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Where is our happiness?

Where happiness is, there is God. God is in all creatures, plants, waters, earth. Happiness or its absence is in everything; become happy throughout life. Make your parents happy. Animals kill but do not understand. Humans must not kill. Eating meat kills a creature every day. Even eating an egg is killing, though nothing yet becomes life. Upon waking, say "I am a human being." Then ask forgiveness of Mother Earth. Pray before work, before food, during āratī. Many are lost, like sweet fruits falling from a tree. Some take alcohol, marry too early. Before eating, fold hands and give thanks. The soul cannot be killed; it returns again and again.

"Where there is happiness, there is God."

"If you are eating meat every day, it means every day you are killing one creature in your body."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Hari Bhakta Bhagavān, Bhagavān, God—the Divine—is for everyone. It does not matter where God is, but where God is happy and where He is not. God is like our parents, our father and mother and grandparents; they should be helpful and healthy, and they understand what it means that we too can give God happiness or not. I have told you that you have God. God is in everyone—in all creatures, all plants, waters, earth, everything—and that is happiness or its absence. For example, we are sitting on the earth. It may be hot, or very cold, or very wet, but it is the earth. Whatever we do for the earth, we should become happy. We should know happiness, definitely, throughout our whole life. We can see many things—bhajan, singing, writing, and so many things—but where is your happiness? It is said that where there is happiness, there is God. God is not unhappy, but of course He is happy. Let us say, like your father and your mother: you gave them happiness. Did your children give happiness to your father and mother? Did you make your mother happy? You were in the womb of your mother. She took very good care. God gave you, the father gave you, the mother gave you—just like one little drop, or nothing, just energy or something. Some made me happy, and some made me so unhappy, you do not know. She may not want it. Maybe you want it, or God gave it to you, or someone gave it, but your mother does not want to give it. Why? It happens or it does not happen, but it is to make you happy. Make your parents happy. We should make our parents happy. Similarly, because we are humans and there are all animals—everything, all creatures—they are happy making others happy, but they do not know what it is. So they kill little animals, mosquitoes, or very big animals. Buffaloes make themselves happy and others, and lions make themselves happy by eating the buffaloes, because these are animals; they want to know. But, O human, God said—I tell you, God said to the humans—God said to humans: “My dears, I am so happy that you are now human. Become happy and make me happy,” God said. How? When your wife is pregnant, then you are so happy because now my wife will give me a child—maybe girl or boy, no problem. And before that, the mother knows, so happy, so happy. It is not easy, but it is very happy, and the father comes and also says, “This is happy.” What they are doing, how they are doing, and that embryo is also already happy, even though the body is not yet complete, but it is inside. Make your mother happy, and your father, your other brothers, sisters, maybe your grandmothers—make them happy. And also the animals, like cows, buffaloes, etc., in their embryos inside, they are very happy. And the other is also very happy, but there is a killing—others kill them, that is how it is. So, where are you in this whole earth? Where did you get happy? Are you mother, father, parents, child? We have to make them happy, and we will. And now, in the whole world, everybody is killing animals, one animal another. Sometimes even their embryos are inside. But the human should not do this. Humans should know: if you are eating meat every day, it means every day you are killing one creature in your body. O man, what will you see? Even when the embryo is not there, and you eat eggs—inside the egg there is nothing yet becoming life or something—and you kill it, you eat it. How do you see this? Then it means we may not come back into life anywhere. Yes, God said, “I thought, O human, I made you divine, my divine,” God said. But we are even talking about killing God. Of course we cannot kill God, because it is that Ātmā, the soul. That’s it. By torturing, you will be happy or not happy. Doing many negative things, but still that Ātmā is inside. It says, “I will go back again,” and how many times. So it does not matter what you think I will do then. I am good, and that… but please first show what is in you, and that brings happiness. Therefore, what we do in the morning when we wake up: we open our eyes and say, “I am human.” In the morning, wake up, open your eyes, and say, “I am a human being.” He had slept, and now he woke up and said, “I am a human being.” If he says just this much in the morning, that “I am a human being,” then it will happen so much that his soul says to him, “I am a human being.” Aur, maiṁ manuṣya, kisī ko nahīṁ bārūṅgā. Aur he mādhara, he mā, maiṁ abhī ūṭ gayā to mere dono pāg haiṁ na? Maiṁ jamīn pe khaṛā rahūṅgā, bhagavān. He mā, maiṁ tere par khaṛā hūṁ. Kṣamā karnā, mā. Maiṁ abhī ūṭ kar ke tere upar dono pairauṁ se khaṛā hūṁ. Mā ne ne ka, go keṅgī mā beṭā, bhoat acchā hai, lekin agar aisā nahīṁ kiyā, to vah mā roegī. To, apnī pṛthvī mar rahī hai ab. Kitnā is prakār kā? Itnā janvar, janvaroṁ ko inko bhī. To ye jo banāyā, ye kitnā? Many, many things aisā banā diyā. Kitnā jehar banā diyā? Kitnā jehar sabzī par, annā par, sabhī jagah. Are, pṛthvī ko kitnā hum is prakār kab kar diyā? Pṛthvī roh rahī hai, mā. Voh kar rahā hai ke kyā? Naito āpko patā hai ke jab maiṁ choṭā thā, pāñc sāl kā, das sāl kā, pāñc sāl kā, us samay kyā karte the? Kahī̃ se miṭhī lā kar ke hum dānt karate the subah, aur āpko mũdar kar diyā na to patā ne bīmārī hogī andar me hai ke nahī? Kyoṁ, voh mā roh rahī hai, pratvi. And when he says, “Maa,” how much does Maa open up? He does not understand it. And those who are there, they fight with their parents and go, “I will do this, I will not do that.” How much does it happen? So what happens is that you wake up in the morning and do the Āratī of Mātā, but “Jal Jagadīśa, Jal Jagadīśa.” Arre, jahāṁ pānī hai, vahāṁ Bhagavān hai, jahāṁ Bhagavān hai, vahāṁ pānī hai, Jagadīśa. Aur uske bād, maiṁ āṅkh khul kar ke dekhā thā, ke ākāśa kitnā… And Prathvī, how many? I have done this myself, my Māta Jī. Then after I wash myself, or at least my eyes and face and hands and something, we can make pūjā, āratī. Yes, at least praṇām to Gurudeva and to everyone, everything. And before the sun goes down, get ready. Because now I see it is darkness. Oh Bhagavān, I shine here. There was a man standing in front of the lake or the sea, I do not know. He was standing there watching; the sun was setting, going down, it was about to be dark. That man said, “Now the sun sets, it will be dark.” When the sun goes down and this man sees the other side, there was a clock running and a lamp was lit. Voh keh rahā hai, ke sūraj tū to nīcā calā gayā, lekin rāt tak merā, ye dīpak mere pās caltā rahegā, aur phir tū vāpas ā jā hogī. I will not go anywhere. I am alive. Put the lamp on and see the light. Oh, God is here too. And if you see early in the morning, then the sun is also visible. So this is for the human being. To do this is everything. In the morning, two or three people, before eating or not eating, you have to come here to the ashram, where there are Sadgurus, Gurudev, Guru Paramparā, Bhagavān Śiva, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, and all the Bhagavāns, all the ṛṣi-munis that there are. Voh din ast hone se pahale, before the sunrise, they are ready to make the prayers. And also, in the morning, when you get up and your eyes are opening, you see that Kauyabhaṭ said, “I am human.” It means go and make the prayer a little bit. That will be, and so what and how we are doing. Many people are lost. Many people are lost, and it means that everything is like a big tree, a very nice tree with very sweet, beautiful fruits on it. But they are still not arrived, and all is falling down. They are falling down; nothing is there. And so it is with humans now—they are falling down. You think that you are strong and very good, and you are eating, but how many are you eating that you should not eat? Mother, father, sister, brother, uncles, grandparents, grandmother, all my friends, and in my school, all my brothers and sisters—we should all be very happy and good. You know that? From how many years, when you can sit on a chair or on the ground to read something, till how many years? Some are with twenty, twenty-three; some are still learning until twenty-four, to come further and further. You are sitting on your buttocks all day. One teacher comes and writes this and that, another goes, and then you are sitting there. All the time, our buttock is very nice and warm, yes, and it is not soft. It is maybe plastic or wood, but we are sitting all the time, and the teacher comes again and writes, like me, writing. The children look like students, but they know that in my God, my God, my knowledge, I am myself. And then what is coming? You will be very nice. Do not marry before you have completely finished your studies. But now, even though they have not studied everything, they are ready to be married—married at fourteen days, fourteen years. Fourteen years, just do not know, child, what is that? Twenty-five is the age when you can think like that, but many, many people who are studying, many are obsessed, many say, “No, I will not marry. I will continue; my studies are very good, I am a professor, this and that.” And others are lost, gone, hurry home. This means all the leaves—from the leaves come the fruits. Half, not even half, are falling down and falling down. That is why all these people are taking some kind of alcohol, I do not know what it is. Then he becomes always like this, and comes home. And the parents say, “What is this?” And the child says, “Do not tell me.” The child says to the mother, “Do not ask me why this child is doing it, because the parents did not give good love, and this and that.” They also did not. We should pray. We pray in the morning before work, we pray near food, and we pray while performing our āratī. Foreigners, who are now, let us say, only about twenty percent or even fourteen percent, even in Europe—otherwise, all who are sitting at the dining table, everybody comes and first asks what they are doing. “How about? What? Can you tell me? We are doing this, and Christians, what are you doing?” “Yes, but you did not properly see me nicely.” “Yes, you have to. We will learn. You are telling, so they will learn.” Grace before meals in the Christian tradition: folded hands, “For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. Amen.” Any language, but we do it. And we see little children, our children, doing pārās and pūjā. They sit first evening, chanting mantra first and then eating, just like this. Many people in every country, their parents and they are doing this, and they are good girls or boys, there are no problems; they are doing well. But that is there, and so is eating at the table. First, do not eat, but what are people doing now? They go into the kitchen, and it is not even cooked. Do not eat anything until you first put it in front of your dining table and then say, “God, please,” and this you said. Oṃ Dīp Jyoti Parabrahma Dīpam Sarve Mohanam Dīpam Sarve Sarvam Sandhyā Dīpam Sarvam Sandhyam Oṃ Brahma Rūpaṇam Brahma Hari Brahma Gno Brahma Nahutam Brahma Vate Vāgantaviyam Brahma Karma Samādhiram Oṃ Pūrṇamadam, Pūrṇamidam, Pūrṇāt, Pūrṇamadachyate, Pūrṇasya, Pūrṇamadaḥ, pūrṇamidaṃ, pūrṇāt pūrṇamudacyate, pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya, pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate. Oṃ śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ, śāntiḥ. Oṃ namaḥ Pārvati Pataye, Hara Hara Mahādeva. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī jaya. Devapurījī Mahādeva kī jaya. Mahāprabhujī kī jaya. Mahāprabhujī kī jaya… If we are here and I am giving you so much, then when you come for lunch or dinner, come all together and then say this prasāda and then go. I am telling you many times, one is coming and eating, the other is not, and then coming out, and the other is sitting like this. So we have to learn, or you can say, “I will come a little late, please.” That is okay. But that is why the blank is coming, no? No? Blank is blank. Bell, bell… bell. Bell ātī kriyatī? Yes. And also bell means he is a, eh? Yes, bull. Or this, he is coming also. So take nicely, very good. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudīpa Nārāyaṇam… Mahām Śabdhas Prabhuśaraṇ Parāyaṇam Parāyaṇammā Om Parāyaṇammā Om Namah Śrī Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇ Om Namah Śrī Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇ Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān Kī Jai. So we should know what we are doing, and very mentally, because otherwise they will say, “I do not want to tell why you are telling.” So at least mentally, we say, “God bless you,” yes. But at least we come inside again, we have to come to this. Tomorrow, more will come. I am speaking. Bhajan. Who will sing the other bhajans? Other boys? Now, the boys today, all boys, boys come? Okay, the girls may clean up. Yes, yes. Boys, boys, come and sing. This time, the girls will bless you. Two or three boys, sing. Yes, the boys should come here. No, you can be beside. Yes, let them come and play the instrument. You can sing bhajan. Yes, come on, boys. Boys, yes, everything. That is it. What do you think? Girls, every day coming and doing all the time, yes. All the time, the girls do not give the boys a chance. A big girl, yes, it does not matter if the boys can or not, hurry home, make your butter. Well, too early, always so quickly… Very nicely, you can always tune the instrument, and then very nicely, okay. Yes, it was too urgent, quickly. Chiyokam. Yes, when the mother has the last minutes of information about them, then I come out by that time. So, ek dīre batāte, Gurudev. Huh? Ek dīre wālā batāte. Yeah, okay. Now, for ten days, ten days, ten days or more until I come, only the boys will sing. Yes? Yes, and nicely, slowly. Slowly. Satguru, do not speak. I know.

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