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Practice: Raising the Kundalini

Karmayoga is the highest yoga. Those who do karma become the highest yogis. Students work hard, listening and practicing. Three very high yogic techniques are now given. Children may stay, but some matters are not for them. Sit comfortably; if thirsty, attend to it now. One sister, already a sannyāsī, sits in warmth. Hands rest on knees, palms down. Sit straight, one leg up, foot looking upward. If difficult, use Vajrāsana. Bring a stone or iron brick tomorrow for support. Pull shoulders slightly up, bow head, chin to heart. This posture is given now. After these techniques, other excellent practices exist, but they require a living guru’s physical presence. Do not pass these techniques on; others are not prepared. A doctor once fixed a broken back using a special method. When his father’s back broke, he tried the same, yet it failed. A king kept a monkey with a sword as his guard. A fly landed on the king’s nose; the monkey struck the fly and cut the king’s nose instead. The monkey knew only one technique. Become a master first. Now, sit straight, contract and relax the anus twenty-five times. This Aśvamudrā aids kuṇḍalinī. Then, with eyes closed, chant Om eleven times, moving awareness from navel to crown and back. Perform brahmārī prāṇāyāma: close ears with index fingers, hum deeply. Finally, place palms over eyes, open them, lower hands. Hari Om.

“Those who do the karma, they will be the highest yogīs.”

“Become first a master, and then do something.”

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

If I talk about Karmayoga, know that Karmayoga is the best. Karma, sukha, ślāma—those who do the karma, they will be the highest yogīs. So you see that they are working, learning, listening to my lecture, and they are working hard. On both sides, they are thinking and looking. They are looking at me and putting the stone on it. Anyhow, they are all doing many practices, doing very well. Now, there are all different kinds of techniques or workings they did. So, I want to give them also very nice yogic techniques. So, yesterday it was very nice. So, it is coming then to very high techniques of yoga. So, there will be three techniques now. Very, very nice. But children should not hear about coming to Indra and coming. They can sit comfortably, no problem. And if somebody is thirsty or going somewhere, they should do it now. I give you then practice one hour. It means twelve to fourteen, okay? Are you okay? Thank you. Then please sit very well. And one of our sisters is here. She can sit a little bit in the warm. Yeah, so she can come here because she feels cold, you know, in life. Yeah, here. Ask her, behind you, she’s sitting in the chair—are you comfortable there? If she wants to sit in the shade, okay, that is good. Already she becomes a Swami. Sannyāsī, very comfortable, very good. Now she is already a sannyāsī, but her husband is still waiting. So Hari Om, very nice sitting, and the hands on the knees. This Mudrā. And palms on the knees, not up. Now you should sit more straight, so in this mudrā, also body, that one leg. One leg is down, and the other leg should be like this, in the thighs, and one foot looks up. This leg is put up, yes, there. Difficult—I have a meniscus problem. Good. Then take the other leg, other side, other side, yes, that’s it. Okay, is that better? If not, then Vajrāsana. Then make yourself as comfortable as you can, okay? Yes, please. As you like, but you should be relaxed and good. And our knees should be close. Yes, your knees are touching the earth. Very good is when we have something under one little... Now, you will have a little bit of a problem. But tomorrow you will bring things, and that will be good. So, you know, we are always putting it like this. When I don’t have, then I’m like this. Okay? So tomorrow, everybody, the best is the one stone. Or, what do you call this? The one brick, the iron brick. That is one of the best. It’s not a joke. And you can put, if you want, a little cloth; otherwise, really, it’s good. Then you will always have it in your hand. Okay, anyhow, so then hands are like this. On the knees, and shoulders a little coming up, and we will bow down like this, chin here to the heart, okay. So this is, it will be after practice, but this is given to you now, okay? Then, after the technique, there will be other techniques that are very, very good. So many other yoga exercises are good for all, but the other, what we are doing, you will do it, but you have to practice with a good guru. And that guru exercises after the students. Our students and teachers have also learned, so they can teach further. But the Guru’s blessings and the real techniques are only what we can achieve with our own effort, near our own exercise, and room under the trees or anywhere. But the master should be physically with us. So what I’m giving you now, these techniques, don’t give further, otherwise they will not be comfortable, and they are not ready, and these are also not. I have many of my yoga teachers here, students; I have many students here, and they are practicing in our yoga centers or somewhere. And they are new things; they are giving techniques inside. We have in Vienna, in our ashram, and in their house they are teaching already, always to some people, and they become like a supreme master. But they will not be comfortable, and they will be good, and others will not be. We have one doctor, and the doctor is very good, and he has very good techniques, and he is doing with his spine coil, spine coil, and people have broken the back or something, and he can very nicely clean it again, but someone sees that. Karatinga, I don’t know how they did. And then the next day he goes, and his father dies. His father broke his back. And he said, "Father, it doesn’t matter. Lie down, I will do it." Exactly the same, a guru, what he is teaching, only that you are listening, and you should really become a master of this technique, and then you can be. So, most of them are Austrian Mela disciples. That is the only thing we are looking for tomorrow, if Swamījī will say how to eat. Next time, there is a lot of chili in the food. So, there I know, they are sitting here somewhere. And they will not become great, and others will not grow. Yes. There’s a story, because there was a king. And the king has his sleeping room. And they are controlling all the people outside, the guard. And he locked his door, and he could not trust the other people. So he had one monkey, a very nice big monkey, and held a sword in his hand, saying that if anyone came, he would kill them. So the king is sleeping, and the monkeys are all the time looking like this with the sword. And the king is sleeping. The king was sleeping and snoring. And one little fly sat on the nose of the king. And it is said that if anybody comes, monkey, you should kill them. But don’t disturb me. So this fly, not monkey, the fly, and the king said, like this, again the fly comes and sits on the neck, and the monkey wants to kill the fly, so the fly has gone away. So the fly flew away, but the monkey killed, cut the... The nose of the king, but the king’s nose cut it out. Why? Because monkeys don’t know, and they only have one technique, but nothing else. So, become first a master, and then do something. Otherwise, they are okay. Somebody can do it, but it’s not good. So, we have to practice what I’m telling, and, of course, all people, the whole world, they are listening. But they should be only if they have learned and seen; then they can practice. But then you have to come to some gurus. It must not be only me. There are many other gurus there. And some disciples will come and say, "This and this technique." Then that guru will give you. So, I mean, that not only I will be the guru. But some are very brave and good; they will give you everything. But if you are going and giving techniques to your guru, first Gurujī this and that, and he said, "Okay, I will see, and I will see," then it means not wrong. OK, then sit comfortably again. So this is only for 14 minutes, and you are moving left and right. So, okay, let’s come. So, hands on the knees. Lean a little bit forward so that our back is very straight. And a little lean forward. Normal breath. Normal breath, but many of you, your back is not straight. The back should be straight, and lean the head. And head straight. Again, forward a little. And contract and relax. Anus maska. Again, your head up. Now, contract the anus and relax. So now, again, straight forward, and chin down. Inhale, contract your anus, and release. 25 times Aśvamudrā. Contract and relax. Aśvamudrā is for our kuṇḍalinī kriyā. This is also one kriyā. When this is finished, after 14, sit relaxed, eyes closed. Now we will chant "Om" eleven times with mudras, normal, sit very straight, inhale from the nābhi, the navel, and you will find yourself seven steps. Yes, while chanting this OM. From the navel to the top of the head, then come again down and go again to the navel. Eleven times, yourself. We make it loudly, but not too loud. Of course, someone is chanting longer, some are shorter. So you have to do it ten times. So let’s begin from the navel. Three times I will chant with you, three times. Then you are continuing. So, feel in the navel. Eyes closed, fourteen times, brahmārī prāṇāyāma with this kriyā. Eyes closed, index fingers in the ears. Deep heel, three times mantra, from the navel. Place the hands on the face, close your eyes, place your palms over them, open the eyes, and lower your hands. Hari Om. Good, finished? Now it’s time for your food.

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