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Good evening, all my dear sisters and brothers, all practitioners of yoga, all yogīs, yoga teachers, and practitioners from various yoga centers. I wish for you that your work in this world is the greatest. Ultimately, we must all arrive there as part of yoga—the yoga for human beings that we discuss. It is from the cosmic energies that our soul, our ātmā, came to our body. It is like water from the ocean evaporates to become clouds, and from the clouds, dripping water falls to the earth and flows onward. The clouds rain down upon the ground again, and so the same cycle continues. Just last night, around one o'clock, I awoke and contemplated in my mind, half asleep and half awake. From Gurudev came further insight about this practice of trāṭak. In trāṭak, you know, the living creatures, the light, the seed, and so forth move like a fish goes through water. When human life is being created, we have that seed which floats like a fish in water. They all go directly to that point. This means their eyes, their inner eyes, the ātmā, the jīva or the soul, are already searching their path. So they go precisely to that given point, their inner... Let us say how it arrives; it is a high, divine process for this soul entering the mother's body. This occurs between the mother and father. It is between the father and the mother. There begins the light, the light. And where is it coming from? The nābhi. It comes from the nābhi. In the navel, there is that jīva, that soul, whatever we call it, which resides in our navel. Now, there, the Jīvātmā has eyes inside. Where they are going will always be to the right point, according to their direction, for God has placed it within our particular body. That jīva, that soul, that ātmā—that is the light itself. And so they are born: all animals from the bird's egg coming out, and babies too. All the fish and all other creatures. And even in vegetation—for example, this is a seed. How many come from one tree? How many is this? And this is in the tree. This seed, again, has Mother Earth inside, and the father's eyes come out and see where to go. Every seed again gives eyes to the roots. And in the roots, from where does this tree, this fruit, that color, that design, etc., originate? All the seeds of one tree are like that. Our Satguru Dev Swāmī Madhvānandjī Bhagavān once told me a story. I was sitting in the Nippal ashram, very late, about ten o'clock at night, and I was sleeping. But Gurujī said, "Sit down, meditate." "How should I meditate, Gurujī? Please tell me, what is meditation?" My Gurudev said, "Just make a mālā." Well, at that time, Gurujī said to me, after we finished the mālā, Gurudev said, "One in all and all in one." Even the green grass, even any trees, bushes, all creatures—everyone has eyes, and they are all looking with their light toward their destination. Therefore, all our trees also have their eyes, and that is concentration, what we call trāṭak. Even the day and night, and especially at night, most seeds come out. Because in this darkness, the eyes are opening. We may not understand, but we have the eyes, and it is said. There are so many trees, many, many trees, but it is said each and every tree, its branches, they find their space. Similarly, all vegetation, many, many other things that come from... the earth, and they have roots. The roots are such that they will be forever. Some branches may break, but the roots are there. And these roots will give further. There is a light in the light. Eyes, beautiful eyes. And that comes from Mother Earth. It comes out. Mother Earth gives all kinds of everything a mother needs for her body. Gurujī said, "You don’t know; after some time, you will know." So I asked Gurujī, where does this Jīva come from, and where will Jīva stay, and will he go somewhere? My Gurujī said, "I will tell you, my child." He said, "We all call elderly people. We are the youngest. They will tell us, like child, son, daughter, etc." And there, Gurujī told me one story, but I will tell you tomorrow. Gurujī said, "Next day, I asked Gurujī, and Gurujī said, 'I will tell you after, I will tell you after.'" So, this is Haṭha Yoga. Haṭha Yoga is the earth, Mother Earth, the water, the air, the fire, the space expanding. It is also Haṭha. My dear, how long we can understand and go further and further, that is called Haṭha Yoga, and there is what is called trāṭak. Expand, you come, and now you expand, and that roots their point, their energy. They are fire. Everything is in the navel. But I told Gurujī, how is the jīva going like this? "Gurujī, how are you going?" I was a very young boy, about 10 years or 9 years or 8 years or something. We do not count our years, and whenever we are for one year, it doesn’t matter when or which date you were born. We don’t say. We only say there is one in one year, and where there is Bhagavān Rāma, and on those days we are all bringing the children who are newborn in this year, and we are making pūjā, and there we are giving our children. Our mother, father, and our relatives all come, and they make a beautiful festival. If they cannot do it one year, they do it the next year. And so we know what your birthday is. A birthday is my mother's, when she gave me birth. But I forgot, but we know that on that day, here on that day, we all got the blessing. Therefore, we are not celebrating a birthday, birthday, birthday. What is that? Now, of course, it was in the Western countries they began "birthday, birthday, birthday," and now Indians also say "happy birthday, birthday, birthday." So you see, also in Europe, there are many birth ceremonies, birth, birth. It is only about maybe one century old. Because many, many people in Europe, also many, were not educated in schools or something. And so the mother doesn’t know which year she was born. And we are not worshipping that. We said one year, and that year he said, "This is the day where we are making ceremonies, and from this year we are all together." So, let us say, for many years—since 40 years or 30 years or 50 years—it was a big problem for elderly people. But the government said, or people said, that was your birthday, when it was, who was your mother, your father. So those who are nearly 100 years, or 90 years, or 80 years, they will just say, "OK, right, that’s all." But we know we were born, and my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, I know. And we worship on holy days, like we say Christmas here; similarly, we say Bhagavān Rāma’s or Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa’s day, that we are worshipping. All religions, they were on that day worshipping all four children like this. For example, now in Europe, in some parts of Europe—some countries are different—but it is said that in the sixth class, when a child is six years old, they should go to school. I don’t know about Czech or Slovak, but in Austria I know. So if the child is only five years, the month is a little behind, they will not take him at the school. The next year, he will bring the child, and it is already seven years. So, my dear, like this many things are going on too, but we are all going towards everywhere that God has given us. So, Gurujī said, "How the eyes are going." Then Gurujī said there were these disciples, and one disciple was with Gurujī. At about eleven o’clock in the morning, it was a little cool, cold, so they were sitting in the sun outside, Gurujī and the disciple. And that disciple said, "Gurujī, what are you doing?" He said, "I am going to my room, to my room, because one of my bhaktas is in the ocean, and he has a little boat, and there are heavy waves in the ocean." So there was one bhakta; he was in a boat, so he said, "Gurudev, Gurudev, in the ocean, please, if you cannot save me here in the water, how will you save me further, Gurudev?" This is from that sādhu, guru, in Rajasthan near Devapurījī’s ashram. So he went to... I said, "Close the door, nobody should go in, don’t disturb." He said, "Why?" Gurujī said, "I have to save my bhakta on the ocean, and his boat is like in the waves." Then Gurujī went into samādhi. It is not just a story. There is one big book, and in that book, many ṛṣis, gurus, and holy persons—there is one big book already—like Kabīr Dāsa, Sūr Dāsa, Gūrū Mīrābāī, and many others. You can get one of these statements, and in that, you will see the inside. He came, he took the boat of the Gurujī, his devotee. "I will bring you out. Sit in the boat, I am taking you." The bhakta was so happy. "Thank you, Guru Dev." Like that, the Guru is then like that Guru. He said, "I am not doing it because I am a Guru like that. My bhakta, my child, I saved you, I helped you." This helping of God—now he came again back. Now he came again, he went to the ashram in the astral body. The physical body is there; he is sitting in meditation, and he was there. What to do with one key? He misunderstood the key of the thinking, and his ātmā, his soul, is moving around the ashram. Nobody can see the astral body; no one can see us. And Gurujī is just going. The disciple said, "Gurujī, you are in the astral body. Still, I lost the path. How to enter the physical body?" He said, "Gurudev, nābhi, nābhi," and when he gave the word "nābhi," immediately the astral body of Gurujī, through the nābhi—this is the navel—and from there, Gurujī came again back. Gurujī said, "My child, my bhakta, my disciple, I bless you, and your name is Nābhādāsa." Gurujī gave the name to the disciple, Nābhājī, and in the book, you will open it and you will see Nābhājī. That is the yogī, and he said, "Gurujī, you have the eyes, but something was there, like a block." So Gurujī said, "How did you know?" He said, "Gurudev, I made trāṭak, Gurujī." If I would have looked my eyes out and looked, "Where is Gurujī?" these eyes will not see me. But if you saw the body of the Gurujī—there was no picture at that time—we think of the Gurujī, he closed the eyes, and that astral energy of Gurujī and disciples. Trāṭak of the nābhi and Gurujī came. He opened his eyes. The disciple went to Gurujī and made a blessing down, spreading to Gurujī’s holy seat’s feet. "My Gurudev, please, don’t do quickly, hurry, hurry like this. I will, what will I do without you, my Gurudev?" Gurujī said, "Like disciple will be like, I like him," Gurujī said. Still, there is an ashram there, and beside it, there is a big temple. So there, there are yogīs; that is Haṭha Yoga. Therefore, it is said, "O my bhakta, O my disciple, don’t be said, 'I am great, and I am this.' No, no, no." Leave it, everything behind your ego, everything out, and just come with me. Mana means mind, your mind and my mind and thy mind. That Ātmā in that Ātmā, that is Paramātmā. Therefore, our Mahāprabhujī’s one disciple, Śivanānjī, he was a Khatu, Chote Khatu, and he said: "Śrī Guru. Prabhu chara chara kī ātmā, naba rūpa vyāpā, satya yāpā, vimala cetana ātmā. Prabhu vimala ātmā, nase āge, agama jāge, nigama se nitya ātmā." So tomorrow, my dear, about this prayer, I will explain to you. That is called Trāṭak. Merī andar kī āṅkheṅ khul jāyeṅ. It means my inner eyes should open, and when they open, that is the other one. So there are many great sādhus and many people who, by birth, are blind, but they have inner light, and that inner light we should also awaken. Nābha nābha rūpa sya poṣa sya poṣa... Slava Chetana, so tomorrow it will be a very happy joy of this book or bhajan. And that bhajan is a prayer, and you can have it morning, anytime. When we translate everything, you close your eyes, and you are like that Nābhājī, that Yogī Nābhājī; you are everywhere. With this, I wish you all the best, and tomorrow again, say: "Om̐ Namaḥ Śivāya. Om̐ Namaḥ Śivāya. Oṁ Namoḥ Śiva Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā. Oṁ Ātmā Puruṣottama, sakala jagake antara jāmī, cāracar kī ātmā, prabhu cāracar kī ātmā."