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The Ocean and the Drop

A spiritual discourse using the metaphor of the ocean and a drop to explain the nature of the soul and God.

"There is not only one God, and only there is one God. For example, here all you are sitting, my dear, you are all God, all God."

"Holy Gurujī said, 'One in all and all in one.' The God yet is nobody will give us something, and if somebody gives us, maybe we will not accept, but you have to accept yourself."

The lecturer addresses a gathering, weaving between English and German. He discusses the unity of all life, comparing the individual soul to a drop of water destined to merge with the divine ocean. He touches on themes of non-violence, the limitations of modern science versus yogic science, the role of the guru, and the importance of inner practice through meditation and mala. The talk concludes with practical announcements about an upcoming full moon observance.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

For how many years have you not killed anything and eaten such things, and you are very happy, very good? We see how many yoga practitioners there are. In India, I also spoke at a concentration camp, and I said, "I can’t say anything about India." I am here in Austria and in Europe, and I know which people, how it is, and who is for me. But in India, unfortunately, they have come in like in Europe or other Western countries: free meat, alcohol, eggs. And then they come into temples and prayers and so on. That’s not possible. But I said, my Bhaktas, my disciples, my sisters, my brothers, my friends. Und ich weiß, dass meine Schüler wirklich immer zu Gott gebeten haben. Und wir haben an dem Leben nichts. Kill them. Eat them. Und so, ich habe gefragt, ihr habt gesehen, Swāmījī Telewesen, the science is great. There are two kinds of science. One science is the yogic ṛṣis, and now, second, is all these doctors, others, science people. They did good, thanks to God, and something is not good. But in the ṛṣis, they do only good, nothing negative. And they are only for their disciples, and they could try to come close. But not all yogis are also very... Mahāprabhujī could say Devpurījīs, we know that Devpurījīs could go through the wall, but others are also great. What I told you is that when I was in India, sitting in India, every day I have made a satsaṅg. Like this, and around the whole world, many people—our yoga people and non-yoga people—they have this, and they are always learning and speaking and sending me messages. And this is so, like this science. And no, I would not say that science is not... Good, I would say the gas is very good, very, very good. We can have good things, but they can also be bad. For example, many people are going to war, and they are sitting here at a distance, quickly killing them. That science is also... not good. But let us say we are coming to the, as humans we should, but it’s very difficult, very hard. If we tell somebody, they will kill us. Therefore, only we can do from our heart and on name of the. God is God. There is not only one God, and only there is one God. For example, here all you are sitting, my dear, you are all God, all God. Without your God, you will not live here. Each and every cell in our body is that which is our God. Like when I said ocean: the ocean is very big, and from the ocean come waves, and up come the clouds. Water is also very heavy, but now it’s very up in the skies. And one drop of water comes in our palm, and we are sitting near the ocean. We go in the ocean a little bit, and the drop which comes from the water from the rain, we say it’s a drop of the water. We said a drop of the water, but it’s not a drop of the water. When this drop falls into the ocean, we can’t get any more of this one drop. It became all as an ocean, and so we are the drop of that. All animals, all, but humans more, we know that. And we are the drop of that. But this drop can go in, somewhere in the treasure, in the land where there is only sand and heat, nothing there. Yes? And the drop is in our hand. Either we can drink, or we leave it to fly, come north in the ocean. But sooner or later, it will come to the ocean again. And so it will be that we are very near, we are close, my dear, to the ocean. And we are here, only a little distance away. So there is only one God, and God’s children, or whatever we call ourselves, we are all. We are all named different names, different everything, this and that. But whenever the body will go, you know, whatever body is gone, how many cells are in the body and how many days it will... though we said we died, but we did not die, because like... A big honey bean, they are all running far away, but there is still, there are some creatures inside. But we will come to one, and that we are becoming one to God, or whatever we think in the heaven to look up, there is no one to see. You have flown many times in airplanes, definitely, and myself, sometimes also in airplanes. I saw many times at night in the airplanes, it was completely night. I see if there is some God or somebody. Daytimes also, if... God is there, all that we see down also, not so we believe. We do this God, that God is so. This God, that God is in of ātmā, and our guru kṛpāhi kevalam, and therefore only one. You said God? Yes, yes, there is only one God. And what is that? Because we are all life, all soul, from any creature. Yes, we also do something, mistakes. And for that we pray and say, I’m so sorry, God. For example, you came here with a car, now in this season, and now when it’s a little, sorry. Hey, don’t do like this. And so, when she was in our car, we were driving, and we saw how many animals were hit. We did not do it purposely, but it happened, and for that, we pray. We should give something, some kindness, for the good things from these creatures. We shall do something for animals. Our prayer is for them. I’m sorry for mother. Life is the life, so this is a very tiny drop of the ocean’s coming, and we are the same thing, but we are, at least we think, and we think and... We know in this religion, that religion, that countries, in that countries and that temples, or this is this, or all there is, we are trying all. But jīva jīva bhakṣyate, jīva jīva bhakṣyate. Jīva means the living day, jīva jīva. And so, one animal eats other elements, everything. But out of these 8.4 billion, only one is human. And who they have this kind of eyes understands everything, and therefore we should think it is something definitely. And so is that I’m trying very hard all the times, many, many lectures in all this one year, always with the Swāmījī televisions this. The science that I want to come to them all there was. I was in Jārdhān Āśram on Burfinist from Australia. One Indian said, "Swāmijī, it was very nice today, and this and that." All the others were this or that. Some say, "I did not understand what he was talking about, Swāmijī. So far in the distance, and so God is one in that." That’s why Holy Gurujī said, "One in all and all in one." The God yet is nobody will give us something, and if somebody gives us, maybe we will not accept, but you have to accept yourself. You should know that you do this is only. Some light: sometimes we sleep and we close all our eyes, and close our eyes, and we sleep. But again, the sun will rise. So this is, our body is different. We were little within our mother’s body. Now we are out, and this and that. And then that will come, all that I have done. But I don’t know where I am and what I do and what I did not do. Mokṣa is only then at that time. God, or I am spiritual, God, or the best guru, it will be in the end. I am sitting here in the holy chair of the gurus, Mahāprabhujī, Jalakpurījī, and so on. You have put me here, but I know I am day and night. Mahāprabhujī, holy Gurujī, Devapurījī, please. Let me say that I will bring that step there where I will come. So this is all within ourself. And that’s why āsana prāṇāyāma is okay, is good. But the inner self is that. And therefore, in the heart, inside ourselves, and then in the meditation. And people think, "I will do meditation and no more mālā." That is wrong. Meditation and mālā. It means that I will not bring my thoughts outside. And therefore, it’s my mālā and my heart. If it is my heart, something I go out, then mālā is there, bringing me back again. So I know you are my great, great disciples. You have learned a lot, and a lot of what I give or Mahāprabhujī gave. But you have to now hold yourself. Now you have to hold yourself. That time, last life, it comes. Some days, or maybe some minutes, it will say, "Yes, you are that. You can go to the Brahmalokas." Other times, it will say, "Go this side." There’s... Only one door doesn’t matter for animals, birds, fish, and any animals and humans. Only life, the soul, the life have only one door. And in this door, there’s nobody there. It’s automatically, it is going by. Maybe we are so making many times, God. Came, and what will be in this? Yes, we are sometimes visions. It is our, we are making our own self the vision: that I saw the God, and I see the God, and I feel the God. It is our self, our energies, our powerfuls. But that is gurus. And gurus are not only one guru. There are so many gurus, you can’t imagine. And it is said, when one—there is one little village, I can tell also Vienna, also with big city, but they said little Venice—and there’s one woman, a lady, she gave birth to a very nice child, and all the village people said, Oh, this is a happy and nice child, and everybody is very nice, and all are happy. And mother is happy, father is happy, and all, how nice. And after a few days, in another village house, again one came, and also the same thing. They were all very happy, and this... And after, the other third one was born, the fourth one born. They were about 20, 30, and kindergarten came. And in this kindergarten, all we see that these beautiful children, like that’s like a god. After when one is born, he is still in God’s hand. But then slowly, slowly, he opens his eyes and sees saṃskāra, saṃsāra. Saṃsāra means this is a saṃsāra. "Sun" means sound only, saṃsāra. This saṃsāra, there is nothing else, only this. Very few will say, "Yes, what will I do?" The words are good. In our words is very, very... very powerful. It can be good or not good. I said I will talk in the Strelky when I talk. Learn, learn,... learn. But many said no. What is that? What we call the... I don’t like this, I like this. Yes, this means everything. What you did in your life, everything is gone. Humble, humble. You see, let’s say I don’t know very much, but I know something. Jesus, even they killed him, hanged him, but still it was there. And what we, you come... And said, "I am, and everybody," and I said, "Yes, I am, and this one and that one." I never said anywhere, "I am the highest," or that I am great or something. So, all of you are sitting here, I show you that you are a God, but in which path you are there. Do all that you like, but you should know that your path is like that, and we will never do anything for negatives or something. We are on that level, all of you. Āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, concentrations, this all and many outside of the yoga we are learning very much. But you are very, very much inside. You are already different, very other different. And I see that many of our people are also coming out and talking, sometimes saying this or saying that this is not good. Ego, ego is like, you know what? It is like a melon. I mow a melon, put it very nice and nice. And a little needle comes near, pssht, adió. That was the ego. That is it. It doesn’t matter, me or you or others. And that’s why, you know, I go and give them all so much love. Happiness, joy, everything. It’s not that I’m only one, one room somewhere. After, you will know that when I go, then you will sit. What will happen now? Which door should I go out? Please, that’s it. So this is the yoga practicing for us, within ourselves and the mālā. The mālā brings us back again, and we are always in this. Many, many, all different religions, they also have mālās in them. Mālā is in everyone. So when we meditate, then you say, "I meditate," mālā out, put it out. It means you are nothing, nothingness, but I don’t want to be nothingness. I will, and I will, there where I am, there and that I will make me one, and that would be one. Otherwise, mālā is, you see, Śiva and Pārvatī. And one comes, Śiva was somewhere walking, and this Pārvatī was sitting, and he came, the Nārada. And he came to the mother, not Sītā, Pārvatī, Bhagavān Śiva, said he went for walking somewhere here, and she said, okay. I just came, and she would have a darśan for Mother. But Mother, I don’t understand. She said, "What? Why does Śiva have so many big mālās with the heads of the people?" She said, "I don’t know." He said, "Pārvatī, you should know why it is that... be careful, but please don’t say to Śiva, okay?" And he went, and when Śiva came, then Pārvatī said, "What is this mālā?" Śiva said, "No, don’t worry, don’t..." He said, "No, I want to live." She... "No, it’s okay," she said. "No, I will not eat. I will do." "But why? Why many, many days?" But she said, "I will do nothing. Of course, I will make your seva. Everything, tell me, please." Then he said, "You know that how many mālās? That many died. They were like my śaktis, or..." Like this, this many, many, and they die and die. He said, "My God, Śiva, it means you will also put me in a mālā." He said, "Yes, it can be." Then I don’t know, please. He said, "Because he’s even dies, then please don’t let me die." "I will be mortal," He said. "Immortal is not so easy, but I will be so." Say then, you know, this many—I told this. You know, I told many times. Okay, and so, is that where we are? So you are all very far, you have a very good path, we are on a very good path. Our Mahāprabhujī, Devapurījī, Holī Gurujī, how just simple and very good, straight like that. And that’s why we are all here. But this, what we are making now, to come to our inner self and see that. When we go to our heart to see within, then we will say, yes, not me, but all my surroundings, the whole, and my oneness. Do, do, do everything. It doesn’t matter if you become a sannyāsī or not a sannyāsī; so many sannyāsīs are suffering. They are just running forward, sāryom, fighting, this, that, nothing. It is only a dress, but the dress is only skin, and that skin should be that this skin. We will think more. I am very happy, and I am very happy for all of you. I pray to Mahāprabhujī for all of you and for me. I never said that I am now a great master. I am not. I am with you. I am with you. With all this, I wish you all the best, and we are going now to Strelky, and tomorrow is the full moon, a beautiful full moon. And we will do tomorrow some pūjā or vrata pūjā mantras, or mantras or some little bhajans, but not too loud, because people don’t want to make disturbances. And tomorrow, some are fasting, some are not fasting. If you are fasting, then only water. If you drink the milk, and then you grow coffee, and then you want fruits, and then you put, then please, butter bread, yeah, a little butter bread. This is the more better. Either one day, make this water, water. Some people are nine days, holy mothers, they are making, but I don’t want you to do like this. But if you want to make, this is very, very important and a very good thing. But if you have some disease or something, or you cannot, it’s... Time without eating, you better have a headache or something, so please don’t do. Eat what you like, but good, like okay, not that. Tomorrow I am here, and then day after tomorrow I will be two months. I think, in Strelky, I want to come here on the weekend, but there are more there. I am bound everywhere. I am bound very much, but I’m free from all of you, but I am bound also the same. So this is my duty, I, Śiva. What I’m giving you, teaching you, this is called my Śeva of our Gurudev, Om Guru Dev, Satguru Dev Kī, Hari Om, Hari Om, Hari Om.

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