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Do Good

A spiritual discourse on the nature of the true guru, liberation, and spiritual practice.

"Sometimes it is good if we are running and running and running, and we don’t care about it... Then God said, 'I must give him some knowledge.'"

"Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara. So where should we meditate so that we get all these three?"

The lecturer delivers a satsang, beginning with reflections on global challenges and India's cultural response during the pandemic. He critiques inauthentic yoga teachers and discusses the paradoxical path to mokṣa (liberation), explaining it as a state beyond positive and negative dualities. Using parables and teachings, he emphasizes the supreme nature of the true Guru and the importance of sincere, long-term practice over superficial achievements.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

In this way, many people in the world are depressed; many are angry. Many say, "I don’t want to stay in one house, I will go, doesn’t matter what happens." Suddenly, many people said, "Now we will not stay in the house." And now, in certain countries, this disease has come again. These infections are returning. I have heard our Czech government say that everyone has to be careful again this time. You are doing very much, of course. This year is something like coming close to this bad time. Kāl avatāra, the kāla. This kāl is not good. We are fighting against this, and we will win. But we have to follow the discipline—your children, your parents, your grandparents, your friends, your neighbors. We wish that all should be healthy and happy, and there are many things that we can make better. India is a very big country. How many languages? 35 languages. And about 6,000 dialects. About every 50 to 80 kilometers, the language is different. So India is very big. What happened when this crown (corona) came? It was so terrible that every government from every country tried to put people in the home. Každá vláda v každej krajine sa snažila udržať ľudí doma a mať masku v ruke, takže niektorí ľudia bojovali. Some were completely in, sorry, what they call depression. Many were not talking to each other, so people did not know what to do. We are in this time where we are all very happy and go out and dance and everything. Suddenly we were blocked, so it was not easy for humans either. If you put animals in one farm only, they will be very unhappy. So what we did in India, and our Prime Minister Modījī, he wanted to make all of them happy. They should have something good so that they will forget the negative things. First, they put one beautiful video about God Rāma. You remember we were here playing once, God Rāma. Then was the Mahābhārata. Then Kṛṣṇa and all this. And then, many, many other great saints. On many televisions, they had the very best films. People learned in these two or three months. They understood what my culture is. Yes, they didn’t know. In every 20 or 25 years, we forget. Now these people learned, oh, that was God Rāma. That was Sītā, oh, his brother Lakṣmaṇ, etc., and also Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa. What was happening? What was this Mahābhārata? And many holy books, many spiritual, religious things. Suddenly people awoke. We did not know what God is. Sometimes it is good if we are running and running and running, and we don’t care about it, because you are going, running, going. Then God said, "I must give him some knowledge." One man was going quickly, quickly to his office. God said, "I gave him a lesson." What was the lesson, you know? He fell down. He was crossing quickly, quickly. Both sides, cars were coming. Luckily, both cars were going sideways. But the person fell down. He broke his leg, and an ambulance came and took him to the hospital. The doctor said, "Why didn’t you go home earlier? Why don’t you go quickly to your office?" He said, "Don’t talk to me. I will never be." So sometimes God gives us something to remain calm, peaceful. That is said sometimes, that God said, "Relax." That’s why this clock always said, "Yes, Swāmījī, that’s really good." In this, our clock, what it said to us, I would like to say today: Yogī Janakī Yoga Nidrā... Go ahead. Many people in the world are now all talking about Yoga Nidrā. So many yoga teachers, they have—and you know what kind of yoga teachers? They go for one month or three weeks, and they are yoga teachers. They give them a yoga teacher, now they are masters, they are gurus, they are sitting like this, but they don’t know anything. So these are both not good. Who is teaching them? Only in three weeks, making the yogī? Yoga teaching, and who want to get some kind of certificate, just some time they are going to India, as what we call, tour. It’s about one week. It is to see some good places to see. Then they go on the beach. They have a very nice time in India, a nice beach. A nice cottage, swimming, eating, and one or two hours teaching yoga in two weeks, and giving a certificate. So yogis and the students, they both are zero. But the other one said, "Please, Swāmījī, don’t give the zero, because you know zero is very powerful. After nine, without zero, you cannot go further. So please, give us zero." So they gave them another number, one or one and a half. Now you see. We have our Swāmī Vivek Purī, and you know how many years he knows me? How many years? Thirty-eight years. And now he has learned to become a yogī, and so he has now got a little chair. Thirty-eight. By 30 years and 30 days. Therefore, you are all my great, great, great students, my disciples. And I am proud of that. They are not saying, "I am now a master, I am a teacher." No. Even I don’t say myself. My Gurujī may tell something. Or you may think, "You tell me." But I would not say, now I am the great master. Never said, and you should not say. It is said, "God, I will give you the Brahmalokas, but on the last seconds, last minute of your life, then I will give you diploma." Diploma from Brahmaloka. So I said, "Why, Gurujī? Let me enjoy the time for Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara or Mahārāja or whatever, and for Brahmaloka." And the real guru said, "No." Then he said, "I go to other gurus." That Gurujī gave him three weeks, many kriyās, and this and that. Then it is said, because we are human, and we humans are very, very happy, very good. And we try to be the best, but God said we are human, and we don’t know in which second we can make some mistake. Then it’s lost. So why then that kind of pad? Pad means the place, diploma then it’s not there. Which kind of diploma for Brahmaloka? Not here. Therefore, when you will go to samādhi, when you will give your body, when people will say, "Now he’s died," that time will go his path to the mokṣa. And mokṣa means that we are neither negative nor positive. If everything is very good, I’m not talking about this corona. Negative is not good. Or good. And positive is not good. But otherwise, what we call the quality, and that we have to learn, we have to learn. So now we are both positive. We are very good people. Everything, but suddenly we make a mistake. Then it is gone, or you have only best and best, and then we all come to God. God, I have not one dark spot in my dress, my God. I am as it is. God said, "It is very good." So, what can I do for you, God? Now I will send you back again. Why, Gurudev? Yes, because you have so much, only the best and the best. It is that now you are proud. No, I’m not proud. Even that, you are more different. Please, now give all this your good qualities and all good karmas. Give all creatures, not only humans. Give all good creatures, and take care nothing makes a mistake. Then after, God will call him, "Did you get some negatives?" Gurudev, I don’t know, but I think I didn’t do anything. Neviem, ale myslím si, že som nič zle neurobil. A koľko máš teraz dobrých kvalit? Ja som všetky nechal za sebou. Ja som nič. Ja som nič a úplne. A vidím. Ale stále ti dám ještě dvě věci. As you like, Bhagavān, Gurudev, Brahmā. I send you now to Brahmaloka, but you are becoming like one sky. But from that, you have to still come down. And without the body, after these five elements, then you come to know that you are in everyone’s heart, and that heart you are. So there is no earth, no second, no third; all is in oneness. Or you go and you have only negative things. Then God said, or the Guru said, "Where do you want to go?" "I want to go to Mokṣa." Yes, my disciple, my boy. My boy? Yes. I am here for giving you in the Brahmalokas. Oh, Gurudeva, very nice. You know, I made so many stupid things, and nothing was good. But such a God or Gurudeva I never saw anymore. Though I did so many mistakes, and you said you would give me mokṣa. He said, "Yes." So what can I do, Gurudev? I told you, nothing to do. Another one said, "I did only good and good and good," and he sent me back. And this is one like that, and go into the mokṣa. So, Gurudev, you are great, but you will go to the mokṣa, yes, Gurujī? Do you follow me? Of course. Then go down and give up all your negative things. Give all to those negative people back. Because that you don’t take with you. So, when you will give everything back, then I will bring you to the mokṣa. So that is both sides. If we do only good, then we again go to the karmas. If we do negative, good, not good things, we go again. So sitting there, Bhagavān, God, so he said, "Which side do you go? We cannot understand God." Where should I go? He said, "You don’t understand." Therefore, I will give you something. And how is that? I will be, oh my Lord, Bhagavān. I can’t give you anywhere, not in Brahmalokas and not in the Naraka Loka. God said, my dear disciple, he said, "There is no place for you." I have worked hard in both ways. When I do good, that’s not enough. If I do bad, also not good, and now I’m nowhere. So where is that Brahmaloka? He said it is there. Then please send us there. There is nowhere to send. Gurudev, so you left us somewhere only. Neither here nor there. God said, "I give you my heart." There is nothing more than in my heart, the Supreme God said. The whole universe is within me. And now you are everywhere, and you are nowhere. You are forever and ever in the best part. And so it is that we should do good, all the time, good. But God, when I, how to do good? I gave you everything. God said no. You did good, good... You became, when you reached my person, a lot of, a lot of money. So, but I said, "I did good." You only need God. Good, good, good. And that is a very heavy, heavy power on you. So what to do? Give it. You have good things, give it. That is that. And bad things? He also said, "Give all to the good things, to the bad one." So we have to both separate, very pure, clean, that’s it. Then, say, how do I know that I am in Brahmaloka? Oh, my disciple, you are already in the Brahmalokas. In your heart is Brahmaloka. All is in you. Be with that, and all your five elements that you just—let’s melt it. Let’s melt it. So, our body and our energy, our mind, our knowledge, and our beautiful energy and feelings—this all is melting. All is melted. Where are you, my dear? Who is melting? So, who was, and from where has it come? So, from where do we come? Where are we, and where will we go, my dear? That is a yogī, that’s a yoga practice, and that we have to go through the yoga only, torturing the body left and right, up and down. You know, sometimes the people in India or in some other countries, maybe they have a monkey, and they get one monkey. And in his throat, and it’s with him all the time, giving good food. When Cleo is cold, they have a dress. If medicine he needs, he gives it. Very nice. But giving training, and so this monkey, they are training. And then, so it is said, monkey. And making dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum. Said monkey, and he said, "Master said, ’My dear monkey, here in this people, there is one new, newly married girl.’" Oh, nice dress, and this and that, just married. So she said, "Can you say how that girl, or the newly married, how she’s walking?" And she’s going to... Oh, thank you, very good. And how is she making chapatis? She’s sitting and making like this and... Oh, you are a very good married woman. Ah, you are very happily married. And how is your grandmother? A, aká je tvoja babička? Babička. And said, "How is your grandmother?" Ako sa má tvoja babička? And she said, "Eh, eh." A ta opička začne robić toto. And when she’s coming to you near, what are you, the married woman? How did she say? And she said, when the grandmother is looking the other side, and what she’s making, she said, "So that is a monkey." How do you dance, monkey? How are you making yoga? Make the Śīrṣāsana, everything, but this is monkey. So we are almost... they are only making yoga like a monkey. So we have to be that one, like Brahman, Bhagavān, God, who said. So it is said, "Guru Brahma," the Guru is that Brahma. Guru Vishnu, and Gurudev is Vishnu. Gurudevo Maheśvara, and Gurudev is Śiva. And after it is said, "Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara, Guru Sākṣāt Para-Brahma, Tasmai Śrī Gurave Namaḥ." So all these three are the highest, the supreme: Guru Brahmā, Guru Viṣṇu, Guru Devo Maheśvara. So where should we meditate so that we get all these three? A kde by sme mali meditovať? Ako by sme mali meditovať, aby sme dosiahli všetkých týchto troch? Dhyāna mūlaṁ guru mūrti, pūjā mūlaṁ guru padam. And second, that we adore the holy feet of the Gurudeva. And secondly, that is why we worship the holy feet of Gurudev. Dhyāna mūlaṁ guru-mūrti, pūjā mūlaṁ guru-padam. Dhyāna mūlam guru-mūrti, pūjā mūlam guru-pādam. And what is second? Guru śakṣāt para-brahma. So, śakṣak, the real is Gurudev, para-brahma, the supreme, the highest. Gurudev, je ten skutočný, ten najvyšší, to Parabrahma. But we are not that guru. We only said, "I am the guru now." Big hair, or hair is taken. The white dress, black dress, green dress. Orange dress and no dress, only langote, only little, little, let’s say underwear. And somewhere they said no, digambara, it’s called digambara. And digambara means completely naked. "I give you everything up, but still you are not that God." We are longing, and we are longing for such a guru like Ālak Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī. So when I do my mantra, when I sleep, my heart is beating because I know that at the last time of my life, then I will be relaxed. Though my Gurudev has given me everything and many things. But when Gurudev gave me, I said, "You gave me heaviness." I had nothing, but my Gurudev gave me so much. And then Gurujī gave it to my hands, and Gurujī said, "Put it on your head," and I’m going. What is that? The whole weight Gurujī gave on my head. Guruji, when I will give back this heaviness on the last breath, then you will say, "I will tell Guruji now, I am without this heaviness." So many, they said, "I am Guru, I am best, I am..." You are not. So there’s even a poem, very nice. So, how many? It is in... Next time I will say. I’ve forgotten. After how many thousands, maybe one guru is there. In all Kumbhela, they ever say that we are the gurus. But that kind of guru is also there. Where we can find, yes, this is that. So that’s what I try to give you. My heaven is, I want to give you, but please don’t throw it away somewhere. Don’t throw it in the garbage. That it will be in your heart, and that is what is our teaching of our paramparā. Many went to the Himalayas with Alakpurījī, and you know what you have heard. In many of Mahāprabhujī’s bhajans, Maṅgīlālji’s bhajans, and Brahmanandjī’s bhajans, Alakpurījī’s name is there, but many people forget and say, "I don’t know." You are, my dear. Take time. It is not easy. It is said that we go about 100 meters distance with one rope. And that rope is above the water or rock. And how will you, while dancing, speaking to everybody, and walking on the rope? But we all, we will not have a rope. But we have a nice wall, and this wall is about one meter or one foot—one foot, you know what is a foot? And now we have to walk a hundred meters, and down are the rocks, and this and that. Who will be going through? Without only looking at this, we will say Hari Om. So it is said we are walking on the knife. Yes, this, if you can walk on a very sharp knife, cut of the knife. So, all we are like that. We are falling down, we cannot even stand on it, but it is said, Gurudev, you will give me all. Something is there, so we will come. And we say to God, "We are as we are." So there is one bhajan, very nice, Guru, Dev, what is that? What is that bhajan? Yes, so in that, I would say always here no one is there, and don’t try to think that I will be there. That’s it. So we are all one, and I hope that you will come first. To the supreme, I will be the last one.

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