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Part 1: The Eternal Journey Within: Yoga and the Unity of Life Oṁ Kārviṇḍu Sāyuktaṁ Nityadāyantayoginaḥ Kaṁdaṁ Mokṣadaṁceva Oṁ Kārāyaṇamonamaha. Guroḥ Brahma Guroḥ Viṣṇu Guroḥ Devo Maheśvaraḥ Guru Rākṣaka Parabrahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ... Salutations to the Cosmic Lord. Worship our holy saints, dear sisters and brothers. It is a beautiful day, and there is a happiness to be here again with this ashram. All of you are here, most, most welcome. Many of you know about yoga; maybe some are after a few weeks or months. You definitely have knowledge about yoga, and you know now that yoga has become known throughout the whole world, and it is declared by the United Nations also. Yoga is a science for humans, and through this yogic science, it gives knowledge and happiness to other creatures. Yoga is not only physical training, postures, and breath exercises, but it is more than this. Yoga is so ancient that before any other knowledge appeared in humans, there was yoga. The exercises we do, maybe in our yoga centers or in the many other yoga centers here—all yoga is yoga. If you want to get fruit from one tree, maybe the mango is there; others have other fruits, but it is the fruit. Therefore, all practices of yoga around the world are all equal. I’m sure that in this city of Auckland, there are more yoga teachers and many practicing at home. That’s the best thing we can do. We shall try to understand why we practice yoga. If we give freedom, then we will be successful, and yoga will be better and better for humanity, to take care of and live a long life with happiness, etc. We have to understand our own energy, our own knowledge, and all our capacities. According to that, we shall practice yoga. It’s from primary school, or what we call kindergarten, which is from the German language. How do you call here? They are calling differently. There are many names. Indians have different opinions, and they are also telling. But I lived mostly 50 years in Europe, and so that’s why I always tell the kindergarten story. Anyhow, that’s okay, very good. Someone practices at the beach, someone practices in the park, someone practices this. All are doing their best to give humans good health, happiness, joy, long life, etc. So, in this way, I want to give some glimpse of yoga, my dear ones, that we are all one humanity. And my Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandajī, said, "One in all and all in one." If we also said, it doesn’t matter which religion, which culture, which country, etc., but our self, when we will give up this body and we go, what we call there is only one door, that one door is what we call death. Even if we cut the tree, we have killed that tree. Life is only one, and that one life is in everyone, and therefore our earth is not what we call the sum, but it is the living, living earth. Living Earth means the Mother Earth. Mother and Mother, it is said that Mother will never die. And so it is said in our Vedas, or ancient books, which are the first ones written by humans. And it is said, "Mātṛ Devo Bhava," that first God is the Mother. There is something more for the father also. So, fathers, please, don’t think that Swāmījī will put us down now. Men, I will put also very high, okay? But the mother is not only a human, not only the animals, not only the birds, not only the fish or the flies. All these living creatures have that mother and father. Without a father, there is no mother’s child, father. Even what we call the bacteria, and bacteria also have a father and mother. And this disease that we have here, we are coming, that it has, it has both like mother and father, but not that way like we have. That is life, that is living, and this living, which may be negative or positive, is negative for us, but for that, it is positive. So everything is on our earth, and therefore we call earth mostly, mostly we all call the mother earth, and therefore we also call, what is your language, and automatically we call my mother tongue. Mother tongue, not father tongue, and mother, how, where, they give me some subject, and then they tell me, just when I come here, they put it on the front of the eternal journey and yoga. Now, I traveled from Europe, India, and Australia, and suddenly they gave me this subject. It’s a very good subject, Vani. Everything is good. So, the eternal journey within ourselves, and according to that, we don’t have only one soul in our body. So don’t think that only my soul is in me, or my life is in one death. No, no, no. Within our body, there are millions and millions of different lives. Within, in and out of our skin, our bones, our flesh, our glands, our organs, our blood, etc. All there, and every cell in the body is your life, and that life will enter together also. And therefore, the eternal journey within our self means not only what we have, but all. Second, for every creature, every one, even a little ant, and an ant is very big. Ant is a very big animal. In Australia, they have another very invisible one, they call the sand fly. And the Australians have brought, like the Chinese now bring this coronavirus. Like this Australian, so big country, my God. From the one part is the Indian Ocean, and the other is the Pacific Ocean, a big ocean. And there are so many invisible sand flies. And once they come, they come and they love us. And so, after they—I don’t know how big his mouth, how big his teeth—what is happening? And then he sucks the blood, almost very little, but powerful, powerful. After that, the saint flies behind. My friend, thank you. I was here, and I give you a massage. Come on. There is life also, though. Where is there no life? And so, where is it in our body? And second, that’s all we are saying: the soul and the consciousness. And that our soul is the kingdom, taking care of the whole kingdom. So one heart, soul is that which is in our heart, but all others, life, jīva in our body, is our kingdom. All the different kinds of the kingdom, and that’s all which we have, that is a king. And that king is there now, and he will take all his kingdom, all his people, or whatever you call them. They will go with you, and you alone, thyself, that’s all. What you are calling, you will liberate all the people. All creatures with this, if me or you or they will take such a way and take control, good life, good feelings, then it will go with us. But it will go there. Another is that when we give up our life, we still do not die. We did not die, that we come. This now is a good thing, that we have four days or five days or six days. Every day something will come in this, and so when the soul goes out, many other life souls will go, but many will come inside again. And that is why it is said that when your house goes... And you go all with others, what we call the devils will come in. The house will not remain empty. There will come other lives, other energies. So what to do? And when we enter into ourselves, some kind of, I don’t know if you believe or not, ghost. Let us say nature is kind of a ghost, a negative energy. And it was that negative energy that attacked first your kingdom. All your soldiers and this, first they killed them. And then that soul is suffering, and he has to run out of the body. How? Maybe our livers, maybe our kidneys, maybe our lungs, our heart, our brain. Someone will attack in our kingdom, and when they come, they will attack and attack, and that is what we call, for example, cancer. That becomes so strong, the other kingdom, so we have no more power to fight against. We do. Our dear doctors, they are doing good. They try very much, but still they are human. They will try to keep our life more and more, but they said, "How long?" Like when you go to Africa or somewhere, and there is the lion and the elephant. So the lion will attack the elephant; the elephant is very big and tall. But this will do that. It will come sooner or later that the animal which is attacking the, what you call the, no, no, the buffaloes or elephant and the tiger or a lion. So, the elephant is very big, and according to that, the tiger is only that much. Now, at that time, he becomes like a cancer, and it takes on one place only, and they will not kill or eat. First, let them be peaceful, Hari Om, and then they are all one thing. And so is that our body, our world. So what to do now? How to protect? But one thing is like that, that death is always victory. Life and death are both walking with us. On one side, when the sun is rising, we have the light, but on the other side is the dark, our shadow. And he said, and the light, both going together. So our death is with us all the time; it even sleeps with us, walks with us, and swims with us. And all the times that death is working and trying to have the chance to kill you, it means I am victorious. So, which victory will be there? And therefore, it is neither this as a death, nor a life. Between that, it’s called Brahmaloka, and that is a yogic technique. So, we don’t see something outside. The ghost is not outside; it is within us. God is not outside; it is within us. Which in both these are called the eternal journey with the humans, with the yogīs. Sādhanā, what can we do? Well, again I say, the victory will be the death. How many years will you do? How many years? They said, "Okay, 100 years, 200 years, 1,000 years." But maybe how many thousands of years? But death is sitting there and smiling like this. Make, play as you like, but victory is mine. And that is what we call Satyayuga, Dvāparayuga, Tretāyuga, and Kaliyuga. This is how we are coming, we are changing, and he is playing. Death is playing with us, but one day that death will also be killed. Then he will be, and how? With your very humbleness, kindness, peace, harmony, and not talking about any backbiting or anything. Do not try to give someone any kind of peace or problems. Therefore, it is said many times, there are some yogīs who said, "Eat, eat, go ahead." And there is one story, which I told you once, yes, last time I told one story long ago. Should I tell you the story? Already, or tomorrow, tomorrow I will forget, or somebody will not come, you will miss it. Oh, that is something like this. Yes, some attachment with me. Oh, there are attachments. Take it away and clean it. Okay, thank you. The story is a beautiful, beautiful story. It is a story, but some person or some master or anybody gave this story beautifully. And that is this: one man, he is very humble, very kind, everything. He has no attachment, no money, and just lives and does good things for all. But he is searching, and anyone, can you give me where God is? And how can I see God? Please, I give you my life, but can you tell me if God is there? One day, one master came and said, "Please, can you show me God?" He said, "My friend, in the city there is only quarreling, quarreling, fighting, killing." The city is one of the most, not prosperous, the fighting, everything. What bad thing is in the cities? Then why doesn’t God come? That’s why God also is fear. God is also going somewhere far. Why? Why? Because there are 8.4 million different creatures, including sand flies. So, God said it is like this. Who said? The person. But he said, "It doesn’t matter, even if I am in the hills, I want to see God." He said, "Well, I will tell you, you go in the forest and on the high, high mountains." There you will see God. Will you? He said, "Yes, there you will see God." He went. It was rocky mountains, no greenery, no water, and he’s walking there, looking for where God will be. All the time, his eyes are open. He doesn’t sleep. Walking, walking, walking. One day, he became very weak. He could not sit. He could not stand up, and he was lying there. God, I want to see my Lord. Doesn’t matter. No water, no eating, no sleeping. He was sleeping, and one day a very big bird came, a crow, a very big crow, and he saw there was a man lying there. "I will eat him," he thought. But his eyes were still open. One day, two days, three days, and this man was also looking, seeing that he was coming. One day, that man said to the crow, He said, "Who are you?" He said, "I am the crow, and I am waiting for you to die so I can eat you." He said, "No problem." Only one thing: you can kill me, eat me completely, but please don’t eat my two eyes. He said, "But it is painful." He said, "I have no more pain." I am only looking for my God. And the next morning, the crow slowly came and sat on his lip, looking at the man. And man is looking to Him. And what the crow did, he bit his stomach and pulled something out. And he said, "Do you feel pain?" Who said? Crow. He said, "No, my dear, eat, eat my body." Again, he tried to pull out his from the lungs, and again said, "Do you have pain?" He said, "I will not. Only please don’t eat my eyes." Again, he said, "That man who was longing for God, he said, ’Kaga.’" Kāgā sab kus khāye, chun chun karke śrīkam okro. Don’t worry, eat my body, each and every piece of the meat from my body, eat. But, O dear one, do not eat the eyes of the Dope, the pain of union, my dear one. I want to see my dear one. With these eyes, that crow said, "Who is your dear one?" You are suffering so much for him, and you can’t see him. He said, "He will be... I will see him, but you can eat." The crow flies about five meters distance. And he said, "Look who is there." And this was not the crow; it was a god. God said, "I gave you so much, this hard life." I want to know if you really believe in God. And that’s why it was me, that crow I am, I sent you there. Part 2: The Eternal Journey Within But you see, God gave a blessing, and immediately his body became very nice and strong again, and he said, "I am God," and he went away. And so it is—don’t give up, don’t give up in your life. And if it is, then that is garbage, whether it be human, animal, or anything. Don’t run behind. Only that which is in your heart and in your body; everything is a kingdom of God within ourself. Let’s come with me. Let’s go with me. Let’s go, death, and this is the life. And you, with both hands on their shoulders, let’s go hand to hand or on our shoulders. Therefore, it is called the eternal journey. Oh human, you know you have a chance now, and this you should do. How to do now? What is to be done? There is nothing. There are no techniques. There is no new body or something, no. Humbleness, humbleness, humbleness. One master, and he had one disciple. There are stories, beautiful stories, and that’s why I’m telling you the eternal journey, my dear. You don’t know how long my journey I am taking. After that, I came into this life in this position. And I don’t know how we could. Just, it is like, we call it, like walking on a string, a rope. And also, you have to look to the people. You have a bamboo, you are holding that bamboo, and everybody is looking and people are laughing, "Ha ha ha," and he is going with it, but my concentration is on that. And if we make a little mistake, we fall down. Therefore, for years and years, life after life, nobody will let you push my back. If we are God, but if you believe in God, okay, if you don’t believe in God, you are God. But, oh God, don’t fall into the fire. So, therefore, one master, the master has also a test, and the disciple also has the test. So, there was a very nice, beautiful lake, with very clean, pure water. So, master and disciple went to drink water, and the master was going to take water. There was a scorpion, a very big scorpion, from Croatia, Australia. The dark one is very good; his tongue is like "chick, chick, chick." This is called Mokṣa. Thank you. That gives you Mokṣa from this life, and you will come next life again. Or a spider, and if this is not, then we swallow you completely. Who is that? Paiṭh. And of this, not this, then other things. In the whole world, everywhere. What is happening now? So, Mahārājī, Gurujī, with both hands, take the water from the lake. And the Scorpio was there in the water, and it will die. So Gurujī took water from the Scorpio in his hand and put it outside. The scorpion struck him down, poisonous. And again he falls into the water. Again, Gurujī took him out, and he again stuck there. Five times, disciples say, "Gurujī, why are you suffering? You try to put him out, and he is sticking on you the poison. Leave it to him, just leave. Or I will give him mokṣa like that." Gurujī said, "No, no, no. This is our journey. What is that kind of journey?" Gurujī, he said, his nature is to stick, and my nature is to give you a better life. And that time, that Scorpio went in the water and came outside in the far distance and said, "Master, I know you are myself." And it disappears, so we should not be angry. And what did you say? We are all making mistakes. Everyone, but what humans are, they will not say yes. But they will say problems are on others. That will then be getting all karma. Do you know what karma is? Does anybody know what karma is? Everybody knows about karma. So, when someone is talking or backbiting, that means they take all the karma, the bad karma. If I have bad karma and somebody is talking about me, I feel in my meditation that this power of energy is going, going, going in that direction. Try to swallow our self; we have to digest. If you are hungry, you have to eat, and what you put in, you have to digest. We can also give you maybe liquid in your body, but your body has to digest it. Similarly, we have to digest our self, my dear. So, therefore, the eternal journey within the human body is what we call yoga. So, learn. So, today, I know you are good people, very good people. Maybe some of the gods are sitting here, and that’s why I’m always afraid. So, you are all, for me, very good. But we know, maybe, we have some kind of that energy, thoughts, this and that, and we have to purify ourselves. And that was, first is, each and every creature is our own ātmā. And therefore, there are many, many other techniques, and that’s why you see India. India is something, is earth, Mother Earth here, Mother Earth there, everything. But why? Why is God’s incarnation always in India? This is the question. Why? So my Gurujī, my Gurujī is here, after me there, and my Gurujī said, When he was in Vienna, Austria, and then we were in Croatia, so there, one asked the question to Gurujī, asked the question to Gurujī, nobody asked me, and I did not know what answer I would give now. And my Gurujī will not talk too much. What I said, he said, short and sweet, peace. So one man asked the question, "Gurujī, why do all gods incarnate in India?" Gurujī said, "The mines of the, what you call this, gold, golden mines, there comes only gold, and in coal mines will come only coal." He said, "Why, Gurujī? There, go and see, dig there, you will get again, or other things, or where the coal, there will be coal." Why was this there? Why did these ṛṣis and yogīs perform so much tapasyā in the Himalayas or other parts of the world? So, because that was in the beginning, and it is coming from that science which the yogīs have given. And there are still some yogīs sitting completely under the glaciers. And you see, sometimes he comes, but we don’t know what he’s eating, where he’s sitting, or what he’s doing. We don’t know anything, and we have no desires. They are only there for all creatures and for all. If this great sense is not there very soon, everything will be finished. So they need not come to Oakland, they will not come to India, down, they will not, but they are in the Himalayas or somewhere else, they are, they are, and so we are like myself, I feel and I am sure they are protecting me, they are protecting you. Our all other creatures and all other beings. And so, but humans became more cruel than anything else. So, we have now, the end of the Kali Yuga is coming. Before Kali Yuga, that great saint said, "People like you who are in the yoga practice, what does yoga mean?" Not postures, and not this head standing. God said, "Why are you standing on your head? Stand on your legs." But there is still something. But God said, "Ahiṃsā Paramo Dharma." Ahimsa Paramo Dharma. What is Ahimsa? And Ahimsa is non-violence. And that is the highest yoga or highest worship or anything. Therefore, take care of and know all creatures. And therefore, I’m giving my time. It’s over, but please. So, you know, people say, "Swāmījī, why are you putting the watch on this side and not all are here?" And the same thing, Prime Minister Modi, he is also doing the same thing like this, and someone asked him, "Why are you here?" He said, "Because I know differently, but I did not know about him." He said, "I am sitting with many presidents, this and that, and I cannot look and see the watch. It’s not good; you are not polite." And therefore, I am sitting like this. So, here the Śiva Seva Devī, she is giving meditation and like this. And then, she will not look like this. She is looking a little like this, and there is a watch. So, I think everybody will now do it because my Gurujī said to do it like this. Yeah, and the second thing is the beautiful, very expensive, and if you walk like this, you hit the bricks. So this is also good, and your little things. So in this, we have in our life, we can take our time and understand, understand life. So, finally, in this, one word I want to tell you. Morning, when this is some kind of knowledge, or technique, or lesson, or whatever you like to say. Morning, when you wake up, morning or evening, or whenever you are, because someone has duty the whole night and sleeps during the daytime. So, when we wake up, then say only one thing. To thyself, mentally, I am human. I am. It doesn’t matter if you are Australian or Austrian, no? New Zealand or another land. We are all there. Be human. So, if we can say, "I am a human," the whole day it will remain in our brain, and we will not do anything wrong to anyone. And if you do it to the animals, also don’t do anything. I am a human. And now the people are fighting and killing all this. Others will say, "Oh my God, they are not human." These people are killing someone. They are not human. And so we are a human for everything. That is why God has given. In this, we do one practice, a little bit. And if you have time, come tomorrow. And this hour we do a little practice, not postures, okay? Postures, I did so many, and I’m always sitting the same. So, practice, practice, practice. Okay? Practice, practice, practice. That is it. Karata karata abhyāsa pyāre, jaḍamuti hota sudhāna. So, it is practice, practice, practice. The knowledge will come there in this. So, now, you are sitting more comfortably, of course. But once you can stretch your legs, please. Otherwise, you will see the mask is cruel. So you can stand up, stretch up like this, as you like. Otherwise, if you are okay, you can sit there. And again, sit in that comfortable posture in which you are sitting. With the posture, we will not get God. But yogīs are saying this now, systems and this and that, all. We will go tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. There is also all about the life of life, the life of the. So just relax, be comfortable. If you can touch your index finger and thumb together, There are these two centers of the energy which bring to the brain in one day. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā. Close your eyes. You need not open your eyes because nothing will be coming inside. So relax, relax. Close your eyes. Close your eyes. Be one with thyself. Relax and relax. Relax your eyelids. Don’t look with closed eyes. Let your eyeballs be very relaxed. Don’t try to listen or look for anything, like when you sleep, deep sleep, and also your eyes are closed. Relax your jaw, do not bite your teeth, and let your tongue be relaxed. Try to feel, as always, the inhalation and exhalation. I know that I’m inhaling, and I know that I’m exhaling. Relax the muscles of your face and your neck. Just be relaxed, so that your neck is very relaxed, with no tension. We know that from the whole day, any kind of profession you have or nothing you had, but there was this trace on the shoulders. Relax your shoulders. Relax your shoulders. Relax your elbows and your fingers. Feel your breath very comfortable, and follow your breath inhaling and exhaling so that you can relax your abdomen. Let your lungs be very comfortable breathing, back muscles, and your spine, hip joints, thighs, and knees. Our knees are great. How many steps we have done, running, walking, slowly, swimming, but still our knees are always with us. Ankle joints, foot soles, and toes. From the toes till the top of the head, and from the top of the head till the toes, be thyself. Relax. No concentration outside, no thoughts outside. For a while, be thyself within thyself. Your journey means... All the organs will relax, and bring your awareness to both your ears. You know that our ears have a lot of tension. If our ears are relaxed, the jaw is relaxed, and the whole stress in the brain is gone. Relax, relax. I am myself. Within me is my God, my life. And I will be ever and ever, everywhere. All my five elements, the elephants, are working peacefully and relaxed without any problems, and so we also relax. All my organs, all my being, it is the relaxation. Relaxing, mental relaxation will only be followed from bodily relaxation. Yoga in daily life, in the techniques which go from the body to the cosmic self, the supreme, the highest: relax, relax, peace. Peace be. If you do not take care of your body continually, you will not have peace. Mental peace will not be there. It will be more and more stress. More and more stress. Yoga in daily life, which our vice president was telling from the book, Hidden Powers in the Human. The whole science is within thyself to relax the techniques of yoga in daily life, yoga in daily life. And now, just for a while, make happiness that I am healthy, happy, and life is healthy, happy, and beautiful. I am, I am human, I am human, and bring your breath, bring your understanding, becoming one in between the chest, the ribs, where the ribs are joining the last down, there relax, I am. And feel your whole body, and feel the tips of your fingers. Let all ten fingers relax. Thumb, index finger, middle, ring, small, just make them free. And feel the tip of the fingers. Index finger and thumb, don’t touch. Not the palm, but the tip of the fingers is immense, and immense is the energy coming from the whole world, the universe. Be thyself, be happy, feel your body, feel your happiness. Whatever you feel comfortable means God is with you. You can’t see him, but he sees everything. He is dwelling within ourselves. Eternal journey. And now, deep inhale from the abdomen and exhale. Inhale three times, Om. Oh, close your fists, and rub all your palms and all your bodies. Place your hands on your face, and under your palms, open your eyes. Then, hands down, open your eyes, and bend forward. Until the energy comes towards the whole brain, eyelids, and whole energy, stretching the back muscles, hands on the floor and with the head of the palm, hands slowly come up with your head.