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We keep the light in our hearts

The light of life is the central theme, illuminating the transient nature of existence and the eternal soul.

Spiritual connection arises through sincere invitation, as with early European visits where hosts purified their kitchens for a vegetarian diet, fostering deep bonds. Life is symbolized by a flame. Darkness represents death, while light is life and awareness. The soul, or Ātmā, is the singular reality within all beings, from humans to animals and seeds, entering the body at conception. The physical form is temporary, composed of the five elements, and is eventually surrendered. The duration of one's life is like the oil in a lamp, predetermined. One should live purely, without harming other life, understanding that all consciousness returns to the source. The observed flame, with its dark and clear parts, mirrors this inner light, which is one with the divine.

"Dark is death, and light is life."

"Only that everywhere is one Ātmā, the soul, this."

Filming locations: Villach, Carinthia, Austria.

Today is a very beautiful day. We have had good luck, and such good luck comes sometimes. We have had very good luck many times, and here in this city, Villach, it was my great luck. I came to Europe, to London and then to Vienna. In Vienna, in this country, my luck first came in Vienna. Then three persons came: one was from the church, one from various medical fields—they were doing what they said, yes—and one teacher, a master. They came and said, "Swāmījī, can you come and give us yoga exercises?" At that time, there were not so many people with yoga. When some people saw me, they said, "Oh, you are in the noodles, needles, sleeping." They thought it is only the yogīs like this, and thorns. I was sleeping on the thorns and like this. I said, "Those stones and needles, I am taking out." How? Yes, all peace and harmony will come. So, in the church, he was—his name I have forgotten long ago—but he was great. For one week we were living there, eating and everything. He gave me one sleeping bag, very nice. But I said I will not eat in your kitchen because you are cooking alcohol and meat. So immediately, he cleaned everything. There were three ladies from the church for the kitchen, and they were cleaning everything, and it was only vegetables, milk, and these things. They liked it very much, and this was a very great spiritual experience from that church and also from the others. Then again, they were calling me for two months or something like that. They liked it very much, and also he got a mantra from that priest. Then we had many things. So, till his life, he was great with me, and I was also great before him. So from there he brought me. I went to India, and I didn’t want to come. But they again said, "Please come." This is what I am telling, how it is. And then from this, from the church and there, one told me to come to Linz. In Linz, there were so many people there, exercising and doing yoga and such. Many are still with me. All were very old; they died. And some of those who were in Linz came from Linz to here, here in, in what? Yes, Rotenturm. So there they were, all with me. They don’t eat meat anymore, and this, the whole family, is very great. They made a very nice house, and I stayed there many times for ten days or a month, and it was very nice. His whole family, and they are very great. They died, their father and mother, and I think two years, two years or three years, he died. What was his name? Asim Burga. And so from here, from this place, somebody took me up. So there are many, many of these areas, so I know they are coming. He Kevalam, He Kevalam. I went only for one person, my bhakta, to some other countries. And I came from Vienna to get there for this person, to my disciple. He said, "Please, Swāmījī, please, Swāmījī." And so that’s it. So here is very good, and this, this is number one. Either I told you about this, take the garland, these flowers. Now, this is the second point I want to tell you: why we make a light. Light is that which makes the light; otherwise, it is dark. Dark is death, and light is life. So, when we close our eyes and sleep, it is dark, then we go to the other, in the log, God’s life, somewhere. First, we want to sleep, and the sleep is going just like this. Sometimes we can’t sleep. What is happening? Oh, I can’t sleep. But as we go into the darkness, sleep there, then this, our ātmā, our soul, our self, becomes a reality to us. When somebody is telling something and says, "How are you?" I say, "Oh yeah, I am very good and this, I am this and that." But some said, only I am telling. Yes. Someone said, okay, it is. After you go, others said, "Oh, this was not a good person." So this is how we were living. That time is not reality, but when it becomes real, it is there. Then you feel very sleepy, but not for long. Then what are we telling? That we are in the dreaming. Dream. Dream is a reality. That is a reality. And where our ātmā and animals also, each and every living creature, they also know where they go and where. The elephant is big, and the little ant is small, but the little ant can trouble the elephant. You know, the elephant is very pained, always he does his ears like this, because a tiny ant comes into his ear. My God, he’s making like this and running, and this, and like this. Yes, so the elephant, though little, has so much power. This we should know, you can see that, and so the body is big. Okay, but everyone has this Ātmā, this Jīva. Jīva means life. That is very important to know. And then, when we come from the cosmic or whatever, and then it comes into the mother’s womb, just a drop. Then it is coming that ātmā, Bhagavān, Paramātmā, God, this, everything. But not only humans, a very little, tiny fruit’s seed, a very little seed, but that little one can make a very big tree, just a tree, and that creates everything. So, little seed, little drop of water, so everything, the five elements, and so we are grown. We have different thoughts, feelings, everything, bodies, a little bit of difference. But only that everywhere is one Ātmā, the soul, this. It comes to the mother’s body, and at that time, it is said that the ātmā is coming now into the womb. I am. It is said, I am opening. I am. I am. Now that the ātmā saw this, it is like a seed. You are, we are, but now we want to see what it is. And let us say that we are only nine years, for let’s say humans, and it is in the mother’s body, and it wants to come out. And we all look very much, and when it’s born, then, of course, everything is coming, and then it goes from the mother’s out, cut it. Mother is there, and the child is there. But it has complete connection with the mother and father, and the father also, and the mother also. But the mother has even more: respect, control, love, peace—everything is mine. When the child comes from the mother’s womb or the mother’s body, then this little child—many of you have seen, mostly ladies know, when you have your baby—doesn’t matter, daughter or father, brother, yeah, first made it, mouth, eyes, this, but the mouth, but still there, and that will be taken. And not only humans, but animals also. So humans, they are all who are like jīvā, like bodies. And the other is like birds, like an egg. And that egg is there, but the mother bird sits on it. What gives? Warm everything. She is going, she is sitting. Yes, the mother. And the father has the control that other birds or animals come and beat them. Yes, animals are also. Anyhow, there, so, it is said. When you come out from the body, then what are they doing? Who is helping? The head is like this, and what are they doing? Opening it, yes? Yes or no? Yes, it takes out very nicely, and everything, and this, and everything. Yes. Then it’s opening. It’s open to you. We said when I was born, I got something within my hands. But when I died, my hands were like this. Yes. When one died, we were not holding like this. It was like this. Why do we say, "God gave us more full hands," but now I am going, so whatever God has given me, I leave it here in India, in our land, on the earth. It gave me from there, and I leave everything, my dears. It doesn’t matter what I had, but now I cannot, and I will not. I give all. Your gold, your money, your meditations, your house, your land, everything. What is it? It is mine and this. How many are we holding? But when? It is that in our hand. But at that time, it is said, I will. In there are the five elements. And these five elements, they said, "O my Ātmā, my soul, my jīvan, whatever." It is said, "I go now." We didn’t want to go. It was. But there was a time. Only how many times has God given us to enjoy this? What I gave in your hand, enjoy it beautifully, or whatever is good. And then it is okay, finished. So, we don’t know what happens. One child can be in the womb and die. Or it comes in after one day, or some days, or dies. Or, it is, we cannot say that I will let him give long and long. No. Now, we have one thing that is very good. So, it is said, my holy Gurujī said that all doctors are the God of doctors. My holy Gurujī said that the second doctor is God. Yes, still, that doctor does something and holds us. Others cannot, we cannot hold it. But the doctor has done something, but it means it is our time. So it doesn’t matter, doctor, do’s or that do’s, as long as it will be in the heart after it is gone. And when it is gone, I don’t have anything. I just relax, sit down, and we go. All five elements. And so, how are you? Where are you with this? So, it is said, this light, and this light, there is oil. And this, how big is this? What do you call this lamp? So, how long is the pot, and how much oil is there? Until then, you will leave light. Someone can make light, then again, this can also go. But, it’s like this, this we call meditation in yoga. We are looking from here and looking at this flame. And this, after that, comes again for a long time in our mind, in the mind, that light. But that light is then again gone. So this one is, let’s say, the light of God. God has given this and slowly, slowly said, "Now this is your enough." And you know, then it is this fire, this light gone. How nervous? Fire, light, everything is gone. And so, each of us, where is your lamp? Doesn’t matter, you can run, you can do everything, walking, this, that, everything. But one day this light will set. Dark again, the darkness. So that’s why, mostly of course, we are making light here and there, here and there, and this, but it means the light is the life. Light is, and this life we have in our heart, we are holding warmth. Everything that God has created is very nice. This fire, fire, if we don’t have warmth in our body, we die, yes. And how nicely God has made everything properly, so that when there is very strong heat in the body, there is something we make, water and cold and this and that, or something, and we are making it against the fire. All these five elements—body, water, earth, all these—and then, this light is the now. This light said, "I am gone." Now, we all know, all animals know, many animals, big animals, they also, when they die, when animals, they all come and look at them. And also, when we see that it is gone. And it is given from the mother’s side, and again it comes back to the earth. But everything is fire, or water, or the earth, etc. How it is, it will go. We humans know, we make ceremonies, we are looking at this, everything. Yes, every day, sometimes in Europe, and this you see there, you go on time to the, what is the time, go to the church, not the church in the, where people died and are buried there. And now we go there every year, at least there. Many go, parents or someone, they died near the age of, or day of, the day of some who died, we go there and we come here. But where I am not here, we are still making it there. And we think that is, that my mother is, my father is, my uncle is, my this, my that. And good, why not? We remember, but that is gone. As I, that immediately, this Ātmā said, God, my, in this body and now, I am gone. How do I go? I can tell you, either when this flame is gone, or something just kills it, it is suddenly gone. Many, many times, we will come and we are coming, and many people are healthy and good and everything, and suddenly one dies someday. That person is great because he did not suffer in this body, and we were sad. We were sad, oh my God, suddenly this and that. We love our parents, we love our friends, but life is gone there. And so when we make it every day, we make a little light like this. This light is okay. Very good is everything. But this life can also be one day; it will break, something. It will also. So life, life is only one. So, that is, it doesn’t matter whether it is a little ant, a buffalo, or others. Sooner or later, they will go. Now, all animals and this and that, they know how they are eating this and that. But, O human, now you have more knowledge. Why should I kill someone? Why do I eat now? It means that after that, you will go into that again. So, all coming, all together, little drop, big drops. Oceans come into that. Rivers come into that, everything. So everything is happening. So we shouldn’t be telling that we will, oh my Lord, I will come to the cosmic. There are only three on the earth, in the bodies: this, that. There are three points, and they are going, coming, and this, that. But above that, there is the whole skin, sky, everything; stars are there, and they are hidden, but that is also not—it is completely pure, clean, everything. And so that is this, how it happens, and we see killing, eating, this, that. We have enough. Of course, you will say now, "We are eating also vegetables, we are this, this, we have taken milk." We have to eat something, but not like this, like animals. This has to come, understand. You know, it is how it is happening. So this is the flame, and this flame is yours. And how was it in the flame? Where? How is it? It is clear, this and everything. In this flame, when we see inside, when I’m speaking now, because of air is coming from my mouth, it is going like this. Otherwise, exactly look, we have down dark, in the middle it clears, and up, a little more dark. Yes, so there is a middle inside, and when we look and then close our eyes, we see the whole light for a while, but the light goes there. So, at Christmas time, you make a Christmas tree and you put lights on it and other decorations. Why that light? Because God’s light and our light are one. And you know, you have many people, they told me sometimes that the husband and wife, they are angry and this and that, and they don’t want, and the man goes away or the wife goes away, and something like this. But at Christmas time, the husband or wife, they bring something to the Christmas tree and say, "I’m sorry." Yes, we again come to like this. So this is the, it doesn’t matter how many years Jesus went, but he’s not there. He’s this inflamed, very clear it is. That’s very important. So, like this, people don’t understand, and they understand, or we do not understand, okay? Someone said, "You don’t know, and you don’t understand." Okay, I am okay. But I will go to Parabrahma, while others will go again and again. How will it go? How many will be done? Sometimes we saw in China, and they are the dog. Everyone is hot, and I’m your doggy, dog, yeah? And you have seen many times, they are burning, mouth and also from, they are single, you know, they are burning, burning, and they say, why? Why? They say, because it becomes better inside for eating. They will have many, many times; they will go all the time like this. You know? You see that? Oh, yeah. And many others are like this and this. So, understand the pain, everything, and so it is. Now in India, there are so many people also who are learning very much from other countries. They are also eating meat and this and that. They are also going. So, when we have something, then we find the gold. How it is, we have to clean this, this, this. So, many there are. Then it comes this time. So, your ashrams are good, all there, and we should, we are friends, everyone, when we come to ashrams. And others also, there are many who are thinking that this is a god and this and that, but they did not tell them about killing living animals and this and that. Even the trees, we should not do this and that. This is living; it is living. It is, take me, see it, word pen, one this, but it is still life, it is like that. And when we cut this little, then we see that it is going diagonally. So, my dears, these were the two points I wanted to tell you, especially to those mostly here. So now you can make other photos, and this photo you can put into something like this. And then, this flame. So we all, we are having this light, this flame. We have in the church, yes, there is also the light, I think. And also, when you go to the church, on the right side, there is water. Everybody, yes? Yeah. And when you go eating, you are saying something, and then we said yes. But now, yes, I was, I am learning from here in Europe, and this year, that everybody sitting from here, and then I went to Germany, very far, and in Vienna we were seeing, but in foreign Germany they don’t want to do. I don’t know, but I am so slowly, slowly, that really many people are not saying something about it, and then eat. Before that, we are in the kitchen itself, we are cooking, and this, don’t touch. What you have cooked is our food, and the food is God; that is life. And when we have everything, then we should say it, and then we should touch it. So many, many things are that; otherwise, it is everything, this and that. It should not be. Purities. Purities. And that purity, then that time, through God’s name, maybe Jesus or Holy Mother, or we are saying Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, etc. That is very much. This is the life we have to live. But of course, if you want to do it or not, but I tell you, at that time, we will all go together, right? But then one will go like this, and one will go like that. Whether you believe or not believe, because there is belief and no belief. Realities. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān, Devādhi Dev, Dev Purīṣya Mahādev, Guru Svāmī Madhavānandjī Bhagavān, Alakhpurījī Mahādev, Satya Sanātana Dharma, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti,... Hari Oṁ.

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