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Oṁ param śukhadam kevalam jñānam urtyam dvandatitam maghagaṇa sadṛśyam tasmāsyādi lakṣyam ekam nityam vimalāchalam sarvaddhisākṣibhūtam bhavatitam mātṛguṇarahitam satgurutam namāmyam. Oṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntir bhavatu. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī Jai. Salutation to the cosmic light. Adoration to the Siddha Pīṭha, omniscient and omnipresent. In his divine presence, good evening, dear brothers and sisters, and good morning to all those in far Asian countries. Today is a very divine day: Guru Pūrṇimā. Today is the full moon and Thursday. Thursday is Jupiter, the master, the guru, and the full moon is the Pūrṇimā. On this divine occasion, I pray to the Almighty for your good health, happiness, a healthy and long life, spiritual development, and ātmanubhūti, self-realization or God-realization. This blessing comes to you from one of the beautiful cities, Vienna, Austria, where I spent time nearly 40 years ago. You are all fortunate to have today the view of the first āśram of yoga and divine life, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī’s āśram in Vienna, where I began to spread the divine message of Gurudev, the divine light of yoga. Now, millions of people around the world receive the blessings and divine light of yoga in daily life. As you know, yoga is a practical part of our life. Our life is yoga. All the different functions in the body—the circulation, the organs, the glands, the tissues, the hormones, the digestive system, the joints, the muscles, the ligaments—everything works in union, in oneness. That is yoga. Due to our unnatural way of living, having no discipline, laziness, and ignoring our good health or our body, we become victims of certain illnesses, maybe physical or mental, so-called distress. Today in this hall, one of my old disciples, a disciple of many years, is sitting here. I asked him, "How are you?" The answer was very interesting: "Good, but stressful," I understand. But a yogī should not have stress. A yogī is never a victim of stress. If you practice, or if he would have been practicing, today the answer would be divine. "How are you?" We would say, "Very divine." Practice makes perfect. Abhyāsa, Abhyāsa, Kuntī, Abhyāsa. O son of Kuntī, Arjuna, practice, practice, practice. Practice makes perfect. Practice makes a master. The day you neglect your physical, mental, or spiritual practices, your spiritual development as well as your physical condition will decrease day by day. Therefore, it is a lifelong duty; lifelong practice is needed. Do not say that you practice yoga and you still have stress and are not healthy. That is wrong. The sun is there, the dawn is there, but just open your eyes to see. So yoga is there; just begin to practice. Therefore, yoga in daily life, practicing yoga 24 hours, means sleeping according to the yogic principle; that is called Yoga Nidrā. This weekend we will have the topic of bandhas, mudrās, and Yoga Nidrā, and some techniques. If time remains, Nāda Yoga, the yoga of sound. Very few people can realize or understand what Yoga Nidrā is. Yoga in daily life practice begins with Yoga Nidrā. Yoga Nidrā is known as an anti-stress practice. Yoga Nidrā is known as a practice of getting deep relaxation. And Yoga Nidrā means meditation in sleep. Yoga Nidrā means the way to the Self. This is the most beautiful and easiest practice. About bandhas and mudrās, we will speak this weekend and hope to be with you through the webcast. Yesterday I spoke about Kriyā Yoga. Many people misunderstand; they think Haṭha Yoga Kriyā is that kind of kriyā which one should do in meditation. Many misunderstand Pañcakarma, Āyurveda’s kriyās. They think these are the kriyās a yogī should practice. I agree, both kriyās—ṣaṭkarma, the Haṭha Yoga kriyās, as well as pañcakarma kriyās—should be practiced not only by a yogī, but by everyone. The Mahāmantra, the great mantra, the best slogan in Āyurveda, it is said: "First happiness in life is a healthy body, as well as a healthy mind." There are eight kinds of happiness. Sukha has no translation in the English language, nor in German, nor in the Czechoslovakian language. Perhaps in some other languages it exists. Sukha is not happiness only. Sukha means comfortable, relaxed, without worries, no problems—no health problems, no partner problems, no money problems. Everything is perfect. That is called Sukha: peaceful living, healthy living, happy living, balanced. My beloved Gurudev, His Holiness Swami Madhavānandajī, used to say: "Pranī mātrā sukhī khoj meṁ hai." Every creature, each and every entity, day and night, searches for happiness, for sukha. And humans are searching for sukha kī prāpti or duḥkha kī nivṛtti. Śukha kī prāpti, to realize the śukha, not only happiness, śukha. In every way, life is perfect, happy, and relaxed, with no problems at home. Nowadays, mostly people have home problems with the children, with the partners, and so on. Sukha kī prāpti, my Lord, oh merciful Lord, how to realize the sukha. And that sukha only comes if you renounce the desires. You renounce your ego, and you renounce your ambition. You renounce the greediness, and you renounce the longing. Someone thinks, "I will be happy if I study." Someone thinks, "I will be happy if I get many titles." Someone is searching for money. Someone is searching for partners, and so on and so on. This is all the cause of troubles. If you are searching with selfishness, it only comes through knowledge, wisdom, and contentment. A saint said: "Gajadhana, you may have hundreds of elephants as your property, as your belonging." (This agarbatti, put it off please, it makes me cough.) "Bajadhana, you may have the golden birds or ratanadhana khān, may you own or be the owner of the diamond and precious stone mines. Jab āyā santosh dhana." But when you realize contentment, satisfaction, santosh, "sab dhana dhūlā samān," at that time, for you, this material wealth is just like dust. Try to realize the santosh. Sukha kī prāpti, Hari bhajana, meditation, prayers, spirituality. "Teri bītī umar hari nāma binā, sumirana karale mere manā." Your life is gone without that spirituality. So sukha kī prāpti, we are all searching day and night to get that kind of sukha. Duḥkha kī nivṛtti, and how to become free from duḥkha. Dukha is the opposite of sukha. How to become free from all this suffering and troubles. Mahatma Gandhi said, "Renounce and enjoy." Renounce and enjoy. If you would like to be happy, then renounce. Gurujī said, "Enter the kingdom of the Lord through the gate of sacrifice." Sacrifice, renounce, renounce, renounce. So that parama dhana, parama sukha, the supreme bliss, everlasting wealth, follows you; you do not have to follow it. It will follow you if you follow the discipline and practice. It does not matter who is who. Without practice, nothing is possible. Therefore, some philosophers said, tons of theory is nothing compared with a gram of practice. So yoga is a practical way. If you think that you are a yogī, then practice. Many times people think, "Oh, now I know what is Ātmā, it is immortal, everlasting, supreme, and I know what God is," and so on. "Now I need not practice." You cannot think that you are a billionaire. Nobody tells you anything. Go in the street and say, "Hey, I am a millionaire." Be careful, somebody can kidnap you. Then you cannot give millions; then you have to give your life. Similarly, if you think that you are God-realized or you know God, you have this spirituality, and you are spiritual, you are mistaken, my dear. On the face, you can see who is practicing—attitude, behavior, and everything—because what is within will reflect outside. In the end, nothing and nothing and nothing will go with us. Whatever we think belongs to us, that is our ignorance. "Sab chhod kar chalā mūśā, phir bās kyā ban kā? Jagat meṁ jīvan do dīn kā." O traveler, you have left everything here, and you went alone. You know, there are only two days of life in this world. One day was yesterday, and the second day is today. Tomorrow, no one has seen till today, and never you will see tomorrow. You will always be in the presence. What you call tomorrow morning, and I ask you, is today tomorrow? He said, "No, no, today is today." So it is always today. Do not wait for tomorrow. "Kāl kare so āj kar." What you have to do tomorrow, do it today. What you have to do today, do it just now. Who knows, within a second you will die. When will you finish your work? Therefore, for good things, never wait. And for negative things, never begin. Postpone them for tomorrow like this. This is the Kriyā Yoga, the Haṭha Yoga Kriyā, the Āyurveda Kriyā, and Nitya Niyamita Kriyās. What we need to do every day: we need to sleep, to get up, go to the bathroom, toilets, wash yourself, have breakfast. This is also kriyās; this is called Nitya Karma. But beside this Nitya Karma, you should do spiritual karma or spiritual kriyās. Āsanas, Haṭhayoga kriyās, the Āyurveda kriyās will balance your body. And that is why it is said: "Pahalā sukha nirogī kāyā." The first happiness, the first wealth, is good health. "Dūjā sukha ghar meṁ māyā." Then the second happiness is that you have enough material things in your life, so you do not depend on anyone. Therefore, work. And work is enough in the world. It is very hard to get workers everywhere in the world. But still, unemployment is too high. Why? Because we are thinking very narrowly. "I want only this profession. I want only this profession." Now, one would like to become a doctor, and there is a need for 100 doctors only, but there are 2000 doctors. Of course, my dear doctor, go in the field and clean and harvest the potatoes. "No, I am a doctor. How can I work in the field?" Then starve. Then sit there as an unemployed person. Therefore, work is enough, and work is never dirty. All kinds of work are good. Who is active and can do everything is never poor and never affected by what we call the global financial crisis. So, "pañcendriya sukha grāme māyā," you have all means of things that you need. "Tīsjā sukha, istri agyakārī." The third happiness is you have a partner who has mutual understanding and follows your words. And she follows your words, and you follow her words. But nowadays, forget it. Your partner never knows when he will say goodbye. So there are two occasions where the partner says goodbye. The first is this, like now happening a few days with you, when the lemon is squished completely, then so is the lemon in the garbage bucket. Second, unfortunately, by death. But you think that you will find someone better and good and more beautiful. And when you live a few months or years or days with them, then you will say, "My God, the first one was better." That is it. That beauty is within, mutual understanding. It is said when husband and wife have the same opinion, obedience, and mutual understanding, they have power even in heaven. So the third happiness is a harmonious partner in life. And it happens. Sometimes the husband is angry. When the husband is angry, meaning he is like a fire, then the wife becomes cold water to calm down that fire. And when the wife becomes angry, then the husband becomes cold water. So it is each other balancing. It is not only human nature, but animals’ natures too. Sometimes, to show some kind of emotion, there is something I do not like. What I do not like, others like. What others do not like, I like. There is always all, but in the heart, there is never, never conflict. Similarly, the fourth happiness is called obedience, good children. Children do not need your money. No. Children need your wisdom. Children do not need your toys. They need your love. Nowadays, you only have one freedom: to get children. That is all. Then, even you do not have those rights which you should have as a parent. Of course, many times it has happened that there are ill-minded people who abuse the children, who are not nice to the children. That is true. Due to them, the law is created. And the fifth happiness was very nicely said, but like in a big city, in Vienna, we cannot fulfill this: have a cow at home for the milk. On cow’s milk, without any chemicals, anything. You have to come to India to Jādana Ashram or any Khaṭṭu Ashram. We have five gaushalas, and from there you drink milk, butter, yogurt, and so on. You will never forget. I mean, it is so good. So, to have your own milky cow, or goat, or buffaloes, whatever you like, that is very important for our health. And the sixth happiness, a good neighbor, a good-hearted neighbor. You can go for holidays and give your keys and everything to your neighbor. But nowadays, we cannot trust even our own wife or our own husband. How should we trust the neighbors now? Like this, there are certain instructions, thoughts, and creations. Certain societies are meant to create a happy life, sukha. Finally, the second is mental happiness. That comes through the practice of renunciation, detachment, practicing prāṇāyāma and mantra. As Holy Gurujī said: "So sukh kī prāpti, dukh kī nivṛtti." How to get rid of the duḥkha is this mantra, mahā mantra: "Oṁ Prabhu dīp niranjan, sab dukh bhanjan." All the troubles will go away. But practice, practice, practice. So after these physical kriyās—neti, dhauti, basti, nauli, tratak, kapālabhāti—these are the haṭha yoga kriyās. Now we come to the breath techniques. Without eating, we can live some days or maybe some weeks. But without breath, we cannot live even a few minutes. What did we do first when we were born? We inhaled. Then animals were happy and moving. But what did humans do? Inhaled and cried. Babies crying. And what will we do last in this life? We will exhale and will not be able to inhale anymore. So breath is life, and life is breath. The wrong way of breathing also causes a lot of illnesses: asthma, stress, anxieties, disturbed digestion, sleeplessness, and many other things. So the second level is to get calm and get rid of the daily stress: Prāṇāyāma techniques. Many different kinds of Prāṇāyāmas, Nāḍī Śodhana, some call Sūrya Bhedana, Chandra Bhedana. Sūrya Nāḍī is our right nostril; this is the sun, and Chandra Nāḍī, the moon, is our left nostril. The left nāḍī controls emotion, and the left nāḍī represents the moon. The moon is never equal. Every day, it is either growing or decreasing. Similarly, every day, our thoughts and our emotions are changing. The restlessness, uncertainty, what we call, "Oh, I changed my mind." Easy to change the mind. No one said, "Oh, I changed my body." So, because that is very subtle. Last weekend we had a program in Hungary, and His Excellency, the Ambassador of India to Hungary, he also spoke something, and he said, "As subtle is more powerful, as gross is less powerful." So, our body is visible; we can see it, we can touch it. We can smell, but it has less power than the breath, and more powerful than the breath is the mind. You cannot see the mind, so that mind, to have a strong mind, a good mind, relaxed, calm, peaceful, you can develop this through the practice of prāṇāyāma, chandra-bhedana. Then, to create activities, be more creative, have more visions, to overcome laziness, to develop self-discipline, is the sun nāḍī, the piṅgalā. In the human body, there are 72,000 nerves. Out of these 72,000 nerves, three are the major ones, which we call the central nervous system. So, these are three: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and the third one is a major one called Suṣumnā. And Suṣumnā is responsible for our consciousness. So the Chandra Nāḍī controls our emotions, the Surya Nāḍī controls our intellect, our activities, and our decisions, and the Suṣumnā, the central one, controls and purifies our consciousness. These three we can master through the practicing of Chandra Bhedana, Surya Bhedana, and Neti, the Haṭha Yoga Kriyā, Jala Neti. After that, mind and intellect, we come to our citta, our awareness, our consciousness, and that we can purify through the Rājayoga kriyās. After practicing a few years of Haṭha Yoga, then āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, relaxation and meditations. If you have been practicing continuously for two and a half hours a day, minimum, in one sitting, that is it. But we can sit for two and a half hours and look at the television, and there we do not feel bored. But if we sit to meditation after 15 minutes, we look at the watch. So, two and a half hours of practice: first āsanas, then prāṇāyāmas, then relaxations, mantras, and meditations. Half an hour of practice is better than nothing. Or someone says 20 minutes is enough. If someone gives you half a piece of bread every day, it is enough. Even a quarter of the bread slice is enough. That is it. So the physical nourishment, as well as the mental nourishment and the spiritual nourishment, the social nourishment, the movement nourishment, everything to balance together, that is what I call yoga in daily life. So it comes to the Rājayoga Kṛiyās. And Rājayoga Kriyās, when you touch that level of consciousness, then it is said, one round of Kriyā can free you or purify the karmas of many years. So, lifelong, when we practice lifelong, then many, many lives, karmas are behind us. And it is sure that you get ātmā-jñāna, or self-realization, at the last minute of life. Do not think that in six years you will be self-realized, okay? It can be. Yes, it can be. But still, you are living. Then this kind of self-realization will create proudness, where the proudness is ego, where the ego is then something like dominating, and that again falls into negative activity, so thanks to God. All credits come back to you at the end of your life. At that time, Kriyā practicing, first you have to master the posture, meditation, sitting posture. Many people are sitting here in front of me. They are practicing 10-15 years, but they are not able to sit, maybe more than, not able to sit more than half an hour. Some, like me, they sit only 15 minutes and say, "Oh, oh..." Oh, oh... Our knee reminds us that, my God, kāyā is sthirum, motionlessness of the body, first kriyā. When you feel motionless, then your energy begins to expand, your aura begins to expand, and it creates a protective energy, like a bulletproof vest. At that time, no magic or negative thoughts can enter your phenomenon. Kāya-sthairya. Only the kāya-sthairya, such beautiful feelings, that you would not like to stop the practice. You will think, "One minute more, one minute more." Like when good eating is there, the stomach is full, but you think, "Okay, one spoon more and one spoon more." After the kāya-sthairyaṁ comes the citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ. Patañjali said, "Chitta-vṛtti-nirodhah." Then, control or calm down or withdraw yourself from the external world. All the thoughts, you free them in such a way that you are now one with thyself. How beautiful. One man was meditating, and he told his wife, "I have an appointment at 10:30, but I am late today for meditation. So one person will come, so please welcome him and give him some tea or water, and tell him that I am meditating and will be with him soon." He sat in meditation at 9:30, and his meditation time was one and a half hours. At 10:30, the man came and then he asked the house lady, "Good morning, I have a 10:30 appointment with your husband. Is he at home?" She said, "Please come and sit down. He went for shopping, shoes want to buy, so he’ll be very soon back." The husband was listening. Meditating and listening, my God, why did she lie? I told her that I am meditating, and she knows that I am meditating, and she tells that he, my husband, went for shopping. He wants to buy shoes. I was angry. What to do? After finishing meditation, he came back speaking with that man. And when the man went away, he asked his wife, "My dear, I told you I am meditating. Why did you say to him that I went shopping to buy the shoes?" She said, "Yes, darling, you were." "No, I was meditating." She said, "No. Your body was there. You were thinking to go and buy shoes. Which shop is the best one? You were searching." He said, "You are right. Yes, I was sitting in meditation but was thinking, ‘Where is the best shop to buy good shoes?’ You are right, but I am a little bit scared." She said, "Why? How do you know my thinking?" He said, "You do not know. Since we met the first time, I know what you were thinking. Really, do you know what I am thinking now?" She said, "Of course." Then he said, "Please forgive me. I will be very careful with you, what I think." But what did you practice that you know? That you can see what one is thinking, she smiled and said, "Of course I practice, but what? What is the answer? I have forgotten. Yoga in daily life, that is it. I was practicing yoga in daily life." So kāya is sthirum. Then chitta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ, then comes śvāsa-praśvāsa, the observation of the breath, ascending and descending breath through the chakras, pra-mūlādhāra-til-sahasrār, when you follow this, then it is said that you are established within thyself. Then come mudrās, and then the mantras and concentration. With ascending breath, you lead your consciousness to the sahasrāra cakra. And with descending breath and nāḍī yoga, you descend through the whole body and come to mūlādhāra. Again, ascending breath, and you purify Chakra Bhedana, purifying your chakras. What divine Kriyās are there. Sixty-four Kriyās are there in Rājayoga. Each Kriya is so powerful that these Kriyas can only be introduced and given when disciples successfully master the first Kriya. Otherwise, it cannot be given. Now, one thing is a pity. If the master does not find that disciplined disciple, then this knowledge or Kriyās will also pass away with the master. And therefore, the master is always searching for the right disciple, observing the disciple’s attitude, way of thinking, offenses, ego, anger, jealousy, greed, many, many things. Otherwise, the kriyās will not function, or they will be misused. Every master is searching for someone to whom to give the spiritual wealth. Every parent is searching and praying to God to have good children. At least one to whom they can give the entire wealth and culture and everything. If the son or the daughter is a good one, you need not earn money for them. They will earn themselves. And if the son or the daughter is not that one, for what are you saving money? Hard working and saving money, they will destroy everything in gambling, or drugs, or who knows where. Therefore, it is a big task of a master to get such a disciple home with an open heart, with everything, and give such a blessing. Similarly, it is hard work for the parents to have such a child. Both parents and the child have their destinies. But it is said a child is raw material and parents are the artists. They can make such a model that everyone admires. Similarly, a disciple is also raw material, and the master can make the best model, such a statue that we can put on the altar and pray to, even to that statue. That comes, you will find. Holy Gurujī said in one bhajan: "Sadvai ghojit paveth hikana." O my brothers, if you search, you will find the address. So if you will wish and search, you will have such an obedience and a good divine child or a divine disciple. So kriyā with the mudrās, with the breath concentration, and then a particular mantra. Then the sahasrāra chakra is awakened. At that time, your consciousness is nearly united with the cosmic consciousness, but it will happen only in the last minutes of life. We will continue this subject during the weekend. And for today, it is enough. I wish you all the best, divine blessings, and pray again for your good health, happiness, and spiritual development. Siddhaṁ Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān.