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What is the Dharma of human life?

The Himalayas are a living source of spiritual power and sacred knowledge. All mountains are holy, but the Himalayas are unique, home to immortal sages and powerful medicinal herbs. These herbs can sustain life without food, generate heat against the cold, and aid survival at high altitudes. The great saints residing there exist in a purified, spiritual body and are worshipped through visible lights on the peaks. Their blessings sustain the world. The story of one such sage illustrates the power of blessings. He prayed for a son, who was destined for a short life. By teaching the boy to touch everyone's feet and receive their blessings of long life, the sage altered that destiny. Shiva intervened, honoring the collective blessings over Yama's claim, granting the boy immortality. This sage, known as Martand Ṛṣi, is captured in a famous photograph from the glaciers, a testament to these eternal beings.

"Live long, live long, live long. Does this not change the destiny?"

"Blessing is a blessing, and don’t say that only God can bless us. God has given us authority."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Good evening to everyone. It is a beautiful day. I would like to say something about the holy Himalayas. Of course, every mountain is a holy mountain. Every mountain around the world carries a very spiritual and divine atmosphere. No mountain has negative energy. But the Himalayas are very special. Why? Why do great saints choose the Himalayas? Well, in other parts of the world, there also have been great saints, like in Greece, and in some parts of South America and Europe, and what we call the Hindukush mountains. Many, many great saints live there, but the difference is, unfortunately, the people nowadays do not acknowledge those holy saints because the religion changed. And therefore, people believe in their religion. For spirituality, there should be no difference in the religions. Religion is a social arrangement. A social society, for example, who built what we call the pyramids must have been some ṛṣis. By which religion? We will call it Sanātana. So still we can’t, and we don’t know who and how, and with which science they built these pyramids. And those pyramids are according to the Vāstu Śāstra. And Vāstu Śāstra comes again from the Vedic science. Also, the discovery of pyramids in ex-Yugoslavia, and near what you call Bosnia, no. The city was called, where there was Olympia, Winter Olympia, Sarajevo. So people know Sarajevo better because of the Olympics. And a little farther, a few kilometers, 20 kilometers or 40 kilometers, there begin so many pyramids. One person on the airplane, I met on Austrian Airlines, and he was from near Singapore. And he told me, he speaks Hindi because he has a background from India, and he talked about these pyramids. And it happened that on that weekend I ought to go to Sarajevo. So he invited me to see the pyramids, and he guided. Of course, without guidance, you must not go in. Otherwise, lifelong you will be in a pyramid, also after. So he guided, and there were different kinds of stones carried from outside. And there were many signs on those big rocks. They were from Shiva’s trident. It was a swastika, and it was many, many symbols, which are according to the Sanātana Dharma. So we can see that at that time, the whole world was connected and had one religion. And that religion was respecting the nature, trees, rivers, mountains, etc. So in every country we will find the holy mountains, and some holy beings were living in the caves. So there is a very beautiful book written about these pyramids near Sarajevo; the city’s name is Visoko. Similarly, in Mexican territory, or Pan-America. So there were also the ṛṣis. But certain religions have closed, blocked, and destroyed all these beautiful cultures and religions. So similarly, the Himalayas are very special. The Himalayas have the most valuable herbs. These herbs are very, very valuable. And I was now in some part of the Himalayas, and they told me, "Where will you go, Swāmījī? There you will find a kind of little plant, and it’s growing on the ground, not up, but just on the ground, flat." And it has certain kinds of flowers and colors. That person told me, "Take that and eat." You will have less problem with the oxygen and less problem from the high altitude. You will not feel tired, and it was really, really, it was there. So, the Himalayas are very much protected, and at a certain height you cannot go; you have to have permission. Because if someone dies, if someone has problems, there is no telephone, there is nothing. So they keep an eye on who is going up. And many people don’t know about these herbs. So I went, we were about ten people, and all of us used to eat this, and it was great. Great. And it’s a lot, a lot. It’s like here in your forest, like you call this, brinezol? Nettles. Like nettles, yeah? Wild, wild growing. Then there is another herb, which is very, very good. And it gives very tiny little berries. Only in the month of August. And if you eat one handful, for 15 days you have no hunger, no thirst, and no loss of energy. And now you don’t feel cold, my God. But unfortunately, I was there in May, not in August. So, in the beginning of June, what the stories we hear from yogīs: they discover certain herbs and roots, and they chew or eat them, or they make a chai, or they put something in the fire, fry it, bake something, and then eat. For months, they need not eat anything. And they were sitting on the snow and meditating. There was so much heat in those herbs, so they didn’t feel cold. There is evidence, and there are certain herbs, but they don’t want to introduce them to local people, otherwise they will destroy those herbs. So the Himalayas are the mother of the herbs. Himalaya is a living mountain. As high as you go, there are very powerful herbs to survive. And there are some which can make you crazy, yeah. So we should know which one. And so, in the whole Himalaya, there were great holy saints, and many are living. But they don’t come down. They are above 700 meters. Thousand meters, like in the glaciers, even under the glaciers. They are already called the current śarīra. The astral body is what remains after someone has died. The current śarīra is the, what you call, the spiritual body. The body is purified. This vāta, kapha, pitta, and vikāra is not anymore in their body. They are above. It is transparent. They can just disappear in the rock. Some you can see, and suddenly they disappear. Such holy saints are still there. And where I went, we saw after sunset, about half an hour after sunset, very high up—seven thousand meters, six thousand. At five and a half thousand meters, not below, a very clear sky, a very clear sky. Beautiful stars begin, sunsets, and you feel in different rocks, in different peaks of the mountains, some lightning. Sparkling light is moving, and there’s no women, there’s no electric light, and there’s no clouds. So it means this is like a prayer time. So that the bhaktas, the devas, they worship and make a pūjā, āratī, and prayer to those holy saints. Because they are immortal, they can travel to any part of the universe. And they can come anytime in any part of the Himalayas. So it is true that sometimes, if you are lucky, you will get in touch with such a ṛṣi. That ṛṣi itself is a god. Brahma, Viṣṇu, Śiva, they will change. They will change their position. But those saints are not. They are the master, called the guru. And therefore, in the prayer, Mahāprabhujī said, "Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Sekhāna," but who is greater than Rāma and Kṛṣṇa? They are the Lord of the three worlds, but they are still surrendered to the Gurudeva. So, who understands the guru tattva, the guru principle? They are the great saints, too. Changing your guru, looking at negative things towards your guru, that automatically brings a curse upon yourself. That’s called Pāpa, the sin. So, great masters, great pastors. I would like to show you this one picture today. In the last two or three decades, it has appeared more and more. In the media of Facebook and on the nets, now nothing is hidden. So there is one ṛṣi in the Himalayas, and that was the ṛṣi whose father wanted to have a child. And the ṛṣi was very, very old and great, what we call an astrologer. But he was longing to have a child; otherwise, he thought his life would not be successful. He would not get mokṣa. If you don’t get a child, then it is difficult for you to get mokṣa, because that child should be responsible for your life. After death, it is that one your following generation has to take care of your ancestors. That ancestor comes to the mokṣa loka, the liberation. Mostly the son, but if not, then the daughter also can do those pūjās and prayers for you. So, I’m not going into this subject, but if you enter into the household life, then you should know the dharma of the household. So it is called the Brahmachārya Āśrama, Gṛhastha Āśrama, Vānaprastha Āśrama, and Sannyāsa Āśrama. And this, which āśram you adopt, you should follow the dharma of that āśram. Yeah, that’s life. If you do not follow your dharma, then dharma will not help you. So you should know what is a dharma. Now, dharma means not a religion. These are given principles, the duty of the human. And therefore, when you enter into the guru’s ashram family, that you marry, then it remains, becomes, you have a dharma to create the children, the generation. And give the knowledge, teach them about the family dharma. Now, even the husband doesn’t know what is dharma towards the wife, and the wife doesn’t know what is dharma towards the man, except to sleep together. And when someone goes more to the spiritual side, then one of the partners wants to be divorced. For what you marry, this is this. Ask yourself. Marriage is a burden now. Now it’s a misconception. If you are wise enough, you will not marry. In this way, like you marry now, the Western system, what has changed now? In the Western system also, the marriage was great, the holy. Yes, ask your grandparents. No. But now, like one pigeon sitting on the roof, you never know in which direction it will fly. And it doesn’t matter if you are suffering. One partner goes, and you are suffering; you are sad. And you don’t want that your partner went away. You are crying, you are taking tablets for getting calmness, you have psychic problems, you are scared, you have fear inside, many, many things. Should such a thing happen through your marriage? No, it should never happen. It doesn’t matter if your wife or your partner is paralyzed, unable to move; lifelong, you have to be loyal, help, clean, and feed, because that is your part. You said, in the presence of the altar or in the presence of the fire, in the marriage, that I will be Thine, and in any situation I will be Yours. Where are these words? Human word is a word, promise, yes. And he said, "Even you have to give your head, but don’t break your promise." Why did the great people say that at that time? Around the whole world, not only in India. And now in India, the same thing is happening, coming from this Western movement and culture. So think it over, do you want to have a partner? Will this partner be lifelong with you? And if you want to go away from your partner, it is a sin. Many, many lives you will change, and who knows if you will come again as a human. It is called animal culture, not human culture, not Devī culture. Because this is the last point of birth and death, and there you come as an Avatāra, there you come as holy. It is your wife who will lead you, or it is your husband who will lead you. Both will go together. He or she will wait till you leave from this world. That’s called the real connection, soul to soul. Marriage means merging into oneness. And these two bodies are like two wings for this Paramahaṁsa to fly into the Brahmaloka. But what have you done? No more sense to talk. That’s it. Or then comes the one praśram that is more hard than this. But you cannot, you have to come to the vānaprastha. Fifty, sixty years old, you are in vanaprasthā. And what is the dharma of the vānaprastha that you should know? Yes, that you should know, but this all is finished. Just humans are living, eating, drinking, and sleeping. Eating, sleeping, and creating children, these animals are also very expert. Oh human, what can you do more? Then comes the sannyās āśram, our last is the sannyās āśram, because then all your indriyas are more or less become calm. And there you can meditate. Otherwise, meditation is not easy. You are meditating here and thinking of the boy somewhere else in San Francisco, so meditating here and talking of some boyfriend there or girlfriend. So this is not a meditation. If you go to the Himalayas and meditate and think of such a feeling there, the ṛṣis from there will kick you out from the Himalayas. You will roll on the glaciers. That’s it. So sannyāsa is not easy. This is sannyās, this is orange cloth, but this is not orange cloth, this is a fire. So sannyās is living 24 hours in the fire, and when you will not follow the principles, then this fire will destroy you. It will make you an ass, finished. Yes, okay, you think you are a sannyāsī, you think you have a sannyāsī dress, but you are not anymore. Therefore, in Brahmacarya āśram, there is also time for studying and not for going into the cinema, etc. So, Kali Yuga now is so changed, you can’t imagine. So in this field, seed from this field to that field, and these seeds are now manipulated, seedless. So maybe if you try, you get one or two children, that’s all. Otherwise, you have no capacity to give birth to children. Because it manipulated all vegetation, all fruits, all grains, and everything. Farmers are wondering that you must buy the seeds for the crops. It was not necessary. They had some wheat remaining; next year it will grow. But now they have manipulated it. It grows only once, and your grown weeds cannot again give you the corns. So, seedless—so we are all seedless now. That’s why you are making the egg bank, a seed bank. So you have to buy the seeds to get a baby. Then, for what is a husband? A husband is for working and bringing money, that’s all. So, boys, be careful. So, therefore, eat healthy food, organic food, and drink healthy milk to be capable of giving to the child. I’m talking very openly. Poor ladies, they said, "I want a baby, you know, you can bring the toy, a little baby doll, you know, this is this, it will happen, still not too late." Thanks to this part of Europe, still you have good soil and good organic food. So those holy saints, they have the kingdom of living life; the medical herbs can change your body. Your age will grow slowly. A thousand years will be, for us, a thousand years, but for them is like one day. They are living ages and ages. So that one ṛṣi, I’m sorry, I don’t know the name of that ṛṣi, he was praying, praying, praying for a son, for a child. He had no santāna, no children. And he read, in his life there is no child. And Nārada comes. And Nārada said, "Ṛṣi, why are you so sad?" He said, "I want to have a child." So then he said, "Pray to Śiva." So all day he was practicing, "Om Namah Śivāya, Om Namah Śivāya, Śivāya, Śivāya." Praying and praying, he became older and older, the skin was hanging here. Of course, many of us, our skin is already hanging too. So many people, when in the morning they go to the bathroom, and they clean a little bit here and say, "Oh God, it’s hanging." Very beautiful. Yeah, you can clean nicely. When it’s very clean here, it’s also hanging. Wait. I tell myself to wait. You will see, day by day, what is happening. But before that, I will begin asanas. I mean, you should begin the asanas. When you have too many kilos now, and then after everything is hanging, you will say to yourself, "Oh God, Swāmījī said, so therefore don’t let it grow now, keep it under control." Therefore, asanas: stretching, stretching, twisting. And expanding. This is very, very good. Anyhow, so there was a ṛṣi, then he got darśana of Śiva. Pārvatī and Śiva both came. And he was asking Shiva, please give me the child, so Shiva blessed him. Tathāstu, it will be. It shall be. And he got a child. He was so happy. He was so happy. The mother of the child had no time to look after her child. All the time, this father was thinking, "My son, my son, my son." And she said, "Let me feed him." So he was sitting beside her to feed her and quickly take it away. So, you know, the father loves also more than the mother sometimes. Yeah, father is father, and mother is mother, both. So if you want to have a child, then you should laugh in such a way that the child doesn’t go to the kuśaṅgas, you know? This is this: the child doesn’t go towards the drugs. But parents have no such love for children, and children are growing outside. Well, that ṛṣi, he had knowledge about astrology. And then he saw all the data of his birth. Constellation, this, this, everything. And then it is said, "This child has only the life of, I think, 70 years or 15 years, something like that." And then he will die. Now, the ṛṣi was more unhappy, more sad, very sad, very sad that his son had so little life. And he said, "I don’t want to see that my son is dying. Better I die before." And he was very sad, very sad. And again, one day came Nārada, and he saw the ṛṣi was so happy—he had a baby. The ṛṣis were also married. Some, and some not. So marriage is not a bad thing. But if you can master your marriage, that’s it. And then, after some years, Nārada came again. And the ṛṣi was so sad. So Nārada said, "You were so happy." And you have the son. Now why are you so sad? It took one hour to explain. He could not speak; he was sad and crying. But Nārada said, "Please tell me, what is the problem?" Then he told that according to this astrology, the life of the son is only this much. So Nārada said, "Well, everyone has their destiny." Time for everyone is fixed. But the ṛṣi said, "I don’t want that it’s fixed." I don’t want that law. I want my child to become big and grow and live long. Then Nārada said, "Only one. There’s one technique." And that technique can save your life, the life of your son. Please, please, which remedy is that, or which technique? He said it’s a very easy technique. Teach your child that he touches the feet of everyone who comes to see. And he also, when morning gets up, he should touch the feet of your wife and so on. He said why? He said because everyone whom he will bow down and touch the feet, they give one blessing, and that blessing... Give life long, live long. He said, "Very good." So that child was understanding. So in the morning, he got up and said to his parents, "Praṇām, mother, praṇām," and they said, "Live long, long live, Cirañjīvo Āyuṣmān Bābā," and other people also. And he was searching for the people, and went and touched their feet, and they said, "Live long." Live long, live long, live long. But it was written that on that day, at that time, he would die. But still, the father was afraid and sad. So Nārada said, "On that day, he should go to the Śiva temple, and he should sit near the Śiva temple and make abhiṣeka." This mantra, and when if anything comes, he should hold, hug the Śiva Liṅga. And at that particular time, comes Yama. Yama came because now is the time to take him away, but he is near Shiva. No one Yama can come near, and they are waiting for him to come near. Or he comes out of the temple, and he looks there. And Yama said, "Come." And this boy said, "Come? No." So even the king of the Yamas came, Yamarāja the king, but he didn’t go away. So that king of the dead, he was said to be throwing the rope to catch him and pull him out of the temple. And then Shiva came, and Shiva destroyed Yama and said, "Why do you take him?" He said, "Because it is written in his destiny, only this many years. Today, now is the time to take him." We cannot wait even for one breath. But Śiva said, yes, it’s written in his destiny. But do you know how many people gave him blessing, "Live long, live long, live long"? Does this not change the destiny? Don’t you believe and trust in the blessings? I said yes. So then how long should I leave him still? He said, "I don’t know," Śiva said. They said, "Live long." They didn’t say live five thousand years or ten thousand years, or a thousand years, or one day, or like this. Everyone said, "Chiranjeevo, Aishmanbhava, live long, live long." So grant him blessing, that he may live long. Without border, well, the Yama, they all went away. And Shiva blessed him, "Live long." So now he is living long and long. And so, this Ṛṣi is still living there. On the glaciers, on snow, high altitude. He is beyond any kind of food, living only from the energy. So one day, a few years ago, the vice president of India invited me for dinner. And so I went there. So in his welcoming lobby, what you call the living room, it’s a big room. For the president, it’s a big room, of course. And there was this picture, what you see, it was a beautiful picture in his living room, in the welcoming room, and all the times I was looking at this picture, and I was very attracted to this picture. Who could this be? So finally, before going away, I asked the president, "Your Excellency, whose photo is this?" He said he didn’t know. But only one thing I know of the history: there was one British photographer. And he had a hobby to make nice pictures of the Himalayas. High peaks of the Himalayas, the caves, the glaciers, the waterfalls, etc. And then, when he used to go back to England, he was developing his photos. At that time, it was not like photos in every mobile. At that time we had a reel, and this reel which you were shooting pictures, and then taking to the laboratory, and developing the pictures. And when he saw this photo, I did not see this because he made a photo from a far distance, and then he made a zoom close to develop, and this picture appeared. So then he went round the Himalayas, he asked many sādhus and the people of the Himalayas. In this area, has any ṛṣi lived? They said, yes. It is the territory of the Martand Ṛṣi. You see, that which will never die. And so this is that Ṛṣi from many Yugas, so it’s very hard to tell from which paramparā he is. Now many people are telling he is their grand guru, or this and that. So this is a Martin Ṛṣi in the Himalaya. So you can have this picture, put it on your YouTube or in your Facebook. And make clear to the people this was that Martin Ṛṣi. Because many are now misusing that picture. So this is clearly explained by the President of India. And now we will find out that mountain, the range of the Himalaya, where this place was. And next time I will tell you the place. So the Himalayas are very holy, very holy. And we have preserved it. We adore, we respect, and we know they are that. And the whole world is living still because of their blessings. They are protecting us. So similarly, after 12 years of researching, we found the place of Ālakpurījī. And it’s from where the source of the Alaknandā river, because this is on the name of Alakpurījī. And there is a huge, big range of the Himālaya called the Alakpurījīs. And it was a kingdom, or it is a kingdom, of the Kubera, the treasurer of God. There’s a Lakshmi mountain, and Nilkanth temple mountain, and a little farther is called Svargarohini. These are the steps to heaven, but only a very pure soul can enter there. Others will die immediately. Even the shepherd doesn’t dare to cross that border. Even the aeroplane can’t fly over. Yes, so they, knowing the roots of the aeroplanes, don’t go over it. Once, some aeroplane from some different countries, maybe India, someone told me India or China, and they said, "Ah, this is all his fanatics." And he brought the aeroplane over and finished. Just dropped, finished. So there are certain miracles. Don’t take it too easy. Respect this mountain. There are our roots, and so all our disciples, we are all now connected to that root of Alakpurījī. And we will tell you further more about this. So this is Martin Ṛṣi, he’s a great, he’s a great. I don’t know how many yugas he’s sitting. It is about Śiva’s blessing, long life. So, don’t say to your child, "Goodbye." But you say, "Bless you. Come to a good school and come back home well." Don’t say bye-bye. Not bye-bye. Take care, come back. Take care of the traffic. Come home, bless you. So bless you, bless you, you must bless your children. So everyone has the power to bless, everyone can bless. Blessing is a blessing, and don’t say that only God can bless us. God has given us authority. This is a good thing. Bless you, bless you. Either your master blesses you, your parents bless you, or whoever is elder than you blesses you. This, you should take care. Don’t tell your child, and then your child will tell you, "Father, bless you." The river doesn’t flow opposite, so there are many, many principles. You should not say to your master, "Bless you." There, you said, "Praṇām, I bow down to you." I adore you to the master or your parents. So we also should know these principles. So this art of dharma is a practical life. It has nothing to do with fanaticism or different cults. Every religion has a blessing. So, bless you, and we have to write on this picture down, Marta Andrisi. And you should send, bring her into the world, to every Facebook. Marta Andrisi should go everywhere and write a little story. Not too long, yes. And if they want to know more, they should see the YouTube of Yoga and Their Life. Okay. Shanti, Shanti... Sh

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