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Give everything, so not to hold

The path of spiritual training is arduous and requires total surrender to the guru's discipline. True bhajans from saints are profound, not mere entertainment. Spiritual wealth, unlike material possessions, cannot be stolen. A guru tests disciples through deprivation and instruction, like withholding desired fruit to teach deeper satisfaction. The journey is a narrow, difficult path one must walk with precision. Training a disciple is like firing a clay pot: the outer form is hardened by the fire of work and austerity to make the inner vessel strong and capable of holding the divine. Modern seekers often lack this rigorous commitment. Selfless service, or seva, is the highest practice. Greed binds the soul, while generosity liberates it. All beings, including animals, can be taught, reflecting our human potential. Use everything in life, even potent things like alcohol, only as medicine, not for indulgence. It is never too late to renounce worldly attachments and turn to God.

"The outside is not easy. It is like making a pot out of clay."

"Seva is the best. You can meditate, concentrate, everything."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Hari Om. That was a beautiful prayer, very nice bhajans. The bhajans we listen to and sing all come from great ṛṣis, saints, and spiritual masters. It is not easy to write bhajans. There are many kinds, but they are not like those composed by these great saints. People all over the world sing and listen to these bhajans, absorbing them into their very being. It is not merely about dancing or such things. Each and every letter, letter by letter, what we are creating is not easy. Many cannot do it. They do many things, but not properly. I recall one day in our Jaipur ashram. It was a good ashram, but it consisted of only about two rooms. There were no buildings nearby. The area was very sandy, with a lot of wind. Someone had given Holy Gurujī a beautiful piece of land. There were about three or five brothers who owned it, and they had all become politicians or professors or something similar. At that time, the land was very cheap. After maybe ten or fourteen years, Holy Gurujī said to me, "If you want to have more land, it is very cheap and you can have it." I replied, "Gurujī, what will we do? There is so much sand. There are no people here." At night, some people would pass by to drink alcohol somewhere nearby. Sometimes, when Gurujī and I went out, thieves would come. They would cut the lock and go inside. There was nothing there—only one orange-colored bed and maybe two or three pots. They would always come and say, "My God, this Bābājī has nothing inside." When they came, someone told Gurujī that the people left disappointed, throwing something and saying, 'He has nothing there.' Agar Bhattis. So, Holy Gurujī said, "I have so much, I am so rich." You can also be rich, but you do not know how to take this. If it is money or anything, people will take it away. Good, nice things, they will also take away. So Holy Gurujī said, "What will we do always?" I was very young then. Gurujī said, "I am going to Barikāṭu or Kechrās or Nepal." I was there alone. There was only Holy Gurujī's bed and, outside his room, a stone slab. That was everything for me. That was what I had there. Gurujī would sit outside on it. I would sit down, and then Gurujī would sit in his room. He gave me only one shawl and slept on the stone. Sometimes, a lot of sand would come. So I would put my cloth like this. What a beautiful time! I liked this stone slab. Nobody could take it away. So Gurujī said, "There is nothing that you take. And if you want to take, take it." Gurujī said, "I have my spiritualities, my jñāna, my knowledge, everything. What do I want from others?" When Holy Gurujī was there, many people would come—very important people, ministers, and others. Whenever they came, they would bring something: fruits and this and that. Mostly, people would bring food. At that time, it was the season for watermelon, but not for sugar melon. I was going in Jaipur with Holy Gurujī, and there were many sugar melons. I said, "Gurujī, I want to eat." Gurujī said, "Let's go." After three kilometers, he said, "Why are you asking me for watermelons, sugar melons? Are you hungry?" I said, "Gurujī, I never eat this. I want to taste." Gurujī said, "Mālā is the best." Well, I could not say anything to Gurujī. Yes, we are only beaten. Outside the city, there were sometimes dogs, snakes, and many things. Then, two people came the next day. They said, "Gurujī, what can we do for you?" Gurujī said, "Bring fifty watermelons and other sugar melons." There was a little room. He told them to put it there. Gurujī said to me, "Don't eat anything; it is yours." Nothing else. I said, "Yes, I will eat all." After one or two days, I wanted to eat, but Gurujī said, "No, no. You should satisfy it very much." So Gurujī said, "I give you more than that." Silent, silent, slowly. Guru Kṛpā. So Gurujī said, in one hand is a chocolate and in one hand is a stick. What do you want? Yes. Well, in that way, we were living with Gurujī for a very long time. To go on the path is not easy. One path is with torrents. Another path is very hot, with sand. And there is a knife on the side of the knife. On that, you have to go. So I said, "Gurujī, did you walk also on it?" He said, "Yes, now I will make you do it too." Gurujī said, "Yes, you will do. I will let you go like this." And that was, "Do not go any wrong ways, and do not do something where there is a fire." But on the mālā, up to God, you will not fall left and right, and you will be great. I cannot say no. Time and time again, Gurujī said, "I know, you go and study now." Okay. Again, I was better with Gurujī, and I was doing mālā. I told you to make a mala. No, study. As Gurujī, I like that he still may study very much, but I like to be with you. That is my Gurujī, but it is not so like it is now. Every child has chocolate and this and that, good dress and instruments, children's bikes, and this and that. So it went on like this. What is coming inside becomes the gods in the God. But the outside is not easy. It is like making a pot out of clay. We make a very nice pot, nicely shaped, and we put it a little in the sun. After that, we take a little wood, and on that is some cloth, and we are making it so. But inside, it is very soft. A very soft hold inside, because it should not break. The outside is soft. The outside is like this, so it became very nice. Then we put it there to dry. Which house? It has to be dry. Then we put it in the fire, and then it is finished. We have water inside. We say, "What is it, and where was it?" It was only the earth, the clay, that was also there. And then, so, and then in the fire. The fire means work, go, run, sweating—that is the fire. But when it is done, everything comes out of the fire, and then we can have water inside. The water will not go out. This is called the great saints, sādhus, gurus, fathers, mothers. If they take their children in that way, they will become the greatest of the greatest. It is like that. Otherwise, it is not on the path. So in that way, what Gurujī said—all Gurujīs, not my Gurujī only—and now many sādhus are very good. But now, young people become sannyāsīns after ten days, then they go back home, and after ten days they will go home, and Hari Om will end. Nowadays, the sādhus cannot be very good. Like Avatār Purī. He is all the time this and this and that, everything, yes? One day, somebody gave me some perfume, and Gurujī was smelling it. He came. Only, he said nothing. I said, but I did not do. But why did you let me go about it? Take the sand, rub it. No, why? Smile, and everything is inside you. Wash yourself, breathe out, do pranayama. The body will be very peaceful, very good. That is also now. The people, everybody, doing nice, yeah. They are all there, ladies, very much. And evening, then we go to clean. It doesn't look that this is my wife, yes, and smelling nothing. And so, because many. And if people are pushing so much and so much, then the whole face becomes not good. Well, if sometimes the skin is not good, we can make some oil; that is no problem. It was a long time ago, somebody told me, in Europe. Only someone told me; I did not see. And who was telling me is sitting nearby me, and she was telling me, in Vienna, that well beyond it was already before the First World War and like this, that all people and all women, they were all in such a way. Because of Jesus, they were not doing this all chip-lip, chip-lip, everything. And Holy Mother, she was also like that. So, mostly, why is all this? Because the Christians, they are so spiritual, and so, because they want to have how Jesus was living. We, how many in one year do we take different clothes? How many shoes are we putting in the home, inside? How many shoes do we have? At that time, when the cloth was tired and torn, they would put it aside, but not throw it away. And water, and how to do something... I have forgotten many things. And I am sure that she is somebody with me sitting, and if not, then why did she tell me? So it was that time; that is how they lived according to Jesus' Christianity. Now they said, "Take here, and then do this side." But now, not even this. If somebody tells you something, you will kick them. Don't kill any. They said, "We don't kill, but we have the gun." And why the gun, then, do you have? So, Kali Yuga has come. In that Kali Yuga, we are living now. So I can tell you that my Holy Gurujī made me very strong. And I was here, and Gurujī was writing three times in different places everything on my testament. So it is like that: how to go, how to leave? But practice, practice, and seva. Seva is the best. You can meditate, concentrate, everything. But you are going to the kitchen and cooking everything, cleaning, and this and that, going shopping, everything, cleaning the pots. That service, sevā, that sevā, God doesn't want to ask, because God has seen what God has done. No, but it's now also our people, when somebody comes, we say, "Please, you go first." Yes. Always. In many, many countries here in Europe and there. Yeah, but otherwise, now you know how they run into the train. In Vienna, a train, we are going quickly; one can go in, we can go slowly, we will go in. But in India now, the kufr falls on one side, because now there are too many people. And many, many trains, you know how many trains? That many trains nowhere in other countries like India, and always full. All right. And sometimes, when it's very dry, inside it's hot. So people are sitting on the roof, really, really. And many are sitting, and the train is going like this. Well, there is something, because everybody wants to go with this one train. And it is only two meters, or two minutes. In two minutes, about five hundred people have to come in. But it is long, long, nearly one kilometer. You have been in India many times, no? Who did not, when in India? Is anybody? Okay. Now, come with me. I will bring you the train. Yes, there are different. So you will come with me; it will be coming very nicely. So it is that. Also, father, not only guru. The mother and father. They can. If we are spoiling children, then it's difficult. I am also spoiling my children, our little children. How many chocolates they have, oh my god. But this is sometimes. But they are very nice; they are very, very nice. They are not spoiled. You know, our children, when I tell them, "Let's go home, sleep," they say, "No." I say, "Why?" Satsang, yes, a prayer satsaṅg, and then after a second, okay? But chocolate, so we have to, in different... even our animals, we are making nice to them. It doesn't matter, your cow, your donkey, your dog, the cat, many, even the snakes, cobra, at home. They have with men that cobra is friend. He's coming, sitting on, he's sitting there. Do you see that Mahā Śiva Purāṇa, where Śiva is sitting and so big cobra all the time is there? And Śiva said, "Now we will play this, so don't run away." And one person is sitting in the front. They don't see him because of one side, but all the time he's looking at the camera, cobra, I mean, very big, but the boss of his, him, is there. If he makes like this, he said like that, he can go again like this. And he knows how long he's tired. Then he said, "So go in over and like this." Training, training to all animals we can teach, so everyone can learn. Birds, everything. So this is what we know: we are human, and we can do. So don't, alcohol is a very great, very good, it is like a very high quality or something like to save our life, because Śiva was asking from Him from the ocean. But not to drink like that. When you drink like this, then it's Hari Om. In the hospital, doctors, everywhere we need this medicine, everything. Everything, how we should use that which is ours. So still it is said, Holy Gurujī said, to everyone, even when he's an old person, and he thinks he did everything, was killing animals, fish, and is all eating them and alcohols and like this. And he is age of ninety-nine. Gurujī said, "Now give up everything. God will give you something." And so he was only one, two weeks, and he died. But he was so, at that time, spiritual. So what we call the all-coming, who is coming to take people, the Yamarājas. But others said, "He was so much, and now he is so... he..." God said, "He did everything there, but now he's a good... bring it out." That's it. So, how is it like? And some people, they can't give to anybody. They are holding, holding, holding. So there was one man, and he was a very rich man. He had three sons, a very big company, and everything like this. But he didn't want to give money to anyone, and even his children, he was not giving. Well, he became very old, and both of his sons married. They had very nice wives and some children in school. This man's wife died, but there was much gold, and this and that. And he's in one room, sleeping. When he said to her three brothers and them, "Go for a holiday." He said, "But Gurujī, father, you are here." He said, "I will do it, go." So there was a wall, and he put in the wall, and put a lot of gold, everything, and made everything nice, and he made nice color, and the children came, you know, his son came. Oh, father, very nice, you made nice color and this. He said, "I thought, what should I do? So I made it for you. Look how nice." And then he made something so he could open it, without anyone seeing that he could open it from underneath. Because when my children will not give me money, what will I do? I have them. That one, you know, who doesn't give, what does it mean? Greedy. Now he's about over 105, 105 years, and he is lying there. And many people are coming. So the people said, "You are going to die now." He said, "Yes." So they said, "Do you have money? You have so much money and gold." There is nothing. Still. And then he's dying. Bed, he was like this. And all people said, "What do you need? What can we make for you and his two children?" So they said, "Have you something, Gurujī, or father?" He said, "No. What had happened?" Our people come, people said, "No, there is nothing." Then what happens? He said to the people that he is saying that the father may have given the gold back inside. So he said, "Yes, the gold is here." The three sons said, "Yes, yes." He can't speak anymore. Again, he said no. Other brothers, their son said, "Yes, we know." I said, "Nothing, I made only my building here." The third one came, and he said, "So both said to him, 'Father, we will, we gave everything.'" And the third one said, "Father, now, can we put it here?" And he died. They said, "What happened?" He said, "Yes, father said there was nothing, and like this it was." After a few days, when it was finished, they opened it. So much gold is gold. So this is a greed. So that's why Holy Gurujī said, "Give it, let it give it, and do the mālā, that's all." So we should not be, "Give, give." Then, how will we go further? So, he had very, very much—many people liked him—but he was a very simple person, so he couldn't give, and he went, he becomes like the worms inside. So he became the worm, and now this worm, slowly, slowly, different creatures will come like this. So therefore, bhakti kā dātā. This is a bhajan of other Gurujī, some other Mahātma, bhakti ro dāna datā dī jī. You give it everything, then you will be a real human and become to God. So from this, we have to go. Everyone, tomorrow morning, or now it's too late. Tomorrow, wash your feet very nicely. Cold or hot, what you want? The toes, then five fingers, or whatever it is, yeah. And the other two also. And then see what are the lines there. Or put the color on white cloth and then show me what is there. And there begins from our Kuṇḍalinī yoga, etc. All from here begins now. So from here begins from there. And here, on the navel, so that is what we are doing: our chakras, kuṇḍalinī, and so on, that I told you we will begin. And now I have, Lord, I was speaking, and now I am coming on this path. In one house, in one house, the people are not good. The father is not good. The mother is not good. They are all fighting, two children. They have wives also, but one woman is also not good. And one girl, a woman, and she had here something. It means that he is one of the best, the greatest, everything. And when he stepped on his gate in the house, slowly, slowly, everything becomes very happy, peaceful, harmonious. Everything and prosperity in everything. That's it. So that is kismat. See what is your kismat here. That is your kismat here. And then many different things, and then we can say, "Yes, this is now." And so, fifty-two, there are names, alphabet. And that is going according to our whole chakras, so we will continue. It is too late. So you will then, in the night, you will look where the gold is. Namasivāya Om Namasivāya Om Hada Hada Bo Namasivāya Om Namasivāya Hada Hada Namasivāya Om Hada Hada.

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