Because you're busy complaining. So how can the inspiration work? You stop complaining, inspiration will start working. If you continue complaining, how will the inspiration work? Yeah. 

It depends on how far evolved on the path you are. You can start with any of these three: bhakti, karma, and jnan. You start with one, then you start evolving. At some point in the evolution, it becomes very hard.

Think about it this way: let's say you are climbing Mount Everest. You can climb from any side. When you are climbing Mount Everest, बीच में you will get stuck. You will come to a steep cliff or a deep valley or something. You don't know what to do. Then you have to go sidetrack. You have to go sidetrack and you find another way of climbing. So that process of sidetracking is the switching of the marg from, let's say you are on bhakti, then you go to karma. You switch. You start getting into action. When you start getting into action, you get unstuck from the place that you were stuck in when you are only on the bhakti track. And then sometime that action again, you will get stuck and then the knowledge will come. So you are again sidetracking to come to another point. So from which you can keep climbing. So these three are not independent. They're all going to the same source. But there are points at which you get stuck and to get unstuck, all three have to work together. Then you don't get stuck. If you get stuck, if you are holding on to only one path, for sure you will get stuck. And the way to get unstuck is to use all the three paths in parallel. This is what it means.

Yes, long kriya should be done once every seven days, once a week. It is necessary to do that.

No, life does not need money; money is needed for life to evolve and progress. Meaning what? That unless your basic needs of, let's say, food, shelter, and clothing—those three—are met, you cannot evolve. You will get stuck on the day-to-day and cannot go past it. So, evolution to higher states of consciousness, etc., are only possible when the basic needs are met. In today's society, to meet these basic needs, you need some kind of currency. Either you have the currency of goodwill—let's say you're doing so much work for the people that their goodwill is your currency, and they will bring you food and house you in their homes. You don't have money, but your basic needs are being taken care of by the currency of goodwill. If you don't have the currency of goodwill, then you need hard currency: money, 'rokda,' 'paisa.' Yes, of course, you need it. For someone whose basic needs themselves are a struggle, no amount of knowledge or wisdom is of any use because their basic needs are not met. So yes, you have to fulfill the basic needs first; only then can evolution or progress on the spiritual path happen. Correct.

You have to ask yourself that question. You're the one who's sharing; nobody asked you to share. If you're sharing your failure with everybody, ask yourself why you are sharing your failure. Share your successes. What are you focusing on? Are you focusing on your failures and completely oblivious to your successes? Where is your focus? Whatever your focus is, that is what you will share. So focus on what is working. Because it cannot be that nothing is working; otherwise, you'd be dead. Since you're not dead, something is working. Focus on that thing.

How can I answer that question? You have to decide why are you not working on yourself. You have realize that you're not working on yourself, so figure out why that is happening. I cannot answer that question for you. You have to answer it for yourself. Why are you not working on yourself? Maybe your basic needs are not met, so there is no chance for you to work on yourself. Maybe that's the answer; I don't know. 

So do it. Nobody's saying you shouldn't. Who said that you have to only do activities in life that are defined as SEVA? You register them for the course, bring your sadhana to their life, and now you've done SEVA. The registration process is not the SEVA. The after-registration process—what you do and bringing peace to their minds, well-being in their life etc. All that is the seva part of it. The registration part is not the seva. You are confusing the two things. It is a series of steps. You can do steps A, B, C, D and at the start of D, E, F, G is where the seva is happening. So A, B, C, D is not seva. A, B, C, D is needed for E, F, G, H to happen so that seva happens. So yeah, there is a precursor but that precursor is not defined as seva. 

[Participant] The intention is ultimately seva only. 

[SK] Yeah, yeah, yeah, intention could be anything. You can say my intention is to do something so I get up in the world. So you think you are doing seva to the universe by just getting up in the morning? 

[Participant] No. But every Tom, Dick and Harry is not going to listen to us. When that person will come to the course, then only there is an atmosphere, a person does the kriya and then he is in that state to listen to people. 

[SK] So the precursor activity of getting people on the course is simply refining of skill. You are only refining your skills. So you are doing self-seva. In that case you can say it is self-seva. Be clear in your mind because if you are not clear in your mind that not every action is seva, then you will be stuck. You will think I have done so much seva, I have brought 50 people. But at the end of the day those 50 people are no longer in a better state because you let them free or whatever. They are in a mess and you are not there for them. That is not seva at all. That is what is happening. We are enrolling hundreds and thousands of people. How many have you retained? 20? 25? Out of every 100 how many? 15? Where is the seva? 

[Participant] What can you do if people after doing the course, they are not. I am asking if people are not practicing their kriya even after doing the course, then what can we do about it? 

[SK] Bring your sadhana into their space. Go and figure out. Go sit with them. Watch a movie. Watch football. Make popcorn. Have an ice cream. Are you doing all this? No? Hang out with them. Be normal with them. You don't have to give gyan all the time. Be normal with them. You be normal with people. They will come to you. They will do Kriya. They will do everything. They have to see the worth of it. They see you doing Kriya. You also don't have an amazing smile on your face. You are not dynamic. You are not like a. They say boss what is the point? Like come on. I got a counter example in front of me. Why the heck should I do what you tell me to do? End of story. So it is a process of self-defining of skills at the end of the day. Have you called anyone to your house for the world cup to watch football? All your course participants? Why aren't you calling them? You will call them only for satsang. You will call them only for bhajan. Watch football. Watch a movie. What is the problem? Be normal with them. What's the problem? Do you understand the difference? Why will they listen to you? You are only a one track person. You are a one track pony. You are nothing. You are not even diverse. You are not even talking to them at their level. Why will they listen to you? Think about it. That is seva. Hanging out with people with no judgments. You are not doing Kriya? Who cares? Let's go watch football. Let's watch cricket. Let's go to a movie. What is the problem? You do it. एक साल ये करो what I am telling you. Then you see how many people listen to you. Janata will listen to you. Why will they not listen? Because you are one of them. Why are you listening to me? You have not even met me ever. Why are you here in this session? Because I am making it real. Otherwise you would not be here. If I would just give you gyan, some high-fi. Would you be here? No. You would run away. Exactly what's happening. So yeah, if you, if it, okay. If it is giving peace to your mind that when you are enrolling people, you are doing seva, yes, you are doing seva. Be happy. Read that as seva. Very tricky things, seva is a tricky word. 

Yes, it does. Yeah. Because pranayama... So this is a little bit technical answer, but pranayama is working on energizing channels in the subtle body called nadis. Nadis are in the subtle body.

Now there is a mapping between the subtle body and the gross body. I know I said I will make a chart of it, but I still haven't done it. Okay, that is my bad. But I'm telling you, there's a mapping. There is nothing that maps to the mouth. The nadis only map to the nostrils. I mean, the breathe in out mechanism that you can do from the like this or like this. The nose mechanism maps to nadis, whereas the mouth mechanism does not. That is the reason for keeping the mouth closed during pranayama. Amazing. Maybe that is why you guys are here, because you just hear these mind boggling like wow stuff. I don't know. But yeah, that's the answer. That's the answer.