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The Globe of the Self: Reflections on Ātmā, Jīva, and the One in All

A spiritual discourse and satsang on the nature of the self, consciousness, and existence.

"In this globe, immense of immense, how many jīvas. Jīvā means the soul."

"And that was what Holy Gurujī said: one in all and all in one. One in all and all in one, in which way I am now."

The lecturer leads an evening satsang, offering contemplative reflections on the ātmā (Self), the jīva (individual soul), and the interconnectedness of all life. He explores themes of meditation, the limitations of physical travel versus spiritual expansion, and the relationship between yogic science and worldly science, sharing personal anecdotes including a healing story. The session includes a guided energy exercise and concludes with devotional singing.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī, Devādhi Dev, Dev Purīṣa Mahādev Kī, Madhvaranjī Bhagavān Kī, Alak Purīṣī Mahādev Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī. Good evening, all my dear sisters and brothers in Vienna, Austria, and in many other countries. Some are sleeping, some are awakened, and some are at midday or midnight. But this science has made us awakened all the time. We can be anything at any time. We can do everything, like sleeping or daytime activities, running, swimming, yoga practice, meditation, walkie-talkie, everything. What a science! The whole science has covered our earth. In that earth, which is there, including the ocean, and from the whole globe, is the ocean and the land, everything. In this, there is something very important and very spiritual, or not, but there is one day, then that's our Gurudev, Swami Madhavānandajī Bhagavān. He said, "One in all and all in one." This means in the whole globe, the land or the ocean. In this globe, immense of immense, how many jīvas. Jīvā means the soul. In our body, how many jīvās are inside? We ourselves, as a human, how many does one person have? How many living lives are in our body? And their hearts can export very much more and more and... good things, or it can have the bad things. We don't know how much it is. Many times I have told, the draft of the water is very, so fine, because this water, which God has made, this... And water is very high, very high. It's lying on the earth, but the earth is something different. But water is very high, yes? But that big ocean, God can make this. It goes very finely, and it goes above for us the sky, very wide, very far. And just for us, it's like nothing. When we go through the airplane, we are going, the airplane is going, flying in very heavy clouds. But it's going very comfortably and going there. And there are also all those living in the airplanes, traveling through the airplanes. Now, I was thinking something yesterday. I was thinking many different things. But at the same time, then after I said, "Oh my God, I can't," but I went to sleep. And there it was, our ātmā, our jīvātmā, this paramātmā, mahātmā, hujīvātmā, in all, one by one, in by in, out and in. And this we don't know. We don't know. We are all in this one globe, and in that globe we are living life. And we don't want to go there. We want to expand, but we explode, and that will not be. It's coming back again. I was in the night. It is something like this: if we want to hold, here is very good, but it is expanding there. It is there, so but they are all coming again back together, just little things like sometimes. Some sticking in fingers, from these fingers to this finger, this finger is stinging. The whole globe, so this globe, we have water and earth, and the globe, all this, the river, not the ocean, and that is also like a globe, and now that we don't know. Yes, humans have sent immense, maybe, to the moon or there further, and this, yes or not, but we have to say yes. But it is, is there life? The jīva? And if the jīva, we jīva, we jīva here, and we are coming again back, so we have not our power. That we go out of, we know that five elements, and all five elements are within our globe. It expands. It is not like this. It's very... and as far as we go somewhere, expanding, but again, this coming. So we think, "I'm going, going, and going," but it is... we are. Going other like we are flying from here to Austria to Australia, it's not like that here. Now, how we are going like this, our airplane, or how it is that we are going up and up, we are thinking we are high, but we are going down again. My God, my aeroplane is on the right. Yeah, we are sleeping here. And we are other, the aeroplane is on the other side. In that way, he is there. And in that way, we don't know. This Jīvātmā, Jīva, Jīva is that very beautiful, very good living, And we can't touch that. We can hold that. In that, about 25 minutes, I was lying down and I was thinking like this. Maybe it is my thoughts, how it is going like this, or maybe it is that. But jīva, ātmā, so my ātmā, my jīva, does an ātmā sleep? That this jīva is sleeping or eating, or where it will be going, how is it coming? This, my dear, maybe some of you will tell me more good things, but whatever we said, it is in one globe, and that is where we are humans and all other things. It is said animal satrises. This satrises is like there are seven stars in the form of the stars. They are all above, very, very far, everything is like a light. It's always like everywhere. One star, how big it is, the star, this, this, we don't know, but we think. From our sun, very far, far. And these ṛṣis, the Saptaṛṣis, until Saptaṛṣis, some can go, other men can't. We can't go very, very far, and that's why we are then. I was thinking, "Okay, then all Austrians, when they die, they are here," said and coming again here. But others said, "No, it's not like that." Then I... Said, "Now I go to sleep, doesn't matter if I am in Vienna or in India." So, in that way, we have to see how to come out. Now, somebody said, "Yes, I want to come back again, and I will live like this," and others say, "Now I will not go anywhere. I will go only." Okay, we are thinking, we are thinking, talking, and it said yes. And we will not anymore come back. We go far. Where is the far? Which direction? Okay, we go by the sun rising direction, but the sun is other side now. Where, ātmā? Oh my ātmā. But our ātmā is not only one ātmā in our body, our one, one jīva, we said always. But this ātmā is not all in the heart. Also, the two eyes, these two eyes are not in the heart, and the heart is not the eyes. And so, where, how does it happen? This is everything that was in thinking last yesterday. I was talking, which I said that meditation, that was a living meditation, a living meditation and silent living meditation. Yes, and constantly it was with me in my brain, in my mind. I went there. I was good there. I had lunch there, dinner there. Some people were with me also. Everything was very late, and I was sleeping. But I was in this. I am one, and I am not one. And that was what Holy Gurujī said: one in all and all in one. One in all and all in one, in which way I am now. And that, when we are in that way, many things—that is a difference. And these are elements. And all these different elements are there. When they come together, then it is something; otherwise, it is just not anything. In this way, we have to come. There are many meditations. Meditation is many, but all people are thinking, "I'm meditating. How are you meditating?" Closing eyes, all right. What are you thinking there? I don't know. What do you see? Eyes are closed. How do you think further? I think of the Danube River. Yeah, but you are sitting here. You are thinking of the Danube River and sitting here in Mahāprabhujī's ashram. Now, where are you? So, meditation, where are you? And so you will see, surely one day, all of you will think like this, sitting in meditation with eyes closed and learning. And one day it will come. And what will you do? You will sit like this. How many years have you been meditating? And you will meditate all day. One hour, half an hour, twenty days, a month, five minutes. Who? How? All the times, and all the times, and all the times. I'm thinking like this. And second is what I have. One part is where I'm everywhere, running, working, this and that. Another is sleeping. What is that? Sleeping, and in the sleeping, you are also going, gone. Dream the dream. Dream means also sleeping. Where is less? A person can have, how long time am I in oneness? Otherwise, how can I touch that my ātmā? That you see, we think, "Ātmā, my ātmā, I'm sleeping." No, we are not sleeping. This is a... The machine in the body, and you are working. How many hours? And now this machine is cleaning everything, relaxing, meaning controlling everything—if it's good or not, or bad. Everything, the whole body, is ātmā. Our ātmā, it is on that side. Maybe, in this way you can think, not you but me. If I then think like that, I said, "I think I am mentally not good." Yes, you will also say, "Yeah," and then all parts will go outside, and you say, "Why I had..." Together now, bring it in. So this means that it is now, we'll say, mental people. Yes, we are mental people here. We are that. In that night, very many things were thinking. We like yesterday to do also, so we can't go out. Yes, we said, "Okay, I will die. Good. I go. Go." But where? Always, we will be in the globe, round and round. There are ṛṣis. If we understand that, we have to see that from this ṛṣi and those of many, many ṛṣis, munis, they are reading, writings, many things, and four books, four very great books, they call Vedas, Vedas. And the Vedas, if we can, we cannot now, one Veda if you can read it, and this is enough then. And the Vedas to read is not easy. Only they will say one kind of sound. How they are speaking, my God. Avatārpuri was born to go there, and he was only three or four months. And he ran away. I don't. Yes. Vedas. Vedas. And now it is happening, our Vedas. People are taking in other books inside, and they say it's over. It is not there. Now, we said, "Okay, I'm dying, and next time I'm coming." Coming again is not easy, my dear. Again, in my mother's womb, how dare this? And this one, look inside. What is making my body? What is my body? What is there? This, and this, and that. Still there, the elephant is, I think, about how many months? Elephant, I don't know, I think one and a half years or something like this, yeah? The humans are nine, and before them is more power than this. We are only seven. How many? Nine, and three months more. Who is there? That is the thing there, and that goes more. So there are many, many other certain animals. This is an elephant, and these very big ones are very big. These, and there are many things, anyhow. So I am, all the times I am, means you and me, I can say. We are all the time inside, globe of the globe of inside. So, meditation in my day, meditation, you are all doing very good, you are doing. But it is said, whatever I'm thinking in my meditation, I'm just talking something. And so, Ātmā Purī, insight. Even when we are working, you know, I can only see that which I can hear. Maybe many ṛṣis, I did not see the ṛṣis. Great saints I have sent, but I don't know if it is many sādhus, great great sādhus, maybe how it is that. But I can see one thing now: in this worldly life, there are certain doctors, yes, they think they know, they learn, they reach, and they can do. Many things, and bringing back this and that, that must the humans. For me, I can say the doctors are this, they are doing usually. Scientists, they are doing something, this and that, and they are going flying up, and they don't know anything. They make something, this and that. And come out and say, "Oh, she likes this practical in hospital practical." There, he has happened. Maybe he killed, or he broke out, or cut him back. This everything, but have done it is inside. And this is the jīva talking with jīva, saying. With the doctors, at my doctor also, don't think that my jīva is there. Doctor, he said, "Okay, everything is okay. The instruments are working. Everything is okay." That's all, not that ātmā is there. One nerve connects to this current, and let us go to whatever is going in the nerves, in these nerves, or in this. What is going? All kinds of this, that, everything—how will it go to the navel? The navel, yes. The navel is very, very powerful here. And that also, an operation, I don't know, but they said it's very difficult in the novel, and one can die. So, this is many cancers, many, many side effects they can do. But when coming to the novel, it's very, very difficult, but it happens. My one friend, Swami, Holī Gurujī's disciple, he's living still there, and he's making mantras and something. And he got this cancer in his navel, and we were kummelas, and he was there. I went to his ashram, and I said he was lying, and he said, "Swamījī, it will be good. I will—I believe Mahāprabhujī's, Gurujī's, and now you are my son. Please put my hand this, I will. Everybody is telling this and this." I was sitting there. And I put my hand on his navel, and after three days he said, "I feel very relaxed and have no pain," and like this. I said, this is you, not me. But suddenly, he, you, yourself, you took, went into me, to me. And to me, Swamiji was doing something; it's for me. So he did in me to go into him, to him. He, in he, into out, into the in, to me, to it. How do you understand? It is the same thing. And really, he is now living very good living all the time. This is one of the persons that, and one of, another, I also said about the Nabi, and one more in Europe, somebody, he said, and it was very good. Done. This is many good, our doctors, so that's why Holy Gurujī said, "Next to God, doctor." Mahāprabhujī said, "No, you know that?" Do you understand? Holy Gurujī was saying, "Yes, next to next to God is doctor," and of course. God also will kill us, let's we go. The doctor will also do everything, but he cannot do all the times that everything will be like. So this now. In that is our science, is that science I protect. Chadana, practice, mantras, or other, this side, we are functioning in this. Then it has separated. One river is going to the other side, and between is one, what is called the inside river, is going half this side and half that side and coming again inside. And so, yogic science is going like this, and worldly science, Dr. Svārtha Sajāya is also coming on that side and coming like that. Now, but they are going towards what is called Parabrahman, and this coming, they don't say where there is no Brahman. They don't know what is Brahman. They know the science, and this I know: I am cutting this, and I am knitting that again, and working and going so. If you are counting practically, and the other is physically what we are doing, but meditations, mantras, and our self-confidence, and that self-confidence suddenly in our body again coming alive. And that is the yogic, and the other is this. In this, it's also coming to the yogic side. This is on the yogic side, and many times some people are coming and making something like this and like this, and my body is coming back again, and somebody said, "People." There are, you know. I can tell you, one will come from some person that was from this side, a communist country. And the people, they are coming, and they, you know, that we're taking out from the stomach and everything. For many, many people, do you know that? And then our doctors don't let them come, and they also try to, and they, Italy, they come. And they were making something, operating only with the hand like this, and said, "This is not," and this, you know, in Austria also very much, then also in German, and all the doctors, and they said this is not good, and they said this and this and told the people that. They pushed the people like that. The science, I don't know. I was there. I was there, and these people were in that time in Czechoslovakia, and they said, "They are Swāmījī, so that somebody will take you for your good health." And this I said, "My health is good," but he said, "No, no, please come." And I went, and this man was there sitting. I said, "Okay, what can I do?" He said, and her hand falling, and I said, "Okay, relax like this," I said, and I was making like sleeping, relaxing. And he came out and he said, he said, "Swāmījī," he was telling Maheśvarānanda, but they all said, "Really, it's truth." It's truth. There's nothing. My Sikh people, they took me there, and I was sitting, and they said that my power is less than you. You have so much power. Thank you very much, but I have done everything. For your good, but you have caught me very well, for me, so Mr. Swami Swamiji, thank you. He gave me one stick, a nice stick. My stick is somewhere still, but many people... one, two good, twenty not good, one, five good. Something is happening, physically or the psychic, or what is it called? So there is the prāṇa. The prāṇa is going like this. When we say blessings like this, it means going through the fire inside. Fire, as in energy. And when somebody lies, then we say, "Please." So it all comes in our, we call it prārthanā, prasāda, yeah? And this prasad is coming from an immense ocean of energy inside. It is you, it is yours. You did, you are, and you are doing everything in our body. And so many energies in our bodies that we should always control ourself, believe ourself, pray while we are doing prayer. Why do we think like this? We know it is our confidence. And what confidence is it to have? I always tell, you see, I have to take one person, you know, and that person is a good person who has power over me. Sometimes maybe I'm not strong, but that person can make me very strong. Say, yeah, yeah, Swamiji, it was good. So this is, and the truth. Truth is a truth. So, oh, confidence suddenly becomes strong, yeah? So, when I was a little bit weak, I said, "Not this." And Radha said, "No, no, it was very great. You have done this." You did very good. I said, really, you did? She said, not me, but it's very great. You are, oh, very good. Give me coffee, please. Confidence. Dr. Santhi also gives talks and speaks. Yes, all of you are sitting with me, you are coming to me, you are coming to me, close to me. Then he said, "Yes, Swāmījī, and this and that." So this is our energy, power coming out. And then, you know, we have understood many times we have taught: we make like this, these two hands, and now how much energy is coming to each other. Can we do it once more? So let up, make it warm, very hard, till I talk, okay? Warm it till I will comfortably drink my water, and this will do something. But you should give on. I drink. Don't. You should not drink. Go ahead. It has to come, fire. Because I have to give you my power. You will see. Yes. Now, we know. Yes? We were doing. We know many times. It's coming. Radha, look. We are going close and back, yes. Shanti. Very good. Don't. The Shanti is making, not rewriting. She's doing very good. You not good. Don't do like this. You lost everything, like this, like this, like this. Straight come. When we make a hole, then it's gone. So once more, make mistake. You make a mistake. So when you did like this, or did... You make it like this, not exactly like this, and it will be like that. Oh, sorry. And so, let come the prāṇa. Prāṇa to prāṇas, a prāṇa to prāṇas, a line. When cannot be? Yes, a female and male come together, then comes a child, yeah. And if it is, you are far distance, you... Are there okay? But maybe it will not come. Something, yes? Is it true? Nobody's telling me. Look, yes. So in this way, ātmā, the ātmā, and ātmā into the ātmā, to the ātmā, and that is what in our, our... Bābū Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī's disciple, and his Chotikatu, and in Chotikatu, the king's son, he became Mahāprabhujī's disciple. He said, "I will not marry and nothing," and his bhajan is not a bhajan, it is his āratī, very good, so very good. So now, everyone, very nicely. Like left side and other side, very nicely. Who will be following? Will do first, and then we will follow you, okay? Do you know that, Shanti or anybody? Śrī Guru, Ātmā, Paramātmā. So we have to be very nice, sweet. It should be sweet. It should not be sweet. Not sweet, what is it? Bitter. So, not bitter, one of the wear of this. That's my, this is so, this is so, we have to see this, and I know many of my sisters, brothers, many, many in other countries, they will this now, listen to this prayer, or many, also they say like a bhajan. But it is prayers, and this is very great, very great. So, come on, you are not here? Sitā, come, yeah, sing. Okay, Sītā, sing bhajan. So when this is that, how it is in that. So, two things we will have today. One is that, this very beautiful, I want to tell you this. And second will be when we want to relax, and we are, everybody, after we are making yoga nidra. Yoga nidra, alak purī jis tū āyā hai. And our holy Gurujī, our Mahāprabhujī, and this, this is that. And that I will get each and every word that I want to get out. Some, I cannot understand the language. This was the Sanskrit. So, where is it? Go ahead. All Rights Reserved. Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā Om Ātmā Guru Sotamā Sakala Jagake Antracharakhi Ātmā Prabhu Chara Chara kī ātmā Se Parvan Pratīt Ho Adhyātmā. Pratit ho, adhyātma niradāra daraho, saho avichala ātmā e, saho avichala ātmā, śrīguru ātmā, paramātmā, homātmā, puruṣottama. Prabhu Māta Mā Puruṣottama, sakala jagate antaryāmī, cara acara kī ātmā Prabhu. Cara Alakha Deva ajabaseva brahma beva ātmā Prabhu. Brahma beva ātmā sunaseho para Prabhu. Sākṣī śuddha ātmā Prabhu, sākṣī śuddha ātmā. Śrī Guru Ātmā Param Ātmā Om Ātmā Puruṣottama Prabhu Matāmā Puruṣottama Sakal jagake antaraya cāra cāra kī ātmā Prabhu cāra cāra kī ātmā. Dhār dhyāna sohaṁ muni mohana Svarūpa Sejā Dhyātma Svarūpa Sejā Dhyātma Guru Dīpa Ho Namasyār Āpahī Parātmā prabhu āpahī paramātmā śrīgurubhaktā paramātmā O Mahātamā Puruṣottama, Prabhumātamā Puruṣottama, sakala jagake hantra, cāra acāra kī ātmā, surata kara Gurū dhyāna dhara sī pāvadukā se tarī ātmā. Śivānandabhāratī Gurudevanirguṇamahātama Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā, Om Ātmā, Puruṣottama, Śāktama, Puruṣottama, Sakala Jagake Antaryāmī, and so, this bhajan, or it is a prayer, prārthanā. In this prathānā, when somebody came and told about families, That you are Gurujī's, and you become a guru, sannyāsī's, and about families, and so, so it is said, śrīguru ātmā, śrīguru ātmā paramātmā. So this is my life, that I have become this now, all one in all. This is how, when it comes in the heart, then all others are gone, only the purity is gone. If there is something different, then, of course, there is no good way. That we are searching for something, or we are taking something different. Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī said, "You are coming to me not to give something and take something." No, neither this, nor that, but only one. And what is the one? Which is the path? Where is my path? Then it is said, "This is a path, our path there." Everything is given. In only these few words, everything is given. That time, like in the heart, like a flower is opening, beautiful, and so on. Second is that, what we have, our yoga nidrā. And yoga nidrā tomorrow, you will, everybody will see, and how we will, because that have to, and this we have to, we have to give you everyone this, so that. This is from whom it has been given? When was it? That, and this, that time I was not born, yes. And so it is that time is Mahāprabhujī's. And Bibi said, "So it is the melody. We have to get very good melody, not so... It's very nicely, yeah, not good." Not good, but it is this that are yogīs, and they, how they are sleeping, that is a yogī. Others, we are sleeping, dreaming, and what gives them some three, you know, different. So, yogī Janakī, yog nidrā. Hari Gurujī was reading. Have Hari Gurujī's melodies, they are very beautiful, very nice. But we should know melodies, anyone can book. All good speakers, they can make melodies very nicely, and everything comes in this way. And there we said, "Yes, this is a yoga nidrā." And in that yoga nidrā, now, next years, when we go to our yajñāsana, there, then all who go to sleeping yoga nidrā, we put, make sound, and... All we will lie down here, okay? We will say, "Relax body," and so everything relaxes. And then we will say, so bhajan is a very nice... from Mahāprabhujī's Maṅgīlāl Jī and other Swāmījī, Mahāprabhujī. It is Mahāprabhujī, it is Mahāprabhujī's bhajan. Mahāprabhujī said, "What great that year Mahāprabhujī was." Yes.

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