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A Call for Discipline and a Discourse on Oneness

A satsang addressing pandemic discipline and spiritual oneness.

"So discipline, keep the discipline... Please, from 24 hours, your sleeping place, your bathrooms, going to the kitchen, a dining place, that is very, very important, please."

"And so we will all sleep together in one beautiful Earth. Because we will become one with the Earth, or in the fire... So, OṂ—easier just to say OṂ."

A spiritual teacher addresses a gathering, urgently calling for strict hygiene and social distancing to prevent illness, citing real-world examples of spread. The discourse then shifts to spiritual unity, explaining the mantra OM as a universal sound and discussing the oneness of all beings through the five elements, chakras, and the nature of Śakti (power). Stories and analogies, including one about a disciple fetching oil, are used to illustrate points on perception and understanding.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

It is about a month ago they said the waves would come back again. And it is due to the people saying themselves, "We don't want to do anything." So they took away the mask and walked around, and this is some kind of illness, and it will go. Why should we all hide ourselves? And within four days, so many became ill, so again the government has given very strict rules that have to be blocked, so we should also take care of it. We have here nice, good air, and no one is here who has this infection. But someone who came just one week ago, or about two weeks, three weeks, it can come from outside. With this disease, it takes up to two weeks for it to manifest. And so prevention is better in this case than anything else, and it is very, very important. You make a lot of mistakes here. When you are sitting, you are sitting a little bit at a distance. But as soon as we are finished, all of you are coming together. Then it has no sense to be separate here. So it is 24 hours. We have to give the distance. Therefore, it is also said in bathrooms everywhere. A long time ago, let's say about 80,000, 90,000 years. No one wanted to have toilets in the house, and it is not respect. So go to the forest, or something like that. And that was many of these kinds of animals who were cleaning. And now we have in the house toilets very close to the kitchen. Let's make it two meters far. Some have a very small flat, and so it's about 40 square meters. And there you do everything. So, but of course we are making everything very clean. But the neighbors are different. The cities are very big. When I came here to Europe, let's say Prague, Prague was a very nice city. And now it is three times or four times more than that. Some have two or three houses. So this is how humans are. But we learned how to keep clean. And that's good. But now, for these infections, what is coming? That we have to take precaution. These are preventive measures. Not only here, where I am sitting and you are sitting, and we are at a distance. But when you are going to eat, you are all sitting very close. So that is not good. You can, in your feelings, in your words. But if one will get ill, one has got this here. Then many people, doctors, police, everything will come. And they will block all together at least for a fourth day, and within that, we don't know how many will become ill. So discipline, keep the discipline. So now, remember, after we will carry on when the program is finished, then I'm looking. How close you are getting. It means that we do not take care. We don't understand. It is just, as we said, that this is a very powerful, indeed powerful infection. So we have the big ashram here, so why not spread a little bit more? We have a nice loudspeaker. I can hear from here loudspeaker, but you're talking already in my place. So why don't you occupy land? Your whole life. So, which whole life? For this seminar. So until then, it is your land, and you sit there. And another one comes, a priest, and says, "It is my land. You are a neighbor." Like this, then it will be very nice. We are not afraid of being infected. And the parents do not take care of it. Your children are all with you, and you are somewhere. So we are not clean, so we did a lot of hard work. Look what our organizers have done here. This is a glass. This glass is a very special glass. It is nearly like bulletproof and very clean glass. But this was protection for you, and for me too. Maybe I am ill, so you are protected. Or you have something; I am in protection. So it is said, we make the sound with two hands. One, we cannot do anything. If you cannot do it with two hands, then go close to somebody to make them sound, and that we cannot do. We should not do so. Please, from 24 hours, your sleeping place, your bathrooms, going to the kitchen, a dining place, that is very, very important, please. We have many, many people now, and they are affected. In India, we have a very famous person from the world of sports. So what they call that, I don't know what, I never go into these people, but what is called the celebrity, so this is Hollywood, Bollywood, no? Yeah, and so there are billions of dollars there. And there are good actors, and one very famous actor in India. He is about 70 years old, and very nice, and people respect him very much. He has children, very nice grandchildren. So one of their sons came from this group after some dancing or something. And he came home, and by morning, everybody was infected. And now they are all in the hospital. And that elder person is very active still. Now he is in the hospital. And people are all praying. Many sādhus and brāhmaṇas are making yajñas for him. Many doctors and many things are trying to save him. So you see, not only the people who are in the street running, no, it can be even your palace; the infection can be. So please, when you get up, stay there. Let them go first, that's it. So, and also when you go home, you have to be very careful. Your car, also, you have to clean and spray all the time. So thank you very much. Again, I am telling you, and when I will go back to my room, I know how you will come together. So I think where you are, you stand up and make praṇām, that's all. I know that you would like to walk with me and come to my door, and like this. But now we don't have a door. We are a whole ashram. We have some rooms, but not the doors like that. So, please, now for a few days, take care. And somebody who is coming, we have to make a distance. And if someone is distant, please don't say, "Why does this person keep me away?" So we come to the say, "Oṁ, Hari Oṁ." Nipuṇār Bhagavān Kī Jai, Gurujī Kī Jai, etc. Fold the hands. Everywhere, it is with the prayers. And now, after that, they don't want to make like this, fold the hands, then they make the different blessings or greetings, so they make then the cross. So they build for the head, and then left and right, and the right and left. Where do you make a hand? Yeah, so there is one, two, three, four, you see, but the best is always there. It was like this, but in the past, it was always like this, and it is the best. And also, Jesus closed his hands like this. And they do it everywhere, and so we should also worship the cross. And the fact is that Jesus, because Hanumanjī closed his chest, because when Bhagavān Rāma, Sītā, they all went, but Hanumanjī remained there, and always he said, "God, Rāma, Rāma, Sītā, all are in my heart." So they said, "Where is your God?" "In the heart," he said. "Yes." Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa are in my heart. Then show us. And so Hanumānjī, with his nails, he churned his chest, and blood was coming, but inside was Rāma and Sītā. And Hanuman said, "Look, here is my God, here Rāma and Sītā are in my heart." And therefore, also Jesus was doing the same thing. It was like in the heart, but we don't say Jesus there, but we call his chest the heart. So it's good we are doing like that. So, it's better that you will say like this, and like this, and... like that, that, like this, me, don't, he, that. So, but don't go and hug now. And not cheek here, and not cheek there. So therefore, fold the hands and say, Hari Oṁ. At least for a few years, we have to purify this. Because it will take a long time, everything is very clean. But one person is still what we call negative, and the other is positive. So we are all negative, but one sitting somewhere in the bush, and he said, "I am positive." Hello? I am positive. Why don't you be positive? Don't be negative. So this is, in medical terms, positive and negative are like this. Pozitívne je trošku inak. Samozrejme, že sa musíte postarať o svoje deti, ale nemali by ste dovoliť svojmu dieťaťu behať za ostatnými. To je veľmi dôležité, prosím. A ja to hneď uvidím, ako náhle skončí program a postavím sa. So you will stand there. That's enough. After some time, one month to five months, ten months, we will come together again like this. So, therefore, everywhere in the hospital, in some office, in some places, there are always three chairs and two persons. So please take care. You know much better. There was a question about OṂ. And this is, they have one Tulsi from Australia. It's a very good question. So there are different ways to pronounce it. So there are two alphabets, so two letters. OṂ, so that's OṂ, and others said OṂ, and others is about seven times: A, Ā, U, Ū, M, A, Ā, seven. But generally, it is OṂ. So in all these, many people are also Christians, said, "Amen." It is OṂ. Muslims also said, so it is coming from the OṂ. And some say, "No, we are like this." It's okay, of course. We have a Hindi language, and you have Czech language. So you will check, and we will say, "What is it we have? Sanskrit letter." But the words are the same. Ale to slovo je rovnaké. We are at the end, we are all one. V konečnom dôsledku sme všetci jedno. Everyone is everywhere, but all will be buried in the earth. Nech žijeme kdekolvek, všetci budeme pochovaní v rovnakej zemi. Or in the space. Alebo rozptýleni do priestoru. What is that in your space? They will in the earth and fire re-burn, and it goes all in the sky. Čo znamená, byť v priestore pochovaný? To znamená, že vaše tělo po smrti spália a rozptýlia sa v priestore. So either you stay in the air, in the space. Buď ostanete potom rozptýlení v priestore, v oblaku. Now, the space is one. Priestor je jeden. So it doesn't matter how many of us will go in there; all is in one sky. Or if we bury ourselves in the earth, we are all on one earth. It doesn't matter if it's on this ocean side or the other ocean side. It doesn't matter if we are buried on this side of the ocean or on the other side. It will still be Earth. And so we will all sleep together in one beautiful Earth. Because we will become one with the Earth, or in the fire. And through this, both are in the space scale. So, space, ānanda. That's it. Ākāśa. Ākāśa is great. So duality is in this body. And the body, our body has five, ten, not animal, elements. And all five keep our body. And they are all together. If the element of fire goes away, then we are finished. Or if water is gone, we will die. If there is no air anymore, we will die. Nothing is in the body; suddenly, we are gone. So these five elements, when they come together, then you are a beautiful creature. Any animals or humans, so these prāṇas all together, either in the lap of the Mother Earth or in the beautiful sky of the Mother, that is very, very important. But when all five elements will go, these five elements will never die. They are all five elements, separate. And they can be together, but they are not destroyed. So even when we burn the dead body, we are giving all elements back to their own. And we know we cannot live more without even the one element, and now in these five elements, there is not a soul. The soul has another element, so finally after that, it becomes like blue sky only, one, nothing there. So we are in oneness, and we are separate. That we have to understand, and this will very soon go. There are hundreds of pigeons, and someone gives seeds somewhere. All birds, they are coming there. When their stomachs are full, they will go to their other place. Or something happens, something like this sound: all birds will fly away, and so is that from the heart. The soul goes somewhere; we don't know where. Where is the father now? Where is the mother now? Mother, father, brothers, friends... Or there is nothing. There is no feeling of mother, father, anything. It is the light now, the sun. But nobody will say, "Which sun?" The only sun, and we are all one sun. We are one water, and from there further, we are other prāṇas. So, OṂ—easier just to say OṂ. It is easier to say OM because the English alphabet has only 26 letters, and Sanskrit or Hindi has 52. And Sanskrit, which is also a Chinese alphabet, has 52 of them. And so in English, they simplified it and made one from two. And it is very difficult to write this sound. So that it becomes easy for people. But to make the letter is difficult. To about name or something, and the Czech have, I think, 22. And Croatians have, I think, twenty-three, thirty, because they are called Croatians, so they say "krrr," so make everything perfect. You have a problem with the spinal column, and one yogī comes and twists you like this and goes up, so they said. Four more, thank you. So pronunciation comes something different. So OM is also OM. Others write AUM. In English, AUM, and they pronounce it OM. So you can give it out, or you have to bring it in. It's the same. But about the Kuṇḍalinī, to know it in this body, we have to go according to the chakras. A poznania týchto vecí v nás, v tele, tam musíme postupovať podľa čakier. And chakras according to the Sanskrit alphabet. So from Mūlādhāra, Mūlādhāra has one bīja mantra, the seed, and then petals. So the seed sprouts and brings two petals, and that is in the area below between the eyebrows. And so this one seed sprouting, then two petals or the two leaves come out. And between is that the root. So the root goes down, and so it is said that in the trees they call down roots and branches up. But for humans, the roots of branches are like a root below, and all the going up, they are the roots. So it is said, the roots are going up and branches going down. It is written in the Bhagavad Gītā. So this is what all our branches are, and this is down our hands and legs and fingers and so on, but very solid. The roots, and that is in the brain, and so the brain is very important. And the trees' roots are also very important. But we see up the leaves of the tree, the leaves of the tree,... and the leaves of the trees and branches are going up, and the roots are going down. And we go with branches down and the roots up. And therefore, this is the center in the human body, and in animals too. And so here, this is the Ājñā Chakra. And there is an H and a TH. So, H, TH. H, TH. And coming together, yoga. So that's Haṭha Yoga. And this is from here goes far now, all our chakras, you know, everyone in our hidden powers in human book, and each petal has one letter. Some say letter, some say alphabet, so you can understand the alphabet, and others say letter. No problem, that's it. So I always make something, and they're always making the wrong. That's it. That's one nice story. Okay, it's a very nice story, that someone can give water to the Master. He's the number one. So there is one guru and disciple. They were traveling all the time. They had no house. No city. No place, they said, "The whole earth is our house." So wherever we go, God will definitely give something to eat. So they have not too many things, very little things, what they need. And time to time, somebody gave some kind of little money, and they said, "Thank you." So one day, that master and disciple came near to one village. It was like going to be sunset. So, Gurujī said, "Now we will put our... what is it called?" Blanket. But the master said to the disciple, "We should cook something for ourselves." And the master said to the student, "We should still cook something." So the master said, "Go and bring some things so that we can cook something." Some flour, some oil, and this and that. So he said, "But we don't have any pot for oil." So there was a little temple, a little temple people who were making, and that he had. There is fire; they make pūjā, where they make pūjā, and under that fire was a container. So he went to the master, and then he went for the oil. So he gave one pesa, one. What is your Czech? Koruna. Czech koruna. So he went to the shop, and he said, "This is two things." So, please, half of the koruna is for the oil. And for half, I want to eat some ice cream. Okay? So for half a krona, there was such a big ice cream, so he ate it. And then there was the half krona of oil. So, the shopkeeper said, "Here's oil. Please, how much is in your pot?" So, and there was a racking and holding here, and here was something like this for balance. So he said, "Oil." So he filled all in the pot. So he said, "But still oil is more." The merchant said, "So disciples are very nice. Very rare such disciples go to the Guruji everywhere." So the merchant said, "Still you have the oil." So he said, "Yes, this side." But Sam thought he is it, but he put the oil this side, and he comes to Gurujī, and Gurujī said, "How much oil is there?" Is it full only this? He said, "No, Gurujī, this side also." And he said, "No, Master, even on the other side I got oil." And all the oil fell out, neither here nor from below. And so Gurujī said that you should know what and how. And so in our brain we have, and what not. So that's very, very important to know where is what. Also, in our body, so the alphabet, letters, it is somehow we can speak, even we can lose one alphabet. So, there's an A, U, M. A, O, M. And then the British said, "O and M, O, M." This is the O, M. Little children can pronounce better. O, M. When her mother said, "Say O, M., say OM," and that's why they write it only with OM, but in every chakra there is everywhere the letters, and the seed mantra is in the center of the chakra. So this one remains as a root. And then comes the blood gems. And the roots are down, but for our human conscience, it is the roots above and the branches are down. So this is very difficult to understand. But there was one long ago, at that time it was black television. And so I was learning a little bit of German language with this telephone and television. So one of them from the, I think it was, I don't know which country, but it's okay. So they make an experiment. And that, exactly, I've forgotten, but I remember many things. That we should walk on the earth above. Cycling also, the earth goes like that. Really? So they gave him a lot of technique. And so he was cycling and going down. It was like that, and now he could ride the bike on the earth but look like the sky. Earth is up. He could then ride on that bicycle, but actually, the earth was up. Miesto, ako keby miesto neba bola zem. And we think that we will fall down. Mysleli jsme si, že padneme, but it's not. Ale nepadli ste. And then again bring him back. And then, when they brought him back, so it took him one month. It took him one month that he sees that the earth is below and the sky is up. And that's why in chakras, it's also in that way. We say Gaṇeśa is below, on the end of the spine. So that is how we are coming to understand our mind, how to turn to the other side. So they are training many, many people to kill someone. And they train them so much. So therefore, it is just nothing to kill someone, which is not good. So, chakras and the practice of the chakras—each letter has its meaning. And that's what Holī Gurujī wrote here, Kapālabhāti, see. And Gurujī put it in a very nice way, and that we have learned, you know how much? We were on the same part where we were. 24? No. Here we are. Okay. So, this we will have this evening, because this is for everyone. Because it is for everyone, for everyone. And then we will work it out so that everyone can read it. So this was the question. And now, so again, everybody say, A, A,... A. Now, in these two letters, your tongue should not move, and your tongue should not be very hard. It is just that the tongue is relaxed, lying here under, near the teeth. A jazyk by mal byť uvolnený a leží dole, pri zuboch. So say, but not too far, don't open mouth too much. Ale nie príliš silne, neotvárajte veľmi ústa. How do you feel your tongue? Aký máte pocit v jazyku? A, A, and in this kind of OM chanting, it can happen that children who cannot speak, rather than here, A, yes, it's very clear, the tongue is not moving. Jazyk sa nehybe. A, A. Still tongue is there. A, A, U, U. A, Ā, U, Ū, M. So, the tongue is all the time here. The tongue is in one place the whole time. And the vocal cord, which is coming here inside, is folding the tongue a little bit. And how does it go through the voices of the ears? That is a complete OM. A, A, U, U, come down. That is a yogic technique from the navel. So now, touch your navel and speak any words. Hello, how are you? Where? Good? Yes. C'est bon? Go. All the time, our navel is going there. So life is in the navel. You began from here, you nourished here, and you are here. So, did your navel move? All the time, the navel did not move. And that about the letter or alphabet, what we are calling, means like that. A, u, u, a, u. The neighbor is very relaxed. Bupok is very relaxed. Coffee, tea, tilak. What is tilak? What is tilak? What is that? Pīchā? Oh my God! Picha! That's your hunger, you know. It goes whole... Picha, picha,... picha. Om, om, om. Om, om,... om. The navel will not move. A, A, U, U. The tongue did not move, and the navel did not move. So that is the yogic way they are making further and further progress with our breath, our navel, and then they take it into samādhi. Living, they know, but all are silent. So this is how yogīs work with voices and gradually work towards this knowledge. These were the questions that were answered. Oh, that is a very good one. Yes? Thank you. Mine is two and a half years again. Aha, that is that. She's such a nice child. I will read it after I tell you, okay? Oh, here are also very nice questions. Oh, always good questions. Meaning, and this home, I have told it. Many times you talk about Haṭha Yoga and willpower. Would you be so kind as to explain Śiva and Śakti, Brahma Śakti, Viṣṇu Śakti? Yes. Your mother is a Shakti. So you, your daughter, your grandchild, everything, this is a Shakti. Or second, the power of the Śakti. You know how strong the wind is? And this, there is very hot. It's also Shakti. Oh God, raining and raining. It's also Śakti. Oh God, the earthquake. It's also Śakti. And what do you call it? Eating very good. Oh, Shakti. So everything is Shakti. Shakti is power. That's all. Hari Om. This also. So don't think, "Take on Shakti." What is Shakti? Your stomach is Śakti. Your leg is Śakti. When you feel ill and you have fear, When you have a fever, it's also Shakti. It pulls you down in the bed. It is also Śakti. You are healthy now. It's Śakti. Everything is Śakti. Blood circulation, all is Śakti Madhya. And if you don't understand this, then even God cannot give you. Shakti. Power. That's it. And what kind of power? We can walk this. We can run. We cannot fall down. And when we fall down, it was a great Śakti. That's it. Okay? So don't think Shiva-Shakti, Brahma-Shakti. Of course, Brahmā, Śiva, Śakti also. Therefore, Holy Gurujī said, "One in all and all in one. Don't give me any more questions. Take out." Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ...

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