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The name Tṛikuṭī: Kuṭī means the point, the center, or you can also say the bank. Tri means three meeting together. It is a meeting point: tri means the three, kuṭī means meeting. In the physical world, it is said to be where the Gaṅgā, Yamunā, and Sarasvatī meet; this is a Tṛikuṭī, the Saṅgam at the Mahātīrtha Prayāgrāj. For us, it is the meeting of these three nāḍīs: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā—which are the Gaṅgā, Yamunā, and Sarasvatī. Iḍā is known as Gaṅgā, Piṅgalā is known as Yamunā, and Suṣumṇā is known as Sarasvatī. Their meeting is at the center of the eyebrows. It is said the yogī shall bathe every day in these three rivers, at the Saṅgam Ghāṭ where three rivers come together. This means the Saṅgam Ghāṭ of the three rivers is here at the center of thy brows. To remind, to remember, to feel and to awaken and to control and let it influence our spiritual path, the Vedic culture advised in yoga to have here a tilaka. This is not for beauty, but it is for control, for concentration and awakening of these three nāḍīs. That is why when you go to India, people have the tilaka, and ladies also—now it is a fashion—when they have a red dress, they have a red tilaka; when they have a yellow dress, they have a yellow tilaka; when they have a blue sari, they have a blue tilaka, a biṇḍī. But originally it is a yogic symbol, the symbol of the third eye, the Tṛikuṭī. When these three rivers meet and you purify this, then your Suṣumṇā awakens, the Sarasvatī, which flows directly to the Sahasrāra, to Śiva. The Sarasvatī river will flow directly to Śiva and will take this stream with the stream of Gaṅgā and Yamunā, for Kalyāṇa Mokṣa. When Gaṅgā and Yamunā are awakened, then you become free from your sins; it is purification, purification of the consciousness, purification of your intellect, purification of your mind, purification of the antaḥkaraṇa: mana, buddhi, citta and ahaṅkāra. In this kriyā, where you have Tṛikuṭī Sandhānam, this means to develop the concentration, to unite these three rivers at one point, where you have to breathe in and out in a different way, not like a normal prāṇāyāma technique, but a different prāṇāyāma technique. At that time, you have to use your Gurū mantra and do certain kriyās on the particular cakras. Then awakening will take place. This is only given when you are at an advanced level. If you are not at an advanced level, it will not affect you. You will not understand, or you will practice only here and go home and forget everything. "Oh, it was nice," or, "It was very hard." You have to be ready. Oh, my mind, gradually, gradually, slowly. Oh, my mind, gradually, gradually. Everything will be realized gradually; a gardener may give hundreds of buckets or water pots full of water to the tree every day, the fruits will only come when the season will come. If you think, "I put more water on my tree and the fruits will come now," no, they will come when the season will come. Therefore, if your inner field, your antaḥkaraṇa rūpī field, is not purified, not clean, if your heart is not clean, then you will not get that. A disciple of Śrī Mahāprabhujī, Maṅgilāljī. He was living a normal family life. But Maṅgilāljī was known as a Jīvanmukta saint. While he was living in the body, he achieved mukti. Very rare saints do this; that was Mahāprabhujī's divine blessing. In the Līlā Amṛt book, you shall read about Maṅgilāljī. Then you will know who he was and what Gurudev can do. But you have to be ready and follow the Guruvākya. Maṅgilāljī said in one bhajan, a beautiful bhajan: "Mahāprabhujī kā bachana nibhānā hai, Satgurujī kā bachana nibhānā hai." Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī: obey, obey, obey Gurudev's words, Guruvākya, Satguru bachan. We sang before the bhajan, "Bachan vālā lāgesā menī jāṇū." Oh, Mahāprabhujī said, how sweet these words of Gurudev are to me. Only I know, I cannot describe. Even if he is angry, for me he is so sweet, so pleasant. When he is angry, then I am especially happy because now he is completely concentrated on me. So when the Gurū is not angry, make him angry; that's it. So obey, obey, obey the Gurudev's words. Then what did he say? "Tan kī khetī sāph karabo." "Tan kī khetī sāph karabo, kāma krodha ko dūr haṭābo." "Kāma krodha ko dūr haṭābo," slowly. "Kāma krodha ko dūr haṭāvū, kāma krodha ko, tan kī khetī sāph kerāvū, tan kī bhaī bīja Oṁ kā bonā re, nibhānā hai re nibhānā, Satgurujī kā vachan nibhānā re nibhānā hai re nibhānā." "Mahāprabhujī kā vachan: kāma krodha ko dūr haṭāo," passion and anger remove; remove all these negative qualities from you. "Kāma krodha ko dūr haṭāo, tan kī khetī sāph karāo," and clean the field of your body. Through sattvic bhojan, through sattvic food, through sattvic āhāra, and practicing āsanas and prāṇāyāmas, clean and purify your body. Because we have the seeds of Oṃ, and we have to plant them in our heart, we have to plant them in our body. But if the ground is not ready, the season is not there, and Guru Vākya is not followed, it will not grow, it will not grow. So wait for that ready season, the right season, and be prepared and clean for that. What happens? When the seeds are already in the ground and the heart was ready, then what happens? "Bhai, Satgurū kū upa batāyā bhai, Satgurū kū upa batāyā bhai, Ab to nīr pilānā hai, Bhai, Ab to nīr nibānā hai, Satgurūjī kā bachan nibānā hai." When we put the seeds, then what happens? Grown, sprouted, beautiful green, a very pleasant color for our eyes, beautiful green. "Dayā dharam hari alisai," that means dayā and dharma, in your heart, awaken, grown, compassion. Mercy, and dharma. You have to, then you understand what is the dharma. Dharma means not only religion. What is the dharma of the water? What is the dharma of the fire? What is the dharma of our ears? What is the dharma of our eyes? What is the human dharma, and what is the father's dharma? What is the mother's dharma? What is the children's dharma towards the parents? And what is the dharma of the husband to his wife? What is the dharma of humans to nature? Dharma rakṣita rakṣitaḥ. If you protect the dharma, dharma will protect you. "Dayā dharma hari alichai." Now this compassion and righteousness, the dharma, is grown in you. "Pyāsā martī vo murjai." But now this beautiful new plant needs water. Without water, it will dry out. "Satgurū kūmp batāyā bhai." Gurudev showed us a water well. "Ab to nīr pilānā hai." Now we should give water to this plant. Which kind of water well? The satsaṅg. This is a water well. There is a water nectar inside. A person whose heart is full of compassion and dharma is searching for satsaṅg, not for kuṣaṅga. "Satgurū Kumpa batāyā bhai." Gurudev showed us that. And that is the satsaṅg. "Ab to nīr pilānā hai." Now we should give water to those plants, and that is the wisdom of the saints, many, many other holy saints. We are using their guru-vākyā. What I am telling you is not my view. Everything is from some other great saints. How beautiful, how beautiful. I can only tell you that I am so thankful to God that those divine words of the different holy incarnations or saints flow through me; that's a great blessing, a great blessing.