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Attachment towards God

True attachment is the oneness that lasts until eternity, like a river flowing to the ocean. Positive attachment within a family is the goal. Marital separation is painful and disregards the children, who carry the union of father and mother within them. This loving attachment must be protected; to break it is to act beneath human dignity. Such failure often leads to seeking solace in substances. Our pure, eternal attachment should be to God, whom we believe in but have not seen. God is neutral and formless, yet perceived everywhere, as in ancient stones or mountains. All existence stems from one Sanātana Dharma, encompassing all elements and life. True seekers find God within themselves through purity. Do not separate the family unit, for that is the opposite of yoga, which means union. The love between husband and wife can become divine.

"Yoga means one, and separated means no yoga."

"Where are you searching? You are with me."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Welcome, all of you. As usual, much love to all our sisters, brothers, and children. We all have attachments, and sometimes it is not easy to give them up. Do you know what I mean? I was away for five months in another part of the world, but I was really looking forward very much to seeing you. So I think not only disciples, but the Master or Gurudev also has attachment. Attachment is something which is great. There are different kinds of attachments. The one attachment which you are talking about, which I am talking about, is the oneness till eternity. It is like the attachment of a river to the ocean. It doesn’t matter how many curves the river has or how many islands come between; that water is constantly flowing toward the ocean. So, if we can get such an attachment—positive thinking, positive talking, positive thinking in the whole family—that is the goal. Nowadays, unfortunately, we see how many marriages are breaking again. This is very, very painful. For a couple, separation might be easier, maybe. But it means that you are not thinking of your children. What you had to do, you have done it. But now you have to take care of both father and mother for their children. Until when? Until your children will still remain and will follow the attachment. And this attachment lasts till the grave. And then it becomes a stronger attachment, because that father and mother were with you. But now the father and mother are within you, beside you. You were in the mother, and you were in the father. That loving attachment of the Father... because you were already in the space. How to come in? And so the Father was looking for the space, and that space was looking... like what? Now, the season has come. The farmer will throw the seeds, but if there is no rain at all, with a very hot temperature and everything drying, then the rain... and the rain needs the earth. We call the earth another part; we call it the mother. We call it Mother Earth. Or did you say Father Earth? I think Slovakians, or Czechoslovakians, say Father Earth, no? Yes. So we all say Mother Earth, but the fatherland—another thing is there too. What does that mean? Mother Earth is there, and the father has to protect. You know very well what we call the father’s land. And for that, for ages and ages, people have been fighting. We were fighting, and even dying for it. How many wars? Yes, that’s my father’s territory. But that one does not know that this seed will fit in other territory, and you will try to keep that side. So, this is how it is between mother and father and children. So if you are very loving of God and you have attachment—pure attachment, but forever—then we are on the right way to the Supreme. Therefore, when you have children, there is something our ancestors were always telling. Now we don’t have ancestors? No, our ancestors, we don’t know where they are buried. Maybe the father is in Mexico, maybe somewhere we don’t know. That’s not so. It is always in our blood. Blood is thicker than water. So you remember your country and your old heritage. And maybe this attachment will bring you here again. Why not? So it is that attachment from both sides, father and mother. And who is the loving one? The child. And that one, because you were brought from both sides together. And therefore, the child has more attachment, more love, and more care—for your enjoyment. For whatever you want to do, you have done it. And you have immense love in your family. Otherwise, you know, when your wife left you, how is your husband unhappy? Or your husband left you, how is the wife unhappy? That is nothing, because that is gone. But your love, your attachment, it’s in your children. And that you have to protect. Be together. That’s it. And if you cannot do that, then you are a human, you are not an animal. Why are you married? Why have you got children? Do you understand me? Am I wrong? Maybe someone is sitting here and now feeling sorry. But this we have to do ourselves. Why did you go to the drugs? Why did you fall into alcohol? Many things. So it is said, "Don’t steal, don’t drink alcohol." But ask why you drink alcohol. Husband or wife, it doesn’t matter. One of them is coming home, and now he or she loves the bottle. Why? Because on one side, you have lost. So in this way, our attachment is very important. That’s a positive attachment. We have attachment to God. And God said, "Why are you attached to me?" Did you see God? Often, I’m flying in the aeroplane, night time, day time. In the nighttime and daytime, they close the windows. I am opening the window in the night. Maybe somewhere God is meditating. Nowhere. Daytime also nowhere. We trust. We believe in God, but we have not seen. So it is like that. It is a hope, the stick of hope from the cradle to the grave. So we have God, but we don’t know. Maybe God comes as a fox, and he’s coming today from the far end of your field. The fox is sitting near the ashram, and we said, "Oh, I had a fox." Our dog will run behind. We don’t know in which form he will come. Maybe you are the God. That is something more logical. And God is neutral—no wife and no man. Someone was telling, how many children did Śiva have? Someone asked someone, so that master said, "They did not have documents." So I can tell you, Śiva is Śiva. Oh, I come between two. We have to chant, we have to sing. But the attachment has pulled me, so it means that really I was looking forward to seeing you all. And I said I was counting the days to come to Strelky, and all will be here. They become the cells of the body. Anyhow, I left here on the 21st of December last year. I visited many countries, and many of our ashrams and bhaktas, and many, many. My last journey was Cuba, very nice people, nice country. But in those countries—Mexico, America, Canada, Fiji, Australia—there was another generation, other people, and they were all killed by Europeans. The English speakers, they take the territories, and then they have the English language. Those who speak Spanish, they all kill and keep the people who speak Spanish language. The French friends, exactly. So in Cuba, Cuba has two and a half million generations of people, what we call them, and in that, it is said more than two thousand yoga and dālai practitioners there—in hospitals, schools, colleges, old houses, people, etc. And this is our, from Barcelona, the, what is her name, Yamunā. For the last 10 to 15 years, she’s been teaching there. One day they took me somewhere to go sightseeing. How were people living at that time? But they said, "No one is left there because they were all killed." But some from other countryside tried to come. They come from other parts of the country, from other parts of the continent, and they try to return there. It is different in Europe, and in Europe it is different there. So they showed us they had huts, and there were a few people coming and making some dancing or something, and giving information about insects. So there were people coming, so one man comes, one man more, three, two more, and then come the ladies. So they have only a dress, a chest, and like Kumbh Mela langotis for the women and the men. But, well, it was their time, but they came out while he had the, what do you call, the bow and arrow, and he came out. Now, there is someone sitting here who was with me, and they are the witness, but I will not let them take the time. So, this one man comes from the hut, angry, playing the theater, and he comes out and says, "Śiva! Śiva! Brahmā! Where? Viṣṇu." I thought they knew that I am Indian and my religion is Śiva and Brahmā. But they don’t know anything. Neither do they know who I am. So, after they were playing their things, and then they took me, put the hair like this, cap, and colors, "Śiva!" And after we were visiting, so I said, "What did you change, sing?" He said, "We don’t know." We said, "Śiva." So I said, "What is that? At least you know." Yeah, it’s something like God or something. So it means when we are talking, the Svayambhū Śiva, Śiva is not only for India. He was for all, everywhere. When I went to Fiji, in Fiji there are many, many stones coming and like a cobra’s. And there’s one beautiful mountain, and there’s a beautiful lake on the top. Rare people go there into the forest, like this. And there on the rock, there’s like a foot. In the rocks, like a car, a box, like a... And so they said it was the Śiva. That mountain is very, very ancient. And now there is water from there. In the whole world, one company distributes that water. It’s called the Fiji water. And this company is called Vodafone. And more Vodafone must be from these countries, like Europe, Vienna, Slovakia, Spain, or something like this. That water is very great, very good. So I can say what I’m giving, instructions and lectures. Ānanda Brahmāṇḍa, endless universe, and from there is coming on this earth, and that earth was still not out, it was in the water. And the first time Earth was brought out from the Earth, from the water, that was the Varāha. Out of the 24 incarnations, the Varāha, he brought the earth out on his teeth. So when we go around the world, we see many things. Some come only for the nice enjoyment of the forest, and really, that’s all. And someone is looking with different eyes. So God is everywhere. And in the end of the Tretā Yuga, and at the beginning of the coming Kali Yuga, from there began different religions. There was no other religion, only one Sanātana, Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana Dharma is not a human religion only. It is all, the whole on this globe, what is happening: water, earth, air, fire, space. In the water, the water life, and from that water came the earth and creatures on the earth. And in the space, flying. That’s called jelchar, talchar, and nabchar. So if we go there, then there is that God. And the other is very spiritual persons, we call them then God. In the avatāras, that 24th one is called Kali Yuga, Kali, but he still hasn’t come. And it was said that they wanted to include Jesus in the list of incarnations. And Jesus said, "No, I am only the son of God, I am not God." So, who is born from a mother’s womb, no matter how great, is still human, and it came with all powers, etc., as may be called, like a god. Like Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Gurujī, and many others. But they are not immortal. Sooner or later, they will give up the body. So now, if you can be like that, but you have to have that attachment, and attachment means it’s a test. It can’t go anymore. Nowadays, they have a nice glue, quicker glue. So, can you think? You put your hands on this glue and said, "Ah!" How long will you say only prāṇām, prāṇām? Do you go to the doctor? Nothing. You take off your shirt. You can’t take it out. That one that stuck, like milk and water, became in oneness. So what are we looking for? God. But where? So there’s one mufti, mufti... no? From Muslims. Muslim, yeah. Aha, one of those Muslim spiritual leaders. A mufti, perhaps? Not mufti. Sufi. Sufi. OK, Sufi. Understand? So there was a great saint in Mufti. Yes, and he sings one bhajan: "Moku kaha to dunde bande, me to tere pās me." Oh, my friend. What are you looking for? I am with you. "Moku kaha to dunde bande, me to tere pās me." Oh, my friend. Means the God. Where are you searching? You are with me. When you will search for me, just now I will come to you. Just like an eye movement. In that search, you will see God. That’s it. So when purity is in our body, then we are that God, because humans became as God. But there is a quality, is it not? The quality is coming, and what we call the education. So it is not easy. So where are you looking for God? Tell anybody, did you see God? You can tell me also. I will say yes, my Gurujī. Mahāprabhujī, you have your master, you have your God. In Kali Yuga, everyone is like that. No one is giving to God. So life is like that. But let’s come to this point. Therefore, the mother and father should not separate from the parents. Maybe you feel better to separate, but in future life, next life, you will suffer in it. What kind of suffering? That kind of sorrow of the children. Little child, you said, "Will you stay with mother or with the father?" Is it for us? Father and mother, and what poor judge have to do? Judge will say, "Then please, three days you, and three days like," somehow they have to do something. But when you have separated your child, so those who have done it have done it. Well, the parents, children, when they are about 20, 25 or something, then they will go more to the father or mother, but it is split. So don’t say that, Swamiji, "This is not yoga, what you are talking about." This is real yoga. Yoga means one, and separated means no yoga. So, husband and wife can become great, like a god. They should not separate. Just for your little happiness or anything. Therefore, Holī Gurujī said in a nice bhajan. It’s a very nice bhajan. And you know very much, we have translated many things. So Holī Gurujī said about love, we call it praim. We call God love, and love is God. What do you mean when you say "the love of God" and "God and love"? That is not your physical enjoyment. It is the heart. And that is endless. That we need. So Holī Gurujī said... Thank you for watching.

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