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Relax. This is one of the best postures. It is very relaxing. We should not call these postures a dead body's pose, but rather Ānanda Āsana. Whatever we have done—whether we were running, jumping, swimming in the ocean, practicing, or doing much work—after that, we need a very happy, healthy, peaceful, and relaxed posture. That is called Ānanda Āsana. Therefore, many people have the name Ātmā, and so many yogīs also have the name Ātmā. You can say Ātmānand, you can say Ātmapyao, you can say everything. Ātmānand, Ātmapyao—whatever comes from Ātmā. Also, when we are sleeping, we lie down; it is a comfortable position, and that comfort is relaxation. So it is called ātmānanda. Ātmā is also our ātmā, our soul, our body. Ātmānanda, ānanda—beautiful. Therefore, in yoga, this posture should be what we are learning through our yoga in daily life. In India, in our Jaipur, there is a very beautiful, very big, and great yoga school. That Swamiji also has the name Ātmanand: Ātma ānanda, ātma ānanda, ātma. So after everything, even when we came to the mother's body and womb, there was also much hard work inside. But afterward, when the mother was lying down and relaxing, then the embryos were also behaving very nicely, to be healthy, happy, and comfortable. But that embryo, which is coming out of the mother's body, then they said, "Now I am Ānanda." When we are coming to our parents, our brothers, our friends, then we are already relaxed, ātmā. When we work very hard, even if we go for a long drive, then we are relaxing. That is called Ātmānanda. Ātmānanda. Ātmā Ānanda. And that is what we want for ourselves, as humans: happiness, peace, harmony, relaxation, and being like a god, ātmā. Takové chceme mít ātmā v ānandī. Ātmānanda Prabhu, Ātmānanda, Ātmāyātmā Prabhu, Ātmānanda, Ātmānanda, Bhramare, Ātmāyānanda, Ātmānanda, Yam, Ānandāyātmā. You are now Ātmā. Make thyself comfortable as you like. Relax. You can feel comfortable lying on your back, on your side, or on your stomach. There are many ways. Great. And you should feel what you like to be, how comfortable. Now feel from your toes. When you will feel, or when we feel from our toes, our feet, and slowly, slowly hold the legs, the neck, the knees, till our whole body, and coming to the ātmā, the soul, when we feel this, then the whole body is like our ātmā. Feel the right leg’s big toe, second toe, third toe, fourth toe, small toes. Feel your legs nicely, your feet very nicely, your feet, the heel, ankle joints, from left toe and foot. Ankle joints. And feel relaxed, good, peaceful, in both your joints. Feel your thighs, the muscles. Feel beautiful needles inside the nerves. Feel happy with both your legs. Our both legs are one of the best in our life because we can run, we can sit, we can do many things. Our both legs. Hip joints, buttocks, the whole parts of both our legs, from the toes to the spine. Now, the middle part of the body. Feel that you are comfortable, very relaxed. Our whole middle point of our body, the whole trunk, and you would now understand and feel yourself. And now you can better understand all that is in the middle part of our body; you can better understand yourself. Our body, our whole parts, our whole inner part of our body: spines, lungs, heart, many, many things. Feel all happy and healthy. Try to feel comfortable. Your whole trunk, we can make this comfortable, or we cannot be comfortable. We drink water, we eat food, but not too much. Otherwise, our body will not be so happy, not healthy, and not comfortable. Our shoulders, both hands, our neck, our whole mouth, our face, eyes, nose, my whole beautiful face, both ears. And now the whole head, the whole head. Try to feel comfortable, healthy, happy, and relaxed. And what you understand, what you know, what is all in our brain. So, being thyself. Whatever you are touching, yourself, it is yourself. Now, in this yourself, inside, outside, complete, thyself. All that is in you is yours, you. In that, feel thyself complete. No, any mistakes. All in all, very relaxed, healthy, comfortable, peaceful. Do not sleep. Yoga Nidra is different. Sleep is different. But awareness is different. Alertness is different. So, what are you doing? What we are doing now: comfortable, peace, harmony, comfortable. Ānanda, Ānanda, Ānanda. You can ask someone, "How are you?" He said, "I am very ānanda." Now, in this, in your happiness, joy, relaxation, peace, what will you enjoy? Peaceful body, what will you feel? And now, follow your breath. Inhalation and exhalation, but normal breath, very normal. Feel your oxygen. I know that I am inhaling, and I know that I’m exhaling. And now, breathe deep and exhale. Move your toes. And fingers, palms. And stretch your hands above the head. And relax. Hands beside the body. Again, raise your hands up above the head, and roll to the left side. In the middle, right side, in the middle, hands beside, fold the knees, hold your knees, and roll your body left and right, slowly. Stretch your legs and curve your side, yourself, left or right, as you like. And slowly sit up. Sit in Vajrāsana. Put your hands on your thighs. Sit straight. Close your eyes. And 50 times, relax and comfort your breath, inhalation and exhalation. Very normal. But follow your breath. I know that I’m inhaling, and I know that I’m exhaling. Feel the breath throughout the whole body. And exhale. Comfortably breathe out. Count. You can count through the fingers or mentally. If you can’t sit with this āsana, then, of course, you can have other postures. We have to feel always comfortable. Some like to sit in Vajrāsana, and some do different postures. The main thing is comfortable inhalation and exhalation when you know your breath and how. You breathe. Where is your breath going? How do you think? Whatever we will think, with the breath, always we will go out thinking. Therefore, your breath and your mantra mean inhale, hold, and exhale. But you should feel that I take very pure, clean, good breath in and exhale, and that’s why when we meditate, we need two things: inhalation and exhalation, and concentration, meditation, whatever we do. That is known as the mantra. Through the mantra, we are controlling our whole body. And then our concentration will be the best. If you think, "No mantras with these meditations," then we will be balanced. We balance in our body. We balance our breath. Our breath, our concentration, we are in a balance about being ourselves. And that is our path towards the Cosmic. If we think that I will meditate and no mantra, then we are lost. This is Vajranāḍī. There are two Vajranāḍīs, and that Vajranāḍī is the mantras. How that will go, we will tell you next time. Now, Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma. How is that this? Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma. Nāda is sound. Nāda Rūpa is beauty. Nāda-rūpa is beauty, clean, peaceful, clarity. Nāda-rūpa Parabrahma, and that is Brahman. And so, with that, we have to go through the Vajranāḍī and Vajranāḍī mantra or prāṇa. So, inhale from the navel, five times mantra, "Om, om, śānti, śānti," get up, get up, get... Up, get up.