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How to become a Sanyas

The path of sannyāsa is an authentic inner transformation, not merely adopting external dress. True renunciation requires the color of the dress to be within the heart, marking the beginning of real practice. Modern life presents many distractions, from transient relationships to complex societal systems that obscure the eternal. The divine practice is the singular door to eternity, yet many perform minimal spiritual effort while engaged in worldly pursuits. Authentic practice is measured by its quality, not one's marital or social status. The current age is characterized by environmental imbalance and societal decay, moving away from natural, sāttvic living. Becoming a genuine renunciate involves rigorous training and sacrifice, akin to metal purified by fire and hammer to become a beautiful ornament. It is a demanding path of inner work, not an escape from worldly difficulties.

"To merely take the dress is nothing. We have to have the color of this dress in our heart."

"The divine practice is the singular door to eternity."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

I think we should now have more sādhuīs and sādhus, no? Always only these three or four. It's boring. So, is there someone ready for it? Yes, but not someone who is very old and has nothing to do. We don’t want that. They should be here in the ashram. That’s it. It is not easy to be a sannyāsī. To merely take the dress is nothing. We have to have the color of this dress in our heart. And that’s it. Even if in your heart you think you have an orange dress, it is not so immediate that now you are supreme. It means now the practice begins. So, how many lives will we have? That is how it is, but try it quickly. So that you will say, "I was in 2019." Otherwise, you will wait until 2020. Yes, well, you need not tell anybody. You come to me, and we will save the hair nicely. 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 renting. 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 clients, 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? Our partner, our partner is God, and God has given us eternity. So there is no more payment and nothing. That is God. It doesn’t matter which religion you believe. That’s all right. But do you believe? Will you have it? So neither can you, don’t have that partner, God. Often we say, "My God, he didn’t give me anything." It’s not happening. I go to another religion. There will be the same thing. 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 money. Only that one, God. And we, their one day’s sādhanā, we are using it for one year. So you see, one sādhanā what you are doing one day is not only for quickly, quickly in Hari Om. You make a little pūjā at home and say, "Gurujī, Hari Om, Swāmījī, Mahāprabhujī, Kaurī, Sasī, I want 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, it doesn’t matter, sādhu or no sādhu, bachelors or married. But we see the quality of that person’s practice. That is very important. Therefore, it is said, "That’s a beautiful bhajan, and when we sing this bhajan, during the singing, 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 a bhajan. But between there, one has to do the karma yoga. So sing that bhajan. Do the karma yoga. All windows open, but not all. Don’t hit anyone. All windows go ahead, sing with bhajan. What I said, see? I gave her other bhajan. Today is the day of Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī, that he again takes his body into the 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 curtains move, the curtains, that it means you are giving good quality. Otherwise, it is not organic. Come on. Okay. One should also give the good karma. Why are you frozen, everybody? We should give them warmth. Yes, that is a... what? Yeah, that is very, very good. Param Guru Swāmījī Janam Suddharyo Mari Hari Guru 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 Soham mantra made you from the crow to the swan. Of course, the crows are also good. Yes, we need everything to be cleaned up. Now it is like this: we humans have killed many, many animals. The forest, the jungle animals, they were cleaning everything. We have killed them, and if some are left, we are running behind them and shoot them also. Many good birds we also killed them. Many, many different kinds of animals, the flies, 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, many things cannot. And also, we ourselves, what we can, what we should eat, we can’t eat that because nothing remains. All the vegetation will be destroyed. We put so many pesticides on it. What can we expect from this on our earth anymore? We have to come back again. But even our many different countries have governments, and even they don’t want that we 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 father’s, not our quality. Why? What are we doing like this? So, if then, do something like a crow to the swan. It means the clean, pure. So it is very difficult now. You see that every person and every government says your children should eat meat. And there was a time that we would not give the children’s dead body. The first is the best, the mother’s milk. Now, many mothers don’t want to give the milk. And now there are many women, and they are selling the milk. Yes, there are many women; they are at home, and they are giving breast milk to other women. So there are many women, but you don’t know which kind of milk from the mothers came. Then you don’t know what is your mother and what is your father. So we can kill each other. And like that, it will remain. It will happen sometimes. Therefore, our great saints, our every religion, they are trying to protect the religion. It is not only, like we call, only the 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 with 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 it is 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, but humans need this when the human is not anymore. It will be there like that, then everything is dying. 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, crows, buffaloes, etc.—they don’t want to give the pure milk to them. And they don’t give that much to the calves. So what’s happening? And this is that the sādhus, sants, 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 are giving us the great things. So, and when, how? The best who will come together now is only for the fighting. Armies, whatever they call the other kind of the people who are killing people, is not good. Mahāprabhujī said, "It’s very nice what he said," and he said, "Satguru Satsaṅgīyārī Luvāvī." So this bhajan which you have heard many times, and that’s why you could sing so nicely, better than me. So you should read and speak bhajans of holy Gurujīs. Unbelievable. And it is for Nirakāra and Sākāra, both. So, we should always sing this bhajan. So, 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 the 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, 1,000 euros. Then it’s going to tax. Then comes that electricity. Coming the waters, etc., etc. So how much remains with you? For the road, for the street. We are paying the tax, so why should they give it for the road? And on the road, where you are parking, the government again takes the money for that. So, look how much money the government is taking away, and you have nothing. You try, you try, little, little, try to save, and for what are you saving? Again, you are giving them very expensive things. So these governments have made, and people have made, such systems that you have nothing. So now even you cannot become a swāmī, sannyāsī. Yeah, they will say, okay, but the social security. When you are ill, who will take care of you? This country, they will not let you in this country. There are so many rules, so you say you can become a sannyāsī. But now you have to work very hard, that you are a sannyāsī. So the grāhastha people, they are doing different things, but the sannyāsī, they are doing sādhanā, no joke, no anywhere. And you go to the government, went somewhere to work. Now in India also, if you go to the ashram, 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 an orange cloth." How to maintain the ashram? So you are a sannyāsī, then you have to take care of the whole security of your whole ashram. We need at least twenty-five sādhus here for Strīgā āśram, but we 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 it was not good; I thought it was good. And then you go and sit with our Umapurī, and Umapurī will say, "Go and bring the glass of water." She will say, "Why me?" Then, "Get out!" That’s it. So we have to learn very much. Neither are you at home, nor with 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, who is this? Yeah, they are all thinking, really, it’s very difficult for the spiritual people. But you should 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 the other side is also difficult. You know the story of the husband and wife, the cock. He is very precious, very rich, and came the chicken, and she said, "Oh, this husband is rich." And then she comes, and in one month, in two months, three months, she has taken everything away, and every five years took it away. So she’s standing there, but she’s going like this. So there are different things. That’s it. So many want to get married who have money. Many 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? And after some days, some years, one sends a letter on Christmas. Don’t expect anything again. Oh, God. Or the wife, the husband goes and he sees 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 we have in the Czech Republic. And how many yoga classes are there? Different. 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 live and go spiritual life. But after one or two years, people are very little, and suddenly said, "This person is good, we should marry." What does it mean? The nest is destroyed by the crow. There are neither eggs nor the bird. Where to get the eggs and the bird? It’s finished. Otherwise, if you take it really seriously, or you become husband and wife sannyāsīs, you can live together. You can give the child also, but lead such a life: hard work, teaching yoga classes, this village, that village, not only one, three classes a day. And four classes: husband per day. Why four and why 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, she has to do all the household chores. That’s why. So you can do this, there is no problem. So this so-called Sannyās 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, six years, you say to your wife, "I don’t want." Again, the same place. Again and again we are coming there, and how do we come? What happens? Be sure. Be sure. Every December you have to hide like this, yeah? Your husband is gone, wife is gone, and you are just sitting there. So this cold will come. That is a situation. So please, if you can do, and finally you have to become a sannyāsī now. You will not get your partner. Very rare it will be. I can tell you the best partner. It is like Vasanth and Gaṅgā. I observe them very much. Still now, they are very great. That’s it. There are many, many here sitting, husband, wife, they are very, very, very good. So tonight, don’t sleep. Think. Marriage or Sannyāsa. Okay. Then tomorrow, come to me, and I will say how to do it. That’s it. Then you go to the nurse in ministry, then they have very good nuns there. She’s giving training, everything. They are very strict, like Umapurī. She’s very strict. Oh God, I close my door. I don’t want him calling me here. So, everywhere, the professor, the teachers, the students, they have positions. Therefore, there is a bhajan. 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? My condition now?" I became a sannyāsī. I thought, "Oh, I will be a great saint." But now Sadhguru, Gurudev, gives 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. So what do you know of my condition? Satguru Māriā Thir, the Gurudev. So that arrow went so hard. So what happened? Everyone can see you. Or you can go to the mirror. Take a little water. Water is of the tears of the water going down. I will go away. There is no door. It’s locked. No one can see you. No one can hurt you. You have yourself put in. You have locked yourself up, you have imprisoned yourself, you have locked yourself up with it. From the mines, iron wanted to come out. And now the iron came. Now, iron thought, it will be very nice, good. Sung, good air, everything. But that master who brought the iron put it into the fire. Oh God! Completely red in fire. Well, then, who brought it out? He said, "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 says, "Gurujī, I don’t want, I will not." What means that? You become hard. Gurujī says, "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 Master said, "This is one of the best parts." And people said, "Please, can I have?" Everyone wants to have that. Only gold you will not do, but something beautiful, an ornament. So somebody is hanging here, somebody is in the nose, somebody here, some are 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 he’s taking away, the ash that has so much value, because people buy that and look at the iron or the gold or the 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 vaster, yes, and it is not that when we die this life, in this life, don’t think that, oh, we are going now. No, no... that no one sees you now. No one sees you. And there is no place anywhere to stand. And now, they are who will come, and 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. And this is a picture from Holī Gurujī Bhajan and from Lālā Nanjī Bhajan.

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