So, there are two things going on here. When you do short kriya with Guruji's voice, like we are doing every Thursday morning, at that time, you lie down. When you are doing short kriya on your own at home practice, then there is no need to lie down. After short kriya, immediately after you take 20-40-40-3 times, you end with 5 long circles, and then you immediately go into Sahaj. You don't have to lie down. Is this clear?

So, there are two things. If you are doing short kriya with Guruji's voice, you have to lie down. If you are doing long kriya with Guruji's voice, you have to lie down. You do not do Sahaj after doing kriya with Guruji's voice. Is this clear? For most people, it's not clear for them. I am going to make it very clear. When you are doing your home practice, you don't have to lie down. After kriya, you go into meditation.

Do you guys really want to know about Omkar? It is amazing, the Om thing. I don't think… you guys are all sleepy. It's so late in the night. कितना बजा? 9 o'clock. छोड़ दे ना। All Omkar and all! Who cares? Right? What do you think? Should we do? Neelu, what do you want to say? I'll do whatever Neelu says. Because she's like too cool.

Okay. So Omkar. Why do we say Omkar three times? See what happens in Om? It's made up of three sounds: Aa, Ooo and Um. That's all you know in the class. And you know that Aa vibrates a little bit lower than the Ooo, and the Um vibrates a little bit higher than the Ooo. So Ooo is in the middle, Aa is below it, Um is above it. That's the order of vibration in the body. It could move up and down but that's the order in general.

So, when you say "Om", just by saying "Om", you start the vibrations starting from the bottom of your body to the top of your body. So, the energy stroke automatically happens upward. You start the energy to flow upward. If you have done the silence course, if you have done the advanced course, there is a distinction between what happens when the energy flows up versus what happens when the energy flows down.

Remember, the point on the forehead, when the energy flows up, that same point on the forehead manifests as alertness. When the energy is flowing down, that same point on the forehead manifests as anger. Anger and alertness are the two sides of the same energy, either its upstroke or downstroke. So like this, more positive things happen when the energy is flowing up versus down. This is all advanced course stuff. So, go take the advanced course. You will refresh your understanding. That's why we say "Om". Energy starts moving up.

That's not the cool part of "Om". The cool part of "Om" is, in the old... Okay, have you watched the movie Harry Potter? Yes or no? Do you know what I'm talking about? Harry Potter? Somebody is waiting. What is going on with him? You know Harry Potter, right? तो Harry Potter में क्या हैं, the first time when Harry goes to Hogwarts, there is a sorting hat. That sorting hat is put on the person's head and then that hat decides whether he goes to Slytherin or he goes to, I don't know what the other houses are, all this. Remember that? The sorting hat?

So in the old days, the Guru would let the Shishya's chant "Om" because the Shishya's were very highly sensitive people. They had done so much sadhana etc. So the Guru would make them chant "Om" and each Shishya would vibrate on a certain time of their life. You know, it's for us also. At some point in our life we are creative. In some point in our life we just take care of things and in some point in our life we totally destroy something and make it new. Our tendency is also like that.

So the Guru would chant, make the Shishya chant "Om" and where the highest vibration is happening, they would get that seva. So if a guy is in a more creative way, they will get to say, okay, how can we make this better? If the guy is in a more sustaining, if the “Ooo” is vibrating stronger, they are in a sustaining mode. So they will be given housekeeping and maintenance type seva. That will keep the ashram going. And some people whose vibration is on the top, completely transformative, they will say, find what is not working, break it down and make it new. The Guru would give the seva according to where the vibration is.

But today our vibration is so screwed up, our vibration is only governed by the ring of the cell phone. यहा पे हम लोग अटक जाते हैं। We have no idea of where the heck this "Om" is vibrating. Phone बजा zzzzz, you will say, “WhatsApp.” “कोन करा?” Then you are stuck. Your vibration is on the phone level. Forget about "Om".

So this is a trick of "Om". It is amazing. "Om" is just brilliant.

Nowhere, man. You will be right there. Where you start doing your Kriya, at the end of the Kriya, you will be right there. उधर ही। Physical space में। You are not going to go anywhere else. You will be right there. But emotionally, emotionally you will throw away all the baggage. You will become lighter. You will start tuning into more “the intelligence.”

Speak in Hindi! अरे यार, ठीक है चलो हिंदी। Yeah, so where do you want to go? आपको कहा जाना है? क्रिया करके where do you want to go? You tell me that. Answer the question. Whoever wrote question number 23. Or forget who wrote it. Where do you want to go? You guys tell me. आपको क्रिया और पद्मसाधना करके कहा जाना है? समझ में तो आए पहले where do you want to go? Tell me.

Health. Yeah. Health. What about health? You want to go to bad health? Peace. You want peace or you don't want peace? Deep state of relaxation. काहेको? Bliss. Why? Why? Comfortable. Spiritual growth. Why? Why? Why do you want all this? Okay, why do you want spiritual growth? Why do you want nothing? Why do you want nothing? Happy. Yeah, exactly. You only want happiness. That's the only answer.

And that you will get when you do Padmasadhana, Kriya. You will get happiness. बाक़ी तुमको क्या चाहिए और? Bliss, Vliss, these are only labels. You know the donkey का story where the guy puts a carrot on the stick and the donkey wants to eat the carrot so he keeps walking? वैसा है ये, bliss. वो ऐसे लटका है carrot. भागते रहो तुम लोग। You don't want bliss, Baba. You want happiness. You simply want happiness. Bliss will come on its own. Whenever it is ready to come, it will come. You are simply wanting happiness. That's it.

Look at your life. Everything you do is only to feel happy. है कि नहीं? Yes or no? फिर, keep it simple yaar. क्या इतना सब complicated करते हो life को तुम लोग? It's enough complicated as it is. Corona, एक छोटा सा मच्छर, है ना? Remember Nana Patekar's dialogue? एक मच्छर…। वैसा एक वायरस…। I mean whole world has come to bloody stand still.

Yeah. Are you sure you are not happy? Are you making a drama of it? I don't know. Arvind Kumar. See what we don't know is, so there is this question from Arvind Kumar. I am doing Kriya but I am not happy. That is in this timeline. Let's say I make an alternate timeline like Star Trek. Let's say I call it the Spock timeline. In the Spock timeline, Arvind Kumar does not do Kriya. What is the state of Arvind Kumar in the Spock timeline? We don't know. He could be a stark raving lunatic in that timeline. He will be so like, God knows what will happen. We don't know the alternate timeline.

You are saying I am doing Kriya but I am not happy. You don't know what you would be if you did not do Kriya. You don't have that reference point. So you cannot say you are not happy. You cannot even say that you are happy. I agree with you. You feel that you are not happy. But that is a feeling problem.

Hindi. अच्छा Hindi. Arvind Kumar बोल रहे है कि वो क्रिया कर रहे है Daily… Daily कर रहे हो कि नहीं? I don't think so कि तुम Daily कर रहे हो।अरविंद कुमार, तुम regularly कर रहे होगे, may be very regularly. Daily तो no chance. अगर daily कर रहे होगे तो… Daily कर रहे हो…अच्छा। ठीक है। तो अगर आप Kriya बंद करोगे suppose… Experiment करे क्या हम लोग? Experiment करे? अच्छा English, Ram, ठीक है। Should we do experiment? Now, somebody will say Gujarati में बोलो।केवल इतना बोलो गुजराती में। नथी आवत गुजराती। अवे बोलो! Okay, let's do experiment.

अरविंद कुमार experiment करते हैं हम लोग। आप तीस दिन तक क्रिया मत करो। चलो, I give you permission. तीस दिन तक आप क्रिया मत करो। लेकिन risk है। कहा पहोच जाओगे तीस दिन में उसका guarantee नहीं है। There is a risk of not doing Kriya for 30 days. Ah yes, Bishal Dhar, Bishal, I don't know how to say your last name. वो बोल रहा है, he has done experiment for long term. Lot of things changes. Correct. करते रहो आप थोड़ा। है ना? Don't take shortcuts. Just be patient with yourself. Do not take shortcuts. Keep doing Kriya. It is working on your subconscious यार। Subconscious पे कम कर रहा है तो थोड़ा टाईम तो दो। Magic will happen, यार।

Tendulkar did not become Tendulkar एक रात में। Achrekar Sir had to make him bat. खेलते रहो शाला। Taka-tak, taka-tak, taka-tak, कितना cover drive मारा पहले। Then he could face Brett Lee and all these people. अभी तुम batting track पे आए नहीं हो, तुम अभी practice track पर हो। You are on the practice track. You have to come to the test match track. Knowledge, watch knowledge. Be in seva. Are you doing seva, Arvind Kumar? You have to do seva. Every day, half an hour. You have to do something for someone else. And, and, वो someone else को पता भी नहीं चलना चाहिए की Arvind Kumar ने उनके लिए कुछ किया है। ये करो तुम जाके। आधे घंटे everyday किसी के लिए कुछ तो करो। लेकिन that person should not even know that Mr. Arvind Kumar has done something for me. ये करो तुम 30 days। Then you tell me कि Kriya is not working.

Why is it that one comes for weekly kriya? हाँ! तो में बोला ना। 24 का question है की  if you don't come for Weekly Kriya, आपका जो cycles है वो shift होते है। You go from slow, medium and fast to medium, fast and super fast. And why does it happen? See, when you are doing Kriya, the mind is automatically brought to the present. क्रिया करते वक्त mind present में आ जाता है and mind hates it. He doesn't like, इसको लगता हैं यहा से भागो। ये present is useless time, useless place to be. Mind hates to be in present. So, it makes a trick on you की जल्दी ख़त्म करते है। How do you do जल्दी ख़त्म? Fast कर दो। Slow, medium, fast को कर दो medium, fast, super fast. So, जल्दी ख़त्म हो जाएगा। है ना? This is what will happen. That is why the drift happens when you don't do. And when you do Kriya with Guruji's voice, he will say, "So-hum, so-hum." You breathe, "tannana." You reset the rhythm all the time. बस, then you are good. That is why Weekly Kriya is must. Every week एक बार Guruji कि आवाज में क्रिया करना हैं।

No, no, that's enough. Additional क्या करोगे? I will tell you, अच्छा additional करना है कुछ 28 वाले को? Additional करना है तो, stand on one leg for like 45 minutes every day. No yaar, it's enough. This is more than enough. और क्या करोगे तुम? No need.

Because it would be so boring. If everything was healthy and happy, it would be so boring. There's no fun. क्या.. will you play a game कि बोला तू जीतेगा? Now play a game. You will play की कुछ तो फालतू! There's no fun in playing a game. Funny in playing a game is that sometimes you will also lose. That is where the fun is in the game. It's a game, यार। ऐसे थोड़ी है। Will you play a game... चल I'll tell you. 100% of the time you will lose. Will you play the game? No. 100% of the time you will win. Will you play the game? Most likely not. When will you play the game? When it is 50-50.

India, Pakistan, कोई भी जीत सकता हैं, तभी मज़ा आता हैं गेम में। अभी सब अकरम, ये इमरान, कपिल देव, तेंदुलकर सब एक टीम में होगा तो क्या फ़ायदा? दूसरे वाले का तो वाट लगा देगा वो। There is no fun in that game. But when they are split in different countries, then cricket becomes fun. टक्कर equal में होती हैं ना। You have to have… शक्ति देखा है मूवी, शक्ति? Amitabh Bacchan के against Dilip Kumar ही हो सकता हैं यार। और कोई नहीं हो सकता। देखा है ना शक्ति? Go watch that movie. Amazing movie है वो।

So that is why everything is not healthy and happy. It's opposite.

Question is, number 34. Are you sure that they are suffering? Or is it that they are suffering from your point of view? What if I tell you, question number 34, what if I tell you that you came to this world by writing a contract with the Lipikas. You and the Lipika sat down and you said, "चल मेरे को ये ये ये होना लाइफ में।" Lipika said, "Done, done, done." And you asked for every single experience that you are getting. You asked for it to the Lipika. "I want this experience, this experience, this experience." "Can you give me a life with all these experiences?" Lipika said, "Yes, I will give you that life." And you came to this world. Now tell me, are you suffering? It's a contract you made with the Lipika. Are you suffering? Question number 34, yeah.

How are you remaining motivated to... to live? What keeps you motivated? From living today and again waking up tomorrow and living again and waking up the day after and living again. What keeps you motivated? Is there something that's keeping you motivated or it's just happening? तुम सोते समय बोलते हो कि कल मैं उठूँगा ही नहीं। चल छोड़।  Do you say that? No. So that is why. Boss ने बोला ना क्रिया करना हैं… बस करना हैं। ख़त्म बात। End of story.

देखों, it depends on the 22 year boy. Not all 22 year old boys are the same. If the 22 year old boy's name is Adi Shankaracharya, उनको क्या बोलोगे तुम? He is the guy who told you everything. If the 22 year old boy is called Sandeep Karode, उसको कुछ भी बोलो तुम spirituality के बारे में.. भाग जायेगा। He will run away.

I was at IIT sitting, living in the next room to Dinesh Kashikar. Which you guys know as Kashi Bhaiya. कितना हम लोग time pass किया वहा पे, IIT में? Did I learn Kriya? No. बावा भी था वहाँ पे, दिनेश घोड़के भी था वहाँ पे, प्रज्ञापाद भी था, जो तुम लोग अभी बोल रहे हो प्रशांत राजोरे। हम लोग सब same हॉस्टल में थे। We were in the same hostel. I was in third year, Rajore was freshy. I was in fourth year, Rajore was freshy. I was in the anti-ragging squad in the hostel, hostel 5. Rajore was freshy. I had to save that guy so many times. वो इतना लल्लू था कि कभी भी रो देगा वो। Somebody says something, he would start crying. If you start crying, somebody will complain to the dean. Oh, जो pantor थोड़ा rag कर रहा है उसका भी वाट लग जायेगा पूरा कैरीअर। I had to take care of that guy. Did I learn Kriya? No. I ran away from these jokers. I thought, "ये सब losers हैं।" "What is the point?"

Then I learnt Kriya after I came to America in 2003. This I am talking about in 1992. In 1991, 1992, all these guys, all of us were at IIT together. Rajore, Bawa, अपना Godke, Kashi, all these people. And me. And मैं भाग गया सब से, इन लोगो से। Then I met them after I did Kriya in 2003. I said, "Oh, these jokers are still here." "Okay, fine." Then Kashi and I got together. We did the Abhyasa app. Now we did some projects together. But there is a time for things to happen.

So I have given you the two extremes. Adi Shankaracharya, Enlightened at 22. Sandeep Karode, Complete Idiot at 22. Everything is in the middle of these two. Don't tell anything to anybody. Your life, your own life, if it is... मिसाल बना के रखो life को, the people should be impressed with your life. की यार ये बंदा amazing हैं। I want what this person has. Then they will listen to you.

Why you listen to Guruji? Because you say, "This guy is king, man." This guy is like king. I was not a big fan of Guruji. Did I tell you a story? I was not, after I did my first course, I was not a big fan of Guruji. I was like, "What is the big deal?" So then I played a game. Anytime Guruji would ask, somebody asked Guruji a question, I would answer the question in my head and I will wait for Guruji's answer and I will make a score that, "Sandeep का answer better है या Guruji का answer better है?" And मेरेको लगा कि 25% तो मेरे साइड में होगा। 25-75 ऐसा।

It started. "Sandeep 0, Guruji 1. Sandeep 0, Guruji 5. Sandeep 0, Guruji 25. Sandeep 0, Guruji 100. Sandeep 0, Guruji 1500. Sandeep is never bloody winning. ये क्या है? How come Sandeep is not winning? Sandeep is a smart guy. तभी मैं समझा कि, Guruji is not smart, he is enlightened. I can never come to his level. That is when I became a fan of him. And now I am totally devoted to him. I will do anything for him. But it started like that. Everybody has a journey to go. So when people say, you know, I am a skeptic, I say, "हाँ, आजा, बैठ जा, I was also in your place. Let's talk." I love these so-called skeptic people. I have been there, यार. I was a big skeptic myself. Don't worry about it.

How to advise 22 year old... Let him live, यार. 22 year old guy has to live his life.

Yeah, all that is happening. Correct. See, then you have a physical limitation like you have a high blood pressure problem or you are a heart patient. There are certain things you cannot do.

You know, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, they climb Mount Everest. अभी तुम heart patient को बोलो, "चल climb the Mount Everest." ऐसे थोड़ी करते हो? No, you cannot get a heart patient to climb Mount Everest. It is not possible. Similarly, heart patients and some people with a certain mind condition, they are not supposed to do Kriya. In fact, not everybody is supposed to do Kriya. Get it out of your head यार that, "सबको क्रिया करवाना है।" ये पागलगिरी है। Nobody, everybody does not have to do Kriya. Is this clear?

Whenever somebody is in trouble, they are going through some hardships in life, your instinct is कि, "उसको उठा और कोर्स में बिठा।" No need, यार। There is no need for that. You bring your sadhana, you are doing Kriya everyday, your sadhana, you bring it to them in their life. You be there for them. You don't bring them to the course. You be there for them. ये salesmangiri बंद करो तुम लोग। ठीक हैं। कुछ point नहीं है इसका। भाग जाएँगे सब लोग छोड़ के। भाग ही तो रहे हैं। Everybody is running away right now. Art of Living का नाम सुनते ही, "तुम लोग जोकर! छोड़ दे।" They have no respect for us anymore, because of the stupidity which we behave.

Your sadhana is to help other people in their life at their point in time. Your sadhana is not to convince somebody and bring them to the course. When they see you there, genuinely helping people where they are, they will become your biggest fan. They will say, "Boss, तू क्या कर रहा है यार? मेरेको बोल, मेरेको वो करना है।" "समझ में आ रही है बात तुम लोगो को?" Don't be a car salesman. "की चल कोर्स कर, ये, वो।" नहीं चाहिए। Guruji doesn't want anybody to do the course. It is good if they do the course, but make your life an example for people.

He is asking people, he has to ask people. Otherwise people are not doing it. So he has to ask. But you have to use your head a little bit.

करो, करो। It doesn't matter. You can do Kriya wherever. कोई problem नहीं है। There is no issue. Do yoga also. Wash yourself after and then you do. Don't do in that same state. Then it all becomes sticky and there is no fun there. Wash yourself. Then you do. See, sexual urges are the reason why you and I are existing today. It is just an urge. It is the primordial urge. The gene has to survive. It is a selfish gene. It is an evolutionary thing. The gene has to survive. It will make you do something that will propagate it. That's it. It is a sexual urge. It is a creative energy. Misdirected but nonetheless it is the same energy. So there is nothing wrong in that. Have at it. No problem.

ये teacher लोग जो हैं ना, मैं बोल रहा हूँ तुमको, भाग जाओ इनके साथ। Don't worry about these teachers. You have to, so they're coming from a space of, oh, we got so much, so we want to share. They're coming from the right space, but it is not taken correctly from people.

This is what I would do. I would not, I would not tell anybody. I would mention that, you know, I do these practices and this is what my benefit is. And sometimes when they're, when you're close to somebody, you have to be a little strict and insistent. You know, it's like, let's say you have a son or a daughter. They are five year old, right? Or let's say seven year old. So they are school going age. So seven year old. And they tell you ki, papa, I don't want to go to school. तुम बोलते हो की "हाँ बच्चा, ठीक हैं, घर पे बैठो। Don't worry. Don't go to school." No, ना। You insist them. You tell them some story की ये होगा, वो होगा, कुछ तो सीखोगे। Some nonsense. And you shove them in the school bus and they go to school.

And when they are in the school, they're happy because they're with their friends, etcetera, etcetera. And then they come back and then you think, okay, now they have learned once, but next day morning, same drama. Oh, I don't want to go to school. अबे! When you're in the bus, you're very happy. So your job is to take them to the bus. That's the discomfort part of it. उसके बाद बस में क्या होता हैं, that's not your problem.

So this is what most people are doing. They are pushy because they want to put, they want to put you on the bus. And when you are not a five year old and now you're a 35 year old, now that becomes a tricky situation. Now that is not done. So for a 35, 40 year old, you don't put them on the bus. You say, Oh, you know, this is the yellow bus and it has got a driver and the driver's name is Amitabh Bachchan. जाओगे? हाँ जाऊँगा। हाँ, तो जाओ। You have to sell it to them in a way that they will understand. It's not really a sell. You have to offer it.

It's like a spoon. You have to be like a spoon. समझ में आ रहा है, spoon. Spoon में तुम soup लेते हो तो... your... the spoon is not important. It's the soup that is important. You have to be the spoon that gives the soup. We think that हम लोग तो यार spoon है, we are like gold colored. No boss. You're just a spoon. Relax. So don't push people. Don't push. Be there for them. Somebody is having a mental breakdown or somebody is in a frustrated state. पूछो की क्या है, क्या हो रहा हैं? चल, let's go and have some chai. Be there for them.

Friends तो बनो पहले। Everybody wants to be teacher. Nobody wants to be friend. अरे, ऐसे कैसे चलेगा? You have to be first friend. Then only you can be teacher. You be friend.

I love girl next door type. Yaar, ऐसे थोड़ी है। Girl next door type are so cool. If I start posting about AoL stuff. Yaar, so here's the thing. Nobody is telling you to post about AoL stuff. मत करो तुम। First thing I would like you to do, this question number 42, whoever that person is. Be comfortable with in your skin. Be comfortable. आपकी skin के अंदर आप कंफर्टेबल हो या नहीं हो? Right now you are not comfortable. So find your comfort. Find your comfort within your own skin. This is the point of accept yourself as you are. Remember the hand positions for accept people? Three fingers are pointing towards yourself. Accept yourself. Be comfortable with yourself in your skin, first thing.

उसके बाद, don't just sit there. Once you are comfortable, you stretch out a little bit and do something that is a little bit uncomfortable. And then you come back to your comfort. You stretch, Uncomfort feeling आएगा, फिर बाद में आ जाओ, be comfortable. Then you see की how that uncomfort feeling goes away when you come to your comfort position. And you keep doing this. थोड़ा stretch, थोड़ा discomfort, बाद में comfort. बाद में discomfort, बाद में comfort. What you will find is over time your zone of discomfort becomes smaller and smaller or your zone of comfort becomes bigger and bigger. You are comfortable in many more situations that you were previously not comfortable in.

This is called reversible stretch. Uncomfortable, comfortable. Uncomfortable, comfortable. But that uncomfortable has to come. Otherwise you will not go anywhere. You will be like the frog in the well. You will forever be in the well. You need to come out of the well. But for that you will be first comfortable. Find the comfort in your skin. Be comfortable. Then you do something which is little bit uncomfortable.

Let's say you tell people about the happiness programme and they shout at you, oh you feel really disgusted, uncomfortable. You run back to your comfort set, की ohhh. I don't have to do this anymore. That's it. एक बार कर दिया ख़त्म। It's like pulling out a काटा. Pulling out a thorn from your leg. निकाल दो, थोड़ा discomfort होगा, बाद में, it will be comfortable. Then you again do.

See why we do uncomfortable things. Why we go and tell people about some things like Art of Living course. It is your skill. How much are you able to convey. This is all the VTP programme is all about. It is a communication. How do you convey. आपको जो मिला है वो कैसे दिखाओगे आप लोगों को, यार ये हैं। This is it. That is the uncomfortable part. And you don't have to do anything that is uncomfortable but it is necessary. For growth, doing something uncomfortable is necessary for you to grow.

So first you have to decide do you want to grow. You want to grow. So then in baby steps you grow a little bit. थोड़ा comfort, थोड़ा uncomfort. थोड़ा comfort, थोड़ा uncomfort. You cannot convince anybody anyway. All you can say is की बॉस मेरे पास ये है। आपको चाहिए? Make your life an example that people say की यार इसके पास जो है वो मेरे को चाहिए। Then people will listen otherwise who cares.

Your personality is very girl next door. So don't do.

I want everybody should do AOL course. Why? It's back to the same question. Why? Everybody should do the AOL course. It's like saying every animal should be able to climb a tree. Monkeys can climb the tree, how will a elephant climb a tree? It's impossible. Tree टूट जाएगा बेचारा। It's no chance. सबको काहेको? Nobody has to do everything the same. Otherwise, nature would have made only one kind of flower, yellow, ख़त्म, all flowers the same. It would be so boring.

Imagine, you could not make Silsila movie. "देखा एक ख़्वाब तो ये सिलसिले हुए।" You cannot shoot that movie unless you have six different colors of flowers. हैं कि नहीं, देखा है मुवी कि नहीं? जाके देखो तुम लोग। Movies tell you so much. My whole life I can learn from movies. We can do a whole session on only knowledge from movies. पूरा session सिर्फ movies के बारे में बात।

Nature is diverse because everybody is little bit unique. Guruji says you are a masterpiece. Unique item. There is nobody else like you. एक ही बनाया life में। That's it. So, not everybody has to do. Most people will benefit from it for sure. Make your life worth emulating. आपका life को ऐसा बनाओ आप की दूसरा ही पूछे कि बॉस तू क्या कर रहा हैं यार? चल मेरे को भी सीखा। That's it. That's what you have to do.

I cannot give you life advice like that. You will say, "Bhaiya, you told me to get married to this boy. नहीं चला तो? मेरे पे आयेगा सब। "I am not going to say. You have to decide. See, your kriya will give you the intuition. Your kriya will give you the intuition. अंदर से वो आवाज़ आएगी। There will be one voice that comes from inside कि, "This is the good or this is not good." Listen to that inside voice. It's the best guide.

And of course you can always write to Guruji and when he comes you can say, "You know Guruji, a photo or something. I have seen people, I'll tell you. I have seen people going to Guruji, "Guruji, this dog, should I buy this dog?" "Arre, get the dog." "Yaar, Guruji को काहे को, get it." आपको चाहिए dog, ले लो। कोई problem नहीं है। Guruji को पूछने का question है ये? Should I get this dog? Come on. So like this. You look for it yourself. Your kriya will give you the answer.

You know we talked about on the Physics of Pranayama course. There is intelligence and then there is intellect. They are two different things. So you have to tap into your intelligence, not get stuck in your intellect.

Ya, repeat courses. See you know, if you have a tumbler, उसको आप उल्टा रखो, ऐसे उल्टा। उसपे तुम कितना भी पानी डालो, पानी जाएगा अंदर? नहीं जाएगा। ऐसा हैं। Some people are in that state, their tumbler is उल्टा। So you have to first straighten that tumbler. Only then water will go in. Be a friend to them first. Then you push them to courses. Being a friend to them is like straightening the tumbler. पहले tumbler को सीधा करो आप। दोस्त बन जाओ उसके। Real friend with no agenda, no nothing. Once that tumbler is straight, then you pour water. "अच्छा देख पानी है, पिएगी?" Then she will drink the water. अभी तुम पानी ही नहीं भर सकते हो tumbler में, कैसे पिएगी वो बेचारी? There is no chance. Be a friend to them first. Yeah, 10 years, so maybe 20 years of friendship is required. I don't know. Find a way.

I was teaching a course in Exton. यही से like 20 minutes drive पे है। मैं बैठा था, last day of the course, somebody asked कि how it all work. Some question like that. So I just started talking. I said, you know this, that, that, that, that, that, that. All this stuff came out. It was not in the polished form that you saw. Like, you know, all those charts, etc. It was all in the head somewhere, but I was just talking. And I was like surprised of the words that were coming out of my mouth. I said, "ये कोन बोल रहा है बे। Who's talking?"

So then I excitedly came home. And the first thing I did, I called Madhuri. She's my wife. She's a senior teacher in the house. I'm the junior teacher in the house. I told her, "Madhuri, you know what? This happened and I said this, this, this." And she looked at me and said, "No." I said, "What do you mean no?" She said, "It's not ready." "Not ready" means? "It's not ready for you to tell the world this. You have to first figure it out." The idea was there. I said, "Okay, fine."

So then I did the research and I looked at this paper. How does breathing happen? How does that happen? And I figured it out. And one by one by one, all those pearls started coming. And I made a necklace out of it. And now you have seen the necklace. It's called the Physics of Pranayama. I wrote a whole blog on it. कोई तो post कर, Parin or somebody, they can post that blog here, the link for... I wrote a whole article on the Brief History of Physics of Pranayama. पढ़लो आप जाके।

Arrey, how can you say that there is nobody who thinks of you? You have the best friend in the world if you have no friend. You know who is your friend? You have the divine for the friend. It's like Arjuna saying the divine doesn't help me. Divine is your charioteer, the divine is your sarthi. He is the guy who is telling you what to do. Arjuna wake up.

He is the most idiot fellow, Arjuna. Really? हैं ना? कितना time Krishna के साथ spend करके बाद में question पूछ रहा है, "Oh this, oh that." Come on. उससे अच्छा तो अष्टावक्र है बेचारा। Not Ashtavakra, Janaka. When Janaka started asking question to Ashtavakra, Ashtavakra had to just say couple of lines and Janaka said "Aho Niranjan." He just got it. Arjuna को समझने में इतना time, पूरा Geeta. Not very smart guy. I am just making a joke but it's like this. Divine is your charioteer. You just have to find the divine. Divine is your friend. So don't think that you have no friend who thinks of you. Come on. The divine is your friend. They are thinking of you everyday. They are not thinking of others because they are thinking of you. You are taking up all the time of the divine.

So the reason to exercise before meditation is to dislodge the tamas, this quality of inertia that is in us called tamas, that has to be dislodged before Dhyan can happen. If you sit in meditation with excess of Tamo guna, then there is no meditation. It translates to sleepitation. This drool will come like this, shirt सब गिला हो जाएगा यहा पर। Suddenly ujjayi breath will happen. That is called sleepitation. So meditation नहीं होता है।

So to not get into sleepitation mode, you do some exercise, do some Sun Salutations, do some Padmasadhana, something. Then the tamas is dislodged. Then when you sit, meditation can happen.

No. Do it. What Guruji says, do not hold back anything. Let the emotions come. Emotions and wind is all the same. कर दो, जो होना है होने दो। Don't worry about it. Who knows, that could be a form of release. तुम लोग पकड़ के रखोगे then that release is not happening. Then you will say Kriya is not working. No, no. Whatever is happening let it happen. In fact in padmasadhana there is a posture called Pavanamuktasana. It is to release the wind. Pavanamuktasana, Ardha pavan muktasana and purna pavana. Both you do in padmasadhana. That's it.

Yeah. Why they should not be done in front of children? Because when you are doing kriya it's not that they should not see you or something. They can totally see you doing Kriya. When I am in India, when I am staying with my brother in Pune, I leave the door open. I leave the door of our room open and when Madhuri and I are doing Kriya, my young nephew, my brother's son would come and he would stand at the door watching us do Kriya. We will do Three-stage pranayama, Bhastrika, then we will sit and we will do so-hum, so-hum like this. After that, we will do Sahaj. And every couple of times, he will come inside the room, and he will come closer and closer, and he will sit at the edge of the bed. Then he will climb on the bed and he will come closer and closer and closer. And he knows that Kriya is 20 minutes, Sahaj is 20 minutes. So he knows 40 minutes इन लोगो को disturb नहीं करना है। He knows that. And he will come and come and come.

And once I said I will play a game with him. So after I knew that 20 minutes of Sahaj was over, and I just sat and not opened my eyes. I could see Sid, he was getting all anxious because he wants to play with you. He likes the energy so he is drawn to it. And then he figured out that 40 minutes is over and he says, "Enough already, it is over, 40 minutes is over, you finish it." So, they love the energy but sometimes they don't have that awareness of not jumping on you. And if you are in a Samadhi state, if you are in meditation state after Kriya and the child will suddenly jump on you, it will shake you. The body and mind will get shaken a lot.

That is why you have to keep the kids at a distance because the energy will draw them. They will simply jump. And Sid, we had trained him that don't come. So when we initially did, we closed the door. So he knows that he is not supposed to come. Then we opened it a little bit. Then over 4 or 5 days we used to open it fully. So we trained him but this is the reason for not doing it in front of kids because they will jump. Even pets, the dog or the cat, they will jump on you. Same.

Yes, as long as you don't drive. If you are the driver, you don't do Kriya. If you are the passenger, you can do Kriya. Very difficult to do Bhastrika in a car. लेकिन देखो तुम ऐसे नीचे करके कुछ तो अभी करो। ठीक है। No Problem. You will hit your head on the thing.

Then Bhaiya, you said, "I can do Kriya in a car but I broke my wrist because I am doing Bhastrika and then the wrist got fractured." Oh, be common sense. Yaar, थोड़ा तो अक्ल लगाओ।

Yeah, you don't have to wear leather. Remove leather articles during Kriya. Why? Because leather articles are essentially dead skin. What is leather? Leather is dead skin. When you strap dead skin on you, you obstruct the flow of prana. You don't want to obstruct any flow. So you remove the belt and this that.

Then somebody asked, "Oh, what the ancient Rishis they were sitting on lion cloth or lion skin or something." Yeah, but they were Rishis. They were like at a much higher state of consciousness than you. When you get to the Rishi state of consciousness, आप किसी के ऊपर भी बैठो, you sit on a leather, you sit on anything. पहले वो level पे तो आओ तुम लोग। If you are not at that level, you remove the leather items. Get it?

Yeah. That's fine. Why do you want to get rid of it? I am having problem during meditation in my leg. It starts paining. Or becomes over sensitive and numb.

So one possibility is that you are sitting in Padmasana really tight. Tightly बैठे  हो in पद्मासन. So loosen that. Loosen your... When the legs are folding, keep it loose. See if that helps. I have to see you doing meditation. I cannot just answer. I have to see you. Something is there. Maybe there is a problem in your leg. I don't know. But if there is no problem in the leg, it is most likely because you are sitting very... कहीं तो you have seen a picture of a yogi who is sitting perfectly cross legged. तुमको लगता हैं कि मैं भी वैसे ही बैठूँगा। लेकिन अपने से नहीं होता है ना। Our body is not the body of a yogi. So you sit आराम से। Spread out the leg.

There is one way. Who wants to get the so-hum counts in a recorded format to do their home practice Kriya? Raise your hand. Who wants it? हाँ, ये सब जो लोग हाथ उठाया है... How many people? Let me see. One, two, three, four. Four people want so-hum counting. ठीक है। No problem. No problem. Yeah, you have to become a teacher to get the so-hum counting. But the problem is this. Problem बहुत ही गहरा problem है। After you get the so-hum counting, you cannot use it for yourself. You can only use it for other people. तो क्या लेके बैठे हो? What have you achieved? Nothing. मिला तो बाद में ख़ुद के लिए नहीं use कर सकते हो।

Now, काहे कों चाहिए counting? छोड़ दे। Do it. Come to Weekly Kriya. Do it with Guruji's voice. Go home. Do it with yourself. There is no need of all these. These are all बेसाखी। क्या बोलते हैं, बेसाखी। These are all sticks, supports. You don't need them. You can walk without बेसाखी। Imagine, before I was teacher, every week I will go and do long Kriya. Now that I am a teacher, I cannot. I am playing some tape all the time. What the heck? Who is winning in the whole transaction? Now with Zoom it's okay. I can tell somebody else from New York saying, "Hey boss, I am going to come to your Kriya." And then I do the Kriya with them. All this stuff is now happening with Zoom. But before, at least here in the house we are lucky. Madhuri and I, we would alternate. So one day I will take kriya, one day she will take kriya like this. Each of us gets to do Kriya. But if you are not two people in the house with Kriya tape, फ़िर, लटको। पहले क्रिया मिलता था, अभी तरस रहे हो, क्रिया चाहिए। There is no free lunch, yaar. समझ में आई बात। You don't get anything for free. You have to give some price for it.

So if you are 18 years old, if you are less than 18 years old, your body is not physically ready for absorbing the shakti of the Kriya.

How Sahaj Mantra works, it works very well. Sahaj Mantra works beautifully. You know, 3 Idiots में बोलता है ना question, how does a motor start, he says, brrrrr, like that. वैसा हैं ये answer. How does Sahaj Mantra work? Very well. क्या पूछ रहे हो, how does Sahaj? It works really well. Come on, you go and learn. We do Sahaj Samadhi refresher. I will tell you how the Sahaj Mantra is working there. We do a Sahaj Samadhi refresher course. You come on that course and all that we will do. Mantra, science.

Nothing. At one level there is no difference, at other level there is everything is different. Depends on what level you are asking the question from.

हाँ, what extra I got after practicing Kriya for so long is, personally, I didn't get to do my Weekly Kriya. बंद हो गया वो। Then I got to sit in front of, I don't know, 85 people in a green shirt and just talk some nonsense. I get to do that. So many things I got. I learned how to play tennis. My backhand became brilliant. I can just hit backhand almost like Federer; he also can learn from me for backhand. Amazing backhand I hit in tennis. That happened. अरे क्या!

It's not what you gain, it's what you let go. What have you lost? That is the critical thing. It's not what you gain. You don't gain a damn thing. You lose a lot of trash. That is what is the important thing after Kriya. You don't gain anything. You lose a lot of stuff.

Before the 3- stage pranayama you want to do Nadi Shodhan Pranayama? I don't know. I would not do it. I am a very lazy guy. पहले ही I have to do Three-stage pranayama, Bhastrika, Om, Kriya. इतना सब करने के बाद में you are adding one more, Anulom-Vilom. काहे को? No need. You do Anulom-Vilom in the evening when you are doing Sahaj Samadhi in the evening. When there is no Kriya before it. Then you do Nadi Shodhan Pranayama and then you do अपना Sahaj Samadhi Meditation. That's when you do.

No, pregnant woman cannot do Kriya. After the first trimester no Kriya. Till the first trimester is ok. Not after the first trimester. Trimester means what? Three months. नहीं तो बोलेगा ट्राइमेस्टर का spelling बोल। Three months।  तीन महीना pregnant होने के बाद Kriya ना करे। Guruji also talks Hindi like this. "यह करेंगे।" I am learning from the master.

No, no, no. Who said spirituality will decrease your will to lead a normal life? I am leading normal life. In fact more normal. I am not becoming Sannyasi. Do you see long hair, धाधी? नहीं ना।

During Bhastrika jaws get stiff. I know why jaws get stiff. क्यूंकि ऐसा force से breath करते हो। Like this. तो jaw stiff नहीं होगा तो क्या होगा? सोचो। There is no effort in Bhastrika. Simply keep it loose. You know before Bhastrika, the guy who is saying that jaws become stiff in Bhastrika. Before you start Bhastrika, this is the additional step you have to do. You have to do like this. Loose कर दो सब, बाद में Bhastrika करो। Then no stiffness in jaws. You see it will work like brilliant, like amazing.

How you would smell a flower? Let's say this pencil was a flower. How would you smell a flower? You would not smell a flower like this. No, you would not smell a flower like this. You would smell a flower. This is how Kriya has to be done. With a breath full but as if you are smelling a flower. Not as if you are blowing your nose. Most people do Kriya as if... No, come on. It's like breathing in and out as if you are smelling a flower. That's how Kriya has to be done.

Leave it. I will tell you this. The only people who can understand chakra are the people who can hold their attention 12 inches on top of their head. Can you do that? 12 inches on top of their head. Can you hold your attention there? No chance. It is called the Dvadasanth point. Chakras and all are very, very subtle. Our energy level has to be very high. Our noise level has to be very low. Only then we can understand.

It's very easy for somebody to draw a cartoon on the thing and say blue circle here, yellow circle here, green circle here, pink circle here. But that does not become chakra. That becomes a cartoon. To experience chakra, you need to be very settled. This urge to experience the chakra is what will prevent you from experiencing the chakra. This is the catch-22 situation that most people don't understand. The urge to get somewhere prevents you from getting there.

I told you the story about my first meditation with Guruji. If you don't remember the story, then you come back in the next session. I'm not going to tell any more stories in this session. It's too late. Already we are 10 minutes past the time. Leave the chakra. Go to your kitchen and make yourself a nice cup of tea. Not tea, chai. I don't like tea. There is nothing in tea. Boil it and add ginger to it.

Do not take this lightly. This COVID thing. I've run the numbers myself. I went to the GitHub. I got all the data. I plotted it. I modeled it. I did all the geeky stuff. This thing is a big problem. Social distancing is the only way we have to have a handle on controlling this thing. Why I'm telling you? Because this is a very weird disease. So what will happen? It will prevent the oxygen from the lung from being dissolved in the blood. This is what it does. The basic of it is that. In the alveoli, there is this single walled membrane and it will swell that membrane. So it will reduce the transport of oxygen into your blood. And then even if you're infected, you will not know that you're infected. Why? Because the amount of blood, amount of oxygen transfer goes down. So your body compensates. It will start breathing a little faster. And then it goes down again and it compensates again. And you don't know that you're doing it. It had happened subconsciously. The time you know is when your blood dissolved oxygen level goes to 50% of saturation. That is when the body cannot compensate anymore. So from 100%, usually the blood dissolved oxygen is 100% saturation. From 100% to 50%, you will not even know that there is something wrong with you. And then when you realize there is something wrong with you, you go to the hospital. Your blood dissolved oxygen is 50% of where it should be. So they have to take drastic measures to get you back. So don't take it lightly. Don't think, "I'm the king, I'm doing Kriya, so I'll go out without a mask." Boss, wear a mask. Wear a mask, wear gloves. Be careful, okay? I'm not kidding you.

This is a serious thing. This COVID-19 is not to be joked with. All these jokers who are going on the street and doing this, that and demonstrations, they are mad. They don't understand the gravity of the situation. I am telling you, don't mess with this thing. Because from the time of onset to the time of symptom is a big change. The body will lose 50% of its oxygen till it realizes that you are in trouble. It's not that 10% where you can fix it. Sometimes even fever doesn't come. The first thing that people said is, look if you have fever. But sometimes even fever will not come. The body will not be feverish. There will be no symptoms. You cannot get it. You cannot self-diagnose. So do the pranayama every day like I taught you. Proper hand positions, full breath, slow ujjayi breath. You got to strengthen your lung. Pranayama, do not miss it. If you are going out, make sure to use masks and wash your hands. I will show you a good trick to wash hands. You take soap on your hand and then you chant the Mrityunjaya mantra.

ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम् उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृ त्योर्मुक्षीय मामृतात्

Do this 3 times. That is 20 seconds. That is enough. Then you wash your hands with water. But the soap has to be on your hands for 3 Mrityunjaya mantras. You will be able to chant the Mrityunjaya mantra with your hands. 3 times. I timed it. 3 Mrityunjaya mantras is 20 seconds. You have to wash your hands for 20 seconds. Then you put your soap on your hands for 20 seconds. Why you put soap on your hands for 20 seconds? Because the soap breaks the oily barrier of the virus. So its oily barrier breaks with the soap. It is an emulsion. So it breaks with the soap and then that protein that is inside, which is the infected virus, gets denatured because it has no oil protection. So it dies. It gets denatured. That is the reason for washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap. There is a method behind the madness. Just because you don't know the method does not mean it is madness. Follow it. Be very very careful. Yes, with a pulse ox you totally check your oxygen level. Yes, it will help you. But for that you need a pulse ox.