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Yogis are always alert

The ordinary mind oscillates between states of distraction and unconsciousness. In waking, one is physically present but mentally absent, with thoughts scattered far away. One is here, yet not truly here. Even in sleep, the inner world remains active with dreams and unresolved work. There is waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. The yogi transcends these ordinary states. Yoga Nidrā is not unconscious sleep but a state of profound, alert rest. Like a horse sleeping while standing on one leg, the yogi rests the body while consciousness remains fully awake and aware within. This is the fourth state, a balance of deep rest and total awareness, where one is asleep to the world yet awake to the true Self.

"In that, for it is said, yoga sādhanā... How the yogīs, so yogī is not sleeping, and if they are sleeping, but they are awakened."

"Know that yoga is the balance between sleep and wakefulness."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa. Hamasabdhās prabhu namparāyanam, hamasabdhās inamayom namo sīri prabhudīm. Om namo sīri prabhu hamasabdhās prabhusar parāyanam, hamasabdhās prabhu sarana parayanam. Namo sri prabhudeepa, namo sri prabhudeepa. Namo śabdasa prabhu śaraṇa parāyaṇam. Namo śrī prabhudīpa. Who will sing the bhajan? Advānajī Bhagavān, Om Śānti, Om Śānti, Om Śānti. Prayer means that the whole day we are working. Every one of us has a different kind of work. All the time, from the brain and from both hemispheres, we are sending thoughts. And what kind of thoughts? Everyone has different thoughts. Thoughts are the thoughts of the thoughts... the thoughts that know any time or relax to be. Many things we are doing. When you are writing with some letters, all the times different letters. Many different farmers, they are one of the best help. They are relaxed, they are working, they are doing very good, and in the evening they are relaxed and happy. Many also have differences. So, the whole day, or some people, they are working at night. So, after the night work, they come home and sleep. In this, there are two things: jagratā, we are all awakened. Jagratā, all we know is we are awakened, and that is what we are doing. In this, we are not in our heart. We are not within our self. We are beyond, at a very far distance. Some of you have people here, and you are sleeping. You are sitting here, but your thoughts are in your country: Austria, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, etc. All who are going far distances, we are working, let’s say for example here in Jordan, but how many times a day do your thoughts go to your village, to your parents, your families, your neighbors, your friends, etc. So we are here, but we are not here; we are there. And we are there and also here, but we are not within ourselves. Jagrata. Also, for example, when we are driving a car, the driver, the driver sitting in one car, and now he is aware, completely aware. Just one way of a car: looking in the front, looking behind, left side, right side, above the car, below the car, inside the car, steering also, and to know what can happen. Driver is very alert. If something is called that little thing, accident, little slip comes, what is called that little micro slip, and just that, an accident. So we are on this side all the time there. Similarly, the people who are working with yoga, practicing yoga, thinking about yoga, what will I do? When will I practice? This is also outside, outside after this. When we go to sleep now, we have to understand: I’m awakened, you are awakened, we are awakened. But when you are going to sleep, when we are coming to sleep, so suddenly. When we go to sleep, that time is our other consciousness, and we are taking care that we sleep relaxed. All different kinds of techniques are in our bodies. We are working, our body is working, we are sleeping. But all the elements, everything in the body. Why? Sometimes you are dreaming. Sometimes you say, "My God, I did work, but this was not good. I have to go there." Everything is inside, so it means that one cannot sleep. He is sleeping, but working inside also. After that, śvapna. Sapnā mein kyā dekhtā hai, kahā̃ jā rahā hai, where you are going in dream. Your wife and your husband are sleeping in one room. And she is dreaming of her parents. And he is dreaming about some friends. We are not with that. But still, in the inner consciousness, dream is that so far, we are here, and this man is sitting here in America, in my ashram he is living there, and now he is sleeping, but he is dreaming there. And how quickly we come back, that’s very important. And that is, we are so alert, we are so alert, immediately. Dream, even we are thinking of the moon or the sun, but it immediately comes to us. And this means that I am the alert, and in this way, so the fourth point. Point, and that fourth point is in the yogī janakī yoga nidrā. So, we are normal people, and we have what we call: we are awakened, we are sleeping, and we are dreaming. But how are the yogīs doing then? And in that part, it is... Yogī Janakī, yog nidrā. To all others, everyone is sleeping, but the yoginī, the yogī, and a horse. The horse is standing, sleeping on one leg from the front, a little. He’s standing with one leg, you know that? How the horse is sleeping and is very alert, only with one left leg. Or the right leg, holding on one, that’s it. Alert in everything, dreaming is also everything, but very alert. That is a yogī or a horse. Similarly, birds, many animals, they are doing like this, but human cannot. They cannot. In that, for it is said, yoga sādhanā, our Ārādhi Bhagavān, Mahāprabhujī, and Mahāprabhujī once he gave this sādhanā, Yogī jana kī yog nidrā. How the yogīs, so yogī is not sleeping, and if they are sleeping, but they are awakened. And when we are awakening here, we are sleeping. There is another side all the time, but be completely aware in everything. So we will say, seeing the Yoga Nidrā, beautiful, very hot, Mahāprabhujī has given this to us. In that is that, our all yogis, Vajranāḍī, Vajranāḍī, and that is a very powerful, from the toes till the top of the head, and when they, our spine, through our, through bodies, going the, this sādhanā, yogī janakī, yoga nidrā, bolo. Yogī cāṇakhyā yoga nidrā merā sāmāna cāhanā cāhatī hai... Ussandra jāgrata jāne hai, puni rātri madhi vāsukyānī hai. Us nidrā me chāgrata chāne, kunnī rātri me divasa yogī jāno kī yoga nidrā, bīrla santa chāna chānī hai... Bhūtāne se bhāgā, sūnā me se jāmbī chāni he... Nīrālam bhākā pāṅkā chāle, Puni shveta sūnā sūvāni he. Nīrālam bhākā pāṅkā chāle, Pune Shweta Sunna Selanihe. O ta phoola khilya hai, sanmukha lakhi uradha mukha baani hai. Thuriye tāra lagyo niradhāra, bēgama kī gama chāni hē. Yogi-jano kī yoga-nindra virala-samta-jana-jani hai, sunnam-e-soorachanam-ga kudratakala pichani hai. Uti kalā kamala me jāge chetana, puruṣa sujāni hē. Yogī janon kī yoga nidrā virala samatā jānī jānī hī hai... Yogī jāno ki yoga-nidrā vīralā samatā jānā jānīye. Santatantāhe rāma jānāvāgo sūratā āgam kar jānī hai. Jahā dekhe, jahā sune, cetanā hai, aur nazarā nahī̃ ānī hai. Yogī jāno ki yoga-nidrā vīralā samatā jānā jānī hai. Yogī jāno ki yoga-nidrā vīralā-samatā-jānā-jānī hai. Thus, nidrā, jagratā, and the puni-ratri, the three states, are known to the yogī. Know that yoga is the balance between sleep and wakefulness. God bless you. Yogī jānau kī yoga-nidrā virala samatā jānā jānī hai. Us nidrā me jāgrata jāne, phūnī rātri me ujjānī hai. Yogījano kī yoga-nidrā Birla-samata-jana jānī hai. Thank you for watching. Yogī janokhī yoga-nidrā virala-samta-jana-jānīye, yogī janokhī yoga-nidrā virala-samta-jānīye. Śrī Kṛṣṇa saccā sanyāsī, Gītā me gāmā gānī he... Ora Anta Ṛṣi Sabgāve Samche Sui Jannāreni He O Rāṇā, Nanda, Ṛṣi, Sabhā, Gāve, Samāje, Soi, Jñāna, Reni, He Yogī, Janokī, Yoga, Nidrā, Bīrā, Samatā, Jñāna, Jñānī, He... Us nindrāme jāgrata jāne puni rātri me ugyānī hai yogī janokīrī yoga nidrā virva samatā jāna jānī hai yogī janokīrī yoga nidrā birva śānta jāna jānī he śrī allāka purīṣa daṇḍīsanyāsī uti kāla pechanī he... Śrīdeva Puriṣa Adhūta Valiya Deha Bina Deśa Dikani He Yogi Janakī Yoga Nidrā Virva Santa Chana Jani He yogī janokhī yoga nidrā virva santa jana jānī hai us nidrā me jagrata jāne puni rātri me ugyānī hai yogī-jano kī yoga-nidrā virla-santa-jana jānī hai Aisa vidhi koi birla jaane, vohi guru gama seni he. Aisi vidhi koi birla jaane, vohi guru gama seni he. Swami Nipa Sant Janasura, Chetana Chetan Chitanihe. Yogi Janokhi Yoga Nindra, Birla Sant Janjanihe... Us nindrā me cākṛta chāne, punirātri me ujjāni hai. Yogi janokī yoga nindra virala santa janjāni hai. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Tomorrow, further. Hari Om.

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