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We are eternal

An evening satsang on spiritual oneness and the guru-disciple relationship.

"For only a certain time do we think in terms of 'mine,' 'yours,' and 'theirs.' And then, my dears, that will go away."

"It is like rain falling. There are many drops... But they come together, and all drops unite to become the water that is flowing."

The lecturer addresses a gathering, expounding on the fundamental unity of all beings using the metaphor of raindrops merging into the ocean. He shares a parable of a yogi and a skeptical professor to illustrate divine wisdom, and recounts personal stories and a disciple's dream about their guru, Swami Madhavanandji Bhagavan, emphasizing the eternal bond beyond physical presence. The talk blends teachings on non-duality with devotional remembrance on the anniversary of the guru's samadhi.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Devadhī, Deva, Devī, Svara, Mahādevakī, Alagpurījī, Mahādevakī, Satguru, Svāmī, Madhvanājī, Bhagavānakī, Satya, Sanātana, Dharma, Kī, Jai. Good evening to all sisters, brothers, yogīs, practitioners of yoga, and all other people around the world. I wish to send you all, from my side, peace, harmony, love, and understanding. We are all the humans of God. For only a certain time do we think in terms of "mine," "yours," and "theirs." And then, my dears, that will go away. We should live in good health, with good awareness, with good help to others, and we should all be one. This is our holy Gurujī: one in all and all in one. It is like rain falling. There are many drops, falling slowly or more strongly. They are all separate, one-by-one drops. But they come together, and all drops unite to become the water that is flowing. Not one drop alone; all must come together again. Afterwards, they come together even more, forming a little creek. They find a path, and this little waterfall comes to the river. We become stronger and stronger, but as a oneness. And then again, we come into the ocean. We are the ocean, and we are aware as the rainwater, the drops, the flow of the water, and we return there again. This means there is no difference. We are always one—so, one in all and all in one. If we can understand this, then the whole human world would be very beautiful. We do not know who is good and who is not good. A my nevíme, kdo je dobrý a kdo je špatný. People think differently. But if we say, "As I am like this, you are like that, but we are one," then it is good. You know that every day our yoga people are practicing more, and many bring questions. I feel very happy that I can share something, and from them, I can also learn something. I am very happy that I can answer and also discover, for knowledge is endless. The ocean is the ocean; water is the ocean. And the ocean is drops. And then, from a far distance in space, all the oceans together appear as one drop. So we are rising higher and higher toward the cosmic Self. But it does not matter if it is a whole ocean or only one drop—we are the One. In that way, we should learn every day: What am I doing? How long will I be here? Day by day, our time is passing. We have energy, we have all five elements, and many things in the human brain, but finally it will all go away. Yet we will be ever and ever in the cosmic light. Therefore, in our yoga practice, there are many different kinds of movements. A proto v naší jógové praxi je mnoho různých pohybů. A proto se všichni snažíme, abychom udržovali své tělo v míru, uvnitř i navenek. We are separated into five elements. But who is in the body? We know it is God. Our soul inside is like a drop in the ocean, and so we will be eternal. We are eternal. We are not only temporary; temporary is only the body. Why are we fighting for this body? Why are we in this body with our ego? There are many feelings and different things in our body: anger, hate, jealousy. From where do they awaken in our body? It is like a balloon. In the balloon there is air. How long will this remain? The balloon will expand and explode, but you will not see the air. The balloon expands and splits. There is only one sound—the sound of the balloon—but not the air. We did not see the air because air is air. What is that air? Space. That space is everywhere, and we have to understand and become that, like the whole universe: all space and space and space. Other animals, we know they are doing something, definitely. But we humans have more knowledge, sense, and speech. We know what we are doing, and whatever God is doing, it is good. Do not think that something is not good. Our holy Gurujī once told a story. He was giving a lecture in Gujarat, where there were many people and many sādhus. Every day, one or two sādhus give a lecture. One day, Gurujī was there, and they said, "Holy Gurujī, please give a lecture today." They knew Gurujī would always give a very good lecture. The story was about a yogī. All are yogīs—if you are meditating, praying, working, everything is that of a yogī. There was one man, about 25 or 30 years old. Every day he came to the park to meditate. He had a Gurujī who gave him techniques on how to practice mantra, how to sit, and how to express his inner feelings, taking from inside to out for others' knowledge. Of course, we know we are breathing in and out. There was a professor at the university who taught students. He always went for a walk in the park. He was very elegant, thinking, "I am a professor at the university," or perhaps he was the officer of the whole university. He walked round and round every day, and at the same time, that yogī was sitting with closed eyes, meditating. The professor thought very much, "I am the best in studies and as a professor," and so on. He saw this person holding a mālā, sitting under a tree for one or two hours. He thought, "What is he doing? He is not a man of purpose. This person is not studying. He doesn't know what he should do; he's sitting and doing nothing. He wastes his time." The professor thought, "I should go to this young man and ask what his problem is." The professor had a very nice head, like the head of British people, a very nice stick in hand, a tie—a kravat—and a nice watch. He came near the man sitting under the tree, who was meditating with a mālā. The professor said, "But Yogi..." The yogī did not want to open his eyes. "Why not?" the man thought. The professor said again, "Yogi..." The yogī thought, 'Maybe he has a problem in the throat, not me.' Then, the third time, the professor said, "Hey, gentleman." The yogī opened his eyes and said, "Yes, sir." The professor asked, "What are you doing here?" The yogī said, "I am meditating." "For what?" "For God." "Did you see God?" "I will see." "Did you ever see?" "Many." "You don't know, it's stupid. There is no God. There is no spirituality. It is not like this." This is a problem. That is why in the world there is no harmony, only fighting, etc. They think, 'I have studies, I know science, and there is no God. We know everything.' So the professor asked, "Did you not learn something?" The yogī said, "Well, I have learned also. But why are you asking me about this?" The professor said, "My child, I can tell you. Come to my university, and I will give you knowledge. You can study, then you become human." The yogī said, "I am learning, and I am human." "But why are you sitting under the tree?" "God has done everything." The principal said, "God is not good; he is stupid." So now, learned, great learned people, some think there is no God; they are stupid. "What? God is not? Have no knowledge of God?" The yogī said, "Yes." "Then tell me, what is not good and what is good?" "It is very, very simple to tell this. You are sitting under a very beautiful big tree with cherries. Beside it in the garden, there are many big, big melons lying on the earth. They are on plants, just like a plant." The professor said, "Yes, and more. What do you say? Oh, and?" "This plant is so very little, very gentle. And God gives so big, big melons to that. God should know: for big, big trees should get big melons, and for little plants, give them some little something." The professor said, "That’s all? What do you mean, boy?" The yogī said, "Please, wait." And he said to the boy, "Please give him the knowledge to the principal or college, the professor." He said, "Don’t talk about me. Tomorrow, come to my university, and I will put you in the class." The yogī said, "Wait, please." Then he looked a little bit up and said, "God, please give me knowledge of this principle, Professor." And what happened? A little cherry fell down from the big tree onto the head of the man. He reacted like this and that. The boy said, "Yogi said, what happened?" "Oh, nothing, it was a cherry that fell down." The yogī said, "Sir, it’s not why, it’s only this little. If this cherry tree had big, big melons and one fell on your head, that melon would break your melon also." The professor said, "Yes, this is right. It’s good that melon is on the floor, ground. That was a good God. Have done," Yogi said. "Next, tomorrow when you come for working, going for a walk in the park, I will give you the second lesson myself." So, God has done everything good. Our knowledge is good knowledge, and we are doing very great things. Many doctors, many professors are doing great, good things—nothing bad. But sometimes people think that God is nothing, only we are. One day we will be under the earth or in the fire. Tell your knowledge that, "No, no, I will not die." Tell God, "God, I will not come." You need not ask anymore. All five elements will split it. So, my dear, God is God. And every country, every different part of the world, they all have their, what they call, God. Not only from these countries or those countries. Language is different. Feeling is different. But they are feeling there is God, and therefore we should all practice both knowledge and learning. But morning and evening, at least, we should have prayers. It is God who will give us more strength, peace, harmony, and the feeling of oneness with God. We should all try to become one. And "one" does not mean only what I tell you—that’s all. Not like that. Everyone has their own thoughts, knowledge, etc. But when we see each other, we know that we are human, and so are the animals and the vegetation, the waters, the earth, etc. Therefore, yogīs said you should do everything. What is everything? Help everyone, work something, protect the animals, help the humans, etc., and practice our yogic sādhanā. That is outer exercises and inner exercises. Finally, God is our inner one. He is our father, he is our mother, he is making work for us. Someone said, "God is like an engineer." So our thought, our thinking, everything that’s inside is like a technology. But, more or less, all this will not be finished. God has given so many nerve systems, the bones, the organs, many, many things in the body. But there is one button, and when that button is pressed, everything is gone. As long as petrol is there, the motor will run. When there is no more petrol, the best car is nothing. Similarly, that petrol of spirituality, that connection to God, will take us there without petrol. We have many lessons from our holy Gurujī, Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān. From very childhood, I was with Holy Gurujī. He is my guru. I have many, many stories, and I am writing them now. One day... there are three or four good things, but I was more here in Europe because I was taking care of many people who want to become yogīs and practice. Sometimes I came to Gurujī for some festivals: Dīvālī, Mahāprabhujī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s Samādhi, etc. Gurujī said, "You should come sometimes for a longer time, and I will go with you to Gujarat and India everywhere. My bhaktas, it will be good everywhere—Kolkata, Mumbai, everywhere." I was not so intelligent for him. I always said, "Gurujī after, Gurujī after." He was Gurujī here in Europe two or three times. Once, the last time he was here, he came for Guru Pūrṇimā. It was here in Strylky. Gurujī stayed here, I think one month or something like this, and people were coming from all over Europe. Then Gurujī went, and he said to me that I should come sometimes for Diwali or this festival or that. I said, "Yes, Gurujī, yes, yes." One day, here I was in Střílka. There was a very nice tree, a big nice tree where Gurujī was sitting sometimes, and I was sitting. It was lunchtime, so I told all practitioners, "You go and have your lunch, please, and I will sit under this tree. You all go." I was sitting under this tree and looking at my house, where I am sitting now, and there is also Holy Gurujī’s room there. I was sitting and looking at the room of the Gurujī. Once, Gurujī was coming outside and walking there. How nice it was. So I was thinking about Holy Gurujī, and I looked up, and in the sky, in the sky space, I saw Gurujī. It is like now from this glass, here she is sitting in front of me there, but she is sitting here, Umāpurī. And somebody is coming here through her. Like that, Gurujī gave me blessings and said, "Maheshī, on this Guru Pūrṇimā you should come, because I don’t know how many Guru Pūrṇimās I will have." I told her, and then it was gone. So then I told her in the ashram, "Gurujī is calling me, and I have to go. This time, Guru Pūrṇimā, you should do it here, people. Gurujī is asking." And so I went to India, and when I came, Gurujī was smiling. He said in high words, you know, "I thought that you would, this Guru Pūrṇimā, really you would come. It is very nice that you came. We will have many things to learn and to speak about." I said, "Gurujī, what should I learn, or will you help me and tell me?" He said, "I will talk about something." And slowly, slowly, it was the time for Gurujī’s time to go. There are many stories about Gurujī; I will tell sometimes more. The guru and disciples are more than mother and father. Mother and father, if they are good, it’s okay; for whole life they will be. But when children are a little bit grown, they think, "I’m strong, and I’m good, and I’m better than you, father. You don’t know." You know what now in Kali Yuga is. And every real guru takes the disciple into their heart. It doesn’t matter where you are, in distance. As far as that distance is, that close is the Gurudeva. Because when you are at a far distance, then he is taking care: what will and how will be my disciple? What will happen? And he should be there; he should go. When you are close, sometimes he is okay, very happy, and then gives you so much work. So if the disciple tells Gurujī, "Can I go sometimes and come back?" That’s a very different story from Gurujī. Tomorrow I will tell. So Gurujī said, "And as you are distant, you are close. And you are close, you are in distance, but the time will come. The body will come closer also." Gurujī was giving me so many words, lessons. Then Gurujī called me, and we talked about many things. And Gurujī, like a father and mother to their children, at the time that they are going to die or something, writes something for their... what we call the last will—testament. And so my Gurujī, Holy Gurujī, he wrote also for me. And I was angry. Why? He said, "What I’m telling you, don’t be... what I’m telling." But it’s good. Sometimes it will be good. So many things come in this. And many things, stories will be there for me. Sometimes, for many, many months, only Gurujī... for one year now, he did not come to me. And sometimes when Gurujī comes in my dream, I am very scared. In a very, very sad time, I was feeling very happy. But Gurujī is not like that. I was always afraid because I will not do something not good for Gurujī, something that I will not do for Gurujī’s work. So always, when I have a dream of the Gurujī and I am really awake, then I will wake up. Well, Gurujī is for me more than father, mother, all. He is God for me. Today, according to the Western months, is the holy Gurujī’s samādhi day. We were thinking, all, I am thinking, making after the Diwali, seven days after that for Gurujī’s samādhi, I’m worshiping. But in this other Western calendar, so today, and we are doing everything, problems of this Corona—otherwise I would be going to India now. Today I was walking here at noon, about 11 o’clock, and exactly the same time I was sitting under this tree. So I walked, and there was time for eating—11:30 or something like this, 11:20 and so on. I was walking, and I was remembering Gurujī. I was walking, coming, everything, but I followed myself that I’m working or walking behind Gurujī. And then I got a message. In this message, what is that message? The message is for me, maybe, but Gurujī has given it like that. So, I think you should talk. Better you should learn, read there. I give you the paper so that you will see how I was always there for Gurujī’s samādhi time. I gave him that I was there. And this time I’m not coming there, so what? See how Gurujī is. And I think he was here, Gurujī, today. But how? And this? I’m not making myself this thing. Someone taught me this and that. So what? I think he will read very nicely, slowly, and well, so that everybody can understand good English, and then the German, Czech. "I was walking somewhere with Holy Gurujī, and then suddenly we were at the airport. He was wearing his cotton cap, which can be tied under the chin. Holy Gurujī turned to me and said, 'I am going to Europe, to Svāmījī.' I said, 'But Gurujī, you have no documents, only a photocopy of your passport.' He did not reply, just looked away like this was no problem. After some time, some airport staff appeared and started preparing the launch. They were excitedly telling, 'Gurujī is here, Gurujī is here, prepare it well.' Then the flight was open and other people started coming, but Holy Gurujī was still nowhere to be seen. The launch started to fill, and I was afraid that Gurujī would miss the flight. I went to search for him. Finally, he appeared again from somewhere. I told him that we have to go, as the flight is open, and then I woke up. This was a dream in the morning of the 31st of October by Svāmī Gyāneśwar. In Jaipur ashram. In Jaipur ashram. Thank you." And now Czech: "It is a dream from this morning of Svāmī Gyāneśwar in Jaipur ashram. I went somewhere with Holy Gurujī, and suddenly we met at the airport. He had his cotton cap, which he had attached to his beard. Holy Gurujī turned to me and said, 'I’m going to Europe for Svāmījī.' And I said, 'But Gurujī, you don’t have any documents. We only have a photocopy of your belt.' He didn’t answer; he just looked to the side as if it wasn’t a problem. After some time, the flight attendants appeared and started to prepare the cabin. They were very excited and said, 'There is Gurujī here, prepare it well.' Then the gates for the plane opened, and other people started to walk. But Holy Gurujī was nowhere to be seen. The cabin started to fill up, and I was afraid that Gurujī would miss the flight." So, what can I tell you more than this? So you will feel, I feel, and I cannot tell further. Only that Gurujī shows mercy to us. Where I am and where we are, all there Gurujī is there. Understand? But it is like this: you have to get his heart. Don’t ask anything for. When you try to ask something, the guru will not say and not give you. You see, it is like automatically the mother gives the milk to the child. You can cry and cry. It will not go. So don’t ask anything. And when you ask, it will go a distance. That’s it. Always Gurujī says it. So where are there other bhajans, nice bhajans? Gurujī also offers good bhajans. We will see again. So, Siddhip Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Satguru Svāmī Madhvanājī Bhagavān, Devādhi Deva, Deveśvara Mahādeva, Siddhip Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Jalak Purījī Mahādeva. And you know that Līlā Amṛt of Holy Gurujī have written verbally, and you can read always, and how much it is written about Alak Purījī at that time. And Mahāprabhujī said, and Mahāprabhujī read a little booklet about Alak Purījī. You should, when you are... tomorrow we will put it here, and you will learn this whole thing. It is about one hour. So tomorrow after prayer, we will play. That’s very good because it will come on that day, the whole world. Thank you.

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