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Birth is an ever-present reality, and unity is found in satsang.

We are born from the cosmos, yet the process remains a mystery. Life begins in the womb, a state we cannot recall. Upon birth, individuality emerges; siblings from the same source develop different natures. This diversity often leads to conflict over possessions and differing religious paths. All beings, from humans to snakes, undergo countless births. Humans possess unique understanding but must choose how to use it. True practice is to love, respect, and help all creatures, recognizing the divine in everything. A story illustrates that the sacred Ganga is not merely a river but a purifying presence found within through mantra and grace. Satsang, the company of truth, is paramount. It teaches us to live harmoniously, help one another, and care for all life, seeing the one in the many.

"Every day is a new day. So every day we can say, 'It is my birthday.'"

"Satsaṅg is the best of all. So let’s learn good things... Understand, live as one."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Hari Om. Hari Om. Thank you, all sisters and brothers. Every day is a new day. So every day we can say, "It is my birthday." Next year also, again, I will have a new birth. So how can we say this? It is said we are born every day. We came from the cosmos. I was not there with you at that time; I was gone on my path, and still I am on the path. You also come from the cosmic. Only we can see the cosmic. How we came, we do not know. I do not know. But there is someone who is making something that we cannot know. Till now, even though science is so great, this is still not understood. Let me give you an example, and it is reality. We are born from God—the name of God, the father, the mother. In the womb of the mother, for us humans, nine months pass. Whether it was good or not good, we do not know. Someone once told me a story about two children in the mother’s womb. They are little children, slowly, slowly growing. The first comes from the navel, and from there first comes down, not toward the head. After coming slowly from the navel to the head, and so on, we are already there. We are all in the mother, and we do not know, we do not want what the mother is doing or not, but we are already there. They will see something good. So one child said, "Leave it. Where are you going?" The other said, "Where was I?" The first said, "Why don’t you go out?" The other replied, "I am happy in my mother’s womb, but my legs are aching." When the legs are aching, where are you? The children are small. Gradually, gradually, it goes on. One said, "I don’t want to go out. My mother said, 'I won’t go out.'" He said, "I won’t go out." One said, "We are good, we are old, we don’t want to go anywhere." The other said, "No, we will go, we will see something good." Anyway, both children came. Both of them, the first brother and sister, came, and they left the mother’s body. As soon as they came, they opened their eyes with their nose and mouth. And what happened? One said, "I will not go. I will go. I will go." So it is that, oh my God, now my mother gave me birth. The baby is out, and now it is opening its eyes, and I do not know what I am doing. I do not understand. Inside we were talking, speaking, and now we cannot speak anything. Similarly, like this, and then coming, I will do this, and I will. Both are brothers, so both are one—a daughter and a son—but each and everybody has a different nature. In their body, in their heart, both are brothers. One brother is like this, one brother is like that. He does not like this, he likes that. One mother, that child, that daughter is good, that one is not. So, sansār, uske andar mein Bhagavān dayātā hai, dusra. So, brothers and sisters, they are very good, but very soon they will be making some problems: "My money is more on my house, my air, and this, and my father is gone, and my mother." All my mother, this is the world. And now one is going to mandir or church or mosque, etc. And if you do not go, you say, "I don’t want this." There is a different kind of energies and saṁskāra. For one it is good and for one it is not good. Therefore, it is one in all and all in one. It should be in that way, that if we can be the same good friends with love—everything, brother and father—it is very rare to see now. Similarly, not only humans, there is one snake. Whether it is a cobra or another, there are many types of animals. This snake. So, as many snakes as there are, you know how many eggs come out of their stomachs, and how many snakes come out of them. And where does that saṃskāra go? Everyone has to come to God again and again. Chaurasi lak jīva jon, chaurasi lak living, but they are including the earth, water, heat—everything is that life. Jal jagadīś, jal jagadīś, jahan jal vahan jagadīś, jagadīś bhagavān aur pānī, dono vahī ho jātā hai. So we are humans, and now we have understood something more, and good, everything. But now, saṁskāra, inside, Bhagavān has made someone, and this one is that, and others are. Let’s say we are telling how many gods we are seeing. There is only Jesus. Where was that after Jesus? There was nothing. And after Jesus, there is nothing born again anymore. We see again, we see again, and we worship Jesus or like this. But we cannot say that we are now Jesus. But only in Sanātana Dharma, Sanātana Dharma, in that we have, that’s why the Hindus or Sanyāsīs, or whatever we call, you can all who are living humans, if you come to there to know, then there are two gods. One god is time to time: Śiva, after Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu. So these three are coming, going, coming, going, not anymore. And then after that, we can say Rāma or Kṛṣṇa, etc., coming, going, coming, going. Similarly, living life, even the animals, even the ant, even our very nice our friend, the mosquito. You know, we are so happy when a mosquito comes, we say, "Hey, my friend, yes." And what does that friend do? Oh, I am, I am with you in your ātmā, coming, going, coming, going. But the humans, they know, they know what this and that is. Therefore, God said, "On all the little animals, big animals, all, but they do not know, only eating and this or that." Alphabet, animal, animal, all you have a little bit of knowledge, but not so much. But God has given to humans, and now we have in our brain everything. But in that, what side are we? If we can or we cannot, so we said we love all creatures, but human we are. It does not matter if it is Africans or Chinese or Europeans or others, or Indians. All under on the earth, this we humans, we have this. But no one has given us, not have given us what and how we need to give it. Therefore, we humans, we love all. We practice for everyone. We respect them, we help them, and we understand God. Where is God? God has given everything to us and to animals everything. Then, of course, the days of other humans are coming. And God gave the humans, and then He said, "Now I can do everything." You know that long story? This is Bhagavān Śivjī. And there was one dog. He was on one leg, standing, standing... And then he was holding like this, and then came Śiva and said, "Can you give me something?" "So what do you want?" "I want to be immortal, immortal ever and ever." He said, "No, that cannot be." "Say why, otherwise why did I come to you?" You go, I will. Many, many times other goddesses came, but then Shiva came and said, "Okay, can you give me something?" "Okay, I will give you something. Will you bless?" "Say yes." "What can you do?" "Everything." "Give me everything." Then Shiva said, "I... give you everything? Oh, that is good, everything. Yes." Then he said, "Let me know what you give me." Said yes. Then, "Give me a blessing to me." That is good. But if he did not say that, yes, when I will put my hand on your head, then you will die. But he did not. Take this. Then he now, he wants to get, okay, let me see, show your head how it will be. Śiva said, "My God." Śiva said, "God. God is Śiva. Śiva is God." So Śiva ran away, ran away, ran away. Who comes in the Himālaya, running here and there and there. Rākṣasa was running here and there, and then a car came, a very big car, a cave. So here he went, and who was that? Viṣṇu, Bīrājī. Śivjī āyeg. Oho, Bhagavān, Śiv Bhagavān, āpadāre, padāre. Oh, kyā ho gayā? Vishnu, Rākṣasa is coming. Achha, Vishnu, pānī piyo, ṭhaṇḍā betho. Aur kya, pānī piyenge? Shivjī to aise ho gaye. Dekho, Śiva bhī aise. So what can we do? Okay. So, time to time, how to do, how to work, how to... That’s it. And so Viṣṇu came outside, and Rākṣasa was coming on the rock. Nobody’s there, nobody’s there. Then Viṣṇu came. Oho, Viṣṇu jī. What happened? A girl, a woman, all of a sudden came and got scared. He was like, "Yes, I am you. Oh, you?" He said, "Yes. I don’t see why I let him go." But he said, "Yes, but first you have to learn. If you can dance, then I can marry you. Okay, Rākṣasa. Yes, then you have to dance with me. Oh, good, I want to dance there. Learning dancing is not in hand. You stay there; I’m standing there. Distance, oh yeah, of course. On that rock, he, 'On this rock, I am,' and dancing. Very good." Vishnu became a lady. Then she said, and then he said, "Everything is." And then Vishnu Bhagavān came back. Śiva Jī said. What happened? Everything is good, relaxed, so that is like this. How people are taking, but do not say that I will be ever and ever mine. We are here, we are little children. We came from mothers, fathers, but one day we will go. Every day is a new day, every day is a new day. Old day, no use, so therefore, do not think about the backside. What was yesterday? Forgive it. If somebody was not good to you, and decent, go now. You are my brother, which means, "Okay, all is gone. All is gone." Like this, when we want to go in the river and go for... sleeping or not sleeping, yeah, sleeping, night swimming, we want to go and in the river, washing ourselves, very good, Gaṅgājī. Mature, so we go down, dipping in, and we come out. Secondly, you cannot have in that water. That water is... gone, we dip in and out, that’s all. We cannot live again in that. Even we will enter life, there is no water, that is gone. Therefore, where it is, it is like this. We should be in the present time, and everything, good or bad, we should try to say, "God, all is what? You have given, and what it is, 'Let me be thee, thyself, oh my Lord, oh my God.'" And it is many things. It happens, our holy Gurujī, Bābājī, Mādhvanājī, Bhagavān. There is one big book from holy Gurujī. It is a very good book, and if you can read. All there are many, many stories, and it’s so beautiful and very good, and that we can learn. It will give us many things. So to go in like that, from one story to other stories, to other stories, so Gurujī was telling the stories, and it is many, many things. He said, but one story he said. So there was in Gujaratis, Gujarati bhaktas, they are mostly Gujarati bhaktas, very great bhaktas. Even if you are not a yogī and nothing, and you take a dress and you go there, they will say, "Mahārāj, Mahārāj, Mahārāj." Gujarat is very good. So there were three persons from Gujarat who wanted to go to the Gaṅgā. And Ganga, where was it? Near Haridwar. So they want to go to Haridwar. That time there was no stories, no either horse or buffaloes or walking. And we do not know where is where. But Gujarati, they are very great; they want to help. So they are going today in this direction, that direction, always. So one said, "If you want to go to the Gaṅgā and this, then eat at someone’s house, those who are not eating meat and alcohol." And if there is nothing, stay outside or there. Do not drink from them anything. So sometimes many people were there, sometimes not. And so, and always, we said, "We will go to the Gaṅgā, and we will say, 'God is there,' this and that and that," all that. So how? They said, "In your house, are you that you do not have meat and alcohol and this, that, and that?" Ganga was one kilometer away. So it was evening, and all the Gujaratis were thinking, "Tomorrow we will go to the river to bathe." So they said there was one Mahārāj, Gurujī. And there’s a little one house, and also one more. So one sādhu was sitting there, and the three Gujaratis came. They said, "What can we tell them? Because it is a Ganga, and this is a Sādhu. Why should we ask him, 'Do you eat meat or this or that?'" So they went there. Hari Om. And this is very good, thank you. So Mahārāj said, the Yogī said, "Look, here is a little room, and there is something to cook for you. You can make your vegetables and chapatis, or whatever you want to. I give you everything. Yes." So they made food. They ate. A small room. That same room, so he’s sitting with Gurujī and giving some lectures, a little bit. It was 8 o’clock. Dark, then is then. Go sleeping. That’s all. And that’s why we were healthy. All humans. Because at night, in the night, it was not good, so go to the house and sleep. And when the sun is rising, that time we come and work. That was now. We have night and day, night and day. We have witnessed night, night and joy, night loudly, night and day, night and day. Night and day, I look for you night and day. Door of my life, I keep for thee. Door of my life, I keep for thee. Night and day, night and day, I look for you night and day. Very good. So, Swāmījī is sitting there, and three Gujarati people are sitting. So Gurujī said, "Now you can sleep." And he said, "Where is Gaṅgājī? Where is Gaṅgājī Dur?" And Mahārāj Jī said, Swāmījī said, "I do not know, where is Gaṅgā? Gaṅgā River? I do not know. You did not see the Gaṅgā. Why should I go to the Gaṅgā? I am here. My time, everything is good. You never see the Gaṅgā. Did you drink water? Well, Mahārājī, what can we do?" So Mahārājī went into his room, and three Gujaratis went into the room from Gujarat, walking long, long... And we had no shoes, nothing. And Ganga is just nearby. "Arre, Bābājī! Arre, Mahārāj!" We did so many long, long ways, and even you do not know where is the Ganga. You did not. We thought you are, every day you are going to the bathing. Swamiji went into his room. The sun was rising, not the sun, sun, sun... Moon, they have all Gujarati camp. Kurosu Bāpu, Mātṛī Amiṣa, okay. We a kit leave a give him a week on to the Maru to budget given Kharab Kāḍu Edi Duvā Buddha me. Oh Bāpu G camps, oh Bāpu G, I’m cool so. Could you see them better? Better dinner, very better. And what happens there? It comes three black cows, three cows, black, coming. So, the black cow is coming. Gujarati, the earth, where they want to go. So they came near to the ashram. They are all sitting like this. So black cows became black ladies. Oh my God, now they will kill me. This is me. Then one went to clean the ashram, one was bringing all things from outside, and this, and one was cleaning nice water and bringing new water, and they became white ladies. Now, Gujarati say, "My God, what will be now?" It was a black cow, then became black ladies, and now they are very nice. And now, what will they be? Do one is working this or this and that? And then they thought she was coming, coming to clean her. Their room, and one said, "Please, please, I give you something, anything, some money, do not kill me, please." What happens? Black cows and black persons and all this, and they said, "No, no... we are three ladies: Gaṅgā, Yamunā, and Sarasvatī." And all day, the people come into our rivers with us and give all their problems. Everything, what was that? Nobody can clean us, but we have such as those, and he can give us again white, and again we go. They said, "Really, so?" Yes. Then they said, "What should we do?" They said, "This Gaṅgā is here, not that water Gaṅgā there." And so, water and this everything is within sight and hour. So, our water drinking, water cleaning, everything, but the purity, She is in our self with our mantras, our guru kṛpās, and everything. And so the Ganga Mother, Ganga Māyā, she comes to us, and we go to the other Gangas to her. In that way is this satsaṅg. That’s why then it is a satsaṅg from everywhere. Does not matter if it is any religious person. Gaṅgā, Māyā, they are there and will give us Parabrahma, Paramātmā, Gaṅgā, Gītā, or, yes, there are five. Gaṅgā, Gītā, Jagayā, Jagayā, Tri, say it. Did you forget? Gītā, Gaṅgā, five Gaṅgās, five elements of the body, our body and everything is in our body. So satsaṅg is the best of all. So let’s learn good things and make a mālā. Everyone, love everyone. Understand, live as one. Help one another, help everyone. And those who have problems, we should try to help the children. Do not be angry, do not do this and that. So today our satsaṅg is about the church or whatever it is. That we have beautiful here, and Jesus and Holy Mother, all we worship them. All we worship all the goddess. Only one thing is that they do not worship anybody, Christians. They worship anything. Others. Muslims, not only others, only. But Hinduism is that great. We are all for all, and that is this, because we do not know. And if somebody says it, we will not be, they will say, but they cannot. It means that when we die, our body, then is the ātmā, yajña. So, we will not say that God is not good, and they are not. You all will come into the one, and the body of the humans will remain here, and that ātmā, all of it will go. That, nobody knows, nobody knows. How is it, though? Many people are saying, "Yes, we have our mantra, we have pūjā, yes, we are doing everything." That’s good. But a drop of the one water and the whole ocean is the same. One drop goes in the ocean, and from that, it comes to us. A long, long time, but that water will come again to the ocean. Similarly, we all will go into God’s side. Animals and humans all will go in their life, so this is the God has brought and brought in from the space. And now we have the ocean and the drop, everything. And who brought us out from the ocean? The earth? Who brought that? How then? It... came over, and now we are doing everybody. We break up the many, many trees and these many things, this and we go. Many, many things we are taking out, coming water more inside, we coming water. Then one day, we are again in the water. Oh, then we see water, water. No, no,... there is a fish, fish. As long as we eat everything, all animals and humans, and so then the fish will say again, "Should we go a little out?" So, all in everyone’s, we should become friends, peace, harmony, and we humans know, so we should take care of the other creatures also. Deep Nair Bhagavān kī sanātana dharma kī avaigvan bhajan gāo. Nāreyam Bhagavān kī jai, Śrī Sattva Gurudeva kī jai. Gurudeva, mere jab pā sakārī, me a sakārū kisakī kisakī. Guru Deva, Mere Chabba Paa Sakhare, Mere Aasakaru Kisaki? Guru Deva, Mere Chabba Paa Sakhare... Guru Deva, Mere Jabba Baaha Gahu Ki Sakhi. Guru Deva Mere Jabba Pā Sakhā Rū Kī Sakhī. Thank you for watching. Japa dāsa hue śara ne, japa dāsa hue śara ne, śaraṇāgahu kisakhi? Kisakhi Guru Deva mere, jab pāsakhar me āsakharu kisakhi? Kisakhi Guru Deva mere, jab pāsakar mein āsakaru kisaki? Jab charaṇa Guru Deva mi... Good. Hari Om.

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