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What means non-duality

"Above neither politics nor this religion, which is also politics. Religion is not spiritual. If that is, then humanity is the highest."

"My son, I don’t need anything from you... I remember when you were born, I was with you. And when I will pass away, my son, you should be with me."

He emphasizes heart-centered consciousness, family bonds, and being present for loved ones at life's end, concluding with an invitation for others to share their stories.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Vāstu Amolaka Dī, Mere Satta Guru... Kṛpā Kara Apnyāyo, Kṛpā Kara Apnyāyo. Rāmaratana Dāna Pāyo, Pāyo Jīmane, Rāmaratana Dāna Pāyo. Vastu Amūlaka Dī Mere Sattaguru, Vastu Amūlaka Dī Mere Sattaguru. Kṛpā Kara Apanayāyo, Pāyo Jīman, Rāmaratana Dāna. Rāmaratana Pāyo Karchena Kūte Chora Nalute Karchena Kūte Chora Nalute Dina Dina Bhārata Savāyo. Din Din Bharatasavāyo Rāmaratanadram. Vastuya Molaka Di Mere Sattaguru Kṛpakarapanayayo. Vastuya Mūlakādhī Mere Sattaguru Kṛpā Kara Apnyāyo Rāmaratan Rām. Vastuya Mūlakādhī Mere Sattaguru. Vastuya Mūlakādhī Mere Sattaguru Kṛpā Kara Apnyāyo Ratan Dhana Bhai. Meera Ke Prabhu Giri Dhara Nagara, Haraka Haraka Jasa Gayo, Haraka Haraka Jasaṅgayo. Rāmara Tannadana Pā Vastu Amolaka Dī, Mere Satta Guru Vastu Amolaka Dī, Mere Satta Guru. Kṛpā Kara Apnyāyo. Rāma Ratana Dhana Pā Śrī Dindarāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jayā, Viśva Gurudeva Kī Jayā, Mīrā Bāī Kī Jayā Ho. Again, we will leave the name of our Gurudeva. We are on our path. There is a difference. There are two things. Are you a politician? Are you a religious person? Are you a friend? All this is different. But what is our inner self? What we feel as God. And so it is within ourselves, not on the surface. And if we feel, "It’s my, your, this," we don’t do this, we don’t, then it means that we are only surfacing. It is said that whatever people speak or say, it is there. We have nothing to do with fighting negatively, but we are feeling from the beginning of our journey from the universe, and we are here, and we will go further. There is one Swāmījī, and he has a white dress. He has very big hair and beard, and he is a great learned Bhakta. He said he was not in the school, and he was Holī Gurujī’s very good friend. So, Holī Gurujī, respecting him like a great saint, and others said, "No, no... you are the greatest one." So that is that: those who don’t want to have competition. And those who don’t have the knowledge, OK, there is a game for the children and for people, why not? Football, or any kind of games, that’s a game, play, that’s all. But a saint, sādhu, yogīs, and good people, they don’t want competition. And Gurujī was very good with him. And he was living there somewhere in Allahabad or somewhere in the other part. And Holī Gurujī gave me the telephone from Europe. And Gurujī said that I should come to Kumbh Melā in Haridwar. You see, I’m not telling something, a story. Or it can also be a story, but there is a different kind of talk. And different kinds of education. As those who are going more to the education of the schools, colleges, etc. So that is limited in its way. And there is one person, he is a farmer, and he’s happy there, and he’s doing some song or something, and he’s sitting in his farm, and he’s also looking towards his animals there. Suddenly, everyone... began to respect him. And he was respecting them also. He was giving them coffee or tea, or some fruits, or sometimes bread. And the people were coming. He was telling stories, singing some good holy water songs, and people come and come and come. And everybody is respecting so much, and everyone went towards spirituality, like this person is like a God. God or gods, or whatever you see, it is the great person who will never say that I am great. So, who is educated? One after other steps, there is a set: yes, I am professor, I am so, I am so, I am so. That’s very good, nothing. There is nothing wrong. But there is nothing more. But that one person, so he is very humble, very kind, and he never said, "No, no, I am great. No, no... no." He is everywhere, equally. And so people come, that means that this person is the cosmic spiritual person. So a professor is good, but a different part. And humble, normal persons have another part. So the spiritual person, are they like very humble, very kind, not giving this and that? That is also okay, nothing against it. But going further is that different. So that person, Guruji’s friend, never went to school. But he is so great, and he learned himself. He knows by heart the whole Bhagavad Gītā. He knows all Bhagavad Gītā, Rāmāyaṇa. He knows all Upaniṣads, everything. And his words, he is not reading that this is Bhagavad Gītā and this and this, not only the alphabet. Rāmāyaṇa, Bibles, it is not like that. It is like that humbleness, kindness coming. Vidyā. We call it vidyā. You know, we say the body, prāṇas, manas, mind, and knowledge, and ātmā. So this is special knowledge coming from inside. So we are repeating again and again. So that’s why it becomes like a spiritual book for reading and reading, and he will not say, "I am a professor and a great sādhu." He will not say, "I will speak," but people are saying, "Please," and he will give each and every word in that holy book, or in any book they give. Exactly, very good knowledge about that. A on všechna ta slova těch svatých knih velice dobře má, v nich poznání najde, v nich to poznání dá. And that’s so that Gurujī’s friend, no, a tak ten Gurujī ho přítel, what a friend, jaký to byl. All sādhu to sādhu. Sādhu and sādhu is like one river to other river, water comes to the ocean together. That’s it. So one day Gurujī told me, I asked him, "What is your real name?" I don’t know. My name is something like, "I have no knowledge." It is a name. Gurujī said that is one of the best names. And Gurujī began to give a half hour about his name. So much knowledge inside. And, in the other direction, if you want to read that name, it is like a stupid person who doesn’t know anything. So Gurujī said, in nothing, it is many things. I know you, everything now. You are great, and you’re great. And he always smiles. He said, "Madhavananjī, please don’t bring me up." So they are brothers to brother. So there are three Akhāḍās. They want to make Holī Gurujī as Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. So, that other one said, "Great," but Holī Gurujī said, "I have enough, but I have something which I still could not fulfill." He said, "Swamijī, you are a sādhu, and you say, ’Fulfill, you have fulfilled everything.’" You think that you are. He said, "I am thinking that you are the whole ocean." But, Madhavanji, you are not like the whole ocean. You are whole Brahman. And what you are seeing is something missing. He said, "I have my disciple." And everything I gave him already, and you know that. So what is that? He said, "That Maheśvarānand, my disciple, I want him to make Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānandjī." And I know a little about Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarānandjī. Because they are always sitting, and now making big festivals, and eating and sitting. And all akhārās at that time, now it’s a little bit, it’s a little bit. At that time, there were still those akāras, but now there are already a little less of them. A jeden týden, nějakých sedm, osm dní se mě jako mě zkoušeli, ptali se mě na otázky, co se týká otce, co se týká matky, místa, Coho jsem vystudoval, and so on and so forth, many, many things. And Gurujī sent me the letter, what was probably called the tar. At that time, there was no telephone, very quickly, telegram. And anyhow, Gurujī sent me, and a few of my friends came to me. To go to, come to the Kumbh Melā. And that was the last Kumbh Mela, which was just finishing. And so I came, and Gurujī, and this, and then that other Mahārājī. He said, "It looks very good, boy." Yeah, it is great. He is like a sugar cane. You know what a sugar cane is? So Gurujī said, through your blessings it will be. And so on, so that Guruji’s name is Ādhāranandjī, and Guruji. But Gurujī told him one day, "You are my best friend. You are my brother." But please tell me, where is your birthplace? He was laughing. He said, "I don’t know." Best is that you tell. And he was somewhere there in languages, a little different languages. Like in Vienna, it is a different language. The language is the same. And Salzburg, that’s also different. So Gurujī said, "You tell me, otherwise you know." I know, he said. Then please tell me. Guruji said, "It seems you are like a Rajasthani." And he was laughing. No, no, no. He tried to talk other languages. He said, "Yes, look, even you are, let’s say, you are Czech and you speak best English somewhere, but after one coffee, we’ll say, ’But which countries you are?’ It looks like Czech or Slovak. Hned se pozná, že jste z Čech nebo ze Slovenska." That’s called the mother’s milk, you know. To znamená, které to materské mléko jste poznali. That is the quality of speaking, like a mother. Protože tu kvalitu té řeči máte po mamince. And also about the behavior of the countries. He said that I don’t know. Okay, one day, because many people are always sitting near Gurujī and them, Guruji said, "On my name, please tell me, where is your village?" He said, "You must tell me." He said, "I know, but I will not tell anybody." Guruji said, so you know, even the sādhus, sādhus are making jokes. And this joke is good things, not like under different things, others. And he told that Gurujī said, "But I know from which caste things you are talking, no?" And I know you are like kings’ families. He said, "Please don’t make me so nervous." But he said, "I will not make you nervous." Then Gurujī was talking nicely, bhajans and nice things. And they were very knowledgeable. Knowledge is knowledge. So, there is one poem, but half I know and half I don’t, so I will not count. Oh yes, now I found it. The friends, to friends, they hug nicely. So the best person is the other two persons, and those who are like donkeys, they are kicking with their back, that’s it. So I know you are great and know that Swāmījī is a very great one. And now, many of you have his book and recording about the Bhagavad Gītā, but it is in Hindi. So our Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, passed away. And then Swamiji came after, later, that Holī Gurujī passed away. So that Mahārājī was there, he was a little bit angry with me. But not angry, but something like this. So he’s a great, great spiritual person. And today I saw it looking at Facebook. And in that Facebook, there was that Swamiji giving a lecture. In Mumbai, somewhere. And there must be at least, at least you can say, 50,000 people. Big, big place. And many lights and breezes in there. And wherever he goes, every time I meet him, it is at the Kumbh Melā. And he was, last time I was not going to him, and he sent a message, sent three people, and sent many sweets and this and that. And he said to all three people, "I will tell you separately," and asked Maheshwaranandjī, why he didn’t come and why he came. Why didn’t he come to me? And so they came to me. So I gave up everything, and I went to him. And he was so happy, and then he said, "You sit on the podium." He put me there and said to me, and he gave me a mic. I said, "OK, I will talk, but I have to go. My program is there." In Bandara, he said, "Let my Bandara today be with me." Bandara means eating. I will give double Bandara. Now, what should I talk about in his? So I said, "Okay, then begin to talk in English." He said, "What should I say before him here?" So good, and he started speaking English, a little Hindi, but English. After five minutes, he said, "Your knowledge is very high." I personally don’t know how to talk. I said, thanks to Mahāprabhujī. And I say, thank you, Mahāprabhujī. And then he spoke about me, and he spoke nicely about me. He is a great man, and whatever he has, he will share it with me; he will give it to me. And so he always says, "Madhavānandjī, where is he?" Like he speaks, "Where is Holī Gurujī?" You know, Holī Gurujī was Holī Gurujī. But now you are for me, my holy Gurujī. So saints, holy, they are not making anything, that I want more disciples, or I want more... No, it’s a thing. Ti, kdo jsou svědci, kdo jsou svatí, ti neříkají: "Já chci víc žáků, já chci víc tohodle." Tak ne. So there is one, it is said... A tak říká se... It is said... Říká se... That one person was making the nice powder of the very good smell. Sandalwood, and that person, like you, you are all like that, so was grating for making tilak, and there was sitting one fly. So, till the fly was sitting there, where the nice smell and nice, this smell mood. And that person who was making powder, he had a two-year-old or two-and-a-half-year-old little child, and it was sitting about three meters away in the toilet. Now, that fly which was sitting near the sandalwood, but when the little child, the fly flew to that smell, like it better, and sat there on the toilet. So it is said that knowledge hides consciousness; they are friends to friends. Otherwise, they don’t merge together. After a certain time, they will go away and eat something different. So, there is a beautiful poem, very nice. Holī Gurujī said this. I didn’t write everything. Gurujī was telling such good things. And my dear, what I want to say is that above neither politics nor this religion, which is also politics. Religion is not spiritual. If that is, then humanity is the highest. The humans to the human, but other, if that is kind, is different. So, we are, look for example, from how many different countries you are here. And, of course, everybody respects and does not respect. They are proud of their country, yes. So look from here to Switzerland, Switzerland and Czech. We are the humans, or what? The Austrians and Slovakia, of course they have respect and everything, but different. Thoughts, feelings inside, and that is duality, and duality is not that quality. And that quality is that: let it feel in our consciousness, in our heart, and in our feeling of our mind, in our heart. That is heart. So, spirituality is there when there is a balance between the mind and the heart. If only it is in the mind, then it’s wrong, and it’s only in the heart also not good, because they will think it’s stupid. Therefore, we have to come together. So that is mantra, where we are making mantras and how we are making. In our kriyānuṣṭhāna, there, which I gave you many, many years ago. In Kriyānushṭhāna, and Kriyānushṭhāna is all the time within ourselves, not outside. So, you are all here. You are all here from many, many countries. Many Austrians are here, Germans are here, Hungarians are here, Croatians are here, and other countries are all with us. And those who are with me listening, many, many, they are listening from Swamijī’s television. And so they feel in oneness. So that is very, very good. You are all good. And we are not making dualities. So thank you very much for this. And then there is supporting each other. Today I got a message. I got a message this morning at about 4:30. Morning. And I was sleeping until about midnight. About two hours, different countries, they are calling in on Skype. Swamiji, I have a problem here. What is it? They have daytime at that time. A few times I gave up my telephone, switched it off. And the next day, they sent the message, and so they were a little bit sad because someone said, "Look, my father is just passing away, and I wanted to, please Swāmījī, can you say it, ’Aum’ or something?" I said, "Well, I’ve switched my telephone." Second, in March. March, May, now, no, in March. So I was in New Zealand. And midnight, or about different, maybe my night. I don’t know exactly at night, when it was night. One of the disciples of Holī Gurujī, and I knew him when I was about 10 or 12 years old. And so, Holī Gurujī’s bhaktas are so great. And Gurujī passed away, and he also was talking with me, and he respects me exactly like Gurujī. I tell you that I didn’t tell anyone, but today I tell you this story. And so he’s near between my birth village and Jadan, Omaśrama. And whenever I go to India, two or three times I have to go to his home, otherwise he will call and call. He got diabetes, and now his age is—it was not so old, but something old like me, maybe three years more than me. And then he had kidneys, and he had everything, and he had problems with lice and many other things. He had to go every third or fourth day to Jodhpur. For dialysis. And every time he came, all your foreign disciples and all had to come to my house to eat. And many said, "No, I don’t want to eat there because we don’t know." Too much chili, or... but it’s like, respectfully. Well, I know that he’s very ill, and he asked me one year continuously. Please make all my bhaktas and your disciples in my house one day, please. So I made, so I called some people, about 30 or 40 people. 30-40 people, and he was so happy, and he gave everybody donation. It’s like, with sādhus, they have to give, but they give to everyone: good eating, then luggage, some money, and fruit or some prasāda. So he was happy. And then once more I was going there, because in my birthplace they are asking and asking, so I’m making a little temple. A protože v té mé rodné vesnici mě pořád prosí a prosí, tak já tam budu jeden chrám, takže jsem tam cestoval. So then, Mansa Devi was there, Umbapuri was there. But then Mansa Devi came to Delhi, and we went to Australia, and then I was in New Zealand, you see. Don’t say, "What, Swāmījī is telling stories?" It’s not stories; it’s a knowledge. But if you want, I can make an āsana; you can get up, I will do it again. Bārikatu prāṇāyāma. Or I can make prānāyāma. So, is it real reality? So they took him to the doctors in Jodhpur, and they said, "Of course, they were cleaned," and then said, "It’s better you go home now." And of course they took care of him, but then they told him, "Go home, it’s better when you are at home." And so everyone knew that it was time, but until he came home, the parents put him on the bed, and his children, they are about 25 years old or 30 years old, they have grandchildren. And his father said, before he lay down, "I want to see or speak to Maheśvara Nanjim." So the father said, "I want to talk to Maheśvarānandjī again." And he was lying down. So he said something. So his son called him urgently to Jardana, and from Jardana they urgently called Swamiji. And I was in New Zealand. And I was just, I was sleeping or something, and Mānsā Devī called me. And his son said, "Gurujī, my father said, ’Please, once I want to see the voice of Maheśvarānandjī, Gurujī.’" Then I go, and he was like half-conscious. So I spoke on my telephone, Skype, and close to his ear. Then he opened his eyes, and they said, "Swāmījī is speaking." He opened his eyes a little bit. And finished, so he was only waiting, he said, "My voice, he wanted to listen to my voice." Mansa Devi was there, so then they said I should come there, we have a ceremony, but I was not there. And in India, it’s like this: many people, they make some kind of, some of these. Prashādis, we call, and he invited, I think, 20 villages, all near, close, all, and a big field, and all this eating. They said prashād. And so when I came, it was Corona. And his wife is waiting, and he’s waiting. One day I was passing by car to Rupavas, and she was so sad. Whole family, but I could not stop. And I had this police with me, security, they said, "No, Swāmījī, please don’t stop here." I telephoned, I said, "I’m here, I will come, yes." Then, after one and a half months, I went there. And of course they were always sad, very sad. I too, also. Because I called him my guru-bhai, my guru-brother. Because he is a disciple of Gurujī. So you see, sometimes there is a connection. So, that’s called spiritual people. And he is a householder, but all the time, mantra, Gurujī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s, everybody. So that is a different science, and that is another science you are learning. You are university, you are this, okay? But after that, university and everything, you will forget. You will die. You will say, "Please call my professor." But who is very close or spiritual? In some religions, they are also calling the name of God, or something. But it is like this: now it’s not so good, many things now. You bring the people to the hospital, and then they have a room. So this person is really going to die, so the family said. He’s in the room, and some people said it’s really not good. Sometimes they just push it there, and the person is so dead here, no one can speak, no one giving. There is no one who says, "Helenka, Helenky." There is another one dying also, second mother. Can you call me? Still, they are dying. And if you are at home, you are your mother, your father, your husband, your wife, or your uncle. That is the best time to be with them. The best hospital, holy places, and holy things are the mother and father, the husband and wife. The last minutes, that is, that yes, this was it. But we’ve forgotten. And because that high technology came here, it’s called kindergarten. Or just one year old, or only three weeks. They take a child to care, and the mother is going to an office somewhere. So the babysitter and kindergartens, and then in the schools, you are separated from parents. And therefore, this also will not be like this. So we are separating in this world. Now we shall be our human, and we should be with us. We are people, and we should be together. One is in America, the other is in Italy, and the third one is perhaps in India, and the father is somewhere in Africa dying. And the mother? Somewhere else, what is that human? We are lost. We should be. It is said, there is one thing I want to tell you, then I will stop. One day, one child—child means what, about 40 years? For 60 years, and his mother is about 50. And his mother is in the barricade. And his son is somewhere in Gujarat. So one day, he gave up his shop and he came to Kāṭhū and came with his mother’s medicine, this and that. And the father said to the mother, "Mother, you come with me. What can I do for you? What can I give you?" She was still strong. So her son said, "Sometime, mother, what can I do for you? Or, what can I give you?" Something he said. My son, mother doesn’t need anything, but you know, I only... mother needs only one. Then, please, Mother, tell me, what can I do? She said, "My son, for my child, not son, when I gave you birth, that time I was with you." And my son, mother only that when I will die, in that minute you should be with me. That’s called mother and children’s connection, my dear. And do not separate your children there and your husband there. Do not separate your children. Tam a manžela jinam. Myslíte si, že ta školka je nejlepší, ale není to nejlepší. To není dobré. Ale protože oba někde pracují, proč se nepostarají o děti? Proč jste teda měli ty děti? You have to, yes. You see, our paras, this little girl? She’s not given to the kindergarten. And look at this Paras and Punam, and so many children. So, your children, they are also very much in your lap. So, the mother said, "My son, I don’t need anything from you." Only this. I remember when you were born, I was with you. And when I will pass away, my son, you should be with me. Don’t separate your children, my dears. Money is nothing. Mother, father, and our good friends here, that’s it. But of course, we are going there, and that company, and that, and that, so. So, there are many things. Is there anything that you can tell me? Tell me something, your stories. Is my story good or bad?

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