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All Bhaktas, once again, I wish you a very nice day, evening, or wherever you are. I am very happy to be with you, and today will be a great time. My dears, all those who have been giving me instructions also spoke to me. They said they are very happy because, especially during the coronavirus period, many people are practicing and are very happy. Haṭha Yoga is very beautiful and healthful, and everyone understood that the first step is Haṭha Yoga. And in Haṭha Yoga, what we have now is Trāṭak. In Trāṭak, you have seen a nice picture. I saw you, and that is in our "Yoga in Life" book. In 1970—let's say 1972—I came to Vienna, Austria, and at that time I had this picture like this. I made it, and now in the book it is another, but the same thing. It is my disciple. So, let's talk today about what we call Trāṭak. All my practitioners, disciples, and those who would like to come and practice—and I know, my dear, that around the whole world, in all our yoga centers, our Yoga in Daily Life, and all our teachers are very expert—should really understand this Trāṭak. Now, Trāṭak means gazing on one point. Gazing on one point to know how our eyesight is. You can also see that when we go to the doctors, and the eye doctor looks at us, they are also looking exactly where the concentration point is. That must be focused there. My dear, they say these exercises are very good for our eyes. The eyes will be very good. Yes and no. If it is done mistakenly, then we can lose our eyesight or cause harm. So one should not, from one lecture of some sādhus or someone giving a lecture somewhere, just go home and practice this and that. It is not good. There are different points to practice. You can make one point: red, yellow, or black. We can put it on paper and concentrate there. After closing the eyes, that black one will turn into white. For example, we can focus on one point somewhere close. We can put one little stone somewhere, or anything, in front according to your body distance when you lie down. Then, where your toes and your eyes are, that is it. That is for good eyes; one can see and exactly know if they need eyeglasses. So, that is this. There are two points. First, this point is that you stretch your legs. You are sitting like this, and then you look at your toes. That is the right point. That's it. Look between both toes. That's it. Or, with one leg stretched and that one. Also, some yoga teachers said, "Both toes, from both my eyes, then is one of the best distances, very good." Natáhnete nohy. And those toes, both big toes and their nails, from both your eyes will make there become one point. After some time, you will learn, and it's beautiful that your point is one. When we go to the doctors, they say one eye is a little weak, one is good, and then they give that point. So both together make the one point best. That is the first. Second, we sit straight and then stretch one arm and one thumb. The stance on the thumb is that. Bring your right or left hand from the center of the chest, and then don't go too high. Some go like this, then you will have an eyeball difference in distance, and it will be very painful. Therefore, the eyeballs we have to keep relaxed, not in the front. So, our eyelids should be going to our heart. Or when you go a little distance, the eyes, then, like on our breast, this is the distance. On one hand, there is either this or this distance, then the eyes will feel relaxed. And if you look higher, and you make some light there in the front, the tears will come. Or your eyelids will be... Therefore, your yoga teacher—that real yoga teacher, not one trained for two months or three months, but one year—no, no. From kindergarten through university, and from university into further education. Then you become that professor, that doctor. In every different field, it is learned first. Those doctors—how many diplomas are you doing? Many times they said, "How many diplomas have you done?" And we cannot say that person is a mystic. We should adore them. We adore them, and when that person died, and their photo is there, or their book is there, this is only not practical. Now, that doctor cannot, from the photo, perform an operation. But we will admit that person, and he or her, all her work, books, we have to learn that. But we have to have a living professor. That will give further. Similarly, my dear, the kindergarten, they only forgo for self, make a little one month or two months, and they make a yoga certificate. And then you will go and do, "I can do all." Not like this, my dear. Step by step, day by day, month, years and years of day under the practice of the master. That master calls you Guru Kṛpāhi Kevalam. It says, if you will be humble and nice, that blessing will come automatically. So that’s why, in the last, in this yoga, there in this Haṭha Yoga, the first which came, this in the, I teach their eyes practice, the Trāṭak. There are two kinds of Trāṭak: one is with open eyes, and the second is with closed eyes. So we can show some object, and on that object is that. But after, when your guru, your master, will tell you the point, and then you will go, eyes closed. Then you will see what you can see. Then you are going through the sun, and after the sun, expanding there, Brahmalokas, my dear. Everything is in the human’s brain, in all sādhanās, but Guru Kṛpā, he gave a lump through your Guru Trāṭak. Trāṭak is so powerful. You see now, there is one, it’s called Mahābhārata. And in the Mahābhārata, the king was blind. And they were fighting. So the son of that blind king, he was not a king, and he was also not king because his elder brother was a king, but anyhow, I’m not going further. So it was a battlefield, and two armies were fighting, but that blind king wanted to see what was happening on the battlefield. What is going on? Then God gave him this, just only for this battle. So he is one of his workers, and he opens his eyes, and he sees a far distance, very, very far, kilometers, but he can see all. Vedavyāsa. It is for the Ved Vyāsa. Ved Vyāsa gave him only for this time. Then we’ll go. That is similarly what was that in this. The Mahābhārata is very cruel, very great, and very real. And it was the humans, how they were fighting. No one should fight in the night. After the sunrise and after the sunset. After, no one, even in the night you cannot hide anybody in a tree. And at that time, no one should fight with the women. If someone attacks a woman, the man will send all his weapons down and give his hand like this. That was, but now you know, one is sitting how many thousand kilometers away and pressing a point here and killing there. That is not the truth and not right. So similarly, when he got eyes there, Ved Vyāsa gave him that ṛṣi, and you can see. And when it was finished, he couldn’t see anything more. That is a Trāṭak, my dear. Practice this yoga, yoga karmasukauśalam. That is very important. Therefore, then you meditate. And we go to our three points, either in Trāṭak here between both eyes, or in the heart, or in nābī. There are three points that are very important: protect and protect. This is very important. So, in that, then the yoga, the guru, we call guru and yoga teacher, or you call the master. Who is the master? There is a master also who is cleaning the wall. But that real master, he knows both in the world and in the Brahman. Therefore, Brahman, the whole Brahman, is that our brain. And everywhere there are nerves, everything is going in the whole body. Each and every nerve, and the light is going on. So if you close your eyes, or open your eyes, you are at the same time, in the same place. That is a practice, practice of what we call the Trāṭak. There are now also many gurus like this. Yesterday, day before yesterday, when Yogi saw his photo—not a photo, but living—and he was in cold, very cold. He had only one cloth, and he was meditating like this in meditation postures of the lotus posture, this mudrā, these three. And after, both fingers. So from that, he’s sitting and the sun is rising. And he’s looking up. And then, what did he do? He drew his eyeballs in, up, and only it was called a little light of the surreal, and therefore he could have no tears, nothing, and he could see it. And that’s why his eyes didn’t cry at all. The ball goes up. I looked at it very closely yesterday, and I watched very closely how he does it. Similarly, also our Gurudev, Satguru Swami Madhavānandajī, he has the title of Hindu Dharma Sanātana. So this is great from Gurujī. So Holy Gurujī was also doing this Trāṭak for very many years. And Holy Gurujī said, "Devpurījī was whole day, sometimes with the sun going." That’s called Siddha. A Siddha yogī is called Siddha. Not that I want one disciple, a second disciple, this, this, this money, that professor, that. No. This is only a business, nothing else. No, that such a student, such a professor, and this money, and this and that to make something, that’s all just the world of money, of business. But a yogī is a yogī, the one who has nothing, and if he has something, he will give it right away. But even today, there are still such witnesses. My Gurudev said, "So many ṛṣis in the Himalayas and in some other places also. Still we are living because of them. They are taking care of us." They need not come close, but their energy and their looking. For example, there are many tigers or lions, and we want to see them. If we go there, we can go there once, not twice. But we sit somewhere at a distance, and we see all these tigers, and this, how beautiful and how it’s going on. And there are people who are taking care of these animals from a distance. And how they are eating vegetation or this and that. Similarly, those ṛṣis, those yogīs, they see from thousands and thousands of kilometers distance because through the Trāṭak. And through into the Trāṭak, there is another, and that is called the guru and disciple satsaṅg. Nobody else can listen. But now we have, so this is a tale. Yes, we can talk and this, but if this is broken, there is nothing there. It’s very good, this technique is very good. So, my dear, Trāṭaka. Trāṭaka is in how many stairs? From where to where will you come? That time, then, in Brahma Chakra. Then, in Brahma Chakra, it will come from here, the Dhrumati. It is Trikuṭī. Trikuṭī means three: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumnā. They will concentrate directly through the Bindu, and then comes the Sahasrāra. Then, your Trāṭak is perfect. Otherwise, looking only at this, you will make some people blind. So, my dear, when, how, and if, then at least three, four years, five years you come to those steps. Otherwise, very soon, we will be blind. Or we do, but it’s nothing like that. It is a power. Many of us know, many don’t know. Just this I tell, that if something happens, you can control it. Like a little child, and one year, two years, three years, four years, five years, still making urine in a sleeping bag. And many things they are doing. They give some doctor, or the doctor said, and many things. So Yogi said, "Tratak," and it is said in one day. The parents said, "Thank you, Swamijī or Yogī, we are happy if it can be, but in one day, it will be." When your child is going to sleep, then when he goes to bed, before going to bed, either with a magic stick or only like, tell it to look, "Chick, chick, there’s nothing more. Good night, sleep, morning." The parents said, "My child is..." In dry. Next day, again, not in the bed. So, say, what have you done? It is a miracle. If it is a miracle, I will do it in the distance, but this was a practical. But that is the concentration on that point. Then after one week, again, it happened. So again, and the child is not wetting the bed anymore. That is the power of the Trāṭak; it is the greatest. So, my dears, tomorrow I will continue to come to your Trāṭak concentration. I wish you all the best. Tomorrow we will do again. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāya Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāya.