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Try to open your heart

Happiness and yoga are about opening the heart and clearing small misunderstandings that cause lifelong unhappiness.

Birds are happy every day in their nests, while humans find only brief happiness during festivities. Silence and relaxation open the heart. Yoga aims to keep body and being healthy, happy, relaxed. Unhappiness arises from small, unspoken grievances. A couple were childhood friends and married. The wife wanted the husband to offer her the soft heart of the bread. He always ate it himself and never offered. She remained silent for fifty years. On their golden anniversary, he arranged a special breakfast and asked why she was never happy. She explained about the bread, and he immediately gave her the heart. She became overjoyed, and they declared a true marriage, dancing in embrace. A small thing had stolen their life. The lesson is to communicate small wants. Clear the why to find joy. Instead of refusal, say yes when possible. Relax and be happy as friends and neighbors.

"So you see, just for a little thing, we have lost our whole life."

"If we can clear this why, then there will be joy, happiness, and everything."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Be silent, and they will tell you: this bird, that bird, after all, before sunset—how many birds are dancing, singing, and they are coming to their peace in their nest. So we are also in our nest, our āśram. And so, that always coming, so between, haló, ha, me pravacen kar rām, dokan takbal, adeo. So, we are also in the nest of our āśram. Because it is so relaxed, peaceful, with no problems, and comfortable. Also, we are meeting all together from different countries, different villages, Siddha Purījī, Siddha Purījī… Very nice. So now today, as I am telling you, try to open your heart and forget all negative things. You know, sometimes at Christmas, on Christmas day, many people told me, “Yes, okay, that husband and wife, they are always quarreling and this and that, but on Christmas day, they said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and we are very happy and we are good together.” We are sitting under the beautiful tree, the Christmas tree, and there are lights, many lights, more decorations, and something under the trees. Husband brings for wife, and wife brings for husband. Parents bring for children, and children are happy for parents. And sometimes it will sweep, hanging on the—what is that, eating, you know, sweet. And then, of course, it comes about Jesus, because that is the day of Jesus. And we will say we are sorry, and we will all be happy again. My family, my dears, my husband, my wife, etc., my grandmothers, great-grandparents, yes, and grandparents make all children and all of us very happy. That is only for one day or a few hours. Tomorrow, we don’t know how it will be. But the birds, our birds, all different kinds of birds—they are every day very happy, very good. In the same way, I think, I think you may not be. I am so happy, I am so happy with you, because every day I look at such beautiful trees, our forests, and they are living, living life. And then there is someone coming. Yes, every day, morning, afternoon, this time. Sometimes, someone comes who suddenly appears. And what happens? Hello, good morning, how are you? Oh my God, all wake up. He comes. Yes, good evening. How are you? He is here, all here, already. Yes, and then I am also very happy, and I think you are also happy. And that is why you are making sound, because you are happy. If you are happy, then your heart is open. And the birds are making their nests, but we are doing like this. But we are doing like this. Yes. And when you cannot do like this, then perhaps one is not happy, or a little bit ill, or did not understand, or it is different things. Silence is all very beautiful. Silence means something great, or not? So I am also, and you also, we are happy in these trees. Yesterday was rain, and this rain, that is what is called God who is bringing Indra, God Indra, and when Indra is coming, then kar kar... Kar, and when Indra is coming, then kar, kar... (thunder rolls). You are such good people here, and I was sitting with him also, and so Indra Rājā, Indra, Indra is the lord of the ocean, water, rain, and many things. So how nice was yesterday, and then we said, “Okay, we go,” and after half an hour, what was it? Happy, thundering water came. The trees were happy. The grass was happy. All creatures, what can be more than this to be happy? What can be more than this? We are relaxed. And how can we do that? We practice our yoga. Because yoga means we want to have our body or our whole being healthy, happy, relaxed, comfortable, etc. Many times, every day, one, two persons, or three persons—they are very sad, and they cannot, you know, they are not happy. When they say alcohol, and alcohol, and alcohol, or drugs, or this and that, it is that we are making ourselves unhappy. They will just say “dia.” If the husband comes in the evening from work, wife, he says hello, and she says something like, or just look and finish. Oh, wife is so happy, and she comes to her husband. She comes, she said, “Hi, darling, how are you?” And he is okay. Yes, why? We don’t know. My, and how it happened, and how it is happening. How to be happy, and how can one become unhappy? This is not yoga. But yoga is also in this area. There is still a little bit of unfriendliness between husband and wife or others or something. And why? It happened, only it is a why. And if we can get why, if we can clear this why, then there will be joy, happiness, and everything. So this said, bim, bam, bim, yes. So, how to be happy? How to make happy couples? Either someone has no husband or no wife. There is also someone who is a little bit unhappy. So, there is something that happened. Should I tell you this, that you will not be unhappy with me? Then he will say, “Swamiji, so there was a kindergarten.” And in kindergarten, there are few people, children, you know, and they become friends. Yes, so they go home, and they are both friends a little bit, and so. Then they go to school. Yeah, that was our school in this, like, this village. And they were also in school, primary school, and they became friends. Yes, everyone, they made a friend, and then they came to the primary school. He came out at high school, and there also they were together, so that one boy and then a girl, just like very good friends, or like father, brother, and sister, so they think, yes, we are one. And they come to the universities, and there they are happy again. But they both want to make a friend. How to become a friend? Friends. So the boy was told to make this girl happy. And this girl, she makes this boy happy. They were thinking that we would be friends. Yes. And they were already about ten years, a band or whatever. They were thinking that they would marry. But they are not going to each other, only going home, there and there, that is all. Well, they were going to eat, and because there were two houses there. So, someone was eating bread and butter. So they always said, “Okay, we will breakfast every day together.” And the parents both said yes. Yeah, they are happy. But somehow she was not happy. She wanted to be this boy, her husband. But he is not good. He is a boy that wants to have good things first. Well, but she was strong. She said, “OK,” and “OK.” In mind. And then, after they finished the university, they said, “Now we will marry.” So they went to the marriage ceremony nicely. And they all come eating, and they came together, braiding; they create the braid together. And she thought, “He will be good to me now.” But he did the same thing all the time. Well, after a few weeks, she was very sad. So, when they came to breakfast or to eat, she said, and he said, “Please, can we have breakfast?” And again he said, “Please come, I will make you bread.” He said, “Enough.” From my little, near that time, you know, in childhood. He was always taken away. Sometimes it is he and he, put them and pass. Well, but it was that when they marry, then they will be married for life. In Europe and in all these countries at that time, about 100 or 150 years ago, in that time, that time was already, when they marry, then it is the whole marriage life. Don’t think Indians are thinking, “Oh, Europeans and this, they are married, that thing, and the click, click,… everywhere.” No, it is not. Now it is. But before, you know what we call, they all were very—there is one word which I cannot come, but all were very, very good, all good. So they were married. And now, after 25 years or something, when the university is over, that lady said, “I lost my life. I thought this boy would be, but not.” And he is also thinking, “What can I do for my wife? I can give my life to her.” And she said one day, “Darling, I can give my life.” She said, “I don’t need that.” Oh God, you see how things are in life? Yes, I tell you. So that is why I went away; I didn’t want to marry. Yes, I have my good friends. I had good friends, and the boys, they married. Some were five years older, and they married. And after one year, they said, we were sitting together, and he said, “I made a mistake.” I said, “Why? Yes, because when I come home,” and my wife is there, and my father, and mother. So when all the people are there, my grandmother and grandfather, and this, we cannot talk, husband and wife, only when you go in your room. That was time. Now is the first day, Nūlā Ādiyom. So the time went. And then it was, Mary’s was 125 years. So, he said to her, “Darling, we are 50 years married.” I would like to take you somewhere, to some other country or somewhere, to a very nice hotel, and so on. Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā, Siddha Pīṭha Paramparā,… Siddha Pīṭha Śiva is like this. Shiva is very humble. Well, they had a car. And so he brought all the luggage, and they came to some other city. Like this, not a very big city, it is like this. And they got a very nice hotel, a very nice park, and there are about 20-30 couples or people there in the hotel. One day, that man said to the people from the restaurant, “Please, tomorrow is my wedding day.” So, please, can you make the barbecue table very nice? Prabhūtā Tabulī, Krásne, with something like an umbrella or something nice, and of course some flowers for my wife. I want to make her happy, and morning about 8 o’clock or 7:30, something like this, and it was very nicely decorated like this. This today, yeah? Oh, beautiful flowers and this and that. And they are sitting there. She is thinking like this. Well, he said, “It has been 50 years of our marriage, and we haven’t been happy. We were not happy. Can you tell me?” she said, then cut the bread again, then we cut the bread. “Again, you are the same thing. What, my darling? Why? You know, boy, you like to have the first part of the bread, what you call the heart, and that you always eat, and you give me the middle part. Never one day did you say, ‘Can you eat this one?’ And you are my husband. Easy, darling. My whole life, I was thinking, the soft… Bread, she would have told me, ‘Please, have this bread,’ and I heard, ‘I give it to me, my heart, the way.’ Is this, please, all heart for you, darling?” And it was said, “We were like this, and now we will be like that.” And what happened? Look up there. Everybody, look there. What was that cross? Now they both, it was like this, but they will come now in one day. Then she said, “Happy, yes? I am very happy.” Then that man said, “Please come, who is bringing the food and water? Please, today we have a marriage day. We are marrying now,” and Hugh said no. He said, “Yes, we have a real marriage now.” And she was happy, everything was fine. She was so happy. She was getting up and getting up, yes. So you see, just for a little thing, we have lost our whole life. Why didn’t I tell you earlier? But sometimes I know, why should I say? If you are, then you can give it. How do you know that? Like it was, now every day was after a few days. “Sisi darling, you see, my teeth are very little taken out. So don’t give me heart, but bread.” So they hugged each other and then danced. That is it. So, you see, sometimes you know how to talk. What happens? Don’t say, “No, this,” but, “Yes, we can do, we can do.” And so, that is it. We are all here like that. Even though we are not married, we are friends, yes, or neighbors. So we should relax and be happy. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya. Ādio. So, when they went like this, then they were happy. Then they came to the Gurudev, and they came to Gurudev’s holy feet. And Gurudev, they made prayers, then Gurudev gave the blessing. Give the blessing. Be happy. Be happy. So Gurudev, what should we do now? Oh yes. Yes. Cafeteria. Go to the cafeteria. So that was a joke. Thank you. Děkuji. Hari Om.

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