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The night of silence calls us to remember true humanity. The night of silence has fallen across the country. In four nights, four hours, everything closes. Brief morning hours allow only essentials. People feel both sadness and joy, being home with family. Meditation, pūjā, and bhajans bring back childhood memories. The atmosphere now lacks past goodness. Isolation improves oxygen. Some receive monthly income, others labor hard. Spirituality lies in the heart as purity, love, friendship. Pray from a distance with mantras. Compassion extends to all animals. Birds sit on tigers, cleaning their teeth. A sādhu abides fearlessly near water, tigers pass by. This night is for silence, mala, bhajan, family. Twenty minutes of complete silence. The government aims to restore good life.

"We humans should love all creatures; then it means that we are real humans."

"Stay at home. Be anywhere. But we give to each and everyone, and it means not only for the humans, but also for the animals."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Indra is always trying to dance here and there, but that is good. The atmosphere is very good, but the corona is not good. Silence has fallen around the whole country, and there is little noise, many things. But now, in four nights, four hours, India has said everything will be closed. So, in the morning, for ten minutes, you can bring milk, vegetables, water, and so on, but you cannot go out. We must try to make this corona silent and send it away. Many people are very sad, and of course, it is sad. But many people are also happy that they are at home with the children and families, and we can meditate, we can do pūjā. Pūjā is very important. Then we have bhajans, and we are awakening in our mind, in our brain, our beautiful life when we were little. How was it when we were very young? How nice it was. And mostly, the people now are like: 90 years, 80 years, 70 years, 60 years, 50 years, 40 years. How was it at home? How was the atmosphere? How good were the people in the families, everything? And now, what has happened in the last few years, and how people have become restless. Everyone wants to get something, get something, and so on. And a lot of the environment was not so good. So in some way, this isolation is very good. The oxygen will be better. But of course, many people are not like other people, like some government people, and so they are getting money monthly, but some people work very hard the whole day and come home the next day. Mahāprabhujī karatā hai kevalam. In our heart, in our feelings, in our soul, and so on, within them are purity, clarity, bondage, love, and each other, what we call friends. We can speak of the love, all together, all the friends, very good friends. They will go further, and others will go, but maybe it will be different. We all, those who have such spirituality in the heart, in the soul, in the feelings, are all praying for others. Praying and giving does not mean that we go to their house and say we give you something. We give mantras. No, no, no. Stay at home. Be anywhere. But we give to each and everyone, and it means not only for the humans, but also for the animals. You know, in the forest, in many countries where there are tigers and also the king of the forest, the lion. And we are giving the lion blessing, happiness, goodness, but from a distance. It must not be that we go, “Lion, grandfather, he was, yeah, my God, wow.” What he said was, “I have brought you all, as my little boys, go home, all go back, go.” So we humans, we humans should love all creatures; then it means that we are real humans. But one thing is different. All animals, any birds, any animals, they cannot fight about anything. For example, when a bird comes and sits on the lion’s head. Tigers are lying down, and birds are coming and cleaning their teeth. Will they come to your little bird? Any animals will come, except some mosquitoes? And mosquitoes, they are also not—they are very silent. They take the blood and then leave it. Oh human, why does this quality exist in humans? Because they do not respect or kill the animals at all. And many, not many—many people, they love animals, they give them food and everything, but still they cannot come close. So it is said, when one is a yogī, such yogīs are not like us who remain still. We have in India, in Gujarat, long, long lines of forests and hills. And there are some Swāmīs, they have a little hut, a little water, a pond somewhere. He goes into the village to bring his food or something. He comes and sits there outside, and there is a water pond, and they are drinking water. They are coming and passing him with the sādhu. The sādhu is sitting there. He goes, takes his water, and he goes to the toilet outside, sometimes in the forest. Tigers, or the lions, they have just passed. Because they know this sādhu is our friend. Sometimes he brings no water; sometimes he brings water. So that sādhu sits, and he says, “I am not—how to say—not angry with them or afraid.” It is in Gujarat and also in many Himalayan areas, but these sādhus, others cannot be like this. Like this, who will come? I go now to the Himalayas. I will be there after the Kumbha Melā, eat very good things, and now I go to the forest. They will go there. Prem Prem Kā Pyā Lā Prah Kī Kabā Merā Bar Se Prem Kā Pyā Lā Harī Kabā Merā. Very nice, beautiful, continuous, the best of the best bhajan today. Will you sing a bhajan? Satya Sanātana Dharma kī jaya. Oṁ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. So tonight is the night of the silence. Yes, the night of the silence. And the day of mala. Read the books, sing bhajan, families together, don’t go out. So now, we have 20 minutes to be silent. In all your rooms, don’t go to that one. Don’t go in the night to that one. Don’t say, “How are you?” Not this. All silent, myself. One in all and all in one within myself. The government said we have to bring back good life. Dīp Sar Bhagavān Kī Jai. Hari Om.

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