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The relation between mother and child

The heart's warmth is the divine love that animates all care and protection.

This inner blessing is like a mother's voice speaking within a child. All creatures, from cows to birds, instinctively protect and warm their young. This nurturing impulse points to a deeper, spiritual heart within humans, called Kaljā. We must protect this inner heart and extend its care to all beings. Many people are hidden, eating meat without awareness, sometimes influenced by their parents. True spiritual practice requires this compassionate awareness. If we harm creatures, we create suffering and distance from the divine. Yoga is not just practice; it is this heart and the hymn within it. To be a yogi is to live this unity daily, which includes not consuming meat or alcohol. Our love should extend beyond our own pets to all life. We must seek forgiveness for any harm and move toward cosmic unity.

"All creatures know, and they want to live, and the mother is always, always taking care."

"Yoga is our heart. And in our heart is the, how to call it, the hymn."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Very good peace, harmony, blessings—what could be more than this? In every country, they have some bhajans that are called songs. But bhajan, life, what we are learning now, singing all this, is our very inner and outer beautiful blessing. This bhajan was there. Esamera Satguru spoke inside me. So, my Gurudev is speaking within me. Let’s say one thing: a little child and mother. This child is still not speaking, but the mother says, "My child said a beautiful thing inside." Beauty talks inside, he said. Very pure. And the child, after some weeks or some months, is looking towards the mother’s eyes. And she is looking into her eyes, and the child says, "She is speaking in my mother’s voice." But not only humans. You see, when a cow comes out, the cow is looking to this little cow, and she is with her tongue. She is cleaning. Also the elephant or other animals. And not only this: one bird, getting this bird some eggs, and she looks and sits and sits, sitting on the eggs. First is protection. But the second is giving it its warmth. And with this warmth of the mother’s, which she is keeping in the egg, that it will be warm, because there will come the baby inside. From this egg, there is only liquid. And you know how developing with mother’s warmth, all animals. All creatures know, and they want to live, and the mother is always, always taking care. Sometimes there are some reptiles; they want to have their eggs, and this, but they eat it. They don’t know what it is. But they are, and all it is, until the water. Water itself is the giver of all of us. So, when we go very deep within ourselves, then we are going very far towards the gods, whatever god or anyone about. So in such, those who have in their heart, one we call Kaljā, it means in my heart, my heart, my mother said, my father said, and that has to be protected. And in the heart, if it is like that, then we are, as humans, taking care of all creatures. Animals are different; they do not have that kind of heart. But even our animals, our buffaloes, our others, how much love when the child is coming, and see. Even they don’t want to let their animals or babies be killed. They are also protecting everything, even the animals. So in that way, how animals are protecting and taking care of their babies, but further we are coming to the humans. And humans, we see, not only children all day, but other animals we should. But many people, they don’t know. They are hidden. Only they take the meat, and many people don’t want to eat the meat. But such people, their parents will give them meats. It’s not good, but you know, sometimes we have such a love towards animals. Let’s have a bird if you have it at home. Or your cow, or your little cat. Or dog, and you know your cat or your dogs, and they are like your child, you are putting in the heart. But do you love only one cat or the dogs and this? And if somebody will kill your dog or your cat or your something, you will be so angry. And go to the police, and like this. But further is not there, so that purity is that as much as we can, we do not let animals be killed. Many times we step on it, many things. For that, every day when we make prayers, when we meditate, always we think about this: "Bhagavān, God, my Lord, whatever I have done, please forgive me." Then we come further and more spiritual to the cosmic. That one will not tell you, "Come, my child, to me." It will go back suffering. So, in this Kali Yuga time now, many, many things like this. Now, many people are having yoga, they are practicing yoga, but they say, "Don’t talk about the meat and alcohol. Only, don’t speak." Then what are you doing yoga? Yoga is our heart. And in our heart is the, how to call it, the hymn. Yes, then he is a yogī, and that’s why yoga in daily life, yoga in daily life means yoga is in daily life, means every day practice yoga. But each and every thing, when we are in yoga, we are coming higher and higher towards God. But if we are doing such things, it will not be. Anyhow, it is very nice. The evening is gone. Wish you all the best. Tomorrow we will do more. You have work today. We were walking long, and did they give you food? Yeah, something, it was sweet? Not okay, too much sweet is not good. You are sweet. And your parents, and your children, and your cat, and your dog is sweet, or any cow, or anything. We said, "My sweet one." So, wish you all the best. It is said, "God bless you all. God bless you all..."

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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