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A Call for Discipline and a Discourse on Oneness

Maintain discipline for health and understand the sacred sound.

Illness spreads when precautions are ignored. Maintain physical distance at all times, not only during gatherings. A single infection can affect many. Discipline is essential. Prevention is paramount. Our elements constitute the body, but the soul is distinct. Ultimately, all elements return to earth or sky, achieving unity. The sound Oṁ represents this oneness. It is a universal vibration found in many traditions. Its correct pronunciation involves a steady tongue and navel focus, a yogic technique. All power in existence is Śakti.

"Prevention is better in this case than anything else, and it is very, very important."

"Everything is Shakti. Shakti is power. That's all."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

About a month ago, they said the waves of illness would return. This is due to people saying themselves, "We don’t want to do anything." They took away their masks and walked around, thinking, "This is some kind of illness, and it will go. Why should we all hide ourselves?" Within four days, so many became ill. So again, the government has given very strict rules that must be followed. We should also take care. We have nice, good air here, and no one present has this infection. But someone who came just one week ago, or about two or three weeks ago, could bring it from outside. With this disease, it takes up to two weeks to manifest. 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 sit a little bit at a distance. But as soon as we are finished, all of you come together. Then it makes no sense to be separate here. We have to maintain distance for 24 hours. Therefore, it is also said regarding bathrooms everywhere. A long time ago—let's say about 80,000 or 90,000 years—no one wanted to have toilets in the house, considering it disrespectful. So they would go to the forest or somewhere like that. There were many kinds of animals who were cleaning. Now we have toilets in the house, very close to the kitchen. Let's keep them two meters away. Some have a very small flat, about 40 square meters, and there you do everything. Of course, we make everything very clean. But the neighbors are different. The cities are very big. When I came here to Europe, let's say to Prague, it was a very nice city. Now it is three or four times larger. Some people have two or three houses. This is how humans are. But we learned how to keep clean, and that's good. Now, for these infections, what is coming? We have to take precautions. These are preventive measures. Not only here, where I am sitting and you are sitting at a distance. But when you go to eat, you all sit very close. That is not good. You can be close in your feelings and in your words. But if one person gets ill here, then many people—doctors, police, everything—will come. They will block everyone together for at least fourteen days, and within that time, we don't know how many will become ill. So, discipline. Keep the discipline. Now, remember, after we carry on when the program is finished, I will be watching how close you get. It means we do not take care. We don't understand. As we said, this is a very powerful, indeed powerful infection. We have a big ashram here, so why not spread out a little bit more? We have a nice loudspeaker. I can hear from here, but you are already talking in my place. So why don't you occupy land? Your whole life? For this seminar? Until then, it is your land, and you sit there. 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. Parents do not take care. Your children are all with you, and you are somewhere. 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 very special, nearly like bulletproof and very clean. This was protection for you, and for me too. Maybe I am ill, so you are protected. Or you have something; I am protected. It is said we make a sound with two hands. With one, we cannot do anything. If you cannot do it with two hands, then you go close to somebody to make the sound, and that we cannot do. We should not do so. Please, for 24 hours—your sleeping place, your bathrooms, going to the kitchen, the dining place—that is very, very important, please. We have many, many people now who are affected. In India, we have a very famous person from the world of sports. What they call that, I don't know—I never go into these people—but what is called the celebrity, from Hollywood, Bollywood, no? There are billions of dollars there. There are good actors, and one very famous actor in India. He is about 70 years old, very nice, and people respect him very much. He has children, very nice grandchildren. One of their sons came from a group after some dancing or something. He came home, and by morning, everybody was infected. Now they are all in the hospital. That elder person is still very active. Now he is in the hospital. 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, it is not only people who are in the street. It can be even in your palace; the infection can be there. So please, when you get up, stay there. Let others go first, that's it. Also, when you go home, you have to be very careful. Your car, also, you have to clean and spray all the time. Thank you very much. Again, I am telling you, and when I 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 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 doors like that. So, please, for a few days, take care. If someone is coming, we have to make distance. And if someone keeps distant, please don't say, "Why does this person keep me away?" So we come to say, "Oṁ, Hari Oṁ." Nipuṇār Bhagavān Kī Jai, Gurujī Kī Jai, etc. Fold the hands. Everywhere, it is with prayers. Now, after that, they don't want to fold hands like this; they make different blessings or greetings, so they make the cross. They build for the head, and then left and right, and right and left. Where do you make a hand? 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. Also, Jesus closed his hands like this. They do it everywhere, and so we should also worship the cross. The fact is that Jesus, because Hanumānjī closed his chest—when Bhagavān Rāma, Sītā, they all went, but Hanumānjī remained there, and always he said, "God, Rāma, Rāma, Sītā, all are in my heart." They said, "Where is your God?" "In the heart," he said. "Yes, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa are in my heart. Then show us." So Hanumānjī, with his nails, he churned his chest, and blood was coming, but inside were Rāma and Sītā. Hanumān said, "Look, here is my God, here Rāma and Sītā are in my heart." 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. 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. Samozřejmě, že prosím. So you will stand there. That's enough. After some time—one month, five months, ten months—we will come together again like this. 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 Oṁ. This is from one Tulsi from Australia. It's a very good question. There are different ways to pronounce it. There are two alphabets, two letters: Oṁ, so that's Oṁ, and others said Oṁ, and others is about seven times: A, Ā, U, Ū, M, A, Ā—seven. But generally, it is Oṁ. In all these, many people who are also Christians say, "Amen." It is Oṁ. Muslims also said, so it is coming from the Oṁ. 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. We are at the end, we are all one. Everyone is everywhere, but all will be buried in the earth or in the space. What is that in your space? They will in the earth and fire re-burn, and it goes all in the sky. So either you stay in the air, in the space. Now, the space is one. 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. The body, our body has five—not ten, not animal—elements. 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. 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 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, Oṁ—easier just to say Oṁ. It is easier to say Oṁ 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. In English, they simplified it and made one from two. 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 Oṁ is also Oṁ. Others write AUṀ. In English, AUṀ, and they pronounce it Oṁ. 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. 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. So this one seed sprouting, then two petals or 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. 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. 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." 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 peśa, 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 koruna, there was such a big ice cream, so he ate it. And then there was the half koruna of oil. So, the shopkeeper said, "Here's oil. Please, how much is in your pot?" 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 Gurujī 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 Oṁ," and that's why they write it only with Oṁ, 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. 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. And we think that we will fall down. 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, Ā,... 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. So say, but not too far, don't open mouth too much. Ústa. How do you feel your tongue? A, Ā, and in this kind of Oṁ chanting, it can happen that children who cannot speak, rather than here, A, yes, it's very clear, the tongue is not moving. A, Ā. Still tongue is there. A, Ā, U, Ū. 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 Oṁ. A, Ā, U, Ū, 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. Oṁ, oṁ, oṁ. Oṁ, oṁ,... oṁ. The navel will not move. A, Ā, U, Ū. 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 Oṁ. 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. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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