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Where is our happiness?

God is within all life, and human purpose is to generate divine happiness.

God exists within every creature and element. The earth itself feels our presence. Humans possess a unique capacity to consciously create happiness for God, akin to honoring one's parents. This is done by not harming other beings, for consuming meat is killing the divine life within. All actions should begin with reverence. Upon waking, acknowledge your human form and honor the earth. Perform morning prayers and offer gratitude before meals. This conscious practice sustains the connection. Neglect causes suffering to the world and to oneself. The daily ritual of awareness and thanks aligns human life with its sacred duty.

"Where there is happiness, there is God. Where there is great happiness, there is God."

"Upon waking, declare 'I am a human being.' This affirms your duty to harm no one."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Hari Bhakt Bhagavān. Bhagavān, God, is for everyone. This truth is everywhere. God exists, but there are places where God is happy and places where He is not happy. This means God too can be happy or not happy. For God is like our parents—our father, our mother, our grandparents. They should be helpful and healthy, and they should know… This means we too can give God happiness, or not. I have told you: you have that God within you. God is in everyone, including all creatures, all plants, the waters, the earth—everything experiences happiness or the lack of it. For example, we sit upon the earth. Perhaps the ground is hot, or very cold, or very wet, but it is there. What will we do for the earth? We should become happy. We must know happiness, definitely. In our whole life, we see many things: singing bhajan, writing, and many activities. But where is your happiness? It is said: where there is happiness, there is God. Where there is great happiness, there is God. Is God not happy? But of course He is. Let us say, like your father and mother: you gave them happiness. Your children—did your children give happiness to your father and mother? Did you? Did you make your mother happy? You were in your mother’s womb. She took great care. She brought you in. God gave you a father, gave you a mother, gave you just a tiny drop, or nothing—just energy, or something. You made some happy, and you made some so unhappy. You do not know. She does not want it. There is also this: perhaps you wanted it, or God gave it, someone gave it, but your mother does not want to give it to you. Yes, why does this happen or not happen? But you are happy or not happy; the purpose is to make happy, to make your parents happy, and we should make them happy. Similarly, because we are human, and there are all animals and everything, all creatures are happy making others happy? But they do not know what it is, so they will kill little animals, mosquitoes, or very big animals, or very big buffaloes. Buffaloes make themselves happy and others, and lions make themselves happy by eating the buffaloes. Because these are animals; they want to know. But, oh human, I give you… 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 he is so happy because now my wife will give me my child. Maybe a girl or boy, no problem. And also, before that, perhaps the mother knows, so happy, so happy. And how? 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 happy also already. Still, the body is not complete, but it is inside that. Make happy your mother 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 one is also very happy, but there is a… they kill them, others kill them. That is like this. So, where are you in this whole earth? Where did you get happy? Are you a mother, and your father, and your parents, and your child? We have to make happy, and we will. And now, in the whole world, everybody is killing animals, one animal to another. Sometimes, even their embryos are inside. But the human will not do, and human should not do, and they should know: if you are eating meat every day, it means every day you are killing one creature in your body. Oh man, what will you see? And even that, the embryo is not there, and you are in the… egg, and in the egg, there is nothing. It came, still becoming life or something, and you kill it, you eat it. How do you see then? It means we will not be there, coming in the life anywhere. Yes, God said, “I thought, oh.” Human, I made you the divine, my divine, God said. But even we are talking, killing the God, but of course we cannot kill God because it is that, the soul. That’s it, yes. Torturing, you will be happy or not happy, doing many things. Negative, very much, but still, that ātmā is inside. But it said, “I will go again back, and how, anytime, so doesn’t matter what you think that I will do. Then I’m good, and that, and that, but please first.” So what is in you? And that makes happiness. Therefore, also, what we do in the morning, how we get up, and when we open our eyes, we say, “I am human.” He wakes up in the morning, opens his eyes, and says, “I am a human being.” He had slept from there, he was sleeping, now he woke up and said, “I am a human being.” If he says 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.” And I am a human being, I will not harm anyone. And, hey mother, hey mother, I just woke up, so I have both my legs, right? I will stand on the ground. God, hey mother, I am standing on you. Forgive me, mother, I just woke up and am standing on you with both my feet. Mother did not say. She said, “Mother, son, it is very good.” But if this is not done, then that mother will cry. So our earth is dying now. How much of this kind of animal? These animals, too. So what they made, how many, many things they made like this. How much poison they made, how much poison on vegetables, on grains, everywhere. Oh, how much we have done to the earth, how much we have done to the earth. The earth is crying, mother. What is it doing? Otherwise, you know that when I was small, 5 years old, 10 years old, 5 years old, what we used to do, we used to bring mud from somewhere. And we used to brush our teeth in the morning, and now that we have done it inside, then we do not know that there will be a disease inside, right or not? Why? He is crying, “Mother Earth, mother!” And when he says “mother,” how much he says “mother,” he does not understand. He does not understand. And those who are they, they fight with their parents, and they go and say, “I will do this or not.” How much it happens, so what happens? That you wake up in the morning and do āratī of Mother, but water is not visible. Then after, I washed myself. At least my eyes and face and hands, and something we can make pūjā, āratī, yeah, at least praṇām to Gurudev or Ṣabīḥ, everything. And before the sun goes down, get ready, because now I see it is darkness. O Bhagavān, I light up here. One person said, one person said that water and Ṣabīḥ, so the man was standing in front of the lake or in the sea, I don’t know, he said. So he will stand there. The man is watching. The day is ending. The sun is going down, going to be. So that was one man, and he said, “Now the sun is rising, it will be dark.” When the sun goes down, and this man sees the other side, there was the clock running, and Dīpak lagāyā. Wo kyā hai? Sūraj, tū to nīche calā gayā, lekin rāt tak merā dīpak mere pās caltā rahegā, aur phir tū vāpas ā jā hogā. Main nahī̃ jāū̃gā kahī̃, main jindā hū̃. Dīpak lagā de aur dekho, light dekho. Oho, Bhagavān toh yahā̃ par bhī hai. Aur subhe jaldi dekhenge toh sūrya dikhtā hai, woh bhī. Toh ye mānuṣya kā hai. The humans have to do this, that is everything. And so, in the morning, two or three people, before you are eating or not eating, you have to come here, to the ashram. Where is the Satguru, Gurudev, Guru Paramparā, Bhagavān Śiv, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa? Before the sunrise, they are ready to make the prayers. And also, in the morning when you get up and then his eyes are opening, you see that Kaibāṭ 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 lost, many people lost. And it means that everything is like, there’s a big tree, a very nice tree, and very sweet fruit on it. The tree has beautiful fruits, but they are still not arrived, and all are putting down. They are falling down. Nothing is there. And so it is with humans now. They are falling down. You think that I am strong and very good, and I am eating. But how many are you eating that you should not eat? Ma, mother, father, sister, brother, uncles, grandparents, grandmother, all my friends, how in my school, all my brothers and sisters in my school, we are very happy and good, we should be. You know that? From how many years can you sit on a chair or down to read something? Till how many years? Some are between 20 and 23. Some are still learning until 24 to come further, and more and further. You are sitting on your buttocks all day. One teacher comes and writes this and that. Others go, and then they are sitting there. All the time, every buttock is very nice and warm. Yes, and he’s not soft. It is all maybe plastic or wood, but sitting all the time, and teacher again, and he’s writing like me, writing. Yes, the children do look like student children, but they know that in my, my… God, my God, my knowledge, myself, I am. And then, what is coming, you will be very nice. Don’t marry before you completely finish your studies. Yes, but now, even they did not study everything, they are ready to be married, married… About, they are already now in 14 days, 14 years. 14 years, just don’t know, child, what is that? The 25th is the day when you can think like that. But many, many people, you know, who are studying, many people, all obsessed, many, many. They said, “No, I will not marry.” Still, I will become, my study very good, that I am a professor, this and that, and then. And others are lost, gone. This means all the leaves from the trees, or the fruits, have fallen down and are falling down. And that’s why all these people are going to have some, taking some kind of alcohol, so that something, I don’t know what it is, then you become always like this and coming. At home, the parents said, “What is this?” and said, “Don’t tell me who said this.” The child said to the mother, then he said, “Mother, coming, don’t ask me why this child is doing this, because the parents did not give the good love, and they also did not.” Because we don’t have to pray, we pray in the morning, we pray near the food, and we do our āratī, we pray. Foreigners, many are now. About now, let us say, it is only 20% or 14%, even in Europe also. Otherwise, all who are sitting there on the dining table, and everybody came, and first, what were they doing? What? What? Can you tell me? We are doing this, and Christians, what are you doing? Yeah, how? But you did not properly see me nicely. Yes, you have to, we will learn this. 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.” Yes, and something more otherwise than this, yeah. German language is different, English is other, German Christian is, the Czech is different, everybody, but it is like this. And now, and now… how many times will you tell it? You can tell in any language, but we do, yeah. And we are little children, you see. Our children, parents, and pūjā, pūrṇam, they said first evening, eating first mantra and then eating, just like this. And many people in every country, their parents and they are doing, and their girls or the boys, they are very good. There are no problems; they are doing good. But that is there, and so is that eating on the table first. Not to eat, but what are people doing now? They are going in the kitchen, and it is not even cooked, eating something. What is that? Don’t eat anything until there first, and put it in front of you. Dining table, and then said, “God, please, in this,” you said, “Yeah, okay.” Om Shubham Karoti Kalyāṇam, Ārogyam Dhyam Sambhadam, Śatru Budhi Vināśāya, Dīpa Jyotir Nostade, Om Dīpa Jyoti Parabrahma, Dīpam Sarve Mohanam, Dīpam Sajje Sarvam Śandya, Dīpam Sarasvatyam, Om Brahma Rūpaṇam Brahma Havi Brahma Gno Brahma Nahu Tam Om Purnamadam Purnamidam Purnat Purnam Adachyate. Purnasya Purnamadaya Purnamevavashishyate. Om Shanti Shanti… Om Namah Pārvati Patehara Haramādeva Siddip Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jai Dev Pariṣad Mahādeva Kī Jai Mādhvanājī Bhagavān Kī Jai Śālak Purī Jī Kī Jai Pariṣ Kī Jai, Poiṇām Kī Jai, and then blah, blah, we’ll be eating, okay? So that means each word was spoken there, each word, one śabda, one śabda. That word comes to us in our brain, in our body, in all kinds of ways. So, is it a kind of… the mother gave you milk, even more than that. Yes, and no. What came, came. Ate while eating, or while talking, or this, that, that, etc. Yes, if it is, we are here and I am giving you so much. So, when you come for lunch or dinner, come all together and then say this prasāda and then go. I am telling many times, one is coming eating, the other is not, and then coming out, and the other is sitting like this. So, we have to learn, or you should say, “I will come a little late, please.” That’s okay, and that’s why the blank is coming, no? Yeah, blen is blank, blen, blen,… Prabhu deepa namaham sabdhas prabh sharan parayinam om parayinam yom namah siri prabhu. So we should know that we are doing, and very mentally, because otherwise they will say, “I don’t want to tell why you are telling,” so at least. Mentally, we said, “God bless you,” yes, but at least we now again come inside. We have to come to this. Tomorrow, something more will come. I’m speaking. Who will sing the other bhajans? Other boys? Now the boys today. All boys, boys come. Okay, the girls, girls may clean up. Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Boys, boys, come and sing. This time the girls will bless you. Two or three boys sing. Yeah. The boys should come here. No, you can be beside. Yeah. Let them come and play the instrument. You can sing. Yes. Come on, boys, boys. Yes. Everything. That’s it. But do you think girls come every day and do it all the time? Yeah. All the time, the girls don’t give the boys time. So the chance, a big girl, yes, yeah, doesn’t matter if the boy can or not. Hurry home, make your butter. Jatapantaki Saṅkhana Mane Samāna Patta Rahir Rāmajī, Jatapantaki Saṅkhana Mane. Nāma na sa na pata rahe te na loka ke icchā nahe nahe sukha be na śarīra vaha guru vaha kyā rājā kyaṅkha vajīra. Rāmajī nahe kishang kyā rājā, raṅkhā vajīr kyā pyāsā? Parivār na hī rākhe, parivār jughe vargāmbhī divānā. Tātā gurunāmakha parivār jīvatā hī vadasam revā nahī siddhā nahī pīr. Rāmajī jīvatāhe tadasam revā nahī siddhā nahī pīr. Amide Pāvadhūta Avalya Mahā Vīranākavīr Taguru Namara Vahapam. Quickly, quickly,… nicely. You can go away from the instrument, and then very nicely, okay? That’s something from them, then they act. Yes, yeah, okay, yes. Now, now, one, ten days, ten days… Or more, till I come, only boys will sing just nicely, slowly. Yeah, Siddhipāda Bhagavān. Ki Jaya Deva Sharma Deva Ki Jaya. Man Vah Dheera Dheera. Please start a little bit higher, I cannot. Charanare Bhai, Manva Dheere Dheere Chal, Gagan Gar Charanare Bhai, Manva Dheere Dheere Chal, Gagan Gar Charanare Bhai, Hazār Bahotar Nadiyā Chale, Lambī Lambī Khai. Hazār bahotar nadiyā chale, lambī lambī chāī, sāhas rakho sāgagana ke upar bahapara he rakhurāi manvā dhīre dhīre chāl gāgana gara charanāre bāhi… Galiya choti, rata andheri raste mein chik nai, agar cherapte pava tumhara paduge undi khai. Galiya choti, rata andheri raste mein chik nai, agar charapte pava tumhara paduge undi kai. Manva dhire dhire chal, gagan gar chadnaare bhai. Manva dhire dhire chal, gagan gar chadnaare bhai. Paanch paanchi sobheli ho kar, Mohani raga sunayi. Raga sunaya terumana mohe, Rastodeyabhulayi. Paanch paanchi sobheli ho kar, Mohani raga sunayi. Rāga sunāya tera mana mohe, Rastode yadulāi. Manvā dhīre dhīre chāl, Gagan gar chhadnāre bāi…. Bina jaane koi ucch chhadasi pare dharana para aai, Sathaguru bina malum nahi padatha marga jeena bhai. Bina jaane koi ucch chhadasi pare dharana para aai, sata guru vena malum nahi padakha marga jeena bhaya. Dhira dhira chakka ganagara charanare bhaya. Devapurījī says, “Guru merā Devī Senālakāī Swāmī Deepā Sannyāsī bole, Guru kṛpā se pāyā.” Man vā dhīre dhīre chāl, Gaganagar chad nāre bāī. See you in the next video. Bye.

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