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People are very good all over the world

Humanity's diverse spiritual expressions reveal our shared essence.

People worldwide celebrate festivals, pray, and seek connection. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and others all have beautiful traditions. Indigenous cultures, like in America, hold sacred ceremonies with pipes not for tobacco but for prayer. Africans are generous people, and Japanese strive for excellence. All humans, from farmers to city dwellers, express joy through dance and community. The core teaching across lands is non-violence and compassion. We must not kill animals or harm trees; all life is interconnected. Every creature, even an ant, has a soul. Rituals involving animal sacrifice are misguided. True spirituality is recognizing the divine in all and helping everyone. Our practices may differ, but the aim is unity and goodness. We must choose actions that are right and avoid harm.

"Everybody has something... So this is a human."

"We should always do spirituality... we should not do what is not right."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Om Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇpa Nam Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Nam Yom Nam Om Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Om Śrī Prabhu Dīpa. Hamasabdhās śaraṇ parāyaṇam śrī prabhūdī. Hamasabdhās prabhu śaraṇ parāyaṇam śrī prabhūdī. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, devādi deva deva puruṣāya mā deva kī, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān kī, devādi deva deva puruṣāya mā deva kī. Satguru Swami Madhavānandjī Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Alag Purījī Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jaya. Good evening, all my dears, sisters, sons, brothers all around the whole world. We had very nice days, and we had ceremonies of Christians. It was after now came the end of the days, according to the end of the years. And we brought in the new year, and many, many people around the whole world, in both, they were doing very nice prayers and extra. And the children were very much happy. They were doing very good. They had one tree under the Christmas. All this came for the children. And also, people went; some went for the snow. Running, and like Australia, that was very hot, and what they like to have, they go on Christmas day, and the next days, they are going to the ocean, and there they are going to go for swimming, so that. Is, of course, why I need everything where it is. It must not be that snow comes all around the whole world like this. That would not be good. In that, we, many of us, understood that many people, they have just like a good holiday. And some, they get home and have a nice time. And some, they are praying and many things. Similarly, also, you know that India is one of the oldest, the oldest of all, about these meditations, meditations, yogīs, and so that is completely, it was different and it is different, and there are many, many great saints, gods, and very much they are all happy and praying everything and making beautiful days. Also, in the same way, like the Christians, after the Muslims, and Muslims, they are also very happy and very good, and they are doing this according to that. They have so many beautiful days of some kind of festival or something, very nice, very nice. And these people, the Muslims... People, not only the old people, but also the little children, and every day the Muslims, children and people, pray four times. They are making something like prayers or something. Children, early morning, when they are coming, they are washing also, and they are also coming and sitting, and holy books are there. And some who still cannot sit like this, but they are really also coming, and they like it very much. Similarly, I did not see all of them, but also the children, girls, and women, and they also have this. Also, mostly the Christians and the Muslims, they are also saying something, their prayers or something. So many people think differently about Christians or Muslims, but if you think nicely and see them, then you will see that they are really very good people, and they feel about God. We call God the good Allah, and so Allah is, like we can say, Śiva or Brahmā or Viṣṇu or something like this. So, that is, they say that we know only one. All other is not. And that is Allah. And others, we have religions, and Jews also, they have very nice. And you know they are coming and holding to the wall, and on the other side of the wall there is water, and they are longing for water, and there is a wall, and they say the other side is there. They are asking something. So that is coming, actually, from the Jesus side there, and then they come, the Christians and different, and so going. So many people in the round the world also was like, we called America, but that time was other people there, and Indiana, and they are. Indiana, they are very good, very good. They have big festivals, and I see like this. I have been in America many times, and it's very good. The people I met, they have given. And you know that they have the one, what is called the pipe, the pipe, and they have this. But people think that this is all India, Indian, and with this pipe, and they are not doing it because they are cement of the tobacco, but they have something only for ceremonies or something; it is there. Then they are making the white fire or something. So I was there and I said, "I want to have this pipe." Yes. And they said, okay. And then I saw it. I will try to put the back and something. But it is not like that. It is different. And then they gave me one, and I have it with myself in my room in Vienna, Austria. And then I said, but this was not right. I know that. So, people, once more they brought for me this pipe, and also this—how they are sitting and standing. So, they are very nice. Then I said, "They are not smoking the tobacco." No. It is only one, one person. Like, for example, we have here our Lakṣmaṇ, Lakṣmaṇbhāī, okay? In our whole house, Lakshmanjī, yes? And he is very nice and everything, Lakṣmaṇa. Our yoga teachers, of course, this is one mother from DCC here and coming in this. But in our ashram, in our whole ashram, I see, I feel that Lakṣmaṇjī is really like a great person for the whole ashram, every soul in this one. And there are others also, but so like this, that when all the Indians went there, and then when something, then one oldest one, then he will smoke the pipe. So, these people were, and of course, it is said that many people died, or it was killed them, and others, and all of this was coming from the other countries. And now, again, there are some people, sometimes, now they give them alcohol, and they give them, and they fall down, and like this. But very good people, very nice, they all studied, and our people, the European people, they also, of course, they are giving respect to these people, and like this, that was the other different times, or not like this. Similarly, when I was... In Africa, Africans are very nice, very good. But that is again, it went, maybe it's coming to Europeans or Americans, and so. So, they took them, those people, and they were black people. And these black people, they're very nice, very good. They always work, and help you. But the black people and white people are like this, and this is that, you know, all well. You all know that, but now also Africans, they are very good, and all white people also help them to others very good. So, Africa, I was there two or three times, and we went very well. But there are people somewhere, different everywhere. So at night you should not go. And if you go now, then it's everywhere, it is so. But they are very, very good, and many people go there. In the African land, there is very much of everything: gold, and this and that. Many people are digging, digging many things, coming. It's very good. And they are very good people. And when someone comes, they give you a thing. Yeah, they give you the fruits. They give you this, and some people are poor people like this. So there are many Indians, these Hindu Indians, and they are making so many yoga centers there, other yoga centers, and they have different kinds of temples. And when we were there, I was there, and every evening and morning the people are going with the car or the big, what is called a bus, and they have to bring food every day. They are somehow, they are, the people are different, and They don't work, and they are like this, and it is something like this, but they are giving... really, I was there three, four times, and so people are giving, helping each other like this, so this is also in. Their life, it was like other side, the Indians, to other side they were black people, and this, this was the right light, number one. But as we are Indians, it's a little bit red, yeah, so that is, and the other side is, then I was in other countries very much that side, and Chinese also, how it is, Japanese and. Japanese was very nice. They are very good, and they want to be the very best and good in their schools and universities, and so on. And if you cannot, and universities, and this, you cannot... The people, they want to kill themselves, so... They are all studying very, very good, very good in Japan, very nice people, very nice people. And so in that area also. So, similarly, on the other side, we see we are humans. And they, according to their humanity, are humans, and they are doing good for each other. The thing is like this: because the people who are standing mostly near the ocean side, and there is what is called the fishing, and there, eating the fish, and there you cannot—you will—so it is many things. Or there are hunting some people there, but they are in Australia. Many times, I'm going to different sides, and we see that they are not remaining people there, which is... and they are now. It is said the scientists, they were so everything, and they say in. Blood and everything, so it is they were Indian, our Indians coming from the south, the Indian side, and how they came. And that time, because the ocean was close, and from there it came, and then it was sometimes the friends, and they came to Australia long, long ago. And they say it was Indians, their blood and everything, and that's exactly, you see, the South Indian mostly, the black people a little bit, yeah? And like this. And then there were all the Australians, they are people, they are there. The Indians, also like this or this. And what were they all doing? Like we are doing Tilak. And now that they have, in Australia you will go, so they make like an everyday Avatārpuri and Phulpuris, you know, they are doing everything like this. And then they are doing here, yes, and then here, on our arm and leg or hand, here, here, and here, and twelve. So that he is putting everything, so you can have something like this, but then how they are going? And this is Indian driving, and our, our Pali, Nipal, and these people, those are here in our... we were in Pali, so Pali in the Pali, and these, they are people, they are called. The farmers, and you know exactly this, exactly that. So this is how people are doing everywhere. Gujarat is beautiful. They have very good, this so very nice. They are dancing, and this very nice. This is very, very nice. People are this, also this. Others, Europeans, they are also dancing some things very good sometimes, but not the cities, big cities, they not, but the vigilance in cities. But on the other side, the farmers and there, they also dancing, they are also very good. So this is, humans have such a that they are, they. Want to see that God? Many they don't know, because they are killing and this and that. But then Hindus have brought this, that one should not kill the humans, and so is that. Now it is made a difference now, so. When you kill this and that, we don't know if we will go back to another life again. And those who, every month, are doing that, I will be worshiping even the ants. So the ants, when it is very hot, sunny and hot, and there is no water there, so people here, still there, they are giving water there. But then ants come out, and other birds, they are coming there. And so they are making here many, and they put about some kind of, no, no,... coconut. It is that, but we have the bore tree, and we pull it down. All like thorns, and so far, and so much, we put all like that. And then we put them inside some atta, and we send the water on that. And really, these ants are coming there. They eat this atta and put the water, and they are showing that on the stones or this. So this is how these people, and many people, they are some in other countries or somewhere, Australians, African side, they said so they are putting something and bring their animals. Animals coming out and catch everything in this. So, there are people like this, but so, ātmā, ātmā means everyone's soul, and we should understand because it was that 80,000 and something, how many creatures are there. But this is not that only; this, but in this, what kind of animals? That is one. Like this is different, different, and so, how it is they are taking and how they are doing. So some understood that we should not kill animals and we should take care of them. Also, many times, people have a mindset that they don't want to cut any trees, and so on. But now we are, we have the trees, but sometimes we are giving the trees, but we are not that we wish that they know how she is so. We have to, but they are this like this: why animals and humans and The trees are the same. When you kill the animals, they will die. When we kill the Hanuman people, these are also killing. And we are trees, and this everything, you know, we know, and we feel that time very, because just we cut this tree and see in five minutes. You will see the power of the fields, leaves, leaves... goes down. That is how he said it, that's why so many yogīs and many sādhus are doing it. It is very hard, but they will do it. That peace, only this, let it go, let it be. So it is like this. Everybody has something. In the Himalayas, they are so beautiful. Some days, they all go up to some rocks, and there is a temple somewhere, and they go and do the pūjās, everybody bringing something, and everything is good, and then they come back there. So this is a human. So we humans, always we are, it doesn't matter in which way we are. So therefore, it is said that they were all telling something. But he said to God, "God, how will we go out and this and that? Please give us something." Then it is said, OK, then it is said, OK, the humans. And that human is the human, and so you should remember as a god, and this, and help everybody. In this, this is everywhere. Now it is yours; you can do or not, so it is given. And now, how is it given? Now, if you will do, you will get this. If you do not, then you will go. So, many people are ceremonizing with the killing of animals. So now, for example, we need in India, so in many holy places they call, or in China or in Nepal, how many animals that blow the buffaloes. So, how many buffaloes are they bringing there? And one day, there is something, or two days, and they have a very big land, very, very long land, that is coming so many, and then they are just killing them. Killing, and so much blood coming till the hand, like you are giving in the water. That is, they did not still understand, and they said, "No, no, we are holy, we cannot."So we, I was, see, I cannot see anymore to there. But now people, they are also now in Nepal, they are coming, going, banging out. They don't do, they will not do. So it was such that people, it is said, because they want to eat meat and they want to not kill, so they made it something like it is holy, and this and that is going to that. So do what you want, how it is, but we have to do only good, no killing this and that. It will be good, and in this way, that's why I was saying, now you see, this is a time of the Christians. This, for example, this tree and light, and this is exactly which was governed when God Rāma, and when Rāma was coming there, they made all these trees with the lights so that it came, and that came then to the house. It is doing the Christians. So, people are coming, and everybody is making good things, and this and that. So every month or every day, sooner or later, anywhere there are people making pūjā. And so it is in India. How many are making pūjā every day? In Christmas, or not only, but in the Christians, in the Vatican Temple Church. And there is sometimes three times or two times making the pūjā, very nice. So, everyone is a holy people. And so, let us see and live, and we should be happy that we should always do spirituality, always spirituality. And we will, because we know, and animals also know, but only a little, the same thing. But we know what we can do, and we should not do what is not right, or how it is. So it is what you do. My dears, all my friends and all humans, I am only telling how things are, and I am not telling that you are not doing good or this. It is yours, and you should know. Thank you.

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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