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Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Devpurījī Mahādev Kī Dharm Samrāṭ Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Welcome and blessings to all of you, all our dear brothers and sisters around the world, practitioners of yoga, daily life, and other spiritual paths. The blessing is coming to you from beautiful Australia, Śrī Devapurī Āśram, Dungong. It is a beautiful, blessed nature with very good soil. Today’s subject is Nāḍī Yoga. Patañjali said in his Yoga Sūtra, the very first instruction to his disciples: Atha yogānuśāsanam. My dear devotees and disciples, Ṛṣi Patañjali said yoga begins with discipline. The success of yoga, or to achieve your destination or aim, is only through discipline. Life without discipline is not successful, and it will be unhappy. If we have no discipline in eating and drinking, we will be unhealthy; we will be ill. If we have no discipline in movements, we will also be ill and not content with our body. If we have no discipline, we will not be accepted in society. To dress properly, to clean yourself, brush your hair, brush your teeth, and clean your mouth and tongue with a tongue cleaner is a respect for others. Sometimes one thinks, what is the difference between ego and respect? Ego is that power which will destroy your spiritual development. It will destroy your emotion, will destroy everything. And self-respect is that you are respecting others. Let’s say I have a long beard, and just before that, I ate spaghetti, and about a 3 cm long spaghetti is stuck somewhere in the beard. I don’t see it because after eating, I never go to the mirror and look. Then you are all sitting, and you will see that. Now, it doesn’t matter how good I am or how bad I am, what good qualities I have or what bad qualities I have. You will not see that; always you will look to that piece of spaghetti, and finally, one will take a carriage to come to me, like Prakash, and say, "Sorry, Swamiji, there is something," because that spaghetti was disturbing her so much, she had to come to me and say, "Sorry, there is something inside." Oh, yes, thank you very much. So, be properly cleaned. Discipline means respect to all. Self-respect is the best part of your discipline. Self-respect means you respect others. Therefore, Patañjali said, "Anuśāsan." So, a social anuśāsan, a family discipline. Similarly, in your sādhanā or in your practice, you need discipline. A person who has no discipline is swollen, or in the mouth of the crocodile. The biggest enemy of the spiritual aspirant, a practitioner, is laziness. And we like laziness because we are not awakened inside. If we are awakened inside, then we will give up our laziness and do our sādhanā, our work, our duty. Therefore, Holī Gurujī said beautifully in one bhajan: Bhai tum jāgo re. O my brothers and sisters, wake up. Tera avsar bitā jāī, bhai tum jagore. Your time is passing. Your time is going away. Every second, the past will never come back to you. Forget it. The past is past. Don’t cry for the past. Be aware of what is now and what should be in the future. The future will be. Mahāprabhujī said in his golden teaching: "The past is gone, the present is here, the future is not here." The future will be like the presence. How you are now, like this, will be your future. If you are sad and crying and angry, disappointed and lazy, now you will be your whole life like this. It’s a Guru-vākya. Therefore, overcome. So the presence is here to overcome. So Gurujī said, "Wake up." What does it mean to wake up? Inwardly. Yes, now I know what it means for me. You know, nowadays there is a very big problem; one disease is getting more and more, what we call cancer. I wish you good health and pray to Maa Prabhujī that you will never have cancer or these diseases. But in this polluted world, it’s very difficult for some people to avoid. So there is some person, maybe, who has cancer, and doctors, every doctor and surgeon, experts, they tell you, "You have life for 10 days, unfortunately, or you undergo this operation. This and this medicine and this operation may help you." They don’t say it will help you, may. Now the decision is yours. It means now you are awakened. Now you are fully awakened. What means life? No? And now you say, "Doctor, it doesn’t matter what, please operate." So awakening means that you come to know the value of your life. It means the time of your human life. What was yesterday is gone. It was a dream. What was before one minute is gone. It was a dream. You awaken now. That dream remains in our memory, but you can’t do anything. It’s gone. So, how many things happen in our life? Don’t cry for that. In the German language they say, Stimmt? The whole day you can cry and be sad, but you are not forced to do this. Yes? Therefore, in Western countries you say time is money, but we say in India, time is God, and we say: Samaya kā anādara karnā pāpa hai. Not to respect time is a sin. So, till today, life is gone. Yours and mine is gone. Now, how many years we have, we don’t know. This body is the temple of our ātmā, or soul, spirit. But how long? One day we have to go. It is said, O traveller, wake up, become alert. The train is coming. The train will come and the train will go. The train will not come to you and say, "Wake up, I am going now." So, we are sitting in the train of this flow of life, my dear. Get up, wake up, and become aware of your life. Do not become aware of Gopalpurī’s life, or Prakāś’s life, or Sevāpurī’s life. Let them do what they do; they are big enough. Jo karega, so bharega. Who will do, that will suffer. Kabīr Dās said, "Kabīr Dās’s house was near a butcher who was killing goats and sheep for the meat, and when Kabīr Dās saw this, or every day he had to see it, he was so sad. One day he said to himself, ’Kabīr Dās, your house is in the street, in the square, and... Your neighbor is that one who is cutting the throat of all animals. Jo karega so bharega, who will do, that will suffer. Tu kya phiratudas, why you are sad, Kabīr dās? You haven’t done." He woke up. Chetan, that is called awakening. So Holī Gurujī said in the bhajan: Bhai, tum jagore. Oh brothers, wake up. Your chance is going away. Your days are passing. Your life is passing. Your time is passing. Your chance is going. Wake up. O my dear, you are sleeping in the net of attachment and ignorance. Attachment. This is mine, this is yours, and this is hers, and this and that, and he did wrong, and this did good, and that is not good, and that’s my friend, and I like this, and I don’t. This is a net. Moha jāl kī phaṅsī. Jāla means the net, and moha means attachment. Moha jāla kī phāṅsī meṁ kyoṁ makarī jīva mar jāye? Giving example, what’s the beauty in the bhajans is this, that there is a question and answers, or a clear picture? Only singing kīrtana is only God’s name, and you can sing and sing and sing only: "Govinda Hare Gopāla Hare, Govinda Hare Gopāla Hare." Govind Hare, Gopal Hare, Govind Hare. That’s only God’s name, a different group. But bhajans have God’s name, spirituality, teaching, questions, answers, entire philosophy, and the whole life and the aim of life. So bhajan is not easy to write. Kīrtan you can sing all the time. So moha jāl kī phāṅsī me kyū makarī jī mar jāye, makarī means spider. Do you know the Australian, what is a spider? Yes? So the spider makes a net, a beautiful net, from its own saliva. It makes a beautiful net. For what? As a trap for other creatures. But one day, the same spider will get stuck in this and can’t move anymore, and has to die in that net which was created by it. So now, similarly, we will die in the net of our attachments. Your, my, die—nothing is yours, nothing is mine, and nothing is die. One day is goodbye. Sabhi chodkar chala musa, fir baas kiya ban ka jagat mein, jeevan do din ka. This one has lost everything here and went alone, living somewhere in the forest of the universe. So, discipline in everything. Discipline. Alert. Kali Gurujī said one day to me, "I was tired," and I said, "I want to sleep, Gurujī." "Tired?" he said. "No, sit down, meditate." Okay. Gurujī was also meditating. I was young, sitting like her, small. Gurujī said, "Why you sleep?" I told you to make mantra, okay, Gurujī. Again sleeping. Yes, sleep is sleep. Gurujī said, "This jīva, this jīvātmā, many, many lives left. Many, many lives you had a wife and husband. Many, many lives you had father and brother. Many, many lives you had brothers and sisters, but in this human life, you have Gurudev. And in this life, wake up, renounce the sleep, and get up early in the morning." I said, "But I am tired." Then, in the evening, don’t eat, that’s all. So I didn’t eat in the evening, and the next morning at four o’clock, I was very relaxed and fresh. And I got up, and I was going towards the kitchen. Gurujī said, "Where are you going?" I said, I am going to make a chai for you, Gurujī. And there was some old chapati lying from yesterday. So I had to make a fire, and this, outside, you know. And, at the same time, I was biting the old chapati. There are many kinds of fire, but the most terrible fire is the digestive fire. Constantly, it needs inside fuel. So in America they write, "Fuel for car and you." Where is the petrol station? So Jathāginī needs anything. Of course, if you lead a disciplined life and discipline your eating, you will have no laziness, no drowsiness, you will sleep little, you will be awakened, and you will be fresh. Do Kapālabhāti Bhastrikā. Ten minutes of Bhastrikā is the same as four hours of sleeping. Ten minutes of prāṇāyāma, nicely. After ten minutes, you are... All toxins are away, and oxygen is in, fresh, relaxed, no tension, and then you meditate. Yoga techniques. Therefore, discipline. In the Guru Gītā, it is said the aspirant or disciple should sit in front of Gurujī straight. And you are sitting like this. Someone is sitting like that. Yes, today was very disciplined. Patañjali said, not I. I’m only repeating what he said. I’m quoting what he said. Atha yogānuśāsanam. Yoga begins with discipline. Yoga is a discipline, nothing else. Discipline of body, discipline of mind, discipline of intellect, and discipline of life. Then you will be successful. After that, now you would like to be disciplined, but your thoughts are going away. Like Swamiji is talking, and you are looking all there, if there is a kangaroo. Or when the kangaroo came, now everyone is looking there. No discipline. Or you are eating, and the papagaya is sitting there, the parrot, and eating also. And you look, you don’t know what will come on your plate, and you eat. So, eat with discipline. You should know what you are getting in your hand, and you should know what you are putting in your mouth. So when the master is sitting, then sit straight, open your ears and eyes, and open your heart. Be ready. Now, the yoga. So when there is no discipline, then you have to practice. Now you practice to be disciplined, but sometimes you are thinking there, sometimes the cloud is there, sometimes you look to the cameraman who is making a photo and is smiling because you think he is photographing you. It’s not for making a photo of you. You are smiling for nothing, you know. But the vṛttis, you see, this is another steering power. This is another disturbing factor. It can draw you from one part of the world to another part of the world within no time. That is called a mental power, and that we call vṛtti. Vṛtti means thoughts, thinking. And so, these two instructions from Patañjali, if we can follow, we will be very successful in everything. So the second instruction or message of Patañjali, he said: Yogaś citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ. First, Atha Yogānuśāsanam. Yoga will be successful, and yoga needs discipline. Yoga begins with discipline, and second, yogaś citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ. Through the practice of yoga, you should control your thoughts. Not stop, but control, give the direction. Your success can only be in meditation. You come forward in your meditation if you are able to control your vṛttis. Doesn’t matter what happens. Don’t look here and there. Don’t think this and that. Only I want to know how I can remain on my path and reach my destination. So, Nāda Yoga. Nāda means sound. Nāda means resonance. Now, there are different kinds of sounds. In nature, we constantly have the sound of this, what you call Cigarden, Cigade, Cigada, is like a Hungarian language. Now, this śiṣya wakes up at 4 o’clock in Brahmamuhūrta and goes to sleep at exactly 8:30 or 9 o’clock. And some are on guard the whole night. Now we are sitting 150 meters away from these trees where the cicadas are sitting, but they are still disturbing us. Can you imagine when you are under the tree, your tent is there, and they are constantly drilling? For the last 15 days, they have been constantly drilling through these years. But this is also Nāda. So Nāda means sound. Original Nāda is called Oṁ. Beginning the creation in the universe, the first, before Śiva, Jyoti appeared. The flame of Śiva was a sound. Sound awoke first. And that within no time, that resonance spread around the entire universe. And then again, it came back and collected into one place again, and that became a jyoti, a flame. Very concentrated light, and then from this light, Sadā Śiva manifested. Similarly, your soul is a resonance in the universe. You are a resonance. Every tissue, every cell in the body has its resonance. And that is your personal resonance. The resonance of my tissues or my blood cells, and the resonance of your blood cells, is not the same. Now there are billions of people. But what a miracle of God. What the creator can do. Everyone has their own. You are like one big balloon. That’s your phenomenon. And within this balloon, everything is inside, and this balloon is carrying this Jīvātmā, soul, like a backpack, rucksack, through the universe. You think that God has so many books somewhere, that He is writing and has a store somewhere. My God, how many creatures are in this, on this planet. He made a perfect system. It’s called a sustainable system. Now, the United Nations, the Earth Charter, and many other organizations and governments are looking for sustainable development. Sustainable development they can only have if they follow spirituality. God’s instructions, Guru-vākyas, the holy books, but we don’t follow them. Therefore, you cannot have sustainable. All the time, what they used to make were sustainable things. Now we are living in the age of use and throw. Use and throw, but where to throw? One man came in the sun and said, "I don’t like the sun." He took the dust, full of the hands, and threw it on the sun. Here you are, and look how far it is going. You know where it falls? Back to his head and his eyes. So, "use and throw" means it comes back to you. Therefore, God’s creation, God’s technology, the system is indescribable, incomparable, and no one, no one, no one in this world will ever, ever be able to do what God can do or Mother Nature can do. Therefore, we have to surrender. We have to accept that we are part of this. So, nāda, resonance. Therefore, it is said, nāda rūpa para brahma. The embodiment of God, the form of God, if you want to know, first is the resonance. A real musician, a real musician will take the instrument and will close their eyes and go to the anāhada cakra, anāhada, nāda, endless nāda, without border, anāhada. Haṭha means border, anna means no border. And it awakes that nāḍ in the heart, and goes to the ājñā chakra. And from ājñā chakra, there is a taraṅga, means like a sun ray, and it again goes to the universe. And his or her fingers don’t move according to what the note is written, but there is energy streaming that resonates. Your fingers know where it is. And that artist is one with herself or himself, one without second. That is an artist. But like you, a hundred times, a thousand times, you sang the bhajan. Again, you take the bhajan book, and again you said, and you sing it wrong again. Where is your memory? You have memory, very good, but in CD form, in the drawer. So that Nāda Taraṅga which comes, Nāda Rūpa Parabrahma. So Parabrahma Supreme, the universal God, is only that sound. To get that, to practice, that’s called Nāda Yoga. Nāda Brahmananda. Nādānanda, Brahmananda, Nādasvarūpa. I can give someone a yoga name. Who wants to have a yoga name? You can have Nādasvarūpa. Okay, your name is Nādasvarūpa. Okay? Very good. You see how to use the chance, how to get the chance, no? And to benefit that, it’s gone. Nāda-svarūpa. Nāda-svarūpānanda. What? It’s long but beautiful. Nāda means that sound. Svarūpa is that universal form. Ānanda means that divine bliss. So after this resonance, it comes, that feeling of love, what we call bliss. Ānandoham, ānandoham. I am bliss, I am bliss. I am that supreme bliss, Brahmananda. So that nāda, that resonance, that vibration, that tune, that sound, that feeling, changes into the feeling, harmony, love. Where there is love, everything is beautiful. And when there is no love, everything is disturbing. And when disturbing jealousy comes. There is a lot of jealousy. Why is Sevapurī practicing and teaching yoga class every day? Gopalpurī thinks, "I would also like to do it." How quickly jealousy comes, you know. And then they say, "Why does Sevapuri always have breakfast only with his wife?" Why doesn’t he sit with us? Then they are jealous of his wife. But Sevāpurī and Sevā Devī, they are not jealous. Is she jealous sometimes? No. You see, a wise person will never see and think about what another is doing, did, or will do. You will only send your blessing that they will be successful. True? So where there is ānanda, then we are in the ocean of mercy. And then those devotees, those disciples, or those believers of that particular religion or God, they see their God or Master or religion like that big Atlantic or Indian Ocean. And they feel themselves like a fish in that ocean. We are all swimming in the same water, my dear. True? But sometimes they are developing also sharks. Yes, in the Satguru Dev’s ocean, sharks exist. My God, I was surprised yesterday that some sharks are there. And you know what? In the satsaṅg, when someone is sitting and thinking negative, that is a shark. But it is said, holy Gurujī said that shark, it will bite on the... Iron, it will lose on teeth. Vajra, so the energy of the satsaṅg, the energy of the Gurudev, is like a Vajra, iron. Like she is sitting, iron lady, she is strong, she has strong willpower, strong energy. So then it is said, Satguru Dev will protect you. Don’t worry. Be happy. Feel safe. That’s it. So in the satsaṅg, in the presence of the satsaṅg, all in the name of the satsaṅg, itself is a protection. Like a bulletproof glass, or like a beautiful, clean glass. And negative thoughts are like flies, they would like to fly through. It will break his own nose or something. So, in the ocean of the Gurudeva’s mercy, the sharks cannot survive long. Very soon, they will take divers in another direction. So, through the resonance... The ānanda, the bliss, the prema comes. Prema muditā. Mana se kaho, full of love in your mind, say the God’s name. That will protect you. That will shower on you the mercy, the light, the bliss. That is the nāda. That nāda will unite your heart to the cosmic Self. When that prema, when that ānanda, the brahmānanda appears, then the prakāśa comes, the light, jyoti. And that’s what Holī Gurujī said: "Prakāś puñja amṛta ke sāgara śrīḍhī pahārī mahāḍara, Prakāś puñja amṛta ke sāgara śrīḍhī pahārī. Sāre viśva meṁ gūñja rahī hai, sāre viśva meṁ Prakāś puñja." It means the source of the light. We see the sun. The sun is a puñj, concentrated. There is no end, and I am the light of the sun. So, Prakāś Puñj, Amṛt ke Sāgar, and Ocean of the Nectar. Śrī Dīpaharī Mahādānī hai. And that is Mahāprabhujī, Bhagavān Śrī Mahāprabhujī. What Gurujī says, we see in his meditation that Mahāprabhujī is that Prakāś, illuminating the entire universe, in the entire universe and in the whole world, resonating Prabhukī Amarā Kahānī, the immortal glory of the Lord in the whole world. Nāda yoga. Same nāda comes, and you are that part of that nāda. You are just a tiny frequency, one stream of that prakāśa, puṇya, that nāda. And that nāda slowly, slowly comes and develops in you; you develop as jīvātmā, soul. And now you are traveling and collecting the qualities, and that nāda enters your body at the point of the navel, the Maṇipūra cakra. So when nāda harmonizes in the mother’s body, then your manifestation begins. Then the creation begins. There should be sound, prema, jyoti, and then everything begins. That is within you. On the day when you will realize this, your consciousness will become one with that universal. But as long as you will not realize, do the thousand things, and you will lose the two thousand things. That was a very clever poem from Holī Gurujī. If you hold to one or practice one thing, you can win everything. And if you try to catch everything, then you will lose everything. So, ek, one, guru-bhagya, abhi, abhi... your guru-bhagya. Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, next will come evening, because nāda yoga is not something so little, you know. Nāda yoga is not like all your heart yoga, one kriyā, you know. Nāda is holding the entire universe together. Nāda is that which keeps matter and the astral physical body together, like cement holds two bricks together. This is a sound. So, ekya saje, this tree has roots here, and this is one trunk. If you put water on these roots, all these leaves and branches will get water automatically. But if you try to give water to every leaf, it will take days and days, and the tree will not get water. It will dry out. Ek saje, giving on the one place, sabhi saje, everyone will get. Sabhi saje, sabhi jaya. If you try to do it individually here, all will die. So understand and respect the time, respect the satsaṅg. If still you don’t want to follow, it’s your karma. Om Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaḥ, Sarve Santu Nirmāyāḥ, Sarve Bhadrāṇi Paśyantu, Mā Kaścid Duhkhabhāg Bhavet, Om Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. Śrīdīp Nayan Bhagavān, Devīśvar Mahādev, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān.