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Salutations to the Cosmic Light, Lord of our hearts, omniscient and omnipresent, source of our life and light of the universe, adoration to the Almighty One. May we all live together with harmony, mutual understanding, love, and tolerance. Dear brothers and sisters, good evening. It is my pleasure to be here in your town and see you again. This is my third visit to your city. This evening, our subject is again yoga, and something more on an advanced level. I will speak about yoga and how to utilize it in our everyday life. That is called yoga in daily life. We all have some problems. Some have physical problems, some have emotional problems, some have mental problems, some have family problems. We are searching for a way to solve these problems, but how? Perhaps we do not find the better way. What is the cause of the problems? That also we do not know, but mostly the cause of the problems is in our self. It depends on how you understand that problem and how you interpret it; then it will be easier for you to solve it. Of course, sometimes there are problems which are not possible or easy to solve. Personal problems are easy to solve, but impersonal problems are difficult to solve. Let us see what yoga can offer us and which way yoga can help us. Yoga is a science of the body, mind, consciousness, and soul. Yoga is a balancing principle which balances the entire universe. Visible and invisible elements are balanced by some cosmic power. That cosmic power is known as yoga. Where there is balance, there is harmony. We are all searching for harmony in our life. Why do you marry? To find harmony in life, to balance your emotional and intellectual life. If you have no harmony, then you are suffering. Why is there no harmony? Because there is no balance. There are different opinions. One wants to go south, and the other one wants to go north. How will they walk together? Different interests, different habits, and different qualities and nature make family life, as well as social life, difficult. If we can make some kind of compromise—and one has to do it; if you live with someone, then you have to do some kind of compromising and tolerance—then things will change. Where there is harmony, there is oneness. That is called yoga, which means union. Union means harmony again, and harmony means balance, so all three work together. The original union, which yoga means, is meant for the union of the individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. Everyone comes from the Cosmic One. You may call God, you may call the Cosmic Self, you may call the Ultimate Truth, you may call the divine law, you may call the divine consciousness, you may call some principles. Everyone has different opinions and experiences about God, and that is good that you have found some. How is the relation to the Supreme, the Cosmic One? That is very important, so that union. We all are coming from the Cosmic One. The source or origin of us is that Cosmic One. But as soon as we departed, or separated, or divided, we created our own phenomenon. Now, this phenomenon consists of many, many principles and powers within it. That is individual. You have an individual identity. The cosmic one is only one. Many individuals. Now the individual consciousness should merge or become one again with the cosmic consciousness. How is that possible again? Because that individual, which is traveling millions of years separately, individually, has adopted other qualities, or developed other qualities. For example, some people move from far countries and immigrate to Croatia. After a few generations, they will completely adopt the Croatian language, culture, traditions, everything. For example, I have been living in Europe for thirty years now, and when I go to India, I do have certain difficulties adopting that culture and way of thinking. When I try to tell them, explain to them, then they are angry. They say, Swāmījī, you are spoiled in Europe. For example, the ladies have the hair on the face. And I tell them, it is a time for emancipation. And you should not do this. Oh, my God! You know what the reaction can be. It can be a very negative reaction. It can be so far a reaction that people from the small villages will throw stones at me. I understand you. That is why you don't have a layer on your face. And I understand them, but they have a layer over them. So the things are changing in your mind, in your intellect, in many things. So, you understand me, that for millions of years, it is said nicely, on the waves of time, the individual soul is fluttering in this universe from space to space, to the light and darkness, through happiness and suffering, unhappiness. When the individual stops for a while, the waves become a little calm. There, he adopts that environment, those qualities, and one manifests in physical form. On our earth, there is a different law, what we call natural law. We have a physical body, and we have our abilities. On other planets, they have a different system of life. In the astral world, there is a different system of life. When you talk about heaven, now who is going to heaven? This body doesn't go to heaven. Then who is going to heaven? So who will enjoy heaven? Or someone is going to hell? He doesn't go to hell. Now, who is suffering in hell? That is very important to know. So someone is going with somebody, some forms. Similarly, that individual one is fluttering on the waves of time, from space to space. Manifest for a while somewhere. As soon as you manifest yourself somewhere, you create relations: mother, father, brothers, sisters, children, and friends, colleagues. Time comes again, and your inner self decides to go again. And what about these relations? These relations will follow you for a certain time, for a certain distance. On the day when your grandmother died and when you buried her, you were very, very sad. But now, after fifty years, you are not so sad about the grave. Because that relation becomes thinner and thinner and thinner. So the development of the individual consciousness takes millions of years. We don't know where we have been, everywhere. Maybe you know. Sorry to say. If you know, then you know. How many million years you were traveling somewhere. Now, this individual self has developed such qualities which are completely opposite to the cosmic quality, completely different from God's quality. Your child, your genetic qualities in your child are changing in every generation. Twenty-seven lives follow this relation, the similarity. Fourteen days, fourteen generations, sorry, if you can recognize. And after that, fourteen days is different. These are the moon nights and dark nights. The moon from the first day, the new moon, it grows till fourteen days. And from again, the first day of the dark moon, or full moon, sorry, it goes back till the 14 days of the dark moon. And one day is dark night, dark moon night, and one day is full moon night. Now we have other qualities according to our karmas, our deeds. I will give you now one very practical example. They prepare here one glass of water, and I see only water inside, and you see only water. No miracle will happen, don't worry. As an example, now I will drink this water. It's cold, but it doesn't matter. This water is sweet. What does it mean? There is sugar inside. But I don't see the sugar, and you don't see the sugar. Only my senses, the sense of taste, tell there is sugar. Someone put one spoon of sugar inside before they brought the water. The solid form of the sugar is changed into the liquid form. But the sugar and water didn't unite; they didn't become one. You understand me? Sugar didn't give up its quality. Sugar didn't give up its nature. Though the form is changed, the sweetness is there. So even the physical body dies, but your individuality, all your individual qualities, will exist. If sugar will give up its sweetness, its quality, then you can't recognize if there is sugar inside or not. It's only water. I will request the organizer to bring me warm water. Thank you. Similarly, now, unless we change our qualities, we cannot become one with God. Here, God has given us human qualities. And human qualities have more value. Which are the human qualities? You know. You are a human. It is said, please be human. Don't be so cruel. Oh my God! Don't beat this poor child. Don't kill this poor animal. Have you a heart or no? Be human. What does it mean to be human? To be human means to have human qualities: love, understanding, kindness, mercifulness, helpfulness, spirituality, wisdom, and so on. And which are not human qualities? Anger, hate, jealousy, greediness, taking revenge, cruel things, criminal things. This is not a human quality. Unfortunately, some of us have adopted other qualities. And these qualities we have to change and purify again. We have to filter our consciousness, and for that God gave us human life. Humans are protectors. Humans should not be distractors. And humans are the liberators. Humans should always be the liberators. Liberate yourself and liberate others. Help yourself and help others. Show your understanding in this way. So yoga means the union. The inner peace, satisfaction, and joy, blissfulness, for which we are always longing, that can only be fully realized when we unite again with Cosmic Consciousness. Otherwise, there is a repetition of birth and death, birth and death, coming, going, suffering. Therefore, it is said, know thyself. "Know thyself" is the answer to all your questions. Know thyself means salvation from all problems. Who am I? I'm not this body, I'm not this mind, I'm not this emotion, I'm not this intellect, but I am. I am not this soul; it's my soul also. You are not a soul; the soul is only a ball of the qualities. As long as ego will exist, as long as ego will exist, the astral body will exist. As long as the astral body exists, the soul will exist, and as long as the soul exists, individuality will exist. But when the soul dissolves into God Consciousness, and that is your Self then, that light within you. Here, union means union of the individual with the Cosmic Self. Yoga has many ways, many techniques. Yoga is a practical way, not a theoretical way. The philosopher said, tons of theory is just nothing compared to a gram of practice. There are two horses. One horse is in your field, and the second horse is in the picture. Both are horses, but if you want to ride a horse, you can ride only a real horse in the field, not in the picture. So theory cannot help us. It can only inspire us. Practical. Practical knowledge is the best. Therefore, yoga is practical. Many health problems can be solved through the practice of yoga. Through practice of yoga, you can make the prevention. And prevention is better than treatment. So, yoga practices in the first place are good for our physical health. Health is not everything, but everything is nothing without health. The first wealth, the first happiness in your life, is health. And we all need help to get healthy, and that can give you the yoga. Well, there are some sports, but you know, those who are doing heavy sports, after a few years, their body condition is very bad. Many, many top sportsmen, after the age of 30, 40 years, they come to yoga. They are the best disciples, practitioners, because they have discipline. But yoga helps them again to regenerate their body. Of course, all kinds of sport are good for your health: walking, a little running, swimming, riding, biking. But yoga exercises, they are such balanced movements. They are psychosomatic movements. It helps your body, it calms down your nervous system, it calms down your thoughts, raises your thoughts, and creates within you a feeling of happiness. The whole psychic is changed. Breath exercise. Breath is life, and life is breath. First minutes when we came on this earth, when we were born, what did we do? We inhaled. And the last thing we will do? Exhale, and we will not be able to inhale again. So it is a long breath we have, from the birth till the death. Between what you are breathing, there are the waves. From one soul to another soul. Now, if these waves are stormy or calm, it depends on that. So you are the sea, you are the ocean, and breath is the waves. Practicing prāṇāyāma increases the capacity of the lungs, supplies a greater quantity of oxygen, and calms down your thoughts. The best technique against this trace is the breath technique, and I can tell you a very easy one: you lie down on your back for five minutes only and observe your breath, or you sit in the on the in. Sit in the chair and observe the breath. Close your eyes and say, "I know I inhale, I know I exhale." Five minutes, observe the breath. Don't change the breath process or rhythm. It is such a powerful technique. It's very simple, but if you try it one day, you will feel so good. That's meditation. That's concentration. That's a very, very good technique. I'm telling you all practical techniques. Then meditation, and then come the mental techniques: meditations, mantras, and prayers. First, you master your body. You understand your body. You understand your whole physical being. Then you touch your inner being or your astral being. Who am I? From where do I come? What is the purpose of my coming? And where will I go? And who am I? This answer will give the yoga practice then. When the individual self from the astral world enters into the physical world, that soul is descending from the astral world, accompanied by thousands and millions of different functions. There is one sun, and all the stars and all systems in this part of the universe are due to the sun. In the Vedas, it is said that Ānanda Brahman, Sahasrāra Sūrya, the endless universe, and thousands of suns. There are thousands of sun systems. It is said in the Vedas several thousand years before, and now modern science is discovering the same thing. The yogī knew this all. When the soul is descending and comes to the physical form, that time, many, many functions are coming with it. Like a president of the country is accompanied by many different functions. There are some forces which observe, guide, control, and balance our emotion, our intellect, our mind, our memory, our feelings, and so on. These energies which accompany us are like sparkling lights. All concentrate in one form. Mother bee, queen bee, when she flies away, all bees fly behind, and where she sits, all they come and sit there. This sparkling light in your body becomes energy centers. That's called chakras. Chakra means a circle which is turning. What is moving? There is energy. And where there is energy, there is movement. And where there is movement, there is life. And where there is life, there is development. So chakras are constantly turning in our body. We have in every part of the body chakras. Some are dormant, some are awakened, some are damaged. And these chakras represent the cosmic energy. They are divided into different categories. It is said, "Yatha brahmāṇḍe tatha piṇḍe," what is in the universe is existing in your body. Everything is in your body. You are the cosmos yourself, your own phenomenon. But we've forgotten. So there is a group of chakras which belong to the earth element: vegetation, animals, humans, and divine. Yogis advise us not to develop and awaken the earth chakra, vegetation and animal chakras, but to awaken the human and divine chakras. In this body, there are 72,000 nāḍīs in your body. They said there are 72,000 nāḍīs which are receiving and flowing through the cosmic energy. From these, three nāḍīs are important. We call the central nerve systems Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā. The Iḍā, the left one, controls our emotions. And the right one, Piṅgalā, controls our intellect, and the central one controls our consciousness. These three nāḍīs control the entire body and everything. The suṣumṇā, central nerve, that is a channel through which the cosmic energy flows and then in other channels, supplies further. These nāḍīs, they are crossing time to time. And they go from the small of the brain down to the body and through the spinal column. And in the whole body, they are spread. When they penetrate or pass, they make their way through the spine. It is said that they are crossing. And where they cross, that becomes an energy center or chakra. So there are eight chakras which are very important, out of 75,000 chakras. First is mūlādhāra, that is on the bottom of the spinal column. That mūlādhāra cakra, that's mūl means the roots, ādhāra is basic. That is the seat of the human consciousness. From there, the human consciousness begins to develop, and the entire personality of the individual depends on the energy which you have in mūlādhāra. Mūlādhāra is the seat of the unconscious, and in the unconscious are dormant our past deeds, good or bad. That we call destiny, and it is your destiny which leads your life now. It is your deeds. Whatever happens to you, it is your deeds. So we try to accept, accept, and work to correct something. That's the earth element, the earth chakra. Today I will talk about the second chakra, Svādhiṣṭhāna. Because for the last three or four days, I have been talking only about the Mūlādhāra Chakra. And many are traveling from other towns and think Swāmījī will talk today about other chakras. When the consciousness begins to awake or the energy begins to flow, the development begins to take place from your mūlādhāra, which is the border of the animal consciousness and human consciousness. The first milestone which we make is the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. Svādhiṣṭhāna. Sva means the self, and sthāna means the place. Self-development begins from svādhiṣṭhāna. Now, it depends if you are developing forward or backward. The svādhiṣṭhāna is about five centimeters above the mūlādhāra chakra. From the bottom of your spinal column, you can count about a few centimeters. There is svādhiṣṭhāna. Unfortunately, we don't have videos here, and we could have shown the slides today. In the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra, there are some qualities which awaken. So I will tell about these qualities, to make a sort, and then you have time for questions. The Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra, its color is orange. Mūlādhāra cakra's color is red. Red means dormant, concentrated energy. Red color symbolizes the color of the earth. It symbolizes the cosmic mother in the form of energy. When energy begins to awaken, then the red color changes into the orange color. Svādhiṣṭhāna has orange color. What does orange color mean? You must also be wondering, "I am sitting here with orange color." Every time I come, I am completely orange. And maybe some people think, "Why is Swāmījī wearing an orange dress?" And you are right to think, I think, "There is no hot water? No, doesn't matter." Orange color, I must tell you, orange color is a color of the dawn. Whether dawn rises, it has orange color. What means that? When the dawn rises, all nature wakes up; consciousness wakes up. All birds, all animals, flowers... wake up. And when the evening sunset comes, again the orange color. Consciousness goes to sleep. So this is a changing of the consciousness, a developing of the consciousness. Second, it is the color of renunciation. Now you have the autumn, and you will see the whole nature will become orange. What does it mean? You fulfilled your duty, and whatever you had, you give all. Nature gives us in our hands, and nature is withdrawing itself again. This is the color of renunciation. That's why all yogīs or monks or sādhus and swāmīs who have this renunciation must have this color. And this color is the color of the awakening of the energy. And this color, in modern times, in the modern system, is a very safe color for the road. Every driver will see that something is going on. So in every aspect, the orange color is a very good color. Svādhiṣṭhāna has an orange color. Orange color means activity, energy, joy, hope, and self-awareness. It protects from negative energy. No magic and negative energy can go through your orange dress. Before the negative energy comes near to you, it is filtered, changed. There is a darkness, but darkness cannot come near the light. And you cannot remove the darkness. The only way to remove the darkness is to bring in the light. So if someone believes in black magic, black magic, then that will not affect you. Tomorrow, go and buy orange cloth. The element of this Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra, the Mūlādhāra was earth, and Svādhiṣṭhāna is water. What does the water mean? Water means emotion. Water is māyā, but water is life. Now everything comes in life. Water means flowing, and water means purification. Water is emotion. Now when this consciousness, dormant consciousness from the Mūlādhāra Cakra awakes, then the first thing that happens to us? We fall into the emotion. And the word emotion means, in English, I don't know how it is in your language, in motion. Motion means movements. You are now in the motion. When the strong emotion is there, you are in strong waves. Don't search for the pearls, don't dive to get the pearls when the waves are too high. Don't make any decision in your life when your emotion is too high. Emotions have many forms: anger, hate, jealousy, sadness, doubt, many. Mr. Einstein, he got one letter from someone, and he should answer. So Einstein wrote an answer in ten pages. And at the end, he wrote P.S. Sorry to write you so long letter. The reason is this, that I had very short time. It means he didn't take enough time to overthink. So wait some time: one day, two days, one month, one year, two years to answer something or decide something. Don't dive where the waves are too high. So, emotion. Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra is the seat of the emotion. All our emotional problems, whether in the form of anger, hate, or greediness, are all seated there, that's Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra. The water. Water means softness, but very gentle, soft. Though it is very gentle and very soft, but it is very difficult to overcome. The gland where this Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra is located is the adrenal glands, adrenals, adrenal glands. Forget it, forget it. And plexus, where this is, hypogastric plexus. And this has a mantra, this chakra. Mantra means resonance. All 72,000 nāḍīs have their resonance. And those chakras have a very strong resonance. And mantra. If you can create that resonance or repeat that mantra, you can regulate your chakra. And resonance is vāma, that belongs to svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. V, what do you write? V-A-M. Vaṃ. That's Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra's mantra. It has six petals. You know the music of India, and perhaps in your music, Western music too. We call it tāla. Rhythms the keys, so it is a sixth. All the resonance which you create with the sixth, all that awakes your Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra, guides your Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra. And like Mūlādhāra Chakra has got an elephant, Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra has got a crocodile. How they are nice. Do you know something about crocodiles? You have in Croatia? Not many. The crocodile is a very ancient animal. Belongs to some reptile families. Thank you. Thank you. Crocodile means a most dangerous animal. And he represents the karma. He represents the laziness, the most lazy. So, those who don't work in life, who are all sleeping, are sitting and meditating only. I call crocodile yogī. Yogi must work. A yogī must be creative and active. Do not waste time. Puruṣa comes from Puruṣārtha. Puruṣa means the humans. And Puruṣārtha means creative work, be creative. But the crocodile is opposite. So as soon as your kuṇḍalinī śakti comes up, from Svādhiṣṭhāna to Mūlādhāra, you become very lazy. You don't want to do anything. You are acting only when you are hungry. And hungry of the desires. There is not hunger, stomach hunger only, but desires. Ambitions. Ambition is the biggest problem of us. Ambitions are our biggest problem. Emotions and ambitions, when they become friends with each other, then they destroy the whole city, the city of your body, dog. Therefore, take care of the crocodile. But at the same time, the divinity in the Svādhiṣṭhāna. You see, this is an Indian mythology, and this mythology has its meaning. You know, the Western philosophy and Western mythology are originated from the Greek philosophy, and when you see the old symbols of Greece, they are related to Egypt, and when you see the old Egyptian symbols, they are symbolizing with the Indians. For example, in Greek mythology, you will see half fish and half man, human. You will see half horse and half man, and horse has some meaning. The fish have some meaning. When you see Krishna and Krishna's gopīs in the water, they are half fish and half human. But I am not coming to that point too much. So every symbol, according to their methodology, has some meaning, that's very important. Now, first, in Indian mythology, there are three very important principles. That's called three nīti: Brahmā, creator; Vishnu, protector; Shiva, the liberator or distractor. He destroys the negative, and he liberates the positive. So Śiva and Śakti were in the Mūlādhāra Cakra, from where it begins, how manifestation takes place from Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra is a protective chakra. There is also the sexual energy. And without that energy, you cannot create. You cannot continue the world that is in the vegetation, that is in animals, in all creatures. The gland is very important. When you see a plant, any plant, if you analyze it, you will see a knot. And where there is a knot, there the branch or the root comes. Not somewhere else. You must search that root or knot. Similarly, the glands, which are producing the hormones, and different kinds of hormones. So this is a creative gland. And because Brahmā is the creator, and therefore this chakra represents Brahmā. The deity Brahmā is in Svādhiṣṭhāna cakra. Very important. Brahmā represents the consciousness, the creator, and at the same time, his partner. Shiva has Śakti, and Brahma has Sarasvatī. Saraswati is the goddess of wisdom. Whatever you learn and whatever you know is coming from that Divine Mother, Sarasvatī. It is said that Saraswati is his partner as well as his daughter. And then people are confused. How is it possible? Brahmā's daughter is his wife, and his wife is his daughter. What is that? It is a symbol that the knowledge is created by Saraswatī. And that knowledge is the daughter. That wisdom is the daughter. So your knowledge, what you have, is created by Saraswati and Brahmā. And therefore, knowledge means Saraswatī, and Saraswatī means knowledge. Because you may read in some chakra book, and you will send me letters, so it is better I explain to you Saraswatī, the knowledge, intellect, Vivekā. And now finally I will tell you the qualities of the Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra, the properties of the Svādhiṣṭhāna Cakra, the treasure of the Svādhiṣṭhāna Cakra. I don't know if it is treasure or something different. And this means you have to recognize this and purify them. Unless you have not purified these qualities, your kuṇḍalinī cannot proceed. Your knowledge cannot develop. You will be stuck only in this material knowledge. Spiritual knowledge cannot develop. Though you pray, you still have some problems. No tolerance, no understanding, no kindness. Why? Because you are stuck in the svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. And svādhiṣṭhāna chakra has so many qualities. First of all, passion. It is very hard for us to cross this river, the person. When the person awakes, then you forget everything. And if someone interrupts in this, then no one is angrier than you. Even one can kill others, in nature also. The person is a boiling fire, and boiling water, and you have to cross through. Second, anger. If someone hinders your passion, then you become angry. Not only humans, animals too. So angry. Very angry. So passionate, angry. How nice. Then comes hatred. If you are not successful through your anger, if you can't do something against it, then hatred awakens in your heart. When love changes into hatred, then partnership becomes very unpleasant. Husband and wife, they can't bear each other. So hatred. And hatred you cannot show them, therefore the jealousy comes alive. Passion, anger, hatred, jealousy, pride, cruelty, arrogance, doubt, laziness, the subconsciousness and pralabdha of the development of knowledge, Hiraṇyagarbha, the golden womb, the first development, the state of the human consciousness. This is in Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. If you are struggling between passion, anger, hatred, jealousy, and this is what I said, then you are still stuck in your svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. How to overcome? You can overcome through developing tolerance. Through developing kindness, understanding, forgiveness, love. This kind of practice will let you come up to the third chakra. That's called maṇipū. When you come out of the fire, of water, sorry, you will... and fell into the fire, but today I will not do this on Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra. Śalabhāsana, Bhujaṅgāsana, Mūla Bandha, Aśvinī Mudrā and Vajrolī Mudrā, this can awaken and control your Svādhiṣṭhāna chakra. Of course, mantra and prayer are the first things. These are the psychic illnesses. These qualities, undeveloped personality. So if we would like to be happy, then we should develop these chakras. You should work with this, so take today this example. Tolerance, understanding, kindness, helpfulness towards all. It will help you.