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This is a lamp. Oṁ Dīpa Jyotiḥ. The lamp, the dīpa, is, for example, this vessel. This flame is the jyoti. This form, this bowl, is our body. The ghee or the oil within it is our prāṇa. And this wick, which is inside, is the individual self. This means your physical being, your mental being, your soul—your entire being—is this wick. And this flame is your wisdom, your knowledge. Therefore, you keep your knowledge and your wisdom for the world: to give light to others. The light of good counsel, the light of knowledge, the light of kindness, humbleness, love, forgiveness, understanding, and gentleness. It is said: "O Lord, 'Můj život je obřadem k Tobě'—my life is a worship to Thee." Though I am burning, and I will burn until the end as long as prāṇa is there, it is only for Thee, O my Lord. Let me be this dīpaka, this flame. Now, this flame, this dīpaka, is very gentle. This is you as an individual. You are not so strong. We have a strong will, but our strength, our ability, is limited and very weak. Yet, if there is a piece of fire, a spark of fire, that is stronger than this big flame. There is one beautiful poem. All poems are Guruvākyā, showing us the path. So the master, or the poet, says: Saba sahayaka sabala kī. Sabala means the strong one. Bala means strength. Sabala means one with immense energy and strength. Saba means all. Sahayaka means a helpful supporter. Saba sahayaka sabala kī—all are the supporters of the strong one. Kohuṁ nirbala kā sahāya—and no one is a supporter and helper for those who have no strength, what we call the meek one, though they too are living by the will of God. Now the answer, the explanation, comes. First of all, everyone is a supporter of the stronger one. No one supports the weak one. When someone is boxing and is stronger, everyone says, "Bravo, bravo! Be strong, be strong!" Everyone supports because fire has that strength. The wind blows and makes the fire stronger. And when there is no wind, we try to blow to make the fire stronger. Pavana jagāvata aga ko: the wind (pavana) awakens (jagāvata) the fire (aga) to be stronger. But the same wind will blow off this dīpaka, yes or no? Therefore, as long as it is, we have to support it like this, in the hollow of our palm. Thus, only we have God, who can support us and save our life, or Gurudev with his light and wisdom. Because this flame is also that light, but it is still too weak. Dīpa jyotiḥ parabrahma: this flame is light in the form of the Supreme Brahman. Without this light, darkness cannot disappear. Dīpena sājate sarvaṁ sandhyā: and without this, darkness cannot disappear, and we cannot be saṁdhyā, our light to that Light. Dīpena sarvaṁ mohanaṁ: sarvaṁ means everywhere. Moha means darkness. Moha means ignorance. Moha means attachment. Moha means greed. So this light can remove the darkness. Hold on to the light. Confucius said it is better to light a candle than to stand in the darkness. Though it is a little flame, it must be better than to be completely in the darkness. So this tiny flame is our tiny experience, our spirituality. But the wind of ku-saṅga (bad company) can blow it off, and then you cannot be that presence of God in this form of the flame. Then you will not be able to be in the presence of God in the form of His flame. Dīpaṁ sarve sarasvataṁ, or satyam. That dīpa (lamp) is everywhere. Sarasvataṁ means the wisdom, the knowledge. This depth is everywhere: the wisdom, the knowledge, or the light, or the truth (satyam). So the light... Our best friends are the light of our life. Your children are the light of your life. It depends on how you educate them, what kind of education you are giving them. Love can spoil, and love can create. It depends on how we deal with that. Today is Pūrṇimā, the full moon day. The moon is the nearest planet to our earth. And Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa says, "I enter into the vegetation as nectar through the moonlight." So God is not only a particular form. God is not only these hands and legs and this physical form we see as human. But in this vegetation, the rasāyana (elixir), the juice, the oxygen, the fruits, the fragrance—this is God. Without that, we cannot exist: water. In every language of the world, we call water life. Therefore, we call it Jala Devatā, the God of water. The water god was also very well known in old Greek mythology. Among the Celts, Agnideva—fire is also a god. Fire God. Vāyu Deva—the air is a God. And Mother Earth. All the elements are known as gods. So in the Vedas and in Vedic religion or culture, there is not a personal God in form or incarnation. But the presence of God is in everything. Without that, no one can exist. Even God Himself, if He incarnates here and there are no trees, no water, and nothing, then He also will not last long. So, Kṛṣṇa means not only He who was incarnated and whom we call Kṛṣṇa. You do not know Kṛṣṇa. And you do not know the Bhagavad-gītā. It is said, those who realize what Kṛṣṇa is, they will understand what the Bhagavad-gītā is. Kṛṣṇaṁ tato bhagavad-gītām. Not this Kṛṣṇa of the pictures you are always showing, those beautiful pictures. Kṛṣṇa was not like this picture. He was a normal, very good person—hard-working, like our Radek, working all the time in the garden. Kṛṣṇa was whole day with the cows in the field. Hard-working, my dear, and He was paid nothing for that. Only, "Be a good boy, go with the cows," grazing them and bringing them home. But the divine one, the great one in Him, was something different than what we see in Him as a body. So, the price is for the body, but inside is the soul. You know, this is a small telephone. We paid for it, but we did not pay for this plastic cover. We paid for what is inside. There is a little box, and inside is one precious stone which is maybe worth two hundred thousand dollars. It depends on how many carats, and we bought it. The box is beautiful, but still we did not buy the box. And we are good at taking care, bringing it home, and putting it in the treasure—not because of the box, but because of what is inside. Not the body, but how Kṛṣṇa looks. But what is inside? The river has its curves. So, Kṛṣṇaṁ jānesu gītā: who knows what Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa was, they will understand what is the Bhagavad-gītā, co je Bhagavad-gītā. Mātā jānesu gītā: and only the mother knows who is the father. That is it. So reality is beyond our imagination. So He said clearly, "Kṛṣṇa, through the moonlight, I enter into the vegetation as nectar." So it means the moonlight is Kṛṣṇa. Sunlight is Kṛṣṇa, sunlight is Rāma, or whatever you call the incarnation. And that cannot be only for particular people. So you cannot say, "My religion and your religion." This is ignorance, the biggest ignorance, and this is the fight in the world. That is why many people do not want to go to religious programs; they would like to go where there is equality. Otherwise, everyone says, "My guru," and the other one says, "No, my guru is the best." Now, in one family, the husband has a different guru and the wife has a different guru. So the husband says, "I want to put my guru’s photo." And she says, "No, I want to put my guru’s photo." So he says, "Okay, when I pray, you remove your guru’s photo." She said, "Okay, then when I pray, I will remove your guru’s photo." And really, the principle is the same. One master had two disciples, and each of them was very jealous. In the evening, they were massaging the master’s feet. So one disciple said, "The right one is mine." And the other one said, "The left one is mine." And then the master made a curve, turned, and the right foot came on the left foot. Hate, anger, and jealousy were there, so the person who said, "The left leg is mine," and the right one came on the left... He had a stick in his hand, and he hit the right foot of the master. The master said, "Oh God, what have you done?" He said, "I told the master that the left one is mine, the right one is his. Why is he bringing his right foot on me?" So the master just turned to the other side, oh my God, and he bent his leg, and that touched the right foot. And the owner of the right foot, he folded the left foot and twisted it. And the master said, "It is neither yours nor his. They are my feet." So, neither is Kṛṣṇa yours, nor is Jesus mine. They are both ours. That kind of consciousness should awaken people. Otherwise, this is forever fighting: my God, my religion; this religion is not good, that religion is not good; this master is not good, that master is not good. This speaks ignorance. Where there is knowledge, there is equality. And therefore, in the Vedic culture, Vedic tradition, Sanātana Dharma, it is said: in every atom is that one God’s light. And everyone, even the stone, has its meaning for us in our honor. Our earth. Mountains are very important. And in many countries, people are destroying the mountains, digging them away, taking the stones, sand, and so on. So it is not only the imbalance of the environment from our chemical things, but the biggest imbalance is because the mountains are destroyed and the rivers are also destroyed, creating very many dams and polluting the ocean. And so many coal mines, metal mines, oil mines—we take all the energy of Mother Earth. In our body we also have iron, and earth also has iron, but we will suck all the iron out. This mother has no more iron; she has a lack of iron. She will collapse. So the entire system is respected as God’s body; that is called the universal body of Kṛṣṇa. All kinds of creatures are very important for our ecology. Ačkoliv hadům, o hadech mluvíme—although we speak of snakes, the snakes are very, very important for the fields. Frogs are very good. Mice are very good. But they balance themselves. You had many bears in your forest. They were also very good for balancing the ecosystem. The foxes, the wolves, and so on, and many, many birds. Now, this is the time. If the United Nations is declaring and would like to achieve the goals of sustainable development, then the first thing is to protect the wildlife. A United Nations organization has declared and wants to achieve the goal of a sustainable future, so the first step is the protection of wildlife. And wildlife means not only the gorillas—a divoká příroda to neznamená jen gorily—or tigers and lions and bears, but all other animals are important for us. The Creator knows why He created them. But we humans think this is not necessary. And those animals also say that humans are not necessary. But unfortunately, humans have intellect, and through this, they protect themselves and destroy others. So it is very important to protect the wildlife. People are eating monkeys; many monkeys have disappeared. People are eating the turtles. You know how important turtles are. You hardly see them. Turtle is a very important animal. If you have one turtle at home, automatically, all Vāstu Śāstra’s energy is protected. It is said one turtle replaces all the Feng Shui signs and Vāstu Śāstra signs, and all negative radiance is under the earth. Therefore, it is very, very good to put turtles in front of the house, even a statue. That form is very important, but if it is a living one, of course, it is beautiful. But people buy them, kill them, and eat the soup. We traveled last year a few thousand kilometers through the Australian desert with a caravan, with the hope that we would see the kangaroos. And we did not see one kangaroo, only two small ones on the road, killed. They said many, many kangaroos are killed because people want to eat the kangaroo meat. So that is why it is not only because of ahiṁsā (non-violence), but for the sake of our future, of our children, and this planet, we should be vegetarians. If men will continue all this—eating meats and killing and destroying the animals—then, of course, darkness will be on this planet. So, to save the planet means to save the wildlife. And try to save those old fruit trees. Beautiful fruit trees you have in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and in all these countries along the fields. The cherry trees, the plum trees, the apple trees. And now we are developing trees which are a maximum of two and a half meters high, so we can take the fruits like this. And these are all manipulated. There was a saying in Europe, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." But when we eat those chemical apples, and then we say one apple a day keeps the doctor away, and the doctor still comes. Když krájíte jablko—when you cut an apple, within half a minute it becomes brown. That means a lot of iron inside. And these beautiful, shining, big apples, you cut it, the whole day lying there, nothing brownish. And after two days comes silver on it. Silver color. Fungus. Rotten. So we have to come back to our origin. And there should not come between the duality of religion and culture, and countries and languages. You do not like some country’s culture and traditions; you do not even want to hear the name. And what will happen? Next life, you will be born there. So here you are. Because God says, what you do not like, that you should go and accept as if you like it. So, equality can save our situation on this planet. Otherwise, you said, "I am the best one, I am the good one, they are the bad ones, he is bad, that is bad." This is ignorance. As long as we are selfish, we say, "It is mine, mine." There is one family with three children, four children, small children. Every child says, "Mine." Mother, and the other one says, "No, no, it is my mother." They are both fighting. My mother, my mother, my mother. And one day, when Mother will be 98 years old, who will take care of her? One will say, "You said always your mother, now go and take care of your mother." There, you do not accept. Now, see her as your mother. How selfish we are. So people are saying, "I am good, they are not good," and this is only as long as they have selfishness in them, a kind of feelings, ambitions. And so people say, "I am good and your friends are bad," but that is only until they have a personality and until they have their own ambitions. And that is not spirituality, that is not knowledge, and that is not in God’s mind. For what we are fighting, it is not reality. And what is the reality that we neglect? Therefore, God is that universal one, and God is within us. It is in Mokṣa. "Where are you searching for me? Oh, my dear, I am with you." So our breath is God, our heart is God, our circulation is God. If you do not believe this, tell your heart today, "One day, holiday." No. The heart is so loyal to us. It does not matter what stupid things we are doing, but the heart does not do stupid things. Constantly in your service. So that God gave us this heart. God gave the kidneys, the liver, the glands. Everything. So take it as a great presence of God. That God which is a universal one. Otherwise, you can say, "Swāmījī, okay, Gurujī, give me your heart." I can give only one, but I will say why. It is not easy. That is not easy. So be thankful to God, and in this way, if you pray to God, then God is very, very happy. In this way, when you lead your life, God is so happy. God will say, "Now I can relax. My son took over my job, because she or he, my daughter, took over all my duties." And we are all daughters and sons of God. And even a small ant also. There is no duality in God consciousness, either human or animal. And there is no gender duality, and neither culture, and so on. God is one, that is with us and surrounding us. Everyone, everything. When this consciousness awakes, then the first glimpse of self-realization is achieved. Otherwise, far, far away. Far away. "Mother, oh mother. How far is the soul? I have to travel far. Heavy storms. High waves, black clouds, lightning, and my boat is sinking. O Mother, tell me, where is the shore of peace? Where is the mainland? I have to travel a far distance." Our boat is in the middle. Heavy clouds are our ignorance. Lightning is our anger, high waves are our emotions, and strong wind is our different thoughts. This body is the boat, saṃsāra is the ocean, and inside, sitting, is your jīvātmā. Listen to thyself. And therefore it says, "Listen, listen, listen to my heart song. Listen, listen... I will never forget you, I will never forsake you. I will never forget you, I will never forsake you." That is it. So listen in your heart to the call of your soul. Always think of God. If you can listen to the call of your soul in your heart, then the soul will merge into the cosmic one. So it is thy soul that tells you, "Please do this, listen to me. Then I will never forget you. And I will never blame you." This is the joy, this is the happiness. Otherwise, temporarily, you love someone, and that one is the best person in the whole world for you. And when this person will go away, then this is the worst person in the world. How selfish we are. These are temporary water bubbles. And now our children have this beautiful bubble. But as soon as it comes to touch, as soon as it touches something, it explodes. That is Māyā, only Augen-Freude (a feast for the eyes). Eye-friendly, that is all. You cannot do anything; you cannot hold anything. This life is water in the hand. It drops away very soon. Therefore, if you have the aim of God-realization or self-realization, then develop kindness, have mercy in the heart, and see God everywhere. That is it. So today is full moon. And the day the Buddha was born. And you know the Buddha’s whole life story. Buddha means the buddhi, the intellect, and Buddha is that enlightened intellect, so what we call enlightenment. So when your inner ignorance disappears and light appears, at that time you are one with God, and therefore Prince Siddhartha became the Buddha through his sādhanā, meditations, and practicing tapasyā. Buddha had a lot of respect for every creature. When he walked, he looked behind again to see if he had stepped on an ant. If through my movements no creature is killed, then there is no question that Buddha was eating meat. No, no, no. Do not blame the Buddha. Buddha was a pure vegetarian, and Buddha was born as a prince. We call Rajputs the warriors, Hindu princes and warriors. Muhammad was also a Rajput, a Hindu warrior. But they found a path. All right, no problem. The Holy Koran, the Bible, or other books. And in Buddhism, actually, Tantra developed. So Buddha’s teaching is called Tantra. But not this Tantra, what you get here in the books. This is from some crazy man’s ideas. But Tantra is a very pure, spiritual, divine teaching. Tan means expanding, and tra means liberation. Expand your consciousness in oneness to all. That will liberate you. This way is the tantra. So many people misunderstand and translate incorrectly. And it translates wrong. In our language, I always tell you, the hut of Gurujī, the hut, we call Kutiyā. And someone asked, "What is this?" So they said, "Gurujī’s Kutiyā." And they say, "This is..." Kutiyā means a hut. But Kutya means female dog. Gurujī had a beautiful dog. Now Gurujī’s dog. So it means everyone must have a female dog. Therefore, the translation of the language makes a lot of mistakes. We call roṭī. My říkáme. But you eat chapātī, you say. To čemu říkáte vy chapati, my říkáme, but the real name is called roṭī. A Evropan to neumí vyslovit, rotī. You are pronouncing roti. Roṭī. Not a roti. A little different. Now, the roṭī means chapātī, and roṭī means a crying woman. Yes. And now you said, "Can I have one roṭī?" And they said, "No, sorry, we do not have. We do not have roṭī, woman." So, therefore, in translation we need three things. Śabdārtha: the translation of the word. Bhāvārtha: what it means. And for that you need jñānārtha: the wisdom. Sometimes you may translate very correctly, but it is not good in that culture. Culture. So there you have to translate differently. But you have to put bhāvārtha, what it means. But you have to use the knowledge. With which kind of word or sentence will you replace? Śabdhārtha, bhāvārtha, and jñānārtha—these three are very important to translate. So today is Pūrṇimā, and I wish you all a divine evening. In many ashrams, in many places, we have satsaṅgs, singing bhajans and meditating. And I wish you a happy Buddha Pūrṇimā, the Pūrṇimā which is acknowledged as Buddha’s incarnation. I wish you all the best, and the next webcast will be announced in one week. Tomorrow is no webcast. Thank you. God bless you. Siddhiṁ Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Devīśvara Mahādeva Satguru Svāmī Mādhvānandajī Bhagavān Satya Sanātana.