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The Radiance of Sandhyā: A Discourse on Evening Prayer and Practice

A discourse on the spiritual significance of the evening Sandhyā time and associated practices.

"In this time, in the time of Sandhyā, it is said, we were working throughout the whole day... And in this Sandhyā time, it is called Sandhyā, this time one should not make negative thoughts, not talking negative, not giving bad thoughts to anyone, not fighting."

"Always we should do it with the left nostril... So, inhale. Always make prāṇāyāma begin with the left nostril."

A spiritual teacher leads an evening satsang, explaining the meaning of Sandhyā as the junction of day and night, a time for prayer and positive conduct. He discusses the human condition, the nature of the earth, and the importance of devotion. The discourse includes practical guidance on a prāṇāyāma (breath control) technique for purification, specifically detailing the method and finger positions for nāḍī śodhana.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Siddhi, Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān, Kī, Devādhī, Deva, Deveśvara, Mahādeva, Kī, Satguru, Svāmī, Madhavānandajī, Bhagavān, Kī, Alak, Purī, Jī, Mahādeva, Kī, Jayā, Kī, Jayā. We all bow down to our Gurudeva. Then we say our mantra: Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Hamsabhādāsa Prabhu Śaraṇāparāyaṇam. Śabdāśa Prabhu Śaraṇāparāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Hamsabhādāsa Prabhu Śaraṇāparāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanāra. Oṁ Śāntiḥ. Asato mā sadgamaya. Tamaso mā jyotirgamaya. Mṛtyormā amṛtaṁ gamaya. Sarveṣāṁ svastir bhavatu, sarveṣāṁ śāntir bhavatu, sukhaṁ maṅgalaṁ bhavatu, viśvaṁ pūrṇaṁ bhavatu. Lokaḥ samastaḥ sukhino bhavantu. Nāhaṁ kartā, Prabhu dīpa kartā, Mahāprabhujī dīpa kartā, hī kevalam. Oṁ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ,... Hari, Oṁ. This is a beautiful atmosphere this afternoon, this evening. This is a wonderful day. And how the Sūrya Nārāyaṇa now is residing in the other part of our globe. That gives rest for other creatures, and all the trees, and all other animals. They will have a rest. It is a time for this, which is called Sandhyā. Sandhyā means collecting together. The sunlight going in the other direction, and the night light, the dark night, coming together, so it is together, and that's called Sandhyā. And in this time, in the time of Sandhyā, it is said, we were working throughout the whole day. We spoke many things, we worked on many things, but now we have come to our home. And on this side comes the Sandhyā, also called the night, is coming. Therefore, it is our Gurujī, Svāmī Madhavānanda Bhagavān. He said, okay, and so it is said. Japa, paśu, or pakṣī pyāre, śubha or śyām. Holy Gurujī said, "Japaṭ paśu or pakṣī." Japaṭ means singing, meditating. In their language, they are talking and asking God for prayers. All creatures know when the night is coming; they are going to sleep. They know that the night will come and after it another morning. Japa means various things. It can be singing mantras, it can be meditating, each according to their own way. And animals are grazing, birds are flying the whole day here and there. And then they look for some protected place so that they can sleep. So, japaṭa paśu or pakṣī. Japa means meditation, thinking in their way. And as the sun sets, they all come to their own place: the nest, the branches, every different part. Both times, holy gurus said, morning and evening, they are also thinking of God. So in this Sandhyā time, it is called Sandhyā, this time one should not make negative thoughts, not talking negative, not giving bad thoughts to anyone, not fighting. This is the time, Bhagavān Sūrya Nārāyaṇa. So we call Sūrya Nārāyaṇa. So Sūrya is the sun. Nārāyaṇa is Bhagavān Viṣṇu. This is very important. O human, so you know that all creatures, they are in their language, in their feeling, they are talking about God. But why should we not do it? So now, still, there are billions of people. Morning and evening, they are making their prayers according to their God, their religions, their language, their traditions, etc. Every day they are remembering God. And it is said, I have many times said, when we wake up and first we open our eyes, then we say, "I am human." When we open our eyes, we will not say that I am an animal. So, eyes open, and we say, "God has given us." I am human, and this human, I am a human. Also, the birds and all the animals are also singing. We should awake before sunrise. That is a Brahmaloka, Brahmamūrti. Brahma Mūrti. You know that? When we wake up, already the birds are dancing and speaking bhajans. So that is very important. So I am a human. O merciful, I am a human. Now, what does it mean to be a human? The human will not do bad things. So, I am a human. I am not an animal. I am not negative. I am a human, and what is written in the humankind is very great. So it is said, we are so. When we say, "I am a human," then do you know, if some people are doing something very wrong, fighting, killing, then we say, "It's not a human." Yes or no? Automatically we said, "Oh my God, they are not human." Because if I am a human, then I will not like that. Then, second, when you open your eyes and you say, "I am a human," then, if it is possible, you should have a nice picture of your father, your mother's. Because first is mother, and father is our God. And God has given to our parents to see the face of your parents. Look at the likeness of your parents, at their faces. Not at toys of some animals, tigers and the like. They are good. They are humble. We love them. Everything. But still, that face of such animals. They are good, they are humble, we love them, but the difference is between humans and animals. They have their soul also, as a human. I'm not saying that animals are not like that. And if you are taking so much love to the animals, then why are you eating meat? Why don't you think like that? So this is not the right one. After your mother, father, or you have some holy pictures of any god, or your Satguru, Gurudev, or Bhagavān Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, etc. We have 28 gods, but all are one. Varāha, the first god who came first, brought out the earth from the ocean. And that Varāha, you know, he came up, he brought the ocean up, that he brought it and let it move. So, in the sun, the sun is not going anywhere up and down. Not the sun rising, nor the sun setting. But the movement is of our earth, and so it is a globe. That is from the Vāharāya Bhagavān, that he said the earth is round. Then the Saptarṣis said, and it is written, when there were no other religions except Sanātana Dharma. And when the Vedas came, it is said that the globe is that. So the earth is round, but there are high mountains, and somewhere it's like a very flat land, so it is not round. But it is round. Look from far. There is all is round. Therefore, we, there are the great gods coming out. There are two kinds of gods. The one is God for all ages. And that's called oneself. And second is Satguru, Gurudev, and every day they are incarnating. Now, there is not only one guru, many, and they are for every time, every day. And then, once comes other god. Now, Kali Yuga will come, and you will see how the Kali Yuga. And in that time, when the Kali Yuga will come, either it will come good air. And everybody will become very great, and the knowledge will come. No fighting, no dualities, etc., or there is one or the two things. In Kali Yuga, there will be suffering and killing. Suffering, or those who are from Satyugas coming, they will go before this Kali, the Kali. So, Kālī, Kālī means dark. Then the good, like you all, before that, they will come to the Satya Yoga. And others will come into life very painfully. No more will it be a human; it will become like animals. But we are all trying, praying very much. So that is a globe, which is, we all know, moving at a very high speed, but we can't feel it. It's balanced, like an aeroplane flying very high. Sometimes, even 10,000 speed. Otherwise, 40,000 speed is sure. And we don't feel anything. We may be a little upturned like this, that now you can imagine the aeroplane is moving, but you're not. Similarly, the Earth is moving, but we don't move, you know that. In that, we are sleeping, and we are sleeping when the sun is gone on the other side. Earth turns down, dark. Are you not afraid? In the night, you are dropped down, but God has done everything. If we throw this stone up, it will come. What is that? Gravity. So God has done this nicely. When there will be no gravity, we are all, we don't know where in the sky. So, human. And animals, our world. So, we don't have this planet, but it is the earth. The globe, not that one. So we are coming further. So, how we in Kali Yuga will worship very much, meditate very much, and we pray and pray, "Merciful, please, give all peace and harmony, and don't let them suffer. God, please, let there be harmony and peace for all. Do not let anyone suffer, good or bad humans. O merciful Lord, please protect them all and give them some good knowledge in their brain. Not only them, but also your children, and all other creatures." This is very, very important, Sandhyā. That is the Sandhyā, and that is the prayers. So we are connecting day and night. And similarly, when you wake up in the morning, also called Brahma Muhūrta. Brahma is that cosmic Self. That is Brahma, not the sun, not the moon, not the planet, not heaven and hell. But Brahmā. And that Brahman, that is the whole globe, what we see up, endless, endless. And sometimes we are searching endlessly, we are going and searching. One day we will land again here, so it is not that we are going straight like the sun ray, the Sūrya sun. The rays, you know, all my dear, are not coming straight. It's going round like Earth is also rolling. Everything is rotating in our world. Where the ocean is there, so water is also traveling, but the water is not going down. Even if it goes up, it comes back, so this is all a glob. And how far? Very little, close from the moon. So energy is so far from us. So, my dear, you are standing here, and you don't know how far your energy is going. It is said when we go to where there is only snow, snow, and snow, like glaciers, and there are some animals, maybe the, what is that in the water, animals, I don't know English, oh yeah, and they can smell how many, how many. And they have a sixth sense that they can feel something many kilometers away. Or a bird can also see far distances. So don't think that you are sitting only here. You are very far, and far, and far. Therefore, Annamaya Kośa is here, Prāṇa is here, and after the Prāṇa is our mind. But after the mind, there is a coming of knowledge, very far and far. So, this is time to have a prayer. That was, "Thank you." So, this morning, I said, "You, from our Gurudeva, our Holy Gurujī, or what we call Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān." There are so many photos from Gurujī. And you see the radiance from a master or guru. There is radiance, and that is for all. The sun rising, the sun that rises, does not rise only for people, my dear, or only for birds, or only for snakes, it is for all. For all. But certain humans, not humans, sorry, animals, they cannot see the sunlight. Before sunrise, they hide themselves in the earth or somewhere. And when the sun sets, and it will be dark, then they come out. That is something. You know, there are some people who will get up from their grave. What do you call them? Vampires. Vampires or? So, like that, there are different kinds of animals because they cannot resist the sun, or they are hidden, so all are different. So, morning Brahmamūrta. So, Brahma is the supreme, the highest, beyond everything. And at that time, we shall make prayer or meditate, or do some pūjā. It must not be one hour; it depends on you. Only you get up in the morning and say, "Gurudev, please bless me and protect me." The prayer is done. So come to your mother and father. But in Kali Yuga, there are parents who are not so good, or parents are very good, but parents are not good, children. That's it. So now, because of what I was told this morning, whichever way we are going, therefore, Śubha, if you have positive thinking, then the whole day will be positive, and if something is wrong on the way... It's also good because that little bit, what is happening there, is a little bit. Otherwise, others can become very great; one can die. So, there in your Kriyā Anuṣṭhān, and in... Kriya Anushtāna, where I'm talking about the prāṇa, and this prāṇa, let's say we call prāṇāyāma, and that is called the left nostril. Breathing in and out. So this is purifying, cleaning. So, one first left, then second. Again, ten times or twenty times only with the left in and out, and then twenty times with the left nostril in and out cleaning. That's called śodhana. Śodhana means cleaning. Always we should do it with the left nostril. There is a very, very important side in the brain, the left nostril. But there are, after that, techniques you will see, if we should do first left or right. So, inhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. And these two fingers, we also call victory, not like this, that is different, but this will be a different side then. So this is a victory, then this way, that on my kismat, that with the right hand. These fingers too, index finger and middle finger, this is index. I tell you, look there, that's indexing. And this is the middle finger. So, the middle finger and these two. So the middle finger must have the power of the heart. Therefore, it comes to the left nostril side. And you know that more power, prāṇa, is coming to the left nostril, in the left hemisphere. And mostly people say that when someone has hemorrhoids on this side, then one is paralyzed. From this side, from our eyes, from our jaw, our left hand. If it's very hard, then it can also be leg. But that can be slowly, slowly. The doctor is also giving medicines, and this will come again. But if it's the right side one, then it may die. It can also be very hard to paralyze. So, we always have to clean the left nostril. Of course, there are many doctors here with us. They can tell us better. I'm a yogī, and they are doctors. This is the difference. So, inhale. Always make prāṇāyāma begin with the left nostril. And both fingers should be on the balance here. And right thumb from the side of the left nostril, slightly present. Slightly, so that this left nostril is closed. Don't push into the nose. Don't put in. I am now, you don't worry, that's all. Gurudevo, which nāḍī should I move? Not like that. Just very soft. Right nostril with the right thumb. That is, we gently press the right nostril with the right thumb. And then we have the ring finger, and that is for the left nostril. So those two fingers are on top. The left nostril is gently pressed by the ring finger. And the thumb is for the right nostril. Then these two fingers remain like this, closed. Okay? Like this. So if many people are doing like this, then their breath from our nostrils is blocking. And then there is a disturbance of the flow of these two nāḍīs. So, inhale and exhale left. Then close the left nostril with the thumb. Inhale and exhale twenty times. Likewise, it depends on your master; your teacher will tell you how long you should do. So this is a sādhanā, cleaning. Then it's coming bhedan. Bhedan means go through, so inhale from the left nostril. Then, block the left nostril with the ring finger. And exhale from the right. You have to remove the thumb, otherwise you cannot go through. You must remove the thumb, otherwise you would not exhale at all. Then you might even tear up from it. So inhale left, gently close the left and exhale right. Inhale left, exhale right. Inhale left, exhale, eye light out. Lie right 20 times, then 1 minute, 2 minutes normal breath. Then, closing the left nostril, inhale through the right nostril. Close the right nostril and exhale left, inhale right. Exhale left, inhale, and so on. So first is cleaning canalization, and where something is more blocked, then we go left, right, left, right. Then that side and this side. Now, there are two names in this. First is called Candra-bhedana and Sūrya-bhedana. Go through, Chandra means moon, and out the sun. Then again, immediately from right to Sūrya and go out through the left. So either we can say Anulom Vilom. Anulom Vilom means inhale through left, exhale through right, inhale through right, exhale through left. Anuloma viloma means inhale left, exhale right, inhale right, exhale left. Or the same name is different. Or the same name means something else. Chandra Bheda, Sūrya Bheda. Sūrya Bheda, Chandra Bheda. So the same technique can be called Chandra Bhedanā, Sūrya Bhedanā. So I have heard from yesterday or today from one of the teachers. I heard today or yesterday from one yoga teacher, that you were practicing incorrectly. So the mistake was only in the terminology, or nomenclature. For a long time in the texts I have written, I had Sūrya Bhedana, Candra Bhedana. Sūrya Bhedana, Candra Bhedana. So, like this, go in, like, like... like. So what Holy Gurujī said, and that is what I told you this morning, and yes, number 12 I have said, and now it's 13. So, these are the other letters: J. J-J. J-J.... You know, we begin from that K-K. We began K-K, G-G, C-C, and now it's coming J-J. So this followed from K-K onwards, and now we have this J-J. Now, in the English language, they made it 21. And in Sanskrit, it is 52. That's a difference, so that's why sometimes we say different. They say different. You don't tell me, Svāmījī, Maheśvara Nand. Say Maheśvarānand. We say Maheśvarānand. No, we say Maheśvarānand. And Americans say A more. But they don't pronounce the "A." And if we have again the A there, then you will say Maheśvarānanda. I am not in Maheshwarananda. I am only Maheshwarananda. So this is different always. Czech is a beautiful language. Yes, and German is also good. So, the Czech, there are many good letters. So when the Czech people go to Austria and they go to their kitchen, the Austrian said, "What did they say?" I also cannot speak very nice, but it is in the kitchen. And there we make a mistake. Always. So what Gajānand is doing, he is confusing. It is maybe for their grave, but they want to read that. So, Jājā, Jagat Swapnakī Māyā, it is said, this world is only dead. Dream. This is only māyā. Maya means nothing. Is maya maya? Why do you fall into this? It's beautiful. We are born now, but you know, till the last life, it's only a dream. And in this māyā, why are you in māyā? So why are you now involved in this? You got in the world, but this world is not anyway. It's a dream. But in this dream, you should not say, "This is a māyā, don't go in the māyā." Did you understand? Who did not understand? Tell me, please. Very good. Otherwise, I will put you in the night, in a dream. So now you will not be in the dream, okay? Good, good, good mantra. Ja and ja. Ja and ja. So in this, Jā and jā, just chhod do, bhai. First was Jājā, it was in the sleeping dream. Jaja Jut Chodori Bhai, therefore don't talk wrong. Jaja Jut. Somebody is talking empty. Therefore, O my brother, give up negative thoughts. Therefore, speak truth. Through this, you will get liberation. And that's how you get Mukta, liberation. Beautiful. Tomorrow morning. Tonight we are under the sky. And as the stars will fall. Be careful. Yesterday again I saw the moon, the star was falling. We were sitting for nearly one and a half hours; we were waiting in the night. I was looking up also. Some kind of little animals were falling. So I said, "Let's go," and the star fell. The day before yesterday also, then again, the star was falling. Otherwise, there are some airplanes or satellites. Maybe you can, if you wish. That is good. Tomorrow. So my dears, it is something that Holy Gurujī has written. He gave very clearly what and what this letter can do. Of course, the one letter began many, many. But Holy Gurujī made some very, and that is very good for us, all of us. So it is said that Sandhyā, and now is the Sandhyā, so we should have the prayer. Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Brahmanandajī Mahārāj Kī Jaya, Sūrya Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya.

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