. Body, and your soul is not only one. There are millions of cells in our body that are yours, exactly. And what we call nowadays science, from, like they call the Australian, the Aborigines people, Aborigines, yeah, Aborigines, yeah. And now we find that there are Indian genes in them. So, how many years is this? And they are there. So you will not get lost. You will not get lost. And that's why everything is eternal. You are eternal. Within you is the eternal, and they will always come back to you again. Again, like a honeybee. The bees are there, but the queen is there, and when the queen flies, all will fly there. They will always come to you, and therefore it is said you should put yourself in Agni Deva. Agni means the fire, so that all your cells can go with you, with your soul. Only when we bury in the earth, then they are suffering a lot; they are suffering a lot inside. Anyhow, so the eternal journey of the humans, humans. And so in this, I gave you something, but at least I've shown you one man. What? What? Don't tell your wife. So it is like that, these are principles of the self. It is God, the horse, is the great. People kill him, we do this, that, of course, they let them run, rising, this and that, everything. That is a different thing. But that horse is the highest. We told the cows, yes, okay, elephant, yes, okay, all but the elephant, the horse. And also, male and female, they are together, this horse. Every day, if you can just see far distance, see what will be the energy, and like you have seen the God, do not go near, okay? It is like this: you should not go in front of the car, and don't go behind the horse, yes. And therefore, the journey—the eternal journey to the cosmic Self within our self—but we have to understand all inner organs. You are the engineer of your within, thyself, to your all bodies, to... Learn. That's all. If you have any questions, please bring them. Oṁ Śrī Dīpnā and Bhagavān Kī. Deva Dī Deva Deva Īśvara Mahādeva Kī. Satguru Swāmī Madhavān Jī Bhagavān Kī. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ. So let us chant now Oṁ. Because we did not chant. Oṁ te śānti, śānti.

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