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Sleep is the best

The world is an unreal dream; only the eternal, unchanging Brahman is truth. What is changeable is not immortal. The physical body ages and dies, but the soul is ever young and unchangeable. This reality is Satyam, Śivam, Sundaram—Truth, Consciousness, and the invisible, eternal beauty. Humans are blinded by ignorance and attachment to the illusory world. Realization comes from understanding the five sheaths and the three qualities. All three qualities are necessary; pure sattva is not workable alone. Sleep is a divine gift for recovery, yet a human life should not be wasted in sleep. True partnership is pre-ordained; ignoring this brings suffering. Maintain health through yoga, good food, and positive thinking.

"Brahma Satya Jagat Mithyā. This world is unreality."

"Ātmā is ever young, ever unchangeable."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Devīśvara Mahādeva Kī Jai, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Satyam Śivam Sundaram... Satyam Śivam... Sundaram Satyam Śivam Sundaram Satyam Śivam Satyam Śivam Sundaram Satyam Śivam Sundaraṁ Satyaṁ Śivaṁ Sundaraṁ Satyaṁ Śivaṁ... Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavānkī, "Brahma Satya Jagat Mithyā," Vedānta says. "Brahma Satya Jagat Mithyā." Vedānta hovorī, "Brahma Satya Jagat Mithyā." What does that mean? This life is like a dream. It is also said, "Iye sansāra svapna vat." This world is like a dream. And dream is not the reality. Maybe the reality is the reality of our vāsanā, desires, but it is not a reality. What is changeable, movable, is not immortal. And what is unchangeable, unmovable, and everlasting is the truth. Everything is changing, but Brahma does not change. And that Brahma, that is the highest truth. Therefore, it is said, "Brahma Satyaṁ, Jagat Mithyā." This world is unreality. Who came will go. So that is called Satya, Satyam, Śivam, Sundaram. Śiva means consciousness, Śiva means mokṣa, Śiva means ānanda. Sundaram is the beauty. There is only that beauty which is not visible. It is visible, but you can’t see. It is touchable, but you can’t touch. You can smell, but you cannot smell. That is called Ākāśavat Sky, so we see only this empty space, and that is the final beauty, and that final beauty will never change. The final beauty will never change; the rest will change. Look at your picture from when you were 10 years old, when you were just born, 15 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. Then you begin 8, 10, 9, 20 years, looking often into the mirror. And after 45 to 56, you look often in the mirror. We would like to go back. It’s not possible. But for our own contentment, we developed a lot of technology. It’s called the beauty operation. Make up, then it doesn’t stop. You come 70, 80. Some days ago in Vienna, I looked at my picture, which was being painted. The picture is from 1980. My eyes were big. And yesterday I looked exactly, my eyes are not so big. So I said, "What has changed?" And then I was looking, there is hanging some skin down, and the other boy, blah, blah, blah. So then I made it like this. Then I said, "Yes, Maheśvarānanda, that one." But we don’t accept that. Such truth is bitter. But for wise persons like you, age is nothing. It will change. Ātmā is ever young, ever unchangeable. Jñāna is unchangeable. Evidence will never die. So evidence remains framed behind the glass. So we do have memory, we do have feelings, because that is that reality, and that will never change. So that is because it is connected to the Brahman. And Jīvātmā is connected to Brahman. The mind is just nothing. Intellect is also just for a while, and then it will disappear. But this Jīvātmā, this soul, we can’t say it is a very old soul, but what do you mean by "old soul"? Soul is never old. Ātmā is never old. My body is born and dies. Toto telo sa narodí a zomrie. Mám to, ja som amar ātmā sun. Nesmrtalnā ātmā. Unto ajar amar ātmā sun, mare janme se śarīr, dying and born is the body. Satyam Śivam Sundaram, Śiva Svarūpa and the Sundaram, the beauty. Satyam, Śiva, Sundaram, Kṛṣṇa. So one saint said, "If you want to look at your beauty in the mirror, then there is no difference between a stupid monkey and you." Even the birds are angry. The bird is fighting with its own self, but it does not know that it is itself. So Ātmajñāna is given for the humans because humans can realize. If we are not blinded, if we are not in ignorance, if we are not caught by this saṃsāra, this world, then there is something which we spoke about this morning: the Kośas and certain parts of the body. What are they called? So it is called Sthūla Śarīra. Sūkṣma Śarīra. Sthūla Śarīra is the physical body. And Sūkṣma Śarīra is the astral body. In the seat in the body, the kośas, what we call the kośas. And this we spoke this morning very clearly: five kośas. Which are? I see, oh my, it was beautiful, like in this school, children are repeating. Annamaya Kośa, very good, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. The guṇas, which we know—how many guṇas? A trinity. Which are these? Ake tosu and sattva. What a combination! The guṇas, characters or the qualities. Tamas guṇa, rajas guṇa, and connecting tamas and sattva guṇa. Rajas and sattva guṇa, they are coming together to work together. Only with pure gold, you cannot make an ornament. You have to put other metals inside, for example, copper. So similarly, if you said, "I am Sattva Guṇa only," then you have no immunity, and you will become ill. If you think, "I clean my body all," very soon you will have so many allergies. So we can’t see, and we would not like to see, what kind of germs are existing in the body. Thanks to God, after all this, He made a nice cosmetic. Means she pulled over the skin, and now everything is okay. Only the doctor knows, or the nurse knows, when they open this part. In our case, we will have no appetite for some days. So similarly, everywhere in the body, this is called vikāra, mala, mūtra. Vikāra, mala means stool, mūtra means urine, and vikāra means different kinds of bacteria. So these guṇas, sattva-guṇa, give the intuition or ideas. Tamas and sattva-guṇa create the positive knowledge. Rajas guṇa makes the movement and activities. Etc. Therefore, pure qualities cannot be in certain things. So we need all three guṇas, otherwise God will not give this. If God does not give tamo guṇa, then we will not sleep. And when we can’t sleep, we can’t recover from all the tensions and tiredness. Automatically, this machine always switches on to sleep. All buttons are out, and we go to tamas guṇa, sleep. It is tamas guṇa, but the result is sattva guṇa. All the stress, all the worries, all the fear, everything is flat in sleep. At that time, we all know that our brain centers are again upgraded, updated. So, do not quit your sleep. Yes, we can replace the sleep. If we practice a lot of prāṇāyāms and meditation. Relax the whole body. Feel your breath. I know that I am inhaling, and I know that I am exhaling. Don’t sleep, but if sleep comes, let it come. If it goes, let it go. Be aware of the breath, inhale. This is within the yoga nidrā. Poor are they who are practicing beside, so your teacher has to research. Who is going quickly in yoga nidrā and snoring? They are on a higher level, so we have to shift them to another room so that others can also develop. That’s it! In Hindi, sleeping, sonā, sojāo, sonāī, and also gold means the sonā. Gold is very expensive, and gold is very dear to us. Similarly, for the body, sleep is so important and very dear to the body. Therefore, God has given this system because every creature sleeps, not only humans. Otherwise, all will be crazy. What did others say? Who is not sleeping? Yogī or Rogī? Rogī means the ill person, and yogī means the yogī. The yogī is not sleeping, always waiting for God to come. Door of mine, open wide I keep for thee, open I keep for thee. Will thou come, will thou come? Just for once come to me, just for once come to me. Will my days fly without seeing Thee, my Lord? Night and day, night and day, I look for Thee night and day. Night and day, night and day, I look for the night and day. Yes, like the story, you know, the van and the crow, or the person who is in the hospital, has immense pain, can’t sleep, and is waiting for when they will come, and the doctor will come. But the yogī said, Yogin povedal, "O sleep, go in that house." In that house, there is no devotion to God. Gurujī used to say also, Gurujī, this jīva, this soul, slept many, many lives. Now you are human. Don’t waste your time in sleep. Therefore, sleep soundly, peacefully, and deeply, so that you are relaxed and can work again. Not only humans and animals are sleeping. The trees are sleeping. There is, we have in Jādan also, in India, many trees. As soon as the sun sets, the leaves go together and sleep. Like a lotus flower also, when the sun sets, it goes and closes. And not only this, earth is sleeping. Therefore, do not dig the earth at night. And in constellations, there are certain periods when the Earth is sleeping. Astrology says all constellations are very good. If you do, it will be bad luck. So, Jyotiṣa is not only about what is good for you or not. It has to be everything good. You can’t imagine how good my father, my brother, was in astrology. When we made the foundation for Om Ashram, I invited good paṇḍits, learned paṇḍits, good astrologers from Jodhpur, no? Remind me? And so I asked Vikram Jī, "In the next days or something, Vikram, what do you think, my brother? What do you think about all this?" He was very calm, peaceful, never angry or this. He said, "Yes, it’s good, but..." I said, "What is a ’but’?" Many times it will begin and stop the work, and that I remember still, and if it is true or not, Premanandajī is a witness, that work will start and again stop, and start and stop. And in certain cases, you have to rebuild again. These were the two words from him. That’s it. So astrology is known as the third eye of God. Trinetra, the third eye, but you should know exactly the astrology. Not only see that, oh, your horoscope is this, and he was born there, and it was good, and this and that. Where are the rest of the things? Many people asked and came to him for consultation regarding marriage for their children. And he would say very truthful things, like, "You can marry, but one of them will not live long," or different things. So every soul, every soul has a partnership from many, many lives, and you have to wait for that. Wait. Wait. Maybe that soul is still not here, and you marry another. You may do it, but you will not be happy. There will be illness, quarreling, disharmony, many, many things. And if those souls are both coming, it is automatic. It is like in the techniques, there is a certain part, a mechanical part, it is exactly, you put it and it’s in, because it belongs there. Why is the world so unhappy nowadays? Why are families being destroyed? Why are children suffering? Because you did not choose that soul which is your partner. Don’t think that’s our culture and religion. Why not? And that, and that. And it’s a mistake of the parents. Now, children, parents can’t give them any knowledge. So this child, you think, "Oh, okay, they are children, let it be." You are thinking that in India they are marrying the young kids, and what is here? You don’t marry them; you destroy them. You destroy their future. Sixteen years old, fifteen years old, and parents say, "No, it doesn’t matter, they should go together." They are not parents; they are enemies. So this is how we destroy humanity, the human world. This is not human nature. Human culture is different. Animal culture is different, but now even animals don’t do what humans are doing, and this is because you don’t consult with an exact, a proper astrologer. They do not have to work, They ask for money, that’s all. Once I also went to, some, one of the disciples or a good friend or bhakta. In Jaipur, in Jaipur, exactly opposite to the Wind Palace. Avamel. And there was a very modern, at that time, first computer, the horoscope through the computers. And I went with the group, we were sightseeing, and the man said, "Swāmījī, please come, give me the data, I want to print your horoscope." And because if I do, then all ten or fifteen people with me will also do. Buy one and get 15, and one of the group had the same horoscope, the same. He came from Kambhidata. I said, "How is it possible? I was born in India, and this person is born in Europe. I am a sannyāsī, and this person is not a sannyāsī." And my brother would tell everything. My father, my brother, they predicted two things, Dve veci. Yes, so it is. There is always something different. Everything is okay. 100% okay. But that spot where you were born was not okay. The child was happy. The mother was happy, the child was healthy, everything was good. The mother gave birth, it was perfect, but immediately the child fell into the fire. No one could say why, but it was unpredicted in history. Your, what do you call it, destiny. So, there are still some people whom I know very well, very, very well. Both of them are my brothers again, meaning my cousin brothers. So, this is how we can see and why God has done this. Therefore, sleep is the best. And you know, when some person has mental problems, psychic problems, then you go to a psychiatric doctor, and they give you some medicine, a tranquilizer. Something makes you sleepy, dull, tāmasika, too much. So you have no time to think. And of course, that medicine has side effects also, and it makes you dependent, so when you don’t take it, again you are there. So, this medicine, what we have, this modern medicine, is very good. Out of thirty, one will survive, and the other will be killed. Perfect. Perfect. And this one who is survived has to be very careful. It’s like a football. You go in the water, hold the football, and press down. Hold your football under the water. I have itching for just two seconds. Itching and football are going up from the water. So the allopathic medicine is that football. Night and day you have to hold. So, pravṛtti. So, medicine is good, but you always have to be alert. So, one day, one doctor said to me, Swamiji, it is the same thing that you are predicting. You said this body is not immortal, so why do you blame the medicine? So, or the so, you will die. Then let me have money in my pocket before you die. Therefore, at that time they said the first happiness is a healthy body. Practice yoga, have healthy food, and walk every day early in the morning, like Deva, Dayā Rāmjī, and Dhammarāya. Dayā Rāmjī is walking. In these four days, he searched the whole Strilky forest. At five o’clock, he was near the Khori Chani, but at a different site, a little village, and he wanted to have evidence to show me that he was there at five o’clock. How will Swamījī believe? So he made a photo of the name of the village, and he said, "Look, this is that." So, yoga, good food, movement, positive thinking, and going to sleep early. This is the best way. So, rest we will do tomorrow, and I would like to say to all of you that our Dayārāmjī is coming near from Jadān. He has his Guru Paramparā, and he has many, many followers. His paramparā, hundreds, thousands of people, a few million, they come to their āśram. He is a successor of that lineage, Mahākāmanī, Pīṭhādhiśvara. So one day we were sitting together, and I told him, "Would you like to go with me to Europe?" He said, "No, no, I don’t know English, so what will I do?" But I put this bug in his brain. Next time when we meet, he said, if you want, okay, I will come. And he made the passport, and he came. So he’s very busy, like me. Now it is already the fourth night here, and the rest is a few days, one week. I think it’s good that he will see some different countries in Europe. One can’t always come, but he told me this afternoon. I fell in love with these trees and all of this here. Swamiji, I fell in love with these trees and everything. So it is possible that this tree will call me back. So he said, "It can be possible that these trees will call me back." So I said, "The taste of the West is the best, but you have to be careful." So, thank you, Dayārāmjī, we wish you a good journey. There are some people, whose duty is who, Premānandjī, Mālā, yes, yes, when you go to Sīkarpurā, he will get... Hey, photo! Photo kote? Kale bulo kai? Like English? Yeah. Yeah. Hold the mālā again. Look to him. Good. Yes? Also picture, yes. No, no. Okay. So, Dayārāmjī, I am wishing you a safe journey. May Bhagavān be your protector and guide. Yes, he wants to tell you something. I will translate it. Dear Dayārāmjī, I would like to, in the name of all participants, thank you that you came here to our āśram and spent a few days with us. And we tried to be the best host. And we are aware that sometimes we manage to do something good and something less good. And we know that sometimes we did something good for you, and sometimes we did something wrong. But still, we know you visited one of the best places in the world. But we know that this is the best place in the world, and you have come here. One of Śivānandajī’s bhajans, it sang this, what was said, "Guru Caraṇāmaya Rasatahe." That all the holy places are in the feet of the Gurudev. Not only that, you were walking around here in the forest, but you were bathing with us in the ocean of mercy. And we are feeling here at home. It’s home for us, and we hope that you will always feel welcome here. And we hope that you will stay here in your home, and we hope that you will come back. And we adults are trying to express our feelings with words. And all the children from the children’s programme wanted to express their feelings with a picture. All the children will try to express their feelings and thanks with a picture. So once more, thank you very much, and we wish you pleasant days in Europe. Jai, Jai,... I bow to all the devotees of Yogī Rāj and all the devotees of all the devotees of... The quality of this organization, its servants, and the feeling with which they served and gave me so much encouragement—that after staying with all of you for so many days, whenever I met all the great Gujargīs, not once in a day but ten times, everyone said, "Hari Uroom." Jaroor Bula Isliye Mahā Parampūjanīya Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānandajī Bābājī Che. I offer auspicious wishes for the bright future of all you devotees, and I pray to the supremely worshipable, supremely adorable, our Gurudev, Rājeśvara Bhagavān, that there be happiness, peace, and prosperity in the families of all devotees. Vibhavade, aur aap sabke jīvan kī sarvamanokāmanā pūrṇ ho, aur sab kā kalyāṇ ho. Itnā kaikar, main merī vāṇī ko virām detā hūṁ, aur prampūjya Svāmī Śrī Maheśvarānandajī ke śrīcarṇoṁ meṁ vandan kartā hūṁ. Oṁ. Śānti, Śānti,... Short and sweet, kratke. First of all, Dayārāmjī offered his respect, salutations, and devotions to Holī Gurujī and to myself, that I gave him the opportunity to travel with me. He was happy, and so many days he spent with you all, and it doesn’t matter how many times walking here and there, whenever anyone... Hari Om, Hari Om. Every time we meet, I greet you with Hari Om. This will all remain in my memory: your respect, your hospitality, your kindness. I am thankful for that, and I wish you good health, a happy life, prosperity, and peace. Amir, with this, all the best.

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