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We are life itself

Life is sacred and permeates all existence.

Spiritual atmosphere is present everywhere through guides and sacred images. The Himalayas and places like Mount Kailāśa hold this essence. The entire Earth is alive; even soil teems with unseen life. Our own body is not a single entity but contains multitudes of living beings within its parts. All elements—water, stone, air—are manifestations of life. Desire acts like a balloon, lifting us but ultimately pulling us back to earthly cycles. True transcendence means going beyond everything and not returning. Spiritual practice requires patient, steady effort without force, like a mother cow yielding milk. The goal is to realize our fundamental unity, like melting separate gold ornaments into one.

"Everything on this Earth is alive. The whole Earth, even what we cannot see, has life inside."

"Where will we go? No feeling of the cold. No fire you can feel, no elements you can feel, so don’t worry."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

We have our Guru Paramparās everywhere. In every place, there are spiritual guides and Gurus. In every room, there are pictures of Gurudevs. Some have Kṛṣṇa, Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rām, Jesus, Holy Mother. So this is a holy atmosphere. I was thinking today: whenever we will go to Brahmaloka, please, Mahāprabhujī, let us go from this atmosphere. Of course, in your family, your house, your countries—wherever it is—it will always be such a spiritual situation. Alakpurījī, Śiva. I was always thinking we should come to Śiva’s place, the holy mountain, which is what we call Mount Kailāśa. There are beautiful lakes there also. It is a little bit high, very high, but now it is said there is some road and it is a little more comfortable. From there, many people bring water, some stones, and some sand. We have many photos and pictures. That’s also enough for us, and we are where Alakpurījī is: the Himalayas. The Himalayas are very, very spiritual. There are many other beautiful, different mountains, and there were great saints there also, definitely. Also, in America, there are many very nice people. It means that our Mother Earth, and this is life. We see the ocean, living many, many lives inside, and our Mother Earth. Everything on this Earth is alive. The whole Earth, even what we cannot see, has life inside. Some long years ago, when I was in Vienna, there was one day they showed us living animals on television. Perhaps you don’t know. I will ask; perhaps in Vienna, Ekta’s husband, he is involved with all their own televisions and everything, so maybe one day we will bring this and we can see it. So they said at that time: anywhere on the earth, if it’s dry, very hot, or cold, etc., stand yourself on the earth. Then, through their instruments at the sea, through the earth, it is unbelievable how many creatures there are. From the sand, earth, until there—everything and everyone will be so, how to say, afraid. My God, I’m going in with so many animals. I will ask Ekta. Ekta, she’s gone. She always comes for two or three days, then she goes away. Oh, you are here. Thank you very much, okay? Then you should tell him, okay? Definitely he will. Aha, he, of course, then I will be very, very happy. Some of you are going tomorrow already; otherwise we could have seen you. So that was a serial, every two weeks or something, with many, many things. Scientists were doing it. It’s very good. Then, in our body, it is said: yes, everything is there. In our body, we call life. We are life always. We said it is our heart and our soul. But in the whole body, there are so many jīvas, living entities, life. So in the bones, in the nerves, in all the different liquids, in the skin, everything in our eyes—everything is life. This is the life. So we are life, and not only we, but we say, "My jīvā or something," but we are going through the whole universe. If we are diving in the water, there is also life. When they are going under the earth and they are breaking for coal, some gold, etc., that is also life inside. We cannot understand what kind of life it is. Our stone is also life, but how it goes, we don’t know. How long will it be, and what will the heart be turning to? Different things. So when you see this with these instruments, and tell, please, can you walk? My God, painful woe everywhere. Therefore, our earth is living earth. So we are not something like other kinds of this, what they call, but life; Earth is the life. Therefore, we say life, mother, earth. And we should every time bless our mother Earth. You know how many times I’m telling: when we open our eyes, we say, "God." And my "I am," what am I? I am a man, a human, living. Then, earth, mother, the water. All our five elements, then further. So in our sādhanā practice, our yoga, in daily life, we are learning. I’m giving you because we call it the karṇ karṇ. Karṇ karṇ means very, very fine sand. Inside is a life. For example, the ocean, clouds, and water coming again. Sometimes it’s a very fine drop; we cannot see it. We will see when it’s very, very cold in winter. And we cannot see the fog, or what do we call the... And there, we can’t see anything. But there are water drops. We see only like a fog. But that is water, and the water is in the form of very, very tiny drops, and that is life inside. It is a life. So one said, "Where can I go? Which side will I go? Should I go hide on the earth? Should I go under the earth or in the water? Oh, my Ātmā, I am every day, everywhere. And I don’t feel anything, fear, no pain." It is even what we call the colors, and how many colors are coming in the rivers or in the water. We have, for example, this rainbow. How do these colors come, and this and that? Same thing when you or we close our eyes: each of us has a different kind of light inside. It is dark, very dark, but that is also very living and very great. So where is not, and where I am? I am nothing, I am nothing, only that Ātmā Bhagavān Prabhu. And so we see how many stars are in the sky. And it is said, how many states can we go to after we cannot go further? So many yogīs, how far they can go in the sky, and then they can come back. But those Parabrahma, Paramātmā, that jīva, like a great Ṛṣi—then, if they come above everything, they cannot come back. No, then they are all in one. So there are two things. One is that sometimes we practice and do good things and everything. Or we fall down. It means we have such a kind of habit. We are only in the worldly things. Then we cannot go up. We should go up in the very, what is there, plastic ball. Yes, balloon. And balloon is that it will go always higher and higher and higher, because inside is nothing except only prāṇa, the air. And that will take you higher and higher and higher. But after some time, one will explode, split, and come down. So we have desire. This desire is what always brings us back to the earth. On the earth, it’s good. But we are always here. We die, we are born again, more born, again die, again born, again die. And not only that, we will always be human? No. Maybe we are worms in the earth? No. Jīva is the Jīva. Jīva is the Jīva. Water is the Jīva, that’s it. Jīva, Jīva, Jīva. Water is the Jīva, and we go, "Jal Jagadīśa, where there is water, there is God. Where there is water, there is fire. Where there is water, there is heat. Where there is water, there is cold, water." So this is what one Ṛṣi once said: "I can’t go further, the wind, the air, always bringing me again back into the earth. Where will we go? No feeling of the cold." No fire you can feel, no elements you can feel, so don’t worry. You need not make your jacket. Everything remains here, and that is this. Therefore, it is that. That means that time we come again, we will be the whole world and whole life there up. How long, we don’t know. Go ahead. Go ahead. Or we are just going, but I think we are going ’round the earth, round and round. So it means that it is faith that each and every time all your desire to go and take a suit, that is also divine. I’m sitting, this is also not. It means no, nothing. Then say, okay, who are in the thing? It’s a, there’s no, nothing. So what is in the thing? Můj milý, you are great, so you are all sitting with the Mother Earth very nicely. I’m all the time up, up,... so I want to be with you. And I’m here because I want to see all my disciples, my sisters, my brothers, my child, my mothers, my grandmothers; they are sitting the farthest. And I sit down here, and then I can’t see anybody, and they can’t see me. So don’t think that Swāmījī sits on the high place. When anywhere, anywhere conference, anywhere somewhere, it always places high place because to see us, each other. And when we are in an aeroplane, then we see again our beautiful earth. We are in it, and that "in" is in us. I am in you, and you are in me. I am in the water, and the water is in me. So in this, our techniques which we are giving in the morning, I will tell you. And how do we make this step by step? Yoga techniques. And it will go. This will go. When I will not be here, but this path which I gave, that path—go here on the path. Now you see me. After, you will not see me. But I will go on with you on the path of you, that my path comes to you, your path. Then we are not different, we will be only one. Anything we want, melt it. When we melt it, then we are all one. When we take little, little pieces, we are pieces. We have the gold. One ring is on our toes. One is a ring in the hand, something is in the nose, one is in the ears, this is in the tooth, and some is where? The ring, and then something other, a necklace. And for pūjā, all different, different, but one day we will become one. So you are like that: you are the ring, you have something different, different, different. And we will melt it, and then we will go further. So, where I am? How long will I be? Why will I be? Therefore, I will be nothing. It is nothing. That is in sādhanā. So you practice without any pain. Don’t be angry, don’t be fearful. Live, eat, and what you are eating? What you are eating, there is also eating someone, yes. Everything is there. So we come further to our sādhanā. Understand what we are doing and what we did. I told you, the Kriyā Anuṣṭhānī, and then other, what we did. And then we made very nice today again, no, this morning. And that Kriya, what is the Kriya? Tomorrow, I will tell about kriyā, because it is too long. Kriya is very long. Your whole body is a kriya. When we say pfff, it’s also kriyā. It’s kriya. Pfff, it’s kriya. Ah, it’s kriya. But which kriya, which kind of kriya? And how it will go? This was a very great kriyā, and we will talk again tomorrow. So, all those who are practicing Anuṣṭhāni should complete that step, that Kriyā, and that Kriyā we had. Today, some people had this Kriyā. All kuṇḍalinīs, chakras, everything. So be relaxed, be comfortable. Don’t run too quickly. It has its time. And so, what do they call it, smoothly. So don’t say, "Will I do, will I not do, how should I do?" Quickly do. When we are cooking something, it doesn’t matter how quickly you could do it, it will not. Yes. When the mother cow takes time to bring milk down, she will give the milk. The calf will drink, but how and when the mother is bringing it from, what we call, how it is after. But in different other... So I cannot, because I’m not a mother. But the mother knows how to bring the milk. I think we should tell everybody tomorrow, all mothers, okay? Old mother or young mother, no problems. Bring me one cup of your milk. Only she can. So it is like this: slowly, peacefully. Practice, practice. Mantra, mala, mantra, that is everything will do. Then comes this all kriyas: Om Śrī Dīp Nīl, Vāgvān, Nāgī, Chāy.

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