TV Channel

Good evening and welcome. This is a beautiful time of the year. It is a changing process—what we call autumn or spring, summer or winter. It is spring in this part of the world, and in another part, it is something different, like autumn. This is the time when our entire Earth, our planet, is working, awakening, and changing. Earth is working, vegetation is working, the elements are working, other creatures are working, and we are also working. That is called Kriyā. Kriyā means doing something. The subject this evening is given: karma and bhāgya, action and destiny. Everyone has a different destiny because everyone has different karma. The word karma means action, doing something. In the entire universe, there are actions. Every star is moving, working. Every planet, the atmosphere, the universe—what we see. If you look through your inner eye, you see the space is sometimes expanding and contracting. If you sit near the ocean, you see the ocean is breathing. Every wave which comes and goes is like a breath of the ocean, a circulation of the ocean. The major quantity of the oxygen we get is from the ocean. So space is breathing. Similarly, Earth is breathing, and we are also breathing. We inhale, and our trunk expands; we exhale, and it contracts. Within 24 hours, the entire ocean is also breathing. The water comes close to the shore or beach, and then, after a few hours, the water goes back—what you call the tide. Who does not work is dead material. But on the other hand, if we think of dead material, the metal we think is dead: when the temperature changes, when it becomes cold, it contracts, and when it becomes hot, it expands. Kṣaṇam svarūpam—nothing which doesn’t expand. Now, plastic. We call plastic something that has no life inside, but in certain temperatures, plastic also expands. So this is the universe, the consciousness; everything is working. But they have their kriyā; their actions are movements according to that law. It does not go out of the limitation, and it remains within the frame of their law, the universal law, the cosmic law. Animals also, and trees also. Now the question is about humans, and humans have lost the limit. Mahatma Gandhi said, "Mother Earth has enough for everyone’s needs, but not for their greed." So greed has caught the humans, and therefore humans have become greedy. Through greed, humans got fear; through fear, humans got anger; through anger, humans got revenge; and through revenge, humans got jealousy and fright. Only one, because of the greed. As soon as we come to greed, we have fear. And all problems are out of fear—different kinds of fears: existence fear, social problems, political problems, emotional problems, family problems, economical problems, many, many. So humans have a question: how to survive? We are developed people. We have beautiful technology, everything. What can we not do as humans today? But still, the majority of humans are threatened by existing problems. No other animals have this problem of how to survive, but humans have the problem of how to survive. Though we humans are very intelligent, very intellectual, very capable, we can do everything, but still, why are people afraid? As soon as, before I think five years already, the declared economy fell down, the dollars. But where? Dollars were not burnt. Where are they? Before you had the same dollar, now you have the same dollar. But what? What happened? Some greedy ones have done something. Only a handful of people. So now is the time where Mother Earth has the process of changing, giving, and our body and this tree, there is no difference. The same effect has that tree from the weather, or climate, or season, like this tree, we have the same. This plant here in the water has the same system as we have, and the tree tries to live naturally, while we are living unnaturally. So this is a problem. We create a lot of problems for the trees and for the water, life, river, ocean, etc. And this is the biggest problem, and so we can’t handle this problem. It doesn’t matter which man-made trade I have, so many billions, and I can do something now. You know, the man, it is your ignorance. You talk about your millions, and you never know the next minute your heart attack is gone. Are you? So, the biggest sin we create, human, is we destroy nature. We destroy Mother Earth. I like to drive a car, and you like to drive a car, and I like to come from the airport to the car by car. Otherwise, from 2 o’clock, 3 or 4 o’clock, I arrived. Till now, I would not be able to walk from San Francisco airport to here. But you know how much earth we destroy. This is all concrete, and this concrete is here. Earth cannot breathe. It cannot breathe. So there are many, many problems, but this karma, this is actions, and this goes to the humans. So where there is action, there’s a reaction, and where there’s a reaction, there’s action. So action, reaction, et cetera. We are between action and reaction in this life. If you do something, it will come back to you. Any thought goes out of the human brain. Sooner or later, it will come back to the human. So, whatever we do, there is one fine film or layer on our consciousness. And the fear is there, and one day that fear will awaken. Therefore, no one should think, "Oh God, I will be healthy or ill. I hope I will not get cancer. My grandmother had cancer." Don’t think like that. And when it came out of your own fear, fear creates a lot of problems. So what we think reflects on us. Mother and father can give us birth, but they cannot give us destiny. Our parents can tell us, "Go to school and learn something good, and you will have a very good profession, and you will be very clever, and you will help the people and the world, and you will earn good money, but you have to study, my child. Go." To school and learn, and if the child is clever enough, he or she will begin to study. And then, you need not say, please make your homework. The child knows that I have to make your homework, but the child must have a hunger to learn. When you are very hungry, mother doesn’t need you to ask again and again, "Now eat, please. Please eat now." You are so hungry, you come home and say, "Mama, I’m hungry." She says, "Yes, I will cook." No, Mama, I want to have it quickly, I want to have bread, butter, this and that. Automatically. So similarly, in our life, we should have a hunger for something, or someone said you must fall in love to get successful. So if you fell in love with chemistry, then you will study chemistry in such a way. This student, the child, will be so happy, and that child will make happy friends, and the parents also. So the good children, they tell the parents, "Please, quickly, because my school begins this time." Father, in the bathroom, shave quickly, then let’s go. No? That’s right? Yeah, he goes to school at the right time. He’s a very good student, very good. So parents can give us birth, but not the destiny. One child has become, let’s say, president of the country. The second became a beggar, and the third became a monk, a saint. And all these three boys, they were from the same mother. They were born from the same mother. What destiny he has to become president, and what destiny one has to become a beggar, and what a blessed one, that he became a saint. This comes from our past life. So if you believe or you don’t believe, there is where the action, there is a reaction. This is called karma, and karma is done through four things. Kāyena, through your body, whatever you do through the body, it will be counted as your action. Then, manasā, through your mind, whatever you are thinking, good or bad, it will reflect on you, on nobody else. That vācā, through the words, it is said, the bullet, that bullet goes out of the gun, will not come back there. Similarly, your words, what you speak, they will go; they will not come back. It will come back only as the effect, the reaction of that. Therefore, think properly. If you should tell even your very dear person, speak properly and carefully. When your husband or wife, or child or parents, or this—human beings have to use intelligence very much. That’s why God gave, between these two years, a big piece of flesh, you know, or whatever you call it, two hemispheres. And we shall utilize both hemispheres equally. So whatever we think, like that we speak, and words can make you very, very unhappy or a big enemy, or can make you very, very happy. Suppose it is a time that is already seven o’clock and the office is closing, a government office. And a person working there the whole day, sitting and working for the government, and now it is five minutes over, and they would like to go home, and someone knocks on the door and says, "Sir, please, please... My aeroplane is going, my father died, and tomorrow’s funeral. Please, please, sir, can you do this? My form to sign, that I can get a ticket and fly. Sir, please, please." That man will say, "Well, I’m very tired," but he didn’t need. Okay, please come in. And he... Will stamp and sign it here. You are next. Next time, try to come on time. So, while saying, "Sir, please, kindly, can you help me? I am in this difficulty," a person will open the heart and do. Instead of saying this, one will come and open the door and say, "Hey, bloody man, quickly do this work, I have to fly." What will happen? Same tongue, same person, but the energy in your words is changed. So, our world, what we speak, can create an enemy, can create a war, or can create peace, happiness, and love. So, this is an example that action has a reaction. Reaction will again have action. So whatever we do, sooner or later comes back to us, and that’s called destiny. And no one can change your destiny, and no one can give you a different destiny. Only one thing now: you work for this something to make your life easy, make your life for others, help, support. So what I say, the helping hands have more value than just folded hands. So we have a lot of destiny karma now. This is going with us. If one thing, that after my death, all will stay here. I’m happy to go along there. Just a simple example: when you sleep and you get a dream, and you... Go with the dream somewhere, and you see the dog attacking you, and you have fear. Now, where does this fear come from? Now, you, there is your astral body somewhere. The dog is not there; your body is comfortably lying in the sleeping room. Similarly, when the fear is going with us, all different destinies are going with us. So we have to search for love, peace, understanding, harmony, and clarity in our heart. Within us is the ocean of bliss, and within us is a fountain of joy. Kill this little "I," and live the divine life, Swāmī Śivānanda said. So this life is within. What we are searching, we will not find outside, in our heart. So there is one little story, a very nice story, that wakes up the children who are tired of sleeping. So there was a small, nice house, you know, a very nice farmhouse, beautiful. Two rooms, a little kitchen, a living room, and there’s a garden. And unfortunately, from that family, only one woman survived or left; all the others passed away. Her children died or went to other countries, her husband died, and she was alone. Back pain. She was walking like this. Her eyesight was not so good. So, morning, nine o’clock, she came to her garden, and she had a stick in her hand, and she was looking for something, searching, for four hours. The neighbor, a young man, thought, "Is she a problem, or has she lost something? I should help her." So he came there and said, "Mother, can I help?" In India, we say to every elderly woman, it doesn’t matter who is who, we call her mother. Not lady, no ma’am, no, mother. And someone who is in our age, we will say, "Sister." And who is small, little, fifteen or twenty years younger than you, then we said, "My daughter." My mother, my son, my daughter, even the neighbor’s children—I have the right to send my child. So it means, with this kind of thinking, we create a relation of mother, sister, and child. Vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam, the whole world is one God’s family. There will be harmony. So when you call someone mother, she will never do wrong things to you. And when you say mother, and her attention goes to you, that, "Oh, he’s my child," she will have a love for the child. And that’s why, in previous times, people were happy living together in the countryside, and still, people are living nicely. In these bigger buildings, you never know, have you seen your neighbor’s house inside or flat? No. Just opening doors. Oh, good morning, sir. How are you? Good, how? Today’s good weather. Yes, it’s raining, cold. No, don’t you think like that? Yes, that’s all. That’s all dry, then hardly your neighbor will invite you for tea or coffee, and you don’t know how it looks in his house. All the time they used to give, now even keys to the neighbors. They come, they write, invite, everything. In the European countries, I’m living now forty-two, forty-three years, and many, many farmers, they don’t lock their rooms. In Austria, in Slovakia, Czech, Hungary, Poland, I was in many countries the last forty years, moving. Very nice people, very kind. But as this money, restaurant, tea, and selling vegetables and food and milk, and this and that, commercial, everyone became greedy and locking. Anyhow, that young man, about 35 years old, the old man is above 98. He said, "Mother, can I help you? You are searching for something." He says, "Yes, my child, my back pain." He said, "Mother, you sit down. I will do what I can do for you. I lost my needle, so he said, "Please sit down, mother. I will search for you." And he was searching for half an hour, centimeter to centimeter. He didn’t mind; his bike was also full of pain. Then he thought, "I should ask her where she lost it." So, "Mother, where did you lose your needle?" She is in... My sleeping room. In the sleeping room, she said, "Yes." Now you lost the needle in the sleeping room and are searching here. She said, "Yes, because the sleeping room is dark." I said, "Mother, even in the sleeping room it is dark. What you lost there, you will not find here outside." Similarly, we lost our own happiness and peace within our heart, and we search outside? No. That is temporary; that will disappoint, lead us to disappointment. Every action has a reaction, and every reaction will have an action, and therefore the philosophy of karma is great. It is said that karma or destiny is stronger than God himself. What was the destiny of Jesus to suffer on the cross, that he had to be crucified? Only the Jesus? What was the destiny of his mother? Did we ever think about Mother Mary? On the Christmas message, when I sent it through my webcast, I told the people, and now it is coming to Good Friday. And on this Good Friday is also the day of Jesus’ crucifixion, and I tell the people, "Yes, Jesus is strong, good, everything, but did you ever think, what about the mother when she became pregnant? The whole world was against her." All family members, no one wants to come close to her and see her. Now it doesn’t matter, you are pregnant, you give birth, have two children, and then you marry someone. But even before three or four decades, and even in many countries now still, if someone gets pregnant, they say, "Oh, God." In German we say, "Uneheliches Kind," so the mud life of the mother is not easy. Thanks to God, now it became a little better, no? Otherwise, before it was like this, and I told, yes, mother is mother, who... Doesn’t follow the mother, that they will not be good, so you should love the mother, and the mother loves the boy or the girls very, very much. Now the question is this: if she was not suffering, the mother... Maria, look at the very critical point. Where was the problem, or was this necessary for her, that she gave birth to her child in an animal stable, where the goats and sheep and the donkeys were, and this in the cold? And she didn’t even have a one-meter piece of cloth. To wrap her child, she just laid her child on the grass, infections and so on. If it is so, I don’t know. I only tell what I see, how you people who believe in Christianity, you put on the holy evening or when Jesus is born, and you put him in the cradle of the grass and without dress. What was the situation that she had to give birth? To grow him was not easy, and after that, after all, she sees that he had to carry his cross, and she had no power to do anything. All left her, all left. And she was sitting under the cross, her head on the cross, crying and praying to God, "Why does my child have to suffer?" No? You understand me, my dear? What destiny she had, and what destiny he had. Similarly, if you see the destiny of Kṛṣṇa’s mother, his mother and father, they were present because the uncle was like a devil, and someone told him, "You are a devil, and you do such bad things. But the time is coming when your destroyer, your enemy, will be born through your sister." And he put the sister and her husband in a small room in the prison and said, "The sixth child has come." So whenever she became pregnant, they said, "Immediately, you have to come in form." And the first-born child, it was a girl. He took it and threw it on the wall. Cruel. They said, "Please, this is a girl who told you, said it will be a man, a boy." But he said, "How should I know?" So, all the six children, four, five children, whenever they were born, the king, he could do everything. So, the guards in the prison were informed: "As soon as you see that she’s giving birth, call me." And he came, and she said, "My sister is crying, brother. Don’t do this to me, brother." But he said, "He told me the sixth one." But which is the sixth one? There is one, seven points, six points, a... Circle, and how should I know where the circle began? So maybe this child is an enemy, or that. So he killed all, the seventh one, when he was throwing, it went into the space and said, "Kuntī, your enemies are already growing, already born." Can you imagine a mother and father seeing such a thing? Jesus was only once crucified, but Devakī’s child, Devakī, has suffered. Six children were thrown in front of her on the wall, fresh-born. Such a rākṣasa was there in the world. So, my dear, to work for peace, work for spirituality, work for God, and work for the protection of all creatures, there are Rākṣasas who try to kill you, who try to destroy you, because their buddhi is breached. Their buddhi is polluted now, and in this Kali Yuga it is not easy. Which karma brought Rāma’s life? So every holy incarnation, holy God has sent. Look, the friends from Assisi, how great he was. Now we have the church from him. And San Francisco is named after the friend from Assisi. And the missionaries of the Assisi order came here, and they built this golden bridge. Here was the camp of the missionary. So San Francisco is the name of the Holy Francis. But when he was alive, people were throwing stones at him, spitting on him, and saying he was a crazy man, he was a schizophrenic man. After we realized how great it was. So, my dear, every holy saint who enters this world has to suffer, but after they realize. But they came here to liberate them. One fall in the water, can’t swim. Others who fall can swim, will fall down, dive inside, and get that out again. But he also has not an easy time to dive so deep and come out. Karma, the destiny. So, destiny will definitely come back, or if we follow the Guru-Vākya, the words of the divine masters, Jesus, who was a master, and his disciples, then we can become. Therefore, it is said, "I am born to free you from sins," but not in the way we are thinking. We are making mistakes again and again. How much do we follow what the Bible says to us? How much we follow what the Gītā, Rāmāyaṇa, and Qur’ān tell us? If we do exactly what is instructed in the holy books, no one will have a war here. All will be happy. But we use religion only like a rubber stamp, that’s all. We do what we want to do. Tomorrow we will continue something. Today is enough. Now we will have a little interval, and then a little prayer and meditation. Is it okay? And if you are in a hurry, then hurry home and go home. Thank you.