Science of cult practices! Did you understand the science of regular practices, पहला? Have you understood that? उसके बाद कल्ट में जाएँगे। First you understand the light only then you can understand what is in the darkness. Don't even understand what is in the light. Directly you want to know what is in the darkness. पहले you listen to what is in the light. Okay. So how do these practices work? Have you figured out? Some people have done also blessings course, right? You guys are blessers. You can bless people. How do you think blessings work? Have you figured that out? Have you figured out the science of blessings? No. No. Same way like blessings work, the cult practices work exactly the same mechanism. The mechanism is the same. Yeah. How does blessings work? For blessings to work, the blesser needs to first establish a connection. Isn't it? The connection has to be established. You don't know you're establishing a connection to what. You don't know, but the connection has to be established first. Then an intention is taken for the well-being of the person to whom you're sending a blessing. Isn't it? That's the mechanism of a blessing. Same thing is happening even when you take blessings from an elderly person. Elderly person comes in front of you, you bow down to their feet, you touch their feet. And then they say some words, they will say, 'Be happy' or 'खुश रहो' or 'जुग जुग जिओ' or something. They will say, 'This is a blessing. This is a blessing.' And why does it manifest? Because that elderly person, they have lived their full life. They are more in a state of contentment. They are fulfilled. 'की अभी हो गया। मेरा सब काम is done. Now I am relaxing.' From this contented state, when the words come, they manifest. This is how blessings work. So a blesser, you connect to your state. And then you take an intention that, 'Okay, may good things happen to such and such person.' This is how the blessings are working. And it's working on the subtle. The blessings work… Everything is working from the subtle to the gross. All the practices. The intention is sent to the subtlest of the levels, which is why the connection is needed. From the subtlest of the levels, it comes to the person for whom that intention is directed to. And from that subtle level, that person, on the gross level, that intention manifests. This is how blessings work. Same way tantric techniques work the same way. The tantra person connects to the source. From that source, whatever tantric stuff is sent. And then from the subtle to the gross, it manifests. The difference is that the repercussions are not the same. The repercussions of a blessing versus the repercussions of a tantric technique, the repercussions are different. You know. Which people don't understand. They don't understand the magnitude of the repercussions of the tantric techniques. Which is why it's the dark side. It's better to understand the light first and then you understand the dark side. So since the repercussions are not well understood by most people, the spiritual masters, they dissuade people from doing the tantric techniques. The technique is the same. But the. The. The word of warning is given by the gurus or the enlightened masters that, okay, there are these techniques, etc. But don't do them because the repercussions are very drastic. This is how it works. So the mechanism is the same. It's not very complicated. It's not like one of them has a different way. It's the same. It's always from the subtle to the gross. Okay.

It's the same thing. It's from the subtle to the gross. Okay, think of it this way: you see a lot of trees. Have you gone to any forest or some such? In your garden also, there are a lot of trees. These trees are communicating. Nobody understands how, but they are communicating. And they're not communicating from the outside; they're communicating from the roots level. It's again from the subtle. The communication is happening from the subtle. So it doesn't matter whether the tree is close by or far away. There is a mechanism of communication.

Same thing is happening for people who are spatially apart from you. Your words, your intention—if you are connected to the source, if you are connected to the source, then you can influence people even far away because it is coming from the, you are influencing the subtle. The subtle is everywhere, and then the subtle manifests for that person, which is why sadhus and people on the spiritual path have to be careful with the words they use because their words have got power. You call somebody what an idiot you are, that person will behave like an idiot. He has no choice, that person, because your words and your sadhana… there’s the Shakti in the words. Again, it's going to the subtle.

Understand? So be careful.

The easiest way to overcome not being able to wake up at 4 o'clock is to not wake up at 4 o'clock. It's the easiest thing to do. What is the big deal about waking up at 4 o'clock? किसी ने सुनाया, वो ब्रह्ममुहूर्त है तो चल में उठूँगी या उठूँगा। Forget about it. What is your prakriti? Maybe your prakriti is that you are not a morning person. That is your prakriti, maybe. You go with your prakriti. Don't go with this whole concept of things.

You know, there are two distinct kinds of people. One of them are early risers and the other are late risers. They are just genetically programmed like that. Now, the problem is that most of the society and the functions that we have are geared towards early risers. You know, school starts at 7.30, 8 o'clock, whatever. Office starts at 8, 9 o'clock, like that. Office ends at 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock. Early risers के लिए, this works very well because they peak at 11.30 to 3 o'clock is their peak time, so they get most productive work done. All this stuff works for early risers.

For late risers, their peak is at 6 o'clock in the evening. By the time the workday is over, those guys are miserable. They cannot fit. And I am not making this up. Go read up this book called “Why We Sleep.” There are certain diurnal cycles that are genetically programmed. You cannot do anything to them. It is your prakriti. So if your prakriti is such that you are a late riser, even if you put 50 alarms at 4 o'clock in the morning, it is going to do nothing for you.

I will give you one technique to wake up: you put one alarm next to your bed. You put another alarm 10 feet away from your bed. You put the third alarm at 4.05, 15 feet away from your bed. You put a fourth alarm at 4.10, 20 feet away from your bed. झक मार के उठ जाओगे तुम यार! But it is not going to help you. The point is, it is not going to help you because it is not in your prakriti. Your whole day will be messed up. So don't worry about this 4 o'clock business. But you understand how it works, right?

How many have this problem? Tell me. How many have this problem? This is the same issue with even New Year… How many people have done New Year resolution this year? It's a recipe for disaster. You know why New Year resolution doesn't work? Because the resolution is very big. It doesn't fit in your mouth. It is so big. वो खा नहीं सकते हो। You cannot digest it. Same thing with sadhana. Your goals for the sadhana are massive. बहुत बड़ा है। It's too big. You need to make it bite-size. Then you see it will work very well.

It's the power of compounding if you look at it. It's beautiful. Let's say you make zero effort. So you're at one. One raised to any power is one. So let's say 365 days. One raised to 365 is still one. Now let's say you make one percent effort. थोड़ा सा। Little bit. Now, one percent means what? 1.01. One plus one percent of one. 1.01. Now take your calculator and you do 1.01 raised to 365. You'll be surprised at the answer. It is 37. Massive. Tiny amount of work. Tiny amount, but consistently. Nairantarya, without interruption, results in massive benefits, which is what people miss. You don't have to do big things. You have to do small things but do it consistently. Then the massive benefits are huge.

Do your calculator. Do this. One raised to 365 is one. 1.01 raised to 365 is... It is amazing. The power of compounding. This is what will help you in with your sadhana. Have minimal goals. Today, I will just do 20 minutes of sadhana. That's it. Nothing else. And if you don't think you have 20 minutes, I will find you the 20 minutes. I'm an engineer. Seven minutes less on Facebook. Okay, forget seven. 20 minutes less on Facebook. उधर ही हो गया 20 minutes. Done. Let's say five minutes less on Facebook, five minutes less on Instagram. Ten minutes. Three minutes shorter shower. हो गया 13 minutes. Two minutes less yelling at your husband, wife, kids, etc. हो गया 15 minutes. I can always find you five more minutes. No problem. Don't tell me you don't have 20 minutes, boss. माइंड में प्रॉब्लम है। Problem is in the mind. Small steps. You see, small steps over long time. Magic happens.

अरे Physics of Pranayama देखा नहीं ? You haven't watched Physics of Pranayama? कम्बख्त तूने पी ही नहीं। Go watch Physics of Pranayama. All is well explained. All the hand positions, why they are done, how to take proper Ujjayi breath. Everything is fully explained. It's on Udemy now. Somebody can type the URL. It is tiny.cc/pop-udemy

Very simple. Go watch it. Everything is explained really well. I think so anyway. Don't you think so? It's explained very well. Go watch it.

What is sadhana? Sadhana is very interesting. Sadhana means it comes from: सदा धनः। सदा धनः, the amalgamation of those two words becomes sadhana. सदा means what? Forever. सदा, it will never leave you, forever. धनः is what? Wealth. धनः is wealth. Sadhana means the wealth that never leaves you. You can never lose this. This is the meaning of sadhana. The wealth that never leaves you.

What is the wealth that never leaves you? The ability to silence the mind, the ability to go beyond the chatter of the mind, the ability to have basic human value, empathy, compassion, helping others. These are the wealths. The ability to aspire for higher knowledge, the ability to make yourself a better person than you were yesterday. Just a tiny amount.

These are the wealths that never leave you. This is sadhana.

No. No, no, no. Okay, so this is very important. When you are doing kriya, I notice people. When you are doing kriya, some people are sitting with chin mudra, like this. You have to sit with the hands open. This is called mahamudra. So you are doing a mudra, but it's not really a mudra. Your hands are open to the sky. And when you are doing SKY breathing, your hands are open to the sky. Not sitting in chin mudra like this. Don't do all this.

It's like when you feel rested, then you, if you're lying down, then you roll over on your right side and you get up slowly. There is no hurry to get up. See, the person who gets up first after kriya does not gain anything. There is no race there. आराम से। You lie down, when you feel rested, you roll over on your right side and you get up slowly. And at that time, your mind and body are fully settled.

You take an intention. Maybe it's for you, maybe it's for a project that you're going to do something. You take an intention or maybe it's for somebody else. Take that intention. Then you see the power of intention will manifest because you're in, you're fully connected at that point. Beautiful space!

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you have to go see a physician. I'm not a physician, so I don't know what your symptoms are, but there is no problem of Kriya. If you have high BP, you have to take a little bit care with the fast cycle. And also the Bhastrika, you have to do it with a little bit less effort. Other than that, go talk to your physician. There is no restriction on that.

Yeah, during Kriya you don't do mudras. During SKY breathing you don't do. Before that you can do your mudra pranayama.

SK: Yeah.

Participant: We can, is it?

SK: Yeah, no problem.

Participant: Okay, because the oxygen levels are high and your flow is high, so it's okay to do it, right?

SK: Yeah.

Participant: Okay, thank you.

SK: There's no need to do it, but why would you want to do it?

Participant: No, just I feel highly energized, so I feel when we press on the acupressure points, you know, it would work.

SK: You don't need it. You're already at max 100. When your cup is full, you add more water. Is it doing any good? No.

Participant: Okay.

SK: You'll add water only when the cup is not full.

Participant: No, especially for the face, there are a few acupressure points and all that.

SK: Okay, if you so want to do it for no matter what reason, do it.

Participant: Right, thank you.

So, the confusion can come on two levels. One of them is that the word sadhana is being misused. Not every practice is a sadhana. But you can always say that I am doing sadhana of playing cricket. It's a wrong use of the word.

That is one confusion. Then second confusion is there will be sattvic, rajasik, tamasik in every manifested activity that you do by definition. Why is that? Because anything that is manifest is part of prakriti. Anything that is unmanifest is part of purusha. So, anything that you are doing is by definition manifest, which means it is part of prakriti. Which means it will have the three gunas there. There is no way out of it. You will have the sattva, you will have the rajas, you will have the tamas. It is always going to be there.

Anything. You take a pencil; it can be sattvic, rajasik, or tamasik. You take a cup or this chai inside; it could be sattvic, rajasik or tamasik. The gunas are there in everything, including your actions. Your actions are sattvic, rajasik, tamasik. Your thoughts are sattvic, rajasik, tamasik. There is nothing great about it.

So, the confusion is coming because I think the word sadhana is being used for practices which are not sadhana. And then, every practice by definition is sattvic, rajasik, tamasik. Done.

No. No. There is no such special situation. You tell me the special situation, and I will make sure you find 10 more minutes to do the whole thing. I am an engineer. I can solve the problem. There is no special situation that makes you do only 20-40-40 circles. ग़लत जवाब। Don't take shortcuts. I am telling you. Don't work. No, come on. I mean, how much time does it take to do the three stages? Even if you do, don't do like 5, 7, 10 rounds, do three rounds. Three rounds first stage, three rounds second stage, three rounds third stage. How much time it takes? 5-7 minutes. Then you do your SKY breathing. Don't take shortcuts. It's a capsule. It's not a tablet. You know aspirin? Give me half an aspirin. Okay. No. It's a capsule. You cannot open. It's a full thing. Either you take the whole thing or you don't take anything. It's like that.

Yeah, I mean, there is no reason why they won't. What we saw in the video, did you attend Meditation Demystified? No? There we saw the whole science behind how these processes work on the level of the genes. So even though the mechanism is not fully worked out, I don't see why it won't help, because they are working at the level of the genes. So it is a, there's a high probability that it would help you. But I cannot definitely say because it, I mean, genetic diseases are so complicated. We barely understand this COVID-19 business, so forget about genetic diseases.

Very good. Who said to give up tea? कोन बोला? Don't listen to all these people. चाय is the fifth source of energy. कोर्स में बोला ना पहले, What are the four sources of energy? Food, sleep. Breath and meditative state of mind. Four sources of energy. The fifth source of energy is चाय। पी लो तुम खुल के। Don't have any झिझक in drinking चाय। कुछ प्रॉब्लम नहीं है। मॉडरेशन में लेना। Don't do like 20 cups of tea, that will totally mess up your pH level in your body and all this other stuff will happen. But चाय is a निमित्ता, यार। चाय is a conversation starter. Chai is a memory agglomerator. Chai is just magic! Don't beat yourself up by Chai. Come on.

Yeah, it's a challenge. It's a major problem. So, you have to ask for help. When you're feeling low, you have to find your संघ। You have to find your companions. You have to reach out. When you're feeling low and you recognize that you're feeling low. पहले तो when you're feeling low, you don't know that you're feeling low. You think, की यार ऐसा ही है। But once you recognize की यार this is not good, I'm feeling low, you reach out. You pick up the phone and call somebody or you say that, Boss, please help me like this. And the Sangha will pull you out of that hole.

That is why there is Satsang. Satsang doesn't mean just singing and chanting, Jaya Guru, Deva Guru… No, no. Satsang means not letting anybody fall. Taking everybody along together. That is why there are so many. You can hold on to anybody. And the power of the group moves you ahead. But you have to ask for it. If you think in the hole, की यार कोई तो आएगा। उधर ही बैठे रहोगे तुम। You have to shout, Hey, help. Hello, I'm here. Then somebody will come and say, अरे तू नीचे क्या कर रहा हैं? They'll pick you up. You have to ask for it. Do you understand? There's nothing wrong in asking for help. Do you understand?

Nobody helps you, you call me. I will help you. 100% guaranteed. I'm the backstop for everybody. Nobody will slip. You call me. ठीक है? But don't sit in the hole.

Yeah. So we get agitated and disturbed because we feel that something that is transient is, we feel that it is permanent. This is what disturbs us. So recognizing that. It's not easy. When you are in the hole, it's very difficult to see this. But the only way to see it is to widen the perspective.

How do you widen perspective? There's two ways to do it. One of them is to see, you think that my space is really small. Some people feel the constraint of a small space. Is it really small? No. You look at the expanse. Just look at. Google this thing called "Pale Blue Dot." Google it. It's a photo. It's the most famous photo ever taken. When the Voyager spacecraft was launched, Carl Sagan, one of the leading scientists, he got them to turn the craft around so that the camera faces back. He took a picture of where it came from. That is the picture of the Earth from many, many thousands of light years away. Not light years. Miles away. And you will see in the vast expanse of space, the Earth is like a tiny pale blue dot. A dot. Abhi, on that scale, how big is your problem, dude? We can't even see you. You understand? Widen your perspective.

And if you think, "Yeah, my problems will never end. They are going to be there for eternity," you can do another experiment. You can extend your hand out like this. And then from the center of your head to the edge of your arm, if that is the life of the universe, 13.9 billion years. You take a nail file and you just do one like this on the nails. Just in that one stroke, you have erased the entire existence of the human race. Done. Gone. How long are you, boss? What is your time scale on the scale of the universe? Nothing. Puny little thing. One nail file, you're done. Finished. How long is your misery going to last? Nothing. It is transient. Your perspective needs to be widened. Only then you will come out of this.

All these perceived obstacles that… and they are real. I'm not denying it. They are when you are in them, they feel excruciatingly real. This is the Maya. But this is the Maya. You learn to disengage. And only sadhana practices will be able to do that. Otherwise. It doesn't work. These sadhana practices are what are called indirect action practices. You cannot work on the mind directly on the level of the mind. It's impossible to do. So you have indirect ways to work on the mind. These are the sadhana practices. You do your Kriya, you're essentially working on the mind. You do your yoga, you're essentially working on the mind. You do your other practices, pranayama, you're essentially working on the mind. They are called indirect action practices. This is the only way. You can get out of this mess created by the mind. Does this make sense?

It was mandatory in schools. And then it sort of became not mandatory. And now it's coming back. It's a cycle. It will come back. So you offer… you can, there are programs, I mean, I don't know about India, but in the United States, there are programs where the SKY breath is taught in schools as part of the school curriculum in inner-city, I mean, inner-city schools like that. It's under IAHV. There is a whole thing about SKY Schools or something. There's a whole website, at least in the US. I'm sure in India also there are ways to do it.

But don't go like as a random; you go with a proper plan and with a commitment. You can't say, "चल मैं एक दिन आऊंगा।" बाद में you disappear for three months and then you come again for one day. That is useless. You better don't do anything like that. If you're going to do it consistently, then take some advice, form a team. There must be a structure in India for doing this. Just find out. Talk to your local facilitators, teachers, whatever. There must be a method to do this because if we can do it in America, you can do it in India also. No problem. Takes a lot of hard work, which is why you need a dedicated team of people. So join the team, work as one unit. Can be done.

SK: What is it? Chandrabhedi, अच्छा। Okay. So it turns out that there are two primary nadis in our system. One of them is the moon nadi, the Chandra nadi, the other is the sun nadi, the Surya nadi. These words, I don't know where they came from, but that's how it is.

So now in the Chandrabhedi, what happens is its circular breathing. So in the normal anulom-vilom or alternate nostril that we learned, it is alternate breathing. You breathe in and out and you alternate. So you breathe in from the left, out from the right, in from the right, out from the left, alternate like this. This is the normal, what you call anulom-vilom or alternate nostril.

Now in Chandrabhedi, you bias it. So you breathe in only from the left, you breathe out only from the right. So it becomes circular. You understand? This is Chandrabhedi. In Suryabhedi you do उलटा। You breathe in from the right and you breathe out from the left. So you are biasing the in and out breath on one of the nostrils.

And there are certain reasons to do that. Most people don't understand. So don't mess with it. You do the alternate nostril. That will auto-balance everything. Don't bias yourself. Only when you're an advanced yogi practitioner, then you can subtly bias. You're not there. Don't kid yourself. We are all in the low level. So do alternate nostrils. Be happy. And if you want to, you can read up, go to a proper yoga school or ask some Sri Sri Yoga teacher. They will facilitate you in this, when to do etc. Don't just experiment with all this stuff.

Participant: Yeah, I think the Chandrabhedi cools down the mind. It's for a cooling effect. Is it so?

SK: It's intended for that. But okay, I'm telling you, don't mess with all this stuff. It is intended for that. Yes, exactly. It's intended to heat and cool and is intended to do many other things. But our system is not supple and subtle enough to gauge. It can go out of control very easily. So best is to balance it. You do alternate nostril, you're not biasing it one way or the other. It will balance if the system is to cool down, it will cool down. If the system is to heat up, it will heat up. You're balancing it. That is why the alternate nostril is the preferred way of doing rather than lopsided balancing it one way versus the other way. You're right; it does heat up and cool down.

SK: Okay, here's the reason why not start from right. Yes. The body is not fully symmetric. You understand? Where is your heart?

Participant: It’s on the left side.

SK: Okay. Which hand are you using to close the nostrils?

Participant: Right hand.

SK: So, it's by definition asymmetry. So, to balance it when you're using your right hand, you balance it by starting from the left nostril. That's how you balance it. That does not mean that you do alternate nostril with your left hand. You never do alternate nostril with your left hand. You understand this? Just because you're a left-handed person does not mean you do alternate nostril with your left hand. You always do alternate nostril with your right hand and you start by closing the right nostril and exhaling from the left. And then you continue.

There are certain pranayama that are designed, not designed. They work more effectively on the pituitary. One of them is called Bhramari. You know, Bhramari? I don't know the mechanism of it. I don't know exactly how it works but it seems to work. I don't know how it works.

See, pranayama is the ultimate tapas. It is the highest form of tapas you can do is pranayama. And then you limit the scope of pranayama to these mundane things की यार मेरा पैर दर्द कर रहा हैं तो, I will do pranayama. It is like a highly, how do you say? Down stepping of the process of pranayama. Boss, pranayama if you understand, not understand, if you read the Patanjali Yoga Sutras, pranayama is the one that will remove the last vritti from your system. Imagine, this is how important is pranayama. The whole sadhana practice is to remove vrittis. If you have not understood that, come on the Patanjali Yoga Sutra session. We will explain in excruciating detail. Once you understand the power of pranayama, you will not even ask this question. ये फालतू है ये प्रश्न! It is like saying what is important when you go grocery shopping. What is important? Is it the shopping bag that is important or what is inside the bag that is important? What is important? You go to buy some, you go to I don't know Dmart, Kmart, जो भी, you go there and do some shopping and come back. You say look what beautiful shopping bag I got. It’s not useless. What’s inside the bag is more important. The shopping bag is बकवास। This is like using the pranayama as a shopping bag. You understand? Pranayama is an extremely deep, deep practice. Don't make it as frivolous by… Come, come on the Patanjali Yoga Sutra session. You will understand the power of the pranayama.

​​Yeah. It depends on what you are... It depends on what you want to do. See there are practices where if you want to become a monk or you want to become a sadhu like that, there are certain practices that you, that will keep you in this state for a long time. But that’s what you want to do. If you are in a day to day world where you got responsibilities, family, etc, the technique is designed to keep you in that state for some time and bring you back so that you can use that power that you have, the settledness and the enthusiasm and all this. You can use it to do things in the real world. So these techniques are designed for that. So don't get biased towards one versus the other. It is the secret of the opposites.

When you have to do intense activity, the complementary opposite is intense rest which is what people miss. That is why there is burnout. The intense activity that you want to do, you want to achieve so much in life. You want your kids to have good education, you want your family to be safe—you want to have all this comforts, all this stuff you want. So, which means intense activity is required for that. The compensatory opposite is intense rest. So the sadhana practice is designed for intense rest so that you can do intense activity. If you are not going to do intense activity, it is no use to do intense rest also. क्या करोगे तुम? Only a person who has to spend money needs to have money in the bank. If I am not going to spend money, what is the need of the money in the bank? It is useless because I have got nowhere to spend it. You understand? This is why the sadhana practice is, this is why it is called Art of Living, not Art of becoming a Yogi. That is a different process. If you want to become a yogi, you go somewhere else. Don't come here. Here we tell you how to live your life at 100%. You understand?

So yeah, sometimes it is, you go in such a deep space, then you come back slowly.

No, that is a wrong understanding of spirituality. Spirituality is the journey towards the spirit. Spirituality is not shunning away from day-to-day activities. That is not in the journey of the spirit. That is aversion. That is just, that is not a true understanding of spirituality. When you are a truly spiritual person, can you see the "wow" in the mundane things that are happening around you? If you cannot see the "wow" there, you are not a spiritual person. Forget about it. You are like a sham. Can you see the "wow" in "wow"? Look at this stuff. Do you see the intense joy there? Have you seen a child? Have you seen a child? Whatever they look at, it is so "wow." The child is fully engaged and wow. That is spiritual.

Others are just doing झोल-झाल, some label, spirituality. Humbug है! Get real. Can you see the joy? Can you find the magic behind, let's say, a cup of chai, for example. You find the magic behind it… इलायची कूट के डाला हुआ, can you smell it, the अदरक, the perfect blend of the tea and the milk. Can you feel? Then you are spiritual. It's in the journey of the spirit. Come on, wake up. What are you spiritual, If you are not finding joy in the mundane? Have you seen Guruji? He finds joy in the tiniest things. Somebody gives him, how many boxes of ladoos has he got in his life? My God, like a million boxes he must have got. But every time somebody gives him a box of ladoos, he is fully present and he is so engaged. Do you see? This is spiritual.

Mundane things में, if you can be fully engaged, now you are spiritual. Have you seen him? He is showing us how to do it. Have you seen him or no? How many roses or bunches of flowers he has got in his life? Janata gives him, cards, ये वो। Every time he is fully engaged, when he takes that flower from you, it's like he is taking the first time. When he takes that letter from you, it's like he is taking for the first time. This is spiritual. Because every instant is brand new, fresh. There is no mundane there. This is spiritual. Otherwise it's all झोल-झाल। That's the goal. When you are seeing every moment is 100% true, fresh, then you arrive. Then there's nowhere to go. Done. Your journey is over. That is spiritual.

So, what is the connection between music and noise? You give somebody a guitar and they make noise. Then what do you do to the guitar? You tune it. You tune it. Now what happens? That same guitar makes music. What is the difference? Tuning is the difference. Tuning is the difference, isn't it? This is what Sudarshan Kriya is doing. When your seven levels are out of tune, there is no music in your life. It is just noise. When the seven levels come in harmony with each other, the tuning, then those same levels make music. That's the difference. Sudarshan Kriya is the auto-tuner. "कौनसे भी सुर में गाओ, वो ट्यून में लाएगा"। It's like that. That is the beauty of Sudarshan Kriya. I have no idea how it works but it works like that. Moment I know how it works, I will do a Physics of Sudarshan Kriya but till then I have no idea.

̌Yeah. It is not about these days. The talk about Kundalini has been forever. Only these days it is coming out because now there is Google. So everybody is a Google scholar. "यार मेरे को तो मालूम है, मैंने गूगल किया"। अरे boss, relax.

So, it is a little bit of… its energy work, ना? It is by definition unstable. And it can get out of control very quickly. It is like the fusion reaction. Have you you understand fusion reaction? Hydrogen molecules under pressure fuse to make helium and that releases a lot of energy. That's exactly how the sun is working. If you look at the sun which is now shining brightly on my face. When you look at the sun, it is a fusion reaction that is happening there. So if we can make the fusion reaction happen in a controlled environment on earth, we got unlimited energy. But it is extremely unstable. To make that, to sustain that fusion reaction is not very easy. Why? Because those fields that are required are extremely complicated and they are dynamically changing. And to sustain that, the highest they could go just recently, they could sustain the fusion reaction for 20 seconds which is like a long time. They could hold the core temperature to a million degrees. Not a million, some big number. But only 20 seconds because it's highly unstable. It's like that.

The Kundalini is like that. It's the energy that rises from the base of the spine but it is extremely unstable. It can totally burn you out like that. So be careful. Guruji says don't do. Guruji doesn't even say be careful. I'm saying be careful. Guruji is even more strict than me. He says do not experiment with Kundalini. Absolutely not. Only when you're an advanced practitioner then you have some slight idea. Even then you don't do. So anyway, it's not new. It's been there for ages.

Yeah, you wonder, no? You have to, yeah, I don't know. You have to believe. This is where faith comes. You have to have ultimate faith in the giver of the process. You have to have faith in the Guru. What Guru is doing is the right thing. What is faith? This is what is faith. When you have nothing to hold on to the one thing that prevents you from falling is faith. The ability to love something that you don't understand, that is faith.

So you're right. It seems like a, "Hey, come on! This 18-year-old guy, what the heck? He has got no life experience. He has a blessing." Shakes you off a little bit. You know, which is where faith comes. You've got to believe that, okay, the Master knows what he or she is doing. It doesn't have to be he. It can be she. Master knows. The Guru knows. The principle is there. And if that person is not ready, the blessing doesn't become effective. I told you the connection has to be there from the blesser side first. If that connection is not there, तुम कुछ भी बोलो। It's meaningless. Nothing's going to happen. So whether or not your blessings are manifesting depends on your connection and your connection has nothing to do with your age in life. You could be an old soul in a young body. Who knows? Or you could be a young soul in an old body. Who knows? Nobody knows. Which is why you have to just be patient and say, "All right, the गुरु knows. चलो।" The moment I know, I will tell you. But today I don't know. I'm figuring it out. But it's a very slow process. It's a really, really, really, really, really long process.

Yeah, yeah, you can. Don't make it a rule, it's an exception. Because जनता will say, oh, Bhaiya said, चलो आज से 2 बार। No, no, not like that. When you're really feeling low, etc. Yeah, you can do second kriya. It's okay.

Why do you want to know this? जो करने का है करो। There's no such thing.

SK: No, no, no. This is complicated. Sudarshan kriya is not for everybody. So, if you're on a mental disorder spectrum, you have to be very careful. You need to get it properly evaluated. And then the evaluation needs to be studied by one of our trained MDs and research people who understand the subtleties of this stuff. And only then that person can be taught or not the kriya. Don't use any random teacher from here and there. No, no. There is a process for it. You have to get the evaluation done. These people have to study it. They will have a question and answer with that person when they are satisfied. There are only four or five people in the world who can do this. One of them is in the United States. There are two people in India. I think there are three people in the US. There is a whole team. There are some in Europe like that. These people, don't just randomly ask any teacher, "Can I do this?" It is not the right thing to do. Sudarshan kriya is not for everybody. Especially borderline schizophrenic. It can do more harm to them than good. So be very careful.

Participant: Bhaiya, what do we do then when these kinds of people approach volunteers for help and all? What can we do?

SK: There is a process. I am sure there is a process of getting it validated. I am sure that, I mean there is a whole process in India. I mean in the US. I am sure there is a process in India also. There must be a contact person or a website or some such thing.

Participant: Okay.

SK: Just find out. I will find out. I know the people. So I will find out how to do it. There is a whole process for that.

Yeah, sure. Yeah, of course. They will reduce anxiety. They will reduce anxiety. What is anxiety? Anxiety is a mental construct. These things will modulate the mind differently. So automatically anxiety goes away. So yeah, it can.

SK: Yes.

Participant: Should that reason be known to us or is it fine that?

SK: No.

Participant: Okay, fine.

SK: I'm sorry. Not everybody here is a teacher. So, I cannot say no.

Participant: That's fine. No problem.

SK: That is the one. The one on the medium is the one. And there are variations to that. You can substitute the cardamom with ginger. Or you can substitute it with, I don't know the word in English, but gauti chaha. You can put gauti chaha in that.

Participant: Yeah, gauti chaha.

SK: Lemongrass. It's called lemongrass, I think. Lemongrass? It is something. All this stuff you can do.

But I usually do only one thing. So this way the mind doesn't have to think. Autopilot. You get up in the morning, you do your soham-soham. Then you come down and automatically the hand goes towards the pestle and mortar and then three cardamoms somehow come on that and go. And you put it in and then dry roast and then you measure the cup of water. Then you add the sugar. It's an effortless process. No effort. Beautiful. Same thing again. नैरन्तर्य पुनः पुनः। Again, again. Do the same thing. Ultimate freedom. You can see the happening and the doing. It just happens.

Okay. Yeah, it's easy, I mean experiment with Chai, Chai is there to experiment. Chai teaches you a lot of things, by the way. It's not as easy as just boiling water and I wrote an article on that. Read it. There is so much that Chai can teach you. It's so much everything can teach you. Anything you do, it teaches you a lot of things.

What can I say? I can only take the horse to the water. Finally, the horse has to drink the water. I can only pick these many battles. No, she will do. She will do. But it will be a basic one-on-one thing. It's not going to be an in-depth thing. I don't think so. So the plan is there. It's just other things happened. Her priorities changed a little bit, something. But it will happen. Don't worry. This year, by God, it will happen.