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Living a human life

The eternal source of knowledge is found in the ancient Vedas and the path of work. This wisdom originates from the Himalayas, given by sages since the beginning of time. The Vedas and Upanishads contain the complete science of life, defining what a human should and should not do. Humans emerged from 8.4 million life forms with the unique capacity to understand this divine knowledge. Yet, many neglect this gift, engaging in negativity, violence, and harming other beings. This ignorance leads to suffering. True knowledge is an inexhaustible source, like a perennial spring. One must actively seek it through study, yoga, and guru devotion. Work itself is worship. A human life is long and meant for diligent labor until one's duties are complete. Do not cause pain to any living creature. Return to the scriptures; their wisdom reveals itself anew with each reading.

"Read the Bhagavad Gītā. You can read the same thing one year later, and you will have new knowledge."

"Work, work, work is worship."

Ārādhyā Alakhpurījī Mahādev, Devõ kā Devā, Himālaya ke Rājya aur Himālaya ke Prakāś, jiske nām se Alak Nandā Nadī jab tak Bhagīrath ke sāth nahī̃ miltī hai, tab tak usko Gaṅgā nahī̃ kahā jātā hai. He is our God of Gods and Goddesses. From Satyug, along with Lord Śiva, his work continued here, and all the ṛṣis and munis in the Himalayas, they did not know how many lakhs of ṛṣis and munis they gave knowledge, gave yoga, and by doing vahag sādhanā, Sambhī Ṛṣi Muniyo ko isī śarīra ke andar rahte hue, kai prakāra kī mahimā, jñāna, śakti, bhāva, kuśalitā, Alakhpurījī kī paramparā ke sāth, kyonki vedoṁ se bhī pahale jo veda likhā gayā hai. Since then, all the Vedas have been given to us by the God of Ved Vyāsa in written form, and we are considered as Guru Pūrṇimā in the name of the God of Ved Vyāsa. Along with that, after the Vedas, the sages and ṛṣis told us about the Upanishads, and they also told us about the eighteen Upanishads by different types of sages. So if you read, listen, and gain knowledge, then, along with all the different Vedas that we have, a human being can understand that knowledge. What is the life of a human being? What should a human being do and not do? Puri Śrī Munyokā means Himalaya of Lord Śiva. Since that time, it has been believed that the whole of Europe was under glaciers, and slowly, slowly... Those glaciers went away, and in our Europe, it is said that this river—on the banks of that river, on one side went Europeans, and on the other side came here. It was ahead of that too, but that knowledge, people slowly could not understand. So now, my dear brothers and sisters, I was listening to the lecture of Modiji, and I began to think in Hindi language. So, Modiji was giving a very beautiful talk about our life, our country, and the whole world, and how it will be, how we are fighting towards what is coming, and where we are now with these diseases. So, I’m sorry that I was half an hour late. Give me the time, because I was listening to Modiji. So, according to these Vedas, and before the Vedas, there were already Vedas; without the Vedas, nothing could happen. All ṛṣis, munis, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, all were on the Vedas. All was in them. Also, when we heard about Bhagavān Śiva giving the order to get the treasure from the ocean, and from that churning of the ocean, they were bringing a lot of divine things, good things, everything. Similarly, we can say now is a day like that in this situation. In the situation where we are, we are searching in the ocean of our knowledge how to get out of that and how to give this negativity away. We will get it, we will be there, but we should not give up. And similarly, when the ātmā, paramātmā, the Vedas, and everything, they were so happy that we got, what we call, out of the 8.4 million, these humans—only the humans, and humans understood. And they were so happy, and they said, "We will go upwards to the Brahmalokas." But again, humans, they do not give that knowledge within their brain, in their heart. And so, again, we are coming to the negative thoughts. We are torturing the animals. We are killing the animals. We are eating the animals. And not only this, they were also eating humans. Some of the places where I was, they said before, about, let’s say, the beginning of the last century, the people were killing humans and eating humans. So that was in negative because there was no knowledge. But those who came to the ṛṣis, and they came to the Vedas, and that was the knowledge, what we call about science, and this all is from those Vedas, the ṛṣis. And we still have that. We have not lost it. We have, and that’s why those who do not understand and do not take this will suffer and go down. They will fall deep into the ocean or anywhere. But those who are humans will understand what I am as a human. Just look, what are you eating? What is on your plate? Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā... I don’t want to humiliate the people, but I will tell that we should know in our brain that we are humans, and don’t forget that. We are bringing the yoga and that science of the Vedas, the Upaniṣads, the Bhagavad Gītā, the Rāmāyaṇas, many, many, that which is called spirituality. Even they, when they take the holy book, or any book in their hand, first they wash their hands, they wash their mouth, and then they take this book, and in that book there is knowledge, they see Brahmaloka there, that is Brahman itself is there. Within us, from these words, what we are learning and giving, that is the immense science of what we are, what we have. The science, of course, is very much. I don’t want to tell anything, but that science, which is the knowledge, the yoga, and all. Others is very important, very, very important. So we are trying, of course, everyone will die, that is sure. This body is given only for temporary. God said, "Now I gave you my son, and this there is, I gave you my whole, my treasure, all, all I gave it to you, and I am on one side. I am only looking, what will you do with them now?" And therefore, it is said that the negative and positive are understood only by humans. And so, the humans are going towards negative, negative... Drinking alcohol, the drugs, the killings, and this and that. This is not a human’s life. It is said that out of the 8.4 million, we come out, and now we are going there. Definitely, there are many, many yogīs from many ages; they are there, but we can’t see them. They are sitting on the rock, and we are just passing by, and we are sitting on the rock also for a rest. But we can’t see that this is sitting there. That this is not visible to us. And the ṛṣis said, "How are we doing these?" But lucky are they, if on that rock, when the ṛṣi was sitting there for even a few minutes, we are lucky that we have that rock, which has become very holy and divine. So don’t worry, don’t worry. If people don’t understand us, okay. But then they will understand at that time what it is that we can do best. So, yoga and sādhanā, guru bhakti. Guru bhakti is the path. And those who don’t know what a guru is and what guru bhakti is, they are just like the lost. Like all animals and everything, humans think, "I am strong, and I can do everything." That’s all. But at the end, when we are gone under the earth or through the fire or in the water, where are you going? Now, said, one of your friends or your brother or sisters, they are very sāttvic, and the other is rājasic, Purījī, Purījī... Kissing them, brothering them, sistering them, mothering them, husbanding them, wifing them. We are human to him, but we are not biting like this animal. Alive animals. Can you imagine? They get some kind of animals from the water, the big crocker or what they call it, and they put them in the hot water or in frying oil. We can also be like this, and we will also feel pain, which everyone has. Therefore, please, we should not cause pain in such a way, neither to others nor to ourselves. That is very important. And so, that’s why India is always, always in the front in that war. Not like that, we are there on different things, technology, this, this, but technology also, see what India has done now. So, we shall meditate. Come to the Vedas, read that. Read the Bhagavad Gītā. There is what is written in the Bhagavad Gītā, every, the same śloka, the same śloka. You can read the same thing one year later, and you will have new knowledge. Always, there will be new knowledge. That is called the source, like water from the earth. From it, we may dig one little well. And in there, the water is a little bit deep, maybe one meter deep or half a meter deep. And we are sucking out with our pipe, pump, but water is coming and coming and coming. That is called the source. And the other is in the trunk, a very big trunk, okay? There is water about 25 meters down. Or more, and we are sucking the water. Okay? But when all water has come, there is nothing, Hari Om. But that will be like this, and that is also called the mother, Earth Mother. A mother is a mother. And so, the little baby which was born is seeking milk from the mother, drinking that milk. How long is it coming and coming and coming? Yes, because that is Mother Earth, and in humans or animals, where there is a mother, they have that source. God is giving, God is giving. Therefore, it will give us everything. We should be very good and work, work, work. Also note that we will sit, some stories are there, but we don’t want to do the story. No, I will not do anything. God will give. I will only sit here. That’s not like that. Work, work, work. Yes, one day you will be, maybe you need not do any more work. Everything is there. It will come, but still, like a student, you are for the mother, and then the parents, and I send you to the school. Okay, school is very good one day, next day I don’t want to go there anymore. No. We will go, and we will go, and... we will go. And a job, if you have learned, is good. They are searching for someone, and you don’t like that? You like it, but others don’t like you? You learn everything. We are going somewhere. We go somewhere. But one day people will say, "Please, please come to me." I want your knowledge, so this we have to work on. So this life is a long one. Long life is when you have to work. You have your children, and your children are married; then you can say, "Now I am relaxed." Until that, you have to run. Yes. Until your studies, and how many years have you been working? At least 65 or 70 years, and then may they give you a pension. But before, there was no pension. There was only one pension: that you have to take care of your grandchildren the whole day, the whole day looking after them, this and that. This is your work again, still the work, my dear. So, life, we have to do, and one day you will have everything. People will give everything. This is so very important. That the humans, because humans know. Don’t think that I have no one. Here you have. We have, if not this one, the second one. But ego, you have studied many things, you have so many diplomas. Śrī Śrī... Because that country will not tell me good or bad, and I do not want to tell these countries like that. You know that in Hungary, engineers, lawyers, people who have studied, they are standing with the newspaper and saying, "Sir, please take the newspaper, because I am a learned person, but I have no job." Selling the newspaper, and also, where is the wife and where are they sitting? Really, this is a situation I saw myself when we were stopping at the traffic, red traffic, and there we could see it happened. Maybe we have one of our friends here from Hungary. Can you tell me yes or no? Only tell me yes or no. I can’t hear. Don’t say "eh." Come here. You are a strong boy, tell the good. You can speak in Hungarian, but tell it loud. Yeah, again the giggle, giggle,... All right, no problem, I will see. But I’m sorry, you speak Hungarian, right? Oh, yes. Kośa. Eh? Kośa. Okay, no problem. Thank you. Okay, sorry. He’s, but I want to tell you, not only his country, please, not only the Hungarian country, there are many, many countries in many places. In America, you will see many people searching for food in the garbage, many because they don’t work, or they did not work, and now they can’t get a job. Many, many things, but their countries, in America and Australia, in this country. The government is giving per day money, how many dollars? Maybe twenty dollars per day, or like that. Mahāprabhujī kī karatā, Mahāprabhujī kī karatā, Mahāprabhujī. Okay? Then make your scientist. I am a scientist. I am a scientist. Yes, you are a scientist in your hand, your hand. But what will you eat? That’s it. Work, work, work is worship. Anyhow, I, God, I again want to—I don’t want to humiliate anybody, forgive me please—if at all, who doesn’t like that, but it is a problem, many, many for humans everywhere. In India, there are big, big, big problems. You know that more than this. I can tell, also, and many others. So the day will come. We shall overcome. So now, a nice bhajan for that. Guru Mārīyā Tīra, Kyā Tum Jāno Ālā Amara.

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