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Go back to Nature

The body is a composite of five elements housing the soul, which finds comfort within it. We fear death because the soul is not eager to leave this vessel. While we may intellectually know we are the eternal Self, we are attached to the physical form. Therefore, care for this body, which is your true home. Nourish it with healthy food, pure water, and breath. Connect with nature, for it provides the vital prāṇa that sustains life. Practice conscious breathing to unite with this energy. Preserve your body and the natural world, for both are essential to your well-being.

"If the jīva were happy leaving the body, why would every creature fear death?"

"This body is a beautiful body. It has every facility, comfort, and everything it needs."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Hari Om. Alak Purījī, Mahādeva kī Devadhām Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī prāṇa, prāṇāyāma, and life. Observing our surroundings here, what could one describe? What could be more beautiful, pleasant, comfortable, with fresher air and a better environment? It inspires and motivates us to have more prāṇa, to gain more and more good prāṇa, and to purify this body composed of the five elements. This body holds our mind, awareness, consciousness, feelings, wisdom, knowledge, jīvātmā, and more. A single element alone cannot create and hold together a body. It requires all five: space, air, fire, water, and earth. All five are crucial for our body, our spiritual development, our achievements, and our happiness. The jīva, the soul we know, resides in our body. We consider ourselves happy now, including our jīva, but we do not truly know. If the jīva were happy leaving the body, why would every creature fear death? God has given us fear, which is vital for life. Fear serves as a warning to take care; we do not wish to experience fear or pain. This is evidence that the Jīvātmā feels comfortable within this body. We create difficulties for ourselves. Some think, "I don’t want to live anymore," and some even commit suicide. It is not easy. Such a person is not happy but must be in some trouble or pain. That one may decide to end their life, but the soul is not happy. It becomes a naked soul wandering in space, with no hold at all. No one greets it, "Hello, friend, how are you? Come sit with us. Have a cup of coffee." We do not know. We can only believe what the great seers and saints tell us. We may intellectually know the body is transient and that we are the ātmā, thinking "I am the ātmā." Yet, it is not easy to leave the body. Thus, we love our body more than our ātmā; we love our soul because of the body. Therefore, let us experience and live life in great happiness, for we do not know if there will be happiness afterward. Certain beliefs and religions instill enough fear, stating the soul will suffer, go to hell, or be permanently trapped in terrible situations due to sin, and so on. We can only believe and trust what they say, but we do not know for certain if it is reality. To see that reality, one must die. And if, after dying, you do not see that reality and wish to return, saying, "No, I want to go back; I was happy in my body," you cannot come back. Therefore, do not think of dying. Do not think of leaving this beautiful world. This body is a beautiful body. It has every facility, comfort, and everything it needs. Enjoy happiness, peace, divinity, relaxation, comfort, and many other things. We love each limb, each organ, each function of the body. We love our eyes, ears, mouth, tongue, fingers, and hands. What a beautiful body. So realize it, feel your body, love your body, take care of your body. That is what you do with this body: eat healthy food, drink pure water, drink good milk, and quit alcohol. Alcohol is not for this body. If there is a wound or infection, a doctor may use it; that is acceptable. Alcohol also emerged from the churning of the ocean; it is called somarasa, which is very nice. So, what are you doing with your body? How much care do you take of it? How much do you let your body fall into someone else's hands, where it is tortured, shouted at, misused, and made to walk day and night? Yet, the soul inside is not happy. God gave you all abilities. How can you say you are poor? We are not poor. Our viveka, our knowledge, is immense. To care for our body, there is only one thing: healthy food. And food also means prāṇa. Movement is nourishment. Inhalation is nourishment. Drinking water is nourishment—solid and liquid. It is prāṇa that keeps us healthy. Look at the trees where we are sitting. We are in the lap of Mother Nature. See how happy these trees are. A good, healthy tree with nice leaves gives us so much oxygen through every leaf. Every leaf is a means for our life, and thus, prāṇāyāma. It is said, "vihar" means to go, travel, walk somewhere, come to nature. We have enough nature. I do not know why we destroy it to build concrete houses. Where does humanity want to go further? Let us feel the prāṇa. Close your eyes and simply feel the inhalation and exhalation. Yes, close your eyes. Relax your body. No other concentration, no imaginations—just the reality. Feel this beautiful, fresh air on your skin. Feel it in your nostrils, in your respiratory system and lungs. Oh, very nice air. It flows, blowing air to your hair, nose, nostrils, and ears. This air passes through your dress if it is natural, pure cotton, which also breathes. Relax and feel the inhalation and exhalation. Consciously expand your lungs and let your diaphragm gain more capacity to take in breath, oxygen. Do not think about money, your house, or your work. This minute is solely for becoming one with nature. Peace, peace, peace. Just inhale and exhale. Be aware of your inhalation. Keep your body straight. Be aware that you are sitting under these beautiful trees on this meadow, with the beautiful sound of birds. Know that you are inhaling and know that you are exhaling. Be comfortable, be relaxed. Do not think of eating, drinking, walking, or running. Just be thyself, one with nature. Feel the fresh air through the nostrils, and now exhale slowly through the mouth without making a sound. Feel the warmth of the exhaling breath on your lower lip. Relax. Breathe through the nostrils. Feel the freshness in the nostrils. Exhale through the mouth. Feel the warmth of the breath on the lower lip. Become one with the breath. Inhale gently and exhale gently out of the mouth. Relax. Be aware of your brothers and sisters sitting beside you, also enjoying the prāṇāyāma. Feel the prāṇa in your whole body and outside your body. It is the life of all of us. Now, take a slightly deeper inhalation. Inhale a little deeper than normal through both nostrils, and listen to the sound, like Ujjāyī Prāṇāyāma. Exhale a little longer than before through the mouth. We will chant Oṁ once more. The chanting of Oṁ is also a prāṇāyāma. Oṁ. UDI. Pākata udī śānti. Rub your palms together. Place them on your face. Warm your facial muscles and open your eyes. Touch your palms to the earth and bend forward. Touch your forehead to the ground as well. Feel the energy of Mother Earth and feel the circulation throughout your whole body, especially toward the head. Slowly sit up. So, during this one week, eight days, or two weeks, you come here to recharge that energy, which lasts the whole year. In the summer, try to walk in a park. If possible, spend time under a tree. If you work in an office, go out at lunchtime, find a tree, and relax under it. It gives energy. The body is our house, our apartment. We, as Ātmā, as a soul, reside here from the mother's womb until the end of life. You can sell your house, change apartments, go anywhere, but your real house is your body. Keep your body nice, clean, and well-decorated so that you feel pleasant inside and out. Try to supply, apply, and give natural things to your body. Come back to nature. Thus, our yoga and life youth began in Hungary to create a youth club. In that kind of club, there are only positive things: no alcohol, no meat, and good activities—singing bhajans, singing folk songs from various countries, and so on. Sometimes, there are beautiful, nice videos beneficial for nature, about nature, what we should do more, how people are destroying nature. These inspire us not to destroy, along with beautiful yoga videos and lectures. Many young children and youth have no choice but to go to clubs where there is alcohol and other things. So, everyone can become a member to support that club. Compulsorily, if they like, they should become members of your club, of your country. Also, in different villages, give a positive and good chance to our youth. They have started now; they made a plan. In Budapest, at the end of this week, they will discuss their vision and what they would like to do: satsaṅgs, folk songs, folk dances, culture—everything. Concentrate on your culture too, and festivals. That is very good. What do you think of it? Good. Vimala chetanyātmā prabhu, vimala chetan dhun, dhyān yāge, agam jāge, nigam se nityātmā. Śyām se nitya-ātmā śrīguru mā paramātmā ho mātmā puruṣa sakal jag ke antaryāmī charāchara prabhu charāchara kī ātmā pārase pravṛtti āge pratīt ho adhyātmā nirādhāra ho ādhāra ho eṣa ho avicala ātmā sā ho avicala ātmā. Śrīguru, ātmā, paramātmā. Om. Ātmā, puruṣotmā. Sakal jag ke antra jāmī, chara achara kī ātmā, prabhu. Chara achara kī ātmaka deva, yajab sevā, brahma bevā, ātmā prabhu, brahma bevā. Sun se ho, Prabhujī, sākṣī śuddhyātmā, Prabhu sākṣī śuddhyātmā, śrīguru, ātmā, paramātmā ho, mātmā, puruṣa. Sakal jag ke antra jāmī, chara achara kī ād, Prabhu, chara achara kī ād, dīpa nayana, Bhagavān, Alak Deva, ajab sevā. Alak, the word Alak means indescribable, indescribable alak. Purījī, indescribable alak, nirañjana alak. It means indescribable, and nirañjana means pure. So, the indescribable Divine Self. Ajab sevā, what a wonderful, our whole service, our seva to that Divine One. Who is Brahma Bhāva? Ātmā. That Ātmā which is one with the Brahman. So, Brahman is serving the Brahman. Mahāprabhujī said, "Karta ho me vandana, I adore. meri musko hoy, my adoration to myself, to that ātmā nimadatom, hodadatom, shayat magamnak ennek az ātmanak." Alaka Deva Ajab Seva Brahma Bhava Ātmā Śūnya Seho Par Prabhujī Sākṣī Śuddhā Ātmā. And that one, Śūnya Seho Par. Beyond the Śūnya Ākāśa, we cannot see so far. So, beyond this śūnyākāśa, this space: Śūnya Seho Par Prabhujī, O Mahāprabhu, you are beyond this śūnyākāśa. Sākṣī śuddha-ātmā, and you are the knower of that pure ātmā. And you know this pure ātmā. Prabhu sukha rūpa sejā dhyātmā gurudeepa ho, praṇāma sāgara. Āpa hī paramātmā, prabhu āpa hī śrīguru, ātmā paramātmā ho. Mātmā dhara dhyāna so'ham. Meditate, meditate on that, so. Chant the mantra "So Ham": "That I am." I am, I am that. Dhāra Dhyāna Soham Muni Mohan. Muni means that saint who keeps mauna and repeats the mantra, "Oṁ Soham, Oṁ Soham." That is Mohan. Mohan means two things: one is the name of Kṛṣṇa, and one, Mohan means he who attracts your mind and everything. Mohan also means attachment, so it depends on how you use the word. Sukhā rūpa sejñā dhyātmā, and thyself is the form of pleasure. And you are residing in that beautiful place which is above everything, just in the Nirakāra. Sahaja Dhyātmā, there you meditate. Dhyān Ātmā. Gurū Dīpā Ho Praṇām Sayār. O Guru Deva Mahāprabhū Dīpa. My salutations to Thee, O Lord. Āpa Hī Ho Paramātmā. You are that Paramātmā. Te vagy ez a Paramātmā. Śrī Dīpa Nayana Bhagavān, Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva, Alak Puruṣa Mahādeva, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānājī Bhagavān, Oṁ Śānti Śānti Śānti.

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