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It is time to help others

A global crisis reveals our shared humanity and calls for immediate, compassionate action.

A pandemic has caused widespread suffering. Governments and individuals are striving to respond. This is a time for practical help, not hesitation. Meditation and prayer are valuable, but tangible support for neighbors, the elderly, and children is the greatest necessity. Distinctions of religion, nationality, or wealth must be abandoned for a spirit of oneness. The elderly are our roots and deserve the same care we give to children. Action cannot be postponed. True spirituality is expressed through selfless service to all beings, recognizing the divine unity in everyone.

"Meditation is good, prayer is great, but what is needed just now? That we can help—that is the biggest and greatest."

"We should not say this God or that God or this religion. No. We should give equally to everyone."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

It is wonderful that our people are all connected together now. As we know, for nearly five or six months, there has been this corona, and many people are suffering. Every government, every country is trying very hard to protect its people. Many people have closed their businesses. In some poorer countries, they are on the outside, on the step. From many countries, the governments have also supported our yoga centers. Some people who own the ashrams or buildings we rent have been very kind; they did not want any rent for this period, for a few months already. If the yoga center was in a rental room, they did not want the rent for several months. Also, in the London ashram, the owner of the building was very kind and helped them. So, my dear brothers and sisters, all our yoga teachers and practitioners are very strong, and they try very much to keep this—our kingdom of Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa, Alakpurījī Mahārāj, our yoga and daily life—alive. Here in Europe, in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, and elsewhere, people are very humble and are helping. In Vienna, Austria, many yoga centers asked for understanding, and people helped very much. Many people helped a lot. My dear, this is humanity. In this situation, don’t think, "I will not give," or "they will not give," or "I can’t give." No. This is the time. It has happened, and what we can do is give as much as we can. Let our people into our arms. Your neighbor—there are some neighbors who really don’t know what they will eat tomorrow. This is true in some European countries, even in Hungary. I don’t want to name any country. So this is the time, that is the time, that we as a brotherhood—and brotherhood means sisterhood too; it means both male and female—we all should take them in our arms. We should take great care of our little children so they do not suffer. We should take care. Meditation is good, prayer is great, but what is needed just now? That we can help—that is the biggest and greatest. We are always saying, "My God, your God, their God," and going to pray in temples, churches, or mosques. It’s okay; temple, church, or mosque are the same. People go there and pray to God, called Allāh. Everywhere, we are looking and asking in our palms, "Please bless us, Gurudev, God, bless me." And then He will give to someone. Many people make prayers, meditations, and give to others. They beg to God, "Please give me a blessing." And if one person gets the blessing of God, it is as if God came and blessed the whole world. All newspapers and technologies would say God appeared and gave a blessing to this person. Yes. But in this situation, God is definitely giving to us, protecting us. God said, "If you are rich people or poor people, for me all are equal." We should know the situation now and how we should help them. That’s it. Help is great. We were talking once about help. In this way, the whole world—many, many people, some big companies, some who have a little more money—they are protecting the poor people and taking the children in their arms. There are children crying in many countries, and people like you are going to the poor children and people, giving them something. Not for my God or that religion. We should not say this God or that God or this religion. No. We should give equally to everyone. Don’t say, "Come to me for my religion." No. That is duality, and in duality is not good. We should have oneness. As Holy Gurujī said, "One in all and all in one." In that way, my dears around the world, I pray to God, I pray to Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Holy Gurujī. And I pray to all of you. Please, help us. Help for anything. This is a great time. Very soon, we will be in good condition again. But when? Today. Don’t say, "Tomorrow." By tomorrow, the body may be gone. So don’t say, "Okay, wait, we will do tomorrow, day after tomorrow." No, no. And we have to think of the old man or the little children, my dears. Unfortunately, some people in some hospitals do not take so much care of the old, poor people. They have the same feeling; they are the same as a little child. They are also like the young. They were working very hard, supporting other people, and now they are old and don’t know what to do. To help a little child is equal to helping poor people, and the old people are the same. A little child and an old person are the same. This one old person—how many years they lived, how many years they went through. We know many are still here from past wars, how they were very, very poor and were hiding. These people are still there, old now. At that time, they were taking care of others also. Can we not do this? Please, take care of your great-great-great-grandparents. They are our root. Our roots should be very deep and strong. If we are young people—20 years, 25 years, 30 years, 15 years—they should know where their roots are and how their roots are. And still, these roots are holding us. We look like we are young boys and we will do this, and they are old people and they should go… No, no, please, not. Don’t think that God is only for children or young people, or old people. God is for the children and the very old ones. The young children, little children, they know love, they have everything, and day by day they are getting strong. But the old one, day by day, is getting weaker and weaker. But you know, our ātmā, our soul, they know, but still our body is there. And in the body, all feelings are completely present. You know, when a child was little and born, we took cloth, cleaned them, gave dry cloth, etc. At the same time, when an old person is lying in the hospital or in bed and doesn’t know how to go to the bathroom, we have to clean them, protect them, give them warm clothes. Don’t think, "Oh, it’s an old person," and feel it is terrible. No, no, please. You know, we will be like that too. And then we will know, "I did everything for my children," and now they are somewhere in other countries, or they don’t want to come, sending the old people to an old people’s house. Yes, it is good; people are doing this. But why didn’t you give your child somewhere until they grew up and then bring them back? Look at the distance. The child we have in our hands… But the old, our father, our mother, they took us in their hands. But now we cannot even take care of our parents? Don’t think that in our house we cannot. It doesn’t matter how it is. We should be with the children, with Father, yes, with grandmother, grandfather. In little villages everywhere, they are with us. Even our house dog loves the old persons. They are sitting beside the dogs or the cat, or your cow. Many animals there are. Please, feel that Ātmā, the soul, in that heart. Don’t let them die in that condition, that there was nobody there, no one gave me water, and that they just die. That is not nice. It is not good. Therefore, this time, what is happening in some countries but now in the whole world—this corona problem, and some wars are existing. In some ways, people have nothing to eat. And in some ways, for the bombs, how many millions are they just putting in the air? O human, be human. Don’t say only my country and this country. Okay, they have developed and divided. There is my country and your country, and this is my house, and you are my street and my village. It’s okay. Is this your country? Is this your city? Is this your village? Is this your street? Is this your neighbor? In your house, we should all feel as one thing. Then we will know that we are human. And we should not shoot that human to the human. Many, how they are suffering now, many, many, many. This corona is nothing. So, with this situation happening, my dears, therefore I pray. I pray to Mahāprabhujī, Alakpurījī, Devpurījī, our Holy Gurujī, Swami Madhavānandjī, Bhagavān, and all others. We pray to Holy Mother, Mother, don’t let children suffer. Every mother is there, every father is there. So I am great. I studied a lot, I went to university, I am a doctor, a professor. Okay, that’s okay. But what is this body? Here, one is eating fruits, and another child is sitting somewhere beside and looking at the fruits. What can we feel? That’s it. Many things you will see today in the Mahābhārata. The Mahābhārata is very, very… this Mahābhārata is how to learn, and how to know and live, and how things are terrible. Then Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa comes, and Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa tried in every way. But they don’t understand God. Where holy saints are, they’re okay, but they don’t help everyone. So it is five thousand years, five hundred thousand… That was the whole thing this time: Satyugas, Dvāparayugas, Tretā Yugas, Kali Yuga. Satya Yuga, Dvāparayuga, Tretā Yuga, Kali Yuga. It was, and it is running in the Kali Yuga now. But it is said: iron and stones, when thrown in the water, will go down. And when we throw wood, it is fluttering in the ocean. It doesn’t matter how the waves go up and down. Why? Because this water was given to that wood. Like a mother gives milk, the same water gave this tree. And this mother will not let the child fall down. Similarly, the ocean will not let this wood go down. That is the way we should live. Around the whole world, in many, many countries, day to day, I always have many, many bhaktas, people who are listening to my words. I am not the one who is talking, but I am a blessing from God, and I am your servant. Tell me, somebody. Then many, many people, they are talking meditation, meditation. And you said, "Please don’t disturb me, I’m meditating." What is your meditation? Don’t know. Oneness? Don’t become oneness. That’s if children are crying, animals are crying, neighbors have problems, and we are meditating. Then God will say, "What are you doing?" Closing your eyes, next time you may be blind. Please listen, listen, listen. All creatures, not only humans—the whole vegetation, all everything on this earth. We became human, and sometimes we can help. And if we cannot help others, at least we should help ourselves. And what is the help of ourselves? Our help with self to the others. This help, therefore, my dears. This evening, I was walking for one and a half hours or nearly two hours, and I have this feeling. Everything I was looking and checking, and I want to tell them in already five days about Haṭha Yoga, then all neti, dhoti, vasti, nauli, tratā, kapālabhāti, everything. But always Mahāprabhujī, I think, tells me. He said, "Put your neti, dhoti outside." Look what people need, and so, what can I do? So, we should be in oneness. All countries. No colors. No countries. All on. All on Śākhne Hari Om.

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