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Haṭha Yoga offers many paths. It is one of the best ways to achieve what you wish to achieve. However, it must be practiced in the best way. This is also what we call the Adbhuta Yogīs, and they follow what is known as Haṭha Yoga as it truly is. We have been discussing netī and dhautī. Now, we come to basti and nauli. The third point is the nauli technique. This is very, very good for the intestines and for digestion. Many problems we humans have are in the stomach. Of course, this depends on nourishment. First, we shall eat good food. Between one meal and the next, there should be at least five to six hours. We can have water, and maybe one little fruit. Otherwise, no coffee, no chai, nothing. After six hours, we have the meal again. What meal are you eating? Of course, vegetarian. And you know what you want to eat; eat until your stomach is full. But it is said: leave space for solid food, liquid food, and what we call liquid—also water. Give the stomach some empty space. Work, do what you are doing, and then again, five or six hours after a meal, eat again. Then, about eight or nine hours at night for sleeping. This allows purification through the whole of our stomach, purification of our body. Then we make the activities in the body, and that is called Sarvahitāsana. It is not very hard; it is very peaceful, very simple—simple but very powerful. Thereafter, it is said we should have one pūjā. Puja means any religion which you follow. For that, you should say to God whatever you want. There are two aspects of God. One is what we call physical, relating to the physical body: Sākāra and Nirākāra. Nirakāra is that which we cannot see, but we believe; we say the Supreme, God. So what we all call Allah, and Allah is not physically visible. That Allah, whom Muslims worship, they feel Him, they know Him, and they are very, very near to their religion. Jews also have their own path, very much. They come to the wall and say, "God, God," and on the other side, they know that God is there for them. The Christians have many different kinds of prayers and pūjās, different kinds of worshipping. They also worship both nirākār and sākār. Similarly, the Hindus, from ages and ages, also worship Nirakāra and Sākāra. So it is that we worship God, and we worship a physical part of the body—it is not only one, but is the living God. Similarly, for our body, what we are doing as Haṭha Yogīs... There is one beautiful story. It is said that one day Bhagavān Śiva and Pārvatī went for a walk about 10 o’clock in the evening. It was a little rain, very little, and a very cold wind. In this story, Śiva and Pārvatī went one evening, about 10 o’clock at night, for a walk. The wind was blowing and it was raining. They passed by a little village, and after about half, there was some place where people are burying or boiling above the washing. So one day, one person died, and people were at the crematorium. A lot of wood was there, and they burned one body. They collected everything and went away. When Shiva and Parvati were passing, about 10 or 11 o’clock at night, there was some fire. The clue was, and there was sitting one man, and he was making one bread. He had no cloth, only one little cloth. He had long hair, and it was a little rainy, very cold, maybe about five or six degrees below. That yogī, a Haṭha yogī, had achieved techniques. Everything is controlled: the body, hunger, feelings, heat, cold, everything. At that time, Pārvatī said to Śiva, "My Lord, who is this person here? He is making his food, but why here? Here is the crematorium place." He said, "Let us go." She said, "No, no, Shiva, no. So poor man, no home, no cloth, nothing. And only there is some chapati he is making." He said, "Yes, he is a yogī, a Haṭha yogī." "No. I want that, please give him something, Śiva." Śiva said, "That Hatha Yogi, he will not take when I give him. No, it’s not true. So many people in the villages, in cities, everywhere, you are giving them everything. Very rich men, little, not rich men, but everything. But this Hatha Yogi, you can’t give him anything, a little kuṭyā, a heṭo, no? Hāṭ." Shiva said, "Parvati, you don’t know." And, "Let’s go." She said, "No, that’s called Haṭha Yoga." So you see, also Hatha Yoga is in that. So then Parvati, Śiva said, "Behind one bush of the tree, stand far distance and just see and listen what he will tell me." Bhagavān Śiva comes and stands in front of the yogī. The Hatha yogī, Shiva is standing there in front of the yogī. But the Haṭha yogī did not want to think anything; he is only taking care of his chapati. Shiva is standing there. The yogi didn’t even want to look at who was there. Shiva said, "No, why should I say who you are?" Again, he said, "I am." He doesn’t. Again, it is said, "I am the Śiva." The Hatha Yogi said, "Why are you standing here?" "Because I want to give you something." The Hatha Yogi said, "I did not beg from you. I don’t need anything from you. I’m from nowhere, anything. I am in myself. That’s Śiva of the Brahman." Shiva said, "But when I come, I give something." "So, what do you want to give?" Still, Śiva is telling this. And the yogī, he doesn’t care about Śiva. So Bhagavān Śiva said, "When I come, I have to give something. So ask what you want." He said, "If you want to give me something, then I wish you would just go away from here." Shiva disappeared, and then Shiva goes further, and Parvati’s finger was in her mouth. "I’m sorry, my Lord. I did not know." Shiva said, "Parvati, I told you. This is above the Śiva. That is Haṭha Yoga. He has made all sādhanās. He doesn’t want anything, no money, nothing. He made only this one chapati. Maybe he will eat it, or he will give it to the animals. May he lie down here. That is called Haṭha Yogī. Haṭha Yogī." So, Hatha Yogi means not wrong, not torturing, no. But your body should be in our ātmā’s hand. We should not depend on the body; the body should depend on me. That is Haṭha Yoga. The highest yoga is this. That is as Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa was yesterday talking. So the Nauli Kriya and this Nauli Kriya are different. One is what we call the Agnisar Kriyā, which is moving left and right, both sides, also the practice Agni Kriyā. And so, bringing the heat in the body. All digestion, no constipation, no high diarrhea, nothing, very best. So this is a hatha yogī, nauli. So, nauli kriya is turning the intestines on both sides. Then, haṭha kriya. This is, according to that haṭha yoga, the third. This is very important, and for that, we don’t have any problems in our intense time. And when in the stomach there are no problems, anything, the body is healthy, all is best. And so that is what the stomach moving both sides, then, and Agnisāra Kriyā. There is another coming, Bhasti. And Bhasti is that also, with the stomach. They drink the water, and then again they leave the water out. But there is another one, this technique, the basti saṅk prakshālana. Saṅk is that one, conch, and kaṁsa is the first in the water, first that, and it’s very holy for all. We blow this for prayers and everything, and that is. Twisting the Kans, and we pour the water in, and it goes like this, spirals. Everything is cleaning; everything is going. And that’s also our stomach, which is twisting in this way. So, how to clean this? It is very, very important, and we should know. So there are four movements, four to five movements, to practice this, what is called the Saṅgha Prakṣālana. Saṅgh is the conch. Prakṣālan means cleaning. And so exactly our intense science is going like that. So it is, but one should know that you are learning from a proper yoga teacher. Books are good. We can read, we can learn everything. This is a theory, but practical, that is from the master. There is one doctor, and the doctor, he’s a surgeon, and he’s one of the best surgeons. And he wrote the best books, everything about this. But that surgeon, the doctor, passed away. People were sad when he, and it was his beautiful picture on the wall, and his many nice books there. People were looking at the picture of the doctor and looking at his books, but now he is not there. Not practical. So his disciple, the doctor, the surgeon, he practically has to do it. Otherwise, you cannot. Nobody can say, "Okay, we will stop the stomach, cut it out, and this and that." No, no,... no. Don’t do even a little needle inside. So practical in yoga, and yoga is not only āsana and prāṇāyāma, and not that kind of meditation. Nowadays, people are all making meditation, meditation, but they don’t know what is a meditation. It is three days before. I told that, what is that real technique and real yoga? Yoga karmasu kośalam, but we have to go through that via the techniques. So that yogī, many people are saying it is yoga, and I am teaching. One year, two years, three years, that is not it. You can’t become a yogī. Years and years, still you are a student. So those who want to become real yogīs, then you should come to the real yogī. Not collecting people as disciples. Therefore, you see, already now 52 years I am in Europe. In London I was there, in England, for one and a half years. Then I came to Germany, Austria, etc. I have been here for so many years now. But still, I am saying to my own disciples, I am also a disciple. Āsana, prāṇāyāma, everyone can do. Everyone can kick the football, everyone can do swimming, but my dear, yoga—Yoga is the greatest. And in that Hatha Yoga, Hatha Yoga is the best. So we will, the Basti and Saṅkhya Prakṣālana, tomorrow, I will tell you. All my dear brothers and sisters around the whole world, I know many people are calling and asking, "Please, how do we do Śakti Prakāśalana again? How do we do that?" From thousands, maybe one or two masters can properly bring you there. So yoga, yoga sādhanā, only from the guru or the doctor, surgeon. Operations and things, doctor that. And doctors, they are so great. So my Gurujī used to say, next to doctor, next to God, doctor. So, one God, and the second is that doctor, also God. He can. He can. We are dying, and he can give life again. Therefore, we should not think like, "Oh, the doctor is not good," and this and that. No, no, no. And now the doctor knows everything, each and every cell in the body. Similarly, the yogī knows exactly where and what, not as in prāṇāyāma and make you a yoga teacher, and a yoga teacher and make a yogī teacher, and that’s not. So, my dear, there was in the Himalayas one ṛṣi, a yogī, for many, many years. Then he was sitting under the cave and sometimes outside in the sun. So Dharmarāja, the God, tells, sends the messengers, "Now this yogī, it’s time to bring." So he’s a great yogī, and I will bring him to the Supreme. So from the Dharmarāja, his messengers came and said, "O yoginī, God is calling you." He said, "No. I have now Vedas in my hands, and I will read my Vedas." So he’s learning, learning, learning. After five years, again Dharamrāj said, "Bring the yogī." And he said, "Please tell God to give me at least 100 years." After 100 years, again, Dharmarāja sends there that man. He was very old, only bones and skin, and he had this book in his hand. And he said, "Please say to the Dharamrāj, ’Do not disturb me. I have not yet finished learning my Vedas.’ Please, tell them I want to learn. Give me a little more time." Well, five hundred years. Then again, Dharamrāj said, "This time, bring him, please. But no force." Then he went there. "I told you, my brother, my Vedas still, I did not finish this, this yoga in daily life. Oh, my God! Well, how much do you want to learn?" "Oh, I have to learn many." He said, "Dan, you know the Himalaya?" "Yes, the Himalaya." "Please hold your hands there, and God brings the sand from the rock of the Himalaya." And the dust comes there. The messenger said, "Yogīs, what is in your hands, in your palm?" "This is the dust from the Himalaya." He said, "This little sand is just nothing. The whole Himalaya, Himalaya, can you get this? Therefore, come." And then the messenger took him up and came to the God, Dharmarāja. Dharmarāja. "So how long will you read? How long will you make āsanas, prāṇāyāmas? How much you will run here and there? That is nothing. Just do know that time has come, my supreme God. Then my yoga is complete, not this one year and five years and three months training. And this, what kind of training you... Need, my dear, in every school we have these trainings. Everywhere there are footballs, we have different flying, learning everything. Know what is yoga, and when you know yoga, your ears come out towards you. I don’t know, and what can you give the others? Therefore, yoga is the highest way." Slowly, slowly, each and every cell of the body is inside, cosmic energy inside. Inside, so practice, live happily with the families, be with the friends, all animals, respect them, protect them, and live life. All the times, Guru Kṛpā came along. Ek is the God. That’s it. So, bhasti and śaṅkhaprakṣālana. All Yoga in Daily Life people have beautiful techniques of the Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. In Europe, our Swāmī Śādinī, the Umāpurī, she learned the Saṅkīrtana Prakāśalana, and now I’ve learned from her. Many people are doing Saṅkīrtana Prakāśalana. For Saṅkīrtana Prakāśālana, you can do four times a year or two times, at least once. But don’t do Sankt Prakāśalan alone. Do three, four, five together, then it is energy and there is real purification. Let’s say tomorrow we will talk, wish you all the best, and let’s say again to Gurudev, if I make a mistake, I’m sorry, and I bow down to your holy faith. Om Namah Śrī Prabodhi Panārāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabodhi Panārāyaṇam.