So if you look at, if you study the Patanjali Yoga Sutras, there is no clear instruction on how to do pranayama. It's a very vague, not very vague, it's a very generic thing. So he says extend the transition between the out-breath and the in-breath. Then he says extend the transition between the in-breath and the out-breath. And then he says when these are happening, then slow down the whole process. And doing all this, you will start getting a handle on this thing called prana, which we don't even know what is prana. We have an approximate idea. So this is the instruction from Maharishi Patanjali.

Now you cannot take this to the bank. Like क्या करे? What should we do? So some Gurus have to come and interpret. They have to say, "Acha, acha, Patanjali says this. So here is one way of doing this thing." So Maharishi Vyas came and he interpreted it in seven ways. He says here are the basic seven ways to do what Maharishi Patanjali has said, these three things. And we talked about this. So if you go and look at the Physics of Pranayama channel, there is a discussion, conversation that I had with Shriram Sarvottam. So he explains this there. Shriram has studied the Patanjali Yoga Sutras in extreme detail. So Shriram explains this.

So Maharishi Vyas came and he interpreted it in seven ways. Then some other people came like Rishi Bhogar came and he said, "Oh wait, wait. You can do it in this way." So you learned it, right? So people who have done Sanyam have learned the Bhogar Pranayama. So these Pranayamas do essentially the same thing. They are extending the transition between the out and in and they are changing the modulation, changing the speed of the rhythms of the breath. And it's the principle of indirect action. So indirectly we are affecting the Prana.

This is exactly what is happening also in Sudarshan Kriya. It's a Guruji interpretation of the Patanjali Yoga Sutra. It came to him. He went into a period of silence, I don't know, 35, 37 years ago, something, 40 years ago. And it just came to him, "Wait a minute. You could do it like this." And he called it the Sudarshan Kriya. Su means what? Su means proper. Darshan is vision. And Kriya is action. Sudarshan Kriya. What is this action? This action of this rhythmic breathing in this particular pattern gives you a proper vision of your true self. And how does it work? It works because exactly how it is designed to work. What does Patanjali say? Patanjali says Pranayama is the way to remove these impressions of the vruttis which are in our system. When these vruttis are removed or lessened, then your true self starts shining. This is the meaning of Sudarshan. You are getting the Su, the proper Darshan, vision of your true self. It is exactly what Patanjali is saying that Pranayama does. This is Guruji's interpretation which is a very amazing interpretation of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. It is extremely powerful which is why it is so effective.

So the stage is set by the three-stage Pranayama. Then you do the Bhastrika, then you do the Om, and then you let the rhythm take over and then you get a Sudarshan. Beautiful, है की नहीं, this is your experience also. So it is loosely interpreted it is the same. You can say Sudarshan Kriya is the same as Pranayama, but it is really a reinterpretation of it. So I am not saying you say Pranayama is just some Pranayama. No, it is the most amazing, the highest tapas we can do is Pranayama. We take it as a granted or whatever, three stage, very boring, we do it like that. It is not like that. Pranayama is the only way of removing the vruttis and Sudarshan Kriya is the most efficient way of doing Pranayama. It is a very long answer to a short question, but this is the answer.

It is the right side. If I told you roll over to the wrong side and get up you will say oh why should I roll over to the wrong side. So it is the right side. But it is not like that. So what happens is there are two main nadis. There are like 72,000 nadis. There are two main ones, the left nostril and the right nostril. And they are loosely called Surya Nadi and Chandra Nadi. It means energizing nadi and relaxing nadi. So Chandra Nadi is the relaxing one, Surya Nadi is the energizing one. Don't worry about all this stuff.

But what happens is depending on which side the body is rolled over on, the corresponding nadi gets activated. Whether you like it or not it happens. So when you roll over onto your left side, the right nostril gets activated. I think so. Right nostril gets activated. And this is an indication to the body that now start doing all the clean-up processes that you would do when you are in a state of rest. Like what? Expelling the toxins, moving it from the gut all the way down so that next morning it will be excreted from the body, completing the digestion process, repairing all the cells in the body, all that repair work that has to happen. Clean up, house cleaning, essentially house cleaning. When you are rolling on the left side, that all has started.

When you roll over onto the right side, it's the indication to the body that wait a minute, now activity is going to start. So start preparing for activity. Get the lungs well organized, get the heart pumping in the right way etc. Otherwise when you get up suddenly you will get lightheadedness, all this stuff. So after kriya or after yoga in shavasana, you are in an extremely deep state, means well rested, not deep as in underground deep because that is a very rested state but not a very good one. So not like that deep but quite rested, mentally physically you are in a very good place. Now if you suddenly get up without giving the body time to transition, it will be a jarring system. So you will get up with a little bit of irritation, some headache can happen, all this can happen. So to transition it gradually, you roll over onto the right side. So when you roll over onto the right side. The body knows that okay wait a minute now from this deep state of rest the body has to come to a state of activity, and then all the processes will start—all that stuff. These are all subconscious processes. You cannot say, "Okay, start process number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5." You have no control. It's subconscious, so it will start on its own. When you get up like that, it is not so jarring. That's the reason.

Sanyam is an extremely deep process. So don't take Sanyam very lightly. Sanyam is literally the doorway to infinity. Maharishi Patanjali gives clear instructions on this in the third chapter of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. He says that Sanyam will happen after a lot of practice. You think you've done four or five advanced courses, attended the Sanyam course, and now you think Sanyam is happening for you? Please, get real.

Sanyam is extremely... Firstly, do you know where the base of your spine is? None of us know that. How do you find the base of your spine? You're sitting on a chair, and you go like this, like this, like this, a little bit low, and you say, "Ah, there's my base of the spine." Finding the base of the spine takes a lot of time and skilled observation. It took me... Okay, maybe I'm not as smart as you guys because it took me three silence courses to figure out that the tip of the nose is right on my face. It is not out here somewhere. It is right here. There is no distance between my face and the tip of my nose. It's right there.

And Guruji says in the silence course, take attention to the tip of the nose. The first three courses, I was looking somewhere here. I thought I had a long nose, like a Pinocchio-type nose. Extremely difficult. So when precisely the base of the spine, when you take the attention to the base of the spine and hold the attention there a little bit, and you focus—not focus—yeah, it's not focus, it is bringing the awareness to. So doing three things at the same time. Base of the spine. Awareness to something and holding that awareness, that opens up a gateway. And depending on which object you're holding awareness to, that gateway opens up. It is amazing. It's like getting the key to the portal, you know, it's like beam me up Scotty type thing. It's like amazing. It is extremely powerful. Sanyam. I mean, don't take it lightly. Sanyam is not just something to toy with. What he says, Maharshi Patanjali, he says that when you take attention to different things, different dimensions of information open up. Like if you want to know about the stars, you take the attention to this thing and you get all the information about stars. If you want to know about something else at that state of Sanyam, you take the attention to this thing and then you'll get that doorway open. It's like literally the doorway to infinity.

So yeah, so please do your practices sincerely and maybe the doorway starts opening and then you won't even ask the question. The reason you're asking the question is because no doorway is opening. That's why you're asking the question, what has to happen? Nothing's happening right now. That's exactly like it is. It is not going to happen so easily. It's an extremely complicated process. Vibrations in the mind have to be settled down. Patanjali Yoga Sutras have to be fully lived. Only then the next thing will happen. Are you living Patanjali Yoga Sutras fully? Ahimsa, are you doing Ahimsa fully? No, finished. End of story. Forget about it. I'm not scaring you or you know like that but this is how it is. Get real. Okay.

Arre, it's a good thing that you're getting all these thoughts, which means Sudarshan Kriya is working. Have you not attended the Physics of Pranayama session? I explained everything in there. How the thoughts are part of the Kriya and what is happening and all the subconscious and all that funny cartoon that I drew and inside out and remember all this or no, you forgot about all that. It's all explained. It's there on Udemy. Go watch it. Thoughts are part of the Kriya. It means it's working. Impressions are being released. If you don't get thoughts in Kriya then I'll be worried, what's going on? You're getting too many thoughts. I'm saying go for it buddy. It's amazing. And you notice those thoughts are there only during the Kriya process, right? When the Soham is going on that's when all those random bombardment of thoughts are coming. They're not there before, they're not there after. It's clear. Go watch the Physics of Pranayama. Answers are there. It's on Udemy now. I don't even have to come in front of you anymore. It's all electronically archived. Udemy.

Who said it is harmful? Who said it? Anything. कम्बख़्त तूने पि ही नहीं।

Why is it harmful? You know why this whole harmful thing happens? It's not harmful. How can it be harmful? Look at it this way. Ayurveda means what? Ayurveda means what? It is the understanding of the science with everything that is around in nature. There's nothing in nature that will not benefit you in some way. It's not possible. You'll say, oh, but what about poison? Even poison in a very small dosage in PPM form, it's a highly beneficial thing. The science of small dosage. So why it is said that… it has come from a little bit not very good understanding of the instructions that we give on the happiness program. What do we say in the Happiness Program? Oh, stop drinking tea and coffee. That is the instruction. You have to understand why that instruction has come. So what happens in the Happiness Program is we are settling the mind down. We're doing all this for the first time. When you do it for the first time, you're doing the pranayama, doing all the bhastrika and all this other stuff and Sudarshan Kriya, the mind is settling down. Now, if there are things in your system that oppose the settling down of the mind, then it's not going to be as effective.

Caffeine is one of the molecules, a few molecules that can penetrate the blood-brain barrier. So there is a barrier between the brain and the blood. Not everything can go to the brain. That barrier is there to protect the brain. Caffeine is one of the few molecules that can go through this blood-brain barrier. So it acts as an artificial stimulant to the brain. This is why people drink coffee. Because when they're waking up in the morning, their brain is not fully awake. So they drink like, I don't know, a double espresso, I don't know, mocha light, whatever the heck it is. And they feel awake. Yeah, because the caffeine is going and activating the brain.

So this is the thing. So the instruction is that if you reduce the caffeine intake, then this settling of the mind that is happening in the processes is not artificially being opposed by this molecule of caffeine. Okay, so this is why the instruction is to reduce intake. The instruction is not to completely eliminate because the elimination does something else. If you completely eliminate, you tell your participants on the course, oh, stop it. Otherwise, the sky is going to fall on your head. No, come on. If you completely eliminate it, the body gets into withdrawal. It's used to that caffeine going into the brain. Now suddenly you stop it, you get into withdrawal, it's like the detox. You know, when it goes into withdrawal, it again artificially disturbs the brain. So you're defeating the purpose of removing the caffeine. You're just disturbing it in a different way. That's all it is.

So gradually, so if you're drinking, I don't know, six cups of coffee, you say in the course, you drink only one cup. So you reduce. And then over time, you can reduce it to half a cup. And then over time, it can go to a weaker form. So if you're drinking, I don't know, you can go to decaf, or you can to flavor something, just reduce it and see. And chai is like four sources of energy. What is it? Food, sleep, breath, meditation, and the fifth is chai. There you go. The fifth is chai. So it cannot be bad.

So do you know why it's tea in some places and chai in some places? Do you know this? It comes, it comes from the source of the leaf. How has the leaf gotten to that place? If that leaf has come to that place via the sea route, like in England or like that, then it's called tea. If it has come via the land route, without ever touching the water, it's called chai. It's amazing. You look at the world map, and you'll see where it's called chai, the leaf has come over the land, where it's called tea, the leaf has come over the sea. That’s it. It's very amazing. Okay, enough about chai.

Yaar, this is not a counseling session. Okay. I mean, I'm not a trained counselor. And especially relationship advice and all that I will not give. But there is a good question here. You know the conflict here. You know this song called, it's a Hindi song. दिल की बात सुने दिल वाला, सीधी सी बात ना मिर्च मसाला। The problem here is the matter of the heart you are solving as a matter of the brain. This is your problem here. There is a disconnect somewhere. There is a problem if you do the matter of the heart from the mind. It's going to be a disconnect. You use the wrong tools in the wrong place. Things won't work. Maybe that is what the girl has seen. In your interaction with her, she has noticed this discord. You're doing the matter of the heart with the mind. Maybe, I don't know. But this is usually the problem. And it's not the problem in, it's a problem in everything. It's a problem in absolutely everything we do. If you use the wrong tools in the wrong place, things don't work.

You know what happened? This happened also in quantum physics. Werner Heisenberg, he fell sick. And his doctor told him you go and, you know, to this lakeside resort, whatever, you go and recover. So, he was there on the lakeside resort and he was thinking about this whole quantum model and how things are not working out etc. And he saw these maybe the waves on the lake etc. And he said wait a minute. This doesn't have, the electron doesn't have to be a particle. It could be a wave. And then he did all his thing. And then he got into this weird problem. He was, his math was telling him that A times B is not equal to B times A. And he says this is completely stupid. What the heck is this? So, he thought there is something wrong in what he is doing. You know. He was using linear algebra to rationalize this A times B not equal to B times A.

When he came back to his institute and he told somebody, you know, I am getting this weird result that A times B is not equal to B times A. He says of course. This is a known thing. If A and B are matrices and not vectors, if they are matrices, then A cross B is not equal to B cross A. It is a known thing. If you don't use the right tools in the right place, you get nonsensical answers. Only when that math friend of Heisenberg's told him that listen dude what you are telling me is that this is not a scalar, it's a vector, it's a matrix, everything fell in place. When you use the right tools in the right place, things just fall in place.

So, if there is something discord in your relationship — of course it's clear that you like this girl. So, go to the heart. Dil se kro. Do things from the heart. Matter of the things of the heart are to be done with the heart. You don't analyze and strategize and you know I am going to give her a red rose on this day and it's not going to work buddy. Go with the heart. Then you see कुड़ी कहाँ जायेगी फिर? There is no chance. You will win. But you have to play from the heart. Yeah.

Arey, movies को तुम ऐसा हैवी मत करों। Don't make movies all this burden and oh relationship. Watch the movies simply for watching the movies. What's the problem? If I tell you go watch the Matrix and figure out which chapter and verse of Vashishta is used in which scene, you will not enjoy either Vashishta or the Matrix. You will not enjoy both of them. Makes no sense what you are saying. You know. Watch the movie for the movie.

Not every movie has to have some deep philosophical thing. Go watch Sholay. नौटंकीं साला। तेरा नाम क्या है बसंती? क्या beautiful है। I mean amazing. Or go watch like. What's that? The good, the bad, the ugly. If you want to shoot, shoot. Don't talk. Correct. If you want to shoot, you shoot. You talk, somebody else will shoot you. Makes no sense. There are so many things hidden in the movies. When you watch them cleanly, you'll be like the swan. You know what the swan does? If you give the swan a mixture of milk and water, it will only drink the milk. It will leave the water there. You'll be like the swan. Which is why the Art of Living logo has swans in it. Be discriminated in what you pick. Go and enjoy everything, but be discriminated in what you pick. Which is why there's a swan there. And there's two of them. Means you have to be double, double. You have to be double in discrimination. Not only one swan, two swans.

Who said everything has to be made perfect? Who said? You can't have everything perfect. Think about it. If there was only Veeru and Jai, or if there was only Batman, that movie would be so boring. You need to have the Joker. And you need to have Gabbar. Otherwise, the movie doesn't become interesting. Do you see this? Opposites are what makes it interesting. Who said it has to be perfect?

Okay, Let's do it. Let's do a complete physics experiment. Okay, you take this universe and you say, "Oh, wow, so, peaceful, a lot of space." And then you go back in time. It becomes more and more and more and more and more chaotic. Things go to like billion degrees C and all kinds of absurd temperatures and matter cannot even exist. It's all energy. Things are bouncing off of each other. It's a dense universe. It is extremely chaotic. What is the thing you're saying? Oh, it has to be peaceful and all. No, it was never like that. This state has evolved over so many years.

You think nature is peaceful? Let me ask you this. You think nature is peaceful? Nature is most aggressive. Extreme aggression is there in nature. There is a documentary out on Netflix. Go watch it. My Octopus Teacher. Just watch that. It is most amazing. This guy in South Africa, Cape Town or somewhere, he wore like a snorkel mask and he went in one of these things. And for 360 or 370 days, he was deep diving without oxygen. So he was coming up for air, going down for hours. And he would follow this octopus. And it's such a heartwarming story. But you see the inherent aggression that is there in nature everywhere. Nature is extremely aggressive.

So there's no such thing as, oh, why it is imperfection? It is just otherwise it doesn't become interesting. Opposites are what makes it interesting. And then you say, why does it have to be interesting? Haan, that I don't know. But it's better to be interesting than boring.

Okay, that's a statement. I agree. Okay, next. 

Why is it not possible? It's a matter of counting. What is so difficult about it? You can count one. One plus one is two. Two plus one is three. You can keep counting. Keeping track of karma is simply counting.

What's so difficult about counting? I mean God is like supreme powerful, supreme intelligence. You think that guy cannot count? He is such a loser that he can't even count stuff. No, come on. It's a matter of counting. It's easy. Even I can count. You give me enough resources, you give me the power of all the Google, Apple, all these Microsoft, everybody computer in my control. I will count your karma for you. No problem. Easy. If I can do, God can definitely do. Counting karma is not a big deal. How do you assign karma? How it manifests? What is the equal? What is the weight factor? All that is complicated. But that's again counting. It's only counting.

 Yeah, that's a statement. There's no question there. Nice to know. Thank you for sharing. What is the question? How to get out of the fight? What is the question? If you have a question, write it in the chat. We'll take it. If it's a statement. Muchas gracias. Nice to know.

Yeah, this is complicated. Here what happens is you have to decide what is the bigger thing. So if you believe strongly in something, then that something is more important than the credit, who gets the credit for that something. Otherwise, the credit is more important. You have to be very careful here. Now your reputation is damaged, etc. So you say that, listen, I don't know, it depends on what the company culture is, etc. But most of these things, there is a lead author and there is a team. And then the team is equally responsible, but the lead author, the buck stops with the lead author of any report. That's how it normally happens. At least that's how it's in the scientific literature. I don't know about companies. So there is a whole team and then there'll be a corresponding author. So the buck stops with the corresponding author. Corresponding author cannot say, I don't know, then he's not the correspondent, he or she is not the corresponding author.

Now if, so let's say your boss is the reviewer. The reviewer is saying, no, you falsify this, falsify that, and then I'll let you publish it. Then you withdraw that paper from the journal. You say, no, I don't want to publish in your journal, I go somewhere else. The problem is in a company that is you can't go somewhere else. It's one company. It's like you only have one journal. Now you're stuck. Now what happens? Now you have to create an open dialogue somehow, skillfully, where nobody is thrown under the bus, but the situation is discussed without any emotional baggage attached to it. You simply discuss the issue, saying, listen, A plus B is C, but people are saying A plus B is E, and here is why A plus B is not E, but A plus B is C. And this is what you discuss out in the open. And then the consensus of that discussion, if you can't make the case to more than two or three people that A plus B is E and not C or the other way around, then you have to live with it. You have to say, okay, my convincing power is not that high. It all depends on the culture of the company. Some companies are highly bureaucratic. The boss will say it's my way or the highway, which is the rules of the game for that company. But such companies don't last for a long time. They either go out of business or people leave. So maybe it's time for you to leave. Who knows? But don't get emotionally stuck to this thing. It will only disturb you.

You’re boss is highly peacefully doing party and you know not even aware of this but you are boiling. What’s the point. It's called peer review in the scientific literature it's called peer review so you open it up to peers. And then you review and then the right idea usually comes up when the wrong idea falls away.

Yes, the sure shot thing that will work is you get them to the Physics of Pranayama. No, no, I'm just kidding you. It's not so simple. See, okay, think about it now. Again, I'm telling you to be objective. Why are the people not listening to what you're saying? Because somewhere they are seeing that what you're saying and what you're doing does not go together. Somewhere there's a disconnect. You say, oh, you will be peaceful after the Happiness Program, you will be stressed out, and you yourself are bouncing off of the walls of your house.

Why will they say it? Your actions and words say much more than your ability to convince. If your life is not full of contentment at least, forget enthusiasm, but at least contentment. You have contentment in your life. You have to be doing all these practices but don't have contentment; it's going to show irritation is going to show in your words. Zing is going to come. Now all that is going to happen.

So people are not going to listen to the words; people get moved by your presence and your feeling. That's what moves people. You can use the most random idiotic words, but if you're speaking from the heart and genuineness, they will catch it. They will say, yeah, I want this. How much ever I tell you all these partial differential equations and all the other stuff. If I'm not speaking to you from the heart, nobody will get it. This is what moves people: your connection.

So see how you're connecting. Are you genuinely there? With your family members, have you just said, okay, let's watch a movie without doing, you know, one of those preachy dialogue things? Go and eat some ice cream with them. Have you gone and done that? No, then why will they listen to you? You see how your interaction is, your interaction most likely is preachy and all this kind of stuff, holier than thou type attitude. Who is going to want to be with you then? That's it, done. I mean, that's my answer. I don't know what else to say.

[SK] Yes, when you wake up and see the time, when you come out of your whatever state, you see how much time it has happened. If it's approximately 20 minutes from when you started your first stage pranayama, then you stop there. 

[Participant] No, no, many times, I think it gets to half an hour, 45 minutes, one hour. 

[SK] Yeah, then you have to be a little bit disciplined. I don't know. 

[Participant] My question is why it happens. Why it happens. Why it happens. 

[SK] Yeah, well... Why it happens? I don't know. I'll have to... There are many reasons why it could happen. But I can't say without knowing you a little bit better, I cannot say that. But who cares about why it's happening. If it's more than 20 minutes, you simply finish. Or you start Sahaj or something. 

[Participant] Whatever may be the stage, one, two, three, I must stop there. 

[SK] Whatever may be the stage, yes.

All the time? All the time is the problem part of the question. It can't happen all the time. Why does it not happen all the time? You know, this whole seva thing. Why it does not happen all the time? Because you're not doing it lightly. You're not doing it in a frictionless manner. There is lot of frictional actions that is happening. Which is why burnout and tiredness and all this thing comes. We talked about this on Patanjali Yoga Sutras. There is a... I won't say now, but go look at the Patanjali Yoga Sutra discussions. When the interactions become frictional, it drains the energy goes from usable form to unusable form. This is what is friction.

Why does... When you drop a ball, it bounces maybe four times and then it stops bouncing. Why does it happen? Because the usable energy of the ball is now converted to unusable energy like noise, sound, friction, heat, all this. And that unusable form of energy, now that ball does not have that energy to come back up to where it started. So it comes a little bit lower. Then the next bounce, it comes a little bit lower. Each time there is frictional interaction, usable energy becomes unusable. So the only way to maintain high level of usable energy is to reduce the frictional nature of the interactions. That's the only way to do it. And what Patanjali's insight was that the frictional interactions are also on the level of the mind, not only on the level of the body. This is the breakthrough insight of Maharishi Patanjali. We talked about this in the Yoga Sutras. Go listen to that.

There is no such thing as multitasking. The mind cannot do more than one thing at a time. If you think you are doing multitasking, you are fooling yourself. What is happening during your so-called multitasking stage is that the mind is picking up one activity before switching to the other activity that you are so-called multitasking. The mind is completely releasing the first activity, picking up the next activity, releasing it, picking up the third activity, releasing it, coming back to the first one, picking it up, releasing it, picking up, releasing it. The mind is doing all this pick up, release, pick up, release, pick up, release. It is extremely tired at the end of this so-called multitasking activity. Your efficiency is not very high. So that's the thing. Slow down. You will see many things happen much more efficiently when you simply slow down a little bit and do one task at a time.

I'll tell you a story. You know, in the good old days, you know, we used to actually go to the office. Remember those days when you'd get in the car and go to the office and, you know, no masks were being worn, all this. Remember those days many, many years ago? Like that I was going to the office one day and I was driving, and on the radio, this is the National Public Radio, NPR. One guy came and he started talking about, you know, today I missed my breakfast. And I'm saying, really? This is on national radio? I mean, come on, who cares about if you missed your breakfast or not, buddy? What the heck?

But then he said something more interesting. He said, no, no, it's not that I didn't eat my breakfast. I don't remember what I had for breakfast. My mind was thinking of other things and I just, I don't know what I had for breakfast. Then he shared the story, which was even more interesting. He says, this guy is a professional piano tuner. He tunes pianos, okay, for these concerts, you know, like that. So he tunes pianos. So he had a thing to do in Philadelphia, which is like 40 minutes from where I'm staying. And so the concert was like, I don't know, 8:30 in the evening. So he had like from 8:30 in the morning to like seven o'clock in the evening to tune maybe 15 or 20 pianos, whatever.

And he started doing multitasking. He says, oh, I'm going to do key number one for six pianos. And then I'm going to use all this kind of stuff he was doing. And it was not working. It was going extremely slow. So he just said, okay, stop. He told his team, just stop. We're going to do one at a time. Forget about 15. Think about you only have one piano to tune. And he got his team to do one by one by one by one, which in his mind was a slow way of doing things. But in the net net, he finished his tuning by five o'clock. He had like within two hours to spare, he had tuned all the pianos. There's the beauty of slowing down and doing one task at a time, it becomes more efficient. Multitasking, it's a fallacy. You're fooling yourself if you think you're multitasking.

Okay, let's let's do Bhastrika. So here's what happens in Bhastrika. First, I'll show you, then I'll tell you. You see, see, it is made to order light, right? So sunrise coming as a full strobe effect, beautiful setting. Nature is saying, okay, this joker, we need to put some light on him. Okay, so Bhastrika. So what happens, you start with the palms in a loose fist in front of the shoulders. How loose is the fist? It's not like the Mike Tyson fist, boxing. Loose fist means was tips of the fingers are gently touching the palm that much how loose the fist is just gently touching and the thumb is on the outside, not on the inside like this thumb is on the outside. You start like this. Elbows are close to the body.

Bhastrika is performed with normal breathing. When you breathe in, the hands go up, and the palms open like this. How do you remember that the palms have to be open? Think that you have to catch a pot of gold on top. To catch the pot of gold, obviously, the palm has to be open. So think about it like this. You know that the palms have to be open. Then, by gravity, the arms fall. As the arms fall, they hit the side of the chest, and automatically the pressure wave will release the breath from the nose like this. There is no effort there. Gravity is doing all the work. Breath is coming out. The face is not distorted. You can see people doing Bhastrika like this. All this is drama. There is no need to do all this stuff. Bhastrika there is no effort.

Let's do Bhastrika two rounds, and then I will tell you the physics of it. Okay, sit with your back straight. Palms in a loose fist in front of the shoulders. Elbows are tucked in close to the body. Neck is relaxed. Face forward. Normal breath in. Out. And begin up, down, up, down. Effortlessly. Arms are falling by gravity. And relax. Be still. Keep the body still. Hands in position for the second round of Bhastrika.

Loose fist. Tip of the fingers gently touching the palm. Thumbs on the outside. Elbows tucked in close to the body. Neck is relaxed. Face forward. Normal breath in. Out. Begin up, down, up, down. And relax. Palms on the lap facing the sky. Body still.

Third round of Bhastrika. Palms in a loose fist in front of the shoulders. Elbows tucked in close to the body. Neck is relaxed. Face forward. Normal breath in. Out. Begin up, down, up, down. And relax. Palms on the lap facing the sky. Body still. Take a normal breath in. And breathe out. You may gently open the eyes. You see, it's effortless. Bhastrika is totally effortless.

What happens in Bhastrika is... If you remember the Physics of Pranayama, I showed a cross-section of the chest in that thing. What happens is this windpipe that comes in starts splitting. It splits and goes to the left and the right lung. Each of those pipes will split again. And each of those pipes will split again. There's a lot of splitting that happens. Each time there is splitting, the diameter of the pipe becomes smaller and smaller and smaller. After a lot of splitting, at the end of it, there is this alveoli. Remember, the alveoli is where the gas transfer actually happens from the lung to the blood. Now, what happens is this network of pipes sometimes has kinks. It gets pinched off. The alveoli is not fully functional because that pipe is now pinched. Now what happens is, when you do this rapid pressure release, when the hand hits the chest and falls due to gravity, this compression forces out the air in a pressure wave. It's not a gradual thing; it's a pressure wave that unkinks those kinked pipes at the end of the alveoli. They start getting unkinked because of the rapid pressure release. At the end of the bhastrika, if you've taken the Silence Program, you take a breath in and you apply the locks, or bandhas. When you apply the bandhas, those pipes that were kinked and are now have been opened up because of the pressure release, now you take some pressure and you hold it there so that those kinks are kept open. Once those kinks are kept open, now most likely they will not go back and re-kink, which is why the bandhas are done after bhastrika. You can't just randomly do bandhas randomly; there's a method to the madness. That's how bhastrika works. 

The art of not needing to listen to knowledge sessions. How about that? How much more will you listen to? Come on, now it’s time to apply.

No, no. It's not mandatory at all. See what happens is you have to do what your prakruti is. So there are some prakruti that are conducive to get up early and there are some prakruti that are conducive to get up late. It's just the way the gunas are playing out in you.

That's all it is. There's nothing good or bad about it. The problem is that most of this world and its activities are geared towards the first kind of people. Okay, which is why you see schools start at 8.30, 9 o'clock, offices start at 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock. They end at 4.30, 5.00, 6 o'clock like this. Now the problem is if you are not in the first set of categories, if you are in the second category, then the correct time for you is to start your day at maybe noon and go till 9 o'clock at night. Maybe you are the second category. The problem is the world is biased towards the first one. So the second kind of people, they struggle a lot because when they are nearing their peak performance at 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all the offices are closed. What will they do? They feel highly frustrated. Because now they are starting their day when they are not at their optimum and they are ending their day when they are fully functional. It's like crazy. So you have to find what your prakriti is and then adapt. Don't go blindly following the rules. It makes no sense.