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Try to open your heart

We are gathered in the peaceful nest of this ashram, relaxed and united. Birds are happy every day, while human happiness is often fleeting, like the temporary peace of Christmas. We create our own unhappiness through poor communication and small, selfish habits within relationships. A story illustrates this: a couple, married for fifty years, was unhappy because the husband always took the soft heart of the bread for himself, a grievance never voiced. When she finally expressed this, understanding dawned, and they found joy. True happiness comes from openness, self-awareness, and expressing small kindnesses to those close to us.

"Only for one day or a few hours. Tomorrow, we don’t know how it will be."

"Whole life we’ve lost. Why not told you earlier?"

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Ātmā Veda Batāvatāhe, Hāth Choḍ Mana Chala Saṅgh Mere Tohe. Ātmā Veda Batāvatāhe, Hāth Choḍ Mana Chala Saṅgh Mere Tohe. Ātmā Veda Batāvatāhe. Śrī Mātājī, Śrī Mātājī, Śrī Mātājī… Look at the birds. They sing and dance before sunset, then come to peace in their nests. We are also in the nest of our āśram. It is relaxed, peaceful, with no problems, and comfortable. We are meeting all together from different countries, villages, cities, and professions. Now we are all relaxed, comfortable, and we are all one. This is the third day, and you are very nice. Today, as I tell you, try to open your heart and forget all negative things. You know, sometimes at Christmas, many people told me that husbands and wives who are always quarreling say on Christmas Day, "I’m sorry," and, "We are very happy together." For example, even if they argue all year, on Christmas they say, "I’m sorry, let’s be happy." We sit under the beautiful Christmas tree with lights and decorations. There are gifts under the tree. Husband brings for wife, wife for husband. Parents bring joy to children, and children are happy for their parents. Sometimes sweets are hanging. And then, of course, we remember Jesus, because that is His day. We say, "We are sorry," and we are all happy again—my dear, my husband, my wife, my grandparents. Grandparents make all children very happy. But that is only for one day or a few hours. Tomorrow, we don’t know how it will be. But the birds, all different kinds of birds, they are happy every day. In the same way, I think you may not be. I am so happy with you. Every day, look at these beautiful trees, our forest. They are living life. Then someone comes every morning, suddenly. "Hello, good morning, how are you?" Oh my God, everyone wakes up. He comes. "Good evening. How are you?" He is here, all here already. I am also very happy, and I think you are also happy. That’s why you are making sound, because you are happy. If you are happy, then your heart is open. The birds make their sounds, but we do like this. When you cannot do like this, then perhaps one is not happy, or a little ill, or did not understand… Is it different things? Silence is also very beautiful. Silence means something great or not. So I am also, and you also, we are happy among these trees. Yesterday it rained. This rain is what is called God, who is bringing Indra, God Indra. When Indra comes… You know, yesterday, the day before yesterday, when you all came, you are such good people here. I was sitting with him. So, Indra, Rāja Indra, is the lord of the ocean, water, rain, and many things. How nice was yesterday? Then we said, "Okay, we go." After half an hour, what was it? Happy, tender water came. The trees were happy, the grass, all creatures. What can be more than this, to be happy? What can be more than this? We are relaxed. How can we do that? We practice our yoga, because yoga means we want to have our body, our whole being, healthy, happy, relaxed, comfortable, etc. Many times, every day, one, two, or three persons are telling that particular story of someone’s family. They are very sad, and they cannot be happy because of alcohol, or drugs, or this and that. It is we who make ourselves unhappy. Then they don’t speak to each other. Husband can’t speak with wife, and wife doesn’t want to talk to husband. They will just say, "Yeah." If the husband comes home in the evening from work, he says hello, and she says something like, "Hmm," or just looks and finishes. Or, the wife is so happy and comes to her husband, saying, "Hi, darling, how are you?" And he just says, "Okay." Why? We don’t know. Why and how it happened, and how it’s happening. How to make happy and how to make unhappy—this is not yoga. Only yoga. But yoga is also… In this area, there is still a little bit of, not how friendly husband and wife, or the others, or something. And why? It happened only because it is why. 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 make happy couples? Either someone has no husband or no wife, or there is also someone who is a little bit unhappy. So, something happened. Should I tell you this, so you will not be unhappy with me? There was a Swamiji, and there was a kindergarten. In kindergarten, there are a few children, and they become friends. They go home, and they are friends a little bit. Then they go to school. That was our school in this village. They were also in primary school and became friends. Everyone made a friend. Then they came to K-Barden High School. There also they were together—one boy and one girl. Just like very good friends, or like father, brother, and sister. They think, "Yes, we are one," and they come to the universities. There they are again, happy. But they both want to be friends. How to become friends? So the boy was said to make this girl happy, and this girl was said to make this boy happy. They were thinking that they would be friends. They were already about ten years old, a band or a group, and they were thinking that they would marry. But they are not going to each other, only going home, that’s all. They were going to eat, because the houses were there. Some of them were eating bread and butter in the morning, very nice fresh bread and butter. Sometimes they put a little honey. So they always said, "Okay, we will have breakfast every day together." The parents of both said yes. They were happy, but somehow she was not happy. She wanted this boy to be her husband, but he’s not good. He’s a boy that wants to have the good things first. But she was strong. She said, "OK," and "OK," in her mind. After they finished the university, they said, "Now we will marry." So they went to the marriage nicely, and they came all eating, and they came together. They created the bread together. And she thought, "He will now be good to me," but he did the same thing all the time. After a few weeks, she was very sad. So, when they came to breakfast or eating, she said… And he said, "Please, can we have breakfast?" And again he said, "Please come, I’ll make you bread." He said, "Enough." From my little, near that time, you know, in childhood, he was always taken away. Sometimes he said, "Eh," and, "Eh, put him and pass." But it was that when they marry, then it will be a lifelong marriage. In Europe and in all countries at that time, about before 100 or 150 years, when they married, it was for the whole marriage life. Don’t think Indians are thinking, "Oh, Europeans and this, they are…" Marries that thing, and everywhere? No, it is not. Now it is. But before, you know, what we call… there is one word which I cannot come up with, but all were very, very good. So they were married, and now after 25 years or something, when the university is over and they work and go, but one sees you there and the other sees you there. I thought this boy would be, but not. And he’s 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 in life are? Yes, I tell you, that’s why I went away. I didn’t want to marry. Yes, I have my good friends, the boys, and they married. Some were about five years older, the older ones, and they married. 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 elderly people are there—my grandmother and grandfather—we cannot talk, husband and wife, only when you go in your room." That was time. Now is first day in your life. So, the time went, and then it was Mary’s. She was 25 years. So he said to her, "Darling, we are nine or fifty years married. I would like to take you somewhere, to some other country or somewhere, to a very nice hotel, and like this." She said, "If you want, let’s go. What will you do with me there?" Shiva is like this. Shiva is very humble. Well, they had a car, and so he brought all the luggage. They came to some other city, like this, not a very big city. 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 we have my marriage day. So, please, can you make a very nice table with something like an umbrella or something nice? And, of course, some flowers for my wife. I want to make her happy." In the morning, about 8 o’clock or 7:30, it was very nicely decorated like this today. Oh, beautiful flowers, and this and that. And they are sitting there. She’s thinking like this. Well, he said, "It’s been 50 years of our marriage, and we didn’t have happiness. We were not happy. Can you tell me?" She said, "Then cut the braid." Again, then we cut the bread. Again, you are the same thing. What, my darling? Why? You know me, boy. You like to have the first part, the bread, what you call the heart. And that you always eat, and you give me a little. Never one day you said, 'Can you eat this one?' And you are my husband. Easy, darling. Whole life I was thinking, 'The soft bread she would have told me, "Please, have you?"' This bread, and I, heart, I give it to me. My heart, I will give you the hard part, and I will give you the soft part. The bread is this, please. This all hard for you, darling? And it was said, we was like this, and now we will be like that. And what happened? Look up there. Everybody, look there. What was that cross? Yeah. Now they both, it was like this, but they will come now in one day. Then she said, 'Happy, yes. I’m very happy.' Then that man said, 'Please come, who’s bringing the food? Waitress, please, today we have marriage day. We are marrying now.' And he said, 'No.' She said, 'Yes, we have now real Maris.' And she was happy, everything. She was so happy. She was getting up and getting up, yes. So you see, just for a little thing, whole life we’ve lost. Why not told 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 few days. See, see darling, you see my teeth are very little taken out. So don’t give me heartbreak. So they hugged each other and then danced. That’s it. So, you see, sometimes you know how to talk. What happens? Don’t say, "Then no, this." We can do, we can do. And so, that is, we are all here like that. Even if we are not married, we are still friends. Yes, or never. So we should relax and be happy. Śrīddhi Prāṇāyāma Bhagavān kī Jai. Hari Om. Śrīddhi Prāṇāyāma Bhagavān kī Jai. Jai Gurū Deva Nirañjanādi Nānāhitaka. God bless you. Santa Sujana Hari Om, Jaya Jaya… Guru Gaya Upāti kī nao, Swami Upāti kī nao. Bina Guru Gaya, bina prakāśa bhīta kare. Hari Om, Jaya Jaya… Oh Swami Bhava Sagarbha Sattva Sangha Jaya Sattva Sangha Nagar Hari Om Jaya Guru Kali Yuga Oh Swami Rupa Mishra Jaya Sabha Ko Guru Samajaya Jai Jai… J Śrī Dīpunī Jāman Se Guruhā Hari Om Jaya Jaya… Śrī Dīpadāyal Kṛpāl Mahāprabhu Aprakola Śrī Dīpadāyal Kṛpāl Mahāśivāya Aprakola Nāthāyanāthake Nāthaprabhujī Parabrahma Dīnānāthāyanāthake Nāthipadhyāhadhyamaha Viśvāchārachārame Harichetanāyodhe. Prabhu, pāka viśva cāra cāra me dīcetan jyot tumārī, Śrīdīpadāyala kṛ Mahāprabhu aprakola kīśaraṇa me āyapade, amādur Bala Dāsa dukyārī. Prabhu, āpa kī śaraṇa meṁ. Amadur Bal Das Dukyari Kripal Mahakon Hamaare Naat Jinn Ko Jai Pukari Prabhu Aap Bina Kaur. God bless those who have been blessed by the Lord. God bless those who have been blessed by the Lord. I am asking for your grace, your grace,… your grace,… your grace. Apake charan kamal abu kahe Madhavanand ji, apake charan kamal liha, apake charan kamal liha,… apake charan kamal liha. Agam, ajoni, Vighana harana mangala karana dharana, parasava dharavati nandana. Navau siddhi pasara, jai jai devadayala. Shiva karana sumandharamur, Śrī Dīpa Gyāna Vairāgya Māta Bandhau Śaraṇa Gurudevake. Śrī Deva Purīṣa Sukhudai Yoga Yugati Jai Smṛti. Prabhu Jānī Vada Vimīrgaya Arūḍhata Ravi Bhai Gyāna Ujiyā Śrī Dīpa Prabhu Śaraṇī Nati Sunajodī Nagara Namo Sumo Gurudevajī, Tinti Koṭi Parāṇam, Pālaka Pālaka Prabhu Vinati Sukha Janam, Namalyā Sabhupade Ānandho Tayāpat, Āp Satguru Mein Śiṣyam Āp Māmottarāṇam, Tīna loka ke nāta e sata-garu ke ālīna, sata-garu pūraṇa brahma e jauhe sunā. Nuga rāni ca jāne nāhi yuga-yuga ye rītār ye tanavisa ki meladi. Guru-amrita ki kār Astra pāhal nīla kathā rāmu guru caraṇaka mālaki hor. Om guru brahma guru deva. Om īśvara usākṣak. Dhyāna mūlam guru mūrti, pūjā mūlam guru padam, mantra mūlam guru vākyam, mokṣa mūlam guru. Om deepa jyoti parabrahma, deepam sarvemo. Deepan Sajjate Sarvam Sandhyā, Deepam Saravasatyam. Om Namo Prabhudeepa. Vinasi Aapi Brahma, Aapi Viṣṇu, Aapo Śukrasi, Aapo Dhyānī, Aapo Gyānī, Aapo Yog Prakāś, Aapo Deva, Sabā Devī, Aapo Sur Prakāś. Āpho brahma nirvāṇī, āpho chauhān thevāsī. Āpho vedho ke gyātā, āpho bhaktārvāsī. Āpho satnām ke dātā, āpho gyātā. Om namo prabhu, dīpa praṇāma, prabhāma praṇāma boli. Śrī Alak Purījī Mātā Devā kī jai. Deva di deva Devapurījī kī jai. So, when they went like this, then they were happy. Then they came to the Gurudeva, and they came to Gurudev’s holy feet, and Gurudev, we made prayers. Then Gurudev gave the blessing. "Give the blessing. Be happy." So Gurudev, what should we do now? Oh yes, coffee area. Go to the coffee shop. Go to the coffee shop. Go to the coffee shop. So that was a joke. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.

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