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This is a retreat dedicated to Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Deveśvara Mahādeva, and Mādhava Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān. As I explained yesterday, there are different kinds of Anuṣṭhāns. Yoga is one of the very smooth, comfortable, and gradual processes and practices. In yoga, there is no aggressivity. There are no aggressive thoughts or movements. It is very balanced, very calm, and it gives time to overthink. Maharishi Patañjali writes in his Yoga Sūtra about human thoughts. We have many different systems in our individual phenomenon. We have a physical body, created from the five different materials we may call elements: space, air, fire, water, and earth. This physical body survives on nourishment. It is very important for our physical body to have proper nourishment at the right time. If you fast too long, you can also damage your health. Some people fast for many, many days or months; that is not good. Nourishment is of different kinds: physical, mental, and spiritual. Physical nourishment is what we eat and drink. Whatever we consume will help or damage our body, depending on what it is. In eating, whatever you consume contains a kind of energy that goes to your pañca tattva, the five elements. These five elements together make you an individual being or a body. Beside this physical body, there is a mind. The mind is a very fine, subtle process. You cannot see it; even you yourself cannot see it. But you know it is your mind. You say, "In my mind, there are different things. I change my mind. I will make up my mind." How did you change your mind? Did you put it from one room to another, or from one table to another? What does your mind look like? It is very easy to say you change your mind. How did you change? Like you change the gear in your car, or you change your sitting position. You do not know, and it is very interesting—the things which you do not know, but you are capable of changing. So if you can change things which you do not know—how they are, what they are, or how they look—then for you it is no problem to change your physical things or your physical diet. It means our willpower, imagination, and feelings are limited only to the body, these ten senses. So it is very important that we come far beyond only this physical body. The mental and subtle bodies are the pañcakośa: annamayakośa, prāṇamayakośa, manomayakośa, vijñānamayakośa, and ānandamayakośa. Similarly, that is called citta. Citta means the consciousness. It is that part of your consciousness where your intellect is active. If you have one house or one apartment, there is a sleeping room, a cooking room (what we call a kitchen), a dining room, a bathroom, a storeroom, an office room, a living room—many rooms. Where are you this minute, this moment, this time? If you are in the bathroom, then you are in the bathroom. If you are in your bedroom, then you are in the bedroom. All other rooms are without your presence, but you know about them: what they are, where they are, and how they are. But you are in your sleeping room, and someone goes to your living room and does something you do not know. They take away some things you do not know. When you come to your living room, then you will say, "Oh God, someone has stolen my flower vase, or this and that." So consciousness is one. Your apartment or your house is one. According to the square meters or square kilometers, or whatever boundary you have, that is your consciousness. Now, your wife has her own territory also; she has her own consciousness, though you are both in the same room—in the bedroom, the kitchen, the sleeping room, or the sitting room. But you do not know each other: what is going on in her consciousness and what is going on in your consciousness? So, besides the mind, that is called consciousness. And in the consciousness, the part which you occupy in the present situation—meaning with your intellect—that part of your consciousness you may call just now the space where the citta vṛtti is active. Citta means the consciousness, and vṛtti is the thoughts, thinking, vibration. Again, to make something clear: your apartment has 500 square meters. It is not very big, but okay. You must have at least 60 square meters for the kitchen alone to move properly, store things properly, and feel comfortable. Fifty or sixty square meters is not very much. Then you should have at least about 80 square meters for a dining room, or 100 square meters, because it is not only you there; you will have some friends coming. So, 100 square meters dining room, 60 square meters eating room, and 40 square meters storeroom for the kitchen, and 20 square meters for a serving table in between. That is about 200 square meters only for your kitchen area. What remains? Other than 100 square meters is your living room, and 100 square meters is a sleeping room. In about 40 square meters, you have all toilet and bathroom spaces. And about 50 to 60 square meters, you have a bedroom and an office. But still, room is missing. Where will you put your coat, and a place for your dog, and this and that? So we squeeze ourselves into a 500-square-meter place. We just squeeze into it. That is why I tell you that the living quality, the best living quality, the highest living quality, is had by the birds and other animals which are free. We humans squeeze; we survive. That is it. So, in a 500-square-meter flat, in some of the rooms there is light burning; other than that, all lights are off and you are there. Let us say that is our whole consciousness, and some part of the consciousness is active: the light, or intellect, or where you are. We can expand our consciousness limitlessly. Your consciousness expands according to your thoughts. Now you think about Japan; now your consciousness is expanded to Japan. Now you expand your consciousness to Africa; now it is so far between Japan and Africa. Expand your consciousness to Brazil and Canada. Now we have covered nearly the whole planet. If you go down to Australia—it is just here down, us. They say in Australia there is one city called Adelaide. If you drill into the earth, Adelaide comes out. It is just, yes—expansion of the consciousness. Now you think about the moon, Jupiter, beyond; now your consciousness is expanding. But there are two things: one is imagination, and one is reality. That is it. In thinking, you are not in Australia, China, Japan, India, Africa, or wherever, but with the thinking you are there. Still, the light of your intellect is not there. When you become aware of this, then the thinking process... It is said in yoga that though you are physically not there, mentally your mind has gone there. And when the mind is active, it means your intellect is active. Your intellect, which joins your mind, goes with fantasy or imagination, but still your intellect cannot give you the answer. Yes, you go from here now to Bratislava. This is a very interesting subject. You are from Bratislava—many here, yes or no? Yes? Nobody is here from Bratislava? It cannot be possible. Okay, we go to Zagreb. Is there somebody from Zagreb? Okay. Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia, which is a part of ex-Yugoslavia, because still many people in the world do not know this. It is a problem. When I was in Japan and I said that I am from Austria, they said, "Australia?" I said, "No, no, Austria." And there are big cities: Vienna, and there are more cities, Salzburg. "Oh, Mozart! Mozart, Salzburg!" I said, "Yes, that is Austria." Uh-huh. You see? Anyhow, those who are from Zagreb here, you know your address. When you come to the airport or railway station, or you go by car, you know how to go? Yes. You know your house number? Yes. And you know your door number and how your door looks; that is very good. Now you are conscious about this. Your mind is there. Your intellect is creating something, waves. But can you tell me now who is standing in front of your house? There you are paralyzed. Maybe the postman is standing, maybe some dog is standing, your neighbor is standing, or some garbage is lying there. So it means that part of the consciousness where the light is, and where it can notice everything till your vision goes there, then you are present there. Otherwise, you are only thinking and expanding your consciousness and creating tension. You know how your husband looks, ladies? Do you have a husband or not? No? Well, someone has, definitely, yes. You know exactly how beautiful your husband is, how nice he is—and of course, very nice. Husband can be only beautiful? All husbands are beautiful. Every husband is very nice, very good. And you telephone at home, and he is not at home. He went for a walk with the dog. But you are thinking now, why is he not home? At this time, he should never go out of the house. Why? He is not there. That is it. Now, what kind of thoughts are you creating? That is a tension. And this is injustice; this is not correct. This is your jealousy, this is your ignorance. Though you know how your husband looks, though you know that your husband is good, and you are aware of your husband, you are thinking about your husband, but you do not know the reality at the present time. That is the problem, and therefore these kinds of thoughts create in us, or within our individual phenomenon, that kind of vibration which we call negative. Or, there is another thought: you think of your husband, "Oh my God, poor man, I hope that he will find where the coffee is and where the cream is for his coffee. I forgot to buy his favorite cheese for him, but I hope he will take other cheese. I hope he will not be starving." You think so kindly about him, though he is sitting in some restaurant having a nice breakfast. What is he doing? He likes it, and you do not know, and you are thinking that, "Oh my God, this is okay, does not matter where he is and what he is eating." That is a different thing now. But very soon, as you think positive and nicely about your husband, your entire phenomenon is filled with another vibration, a healthy vibration. And that will create a healthy environment in your consciousness, in your mind, in your imagination, and in your feelings. It reflects on the body. With words, with thinking, you can influence the body. You can influence thoughts. And you can influence someone's environment in their mind or in their cidākāśa, in their ākāśa, therefore. Patañjali is speaking of citta vṛtti. So citta is consciousness, and vṛtti is the waves: thinking waves. These thinking waves can make you happy and healthy, or can make you unhappy, unhealthy, angry, and whatnot. So Patañjali said, "Yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ." Yoga is that path, that technique. Yoga is that which... Nirodha. Nirodha means purify. Nirodha means clean. Nirodha means stop, neutralize, harmonize—and vṛtti, your thoughts, the vibration. So yoga: in your consciousness, in your phenomenon, citta vṛtti, your thinking. Some are suffering. There are some who cannot sleep. Unhappy ones are they who cannot sleep because they think about someone else, see, or hear what they are doing now. "If my children are at home or not, oh God, the mother is so unhappy. Maybe they are gone out today, or we are not here, or they are watching television for so long, or this, or they have got eaten. Did they eat or not?" And this kind of thought makes you restless; you cannot sleep. In reality, they are very happy. Grandmother came and gave them good eating, and they went to sleep. They are sleeping very happily, and everything is okay. But you do not know that everything is okay. So try to create healthy thoughts. Try to create positive thoughts. It is not for others; it is for you. When you are at a far distance, though you think negative, you cannot help another one, you cannot control another one. Then why should we think negative? We should think positive. And that will give you such a pleasant feeling that will help your heart to be healthy, that will help your kidneys to be healthy, that will help your pancreas to be healthy, that will help your digestive system to be healthy, that will help your breath system, the respiratory system, to be healthy. And that will relax this part between these two ears, this part. That will be healthy. When you constantly send tension to this part of the body, then it may become a cause of brain cancer. It may not only be that, but there are many different reasons. However, one of these different reasons is also such a kind of negative thinking, intentions. Your thinking—no one can see, even you cannot see—but you are thinking. Therefore, always try to meditate and repeat your mantra, and try to release the tension from your brain, the stress. And therefore, meditation is a great help to protect ourselves from many, many diseases which can cause a great problem to us from this part of the body, our brain. So many people, in meditation, they also create a tension in the brain, and that is not good. Many people are thinking, "Through my meditation, I will see light inside." And what they are doing is they try to pull the eyebrows up like this. There is nothing, so this tension you create. You will never see the light. That kind of light which you think to see, that light. Here you will see that light which is not this physical light. It is that light of the wisdom you cannot describe with this. And therefore, in one bhajan, Maa Prabhujī said very nicely, very nicely. Chant, chant. In this country, I am born. I am born in Sri Lanka. I am born in Sri Lanka.... Rangan Rupayanu Payanat, Rangan Rupayanu Naipause, Ranganare Naipause, Ranganare Guruvarame Chalushauna. Therefore, there is a very slight difference between sleep and meditation. In sleep you are not aware, and in meditation you are aware. So never try to pull your eyebrows up to see something. See with inner eyes, not with these physical eyes. So relax your eyeballs. And if still you want to use your eyeballs, then try to look at the tip of the nostrils or the nose or the tip of your cheeks here. And if someone has this, then look to your moustache. When the fly sits, then you can do like this. So, a feeling of happiness, relaxation, joy, and oneness in the heart. The feelings in the heart, visions in the Ājñā Cakra. Anāhata Cakra is for your feeling, the ocean of love, the ocean of mercy, where the fountain of joy and vision is here, but with another inner eye. In that time, when you will collect your feelings, your thoughts in the anāhata, and you become aware of your cidākāśa, the presence, the space of your consciousness, then you are relaxed and one with thyself. And that is called Patañjali's citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ. If thoughts come, let them come. If thoughts go, let them go. Just be observant. That is all. Like a mother, she is working, cooking, and so on. The small child is playing. She knows what he or she is doing. That is all. The mother is active, working, cooking, this and that. But at the same time, she is aware of the child. That is it. Similarly, you meditate, you do your mantra, and you know what thoughts are doing? They are coming and going. That is all. Relaxed. And so, yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ. Every thought influences our consciousness, our intellect, our mind, our emotion, and our body. Now, there are some thoughts which are connected to this part of the body, the entire head. There are some thoughts which are connected with our shoulders and the trunk of the body. There are some thoughts which are connected with our hands and fingers. Yes, you do not know how much your thoughts are going on the hands. Constantly, you are jealous because your neighbor has very good fingers and nails. You know, always when you see, "Oh, the fingers, they are nicely done, and my fingers, oh." You go in the bathroom and brush them and come again, they are like, oh. Many people are constantly thinking of their fingers. Then they go to the nail studio and put on the nice plastic nails. And then they come into the office and talk to the colleagues. "You know, it was so beautiful." Now you are talking in this way because psychologically, you saw you have beautiful nails also, and nice color also. That is it. Therefore, it depends which thought occupies you. And such people, they will get a problem on the fingers, joints, ankle, the wrists, the palms. And some people are thinking about the legs. You know how many people are thinking about legs? My God, you cannot imagine. I am sorry to say to you, anybody, please do not be angry, but one day in Vienna—of course many are Austrians who have such thoughts many times, not only Austrians, but that is the thing—one lady told me, "Swamiji, you have such nice thin legs. If I had such thin legs, I would only go with the mini skirt." So you see, it is not only about what you are thinking. If you have a problem there, a psychic problem, that will create some kind of illness in that part of the body. And so release the tension. Release the tension from the body during meditation. Release and imagine positive energy, and that is a big protection. I believe that no one is ill, but in case, if someone has a certain problem, please begin today to send positive thoughts. Do not be proud of it, do not be negative about it, do not hide in front of you, and do not be sorry about that. I told you yesterday, no one is more beautiful than you. You are the most beautiful one in this world because God made a choice, and God said to Mother Nature, "This is my beautiful child. I want to have one like this." That is it. The inner beauty of your understanding, your love, your soul, that is a divine beauty. And that divine beauty, if it begins to radiate outside, many problems will be solved for you and for others too. So, this Anuṣṭhān retreat here in the Czech Republic in the Mahāprabhu Dev Satsaṅg Foundation, Střelky, is about this energy. Today after this lecture, the next program: your yoga teacher will teach you how to send the energy to those particular parts. There is also a technique, there is also some mantra, and that, of course, your teacher will tell you. We have five different classes, and every class has different kinds of techniques. But you will experience in your exercises. Your teacher will tell you. In the evening at satsaṅg, you will tell me how suddenly your inner tension is released. Someone has constipation? Concentrate. You will do that as a technique. The teacher will tell you, and after the techniques, your constipation will be removed. You will say, "I never had such a problem like that." You will think, and of course, I have a very nice treatment for constipation. If you have constipation—of course, I need not ask who has, you need not to say—but there is a very, very good remedy against constipation, and that is: before eating, you should eat one bowl of salad, any kind. Salad with any kind of salad dressing, but eat one bowl of salad, and during the eating, drink some juice. Water is okay, but juice. And if you want to remove constipation quickly, then drink, half an hour before eating, one glass of red beet juice. Your constipation problem will be solved. So every meal—morning, dinner, lunch—you should eat salad. Of course, people say 11 o'clock at night is not good to eat raw food. Okay, do not eat at 11 o'clock; try to eat earlier. So, those who have this problem can begin, and I am sure that this problem, which, if you have had for many, many months or years, it will help you; it will be solved. That is very good. So this mind, intellect, the creation from the mind, the thoughts, result, appreciation, and creating by intellect, those waves, your emotion and your inner talents of the fantasy or imaginations and the consciousness, your mind and your ātmā—all is within yourself. You are one phenomenon like a balloon, and it is in your hands to help yourself.