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Salutations to the cosmic light, the Lord of our hearts, omniscient and omnipresent. In the divine presence of God, dear brothers and sisters, good evening. Welcome to you all. Our theme is to awaken spiritual consciousness. What do we understand about consciousness, and what do we understand spiritually? The awakening of this spiritual consciousness depends very much on the Maṇipūra Cakra. The Maṇipūra Cakra is a purification center; it is a fire center. Many do not know what a cakra is. Many do not know what Kuṇḍalinī is. As many of you are here for the first time, I will tell a little about Kuṇḍalinī and the cakras. Kuṇḍalinī is a dormant energy in our body, meaning dormant abilities within our consciousness. To make a long story short, every creature has its own phenomenon. Every creature has a different body. Similarly, we humans also have different bodies: the physical body, the body of nourishment, this material body; the mental body, the body of our thoughts; the prāṇa body, the body of our energy; the body of our intellect; and the causal body. These are the five kośas: Annamaya, Prāṇamaya, Manomaya, Vijñānamaya, and Ānandamaya. These are the five layers of our phenomenal being. Within these five bodies is your consciousness, your soul, your ātmā. Generally, they speak of four bodies: physical body, mental body, astral body, and causal body. The physical body we know. The astral body we have heard about. The causal body is the body of the causes. These three bodies exist as long as your soul exists. It is the soul which makes the individual. As long as you have karmas, negative karmas and negative qualities, your astral body will exist. It means your soul will exist. When you have no more negative karmas or negative qualities, you become wisdom, thyself—Jñāna Svarūpa. Your form becomes a form of knowledge, only knowledge, nothing else. That knowledge means the ultimate truth. At that time, you merge into infinity. That is our aim. It is not easy to become free from karmas because we are connected with desires, and we have many mixed feelings. Sometimes we love someone, and sometimes we hate someone. Sometimes we have beautiful thoughts, and sometimes we have very negative thoughts. Likewise, many, many negative qualities develop. Human life or the human phenomenon is very mysterious, and it can change according to karmas in the next life. Whatever you are doing now, the result, the fruits of our deeds, our karma, becomes our destiny, pralabdha. Destiny is the product of your actions. We perform actions through four things: through body, through mind, through words, and through our money or social position. You can do good, or you can do bad. You have the freedom to act, but you have no freedom to choose the result of your deeds. Therefore, before doing any karma through these four things, know the form of the deeds, what result, what fruits will come. You will see that. Then you have to use your intellect and your heart to decide if you should do it or not. Karma is in your hands, but the result is not in your hands. You have a stone in your hand. If you wish, you keep it, or you can throw it away. As soon as you throw the stone, it is gone from your hands. Now it is gone; you cannot run behind to catch it again. Similarly, what is done is gone, and the fruits of this are known as destiny. Some destiny follows us for many, many lives. Some follow us immediately. This destiny is preserved or recorded in your phenomenon. If you think positive, your phenomenon begins to light, to illuminate. If you think negative, it begins to become dark. Good karma, as a light, will lead you towards the light, and bad karma is darkness, which will lead you to darkness. You have to control your thinking, your mind, your feelings. In the human body, there are many energy centers. The human body is given to us through our good karma, and good and bad are given to us with it. They follow us. Evidence will not die; it will not be solved as long as you do not solve it consciously. Our body is a product of five elements, and there are thousands of functions inside, good and bad. In this body, there are 72,000 nerves, and all these 72,000 nerves are controlled through three nerves: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumṇā—sympathetic, parasympathetic, and central nerve. These three nāḍīs, through which our consciousness flows: the left nāḍī, connected with the left nostril, is connected with our mind. The mind is connected with the moon, and the moon is emotion. That emotion appears in the water element, which is also movable. The moon never rises equally; it changes every minute. Our mind changes every minute. Our feeling changes. Emotion is motion, and sometimes it is high waves, hurricanes, and sometimes it is very calm. This nāḍī has information from the whole body. Emotion has many forms: love is emotion, hate is emotion, anger is emotion, jealousy is emotion. Emotion has its good sides and also bad sides. Through this emotion, you as an individual are traveling through the whole universe on the waves of time. You are fluttering on the waves of time, experiencing good and bad, pain and pleasure, sometimes through light, sometimes through darkness. Thanks to God that we do not remember all our past sufferings. Also, we do not remember our good things. If we remembered, we would not survive in this life. Therefore, God is so gracious; He limited our memory. The right nostril connects with our intellect, which is creative and connected with fire. The central nerve, Suṣumṇā, is connected with our consciousness. Now, everything is a play within consciousness. Entire life, entire existence in the astral world and on the physical world, is a play within your consciousness. Consciousness is very clear, very pure, crystal clear, but it has a color filter over it. If you take green spectacles, you see green. If you are blue, you see blue. If you are red, you see red because of this filter. Similarly, our consciousness is colored through our deeds, through our experiences, through our individual as well as general experiences. There is something happening in your life, and you are still unhappy and suffering in the form of fear. That fear is lost in formlessness. You do not know why you have anxiety, but you have anxiety. These are unclarities, unsolved problems from your unconsciousness. So, there are many different levels of consciousness. It means as your emotion changes, the color in your consciousness changes. One disciple came to the Master and asked, "Master, I cannot control my anger. What should I do when I am very angry?" The Master said, "Go and look in the mirror. You will be like a devil. And when you are very happy, go and look in the mirror. You will be like a holy person." This is how the mood changes. When you see your reality in the mirror, you will change yourself. General consciousness is divided: unconscious, subconscious, conscious, superconscious, and cosmic consciousness. The mood you have from time to time, the emotion, is caused through your desires. We have ten senses: five jñānendriyas and five karmendriyas. Whatever information you receive, you receive only through the five jñānendriyas. Jñānendriya means the senses of knowledge. From your birth till now, whatever you learned, whatever you experienced—from birth till your higher education, and from higher education till now, your spiritual education—you learn only through these five senses: the eyes through color and vision; the nose through smell; the ears through sound; the mouth through taste; and the skin through touch. So, whatever you receive in present life, you receive only through these five senses, and it is recorded in your subconscious. The subconscious is like a storeroom; all raw material is there. The impression which went to the subconscious becomes desire and comes out again to the conscious. The conscious is awakened. The subconscious is a dream. The unconscious is deep sleep. The conscious state is connected with the intellect. The principle of the intellect is to give judgment: what is what? So, when desire comes from the subconscious to the conscious, transferred to the conscious mind, to the intellect, the intellect will find out: this is a desire to eat ice cream. It transmits or transfers to the tongue, śvadendriyas, the senses of taste. Now you want to eat ice cream. You go to buy ice cream. You bought ice cream, brought it home, and you tell your wife, "Oh, today I brought ice cream." And your wife says, "My dear, you are not allowed to eat ice cream. You have a problem with the throat. When you are healthy, you can eat." Now, the desire remained unfulfilled, which was refused. But still, it goes to the subconscious. It repeats several times, but circumstances do not allow you. You would like to do it, but you cannot. These desires will come in the dream, and you dream at night that your wife brought ice cream for you. How nice. Boys, you must be very nice to your wife, and she serves you ice cream. You take the spoon without saying, "Thank you." How selfish men are. You take the spoon, "Oh, very good, colorful ice cream," is coming near the lips, and the alarm rings. What happened? You woke up. The dream is gone. No ice cream, no spoon, nothing. Even in the dream, you could not fulfill your desire, but still it will remain and repeat. One day, the form will disappear, but the desire will remain. This example can be applied to different situations in your life. You have anxiety and you do not know why, but that is in the subconsciousness, and desires which are not fulfilled lost the form but still disturb you. That is known as a psychic problem and goes to Mūlādhāra, unconscious, deeper. If you have no good relation with someone, this is your problem, not the problem of the other person. There is one man, and he tells his wife, "I will be home at eight o'clock." She makes nice pizza and nice preparations. Eight o'clock should be ready. She is waiting, and he did not come: 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00. She is boiling inside. The pizza is not burning, but she is burning inside. The dear husband comes. She says, "Why did you come so late?" He says, "Do not be angry. I came late, but why are you suffering? Always you come angry: 'How late!'" She is angry. He says, "You could have begun to eat at eight o'clock, that is all. It is not necessary that you are angry. Simply, I cannot be punctual, okay? Maybe I say to you, I will come evening at ten o'clock, and I come in ten days." She said, "Then I will have a form to sign divorce." I said, "No problem, this crazy man." So, these are normal problems, family problems. They go to our subconscious, unconscious. The mind is that principle which brings desires from subconscious to conscious, and information from conscious to subconscious. That is why the mind is always changing, and the mind cannot be steady. Many people say, "I want to stop my mind." Mastery will be possible, yes. Thank you, Master. When, my dear Master, when will you die? Oh, God, again? So, as long as you have desires, wishes, social contacts, contact with the outer world, you will have all thoughts, vṛttis, good or bad. Now, these 72,000 nerves, through which consciousness flows, and in the body there are many, many cakras, but the main cakras are eight. You see on the chart from the right side: Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna, Maṇipūra, Viśuddhi, Anāhata, Ājñā, Bindu, and Sahasrāra. These cakras are all located near the spinal column. These three nāḍīs are also passing through the spinal column. Where they cross, there becomes a cakra. Our past karma, past memory, past experiences are dormant in the Mūlādhāra cakra. Your destiny, whatever is happening, is already in this phenomenon. Something we can avoid or solve, something we cannot. We have to go through. That energy, or that destiny, or those experiences, those feelings, that which keeps this all, the energy is called Kuṇḍalinī when this cakra awakens. Then many memories awaken, many destinies come. We are sitting here in this hall, and we do not know what is in the underground, in the basement, because there is a floor between. Similarly, we are in this body, but there is a thick layer of ignorance. We do not know what is hidden within us. If you practice wrong yoga techniques, or some wrong techniques, and this power awakens in you, you are a case for psychiatric treatment. Nowadays, many people are playing with yoga. They make a ten-day yoga course, they get a yoga certificate, and say, "Hey, I am a yoga teacher." To become a yoga teacher is very hard; practical experiences are needed. It is like a pilot: you listen to ten days of lectures about how to fly and what to do, and now there is a jumbo jet standing there, full of people. Do you think you will take off? Yes, two times you can take off: first and last. Such a yoga teacher confuses people. They are thinking, trying some psychological techniques, what people like now, playing with human consciousness. We need authentic yoga techniques. Then you are on the safe side. All the past, from past lives, is dormant in your Mūlādhāra. From birth until today, all experiences are dormant in Svādhiṣṭhāna. These two cakras are very difficult to cross. Then, consciousness begins to awaken, and we are on the Maṇipūra Cakra. Maṇipūra Cakra is the center of energy also. Money is the jewel. It is the place of the jewels, but also, there are some qualities. If you cannot master it, it can destroy you. Again, it depends on your attention toward the body, consciously or unconsciously. Different people create tension on a particular part of the body. Those people who consciously or unconsciously give pressure to that part of the body, that part becomes ill. It is said that according to psychology, when women have problems with their partners constantly, then either they give tension on the chest or on the lower part of the body, and mostly they get cancer there. It is not only the cause; yes, there are many other causes too. But mostly, it is this cause: the partner problem. The man also gets problems with the gallbladder. The man also gets problems with the prostate. Are there people who are happy, relaxed, in a good partnership? You know, many people die earlier because the wife is very strict. Mostly the directors. Mostly the director gets an earlier heart attack. As high a position as you have—because in office you are a very high director or president or something—and when you come home, your wife does not tell you, "Dear President, Your Excellency." She will call you by your normal name. But you said, "I am the president of the company, so and so, I am director." She says, "Yes, I know—in the office, not at home." Such a woman kills the husband quickly. That is it. There are some people, when something happens, they give pressure to their navel center, stomach, digestive pressure. They get diarrhea, or they get constipation. Many, many physical difficulties come because of psychic problems. That means unsolved problems in the subconscious. Cakras are the energy centers. These cakras can be regulated and can be awakened. Every cakra has its own character. As your consciousness passes through a particular cakra, you experience all these different things. But if you have the right techniques, then the awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī means the awakening of wisdom, awakening of happiness, awakening of light, awakening of contentment, awakening of clarity. So, awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī means awakening the best qualities. Where there is light, darkness disappears. So, when wisdom is awakened, negative karmas are washed away, and all beautiful blossoms come up: love, kindness, understanding, forgiveness, oneness, humbleness, devotion—oh, what not. That makes you holy. That means the awakening of spiritual consciousness through practicing your mantra, through doing meditation, prayers, helping others, and so on. Therefore, the science of Kuṇḍalinī means the science of your consciousness to check the phenomenon. What is within you? How are you? And who are you? So, you are the Ātmā. You are not this soul which should suffer in the astral body, physical body, and this body. One day there will be nobody. There will be only one Ātmā, everlasting happiness. Not that you exist in the divine, in the light, but you are yourself divine, the light. One without second, with endless universe. You are one with it, and that is the aim of yoga practice: yoga in daily life. You have to practice systematically, slowly. The main thing is your confidence, your love, your decision. Even the mighty Himālaya may move, but my decision will not change. I want to achieve this spirituality. Liberation in this life—I do not care what happens to me physically, emotionally, mentally, intellectually. This is a life. One day this body will be destroyed too. This body is given to you as an instrument. Do not give this instrument into wrong hands; do not destroy, do not damage this instrument. Give it to God as pure as He gave it to you. Give it back as it is. There is a beautiful bhajan, so we will sing this bhajan. So, give to God your body as pure as it was given to you, what we call untouched nature. Do not give your body damage. These five elements are like the cotton, so that the thread is made out of five elements to make this all. Aṣṭakamala Cakra Banāyā. These eight cakras in the body are that spinning wheel. Now the smas bunanko laga. Nine till ten months took time to make this beautiful body, pūrṇa—complete, no damages, perfect, very gentle. Murak melikini. But the foolish one, the stupid one, day by day making dirty through what? Through your desires. No sense of eating, no sense of drinking. Human, what is doing? Humans, what are they doing? Yesterday, someone told me humans are worse than trees. I said, "Why? Look, if you give the tree water, fertilizer, light, air, you give water and fertilizer, and the tree gives you good fruit. You give eating and water to humans. What they give you, I need not tell." Well, I had to say, "Yes, you are right." So, humans do not know how to eat, what to eat. The stomach is only a sack of garbage. Whatever comes, put in, put in. Also, emotional problems, no waiting. Young children want to go to nightclubs, they want to have a girlfriend, they want to have a boyfriend. Until 25 years, you should not even think about this. But now, in 25 years, nearly you are a grandmother. You destroyed your body. That means you are making it day by day dirty. But he said, "When my this... I saw this body came to me from the factory. I gave it for coloring, and I found such a good color man. He made so beautiful color, red into the red, into the red." That means Gurudev colored you in the color of devotion, spirituality, God. He colored so good, Sir. Even a watchman will wash your cloth; for many lives, the color will not move. It does not matter who is who, what is blackmailing, what is talking; your color will not become pale. Day by day, you will become brighter. Many holy persons achieve this. They gave back to God as they were born. Many are damaged, many are not. Who is damaged, I will repair it. And who is not damaged, I shall protect him. The mystery of human life, human consciousness, human achievements, and human abilities is indescribable and can only be achieved through yourself. If you wish, you can. But to realize one, you have to renounce many. There was one shepherd, a shepherd who was going with the goats. The shepherd had one tobacco pipe. The whole day, the pipe was hanging here. He loved his sheep and his pipe. One day he died. He died. Like we will do also. Will you do it? Not purposely. Time will come, and you will die. You know, it is a peculiar thing. Nobody knows who will be the first from us. Thanks to God that we do not know; we can thank our destiny. Have you also felt like this? Empty? Try. You have to achieve this emptiness. So he died, and they took him to heaven. They said they opened the door of heaven. He said, "Oh, I have such good karma." Yes, you have. God ordered that we should bring him into heaven. He said, "Will I get a tobacco pipe in heaven?" They said, "In heaven, there is no tobacco pipe." "Then I quit heaven. I go back to my sheep because I have my tobacco pipe there." Only for a tobacco pipe, he renounced heaven. We have many, many habits, many desires, many unclean qualities. If you can quit all of them, you go beyond limitation. You can go through the roof. So, it depends on you. For me, it depends on me. It is an individual case. So, how much purity do you have? How many different thoughts take you away to somewhere? So, anything you want to do in your life, decide clearly. It is your life. You are free. You have the right to decide how you want to live, and that is your decision in your life. But I hope you will decide spiritual. Spiritual means pure. Lead life as you are, but become free from negative feelings and negative thoughts, negative opinions. Ask yourself why you criticize. Once I saw a picture from International Amnesty: a pigeon bird was closed in the basement, and there was only one window to fly out. Light was coming through the window. The window was open. The pigeon could fly in and out, but one leg of the pigeon had a very big iron ball, maybe twenty kilos, with an iron chain tied to it. The pigeon had wings to fly. The window was open. It had the freedom to fly, but it was hung with a heavy iron, so the pigeon could not fly with this heavy weight. So, ask yourself, my dear, how many heavy irons are hanging on every side of you. Heaven's door is open wide for you. No one prohibits you, but with your emotions and desires, you are tied here. That does not let you progress. Free this heavy iron from your leg. The key is in your hands. That means purify and quit all negative qualities.