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Technology makes people lonely

True adoration arises from selfless responsibility, not self-proclamation. A king is adored only within his kingdom, but a saint is adored everywhere. Do not declare yourself a king; be made one by others. A self-made ruler is a dictator, not a true king. When a dictator's dog died, the whole village attended the funeral. When the dictator died, no one came. When a great saint enters Mahāsamādhi, all mourn. Therefore, focus on becoming a kingmaker, not a king yourself. In Rāja Yoga, you are the king of your own inner kingdom. You are responsible for your body, health, and thoughts. Do no harm to yourself; suicide is the greatest sin. You came into this life alone and will depart alone. This human life is given to serve creation. Practice yoga and meditation to avoid depression. Do not be troubled by who comes, goes, believes, or respects you. The selfish love common in the world causes divorce and war. True love is equal for all, expressed as kindness and forgiveness. Modern technology has isolated people. We must rebuild healthy families and communities. Walk the path of truth with discernment.

"Be a kingmaker. Don’t become a king yourself."

"This life, human life, God has given to serve God’s creation."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

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So you may call guru, you may call saint, you may call sadhu, or you may call a wise person. This is a difference. Now, choose yourself. And if you choose yourself, then we do something—an experiment. Let’s become at home, yourself as a king. When you come home, tell your wife and children, "I am the king." And then see how they adore you. So when you cannot make a few family members adore you, how are you going to let the whole village adore you? Go into the village and say, "I am the king." You need not go shopping. Everything is there. Well, then, in your district, and then the province. And then, your whole country. So see how they adore you when you say, "I am the king. I am a Rājayogī." They will look at you. It is not easy to get certain acknowledgment. Therefore, it is they who make you the king. Not that you said you are the king. Yeah, if you are a dictator, then it’s different. You know, a dictator, a lot of money, like a criminal. They take a phone to one shop, bring money there, that and that much. And they ask, "Who are you?" That’s not your problem. If you don’t bring the money, next morning, your shop is in the water or in the fire. So that is self-making king, but that is not reality. So that was in one village, and there was, like, a mayor of the city. And he was like a dictator. There was an election, but he told the village on that day’s election, you know that. If you will vote or not, you know that I am the mayor of the city. And I will see who has been putting the vote in my favor. There are people like that, you don’t know. Yes. One day he had a dog, and they were making a funeral for the dog. That mayor loved his dog very much. Now he announced the funeral, of course. A whole village, including little children, all went for the funeral of the mayor’s dog. And then, after some years, that mayor died. No one went to the funeral. Namaḥ Śivāya Om Namaḥ Om Namaḥ Śivāya, Om Namaḥ Śivāya,... Om Namaḥ Śivāya. And when a great saint, a spiritual saint, goes to Mahāsamādhi, then all people are sorry; they go to the funeral of Samādhi. Some are fasting, some are not eating. Because she or he was a good person. So be a kingmaker. Don’t become a king yourself. So this is the difference between the king and the yogī. Now we are in Rāja Yoga. And you come home and say, "We had Rāja Yoga, and we are Rāja now." Yes, you can become, but if you say that you are a king, they will crucify you. Therefore, the king first becomes your own king, and the king is responsible for the whole kingdom. So you are the king, and you are responsible for your whole body, inner organs, systems, health, joints, and this and that—everything. That when you open your eyes or close your eyes, you feel pleasant in your body. Sometimes they say, "I don’t feel well under my skin." Why? That is our thinking, which we think wrong. Therefore, always when we say, "Ānandoham, I am bliss, I am bliss..." Bliss am I, that’s it. So, manse jītī jīthe manse hare har, it is in your mind if you are a winner, or it is in your mind that you lost. Both times you are happy. That is a higher thinking, viveka, of a Rāja Yogī. So the Rāja Yogī will not do even hiṁsā towards itself, and therefore, when someone makes suicide, this is not acceptable. Often I spoke, and you know, the suicide. It is called ātmahatyā. So there are two kinds of ātmahatyā. One is that you kill someone, animals or anything. Or a human. That’s also a sin. But the biggest sin is self-murder. That we call ātmahatyā. God gave you this ātmā in this body to do something good. Therefore, don’t fall into the depression, don’t fall into the nervousness, sadness, and anger. We know that nobody will go with us, neither your father nor mother, nor husband and wife. Nor your children, nor even your friend. Finally, alone. Alone. We came alone, and we go alone. Though you are born as twins, you had your separate space in your mother’s body, and sometimes you were fighting inside for space. You can feel in the twins children who were dominating, so already in the stomach they are fighting. And we are getting old in the mother’s body. So from the first day when this Jīvātmā entered the mother’s body, this body is now getting older. You are already nine months old. So you should celebrate the nine months, each month, each day, and each second. That’s it. So, hiṁsā towards your own self: if you practice yoga āsanas, prāṇāyāma, meditation, concentration, and you think that you are free... Then you will have no depression, and you will not decide to make suicide. That’s it. So this life, human life, God has given to serve God’s creation. So, O Lord, mera jīvana terī pūjā. My life is a ceremony for You. My life is a worship for Thee, O my Lord. So, we are serving the Supreme. So don’t worry, somebody will come and go, and be angry, and this and that. If they believe in you or not, if one respects you or not. The Bhagavad Gītā said in the 12th chapter, "They are dear to me," who is neither longing for name nor fame, and they are my very dear ones. Who are above everything, no greed. That’s it. So finally, it is you who have to decide. And you should know who can lead your jīvātmā. That is Gurudev. Time is changing. Different people are meeting. You love someone very much, and the next day you don’t love them. So this is selfish, selfless, selfish. And the selfish is not good. So, you know how many times you changed your best friend. And with one word, you changed everything. So you should know it is that kind of love which kills you, and that is why you always say God is love. Poor God, poor God, how often he is disappointed. If your wish is fulfilled, "Oh God, I love you." And when you can’t pass your examination, even you were saying, "God, please help me that I will come through." And you lost. Even God did not help. Cruel. I thought, "God is love." He didn’t accept my love. So, my dear, what is love? Don’t repeat always, "Love, love..." God is God. He’s not emotion. Okay, all right? You say your father is your love, your father is your love, your mother is your love, your wife is your love. Okay? But do not humiliate your Lord with this little word, love. Or love is that you don’t love one. All equal, you love. Then maybe whole night I’ve had a dialogue with God. I said, God, everyone says to you that God is love. God is love. God said, "I’m completely, completely lost. Wherever I look, they are shooting this arrow at me." Love, love... love. And this kind of love is the cause of wars. It is the cause of loneliness. It is the cause of what we call divorce. If you would have understood God, love, then you would not have gotten divorced. How many in this Kali Yuga, and especially in the last five decades or seven decades, how many children have lost their parents? Is this not cruel, that you put your child in the court, whom you would choose, your mother or father? When he looks, father looks to the child. The child is afraid. Father. And what about your mother? Mother is looking toward the child. No, I will go to my mother. What is this? Such a terrible situation for this small child. Did you understand the love? Why did you give the child? Why did you tell your wife, "I love you," or your husband, "I love you"? So don’t write any more love. Write blessings, good wishes, good health, all these things. Don’t write this. Today we changed the subject. God, Mahāprabhujī, no love more you get chocolate. So, if you believe that God is love, then God is in everyone, and therefore you should not separate your marriage, and please let your children grow. Even if you are 90 years old and your mother and father get divorced. Still not good. You create one beautiful nest and beautiful babies inside, and you are mother and father. But you need more love. Your children are your love. Your neighbor is your love, respect, take care, humbleness. Kindness. Forgiveness. That is. These kinds of words have more value nowadays. That’s it. So a Rāja Yogī, a Rāja Yogī, has a very hard time because he is responsible for everything. So similarly, father and mother are responsible. So again, we have to come to this family system. In these last few centuries, we have made humans lonely and lost. Since when? When the first television entered your house, it was separation. Then you had a TV in your office, then one in your room. So the father had one in his room, the wife had one in her kitchen, and the children had one in theirs, but still they were connected. Then came the laptop. Now you are completely individual, and now you have a telephone. So even you are sitting and eating with the family, constantly, they are reading Facebook and sending SMS to somebody. "Message. Don’t worry, I’m eating. Yes." In 30 minutes, I will come. So, where are you? So, he made the humans alone. Separated humans, that is not good. So we have to collect again, and we have to create a good, healthy, big family. Then your house, your society, your village, your country—we love each other. And then you will love neighboring countries. You will respect them. Then that was the love, not for individuality. So, Rāja Yoga is very important. Ahiṁsā. Now, after the Ahiṁsā, what is there? Yes. What Holī Gurujī said? Satya path chalana. You know this bhajan? Satya path chalana. So Holī Gurujī said, "Satya path chalana." Walk on the path of the truth. Yes. And the path of truth is like yesterday’s story. How to protect the truth and how to protect thyself from non-truth with Viveka. So, you know that one story. Many times I have told these stories of the Gurujī, who told Gurujī also from other satsaṅgs, from other saints, from the Vedānta, many things. So the master and disciple were walking, going village to village. When the sun set, they slept there. So they put their little fire, and they had a little tent. If it’s raining, they will put up the tent. And today, Master said, "Here is not a good place." But the disciple said, "Every place is the same, Guru Deva. It’s okay." So the Guru said, "One of us should be awakened." So, do you want to sleep first, or should I sleep? Disciple said, "Master, you sleep. I will guard." Exactly one o’clock, Master woke up and said to the disciple, "Now you sleep." He was tired from whole day walking, and now six hours sitting, eyelids become heavy. So he uses one eye closed and the other eye open. Again, one eye is open. Goes down. The sleep doesn’t need a bed. And hunger doesn’t need cake. Even dry bread is the best. One o’clock, Master said, "Now you sleep, and I will guard." So Gurujī is sitting, making a mālā, and the disciple was, within no time, deep sleeping around 2:30 or 3 o’clock, when the deep sleep is there, and mostly thieves go at that time because, at that time, everybody is sleeping, especially the alcoholics. Now Gurudev hears some sound, and Gurudev is looking with a torchlight—a big snake, a big cobra. When Gurujī made light, the cobra came up. Guruji put the light off and said, "Who are you? You are not a snake. Where are you going?" He said, "I’m going to bite your disciple. I want to suck his blood." So Gurujī said, "Why? Why do you want to drink his blood? I’m sitting here. And why?" He said, "Master, you don’t know. We have each other a kind of hate, and so we both have a revenge. So when he becomes human, I become a snake and bite him, drink his blood. And then next life, he drinks my blood." So this is in many, many lives. We have revenge. So I will kill him. I will drink his blood. Guruji said, "Only blood or something more? Only his blood." Then Gurudev said, "Sit down where you are. Sit down. You will get milk, blood, one cup is enough." He said, "That’s more than enough. Then sit down." Now Gurujī got up and sat on the stomach of the disciple. In which āsana? Vajrāsana. And then he took the knife, and the disciple woke up. He opened his eyes, and Gurujī had a knife. What will you think when Gurujī will come and sit on you with a knife in his hand? But when he saw it was Gurujī, he closed his eyes and continued his sleep. So Gurujī cut a little of his vein and took the blood in the katorī, and then he tied it, and with the katorī he went to the snake to drink, and the snake drank. So Master said, "You got it? Say yes." So, don’t bite him anymore, and he will not bite you anymore next life. Now, your revenge is finished. The cobra said, "Yes, Master, thank you. This was many, many lives we had this struggle, this fight. Thank you, Master." From today onwards, I have no more revenge. This thing went away. In the morning, the disciple woke up. He saw on his hand some bandage. Master said, "My son, did you see something in the night when you slept?" No, only one thing. What? You were sitting on me and had a knife in your hand. Yes, you were not afraid? Why should I be afraid? When Gurudev, you protect me, I gave my life in your hands. Now you have all freedom to do what you like. Even if you cut my throat, I will not be sad. I have no fear. So why should I waste my sleep? I have trust in you, Gurudev. And I have interest to sleep. Gurujī said, "You are the good disciple." So also the conflict between master and disciple was also cleaned out, and the revenge of many lives and life revenge was also cleaned out. So, what did you think Gurujī said? It is you. Why should I be worried? You save me, you protect me. Jis kī rakṣā marta kar rahe, Nanda liyā guru śaraṇa. Asā kar rahe ānanda, terī satā guru rake. Lāja cintā mat karna, cintā mat karna. Nirvāya saṅkaṭ bhī mat dharaṇa. Bhagavān, Devājī Dev, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Alagpurījī Mahādeva, Satya Sanātana Dharma, Bhārata Mātā Kī, Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ.

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