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Hari Om. To all bhaktas, brothers, sisters, and yogīs in daily life around the world, to all who are listening, I bless you in the name of our Guru Paramparā. Also, to all other yoga centers, ashrams, practitioners, and practicing students, from my side, many, many blessings of the Guru Paramparā. We all pray for all people from different countries. May God bless them, and may there be peace for all creatures. We have now had beautiful programs for nearly seven months, with many daily practices. As we know, for nearly two weeks, we have focused on Brahmārī Prāṇāyāma. When we are digging something and beautiful, good water comes—very good water—or when many pearls come from inside, that means from our heart, our thoughts, and our mind. That is the best; we can always get new things. We had more, and we have that all with us, but we often feel we have little and always want more. So, this has come from the Brahmārī Prāṇāyāma, and these three techniques were given. They are very good. The fourth technique is also on the path. We had one technique using the index fingers. When we do it, we should go from shoulder height. We know the elbows should be at the same height as the shoulders. We practice every day. The lips are closed, and our teeth are pressed together. The other technique has the teeth a little loose. The third technique comes from a different position: the thumbs in the ears, and with two or three fingers on the temples. We will do that now. Our teeth will be in two positions. First, we do this: our teeth should be relaxed, not touching. Find out how you feel. Where is the vibration in your head? Find out where you feel the vibration. Here. The vibration comes to the nostrils. The resonance comes to the throat, immediately goes above, and from there inside, the sound comes back to our nose. You know we practice with making praṇām and with the water when we do neti, jal neti. Jal neti goes from one nostril automatically to the left side. The mouth should be open, and on the other side, we go after. Also, we can drink water in the mouth and bring it out through the nose. And also, we close our mouth and drink water through the nostrils. This is about techniques, about water, lota, and water. This is what we call Haṭha Yoga Netī, Jala Netī. That will come further after. But in this way, as I told you, with the teeth not out but loose, a beautiful, wonderful resonance goes from our throat, and then again going through there, it is behind our palate, and the vibration comes through both nostrils. So, this is what we are going to do again now. Three times. Everyone who has practiced this just now, whether you are in your house, with one or two people, or alone, try to feel until tomorrow how you feel very released from tension—what people sometimes call having a lot of tension. The other technique is the same. With this practice, it is so releasing for tension or anything, and it feels very light in the head. You can feel it after we do it. We will try to get the sound from Brahmārī, but only from the ear itself, because both hands are together like this. Your teeth should be relaxed, not touching. Very nice, not like this or like that up, but like this on the hemisphere up. Afterwards, you will see that both nostrils, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, are flowing together with the same prāṇas. You will feel it. Your teeth should be relaxed. Do this three times yourself, always keeping your elbow on the right side. Close your eyes, lips closed. Three times. Go ahead. Release all tension of the whole day. Everyone has different jobs and work. Maybe they are a farmer, or work with animals, or are drivers, or use other instruments, working all day at a table. Some are singers. We do many things during the daytime, and sometimes there is tension. Even though we have good work and good things, still there is too much tension here. This practice gives a very, very deep release. Sleep well, and you will have good dreams. Because where there is tension inside, there are some hard dreams—someone is with dangerous animals or many other things. And when we sleep again, oh God, we have seen something, or I thought something, and it comes in the dream again. So, these are wonderful techniques for Brahmārī. This Brahmārī, in this way, will come from both nostrils. The vibration should be on both hemispheres, exactly the same, balanced. If someone has tension on one side, then you will see only one part of the hemisphere more, the other not so much. This is very, very good for teachers and students. Do not practice too long, just three times. Once more, feel your head at both hemispheres. Do not apply pressure, but touch your whole skull. Bring your nostrils more wide open, like we inhale, but the breath will come out through the nose. We will do this till three times. We say, "Always the nostril." Come on, please, so many times. We think it’s wrong. We thought we did not do things properly. I tried to do it, but this is not done wrong. There are many different things. Guru Śaṅkarācārya Jī writes in his book, telling a story: one person is going on the road and suddenly sees a snake on the path. One is frightened of the snake. When it comes a little closer, then it was only a rope. He said, "Oh God, it’s only a rope." This confusion was that. So the whole day, what happened? He says, "Wrong." All day you think about that, that something is wrong. At night you worry about what you did wrong. What he was writing, and he was thinking it was wrong. Then once again, I looked at it. It was all perfect. All your money is okay. Oh, my God, I thought I lost everything. And that will go continuously. So again, practice this. First from the ears and fingertips here on the temple. First, open our toes. Bite, not bite the teeth three times. All, and you know what you should do now? Three times. What do you feel? How is the vibration going? Which direction? It can be from the back side of the head or to the Bindu Chakra or the Sahasrāra Chakra. These are your feelings. Then after, we bite our teeth and make an open-close motion: open, close. Awakening, awakening. We are those both hemispheres, vibration. It will be very, very good. OK? So, three times, only open. Then, bite, release; bite, release. Three times, then release for one minute, and then again together, biting, like pumping. Sit straight and go ahead. Now the second is like pumping, but slowly, slowly. You know, it’s the nostrils which are going and feeling here on the temple. How did you feel? When you were making it, with the same time pressure and release, did one side come more, or the other side more? So, have this vibration and pumping exactly together, or one more and the other less. Only you will know. And then again, it is difficult to sleep, or when you are writing something and suddenly your concentration is gone. This depends on you; you know how it is going. Therefore, you make yourself—you have to make nicely that balance. The pumping comes from here, from these two points here, and that’s them. The two which I told you about, only this, that will be tomorrow. The next variant I started talking about, we will talk about it tomorrow, the technique of Brahmārī Prāṇāyāma. Then we ourselves can make all our machines of the brain. But do not do too much. The screws should be properly tightened, nicely, not so strong that there will be tension, nor so loose. Neither loose nor tense. Tomorrow. So, I will, all my dears, I will chant something, and around the world, this is very nice to have this voice. Very good. It is very good. Namah Śivāya, har har boḍe, Namah Śivāya, Om, Om, Śānti, Śānti,... Alagpurījī Mahādevakī, Devādidevadevīśvara Mahādevakī, Ārādhi Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī kī Satguru Svāmī Madhvanājī Bhagavānakī Satyasanātan Dharmakī Om Hari Om.