[SK] बाकी क्या? कैसा है? बाक़ी सब ठीक? बस चल रहा है। बाक़ी सब ठीक? बस चल रहा है। That means you are not paying attention. I made a reel on that, you go watch on Instagram. क्या हो गया बाक़ी? 

[Participant] Just yesterday I watched this reel on Prakriti and Purusha. And that song that you selected, that one line says it all. It's so amazing you know, that one line and I have heard that song like so many times but never paid attention to how you related it to the meaning of Sankhya. It was very good. 

[SK] ये ही तो। Most people living like this. बाक़ी सब ठीक? बस चल रहा है। You can see how much people are paying attention. Simply ask the question, what's up? They say nothing much. Same old, same old. That means you are not paying attention. End of story. No more discussion. If you ask me what's up, I'll say so many things. How much time do you have? Then you'll regret asking me the question, हाँ what's up? Because मेरे पास तो बहुत कुछ है बोलने के लिए। So many things are up. Just have to pay attention in life.  

ये question ही ग़लत हैं, by God. See, I'll tell you why this question is wrong, because it assumes that both are bad, they just want to know which is worse. The difference is between bad and worse. There is never a confusion between bad and worse or good and better. The confusion is only between good and bad. So, don't abuse tea, okay? There is nothing wrong with tea.

I'll tell you, tea is simply, why did the tradition of drinking tea come up? Do you understand? Because in the old days, there was no Google Drive or Dropbox, there was no way to share stuff, there was no way to archive anything. So the only way to share information of, you know, how to track a deer to go and trap it for meat purposes, like this. All this information, how to grow a crop so that it can grow even in less rain. All of this stuff, all this information that, the knowledge that people had, how do you transmit it to other people? So you gather people around, and when they gather around, you have to do something mundane. So the mundane thing was, you boil some liquid, you put some leaves in it, and then you drink that over time, and you just talk. So tea was a nimitta for just this discussion to happen, so that the old people or the wise people can say, you know, ऐसा होगा तो ऐसा करो, ऐसा होगा तो वैसा करो। Then that information got transmitted to the younger guys, and then they learn something, and then they transmit it to the young. It was all by word of mouth. So chai is simply a nimitta for hanging out together. That's it. That is why this session is called Chai and Why. So there is no such thing as which chai is bad. There is no such thing as bad chai.

Regular intervals, really. यानी every seven milliseconds, you have a thought. If it is this regular, you already are enlightened. There is nothing for you more to do. You're already done. If it is regular. If it is randomly coming, incessantly, I think the word you want to use is incessantly. If incessant thoughts are coming, you have to look at what food you're eating. Because the food that you eat has increased the rajas in you, which is leading to incessant thoughts. So look at the foods. We talk about this in detail in the Sahaj Samadhi Refresher because we tell you methods how to diagnose your meditation. So the short answer is, for incessant thoughts, you're not exercising, you're not tiring your body enough and your food is keeping the rajas imbalanced. So these two things will lead to incessant thoughts, nonstop. So look at these two things.

This is not even a question. This is a series of four words that doesn't even mean anything to me. Physics of Bhastrika Pranayama. Yes. No. Maybe. All these are valid answers. It's not even a question, you see. But we will learn Bhastrika later. Okay, keep that aside.

How do you know participants are opening their eyes? ख़ुद का भी आँख खुला ही हैं। Otherwise, how will you know other people's eyes are open? Right? That's amazing. Why are other people's eyes open? Look at yourself. Leave other people. Close your eyes. Why eyes are to be closed? Because the sadhana process is an internalization process. When the eyes are open, the mind is directed outwards. So you have to stop the outward direction of mind. So you close the eyes. So then the direction of the mind becomes inward facing. That is what you do in sadhana practices. You don't drive a car with your eyes closed because, at that time, the mind has to be outward facing. But for sadhana practices, the mind has to be inward facing. That is the reason to close the eyes.

Why not? We already explained it, right? Why Ujjayi breath? We explained in the Physics of Pranayama. Yes or no? Have you watched the Physics of Pranayama? No? Then go watch it. If you have watched the Physics of Pranayama and not understood Ujjayi breath, then watch it again. Very simple. Watch it till you understand. I already explained in Physics of Pranayama why you use Ujjayi breath. It has to do with slowing down the breath in time, and then what happens to the mind? That is what is explained in the Physics of Pranayama. Please go watch it.

̌यहीं तो PoP में already बोल दिया हैं। Physics of Pranayama I already explained why the hands are in the three positions. All of this stuff is already explained in Physics of Pranayama. Go watch it. It's available on the app or it's available on Udemy. Many places, go watch it. 

That also I explained in the Physics of Pranayama. Are you not paying attention, or maybe this person missed the session? This person missed the session of Physics of Pranayama, so now they want to ask the question in Chai and Why. No, you go and watch the Physics of Pranayama. The bus.. the Vajrasana, is done essentially to keep the back straight. The whole point of Vajrasana is to keep the back straight, and there are many methods to keep the back straight, also, which I explained in the Physics of Pranayama. So go watch that.

[SK] Yeah, so what is happening in Sudarshan Kriya is you're releasing unwanted impressions. These are called klishta in Patanjali's terminology; they are called klishta vruttis, which are getting released in the Sudarshan Kriya. Now, you don't want your baby to surrounded by the release of the klishta vruttis, do you? All the garbage that you're releasing, you don't want your baby to be exposed to all that crap. Literally, it is crap at the level of the subtle body; it is crap. So that is why you don't do Sudarshan Kriya when you're carrying a baby because you don't want to expose that baby to all the crap that you have been carrying in your subconscious.

[SK] After the delivery, you can do Sahaj. By the way, when you're pregnant or you're carrying, you can do Sahaj. It's very good to do Sahaj, but don't do Sudarshan Kriya.

[Participant] I thought it was only in the third trimester that we don't do long Sudarshan Kriya, or all through, we don't do it. 

[SK] Okay, so the trimester thing comes because there is some rudimentary research that shows when the baby starts feeling their environment. How do they know? It's a very, it's a little bit of a goofy science, but so in the second and third trimesters, the baby starts feeling this stuff, so then people said, all right, don't do it then. But I'm saying, I'm saying the moment you know you're pregnant, you stop. Not stop, actually; you stop. Just stop. You do your Sahaj, and that's enough. Maybe for the first trimester, you can because, yeah, but whatever. It's just an approximate thing, but I'm telling you, once you know that you're pregnant, just stop it because you don't want the baby to be exposed to all the klishta that you're removing.

So in periods what's happening, the energy flow is downward, right? The blood flow is excreting, so energy flow is downward. So any process that is moving the energy flow upwards is fighting the natural thing that is happening during periods. And Bhastrika is pretty powerful, it's a rising, it's an energy riser, it's like the yogic coffee, it is an energy riser. So you are fighting the natural energy flow during menstruation, which is why you don't make a conflict. You let the body do its thing and then you do your thing, it's like that.

Will you take a bath 15 times a day? No, right? Same reason, why do you want to do Sudarshan Kriya twice a day? क्यूँकि if I tell you, okay, twice is okay, then you say, why not three times a day? I tell you, okay, do it three times, you say, why not five times a day? There's no end to this question. Boss said, Guruji said, do it once a day, you do it once a day. Doctor says, okay, you go to the doctor, doctor tells you 200 milligrams of aspirin. You say, why not 400 milligrams? You doesn't ask there, why not 400 milligrams of aspirin? You don't ask the question there, but here you are asking, why not twice a day? Because here the doctor is Guruji and he said, do it once a day, follow the doctor.

Take a breath in. Hold it. Do you understand the reality of breath? समझ में आया reality of breath? It's essential. Otherwise, life will just finish. And it does other things also. So the breath in the physical body affects prana in the subtle body. And that correlation, I don't understand, but Guruji understands. Which is why you need a guru to explain to you how to do the pranayama. Because in pranayama, you're only modulating breath, but you're actually affecting prana in the subtle body. So you don't make up your own pranayama because you don't know what the heck you're doing. You need to follow what the guru tells you. That's the reality of breath.

I already explained it. What is the reality of pranayama? There are five kinds of prana. I won't talk about it now. And without prana, the subtle body cannot function. And if the subtle body doesn't function, then the gross body just drops. So that is why prana is called life force. Because if the prana doesn't do its thing, the gross body is nothing. It just drops.

This false identification of the mind as if it is the self is the root cause of misery. If you think your mind is the self or approximates the self or the intellect is the self or approximates the self, you are seeding misery in your life. Is the root cause of misery, this thing. And the whole Patanjali Yoga Sutras is a systematic approach to realizing this via sadhana practices. Then that detachment happens. When the detachment of the mind and the intellect from what the self is, that detachment starts happening. That is freedom. That is the start of liberation. Till that detachment happens, you are bound. There is no freedom. And the detachment will not happen just by reading the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. You have to take a deep dive into it. You have to understand and you have to implement. You have to get it to work in your life. The sutras are working in every aspect of your life even now.

You just don't realize it because you haven't taken the deep dive. Once you take the deep dive into Patanjali, you will realize that those sutras are there every second of every day in your life. They are playing out, and then you put in the hard work. Then you see the slight separation between the mind, intellect, and the self, and you realize, "Oh wow!" After that, there is no stopping you. Then the journey is really, really fast. But until that point of realization of separation, it is hard work. So do the hard work, please. Put the time in, do the hard work.

You skip the Bhastrika. What the heck? You do the three-stage Pranayama. You skip the Bhastrika, you do Om, and you do so on, so on, finished.

There, you have to watch the Physics of Pranayama. I already explained it there, the hand positions and all this Ujjayi breath and all this stuff. I explained everything in the physics of Pranayama. Put in the hard work, watch the talk. It's available for you for free now on the art of living app. How much more easier do you want me to make it?

It's a talk I put together because most people who are doing Pranayama not correct. In that talk, I explained how the slight corrections to the hand positions and the way the breathing is done, all of this stuff, I archived it in this talk called the Physics of Pranayama. There, I also explained why the Silence program, or in India, you call it the Advanced Meditation (AMP), why that is necessary, why the Sahaj Samadhi is necessary, why the SKY practice is necessary, how all of these things work together. All of this stuff I've explained in the Physics of Pranayama talk and this talk is available on the Art of Living app in India.

What we call the Art of Living app, it's also available on the Journey app, the Art of Living journey app in the United States, and it's also available on Udemy. If you are not in one of those two countries and don't have access to the app, you can go to Udemy and watch it there. It's the same talk, so go find it.

So, if it's a bronchitis issue, go see a physician, and then once they fix the bronchitis, then the breathing becomes easier.

Other effects, go watch the Physics of Pranayama, I'm telling you. Everything is there in that talk. All these questions have been answered: how the SKY is working on the subconscious, and what is the result of all that stuff, and then all this, the inner workings of the SKY, have been explained there in the Physics of Pranayama. How many have taken the Physics Pranayama? Show me a show of hands, how many have. So, ask these people, it's all there in the talk "Yes or No," everything is explained in there. 

Yeah, do it. You already made a statement. Don't feel guilty. What is there to feel guilty about? Your sadhana is not happening because you are bound by your vruttis. There is no freedom in your choice. You're just going by what the vruttis are telling you to do. You're a slave to your vruttis, so it's very difficult. You have to break it actively. You have to recognize, "Oh yaar, this delay is happening." You say no. The only no that is most powerful is the no that you say to your own vruttis. This is the only no that is the most important no in life. You say, "No, I'm not going to go with my vruttis. I'm going to do the right thing." Then you sit and do your sadhana. Then you see the change. Once you go through the initial discomfort of the first two or three or four days by saying no to your vruttis, then you see what happens. The magic will happen in your life. Give it time to happen. But the first thing you have to do is to say, "No, I'm not going to go with my vruttis."

[Participant] I have done the deep dive into the Patanjali Yoga Sutras recently with Sir. I just want to add this discriminatory "no" that you just spoke about is one of the best learnings that I have taken out of the entire deep dive into the Patanjali Yoga Sutras recently. Practical implementation of this "no" has really changed a lot of things at the level of my consciousness, is what I wanted to say out of my experience. Yes, it somehow empowers, you know, it gives that feeling of empowerment and definitely that feeling of freedom that I've never felt before. I felt it when I started implementing this "no." Thank you for that.

Yeah, this is deep. So, why is there no trust? The reason you're asking how to overcome trust issues is because you have difficulty trusting people. Why is that? It's because, at some point, your trust has been broken. That's the reason. You have to find that breakpoint of the trust and that impression you're carrying still. It's such a strong impression that you say, "Yaar, I'm not going to trust anybody now," because that hurt you're holding on to, that hurt that comes with the trust being broken, you have to purge it out of your system. Unless you purge that thing out of your system by doing sadhana, by doing pranayama, that’s the only way to do it, you cannot do it from the mental thing. You cannot say, "चल, I'm going to ignore." It’s no such thing. That is right in your subconscious. It's already there. You have to purge it. Once that purging happens, then you see the trust will come back. And then you trust the small things. You trust a small child. What harm is a small child going to do to you? You trust the small child, then you trust something else. Who are you know that there is no such major harm that's going to come? You trust those people, and this is the practice. This is called abhyasa. You do this practice again, again, again. You trust something, you trust something more, you do something more, punah, punah, punah. Then this vrutti goes into your system, and it displaces that distrust ka vrutti. And now this is not klishta; it is aklishta. This is a good vrutti. Then this good vrutti starts growing. But abhyasa needs to be done, practiced again, again, again, from your side. You have to take the steps. This is the only way to do it.

So, Padma Sadhana is an amazing set of asanas. I think it was Guruji who put it together, but I'm not sure of this. Maybe somebody, whoever put it together, I don't know. Padma Sadhana means awakening the...Padma means lotus. 

So Padma Sadhana means awakening the, how do you say, I don't want to say gut chakra or something, it is not that. Awakening the inner value, you can think of it as inner valor. I'll explain what it means. When you do Padma Sadhana, these specific set of asanas are put together. What happens in Padma Sadhana, you become like a lotus. You see the lotus is in complete dirt but it is pristine. Nothing sticks to the lotus. Have you seen that? It's in kichad. It's in, how do you say kichad in English? It's in whatever, marshy land, right? The lotus is just floating above marshy land. This is what will happen to you when you do Padma Sadhana. You become like a lotus because your inner valor is kindled and then all the crap that the world is throwing around, so the world is like the marshy land, it's going to throw crap at you. Nothing will stick. You become like the lotus. That's why it's called Padma Sadhana, the process, the sadhana process that makes you become like a lotus. So crap doesn't even stick to you. That's the beauty of Padma Sadhana.

But I never said to trust everybody. I said trust one person. Do not trust everybody. Who said? Don't trust everybody. Can you start trusting one person? 

Nobody is asking you to trust everybody. Because that hurt is still there. It's impossible to trust everybody. But you can trust one person, small child. Forget child. Can you trust a dog? The dog is unconditional love. Dog is simply God spelled backwards. Unconditional love is dog. Trust the dog. That inculcation of the trust has to be brought out from yourself. You have to do the hard work. Nobody can do it for you. Or if you think this is very difficult, then live with the distrust. Eventually that mountain of distrust will become so heavy that you will drop it. Automatically it will drop.

Low self-esteem is coming from what? Low self-esteem is coming from comparison. If you are not comparing with anything, how can something be low? Okay, I'll give you example. This much length. If I draw a line of this much length and I ask you is this a long line or a short line? What will you say? Long or short with respect to what? If I am saying is this long line compared to this line, you will say yes. It's a long line compared to this line. But if that other line is this much big, is this a long line compared to this line? No. So this comparison is what leads to low self-esteem. You are comparing. If you stop comparing, automatically there is no reference point. So the lowness just goes away. It's simply now developing skill sets. And most of the time you are comparing with somebody above you.

Which is also a wrong thing to do. But then do the complete opposite. What does Patanjali say? When you are faced with a dilemma that you don't understand, you look at the opposite of it. Then you will start understanding why this has to be done. So now if you are low self-esteem, what is the opposite of it? You look at somebody who you know is less skilled than you. Then what happens? Now you are not low, you are high. Either way, the comparison is wrong, but I am saying flip it. And when you flip it, you will realize that this anchor point of your low or high is completely arbitrary. It's on you. You have made that anchor point, which is now making your self-esteem low. There is no need for an anchor point. There is no need for comparison. There is nobody to compare to except yourself with your previous version of yourself. That's it. There is no other second or third person.

You don't compare yourself to me. I don't compare myself to Einstein. I look like an idiot in front of him, but I don't care. I am a better version of myself than what I was yesterday. That's all that is mattering. Nothing else is mattering. You understand? The only comparison you do is with yourself only. That is why it is, don’t be a football of other people's opinion because who cares about other people's opinion? They have their own opinion. You have your own opinion. It doesn't matter. You understand? Change the reference point.

Don't cry Pushpa, your tears are saline water here. I mean, there is nothing but salty water. Wipe it away, Pushpa. I hate tears, the man said and left. Listen to it यार। It doesn't matter. Express your opinion. If your opinion comes out as tears, it comes out as tears.

I'll tell you an example. Have you watched Indian Idol season 14? It is the most amazing thing. Why is it so amazing? Because Shreya Ghoshal is there. She is like देवी है यार वो, क्या आवाज़ है by God, you know, but you look at the sincerity with which she appreciates these young people who have sung a song, which is fantastic. The sincerity from which she appreciates, you as a viewer are brought to tears. Tears are not frivolous, they are precious because they are coming from deep inside of you.

So don't short sell yourself just because यार मेरे आँख में आँसू है। Don't short sell yourself. I'm telling you. Tears are precious, which means you are very sensitive. If you look at a flower, you look at a rose, and you are fully immersed in that rose, you are brought to tears. It is just pure beauty there. The natural emotion that comes up is yaar, throat will choke and eyes will water. This is natural. This is something only sensitive people can experience.

If you are not moved to tears by, let's say, a brilliant song or a brilliant rose, you've not even lived your life. You are a useless person. But if you are being brought to tears by a sound or a song or a rose, then you're living your life. So don't short sell yourself just because you are sensitive. Stop it. I hate tears.

यही तो। Meditation in motion. है ना? It's brilliantly done. It's a brilliant technique. पहले तो you complain that meditation is so uncomfortable because I cannot move. Then when he allows you to move, you're complaining on that also. Make up your mind. Look at the complaints that are in your head. All the time you're complaining. Stop it. क्या करें, क्या न करें, यह कैसी मुस्किल हाए। है ना? ऐसे चल रहा है life. No, so what he's doing in that, I should not say. I'm not a Silence Course teacher, so I should not say.

What do you think, I should tell you or not to tell you? See this is my question, क्या करें, क्या न करें, I know the answer, but should I say because I am not a, I am not a Silence Course teacher, but I know why he is doing it. Anyway just do it. How does it matter? Guruji ने बोला ना, कर ले, it has to do with, okay चल I will tell you, it has to do with developing titiksha, the quality, the sixth wealth of titiksha is being developed in the meditation motion, forbearance, titiksha means what, forbearance. Once every 6-8 months, you go through this discomfort process of meditation in motion and then titiksha will be developed in your system. See I told you now, किसी को बोलना मत, but I told you, secret हाँ, फिर?

[SK] Who told you? क़ौन है? मेरे सामने लेके आओ उसको। I am just joking. 

[Participant] Even I have heard it, it's always me, even I say that, relax your shoulders, relax your forehead. 

[SK] During SKY? कभी? When? 

[Participant] Yeah, before the home practice Kriya, we say that, no, before Sahaj also we say, keep your back straight, smile on the face, shoulders relaxed, yeah, I think even before Sanyam they say that. 

[SK] Yeah, it's a good thing, no? You cannot do sadhana in a tense body state, so you relax all the muscles and become non-tense. Because the shoulders and these muscles here, they hold a lot of stress and when they hold stress, it automatically rises the shoulders. So consciously when you drop the shoulders, you are allowing those muscles that have stored the stress to release it and then the sadhana can happen, that's the reason.

But you see what happened in your mind, you see this is very interesting, when I said कौन बोला, मेरे सामने लेके आ, that doesn't mean that what was said was wrong. In your mind you heard it that what was said was wrong, that is why bring that person in front of me, this is what you heard. The meaning of the words is assigned by us. You see what has happened, what was said was correct, I just wanted to know who said it, so bring it, bring them in front of me, so I can congratulate them to tell you that they told you the right thing to do. But in your mind you thought that oh my god, I was told something wrong, so you started justifying, look at what's happening in your mind all the time, it's amazing. And then you say मेरे पास freedom नहीं है, कैसे होगा freedom, you are not even listening properly.

It's irrelevant yaar, there is no purpose, it's a random fluctuation that resulted in this whole drama. It's a quantum fluctuation that happened many many years ago in space time. If you don't want to believe physics, you believe the spirituality people, they say oh it's a dream of when Brahma had a dream, the universe happened, okay, pointless. Abhi, what will you do now? You are not going to live your life or what? Because you don't have a purpose. It's a nonsense question. Patanjali is very clear about it. We did a deep dive and he is very clear, this question is idiotic. When you eventually learn, do the deep dive of Patanjali, you will learn. That this very question is very superficial. You think it's a deep question, oh I need a purpose in my life. A really very superficial question. So, keep that question in your pocket.

Okay, don't find answers. If you get a question, keep it in your pocket. Just live your life. Then you see the magic that happens. You go with this question in your hand and looking for purpose in life, you'll never find it. 

[Participant] Sorry, I was on mute. Yeah, so for this purpose, she has to say that, but it feels as if something is missing, which is not soul satisfactory. 

Okay, bring this person in front of me. Define soul. Yeah, let's see. Soul satisfaction means? Define soul. Define satisfaction. All of these things are comparative statements.

Satisfaction compared to what? You have a discomfort. Oh, my small pinky finger is paining. Oh, discomfort. Discomfort compared to what? You chop your hand off, which is more discomfort? If I give you a choice, pinky finger pain or arm chopped off, which will you take? You'll take pinky finger pain. What is the reference point? It's all coming from comparison. This whole mess that we are in is because we are comparing. There is no comparison. Hello, wake up. There is no comparison.

Soul satisfying. Why? What is there in the book? Soul satisfying nonsense. Stop reading all this nonsense stuff. Do your sadhana. It is between you and yourself. I and my loneliness often talk about this. People have said it. Listen to them. It's only between you and yourself. All this garbage in your head, remove it. Do the sadhana. Take the deep dive into Patanjali. Understand the sutras to the best of your ability and get into sadhana practice. Only then all this mess will go away. Otherwise, you're going to carry this load with you for the rest of your life.

You already answered the question. You are not that person. You're not that person. See, you think you have freedom. That is why you think I could have made a different choice. And that feeling of I could have made a different choice has now fermented over the years into guilt. I'm telling you, you could not have made a different choice. The only choice that you could have made is the choice that you made. Because you don't have freedom. We are all living in a bound state.

I'm telling you again, the only choice that you could have made is the choice that you made. Once this sinks in, there is no room for regret. Oh, I could have taken a left. No, you could not have taken the left. Even though it was a left and right, the only choice you could have made is to take the right. And that's what you did. You could not have taken the left. Because if you could have taken the left, you would have taken the left. This choice that you think is an illusion, there is no choice. Because the vruttis are so strong. Only when the vruttis start becoming loose, then there is a choice. Till then, it is no choice. So recognize this. I did only that what I could have done. Nothing else. No choice.

Either you have it or you don't have it. You can't do anything to get it. You cannot make a... You cannot make a... How do you say? Yeah. It's a principle of indirect action. You have to... You have to pay attention. It comes from paying attention.

Okay. So what has happened? In your life... There have been some actions that you have done and the result of those actions has been much more than the actions that you did. Or there are situations where you were completely helpless but somehow now you have been... You have come past that action or that state of helplessness into the present and you say, wait a minute. I was quite helpless then. That was faith. You already have it. You already have it. You just haven't banked it. Banked it means paid attention.

So you retrospectively look at your life. So many times there have been things or instances or circumstances that have helped you and pushed you ahead. When you thought कि यार अभी तो खत्म है। Everything is done. You have been pushed ahead. That is faith. Already you have it. You don't have to do anything. It's already there. And when all the things that you can hold on to start breaking. The only thing that doesn't let you fall is the net of faith which you already have. कुछ करने का नहीं हैं। It's already there. Just look at your past life experiences and bank them. All the situations where faith has played a role in your life. Bank it. Pay attention. Bank it means what? Pay attention to it.

And then that's it. And then you do your sadhana practices, all this stuff and by principle of indirect action, this thing of faith will, that light will still be on. That's it. There's nothing you can do. Because why there's nothing you can do? Because you already have it in you. और क्या करोगे? It's already inside of you.

Okay, I'll tell you the secret to doing your sadhana. I cannot tell you that do it like the first time you did your sadhana. I cannot say that, but I can say do it like this is the last time you're doing your sadhana because you don't know if there is going to be another time. This could be the last sadhana you ever do in life.

Many years ago, you went and played with your best friend. And that was the last time you played with your best friend. You did not know that that was the last time. Universe doesn't have a banner saying ये last time है, make the best of it. No. सोचो तुम्हारे life में, you went and played out with your best friend last time, ख़त्म। You don't even recognize, you don't even know when was the last time. It's just…like this for sadhana. This is the last sadhana. Then you see.

Time is going fast doing what? Irrelevant nonsense stuff. What are the priorities in your life?

There is a beautiful experiment that this professor did. He came into a classroom with a jar of mayonnaise, empty jar. And in those empty jars, he put billiard balls. Then he asked the students, is this jar full? They said, yeah, it's full. Okay, then he took some ball bearings and he poured them into the jar. And those ball bearings went and sat in the middle of all those billiard balls. And he says, now is the jar full? Students say, yes, now the jar is full. Then he took some sand, finely ground sand, and he poured it in. And that went and sat in all the other spaces. And he says, now is the jar full? Now the students are confused, wait a minute, what's going on? And then one brave person says, yes, now the jar is full.

And then the professor took two cups of coffee and he poured it into the jar and the coffee went and sat. He says, no matter how full your life is, there is always time for a cup of coffee with a friend. And then he said something else. He says, if you reverse the order of this, if you put the sand in the jar first, there is no place for the ball bearings. If you put the ball bearings in the jar first, there is no place for the billiard balls. So the order in which you fill your life is important. What is priority has to go first in your life and all the other stuff will adjust itself. What we are doing is we are filling our life with the sand and the ball bearings and there is no more place for the billiard balls now. And then you say, oh, how can I fill the billiard balls? Change the order in which you fill your life. That's the only way to fit everything in.

Who said? No, what do you perceive as struggle and conflict? What do you perceive as struggle and conflict? You go for a one mile walk. You go for a one mile walk, no problem. That's fun, right? That's a fun activity, going for a one mile walk. Now next day you get into your car to go to office and the car won't start. And the office is how far from your house? One mile. That one mile walk is a struggle. It's the same one mile. So what is struggle and conflict and what is not? It is how you perceive it. It's your perception that changes the same one mile walk from pleasure to pain is the same thing. It's how you perceive it. There is no such thing as absolute pain. There is no such thing. It's how you perceive it.

गले लगालो उसको यार, अ ज़िंदगी गले लगाले। हमने भी तेरे हर एक ग़म को सीने से लगाया है। Embrace them, then they lose their power. They are becoming powerful because you are running away from them. They say, चल साले इसको तो भगाता हूँ मैं, या इसको तो भगाती हूँ मैं। You don't know, that could be female also. Why should we only, है ना। So just stop and say, चल आजा, अ ज़िन्दगी गले लगाले। Then you see, they just lose their power, ख़त्म, finished.

वोह वृत्ती लेके घूम रहा है, फिर बोलेगा यार, वापस। What you carry inside of you, only what you project and that is what's happening in your life all the time. Get rid of the vrutti, the life will change. Hello, it's an inside-out process.

Go watch the Physics of Pranayama, I'm telling you man, I already explained it in there. It's an inside-out process. Whatever is inside your subconscious, that is what you manifest around you. Same thing happens again, again, again, again. Just the actors are different. Story वहीं है। पिक्चर का title बदला है, song बदला है, actor बदला है। लेकिन story वहीं है, same story.

Just take the time and watch it. Everything is available. I have already done the hard work for you. You just have to not fall in the same holes that I have fallen into. उतना तो कर सकते हो ना। Find different holes to fall into. Don't fall into the same holes that I have fallen into. I'm sharing all my experience. So learn from it a little bit. Kunjum kunjum.

यह वापस Physics of Pranayama question. जाके सुन ले talk. Enough. No more Physics of Pranayama questions will be answered. All of this I have already told in the talk yaar. And I'm not playing hard or smart or like this. I'm exactly following what Guruji does. This I have spoken in Sincere Seeker Volume 17. This I have spoken in Narad Bhakti Sutra. This I have spoken in Ashtavakra. This I have already spoken in Physics of Pranayama. I'm just following my Guru.

Hmm. यह होगा। यह होगा। I'll tell you why. Because... Okay. 1 plus 1 is? 1 plus 1 is 2. 2 plus 2 is? 4. 3 plus 3 is? 6. 4 plus 4 is? 8. 9 plus 9 is? 99. You will only remember the mistake I made. I got all of this other thing correct.

This one thing you will remember. 9 plus 9 99 ha ha ha ha ha. 1 plus 1 2 पे हसा नहीं तुम लोग। 2 plus 2 4 पे हसा नहीं तुम लोग। 3 plus 3 6 पे हसा नहीं तुम लोग। साले 9 plus 9 99 पे हस रहा है। एक गलती किया… उल्लू साले। Problem is on your side not on my side. So don't worry. Lose your temper doesn't matter. What will happen after you do kriya is the temper will come and it will go away very fast. That change will happen. Forget your family. They are stuck on that 9 plus 9 equal to 99. They have not seen the 1 plus 1 and 2 plus 2 and 3 plus 3's. So just ignore them. Just ignore those people. 

It takes love to lead a life led by love. There is no other way to do it. 

When everything you want to say you can say in song. That is love. चाँद सी महबूबा हो मेरी जब ऐसा मैंने सोचा था… जब अंदर से song आयेगा then you know that you are in love. There is a song inside each one of us. We just have to find it. Till you find that song you will be miserable. Once you find the song you will be unstoppable. Guruji said this. I am not making this up. This is Guruji's words. Love can only be expressed. The sign of love is and अंदर से song. You might not be able to articulate it in the right rhythm and all this stuff but that feeling of you know the feeling of song which comes from inside. That is love. If that love is not there, अंदर से feeling of song आयेगा ही नहीं। 

Regular or daily? My students are very regular. They do sadhana once every 7 days. तुमकों regular चाहिए या daily चाहिए? Daily चाहिए। You want to do daily. So make it a schedule. Put it on your schedule ki this time of the day I will do sadhana no matter what. That is the billiard balls you are filling into the jar. Your sadhana is the billiard balls. No matter what. Such and such time I will do sadhana. Then what happens? The body also gets used to it. At that time that whole thing of sadhana will come and it becomes effortless. When you do it at erratic times in the day there is no schedule. The body doesn't know and it is going to resist. Body and mind. It is going to resist. So have a fixed schedule. Every time this day I mean every day this time you do sadhana. That's it. First thing. That's enough actually. Automatically it becomes daily. Otherwise no chance. 

By sutras. कुछ भी question. They are just progressive. In Patanjali we have looked at it. Have you not seen? Who has done Patanjali deep dive with me? You have seen na? All the various samadhis. I explained in excruciating detail what the various samadhis etc are. Yes or no? Watch that Patanjali deep dive. You will understand. 

So now, for Bhastrika, you have to sit with your back straight. So if you're sitting on a chair, then you sit with the knees below the level of the seat. Let your knees fall below the level of the seat of your chair. Automatically your back becomes straight. If you're sitting in Vajrasana, this automatically happens. When your hip is above the level of your knee, your back becomes straight. See, now I explained Vajrasana also. Done. Okay.

So now, for Bastrika, we start with the palms in a loose fist. How loose is the fist? It is not like a boxing. It's a tight fist नहीं है। किसी को, you don't have to punch anybody. No. How loose is the fist? The tip of your fingers should gently touch the palm. You see, gently they have to touch the palm. This is how loose the fist is. And the thumb is on the outside. The thumb is on the outside. Not like this. Thumb is on the inside नहीं। Thumb is on the outside. Okay. And you start with the palms in front of your shoulders. Not like this. Not like that. In front of your shoulders, as close to your shoulders. And the elbows are touching the body. ऐसे नहीं। Not like this. Not like a chicken. ऐसे। नहीं तो। This is not Bastrika at all. Side of your body.

Touch. So elbows touch the ribcage. And then when you breathe in, I will just show you first. When you breathe in, you breathe in through the nose, normal breath. And as you breathe in, the arms go up and the palms open. So ऐसे। Straight up. And when the hands come down, the palms will close into the loose fist again. Like this. You see. And now, when the arms fall, so when you breathe in, it goes, palms open. And then on the out-breath, the palms, the arms will simply fall by gravity, you don't have to do anything; they will automatically fall by gravity and will hit the side of your chest, and then the breath will be expelled out from there like this. You see, it's effortless. You saw my face; it's not becoming like this. This is not Bhastrika; this is drama. There is no such thing. Bhastrika is very effortless. Okay, let's do it. Palms in a loose fist in front of the shoulders, elbows tucked in close to the body, neck relaxed, and face forward. Keep the eyes open so you can see me, and then you repeat. Okay, normal breath in, out, and begin. Up, down, up, down, stop. Stop. Got it? Effortlessly, the arms fall, and when it hits the side of your ribcage, the breath is expelled from your nose. That’s it. That’s Bhastrika. And you do it in moderate pace. You don't do it like an express train, no; you do it at a moderate pace like this. All right, and then you sit.

If you have done the Advanced Meditation Program, then you apply the locks. All right, you do this for between 15 and 20 times up and down, then you rest. 15-20 times up and down, then you rest. 15 to 20 times up and down, then you rest. And then you do the next thing, which is om. All right, very simple, effortless. Have you seen Guruji doing Bhastrika? It is so effortless. Most people don't do Bhastrika effortlessly. And why do we do Bhastrika? Bhastrika is done because, in the subtle body, even though you're breathing normally, there are pockets of prana that are not moving, you know?

So, like if you have a network, how many of you have, how many of you have now cooking gas coming to your house in a pipe, no longer cylinder? It's pipe, right? Okay, so that whole pipe network is full of natural gas, which is methane. But when that pipe is opened, when the network of pipes is open for any maintenance purposes, then air goes into it. So there are pockets of that pipe that even if you keep flowing the natural gas, that air will never get dislodged from it because it's in a pocket, it's in a dead zone. So the way they dislodge the air is they pressurize and rapidly depressurize the entire system. So they pressurize, pressurize, pressurize, like this, they do it like five times, and then those pockets get dislodged.

The same thing is happening in Bhastrika. You breathe in, and this rapid exhalation on the level of the physical body is dislodging the stuck prana, which is on the level of the subtle body. That's what's happening in Bhastrika. Also, when you do the bandhas, when you do the locks, what is happening is in the physical body, the alveoli structure in the lung sometimes gets kinked. Not sometimes, it usually gets kinked because those alveoli bend, and then the pipe kinks, and then it's not functional. It becomes dead volume.

So, in science, in medical terms, they say it's the lost capacity of the lung. Okay, so when you do the bandhas, what's happening is you're taking the breath in, and you're holding it, and you're locking all the three locks, and that pressure unkinks it. So let's say that pipe is kinked like this; that pressure that's coming from the lung will unkink that pipe, and then that alveoli becomes active. Which is why the Bhastrika, which is why the bandhas are done after Bhastrika. Then the net usable volume of the lung becomes higher, and while you're doing the bandhas, the prana in the subtle body is getting assimilated. That's what's happening in the subtle body, or in the physical body, the unkinking of the network of pipes leading to the alveoli is happening. So the working volume of the lung goes up, so that's why we do Bhastrika.

And there are other benefits also about the brain going to a gamma wave state, but don't worry about all that. These are the two things that are essential. 

When the arm falls, it's going to be short only. How short can you make it? The compression of the lung has to happen. That is why the elbow and the upper arm have to hit the chest. Most people are doing it like this; they are not even hitting the chest. So then you are using your diaphragm to expel. That is not the right way of doing Bhastrika. It has to hit the rib cage.

[SK] I think you should sit in a pool of ice water and do Bhastrika. No. What if the body temperature increases a little? 

[Participant] Because I have lots of body heat. 

[SK] Then you do other things. You eat some tulsi seeds or whatever you want to do. Go speak to an Ayurveda person. They will pacify your Pitta or whatever they do. Do the second thing. Don't blame it on Bhastrika. My body heat and Bhastrika. 

[Participant] I was asking if you have to do anything else apart from Bhastrika. 

[SK] Separately do Sheetali. Sheetali is cooling. Do it separately but don't mess it up with the sadhana practice. That's it. Yeah, you can do Sheetali. You can do many things that are cooling.

Yes, when your arm will hit the ribcage, it will automatically force your breath out.