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The Golden Chance of Human Life

Human life is a precious opportunity to realize our true nature and purpose. We are taught from childhood to see all people as family, addressing elders as mother or father and peers as sister or brother. This creates bonds of protection and respect, preventing harm within society. The ancient principle declares the entire world is one divine family. Modern life, however, is dominated by market mentality and greed, which corrupts these natural relations. This is the influence of a dark age where gold and money become false gods, distracting from spiritual truth. Human consciousness originated from a golden, cosmic embryo of pure light within the endless space of universal motherhood. The creative impulse manifested all life from a primordial sound. Out of 8.4 million life forms, humans are meant to be protectors, endowed with the capacity for love, kindness, and mercy. We must purify ourselves through good actions, non-violence, and seeing the divine in all. This human birth is a rare chance to achieve liberation and return to our origin. Do not waste this golden opportunity.

"Once you say mother, then she is ever your mother."

"If you consume meat, you don’t have that cosmic heart of the mother."

Filming location: Atlanta, USA

Part 1: Human Life: A Golden Chance 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. 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? And the story of gold, how it becomes very valuable or very beautiful, a dominating power in human life. We have 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 moves 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 as a mother; you sit. And you have the title in this 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 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. Now, 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 has 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 or 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. So 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, 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 God. 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: Jaltar, Kaltar, Nabchar—the creatures in the water, on the earth, and in the space. Part 2: The Three Realms and the Human Mandate All three realms have their adversaries. How are we to protect ourselves? The great saints have given humanity mantras, ślokas, and principles for protection. They established a protective force, akin to a navy, a ground force, and an air force. We exist here, in these realms: Jalchara (water), Sthalachara (earth), and Nabhachara (the sky). Within these three, enemies confront us in various forms: bacteria, disease, or, if you believe, ghosts and malevolent elements. Such are the distinctions. Out of 8.4 million life forms, one is the human. God created humans as protectors, not destroyers. According to our limited imagination, how should God be? With our confined knowledge, we say, "God is like this." We decorate and install a statue, declaring, "This is God," or "This is such and such." Perhaps tigers have their own conception of God. We claim we are the best creatures. Go and tell a tiger, "We are the best." It would reply, "Who said you are the best?" And unfortunately, we now say the most dangerous animal is... I did not say you said it. See how cruel humans have become. These 8.4 million different creatures represent just one cycle of rebirth and death. Many people did not believe, and do not believe, in rebirth. But now, thanks to modern science, modern explanations, and the modern world, we have a beautiful term: "use and throw," like plastic. Plastic has become immortal; you cannot destroy it. You can burn it, do anything, yet it persists. Similarly, our Self is immortal—that ātmā which emerged from the resonance of the cosmic sound. Our respected, wise Mayor of Alachua County spoke of working for recycling to protect people and Earth from pollution. What is recycling? You have a good tomato and you eat it. Excellent. It passes through you. When I, a human, or any animal, die, these five elements will merge into different elements, but the major part of my body will recycle into the earth. No one knows my body is there under the earth. If you plant nice potatoes, pumpkins, or tomatoes there, they will grow beautifully because good fertilizer is present. You then eat that tomato; it becomes part of you. This is systemic recycling; it is all environmentally friendly. So, if you accept, agree, know, understand, and believe in the recycling process, where is the problem in believing in reincarnation? It is the same principle. The soul will travel with its destiny and return—it recycles. Whether you believe or not, belief does not alter reality. Reality simply is. A blind person can say, "Yes, the sun is beautiful," while experiencing complete darkness. The blind person may believe this, but the sun is not dark. God brought forth humans as protectors, not distractors. This cycle is rebirth and death. My dear, it is not easy to die. Do not try to die. Perhaps we are not afraid of death itself, but we fear how we will die. What kind of pain must we endure? In a fire, under a building, in an accident—who knows? May God protect us from the pain of leaving the body without suffering. This prayer is from the Vedas, from the Yajurveda, from an Atharvaveda mantra. It is called the Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Mantra—the great mantra for victory over death. When you drive your car, as you leave your house, repeat it once mentally or aloud. The Mahāmṛtyuñjaya Mantra will protect you from accidents and many other harms. These mantras are many ages old. When you chant—we observed Shivaratri and were chanting—you feel how the sound automatically creates a resonance that enters the body, purifying negative energy, ill cells, anything. You can chant: "Oṁ tryambhakaṁ yajāmahe sugaṁdhiṁ puṣṭivardhanam, urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyormukṣīya māmṛtāt." This is for your car as you drive. Sometimes you have time, sometimes you do not. These sounds constitute a prayer: may I not fall victim again to death and birth. Now, the space between death and birth—where are you? If you say, "No, there is no more life; it is all finished," then why do you go to the graveyard and place flowers and candles before your ancestors who died fifty years ago? You believe they are still sitting there. Perhaps they are already your grandson. That soul is traveling in space. You cannot choose your next life. It will be, but you cannot choose. You cannot request, "O Lord, God, next time give me birth again here in Alachua." God said, "I gave you the freedom to act, but I will give the fruits, not you." So we pray: "Urvārukam iva bandhanāt." Urvāruka refers to a beautiful fruit, like a cucumber or pumpkin. When it is ripe, it separates without causing any pain to the plant or to itself. So we pray: "O Lord, when my time comes, please grant that I do not suffer, and that others do not suffer because of me." We have relations with our parents, brothers, and sisters. We love our child, our mother, our father. Even when they are old and die, we miss them, we feel their absence. For real love is that love, not this material, temptational love. You think there is joy in it, but that joy is a small pleasure. That joy will bring more pain than the pleasure you perceive. Human life is given to develop human qualities. What are they? Love, kindness, mercy, blessings, freedom, giving. The opposites are hate, jealousy, conflict, anger, etc. We have both positive and negative qualities within us. We must try to purify ourselves through meditation, through mantras, through performing good service to all creatures and to our family, so we may become free and attain liberation. Liberation means becoming one with the origin. Water rises as vapor from the ocean. Once I was at Waikiki Beach in Hawaii—it is famous, no? About eight or ten years ago, Alchemy was with me. Our flight landed, and there was a defect in the aircraft. They had to bring a part from San Francisco. They brought us to a hotel on Waikiki Beach, and we got a room on a high floor, the 20th or so. At 10 o'clock, I was looking from the balcony down, and I saw what looked like smoke rising from the water. That was steam. There is the ocean, and from it rises steam, or vapor. We say, "Oh, it's steam." It rises a little higher—"Oh, a cloud." We do not see the ocean rise up to begin raining. We say, "Oh, rain is falling on the ground." Each drop unites with others again. There is a tendency toward union. It begins to flow, forming a little creek, then a river, and the river merges back into the ocean. But if it is unlucky, the same raindrop will fall in the desert and disappear into the sand. When will this drop of water fall, and how far is the ocean? What is its hope? How distant is the destination to return to the origin? Therefore, spirituality and human life are very precious. But we should not claim that humanitarian work is the best work. I do not accept this at all. To say humanitarian work is the best means we discriminate against other creatures. Since people speak of "humanitarian," "human," they think only of humans. No one considers the animals, how they are tortured, kept, and killed. People do not know. You get nicely packed meat and say, "Oh, it is from the supermarket. I am not killing and bringing it from there." But who killed it? And you say, "No, this is not red meat; it is white." Ask that animal who died—let us cut a little into its heart, its neck, and hang it until every drop of blood drains out. If you are a cardiologist or a doctor here, when a problem begins in your heart, there are spasms. It feels as if someone is applying pressure. Or when you lose blood, it is like having your skin pulled off. It is not easy. It is better to cut quickly so it is finished, so the animal does not suffer. Slowly draining the blood is cruelty. Do not think, "I do not eat meat; I eat only white meat, not red." Killing is killing. When it arrives on your plate, ask the fish how it came there. Can you eat it then? In France, there was a very famous restaurant whose owner became a vegetarian. He advertised a special dinner for one thousand dollars. Within one day, it was fully booked—all 250 seats. The guests arrived, and he greeted everyone. He said, "Look, I have rabbits here in these cages. We have many rabbits. Who would like to eat which one? Please go and choose which we should kill." They said, "No." They went and said, "No, we cannot kill them. We do not want to be killers." He said, "Alright, we do not want to disturb you. Please get up. We will bring you to the table, and you choose which one we should prepare. Here is a knife. You will kill it, and we will cook it." Everyone said, "No, we do not want to eat anything. Please, give us vegetarian food." If you witness that cruelty, how the animal is killed, how it struggles, you will never eat meat again. This is karma. I once met a self-realized saint, nearly 110 or 120 years old. He said, "How many chickens you have eaten, that many times you must be born as a chicken and have your throat cut before you gain access to what is called heaven—which we have not seen." So human life is to be protected, and human qualities are the best qualities. We say the best metal is gold. The best creature among all is the one who can achieve God-consciousness and do something good for this planet, loving all through human life. When you wake up in the morning, first open your eyes and say, "Thank you, God. Thank you that I could wake up." Every night, God gives us anesthesia so that we sleep. Do you know at which minute you fell asleep? Do you know in which second you entered a dream? And how did you return? This is the science of chakras and meditation. Next time, read "Hidden Powers in Human." When we wake, thank your God—any God. God is your mother. God is your father. God is your brother. "O God beautiful, O God beautiful... O God, in the mountain, in the ocean, in the forest and the desert... O God beautiful. In the father and the mother, in the brother and the sister... O God beautiful. In the animals and the flowers, in the fruits and the vegetation... O God beautiful. On the earth and the clouds, in the rain and the space... O God, how beautiful You are. Everywhere You are, God beautiful. Yogīśvara, O beautiful God." Everywhere you can see God. Look at a little flower. See what Mother, Mother Nature, has done. How beautiful a color She gave. Every petal has the same design and same size. Therefore, God-realization, Self-realization, means seeing that Self in each and every atom. See thyself, and then your human life is successful. This is a golden chance. Do not miss it. After this, I cannot guarantee. 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 outside American territory and do something, they will try to protect you, but there may be some trouble. The media will follow, reporting what the Americans are doing. You came to this world as a human. Wake up and say, first, "I am human." Let that be your only first thought: "I am human." Then the second thought will awaken automatically: What does it mean for me to be human? What makes me human? Which qualities? How do I awaken and utilize these qualities? What is human dharma, the human principle? If we realize that I am a human and I have no right to discriminate against any creature, that I am protected by God and protected by law... When you enter any borders or hotels, something is written in the elevator and elsewhere: "By the law of the USA..." What do they write? "By law." I was on an airplane, in business class, and I went to the bathroom. There was a toilet nearby, but I went to the first-class section to see. A 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 went to the business class toilet on the other side. So I walked through this cabin to that cabin and back. She ran behind me and said again, "By law, and for security, you cannot go through this cabin to that cabin and back." I said, "Yes, I am in love, not in law." So, my dear, we should follow principles. "Atha yogānuśāsanam"—the discipline of yoga begins now. Yoga practice is successful when you follow all the principles. We should not be full of ego and pride, declaring "I am a human." Did you ask yourself, "How human are you?" What should humans do, and what should humans not do? These are principles given by great saints. In every holy book, you find ten commandments. These ten commandments correspond to the Yama and Niyama from Mahaṛṣi Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra. In this Yama and Niyama, there are exactly ten commandments, as in the Bible. And Patañjali lived more than two thousand years before Christ. The teachings are always the same. There is no difference, but we do not follow them. "Thou shalt not kill." Ahiṃsā paramo dharma—non-violence is the supreme duty. Mahatma Gandhi followed lifelong non-violence, meaning no violence physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, politically, etc. Violence is not only physical. It can be emotional, mental, intellectual, social. We need great workers, great people who can act for our society and for animals, not merely saying "human, human" while we kill animals. That is not acceptable. We need more good persons like our dear sister, the wise Mayor. Do you know what "wise" means? Very wise. Only one who is very wise can become a mayor, no? We wish her all the best, good health, and long life. May her service be acknowledged by the council of Alachua County, and may God give her more and more work to do good things, for she loves to do good. In such work, one is never tired. For bad things, she would never do them, for she would say, "I have no energy today." Everyone can do—she can do, I can do, they can do, all can do. So please, think of other creatures. Mahātmā Gāndhījī said that for the golden chance, Mother Earth has enough for our needs, but not for our greed. The greatest love, which is endless love, is that of cosmic consciousness, of the cosmos, the mother and father, in that energy, in that room, in that space. Let us make some effort ourselves, through our intellect, through our indriyas, our senses. We cannot change the whole world. No. If you think, "I will change the whole world," we cannot. First, change thyself. If you change yourself, the process will begin. But we do not change, and we expect change from others; that is a different mindset. So, ahiṃsā—non-violence, love. Create the love of a father and the love of a mother for every creature. Thank you for today. Tomorrow we will begin again. They are thinking the whole night, but they will assign me a subject. They do not tell me beforehand, so I will just sit down and speak on it. Thus, I do not talk; some higher consciousness comes and speaks. Thank you. God bless you, and I wish you a very good evening. Oṁ Śāntiḥ.

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