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There is life in every creature

Glory is an expression of respect and victory for all that is good, returning to the giver. It is simple and great. Proclaiming "Jaya" honors masters and divinity, creating happiness. This respect transcends time, as seen with figures from millennia past. Giving glory uplifts others, as a kind word can save a soul from despair. It reflects a merciful heart, like a mother's compassion. This practice aligns one with yoga. Glory ultimately extends to all humanity and creation, recognizing the divine intelligence in all life. Our being has five sheaths, from the physical to the blissful. Purifying the physical body through right nourishment supports vital energy, mind, wisdom, and joy.

"Glory means 'long live,' not only physically but forever."

"Give glory to someone, it comes back to you."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Deep Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Devā Dī Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. When we proclaim the Jaya of Ālakpurījī, Deopurījī, and Mahāprabhujī, many of you know it, and many do not. Many understand it, and many do not yet. This concept is both very simple and very great. It is a glory, a glory to our masters—our masters, other masters, every master, God, or Goddess. It is an expression of our respect, and it makes our hearts feel happy. "Glory" means "long live," not only physically but forever. Consider God: Rāma lived more than 200,000 years ago, Kṛṣṇa about 7,000 years ago, yet we still respect them and ask for their blessings. "Jaya" means victory. Victory towards what? It is the victory of everything good we do, like a hero. For example, you plant a single seed of a tree. It grows beautifully, day by day, month by month, year by year. That growth is success. Similarly, you yourself did good. It depends on how many people are around you. Perhaps only your wife and child. Your wife will say, "Congratulations." All wives might say, "Hmm, that doesn't matter," but you know, when she raises one shoulder up, it signifies she lifts her husband up. He can then think, "How great my wife is, she raised me up." He says, "Thank you," and she... and he says, "Yes, I know, in every aspect, my wife always gives me a lift." And he? He lifts her doubly in return. Some people do not like this God, some do not like that God. Some do not like that master. Take this as the wind. The wind does not blow only from one direction. Sometimes north, sometimes south, sometimes west, sometimes east. And sometimes, what we call... and sometimes, it is resting. The wind is resting. That is very good. So we are present in every direction, in everything. This is very, very important. It depends on how we will take it. There was a woman. Every day she cleaned the toilets used by her son and little daughters and disposed of the waste towards the neighbor's door. The neighbor was so happy, thinking, "I need fertilizer. Look how this tree is growing! Good, good... the cherries and more are in my neighbor's garden, and I see these are the contributions of their children. They gave me such fertilizer, and that same fertilizer produces the cherry. She gave it to me like that, and I value it back as cherry." You see? And her husband was bedridden. He had to urinate, so she would direct it to the neighbor's garden side. The neighbor never said, "I'm so happy, there are so many bugs here," but now they automatically go away. "How nice, my neighbor is here. Oh, very good." So, what we call... take it easy. "Take it easy" means you are now a pure yogī. You are not angry, not critical. Do you expect everything? Yes. That is very, very good. So, the glory: if you give glory to someone, it comes back to you. But there may be a person, a woman or a man, who made some mistakes, or we do not know. Everyone said, "Horrible, terrible, like devils," etc. The person feels so humiliated they want to die, like committing suicide. But then one person comes and says, "My dear, I love you. You are so strong. You did it. No one can do like that." What they are telling you is a glory for you. "Yes, you are great." So he says, "Yes, I am, I did it." And the friend says, "Yes, but don't care what people are saying. You have done it, it's finished, now you are not doing it. Now you will see what they are doing. I am your friend. It's okay, my dear." What did he want to do? That soul was feeling so humiliated, but he made this soul very happy and light. This happens many times. There is one story: when people were throwing stones and wood, many things, and threw him into the forest, he was left half-dead. But one person came there in the night, a lady. She brought water, warm tea. She washed him and said, "My son, I know, my son, they were torturing you. I know that. I was feeling very bad, and I know that no one had mercy towards you, my son. But I am here." Who was that? Jesus's mother. Can you also become a mother of Jesus on that day? If someone is like this, and everybody says, "Very bad, and very bad, and very bad," have someone with a mother's heart. We do not know how many people were there. There was torture, of males and females, but we only remember Jesus and the merciful Mother Mary because she had mercy. Do you have mercy for someone here or outside? So, the one who will go into the middle of the battle and speak glory for this person—not only that, but your glory will be more than anyone's. How much we think of Mother Mary or the Sītā of Rāma. Many, many, many. Can we develop more and more in our heart for others' hearts? That means you are now on the path of yoga, and you will become the yogī. Yes, dear? So, that is a glory to whom? To those great ones, like you all. That is why we say, "Oṁ Śrī Ālakpurījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya." Glory of the Ālakpurījī. But I do not know his mother, father, where he was born, or how he became. But how did he stay in the hills? Glaciers, little humans, and more animals. Many, many, many were there, but not everyone was successful. Many died from hunger, heat, cold, or by animals. Tapasyā—that is called tapasyā, austerity. Do we have austerity? We are yogīs. But as soon as we say, "Hari Oṁ," you go outside. One is drinking chocolate, another biscuit, another coffee, another pizza. He is from... he doesn't go to the garden, and it is my... Beautiful Tilak, so it's good you are so gracious. Still, I say, you are great that you give their money. Money is nowadays very, very slow. The whole world has a problem with money. But who has the money? It is so big, filling this whole hall, and it's still not enough for them. But you are gracious. Oh my God, you are in such a hurry to give the Śivapurī money, money, coffee, ice cream. How graceful you are. I, how to say, glory to you. Siddhi Puruṣa Mahādeva Kī Jaya. Mahādeva Śiva, it is like a Śiva. And we also glorify him. And Ārādhya Bhagavān—ārādhya means we worship, we adore. In that worshipped Bhagavān, Deep Nārāyaṇa, Mahāprabhujī, Hindu Dharma Samrāṭ, Sadguru Svāmī Madhavānandajī. So we always say, "Glory, glory." So now you understand. When you go home, you should tell your husband, "Your glory, my dear." He will say, "What happened with you?" because he does not know. Or you go home, and your wife will say, "Stay two days more there, so that I have my peace." That is also glory, positive. Yes. The positive will gain, and the negative will be suffering this life, and then, of course, for many, many lives. Therefore, we call it Manuṣya. Manuṣya means human. There is no distinction between male and female in this word. Manuṣya means the human. And human means... I will ask some Austrian or German or somebody here—what do you talk about when you say "humans"? Is it only men, or women also? It is a very big question, and very good, and someone may feel bitter, so it means it's a man. So, where is my dear? Where is my dear women? How clever men are. "Human," so that perhaps I had to ask a good, great philosopher. That's it. So, this point we leave it out. Because when we said "human," there is no man, no woman, no old, no young, no child, no illness; we call it the human. But still, this temple is a man, so that I have to bring something in my mind. So glory, the glory, the glory. So glory to humanity. Now, in humanity, it is not a manhood dimension, okay? I think somehow I iron it out. So what humanity and inhumanity in this world is, both includes our dear women, men, and children. That was good. Vivek Purī is sitting beside me. He was giving me the bugs in my mind. He said, "Say, say humanity, humanity." It is a bit strange. Now you understand? I hope this clarifies "Jaya," which means victory, glory, everything great. Now, the difference is between Europe and India. Of course, every country has its culture, but culture also has meanings. So, when we say the Jaya, the glory, what do we do? We offer flowers and colors. And Europeans, what is it? They drink, that's good? No, yes, everybody opens the bottle. "How beautiful, great, my god, but it's too little. They should let him swim, all the best." That is a culture. So culture, "kal" means tomorrow, and "char" means let's walk, come there. So that is a good name, culture, yes. And that is why what we say: our children are tomorrow's culture. Our tomorrow's culture is our children, so we are going there, Kuṇḍalinī. Now Kuṇḍalinī is dancing. On one side, flowers; on some side, alcohol. Now, where will Kuṇḍalinī go? Where are the nice smells of flowers? Champā. Champā flower. Very good, the rose and many, many good flowers. When here is that flower—what you have a lot of in Croatia and Slovenia and the whole Yugoslavia—everywhere they bring it home so that bugs don't come: lavender. And for about two hundred meters, beautiful lavender bushes. And that Kuṇḍalinī is going like that. Smell how nice. The snake does not eat dirt. It will not eat dead animals. It eats live animals, but the smell... And when there is alcoholism, what is that they call it? Chāyom, champyom, yeah. You will see the cobra. As far as he can go, far away from the alcohol, it doesn't matter. It is our culture. The great, the great... the greatness of our countries. I think in the whole world, where there is no water, a desert, maybe something is missing. Otherwise, the beautiful, very nice, the grips, grips, and that climbing we call the vine. So this vine, how nice this, how nice flower, very fine. And nice grapes. Many qualities, very, very different qualities. So we can eat the grapes. And naturally, in the German language and in some languages, they say the grapes also wine. So Jesus did not mean to drink the alcohol, the grapes, the wine. That is very nice, I think he would not say, "Eat my flesh." Yes, and drink my blood. Neither Kṛṣṇa said, nor Rāma said, nor Hanumān said. All 24 incarnations, they did not say, and I am 100,000% sure that Jesus did not say. But we did our culture, and to make this alcohol and drink this alcohol, and this alcohol... Jesus said, "My flesh is bread, very good." He gave us bread. That is true, but not wine. Or you can have the grape juice or milk. So this is a people's habit, and so they mean no bad now. Even they kneel down to get this bread and the alcohol as blood or whatever. Therefore, let us go very far where we can, where the Kuṇḍalinī will go. Kuṇḍalinī will go towards the beautiful flowers. After their eating, they lie down under the bush which has a very nice fragrance. And so is our Kuṇḍalinī, also beautiful with our sāttvic nourishment. Kuṇḍalinī is many, many things. We can tell, "This is a Kuṇḍalinī, that's a Kuṇḍalinī, that's this mantra, that's in Sanskrit, that's in that." Everyone says it. But it is said, if there is a door, we are always saying "the door," but the door is only in the mother's body. Hari Oṁ. We are free. So, but still we say it is in the hill and the heaven. When Mother gave us, she did not have cloth on it, maybe. Just a jelly. Jelly. If you cannot remove it, you will die after the mother's body. So that was the cloth Mother gave. And then the second dress your father gave, and both will be gone. Now you have only this door, through which you go out with your breath, and now nothing will have value. Everything, so my dear, our soul, our ātmā, all are one when we are saying. Humanity, in the same way, we can say all you need: the animals, or not animals, all creatures. So this is the same, though he is only living half a day. One creature is born and dies, but there is a life. Who are we, the human? We can say that we are the best. Still, we cannot say that we are the best. It is only God who is the best. Let us say a tiny, tiny ant. When you want to catch it, how quickly are they going? How many legs? How are they coordinating? They have eyes. Where are the nerves? And this everything, they have a spell. How is this system? How they are eating and where is their coat, we do not see. They have everything. How long God did this work for this little tiny, my dear, it is beyond our knowledge. Therefore, we do trust in God. It is that one who is creating this. They also have a Kuṇḍalinī. But how many chakras they have, I do not know. They have like a spine, they have blood, they have hunger, they have thirst, they have teeth. Oh my God, how our God, our dear God Almighty. So who are we that we say we are the best? Yes, God gave us some of that kind of intelligence, many technologies in our body. And we can do many. They have no capacity, but we have something. But these ants, termites—you cannot imagine a big, huge tree. How many years it was in our garden. The little creatures took time, but the big tree, they pulled it down as a dead tree. They have power too, so we shall respect all. And so we have in our body many, many. So, but our ātmā, our soul, is the king of our body, and this body is the capital of our soul. So again, this bhajan from Acala Rāmjī Mahārāj, and I cannot open. Oh, my mind. You are the master, the king of your senses, indriyas. And you are, you are, you are the king of this. Again, you can say, "O Ātmā, you are the mighty one." That is very good. I will, when I with my eyes, I will open my eyes. Otherwise, I can say wrong, and then you will say wrong. Something, glory, glory, on the wrong side. So, similarly, every center in our body has a chakra. 72,000 nerves. And how many joints are there? And each joint is there, how many nerves sometimes are coming out? So these glands we can see as a chakra. There is immense power, so our body God gave us as that we are the king of ourself. And this is all that we have on this earth, and what we do not have, we do not have here. We do not know where, how, or what. And all souls are one. Water is water. And fire is fire. Air is air. All water is water. So, water in your river, water in the ocean, water in a lake, water in the clouds. Everywhere, but it is the water. And so these five elements that we have to understand: Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, Manomaya Kośa, Vijñānamaya Kośa, and Ānandamaya Kośa. These are the five covers of our body. This Annamaya Kośa means the sheath of nourishment. We can do good, we can eat good, we can eat bad. What you should use and what you should not use. That is very difficult for many people, so Kriyā Yoga, Kuṇḍalinī, Chakras—this all is in this; we have to understand slowly, slowly. And so, that is the chakras on our foothold, and the acupressure and acupuncture. They are saying that everything is in our foothold because that is the roots, and also in the palms, yes. And this all is coming. In the whole body, so let us purify our Annamaya Kośa with the water, with the fire, with the air, with earth. All we shall purify our body. Then we come to the Prāṇamaya Kośa. Our whole body is prāṇa, and when the soul is gone, the prāṇa is gone. When you eat something wrong, suddenly you are ill. The prāṇa is completely weak. So, why do we put Annamaya Kośa and then immediately Prāṇamaya Kośa? Because whatever we eat, whatever we drink, that affects first our body. And so this prāṇa should be pure, and when you drink alcohol, of course, your prāṇa is different. Mostly accidents on the road, it is said, I do not know, it is with alcohol. And who drank one nice glass of water and drove had fewer accidents. Or someone was too tired and suddenly they see micro-sleep, and that can also kill. So, Chetan, we have to be aware. Chetan ho jāre mushā fir. O traveller, wake up, wake up, wake up. So it is very important to take care of our Annamaya Kośa. Then prāṇa will be good. Then Manomaya Kośa, the mind, because the drug—alcohol is a drug also. So the drug affects our body, somehow balancing left and mind also. So that is why Patañjali put it between the Annamaya Kośa, Prāṇamaya Kośa, and Manomaya Kośa. So our brain is good, our mind is good. But when we put between that different energy, though our mind is mighty, it is also down. That is it. After that, jñāna. But this drug, which has given the mind a disbalance, then what we call our jñāna is also different. What you want to speak, and you speak differently because that prāṇa is very important. And according to the jñāna, the Ānandamaya Kośa is in a different part. So, we will continue. I wish you a very good appetite and a good lunch.

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