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Purnima satsang

Human life is a singular, precious opportunity for spiritual awakening within the cosmic cycle.

The universe operates under one law, with all beings part of a circulation through 8.4 million life forms. This human form contains the immortal divine light, but this truth is forgotten, causing suffering. The human intellect is a powerful tool requiring spiritual, ethical, and moral education. Without spirituality, a person is incomplete. The greatest tragedy is to die without God-realization, wasting this sole chance. Awakened consciousness respects all life as representations of God. Negative qualities like anger and greed are not human but animalistic. Modern distractions erode spiritual practice and family bonds. Strong attachments, like stretching cheese, eventually break, freeing the soul. Only spiritual realization allows one to transcend the cycle of rebirth and death.

"The most terrible tragedy which will happen is that we will die without God-realization."

"Human qualities are understanding, forgiveness, love, support, contentment, beauty, spirituality, divinity, God."

Filming locations: Jalan Ashram, India.

We are all here together today. Human life is very precious. Human life cannot be realized again and again. The Creator has created 8.4 million different creatures, divided into three categories: the creatures on the land, in the air, and in the water. These different forms are 8.4 million. These 8.4 million make one circle. This is a cosmic circulation, and it is circulating according to the cosmic law. According to this cosmic law, everything is moving. It is one universe and one universal consciousness. There is only one God, and that God manifests time to time on this planet differently. That one Consciousness and one Supreme is the creator of thousands of sun systems, and billions of the stars, and thousands of the moons and planets are created by one Creator. We belong to this solar system, and in this solar system, our planet is situated. Our planet is known as a living planet, and it is called Mṛtyu Loka, where the souls incarnate, are born, die, and again go away. It is not quantity but quality, and quality means God’s light. Similarly, within us is also the same light of God, the Heart, the Supreme. The cosmic consciousness is within us. We are immortal. It means the light of God is immortal, everlasting, unchangeable, indestructible. That is the Divine, and that Divine is within us too. Since we have forgotten this, we are suffering. So in the cycle of these 8.4 million different forms of creatures, one is also the human. And humans have got a very powerful tool in their head, and that tool means our intellect. Through our intellect, we can achieve many things. But our intellect needs education. Not only the education of the school, college, or university, but our intellect needs the education of our parents. Our intellect needs spiritual education; it needs ethical and moral education; it needs the education of standing. What does it mean to be kind? And so on. These two legs and two hands do not make the human. It makes us human: our divine, positive, and pure qualities. These qualities cannot be given to you. It has to be developed within you. Through the practice of spirituality, if a man doesn’t understand spirituality, if a human is without spirituality, there is a bird without wings, a body without eyes, and a body without a soul, so it is. The spirituality which makes us human, and through this knowledge, we can gain self-realization or God-realization. In our life, many things happen, good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy which will happen is that we will die without God-realization. Be sure you cannot buy this body, and you cannot sell this body. It’s only one chance, and therefore, try to take the chance and do the positive things, the good things, in this world. Creating wars, fighting against each other, discrimination toward other cultures, and killing other creatures—this is not an act of awakened human consciousness. As long as the consciousness is not awakened into spirituality, we are not able to think. We do not have that knowledge. The human is selfish, the human is greedy, and the human is a slave of their feelings. And humans think that they can do everything they want with other creatures. That is the biggest mistake. Every living entity represents God, and you should respect and love them. So, human life is the only chance to come out of the cycle of rebirth and death; otherwise, we will go again into different forms of life. In Christianity, they call it hell, to go to the different lower forms of life. When you go to various higher levels of life, then you have no intellect. And if you have, you have no free decisions. Definitely the cows, the pigs, the rabbits, the deer, they also have little intellect. But still, not so far. They are the victims of humans. And we also don’t want to be the victim. Which brings us to the shelter house. Therefore, love your neighbor. It means your neighbors, but all next to you, that will make you divine. One day was yesterday, and the second day, no one has seen tomorrow. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow. But it is never too late to begin with positivity, protection of the environment, protection of all creatures, and to protect yourself. I tell you, criminal activity is beginning in this world. Why are there so many drug abusers? We need a family. How beautiful when you have great-great-parents all together, your uncles, your aunties, your sisters, and the whole joint family. There you find protection. There you find warmth in your nest. There, you create love, and therefore we shall again begin to have a happy family. Now, in this modern time, what we call televisions and the internet, these laptops, have made a man, or me, and we live in them. There is no time for women. And through this, spirituality is slowly, slowly decreasing. Many, many yoga practitioners fell in love with the computer, and until one o’clock, two o’clock in the night, they are playing computer games. And what are they doing? Drinking Coca-Cola and potato chips. And playing on the computer? Instead of doing this, you make a prayer. You can meditate. You can make a mantra. Why? You have awakened interest toward the computer game. And you lost the interest towards spirituality, for what God gave you this beautiful human life. This life will not be given again. Therefore, Mahāprabhujī said: "Hāth choḍ, manā satsaṅg, vere to ātmā jñān. Give up, come with me to the satsaṅg. What Edabhadhava will show you is ignorance. How stupid you are now that you have lost your interest towards the satsaṅg." Chak Chod Manā, Char Saṅgha Mere, Give Up, Come With Me... There is a cosmic Self to be realized. Those yogīs who will make, they will not realize what comes to the ātmā, but you think of so much suffering. Śrī Dīpakjī Darśan Dīkhalāte. He is all me, the Supreme One. What are these human qualities? Are you an angry person? That’s not a human quality. Anger is a devilish quality. How is it possible that in your heart, the heart of a human, the devil is deciding? In your house, there is a place for love, not for the devil. Are you greedy? The greedy are the animals. How could it happen that in your heart there is an animal instead of being yourself? Jealousy, anger, hate, greed: these are the negative qualities. Human qualities are understanding, forgiveness, love, support, contentment, beauty, spirituality, divinity, God. Think it over. You should know that you are a human, and when negative qualities come, the best treatment is, "No, I will not be angry. I am a human." When you are angry with your wife, say to yourself, "No, I am a human. I cannot be angry." And when you are jealous of your husband, tell him, "No, I cannot be jealous." So, one man asked the master, "Master, what to do when I am angry? Because normally, I am never angry. And I never know where anger will suddenly come. Now, what to do? What is the best treatment to get rid of anger?" Master said, "Then go and look at your face in the mirror." You will be surprised. That is not your face. Your face is in the mirror, smiling. Always, you make up in the mirror and smile. You are a happy person. So immediately you will forget your reaction. Keep on smiling. Therefore, think over what makes us human. And therefore, think about what people do to us, what makes us spiritual, what it means to be a human, and be sure that this life will not be given again. Time will never wait for anyone, and karma will never excuse anyone; it will come again. Therefore, inner awakening, spiritual consciousness: nothing will go with us, and no one will go with us. Even your very dear friend or person—mother, father, husband, wife, or children—they may hold your hand, but when the soul goes out of the body... In the body, no one can accompany you; you go alone. Ānand, endless living. This individual soul is fluttering by the waves of truth through this endless universe. Nekonečných bezmínech, experiencing sometimes pleasure, sometimes through the light and sometimes through the darkness, and suddenly stops and creates the relations, because when water remains standing, then many things are created in it. So when you stop, it means the birth. And birth means you are coming in touch with the five elements and the relation of mother and father. Yes, it pulls you back to your families, your dear friends, your money, your jewelry, your beautiful house. You don’t want to go. And that very thick attachment, someone explained, that if you remember, if you have eaten a pizza sometimes, with the cheese, you take a pizza piece and the cheese is becoming longer and longer. And so is the attachment; it becomes longer and longer, but thinner, and suddenly it breaks. Then your soul has freedom, and for that, people who stay on this planet have to perform some ceremonies. God forgives his or her mistakes, shows mercy from the Lord, and blesses the soul which finds eternal peace and light. And you must tell your ancestors or the person who passed away, "Please be free and go find yourself in the light." There are prayers, there are ceremonies, in every different religion. Christians have them, Hindus have them, Jews have them, and we know exactly what happens from the first day, second day, third day, or after the day. Humans understand. Animals may understand, but we don’t understand them. But love, the attachment, animals exactly. In India, in Jalan Ashram, one week ago, a horse gave birth. One of our animals, and I asked them to take a photo, and they sent me the photo for three days. And they were to make photos, and Mother didn’t let them make the photos. Before they make the camera, she comes to stand in the front. We had to make the camera; she turns her back, or she comes towards them. So you see the mother’s love. In nature, when you go for a walk, you find from some bush a rabbit runs away because there are somewhere her babies, and she runs away. She puts herself in a critical situation; she doesn’t remain near the babies, and you don’t see the babies. So it doesn’t matter if it’s a cat, or a dog, or a pig—any creature. They have so much love. Normally, elephants are very kind creatures, but when they get into kalu, they can be very dangerous, because a human will kill them. Humans have a negative radiance. You know, the bird goes and sits on the head of the lion or the tiger. Or a tiger is walking, and a bird is sitting on the shoulder. A wild bird. Wild tiger. Did you ever see a wild bird? Are you coming and sitting on your shoulder and walking with you? Though we will not do anything to you, we will be very happy. But animals feel that humans have such a radiance. Animals don’t see humans as trustworthy creatures. So love is a very big thing. So tomorrow we will continue this: how the soul, and what’s happening with the soul. There are two kinds of life we have. One life is on the physical planet. This life is in this physical mind, and the other life is in the astral mind. We are experiencing the good and the bad; no one can go with you. They are holding hands with your body, which is given to you, and your money, which you earn with hard work, and even you can’t take the key of your house. "Sabī choḍkar jala uṣā, phira basa kī ava dhākā, jagatme jīvana do dina kī," the traveler has years. Two days of life. Therefore, Kabīr says, "Do not fall into attachment. Where there is love, there is freedom. Where there is love, there is happiness. Where there is love, there is trust. Where there is love, there is beauty. Where there is love, there is understanding. Where there is love, there is forgiveness. Where there is no love, there is attachment. Where there is attachment, there is jealousy. Where there is attachment, there is anger. Where there is attachment, there is hate. Where there is attachment, there is greediness. Where there is attachment, there is cruelty. Where there is attachment, there is ignorance. And where there is jealousy and attachment, there is an undeveloped personality." Therefore, moha is attachment. If my God is different, then how is it possible that both gods have created the same good and the same creatures? My God should have made my blood red, which He did. So it means only one God. Spirituality, a real spirituality, can move these dualities. Not dogma, not dogma. Don’t look to me. I’m catching my hands through the sky. Two, three. I think somebody wants to have the best one. I also know about it. If you want to have the best one, you can have the best one. One. Okay. Good morning. "Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā..." Come here.

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