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Only the One is the truth

Dharma and family harmony are central to navigating modern life.

Dharma is of two kinds: selfish and selfless. Selfish dharma forces personal desires, leading to transient outcomes like frequent divorce. Selfless dharma supports parents, children, and neighbors, creating stability. Modern life brings family disharmony, often from differing values between generations. Explain your perspective clearly to parents; they love you and seek your happiness. Avoid external childcare like babysitters and kindergartens, as they weaken family bonds. A parent should primarily raise the child. If both parents work, wealth is not guaranteed, but one income does not mean poverty, and family unity brings happiness. Strengthen family ties by involving children in gatherings and teaching them to love their nation and neighbors, fostering community. Our inner spiritual journey is vital: remember you are the Ātmā; the world is a dream. Practice mantras and stay on your path.

"Dharma is of two kinds. One is selfish... The other dharma is to support everyone."

"Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā. The supreme, only the one, is the truth. And this world is just a dream."

Filming location: Zagreb, Croatia

I do not know if you will be happy with my answer, but let us hear the opinion. What happens with the body and consciousness during full anesthesia? You are in Ānanda. You are above the body with Ānanda. Further, you should ask the doctor, the anesthesiologist. Regarding a choice of study: physiotherapy or manual therapy. Physiotherapy is better. Concerning a health problem, something with the pancreas. I pray to Mahāprabhujī to help and bring the best recovery. A question from Indra Purī about disharmony with parents. The question is not fully clear, as you did not write why. Make your parents happy. If you do something they do not like, it is because they do not understand what you mean. Create a clear situation to speak, understand, and explain why. Parents love you and care about you. In this modern time, many things are different. If we explain and you say that you are happy, then parents are the first ones who will be happy. Another question, the main point of which is not clear. It seems to be again a problem with families. It is good that we do not have a problem with others. The family must understand. We have to explain to our family. The modern way of living and the knowledge we get in modern life were not like this before or in the last centuries. We are searching: "What is my dharma? Dharma or our obligation? Or our duty?" Dharma is of two kinds. One is selfish. For example, you fell in love with someone whom your parents do not like. This is your one side, individual. Why don’t they like it? There are certain things. The other dharma is to support everyone—support parents, children, support our neighbors. So one is selfless dharma, and one is selfish dharma. When we force our selfishness, very soon it will be finished. That is why nowadays the situation is: marry, divorce, marry, divorce. This is modern life, but it must not be like that. It must not be. To see the blue sky, you do not need to go anywhere. Goethe said, "The Goethe." In that way, what you are searching for is different from others. The situation is very tough nowadays. War. People who come from the war have problems. Some are guilty, and some are not guilty. They take them to prison. You come back, but you have a psychic problem. So, the situation we have to understand, but psychically we should not be affected. Always, I am the Ātmā. Brahma Satya, Jagat Mithyā. The supreme, only the one, is the truth. And this world is just a dream. It’s flowing. So our inner spiritual journey is very important. Life is a journey, not a destination. The destination we will achieve, reach at that time when the last minute of time will come. Do not change the way. Stay on your path. Practice your mantras. All will be solved automatically. The same question: difficulties with the situation between my parents and my family. What should we do? Do not do anything against. Be a yes man, and it will be okay. This has become a very difficult situation in the world. Nowadays, it is a fashion. Before you get a child, they organize a babysitter. And if you have no babysitter, they say, "What? You have no babysitter?" And people, young couples, when they get a child, they telephone: "Yes, we got a baby." And the second word, luckily, we found the best babysitter. It is some kind of status, but the child does not know who is the mother and who is the babysitter. The babysitter is more with the child than the mother. Then go on to school, then go on to service, so the love for the parents... is getting separated. So we should not have a babysitter. One of the parents must be with the child. And if it is sometimes, and very important, that you have to go somewhere, then ask your family members. And if it is a family function, take the children with you. You have to introduce your children to your families. This will protect the society. That will protect your relations. You have the roots of your families. It is said, "Blood is thicker than water." You know that you were born in Croatia; you are originally Croatian. And Slovenians know that they are born and they are Slovenians. But do you love the Slovenian? The Slovenians, they love the Slovenians? If there is this, then they should not fight with the Slovenians. Do not fight in politics. Bring the peace. When you love your nation, the nation should give us what we need. So teach children to love their parents, and these parents and these children will teach the neighbors. Teaching means not like in school. Behave. And that society, the city, and the whole nation. And that is how society will become a community. Cities will behave in that way, and entire nations. There are two kinds of cultures running parallel. So-called Western culture: they want that child, children go to sleep by seven o’clock in the evening, and they get up half an hour before the parents go to work. And the rest of the time, children are with the babysitter. So that is why in the family there are a lot of problems. Now, from here, if you go beyond ex-Yugoslavia towards the east-south. Those families, their children, they are running and talking until one o’clock. Parents are sleeping, but the children are not. They are so free and happy. And wherever they go for a party, children go with them, and children come to know their relatives and their children, so they have strong family ties. And if something happens to someone, the whole village comes to help. And here in the Western world, if it happens, even the neighbors do not look at you. If something happens, they do not go to protect you, because the police will ask, then you have to be a witness. Because of this, you let your neighbor go alone. Neighbor is our family. It is just two apartments or two houses, that is all. So we have to learn to create the family. And if husband and wife both have to work, you... you will not become rich, and if only one will work, you will not become poor, and your family will be happy. That love which parents can give, no one can give. Then comes the kindergarten. And in kindergarten, the teacher tells children, "At 12 o’clock, children, now go to sleep." Everybody goes to sleep. Then they say, "Sleep." Sleep. Okay. Good. They close their eyes and open their eyes. That is the situation, because inside they have fear. And that fear we have lifelong, so the kindergarten system is also wrong. Teach yourself and your children at home. That is not good. And that is that, you see, one after another, questions come about family. So, what is this? Well, there is one who is asking about a two-minute consultation for some physical problem. I will edit five minutes more, so you are welcome. Yes, tomorrow. Be here. Whenever there is a little free time, I will call you. A question about a husband in Turkey and a wife in Slovenia unable to get proper papers. It will come. Governments know how to do it. At present, Europe has a very beautiful situation. Every nation speaks. In my culture we say, "The guest is God." Now God has multiplied in thousands, so please welcome them. The guest is God. Do not worry. So now they are afraid. They are afraid of God because God is very good in the picture, maximum in the holy place, as a statue. But when he begins to walk from the statue, oh God, all will run out of the door. So, the present situation is not good, but paper will come after. Your government is correct. And they will find the right way to give you papers. A question about heart health: angina, blocked vessels, etc. This is our very good remedy, as you all know. You may not have been to us from Labin. Ask the Labin teacher: it is a very nice remedy with garlic, lemon, ginger, etc. Take two tablespoons, one tablespoon in the morning and one in the evening. Or if you work in an office and use garlic, people in the office do not like it. Then take it in the evening. But Croatian people like garlic very much. You know, I was living in the third district in Vienna, and there were many, many Croatian families. Very friendly, very kind. But in those areas, garlic, like garlic clouds. So no vampires were there. You know very well, garlic is very happy, very healthy. God gave you beautiful nature, beautiful soil, good climate, all kinds of fruits and vegetables, so we should use that. So please, this remedy was originally made in Strilky, and they are selling it. So, Labin, they will tell you. Recap of answered questions. What happens with my body when I take anesthesia? Ānanda. Is it good for me to go to study physiotherapy? Yes. About your grandson, I told you. They are all answered. Birthday wishes. Yoga name we shall give him Kṛiyānanda. Who has tomorrow’s birthday? Because tomorrow we have no time to congratulate, today is a peaceful evening. So, who has tomorrow’s birthday, please come. Patañjali Sūtra. Closing thoughts. Wish you all the best. Good health, happy, healthy, long life. This evening and this morning, we had more or less a talk about health and sevā, peace, health, etc. Before noon, it was spoken about how our thoughts multiply. And that thought ultimately comes to us, good or bad. So when we do good, we will have good destiny, good karma. It means it comes back to us. If we do bad things and put the blackmailings, you are happy only temporarily. But that will come back to you. So, good or bad, we are responsible, and not only in this life, especially in the next life. In the next life, the Dharmarāja, the justice of the karmas or destiny, he will reject our application of being a human because he will say, "You did not do what humans should do. You were even against the humans, not only animals. But you were against the humans. Did you not realize that you are also a human? And now you are against humans? Therefore, you have no more chance, and you are not worthy to be born as a human." That is very important. This Mahā Mantra, Mahāprabhujī said, whoever will do that will have to suffer or get... Sac pakad bhajasai is dunyāme apnā koī nahī. This was Mahāprabhujī’s very dear slogan. Gurujī has written it in Līlā Amṛt. Sac pakad bhaja sāī. Hold the truth and believe or adore, worship the God. Duniya me apna koi nahi. In this saṃsāra, no one is ours. We are all selfish. When we need something, we come, and when we do not need anything, we do not come. So Dharmarāja says, "I gave you a beautiful human life, a very precious life, and you were against humans." If you would be against animals, okay, I will understand. But human against human, that is not good. And if we realize all this, there will be no world war. No wars in the world. We shall work for peace. So, you know, for the last nearly two decades, we are working very much for peace. Sri Swami Mādhavānand World Peace Council, of Gurujī’s name. And it has a special status in the United Nations NGO department. To get this special status is not a decision of one person. From every country, they must agree. And the country which is applying for the NGO’s membership also has to agree. So, our application, which was from Vienna, Austria, an Austrian authority government, and who is working as a permanent mission of the United Nations, they supported very much when they got in their embassy later in New York, Austrian embassy, and the Austrian ambassador at the United Nations. And they said, "We strongly support Sri Swāmī Madhavānanda and the World Peace Council." From America, we have yoga and dead life. And from Australia, from Australia, special status in the ECOSOC NGOs. And the director of this organization, NGOs, has a position of observation. Anywhere with big meetings or something, you are on behalf of the NGOs of this United Nations; you are an observer. And in the United Nations, there are many certain events. And there are a few who are coming from India. One is called International Day of Non-Violence, according to Mahātmā Gandhi. So on the birth date of Mahātma Gāndhī’s anniversary, the United Nations declared the International Day of Non-Violence. And now, International Day of Yoga. And there are two or three more organizations, which are from India. And we have, now we have the chance to get one more. And that you should help. Give everyone the right to your government, or to the United Nations, your department in the United Nations, that we shall declare the International Day of Sister and Brother. So, this is our new project again. It will take time, but I can tell you that many problems will be solved, and between brother and sister again that love will awake. As brother and sister, day of mother is there, day of father is there, now day of... The peace is there. Non-violence day is there. Yoga Day is there, so now we shall come to the Sisters and Brothers Day. We shall write what it means and why we should have this day. So we have to write a beautiful letter. And from the whole world, all who are listening with us, Jogendra Live, Swamiji TV, please write according to your understanding in your country to the United Nations and collect the signatures. And nowadays, what they call Facebook. So face to face, only in the camera. So please send the message to celebrate. And this is the full moon of July. That is a very good day. Then begins the school. So, brothers and sisters, it means the brother protects the sister, and the sister protects the brother. So, the International Day of Brother and Sister. Rakṣā Bandhan. Okay, so there is nothing to do with religion. It is to protect our kids, protect the sisters. Then perhaps next we will think of the International Day of Husband and Wife. I hope so far we will not go, but not only this, that we would declare we should actively help. So, October 2nd is the day of non-violence: physical, mental, emotional, social, political, and commercial. I have to say to myself, wait. Say, yes. So, we have to follow. We have to be active. If it is declared, why will it be declared? Then we have to keep this tradition. Every sister will be happy. Yes. So, on the 2nd of October, we, as Sri Swami Madhavanand World Peace Council, will celebrate on the 2nd of October at the United Nations in Austria, and the biggest program will be in Strelka. So, you are welcome. You should come. Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday we go back. We wanted to do it in VEP. We booked and everything. But the Hungarians, they love the guests. So the whole of Hungary is full of guests. So, even the borders... Their guests are sleeping on the road, and we do not want to drive a car over their guests. So we put this program in the Strelka. You have to come to support the peace and do something good. The subject is yoga for non-violence and world peace. You can write your thoughts nicely, type it in your language, paste your photo—a nice photo—on the page, and we will keep it in the file. It is too late for us to print in the magazine. We have in the magazine nearly more than 100 pages already. But still, if someone from your government side sent some letter, we will be happy to print it, but we have a maximum, maximum, maximum of five days. Who can write to Sri Swāmī Madhavānand World Peace Council their thoughts on how to solve the problems in the world? This all kind of hate, fighting, how to bring the peace? So your article will be welcomed, and if your president, or any minister, or any artist, or philosopher writes something, we will try to put it in the magazine. Already the magazine is in printing, but we will try to somehow put it in. And you should bring the invitation letter with you, and the tag of yoga in their life, so they do not stop you on the border somewhere. They will think you are a physicist. Yes, so the document must be there. So, Streljki. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday noon we come back again. This is a celebration in the name of Gurujī. Sri Swami Mādhvānand World Peace Council. And you can write about Gurujī, his teachings, that is it. So, this coming Friday, I am in Austria, near Croatia, Slovenia. It is called Filah, Filahen. Laugh, smile a lot. So if you have the time for satsaṅg or this, you are welcome. But still, you shall try to come. Register there. So the theory and practice are different. So tons of theory is nothing compared with a gram of practice. So as long as we are human, we shall do our best work and avoid the negative work. Do not think that animals are stupid. They are very intelligent, but they do not have that power to fight against because humans are too cruel. Sometimes they are cleverer than humans. In Om Ashram, yogīs made a glass door with an automatic sensor opening. Yogesh made a glass door that automatically opens and closes with the help of a sensor, because many birds entered Gurujī’s hall of samādhi. So Yogesh made a beautiful door. So birds came. Some got a fly-through, unfortunately, and died. Then they could not go in, so the birds made a strike. You cannot, you will not believe me, but they made a strike. They sit all outside on small trees, and all the time they were making noise, especially when Yogesh came there to go to him to give some knowledge. But they researched how he could walk in. And the door opens and closes, and we come, it is closed. So they said, "We must hurry. We shall fly with him inside." And now it is a problem how to come out. He went out without the door, but the bird said, "Wait." He will come to this side, so he came from Gurujī’s samādhi side back, and the door goes off. How is it possible? He has a miracle. So one wise bird said, "We know when he comes near the door, he is walking carefully. He slows himself, he puts his hand like this." So the birds came near the sensor, fly like this. Door open, birds fell. Yogīs went out, about 20 meters. Birds made an experiment. They turned back and were praying. The door opens, a very expensive door. His intellectual knowledge efforts fell. Birds were winners. They were sitting on the trees and on his lift, this crane. They were sitting on the crane and singing a song to Yogesh: doji doji guru de. Sing doji doji... Thank you for watching. God bless you. God bless you. So, birds said to Yogesh, "Come in, Guruji. Samādhi, our door is open." Because he had a problem where to place the key, it was locked. They said, "You need not." To do anything, it is closing and opening. Come on. Animals are very intelligent. In the Ilhabad railway station, it was raining, and between the railway line there is a channel where water flows away. And one monkey got an electric shock, fell down in between the railway line, became unconscious. One big monkey came, running, running, and he caught this monkey. And he was rattling the monkey. He was biting, and hands up and hands low, first aid. And when he was unconscious, he was beating him and put him in the water again. Out within five minutes, he brought that monkey in consciously. And then the monkey was sitting outside, and then he was massaging. So someone sent this on Facebook because people were filming. So Umapurī saw me. So I will ask Umapurī to send you this link. Really, unbelievable. So you see how the animals also know to help their own people, on monkeys or on birds. They have a harmony, so we should also learn to help each other. Helping hands have more value than folded hands. Nine o’clock will be mantra dīkṣā. So, who would like to have mantra dīkṣā? They should remain here for a few minutes, so someone will tell them what to do. From my side, lack of knowledge.

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