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One without second

A spiritual discourse on the Mūlādhāra chakra, destiny, and the awakening of Kuṇḍalinī.

"Our destiny is a product, the fruits of our past deeds."

"That timeless second is called Samādhi. Samādhi takes place. Your consciousness becomes one without a second."

The speaker delivers an extensive teaching on the root chakra (Mūlādhāra), describing it as the storehouse of karma and destiny. Key themes include the illusory nature of time, the purification of karma through practices like Kriyā Yoga, and the journey of divine energy (Śakti) from the base of the spine to union with consciousness (Śiva) in the crown. The talk also covers the psychological roots of jealousy and anger in this center, the importance of overcoming greed, and the ultimate goal of self-realization and oneness.

Filming location: Prague, Cz.

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Mūlādhāra is the center where our destiny is stored. Our good fortune and our misfortune depend on our karma. You may call it sin or goodness. Sin means bad karma, and goodness means good karma. Again, it is only a difference of language. Our destiny is a product, the fruits of our past deeds. They were past needs. Now, we have forgotten about that. Do you remember yesterday evening? That was a very important point: how time is uniting—expanding, dividing, daily, and in oneness. Past, present, and future. And you know, in reality, there is no time. Time is only a product of the human brain. We made the watch. We are playing with this iron needle. Now the sun goes off, now the sun will go down. There is no time. And there is no boundary. Therefore, it is said: beyond time and space. Did you see someone behind that space? Then, what is in the front? It means this human intellect, which created self-complication, is liberated now and no longer bound to the limitations of time and space. That timeless second is called Samādhi. Samādhi takes place. Your consciousness becomes one without a second. It means there is not even one second of time. The time of realization of oneness means past, present, and future, the entire universe is known to you. You have opened thousands of eyes. You are the seer of everything, and you are the knower of everything. That triad, the three principles, merges together: the knower, the knowledge, and the object. When these three merge into one, then remains only Sohaṁ, Ahaṁ Brahmāsmi. Then there is no past and no future, only the present, one without a second. Now, that sprout which is beginning the first step has the destination to become one. Not you and me. Neither you nor me. But only one. Then there is no separation. It is like many, many drops come together and begin to flow as a stream of water. And these many, many streams of water unite and become one creek. And these many small creeks unite to form a big river. And it merges; that river merges into the ocean. The pollution, which is created by our ignorance—that pollution means negative karma—has covered the mirror. We cannot see our face. Now, the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī means it is a process to purify the mirror. There are many different techniques. There is one technique: you can clean the dusty mirror with a towel. You take a small cloth, and you make it like this. You clean the mirror, but dust is there. These particles of dust will go in your eyes, in your nose, in your breath, and again they will slowly, slowly settle on the mirror. Or now we have a modern technique, beautiful: a vacuum cleaner. So there are many techniques: prāṇāyāmas, mantras, and Kriyā Yoga. So the best is Kriyā Yoga, to awaken the Kuṇḍalinī and to clean that mirror to have the self-darśan, self-realization. So, these are the seeds of our past karmas, from past lives. It can be good, it can be bad. Why can it be? Because we do not know. If we know, then we are already far away from Mūlādhāra. And Mūlādhāra is the root of jealousy, anger, and hate. So when a person is jealous, the person should control himself or herself. You will feel that your anal muscles are contracting. You will feel that your anal muscle is jerking. Jealous persons get hemorrhoid problems. Mostly, problems have those who are jealous and angry, and like this. And when they are jealous, then the energy is blocked in Mūlādhāra. And when you are angry, then it is like a hot chili inside, a fire. And that produces negative energy and kills the healthy cells in this lower region of the body, our gender regions. And then it produces the negative energy that kills the healthy tissue in our lower organs. If you go a little higher than that, you have cancer. Try to relax those parts of the body. Now, you will notice the body relaxation or the body tension does not depend on the body. But it depends on the thinking process. There is a driver who is sitting inside, controlling the car. The driver sits in the car and controls the car. Someone controls the car, whether he will brake, accelerate, or turn in a curve. The cars go slowly, or the cars accelerate. Or the cars turn. The car is indicating the light. But there is someone inside sitting, he or she, the driver, is monitoring. So, it is your thinking that is monitoring your entire feelings, chakras, and your body. When you are tired, you sit down and say, "Oh, now I will relax." Someone said, "Now I will relax." This is how you will analyze your Mūlādhāra. I know it is very hard for you people to be jealous, because no one is jealous here. Perhaps, except for me, no one is jealous. So, I am jealous, and I feel my Mūlādhāra. I have to be jealous to feel the Mūlādhāra to deliver the lecture. So, this is the first development of the human consciousness, and that is very, very important. So, this Mūlādhāra. It is the earth element. Earth is there where Mother Earth is nourishing all creatures on this planet. We say, "Who gave you the pig will give you the food." It is He who is feeding everyone every day. It is that Mother Earth who is feeding everyone every day. One ton to the elephant, and small corn to the small ant. And even the creature who is only flying in the sky in the dark night, it also gets fed. Or someone who is living all the time under the earth. Oh man, have you no confidence in God? Why do you worry that we will be hungry? We will starve. Humans became greedy out of fear. We became, how to say, thieves. We are stealing everything from Mother Earth. Mahātmā Gāndhī said, "Mother Earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for everyone's greed." And only one creature on this planet is greedy, and that is a human. Because that driver who is monitoring human life is confused. It did not develop the heart; it developed only the intellect and thinks material comfort and money is everything, but very soon you will find this is nothing. Even your bones will remain here, and your beautiful body will remain here. Why are you so proud of your beauty? And why are you proud of your money? Your wealth and position, that is very suffering things. But it does not mean that we should throw away everything. It is for our needs. Not to satisfy our greed, because greed has no end. Greed cannot be measured, and therefore greed cannot be fulfilled. But the person who is greedy, there is jealousy and anger—kāma, krodha, mada, lobha, moha, and ahaṅkāra—this you know many times, heard from me—will attack this small sprout. These are the insects, these are the bacteria; the new, fresh-born sprout is attacked by an enemy. But still, the sprout will fight against it to grow. And you know, it does not matter how many trees are in the forest, how close they are standing, every branch finds the place to grow. Similarly, every person will grow spiritually. Do not think that you cannot. You know, the cut trunk of the tree will grow again. So your lost confidence will again grow. So now, take care and protect yourself. Avoid kusaṅga and go to satsaṅga. Kusaṅga could be only with you alone, or with two persons can be kusaṅga. Satsaṅga can be alone with you also. Or with two people, or with thousands of people. Kusaṅga means negative thinking. And kusaṅga with two, three, four means negative talking, chatting. Making an elephant out of a small ant. That is it. And that means that you are putting, instead of a small stone on your newborn sprout, a big rock on it. Instead of putting a small stone on your newborn sprout, you are putting a big rock on it. And again and again, in every life, you will be suffering. You do not know what you suffered. And you do not want to know what you will be suffering. Therefore, wake up. Stand up and walk towards the light, Mūlādhāra. Earth element, Mother Earth. This Earth will preserve everything. This Mother Earth will not lose and destroy the seeds. She will give birth to the seeds. She will give life to the seed. So will the karma and destiny that went to the Mūlādhāra Chakra. They will also give birth. They will give birth to what? To the destiny, which you will see with your open eyes. For negative things and for beautiful, good things. And you know that every day some sprout is coming out of your unconscious. Every day new hope is coming, a new meeting is coming, a new thought is coming. A new feeling is coming, a new saṅkalpa is coming, a new dream is coming, new motivation is coming in life. Our Mūlādhāra Chakra is very productive; so many things are produced by this. But beside this, there is Divine Śakti, the strength of the Universe, keeping together the entire universe. All the planets, all the elements, are held by that power, Mother, Divine Mother, Śakti. Shakti, which is dwelling in the consciousness. There is no difference, like we call he and she. Not these anatomical differences, because she can be he and he can be she. It depends on when, what, and how it is functioning. When you call the man power, the power of a man. But still, this is the energy of that man. And energy is she, and you said, "Will of her." Strength of her. That is again, it is he. And it is she, the energy. That strength is created by some power inside, and that is the she again. So in the woman, 75–80% is existing human energy, and in a man, 80–85% is existing female energy. Always, man tries to merge into the female. Because this weaker part wants to go to the strong part. And the female always wants to unite with the male power. Because her strongest part is there, and his strongest part is there. And these both are within us, Iḍā and Piṅgalā, both forces. That is why it is called Gaurī Śaṅkar. Gaurī is the virgin, the female, and Śaṅkar is the consciousness, the Śiva. So Gaurī Śaṅkar is in oneness. The left part is Gaurī, and the right part of the body is Śaṅkar. Now, the seat of Śaṅkara, Śiva, is in the Sahasrāra Chakra. And the seat of this Śakti, because of our destiny, is in Mūlādhāra. But her main concentration, the strongest part of her, the main concentration, the strongest part of it, is in Śiva, in Sahasrāra. And his strongest part, as he is, is in Mūlādhāra. So he is accompanying her from Mūlādhāra as Sadāśiva Paśupati Mahādev. Paśupati Mahādeva is the Lord of the animals and the Lord of the humans. He begins to accompany her, guide her from the Mūlādhāra, and to liberate her, to elevate her to the Sahasrāra Chakra, to Him. And so, the awakening of the Śakti goes upward, like a sprout grows upward. And so, this awakening, when it takes place, then particular nerves of the body, not all, are alarmed. And that lightning goes up. Again, this lightning, this awakening in the nerves, heats some part of our brain, which is connected to particular organs of the body, to activate those centers, to regenerate those centers. The health development takes place. What you call, again, the youthfulness appears in the body. The feeling of the happy light appears in the body. And desires become strong. What kind of desire? Love to God. It does not matter, Lord, how much I have to suffer. Let me come to you like that one song. Even I have to walk on the fire, even I have to walk on the thorns and burn into the fire. Death may become the garland of my neck, but Lord, but Lord, let me be yours.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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