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How to become a Sanyas

The call to sannyāsa is a call to inner sādhanā.

To take the dress is nothing; the color must be in the heart. The practice begins then, not a state of supremacy. Many think of a partner, but partnerships are like rentals, temporary. God is the eternal partner, giving eternity without payment. There is only one door to the eternal: divine practice. Some practice day and night, and their one day’s sādhanā can serve for a year. Inner sādhanā means not forgetting God in daily rush. Many unknown saints exist; they go unacknowledged. True quality is seen in a person’s practice, not in status. Sing bhajan and do karma yoga simultaneously, listening deeply. Mahāprabhujī’s Śoham mantra transforms the crow into a swan, purifying. Humanity has destroyed nature’s balance, causing disease and infertility. Saints protect humanity and life, not fighting over religion. Sannyāsa is hard work; monasteries demand constant effort, not just prayer. Married life is also difficult; rare couples persist. The path is like iron forged in fire: painful but makes a beautiful ornament; then the charaṇaraj becomes sacred.

"Satguru Sat Saṅkhyārī Luvāvī, Satguru Sat Saṅkhyārī."

"Kya tum jāno hāl hamārā? What do you know of my condition?"

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

I think we should now have more sādhvīs and sādhus, no? Always only these three, or four. Boring. So, is there someone ready for it? Yeah, but not that one who is very old and has nothing to do. We don’t want that. They should be here in the ashram. Yeah, that’s it. It is not easy to be a sannyāsī. And only to take the dress is nothing. We have to have the color of this dress in our heart. And that’s it. And only even in the heart, you think you have an orange dress. But it’s not so immediate that now I am supreme. It means now the practice begins. So, how many lives will we have? So it is. But try it quickly, and you will say that I was in 2019. Otherwise, you will wait until 2020. Yes? Well, you need not tell anybody. You come to me, and we will shave the hair nicely, apply tilak, wear an orange dress, and suddenly, everybody has something good. Many are thinking, "I have no partner." So, the partner, for how long? Nowadays, the partner is like a rental. You are renting your house. And the owner will say, after some years, "Please give my house back." What will happen now? So, if you want a wife or husband, a partner, then you should have some good, good client, so that lifelong you can stay in that house. But nowadays we don’t want the same house always. Yes, you want to go to other countries, others cannot come there, or you have some partner, but no children come, and someone who doesn’t have a partner, but the child is coming, so this is a different situation. So God does not make an agreement with us. So what are you doing? So our partner, our partner is God. And God, He has given us eternity. So there is no more payment and nothing. That is God. Does it matter which religion you believe? That’s alright. But do you believe? Will you have it? So you can’t, you don’t have that partner, God? Often we say, "My God, He didn’t give me anything." Nothing is happening. I go to other religions. There will be the same thing. So God is only one, and there is only one door to enter into the eternal. There are no four doors. Only this one door, and that one door is your divine practice. Otherwise, we are coming and going. It’s okay. Some are practicing day and night. They don’t care about eating. They don’t care about anything, only that one, God. And we, their one day’s sādhanā, we are using for one year. So you see, one sādhanā, what you are doing one day, it is not only for quickly, quickly in Hari Om. You make a little pūjā at home and say, "Gurujī, Parīyom, Swāmījī, Mahāprabhujī, Kārjī Zāzhī." I have to go to the office. You lock the door. The friend comes, and so and so, and then forgotten everything. That’s it. So, it is, it’s very, it’s inner sādhanā. There are many, many great saints in these countries; maybe many we don’t know, and we don’t know, we don’t acknowledge them. That’s it. And in Indian culture, we accept the persons, whether they are sādhus or not. Bachelor or marriage, but we see the quality of that person’s practices. That is very important. Therefore, it is said that a beautiful bhajan, and that when we sing this bhajan, during the singing of the bhajan, you should listen. Let’s go through and through. And while doing this, listening, you should do some karma yoga. And that is what this karma yoga is now, to do, very important now, in this minute. So that we will sing bhajan, but between there, one has to do the karma yoga. So sing that bhajan and do the karma yoga, all windows open, but not all, don’t hit anyone. All windows, go ahead and sing with bhajan. What I said? No, I gave her another bhajan. Vāṇe Kī Jai, today is the day of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, that he again takes his body into each and every cell of all kinds of life. On this earth and in all other universes. So, and you see, when you are giving something, but it’s not filtered, then the water is not good. That air is not good, so move the curtain. That means you are giving good quality, otherwise it is not organic. Come on. But one should also give the good karma. Why are you frozen, everybody? Ah! Yeah, we should give them warmth. Yes, that is a what? Yeah, that is very, very good. Janam. So, Mahāprabhujī gave us the path of immortality. Mahāprabhujī said that from a crow, he made the swan. How? Through that mantra of the Soham. The Śoham Mantra made you from the crow to the swan. Of course, the crows are also good. We need everything to clean up. Now it is like this: we humans have killed many, many animals. The forest, the jungle, the animals—they were cleaning everything. We have killed them. And if some are left, we run behind them and shoot them. Also, many good birds, we also killed them. Many, many different kinds of animals, the fly, many, many. They were balancing our environment. Now, why are there so many diseases? Because there is no one who can take care of our health. The hospital cannot, chemicals cannot, and also we ourselves, what we can eat, what we should eat, we can’t eat that, because nothing remains. All the vegetation, we destroy it. We put so many pesticides on it. What can we expect from that anymore? From this, on our Earth. We have to come back again. But even our many different countries have governments. They don’t even want us to keep something natural. We don’t know why, what they are doing. So we are getting ill and ill and... ill. Also, they are admitting that now we can’t get children. If you want to have children, get ready quickly. After some years, you will not have any children. And then, what they have in the, what they call the eggs for others, and that does not have the quality of your parents, not your fathers, not our fathers, not our... fathers. Our quality? Why? What are we doing like this? So, if we then do something like a crow to this one, it means to clean, to purify. So it is very difficult now. You see that every person and every government, they say, "Your children should eat meat." And there was a time when we would not give the children’s dead body. The first and best is the mother’s milk. Now, many mothers don’t want to give the milk. And now there are many women selling the milk. Yes, there are many women. They are at home, and they are giving breast milk to other women, still like a child. But you don’t know which kind of milk from the mother came. Then you don’t know what your mother is and what your father is. So we can kill each other, and like that, it will happen sometimes. Therefore, our great saints and every religion are trying to protect. Religion is not only what we call God, but every religion. They are protecting the humans and protecting their life. Of the nature, anything. So where are you now? And many religions are going behind the government. And how the government wants, they are also changing the religion. The time of Jesus, after Jesus, how they were giving life and how you are happening now. We are only fighting for religion. That is not right. So everyone has the religion of their country. Everyone has their own house, their own religion, but humanity needs this. When the human is not anymore, will it be like that? Then it is dying everything. So now it is coming, slowly, slowly coming again on the very beautiful sāttvic way of living. But in some countries, they don’t give us; we don’t let them get milk, which is the pure milk. They keep the animals away—the goats, the sheep, the cows, the buffaloes. They don’t want to give the pure milk to them. And they don’t give that much to the calves. So, what is happening? And this is that the sādhus, sons, and monks, or whatever you are, priest or whatever you are calling. They should remain on this principle of their own religion and then let them be pure, but not, that’s a big problem. So therefore, Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and many other saints, Mahāprabhujī, are giving us great things. So, and when, how, the best will come together, now it’s only for the fighting. Armies, whatever they call the other kind of people who are killing people. It’s not good. Mahāprabhujī said it’s very nice, what he said. And he said, "Satguru Sat Saṅkhyārī Luvāvī, Satguru Sat Saṅkhyārī." So, this bhajan, which you have heard many times, is why you could sing so nicely, better than me. So you should read and speak bhajans of holy gurujīs. Unbelievable, and it is for both Nirakāra and Sākāra. So, we should always sing this bhajana. The time is different. What is the time? It is different, not the time of the sun and moon and this. But the rules and regulations humans have made are very complicated for humans. We are only workers. So, in reality, you think that you are earning, let’s say, a thousand euros, then taxes are taken, then comes the electricity bill, the water bill, etc., etc. So, how much remains with you for the road? Puri Street, we are giving the tax. Why should they give it for the road? And on the road, but also where you are parking, the government again takes money for that. So look, but how much money is the government taking away? And you have nothing. You try, you try, a little, a little, try to save. And for what are you saving? Again, you are giving them very expensive things. So, these governments have made, people have made such systems, so you have nothing. So now, even you cannot become a Swāmī, a Sannyāsī. Yeah, they will say, "Okay, the social security, when you will be ill, who will take care?" This country will not let you in. There are so many rules, so you say you can become a sannyāsī. But now you have to work very hard, as you are a sannyāsī. So the grusty people, grusty people, they are doing different things, but the sannyāsī, they are doing sādhanā. No joke, no anywhere. And you go to the government or somewhere to work, to work. Now in India also, if you go to the āśram, you think that you are a sannyāsī and that everything is okay. It’s not like that. It’s all just okay. If someone gives you a thing, okay, you walk somewhere, you eat somewhere, then somebody will say, "Oh, the poor person gave you Banaras cloth." So, you are under a sannyāsī, then you have to take care of the whole security of your whole āśram. We need at least twenty-five sādhus here for Strīlakṣmī Āśram. But you have to work hard day and night in the monastery. And the nuns, you think the nuns are only making mantras? And prayer, they have their boss, and how much work they have to do. You see, it’s not easy. But still, a sannyāsī is a little better than others. But then don’t say, "Ah, it was not good, I thought it was good." And then you go and sit beside our Umāpurī. And Umāpurī will say, "Go and bring the glass of water." She says, "Why? Me?" Then get out. So we have to learn very much. Neither are you at home, nor is it your husband and wife. So, sannyāsī, to become a sannyāsī, is a very hard time. Don’t think that you will go with me to India. I will welcome you in India. But the Indian embassy is sitting here. No visa. Hari Om. That’s it. So, how do you want to become a sannyāsī? Yes, and many times people will be angry with you. When you are going like a sannyāsī, oh God, oh God. Yes, they are all thinking, really it is very difficult for the spiritual people. But you should become, learn, learn, and then teach further. Then you can. Otherwise, have a cloth, that’s all. No. The chicken has beautiful colors. But you know very soon they will peel it out, which we don’t want. Yes, and on the other side it is also difficult. You know the story of the husband and wife. The cock is very precious. Very rich, and came the chicken, and she said, "Oh, this husband is rich." And then she comes like, "Ka-ka-ka-ka." And in one month, in two months, three months, she has taken everything away, and every, so he is standing there like this. But she is going like this. But she is going like this. So there are different things. So there are different things. That’s it. So many want to get married who have money. Many do not. People want to have a relation. And this relation is a relation from heart to heart. It’s not emotional, not your sexual life, but it’s a lifelong and happy one. It’s not easy. That’s it. The husband is good, but she’s gone. What should we do? Yeah. And after some days, some years, one sends a letter on Christmas. Don’t expect anything. Again, oh God. Yeah, or wife, the husband goes and he sees crying, crying... This is a modern time now, so better to become a sannyāsī. So I give you, I give you, but then you have to be very strict. Let’s say, how many yoga centers do we have in the Czech Republic? And how many yoga classes are there? So, you should become a sannyāsī and take one of these centers. All yoga and daily life teachers have every village yoga class, everything, meditation, this, this. You will have a good, happy life, and you will live and go on a spiritual life. But after one or two years, people are very little, and suddenly they said, "This person is good, we should marry." What does it mean? The nest is destroyed by the crow. Neither eggs, and there is the bird. Where to get the eggs and the bird? Finished. Otherwise, if you take it really seriously, or you become husband and wife, sannyāsī. You can live together, and you can also give the child. But to lead such a life, hard work, teaching yoga classes, this village, that village, not only one, three classes a day, and four classes per day. Why is he four and why is she three? It’s very clear. Because she should do the five classes, but I give her only three. Why? Because she has to cook, she has to clean, it’s the homework. That’s why. So this is, you can, there is no problem. So this, called the sannyāsī’s life, is also... In old times, there was a ṛṣi and a ṛṣi’s wife. Every ṛṣi had a wife, and they had a beautiful gurukul. So you can do, but after five or six years, you say to your wife, "I don’t want it." Again, the same place. Again and again we are coming there, and how do we come? What is happening? Be sure, be sure. Every December, you have to wear like this. Yeah, your husband is gone, your wife is gone, and you’re just sitting over there. So, this cold age will come. That is the situation. So please, if you can do, and finally you have to become a sannyāsī now. You will not get your partner; it will be very rare. I can tell you the best partner is like Vasant and Gaṅgā. I observe them very much. Still, now they are very great. That’s it. There are many, many here sitting, husband and wife, and they are very, very, very good. So tonight, don’t sleep. Think. Marriage or Sannyāsa? Okay. Then tomorrow I come to me, and then I will say how to do it. That’s it. The band you go to in the nurse, in ministry. Then they have a very good nun there. She is giving training, everything. They are very, very strict, like Umapurī. She is very strict. Oh God, I close my door. I don’t want her calling me here. So, everywhere, the professor, the teachers, the student, it has a sequence: the student, the teacher, the professor. There is an order, a sequence. Therefore, there is bhajan. Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī. So, you come to become a sannyāsī, it was very comfortable, very nice, hair is gone, new dress, good sitting everywhere. And after one week, Gurudev comes. Then, he said, "What do you know about my condition now?" I became a sannyāsī. I always thought, oh, I will be a great saint. But now, Sadhguru, Gurudev, I give such hard work. And how is that hard? He shot the arrow. Oh God! Yes! And what kind of arrow? Hard words. Hard training. Yeah, chai, no, no, there is no chai. Yeah. Go eating? No, no... go and bring the vegetables from there. Kya tum jāno hāl hamārā? So, what do you know of my condition? Satguru Mahārīya, yeah, the Gurudev. So, that arrow went so hard, what happened? Everyone can see you, or you can go to the mirror, tapke nīr, water. The water is the tears of the water going down. O Guru Dev, I will go away. There is no door. It’s locked. No one can see you. No one can hurt you. You have put yourself in. Mele Satyagal. From the mines, the iron wanted to come out, and now the iron has come. Now, the iron thought: it will be very nice, good sun, good air, everything. But that master who brought the iron put it into the fire. Oh God! Wrong, completely red, in fire. Well, then he brought it out, too hot. He said, "No, not still, not still." Yes, caught you. And then take the hammer. See, oh God, Gurujī. Talking. Yes, so he is becoming some part. But Gurujī, I don’t want to. I will not. What does that mean? You become hard. Gurujī said, "No problem. Again, take in the fire, and Gurujī, I will be okay." Then come out again. Then one day, it becomes such a beautiful ornament, and the Master said, "This is one of the best parts." And people said, "Please, can I have it?" Everyone wanted to have that. Only gold will not do. But something beautiful, an ornament. Somebody is hanging here. Somebody is in the nose. Somebody is here. Someone is putting here now, and somewhere else, everywhere. But it takes a long time. That’s it. Gold or iron, any metal has to go through the training. Oh yes. Then what happens? The dust which is taking away, the ash has so much value because people buy that and look for iron, gold, or silver. They are taking this, and what is that? Charanaraj, the holy scent of that iron that we are taking from the holy feet of the iron, and we make a tilak. That’s it. So go through the Master. Yes. And it is known that when we die in this life, don’t think that, ah, we are going now. No, no, no. That no one sees you now. No one sees you. And there is no place anywhere to stand. And now, those who will come, how they will... Yes. Therefore, sādhanā, we can do everywhere, but good, and we have to go through. Tomorrow we will again, so today this is a picture from Holī Gurujī’s bhajan.

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