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Sit straight. Place your hands on your knees. Cease your movements. Close your eyes. Keep your body straight and upright. Adopt Prāṇāyāma Mudrā. Close your eyes. If you cannot close them, then tie a cloth over your eyes. Inhale and exhale only through the left nostril. Only through the left nostril, inhale and exhale. Inhale through the left nostril and exhale through the right nostril. Observe your breath. How is it moving in and out? Observe the ascending and descending breath with awareness. Also be a witness of your vṛttis—the fluctuations of the mind, the citta vṛtti. What am I thinking now? How am I thinking now? What influence or effect do I have from the Guru's words (Guruvākya)? Just now, Swāmījī spoke. Inhale and exhale only through the left nostril. No movements. Keep your body straight. Keep your face straight. Do not turn your face toward the left side or the right side. Practice abdominal breath. Take a deep inhale through this abdomen, below the navel. Try to observe the breath deep below the navel. I know that I am inhaling. I know that I am exhaling. I know that I am inhaling. And I know that I am exhaling through the left nostril. Try to collect all your thoughts, all your vṛttis. Try to select those thoughts which are very important. Send away the rest of all the nonsense thoughts. Clear up. Be aware of your thoughts. You know, there is one man collecting in big baskets many, many small stones from the river. Out of thousands of stones, he found one precious stone. He rejects all the other stones. Similarly, all our worldly thoughts, all the restless thoughts, all the thoughts of jealousy, anger, hate, greed, and laziness—they are not useful. Only one thought: "ahaṃ brahmāsmi." Search for that precious thought. I know that I am inhaling. I know that I am exhaling. My breath is very smooth. Keep inhaling and slowly, long exhale. Relax. Relax. Do not let any thought in or out without your knowing. Do not let any thought enter inside or let any thought go out without you knowing about it. "Tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe 'vasthānam." What you will think, like that you will be. As you will think, so you will be. So fix yourself on ātma jñāna, thoughts of the ātmā. Only inhale and exhale through the left nostril. Your eyes should be closed. If you cannot close them, tie a tight cloth over your eyes, then practice. If you cannot close your eyes, you will not be successful because with your eyes you have so many vṛttis. Close your eyes and be one with this deep inhale and slowly exhale. I know I am inhaling. I know that I am exhaling. I know what kind of thoughts are going in and out in my conscience. Those thoughts which make you restless, which make you angry, which make you jealous, which make you greedy, which create in you fear and uncertainty—reject them. Delete them out of your citta. Only pure vṛttis. I know that I am inhaling. I know that I am exhaling. Keep your body straight upright. Keep your body straight. Keep your eyes closed. Deep inhale and exhale. Check your citta vṛttis: have you reduced them or have they multiplied? It depends on you only—how you create the outer world, how you perceive the outer world. Like that, that is a sign of your inner world. Deep inhale and slowly exhale. And now place your hands on your knees. Remain with closed eyes. Observe your vṛttis. What kind of benefit do you have from the thought of that vṛtti which you have now? Kliṣṭa and akliṣṭa vṛtti. The kliṣṭa vṛtti means that which is harmful for your sādhanā, which is an obstacle for your spiritual progress, which is a destructive thought for you. That is kliṣṭa vṛtti. Close your eyes. If you cannot, then tie a cloth over your eyes. A kliṣṭa vṛtti is one which creates restless, negative thoughts. A good vṛtti does not. And you should know the difference between good and bad. If your inner world is like a wild jungle with many, many wild animals—beautiful and harmful—that means you cannot keep your eyes closed. If your inner world is positive and beautiful, then you are not afraid; you just close your eyes and be one with thyself. Always opening your eyes means you want to run away from your inner world, your inner karma, your qualities—not the qualities of others. Only you can help yourself. Again, Prāṇāyāma Mudrā: inhale and exhale only through the right nostril. Piṅgalā or Sūrya Nāḍī. Keep your eyes closed. Keep your body straight. And how beautiful it is that this prāṇa flows with oxygen, with this gentle, very fine air. It goes through your lungs, the whole respiratory system, which supplies your whole body with this beautiful prāṇic energy, which tranquilizes your thoughts. It clears up all your restlessness, and you become one with thyself. I know that I'm inhaling through the Sūrya Nāḍī; I know that I'm exhaling through the Sūrya Nāḍī. Don't try to look between your fingers at me; I know who's opening their eyes and looking through their fingers. Don't press your lungs. Keep your body straight. Keep on inhaling and exhaling. Through the Sūrya Nāḍī, center your thoughts, and I will center. When the Ājñā Chakra is ... follow your thoughts. I know what I am thinking. Is this thought, what you are thinking, healthy for you and for others? If it is healthy for you and arises from your ego and selfishness, then it is harmful even for you. Prāṇāyāma Nāḍī Śodhana Prāṇāyāma, Sūryabhedana and Chandrabhedana, is the best technique to harmonize citta vṛttis, to reduce the negative thoughts, to become aware of your quality, and to be one with thyself in your inner form, the ātmā. Now, slowly, after the exhalation, place your hand on the knee and feel your normal breath. Observe your thoughts. What do I think? What did I think? Why do I think like this? What should I think? What do I think? Should I think? If this vṛtti is harmful, should I still keep it in me? Why? Observe your thoughts and keep your eyes closed; don't always open them like a monkey. Deep inhale, and chant Oṃ. We will chant Oṃ all three times together. Deep inhale. Take your palms, place the palms on your face, and warm your face muscles. Massage your eyelids, and open your eyes. And you open your eyes. --- Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Summer seminar