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We are friends from the Ashram in Śrīkī, in Chakrab. Today the sun is shining, it is very warm, and we are sending this webcast from our garden, from our winter garden, in Swāmījī's hut here. Our subject is the Haṭha Yoga Kṛiyās, or the Ṣaṭ Karma Kṛiyās. The Haṭha Yoga Kṛiyās, or the Ṣaṭkarma Kṛiyās, are the purification techniques according to yoga. In daily life, according to the Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā, there are six cleaning programs. We call them Netī, Jala Netī or Sūtra Netī, Dhautī, Naulī, Bastī, Kapāla Bhāti or Trāṭaka. This morning, we will start with Netī, the cleansing Netī. In Haṭha Yoga—again I go back—why practice Haṭha Yoga? Why purify? Why clean? Our daily life, in which we live mostly in cities, is not so clean and pure as it was in ancient times. Our environment is very polluted, with much smoke and dust. And not only this, there are many kinds of living beings around: bacteria, viruses, fungi. Haṭha Yoga uses very natural things for cleaning: the water element, warm water, salt, the fire element, and air. So you need nothing extra, no ointments, to do the cleaning, to purify. "Ha" means the moon, and "ṭha" means the sun. Haṭha Yoga is not only that we clean and purify our whole system, our whole body, but it also has a great, very great effect on our nervous system, especially the vegetative nervous system. This is a system you normally cannot influence. We do it a little bit with our āsanas and prāṇāyāmas. Mostly, people in Western countries think, "Haṭha yoga, we practice Haṭha yoga, we practice the āsanas, we do the prāṇāyāms, the breathing exercises and postures." But this is not the original Haṭha Yoga. The original Haṭha Yoga are the six purification techniques. Some we do every day, and some you do from time to time. Let's say the Śaṅkhaprakṣālana or the Bastī, the cleaning of the whole intestine. You clean from time to time, especially when the season is changing, when the biorhythm is changing. The body needs some support, some help, so that all this waste that we are producing—the gas, the acid, the air, the mucus—we can purify ourselves from these metabolic products. These products can harm the body, cause illness, and leave no energy reserves. We always keep the energy flowing with our purification techniques. So, Haṭha Yoga balances these two main great forces, the Iḍā and the Piṅgalā Nāḍī, these main energy forces, the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous systems, these two antagonists, so that they work together and not against each other. We try to balance them completely. When they are balanced, then the third one, the Suṣumnā Nāḍī, will start to flow. They connect together in the third eye, in the eyebrow center, or Dhruvanitāts, the Ājñā Cakra. When this takes place, then you master Haṭha Yoga; then you are a Haṭha Yogī. And there are many, many benefits. The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā speaks about it, the light on the yoga to purify, and you quickly have some effect. You quickly see, yes, this is good. It helps, it wakes up. It wakes up and purifies not only the physical body. For example, take Śaṅkhaprakṣālana, the purification of the intestine. I am doing this also. I could do it with some glycerol, with some bitter salt. I could empty the intestine, but it's not this. It's not this. It means Haṭha. You need great willpower. "Haṭha" means willpower to do these Haṭha Yoga techniques. And with this, you also get the willpower, the strength to persevere, to continue, to get rid of the laziness, the Tamas Guṇa. Then again the Rajas and Sattva Guṇa take place. You will see when autumn is coming, people get more tired, sleep comes, the sun is less, the prāṇa is going down, so you need some support. Also in spring, the spring tiredness, many people just want to sleep and lie down. So the purification, especially of the intestine after winter, is very, very helpful. You will feel again that your body is more movable. All this energy, which is stuck in the joints and in the muscles and everywhere, flows. Swāmījī always says: when water stops, when water is not running, when it stops, then all these fungi and algae collect and it starts to smell. But when water is always flowing, the water remains clean, and there is no waste inside. It is the same with energy. First we start with Jala Netī. Jala Netī means the purification of this part with a special pot, the Netī Lota. The Netī Lota has here one cone. It looks like a pot for watering plants, but it's not. It is specially made from half brass, half copper. We put very warm water inside, let's say at least 40 degrees, 41 degrees, and one teaspoon of sea salt. Sea salt is necessary, or a little less. It depends; you have to practice and experience. Everyone is not the same. The water goes inside. You do it in the morning. It also helps to wake up, to open the eyes, to get awakened, and to clean and prepare for the whole day. Netī can also be done with a string. It's called Sūtra Netī. After Jala Netī, after cleaning with the water, you can do the Sūtra Netī without blowing out, without doing Kabala, Dhautī. With the Sūtra Netī, you go in one nostril, and don't go up straight, but go a little bit in the middle and down, and then catch with two fingers and pull it a little bit, gently, like this, take it out, and then from this side. This is very helpful for some people who have polyps, for example, who cannot decide to do an operation; it can be helpful with the Sūtra Netī, after the Jala Netī, after cleaning with the water. Also, for those people who do not have a straight wall—I don't know the word in English now, but for the nose there is one Scheidewand in German—and if this is too thick and too tight, they can try with the Sūtra Netī. So now we will practice the Jala Netī. I have also experienced that for some people who have some kind of allergy, especially in the spring with the pollen from the trees, the pollen, the blossoms, the dust from the blossoms flying around, to practice regular Netī is very, very helpful. Some of them had to take cortisone. Many people take cortisone internally, and we know it has side effects, but if we practice Netī, you may not need to take it. It depends. Try it. Also, it is very, very good for those people who have some problem with this side, these sinuses here and here. But very important is how to do it. I hear sometimes, "Yes, we buy this and this, and we spray this salt water inside." Yes, it's good, but it's cold. The flowing of the warm water, when you start, when you put it inside, you don't pull up the water, just let it flow. You need a certain level of the metal pot; the head goes down and the metal pot goes up and just flows. You breathe normally through the mouth, inhale and exhale through the mouth, and not through the nose. Then you do it from the other side, change it, and let it flow. This slow, warm flowing of the water from the Netī, from the Jala Netī, relaxes very, very much the brain centers, especially for those people who are suffering from migraine or headache. It relaxes all these veins and the arteries and the nerves, because when you have a headache, all these arteries contract together, and then the pain will come because there is little oxygen, less blood circulation in the head, and this is an alarm. So please try to do the Jala Netī in the morning and get ready for the day, and get rid of many, many sufferings. Also, we heard that some people who are suffering from epilepsy, Netī could help. They can try. Because afterwards you do the Kapāla Bhāti, the purification of the forehead, the cleaning of the forehead. Kapāla means forehead, and Bhāti means cleaning or shining, and it releases the stress. Kapāla Bhāti is a very, very good breathing exercise before you do your meditation. It is connected with the Netī, with the Jala Netī. Afterwards you do short exhaling through the nose, inhaling through the mouth, like this. Mouth a little bit open, so that this pressure is somehow balanced between the throat, the ear, and the nose. So please leave the mouth a little bit open, otherwise the pressure goes in the ear, and then it's not necessary. So now we will show the practice of Kapāla Bhāti and Netī, the Jala Netī. Śāntī is bringing the water. We will check the water; it should be about 40 or 41 degrees. It also depends on the climate where you are living. We have here now, maximum, we have 10 degrees, 8 degrees outside. Winter temperature can be minus also. So the temperature should be at least 40 degrees, 41, so that it is pleasant for you. If it is too cold... It is 41 degrees now, so for me this temperature is just right. Not less than 40 degrees; it's too cool and you catch cold. And please, there is one thing: never lie down after Netī. Don't do it in the night before you go to sleep. Because some water drops remain inside if you didn't clean properly, and then it cools down and you catch a cold, and you don't feel good here. Always, when you know that you are going or standing or moving or working... We put already, nearly one or one and a half or a quarter teaspoon of sea salt inside. This is important, the sea salt. People are asking, "Himalayan salt or cooking salt?" No, the sea salt. The concentration, the water, the liquid concentration of our physical body is like the sea, like the ocean, originally. And this is 0.9% salt liquid, and this we do also when we do Śaṅkhaprakṣālana, the cleaning, the Pañcīkaraṇa, the purification. We get this kind of concentration. Because otherwise, the body doesn't accept how you will drink the six liters of water with Śaṅkhaprakṣālana and Bastī. It's not possible. Many people don't believe. They say, "Yes, try, then you will see." You have to try and do, then you will feel the success and the positive effect. Could be a little bit cooler, the water. Could be a little bit cooler. So, Śāntī, please bring some cool water, yeah. Could be cool. It's too warm, otherwise it burns in the nose and is not good, yeah. You must find the right temperature. So it's a little bit too cool, so it is 40 degrees. And when you put this in, you can do like this in the morning after brushing your teeth, you shower, you wash yourself, you have here your tank. Clean it also, you beautify and clean your tank, so that there is no... how to say... Nährboden, that we don't cultivate some kind of, I don't know how to say, but for bacteria and viruses, so try to have your tongue also purified and clean. And now we get some cold water, please. A little bit more, more, no more. Thank you, now it's good. So, very good. So, the Netī Lota we hold like this. If you hold like this, then how will you lift it up? Your arm, your elbow doesn't go so high that you can build this level for the water to flow. So the Netī Lota we hold like this, it is good sitting in the hand, and you start. Let's say you can start with the right nostril, with the left nostril, it depends on you. Which nostril is flowing? You start. Put inside, prepare yourself. You can leave your eyes open in front of your bathtub. We have now, here, this glass bowl, because in the bathroom we have little light, so we break this here. You can do like this: let just the water flow and breathe normally through the mouth. The water is not coming in the eyes, the water is not coming in the nose, you just let it flow. I hope it is flowing, yes, it's flowing good. It's very pleasant, it's not burning, and it is not painful. So just let it flow. After, you just take this out and change the direction. You need not blow out now so much. These two you do afterwards. Now we talk about the other side. Please keep your head a little bit down in front. If you put it back side, then the water goes to the throat. It's not blessed. If you do it like this, then you wash your face. So you bow your head a little bit forward, not too much forward, just bow a little bit forward. Thank you. So you can put your Netī Lota beside, wash it in your bathtub. And now, don't blow into the tissue. You do Kapāla Bhāti. Open your mouth. If you have the feeling it is here or here, please don't bow your head back. I saw sometimes, and don't remember where, but people are doing like a bar by the... head back, and this in standing, this is not good. What if you fall down? You hurt yourself, and it can happen. So you can bow your head down. You can leave your head in the bathtub or shower tub because water now is flowing out. You can dry and clean your nose. Sometimes it can happen, this I want to say also, that after Kapāla Bhāti you feel a little bit dizzy. This is normal because through this strong exhaling, the brain, which is swimming a little bit in the liquid, in this brain liquid, gets a kind of massage, very gentle. The whole back, the back of the brain, is gently massaged. And this also is good; it awakens the brain centers, it wakes up. And you have really the feeling now you are awakened. Also, for those people who are sitting the whole day on the computer, working with the internet, writing emails, and using glasses, do the Netī, do the Kapāla Bhāti. It is very, very helpful for the eyes. You have the feeling the eyesight is much, much better. It keeps the eyesight, and it keeps the eyes working well. And also, for ladies, it is good to use. You always have a shining, good look, and it keeps everything, how to say, circulating. So now we will do together. We have here our dear Premlā Dā from Debrezin and Śāntī from Śrīkī. So we will do the Netī now, please. So that we have experience, we use again nearly one teaspoon of salt. Here also. This water was a little bit too warm. Now it's good. So while putting it inside, you mix already. Okay, here also. If you have the feeling that when you do Netī, the Jala Netī, it is burning in the nose or it is painful, then change the salt concentration. Otherwise, you have to put too much salt, or you have to put less salt; you have to change it. And from time to time, it's good to put some, say, some oil in the nose, or some olive oil, so that it doesn't get too dry, the skin in the nose. It's very, very good for here, especially. Good sesame oil. We have in Jordan very good sesame oil; you can take from there. And Croatia also has the best olive oil; you can bring from there or buy. Your kind of company will have very good sesame oil. So please, we do the Netī now. I will look at how you are doing. Please hold the Netī pot lower down like this. This we can put here so that you have more space. You stand here, and you stand here, please, so that we can see how you're doing. Open your mouth, please. The head, slowly, slowly, slowly. The head, no, no, no. Can go a little bit down. Like this, open your mouth. Head like this, yes. Slowly, slowly. Breathing, breathing, very good. Now open the mouth, breathing, breathing. Not like this. Like this, you have to hold. And the brain is working good. So, change the nostril. Śāntī, blow out. Yeah, very good. Change the nostril. You're going too much down with your head, cannot work like this. And this up more, like this. You're not breathing slowly. It will run slowly, slowly, slowly. Move a little bit in it. A lot. Move it. Yeah, move it. Can you go to this side? So now, please. Yeah, very good. No, no, leave it. It will come. We were talking before; now it's coming. Please. Yeah, what will you do when the water is not flowing? Okay, now you have to do a little bit and try. Where is your... here? Now it's here. Very good. Now leave it, now leave it, very good, now it's good. Yes, head down. Now do Kapāla Bhāti, you can take hand all, put Netī Lota there, go there please. Meanwhile, let the water run. Śāntī, bow your head down, open the mouth. Open, leave the mouth open. Yes, turn your head to the left side also a little bit. Leave your mouth open. Not so quickly, slowly. Slowly. Please, slowly. Who has high blood pressure, please don't do it with too much force. Yeah? Don't bow the head down if you don't like it, yeah? You can do it in any way. Very good. Now, head down. Dry also the other side. Once more. Go to this side so that I can see. Yes, very good. Now you can use the tissue to clean your nose. Again you have to, yeah, now it's good. Yes, somehow we managed. Very good. Yes. So you have to try. You have to find your way, how the water is flowing. But don't force too much. If you get cold and the nose is blocked and closed, of course it cannot flow. You have to do before, like a prevention, to catch cold. And if you see your field now, it could start to pull your head down, yeah. Now you go completely down, mouth open. Yes, yeah. Leave it a little bit this side. Leave it, because here the water is coming out. Mouth open. If you cannot manage to leave the mouth open, this can also happen. Some people can't do it, then do a little bit like this. Put... your nose in, how do you say, wrinkles, that you manage to exhale through the nose, inhale through the mouth. Very good. So, tissue we need. So, now you can clean. How is the feeling? It's good? Very good. Yeah. Let's say, okay. So, this is the Jala Netī. And if you catch a cold, this is also a kind of experience. We are practicing now with Swāmījī for 20, 21 years, these techniques, or 23 years or 24, I don't know. So long, there are many experiences coming. You hear from people when you catch a cold. When you feel something, then blow out slowly like this. Not too much, because then it will be painful. Do the Kapāla Bhāti slowly. But do put some sesame oil inside, like this. You will have, ah, now it's good. Once a day, all this mucus goes out, because when it remains inside and when you do like this, it is not good. You get a headache. Some people use nose drops, and I tried also once; it was worse than everything at all. So Netī is very, very, very good. Kapāla Bhāti, cleaning of the forehead, cleaning of the nose, all this dust is brought out. All this that we inhale during the day, take it out, clean your whole head. This is the cleaning that we have for the head, except the Trāṭaka, the concentration on the candle. And this we will do in the afternoon and evening program, because now the sun is shining and you cannot do Trāṭaka. The flame can be compared with the sunlight. It is not possible, so we try to do. And now our Ṭhākurjī from Devapurījī is waiting already. He will show us the Agni Sāra Kriyā and the Naulī Technique. The Naulī Technique, the Naulī program, is, let's say, one of the yoga kriyās to keep the Samāndaraṇa, the digestion fire, the digestion program, strong. The Maṇipūra Cakra must be strong, our energy center. And there's no energy. Those people who have lazy digestion cannot move so much. They're sitting the whole day. They have some kind of profession, a sitting profession. They have some problem here. They have some acid. Some acid, they have some gas. It's not working. Of course, the intestine is between 7 and 10 meters long and nicely folded, like a froté hand towel, looking. It's not straight. And we put in so many things during the whole day. I don't know what. There was one joke. The doctor from Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria, he was sitting when they had a big banquet. And he was sitting there, and he was also in sorrow because of this Empress Maria Theresa. She was quite good-looking, and of course, not healthy and not feeling good. And then, on one bucket, when they had the eating program, he was observing. Then he got one idea. He took one basket and went around the table, and all that she was eating, he took and put it in the basket inside, this bucket or basket—not basket, the bucket. And then he went to her and he said, "My lady, his excellency, her excellency, please, this now, after mixing, is the condition of your stomach." And there were so many things inside. Salty, sweet, oily, and not looking good, of course. Because our eating depends only on the tongue; we are eating what we like. Very rarely are we eating when we are really hungry. So, it is like the fire. When the fire is burning, when you manage to start the fire, open fire, real fire—not the gas or electric heater, real fire—and you manage that this fire is burning, and you let it go down, and you don't put wood inside, it goes down. It can go out even, so that's why hunger is coming. Signal, please give me something. It's going weaker and weaker. Put something inside. Energy goes down, so please eat, but don't eat too much. When you put too much wood inside or too much gold, then you can kill the fire, and you have to know also how to put the wood inside. It means what to eat and how to eat. We lost in our time now the cooking at home, the sitting at the meal, the sitting together, cook yourself, the preparing of the food, the eating. And then to awake all this liquid, this saliva, to digest with the smell, with the looking. They get the body and stomach prepared for digestion, but this we miss. We go into the shop, we buy something, one sandwich or this, or ready-made, sit down and eat. How can it work? It cannot function. When we have a problem with acid and no digestion, or diarrhea or something, so here the Agni Sāra Kriyā now is helping to awake it, to make it strong. It is the best prevention against diabetes. We say also cancer because it is stuck in a challenge to flow. The Agni Śodhana we do is the preparation at least three, four months before you start with the Naulī Kriyā. Agni means fire and Śodhana means purification, cleaning. So with this technique, our dear Dr. Purījī will show us, please take off the shirt. It's a very good example because you can even see the bones, not only the muscles but the bones, and put it here, yeah, put it here. And very important is how to do, yeah, you show on the side so that everybody can see your nice stomach. You have to do it in an exhaled position, exhaled, yeah. And then, after exhaling, you go a little bit down. And I saw many things, yeah. Some people are doing, I don't know, I never learned it from someone. Like this, I never did this, and I never learned it. This is completely wrong. So, when you please inhale normally, you can exhale normally through the mouth. Put your hands here, so that your back is... relaxed, and the back should be straight, not like this, going in the knee. Then how can you relax your stomach muscles? You have to go like this, put your hands here. If someone touches your hand, then it falls down. So this is the first position you have to learn: to put your hand there, to go into the right position, exhale, relax your shoulders, relax your back, and relax your stomach muscles. And then try to move the stomach while contracting the big white stomach muscle here. You have to try. Let's see how I can explain. You try to inhale and exhale, but don't do it. You remain exhaled in this position and try to do it. And then, when you have the feeling now you have to inhale, please come up, deep in, and exhale. And in that way, do it five rounds, six rounds in the morning after you go to the bathroom, do your toilet and everything, before you drink your coffee and tea on an empty stomach. There should be nothing inside. The acupuncture is waiting. Now, in the morning, to have your breakfast, you will get a good breakfast because afterwards you will be hungry. You will be very hungry, but you don't gain kilos. This is the positive effect because you digested everything. You can digest everything; it doesn't matter. And now we will do, so please, deep inhale, exhale, go down, a little bit forward, relax your stomach muscles, head up, head not down, and now we do the Agni Cakra. We see the preparation. You can do it quicker like this, so very good. So you see, everything that is inside is massaged very well. Now, when you have the feeling, please come up, inhaling. Yes, very good. Now you can turn to the other side. Did you look this side? Looking this side, very good. Now, please. Second round: deep inhale, exhaling, go down, back straight, head up. Don't, please. You can see? Good. Very good. This is the Agni Sāra Kriyā, the preparation for the Naulī program. He has not so much stomach, but if someone has a bigger stomach, of course, something more is moving. This is good. Why not? The Agni is a Ṣaṭcakrī Yogī, but we are not Ṣaṭcakrī, we are Bhakti Yogīs, so we have more stomach, so one round more. We are doing, we like this. Okay. Very good. Head up. Don't breathe. Very good. So everybody now is also looking at webcasting. You can try at home before your breakfast. Of course, for ladies, this is special. When you have your menstruation, your days, you need not to do it. It can be unpleasant, it can be painful, so you can wait for 2-3 days. And when you have the feeling, "Now it's okay, very good," you can start again, also, of course. Pregnant ladies, please don't do this. This is one contraindication. I would not do it. Otherwise, there is none. After operations also, but these are special cases. This, your yoga teacher will tell you. Your yoga teacher will show you. He will teach you, he or she, they are very experienced, very well trained. They know all these Haṭha Yoga techniques, and only a very experienced, good Yoga teacher should show and teach you. Don't try alone, otherwise you have the... "No, this is not good for me because I don't know how to do these things." This is always the question: how and when to do it. According to Deśa and Kāla, we should act, and also this has its time. Everything has its time. Now we will do the Naulī Kriyā. For Naulī, you need some well-trained muscles, good, strong stomach muscles. So we will first, and Naulī clear, you can try. There's one technique: you can put the same technique. You go forward and put your palms of the head, a little bit here inside, down of the hips, here, Leiste. Yeah, here, exhale. And when you press and lift up this hand, the stomach goes here. And when you press here and lift up this, the stomach goes here. So in this way, you can start to learn to practice. Because in the beginning, nothing will move, and you are disappointed and maybe give up. So, in this way, if you press and if you know everything, then the hand goes here, and you can put the hand even here, or even you can put it in the position of the Marjaryāsana, and every position you can do. That now only when the stomach is relaxed. But good is standing in the morning, meanwhile your chai is cooking, your coffee is preparing, and you do your Naulī Kriyā. You need only three, four, or five minutes. And it's more effective than other things, so please, the Naulī Kriyā. Head up. Now you can see how the stomach is going, the middle. Big stomach muscles are going from left to right and from right to left without moving the legs. Remain standing in the middle. Just move it left and right. Yes, now turning you. Now you like a mixing machine, you mix the whole massage, the whole stomach, the whole intestine, and inhale, come up. And he's starting to sweat already, you can see, because after Agni Cakra here, after Naulī the body becomes warm again, and then you see the effect, and you know, yes, it's working very well for those people who always feel cold, with cold fingers, cold hands, always freezing. They need some more energy also. With the nourishment, the body becomes warm again. So please, once more, do the Naulī Kriyā, rotating from the right to the left side and from the left to the right side. You can see that everything is digested, that nothing remains. And this is, yeah, but also you have... to have an empty, uh, bladder or empty stomach, otherwise it cannot be good and you feel not good. So before eating, and once more, all good drinks are three, please once more, Naulī, the Naulī Kriyā. Kriyā means also to do something, Kriyā, there are Rāja Yoga Kriyās, there are Haṭha Yoga Kriyās, there are different kinds of Kriyās. This Vāmījī told last time, you have also your daily Kriyā, you know, which you, what these things, what you do in daily life: eating, sleeping, washing. This is your daily Kriyā. So Kriyā means to do something. Thank you, Ṭhākurjī, very much. You can take your shirt again. And Haṭha Yoga is divided into four Haṭhas. The Aṛṣa Haṭha, the willpower of the Ṛṣi. The Triyā Haṭha, the willpower of the lady, the woman, the women, strange. That's why we always say, when one woman wants to do something, be sure. She will get it; she will reach it. And this is the Triyā Haṭha. The Bāla Haṭha is the willpower of a child. A child, when it wants something, it steps and it gets it. It doesn't matter how much time goes, it will get it. And the fourth one is the Yogī Haṭha, the willpower of the Yogī. And this Haṭha Yoga, Kriyās, the Haṭha Yoga purifications, the techniques which we got from the Yogīs, from the Ṛṣis, and from our dear beloved Lord Śiva, the author, the Protector, the God of all Yogīs, our Śrī Devapurījī and Swāmījī, so this all will help us to get and come to a final aim. So, with this last sentence, we mentally greet our beloved master, our Swāmījī. He will do the webcasting, the Satsaṅgs, and continue the program. And we wish all here who are webcasting, who are vetting, all the best. Have a nice day, a nice evening, and we see you this afternoon with the next technique. It will be Trāṭaka and preparation for tomorrow morning's program, the Śaṅkhaprakṣālana and Vamana Dhautī or Kuñjala Kriyā, and then we see you again. Hari Om. All the best to our friends around the whole world. Thank you. Hari Om. Hari Om.