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We have a very interesting subject today. Once I spoke, and some of you have this chart. It is about śvāsa sādhanā. The śvāsa means your nāḍī which flows. Also, svara means the key, the note key. Like we have, Indians have Ṣaḍja, Ṛṣabha, Gāndhāra, Madhyama, Pañcama, Dhaivata, Niṣāda. And you have in European also these notes. I don't know what they call these notes. So, in Indian, we call them Śruti. So this is also called Svara. But the other is Svara, the flow of these nostrils, lunar and solar. So, the Chandra Svara and Sūrya Svara: Chandra is the moon, and the moon is the principle of mind. The mind is the principle of emotion, and emotion is the subject of the heart. The heart is the subject of understanding unity and love. Sūrya svara is the subject of the intellect, and the subject of the intellect is to decide judgment, and judgment means, again, then activities is creativity. Now, these two phases, sun and moon phases, which change every day, and mostly... A lot of things are connected to our moon principles. There is a certain time when you should put the seeds in earth, then they will grow better. Then they will have a good immunity system, which means many bugs will not be able to destroy them; these are all different kinds of infections which get... the plants will not be able to destroy or affect these crops or the tree. So, according to the moon system, and again it's a Vedic science, it is told when you should plant the seed, and when you should not plant it. It's not that, "Oh, good rain came, earth is wet, now we can put the seeds in." You can do it, but either the other creature will destroy, or different weather will destroy, or many different kinds of bugs, infections will attack the plants. If you follow the moon phases, then it will grow properly strong and will have resistance against weather changes and the bugs. Such crop which gives us the seeds, the grains, have also that kind of energy, so when is the mother earth ready to give us such a plant? The position of the earth is also changing. According to the science of the lokas, there are 14 different worlds, or the 14 different layers, and that's called the 7 upper lokas and 7 lower lokas. Now, this Bhū Maṇḍala, the Pṛthivī Loka, is influenced by other 13 lokas. And like we have the period of the day, the dawn, when the dawn comes, then entire nature wakes up, except alcoholic humans who drink till four o'clock at night. Then, fair dawns, or those who have the night duty, if we will go sleeping earlier, then you will automatically be fresh, be fit early morning, Brahmamuhūrta. But now, our modern civilization has developed in such a way, people eat breakfast. Bad people take bad tea, and we have the dinner. Only people take morning bad tea, and we have the evening dinner tea. We have evening dinner tea. It means we are awake, and they go to sleep. So it means we lost the cycle of nature: when to sleep, when not to sleep. Human came out of the cycle of nature: there is a morning hour, before noon hour, noon hour, afternoon hour, evening. So like this, the earth also has the time of sleeping, time of resting, time of working, and when she will give fruit and when she will not give fruit. This is connected very much with the moon, and the moon has 16 colors. This means every minute, every second, the moon is changing; every day it is changing. So this affects our emotion, this influences our consciousness, and it influences our intellect. And there are some actions which can be fruitful, and some actions which can't be fruitful. You do it, but you are not successful, and there are some things you don't give too much effort, but it is successful. Now, on this planet, there are two phases: night and day. Night symbolizes past time. Night symbolizes darkness. Darkness means ignorance, and ignorance means sleeping or a resting consciousness. The intellect is not active enough, and then, in the daytime, the moon... where we are more active, the Sun—the Sun, sorry—daytime. Now it is said that the yogic consciousness should remain always awakened. Though you sleep, but you are not sleeping; your sleep is known as... Yoga nidrā, yogī Janakī, yoga nidrā virala śānt janjanī hai. This is a bhajan of Śrī Mahāprabhujī. So, the yoga, the sleep of yogīs, very rare yogīs know completely. For you, yoga nidrā is a very good relaxing technique. You know that all our disciples like yoga nidra very much. And if I cancel the yoga nidra program, everyone is angry. So many questions come. Why this time we don't have yoga nidrā? Can we practice yoga nidrā? And what are they doing? They are snoring. But Yoga Nidrā means in the night you let rise the sun, so this is the science of the consciousness. Widen your consciousness, you can become aware when you will die, which day, which time you can tell, when you will become ill, because you see the color of your prāṇa, and you can change something when you know it. It means that it expands your consciousness for the future and also to the past. So there is a sādhanā, it's called Svara Yoga. Now, in Svara Yoga, you must be aware about the flow of your nāḍīs, what we call iḍā and piṅgalā, now these nāḍīs are changing their svara in every 45 minutes, or quicker or slower sometimes. And when you sleep, your sūrya nāḍī should flow, it means the right nostril. Now it means that when you sleep in the night, you should sleep left side, then automatically your sūrya nāḍī will flow. So though you are in the sleep in the night, but you are in the day, the sūrya. And if you sleep daytime, you should sleep right side because the moon should be active, but some yogis tell that only whenever you sleep, you go to sleep, your sun nadi should flow. And now many of you are trying, you are used to sleeping on the left side. Then immediately you can sleep. Now, it is said when you sleep, your head should be to the south. It means the energy flows from the north and through the body, it comes to the head. If the head is to the north, energy goes to the emptiness, but also it is said when you sleep, your facing should be to the north, that becomes complicated. So it means night you sleep left side and facing to the north, head to the west. Head to the west, you sleep left side, so automatically your face is to the north. When you open your eyes, you open into the north. North is known as a solid, the north energy, and south is sucking, is empty, and agni. Agni means to consume all, burning. If you sleep daytime, your head should be to the east, and you are sleeping right side now, so you are facing to the north, so these principles you have to follow very carefully. And now there is another principle which you shall practice and live accordingly, and this is when you are awakened, which svara should flow. So there is one nice chart, and it goes, it divides into two pakṣa. Pakṣa means the quarter of the month. So the half part of the month is called śukla pakṣa. Śukla means the light. It means the moon phase from the new moon day until the full moon day. This 14 days or 15 days is known as śukla pakṣa, the bright nights of the moon, and immediately the next day of the full moon is called kṛṣṇa pakṣa. Kṛṣṇa means dark, the dark nights, so these are the two wings of a month to balance emotion and intellect, these two wings of your consciousness, to lead your life healthy and successfully. Many things there are, mental kriyās which make your sādhanā successful. So there is a day which you should after write down if you want, so we have divided on the 14 days: first, second, and third day. When you get up, the sūrya nāḍī should flow. So Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa, the dark phase, begins immediately after, or the next day of the full moon, so the first days of this, the sūrya nāḍī should flow. When you get up, the sūrya nāḍī should be active, and in the śukla pakṣa should be the chandra nāḍī active. Now, how should we know that the sūrya is flowing or chandra is flowing, and for that, you have to practice. First, you're sleeping. You know, you are sleeping every day, but you are not practiced to sleep. You are sleeping because you are tired, and you get up because you slept enough, or you get up because you have to get up, and that is not like that. It's you. If you sleep consciously according to yoga nidrā or the svara yoga system, then you will gain more energy, you will be more fresh. So if you want that left nadi flows, then you have to sleep on the right side, or turn to the right side. If you want that your right nadi flows, you have to turn to the right, left side, because the right nadi will begin to flow. Or you can press one of the... make the fist and put it under the armpit, like this, and within a few seconds or minutes, your right nāḍī will begin to flow. Or, if you want the left to flow, you press the right armpit, and the left nāḍī will begin to flow. We generally begin practicing prāṇāyāma with the left nāḍī because the left nāḍī calms down our emotions and also controls our thoughts, and therefore it's very important that we have a good balance on the Chandra Nāḍī. About this, both you will read in your yoga book, you will find especially in our chakra book, and this is a very important technique for Kriyā Yogīs, and you can do anything normal work, but be aware which nāḍī is flowing. Then the third one is called Suṣumnā. So, time to time, the Suṣumnā nāḍī should overtake. So there is a fixed period of the left nāḍī, which takes over, which connects to our whole nerve system, and then the right nāḍī. After this, both come in the middle, Suṣumnā Nāḍī. And Sushumna is very important, that we should have awakened the Sushumna. Finally, the aim is this: that our prāṇa should flow through the suṣumṇā to the sahasrāra cakra. Sahasrāra chakra is there where our last prāṇa should go out of this body. That's called brahma randhra, which means the door to Brahman or the door to the Supreme. So this individual consciousness, in the form of the prāṇa, should pass through the sahasrāra cakra. The part of the oxygen and the breath that doesn't go through sahasrāra cakra, that will go through one of the nine doors: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, mouth, and gender systems. These are the nine through which our physical prāṇa goes out. But what we call the subtle prāṇa, which will accompany your soul through the entire universe, that prāṇa is very hard to describe. Is the prāṇa the self, or is the prāṇa the soul, or is the soul the prāṇa, or is one of them the self, the supreme, the ātmā? So the consciousness, individual consciousness, should pass through the sahastrāra cakra. That is called the door to the Brahman, or it's also called the mokṣa dvāra, the liberation, door of liberation. That means, according to the kuṇḍalinī yoga, that Shakti merges with Shiva. Now here, Shakti means your prāṇa, not male and female body. Shakti means the energy. The electricity is Śakti. The power in the wind is Śakti. The power in the fire is Śakti. Without power, the fire is nothing. So that is the principle. Shakti merges into the consciousness, the nature in the consciousness. So, our prāṇa-śakti, which is merging into the cetan-śakti, the consciousness. And so, you can also say kundalini, awakening of the kundalini, which meets the Shiva. Shiva means consciousness. Shiva means the light. Shiva means truth. Shiva means liberation. Shiva means beauty. Satyam Śivam Sundaram. And this is very important to understand. So finally, if your prāṇa goes through sahasrāra cakra, then you are not on the list of liberation, but you are already in liberation. Then all the rest of karma and destiny, everything, have no influence on you; everything will remain behind, so the aim of practicing the Kuṇḍalinī sādhanā, aim of practicing the tantra sādhanā. So here, the tantra means not what you are looking in the books, these cheaper books in bookstores, where they are talking about the Kāmasūtra and about different sexual positions, this is not a tantra. Tantra is something very different; it is the expansion of consciousness, the achieving of liberation: expand and liberate. Whatever you do in your life is a tantra. What you cook is a tantra, you serve is a tantra, you eat is a tantra, you digest is a tantra, you go to the toilet is a tantra. So every activity is a tantra, it depends how you call that. So for example, in Buddhism, the entire science and teaching of Buddhism is based on tantra. And they have Mahāyāna tantra, and Mahāyāna tantra has so much written material, and this means the work with the consciousness, not with the body, not in that way. So the leading of the prāṇa śakti through the suṣumṇā nāḍī and sahasrār bhedan, the awakening or opening of the sahasrār, that is the aim of our sattva when you practice kriyā yoga. Many of you have the kriyā. You are doing with Ākāśīmudrā the Sahasrāra Bhedana with the golden arrow. So that is the aim, that finally our consciousness frees from this body through the divine border that we call Brahma Randhra. We are chanting Aum not only because Aum is a holy word or a letter, but because A-U-M, these three letters, make such a combination of resonance that automatically the consciousness is concentrated in the suṣumnā, and every cakra begins to awake. How? Through the key of Om. So OM is that key, an automatic opener, like a remote controller. So you press on one, and all doors go open. Therefore, OM also we have to chant when we should say A, U, and M. This is Parā, Paśyantī, and Bākhārī. These are the three seeds of the sound, three qualities of the sound, three forms of the sound. The Parā is in the nābhi, in maṇipūra, the navel. Paśyantī is in viśuddhi, the throat, the vocal cords, and Upāṃśu is on the lips. So these are the three levels, which raise our Kuṇḍalinī and bring our Cetanā, our consciousness, to the door of the Sahasrāra Cakra, Brahmarandra, the door of liberation. So it's called Brahmarandra Bhedana. Brahmarandhra is the Sahasrāra Chakra, and bhedana is to open or pierce through, and that is again with the help of the consciousness. That also is called the Śabdaśañcalana. We have Śabdasañcālan Kriyā in our Kriyānauṣṭhān. When you chant Om, concentrating from the Manipura to the Ājñā Chakra, which we call the Vekrī Sādhanā, Vekrī Mantra, at that time your Suṣumnā Nāḍī becomes very, very active, and through that, your prāṇa automatically flows towards the Sahasrāra Chakra. It is believed that when Sahasrāra is awakening and the suṣumnā begins to flow, it's like in a dark room you have the light and you see all objects in the night. Similarly, this is this torchlight, your mantra and om. In the darkness of your destiny, you see all troubles, and you can try to avoid them and become free from this. So Svara Yoga is a very powerful sādhanā, a very colorful sādhanā. And which nāḍī should flow when we drink liquid? Which nāḍī should flow when we eat solid food? And which nāḍī should flow when we go urine, and which nāḍī should flow when we go to the toilet? And which nāḍī should flow when we begin to eat, and by sunset, and by sunrise? Now, if we know and if we would like to do the sādhanā through which nāḍī we should drink, it means which nāḍī should flow, left or right, or which nāḍī should flow when we eat, to master this kriyā, then you have to, you have to quit the chewing gum, because when you all the time chew the chewing gum, then you don't know which nāḍī you should accept, and we had to quit. So often drinking, now I'm sitting and drinking, or you check every nāḍī before. Now, how should I know if my left nāḍī is flowing or my right nāḍī is flowing. There is a very, very easy test. Let's say here is some cotton or some part of tissue. I put it on my hand, and now I will slowly inhale on it. Now, which side will it go? It means from which side more pressure is coming. That's flowing. My beard. Oh. Which side went? Right side. To be sure if it was mistaken or not. Huh? It went right. So it means by me, now it's flowing right. My right and your side is looking like left, but my right now you can do one thing more. You can just hold your hand like this and exhale on the hand. Now exhale strongly, and now you can feel from which nostril more air is coming, okay? Did you find? Now, let us say that your left nostril is flowing. Now we would like that the right should flow, so sit for a while with the arm of the palm fist under the left arm, not between both arms, only one, if you want to open which Nadi opposite armpit press? So wait for a while. Did it change? Very good. So it functions very good, an equation of you. Definitely, you have a question: when should flow which nostril? And I made one of the very old disciples of Mahāprabhujī, and many disciples of Mahāprabhujī, they are and were practitioners of the Svara yoga and also mantra so'ham. So when you go out of the house to work, or for a very important interview, or for your examination, you would like to be successful. Now what to do? Yes, we would like to be successful. No, who would like to be successful? Well, so it is said, according to Svaryoga, Svaryoga and Sugan Yoga. Sugan means to go on the good path. For example, a black cat crossing the road is a little bit not good, Sughan. Poor cat. Must she not cross the road? Then we must give her a bridge for the cat. Make a bridge. So, when you step out of the door, first bring that leg out, which svara is flowing. If the sun is flowing, the right leg; if the moon is flowing, the left leg. That's not difficult, no. So before you go out of the door, you must make sure that both of them are flowing. But once then, the right one first; the sun is right always. And if you don't know anything? Then first, right when you take the shoes, step first in that shoes, which nostril is flowing, left or right? When you wash yourself, first wash that part of the body which is flowing. So here and then there. When you dress, put first that arm in which it is flowing. My God, in the bathroom you will have already, you will have stress in the bathroom. The stress then begins. But everything goes so automatically. Like when you go to the bathroom, you put the light on, and when you go out, you put the light off. That's all. That's not a stress. If you think, "Oh God, I must put the light off," oh my God, and then you lock the door, and again, "Did I put off the light? No, I will check it again." You open the door and go in, and you check, "Yes, the light is off," but in checking, you put it on. You lock the door, "Oh God! I let it on again," you go in, so this should not become a stress. It's a usual thing: you go out of the door and lock the door, that's all. This is not stress, so very soon these things will become a part of your life, and you will, you will see different, a big difference. The life will become more clear and stable. That's very important. That's all.