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The real Human

The unity of all life encompasses every soul, from the largest creature to the invisible microbe. Different cultures and landscapes exist, yet all life is interconnected. Yoga practices like āsana are not enough; one must elevate other lives by becoming lower in oneself. The earth is entirely living, full of unseen beings. The spiritual journey involves moving from the root chakra upward and downward in a cycle, not seeking only height. True human quality is found in humility and service, not in jealousy or anger. The majority of people are essentially good and generous. The body is a temple containing the divine and all life, so one must avoid harming even the smallest creatures.

"We should go to other souls, other jīvas, other bodies, other lives. We should become lower in ourselves and let all others come up."

"In your whole world, any country, any religion, you have so many good people."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Glory to the Eternal Dharma, the God of Gods, the Lord of Lords, Mahādeva. Glory to the worshipped Satguru Swāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān. Glory to the worshipped Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī. Om Śānti, Om Śānti, Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Good evening, dear brothers, sisters, all yogīs and daily life practitioners around the whole world, to all humans on the entire globe. May they all be happy, peaceful, healthy, and have a good life. We should also take care of all the different kinds of animals, the flies, and so on. We should think of all creatures. Then we will become one. It is true there are different cultures, distances, and kinds of earth—dry, wet, green, or barren. Also, all the many, many creatures in the ocean are included with us. Many creatures are always in the sky. All in all, it means Jīva, the soul. Do we understand this? It doesn’t matter if it is a big elephant or a tiny one invisible to our eyes. We don’t know; perhaps God is with that also. May He come in that way. My dears, yoga is one part we humans think about very much: yoga, yoga, yoga. Āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditation, concentrations, kriyās, etc. That is not enough. We should go to other souls, other jīvas, other bodies, other lives. We should become lower in ourselves and let all others come up, elevate them with the help we have. Every life wants to know; every life has life inside. That is given by God, the Supreme, or whatever we call it. This is very hard for many people. Very hard. But there are many great saints and great people—perhaps a husband, a wife, grandparents, families—who are so holy because they have feeling in their heart for other creatures. We should not always think only of going higher and higher and higher. What about those who are down? We want to take all up, more and more. When you think like this... from my many satsaṅgs, you and others understand. Many have said, "We want to have meditation, we have to have chakras, we have to come high up." But we must always go to the chakras, down and up. The Mūlādhāra Cakra, the mūl, is the root. There, in the Mūlādhāra Cakra, for example, there is a Gaṇeśa. Yes, it is the chakra of Gaṇeśa. Many people will say, "What? Gaṇeśa is in the lower part of our spine?" Yes, because that is the greatest one. Do not see only the upper sense, but look into the down. How many creatures are there? Long ago, I think in America, near science centers, they conducted research once a week. They had a beautiful film, about a one-hour program. In that research, scientists spoke about life. They said, "Tomorrow, anywhere you are on earth, take off your shoes where it is comfortable—not hot or cold. Stand there. They will sit with machines that scan the earth, and they can see far inside. They said, 'Where there is a foot on the earth,' it is indescribable how many tiny creatures are inside." The person seeing this for the first time, looking into the microcosm, thought, "What is happening? We are going into the earth." There is nothing but many, many animals. Someone tried to say, "No, it was clean," but he said, "No, step." So, the earth, mother earth, our mud, everything is full of life. Therefore, our earth is a living earth. Yes, yesterday I was talking about taking earth out, digging foundations. It’s okay. There are many tiny things, but whenever we take a handful, there is some life inside. We cannot see, but there is a life, and they know they are suffering. This warns me that God will take them up. But many, many are there. So it is said, from Brahmā—Brahmā itself, along with Śiva and Viṣṇu. Brahmā is the highest up there, but one day he will come down somewhere. It is a cycling. Therefore, not only in the Brahman but beyond that, all becomes the light, the sun, and it goes through the sun. Then we are completely clean one day, like a sky. Other times, they were looking only at the sky in a scan. There was nothing, but you see how many creatures are in space, and how they are eating each other. As far as they go, there is still all life. So these five elements—annamaya, prāṇamaya, manomaya, vijñānamaya, ānandamaya—these are all the kośas. They are also still... our airplane is very near above there. Still, life is in the space. That was known about 2,300 years ago. It was also said that we are many, and they are going through the clouds. The cloud is whole; it is like life. That is so. Now, this is that achievement. I do not know when we will achieve it, but God gave it to us. It is said now your time is there. In one bhajan you heard, it is said this is only the chance now. You got it from your mother, and this mother will not come again in you. Take it in this life so we can go to the three lokas: the lokas under the earth, on the earth, and in space. Everywhere we are, from there we can go to liberation. We practice āsana and prāṇāyāma; it is very good because we should keep our body in movement; otherwise, all this will die again. So this is that jīva. That jīva, with our inhalation, we are taking many jīvas inside, yes, and many are taking us also. That is why it is said that a yogī is for all three: below, above, and the sky above. So now, where are you going to begin your life? Āsana, prāṇāyāma, kriyā, cakra—everything is good. But now it is said, do not touch, do not touch anything. Better to touch a tree; that is a bit better. Animals, birds, humans—as we touch them, they also have more animals, seed, life; something becomes us. We did not understand this many times. I also was not thinking how this could be. But that which we cannot see is more powerful. That was last year and this year. That Corona, this disease, infection—the infections are not easy to see with our eyes. Just touch something, and we go, and others touch it, and it comes to us. It is like a life debt, and that is within us here. So, therefore, what you are touching, what you are taking in, how it will be—this is only you. We think to wash ourselves with soap or with earth and water, but in the water there are many lives, and they are on our skin. Where will you go? How will we come? So there is only one way: let us go through, but Ātmā, that is Guru Kṛpā. There is one who says that among thousands, millions, and trillions, there may be one Guru. Yes. In India, many sādhus say this; Holī Gurujī was saying it, Dev Gurujī was saying it. For example, at the Kumbh Melā, how many thousands and thousands of sādhus and others are in the Himalayas or at the Kumbh Melā? Thousands and thousands of witnesses, but only those who have those eyes can see; only counting, that is all. Otherwise, it is not. Once there was a disciple who had a Gurujī somewhere in a little village or forest. There were a few houses, and one young boy used to come every day to his Gurujī. Parents and many people came, but he was always there. After about 25 years, the disciple, now a little old, one day said, "Gurujī, I want to go to the Melā." Gurujī said, "What do you want to do in the melā?" "Gurujī, every year there is a melā, and many people are going—many sādhus and many other people." Gurujī said, "You will not understand." But the disciple insisted, "Gurujī, I want to go." Finally, Gurujī said, "OK, my disciple, my child. Go, but you should go where the humans are sitting." The disciple said, "Gurujī, there are all humans there." "You will see how many humans are there." So Gurujī gave him a feather of a peacock. He said, "Go to that melā." A melā is where many, many people gather for shopping, singing, and so on. The disciple came near the melā place and stood at some height. He looked through the peacock feather as through a mirror. In that melā, he saw tigers, buffaloes, cows, goats, snakes—many, many things. He took away all other humans and looked again. There were many like little mice; they were everything. Again, he looked up. No, there were people. Then he looked farther away, and far off, about eleven people were sitting and singing bhajans. What he saw there were eleven people, very humble and kind. Gurujī had said, "If you sit there, you should see where some human is there; you should sit there, not with animals." The disciple had thought, "Gurujī is saying the whole melā is full of humans." He was hungry, weak, tired, and thirsty. Everywhere he went, he saw people here and there, but where the eleven people sat singing bhajans, they said, "Yes, please come, sit." He was so happy. They said, "Please come, drink water, here is food," etc. "From where did you come?" He said, "From there to there, my Gurujī." "Oh, Gurudev." But he said, "Only seven people here, but I thought it was a Melā." That is the Melā. They were very happy he was with them. After the melā, they went away. This man, now about 40 years old, saw others dancing and so on. He said to these bhaktas, "Can I go with you to my Gurujī?" He went to Gurujī’s village, to his āśram. Gurujī said, "You came back so quickly; I thought you would be two, three days." He said, "Gurudev, in our village, all are humans, and in your ashram, there is one of the highest gods, feelings, Gurudev." So that is what we have to learn: from down to up and up to down, and side, and front, and back. Therefore, it is said: "Man vā dhīre dhīre chāl, gagan ghar nāre bāi. Man vā dhīre dhīre chāl, gagan ghar chad nāre bāi. Chad nāre bāi, gagan ghar chad nāre bāi." Gurujī said, "Why did you come so quickly? You said the whole Melā is full." He said, "There are people who are fighting, full of jealousy, doing this and that, saying this is not good, that one is you. They are the animals. Sometimes, so many animals also are not fighting." So let us see, in your whole world, any country, any religion, you have so many good people. Many people, when somebody is hungry, give water, give food, everything. In Europe and other countries, they used to say farmers do not lock their houses. They are in the forest, on their farm. For example, in Austria, the farmer is working; the house door is open, not locked. Some people were working long and were very tired and hungry, and they went into the house. Five or six families of farmers, about half a kilometer away, were harvesting. Two or three people went into the house. They always have, in the front, a little sitting room and then a nice kitchen. On the dining table, there is one basket, two, and there is butter, bread, something more, honey, etc. Handwritten on a paper near a little basket, it said: "Our dear friends, brothers, you are welcome. Eat, relax, drink water. If that is not enough, here is money in this basket, and you can go. Soap is very near; you can buy and eat more." People who come there eat. Sometimes they put a letter: "Thank you very much." Or someone puts money in there, and they write, "Please do not put the money inside." In many European countries, they tell me sometimes—now it is better not—if you lost something on the way, they will hang it on that place, and you will go and, if you see it, it is yours; take it. And now we lock it, and then alarm, then camera, etc. What is a Kali Yuga? This is the Kali Yuga, but in the Kali Yuga, still, the majority are good people. All old people, young people, young children, etc., they are all very, very nice. In India also, what I told you, and in other countries—China, other countries, Australia maybe—I did not tell you. But many of them are now stealing, so how will we go further? Therefore, we have to feel our heart and let it, let and give. Always have good, very good friends that are good ones. This is very important. So that we go... If one is, for example, sitting in a hall, a big and full hall, how many of you open their heart and see how good their friends are? Others will sit looking: who is sitting there, and why is he not here, and why is he sitting beside this? We are the human. Are we really human? Are we angry? Are we jealous? And many other things? Let us become God. And God is within us. I told you a few days ago that our body is our temple, and in the temple is God, and in that temple are so many gods and all animals. Do not kill them. It is a problem many times; we also, without seeing anything, can step on ants and this and that. We are doing it. For that, we said we should give something to the other animals—something for the seeds or food or grass or anything. Then you are higher than yogīs, not only doing āsanas and prāṇāyāmas and thinking "me and mine is good." That is the thing. So, it is very important, and that is very important. Paramahaṃsa Gurudev Jī, tīna loka ke deva, sūrnāra muni saba santa jana, nita uṭha karte sevā. Satguru samdhata nahi, sab jag mong nahar. Kya raja, kya badhsa, sabhi khada rahe dvaar. Ram Krishna se kaun vade, usne bhi guru ki. Satguru Purn Brahma Hai, Jove Sur Narvaat, Nugra Neech Jaane Nahi, Yuga Yuga Gehli Taat. Yeh tanvīs kī belnī, gurū yamratā kī khān, Śhīsh diye satgurū mile, to bhī sastā jān. Guru mūrti mukha chandramā, sevaka naina chakora. We will continue from that I have explained before, and now it has come: Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Kaṁsa, etc. That I will explain to you next time. Time is gone. All my dear sisters and brothers around the whole world, many people said, "Oh, it’s too late," and, "Swamiji, we are going to sleep," and some are just waking up. So, all my dears, I am with you, and you are with Bhagavān Śrī Alak Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, Satguru Svāmī Madhavānandī, and all great saints and great people. Hari Om Tat Sat, Om Tat Sat. Om Śānti Śānti...

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