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Good evening, all dear sisters and brothers, all yoga practitioners, each and everyone who is on the path of yoga throughout the whole world, engaged in yogic sādhana. For that, I wish them the blessings of their masters and gurus. What we are doing, we should extend our wish to all humans for positive, divine, and good health. Měli bychom všem lidem přát to božské, a měli bychom jim přát dobré zdraví. I respect each and every one's beliefs, whatever religions or others they may be, and I am happy that they are doing good things for all humans and other creatures. At this time, we all should be in oneness and make an effort for everyone. With this, we come to our path of yoga in daily life. We respect our masters, our gurus, from many, many ages, and I ask for peace, harmony, and love for them. We know we are all doing our best to come forward, and we will definitely achieve our goals according to the guidance of our other yoga teachers, yoga ashrams, and gurus. They are all trying very hard, and I thank them all. Let's come together, remain together, practice, and go forward. We are talking about meditation for only three weeks. Many people shared the information I spoke about. They were very happy about what Swamijī said. We are very happy and think we are coming onto the right path. So, about meditation. There are many, many techniques everywhere. People are making them their path; they know and are doing according to their thoughts. But finally, we all will be one. It is like when rain falls, the water comes to the earth, collects together, becomes rivers, and each river flows towards the ocean. At that time, the ocean will not say, "This water is not good," or "That water is not good." Perhaps some water was very clean, very good, or some water is dirty. The ocean will not say, "Don't come here, go back." All will be respected and reach the ocean; all waters. And it is the water that is making all purification. The ocean will purify and make it pure again. Similarly, all yoga centers around the world, all yoga teachers, are teaching according to their knowledge, trying to bring everyone towards that river of knowledge flowing to the ocean of supreme consciousness. In that way, everyone tries to meditate. But mostly, what we are doing is always going outward; we are unable to enter inside. To je velice důležité, abyste věděli, jak tu meditaci provádět. Je důležité vědět. There are different meditations. For example, you want to go a far distance in your car. That requires your concentration. That is also a meditation: we are driving on the right road and should be very conscious. The driver, when we are sitting in the car and driving... Tak máme nějaké spolucestující. Jsou s námi v jednom autě a možná si v tom autě povídají, smějí se, někdo podřimuje, etc. But the driver, he or she, has concentration on the six directions. And one more very powerful element: the machine, the car. Now, this driver's concentration: the front, where we should drive, how fast we should go, who is coming in front. Everything. But at the same time, the driver is looking back, which is why we have the mirror—the rearview mirror. So the driver also, from time to time, looks into the mirror. Not just looking, but very consciously. The right side: which car is there, or if some animals are there, etc. So, our responsibility is that we are also looking at how it is on the road, on the right and left side, and where we are driving, and which hand we are driving with. In Europe, they drive on the left; the British drive on the right. So, both sides, front and back. And then, what are we on? Our car. Then we focus on the car. Where is it going? We should also be aware of what is happening with those four wheels on the road. Or three wheels, or two wheels, like a bike. Likewise, I was looking very much at what we call the mūlādhāra. A tak podobně jsem se díval pozorně na tuto mūlādhāru. And how many powers are on this side? A kolik vnitřní síly? Similarly, as I said then: who is driving? There are people beside the driver who also should be conscious for the people. So you know that one driver has so many awarenesses, and then finally, he is aware for himself. Now, your machine: how both hands are moving, the two eyes, how they are always alert. If we just close them, sometimes one is tired and a little sleep, a little like this—that's called micro-sleep. That was it, and everything is finished. So, consciousness of this. Also, with the legs, what are we doing? Look, is it inside or outside? Okay, very good. So, now that driver has the responsibility, zodpovědnost, bdělost, vědomí, je zdravý, všechno. A neustále se je vědom toho cíle, kam jede. And our destination is there. When we arrive, then we get out of the car. This is what I was thinking very much yesterday, and also today I was thinking: which kind of instructions should I give about meditation? So how many meditations are there? There is outer meditation. Or meditation in sleeping. But meditation, sleeping, where? That's also very important. So finally, we have to come to the jāgratā, when we are aware. That is like the machine, the car driving, so we are aware, we are awakened. The second is relaxed sleep. Put your car to one side, lie down, and relax. And the consciousness goes further, into dreams. So we are thinking: where do we go? Where should we be? With whom should we be? That is also meditation, which I have told many times: the jāgratā, sleeping, and the dreaming. The jāgrata, suṣupta and svapna. We have to be aware of all three. For example, we have a very nice dream. Somewhere there are many things which are good for you, how you are happy, and what you are doing, and that you are dreaming: eating, drinking, walking, playing, dreaming, swimming, doing many things with your children and families in the dream. In the dream, suddenly there is one mosquito or somebody bites you, and within no time we awake. The ocean is very far, and we were swimming, but we were sleeping. Čili jak s tím vědomím pracovat? Jak ho provádět z jednoho stavu do druhého? So many people who meditate do not think at all about who is beside them. Or when they want to get up, they're slowly, lazily coming out. Anebo, když chtějí vstát, tak se tak pomalu, zdlouhavě rozpohybovávají a vstávají. So, for that kind of meditation we want to do, first we shall understand these three levels: Jagrata, the waking state; Sushupta, the sleeping state; and Swapna, the dreaming state. First we should master these three states. Then what will we learn? That we should not go out of the world when we meditate. So just observe what we are doing always, mostly in yoga and daily life. I don't know about the people who are doing what they are doing. So, the first step is this. And these steps we have to know and learn; they are very simple and very hard. There are two aspects. So, when we are yogīs, we should go step by step. We know we have our sitting postures, we have our mats. But for meditation, when we do it, if we are healthy and can sit straight for a long time, then there is one mat made from grass. You can put it down if you want, perhaps a rubber mat underneath for a little softness, anything you prefer. But we had to graze. And this āsana, which many of us have, is the kuśa. So we can say grass, or we can say kuśa, or we sit chara. There are many. Now, we sit on this grass. First, you should know that you will not have electrical problems. Because sometimes we can touch something, and then electricity will happen. If it is grass you sit on, or if you want to touch something, place this grass, and you will not get a shock. Similarly, from the earth, we don't know what kind of vibration is coming. Of course, the earth is good, and we come from the earth. We take earthing for the buildings we construct. But still, if we take this kuśa āsana, then the whole power and energy will remain in your body. V nás zůstane veškerá energie, nikam se nestrácí. Now, when you sit on this āsana, the kuśa āsana—many are made; you can find them in India, you can have them in Nepal, and many other places. Výhrápí se v Indii, v Nepálu a na mnoha dalších místech. Now, another point. Tak, ještě další bod. K tomu sedíme na kuśa āsanu, ale máte nějaké umělohmotné oblečení, nepřírodní látky? Tak pak ta prāṇa se do vás nedostane, no. And when it is cold, then we wear some cloth; it should also be... like a natural dress. And our feet, our legs, so our feet are touched to this āsana, and around there should not be anything which is not good, like plastic and so on, of course. When we stand on plastic, electricity will not be good. This is a different thing, but this is a question of how to meditate. After that, when we sit directly, everything then from every side of the kuśāsana... Touch your hands. So this energy goes from the kuśāsana. Now, there are many postures for how to sit in meditation. The posture doesn't mean anything. Many of us are sitting like this and like that. We are young people and good, okay? Now, in this modern time, people's bodies are not good. What we are eating, we are drinking, and you know, then our bones are not healthy. And you know that we don't have healthy bones, we don't have knees in order. Neither fingers on our feet, nor fingers on our hands, wrists, elbows, etc. Because we use many things that we cannot control. But try to make an experiment. Make a kuśa āsana longer. In your room, in your house, keep your body, your dress, very minimal. Touch both arms on the kuśāsana. Also, the right hand, left hand, touching our legs. Our head, or lie down on the stomach, or sidewards. Or you can sit. I cannot tell that you should only sit like this. The thing is that you should be touching the kuśāsana. From time to time, or every day, if you have Gaṅgā water, then put a little bit of Gaṅgā water on there. Or from beautiful, very nice rivers—every river is the Gaṅgā river. Or if you are in India, or your friends from India come, bring one bottle of the Gaṅgā water, and then you can put many, many waters in that; everything becomes Gaṅgā. Anebo pokud máte nějaké přátelé, kteří třeba jedou do Indie a můžou vám přivézt lahvičku vody z Gangy, tak pak tu lahvičku můžete dolévat normální vodou a ta voda se změní na vodu z Gangy. Another thing: you know, there is a thing called agarbatī. And that is not so good. We don't know what they are putting inside. So there is a Google, Google for fire, like this papaya, doing the arty. So, is there anything special we do with the ārtī? It is from a tree. It is the gum of the tree. Priskyřice? Priskyřice. It is the priskyřice of the tree. Yes, it was coming from the trees. And we put a little on the fire or something. And this whole room will have very good smells, and not anyone will have this water. Otherwise, some people cannot have this agarbati, they cannot have this agarbati, like this. And in ancient times, there was no Agrabahty. Now, you know one more thing: in every church, the Christian temple, in Christian churches, you know, they always use incense during those ceremonies. Is that right? Znáte to? A pak, když jste v takovém kostele, který je provoněný tím kadidlem, and when we make the prayer and we have some bowl there, we should have something for fire, coal, and like one or two, this what we call this, albin a jednu nebo dvě mandle, a maličko jí můžeme rozpůlit. Nebo rozlomit a tu jednu mandličku, když rozlomím na tři nebo čtyři kousky a dáme ji na ten horký oheň, and the smells come so good. I have not seen anyone who will feel allergic. But we should not put so much, then we will have a headache. The two powers are very powerful, and maybe the neighbor doesn't like it. So we should concentrate, but we should have this Google. So, actually, what is the Google? You have these technologies. But it is the other one, what we have for pūjā, for yajñas, and that is also what they are using in the church. So you have this āsana which you have. And after meditation or anything, then you should dust it a little bit. Roll it in one nice cloth bag, pure cotton, and put it somewhere. You will see after three months, then you will feel energy. What good is three months? It can be immediately when we are touching, but it still will not go too much in. And do not put knit, it is something from other material. Then we sit on this kushāsana. And posture is the same, what you want, how you like. Another thing: sometimes you cannot sit long, then we said, "Make even only pure wood, you make a little stool so you can lean." That should be on the kuśa, so don't break. The cloth is of pure cotton. Pure cotton, 100% cotton. How to know how is this cotton? Make the mess thick, and so this cloth and burn it. It will smell as if it is from the plastic. It will roll together. That's not a real cloth. If it is a pure power, it will burn, but it will be very nice, white as snow, with a good smell. You can put it on your palm, you can make it on your finger, on the ring finger, and you can make a tilak. That means very pure for meditation and everything. In Australia, there is one Indian, and he makes so many best cloths, and when he brings them from there, from India to Australia, he tells them, "Please don't let them go through chemical springs." In this way, our health will be better, and then meditation will come. Tomorrow, we will continue. So this is sitting: where to sit, how to sit, how to be. Until then, however you are meditating, go ahead, meditate. And in the meantime, you can continue in meditation. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam.