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Part 1: The Yoga of Alertness: Instructions on Yoga Nidrā and Spiritual Awareness So, one more bhajan, once. So, one more bhajan. Om Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Che, Śrī Śrī Devī Svarāma Deva Kī Che. There is one bhajan from Śrī Mahāprabhujī. He says that the Gurudeva is the one who gives everything for the whole world, for all. He does good for all. Like for the child, the mother—all find shelter in him. He is giving even to Śiva, Brahmā, and Viṣṇu, and all the yogīs and siddhas, he is giving the blessing. Guru Deva Samādha Tāra Jagame Huo He Na Koī Ho Yāre... Śaraṇa levo, śaraṇa kī jāna, śaraṇa levo, śaraṇa kī jāna, amara karate toyāre, guru deva samādha, tāra jāgame, pūhe na koī hoyāre, kuru deva samādha tāra jāgame uo he na koī ho yāre, śeṣa brahma sarada nārada munita na hoī cho yāre, śeṣa brahma sarada nārada munī channa joyāre. Dhyāna vichalla hoyare, Gurudeva Samādha Tārā Jagame, Uo Hena Koi Hoyare Deva Samādha Tārā Jagme Ohe Na Koi Hoya Re Amarā karate toya re gurū deva samādha tārā jāgame uo he na koī ho yāre gurū deva samādha tārā jāgame uo he na koī ho yāre Viṣṇu kovaradāna dīnu sutta nirmala hoyāre... Sama rūpa deke ātmā kare kinasuru deva samādha tāra jagme huo koī gurudeva samādha tāra jagme huo he na koī ho yāre Gurudeva samādha tārā jagame uo he na koī ho yāre deva samādha tārā jagame uo he na koī ho yāre Avatāra Yogī Siddha Ko Vardhana De Nirmo Yare Sama Tataara Jagme Huo Hena Koi Ho Yare... Śaraṇa Levo, Śaraṇa Kī Jana, Śaraṇa Levo, Śaraṇa Kī Jana, Amara Karate To Yāre Guru Deva Samādha Tāra Jagame, Uho Hena Koī Ho Yāre Sattva Guru Svāmī Antara Yāmī Dussaro Nahī Kho Yāre Satguru Svāmī Antarayāmīhi Dussaronai Koyarem Swami Deepa Satya Satguru... O Vala Laha Gurudeva Samādha Tāra Jagme Ohe Na Koī Ho Yāre Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī Kī Jai, Śrī Sattva Guru Deva Kī Jai, Hari Om. All the best, nice to see you again. We have a beautiful evening, a beautiful sunset. All of us here, I welcome you. I pray to Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, our holy Gurujī, Alakhpurījī. My dears, I am very happy. Today it was a great program. We see that after a whole day’s work, we come back to our house at sunset, and we are going to sleep. This night is not negative. In some way, night is sometimes more than the day. I don’t know how we create how many things in our body, our śarīra, and our jīva, our body, and our soul. Rest is okay, so it has given us sleeping. It’s called sona. Yesterday, I told about the sonā. The different kind of sonā means gold. So the best is the midnight or dark night when we are sleeping. They said there are many kinds of gold. But they said the best black sona is more valuable because it has qualities, but that is rare to get. And it has more effect on the body. Similarly, in the night, everything is getting normal again, like an airplane. The pilot takes off for hours and hours, and it comes exactly, very nicely, to the same place. Like a bird going through the whole forest, here and also through the trees, but it comes and lands on its real nest. And that bird, the whole night, resting, relaxing. Similarly, when the pilot lands at the airport, that aeroplane goes forth again to clean everything and see all the instruments, if they are all okay or not. Engineers. Those engineers. There is an engine. Now we call it an engine. And engineer. So the techniques. So, our life is the same as our body. Our body is the flight. Aeroplanes, cars, cycles, running, everything, anything we are doing has its quality, and it has the power. But only one thing is running all the time; others are changing. And through all our techniques, eating, drinking, good food, movements, sleeping, etc., everything in our engines, in the body, our heart, that is the engine. And engine and engineer, so we are engineers. That’s because of our heart. So before going to sleep, check your whole airplane. Yes, many things. If it’s cold, it’s warm, some friends with us, a lot of mosquitoes, and many things, you know. And how we are sleeping—sleeping is also very important. And some people, the whole night, they are turning left and right. There is a person restless in sleeping. Why is there restlessness in sleep? Because there are so many problems. Problem means not only health or illness. Or many people give me help, thank you. Or many other kinds of movements. So in the night, one restless person. Or in deep sleep, that is the best. But we can sleep. We think we are completely peaceful. But there are very deep, very deep inner movements that help us, good or bad. So the mind that sleeps, when sleep goes, your mind is sleeping, because your mind is also cleaning everything, all, and therefore deep sleep and then all inner, our engines or whatever it is, and so the deep sleep and all our internal instruments, as we would say, get better and repair. Then our lungs and our heart have proper breathing. Sometimes we are bringing that energy out, or some kind of impurities inside. Or we are blocked, but the heart is always there. But we are blocking, maybe through the lungs, throat, etc. So we are snoring, and God has given such a technology that He gives us, so that we cannot die. We are not blocked. But in such a way that the one who is snoring, he or she does not know that I am snoring. Others hear everything, so it does not matter if others are hearing or not. And Yoga Nidrā is also one part of cleaning something. Understanding and relaxing. And that’s why in Yoga Nidrā many people, they are snoring. And we are giving you an introduction, so please do not sleep. Be relaxed. Control everything. Relax. Relax. Relax. Feel your breath. At that time, you must be very, very controlled. But your master, who is giving you instructions for the yoga nidrā, is relaxing. Relax the whole body. Feel your breath. Within five minutes, then it’s so different, Sarka. Relax and breathe all in such a rhythm. That master, that teacher, that instructor, then no one feels disturbances. All go in the same way. But if one is going the wrong way, the other is going the other way. One is inhaling, and you are exhaling, then your master is not correct. Your yoga teacher is not comfortable, and he did not learn properly from yoga in daily life. I have not given instruction for yoga nidra for how many years. So many people do not even know what Yoga Nidra is. And each teacher is getting more and more in the wrong way. So you will be that master that you have 200 people in Yoga Nidrā. And bring them in that rhythm, same time, that teacher will say, "The whole body, yes." That teacher will bring you inside, and that teacher who is not in that rhythm will bring you inside, and that teacher who is not in that rhythm will bring you inside. A teacher has no knowledge, then he will say, "Now think that these trees are beautiful and big, the field is beautiful and big, and how much oxygen is coming from the tree, and the birds are sitting, and there is a big, big field." And we are going and looking there, all planned in the sky. What are you doing? You want to come home. And you just tell them to go somewhere else. In the beginning, it is like the relaxed, good air. The inner qualities, inner ātmā, jīva, and so on, in a yoga nidrā, you have to learn. Are your teachers okay? And I’m telling this, that those teachers, they should listen. And I see 80% are doing it wrong. Or maybe 95%. Perhaps 95%. Because the teachers, they should not close their eyes. And mostly they are saying, "And relax." Your body, and you are constantly with your eyes closed, and very slightly, more than three people have gone out, and he says, "Yes, you feel you are going somewhere." And when you open your eyes, some people who have never seen yoga and yoga nidra, it is said that when there are a hundred people, and all have eyes closed in the Master also. And then comes a very big snake, a snake that is very long and big, and he is very hungry. He comes very softly, then he goes like this, and he makes a, you know, he can open his door so long. And then he twists you so quickly, it is something like a biscuit. You take the biscuit in your hand and mix the powder. So once he presses you, his prāṇa is gone. Then he will say, "God, what happened? Everybody will, yeah, you, and so." So you are, those who are teachers, they should hold class, not closing their eyes and not looking at their students. But you should see everything: walls, the ceiling, floor, windows, the sound from outside, if mosquitoes are coming, bees coming inside, some people are walking. That is, you should be alert, because it is said, "Who will close your eyes?" Who are you to close my eyes? That’s it. So we have to have confidence. Give confidence to all your teachers. And then the teacher is closing his eyes and telling such instructions which are not for yoga and for the yoga nidra. Or not for the meditation, even not for your posture yogas. They are practicing ten times, please. And he says, "Now practice ten times." And the teacher closes his eyes. And he closes his eyes again. Why is the teacher closing his eyes? Because he is very lazy. And very tired, he is not alert. He is not alert. Chaitanya Ho Chaitanya Ho. Chetan Kā Chilka Svāmī Ne Chetan kā chīl kā svāmī ne This is a spiritual lecture about Yoga in the Indian tradition. So, that is what Mahāprabhujī is saying, how our Devpurījī gives us that kind of knowledge. Jagrata, awaken. Jagrata, be lost. Jagrata is many different kinds of Jagrata. When you are driving a car, you should be jagrata, alert, bdhelý, not sleeping, microslav, accident. Therefore, that is called the alert, a driver. You know all, more or less all, you are the drivers. But that driver is that all, you know that all. You are in the car, you are driving that car. It doesn’t matter if you have friends or not inside. The driver should know, alert all four directions. That’s why we have a back mirror. So you are looking exactly to see what is outside, backside. Technology has not told us that we are blind. We also have two eyes on the backside. It means that the backside is the mirror. Also with your left and with the right, you have two eyes. And this also left and right. And at the same time, in the front, we know that. And if we mix it a little bit, miss it, accident. And there are different kinds of accidents. Maybe a little, or maybe life. Or all will die. Why? Because we were not alert. And in the water, you should know what is inside. Be alert. You can drive or swim long. Are you sure that you will come back to the beach again? Every direction. Maybe we don’t have so many crocodiles there, or big, big fish, or something else. Or suddenly our heart is gone. So many people try that, "I will and I can, you can dive deep." We have all kinds of instruments, but our machine we cannot control. I had one disciple; he was a very great boy. In skiing, he was the god of the Olympics. Part 2: Yoga Nidrā, Alertness, and the Path of Self-Control And many things. And he was my best disciple, and he was learning all yoga exercises — his mother also, his father also. You know him, his name is Rock. Rock is like a Himalayan rock, and he was a diver. And his father was also there. So after all that, he was going to teach the people. So he was giving training — training how to dive. And after lunchtime, he gave the people who went for lunch, and he wanted to take a picture from underwater. He dived deep, and he was like this with his camera, and he remained there. He couldn’t come up because it was very deep. There was sand also. It was finished. Of course, then they found him. So they said, “This is how he was there.” With the camera, he remained there. So please, it is said, we know that we are good divers, and we can also swim. We can swim, we can go to water. It is said, even we will have water till our shoulders. And Gurujī was giving me one… He didn’t say, “Don’t go far.” And Gurujī didn’t say, “Don’t go far.” Only one very nice chap. Only one very nice chap said, “Water is till the knees, also water.” He said, “Water is till the knees, also water, and high deep is also water.” And high, deep is also water. When your feet are on the floor, it is still something you can do. But when you lift yourself, you are lifted with the water. Now you have nothing in your control. We cannot run to come out. But the heart, the heart can give us life. Well, Gurujī was not in Europe, and so I used to go to the Adriatic coast. And I was two, three hours in the water, and all the men were around me. So many of you know, so they all jumped in me. Then I said, “Moment. All go around the circle.” Everyone should be at least fifteen meters away. And when many people then go more, he likes it, but still they will come. So, all controlling everything. But you know that deep water is good, but not for our life. So water is very, very dangerous. And very, very good. Without water, nothing. So in that way, again, the master. Many people are going from here to the Adriatic coast or somewhere else. They don’t know. They don’t know. They know swimming, so they go there after eating. Full stomach, and again they go in the water. And many people died, so once in at least five hours. Then we should go inside. This is all, as I said, about the Yoga Nidrā. So we can do Yoga Nidrā in the water. We can float in the water. Till the heart is there, everything is okay. It has been about four years since I was in New Zealand. Then in Fiji, and also very nice in Fiji, very good ocean. And I went to swim only from here to forty meters away. Good water, clean water, peace water. And then there was some kind of, what? No, no, there is no quarry. Yeah, they are like this thing on the shoulder. Yeah, jelly tea, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I had to quickly go out the other side. And about one year or ten years before, I had a little bit from my heart, what we call stents. But I was going quickly out. I lost my breath, so there were two or three of my bhaktas, they were lifting me, and I was only saying, “Oh God,” so that is the water, I came out, everything is okay, peaceful, so I didn’t go again there. So you go everywhere, and especially the Croatian people, they are not on the beach. They are near Hungary and Austria, this way. There is nothing to swim, and they think, “Oh, I will go there.” No one tells this. Many people die that. Many people, from eating, from swimming, and so on. But because there is a time for the tourist, and if they will tell that somebody died, this and that, then many people will be frightened. Anyhow, what we are saying to our practice of yoga, teachers. Many teachers think that they are the gurus. And they said everything: “I’m the best, and I’m good, and I give.” Don’t do this. So, therefore, alert, the teacher should be alert in the schools, at the university, in college, everywhere. The students are sitting on the chairs and tables, but the teacher will not sit on a table, and so on. They are always standing and looking. So, and then that teacher will give you the next class for others. But your teacher will not go, “I will teach you next year and here.” This and that, both I will teach you. That is a mistake. Well, Vivek Purī is my teacher or student. And you know how many years you have been with me? Can you take away? Thirty-six or thirty-seven. And he was a good young boy. He was always sitting there. And he was always coming in the middle, and he was very interested, and he had a lot of teaching. He is there, here, and so are okay. There are many in Croatia, many, many best yoga teachers, Yoga in Daily Life. And in Hungary, my God, and Czech and Slovak. Perfect. Perfectní. Austrians, they are masters. So, this we have to alert all of you, and if someone is snoring, you should still wake up a little. Tomorrow we’ll again snoring, then we have a technique. Please lie down on the stomach, and not on the, complete on the belly? But half like this, what is this posture? Tiger posture. Because the tiger is never afraid. So, something like that. So, did the teacher have to make something that this snow body would be? That’s what we have here, Yoga Nidrā. How nice this bhajan is. This Yoga Nidrā has begun from Mahāprabhujī. And that’s why we have this beautiful bhajan. This Yoga Nidrā comes from Mahāprabhujī, from Devpurījī. And I don’t want to tell you who took it like that, or where. So, for us, practicing, you should learn. If your teacher is sleeping, you can say, “Sir, is a cup of glass water, please?” Or, ma’am? So, madam is the wife of that person who said “madam.” Yes, your wife is a madam, so only your husband can call her madam. Do you understand? Yes, please. That’s it. So, ma’am is good. Yes, so there are many things there, but it is going from the French. And in French, there is another good word. So we don’t say “madam,” okay? We don’t say “madam,” okay? And what do we call it, oh, in Czechoslovakia. So in Czechoslovakia, there was a beautiful lake or a big swimming pool, I don’t know. But I think it was a lake, and we were swimming, about ten people. And there was one lady, about eighty-five years old, and she had very nice features and nice hair. At eighty-five, she was a young lady who swam with me. And then it is something told her that the word, I’ve forgotten, but in the Czech word, it is like a Pani Radova. So I was swimming there, and she was very nice and swimming, and I was also swimming there with ten to fifteen people around. But she was coming more nearly, and others said, “Pani Radova.” Yes, you know, I told her many times. So sometimes, sometimes, okay, Rādhā. So anyhow, why not? Beautiful, we should say. Why not? So we should see, in our different countries, different things. Okay, the yoga teacher. So therefore, our yoga teachers, there are three. Those who have been here for a long time, they are going like this. One is middle. Okay, yes, and then I cannot do, and okay, like this. And the third one, the perfect, because they want to become a yoga teacher. They are yogīs, they are yoginīs, but the second step, they will, what people they will, spoil them. So, I want to tell you, I don’t say this anywhere, and I’ve said it everywhere, it is very nice, very good, very disciplined, in Slovenia, where our Vivek Purī, not Vivek, Dayāl Purī, and this city is called Mahāprabhu Purī. Maribor, and about twenty to thirty kilometers distance, and all disciples and yogīs are very good. I think in this, let’s say, about thirty years, maybe about eighty thousand to ninety thousand people were taught. His students are very disciplined. Then we have Vivek Purījī, but the Croatian, they are Croats. So there is something. So they don’t come under the control of Vivek Purī. He has about one thousand or five thousand rupees, or a lot of people. And then we know everywhere in this. We have very nice teachers under control in the Czech Republic. Always, over in the Czech Republic, the teachers are nearly a thousand or more. And they are teaching, they are teachers, in how many places? You see on the chart, as well as the Slovak, and so many others. So, when these Czech teachers, they are very under control, like also the Maribor. And for me, no one is under my control, so I always sit on the other side. But we are all under the control of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, Alakhpurījī, Devpurījī, and our Holy Gurujī. So we always visit Holy Gurujī. People don’t know who the Holy Gurujī is. So, one of the Slovakian and Czech disciples, he was a professor. What was he? Milinský, what was he? He was, no, no, but he was a professor for bodies, body work, and many things, everything. He was a professor of physical education. He said, “Holy Gurujī.” And since that time, we all called him Holy Gurujī. Also in Jadan, Nepal, and Vienna, we have Holy Gurujī Āśram. Yes or no? Yes. And in Austria, they are very great, very good. They are all in control, in themselves, all are in control, in themselves, and that’s why I’m coming to Mahāprabhujī, the Holy Gurujī, and Holy Gurujī gave them, said, “Okay,” but Holy Gurujī said, “When Maheśvarānanda comes, be silent.” That’s it. Anyhow, my dear. So, what is control? Our inner self, our five principles: these five principles — Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa — these five principles we have to control. And then there are different, the Jñāna, this is above our throat. All this, and then rest down. All tomorrow, you should read about your hidden powers in humans: kuṇḍalinī and cakra. And on the last few pages, there you should read. And on the last pages, you will read there that, by heart, we should know. I also forgot by heart, but I know. That’s it. So this you should have, especially our people who are in our seminar, this Anuṣṭhāna. In anuṣṭhāna of our what? Kuṇḍalinī or cakras. So please, you should read this more than only meditating. So, I would like — it is just now it comes in my mind, okay? I did not think before, half an hour every day, your teacher, who is teaching you in this Anuṣṭhāna, then he should really teach, and all this is in the book. That’s it, and when he cannot, then it is better we shall not give them; they should practice themselves. So, that is what our life is, and we are yogīs. We are the best yogīs. Be in your house, be with your husband and your wife and your children, your friends, your brothers and sisters. There is nothing. But how? The inner techniques which we have, we should take control. So we will think again tomorrow. I wish you all the best, and I hope that you like this, especially the snoring. So this night, you should enjoy the dreaming and the snoring. Morning, your teacher will tell you something. Snoring. Enjoy. Enjoy. Joy of the enjoyment. It’s not that enjoyment will give you joy, but more trouble. But tonight you can have joy. Okay, thank you. Hari Om. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagvānkī, Devādhī Dev, Deveśvar Mahādevkī, Satguru Svāmī Mādhāvanājī Bhagvānkī, Alakh Purījī Mahādevkī.