Only God can make You rich
A story illustrates the destructive nature of jealousy. While walking, I thought of you. A master once instructed me to recount a tale from 1966. It concerns a jealous man fixated on his prosperous neighbor. He performed austerities, and a divine voice offered a boon: a magical object granting any wish. However, a condition was attached: whatever he received, his neighbor would receive double. Consumed by envy, the man rejected the object, choosing instead to labor in poverty for fifteen years to avoid benefiting his rival. His desperate family later used the object, receiving food and riches, which the neighbor also received doubled. Upon returning, the man's jealousy erupted. He used the object to curse himself with mutilation, knowing his neighbor would suffer doubly, and finally destroyed the object, becoming a beggar. This shows how jealousy ruins oneself and others. Spiritual practice is meaningless without cultivating goodness, mercy, and kindness.
"God said, 'If you ask this kuṇḍ for one million dollars, he will give you immediately. But at the same time, your neighbor will get two million.'"
"He used the object to curse himself... and finally destroyed the object, becoming a beggar."
Filming location: Vép, Hungary
DVD 251
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The Awakening of Consciousness: Kuṇḍalinī and Cakras
The science of yoga is the science of body, mind, and consciousness. Yoga is the eternal balancing principle in the universe, not a religion or dogma. The cosmic vibration, declared as OM, exists within and outside us. Human life is a precious chance within the cycle of rebirth. The human intellect can be trained endlessly, and dormant abilities within are connected to the cakras, or energy centers. The subtle body has 72,000 nāḍīs, or channels, for transmitting consciousness and energy. The mind functions between the subconscious and conscious, taking in impressions that become desires. The intellect's duty is to give judgment. We normally experience three levels of consciousness: waking, dream, and deep sleep. Past deeds create our destiny, or prārabdha karma. The Kuṇḍalinī energy and the cakra system are responsible for developing consciousness and freeing it from subconscious fears. The major nāḍīs are Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā, balancing emotion and intellect. Haṭha Yoga unites these sympathetic and parasympathetic principles. The awakening of Kuṇḍalinī is a divine process of becoming wise and calm, not a physical sensation. The cakras are located along the spinal column and are psychic energy centers. They are connected to the five elements and influence the body. Mastery leads towards liberation, the union of individual consciousness with cosmic consciousness. This requires lifelong practice and guidance.
"Yoga is not a religion, it is not a philosophy, it is not a dogma, but it is the eternal principle in this universe."
"The awakening of the Kuṇḍalinī is a divine process; you don't feel it as a physical sensation. You feel happy, as if in the lap of the mother."
Filming location: Zagreb, Croatia
DVD 188
Yoga In Daily Life: The System
The heart of this center is unity through selfless service. Founded on a vision of yoga as unity, it manifests as humanitarian action. The central building, shaped like Om, symbolizes divine beauty and balance. Education is a core mission, providing for poor, orphaned, and disabled children to create balanced citizens. The center operates a hospital, a fire service, and a cow sanctuary, offering refuge and care. A major water project created a lake and hill to secure water for the area, turning desert into life. Tree planting supports this sustainable development. The strength for all service comes from inner yoga practice, controlling body, breath, and mind to find wholeness. This work transforms ideals into reality.
"Making a man is not the function of parliaments; making a real man with full human qualities is the function of education alone."
"The hands that help are more valuable than the hands that pray."
Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India
DVD 189
The Traveler's Path: From Worldly Change to Divine Constancy
The outer world is perpetual change, leading to suffering through expectation and disappointment. We seek constant happiness, peace, and love, but these cannot be found in external, changing phenomena. Turning inward through the guidance of the guru reveals the divine nectar within. This is not mere intellectual knowledge but a state of being achieved through daily practice, clearing away all that changes to find the divine constancy inside. The world, or Māyā, is a cheater; it cannot provide what the soul truly seeks. The practice involves mantra, sādhanā, and living a sattvic life to purify consciousness, realizing the immortal, unchanging Ātmā that one truly is. This realization brings protection and allows one to experience the world's beauty without being submerged by its changes.
"Māyā is a big cheater."
"I am Śiva, I am the liberated ātmā, I am the highest, I am the divine."
The Play of Coming and Going: An Evening of Bhajan Discourse
The bhajan “Do Din Kā Jagā Me Melā” means we come together for merely two days.
Every day we observe changes in temperature, clouds, seasons, and trees. Yet we resist change in ourselves, seeking to remain good, balanced, and eternally the same. We hold onto whatever feels good and safe. But we belong to this process of coming and going. It is the play of creation—constant change. The unchanging, permanent reality lies within us. Still, we search for permanence in the outer world. We collect money, houses, family, filling our pockets with everything. We know we can take nothing with us, yet we set aside this knowledge to play the game. The Guru says: go inside, meditate, repeat the name of God. The outer world is mortal, always changing. The Gurudeva alone gives shelter and makes one immortal. He blesses even Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and the highest siddhas. The bhajan “Śrī Pūj Dīpadāyālu Datta” recalls Mahāprabhujī, whose presence healed the childless, the disabled, the blind, the paralyzed, and the mute. He transformed seekers into Jīvan Muktas. Even now, his energy descends from higher lokas when one repeats his mantra, for he is the light of Satyaloka.
“We have today, and we had yesterday—this we still know. What will be tomorrow, we do not know.”
“He enabled childless women to bear children, turned the poor into wealthy, healed the disabled, gave sight to the blind, made the paralyzed walk again, and enabled the mute to speak.”
Filming location: Villach, Austria
