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Every creature have its karma

Karma connects all life, seen and unseen. It is not only for humans but for every creature, tree, and stone. Our actions and experiences are intertwined through karmic bonds we may not understand. A creature dies suddenly on the road; we feel a connection. A tree lives for thousands of years, rooted through seasons, yet its leaves scatter on the wind, and its life can end from unseen forces within, like insects drawn by piled bark. Even a stone has life, becoming dust, then part of a body again. Time is nothing, yet it brings all things. Therefore, we must act with goodness. Do not give negativity; bring good again. Help others, as one man helped a beaten stranger. We should not fight or speak ill, for we are human. All life—trees, animals, grass—is our mother and father, giving us sustenance. We must protect it, not needlessly destroy. Our current way, cutting vast forests for profit, shows humans are not good. Yet, we can choose differently. Do good for all.

"Karma is in everything."

"Time is nothing, time is nothing. Wait, wait, but it means that time comes."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

It is not a good morning, nor a good evening, but it is a good day. How was your program this morning? In the big hall—how many were sleeping? I did not come to look through the windows today. It was good, yes? Thank you, very, very nice. And what of our others, our karma yogīs? Karma. Karma means many, many things. Karma is not only for humans; it is for all creatures, any animal. When they have karma, we are driving a car and we curse the animal. He has his karmas, and we have our karmas. Now we want to know who is who. So perhaps some of our karma has to happen, and that does not matter. How? What is not good? We humans, we will not say, "Okay, they died, that is their diet." Died? We do not speak like that. Many times it happens. I was driving a car, you know, for many years. If there was one little animal, something, or if some other creature came up from around—little, little animals, yes? But we do not feel good. That creature is hitting the guard, hitting our car. On days like this, its prāṇa is gone. There are no seconds. It was flying nicely, and then, no time. Again, its ātmā was going somewhere. But who is still living? Then we are thinking there is some karmic connection. So, we can say karma is in everything. How beautiful, again I would say, are our trees. And we can also say this tree has karma. And perhaps this tree thinks differently: "I cannot go anywhere. Day and night, any month, any... I do not go anywhere. I am completely rooted inside. The heat comes, hot water, hot, hot, wet. A very hot, very hot day. Or very cold, the snow. The leaves come, the leaves go." And this tree said, "These have very beautiful leaves." And then one leaf will follow away with the wind. One leaf was not, but one came in the hairy waters or something and went with the wind away, and this leaf goes with the wind very far away. We do not know, the other side of the hill or anywhere. And also the tree said, "It is mine." Heart, my lips, but it is gone away with the wind. Where will it go? Come, where will it fall? And when will it come again? Oh, my God. Very well. This is a beautiful one. This animal coming from China, tell her, "Go away." That is it. So, the leaves fall down. And these leaves are taken away by the wind. Where will it fall? And when will I come again? If you think, they all know, everything knows—that leaf and this tree. Otherwise, this is very nice for everyone. "I am here, and everyone can have joy with me." But sooner or later, one day, I think, "My life is gone." Maybe it dries, or it will break down. Yes, I told you a story once. Like these trees, very little long. They were about many, many years old. Those trees are very old. There are many trees that are 5,000 years old. In Australia, they have New Zealand and Australia and Dungong, and there is a beautiful tree. It looks like a banyan, and I think we were about 10 or 15 people. I think there were 10 or 15 of us there, even more, and we wanted to hug it like this. Yes, not a joke. And if you want, then go there. Go to Australia, and go there and you will see. And if it is not there, it is not, then I will give you the airplane money. And if it is like that, then we will see how many years this tree, it was 5,000 years. And there were holes inside. Many creatures, many snakes were inside. So, more like many, many big, big trees, very big trees. One comes, one nice yogī. He is living in the forest somewhere. So, again, stop. So, I will make a shot. So, that yogī, he was in the forest also. There are many countries, and they have many forests and many, many things. So, one yogī was passing by, and at that time he stopped and saw that one tree, which is the oldest, grand tree. And that yogī said, "O tree, your life is not long now." He said, "What? Hey, yogī." He said, "Yes. Do not tell like this." "How many years? Very hot, wind, cold, snow, etc. Many humans, many animals, but I am here. It is my place." He said, "If you say it for you, of course it is good, but your life is little." The yogī went. After one year, he came here, this side. And the whole tree fell down. It was dried. It was cut, and we have seen that tree. You also have seen that, not there, but here. You see that tree there? All the time we were walking there, we said, "Oh my God, what is so sad about this tree?" And this tree would have lived, and this tree would still live for a very, very long time. But some people did not know what it means. And they brought the bark of the trees, dried trees, and put it there, all this bark around it, everywhere. And on this rock, many, many animals came. Many bugs, and in three years, put her down. Because inside, all they were eating, eating, eating. We know how it is. All roots? Well, that yogī comes and he said, "Oh my God, these trees fall down." That old tree said, "Hey yogī, you were right. I am so glad that you can tell me, but how did you know that I will die? In which direction? Who is that?" He said, "It is your family." "Yes, yes. My old trees, they killed me." "Yes, but the enemy was somewhat different. And that enemy became a friend for me. And then you died. I cannot understand this. How else? They are all my children. How is it? Yes, one iron, what is that? X. A little iron, like ox only? X, yeah. So big I am." He said, "Yes, because that iron became my friend. From your trees, the wood, very nice wood, and X was inside. So, I took the power. I was holding my trees. And very quickly, here, there, here. It was in one week, everything, or before that. Oh Swamijī, oh Yogījī, you were right, but now you told me that my people, they support them, and with this axe, you fall down." So always, our people, our friends, we do not know who is thinking today, now. How will one think now? Will you come again for the seminar? Will you tell something about how it will happen? So the life of this all is not only human; every tree, grass, stone has a life too. Yes, the stone has life, and it is said, "How long will it be my life? And sometimes I will become the dust, and the dust will go in the water." And it will come again to the human body, something inside. So time is nothing, time is nothing. Wait, wait, but it means that time comes. There is one, this cable, and this cable. Slowly, slowly, slowly moving, moving slowly, slowly,... where is that? Gone down. So, what should we do? We should do that. We should come earlier with all our good things. Do good for all. There was one man, he was a little bit, he was drunken or something, or perhaps not good a little bit, and many people came together and they were beating him very much. He made something, but one man came, and they said, "All come and beat him." He said no, and this man fell down. So a new man came, he took him in his hands, he was cleaning his blood, and he took him and gave him water, gave him a little to eat. Something he brought new cloth, and people said, "What is that? Are you also stupid?" One he said, "All are good, but one can be also stupid, and I become stupid to make it good again to others, and to others tell them that how we can do." So there are many people, many, many people who say, "OK, all right, all right, it will be good," and we give them food, etc. And he had told him, then this man said, who was five, beating that other man, he said, "Now it is your choice." He said, "Did you ever do something wrong? Did you do something and not tell anyone? And you are telling others like that? Or have you taken money away? Many things, you were hiding, and one day it comes to you. So if something happens, then do not give negative. But bring good again." So not only you, the many animals, they are talking to each other. The birds, they are fighting. That is everyone. But, oh human, we should not fight. We should not tell negative things. At least we are humans. That is it. So what did this tree say? And we should all say to this tree, our mother tree, "Do you call mother or father? Father or mother?" The tree is equal. He is giving fruits, he is giving everything, and we wish all our trees, these are our trees of long life. We are your mother and your father. We live because of you, to everything, everywhere. Sometimes you have to cut something. Because you are also cutting your hair. Living hair. Our hair is living, but in these five elements, this hair, it does not feel if we cut it. It is growing, it will come. So our hair is living, but we can cut it; it does not have feeling. And our nails, which are coming out, we can cut them; it will not have pain. Of course, if it is inside with the blood, then it is a pain. So, nails and hairs. Try to understand what it is. Yeah, I once said that this nail is all died, not anymore. We say it. But this can be even nicer. So, you know, we men, we do not know. We cut it, but the great thing is, the ladies, and they get the nails. How nicely these are my nails, long and long. And you know when they are working on the machine, like this. Yes. Because these women, or the ladies, or this, this, or this, they want to have my nails also long, why not? And mostly, women also keep their hair nicely. There is a big story about hair. And that is why the women, and women have always good hair. Men do not take care of their hair sometimes, so that is why it is gone. Very rare, ladies, maybe some hair is a little bit black. Yeah, that is it. And the ladies have nice nails. Even color to color. And what is man doing? He is a boss in a company, and he is in the office, and nails, because some, they are not good workers inside, or his wife, or his wife did not cook today, or did not give coffee. And she does not want to say anything wrong, but the nails. Yes. And then the ladies. With the hair, beautiful. And anything happens or anything, the ladies, they are all the time looking like this. Yes or no? So that is how, together, life is the best. So that we can do, we can have nails, no problem. But we should not do anything wrong to others. And if one has done, we should not kill and beat someone. That is it. Anyhow, I am sorry I made your lunch time. Oh, my God, I... Because my tree is here, and I always go by like this. I said, "Oh, that is very good." So this was, I am not making a joke, I gave a lesson, and that kind of lesson that we could learn everything. You know, there are forests, very big forests, where there is water and everything. It is a very nice forest. What is that? Now they are cutting everything away, rainforest. So, I was there about ten days, I was there, and my disciples, so one of my disciples, she is also from there, from Brazil, and so she said, "So Swamijī, let us go, my uncle is there in the rainforest." It is a long, very big land, so I had lectures in five places. And I gave it up in so many parks, under some trees. And there was a United Nations lecture there, so we went to the rain forest. So I said, "Well, I have not seen it." I saw sometimes in some other parts of the world. But not like that. So we were driving, and my disciple, she is a doctor, Anna, the doctor and the driver, and she is in the pilot. So he is running very hard, and this is so. It is a where we got driving me and two, three, four people we were. And they went, then they saw us, but there is nothing. Nothing. About 100 to 100 distance, no forest. There was, all was chipped off, and they put other trees. This is like in Australia. What is that? Eucalyptus. And when a little fire, even the leaves of these trees, can burn, and every year, how much is burning in Australia? And they said, "Yes, because they must die, and new ones come." But I said, "Why have you this, like these trees?" "Because we can get money from that. Like we cut trees for the buildings and everything. Everything. And the rainforest, nothing. We can go there, but everything is not good. Still, they are cutting, and many people are trying to power attack." So we went there, and we came there, and there we saw, oh my God, what is that? That is a rainforest. And then, about monkeys: many monkeys, many tigers, many things with birds. And there were such beautiful birds, very colorful. And her nephew, or his father's, or my mother's brother, and what happens? He said, "Every day I hunt animal. One animal, I will never come home back till I have not killed some animal." But then one day... Something God has given him, and that day he said he threw his gun. "I will not kill any animals, no meat. And I will protect this forest," so I went there. So there are many, many things. So there are monkeys. Many monkeys, different kinds, but there are some, one big monkeys. These cause, how to say, give the, like this, chick, chicken. Yeah, when somebody comes, then we say, "How are you, my love?" Kiss, kiss. So the kissing of these monkeys, I said, how are they doing? Well, I will show you evening, before sunrise, in sunlight. So all these monkeys come, sit there, and all the others come and kiss him and sit there. And all are sitting together for a while. Then they go where they are sitting, sitting there. So, like we humans, we are sitting like this and hugging, and this is very nice. I had one little room. There was my room, and there was Mansa Devī's room, and it was cold, so I made a fire in the morning. A snake came, a stick or anything, but the snake came and just went. Thank you. There, I made a very nice one tree, and this tree is already very high. So that forest is alive, and we also had a forest here, very much. But we have cut everything, many things. Well, we have too many humans, and one person has two houses, and two houses, they have inside many rooms, and everything is locked, mostly go somewhere swimming. Holiday somewhere, but so many houses and this and that. Yes, I do not know if it is good or bad, and mostly Czechoslovakians here, if I tell them, please do not be angry. When the Communists came, and someone had a very nice big house, about five rooms, and nice, then they gave other people inside. "You have your room, you have water, eating, everything. Why are two rooms completely empty?" And so it was, you know? Yes or no? In Hungary also, in Yugoslavia also. But now we want to have a big ashram like this. But I tell you that some, many people were not happy because my house, and others have no house, they will be happy. And when the train was going, there was nearly no money, very little. And when you needed to go by train, almost nothing happened to you. Anyone can come. Okay, it was something, name very nice. So before, it was very easy to travel, and you could go for holidays in areas which were really very cheap and meant only for the recreation of all people who were working. And when your car is somewhere, nobody will take it away. I was going in my car, and I left it somewhere. I went for a walk, and it was about one kilometer. And we were in a seminar, we have like this ashram. So I sit there, I said, "Okay, tomorrow morning I will take the car." Morning, I will take the car. So no one opened, no one did anything. So there was good and not. And here now we have good, but also not good. How many lands are going? All many houses, houses. Yeah, there are many things. That is that now the humans are very, very not good. But I do not want to talk about this subject. Why tree? I am not talking about you. This life is long. Oh my, today my time is going so slow. Tell you, thank you very much. Hari Om.

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