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Preserve the quality

The future depends on the nourishment and spiritual atmosphere provided by parents, which shapes the child from conception. The quality of food, thoughts, and community directly influences the embryo's psyche and the future light of the world. The soul descends from the astral realm with rainwater into vegetation and enters physical life through specific natural processes. Preserving the quality of lineages and wisdom is crucial, as is avoiding the manipulation and mixing that leads to spiritual and karmic confusion. True development requires disciplined practice, good company, and harmony with nature's original design.

"Jesā khāye an, vesarehe man. What kind of food you eat, like that will be your mind."

"One sun shining, every room becomes illuminated. So be that light of the wisdom to illuminate all and never misguide."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devī Svar Mahādeva Kī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī, Sanātana Dharma Kī, and to the children, the juniors. Juniors are the frontiers. Youth is the future of the nation. And that nation is the future of the world. So, how this connects the link is very interesting. This development begins with the parents. How parents are nourishing, what they eat, what they drink, what work they do, and in what kind of community they live—that influences the embryo in the mother’s body. During the time of pregnancy, the attitude between husband and wife influences the psyche of the child: fear, or what we call anxiety, aggression. If the parents are quarreling… If parents are spiritual and have everyday beautiful discussions, thoughts about spirituality, religion, God, etc., that creates a different atmosphere. Loneliness develops a kind of deep depression. And if one of the partners comes home drunken and aggressive, the other has a fear of when he or she will come home. They don’t want to see it. That will guide the future of the child. Light, even one candle, illuminates this whole hall. When it’s dark, all lights are off. Only this one flame, this tiny flame, can show you the way. So if you create one child in such a beautiful way, he becomes the light of the family, the light of the society, the light of the country, and the light of the world. Therefore, the youth is the future of the nation. Eating and drinking, or consuming any kind of drug, affects the brain of the child. Before you get a child, for at least five years you should purify your body: sāttvic food, purification through prāṇāyāma, and eating healthy food. Those seeds which Gajanandī is sure about, those seeds. I think Gajananda’s parents ate the healthy seeds, so it awoke in him. We say, "Jesā khāye an, vesarehe man." What kind of food you eat, like that will be your mind—your emotion, your thoughts, your activities, your feelings. So, "an" generally means the grains, the seeds. It is said in the Upaniṣad that what grain you eat, what kind of seed you eat—it can be fruit seeds, grass seeds, or some corn, which is what we are eating—every creature gets a kind of seed to eat. And that develops in the body as a seed. And these seeds are coming and cultivated, born out of the water, the rain. No water, we can’t produce any seeds. And so it is said that the soul of the astral form, when it comes closer to our earth, in this atmosphere, then rapidly descends towards the earth with the water. That is a gravity that attracts. When it comes near, closer to this Earth, we all call it Mother Earth. But where you divide, then you call it Fatherland. That is occupied by the Father. So there are certain things we call mother, from whom you drink milk, or fruits of the tree, or the grains of that field, or the nectar of those bees—Mother. So when you drink milk once, it doesn’t matter if it’s cow, goat, or buffalo, that is considered as your mother. So we say Gomātā. And which lets flow, carry the water, that we call Gaṅgā Mātā. Every river is a holy river. And you know now monsoon came. And in India, many people, when the water comes in the river, go with the light and make prayer. Nearly every village or city which is at the bank of the river Gaṅgā or the Yamunā makes prayers. The ocean is like a father, and this flow of the rivers carries the energy of the earth. So water becomes the milk for the whole vegetation. So there were many similar ceremonies in the whole world, and there are. Somewhere they forgot. There is also a day of the sun in Europe. In some places, they celebrate it as fun, but it doesn’t matter if you take poison consciously or unconsciously; it will affect you. So even if you celebrate with fun, that is called sun worship. From the mountains, they make one big wheel and wrap some cloth, papers, and grass, and put on it some oil or petroleum. From a high hill, they let it roll down. All that can be done. Europeans wait for the rest. In Australia, it’s a hazard. The whole of Australia will be under fire. So please don’t do it. So Australia has many mountains, even snow, and skinks, hills, forests, rivers, deserts—everything is there. So that is called the ceremony, welcoming. So mother is the mother. So if you drank the milk of a cow, her children, babies are your brothers and sisters; you can’t kill them. And you should not eat them, so it goes like that. There were some stories that some women couldn’t get a child, and they would like to adopt a child. And when they adopted her, her joy, her happiness, like her own child, and milk used to come out of the flow from her breast. That she was then feeding the child from her own breast. So there are many, many beautiful stories. You need that mother love and that nourishment. Nowadays, many give birth, but they have no milk. It’s funny. Mother gives birth, and there’s nothing to feed. Nowhere in nature. So there is a certain diet which gives good and a lot of milk. And the child becomes healthy and good, anyhow. When you get a child, let me know. So I can provide you with some such recipes and those kinds of ingredients from India. So let India’s economy come up. So you have to order certain kilos that are called anise, ajvājen, the goon, the tree gums, the salt, many, many things. To have this is not enough. How to prepare that is something, and I think in India we will make one webcast: the correct, right nourishment for the mother who gives birth to the child, before and after. That child will have brilliant ideas, a good brain, and good memory. In America they say, if there is any Indian child or student in the school or college, they will say he or she, without doubt, will pass with the best numbers, because he’s Indian. And the previous president, Mr. W. Bush, you know, B.W., or what was it, W.B.? And the previous president, Mr. Bush, said he had one lecture at the university, and there were a majority of the students Indians. And he said to the Americans, "You must properly study, otherwise Indians will take over America." So, the memory, the health, if they follow the old tradition, and so we have to come to this, it doesn’t matter if it’s an Indian man or a European, an Indian woman or a European, all they need is right nourishment. So, the soul from the astral world, after a certain period of time—different religions, different cultures speak about their ideas or their experiences. But authentic is the knowledge of the ṛṣis who describe through the Upanishads and Vedas. So there is a different situation in the universe which is not visible to us. Even the aeroplane goes through, they don’t feel anything. Otherwise, you know how many souls will be sucked by an aeroplane? And there is, according to that destiny, many different situations, meaning different kinds of pain or happiness, etc. That’s what we call hell or heaven. That is suffering, but then it is released from the prison of the astral world, heaven. And sends back to this mortal world. It’s another suffering, so heaven or hell is in this world. So that’s all with that atmosphere, with the rain, with the water, it comes down to the earth, and that enters into the vegetation. And as the seeds, the salt enters into the seed. All will not be born. It will be ground again. And again, sent to the astral world. But certain ones will be born. It doesn’t matter in which form of life. So there are four ways to manifest the souls in the physical form. And so there are four ways in which the soul manifests itself in the physical form: Svedas, Andes, Jarayus, and Utbis. These are the four doors where it will enter into the physical world to grow or be born. And these are the four doors that enter the physical world to be born or to grow. Utbis is all sprout, with sprouting. Utbis is all that is key, that is to be picked. Bark. Like a hen, the new branch. The one that rashes, the one that rashes the new branches. In that, it’s also coming, mushrooms. And to that also come mushrooms. So many don’t eat mushrooms because that’s life. Many, many, they say, "Oh, no, no, no." But we must eat something. So udvis is called sprouting. The Swedish, Swedish is the sweating. Or a rotten place. So from the sewage, what is developing is called bacteria. So bacteria and viruses are the most intelligent. If there is some bacteria or virus developing here in Vienna before you fly to Tokyo, by the first flight, it is already there. And they are so intelligent, they multiply quickly. So be careful. Those are the svedas. Second life, minute life. And then comes the Jārāyu, that is born as a baby, and which have the connection body to the mother body, to the navel. So these four, that’s called Khaṇḍa. Jārkhana, so this is saying in Vedānta. So, how does the soul come through the atmosphere, to the water, to the mother earth? And manifests through vegetation. Herb, grass, our crops are just a few crops, actually. The corn, the wheat, the barley, these all are manipulated seeds, the rice. All what you think, the two years before original seed, but still they are not original. Original seeds were very tiny grass seeds, but. Humans multiplied, population destroyed the earth. Somehow, we have to do something to produce more crops. So now this salt goes into the body of whoever eats that. And then, further from this charcoal, they produce further the seeds. This was the original instruction, not idea, teaching, to keep that quality, and therefore, the certain kind of society: they should only marry in that society. But no making differences. No differences of caste and color, but you marry in your kind of lineages. Kul, ragukul. So the seven ṛṣis, saptaṛṣis, all gave more ṛṣis. We are all children of those ṛṣis. And every ṛṣi has different qualities. Some were like Parashurāma, a warrior; some like meditating Brahmins, etc. So in Europe, there was a very strong division of the society, that’s called caste. And still, they try to manage. But before 7,000 years, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa speaks in the Bhagavad Gītā about varṇa-saṅkara. And that varṇa-saṅkara is what Gajananda is talking about, the last five days constantly. But he doesn’t come to this idea. That’s the problem. So varṇa-saṅkara means cross-blood. Then you have different vibrations, different waves, and different germs in your brain. So there is one horse, Lipitsana. There is one horse, Lipitsan. And there is a beautiful, big donkey. Both have their capacities. But when you cross the donkey with the Lipitsana or the Lipitsana with the donkey, then it becomes a very nice mule. That’s a halflinga. They are hard, good for the worker. But it’s changed. So similarly, in the last century, these things changed, and so you see the situation. Different way of thinking, different ideas. Different qualities, everything. There’s one kind of dog, suppose let’s say what you call a German shepherd, and there’s another dog which is a normal one, the other one. Both are beautiful, both are very dear, both are living beings, but what training you can give to that shepherd, you can’t give to that one. The Hungarians have one dog which is guarding the sheep and cows better than a human. But that training can’t get at the dog which we have in the Strelky. The Strelky dog has some karma, which these people have the karma to serve him. That’s all. So I’m not against this or that dog, but I’m talking about that quality. Trabant is one of the best cars. At the same time, the Mercedes or Volvo is a different car. So you can’t compare the Volvo to a Trabant, and a Trabant to a Volvo. Put the engine of the Trabant into the Volvo. It will not carry at all. And Volvo engine to Trabant. So this was the idea, the thinking. Of the quality. Preserve the quality. If you make a compromise in the quality, then you have to face the consequences, so tolerance is the one. And then tolerance, also you have to give tolerance. In mechanism, you must have a tolerance of the space. Empty space. But in the quality, you cannot make empty space. So yoga in daily life is that quality. And if you mix something, it will damage you and others. In which way? You will lose your development and that energy that you get from yoga and their life. And it will slowly, slowly develop in your mind different systems. Which are temporary, but you think, "Wow, this is good." And this way, yoga is good, that training these muscles, these muscles—how it works? What are you explaining? How it works? Ask your mother how it worked in her body. Everything is there. But when one becomes greedy… Greedy means not only money, but many things. Then you forget the quality. Then you lose your spirituality or your path. And it’s not only you, but you will also misguide others. Maybe one had such a karma. In the aeroplane, there were nearly 300 people, and suddenly those 300… One became a victim because of one’s karma, and therefore, in Kusanga, one person creates negative energy and talk. That will be anyhow; it will be gone. But in the atmosphere, there is still suffering. Because he or she took the many others with them. Confused them, misguided them. So, their loss of their spirituality and karma, that one has to suffer, plus you have to suffer. In a medical factory, in a pharmacy, they make very accurate medicine. So, they made experiments for five years, they tested on thousands of people, and then our government or our law allowed it to be brought to market. And they have to write all kinds of side effects. Long work. Now, if someone will manipulate this medicine and put something different inside, then, that one who is manipulating will lose the company. That doesn’t matter. But how many people who took this medicine now are suffering? Therefore, my dear, quality. That is very important. So, the Upanishads or Vedas, they say, the Vedas have created everything. The Vedas are nothing but one. Live in harmony with nature, that’s all. While doing this, do not harm nature. So, if Mother Nature has given, let’s say, one fruit, a nice apple. Let it be an apple, but we humans are not content. Now we try to manipulate and cross the apple with the pear. And we people are not content, and we try to manipulate it and cross it with the pear. And so it is an apple and a pear together. So neither horse nor donkey. What a pity that we lost that originality. Similarly, wisdom in the knowledge. Yoga is yoga, but how many thousands of different brains are explaining and are like teachers and creating systems. And who created this? Okay. But who attends this and gets a diploma, then they don’t follow their roots. Because they think they will earn money. And it is in different places, but that one has a copyright, so you give a different name and make some other exercises. So, seeds from one field to another field to the third field—you will not believe—with the storm, a heavy storm, the seeds from Australia come still to India and the European continent, even the locust. They immigrate through the big storms into India. Australia to Indonesia, Indonesia to Singapore. And Singapore to Calcutta, they are very clever. Traveling and damaging the crops here. So, my dear, now we cannot make this dualism because we are what we call the equal rights. You cannot say that from this country you should not marry from that country. But at least knowledge and wisdom we should not manipulate. So when the soul is traveling and finds three or four different kinds of blood in the body, that is also considered the karma of that soul. But when the good karma is there, that soul can liberate itself. One sun shining, every room becomes illuminated. So be that light of the wisdom to illuminate all and never misguide. Otherwise, you will suffer forever somewhere. How many centuries? And who will follow your thoughts and their thoughts? This is a chain karma. We don’t know when it will finish. Therefore, one Mahātma said, "Prabhujī, miri auguṇa chittana dhāru. O Lord, O Pāne, please don’t notice my avaguṇa." Guṇa and avaguṇa. Guṇa means the good quality. Avaguṇa is bad quality. "Some drasṭā nāma tī aru, O my Lord. You are known as an equal-visioned one. You love all equally, like Mahatma Gandhi said. We hate the sin, not the sinner." This word, this idea, Gandhījī took from the Surdhājī. "Some dṛṣṭih nam tyā ro chahe tu par karo. O Lord, if you wish or if you want, you can liberate me. You will forgive all my bad karmas." And for that we have to come to good satsaṅg. Good satsaṅg, brother and sister. So, Mahāprabhujī said, I am longing for such people from the satsaṅg. They are my brothers and sisters. When a few days pass and somebody doesn’t come, then I’m sad. The tears come in my eyes. Where are my brothers? "Satguru Satsaṅgyaṅī Oluwave. Oluwale, mere man bhar jāvare, Satguru Satsaṅgī Oluwale." So lucky are they who are searching for satsaṅg. And unlucky are they, even they know there is a satsaṅg, but they don’t go. Or find some excuses. Once a week you have satsaṅg. And you can’t go to satsaṅg, but unlucky, you have. It’s a fixed day. Every Sunday is for going to the church, meditating, and praying. But 98% are happy to go somewhere, make fun, run here and there, and sleep long. But you will see in these countries, even in very cold winter and snowing early morning, elderly people get up and they go to the church because they know the meaning, and we others don’t know, and many don’t stay at home. Don’t sleep at home on Saturday, because the grandmother will wake us up and say, "Come with the church." So mostly grandmothers go. That’s why it seems the heaven is full of women, so we don’t have a place there. So only enough space is left for us; that’s called Brahmaloka. So I was so delighted, and I think you will be proud, and they deserve it, our juniors, how many satsaṅg days we are doing and how silently they listen. Many words, even they don’t know, even in their own language. And we hardly pay attention to them, and they are the best divine souls for our future generation. So I think we have to acknowledge that they are getting today a diploma, a diploma about their good quality, their discipline, and their interest. So I wish I could also have gotten such a diploma when I was small. Even I didn’t get ice cream, because there was no ice cream, no electricity, no sweet waters, no roads. So from where to get ice cream? Sometimes, luckily, when we saw the hills, they were falling. Then we collected them and brought them home. And mother put a lot of sugar on it, and that was our ice cream. And look at the luck of these children, they make like this, and ice cream comes. That is something, so please bring me the paper, and everybody will at once congratulate them. So they will get a diploma. Can you read? "Appreciation Certificate for disciplined yoga practice and nice behavior in the children’s program." So it is recognition of disciplined behavior and good exercise during the children’s program. In the International Sādhanā Camp of Yoga in Daily Life. In Strylky. And they will get, of course, after one program, such a diploma. So please, welcome our children. I would like to greet you, everybody, as the leader of the children’s program. We have heard sādhanā kēm. Sādhanā means to work on yourself, to practice. I must tell you, those children have learned so much here, and Swāmījī has paid them so much attention, and they would like to share with you how they understand our beautiful earth. Swamiji has led us not only directly, it means he has spent time with the children, and he has had beautiful lectures for the children. And at the beginning of today’s satsaṅg, he has mentioned the light about the sun. The sun is awakening the world into a new morning. The dawn is coming. Everywhere we can hear and see many birds. Their singing makes the world even more beautiful. We can hear little birds. Beautiful eagles, swans, storks, and beautiful crows. The bees are flying on the meadows to pick up the nectar from the flowers. You can put this flower there in the middle. The bees should come. Yes. Their friends will then help make honey from the pollen. In the morning, many butterflies come to help the bees with bringing up the nectar. Can you see the beauty when they are moving their wings? In the grass, the rabbit woke up. He will stretch a bit before running in the forest. Notice how lovely his beautiful two ears are. Our house pets are also waking up. Cats are having their morning exercise. Dogs are patiently waiting for the walk. Have a look at how we can make a cow in yoga. Cows will share with us their milk so that we can have a nice breakfast. Thank you, animals, for everything you are doing for us. We like you. We do not love only our beautiful planet. Not only yoga. But also beautiful and wise stories that our dear Gurudev Swamījī is telling us. And then you can guess what is wise in this story. So keep your fingers crossed for our children so that they can do it well. In a little house, there were living parents with their two children. There was so little space that everything was absolutely dissatisfied with it. Here is not a place to play. Don’t shout. Even I don’t have any space to work. And what about me? Nobody takes care of me. I don’t even have a bed to sleep on. Don’t argue, look at me, even I don’t have any space to cook, and where shall I put the vegetables? Don’t argue, I’m coming to help you. That I would like to see. There is no help in here. Wait, Grandpa, maybe there might be some help. So tell us what is coming in your mind. Go to the master. Thank you. What is bringing you here? We have a very little house, and we don’t like living in there. Sometimes we even argue about it, and we don’t have money for a bigger one. That is not a problem at all, I will help you. But you must promise me that you will do everything I will tell you. That is clear. Buy a dog and let him live with you. Thank you for your advice. That is quite strange. We buy a dog, and we will have more space. That’s strange. Don’t worry about that. We have to obey him. We promised him to do anything he would say. The parents came back home and told the grandfather and the children what they found out. Hooray, we will have a dog. There is so little space, and you are about to buy a dog? You wanna do? Kill me! The parents anyway went to choose a dog. Dobrý den! Good morning! Prodáváte pejsky? Do you sell dogs? Yes. I will show them to you. We will take this big one. No, I want this one. No, I want this big one. Stop arguing. If we can’t make a conclusion, we will take both of them. Thank you. When they came home, the doggies were running everywhere. Children in between, and the parents were not happy at all. Oh my God, there is even less space than before. Gurudev might have made a mistake. He might have thought we had too little space in our home. OK, so let’s go once again to him. Now there is even less space than before. Thank you for your advice. I think he must be wrong. Dobrý den. Good afternoon. Rozumíte česky? Do you speak Czech? English? Anglicky? Ano. Have you got a cat? Máte kočku? We will take a cat. A tady tu. So we will take this one. No, I want this one. That’s also nice. Tak dobře. Okay, how much is it? 15 euros. Děkujeme. Can you imagine how it looked like in their house? They were hiding the cat. The doggies were running after the cats. Children were enjoying all the animals. The mom needed something cold on her head, and the daddy was really upset. I’m totally enough. We will go to the gurudev and tell him. And what about the grandfather? That, you cannot see. I can’t bear it anymore. I’ve had enough. I’m moving out. In the end, the master advised them to also buy a rabbit and a parrot. Do you have a rabbit? Yes, here it is. And how much is it? 100 Czech crowns. Do you speak Czech? Do you speak Russian? Do you speak German? Do you speak English? How much is it? One hundred kuna. Thank you. Prosto milý. He is so lovely. Now the situation was absolutely unbearable. We will go to him and tell him that everything is for nothing. And what about me? I am about to take pills. Prášky, prášky. Pills, pills. We go to the Gurudev and tell him that everything is for nothing. K ničemu? K ničemu? For nothing? For nothing? Your advice was for nothing at all. Now there is no space. I will give you one more advice. No, not any advice at all. The last one. Now sell all the animals. That might help. Thank you for your advice. Oh, how much space we have now. And can you hear the silence? Gurudev’s advice has helped us in the end. This should be a kind of present for Svāmī Jimu’s birthday. Pomohou, pomohou. Because his advice will always help us.

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