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Good evening, and many blessings of Śrī Mahāprabhujī to all the bhaktas, spiritual seekers, practitioners of yoga, and daily life. This blessing is coming again from Gurujī’s ashram in Vienna, Austria. For the last four days, we have been speaking about Khecarī mudrā. The techniques were explained too. After doing the Khecarī mudrā, there is another mudrā which is very, very important. It helps us to come into deep meditation. It helps to remove the restless vṛttis, the thoughts. Yoga is a practical path; it’s not theoretical. And a yogī always advises to practice. And it’s not only the yoga exercises, kriyās, mudrās, prāṇāyāmas, bandhas, etc., but also what you make the work in your life, anywhere, do it properly. Do it with love. And if you don’t understand, ask your guide, your master, how to do it. Otherwise, you are doing the things, you spend your energy, your time, you waste your time. And again, things are not as they should be. Without understanding, if you do anything, it’s not only half done, but it can spoil everything that was done before. And that is because there is a misunderstanding, there is a confusion, there is a lack of communication. There is a conflict between your actions and your thoughts. There is a conflict constantly circulating in your consciousness, in your intellect. And that’s why you are not successful. The success is there if it is exactly done, understood, and performed or practiced. Therefore, yoga and daily life means even when you do your homework, you should do it completely perfect. What does your sleeping room look like? How does it look, like your living room, your kitchen, your guest room? How many hours or days are your dishes lying in the kitchen, unwashed or not cleaned? You can see how your flat or your house looks. Like that, your inner self is looking. It takes you only five minutes or three minutes. When you get up, make your bed nicely. Put your clothes somewhere where they belong. It doesn’t take a long time. Socks have their place, trousers have their place, shirts have their place, and so on. Similarly, try to order, make tidy your vṛttis. That’s why Patañjali said, "And those who have no vṛttis controlled and do not understand," then it creates more complications, and nothing is successful. So, it doesn’t matter which part of your life is not successful; there is the missing communication. Maybe your partnership, maybe with your children, your neighbors, your work, your studies, your examinations. You have a whole year beginning now, let’s say from August, school begins. And for 10 months or 10 and a half months, you have school. And your result is so bad. Why? Don’t ask anyone. Don’t ask God, "Please, God, help me so that I will have a better result." God is smiling. You say, "My child, you were not studying." You had no interest. You didn’t work properly. Ten and a half months studying, and you have your master, or your teacher, or your professor at university, or in the college, or in high school, or the primary school, or middle school, or any school, why does the result come so bad? No one is to be blamed there, neither your master, nor your school, nor your books, nor your parents, nor any of your friends. Only you, and you, and only you. Similarly, a yoga practitioner, when they do not practice properly, cannot have success. So many things need attention, love, concentration, and inner relaxation, and then you can do something. Often I am surprised: sixteen-year-old children, twenty-year-old children, twenty-five-year-old children, they have depression, they are in stress. Why? Because they are going there and doing the things which bring them into depression, nervousness, and complications in life. The student life: home, study, sleeping. Get up in the morning, wash yourself, study, have breakfast, and go to school. Come back, work on your homework, eat, study, and sleep. You may meet some of your friends, but ask these young kids how they spend their life and time. No wonder there is no good result. Similarly, ask these yogīs how they spend every day, how long, and with what kind of attention and concentration they are practicing. Any company which is bankrupt, it was the mistake of those workers, and lack of organization, lack of communication, lack of interest, and so on and so on. So, learn management, inner management. If inwardly you are balanced and relaxed, you will understand and you will do things perfectly. So, yoga begins with discipline. And discipline is, you know, what you are doing today, you practice your kriyā at 9 o’clock. And day after tomorrow, you say, "No, I can do it at 4 o’clock in the afternoon." Missing, discipline is missing. You know, it’s about 20 years already gone, but in the world, in some part of the world, they change the time. It’s called daylight saving, or the light saving time, winter time and summer time. Only about 20 years or 18 years active, or exactly I don’t know, 30 already. Okay, it doesn’t matter, but you know. It takes ten days to come again to the normal rhythm, not only for humans, but especially for the animals and for the nature, for the fields, for the trees. The cows, which are waiting for milking at a particular time, and you are now one hour either earlier or one hour late. Can you imagine if you are in a hurry to go to the bathroom and you have to wait one hour? So this manipulation with the time is not good, and that causes a lot of depression, nervousness, and disorder around the world, this changing of the time. You need not to change. God is changing itself. You know how gently God is doing? Hardly you feel. Slowly, slowly, day by day, one minute, two minutes, differently, the day becomes shorter, and the night becomes longer. Again, slowly, slowly, from January until the end of, the middle of June, the days become slowly, slowly, longer and longer, and then gently go like this. That’s called perfect management of God. So this time, manipulation made entire nature confused, disbalanced. Similarly, when a yogī meditates or works on āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, and kriyās every day at very different times, then everything is confused. Instead of having success, you have more confusion within thyself. This is a biorhythm in the body. Your chakras, your energy centers, your digestion, your glands, your respiratory system, your muscles, your ligaments, everything is used at a particular time to be practiced. Similarly, what you call your Khecarī Mudrā. Last one month, I tried to give you many practical exercises, but many do not understand. And again, ask me a question, again. But as long as I am alive, I will answer you. After you know that, your karma knows. So, attention. I have told people many times, including the cameraman, what to do. They don’t listen. That’s it. Okay. So, Khecarī Mudrā. After doing the Khecarī Mudrā, now we have to do another kriyā, or mudrā, which is called Unmanī Mudrā. There, we have additionally to block two things. The visions and sounds, light and sound. Because the visions, the light, and the sound create a lot of vṛttis, and therefore, in Unmanī mudrā, first you close, you plug your ears, either from outside or inside, close your ears with the thumb. And then gently with your eyes, you just don’t press, but just close the eyes like this. This is the mudrā, Unmanī mudrā. Try every one. Please sit straight, upright, straight. Don’t block, still. I said, sit straight. Don’t be still. Hand down. Hands down. That is a call. You see, you don’t understand. Yeah. So the language is also a factor of the misunderstanding. So there are postures. Best is that when you roll a pillow and sit on it with Vajrāsana, like you sit on the horse or like a Vajrāsana. Okay? Because this is not a practice for five minutes. It’s a practice, maybe 20 minutes. Now, in 20 minutes, your elbows and your arms will be tired. No? And therefore, you sit like—now is only explanation, but when you will do really—then you sit on the pillow, a round pillow, because the connection of the tip of the tongue is directly connected also to the Mūlādhāra cakra. And so, the energy is balanced between all the chakras, the tip of the tongue, sound, and visions. So, when you sit like this on the pillow, then you may put your knees like this, and then you can have this mudrā, so hands are not tired. If you can manage, while sitting in Padmāsana or in Siddhāsana, and hold your hands like this for 20 minutes, all right, perfect. Otherwise, they should not disturb you. When the shoulders or hands are tired, and you have to move all the time, then it disturbs your concentration. Clear? So we will now try the thumbs. Either you press sideways on your ears, or you put your thumbs inside the ears. Moment, listen. But be sure that your nails, fingers, and thumbs are clean. Otherwise, you get an infection of the ears. Yes, nowadays it is very easy to get infections. So, it’s always when you come to yoga practice, or in the temple, in the ashram, you should wash your hands and make sure that before you do this mudrā, you know where your hands have been touching. And then with these fingers, you gently place them on your eyelids. Now, what happens? When you place the fingers on the eyelids, then you see inside sparkling light. So this light is like illuminating your Cidākāśa. At the same time, we will do the sound, the inner sound, in order to block or reduce or protect from external sound. So we add one technique more to it, and that’s called Bhramarī Prāṇāyāma, like a bee. So we have Unmanī Mudrā and Brāhmrī Prāṇāyāma. Before, we had Khecarī Mudrā and Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma. Now, this is a combination from this, nāda, the sound, and inner visions in Cidākāśa. That sound should lead you to the inner space. It’s a beautiful technique. It will give you immense happiness. It will release this whole day’s stretch, and it will be pleasant feelings. But only if you sit comfortably. If you are restless and moving your hand down, and then once like this, and once like this, and once like this. No. Technique. Motionless. Straight. Even small fingers, you move it, there are waves, like a peaceful pond, and you throw a small stone inside. It creates the waves, like a disc, a circle. Similarly, each movement, either body or thought, body movement disrupts the energy field, and vṛttis disrupt the cidākāśa’s energy or the vision’s anything. Therefore, kāya-sthairya, motionlessness of the body. Kāya-sthairya. How to get kāya-sthairya? Practice, practice, practice. What? Yoga and daily life. Āsanas every day. Every day, practice āsanas properly. We can see who is practicing every day and who is not practicing every day, asanas. That’s it. So, I will show you. You look to me. Slightly, we plug the ears like this and then like that. And hands will be resting on the, when you do at home, resting on the knees. If you do only a few minutes, then you can have it like this. We inhale, and then we chant Oṃ through the nose. Humming sound. Humming sound is called Brahmrī Prāṇāyām. Brahmari, Brahmi, Bhramari is the bee, a wasp. And a wasp is flying over the flowers or anywhere, then it has the sound. Similarly, it’s like the waves of the light transferring into your cidākāśa. That sound creates a beautiful light. The light vision is beautiful. And it’s coming, opening, expanding your cidākāśa, the horizon. It’s a beautiful light, like lightning, but not restless light with the sound. When we do like 15-20 minutes and then meditate, Chin Mudrā with one hand and Mālā in the second hand. Or, listen to the Guru Gītā. Then you will see what meditation and what joy is there. And for this, you have to take one or two hours. But you have only three minutes, girls, no? This is it. And after that, what is today in the freeze? Should we have some sandwich, or what should we have? Always thinking of eating, or, "I have to go somewhere," and this. Take time for your life to prolong a long, healthy, and happy life. The time which you spend in the divine state of meditation is granted to you as a greater length of your healthy life. So, everyone, please. You will chant eleven times. After 11 times, you place your hand on your knee and meditate further so that I know everyone has finished. So, begin. Everyone is doing Brahmari Prāṇāyām, which should be done after the practice of Khecarī Mudrā. This technique is advisable to do before going to sleep. First, Khecarī Mudrā with Jālandhara Bandha and Ujjāyī Prāṇāyām. After that, for 10 to 15 minutes or 20 minutes, you do this Unmanī Mudrā with Brahmārī Prāṇāyām. Bhambri is the bee or the wasp. When flying from one flower to another flower, having this humming sound, this sound creates the beautiful taraṅga wave which leads your consciousness into clarity. One experiences inner relaxation, becomes free from tiredness, becomes free from daily stress, calms down the nervous system, and tranquilizes one’s thoughts. And when the eyes are closed gently with the fingers, you put on the eyelids, then you see the light inside. And now the sound which is going through, the humming enters into the Suṣumnā Nāḍī, and it clears your visions and creates beautiful waves with the light, different colors and lights. Expanding your consciousness, expanding your consciousness, and it makes very clear your citta-vṛttis, strong life. It has more effect if you do it after khecarī mudrā, the khecarī mudrā with ujjāyī prāṇāyāma and with jālandhara bandha. After completing the 11 rounds, concentrate. Still in your cidākāśa, cidākāśa dhāraṇā, keep your body relaxed and repeat your guru mantra. Experience the inner peace, inner light. Repeat your mantra and relax, and try to listen to that nāda, brahmrī, prāṇayāms, nāda, inwardly in your cidākāśa if you can. After completing your meditation, then chant Oṃ three times. So everyone please chant Oṃ three times. Deep inhale, hold your palms, repeat mantra. Love your palms and place your palms on the face, and open your eyes, so this Techniques first: Ujjāyī prāṇāyāma with Khecarī mudrā and Jālandhara bandha, so we have bandha and mudras together. Now, this Unmanī mudrā and bandha, this is also together. When you pluck your ears, it is bandha. At the same time, the holding hands like this is a mudrā. And also closing your eyes like this is a bandha, as well as is a mudrā. It is beautiful. Try before going to sleep. Take time, at least one hour, or let’s say minimum 40 minutes. It will be beautiful, very relaxing, and you will have divine dreams. So today, that’s all, and the next program will be webcasting tomorrow evening, I think. It’s seven o’clock, and it will be from Germany, Hamburg, in German language, but you will understand because I will talk for you, time to time, English also. So, the weekend will be in Germany, Hamburg, and I’ll see you through the webcast there. All the best, and I wish you a nice weekend. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Devīśvara Mahādeva Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. Any questions about Brahmrī Prāṇāyāma, about Unmanī Mudrā, about Khecarī Mudrā, Jālandhara Bandha, Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma, please write. You will get the answer through the webcast or written on our homepage. Hari Om.