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We all know of Yoga Nidrā and what we do within it. We come to lie down and relax. But is this truly Yoga Nidrā? Are you sleeping, relaxing, or working? What are you? What is yoga? What is Yoga Nidrā? The concept of Yogī, Jānakī, and Yoga Nidrā is very important. Tonight I called out to Mahāprabhujī, "Holī Gurujī," and Holī Gurujī said, "Yes, let us come and we shall make a Yoga Nidrā." I replied, "Yes, I will lie down. But this is not Yoga Nidrā." Take your mālā and perform your yoga sādhana, your yoga practice. That is it. So, when will we begin? Starting from today, it shall be so. He said that all the times before, people were merely sleeping, lying down. They were not just relaxing; they were only sleeping. That is not Yoga Nidrā. In the same way, many of you were sitting somewhere, and now the understanding must come inside. In this, our ashram—Mahāprabhujī’s ashram—you came for a purpose: you have to come inward. Not only to eat, drink tea or coffee, and then go here and there. There is freedom, of course. There is a time for walking and everything else; no problem. But we should practice Yoga Nidrā. And with this Yoga Nidrā, as of now, do not lie down. I think all my devotees across the whole world should know: yes, we are making Yoga Nidrā. Then perform this sādhana according to what I will tell you. Today they should know what Mahāprabhujī is within this Yoga Nidrā. I had forgotten to tell you something. Yesterday, I told you about the vaccine, and after five or six days, the effects came out. It lasted for two weeks and two days. It was very hard. But I did not think to speak of it on our telephone or Skype. Many, many of my devotees, all my brothers, and also our Matajī, you know, they all wrote me many, many letters. So, is it the truth? It was very difficult, it was. But now it is okay. So I must tell them again: I am very happy, I am okay. I can jump. So, to you all, please, do not be sad. That, too, relates to yoga in daily life. In yoga in daily life, when we learn this Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidrā... And how long are they making it? Half? One? How long are you making Yoga Nidrā? Forty-five minutes? Forty-five? One month? One hour, you mean? Very good. So these are things that are not exact. Now, if you wish to understand these words about Yoganidrā—many, because they are in Sanskrit or the Indian language—I will speak about this. There are many words I cannot fully understand. So I am going to Barīkhāṭu, and I will ask Mahāprabhujī. Perhaps he will give us a very clear understanding of what Yoga Nidrā is. Then it will be that Yoga Nidrā. And Yoga Nidrā is there where we are very relaxed, where everything is very good. We all practice meditation. How, where, what it will be—these are the questions. So, from today onward, in the afternoon, you will make Yoga Nidrā. Take your mālā, sit down for one hour, and make Yoga Nidrā. But do not do it like this, not sleeping like this. You will be the first people to perfect it. You will perfect the Yoga Nidrā which Mahāprabhujī gave. At that time I was not yet born, so it comes directly from Mahāprabhujī; that is Yoga Nidrā. There is another yogī who was living only for relaxing, and he is called a yoganidrā. They do not know what yoganidrā is, but I do not wish to tell anyone. Yet when we are doing, when we are practicing, then we should be on one straight path. Otherwise, it will become confused, and it will become confused again. It will turn back again. It will again go round in circles, again confused. So we have to... we have to open our path. If something happens, take care and make your path straight again. That is within Yoga Nidrā also. I, too, was teaching this yoga nidrā: "Lie down and everything." Yes, this is a relaxing yoga nidrā. So it is okay. But the reality, the real yogic practice, is something more. Otherwise, we are completely scattered—one time here, one time there, then a time there—it is nothing. Let us now tell again our Gurudevs, our Mahātmas, our Mahāprabhujīs, and this other, what he is saying about Yogī Janakī: Yoganidrā Hari Om, Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devpurījī Mahādeva Kī, Mādhavānandī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Alakhpurījī Mahārāj Kī Jaya, Gurudeva Kī Jaya. Now you may understand, but you did not understand the words. But still, we cannot fully understand the voice of Mahāprabhujī, from where the Alakhpurījī is coming. Alakhpurījī is connected with Mahāprabhujī, with Devpurījī. Where the Holy Gurujī, Mādhavānandajī, he understood what Yoga Nidrā is. Many people are sleeping and practicing, but they do not get anything. It is said that when there is a snake going on the sand, people went to catch that snake. They wanted to kill it, so they went and took a stick. But the snake was not there. What is the reality? We are only beating the sand. The snake is gone. They did not see what this snake is. And so, are they mostly just beating the sand with a stick for the snake? Similarly, many people are doing yoga, meditation, and concentration all around the whole world, but only rarely will they realize. There are many great yogīs still there in India, and they are the real yogīs. But the rest, those only running here and there, they are merely beating the sand with the stick for the snake, but the snake is not there. So go and see that you are there. In this way, also, Holī Gurujī said, always said Maheśvarānanda, remain on the path. On that path, on that line, do not go here and do not go there. You are only beating the sand. Neither will you get it, nor will the snake come. We are human. Animals also have their path. For example, we see here on the highway, and there is a sign: this is the animal’s path. And they will run over. And the animal will be killed. So what they are doing is always on that highway, but underneath, here the animals can go. Because those animals, their interest all the time was going there, and they know that it is going here on our path. It will happen because we went the wrong way. So the animals also, they are going through on their path. The rabbits, we know how many rabbits there are. They are very, very expert. And they know where their path is. If we go somewhere and put something out for them, they will not come. I tried it for two years; we put out fruits, grass, and this and that for rabbits, but they did not come. They will go on their path, and then they will know where the reality is. Similarly, it is said of the birds which are flying and eating and getting food the whole day, when the sun sets, each and every bird goes to its own nest. They do not go to another nest. If others go, they will fight, and they may kill each other. There are some different kinds; they run away here and there, and they come to that nest. And when others... the eggs of the birds, the eggs in the nest, and their mother goes to get some food and returns. And then, when she is flying to get something, another strong one will come and sit on the eggs. And these eggs, for a while they are being sat upon as if by a bird. And when the baby birds come out, they will not eat these babies, but they know that it is not my mother. And that other one will kill the babies. Even the birds, the animals, the rabbits, the deer—all these animals, they are one with their nature. And when you take them out, then you will fight them. That is like monkeys; the monkeys act like that. They kill other monkeys, and they take all other monkeys away. That is why the monkeys are always suffering. They will suffer; they will be bitten in that way. Similarly, when we cannot understand Yogī Janakī’s Yoga Nidrā... So, Yogī Janakī Yoganidrā, if you want to learn, if you will become a real yogī, then come back to your path and go further on the path. If you will not go, then there is another way. There is one very big bush, a very nice bush, big, and there are some little red fruits. An animal, or birds, or a mouse sees a fruit, beautiful and nice inside. But the bush has so many thorns. Not just one; there are three nodes. So now you have gone in. Now you are in the three, so you can go, you went in to get this fruit. But how to come out? This side, that side, the other side, getting stuck—and what was the fruit? It was just... there is nothing, just air. There was nothing to eat. Oh man, what happened to this? In such a way, the real birds are the ones that do not go in. But some said, "Oh, this is beautiful, a food, a fruit, very nice." And we go in, and now it is difficult to come out again. This is life. Oh human, you are very good, intelligent, and you should be this, but you go inside. So you meditate, you chant mantra, everything, but you have not... in our brain, in my brain. I think I have, but I do not have. Do not run behind it; it will not come to you, and it will not be good, my dears. This is about Yogī Janakī, Yoga Nidrā, a real yogī. They can attain this; others will not. On the path of our Mahāprabhujī, Devpurījī, Mādhavānandajī, up to our Alakhpurījī—if you wish to go on this path, then follow Gurudev’s words, what your Guru said. My Gurujī Mādhavānandajī said... He was always telling me, "I have in one hand ice cream and here is the stick." What do you want, ice cream or a stick? What do you say? Can you tell somebody? What would you answer? Can you tell us? Huh? You should know. And which ice cream? When the ice cream will be filled, how to say, melted... and you are left with nothing in your hand. And the stick? Controlled. Palica kontroluje. We will do, Gurujī said. So when Gurujī said, "What do you want, ice cream or the stick?" I said, with both hands, "My stick." Only then Gurujī said, "Okay, then go and make the chapatis." Yes, it is not a trivial matter. It is a real reality. So, I brought food. Gurujī said, "You have won, you win it, that is." So, all those, my disciples, they should follow and say, "Yes, they will go there." And what is that? One day we will die. But in that, what you will do, again, the next life will bring more suffering. It will come again, troubling things. Therefore, from the Yoga Nidrā, let us come to a comfortable position. Yesterday you were singing very nicely, Mahāprabhujī’s bhajan: "Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, Mahāprabhudīp Karatā, He Kevalam..." Mahāprabhujī Karatā He Kevalam. Yogī Janakī was a beautiful bhajan. And this bhajan, which Mahāprabhujī gave to Alakhpurījī, lets us know what our great guru-paramparā is. And those who cannot follow the guru kṛpā, the guru’s words, then they fall away. Yes, now we have to—I would like to do something. If you can go with me, walk a little bit, one hour, an hour... Because I did not work, I was not working for a long time. So, I feel like walking a little bit. And if you cannot, of course, because you cannot with the leg or anything, then take in the very nice sun and this air, our ashram air. It is very clean and very good. Do sun-gazing. That we should get, how to say, this good luck. We are fortunate that we are having such energy. Hari Om.