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Therefore, God, Kṛṣṇa, said to Arjuna, "Arjuna, from time to time I manifest myself through my yoga māyā, through yoga śakti." This is why Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna that from time to time He manifests with the help of His yoga māyā, the power of yoga. He did not say that He manifested through āsanas and prāṇāyāma. If yoga is only āsana and prāṇāyāma, then we do not know what yoga truly is. After long research work, the ṛṣis sought to understand how to keep balance in body, mind, and soul. They discovered what is good for humans and created a system. Through extensive research, the ancient ṛṣis came to find out how, and through which system, the body, mind, and soul can be preserved. It is a protocol for the creation of this planet, I think. This problem concerns not only people's lives, but also trees and other living beings. When the world was created, a parliament was formed where all the goddesses and gods sat together. They agreed on a protocol. Now they do not have differences. There is no little god, no semi-god, and no big god. God is God. Fire is fire. Whether it is fire within a mesh box or a fire burning within a big building, fire is fire. It does not matter if it is a big building or a small one. The heavenly architect, Viśvakarmā, was consulted. Viśvakarmā is also God. He is the one who designed this world, this planet. That is why we say, "Oh God, beautiful, in the mountains, in the ocean, in the fields, in the rivers, oh God, beautiful." Naturally grown trees automatically have shapes according to Vāstu Śāstras. But the question was this: What is the aim of this world? And how will its survival be maintained? Is this world sustainable or temporary? Yes, it is sustainable, but self-sustainable. Here is the current Bhūmi (Earth); it is the place of death and birth. Liberation is here. So, what will happen if all are born here and then there is no more place? All have a self-sustainable, true stand with someone. The condition: no one will die. All will be lazy. No one will do anything. Perfect. Then it was said, we shall give them jāṭharāgni, the digestive fire. Hunger. Hunger is the guru of all the ladies. The person that is very hungry will get up and search. But what should they eat? So they consulted with Yamarāja, the king of death. Life will eat life. That is cruel. That is not our aim. But if not, then this planet will not function. They said, "Oh, that will be a great problem, difficult. There will be sin, many sins." The Dharmarāja, the king of virtue, said, "That's not good." Who will maintain, who will look after them? There are also devas. Who will keep them? There are also deities. They will eat life, but animals, animals. So God said to animals, "Eat whenever you find anything." So the cows, buffaloes, goats, sheep—all the time their mouth is moving. But this cannot bring them to liberation. We must have one exception: that they will use something in their life, how to live, and that is what the human is. So God gave some very special things to the human between two ears: the left and right hemisphere. By using this, you can liberate yourself, or you can put yourself in chorāsī (the cycle of 84 lakh births), or enmesh yourself. But what about the food of the devas? Only smell. Fragrance. But there are two powers, Devī Śakti and Āsurī Śakti. There are two forces, the Devī and the Asura. The Asuras are rākṣasas. The Asuras say that we are not satisfied with these agarbattis and flowers and this good smell. We need rākṣasavṛtti, tamas and rajas guṇas. We have rākṣasavṛtti, we need rajas and tamas. So kordem is the smell of the spoiled food, meat, alcohol, and so on. Therefore, always in the holy place, there are good flowers and some good perfumes or good incense. And for black magic, and for this tantric, and for their ceremonies, they need blood, or meat, and wine. So they are satisfied according to that; everyone, when they get according to their nature, is happy. Therefore, that principle which is maintaining and balancing even our body—circulation, organs, function of the organs, glands, nerves, joints, ligaments, tissues, and so on—is there. There must be some power, some energy, and that is yoga. So the first was nourishment, this first. And then movement. Where there is energy, there is movement. Where there is movement, there is progress, development. And where there is development, there is life. So life is connected with energy, movement, and achievement. If you remain one week in bed, do not get up, you will be very ill. So in yoga, there are such postures, and these postures are the positions or the postures of the different creatures, showing how these creatures live, sit happily, or relax. How do they relax? That is why the yogis studied certain positions and came to the position of certain animals. Kuṇḍalī kriyā: Kuṇḍalī is that when an elephant does not feel good in his stomach, then he takes the trunk into the mouth, and he takes all that acid out and spits it out. And that is exactly what a yogī does, then also drinks the water and vomits; this is called kuṇḍal kriyā. Kuṇḍal is especially from the elephant. Kuñjjal is the elephant. Kuṇḍa means elephant, and we have Kuṇḍalī Kriyā. What does the elephant do? When it has eaten something bad, it puts its nose or trunk into its throat and stomach and pulls that acid out of the stomach and spits it out. That is how we, similarly to Kuṇḍalinī Kriyā, drink water, fill the stomach, and then we clean it up. Marḍarī, cat. Marḍarī, cat.... Now, generally, you will not see the cobra standing like this all the time. Why is the cobra raising the front part of its body up? When he is frightened, scared, or angry. And when he is angry, frightened, he raises up, and his nervous system around his spinal column gets calm, and then again he goes down and goes away. According to kuṇḍalinī science, the svādhiṣṭhāna cakra is there where our anger, our fear, our jealousy, our passion is dormant. And when you go into bhojaṅgāsana, then your svādhiṣṭhāna cakra is influenced very much. And it releases your anger, your fear; self-confidence develops. That is also automatically observable in children mostly, that they always like to lie on the stomach and have the first disposition, because that helps for the development of the personality. This helps us to get in balance. It is also observable in children that one of the first movements is when they lie down and then rise up. This helps in the development of their personality. This is what the Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra is about. So every āsana has its science, its psychology behind it. Therefore, yoga is not a sport, it is not gymnastics, but it is holistic, because it influences the body, mind, and intellect.