What is Titiksha? Baba, पहला ही गुगली question! Titiksha is what? Titiksha is forbearance. Forbearance is, सहनशीलता बोल सकते हो हिंदी में। It is called सहनशीलता, forbearance. Ability to forbear is the wealth of titiksha. It is one of the six wealths of the third pillar of knowledge.

सुना है talk, Four Pillars of Knowledge? उसमे जो तीसरा पिलर है, पिलर को क्या बोलते है? स्तंभ। स्तंभ ना? मेरा Hindi is not very good. मेरा Hindi is like Anthony Gonsalves. अपुन ऐसा इच बात करेगा। उतना ही level हैं अपना हिंदी में। 3rd pillar में तीसरा wealth जो है वो है titiksha, ability to forebear. That is titiksha, that’s it.

And अपने practice में आयेगा titiksha। Titiksha is built into our daily practice. Daily sadhana जो आप करते हो उसमे titiksha already included है। वो आपको सिर्फ पता नहीं है कि कहा included है। वो मैं आज बोल दूँगा। ठीक है?

How to increase patience? बहुत simple है-very easy! If you are in a car, you drive behind a bullock cart. Automatically patience बढ़ जाएगा। Motorcycle पे हो तो scooter rickshaw के पीछे चलाना motorcycle. Patience बढ़ जाएगा automatically. कुछ करने की ज़रूरत ही नहीं है। That is how you increase patience.

 Patience का क्या meaning हैं? Patience का meaning हैं कि "Mind wants something…" English में ठीक है ना कि हिंदी में बोलूँ? हिंदी में नहीं बोल सकता मैं-थोड़ा झोल झाल हैं हिंदी। 

Mind wants something: quickly. Impatience comes because ये जो चाहिए वो जल्दी चाहिए। Delay नहीं होना चाहिये उसमे। तभी आयेगा impatience. 

How to increase patience? Look at it in broader perspective. What is perspective in Hindi? दृष्टिकोण। My Hindi is improving day by day. I am using such bad words. Dhrishtikon. I can't even spell it. Expand Dhrishtikon. You want it fast. 

Think about it. From the creation of the big bang till now, the creation is 13.8 billion years. Extend your hand like this. If the width of your hand is like this, if the creation is 13.8 billion years, if the width of your hand is like this, if the creation is 13.8 billion years, Extend your hand like this. 

You know what is nail file? Nail file लेके एक बार ऐसे कर दो, whole existence of humanity is over. We are so insignificant. In one stroke of nail file, the whole humanity is finished. There is no human-end of life, end of the story. 

Now tell me, is there patience or not? We are so useless, insignificant. Our whole existence will be finished. Your whole past generations, all this development, everything is over in one nail file. Finished. 

What are you in a hurry for buddy? Where are you going? I am seeing when we do the Sudarshan Kriya practice, we do it on Thursday morning. I see people are in such a hurry to get up after the practice. 

They want to be the first person to sit up. What will you achieve by sitting up? Sit comfortably. There is some magic going on there during Kriya. Why are you in such a hurry to get up? There is no point. Sit comfortably.

When I say roll over onto the right side, you roll over onto the right side. Then you get up comfortably. What are you in a hurry for? What are you doing that is so important in a hurry? What are you doing? Tell me. Are you changing the world? I can't see it.

I am not saying you are not doing anything. Change the perspective. What am I in a hurry for? What am I doing? Simply that much perspective, if you change, automatically that impatience drops. Because what is the point? What are you doing? Do you understand what I am saying?

Change the perspective. Expand the perspective. What is expand? Broaden. Again, it is an English word. I don't understand. Anyway, you understand.

Give up. You should just give up. You know the benefits. You know the laziness. Who is in charge? You or me? You know that you are lazy. You know that you have benefits. You want me to tell you what to do!? What will you do? You have to decide. Who is bigger? You or the mind? The body or the mind? Mind is bigger.

Now, on the mind level, you have understood that there are benefits to doing Sudarshan Kriya. The body is saying, "No, boss. Don't do it." Who is bigger? Mind is bigger. Get up. Let's do Sudarshan Kriya. End of story. This is why you need discipline. This is why it is a matter of getting discipline. And also habit. Because why is this happening? This is happening because...

So, what were we saying? We were saying that the body says, "Don't do Sudarshan Kriya." The mind says, "Do it." There is a fight between the body and the mind, and the body is winning.

Why is the mind not winning? Because you are not letting the mind win. You are saying, "Okay." I will tell you a story. When you are training for a marathon, let's say you want to run 27 miles. You are training for marathon long-distance running. First, the body will say, "Leave it." After running 1-2 miles, the body will say, "Enough." At that time, if the mind says, "Leave it," then it is over. Your training is over.

The "no" in the body is actually coming from the "no" in the mind. This is the key. When the body says "no," it has no say in anything. The mind has already said "no" at some level. Then the body is saying, "Look, the mind is saying no, so I am saying no." You have to find where that "no" is in your own mind. Remove that "no" from your mind, and automatically everything will be gone.

First, think about where that "no" is. Where is that "no" in your mind? The "no" is already in your mind; it is not in the body. You think it is the body being lazy, but the "no" is coming from your mind. Your mind itself is saying "no." Find that "no" and remove it. Everything happens.

I also want to know. If you understand, tell me. I have no idea why 20-40-40. In my life, only twice have I become perfectly hollow and empty. There is nothing there. I have become completely hollow and empty only twice in my life. Do you know when?

When I asked Guruji once, "Guruji, why 20-40-40?" Guruji looked right through me, as if I did not even exist. I became completely hollow and empty, I thought, because he could not even see me. He just looked at the person behind me. That was the first time.

The second time, I asked again, "Guruji, why 20-40-40?" He looked right through me. So I have no idea. I asked him twice. He did not answer.

I have an idea. I think I know why it is 20-40-40. I am doing all my figuring-out business. Once I figure it out, and I discuss it with a couple of people, Kashi and all this, I will tell you. But today, I don't know why it is 20-40-40. I don't know.

Oh my God! SKY is not done in Ujjayi? First of all, SKY is not a torture session. SKY is a relaxation session. Do you know what torture is? I will tell you what is torture. You do Bhastrika in Ujjayi breath, you will have such a headache, you will feel so disgusted. If you do Bhastrika in Ujjayi breath. If you do Sudarshan Kriya in Ujjayi breath, it is over. End of story. Like, I don't know what will happen.

What is the point of Ujjayi breath? Do you understand why we do Ujjayi breath? I explained in the Physics of Pranayama. What is happening in Ujjayi breath? You are taking breath and stretching in time. You are slowing down in time. When you do that, the thoughts in the mind reduce. That is what is happening in Ujjayi breath. When you do Pranayama in Ujjayi breath, that is why it is beneficial. It is reducing the thoughts in the mind and also giving prana to the body.

Now, in Sudarshan Kriya, what is happening? In Sudarshan Kriya, impressions... What is impressions in Hindi? धब्बे? I don't know. छाप। छाप is a better word than धब्बे। धब्बे is a little bit bad. छाप। The छाप of the events on the subconscious is getting cleaned up in Sudarshan Kriya. When that is getting cleaned, how will it get released? The छाप in the subconscious, how will it get released? It will get released in the mind as a thought. You saw, when you are doing Sudarshan Kriya, soham, soham, soham, random thoughts are coming in the mind. Those thoughts were not there before Kriya, or after Kriya. Only during Kriya, those thoughts were coming. Soham, soham, soham. So, they are released as thoughts. Now, if you suppress those thoughts with Ujjayi breath, how will it get released? Nothing will release. Are you getting it?

If you use Ujjayi breath during Sudarshan Kriya, you will reduce the thoughts in the mind, so those impressions are not going to get released anywhere. Where will they go? So, what's the point of doing Sudarshan Kriya? Might as well not do it. You understand? Joining A and B is not necessary. A is in one place, B is in one place. Why are you joining them one after the other? Just because. Don't do. Don't do. Only Pranayama. Only Pranayama. Only during Pranayama, use Ujjayi breath. Don't use Ujjayi breath during Bhastrika. Don't use it at all during Sudarshan Kriya. Are you getting it? Raise your hand. Are you getting it? Yes, good. Next.

Yes, I have to teach you the correct way of doing Bhastrika. Now we will learn how to do Bhastrika. So, we sit. Keep the backbone straight. ऐसे बोलते है ना Guruji? Keep the backbone straight. What is there in Bhastrika? In Bhastrika, you start with the palms in a fist. Now, how tight should the fist be? It has to be that much tight that you can go and do some boxing. No, no, no. It has to be very loose. The tips of the fingers should just barely touch the palm. Just lightly touch. The tips of the fingers should barely, lightly touch the palm. And the thumb is on the outside. Lightly. There is no effort in Bhastrika.

Then what happens? The fist is in the front of the shoulders. Shoulders mean shoulder. Keep the fist in front of the shoulder. Something like that. After that, in normal breathing, no force, the hand will go up and the palm will open. And effortlessly, with the help of gravity, hands will fall. And when they will hit the chest, automatically the breath comes out of the nose with a little bit of force. There is no effort there. Effortlessly. I am watching people doing Bhastrika like this. This is all drama. There is nothing. This is all drama. There is no need to do all this drama. Simply sit with a loose fist. That's it. This is Bhastrika.

Effortlessly. No drama. Face doesn't go like this. Nothing. Very simple. And keep the body still. शरीर को स्थिर रखें। At the end of it. Because that is when the Titiksha is being built in your system. This is the Titiksha. This is the increase of Titiksha.

Body wants to move. शरीर को हिलना है at that time. Mind will say no. I am going to keep it still. Now you are forbearing. Forbearance ko kya bola? सहनशीलता। I don't know. I have to look up my cheat sheet. तुम लोग मेरको help करों यार। मेरा Hindi is like Anthony Gonzalves level. Zero Hindi. Forbearance को क्या बोलते हैं? Sahanshilta. वोह sahanshilta बढ़ेगी। क्युकि body को हिलना है। तूम बोलोगे नहीं boss. अभी मैं हिलने वाला नही हूं।

Same thing. First stage pranayama के बाद भी ज़ब rest करोगे तभी भी body को still रखना है। क्युकि क्यों हो रहा है? Titiksha बढ़ेगी। Body wants to move. You will say no. I am not going to move. You keep it still. Titiksha will come up. You will start inculcating. You will start increasing the forbearance in you.

Titiksha will come up. And then that titiksha is there. It's like money in the bank. एक बार पैसा बैंक में डाला तो जब चाहिये तब निकाल सकते है। वैसे ज़ब titiksha already है body के अन्दर तो कुछ होगा life में some unpleasant incidents etc. वह aaram से वो titiksha से you can forbear it. You will not be disturbed.

This is the beauty of the sadhana. In the rest stage you will be still. अच्छा है ना? It's amazing.

Just sit, don't get up. That's it. When you get up, it is for a short time. You want to sit for a long time, you don't get up. I mean, what is the question? Because I don't understand the question. Because your what? Legs are paining, you want me to give you some yoga asan to strengthen your muscles for Vajrasana. Like, what is it? I don't understand. Why do you want to sit for long?

Why do you want to sit for long? Type the question. Why do you want to sit for long?

Of course it matters. What do you mean? Breathing speed has to be normal. How we did it. Up, down. It is not like a freight train. This is not it. This is all झोल-झाल। Normal.

Nothing will happen if you do it fast. Do it slowly. Effortlessly. You understand? People are doing it in front of me when they come for a long Kriya. Like this. Like this. Like this. अरे कहा से सीखा? अरे slow down बाबा। Slow down.

Of course it matters. It has to be not too fast. It can't be too slow. If you do it like this…that is also not right. It has to be done continuously without too much effort. You understand? Very slow is not good. Very fast is equally bad. बीच में। Do it slowly.

Yes, you should do Kriya. That's it. Morning and evening is nothing. Do Kriya. Do it in the morning or evening. If I say सुबह करो... यार भैया ने बोला सुबह करो, it's evening now. I will do it tomorrow. No. No. No. Do Kriya. It doesn't matter. You decide.

Don't do it both the times. Only once. Otherwise, you will say I will do it twice. Once a day, just do it. Either in the morning or in the evening. In one sitting. You cannot say I will do Pranayama now. After some time, I will do Bhastrika. After some time, I will have tea and say Om. Then I will go for a walk and do 20-40-40. This is not right.

Do it in one sitting for 20 minutes. Tap, tap, tap. It's a capsule. It's not a tablet. It's not a tablet of crocin where you do it in half and then half again. It's a capsule. Do you open the capsule? You open it and then half again. No, you take the whole capsule. What is crocin? Half, quarter? It's not a tablet. It's a capsule. Do you understand what I am saying? It has to be done in one shot. Ok, good.

Why do feet get frozen like ice? Feet get frozen like ice. Yes, this is a problem. You know, what can do about it? Wait. I'm not leaving you, okay? I'm going to get something. Just wait. Patience. What did we say? Patience. Wait patiently. I'll be back in 2 minutes. Okay.

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See what happens in Vajrasana. [Claps] When you sit in Vajrasana, your knees bend. Okay? So sometimes there is a blood circulation problem that goes into your rest of the legs. So the leg becomes very numb and like that. Okay? For some people, it's a physical problem. So what do we do about it? You have to use this thing called a meditation bench. I designed it. I can send you the design. When you keep it on the floor, your knees, your legs go below, and your hip is on top of it. So there is no pressure.

And yeah, you make something like this, and then you do Vajrasana sitting on this. There is no numbness in the foot. I can send you the design for this if you want. It's an amazing thing. I started off using that, and now I don't need to use it, but when I was starting off, I used that meditation bench. You can use that, or you can sit on a cushion. You have to release the compression of the knee. So you sit on a cushion. That also works. Okay?

What is the best time to do Kriya and Sahaj Samadhi? When I say best time, you will say, "You missed the best time." Then I will not do. The best time is to do it along with the natural transition that is happening in the world, in the universe. Which means Sandhya.

Why is it called Sandhya Vandhan? Sandhya means junction. Junction of what? Junction of transitions. When the universe is going from a state of rest to a state of activity, there is a junction there. That is the morning Sandhya. When it is going from activity to the maximum activity and starting to reduce, there is a junction there. That is the middle Sandhya. Then there is activity reducing and going to rest. That is the third Sandhya. That is the evening Sandhya.

If you want to do it perfectly, do it in the Sandhya. Morning Sandhya में Sahaj and Kriya करो। Evening Sandhya में Sahaj करो। Do not do anything in the middle Sandhya. Just do your work. But it is not required. Because that also becomes a constraint. Once your schedule is fit, you will be able to do it comfortably.

Don't worry about what is the best time. There is no such thing as best time. But if you want to time it, these are the three times that are conducive. But it is not required to do. Do you understand?

What we say is... When we are teaching the Sudarshan Kriya to veterans, the people who come back after fighting war, they have got a lot of PTSD, traumatic impressions. When we teach them the Sudarshan Kriya course, what Guruji told us is, for them, for people who have PTSD, they cannot go to sleep. Because all those memories are there in their mind, they cannot sleep.

So the instruction from Guruji was, do for them alternate nostril pranayama, the Nadi Shodhan. When you do Nadi Shodhan, it helps to calm down the hemisphere of the mind and sleep is more relaxed. So Nadi Shodhan is the way to do it. This is what instruction from Guruji is. So I am telling you what I know. So Nadi Shodhan is what I teach them.

When we are teaching the project Welcome Home Troops, the PWHT course, emphasis is given on Nadi Shodhan pranayama. Then their sleep first settles down. Then we teach them Kriya. We only do Nadi Shodhan for two days. We don't do anything else.

What difference will it make to understand this answer? Tell me, how will it change your life? First, you have to understand who you are. Are you a Atma or a Jeevatma or just a being? Why do you want to go to the Atma or the Jeevatma? Leave it. What will you gain in your life? How will your life change? Are you going to be unconditionally happy after learning this? No, you are going to be even more miserable because the next question will come. Then another question will come. Leave it if you don't understand.

There are people who understand, like Guruji and others. He wants to tell us other things. He wants to tell us more practical things on how to make our lives better. He wants to give us Sanyam. He wants to give us Sanyam 2.0, more things. But we are stuck with these idiotic questions. Guruji, is there an Atma or a Jeevatma? Poor fellow is stuck there. What can he do? He cannot even answer. At what level? Your basic level of understanding is in your knees. And you are asking some deep questions like that. What is the point of asking this question?

You read something on the internet. Everybody is now an internet scholar. Everyone knows everything through Google. Leave it. If you want to know, then study it. Study the Sankhya philosophy. Get the books from the library. Read it for 15-20 hours. Then you go and discuss with somebody. Then you will know the distinction between Atma and Jeevatma. Today, you don't even know if there is Purusha or Prakruti. You think there is a male and a female. This is a completely wrong understanding. There is no such thing as male and female. It is the manifestation of. We call it Purusha and Prakruti in Sankhya.

I explained in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras the distinction between Purusha and Prakruti. And the distinction between Atma and Jeevatma is even more subtle than that. I cannot explain it to you like this. Because you don't understand. You will make a concept of it and you will ask me 15 more questions. So, I am not going to answer. Because it is not going to change your life. Knowing the answer is not going to change your life.

Can any breathing techniques minimize or remove bacterial infections from the body? No, no, no. See, okay. Bacterial infection is a physical thing. There is a certain gene pool that has invaded your body and it is multiplying. That is what is happening. Breathing technique is a way of modulating the subtle life force in your system.

Sometimes that life force in your system has to be aided by... That life force in your system cannot all the time remove all these physical stuff that is happening to your body. You need the help of something else. You need the help of either Ayurvedic formulations or allopathic formulations or whatever. That is your decision.

But don't rely on breathing techniques as a catch-all for every single problem you have. It is not going to work like that. You understand what I am saying? There are limits to it. It is not like, "If you do Sudarshan Kriya, you become Superman." "Come on, anyone." It is not like that.

You will still fall sick. You will still get bacterial infection. You will still get all this stuff. It will be lesser because the body has some energy to fight it. But sometimes the body cannot win all the time. At that time, you have to get some help from outside. You do some steam inhalation or something. I don't know. Other things have to be done also. You cannot only just do Bhastrika Kriya Om.

You are not alone, buddy. Everybody is doing that. You are one of the lucky few who knows that they are doing this. Everyone is doing this. थोड़ा typing, थोड़ा talking on the phone, checking WhatsApp. This is all going on.

एक तो, while typing an email, is telling the kids, "What are you doing in the fridge?" Typing an email and talking to the kids. Come on, just type the email and then go and look at your kids. This is what is happening. When this is happening, doing one thing and thinking of another thing, the mind is being split. The mind gets split. On the mind level, only one thing is happening at a time. Now, if you are doing two things simultaneously, on the mind level, what is happening? The mind is doing one thing, completely finishing, releasing that, taking up the other thing, doing that, releasing it, coming back to the first one, doing that, releasing it. Doing that, this is what the mind is doing. It is completely split. At the end of the day, you are completely tired, drained. Right?

So, to save your mind from splitting, focus on one thing at a time, finish it. Take the next thing, finish it. Take the next thing, finish that. Take the next thing, finish that. That does not mean that when you make modak—now it is Ganesh Chaturthi, so I will give you the example of modak—it does not mean that when you are doing modak you cannot have Kishore Kumar playing in the background. This is okay, or Bhanu Didi's bhajan or some such thing. If you are like a hardcore person, I am a very easy person. I listen to Kishore Kumar, but if you are saying, "Why Kishore Kumar?" I will listen to Bhanu Didi. You listen to Bhanu Didi, no problem. You can do that because, why? The mind is completely different; there is no attention required to listen to the bhajan. The attention is only on the modak.

Yesterday, I made modak, by the way. I didn't make—I didn't make, sorry, wrong answer. My wife instructed me how to make. My wife instructed me on how to make. I did all the hard work. I did all the—how do you say—kneading the dough by adding water, by making it soft. All that hard work, I did the work of the bull. The intellectual work, my wife did. I did all that, I did all that and made it so well. Wait, I will show you the photo. I got a photo. Where is it? Can you see it? Can you see it or not? Wow, by God. What a modak, I mean, I didn't make it. My wife made it. I was the bull, doing all the hard work. But it is teamwork.

So do it like this. And at that time, Kishore Kumar has to play, because why? Because the wife will yell at you, "Why are you doing this? You don't understand this basic stuff." At that time, the mind has to go somewhere else. You will listen to Kishore Kumar. Otherwise, all that fire comes in the middle. So, you have to hold on to Kishore Kumar. Then, when she stops talking, you say, "Okay, fine." This is how you live your life. Take it easy.

See, teenagers—okay. So when you are asking how to deal with teenagers, you are essentially asking, "I am telling my teenager to do something, but that teenager is not listening to me." This is your basic problem. So ask the question properly: I am telling the teenagers something, but they are not listening. What should I do? How long should I be silent and tolerate? Movies have told us how to even say the dialogue.

So, what is it about teenagers? Teenagers are looking for a role model. They are developing their own identity, and they want a role model. They want to identify with something that is 'jhakaas', like, this is the correct thing. They want a role model. The only way to inspire a teenager is to make your life a role model. Make your life a role model that the teenager looks up to. Why are they running after all these heroines and heroes? Because they think they are role models. It is all coming from role model. Make your life, elevate your level of action or words or whatever so that it becomes a role model for them.

I will tell you one thing: teenagers will never listen to their own parents because the parents are the stupidest people on the face of this Earth. Every teenager thinks like this. I also thought like this. I am not any different. What the heck do my dad and mom know? Useless people. This is what is going on in their mind.

So, what do you do? Find someone else, one of your friends, for example, who can be that role model. I am telling you my example. All my friends here, they have teenage kids, now they have gone to college, etc. I am their best friend. They think I am a cool guy. I talk all this physics, I can talk to them at their level, I can challenge their way of thinking, take them along, tell some, go have some ice cream, etc. I am their friend. So when Sandeep uncle says something, they say, "इसको, we have to listen to what this guy says." But when their parents tell them the same thing, they say, "Come on, Mom, what are you saying?"

You have to play with them. If one of your friends is there, you say, "See what uncle is saying, don't listen to me. Listen to that uncle or that auntie." Then you will see that the kids, once they see a role model, they will change. Even in your life you see, you can be a role model for somebody else's kids. Your friends can be role models for your kids because you cannot be your kids' role model. It is impossible to do. Nature has done that wiring in the brain, "Parents को क्या मालूम है?" "Mom, what do you know?" End of story. You cannot say anything at that point.

Find a role model for them which is not yourself. That is the best way of doing it. Just let them be. They are living their own life. Just you have to give them some banks. Don't go out of this; don't go out of that. Stay here. Let

See, where does disease come from? Disease is not just the manifestation on the physical level. Fever is not the disease itself; fever is a symptom of something else that has been wrong for a much longer time. This is what Ayurveda's insight is: that the manifestation of the physical symptom is only the last thing. Before that, a lot is happening which you have ignored. So when you learn Ayurveda, you will learn all this.

It comes down to this thing called Ama. Ama is what? Undigested stuff. When Ama accumulates somewhere, it starts affecting the dhatus. The dhatus get affected, then other things get affected, and then all the sub-dhatus get affected. Then, on the physical level of the body, that whole disease shows up.

See Ama. How do you get Ama out of your system? Then everything gets fixed. There is no easy way. Who said it has to be easy? Tell me an easy way.

You know what one person said on the course? "Bhaiya, 20 minutes is too much. Tell Guruji to do it in 10 minutes. The whole sadhana in the day should be done in 10 minutes." I said, "Correct. Next time I will tell Guruji to give me in 10 minutes." पहले ही compress करके 20 minutes किया। You have to do half of that also. Come on.

Leave it. Nothing will happen quickly in life. What have you gotten quickly that is worth having? Tell me. One thing. What you got quickly is worth having. Tell me. Nothing. Nothing ever worth having is gotten quickly. If you got it quickly, it is not worth having in the first place.

"It should be easy." Who said it should be easy? No need to be easy. It has to be hard. You have to do it. This is a कर्मभूमि। This is a space of action. You are stuck in a space of action. You have to do karma. You have to do action. Without doing action, nothing will come. Anyway, nothing worth having will come. Lethargy will come. Depression will come. That is not worth having.

No. Who told you that you meditate to eliminate thoughts? Who told you that? No. Meditation is not done to eliminate thoughts. That is a wrong understanding. Thoughts are part of meditation. If you don't understand this, come on the Sahaj Samadhi Refresher. I will explain to you how.

The concept of meditation is that there should be no thoughts. This is a wrong concept. This concept is completely wrong. There is no such thing as you meditate to eliminate thoughts. You meditate so that other things that are normally not happening are allowed to happen. Don't ask me to tell you the five things that are not allowed to happen. That I will not tell you. That you will experience on your own.

I will be explaining the Sahaj course. All that is happening. If you have done Sahaj, come on the Refresher. If you haven't done Sahaj, learn it. Learn Sahaj. Then you will understand the power of it. It is amazing.

So what is it? You don't want to fight what is happening naturally. That's the first thing. Don't fight what is happening naturally. Don't fight that. So what is happening in the monthly cycle? The energy is moving to expel. It's the cycle. The cycle in the uterus where reproductive things are there. Which was hopefully going to get fertilized and a baby will be formed. That is not happening. So the body says I have to purge that. So that purging process is happening. That is the monthly cycle. That's all it is.

Now when that purging cycle is happening, the energy is moving outward down. What is happening during Yagya? Energy is moving inward up. Now if you attend the Yagya at that time, you are fighting it. Energy of your body wants to move downwards and out. But the Yagya is making it go upwards, inwards and up. So now there is a conflict. So you say, you don't get into conflict mode. You stay away from it. It is not about anything else. It is simply about not fighting the natural direction of energy movement. That's it.

So when you meditate, you are doing nothing. You are sitting and letting the mantra do its thing. So it will help that outward flushing. Because it is going to just help what the body is doing naturally. So meditation is okay. But when you are doing Yagya, the whole point of the Yagya is to move the energy upwards, inwards and upwards. That is being fought. So you say, I will not do. It is a reason like that. It is nothing to do that it is good or bad. You don't fight the natural energy rhythm of the body. That is what is happening. You understand?

See what OM is? OM is made up of three sounds. What are the three sounds? The first sound is AH. You want to learn how to do OM? Will you do it with me? I cannot hear you, but will you follow my instructions?

Keep the spine straight and close your eyes. Isn't it great in Hindi? It is improving. Keep the spine straight and close your eyes. Inhale deeply and breathe out. Breathing in, deep breath in. AH, and observe the sensations where it is happening in the body. Deep breath in. AH, and observe.

Deep breath in. OO, and observe where the resonance is happening. Deep breath in. OO, and observe where the resonance is happening. Deep breath in. UM, observe where the resonance is happening. Deep breath in. UM, and observe.

Take a long deep breath in for OM. OM And observe. Deep breath in. OM. And observe. Deep breath in. OM. Take a normal breath in. And breathe out. And gently open the eyes. This is it. OM. Feeling every one of the three sounds: AH, OO, and UM. Effortlessly. No effort. The UM is for one third, and the OO is for two thirds. That's the proportion. It is done to increase the energy stroke upwards.

You saw AH vibrated somewhere in your body. OO vibrated a little bit higher than wherever the AH vibrated. And the UM vibrated even a little bit higher than where the OO vibrated. It doesn't have to be in a particular place. It is simply the directionality of the sound. The AH vibrates lower than the OO and the UM. It doesn’t matter where it is vibrating. When you say the OM, it is a directionality for the energy to start going up, because AH is lower, OO and UM. The stroke of the energy is starting to go upwards.

That's it. And it has to be done not very loud. Your neighbor should not understand that you are saying OM. It is not necessary to say AOM. It is only for yourself. The vibration has to be felt only for yourself. OM. That's enough. Your neighbor doesn't have to know that you are doing OM. It is not that loud. You understand? Okay, good.

Yeah, okay. So in this case, what is happening? Notice what you are holding on to and what you are letting go. What is happening? You have an idea and you want to implement the idea, and somebody is opposing that implementation of the idea, okay? This is what is happening.

And what is happening? The very fact that you are asking the question means you have dropped the idea and you are holding on to the feeling of frustration that is happening because the idea was stopped. This is what you are doing. Yes or no? What are you holding on to? You are holding on to the frustration and the idea has dropped. This is what is happening. Yes or no?

What is more important to you? Is the frustration more important, or is the idea more important? The idea is more important. So, why is that idea being rejected? Because that other person, your superior, whoever it is, thinks that if this is happening, either they feel threatened that if this is happening, then my path is cut. Something is happening like that. Or they can't even see the beauty of the idea. They don't have the skill set to see the beauty of the idea. The idea could be beautiful, but he doesn't have a perspective. What is the word for perspective? What did I forget? I am a bad student. दृष्टिकोण। He doesn't have a दृष्टिकोण to understand the beauty of the idea. He will say, "He or she." So what do you have to do? Not you have to, but it is good to present the idea as if कि Sir आप ही बोलो। You think about it. Let it come from you. So you are empowering that person to think, "Yes, this idea is good."

If I say, somewhere you have to document this. Somewhere in your files or your email you can say, "Sir, this is the idea." If you say it, people will listen. If I say it, people won't listen. What have you done? The idea has been given more importance, not who is saying it. You offer it to that person, "Sir, if you say it, people will listen. If I say it, people won't listen." So what have you done? You have documented it. The idea came from you in your email. It has been documented.

You have removed the threat of saying, "How can I say that it is the idea of my subordinate?" They will say, "Yes, I will say it." Then maybe that idea comes. Because the idea is important, not the credit, not the frustration. The idea is important. Hold on to the idea. See how you can work with that other person to move the idea forward. If he doesn't have a vision, he will not even get that much. अगर अक्ल घुटने में है तो कुछ भी नही कर सकते। Then you are stuck. You need to change your job. Find someone else.

It's like driving behind a bullock cart. What will you do? You are stuck. Don't hold on to the frustration. Holding on to the frustration is the worst thing you can do. Hold on to the idea. Drop the frustration. We do the opposite. The idea is lost, and we hold on to the frustration. This is Chanakya Niti. You have to seed the idea. Have you seen the movie Inception? You seed the into that person's head and leave it. They think that it is their own idea.

This is the whole thing about the movie Inception. You watch the movie. Then you will understand everything in your whole life. Watch the movie with me. I will explain the whole movie to you. Don't tell anybody. Guruji will call and ask what you are saying. Are you showing the movie to everyone?

What a great white shirt. Today it is not blue. What is the story behind the white shirt and blue shirt? It all depends on...

Why do you see white? Have you understood? What is the meaning of color? When you are seeing this shirt as white, what does it mean? That this shirt is reflecting every wavelength equally. Every wavelength is being reflected equally. So you see white.

Now look at Pinky. Pinky is wearing pink. Pinky is looking good. Pink is a nice white border. Why do you see pink? You are seeing pink because all the wavelengths of light are going in and only pink is coming out. That is why you are seeing pink. That is the meaning of color.

White means full reflection. Whatever is coming is being fully reflected. That is why Guruji wears white. He is a full reflection. He is a mirror to yourself. What you are in front of him, he just shows you back. It is white.

Now why blue? Now what happens is, if you look at the spectrum, Sun, all the light is coming from the Sun. So if you look at the spectrum, when you analyze the energy spectrum, you don't see every wavelength coming out at this... there is a peak to that spectrum. It is not a flat spectrum. There is a peak to the spectrum, and the peak is at around the blue wavelengths. What are the VIBGYOR colors? Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red. That's the colors. Violet, Indigo are attenuated. Blue is more. Then Green, Yellow, Orange, Red progressively reduces. It is happening because of something called dispersion.

Every wavelength, every light color has a certain wavelength. And because of the change of the wavelengths, they are dispersed more or less. So the blue wavelength disperses the maximum. It disperses maximum. That is why the sky is blue. Because all the other wavelengths are gone, the blue wavelength is dispersing. So you are seeing the sky as blue. That is why the sky is blue.

So when I wear a blue shirt, I say I am going to be like the sky where the dispersion of what I am saying is maximum. That is why I wear a blue shirt. It's all physics. It's all physics. That's the reason for the blue shirt. I could easily wear a yellow shirt. That doesn't change anything. Whoever wants to understand will understand. Whoever doesn't want to understand will still not understand. But in my mind, I will wear a blue shirt.

I understand a little bit of physics. I understand that blue wavelength disperses more. Guruji took white, so I will take blue. I cannot wear white because I will lose. He is a king. That's why I wear a blue shirt. My life is not very complicated. There is a method behind the madness. I do something with a reason behind it. You got the insights into my life now.

कोन कम्बख़्त बोला, उसको मेरे सामने लेके आ। Who is saying tea is not good for you? कुछ भी। I am not saying that you should drink 50 cups of tea. You can drink one or two. कम्बख़्त! तूने पी ही नहीं। Otherwise, they would not say that. कम्बख़्त!

See, what is it with tea? It is a way we grew up. You know, जब से होश संभाला हैं… याद हैं वो dialogue? जब से होश संभाला हैं, तब से चाय का ही सहारा था। Literally. You are the topper in your school. You take the JEE exam. You go to IIT. Everyone is a topper there. You are like a लल्लु in front of people. तो क्या करें, it hurts your ego. That time you are 18 years old, you don’t understand. तुम समझते हो, I am the शेर। I come from Baroda. This, that. "You are from Baroda, I am from Bhilai. I am All India Rank 18th. Your all India rank is 850. You are a लल्लू in front of me." What will you do?

हॉस्टल में रैगिंग हो रहा है। सब पकड़ रहे हैं फ़्रेशी को। Then there is a senior who wakes you up at 2 am and says, "Bring tea." "What? Tea at 2 am? This is what we got in training. Where do you get it? Go and find it." Since then, I have been addicted to tea. It is not an addiction, but it is fun. There are so many memories for me associated with tea— I mean so much has happened over a cup of chai. We have done some extraordinary work along with chai, and some really stupid work along with chai also. There is a national park next to IIT Bombay. There is no fence between the park and IIT campus. Once in a while, a leopard will come onto the campus. This is a leopard, a wild animal. The director will send a notice to all hostel boards that the leopard has been sighted on campus. Do not leave. We read the notice. It is a leopard. Let's go and find it. हाथ में torch हैं। We think a torch is like a sword. Torch दिखायेंगे तो वो भाग जाएगा। Torch हाथ में हैं। It is going to be seen at night. So we went outside the campus to find it. We took a torch. We did not see a leopard, but we went to a tea shop to have tea. So that whole incident of leopard has now been encapsulated in this cup of tea.

I have such memories of tea. That's why I say that a lot of things can happen with tea. It is not that you are addicted to it. You know की छूट गया तो छूट गया। It doesn't matter. When I am on a Silence course, I don't drink tea. When I am teaching a course, I don't drink tea. How can I say की पार्टिसिपेंट्स को बोल दूँ चाय मत पियो और ख़ुद तुम चाय पियो। That's not a good thing. That's when I leave tea. It doesn't matter if there is tea or not. It's just an excuse. It's an excuse of sitting together and talking about some things. Let's have tea. Okay? Good? End of story? That's it. So easy.

If a ligament is affected, is Vajrasana possible? No, it depends on what the effect on the ligament is. Ask a physiotherapist. Art of Living teachers don't know all the answers. You have to ask some physical doctors as well. If I tell you that it is possible, you will say that it is possible. Then you will damage your foot.

Go and look. There are some physicians who are trained to do that. Ask them what to do when it is not happening. I also go in a couple of… Lockdown started in March. In February, suddenly I could not do Vajrasana. Big pain will come on the knee. I went to my physician friend Amarnath Sontur. I told him to look at my foot. He said that there is a knot here. Do this exercise. If it doesn't go away in 2-3 weeks, come back.

I did the exercise and it became easier and easier and then it went. So, there was a physical deformity in the body. Maybe because I was serving very hard in tennis. It was on the left leg. I think it was because of the tennis serve. Then I fixed it. You have to go and find help from a guy who knows physiology. You cannot do it yourself.

First off, "regularly" is a wrong word. If you are doing it daily, then you talk to me. If you are doing it regularly, I don't want to talk to you. Because "regularly" is a meaningless word. Regularly can mean once every 16 days. It is regular. Who cares about that? Daily. Daily. If you are doing it daily, good.

Mala chanting does other things that we cannot talk about now because we are having a cup of tea. We cannot talk about all this stuff. So chanting has its own effects. We will look at it later. So yeah, do it. Do the Hanuman Chalisa. Do the Rudram on Mondays. Do the Om Namah Shivaya if you want. Do all that. That is on the subtle levels. Sudarshan Kriya and Sadhana is the basic foundation. That is what you have to do. You can do whatever you want on top of that.

You can take it from me. What is there in it? Take it from me., no. Not from me. I am a useless guy.

See, why you have to take Diksha? Because in the chants, the pronunciation, the Ucharan, Ucharan is the main thing. If your Ucharan is all 19, 20… the Diksha is coming because the teacher will teach you the correct Ucharan of it. The pronunciation of it. Once he fixes that, only he or she, only then the full power of the chants will come.

You know my most favorite chant is what? Do you all know? It is this thing called Mantra Hinam, Kriya Hinam, Bhakti Hinam… It is like, "Boss, please forgive me because my Ucharan is 19, 20, I am a useless guy. But this one I have memorized perfectly. Mantra Hinam, Kriya Hinam, Bhakti Hinam… Right? Done. If I have made a mistake, please forgive me. Okay? This is the solution to everything.

Everything has a out. But don't take the shortcuts like me. I am a shortcut taker. You don't be like me. You go and learn properly how to chant.

Because your body is not Sthiram Sukham. Your body is all tensed up. Do some Yoga. Do Yoga properly. Do Shishu Yoga with a good teacher. He knows something. If your body is not healthy enough, then all these cramps will still come. Use a prop. Use this stuff. Then the cramps won't come. After that you won’t need the prop. Concentration Pranayama can be done by anybody. You have to learn it properly. Once you learn it, you can do it. Before any PoP session, Meditation Demystified session, what do you think I am doing? I am doing all this stuff… then doing concentration Pranayama. Then I am coming like this… that's why I have so much radiance on my face. I am just kidding. Just do the Pranayama. It's not like you are 18+! Do it.

**Please teach that.**

How can you ask me this in a free session? Please teach it. Respect it a little. We are having tea first. We will do random time passes. Please teach some deep techniques. No. I will not teach. Register. You come properly. We will teach you. No problem. Okay, done?

Where is the anger coming from? Anger is coming from a mismatch between expectation and what is. When there is a mismatch, that is when anger comes.

So what is, is. Where is the mismatch coming? Expectation से आ रहा है। क्योंकि जो हैं तो हैं। So mismatch is coming from where? Expectation. There is a mismatch between expectation and what is. So anger is coming. Expectation is coming from where now? Yourself. So anger is coming from where? Yourself. You are the source of your anger. Deal with it. भुक्तों तुम। What has to do? Expectation has to change. Otherwise, you are stuck. Anger to आएगा। क्यूँकि जों है, वो तो है। आपका expectation change करों, anger नहीं आयेगा।

Swadhyaya. This is called swadhyaya. This is called self-reflection. Again and again looking at it. Punah-punah. कहाँ सें आ रहा है anger? Where is the anger coming from? That is the only way to change it. Swadhyaya. Self-study. Nairantarya punah punah: Again and again. Patanjali Yoga Sutra में हम लोग बहुत बोले है इसके बारे में। है की नहीं? कोई है क्या यहाँ पे PYS वाला? We talked about all this stuff.

For a sufficiently long time. This is coming from Maharshi Patanjali. I am not making up the answer. वो बॉस से आ रहा हैं answer. For a sufficiently long time!

It has to be done till you attain nirbija samadhi. अब पूछेगा, what is निर्बीज समाधि? उसके लिए तुम आओ Patanjali Yoga Sutras session में। There we will explain everything. Till you attain nirbija samadhi, sadhana has to be done.

And Nirbija samadhi is going to take a sufficiently long time. Which means a really, really, really, really, reallyyyy long time. That’s what it means. वो बेचारा आराम से बोल रहा है sufficiently long. But he means to say is really, really, really, really, reallyyyy long time it’s going to take.

I have done the best thing I could do. I have confused you. That is my whole job in life: to confuse people. Now you figure out your own. You have to be a scientist on your own.

See why we say don't drink tea. Why we say don't drink coffee, don't drink tea in the course. Do you know what the reason is? It's not that it is bad or something. What is happening is in coffee and tea there is this molecule called caffeine. The structure of the molecule is caffeine. Caffeine is one of the few molecules that can go across the blood-brain barrier. There is a barrier between the blood vessels and the brain. Across that barrier, only a few molecules can go. One of them is caffeine. Caffeine goes across the blood-brain barrier.

Now, what is happening is when somebody is coming and learning Sudarshan Kriya for the first time, they will experience the settling of the mind. At that time, if there is a load of caffeine molecules in their bloodstream, when the mind is settling, those caffeine molecules will go across the blood-brain barrier. And they will artificially stimulate the mind. So they will not experience the settling of the mind which the Kriya is doing for them for the first time. That experience will be diluted.

To not dilute that experience, the suggestion is to reduce the amount of caffeine. I don't say don't drink tea or coffee during my courses. I say simply reduce it. If you are drinking this much coffee, make it this much. If you are drinking 10 cups of tea, make it 1 cup. Reduce it. Automatically you will see the settling. There is a reason behind it. People take it to an extreme: बंद ही करो! There is nothing like that. You reduce it. You have to understand why it is said. Why is there an instruction?