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Yoga brings balance between space and consciousness

A spiritual discourse on cosmic cycles, consciousness, and the rarity of human life.

"Now is the Kali Yuga, called the Iron Time or Darkness... It is a time full of sin, and when this pot is filled up, it will not only flow out but explode."

"Spirituality means purity, pure, crystal clear. There is not any spot of darkness or gray. That means there is no duality, and there is no anger, hate, jealousy, etc."

The speaker addresses a gathering, explaining the concept of the four yugas (ages), focusing on the current Kali Yuga as a time of spiritual darkness. He describes the awakening of the universe from the void (śūnyākāśa), the role of divine sound (Nāda), and the appearance of Śiva. The talk emphasizes the preciousness and responsibility of human birth among 8.4 million life forms, the nature of true spirituality as purity, and the karmic dust accumulated in worldly life.

Filming location: New Zealand

Om śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ irbhavatu. Good evening, dear sisters and brothers. Welcome. Naginbhai, you have placed me so high up that I am almost afraid of falling down. I am just a human being like you. Thank you. It is our great masters; it is their blessings which come to us. Somebody else speaks within us. There are two ways to speak. One way is to write on a piece of paper for two or three days, changing it again and again, and then come and read from that paper. That is called reading; it is old food from previous days. The second way is when you speak as a machine, a loudspeaker, but somebody else is speaking. When you or I speak from our heart, from our knowledge and experiences, it is a completely different talk. That means it comes from the supreme. There is a connection between our heart and God, or the supreme one. Inspiration, everything—it is our masters who are leading us. My spiritual lineage, or ours—as in this present moment you are with me, we are one—is from Satyayuga. Many of you may not know this word, Satyayuga. It is in the Sanskrit language. According to Indian astrology, or the counting of time, it refers to millions of years ago. It is called Satyayuga: the best, the supreme, the clear, the peaceful, the truth, the light. That is Satyayuga. Then comes Dvāparayuga, changing a little bit. Then Tretā Yuga, changing more, and then Kali Yuga. Now is the Kali Yuga, called the Iron Time or Darkness. After this Kali Yuga, we will again turn into Satyayuga. What is happening now in our world, in every country—what humans are doing, how they are torturing each other, how they are torturing or slaughtering animals with no mercy—this is called Kali Yuga. It is a time full of sin, and when this pot is filled up, it will not only flow out but explode. We are still in peace, but very soon it will be a very, very hard time. We hope it will not happen. How should the end of the Kali Yuga happen? We can try, we will try, we pray. There are many, many people in the world. There are more good people than bad people, if you begin to see. So we still have protection: the great ṛṣis. The great ṛṣis are still existing from Satyayuga, millions of years. We cannot see them; they do not appear to us. But their very being on this earth is a great, great protection. They need not come anywhere or appear. It is like the sun in the sky. Whether we can touch it or come close or not, its light is here. That light is from that sun. So, great saints are there. In this Kali Yuga, people get a glimpse of divine light, divine thoughts, and divine feelings. But again, even the sun becomes dark. Similarly, many people begin with spirituality, but their vṛtti—meaning their thoughts—turn them opposite again, and they are lost. They have some feeling, but they again go into darkness. This is Kali Yuga. There are very few people who continue on that path without changing. In Satyayuga, there was a time when Śiva comes. In the very beginning, there is complete darkness. There is nothing, only the universe. In that, there are no planets or stars. That is called śūnyakāśa, though it exists, it is not visible anymore. It is dim; everything is dim. Śūnya means a void; there is nothing. Everything is sleeping. It is at that time when the awakened soul—we each have one soul—those who were in past lives and this life are constantly on the path of spirituality. What is spirituality? Spirituality is not what we call "I pray" or "you pray," or reading holy books. Spirituality means purity, pure, crystal clear. There is not any spot of darkness or gray. That means there is no duality, and there is no anger, hate, jealousy, etc. Human life and humanity are at the last point. They will either levitate to the highest world or fall down again. There are 8.4 million different creatures, and out of them, one is the human. This is a great chance. But from millions and millions of humans, maybe one comes out. It is not easy. Again you begin, and again you fall down. Again you begin, you lie down and sleep, you wake up, and then again you sleep. But that one is called cetanā. Chetan means aware, conscious. It does not matter what happens. It is not your subject; it is not your matter. Who are you to tell something bad about anything or anyone? If you are very pure and on the path of spirituality, then no negative thoughts can enter your consciousness. If you speak badly of someone, first you are the bad one, and then you speak the bad. It means in your consciousness appears that awareness of darkness. It means you are polluted. You are the first, that bad one, who says the word "bad"—"this man said," "this man did," "this woman did." The spot, the dark spot, is in your heart. You are not pure. It does not matter if you have been trying for many years, meditating and doing good things. Within no time, this spot is there. We are standing near a pond. This pond has very dirty water, and we are standing there. We take a stone and say, "Ah, this dirty pond!" But you know what happens? It will splash on you. So when you criticize anything, you are spotted. That spirituality is not easy to go through. Holy are they who will swallow this negative life, words, or subject, and it purifies—like you put your laundry in the washing machine, and it gives the laundry back clean. So if you hear something, even if you see something, you do not see it; you see pure. A small child is born as a little child, making urine and cold, but the mother does not see that. The father and mother do not see that. They will clean it. The mother waits so much to have a child, to clean her child. It is something divine, a love. The love of the mother for the child. It does not matter if it is an animal child or a human. It is that mother of your cow, or your dog, or your cat. She will lick the baby, not others. That means you clean everything again. So those great saints, ṛṣis, who are still under the glaciers, under the rocks—they reach a position or level of consciousness where their physical body becomes pure, crystal pure, so that yogī, not we, can walk through rock. They are not visible to us. That body has changed. We have a physical body, a mental body, and consciousness. Different parts of the bodies: annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, manomaya kośa, vijñānamaya kośa, and the karmic kośa. These are the five layers of our whole being as a creature, animal or human. It takes a long, long time to come there. God gave us human life. Sin is created when one appears in the human body. Others, they have to go through their karmic actions, whatever they do, good or bad, but it will not be counted because they are already in that darkness. You cannot be more in darkness. So, śūnyākāśa, void space, nothing. Now, there are two. One is called consciousness. That is called cetan. Chetan ke toh ichchhā nahī. Chetan means very pure, clean, aware, complete. That one has no desire. As soon as you have a desire, you are on the other side. We are still better, but we are still in the process; the laundry is still not finished. Those who are awakened have no wish, no desires, nothing. That is not so easy. It is the last minutes of your life. If you are that one, that time your life will be just like you are transferring. You see your holy life. This is the last minute because if you say, "I am now very pure and very good," suddenly some karma will happen again. You are there, so walk dhire dhire. There is one bhajan of Holy Gurujī: "Mahāprabhujī, manvā dhire dhire chal"—please walk slowly, carefully. And so, those great senses... So, chetan ke toh ichchhā nahīṁ, and jad se kush nahīṁ hoī. What is this? Material cannot do anything. The awakened one has no desire, and the other one cannot do anything without others. We need two, male and female, to get a child. But that one, that male, has no icchā, no desire at all, and the other cannot do anything. How do these come together? It is said in the holy Vedas, or in those great senses, that finally desire awakens not in that consciousness. So there are three points: that is called yoga, the space, and consciousness. So is the consciousness in the space, or space in the consciousness? Now who is going to act? How is it happening? It is said that yoga means balance between the space and the consciousness. Harmonizing; there is no stress, no fighting. So, the harmonizing, balancing, and awareness between these three principles. There happens something, and that is called the awakening of the universe, not of one person. And it is endless. We are limited, one, and that one is limitless. Anant—therefore, there is no other word; it is called only Anant. Anant means endless. We do not know where the border is, and we are limited. How can we describe the endless? For example, our whole body is that endless for us. For example, now, on the little toe, a little ant bites you on your small toe. Suddenly, the whole body has a vibration. That something happened there in that way, the whole endless universe, and there is that consciousness. So it is said, there is desire, there is awakening. Now that awakening—but who and how and where? That is in the holy Vedas. Vedas are the first scriptures, the very, very ancient ones. Vedas were written first, but before that, the Vedas are called Śruti and Smṛti. Śruti means what you hear, and smṛti means you remember. So your remembering gives further. But how did they do it, and how are they doing now? For example, the Australian Aborigines—the gene in them is from India. Now scientists have found it; it is from India. How many ages? How did they come? How did they walk? Or there was earth together somewhere, but they did not lose the generation. Born and born, they do not know, but still in them is that evidence: the genes of the Indians and their way of life. They also still make white here and white here, like South Indians—it was a South Indian. Okay, I do not want to label people, but similarly, that memory in our brain is such that all the times it will give you further. A great saint, Vyāsa, was the trikāla-darśī. Trikāla-darśī: tri means the three times—past, present, and future. Darśī means the seer, the one who can see the past, present, and future. That is when it is completely crystal clear and clean. We can imagine and think about the future, or we remember something from the past. We are suffering in the present. That is all. But that very clear point is that from which it is coming. So then that Vedavyāsa wanted to dictate how to write. So think and write. There is a long distance from your brain to come to awareness. It is already too long a time. So it is said, which is in the Vedas, and still we do believe, that Vedavyāsa wanted to write the Vedas, but he did not know how or who could write. "I will dictate; someone should write." So Lord Gaṇeśa said, "I will do it." There are two big caves in the Himalayas where Vyāsa was living, and Gaṇeśa. Vyāsa told Gaṇeśa, Bhagavān Gaṇeśa, God Gaṇeśa, "I do not want you to sit beside me because you can disturb my thoughts. Go far into some cave." So Gaṇeśa is sitting in a far cave. The cave is there; you can go and see. He has written the stories there, everything. Now, Vedavyāsa said—what we call sent thoughts, telepathy—so, Vyāsa is not a joke, not a story. It is the reality. Vyāsa said, "I will send my thoughts, but do not ask me, 'Ganesha, what did you say?' You fail. It is already broken. I cannot write anymore. It should flow like now. The video you see is everything going there. So, will you do it, Ganesha?" Ganesha said yes. Vyasa said, "It is my promise and my words. These are the conditions. Do not say, 'Wait a minute.'" Ganesha said, "Okay, but my condition is this: not a quarter second you stop to think, then I will not write anymore." This is a story that is beautiful, beautiful like this, how they wrote the Vedas. But before that, memory was given further and further in the memory. We humans have different memories, telephones, and many things, but still the birds, animals, they have their memories. The wildlife always has their path where their ancestors were going, anant, endless, and we are limited, so in anant. He said, "Now the desire came. But who? There is no one. There is no desire. Who should have a desire?" So it came, that sound, that sound resonance, the whole universe. Eko’haṁ bahusyāmi. Empty space, dark, nothing. But one vibration came. Eko’haṁ bahusyāmi. "I am one. Now I will multiply." So who is multiplying? And who said "I am"? But the Vedas were written by Vedavyāsa. Eko’ham bahusyāmi: "I am one, and I will multiply." But who? And that was a vibration. That vibration, within no time—like the little ant bite on your small toe, and your whole body knows something has bitten—in that time, that consciousness. Awoken now, the conscious became aware. But who? How? When? Where? So from this came the vibration. That is called Nāda-rūpa-parabrahma. In the Vedas, it is written: "Nāda-rūpa-parabrahma." That resonance, that sound, that word, that is God. Nothing, no physical, nothing. So that sound came. But what happens where? Who listens and who wants to give the definition? Nothing. From that resonance appears the fire element. Suddenly sparkling, suddenly the flame, the jyotis. Nobody knows what, who, how—Agni Deva. And from that appears Sreyambhu, we call Sreyambhu, that Śiva who has no father and no mother. How he manifested, nobody knows. But Shiva came, appeared, and that is called the Swayambhu. You produced, you created yourself, and so life begins from this. And that is what we call the purities, God, the creation, etc. And now it is continuing and continuing. The day, time will come that it all will be dissolved. The earth will sink into the ocean, and then the water will disappear. But between that, there are many, many yugas. Yugas means ages: Satyayuga, Dvāparayuga, Tretāyuga, and Kaliyuga. And in this, there are 8.4 million different creatures in three levels: jalacara first, the creatures in the water; thalacara, on the earth, in the earth; nabhacara, in the space. These are different lives, and there is coming, moving, developing everything. So it is from that coming something purity. There are existing rare, rare... and so we are in the body of the humans. We jump over now, okay? Otherwise, we do not know. We will talk and talk different things. Now, when they begin, the creation begins symbolically. We can say the cosmic parliament, all the divine energies in the form of energies. Different, different gods. Now we are going to create something. Okay, a girl was born, a boy is born. They study everything, this and that. Then they decide that they will marry only once and will get a child and continue; that is all. Nowadays, that principle is gone, so humans have begun to behave with animal nature. Humans are different, but animals have a different nature. So they said, "Now we shall create something." There is a vibration, there is a life, one life only, still the one. And so the principles—your thoughts, your feelings, your hunger, your thirst—everything is in your body; all you are, or myself. Do not go to him or her; it is the same. We are all one. And so what? What? From the anant, endless, the essence coming, light coming, force coming, energy coming. So that is it. Now we shall create one world where the jīva, the life, will come. All were happy. "Wow! Wow! Great!" But to whom was said "Wow"? Nobody is there. What is happening? This is saying that if you meditate, you will see the whole picture. Then, what will happen? All will come and come and come. Nobody will go anywhere. Here, they are just lying like rocks, so many, one after the other. After all, who cares? They are just lying. That is not so. We should move them. Nobody wants to work. They should move. Okay, but how? So then comes that supreme god, a different kind of god, and they said: hunger. Hunger, that is called jathāgni. That fire said, "I will enter into their body, in their pancreas, solar plexus, and that will burn." And nothing, but they begin to search for something. So, the stomach is burning inside, but what to eat? What should they eat? How to calm down the fire? The fire, so now they are like a life. So then it is said, "Jīva jīva bhakṣate"—life will eat life. "Jīva jīva bhakṣate"—life will eat life. So whatever you find, you see, you will attack and eat them. So the animals are doing: fish eating fish, mosquitoes eating mosquitoes, flies—everyone tries to eat each other. That was the creation. Then Dharmarāja comes, the god of justice, and as Yama, the god of death. Yama will attack and eat them, but Dharmarāja said, "But I must give the... judgment? What will happen? They will kill another, will kill, and again come and again go. Where is the end?" So, create one more after this all as a human. So, human will not eat others. Human will eat that: the vegetation, water, milk, vegetation, and... So life begins, then it creates karma. Yes, you have a beautiful dress, very clean and everything, your shoes and everything. You go out; the dust is on it. It was so clean, and after one hour you come in, everything is dusty. So you go out into this world, you create karma, impurities. How to clean that? So in Anant, there is how it began. There began the stress. There begins the stress. Even the animals have stress. Your cat has stress. Your dog has stress. Your cow has stress. Your families, your children, your wife, your husband, everyone is full of stress. And now the stress makes us weaker and weaker and weaker, so consciousness is brought into life and becomes as a soul more and more. And more so, there are 8.4 million different kinds of life creatures, and one is the human, who can get the liberation, or the highest, the supreme. That one, I will come, and he or she—I do not know if she is coming sometime, and he is coming—that... But generally, we say only "he." So then the Śakti said, "What means 'he'? Who is that?" She said, "I am." So this is another chapter I will tell. So that is now all this: out of 8.4 million, one is the human. And scientists tell that the first human was in Tibet. And there is the mountain Kailāś. And at Kailash, there Shiva appeared. Appeared now that from America, what they call NASA, they found many things. First, they found where the first scientist said the first human was there. Now, just today again, I looked on Facebook from NASA that they see life living. Shiva meditating on that, and once closing his eyes, goes ages and ages. So when he will open his eyes, that time will be again the liberation, or whatever it is. Similarly, the Oṁ sound, which we will come after, how to bring this trace away? So there are many, many things in this. So in every creature, every human has their own. And we continue, and we continue, and we continue. So there is only one human. So they described or declared: there is no race, no racism. Human is human. Human is human. It does not matter if you are dark, black, white, big, small, Asian, African, etc. Human is human. Do not make difference in this, because human is a human soul. Everything, one is a human. Now the stress point is coming, so we can make a little interval—five minutes only. Or if there are... Small rooms are not too many, so maybe they need longer. So we have a five- to ten-minute break, and then we continue. Time. Adios and Vagabond.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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