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Relax. This is one of the best postures. It is very relaxing. These postures we should not call a dead body pose. But Ānanda Āsana, whatever we have done—whether we were running, jumping, swimming in the ocean, or practicing, and many other works—after that, we need to have a very happy, healthy, peaceful, relaxed posture. That is called Ānanda Āsana. We have also, therefore, many people who have the name Ātmā. So many yogīs also have the name Ātmā, Ātmā Swāmī. You can say Ātmānand, you can say Ātmā Pyāo, you can say everything, Ātmā. Also, when we are sleeping, lying down is a comfortable position, and that comfort is relaxation. So it is called Ātmananda. Ātmā is also our ātmā, our soul. Ātmā je naše duše v těle, Ātmā Ānanda, blaženost, ātmananda, blaženost, ātmananda, Ātmā Ānanda, blaženost, ātmananda, Ātmā Ānanda… Plazhenost, ātmananda. Therefore, in yoga, this posture should be what we are learning through our yoga and daily life. In India, in our Jaipur, there is a very beautiful school, a yoga school, very big, very great. And that Swamiji also, he has his name Ātmāraṇjī. So Ātmānanda, Ānanda, Ānanda Ātmā. So after everything, even when we came to the mother’s body, womb, there was also much hard work inside. But afterward, when the mother was lying down, relaxing, then the embryos also leave 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 Appa, Ānanda.” When we are coming to our parents, our brothers, our friends, then we are all very relaxed, Ātmā. When we work very hard, even when we go for a long drive, then we are relaxing, that is called ātmānanda, ātmānanda, ātmā-ānanda. That is what we want about ourselves, humans: happiness, peace, harmony, relaxation, and to be like God, the ātmā. V. Ānandī. Ātmānanda Prabhu, Ātmānanda, Ātmāyatma Prabhu, Ātmānanda, Ātmānanda Bhamarāya, Ātmāyānanda, Ātmānandāyam, Ānandāyatma, you are now Ātmā. Make thyself comfortable as you like. Relax. If you cannot feel comfortable lying on your back, then lie on your side, or on your stomach. Many, 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, until our whole body comes to the ātmā, the soul. When we feel this, when we feel this, then the whole body is like our ātmā, then the whole body is like our ātmā. Feel right leg, big toe, second toe, third toe, fourth toe, small toes. Feel your right leg, big toe, second toe, third toe. Small toes, feel your right leg, big toe, small toes, feel your right leg, big toe. Legs nicely, your feet, very nicely your feet. And also the fingers at the left foot, and the left foot to the ankle, including the ankle joint. And feel relaxed, good, peaceful, in both your joints. And feel both knees beautifully relaxed. Feel your thighs, the muscles. Feel beautiful needles inside the nerves. Feel happy for your both 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 part of our body, the whole trunk, is pleasantly relaxed. And you would now understand and feel yourself the whole parts of your middle body. And now you will be able to better understand everything that is in the middle part of the body, and you will be able to better understand yourself. Feel it, feel it. Our body, our whole parts, our whole inner part of our body. Spine. Páteř. Lungs. Plíce. Heart. Heart. Many, many things. Feel all happy and healthy. Try to feel comfortable in your whole trunk. We can make this comfortable, or we can be uncomfortable. We drink water, we eat food, but not too much. Otherwise, our body will not be so happy, healthy, or comfortable. Try to feel comfortable, healthy, happy, and relaxed. And what you understand, what you know, what is all in our brain. So, be thyself. Whatever you are touching, it is yourself. It is you, it is what is inside, and it is what is outside, and it is all of you. In that, feel thyself complete. No mistakes. All in all, very relaxed, healthy, comfortable, peaceful. Do not sleep. Now, in this, in your happiness, joy, relaxation, and peace, what will you enjoy? Peace. Your body—what will you feel? Now, when you are happy, at peace, and it is pleasant and comfortable for you, how do you perceive your body? What do you feel in it? 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 am exhaling. And now, breathe deep and exhale. Move your toes. And fingers, palms, and place 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. Hold your knees and roll your body left and right slowly. Stretch your legs, and curve your side yourself, left or right, and bend your knees, and hold your knees, and roll your body left and right slowly yourself, and stretch your legs, and curve your side yourself, and bend your knees. As you like, and slowly sit up. Sit in Vajrāsana, put your hands on your thighs, sit straight, close your eyes, and fifty times... sit straight, close your eyes, and fifty times... sit straight, sit straight... Sit relaxed and comfortable. Observe your breath, inhalation and exhalation. Very normal. But follow your breath. I know that I’m inhaling, and I know that I’m exhaling. I feel the breath throughout the whole body and exhale comfortably. The breath count you can count through the fingers or mentally. If you sit with this āsana, then of course you can have other postures. We have to always feel comfortable. Some like to sit in Vajrāsana, and some do different postures. The main thing is to be comfortable with inhalation and exhalation. When you know your breath and how you breathe, where your breath is going, how you think, therefore, your breath and your mantra mean inhale half and exhale half. But you should feel that I take very pure, clean, good breath. Exhale out. And that’s why when we meditate, we need two things. So 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,” if you think that you don’t need a mantra for meditation, then we will be balanced. We balance in our body, balance with our breath, and balance our concentration. We are in a balance about being ourselves, and that is our path towards the Cosmic. If we think that we will meditate without a 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. Beauty. Clean. Peaceful. Clarity. Narupa Parabrahma, and that is the Brahman. And so, with that, we have to go through the Vajranāḍī and Vajranāḍī Mantra or Prāṇa. Or mantra. So, inhale from the navel, five times mantra. Śānti, Śānti,... Hari Om, get up, get up,... Hari Om.