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One day we will be together

An evening satsang on spiritual unity and the essence of all paths.

"It is very important that everyone has their yoga center's name... but yoga is only one yoga; we simply have different names."

"All children are born into what we call a kindergarten. In the kindergarten, we see all children as very beautiful and very good."

The lecturer addresses the global Yoga in Daily Life community, using analogies of families, children, and the water cycle to illustrate the fundamental oneness underlying all yoga schools, religions, and human beings. He emphasizes respect for all traditions and lineages while cautioning against the discord created by attachment to names and identities. The talk concludes with a prayer for harmony and a reminder to seek inner unity.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Good evening, all my dear sisters and brothers. It is a beautiful day, though it feels as if only yesterday we were together. Time passes. Our Yoga in Daily Life is now all around the world, with many, many people. They all come through our Yoga in Daily Life. I have said during these Corona times that all the different yoga centers, schools, and āśramas are practicing; more or less, we are all one. Everyone who has their yoga center or practices with someone is doing their best. They are doing good work. It is very important that everyone has their yoga center's name. I have spoken many times over the years about how to understand that we are one. It is like this: for example, a mother gives birth to a child, a baby, and we are all happy—everyone, the mother and father, grandparents—all are very happy. Then, on another street in the following days, or around the same time, another child is born. We are all very happy about that too. After one month, another child is born. So many children. Every child has a name, their house number, their parents' names, and so on. All children are born into what we call a kindergarten. In the kindergarten, we see all children as very beautiful and very good. All parents are very happy, and everyone is happy that we have very nice parents and children. That makes a beautiful āśrama, or street, or village. Similarly, my friends, all the yoga practitioners—for example, in the Czech Republic there are many, and they are doing very well. We have Yoga in Daily Life, also very good. But yoga is only one yoga; we simply have different names. And it is very good that we have the name. Our Yoga in Daily Life is Mahāprabhujī’s, Holī Gurujī’s, Devpurījī’s, Alakpurījī’s. Or there is Yogananda Purījī’s, where many people are. Or others like Vivekānanda or Śivānanda. They all have their name, but it all comes to one point: yoga. If we can all come together, then we understand, and we become one happy family of friends. One should not think, "My āśrama is very good, my guru is very good, my exercise is very good." That is not good. We shall respect all others. Then it means that in this Kali Yuga, we will all be together. That creates a state where a very nice God, or whatever you look to, sees us. They are here, and then they are gone. They named us Smith, Sumia. In that same way, we can come to our family. In one family, there is only one family: father, mother, child. But again, there are names: the father’s name, mother’s name, child’s name, sister’s name. All families are one, but they have names. That is beautiful. If we can think like this, there will be harmony in this world. Of course, we don’t have so many names. Let's say one million people have the same name, and another million have a different name. That is how it is for many. But the name—and how to bury that name? Then we say, this is my father and this is my mother. And my grandparents—please, we should always respect them and know that our grandparents are the roots. Parents love you very much. And when you are an elder father and you have a child from your sons—the grandfather’s child’s child—we always say that grandparents love the child more than the parents. The elderly parents say, "My children’s children, they are my money. Everything is mine for them." So there is a word: the grandparents love the grandchildren more than the parents love them. That is the connection. There is a connection with the parents. From the very beginning, there were different kinds of humans, but human is only one. Some are in Africa, some are here, some in China, and so on. But this is only our different colors and a little difference in body. Our soul, our ātmā, our feelings—we are one human. So when we see that all humans—that God has given us this now—now is our place, or our life is only now. Next time we will be in Brahmaloka. But when we do not understand and we are fighting, then negative vibrations come, and that will cause us to go to different parts again and into other lives. One should understand the father. If we hold our father and grandfathers... For example, we have an apple tree, a very big and very old apple tree. But every year, the same apple, same design, the taste, everything. Because the seeds are always the same. If we know and understand this, we will also be happy, healthy, and have a very good family all the time. Also animals, fish, and all other creatures are the same. It is said that from the ocean, the water comes up and goes higher and higher and becomes clouds. Water is also very high. Though it is heavy, it is brought up from the ocean to the sky. And in that sky, it is said that though its roots are from the ocean, it comes into the clouds. The clouds may separate, but it is one. It means the water is the water. Maybe it is in the clouds, in the ocean, or somewhere on the wood, or in little oceans, or little rivers, and so on. But one drop, a very fine drop, again comes together, then becomes more drops and comes to a little creek, flows into a river, and comes again to the ocean. For example, we are sitting near the ocean in a boat, and drops are falling from the clouds into our palm. Below is the ocean. So here we sit, here is the ocean, there is a cloud, and then one drop is in my palm. We see: here is the ocean, there are the clouds, and one is a drop in my hand. When this drop falls into the ocean, that cloud and that drop are not anymore; it is only ocean. Similarly, become that water. We have five elements, and all five elements are very pure and clean. Water comes to the water. Similarly, your father is the drop. It can be very fine. But that drop comes to the mother. That mother is holding it, like a cloud. That holding and becoming happens from the nābhi, the navel. There it is again, coming to be born in the mother’s womb. Let us say all beings—even grass and trees, or any animals, all mosquitoes, everything—they have that root. Similarly, that pure, clean drop of the father’s in the mother’s, and that from which comes the navel from the mother’s side, that also. That is the root coming from our navel. And you are from that navel. That is very important to know. Then, as we said, the father—the same eyes, same hair, same skin, height, everything. We can keep this one apple somewhere in a cool place, and next year again comes from the same tree the one apple. Both have the same color, same size, same taste, everything. And so it is. Everything is in their father. Therefore, in all times, it was that when they came more, yes, this family, this family, this family. If we keep this, it will be harmonious and very good. But now we are doing that from one cherry and other colors of other cherries, and we put in other cherries, then we don’t know which cherries they were. In your countries, it may be that what your people are, how you are, is how they are. Czech is different, and Hungarian is different, and my father also exactly that. So that means I want to tell you that, oh mother and oh father, if you want to have a child, then you should love your children. What to love? Love is love, but give them the knowledge and understanding and become one. Then that will be a generation; that’s called a generation. But in this Kali Yuga, they don’t want to have this generation in that way. And so they will be troubled. The mother is a different kind, and the father of the child is another. And again, these fathers are coming, but they don’t know what they should do or how it will be. So there are many things like this. We humans have done everything to destroy all qualities—even the fruits, even the food, seeds, everything. Through this, now humans are suffering. Animals are also suffering when some humans are creating other hordes for other donkeys, or something like this. That is how problems come to the whole world. So take care, please, you all. There are two things. You love your children, give food and everything. But give them that knowledge: that yes, you are my son, you are my grandfathers, you are my great-grandfathers, and they will be, and you, it is your house, it is everything, all yours will be yours. Then that family will be good. But we are now giving the children so many tools, and so many tools is not good. This is our generation: my father, my great-grandfather, and so on. Lately, children are getting a lot of toys. Please, don’t do that, in all countries. I saw in India that many, many said, "Children, no toys." You are toys, and your grandfather is your toy. You must know that grandfather is the best toy. They will give more to the children and to the grandfather than to the father. So, okay, something is okay, but so many toys spoil the child. The child begins to say, "No, I don’t want this. Oh, my God." So we should give the children our friends, give our grandfathers, give our uncles, give our friends, everything. That was always a village, you know. These villages were so nice. And so it is. We are coming out, trying, when we go to the church, or we go to the temple, or other temples, or any holy place. They are connecting that this is my religion. And how they are, they always see that this is my God, or my guru, or my spiritual path, or my temple, or my religion. And we are connecting there. When we are in that religion, then we are so happy and very good. But now, what happens? Again, we are mixing. So then they don’t know if this religion is good or that religion is good, or many say, "I don’t want any religion." But we should know there is only one religion, but the name is different. Wherever one is living, they also feel God, and God is one. When one will die, let’s say, it doesn’t matter if it’s a human or any animal or anything. There’s only one door to go out. Maybe with a cobra or a scorpion, musketeers, or what you call humans. There is no difference. The difference is our body and our thoughts. Therefore, after one dies, maybe a very tiny mosquito or elephant—this is only one drop, like I told you, from the very fine clouds, a very tiny thing. It’s a little drop in the whole river. It will all melt into the ocean. So if you are very big, or the other is big, if you are a black man, or you are a white man, etc., it’s only here. And we know, so all we are saying, my God, your God, but really, did we see God after the days? And maybe you have a son? But then you come and you say, "God, please, uncle, can you come to my house a little bit?" There is nothing. There is nothing. So it is said, where there is a soul, ātmā, our life, where it goes, all is one. But the form was different. And because of some karmas, it had to go through the karmas. Enjoy, human. Be happy, very relaxed, all positive. In Corona, no positive. Only who should be there? Negative, so Corona is a negative. This is good and positive. Corona is not good, but this is different. Things, but in reality, it is that. So we shall think again to tell God, "Please, my soul, my soul." And from the soul is the soul inside. One day, even if we lost it, it will come together, definitely. But the problem is that we have so many tools, and we do so much, that we spoil the child. So that is life we know, but in the one door, all water—may be water from the rivers, or water from our house, or cleaning things, waters—everything will go into the vana. So we shall think, meditate. Don’t look out; step inside to my soul, my light. Sooner or later, it will turn again there. But in this Kali Yuga, we are making different things very much, and that is why there is fighting. Otherwise, there’s a good life and everything. So I would tell you that you know your parents, then you and your traditions, you are what, who is who. Don’t think that we are good and they are not good. No. The ātmā, the soul, until it will come to that point, then we will all enter into oneness. But which one is it? That is only the other side. So that’s what I wanted to tell: that every yoga is a yoga. Every yoga center is a good yoga center. Good yoga students, and many students are learning. Everyone has a guru. Everyone has an āśrama. Everyone has a religion. Everyone has temples. But have that yoga only, or their pūjās, what they are doing. That is very, very important. So when you come home, you should think, "My God, this my power, my soul, my this is with, please let me merge into that oneness." And that is generally all that will become that one. But who? How did that? Who will suffer? Don’t think that we are humans and we can do all. Even the animals do what they should do. Yes, but we are suffering. So, in that way, we will have our āśrama here, and we will have lectures, learning, meditating, etc. The meditations I will do this time are different. But there are also many things—it was that also Nāḍī, also Brahmaṛṣi, and many other things. I am so happy to see you, and I pray always for all of you. I am no one, not only for one. I am only one door. And all have come to my door. That is why, in how many countries, I love all. Because they are my disciples, my bhaktas. Because as one comes as a guru or spiritual inner guide, then it’s all-inclusive. But who will be and who will not be? It is not easy that all become like that. I wish, I pray that all our bhaktas should come, like all melted into the gold, and it will be brought there. But if you said only to me, something is like this: that Umbapurī is sitting there, and she is working more work for me than she is doing. Or Mañcādevī is doing, but that is not me. And not because she or he, and who I am, he. I want to merge into one. When you have five children, will you say only this is good and the others are stupid? No. Even ten children, the father and mother are happy. And father and mother, they are working and giving so much for their children. And it is so, that’s why we have to learn this. This water from the ocean, you don’t know where it will go, how far in the clouds. Sometimes, even that high airplane, above there are clouds there. And where are you? Yes, the speed of clouds is also very high. It is from here, from Strelka, here from our āśram. It goes up, and Africa comes down. And so, where we go, where we will go—don’t think that I will come here in Strelka again. Maybe our bones remain here, but not that one. So melt into one. Otherwise, we are hooked from the trees, and where the tree is a bush, and the bush has this, what is it called, the thorn. And you are hanging on the thorn because you are only hanging on to one. Many things are there. We have more time. God bless you.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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