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We can achieve the Paramatma

A return to a familiar and beautiful land after a long absence. The journey has been long, through many places over many years. The recent global suffering from disease prompts a deep reflection. This disease affected only humans, not animals. It serves as a reminder of the consequences of human actions upon other creatures. The natural world operates in cycles, like water between the ocean and clouds, and even a tiny spark can cause great destruction. Humans have taken much from the earth. True practice requires inner cleansing, not just outer appearance. The spiritual path is like a river that purifies what flows into it. All are equal on this journey; titles and dress are ultimately superficial. The essence is to practice diligently, without ego, until the end.

"God said all creatures came to God: animals, birds, fish, all. God, we come to God all. These humans are killing us and killing us. Please, please, do something."

"Don't think that he is not a yogī. You are all my brothers, my sisters. You are better than me. I am only to work, I am working, I am working, that's it."

Filming location: Budapest, Hungary

Hungary is a beautiful country. I know I have come here many, many times over many, many years. I think it has been about ten years since I last came, because we were always in Vṛndāvan. So we had Vārāṇasī, then Śrīlaṅgā, then Vārāṇasī again, then Śrīlaṅgā again. People from other countries would come to those places because there were too many people. We don't have a big city here, but for a one-day program, it was very expensive. But after Vienna, I came here, and our dear brother Krishṇānand—he was very young then—and his wife, who was very good at practicing āsanas, Krishṇānand's wife... but time is going. How many times I went through this beautiful country! I truly felt that I wanted to travel once through all our Hungarian cities, everywhere. I am also still very young, so I don't know how long I will stay, but it is very good. Today again, I was coming past your buildings near the river. Many, many people go near the rivers, and it is so beautiful, beautiful. Today I saw them and thought, for me to sleep there would be very good. How many lives have I been coming here but did not sleep there? Anyhow, Hungarian is a very beautiful and completely different language. In our beautiful country, our Holy Gurujī was here in Hungary two or three times. Holy Gurujī was always telling about Hungary because we were there somewhere in the forest nearby. So it was very good everywhere. We lost our Krishṇānand. So today, when I came to Hungary, when I came to the border of Austria and Hungary, I lost something. But you are all here. Although here there are many, many... and we should come further, so it is: you are all here. You are strong. And it is a corona. During the corona, there were a lot of problems. We wanted to come this year to Vārāṇasī for our yoga, but still the corona people are there, corona. So people will not come so much. This is not only in Hungary; it is in the whole world. They were telling there was corona, corona, but I don't know what is a corona. Nobody said what is a corona, and suddenly it comes like a fire. I was in New Zealand, I was in Australia for one month there, because there was... Suddenly, like a fire, they said everybody should go to their country's people, and now people are running, and they think, "Will we have the aeroplane or not?" and so on. So we were going, Moṅsā Devī and me, and one of us from a Czech person. But halfway, the aeroplane was different. So for me, I was in India; Mañcādevī was in Vienna; and the other, she was in Czech. When we came here, the hospitals were full from the Corona. And at that time also, they told me about our Krishṇānand—you know that already. He came to Śrīlaṅgā, and he came three times to visit me. I know if something happens, but who knows that it will be. And then in Hungary, in every hospital, no one can go in. Only those people who have the corona go in. Now we don't know what medicine they give, what they are doing or not; we don't know. In the same way, the whole world, in the whole world, so nearly one year we were suffering, and three times came this kind of disease, and they said the fourth one will come. I don't know why it happens. Now, we all know that it is only for the humans, not animals. Why only this disease for humans? I said, because God knows each and every creature, even the very tiny, much greater, very tiny. What means that? Very tiny—you can see a very big elephant, or more than an elephant, something, and a tiny mosquito, and even less than a mosquito. They are flying, and some beat us, but we don't know. Now, there I was, and I'm giving you, maybe you all know that life, the life has given to God. So how to know big and small? So, there are two things I will tell. So first is that God said all creatures came to God: animals, birds, fish, all. God, we come to God all. These humans are killing us and killing us. Please, please, do something. God said, "I know." But it will come, so I will not say that they will not burn. But they give one thing, God said. There is coming this disease; it will come. But all creatures will not be affected, and elephants or any other menace, or everything, there's no corona on it. But to the humans, very terrible, very terrible. You know, in time, people died, and even the family cannot go with them. They were all pulling them and put them somewhere, I don't know, in fire or what. And it happens like this, very, very much. I don't want to say again and again, but our dear brother, our brother Krishṇānand, when they took him from the hospital, I think nobody could go with him. Maybe one can go, but nobody wants it, no. Now, how is it that? The ocean, the big ocean. We know all the ocean. And very fine, the fine waste coming from the ocean and going to clouds. It's just very fine, coming like a fire and becoming clouds, but clouds, you'll find that we're going, an aeroplane going through, no movement. And then again, very fine drops come down, and drop to drop, coming on the ocean from the ocean, which came on the earth, on the grass, on the trees, on the house, and again this very fine becomes big, and water comes down, coming to the... our river, and it will go to the ocean again, so it is said it is not only for the biggest one, but it's like a fine, fine drop of the water. So water, that very tiny, and the clouds and ocean, but it is the same. There is a fire, maybe big; many houses are burning, or the forest is burning. And there is a very tiny fire, just what we have like this. It's very tiny, but it can burn everything. America and Americans have so many things, but for two months they could not put the fire out. Everything is burning, burning. Little fire. Fire cannot remain without water. And water cannot remain near the fire. Therefore, we should know how we should know that the five elements are for us, as we are living from this. All five elements of our body, and it will be, this will go out. But the ātmā cannot be burned, so they will go again. Therefore, it is said, "All very tiny, now is your time, you will come up." And those who are the humans, what they are doing is very important. Where is my... Oh, through my... Thank you. Always, the mālā should not be in the mud. Mālā is a Gurudev. Thank you, Śrī. Like this, yes. So, that's why many things happen. Now, it can be if the humans will be like this, and then all earth will again go down. And you know how much we took from our earth, how much, many, many things got out of the coal, how much coal we are taking, many other metals and oil. And when oil is going... It has to go, the water in, and the coal is coming, the water, and we are breaking the whole mountain. We are putting all for our roads, and like this, so from there they are taking water in? So, more or less, in our world, it's now like this. O human, that time will not only you, but may all will go out. But people were very sad from Corona; they said, "Don't eat meat and this and that." All in America also, and everywhere, they are eating vegetarian, vegetarian, vegetarian. And just even Corona is not gone away, again they are taking meat and alcohol and this and that. So it is like this, but there are many millions of good humans not eating meat, alcohol, and no, they don't have, they should not have that, "I am the king." I'm the president, I am this, and what will happen? Next year, maybe another will become the president, and when he will be president, another one is so unhappy by nature, and many think it is a problem. But as you are a yogī, then yogīs, they will only then they will die, that's all. But no problem, so I gave you all, yogīs, our yoga. So when you become my yogī, my disciple, my disciple will never be gone out. You will be all the times till samādhi. So the politicians, they can go, but yogīs cannot go. Yes? And so, but some are different. They said, "Yes, I am good," but backside this, backside that. So we have to clean ourselves. It's not like that, okay. I am my Gurujī, I am mantra, dīkṣā, and I am this, and okay, I do yoga, but doing everything. That is not like that. We have to go on that path, and it is said this is like a river. With the river, we are all going, but sometimes from the river, from the city, dirt comes there and goes out the other side. So, there is a beautiful bhajan. One mahātma sādhu was singing one beautiful bhajan, and it is said. That from Gaṅgā water came to the Gaṅgā, but next time, other side, he makes toilet. Other side went, and if it is dirty water, it will come to the Gaṅgā. It will be cleaned. So we have to, our whole life, and we should practice this our life. In the best way, so we are on the good path. You know, there are many people, there are many yogīs in this yoga practice. And now people are learning so many yogas, yoga, but it is only yoga. So there are two things. You can have any teacher, doctor, professor, scientist, everything, but at the end, it's finished. But those who will become a real guru, a real disciple, who is practicing every day, and inside, not somehow to say that, "I am," then we are coming all after the death; we all will come to the Paramātmā. But Paramātmā, we don't know where it is and how it is. We cannot see it. We see only here. Sometimes we think, "Oh, I had God was looking." So, where is it? How is it? So, in every time, where and how we should know within ourselves. So, where I am, I tell myself, not anybody else. Our Guru Paramparā, Ālakpurījī, Devapurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holī Gurujī. And now, me and you, we are equal. Only my Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, he told me to take my work to clean everything. I think I will go to Paramātmā. I don't know now. It's okay. I am very good, and I am a good Swami or not, but I am after something. Will happen, I will change other way. Can be. So, mokṣa. You know what is mokṣa? Mokṣa means liberation. So, until the last minutes of life, we will see how you have done. Now you said to me, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. My Gurudev. I'm this. Okay, very good. No problem. But tomorrow, people will say, "Yes." So this is very important. It is said that "I" is a very, very negative thing. I, you know, so when I will say, "Now I am good," ego, ego... ego. And so, ego will go to where? Cobra. You know what is a cobra? A snake. Why? That's why I, day and night, myself, I'm really, really... I think I will be mistaken. When I'm young or old, I'm telling this really to everybody, but I'm telling myself. Still, I have some steps. And while steps, only one step less. I can fall back down. That's it. The first steps will come. Then there is one door for all creatures and humans. That will come there, and the rest will go back. So don't think that I am a Mahātma. I am Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. Yes, I am Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, but oh, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvarjī, maybe somebody will take you, my daddy, like this and pull it. Yes, it can be so. It doesn't matter if you are a Swami, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, or yogīs. It doesn't matter, human. This dress is nothing, only this skin. And this skin, you cannot pull yourself. So we are human. Someone has a black dress, some have red, these have yellow. They are different. But what we say, my dress is a sannyāsī dress, and this is the blood, blood of the sādhu, and don't take out, and don't go different. It's not easy, my dear. You can go nicely, you can go away, you can run away, you can say no, but I cannot. I cannot run. I can't see what can happen. This boy, our brother, he is there. I should take in his language now. For five minutes, how to live the life of the swamis and sādhus? And so it is. We are all yogīs, we are all yogīs. Don't think that he is not a yogī. You are all my brothers, my sisters. You are better than me. I am only to work, I am working, I am working, that's it. So you should always say that, "Oh, I don't know." But this means now I cannot do anything. And you can run away with this dress. Sometimes orange, and sometimes this and that, but great sādhus have been many, many. They had families, but they went to God. So I am so happy to see you, and our Hungarians, they are very great, all with me all the times, and, of course, the problem. Is still the corona, and you know, if somebody will come, they will say, "Finished, everybody, you have mask? Not here." There is not too much open or too little. So, we are happy, and I am so happy, and I wish you a good night, and tomorrow we will meet somewhere. Where it will, I don't know. So, my dears, we have Ālakpurījī. And you know, I told you, Ālakpurījī is three in the clouds, on this side and that other side. And Ālakpurījī's name is from Śiva, Śiva time, Alaknanda River, and Alak and Nanda. Nanda is the disciple of Ālakpurījī. She was Ālakpurījī's disciple, and she was with the cows, helping like this. One tiger came, and he wanted to eat his cow. Ālaknandā Devī was there with the cows, so Nandā Devī became a cow, and the tiger was coming. So the cow said, Wait, I know I am a cow, you will kill me, but please, two wishes: one is that you want to have here a temple, a place for me and my Gurujī, Ālakpurījī. I will go with him in his river, Nanda Devī. And then he said to the tiger, "Now you can kill me," and he came. The tiger, like this, and he said, "I will just test from you, I know Holy Mother." And the tiger becomes the God, and he was then made a temple there, house in Alakpur. Many who go with me, we saw their darśan. And there, where was it? The temple has a Śiva statue. Then Pārvatī wanted to marry Śiva. But nobody wants. But someone told Pārvatī, If you want to go, go to the, there where Nandī Devī. So Nanda Devī is there. So Nanda, there is a temple also, And that, then Pārvatī was sitting there, then Śiva came. This śakti, that is a power, Nanda Devī, Nanda, we should always say yes, yes. If you want to have a good husband, girls, then Nanda Devī, okay, or man, if you want to have a wife, pray to Nanda Devī. Oh Mother, oh Holy Mother, Nanda. There are Himālayan ṛṣis, and so is the Nanda Devī coming in the river. So Alak Nanda, otherwise only Alakāpurī. But his daughter, not daughter, disciple, she said, "I want to go with you." And from there, the Alaknandā River. The Alaknandā River, yes? You know? Yes. The story is a very big story. I'm going to make little but very good stories. Alaknanda. And so many yogīs, they said, there are also yogīs, and those yogīs, they are Alak. And Alak means, "Please, come and give me." Alaknanda. Yes. And there, the bhajan Mahāprabhujī has written: "Holy Gurujīs and Mahāprabhujī's, and Mahāprabhujī's Maṅgīlālji's, and Mahāprabhujī's, our holy Gurujīs, Mahāprabhujī's world was there, and how holy Gurujīs were made a tapasyā. It has to do the tapasyā: Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī, and Maṅgīlālji." Bhajjanya is when Holī Gurujī was with Mahāprabhujī and what his experience was. Kumbha Mela has so many sādhus, but maybe only a few real sādhus. Yes, it's not easy. That's why our Guru Pūrṇiparṇa, Guru Paramparā, Śaṅkar Bhagavān, after Śaṅkar, Abhigurupa Rampalank, Śaṅkar, Bhagavān, and then Alakhananda. So it is called Śiva Purāṇa. Then, in the Dvāpar Yuga, Bhagavān Rāma, Then Trita, Śiva, Kṛṣṇa, and now Kali Yuga has come, and Kali Yuga is a suffering. Therefore, ahaṁkāra, no ahaṁkāra, no ego. If I will say "my," and that's why, you know, I always day and night say to my Prabhujī, "Please don't give me that I have ahaṁkāra." That's it.

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