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Part 1: The Essence of a Human Life It is nearly midday, still not what we would call a good morning. Life is most beautiful. If we understand our own life, we will be most happy, and we can then give further to others. But why do we humans, mostly humans, have these problems? All other creatures have no problems, etc. An animal kills another animal for eating. When it has eaten and its stomach is full, it will not kill again. Even a big lion, after eating, will not kill other animals of the same kind that pass by. Similarly, birds and other creatures do not collect things. The thrill and the end, for which humans are collecting a lot of things... As long as the human was not gathering many things, there was happiness and joy. There is no limitation. A person is a little poor, and someone gives him 10 rupees or 10 dollars. It was great, very much. He says, "Today I have it in my pocket." But the next day, he thinks he will ask for more. Slowly, slowly, we are studying; we learn something, how to work, why this, that. What percentage of humans study and do something to learn how to live, how to take care of animals and forests, and so on? But maybe 85% of us, all humans, are longing for more and more and more. And at the end, there is nothing, and everything remains there, and we die. There is one very nice poem, and it is said: "When I was born, my palms were closed. Something was in them." But in life, at the end of life, our palms will be open. Oh human, what you brought with you, what you try to collect more and more. But one day, the palms, the hands, are opened. Nothing goes with you; it doesn’t matter how much you have, maybe everything is in gold or diamonds. But on that day, when that ātmā, the jīvātmā, will go, nothing has any use at all. But we are still human, and we are trying to make life more comfortable or more. There was a time when people had very little, but they were happy. And now we have many things, but we are still not happy. So it is said, it doesn’t matter how much you collect, but it’s only a handful that you need in your stomach. So humans have done good, many good things: our medical things, many, many things, life to save lives, this and that. But still, mostly, we are only collecting. When you study and want to be a doctor, your parents give you the money so you can study. It was not so much, but still enough for that. But that doctor, who got one dollar, wanted to have that one dollar become a million. And still, there is not enough. Many doctors, very good. Dentists, they study many things. But now, how much money are they taking from the people? Maybe they are old people or many poor people. Just now, before today, one person who had no money, not so much, came from another country, Europe, and had some pain in his mouth, in his tooth. He said that if he’s only taking medicine, so that, how to say, the painkiller, so I said, "Why? It will disturb your kidneys." And this perhaps we asked him. Some person, one of our students here, said, "Yes, yes, my friend, and they are good. I will bring them." He said only to go, and then the person who gave told him, "I will help you, and we will go with you." He left you there, and he went away. Now, that person who wants to do something, and one will say, "Please, can you?" and he, but you left. That was not the first mistake there, and then that person said, "What do you want?" So he said, "My problem is with this one tooth." And he said, "If you want to make the roots, it is about 900 dollars, and if we just clean it and give you some medicine..." Inside, and this is about, I don’t know, 500 or... Śrī Śrī... He said he will help me, and we will do it a little bit, and he said, "First, put the money here." That is what we humans are like. And then it’s not anymore; that’s called greed. And when it’s greed, then it’s not spirituality. Even the animals are helping the animals. Many, many animals, and you see that one little ant. I tell you that we stepped on an ant, and the ant broke her foot or his leg or something, or she’s dying. And immediately, about 10, 20, 30 little, little ants were there. Everyone is coming and looking, asking what happened to my family, or if someone died. No, no, we don’t know. They are there, everybody coming, going. It’s like a funeral, and they all came for what we call condolence, even the animals. So come and follow until there. You said, "Okay, you can learn swimming, and there’s water, and I will come." And you jump in, and he’s not there. What is it about that person? That doesn’t matter who is who, but this is my teaching. My master, even my father, they say, "First give them, and then us." We give the food first to others, and then to us. But many cannot; only there is one person who can, and that is mother. Even the mother is very hungry, and there is very little, half a piece of bread. And she is very hungry also. But she will first give her child, and the child doesn’t want to eat and puts it out, but still, the mother will feed that child—it doesn’t matter, boy or girl—your child. And then it remains, maybe she will chew something in her. That is called the eternal journey of human life towards where? Where will you go? This is many, many... There are things there which we can see, and there are many people here. There’s nothing to say; there are many, many people. They will stop, they will—like we said, if we go, we give the way every day. I’m telling you, when I’m going outside, many are coming and standing in front of me. But I said, "Please, there are people passing by." But why did we get there? And I said, "Please stay." He is on one side, and all are again there. So people are sitting for one minute there, half a minute, and then they are going to that side and crossing like that. Why can we not respect, or say no respect, but at least this person is on his path? And can we say, please, that is that. What we are not learning, we have forgotten. And that’s why we humans are suffering. It will suffer, and then it will come in another life, which we don’t know. Will a human become human? We are human. What does the human mean? And that’s what I always used to say. When we wake up in the morning, just when you open your eyes, tell one thing to nobody, not your mother, not your father, nobody, maybe nobody is there. But when you open your eyes, then you say something to yourself, or to myself, "I." When you become aware and wake up, then you can say it loudly, or in your mouth, or in your mind. And what is this? I am human. That’s all. I am human. Now, if that person is fighting somewhere and they are so cruel, then people will say automatically, "Oh my God, they are not human, they are fighting so." What we say is, they are not human. Now our heart says what I said. Who told you like that? Because we said, "Oh, please, you are a human." Don’t be cruel. Animals will do it. But a human steps on it, someone, a living being, it is. That’s why our human journey may be from many, many ages. What we always call, I tell you, there are 8.4 million different creatures. And that is a journey we are going through. And may God say, or our destiny say, our karma say, that we come to the human in a mother’s body. Yes, father is good, also very good, but sometimes we don’t know. Or, the father doesn’t respect and go. But the mother is that. That’s why it is said the mother is the first god. She is protecting, she is taking care, she is hungry, but she will feed the child. And though she is very hungry, she will give the milk to the child. And yes, it will, mother’s body, it will give her. A mother would not do this, letting the child cry a little, and then taking the milk out and drinking it. Can one? Why not? But when? Never, never. So when we are like that, the whole world becomes like that. And I always say, now in this Kali Yuga, now in this time, it’s a terrible situation in the whole world. And only if one can make the world good again, better, everything, then only the women can do. Yes, still the women can save the world, the humans, but men will have more and more different things. But in the same way, so where is the feeling? Now, sometimes some person they call, you can say beggar or poor person or like this, Śrī Śrī... Right, Red Cross, your card is there. And when a poor person said, "Sir, please, can you give me something?" You are a rich man, and you close your window. Even your window is black, you cannot see anything, anything. You went so much, maybe a million, or let’s say a thousand or five hundred thousand. But if you give one dollar to this person, that is a great play of yours, but not who. That’s like, and so there is one story I want to tell you. I want to tell you about meditation now, but I came to this. But this is also a lesson for us. Meditation on this long ago, long ago, the story. And there was one time—stories are, they were the kings. It doesn’t matter if they were Muslims or the Muslims after, maybe not so long. Others also not long, but it doesn’t matter. So, one king, and one king is very rich, and the king said, "In my kingdom..." No one is hungry, no one is poor. In my kingdom, all are very happy. And so, always, he was sending his people there to look, to see if anyone was hungry, or this or that, or many things. So, the kingdom was good, very happy, always in happiness. So, what does God want to make a test? What is her name? Lakshmi, can you come this side, please, not in this light. Thank you. That side is better. Hello. Yeah. Good. There, there, there. You can go there or there. Thank you very much. Yeah. Not here. There. What’s your name? Oh, Parata, and this bear, and this. Good. So, don’t sit here, please. You can go here or to the back. Can you get up, please? Get up. There, please. I love you very much, but sit there. No, no, they are backside. Thank you. Yes, very good. Yes. No, sit down. You can sit on the chair, no problem. And I’m not talking about a program, no, no meditation. I’m giving a lecture. And what I want to tell, I forget that I know. But how many should you follow? That is how I can tell you. The king said, "My kingdom is happy, growing, and has everything." I am the king. I have everything. Now God is looking. And the king was very, how do you say, proud. I am the king. My kingdom is everything. I am the best. No one is like that. God wants to have a test. But in that test, when God is sitting there and people are looking with their legs like this, it’s not good. Nāginwāī. Thank you. You people, I’m sorry, I may always be cutting my lectures short. Yes? So, we cannot—there is one other story that is not good, but there will be—that in front of the altar, in front of the king, in front of the president, or the highest persons or something, do not look directly at them. I am nothing. I am zero. But here is that, and therefore, we have to learn. We have to learn, so I have to finish. It was such a great... I was in some... but then... But anyhow, I am very good. This story is very good. And my Gurujī was telling this, and after about 18 years, I remember this story in my mind. And that’s a very, very good story. There are many, many beautiful, good stories, and stories give us more knowledge. A big lecture, after two and a half minutes, our concentration is gone. Anywhere you go for the lecture, and very nicely, two and a half minutes is very good, and then suddenly our memories or our things go like this. We are learning, we are looking, we know, we are writing everything, but two and a half, that will go completely into our mind, the rest will go here and there, but it will be forgotten. But if you listen to one story, our concentration is on the stories, and we remember it forever and ever, that’s it. So, between what we did, I broke it, this and that. But this broken will be everyone’s memory, that there was a Master, that there was a Swami. The people are sitting, and he said, "Don’t sit like this, and don’t sit like this." This Master, you will remember all the times. Do you remember me? That’s called a lesson. What kind of lesson? That’s it. But when, where, and how now? There is a little child born, and the child is only five months, eight months, and drinking milk from the mother’s breast. And this little baby is five months, sorry, not years, or 20 months or something like that. And while drinking milk, the baby is moving the mother’s body, beating here and there, and the mother is so happy, the father is so happy. Look, this baby is so happy, drinking milk and playing with the mother. That is a different thing, and when we are different, we cannot do like that, yes or no? Am I wrong? Nobody said anything. Doesn’t matter. From how many people, one said, "You are right." So, I’m not so right. Good. Anyhow, let’s go to the story. So, the king is very nice, very happy. But when it comes, then God always makes the way. Now I’m rich. I have everything. We are happy at this. That became the ego. Ego, and ego is, it falls down completely. And the king said to all his people, "Please, let no one be without eating or sleep." No one should be hungry like this. Please, we shall take care of our people. This is very, very important. All my people, but you know, and we know, the kings are very good and everything, and they give orders. But who will really follow the orders? Part 2: The King, the Beggar, and the Word of God One person says, "Your Highness, I will be." Then another says, "Hey, you do it." He says yes. He will go further. "Tomorrow, I will do it." How does it slowly, slowly go out? Lakṣman Purī, do you have some problem? Then lie down, okay? Take your yoga, that is not here, there, or there, okay? Take your back here, a little bit, with the back problems. And he’s trying to, okay, you can listen to me with your eyes, okay? Thank you. Should we give you something more? Bindu, what is that, pillow? Pillow, okay. Yes, that story of the king is always... Now, will I finish today or not? So, the king always takes care of them very much. And he’s so, inside he’s proud, but on the other side, in his action, he is very humble toward everybody. And anyone who comes to our kingdom, we respect them. Yes, without anything, please come to my kingdom. But now it’s like this, very difficult to come to your New Zealand. All people want to get a visa, and this and that is very difficult. But at that time, kings wanted to have more people. My kingdom is how many people? This, you know, that was, yeah. The British, and it is all that they are taking, one kingdom in, another kingdom in, everything. But now it’s everything pushing them out. That’s the Kali Yuga, Satya Yuga, and Dvāpara Yuga. God said, "My child, the king is a little bit proud, and I want to give him a lesson." He is very good, but now he has lost the way of the path. Morning, morning after sunrise, about, let’s say, after two hours. And the king comes out from his palace, and he wants to see his people, how they are and what is there. And there one man comes, so poor, his dress is torn, no shoes, one stick from normal, from some forest wood he took it, and had one pot also from broken some, from the clay. And one hand, he said, standing there, the king said, "Who are you here?" He said, "I am the beggar on your door, king. For fourteen days, I did not get anything to eat, and little water, as there was no water available, only somewhere in the canals. I am thirsty. I am old. King, please give me something to eat." Then the king said, "My brother, where did you come from in my kingdom?" I am in your kingdom. I am your person. Nobody takes care, and I can’t go anywhere to bring food. And where are you, Your Highness? Just about 50 steps behind, in your house or villa. Down there, I am sitting. He said, "King, here? Yes, I am. You are so poor here." You can see, my lord, he called people. He called his secretary. He said, "No, we didn’t see him anywhere." He said, "King, people have different eyes. They don’t see the poor one. They see only the high. They are always looking up. I am the lower one." The king was so sad, but he said, "I will give you a book. Everything." He said, "I don’t need anything, but please fill this bowl of mine with some food or something." So the king said, "What will you eat only? I will give you the diamonds, and this and that will make you the richest." He said, "First let me eat, I am hungry," and put the fruit, put the rice and this. Whatever is put in, nothing is there. The king put himself inside, but nothing is there. He said, "King, you make a joke. You are just telling me to put in your food, but there is nothing. Everything, whatever is going on, disappears." He said, "Well, I put it for you, maybe some money, this," he said. Whatever you want, I am. Everything, all treasures, everything was inside. Nothing is there. Then the king said, "Who are you? I think you are not that beggar and not this person. Who are you? Please." Then he said, he got up, "I am the God of the God. Because you are the king, you are God. I am the God of the God of the God. And you are so proud in this. Everything is lost here." Please, the king said, I bow down to you. I will never, ever be so proud and angry. Please, then God appears. And he said, "Everything is there." Everything disappeared from this pot. Go into your house, and it will be 100% more than what you have given in this. But it is empty. He said, "No, it’s not empty. You don’t see; I see. 100% more, your treasure will be completely filled. I am that, but never be proud that your kingdom is only like that. Go yourself everywhere and see the poor people, where they are in life." That’s it. Proudness makes the beggar. Proudness makes the beggar. But who is a giver looks like a beggar, but it is the proud God itself. This is how we are going. Therefore, who are you? God said, "Who are you?" Everything we have, and like that, prāṇa is gone. Everything is gone. Similarly, a real story. That was what Gurujī said. It was the Mughals, when they came to India, that time story. And it’s another, our kingdom in Jodhpur, near there, and there was another very great king. It is said, "Who can rule the kingdom? It should be the yogī and the rājā." Rājā and yogī, king and holy. King and holy person. That will be, otherwise he will be lost, and it will be fighting and this. So there was one king, that is a story, it’s about the eighth generation maybe, or a little more. It is there. There’s a book written in it. So he had so many, all kinds, one day, all his treasures here: gold, and this, and that, and that. And he was sitting there, and he called his people, who were very close, and one, his treasurer, and this. So the king is sitting there, and all are standing. He said, "No, no, sit down, sit down, sit down." This is a real story, please, and we are learning this. Meditation is today. This is more than a meditation for us. The king said, "All my people are like my sons, my children, because the whole kingdom are the children of the king, and all are the children of that one king. The king should go and lead, and learn how to take care of them like his own children. That is a king." He said, "I have something to tell you, and I hope that you will follow my principles or my words." They said, "Highness, what is that?" He said, "Don’t worry, it will happen one day." And what? And what? He said, "When I die," and everyone got up and began to, they were nervous. He said, "Don’t worry, every day you will also go. We will go, but what I want to tell you is, when I go, then you should give all my kingdom, the people, everything, but mostly for the animals, for the temples, and like this, for spirituality and the religious. Also, what can we do? This is a real story, and he wrote a poem afterwards, the king. And so he said, "When I die, you will not die. When I die, all my treasure, which is with me, is my ornaments. Please give this to the animals, poor people, temples, and ashrams." They said, "We cannot, we cannot say your ideas, we cannot say yes, because when we said yes, it means that you die, and we don’t say decision, please, I tell you, do it like this, okay?" So that’s all, that was okay, all was very sad. Everybody was this, because this, that yogī, that is name, Rājā, and he said he’s meditating. So, he is a yogī and rājā. Yogi and rājā means a king. He could have a samādhi. He could go into samādhi. And there are two kinds of samādhi: nirākāra and sākāra. First, samādhi is this: that we see that one has died. But he put all his consciousness in the hair, the Sahasrāra Cakra somewhere, and his eyes see everything, his ears hear everything. So after two and a half years or something, the king said, "Now I want to get a test from my people. If they will follow my words or not, my people." Similarly, the Guru, Gurudev, will say it after many years, "Are you following my words or not?" That is a real disciple. Otherwise, next is. So, one day he said, "I have a problem. I have a problem in my stomach. I have this, my body is." That time was not this medicine, this, what we call this. These hospitals and this and that, only natural, Āyurvedic and this and natural. So they called the doctor. The doctor checked the pulse. Pulse is very low, very low. What are you doing? So they said, "Close the doors. Please don’t tell in the kingdom, otherwise all will die or cry." They put him in his room. And in India, we are doing there on the floor, and then from the cow dung we put it there, and then we put sowing there; all Hindu tradition is. So they put him there, he washed his body, and they took all the treasures, all his ornaments; he took them. His best person was taking care of his treasure. He begins to take out this and that and put it in the box. Other person said, "My friend, His Highness said that if you cannot give more to others, at least give that much which is on my body to poor people, and this and that." And again, the treasure said, "Are you stupid?" He said, "Kings are stupid. We are running the kingdom. But we should then say, 'Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Your holiness, your highness, your...' That’s all. They are stupid. They don’t know anything. We are taking care of everything." He said, "My God." He said, "No, forget it." But he said, his words, okay, called the goldsmith immediately. "In two nights, make all such organs, but of glass, not real." And the rest he put in his. And then he put it, wanting to have put it. He took it away, and they want to have their artificial ornaments. And again, this king, what he said: "Oṃ," he is coming from his Brahma-Rudra. And everybody said, "His Highness, God, he came. We will give someone money there. We will give this. Oh, my God." The king said, "You are all slaves. You are all slaves, and you do not follow my words at all. I was listening to everything I told you." And he took all of this and put it right. And then he wrote one nice, beautiful poem. What is eaten, what you have eaten is gone. And that which is not, you have to give. So, like this, that is a very big switch. That is the words which we follow. Follow the words of your mother, your father, your brother, your friend. When you say the friend’s words, then it does not matter how your other friend is, but you will be all the time your friend and your, how do you call it, faithful. You see the Mahābhārata in the Bhagavad Gītā. If you read the Bhagavad Gītā, who was there? Who was the friend of the Pāṇḍavas and others? So that is that I know, he knows that I know now, these Pāṇḍava brothers. But I gave my word to others, and I will follow with them. That is the faithfulness within our body of which we are speaking. First, be faithful to thyself. We should be faithful to the self. Once you said the word that is in your heart, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, you will go. What will you do? Do not go and hold the hand of others. No. Humans have the word, and that word is given to us. When you are going to church, I’m talking about Christianity more here, and you marry, and you come to the church, and the priest, he gives the, what do we call it, what? Not a certificate. The certificate comes after. He said, "Swami says, and all, whatever is given, then get the ring, before not." And first, tell the woman, and then the man will see. And then you said that in any conditions and everywhere, I will be thine, I will be. And after two months, or two years, or five years, something happens. The word of God, it was in the church, on the step of God, in the cross up there, or you should not have gone. So follow, the follow, the follow, that your meditation will be clear, otherwise not, otherwise not. And now they are married, no marriage, and then they go. But they will not, I think, as far as I have said. You can marry again, but not in the church. Yes? I don’t know. You are more in the church, but I live there. I see, I hear. So there are many, many times you are marrying, but not in the church. And if the priest will marry you again, it’s not right. Follow God, and you are a priest. Follow God. I am Swami. Follow God. I am going to be following my master’s words, and my disciples follow my master’s. This is that you will get a religion, not that kind of religion, and that you will become holy in everything. A little bit of āsanas, a little bit of prāṇāyāma, meditation, oṃ. That’s okay. Children’s toys. Those are children’s toys. Okay, asanas are good for the body, pranayama is good for the mind, but what is there inside? Look inside. In this fruit, lemons, we will squeeze, and the lemon will come out. But we take something from this other fruit, mangoes, or this. It comes as sweet mangoes, and this is a sour mango. That we have to go, and that is called the eternal journey of man through yoga in daily life. So, well, now we will do something. I will not make anything, but I ask you to comfortably sit down and go within thyself. You can hear the mantra, but you do what you want. Go to thyself, and what I said, whatever you like, be relaxed, be relaxed,... be thyself. And that thyself is within thyself is the God whom you are searching for. Peace, peace, peace. No animals can talk with the tongue, but only humans can talk with the tongue. That’s it. Relax, be thyself. Now, become thyself within thyself. All the many, many different organs in the body, all the different kinds of activities in the body, many things are done by the gods, and we are only a toy for the gods. We chant Aum three times, all from the Nābhi. Deep inhale. Feel the peace, harmony, love, freedom, God, thyself. And slowly, your palms—rub your palms together, make them warm. Your palms and energy on the face, and bend forward in salutation to the Mother Earth, and come up again. Hari Om, Hari Om.