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The Golden Chance of Human Life

A spiritual discourse on the value and purpose of human life.

"Human life is a golden chance... God created humans as protectors, not destroyers."

"First change thyself. If you change thyself, then the process will begin."

The lecturer addresses an audience, exploring the theme "Human Life is a Golden Chance." He contrasts material gold with spiritual gold, discussing cultural values, the Kali Yuga, and the human role within creation. He emphasizes universal family (Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam), compassion for all creatures, the principle of non-violence (ahiṃsā), and the need for self-purification through mantra, meditation, and selfless service to achieve liberation.

Filming location: USA

Oṁ Asato mā sadgamaya. Lead us from unreality to reality. Tamaso mā jyotirgamaya. Lead us from darkness to light. Mṛtyor mā amṛtaṁ gamaya. Lead us from mortality to immortality. Sarveṣāṁ svastir bhavatu. May all be healthy. Sarveṣāṁ śāntir bhavatu. May there be peace everywhere. May we all live in happiness. May we all achieve the goal of our life. Sukhino bhavantu. Peace, happiness, health, understanding, and good health and long life in the whole world. Nāhaṁ kartā, prabhu kartā, mahāprabhu dīpa kartā hi kevalam. Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. I am not the doer, God is the doer, Mahāprabhujī Dīpa is only the doer. Peace, peace. Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Akīm. Salutation to the Cosmic Light, adoration to the Divine Master. Dear brothers and sisters, good evening and God bless you. To all the spiritual seekers around the world, our sisters and brothers, on this holy occasion: this is the time of a divine festival, which celebrates the victory of the good and the destruction of the bad things. The subject given to me is "Human life is a golden chance." Yes, I was thinking a lot about this. In which way should I put the gold in the life of humans? Gold—what does it mean? Other creatures do not have any value for gold, but why do we? The story of gold, how it becomes very valuable, very beautiful, a dominating power in human life. We, in our culture—Indian culture, the culture of Asia, the Hindus—and the second culture, what we always say, is the Western culture. Western culture is also different. When we talk about America, then we have to go to the American Indians and people who lived here many ages before. If we go towards the islands like Fiji or Hawaii, or what you call Samoa, etc., they call them Maoris; we call it ethnic culture. Move towards Australia, they call the Aborigines. China, India, Africa, and so on. Culture is there where humans are, and where humans are, there is culture. And where humans move, they bring that culture there. It doesn't matter how much I have respect, tolerance, and acknowledgement, but still, when I came here to America, I brought Indian culture with me. And even now, I am full of Indian culture. When you move to India or somewhere, you bring the culture. So culture is moving with the people. In our philosophy or spiritual instructions, it was given by great thinkers or great saints how to understand and maintain peace, love, and compassion in the world. So we are taught from childhood two lessons which are very, very beautiful and important. And since we've forgotten this, the problem began. First, we are taught from childhood that an elderly person, who is 30, 40, 50, or even 100 years older than you, we address that person, no matter from which country, city, or village, and even if we see that person for the first time, automatically—even now—we call that lady or elderly lady "mother," Mātājī. In India, if you see an elderly person... see, you are not old, okay? I'm just, sorry, you are not old. Your husband is a little bit older than you, but he is not listening. He is busy making photos, so automatically we will say "Mātājī." We will stand up for her as a mother; you sit. And you have the title in our group and in the ashram as a mother. Yes? I call her always Mātājī, no? And if someone is around our age, 10 years, 15 years older or younger, we always call them sister. And when it is 20, 30 years younger, then we automatically call them my daughter, my child. And children will call us mother or auntie. So now this kind of thought, this culture, is uniting: we said father, brother, and son, or mother, sister, and daughter. Now, what you speak, you should keep your words. Human words have a value, and when you say it, it means yes, really. And in this way, we create the relation of mother, sister, and daughter, or father, brother, and son. Then, no one will do anything bad against you. Because once you say "mother," then she is ever your mother. And your own mother will not tell you, "What? I am your mother. Why do you say her to be your mother?" No. My mother will be very proud if I tell others also, "mother." And she used to say to me, "Go and give this to Mātājī, the mother. Give this and this." This protects us from all kinds of disturbances in our society. If we get this education... the ethical and spiritual education is missing. Second, as we go deep into philosophy, spirituality, or religion—whatever you call it, or the social aspect you can take—we call it in our Granthas and Śāstras, in our books written, "Vasudeva Kuṭumbakam." Doctor, what did you say? Vāsudeva. You know that. Can you tell, Doctor? I don't know English so well. What is the translation? So, we are all God's family. Vasudeva is a God, and we are all family of one God. So the whole world is one family. If we develop in our consciousness such clear pictures, automatically peace, compassion, love—whatever is there—it will be like a family relation, and we see the whole world as our family. Now, what happened? Or they said the Western world is looking different. In the present time, the whole world is a market, business. Business means duality. Business means greed. This is in hidden form, that you steal from others. How will you become richer? You have to earn something to take money from something. You manufacture something which costs you $1, okay? You worked very hard, you can take $1.50, but it is too much when it costs $1 and you charge $100. Will you charge like this from your son or from your mother? You bring for your mother an ice cream and say, "Mom, this ice cream, it cost only $2 maybe or $1." I don't know, I ate ice cream, I don't know when, long, long time ago. I don't buy. People give me, then I eat. So if I bought ice cream for $1 and I go to my mother and say, "Mother, I bought ice cream for you, please. It's $100." My mother's heart is so big. And she will say, "Yes, my child, you have $100 here, but God sees." Her heart knows, and your heart knows that you cheat your mother. Never cheat your mother, never cheat your father, never cheat your sister, never cheat your brother. You know, Islam, there are beautiful things. I don't know if they are all doing it or not. But in Islam, they do not expect what you call the interest. From your capital, you put in the bank, and they don't take interest. It is written very clearly in the Holy Book, the Quran. So many, many beautiful, divine thoughts are written in that holy book. In the Quran, it is said that if you kill one human, you kill all of humanity. But now, who will feel this, and who will follow it? Jesus said, "Thou shalt not kill." He didn't say, "Don't kill the humans." Or "love your neighbor"—your next. Next means all creatures. So this is one thing. Second, yugas, the ages—not the millennium, but the ages: Satya Yuga, Dvāpara Yuga, Tretā Yuga, and Kali Yuga. Now they are also talking in this modern age: the golden age, the silver age, the copper age, and the iron age. This is the dark age. So when the Kali Yuga—Kali Yuga means one of the most terrible, worst situations in the world. The human mind is manipulated. There was a king who was ruling the whole earth and was very generous. He used to give to everyone anything, very happy. And suddenly the era or age is changing, coming the beginning or the period of the Kali Yuga, the Iron Age. So they came, and God, the King, gave to everyone land here, land there; someone got this, someone got that. That time, here where we are, it was only ice, glaciers. Europe was under the ice. The first human race, now scientists also declare, was from Tibet. And Tibet, why? Because the Swayambhu Śiva first manifested himself there. No father, no mother, he just appears, Śiva, and his holy seat was the Kailāśa mountain. We develop slowly, slowly, though I will not tell the whole story. So the king gave—I forgot the name of the king. You know what was the name? Yeah, there are many brothers sitting here from India, but they know the name of the actors in which film, who is the hero, and in the crickets and this, you know. That is a pity. That is what we lost. We lost that gold, and we are running behind wrong gold. So the Kali Yuga came to the king and said, "Your Highness, can you give me a little place on the earth in your kingdom?" He said, "Who are you? Can you introduce me?" So he told all his bad qualities: what will happen, and what will be all. "Can you give me a place in your kingdom?" The king said, "No, sorry." He said, "No, you can't say no, because I heard you never said no. Please give me a place in little things." He said, "Okay, little, very little." "What are the very little things on earth?" He said, "Well, I don't ask you for the rocks, for the oceans, for the mountains, or the big land, or this. But on this earth, there is something very little." He said, "Yes, that's okay." "What do you want from that? Let me live in gold, gold." King said, "What means that gold? Yes, then you will see my power. I will sit on your head," he said, "but give me, please." So the king said, "Okay, go, give peace, have a gold." Very little gold. If you dig the whole, half of the Alexandria's land, hardly you will find gold anywhere. So he entered into the gold, and very soon someone brought the golden crown to the king. And the king was saying, "Oh, golden crown, golden crown." He looks up and he smiles, "King, now you are my slave, I sit on your head. If you want, take your crown down and throw it down in the dust." Others said, "This is the insert for the king, this is the crown of the king. King." And the king said, "Of course, it is my crown. Who dares to throw it away?" And Kali Yuga is laughing. "You see how I am changing your thoughts. I will be ruling now in the Kali Yuga. In this age, gold is God. Money is God." Time came, changing, ages and ages. Suddenly Jesus came into this world. Every holy person, of every holy incarnation, didn't have an easy life. They are struggling and struggling in Kali Yuga. It doesn't matter from which religion, where, or who is on the path of peace, love, compassion, and spirituality; they have to become the victim of certain attacks, or they will kill them. Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, what he did, and they sought him. Many, many American presidents were also sought. Jesus is coming with his disciples to the temple, and outside, people were making business with the gold, and there was a golden bull. And they said, "It has so much price, and this is gold and gold. Who will win?" Jesus said to his disciples, "Please come with me. This gold is a wrong god. You think gold is a god; it will lead you to hell. I am your master who will lead you to God. Do not believe in the wrong God; believe in the God to whom I will lead you." And that was, time to time, repeated, but we are very much caught by gold. So I was surprised. I get a title, "Human Life. It's a golden chance." I said, that's a really typical American thought. And I said, "I'm a typical Indian." I will give these thoughts in a good way back, and feed you well. So, in the beginning, the creator was śūnya ākāśa. Nothing was there, empty space, dark, blue, empty space, nothing. Out of that nothing, there are three principles: space, endless space. That is said as the body of the mother. Mother love is endless. You can't limit the mother love, the mercy. So every female, every woman, or the female—doesn't matter if it's a human or animal. Animals' mothers also love their children very, very much. And that love is endless. So that is sky, endless space, anant, anant,... anant. As far as you go, that far expands that love. You can't measure the love of the mother. And it doesn't matter which mother. If you see everyone like this, you will be one of the holiest persons. We don't say, "Hi, lady." Now everybody is calling, "Hi, madam." Actually, madam is a French word, and it was spoken from the husband to his wife. We call Śrīmatī. But now everyone is saying in India, madam. And even they don't know this lady didn't go to school, and then somebody said, "Madam, please come and sit." She said, "Oh, I am madam today." I said, "My dear one, you are not like that." Language is a problem, anant. Then we call it cosmic consciousness, universal consciousness. Do we say cosmic consciousness? No. So that consciousness is within the space, and the space is the embodiment of the mother, and the consciousness is that embryo which is alive in the mother's body. And that's why we call it Hiraṇyagarbha. We have in the Vedas the word—who speaks Hindi or Sanskrit here?—Hiraṇyagarbha. Hiraṇya is a name of the gold, gold. Garbha is embryo. That golden consciousness, pure metal, pure light, that consciousness is in the body, the universal mother's body. Within these two is the Śakti, energy. Space can't do anything, and consciousness has no desires. How does the creation begin? Therefore it is said, "eko'haṁ bahusyāmi"—I am one, and now I will multiply, like, what you call, I begin my company and multiply my money. Ekoham bahusyāmi: I am one, Eternal One Consciousness, Universal Consciousness. And now I will multiply endlessly. That time, Swayambhu Śiva. That in Western culture or in Christianity, they said, "God's will, Lord, Thy will be done." So what? Does God have any desires? No. But that was a beginning creation. This is written in the holy Vedas. The first written scriptures in human societies, or whatever you call them, are the Vedas. If you didn't read the Vedas, you read nothing. If you didn't read the Upaniṣads, you don't know anything. When you read the Vedas and Upaniṣads, your entire self will change. Because at that time, compassion will develop in your heart. You talk about compassion, and you eat meat. Your heart doesn't become that mother because you have no compassion for this small creature. Yesterday, I told you a story about a bird's nest, and the crow took away the baby from the nest, and how sad was this small bird sitting there. So it doesn't matter, we can talk a million times, talk about peace and compassion, but if you consume meat, you don't have that cosmic heart of the mother. So we have to develop that cosmic heart of the mother. Ekoham bahusyāmi, and that begins with the nāda sound. Nāda rūpa para brahma. The embodiment of the supreme is the resonance. A musician knows, an expert knows what the sound or the resonance of the sitar or guitar or any instrument means. And the master takes the sitar in hand and only touches it once and views it. Same instrument you give in my hand, and I will do something. Oh, Swamiji will break it. Awake that sound. Manifest or create that sound through a certain instrument. You need a musician, a master who practiced. Practice makes perfect. Flute, when the flute comes, who can make the flute? And everybody said, "Wow! And give the flute to your little child." The neighbors will say, "Oh God, please don't give this child the..." That's it. So now the Rūpa Parabrahmā, everything created out of that sound, and from that sound comes the Śiva Jyoti, bright, and in that Jyoti the manifestation of God comes. Now, in that creation on this mortal world, there are 8.4 million different creatures. I am not saying this; the Vedas said it. This Grantha said, "I don't know anything; I am telling only what I read." If I say, I say, then I have stolen the wisdom. Make something new, avishkār, and then you can say, "You did it," yes, of course. There is a lot, a lot of things, potential, still to produce or create something from this world, still nobody knows. Then you are the author. That's it. So do something. 8.4 million different creatures took a long time to come here, and they are divided into three categories: Jalchar, Thalchar, Nabchar—the creatures in the water, on the earth, and in the space. And all three have also enemies. How to protect? So the great saints, they give mantras, ślokas, and principles to the humans on how to protect yourself. So they create a protection, what we call the navy force, the ground force, and the air force. We are here, there. Jalchar, water; Thalchar, earth; and Nabchar, the space. In these three, there is an enemy for us in different forms: bacteria, disease, or, if you believe, some ghost or ill elements, and like this, there will be difference. Out of 8.4 million, one is the human. And God created humans as protectors, not destroyers. So, human, according to our imagination, how should God be? Only we have limited knowledge, so we said God is like this. So we decorate, or we put a statue, and we say, "This was God," or "This was this and that." Maybe the tigers have some; they are God. We said we are the best creatures. Go to say the tiger, we are the best ones. He said, "Who said you are the best one?" And unfortunately, now we say the most dangerous animal is who? I didn't say you said. So, how cruel humans have become. Now, these 8.4 million different creatures are just one cycle of rebirth and death. Many times people didn't believe, and people don't believe in rebirth. But now, thanks to modern science, modern explanation, and the modern world, which gives one beautiful word, that's called "use and throw," this plastic. Now plastic has become immortal; you can't destroy this plastic. You can burn, you can do anything, but still living. Similarly, our self is immortal, that ātmā which came from the resonance of the sound, the cosmic sound. But now we all, our respected wise mayor of the Alachandraya, she said, and she's working for recycling. To protect people and Earth from pollution, recycling. What is recycling? Okay, you have a good tomato, and you eat the tomato. Very good. It goes through. And you are human, or animals, or anybody's hair. When I die, these five elements will merge into different elements, but the major part of my body will recycle into the earth. And nobody knows that my body is here under the earth, and you put there some nice potatoes or pumpkins or tomatoes, it will grow very nicely because nice fertilizer is there. And you eat this tomato, it goes in you. He said, also system recycling, all this environment friendly. So if you accept, you agree, and you know, and you understand, and you believe the recycling process, then where is the problem to believe in reincarnation? It's the same thing. The soul will go with the destiny and will come back and recycle. So if you believe or you don't believe, belief does not change the reality. Reality is the reality. A blind person can say, "Yes, the sun is beautiful," but it is completely dark. The blind person believes this, but the sun is not dark. So God brought the humans as protectors, not as distractors. Now, this cycle is rebirth and death. My dear, it's not easy to die. Don't try to die. Maybe we are not afraid of death, but we have fear of how we will die. Which kind of pain do we have to go through? In a fire, under a building, somewhere in an accident—who knows? God protect us from this pain of getting out of the body without suffering. So that is from the Vedas, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda's mantra. That's called Mahāmṛtyu Jaya Mantra. A great mantra, victory over death. And when you drive your car, go out of your house, repeat once mentally or loudly, Mahāmṛtyu Jaya Mantra, it will protect you from accidents and many things. And these mantras are many, many ages old. So when you chant—we had Shivaratri, and we were chanting. You see how the sound? Automatically, such a resonance enters the body, and negative energy, ill cells in the body, anything is purified. Or you can chant: "Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugaṁdhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt." This is your car, you drive. It is like that. Sometimes you have time, and sometimes you don't have time. So these sounds, so they are praying that I don't come again in this victim of death and birth. Now, the space between death and birth, where are you? If you said, "No, there is no more life, and this and that is finished," then why are you going to the graveyard and putting flowers and candles in front of your ancestors who died fifty years ago? You believe they are still sitting there. Maybe they are already your grandson. So that soul is traveling in space, and you cannot choose the next life. It will be, but you cannot choose. You cannot choose that, Lord, God, next time, now I am going, give me birth again in Alexandria here. God said, "I gave you freedom to act, to do, but the fruits I will give, not you." So we pray, Urvārukam iva bandhanān. Urva is like what you call the beautiful fruit, that you call Kurkumba, or some fruits. When it is ripe, when fruit is ripe, then without any pain, causing to the plant or to oneself, it separates. So, Lord, when I go, when my time comes, please give me a chance that I don't suffer, and neither will others suffer. We have relations to our parents, brothers, and sisters. We love our child, we love our mother, our father. Even when they are old and they die, we miss them, we feel them. Because real love is that love, not this material love. This is a temptational love. You think there is joy, and that joy is little joy to enjoy. That joy will be more painful than you think is in joy. So human life is given to develop human qualities. What is that? Love, kindness, mercy, blessings, giving. Otherwise, hate, jealousy, conflict, anger, etc. These negative qualities, and we have both positive and negative within us. We shall try to purify through meditation, through mantras, through doing some good service to all creatures, and also to family, so that you can become free to get liberation. Liberation means becoming one with that origin. Water comes as a vapor from the ocean. You can see, once I was in Hawaii, Waikiki Beach, it's famous, no? And I think, already eight years or ten years ago, the Alchemy was with me. And the flight landed there, and then there was some defect in the machine. So from San Francisco, they had to bring the machine. So they brought us to the hotel on Waikiki Beach, and we got a room on a high floor, the 20th floor or something. And at 10 o'clock, I was looking from the balcony down, and you see, like, smoke is coming from the water. That is the steam. So there's the ocean, and now there is the steam, or this para. We said, "Oh, it's the steam." It goes a little higher, "Oh, cloud." We don't see the ocean rise up and begin to rain. We said, "Oh, it's rain falling on the ground." Each drop unites together again. There is a tendency of union. It begins to flow, a little creek and then a river, and the river merges back into the sand in the ocean. But if it is luck, the same rain will drop in the desert and disappear in the sand. When will this drop of water fall down, and how far is the ocean? What is the hope? How far is the destination to come back to the origin? So, spirituality and human life are very precious, but we should not say that human care or humanitarian work is the best work. I don't accept this at all. In this sentence, humanitarian work or doing something is the best, no. It means we discriminate against other creatures. And since people are saying humanitarian, humans, human, humanitarian, no one thinks of the animals and how the animals are tortured, kept, and killed, and people don't know. You get nicely packed meat and say, "Oh, it is in the supermarket. I am not killing and bringing it from there," but who killed? And you say, "No, this is not red meat, it is white." Ask that animal who died, let's cut a little heart, the neck of this, and hang it till every drop of the blood goes out. You know, if you are a cardiologist or some doctor sitting here, when some problem begins to come in your heart, then there are the spasms. Here it is like someone is putting pressure. Or when you lose the blood, it is like pulling your skin out. It is not easy. It is better that you cut it quickly so that it is finished, so that it does not suffer, he or the animal. Slowly, slowly taking blood out is the cruelty. Do not think that you do not eat meat. You eat only white, or you eat white, not white, only red. Kilt is kilt. When it comes on your plate, ask this fish how it came to your plate. Can you eat that? In France, there was a very famous restaurant, and the restaurant owner became a vegetarian. He made an advertisement that a thousand dollars for one dinner is a special choice for you. And within one day, it was booked out. All the places were about 250 tables, or seats for sitting. And they came, and he said, he greeted everybody and he said, "Now look, I have one rabbit here in this case." There are many, many rabbits, so who would like to eat which one? Please go and choose that we have to kill them. I said, "No." And they went and they said, "No, we can't kill them. We don't want to be killed, no." They said, "Okay, we don't want to disturb you, so you get up. We bring you to the table and choose which one we should do. And here's a knife. You will kill, and we will cook." All said, "No, we don't want to eat anything. Please, vegetarian." So if you see that cruelty, how it's killed, how the animal is troubling, you will never eat, and never eat. Now this karma, that's called karma. One self-realized saint I met once, he was nearly 120 years or 110 years, and he said, "How many chickens you ate, that many times you have to be born as a chicken and let cut your throat, and then you have access to whatever you call heaven, or we haven't seen the heaven." So human life is to be protected, and human qualities, the best qualities. We say metal is gold, and so, the best creature from all creatures is the one who can achieve God consciousness and do something good for this planet, loving all through human life. So when you get up in the morning, first you open your eyes, first say, "Thank you, God. Thank you that I could wake up." Every night God gives us anesthesia, you know, so that we sleep. Do you know at which minute you fell asleep? Do you know in which second or minute you went into the dream? And how did you come back again? This is a science of chakras and meditation. Next time, in "Hidden Powers in Human," you should read. So when we wake up, thank your God, any God, God. Your mother is God. Your father is God. Your brother is God. "O God beautiful, O God beautiful,... O God. In the mountain, in the ocean, in the mountain. In the forest and the desert, in the forest, O God, beautiful, O God, beautiful, O God, beautiful. In the father and the mother, in the brother and the sister, O God, beautiful, O God, O God, beautiful. In the animals and the flowers, in the animals and the, in the fruits and the vegetation. O God, beautiful, O God, beautiful, on the earth and the clouds, on the earth, in the rain and the space, in the rain. Oh God, how beautiful you are. Everywhere you are, God, beautiful. Yogaī, Lord, beautiful God." So everywhere you can see God. You see the little flower, and you look. Mother, what she has done, Mother Nature. How beautiful a color she gave. Every petal has the same design and same size. Therefore, God realization, self-realization means in each and every atom. See thyself, then your human life is successful, and this is a golden chance. Don't miss this. After that, I can't guarantee you. As long as you are in this territory, as long as you are in America, the American government is responsible and will protect you. But when you go out of the American territory and do something, they will try to come and protect you, but a little bit of trouble will be there. Media will come behind that which Americans are doing. So you came to this world as a human. Wake up and say, first, I am human. Only one thought: "I am human." Then the second thought will awake automatically. What does it mean for me to be human? What makes me human? Which qualities? And how to awaken and utilize these qualities? What is human dharma? The human principle. So if we come to know that I am a human and I have no right to discriminate against any creature, I am protected by God, protected by law. When you come to any borders or in the hotels, there is something written in the lift and everything. By the law of the USA, what do they write? By law. Or, what do you think? Yeah, I was in an aeroplane, and I went to the bathroom. I was in business class, and further was first class. And then I went to—there was a toilet nearby—so I went to first class to see. One lady came and said, "Sir, this is for first class." I said, "Okay, but I was in a hurry." She said, "No, by law, you are not allowed to go there." I said, "Thank you." Next time, I got up and I went to the business class toilet, which was on that side. So I went from this side and came back, and she ran behind me, and she said, again, "By law, this and that and security, you cannot go through this cabin to this cabin and back." I said, yes, I am in love, not in law. So, my dear, we should follow, we should follow principles. Atha yoga anuśāsanam. Yoga practice is successful when you follow all the principles. So, we are not full of ego and pride. I am a human. Did you ask yourself, "How human are you?" What humans should do and what humans should not do. These are principles given by great saints. In every holy book, you have ten commands. That is, these ten commands are from the Mahāṛṣi Patañjali. Yoga Sūtra, Yama, Niyama. In this Yama and Niyama, these are exactly ten commands which are in the Bible. And Patañjali was more than two thousand years before Christ. So we are always the same. There is no difference, but we don't follow. Thou shalt not kill. Ahimsa Paramodharma, Mahatma Gandhi followed his lifelong non-violence, means no violence physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, politically, etc., etc. So violence is not only physical. Also, it can be emotional, mental, intellectual, social. So we need great workers, great people who can do for our society and for animals, and not only say "human, human," and we kill the animals. That, too, is not. So we need more good persons like our dear sister, the wise mayor, and you know what "wise" means? Very wise. Only one who is very wise can become wise, no? And that we wish her all the best in good health and long life, and that her service is acknowledged by the council of the Alachandrias, and God give her more and more and more work to do good things, and she loves to do good things. For that, we are never tired. And for bad things, she will never do because she will say, "I have no energy today." So everyone, you can do, she can do, I can do, they can do, all can do. So please think of other creatures. And so Mahātma Gāndhījī said, for the golden chance, Mother Earth has enough for our needs, but not for our greed. Greatest love, which is endless love, is of that cosmic consciousness and cosmos, mother and father, in that energy, in that room, in that space. So let's do some effort from ourselves through our intellect, through our indriyas, our senses. Do seva, do seva. We can't change the whole world. No. If you think that I will change the whole world, we can't. First change thyself. If you change thyself, then the process will begin. But we don't change, and we expect from others; then it's a different mind here. So, ahiṃsā, nonviolence, love, create a love of the father and create a love of the mother in every creature. Thank you for today, and tomorrow we will begin again. They are thinking the whole night, but they will put me on the subject. And then they don't tell me before, so I will just sit down and speak on this. So I don't talk; some higher consciousness is coming and speaking. So, thank you. God bless you, and wish you a very good evening. Oṁ Śānti.

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