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Be peaceful and harmonious

A spiritual discourse on universal oneness and the sacredness of all life.

"God is only one. Our physical five elements—in that we also have only these elements."

"Holi Guruji said, 'One in all and all in one.' At that time, neither Austrians, nor Croatians, nor Americans, nor Indians—all of this will become one."

Swami Avatarpuri, reflecting on his early days in Vienna and Linz, delivers a satsang exploring the unity underlying all religions and life forms. He shares parables about birds and monkeys, observes the innate wisdom in animals like ants, and laments human conflict. The talk emphasizes that divine essence transcends names and forms, urging purity, forgiveness, and seeing the divine in every child. He concludes with a meditation on rivers and purification.

Filming location: Linz, Austria

Oṃ Śirḍīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Devādhi Deva, Dev Purīṣa Mahādevakī, Satguru Svāmī Mādhāvanājī Bhagavānakī, Alak Purījī Mahādevakī, Satya Sanātana Dharmakī. Oṃ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ. With the blessings of our Guru Paramparā, and here in our ashram in this city—I was here for a long time. First, I was in Vienna, and then Linz. The roots were there. In Vienna, the roots came and began from here, and it was already growing then that beautiful flowers would bloom. I have been from here, and I began my journeys to many countries, but I was always thinking about this place. My bhaktas, my disciples—unfortunately, many have been lost; they are gone. They were old people, and so many are not here. A few are still here; others are in different countries and cities. So you all, you have roots also in this city. You see, I was always listening from the church. At that time, I did not know what so many churches were or what it all was. But then I said, "Well, we also have, like, this mandir." And so it is the same. This veil gives us peace. They were always telling God's calling, God's tales, and also of Holy Mary, the Holy Mother. These were the people when it began, the Christians, long, long ago. On that side, they were doing so much spirituality, very humbly. They were not taking so much dress, many different things. But now it is very different. But we all hold the norms of God. It doesn't matter which God. God is only one. Our physical five elements—in that we also have only these elements. But then, how are we thinking about what we want to do? Many things were like this. They were saying, "We want to be with you, but we will do things like killing animals, drinking alcohol, many things." I don't know, I have not seen, but I saw only about Jesus. People were telling he was not into alcohol and this and that. So we need, when our children, we give them training, speaking to them, giving them something good. Then, all from our childhood, we begin to think. For example, Christmas. On Christmas, all, all—it doesn't matter who is who—I was thinking very much about Christmas day. We all think of God. We all come together, family. Others were sometimes working in different places, this and that, but on one day, we came home. And people told me that when in the family there were problems, anger, this, that, but when Christmas day comes, then we all go there. We bring sweet fruits in our hands and say, "I will forgive you. I'm sorry." And the other one will also say, "I also will not do anything more." We should be in the name of the God that we are living as humans. Many countries, very different places. We don't know which country, what it is—that time, many. Because there was no heliport, or not any, only animals to take over with, buffaloes or something. How far will they go? We don't know the language. But when we saw the humans, we saw the humans and we were thinking very much. But language was not there. Yet there are two languages. When a little child is there, the child does not speak. They don't tell, cannot tell, and we also cannot see how it is. But we speak, we touch, and then we see something like a singing in their countries. We don't know what kind of bhajans—or we call the bhajans or song—but so nice in our ear, it goes in our ear, the sound, and that is going to our bodies, in our brains. As humans, that time, less humans, many were killing the animals, or this or that. But even the animals, they're sitting for a... While all big animals at lunchtime, they all come and sit together. In the morning, they now go into the here and this and that to eat something, but again they come at midnight, midday, and all sitting there with each other, like this and that, then again go here and there. But they come again in the evening, and they come together. So it means that animals also know what they want. And not only like this, big animals, rabbits and so on, but little ants. An ant knows where we should go, where we sit. And you have definitely, you know, this, and I also see the ants making their road, and we can see them. We stand. We can sit beside and about. Ants are going. So what? The ants, when other ants come to go this side and others are coming this side, then they, each other, they say something and then go. It means they said, "Greet, hello, hello." Do you know this? You don't see? No, no, tell me. You, you don't? I didn't see the little, little... They are very little, little, and they are coming, and like, we say like this, yes. So sit down and see, when the rain will come, then mostly they all, they're going in on the trees and bringing their eggs up. So it's not only that humans are like this, but it's all this. There's one poem, and this poem is that there's one bird, very beautiful, a little tree on the tree, a very thin branch. And then she's making a very nice nest. It's hanging there, and it's so beautiful that we humans cannot make it so quickly and so like this, but the bird is living. And so it's hanging very thin. And then, a very nice little, what do you call it, nest? Nest, and in the nest again, he's doing what? That is going like this, and then here, here she's sitting there, and then again hanging like that. So water, rain, everything, and very warm and cool, and so that. The bird comes and gives to the little babies, gives them, and sits there, coming back. This, and eggs were there. She's taking care of this. This, no snakes and some animals come to eat the eggs of the bird. But she has it in such a way that all animals, or any other animals, or cobras or so, they come there, they can't go because it is very thick, they fall down. It is so beautiful. Come to Jatām. In our ashrams, you will see how many beautiful things like this. Where my cows are, where our cows are, there it is said they are beautiful. It is very beautiful. So one day, it was very cold, with wind and rain, and cold water was flowing there. And this bird is sitting in a nest, beautiful, and she's going like this and looking, the bird, beautiful, how they are doing. And then downstairs on the floor, there was a monkey, the monkey, and the monkey was sitting on the earth, and very cold, and she cannot sit anywhere, what? There is only this one tree, which is all in the nuts. So he is sitting, that monkey. Now, very cold, and the monkey is sitting like this. And the tree of this one little nest of this bird, and she said to this monkey, so the bird said, "My friend monkey, why don't you make a nest? You have two hands, two legs, and a good body everywhere. Why don't you make a nest?" And that monkey looked like this to the bird and said, "Oh, little, little birdly, birdly, birdly. You tell me that I'm not good." And the monkey was jumping like this and took the nest of the bird. Then it is said, be to them who are a good person or a good friend. We can tell them, "Good, what can I do for you or this?" But like a monkey, she doesn't give good. We said, "And become so angry, and I will kill all." And she jumped down. So, this is all animals, ants, and a little more, little, little ones. Of course, they are eating also. So, suddenly we said, "Oh, what is that?" but very little. How they have, how they eat, how they cheat, it is very little. That means jīva jīva bhakṣate. So, jīva jīva bhakṣate. Jīva means life. Life ever is living. Jīva means living. Jīva jīva bhakṣate. So this little one, animals and this, they don't know what they can do. Or they know what they want to eat. It is there. And so, every animal, everything, they are eating each other. Birds, they are giving only the grass and something like this, and fruits. But, oh man, oh human, you know everything good to our force, our bat, pug, to hands. We have everything. We have everything. Oh man, why do you kill yourself, humans? But they become so angry, and they fight with others and kill them, these and these, and aggressive and that. Now, you see that whole countries, various countries, very, very good. I have so many times, different countries. But where do we say that we should not kill and eat the animals? Which countries? Where? And that it was coming from all these, like Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Rāma, Gaṇeśa, Anuvañjīs, Rāmadevs, all these. They will never make any eating animals. They do the pūjā. They say, "No, what is a sun?" The sun is not gold or anything. But that sun said, "This is just a little thing." Why? I don't want to take it, because the sun is for the whole universe and the whole earth and all of the waters, everything. And everything: all flowers, fruits, trees, animals. The sun is not only for humans, but it is for all. And if, for two or three days, the sun will not come, what will be our condition? We always, "Oh my God, what do we do? We have to do this." Yes, and also the moon. That moon gives so much, so much energy and many, many insights in our bodies, and this is. The moon is more near on the earth side. If you said this is nothing and we do nothing, okay, you are doing this, but the moon is very, very important and so strong, so it has to give again back a little bit and again. So, similarly. This yoga, practicing yoga, it is not only physical bodies. Yeah, we have five elements in this. We have what we are practicing, this and that. And without this, our body we cannot. But when we have done as long as it was, then one day we will go. So it is said, when I was born, everybody, when you have children, so when a child is born, it was gone in through the navel, and it comes from the navel, the prāṇa and all. And when the baby came, man is okay, very good and very happy, and this. Everything, but he doesn't know. But the mother knows. The mother loves, and that love is such that even the painful... but the mother sees, she's the mother. "I will not do anything wrong." Yes, yes. And so when the child's birth comes, then at that time... They cut the mothers from the mothers. Mother knows. She also dreams, coming the tears from the mother. But she is also happy that my child is now good and pure. So this is a little child, but he knows everything. And so, slowly, slowly, giving lectures, we have come to do, and we have become that which we are: human. That is, it is said, that from 1850, billions of these creatures, and from here it is given as a human. I am the human. And in this, we have many very good things in whole countries. Many people are very good, and good, and good. But still, they don't understand; kill the children. Children means living creatures. And so there it is, there is a praṇām that I know, my child. And my child is that, a human's child. And I am a human. When I also tell many times that morning we wake up and we open our eyes. That time when you wake up, your eyes open, and then from your bed where you are sleeping, see first your eyes into your mother's face, a father's face. Not animals, quickly. Somewhere, many animals, and that sleeping with you is okay, but is not the facing. Is this? We love them very much, we can everything, but that is the different prāṇa. So it is. It, I am human, I am you, and I. Want to have a human space, human and second mother, two mothers. One is the mother who gave us birth, and second is Mother Earth. And said, "Holy Mother, can I step on you?" Then we will say, "Our whole day's walk will be very good." Always, mother is the mother. And then it goes to drink the water, the drop. Of the water here, only in the hands a little bit. There is earth or ocean. Ocean, very little distance, but one drop is here, and this is there. Between is only our hand. All of this, when this drop we put it down in the ocean, within that we cannot get. That one, it becomes ocean completely. And so is that when, after this, come to this: that we have not done certain things, killing and this and that. And that, then, whenever salt we go in like an ocean, and it goes from the ocean to very high up. Purities and purities, our water, how nice. It's salty water, and nobody is filtering it, but then from there it's coming from up and only coming. So pure, good water. This pure water drop, your drop, is in mother's bodies. And so, when we go after this purity, it is that we are in the cosmic Self. That's all. Even this ocean and water we cannot see anymore. It's gone. We, so many times we said, "I became one with God." Where is God? That God, what is this God? It will also not reign so long. All Gurus, Gods, their bodies will also go. Jesus gone, mother gone, Rāma gone, Kṛṣṇa gone, Brahmā gone, every gone, but only the name. That name is there, not this body, no bones, everything nothing, only this name. And that name again is different, because still our name, Indian. Name Christian's names, German names, Vienna way. This is also here only, but then further to go. Then it is said, your countries, your God, your people, all are like different. But then reality is, after that, it will come: one in all. Holī Gurujī said, "One in all and all in one." At that time, neither Austrians, nor Croatians, nor Americans, nor Indians—all of this will become one into that agro. And there it is two. Two is that. It is something that we are making, some fruit or something like this: grass, seed, and like this. And again, from that, we take down, and pure we take up. So we became humans, everything. And it brought God. The border is there. And there, there is nothing to say: humans, which humans, animals, a bird, a little ant, everything. What? Like it drops, rain comes very fine and big, and like this, so all is coming in one. And there it comes to that point, which, who was, have not done this, but God brought it. And so the others will go back again, like down, and the other is which will go. To pure, pure you will become. You will become like the whole universe, yes. We will not say, "Okay, I'm like this, and it's my name." That's no, no. Name, name, my name, my color, that is in the thing. So I am in this space. In this space, many things are what it is and are coming out here. But that is Parabrahman, Paramātmā. That is Parabrahman, Paramātmā. You are very little, something, but it is you are complete. Told everything, you cannot say after that to anybody. I will tell to her and say, "Yes, I am with you in heaven." No, neither you nor me, but only. Yes, this is the learning. Otherwise, exercise and these and that, of course, we can do, and we should be okay. But then we are others, not. So, God has given us, or our father and our mother, they gave us our child. Now, you should be, from that time, then you give the knowledge and everything to the mother and father. Then the children are so good already. Otherwise, they have to say to the father, "Father, I don't want." Can you bring him this? I don't need it like this. Take a look there. Now children are like this. Oh, mother. You kick on my stomach? Yes. Because mother and father did not give the, what you call, not give the knowledge or whatever it is. That is very important, very important. If you want God to have a child, then you make your child as God. Because his God has come to you. And now, you have to, your God, you have to come and protect every side. That's it. Otherwise, everybody, house people are telling this and that, and then it's again gone. Hurry up. Again, all go in this, in the river. Yeah? Which is this river here? Donao. Donao, Donai. Yes, Danai goes from here to black. It goes directly there, the Black Sea. Why do they read in black? They should have said something other than "good news," name. So beautiful, water. Sorry, please don't tell me, otherwise you will say, "Swamiji, what are you saying?" Our beautiful, good water from Germany, and there it is. What is it called there? Coming this, oh yeah. From where is it coming? Salsa. The salsa is here, on the other side. Salsa is made of salsa. This salsa is a salt. This is a salt. It is a good salt, a very good salt. So it is a, what is it in German? Schwarzschild, yeah. And it is coming there, everywhere: good feed, good weed, all. And at the end, they put the black, see? So the water from here, beautiful water. Good water, everything comes, comes... Come and then put it in the black, okay? Why not? Then in India, the one river, no, which river? But Gaṅgā. Now Gaṅgā is also from Himālaya coming, and very long, till thereafter in the ocean. So this big, big river, that Himālayas and this. But this river is longer than the Gaṅgā. Yes, yes, you can look, please, somebody inside. Yeah, so this river is longer than the Gaṅgā. But how did they put the Gaṅgā? Everybody takes the Ganga as a mother, and it is very nice. And it had put, so anyhow, we don't want to, black is good also. So black is that it doesn't have any colors. So, then you will longer, yes? Yes? So now, you people, you should know when they ask you in your school or in the college and ask this, then you should have said, "Yes, Gaṅgā and this," yeah. So, anyhow, my dears, that purity is coming. That all it comes to the humans, and that has to show no fight, no this, no that. And what is happening to us? We are afraid. It said that the money, it was not in the money in the temple. And this is gold, yeah? And it is the gold. And this, it was not the gold, but it was the purity. It is written that what was telling, because Jesus came, and they, they all are for the gold. And God said, "Not this, but something was this." There's very nice words, and this. Is it Jesus said, "Gold is not this"? You should know, you should know very much, and then we will see. Yes, it is there, anyhow, my dears. So let us come, purify ourselves. It doesn't matter which country and which religion and which. Which this and that, it is, it is we have to do it. Our and it is, it is that many, many years you are very pure and clean and good, and after again you will become. Said, "No, I don't want," and I will become like fighting and this and that, so it is. Said, and is there when the river comes into the ocean? That time, said, "Yes, this is there. This river has water come in." And so, um, whole life, what you do? Good, good, yes, yes. But when the going life, that now I am going, that time will, that's it. How good things involve bad things that you will go, and what is it? Good is that killings, fightings, this not bad words, and this and that, this is that. So then it will give that, said nothing to tell anything. It goes into the sun, and that purifies everything. Then it has to go through the sun. Rājamahāprabhujī asked Devapurījī, "Yes?" So Devapurījī didn't get any picture. They want to make it. Nothing could come. Only once, that Devpurījī's photo, that's all. Always they said it was on the sun, on the sun... So it is we, we have to do ourself. Prabhu deepa namah. Siri prabhu hamasabhadas prasāraṇa parāyaṇam. Hamasabhadas prabhusaraṇa parāyaṇam. Om Namah Sri Prabodhipa Sri Vipassana. Śrī Vipassanā Śrī Vipassanā... Śrī Vipassanā Śrī Vipassanā ... Śrī Vipassanā... Śrī... Vipassanā Śrī Vipassanā Śrī ... Vipassanā Śrī... Vipassanā... Śrī Vipassanā Śrī Vipassanā ... Śrī Vipassanā... Śrī Vipassanā. God bless you.

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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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