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Feel oneness and protect all creatures

A spiritual discourse on compassion, the divine essence, and universal unity.

"God itself is present within this body. And God has given humans to us as God itself."

"Sooner or later, we will be one with that water, the ocean. This means God."

A spiritual teacher addresses a global audience, reflecting on the sanctity of life and the sin of killing animals for food. He contemplates the nature of divine suffering through the example of Jesus and uses the metaphor of a water drop returning to the ocean to describe the soul's journey to union with God. The talk expands into a message of peace and reconciliation for the Christmas season, emphasizing oneness beyond all divisions.

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Om Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī, Devādidev Dev Puruṣa Mahādev kī, Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Mahāprabhujī kī, Satguru Svāmī Mādhavañjī Bhagavān kī, Alagpurījī Mahādev kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma kī. All my dear brothers, sisters, mothers, and friends, wherever you are, thank you very much to all of you around the world. As long as we are living in this body, God itself is present within this body. And God has given humans to us as God itself. It is said, jīva jīva bhakṣyate—all creatures are eating one another, one animal eating another. But it is also very good that some beings, like a horse, a cow, or similar four-legged creatures, eat only grass. There is a difference, however. Animals like dogs and many others eat each other as well—big dogs, little dogs, and so many. It is said all animals eat to live, and that cycle continues differently. For how long will it be? But those animals that eat only grass, milk, and such are very close, or should be, to God's side, because humans are the same. Yet humans have made themselves according to what they desire. God has given us our eyes, nose, mouth, body, and brain. The more humans have in their brain, and what one is thinking within it... So we are given so much from the beginning. When a child is born as an embryo in the mother's body, nourishment is given from the mother in different ways. And when we come out, at that time we drink milk. How many of those animals drink milk? Buffaloes, cows, and goats—these animals drink from their mothers. And those who drink from their mothers will later eat grass. But again, there are other animals that, when they have babies—dogs, tigers, and the like—they all give milk first. Yet very soon, they are eaten. They live like this. Similarly, we humans get milk from the mother, and we are given good food. But there, those who do not understand, or were not told, or did not think about it, they eat meat. When we begin eating meat, then we incur what we call sin. If we think with our brain, we can see it is not good—oh my God, a living being, and how we are killing it. Many are not thinking about it at all and are killing them. So, we will see—I don't know myself, perhaps you know—when we are humans and we see how we are killing some beings, and not only killing but eating them, then we, as humans, think differently. This is for humans. And many who were not told are cooking, eating, and meeting, and how they are torturing... I hope it should not be. We who are humans feel very much pain. Pain is one of the very strong and very humble experiences in our body. When we have a little needle, a little needle in our body, it is very painful, and it brings blood out—everybody, even those who are killing others. But when they get something, they feel great pain. Do the beings we kill understand this pain or not? A mother has that pain. Which kind of mother? There are other kinds of animals, like small reptiles. They also eat like this and go about their lives. But they don't know. They have this existence, but they don't know. And these people will go on again like this. They are those who don't know how to take it and understand. In this way, my dears, I think—and not only think, I feel everything—how many millions of humans know they don't want to eat meat and such things? But also, many millions are perhaps doing it. So, in this way, when we come to begin meditation, why are we meditating? Because meditation is this: we want to see happiness, joy, peace, understanding, oneness, etc. We want to see that God. Perhaps we have not seen, or we see—I don't know—God. And when God comes, we say, "No, no, this is a stupid man, yes." But after, when this person whom we say is God... dies and is gone, then we are very sad and we cry. And with this, what is that? Which kind of God? Let's say, I only can hear many times again, Jesus. How did Jesus live? How was he born, how was he living, how was his life going, and how were they trying to kill Jesus? The pain is not something little; perhaps he was killed, but again life comes—we don't know. I'm sorry, but I did not see like that. I did not say that, but I only see this: even still now, we see Jesus hanging on that, and we see him on the cross. We all see Jesus, and with our heart we feel our heart. But how was that? How did it happen? Even still, they will say, "I don't"—many people who know—"We don't take him down from this." So, Jesus's life: if it was that Jesus was talking about the Father, the Father... Who is the Father? God said to him, and he said, "I cannot, I cannot." But it is said, Mother said, "You are my child." And how did this happen? I don't know, and you also don't know. But was there? Or perhaps he is God, that Jesus, and he was observing from outside his bodies only, like his body and his pain or something like that, but within himself, the philosophy is that as God itself, he was only looking like that. I would be making a cloth like that, but still... Like that, why should we be so torturing? And if somebody is touching us, I don't know how we are suffering already at that time. We, God, Jesus said, or Śiva, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, and all of them were. They also were not so... they also were suffering. Yes, they did. They did some. But they were strong, and then they... it brought... There was not everybody who talked to take away, but it is... there is one thing: that life is in everyone, in our life, in our body. And in the body, there is our ātmā, our soul—whatever you call it—which is a part of God, and it will come. These parts of God come to us. It is like the ocean: so much water in the ocean, and we are only a little drop somewhere, but still we are like water. Even a little drop is water. Even our blood is also like water, and that comes to there. It will come to our God, which is the ocean, and we will be in the ocean again sooner or later, perhaps. But we will come to the ocean again, maybe after a long time. There are countries with no nearby ocean and not a lot of waters. For example, when I go to Australia—a very big land, very hot—but the water comes there also. How will this water come again to the ocean? It will come there. Similarly, all my dears, sooner or later, we will be one with that water, the ocean. This means God. But when we are coming very close, we may again go away. And there is also the same time: the ocean is down, and it comes up. It can become clouds, and from the clouds themselves, it again comes into the ocean. How nice it is. It is quick, but the other one is going high up, and somewhere water goes where it will fall any time. Therefore, I think myself, we are on that path—the path by which we come to the ocean, and we will come there. Even if there are dirty things, the dirt will also be purified in the ocean. Let me come there. Let us come there. So is life. Many things. I did not read Jesus's books, the Bible. This Bible is mentioned many times in many books and everywhere. And looking like this inside... And there are those kinds of things—what is old and what is new, I assume—but I cannot tell that much because I could not get that properly. But definitely, that is great, and we should be like this. That's why we all pray. There is a call, prayers through Jesus, yes, even before eating our food. First, we say a prayer, and then we eat. You know that from how long? At that time, it was not about Jesus and all that; there was also Śiva. And not only Śiva—even Śiva went to the mother, to Annapūrṇā. Bhagavān Śiva goes to the mother for food. What is that? Annapūrṇe, Ṣaḍapūrṇe... This we are, that is that. Similarly, you can see when you are thinking about thinking: "I am thinking, how much Jesus is going on like that." Jesus was there, and his mother was there. She was his mother. Similarly, is that Jesus? How is it that we can say, "Annapūrṇe, Sadāpūrṇe, Śaṅkara, Praṇavāḷa"? Yes, we, sooner or later, can say that all we are doing is like this. But now we are changing, and they're still healing. That is the difference. But my days, my dears, all my brothers, my sisters, all in all different countries—I wish you very beautiful days for our Christmas, and all we are waiting for, like a little child. And why are we giving to the children? Because it was the Christian, Jesus, and that was like a little baby, and that is coming for me. I am thinking like that. Mother, mother is the greatest. Father is also greater. That is the thing. But Mother is again... Śiva goes there for the pūjā and eating, or this, to the Mātājī, Mother. In that way, let us think every day of the Christmas days and give peace, harmony, and understanding. In the same way, I would like to say: let's think about God, and who is God? Many Gods, and all-in-one Gods. Everybody—how many Svāmīs, Yogīs, and this and that—all are there. So we should also think in this and give peace and harmony. You know, many times on Christmas days—I learned this in Western countries—on Christmas days, even if someone was very angry with somebody, their husband or wife, or grandmother, or somebody like this, when it comes to Christmas Day, one comes there with a little wind, saying, "I am sorry, please." And at that time, when you say, "Please, sorry," your heart gives in that way that we... say to Jesus, "Please forgive me for that my wife or my husband or my mother and father were sad with this," etc. And that is, in your questions, I'm understanding that what we have—this tree and where there are fruits or something—means giving love, good love. And so on that day, everybody sits at the dining table, eating, and says, "I am so sorry, mother," or "my husband," or "my wife." Yes, or the children can also say something. These are the days like this. Similarly, also Bhagavān Rāma. And Rāma, where was he? Even he came. How much food was everywhere under the trees, under the trees. And they also put the light under the trees. That is how long it was. And I think it is similarly from where it came, what Rāma was doing—not Rāma did, but we did, other people's. And we are again with this together. Let us come to be one, humans. It doesn't matter which countries or where, and we should think of brothers and sisters, and protect all creatures, peace, harmony, love, and understand everything. With this, my dears, I wish you all the best. What I can, I have told you. We will say again: Hari Om, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Dev Puruṣa Mahādev kī, Alak Puruṣa Mahādev kī, Jīja kī Jai, Hari Om, Hari Om.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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