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Respect the family traditions

An evening satsang on the oneness of life, contrasting human existence with the natural world.

"Perhaps it is a prayer. They are giving out happiness."

"God gave them some knowledge, just nature, and they are following it."

The speaker observes the innate joy and wisdom in birds and ants, using them to reflect on human discontent and complexity. He explores themes of the singular life force (jīva) within all creatures, the spiritual concepts of ātmā and paramātmā, and the karmic responsibilities within family and marriage. The talk weaves between nature observations, spiritual philosophy, and social commentary, concluding with a bhajan.

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

What a beautiful evening, a beautiful day, a beautiful sunrise and sunset. We are in a beautiful place with lush vegetation, fresh oxygen, and the lovely sound of birds—many different kinds. All day, the birds have been moving and flying about. In the evening, they return to their nests, to their trees. Each one comes to its own tree and nest, so happy, singing. Perhaps it is a prayer. They are giving out happiness. We humans, when we come home in the evening, how happy are we? How happy are the children? The mother comes, the father comes, grandparents are with the children. If birds can be so happy, why should we not be happy? The birds are still singing. They are saying something I do not understand, but I know one thing: they are happy. Why can we not be happy? We should become one. We are one. We are not this body. We talk about our body and explain things on the surface. But if we come to know, we must see every small spot from our skin to the whole body. What miracles are in our body? We do not know, and we will not know. It will all go away. But it is said that the ātmā is the one. The jīvā is the one. When it rains, it rains equally. In some places, maybe less; in some places, more. Somewhere big drops, somewhere little drops, but it is that. The rain is everywhere. So we are one. Perhaps some of us humans are more intelligent. But maybe the birds say humans are not intelligent. There was a conference one evening in a deep forest with many trees and bushes. They were having a conference and asked, "What is the result from all of us about humans?" They said, "Stupid." Their whole life is spent struggling to find this and that, and not this and not that—everything. So one bird said, "Why should they not be happy and just be relaxed, and live naturally?" What will we humans take with us? Someone made this beautiful hall where thousands of people can sit, and more on chairs. But where is that person? It is not his or hers anymore. It is gone. So do something which will remind you, something everybody will remember. Who made this hall? It is for the comfort of all, and therefore it is positive work. But birds are also doing such work; even the ants are doing it. You know there are nests of ants, and you cannot get rid of them. On your land, there was a nest of ants. We dug everything out and built two buildings, but the ants came back. Underground, where we park our cars, they began to come again and make their nest. The ants work day and night. Did you ever see an ant sitting and sleeping? I did not see. Did you? I do not know if they have a time to lay those eggs and bring them to a safe place. Now we have electronic instruments, navigators that tell us in one day or one week there will be heavy rain. Sometimes three days pass and the rain does not come. But the ants know how high the water will rise, and accordingly, they bring their eggs from their nest in the earth up onto a tree. When you see an ant crawling on a tree with something white in its mouth, that is the egg from the nest. That is a mother’s love. The father goes and sits in the nest and says, "Okay, it’s good. You go and work." And truly, when that time comes, the rain will come 100%, and they are in a safe place. So do not think all animals are stupid. God gave them some knowledge, just nature, and they are following it. In some way, we humans are also intelligent. Yes. On the highway, there are six lanes, but there is a sign: forest, children, animals—whatever we call them—wild animals are crossing. Why do they write there? Because they know their generations always cross there. Their ancestors went there and came back. Every bird and everything—now you see some birds flying here—and when it becomes cold, they will prepare everything. They know not to have babies now because in two weeks or one month, they will fly away again. They fly very high. Some fly about a thousand meters, some ten thousand meters. A very big one goes to four thousand meters in height. They are just flying in the wind, not moving much. That is what we call learning from this to make aeroplanes. But still, we cannot compare with nature. When a big speed comes, a bird just comes to a tree, lands on a branch, and sits just like that. I was observing. This time I was sitting daily in our ashram. There is an electronic cable from this house to the other house, crossing the road. That cable is like a small finger. Let’s say a pigeon comes very speedily and sits on the electric cable. It does not move like this; it just sits there. How is their balance so perfect? An aeroplane does not have that balance. Our aeroplane is also very nice and tries to land exactly there, but it cannot compare with the bird. The birds fly opposite to the wind, no? How nicely they fly. We can, I think we should learn. So next time, in yoga and daily life, we have this subject. In that, will be what we call our practice: the practicing of flying. We will fly. Even if our body is not so quick, we will leave the body here and go very quickly. That is a training from yoga to live life smoothly, very high, with balance. Even the animals have better balance than we do. God has given everyone knowledge of how to survive, and to us as well. God gave us how to survive, but we are doing over. The question is this: that life is not this body, but it is said, "The body is not everything, but everything is nothing without the body." So we are trying to come, but still, ātmā or jīvātmā is different. Ants have life, reptiles have life, fish have life, birds have life, and we have life. We have different bodies, but that life is one. When someone is dying, you say, "Oh, still there is life inside." We call it Jīva. And you call, in this part of Europe, water is life. Now, in the jīva, one drop of water on our palm, if we look into the micro world, there are many, many creatures inside. So water is life. We say, "Where there is water, there is God, and where there is God, there is water." So water is our life. But it is only water. That is called Mother Earth, the Mother. Without this Mother, nothing will happen. Men can try many, many things, but without the Mother, it is finished. Now there are some who call the guy. The men to men. It is their duty, what to do, but they cannot produce. Every day, a baby, so the mother is needed. That mother is God’s creation. If they try to make that, they will get a child. Then our doctors will make, maybe, some instrument inside. Long ago, I saw one video on television; I think it was black and white. I had to learn; I was learning to learn German, but I had no interest. If I live in Vienna, then I should at least survive to go shopping, but I always had someone with me. Then I said I wanted to learn driving. Someone told me, "You should learn driving a car." Oh yeah, that’s a very good idea. It was in 1978. I had to go to the school. What they were talking about, I did not understand. How long will somebody go with me and listen, telling me? So, I called her Māta. She said, "If you want to learn like this about English, you are my guru, but if you want to learn car driving, learn German." I said, "Yes, and so how to learn?" Then I used to watch television every evening, mostly children’s films. But once there was this one man from Austria, a very famous one from Graz, living in America. He was a bodybuilder and everything, and he was a gardener for one of the... So he was feeling—should I tell you this? You know, it is a very... yes, this is something we must know. So he was talking: "I was here, and I was living in the mountains, in Innsbruck, and like this." And then what happens? I do not know how it happened, but he’s touching his stomach. He said he’s pregnant. He played very nicely. Now, where to go, where to sit? Go to the shop, buy something for the baby. People said, "What?" He said, "Yes, for my baby." Okay, is your mother a wife? She doesn’t want. He said, "No, no, I will buy." Then he had to go to the doctor for a checkup. So he’s going to the doctor. There are about ten to fifteen pregnant women sitting. Now he’s looking there. He’s sitting there. He has another cloth and is looking like this, between the women. He said, like this. And he said, "How do you feel?" The other woman tells him. He goes to the doctor. He said, "Now it’s painful, it’s very heavy." Till the delivery, delivery. Then he had this for the baby car. So how nicely he was playing. Then I said, still, I did not know how men are like this. But why not? That is still, maybe you can say natural, but it is not natural. So, mother is a mother, and that is what women are feeling, which men are not. And what men feel, women do not. But we are all together; we have our part. It’s okay. So, my dear, mother is something great. So, if you want to have a child, then really you marry. To marry means to be with a man. Marriage isn’t only something like this or that. But if you are living like a partner, then it’s lifelong. If you have a child, then there are no questions of separation. Until the end of the life of the parents, you are together, parents together. Grandparents together, so this is called the generation. And now we do not know from where to what, and this is very difficult. So nature is, no, nature is doing good. But there are some birds that put their eggs in the nest of the crow. When the crow goes somewhere to get some food, that bird quickly goes, sits in, gives the egg, and flies away. The crow does not know if it was two eggs or three eggs. When the baby comes out of the egg, still the crow thinks, "Oh, one baby is a little bit small." So, it is like this can happen, but still, that crow did not give that egg. It’s like adopted. Why not? So mother is something, father is something. It is written in one of the Upanishads, but I do not know which; I will tell you. Long, long ago, women had no menstruation. They were not suffering. Many things were written there, but I have forgotten. So after it comes in that kind of yuga, there was that sin given to the women. I do not know why and by whom. So these things go further, and we are not interested. And, you know, it does not matter how it is. But those women, properly, they marry, they decide, and they give the children, and they are happy, and they should remain their whole life with their children. In our modern time, parents try to separate, to divorce. What is divorce? This. This is marriage. Okay, we are married. The signature, we are divorced. What did you divorce? Nothing. Only paper. But you are that one. So, if you divorce, then, I think, the children are suffering. "I do not want to separate from my father, and I do not want to separate from my mother." So this child already has in mind such a depression, fear, many, many things. It is in the family, in the child’s mind. We are already giving so much. Either do not marry, and if you marry, still do not think, please, that if you want to give a child or not. And if you do, then it is forever. And what does "forever" mean? Not only after, when the children are married. This child is connected with you for ages and ages. That is what we call ancestors, in a different space. So, when you will go from the physical body and come to your astral body, that is why space is so big. So we have enough space for one person or for one crow. Perhaps we have a big place, like the whole of Europe, for one. So do not worry. There is your territory of ancestors, and that ancestor is with us constantly, physically and in astral. That is what we said when the doctor will say it, let’s say, the genes of the child. If this is his or her mother, and he is the father. And yes, they are. So father, mother, and child, you are connected. Now you are divorced. But you and your husband are forever like this. Boys, if you all look to one woman, very nice, very kind, very humble, but are you going for an eternal relation? Then you should do it properly, otherwise not. So what is that? It’s called karmic. It is that karmic, so you are maybe... Next life, you become what you call the cat, and you are born a big bird, what is sitting on the nest. It does not matter. The mother became the cat, and the father became the big bird, what you call a stork. Fathers should always be careful, because that cub, that cat, slowly, slowly, will climb up into the nest, and she will get, "My dear husband, what are you doing up? Come down." So, destiny is everywhere. We are connected. Now, maybe we do not have a blood relation. Maybe we do not have those genes within us, but we have the relation of the soul with spirituality, happiness, joy, etc. And that is also our path. We all go as humans, as one human. The soul is going this side. And karmic, some, that’s all will go as an ant, or the birds. Many, many, 8.4 million different creatures. Choose one. We have enough space, but we do not want that. We come together, and we walk into liberation free. That time also, neither you nor me, but we only, we one. That is oneness. And so, ātmā, jīvātmā, and Paramātmā—that is the four: Jīvā, Ātmā, Paramātmā, and Mahātmā. Eternal oneness, but we are connected to this one. There is a law. Everywhere is a law. Your presence is everything. But even the president’s signature will not be valid when the other one, who will also give you the signature, sends a letter to the president. If the president will do it from his own power, but the other colleagues, they will take off a flag. And you know what kind of flag? A black flag. And if we won’t show the one black flag, the president will not go there. So everywhere we have our duties, from our foothold till our brain, till this part of the Sahasrāra Cakra. Every organ, everything in our body, has its duty. Everything, all, has its function. So we know all very well. How are you talking only about jīva? Jīva means the life, and the life that means ātmā, jīvātmā. So jīvātmā and ātmā are different. This jīva means still living in the body, maybe with the humans or animals or plants. So jīva is living. After that, it is called ātmā. So that jīva is one but separate, but is of one quality. And then it’s jīva ātmā, and that is all the light of God: Jīvā, ātmā, paramātmā. And then only the param, parameśvaram. So this is the level, and we have to come through this. Now, therefore, it is one. Every one of us is only one, but we have different bodies. We have different quarters, so there are a hundred quarters. And who is living inside? The humans. So in all of this, that many quarters, the inside is only humans. So, similarly, in this, we have to come to our path to become one, not to spread it. Then you are depending on the father, the husband. Our husband will depend on the wife, and then the children. So we are going straight, and now you have a husband, and then a wife, and then a baby. So we will say, "Okay, very good. Relax, enjoy, be happy. Wait, God will take you next time." There is some... it is said when you have no more families, your all grand-grandparents died, there were no more uncles, no more sisters, none from your families. Only you remain, and you have no husband or you have no wife. Now you remain alone. All your house, your buildings, your properties, everything, we have to leave it here. Someone made this college, and they left. Maybe they have died already. Or some are still alive who were constructing this. But then they are gone, but this nest will be here. But when we have no one, no ancestors, what will happen with our ancestors in that loka, what we call the Pitṛloka? So the last one, you are there, and now our Pitṛ, our ancestor, said, "My child, you didn’t bring..." Our ancestors’ children said, "No, now how will we liberate? Everyone is sitting in the train and going." A few days ago, I was going to London. I had everything ready. But when I came to board the airplane, they said, "Please, your passport." I had my passport and my visa, but they said it was an Austrian visa. "Where is the British visa?" Oh God, my passport! Where was the British visa? It remained in the ashram. I said, "You can look in the computer." She said, "No, look, I am Austrian, here European, sorry." So what happened? I had to take all my luggage out and leave the airport. That means you take your luggage out, get out, and then go in again only when my visa came, and then we went through. Even here in this worldly life, the law is like this: you cannot go. Similarly, your grandfather and ancestors are happy, and now my children will liberate me. We don’t have a second child. My husband was fighting. My wife was angry that they did not marry. So this is all, so then it is said, okay. We will find some place. So, what do we call the people who come from other countries without a passport? So, we live there, and how, till when, will it liberate us? We do not know. This is the law of the humans, not the birds and others. Are those animals, which are big animals, which you people are eating, cutting, killing them? So they are closed there. But humans have these two things: the sin or the no sin, the P.U.’s life. And that will go to the liberation. It will not say, "You do this pūjā," and you will do the pūjā. Everything is good, but still we have to do from our own ātmā. So, jīva, the jīva is connected. Sit till all the ancestors. And then, some who have no children, the ancestors will come. And some, the ancestors will give a very harsh curse to you. Or someone will say, "We are waiting, we are waiting." Yes. Therefore, in this Kali Yuga now, it is easy to get a child, but not easy to take care of them and give them love and let them grow nicely. Then this jīva, jīva comes to the ātmā. So ātmā is then more together. Jīvātmā is individual. So jīva, jīvātmā, ātmā, paramātmā. And this is through your meditation, Guru Kṛpā, good sādhanā, and liberate yourself from the Svādhiṣṭhāna Chakra. That is very difficult. There was a time, at the Soviet Union’s border, they were very happy, but someone wanted to go to the European side. But they did not get a visa. Sometimes they try to escape, and when the soldiers come to know, they shoot them. Though we are human, we are in a prison. Similarly, we are bound to our karma, and whom to blame? This one or that one? If you are in this part behind the net, then you are on your side, and you look and see that all are on the other side in the nest, and they see us. Look, they are on this side, so with one net, one line, we are both sides suffering, both, and there is no problem. Within no time, we can just destroy, but we cannot. Similarly, husband and wife, they are between, but someone tries to liberate you, and they are looking. This is called big brothers, the big brothers are watching you for what? That you do not go to the other part, because they are not good for you, and the big brothers said, "No, do not go that side." Now, where are we? Is the husband right, or is the woman right? Go to the lawyer. Also, they do not know. So, my dear, think over. Think over, and child, there are some so happy, and the child, "My daddy, my mother, my this," love. How they are walking, playing, and one child has only brother, husband, father, and the child is only with the father. Or that wife, mother, she has her child. Other children say, "Where is your father?" So, when we do this, then somehow we should try to liberate. Do not put the guilt on the husband, not the wife, or anyone. It is our own self. But we are giving the karma, or whatever, to that one child, and that is the jīva. So, it does not matter if it is an egg of the ant, or the animal’s mother, or the animal’s babies, or humans, or the trees, there is the destiny, and we are in the destiny. So we do not know how or where it is going. So, can we put all this in my eyes? Thank you. And so, Jīvātmā. Jīva and Ātmā. Ātmā and ātmā is the jīvātmā, and then we go further to pure ātmā: jīva, jīvātmā, ātmā, paramātmā. And this is what we are talking about in this bhajan, and we still have a few days. So Śrī Guru Ātmā Gurudev said, "It is ātmā: Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā, Puruṣottama." And that is a human. Coming to the human, Mahātma, the great soul. Puruṣottama, the highest body in this creature is a human. Now, there is a little bit of complication here. Is a Puruṣottama Puruṣa a human? Not the man, the woman said, "Then what about us?" Puruṣa, the Puruṣottama, Puruṣa Uttama, the clean, the white, they are very spiritual. Puruṣottama, but do not think in this part of the soul and spirituality there is duality. There is not duality of this jīvātmā; it does not matter, male or woman. And also they are human, completely human. Do not think the women are lower caste. No, no, no. No. The first is the woman. And what we are calling this in the Upaniṣad, it is said: the first, it is said, is the mother, then the father. So the mother is the highest, called the first. The mother is the mother, therefore the Puruṣottama. It is called the soul, not the human body, not the puruṣa. What you call the puruṣa and the female, there is nothing. The puruṣa will die also, and the woman will die also, and it will be burned, and ash will go into the earth, and some will go into the water. There is no change, there is no difference. We have two legs, and others also have two legs. So, duality was given by some people to push down the masculine or the feminine. Therefore, Puruṣottama, so they call Kṛṣṇa, for example. So Kṛṣṇa is Puruṣottama. It means the highest spiritual, the human’s highest quality, or Rāma, God Rāma, God Rāma, yeah? Not the Balarāma. You said Balarāma, that is why I am cleaning. Balarāma is burnt, is fired. Only Kṛṣṇa. And then God Rāma. Yes, Daśaratha’s father, son. Okay? So Puruṣottama, either male or female, in my eyes, and who is self-realized, they will not make a difference between male and female. And you know, in Europe, mostly in Europe, their women were suppressed very much. And in the Sanātana Dharma, it is said, the highest point is the women. And that is why the Upaniṣad said, the first is the mother, who is God. Then the Pitṛ, the father, is God. Then your teacher, the school teacher, and then the Gurudev. So this is how, in this line, it is said. In that home, in that family, and in that house, that woman can destroy the whole house, the whole family, and make you poor, causing all destruction. Or that Lakṣmī is there. When she steps for the first time, one foot steps into your house. And you will see within no time, everything in your house will be peace, harmony, prosperity, everything. I know, I see in some houses when this, that woman came there in that house. It does not matter if she studied or not studied anything. She is a woman. But her ātmā, her jīvātmā, her qualities, it is like a coming Gaṅgā in your house, and she will make all, and your whole prosperity is there. So therefore, it is said in the scriptures, when after the marriage she comes in the house, before not. And this man and boy and girl, they will only maybe see each other once, otherwise they should not go together. And there are certain ceremonies. It is something very, very, very beautiful. It needs. For example, you go to the church, and here you can see. And on the door of the church, inside, there is one stone, and there is water inside. Everybody who is going takes the water and makes the tilak. Yes or no? Who did not hand up, and who did hand up? So, there is one saying, "Neither this and neither that." That is neither a man nor a woman. There is between. Okay, that is also all right, no problem. So if you say yes or no, and when yes or no, no you will not say, then in India we also have many who will like this. So one man will come with a woman’s clothes and come to your car for money, and she will go like this. It is, then you know who this is. Yes. She will come to your shop, and she will. So it means this is a sign. Why not? Human. So either you should say yes or say no. Between neither man, neither woman, it means all trouble is gone. But how will you be after? First, immediately, if you die, then you will be hanged on the tree. It is called the night in the night bed pen. They are hanging in the tree. They are eating through the mouth and giving babies and everything through the mouth. They are hanging. Choose yourself, of course. You can be like this: men with the men, and women with the women, and children with the children, and sādhus with the sādhus. But answer today: when did you go to the church? And there is holy water. And did you make a tilak or not? So who went? And who had a tilak once? Hand up. And who did not? Do very good, because you had other dharma, okay. So we were not making like this, we were making bucket water. Tilak is very important, very important. So if you put or not, it has something, and there is a big... There are scriptures written; it is not a religious thing. Our kismat, you know what kismat is? Good luck. And where is your good luck? Where is your kismat? Do you know someone? Where is your kismat? So the kismat, when you visit, oh God, at least you know this, oh God. So why you said here? You could say here, so everything has in humans, very important. So it is said, mother, mother is first God. Does not matter male or female, humans or animals, they do not know. They do not have that knowledge, no power, but they have a life, and they are feeling pain, suffering, but they cannot do. The humans are torturing them. Maybe this torturing is a karmic. So jīva is in all creatures. Ātmā is then awakened in all this life. And when it comes further, then it is called ātmā. Then we realize the ātmā, so jīva, jīvātmā, ātmā, paramātmā. And this we should really understand. Doing your āsanās up and down is very good. But this will not give you liberation. It is okay. How long will you do? And you know, we are, how many we are doing yoga, how many years. But how many are out of it? The hips problem. The knee problem. The headache problem. Many things. So little children are different. And all the children are the difference. Both are like this. The little child is walking with the four: two legs and two hands. And when the time comes, the old one will also walk with two legs and two hands to get up slowly. Yes? Again, we are there, but sādhanā, and if no sādhanā also at home, but you can do that spirituality. And so what happens then? At the time of the marriage, the boy has to come to the girl’s house, and there the mother of that girl, she welcomes the boy. Give the tilak and everything, like a prince, and she accepts him to come to the house, and there they make a ceremony of the marriage. They marry—not a marriage, sleeping in the bed, husband and man and boy, no, no—the ceremony that is a, that is a wedding when you bring. You go to the church, and the priest will give you blessings. And that is a... Where are you going? We are going to the church for a marriage. Before, I would not go, but now everything is at home: spaghetti and what others. Then this boy and all his friends go, and then she goes with him. And the father and mother, they send people there. And now she comes to the door of the boy. And there his mother, she comes again for pūjā, and she gives her tilak. And she washed her feet, and she said, "Devī, Goddess, please come, this is your house." And she offers everything to this. Now she is the boss of the house. But still, the mother-in-law will not give you everything. She will tell all the rules and regulations of this house, this family, yeah. And sometimes, all the keys in the house—the treasure, and this and that, those handful of chairs—the keys. So when Mānsā Devī is coming... And going, opening my flat, she has half kilos or quarter kilos, at least keys, and I have no key. So I said, "You see, you are the boss of the house. I have only key if I go, maybe." Otherwise, he said. No, you do not need it. I have the key. It is good, that is very good. I have no burden, but the young girl who is married always had her eyes... why does my grandmother have keys here, under here? And she tells all traditions of the families. And then she gives everything to him. She will take care of the house completely, and that girl has such good luck. So, if you see this boy is good, I will marry, or the girl is good, I will marry. That is a mistake. Constellation. Everything you have to see, then you will be very happy, very happy, and blossoming in the family, and all are very happy. This is called the families. And the families, that family is growing. Every family should be sāttvic. No killing animals in the house. No alcohol, no drugs, it does not matter. It is not only that. In India, Indians are eating not only meat, they are even eating what is behind, hanging, the tails. They will bite also the tail. So, very rare, my dear, in Kali Yuga, we are getting pure. But you know, the stones are more, very much. The rocks and rocks are stones. Gold is little. It is little, but the quality. And therefore, we yogīs and yogīs of yoga and daily life, we are that God, we are that jewel. We have to purify our inner self first. Mother, husband should never tell bad words to the wife, and wife will also not tell the bad words to the husband, as a family, a little bit. Something happens, you know, and you are doing something, burning, and she will say, "Stupid mom, you are burning everything," but she said, "I am so sorry," or she will say, "You are always talking on me." Then burning into the ash. And then you make the ass, you do not know where it is gone. So, make the family in the best way. And you know, where is the real woman? And real man? Is that others are okay? That is coming and going, and so the man will also have another chamber in the heaven. And these female women, they also have other chambers. I mean, I do not want to criticize negatively, but it is, and that gives the curse. And such a person can give you the curse. And you know, in the Mahābhārata, and there, you know the stories, that Pitta Bhīṣma, he brought these two or three girls for his family’s children. And the girls came and said, "He has kidnapped us." But so he took, sent back, he went there. But one of them said, because she said, "I was in love with one man. I did not meet him, but I know that I will marry him. And he also." But now he brought back this girl. And that one said, "No, I will not touch this girl anymore." And then again, this girl went to Bhīṣma, and Bhīṣma came and said, "I cannot take this girl anymore because she was his girl, so she is neither there nor here." So to whom did she give the curse? In the Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma said, "I will come, and I will be your enemy. I will kill you." And he said, "I am sorry," but he said no. And in the Mahābhārata, then when the time came, Bhīṣma said—I think it was Bhīṣma who said—"I will never raise a hand against a woman." So when the woman comes, he will be back. And so the time came. And that girl died and was born again. Neither man nor woman. So she came in the human body again. And then, when the time came for Bhīṣma to kill the Pāṇḍavas, not the Pāṇḍavas, and that time, that this—what was that? Śikhaṇḍī. Śikhaṇḍī came in the front of the who? The Bhīṣma. And Bhīṣma saw it is a female, so he threw away his tools. And she said, "I am that Bhīṣma." Today, I will take your chance, and he killed her. And from that time on, this one who is like that is known as a king, like a king. But those who are dancing in table things, they will be... I do not want to talk anymore. We can only pray for them. It will be suffering a lot. Anyhow, do your good things and prayer; we will do it. Therefore, Śrī Guru, Ātmā, Paramātmā, Ho Mahāpuruṣottama, Sakala Jagake Antaryāmī, Chara-achara kī Ātmā. So, it does not matter who is who; all is Ātmā of Paramātmā, Nabh Rūpa Vyāpo. Nabha is the sky. Nabha is the sky. Nabha rūpa, all in the sky, everywhere there. And tomorrow we will talk. So, did you understand something? Many will be angry with me now, and that is why I must always have a bodyguard. And I am sorry. I am sorry for that. Sorry, if you are born as it is, you have the place of the king. But some different running here and there is not easy, anyhow. Any question? Kyā deś? Bharmiān kyā deśa? Kyā deśa? Kya desh? Kya desh?... Kya desh? Kya desh? Jai Gurū Deva Kī.

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