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Protect all and get God in your body

A spiritual discourse on divine protection and recognizing the sacred in everyday life.

"Who protects? Two. What we call a god, and second is a parent—not only for humans but also for other creatures."

"God is within us when we do all good and very good. That knowledge is like God."

A speaker addresses devotees at an ashram, exploring the nature of protection during a pandemic. The talk identifies God in the protective love of parents, the care of animals for their young, and in good friends, culminating in the guidance of a Guru. The speaker emphasizes inner purification, advises against judging others, and shares anecdotes about recent travels and the respectful observance of health regulations during gatherings.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

We cannot see it, we cannot smell it, but it is coming through the air, through touch. And then you know many people have died, so many have died. There are so many hospitals now, but the hospitals have no space, and they don't have oxygen. They are trying to find oxygen gas in different ways. It is said that it affects the lungs, and it is most terrible and painful for people who were smoking, and they die. It also affects our nostrils, causes headaches. So, my dear, what happens? It can happen, but if we can protect ourselves... In that protection lies protection. That is very important. I am very happy that you are here. You have come from various cities and arrived here at the āśrama. You have come full of devotion. You are here to receive that cosmic energy. We are all searching for God. We are all sitting here, and we have not seen God. But at the same time, we have also seen Him, yet we think, "That is not God." It is said that the first God is our Mother. She was protecting us, letting us grow in her body for nine months. For some, it was very painful—sleeping, this and that. The mother's breath-giving is also not so easy. But we know that the mother endures the pain and then sees her child. So, for nine months in the mother's body, and then to give birth—I don't know, sometimes half a day, sometimes a whole day, or they cut the stomach. But the mother is ready to do everything. So, a mother will always be like a mother, and we should honor our mothers and the light, the father's energy, and what she gives to that, the soul. And the father gives the light, that energy, to the soul. And that is his. And mothers. So mother, father, father and mother, they protect us. Who protects? Two. What we call a god, and second is a parent—not only for humans but also for other creatures, animals, etc. After we think further, we think of God as father, mother. They tell us not that they are father, mother, we are God, but they said we have the God; we should worship our God. It is said that those who cannot respect mother and father do not know anything further. The first temple is your parents' house. And when the parents are older or have some difficulties, first we should serve them. And when it is so, then we have friends, good friends, good people, and then animals—they have the same thing. You see, the lion only eats other animals, but the babies... it will not eat them. A tiger will not do it. A cow will not do any harm, so they are also protecting. Yes. You know, there are some wild animals, and when they have babies there, we should not go close. So it is said that children are very dear to animals. And so we also, our parents respect and love our children so much. They give them a good life, and children should also respect and be with God. So, Mātā, Pitā, Mother and Father. At the same time, let's see the man and woman, which we are calling them that they are where it is. So it's very filling into the heart. You will see it often happens: you have a little child in your hand, and there's an accident or a fall. Even the mother will let her break her other hand but will hold the child in the bed. Many times. And when other animals attack, if there are little babies, that mother stays there and she will fight but keep the babies in her body. What can be more God than this? And when does it die? When the child dies? Not only a little child. Let's say for one child, the man is about seventy-five, and his mother is about nearly ninety-nine years old. And when your son, who is above 70, dies, the mother has in her heart that her child died. And when our mother goes, or the father goes, then we feel, "I am lonely." In that case, we all, we and animals, have that deep relationship because it is blood. Your blood flows in your body. That our friendliness, and also they are animals. Now, you people, there are a lot of your dogs, and you are taking care of your dogs. Other different animals, they are protecting. But it is said, "The animals eat the animals." It is their nourishment, but when the human has that knowledge, then they know that they should not kill any humans or animals. It is said that humans should eat until there are only a few little leaves of the grass or the plants. That people should eat only some leaves, plants, or grass. Rather than kill any animal. But when there is nothing, then because the human is still further and near, so they are made, they can eat animals. When there is nothing, then the human should survive. In their very literature, it is written that if there is nothing to eat, then, because you are a human, you can do it. Maybe somewhere where there is only snow, and not for days, nothing, no green, then they are surviving there with the fish or something. Oh man, what do you have? Just to get a handful, only some to bite and a glass of water, you will survive that. Many great saints were giving this knowledge at that time. So, my dear, after that, so what I said: the friends, and this: love the animals also, which I said that love them, feed them, but don't eat them. There it is. There it is, God. Second, other God then. Is that all? Our good friends, animal friends and human friends, etc. Then it is finally called the Guru. So that if anyone else cannot, the guru will protect in that way. So we shall know where and what we are doing. Yoga is the best. Gymnastics is very good. Body, very good. So God, then it is also said, God is in your body. God is residing in my body. Who is my? You. Everyone, all creatures. It means whose life is that? Life is God. So we have to understand, because God has given that brain to understand and to feel understanding. Others who are not, you know, they will be cut, and they will also be cut, and they will go and finish them. So yoga exercises are very good for our body. And our body should be healthy. Why? Because there are two things we came here in this world for: protect all, and get that God. It means that God is in the body. We get God in our body, because when we die, then it is gone. A true guru is that, when for the first time the mother and father meet. We were somewhere in the sky, in heaven or on earth. Body or not. What is a body? Nirākār niranjanam. Nirākār. There is nothing. How we came in, and then we touched. Then we know something is wrong. Or sometimes it is, "Where am I?" Now it is coming. The first time, I am. What is that? What is? I am. But I am the sky. It was. But you are now one. So equal from bahu syāmī. Ik koham bahu syāmī. I was the one. And now I will multiply. And then it comes, my and thy. Now it is my body. My house. My money. Etc. Split it, and these split things again will come together or not? I was one, equal to one. But I don't know how he made and split me. And then what have I done? And with this, I am again going in the other locus. Neither bones, nor blood, nothing. But feeling like I am alone. Then we are fluttering in this space, and we cannot meet at all. And we can't meet each other. Even if you have a fight, you don't know about it, and you suffer, or you want to come back. So here I am separated, I go, I am lonely, separated. So there is something. That's why we all are thinking, in any religion, doesn't matter, God, whatever it is. How is God? Where is God? Well, in Islam they say Allah, and there is no other anything. No moon, no sun, only Allah. One, anything. But then they said, "You do this, you give seven good women, ladies. Enjoy this all or more." So where, who is there? It is not there. So our feeling in our brain, and our touch, our pain. But after that, there is no pain at all. But in some religions, man said many, on the earth was not that much problem. But now, only you are alone there and tortured. Who is torturing? We don't know. So, my dear, this is the time. Where is God? And God is not somewhere moving here and there. So God is within us when we do all good and very good. That knowledge is like God. And they get better knowledge, better feelings, etc. And what we call the miracle, we can say they know, and they bless us. So it is here. And further, we don't know how many there are or where they are. So the log is he, so Brahman. Mahāprabhujī said, "Who is talking in me?" What in my body is happening, and what I get? The light and see everything, and one day suddenly it will not be there. Still, the lamp is burning, and when there is no more oil or wind comes, the flame is gone, like with the wind, that accident. Oil remains there. Or the oil is slowly, slowly, slowly coming out. We are from these cottons, this fly, and it is first burning oil, our blood. And when there is no more blood, then our body, bones, and they are all going, all burning. Burning remains the S, and that else again with the wind. Gone. Think of us. We are very much thinking. So don't say this man is good, not good, and that mood is not good, and this person is not good, and they are terrible, and they do this and they do this, but ask, "What have you not done?" Don't say, "These are bad, these are such, and this man is good," but ask yourself, "What have you done?" So it means that those who have fear, they are going out, not inside. Because inside, now everything is full of garbage. Then they are going, talking bad about others. And what are you talking about others? All garbage from you, you are pulling to the others. What does that mean? So they are garbage. It was in you, but now it's falling on you. That is that. So no one will say, "I am such a dirty person. I am not a good person." No one will say it. And we will always tell, give, and throw the dirty water on us. That's why God said, "I give you night, and I give you sleep, so that at least the garbage in your body is listed, and something will be cleaned up." So, my dear, God is that. It doesn't matter, man or woman, when they have anything dirty, anything, they will take it. And what is that? There is one lamp, light, and outside is dark, and we are full of the dark. We are standing in the dark, but as soon as we come near the lamp, the darkness is gone. There is no dark, and so is the Guru Kṛpā here. That's called Guru Kṛpā, and that is in you. Guru is in you. Guru is within you. Light is in you. Knowledge is in us. Do it. Give more, better, and good things. Otherwise, when all such things happen in the world, and they are fighting war, etc., for what? And if it is something like this, they will not fight. They will only clear up. So my dears, we should think for ourselves. Don't think she is not good, he is not good, they are not good. That means you. You are not good. You are not that good. You are not. So everyone is there. No one is like that. Even it is said sometimes God protects Himself from the others. You see what happens with Jesus. You know everything. I need not talk about that. So, can we not also be nice and clear? So every country, every religion, everything is good, the best. Only language is different. So, my dear, it is the day that you are here, and what I can give you, only I can tell you what I told you. And if you will think this over, and when you think over through your ears, and your eyes, then your mouth, and your skin, and everything is purifying, that's very important. So in this way, I am here today. You know that I was here nearly three months. And our many, many bhaktas from many, many countries came here. And we were very respectful here, all. And it was very good that, because of the corona, we respected very much the government's rules, and all was very good and nice. Sometimes I was in Vienna, and our people, unfortunately, they had little time for me, from me, but many also came here. And we don't have so high a big office or a place that how many people can sit there. And then I was in, you know, that in Slovenia. And there's a big hall like this, and also there, people were there. It was five or six days. People came from many, many countries, but there were limited people and limited time. And people were all very respected and disciplined. The government people came, and they were checking after when people go. And when people left, did they check it? How clean it was there or not, or where people were sitting, how many points, spots, and if it was exactly that or more inside or not. How clean it was, how many places marked on the seat, how many stops there were, exactly they checked it. And the people who came, they asked our practitioners, they said they are so clean and respected and very good. And every day I was driving about half an hour from where I live to that hall. And it is very close to the borders of Slovenia and Croatia. And they could not come because of corona, because of those measures which prevented it. Here to Mahāprabhujī's Mandir. So many people were also on the border. There were many bhaktas. In Croatia also, so they are standing on the other side of the border. It was locked. So they said, "Please, please, Swāmījī, darśan karo." So I stand out. Everybody said, "Pranām, Pranām,... Prasād," etc. And the border guards, governments, they said, "Who is that and this?" So they told this and that. He looked at me and they said, "Oh yes, okay, you can go." So every time my car was going, I could not go away because they were standing there. They were standing there, and I just drove away. On the other side, I said, "My God, other governments, they will maybe sort me." But many guards were there, police and so on, and they said, "Oh, our Swamiji is here." So it's a great, great respect for people in those countries also. And it was very nice. So one whole week went just like this. This side and that side, all were very humble, very kind, very nice. Also, I came to Vienna again, and it was great for me. I was so happy. Oh my, my Viennese, they are my great friends. But due to the space, so, and of course, Střílky is one of the best places I was. I came here, and no disease or anything. And so because of the space, Střílky are the best place, and I came here, and no hospital, nothing is here. And you always come. You take petrol, money, time. You spend petrol, your time. So I always feel in my heart that you come from so far a distance. I am very happy, and I feel that you have come here. So I will be here now. Some programs where it will be told. Many countries are saying, "But how can I do it?" In some countries, you have to make some kind of injection or something, a test, a corona test, and instead, a whole week remains somewhere. And then you go there, and then you go back again, you have to stay in Austria. People, they don't... they are also very sad that we are doing like this for people. But they mean that we make them very clean from the disease. So I am sitting here, like a bird on a tree. And the other trees are coming, birds. So thank you for your coming. And I will be here, and you should know who will come there tomorrow or visit. And you are welcome to come. With this, my dears, I wish you all the best. That's it. Om Śānti, Om Śānti...

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