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Oṁ bakam yajāmahe sukhaṁdi puṣṭiṁvardhanam urvārukam yavandhana mṛtyurmukhśirma amṛtām. Oṁ dṛyambha gamya jā mahe sukandhi puṣṭiṁ vardhanam urvāru gamya vandhanam ṛttyurmukṣirma amṛtam. Oṁ dṛyambha gamya jā mahe sukandhi puṣṭiṁ vardhanam. Orvāru kāmya vandanā mṛtyor mokṣirma amṛta nāhaṁ karatā prabhu dīpa karatā mahā prabhujī dīpa karatā hi kevalam. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ... I am, and good morning, everybody. Again, we are here in Mahāprabhujī's deep ashram in Stryky, Czech Republic. Today are our 5th and 6th Ṣaṭkarma Kriyā, or Haṭha Yoga Kriyā, concerning Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, Dhauti, or Kunjal Kriyā, or Kacarkhani. As we heard yesterday, Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, or in ancient times called Basti, is done early in the morning. It is the purification of the whole intestine, beginning from the mouth till the end of the intestine. This purification takes place with warm water containing a little salt inside, so that we get the normal physical salt liquid, 0.9 percent. With movement and special positions, special movements, the water is led through the whole intestine. We can imagine that our intestine, our arm, is between seven to nine meters long, and not straight, not flat, but nicely curved and folded here in this part, inside in the stomach. To purify this, it takes some work and also needs some preparation. Śaṅkha means shell, and prakṣālana means cleaning. We know that when we have a big shell and want to put water inside, it doesn't flow inside by itself; you have to move the shell to manage that the water goes inside. Śaṅkha Prakṣālana is a very good exercise, but it has to be done early in the morning, of course, on an empty stomach. Also, the evening before, don't eat too much; otherwise, it is really hard work. Don't eat chocolate before, don't eat cacao, and all this cheese and bread and this stuff. It's like a sponge in the stomach, and it keeps the water, making it not easy to do. Some people do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana at lunch time at noon. I would say this is not according to the call, because our intestine works between five o'clock morning a.m. till 10 o'clock a.m. You can say this is the best time to give some support, and it works easily. It is the Jñāna Bhakṣaṇa technique, the purification technique. Everybody can do it, except those under 15 years; it is not advisable that they do. Also, if you have some serious active ulcer in your stomach or some hernia here in your diaphragm, I would not do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. It is very helpful for people who have high blood pressure, diabetes, and any kind of digestion problem. Also, pregnant women, of course, don't do it. For the Śaṅkha Prakṣālana technique, we prepare one pot. You prepare yourself at home after you experience the technique with your yoga teacher. Prepare five to six liters of water. Try to keep the temperature of the water always at the same level, so the temperature doesn't change too much. Otherwise, the body doesn't accept the quantity of the liquid, and you will feel unwell and may vomit. In between is also good; it is also a kind of purification of the stomach. But the water temperature, try to keep it at the same level. For one liter of water, you put half, a good half teaspoon of sea salt inside. It depends on the size of the spoon, but I would put something like this inside. Mix the water well. The temperature is like 40, 41 degrees. Cold temperature, you will like to have it a little bit warmer. Then start to drink. After four glasses, three glasses, five glasses, you visit the bathroom, toilet. Sit down peacefully and do ten times the Aśvinī Mudrā. Aśvinī Mudrā is to contract the anus muscles ten times. Psychologically, it is good that you sit on your toilet, and it starts to move the peristaltic of the intestine. It helps that this part is doing something. Come in again in your practicing room, next glass of water. Drink this water not slowly, but like a thirsty one, like you have a big thirst and you drink after a long journey, greedily, one glass of water. That way you drink the water, not slowly, standing and tasting, "Oh God, this is... oh no, no, this is just water." You want to practice, you want to do it. Drink it, start immediately to practice, not too slowly, but you need also not to hurry. We will do one, two, three rounds together; then you see the tempo, then you see the āsanas, and again drink the water. Those who have a big stomach, who are used to eating a lot of quantity in one meal, can start with two glasses. Also, next round, two glasses. It starts quickly, emptying the intestine when you go to the toilet. When you go outside and sit there, don't sit too long. Not because you want to rest also, but it comes only glass by glass out also. And so long you go on the toilet and so long you practice, till what we have inside is coming out like urine: the color of the urine and the quantity, like the urine, yellow color. There can be some seeds or some flocculent; it doesn't matter. But the main thing is it goes out. There should be no solid parts inside, so then you see everything is purified. This will take, for one who is practicing already, one to one and a half hours most probably. Some people, of course, those who are not eating and living consciously, who eat still meat or all these tough fish and these things, it will take a little bit longer. Because meat-eating living beings have intestine only two to three meters long, but human vegetarian eating living beings have intestines from seven to nine meters long. That's why it is requested that the human, as a living being, should have vegetarian, nicely biological, good foods. After Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, after purification, you have to keep a diet for at least, strictly, seven days, one week, and up to one month. It is strictly forbidden to drink any kind of alcohol, or to eat meat, fish, or eggs. And for one week, no raw food. Everybody who is doing the cleaning program, the Haṭha Yoga program, will get some paper. There is written everything, what to eat and what not to eat. Afterwards, anyhow, you have a feeling that there are some things you don't like. Let's say you are drinking two or three coffees every day. After Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, you are not allowed to drink coffee, at least for one week. And when you start again to drink, then even the smell you don't like. It will take maybe one, two, or three times practicing, but the body itself comes to that point where the body knows what is good for it and what is not good for us. We are, as a family, we always say we are so much depending on the tongue. What the tongue likes, this we put inside. But we don't think on this: what our stomach likes, what our body likes. This one has just to accept. And the tongue is the big sense, and to control the tongue and to keep it, it's not easy. But Śaṅkha Prakṣālana is a great help for this, to become again healthy and clean, to purify all the waste, the gas, the acid, the mucus, to clean it, to purify it. We do this before the season is changing, before spring is coming. The best time to do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana is in March, the beginning of September, the end of May, and before the winter, before the cold season really starts. Then it helps the body to overcome and change the biorhythm, the nourishment, and all these things. So we will start now to practice here. We have our dear Sattva Purī, Jay from Rijeka, and our Ratan Purī from Bratislava. They are good, experienced Haṭha Yogīs. I have known them for many years; we did many things together. They're from Bratislava, and they will practice with us. First we start to drink the warm, good, salty water. That is that. Are you? So, we will start now. Ratan Purī is a good eater and a good drinker. So, Ratan Purījī, you can drink one glass at once, no? I think you will manage, no? So, with my marijuana kitchen, if you have a problem with drinking, you put your ring finger on the forehead, in the middle, in the eyebrow center, and then stretch the stomach, exhale, and hurry on. Not so bad. So now, the first exercise is the Tāḍāsana. You just stretch your body ten times. You can do with your inhaling the stretching and exhaling the relaxing. Meanwhile, water, warm water is coming more, so that this water is not cooling down. Next exercise is the Trikoṇāsana. Some people like to do it like this with head up. It means the water goes into every curve of the intestine. Each side we practice five times. Some people like to do like this; it's also good. The main thing is that you do it. Is it already five times? Already. Okay. Next āsana is the twisting. You turn completely. Once we did like this, and then Swāmījī said that it's completely wrong. Do it slowly, consciously turn, brace out. You should not get dizzy. You should not get exhausted. Third exercise. The fourth exercise is the position from the Kaṭubraṇam. You stretch your whole body up, you stretch your whole body. This whole part, the front, is stretched, and water is going down. It's good to start with the right leg because of our digestion is from the right to the left; it goes here. Stretch it and come back again. Lie down, stomach massaging, legs depart from each other, toes up, and go into the Triyak Bhujaṅgāsana. Turn your whole body. Look to your heel, come back to the middle, and in that way, you go to each side three times. Those people who have back problems or something can also do it. They need not go so high up; do it in their way, how they can do. Try to inhale with the stomach, so that your stomach muscles are moving. Anyhow, the stomach will be bigger. Then, after two or three liters of water, the stomach is growing. This is normal. Let's say three times we have done. Get up in the position. We did the grow walkings also possible, but easier for your knees is when you do this. Just move; hip joints are moving. It means the whole intestine, which is lying here on the side on the wall, gets some kind of massage when you do this movement, because we don't know why we are doing. This is now very good. Get up, stretch yourself once more. You need not go on the heels, just did you in and exhale properly and drink. The next class, I will check the water. If the water is coming, we need some more warm water in the pot. Bring one liter. What is the kitchen doing? It's not finished. Bring some hot water down. This pot, not too much, otherwise it's too hot. Bring it down with some warm water, otherwise the water temperature goes too much down. Wait, let me see first. Yes, put it inside. That's very good, very good. So we started to break this already. You can turn your hands up when you do the Tāḍāsana, very good. Legs together, inhale really and stretch the whole front, ten times. Very good. You need not to look up now, okay. Then the Trikoṇāsana, you can do that way. Whole side, you must imagine the water is running in every curve here and down. And when you do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana at home, you can start early morning; this is the best. Early morning, 5:30, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, just drink, practice, drink, practice. The next exercise is the twisting, ten times, five times each side, but really twisting, not only moving the hands, really twisting, really like this, very good. And once more, one hand is touching the shoulder, and one hand is behind. Really, Sattva Purī also like this, yeah. And then, like this. The whole success of the Śaṅkha Prakṣālana depends on your practice, how you practice, yeah. You need some force to put inside, that's why it's a Haṭha Yoga, not only show the movement. Yeah, you really have to, you want to do it, yeah. And also, how you drink. There are some people that say, "I cannot drink five to six liters." You can, but you must want. There must be something that you want to do. So please, the next exercise is the position of the Kaṭubraṇam. You stretch the whole butt. You can do it also on the other side. The other side is not offended or jealous. The Triyak Bhujaṅgāsana, pay time. Stretch, stretch all your fingers. Stretch the whole part, the front. More. Get up. Turn your trunk. There are people who, when they come to Satsaṅg, say they cannot do this exercise because they have some pain or problem in their knees. Doesn't matter, they can do it; they get some other movement. There are some, how to say, exchange we can do. This is possible. Again, stretch. Next, glass of water. So let's say we were practicing now one, one and a half, two hours. Now you drink the water, you start with your exercise, and suddenly you have the feeling you go. Now I need to go to the toilet. Please go. And every time you're going, you're walking quicker. This happens, yeah? Every time you're going, it walks quicker, and then you come in and continue the exercise where you have stopped. Or if you have the quantity, the place where you can drink again and continue after this, when you finish this, and now nothing is inside anymore, everything is purified. Water is everywhere, not only 70% water in the body, but today when you do Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, I think it's 100%. You have the feeling everywhere is water. Then you do one or two rounds more exercise without drinking, so that this water, which is still inside, you have the feeling you want to bring it out. Do it once more, go on the toilet, come. In one round, more practicing: go out, come in, don't see too long, and finish your exercise. Now, there is one point: when people are doing Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, they like to do it, they feel good, they will even not be exhausted or tired. Salty water is no problem to drink; anyhow, it's natural. But then comes one point when we say, "Now we will go in the bathroom and do the Kunjal Kriyā." It means drink two liters of water, now without salt, when you do it after Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. You have to drink one glass after another, five, six, seven glasses, till you have the feeling, "I can't anymore. If I drink one glass more, then I will vomit." Then please drink one glass more. You have to come to the point that is it. And then you bow forward and empty your stomach. It means your stomach has to contract once, bring all the water out. For some people, it is not easy because they compare this Kuṇḍal Kriyā or Vaman Dhautī with illness and bad feeling. This is normal; maybe you had some illness before that, you had to vomit or so, maybe. But now when we do this, it is kind of therapy, some kind of prevention. When we do the Śaṅkha Prakṣālana and Kuṇḍalī Kriyā, we purify also the stomach. Our stomach is not only straight; the straight part of the body is like a muscle, but it has one curve inside, like a hook, it looks. And in this part, in this bottom of the hook, sometimes nourishment is collecting, sometimes things are lying, and then this can cultivate the bacteria. Some people say this Helicobacter comes from the stomach, so we have experienced that these people, very good, can be a little warmer, can be a little bit warmer. If the next spot can be warmer, it can cultivate some bacteria. This Kunjal Kriyā purifies it, purifies everything. Also, people who are suffering from bronchial asthma, for them it is very, very helpful because all these bronchial muscles contract together, and the people have the feeling now, really, "I can exhale again, relaxed." This bronchial asthma cannot be a problem with exhaling, and all this mucus that sticks here, it comes out. The Vaman Dhautī or Kunjal Kriyā, if you do it, now it's better. If you do it without Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, in the morning you have the feeling you have to do something, you have acid, salt burning. How the acid comes here out, or you have bad smell out of the mouth, or you have eaten too much and not proper, so in the morning get up and do your Kunjal Kriyā. Prepare one or two liter this pot, and then you put one teaspoon sea salt inside. Mix it, and then in front of your bathtub or washing tap, you drink it. After this, you do your neti, cleaning Jala Neti, clean your tongue, brush your teeth, and have a shower and a light breakfast. After normal Kunjal Kriyā, when I'm done, you need not keep tight, but I would not drink black coffee on this purified, nice stomach. I would not drink. I would drink something nice like... And what I want to say, this Kunjal Kriyā or Kāchar Kānī, it's also taken from nature when we see the elephant. The elephant is doing this. They soak some water, then they put it inside the stomach, and then they blow it out again with the trunk. Before we have known this exercise, we were thinking they are playing with the water and doing soaking and taking out, but it is a kind of purifying, their cleaning. And we know this from many animals in nature, that they are doing this and taking out again. Our dear Sattva Purī will show us now the Kunjal Kriyā. So, come here. He is drinking two to three liters. You can take yourself. We prepared here one bucket. Drink. Yourself, you can put up your arms, so you have to drink quickly, of course, otherwise the water, before it comes out, it goes down. You do this after Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. Everything is cleaned. Now you do the Kuṇḍalā Kriyā, cleaning of the stomach, cleaning of the intestine. If you have long teeth, please put them out before. It could be expensive. If you have the feeling, here you are feeling the tightness open, take it off when you are at home, your shirt, your t-shirt. You will feel warm because the water is also warm. There is no salt inside. It means also to neutralize the salt and the sweet water in the stomach. It becomes again one. The salty water in Śaṅkha Prakṣālana doing is very, very good. We have good experience with those people who have this candida fungus. Candida is a disbalance of the pH. Not neutral, not sour; this is imbalance. No, one more drink. I was hearing. Don't think I'm not listening. One more. This pot should be emptied. Okay? Then you can go down like this. Knee down, because you're not on the toilet. One more. One more. Relax your stomach. One more. It comes from itself. You need not force. This is not even one and a half liters. Come up, bring one more. I know that it's not enough. Using, I don't know, I know the quantity which one has to drink, and if you force with your finger, then it's not enough. It should come with concentration from itself. You need not to force so much, yes. Now it's good. Yeah, you can kneel down or hold yourself. Once more, concentrate. Relax your stomach. Or you want to drink one glass more? No, no... It's not nice, as it puts your finger inside. So now you can start very good. It's not easy in front of the camera, you do this Kuṇḍalinī Kriyā, no? So I admire him very much. Put your tongue out and finger the backside, itching on the throat. Do like this. Very good. And once more. You should have drunk this whole pot, and it's much easier. Go. Finger backside, tongue outside. Very good. And once more. Tongue outside, finger back. Tongue outside, yes. And once more. Very good. And once more. Two fingers only, not to put the whole hand inside. Yes, and two fingers more, tongue outside, and itching on the throat. Yes, good. And once more now, the really, the quantity comes out. Okay, yes. And once more, still inside now, all the salty water is coming outside. Very good. Once more. Very good. So, wash your finger now and your nose. Come here. Very good. No. It's not completely good, hundred percent, but it's good, yeah. Thank you very much. So suddenly now you can clean your nose, you can go in the bathroom and wash your face with cold water, yes. You have the feeling you put some cold water, when you have done Śaṅkha Prakṣālana. You go now, brush your teeth, clean your tongue, like we heard yesterday. Today, you do your neti, warm water, salt inside, and clean your nose also, so that the pressure which comes with Kunjal Kriyā, it comes up. The pressure goes down again, because afterwards you have the feeling the whole head is like this, no? Not only feeling, you look also like this, no? Some people, you have more, you can see more, and some people do the Kunjal Kriyā and you don't see anything. It depends how much you're drinking. If you drink the whole pot, it's easy for you. If you don't want to, or if you can't, then you have to force. It is a kind of experience one has to do oneself and experience this. And don't think, because some people think, oh, you don't get bulimia, like some people are just doing regularly the eat and the vomit, the eat and the vomit. Do not be in such a way that you get this illness. No, no, this is a kind of therapy, a kind of prevention we do. And after this, you take your new dress, you inhale deep and exhale, and say, "Something really is done." You have a good feeling, a little bit tired. Of course, this is natural. You are practicing one, two hours. You're drinking. The body needs now to have a rest, and you should lie down. Before you lie down, you prepare your kicharī. The kicharī is kind of risi-bisi, we say, or mish-mash with rice. Three parts rice, one part mung. This is the green soya bean, but peeled. We get now on the market the peeled mung, the mung dāl. You can use this also. Put six times more water in one pot, a little Haldi inside. We got now the very natural, good Haldi from Swāmījī from India. It's not mixed with any kind of powder. So, this we have to take out now. Please Ratan Purī, take this all away. Thank you. So we have the fresh cooked kicharī. It should cook in that way; it should cook for one hour. The rice with the mung, a little Haldi inside, a little cumin powder put in that, a little salt, not too much. If you can leave out the salt, because now you have salt enough, you're drinking six, seven liters, it means 25 to 30 glasses of water. There's a lot of salt inside, so you can leave the salt out. And then, after your rest, half an hour, 40 minutes, you're lying down, let all the body functions come down, you eat your kicharī. While cooking, don't mix, otherwise it will burn. Just let it cook on a small flame. You can cover it and leave the lid a little bit open. Just let it cook by itself; it will be. You can use some good iron pot. It's very good also for those people who have a little iron. They should always use, when cooking, the good iron pots, the natural iron pots. Then there will be no lack of iron. And then, after this cooking, for one plate of kicharī, one tablespoon ghee inside. Good homemade fat from the butter, ghee. So you put one tablespoon of ghee inside. We also have very nice ghee here. So we put, let's say, three plates. We put three tablespoons of ghee inside, mix it nicely. That from itself, it is like a puree. Because now you feel, after Śaṅkha Prakṣālana, you feel a little bit cold. Also, this is also natural because there's nothing inside the intestine; the stomach is empty. You break this, so much, here's also no energy inside, so you need some energy. You need some fat, and this comes from the ghee, and then you feel immediately nice, good. You're really hungry now. Also, the mung dāl which we use in the kicharī is protein. We need the protein. The rice is kind of saccharose. The spices, the Haldi is very good, rich in calcium, kind of disinfection effect, and cumin helps the digestion fire again, to start to do something, and it's good tasting coming inside. So our kicharī is ready, and from this you eat as much as you like, but you should eat. Don't say, "I'm not hungry, I don't feel hungry." Eat. Eat a little bit. Some people, they don't feel hungry, but they should eat; otherwise, the intestine is stuck together. Eat little bits, half a small plate, and if you eat and eat and you still feel, "I'm hungry," it can happen also. The body needs to eat, and after eating, please don't drink for two hours. Let it sit down for two hours. It's like a body meal got some oil after showering, after brushing. Let it sit down, and then prepare your nice, some herbal tea. No fruit tea, no cold water, no this water with the bubbles. Just nice warm water or tea. Don't put honey inside; it can cause the acid from the stomach, because honey belongs to the raw food, good honey, yeah. It belongs to the raw food, and now we avoid the raw food for one week. We eat good eating. Don't think after Śaṅkha Prakṣālana you are ill. You're not ill, but something avoid, and something put inside to your diet. No raw, no onion, no garlic. All this porree and schnittling and all this, what belongs to this onion growing, avoid. Try to avoid the broccoli, the cauliflower, the cabbage, and all this which makes gas in the body. Eat some kind of basic food. Now, we have the season here in Europe, autumn. Autumn, the winter is coming. We have a lot of pumpkins, potatoes, all kinds of roots: the carrots, the celery, the beetroot, rice. You can make yourself kicharī, you can eat chapati. You can use and should use the spices, not too much chili, but use the spices. And Swāmījī always tells us, in one week we should use 50 different spices, 50, not 15, 50 different. Zero, and if we count, then we even have to think over which are the 50 spices. And then the next part is how to use them, how to cook. And this we will see maybe next summer, that we have this cooking program, that we can use and see how the spices are used. So now you did a big...