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Practise and think positive

A spiritual discourse on the soul's journey, karma, and daily practice.

"If we tell that this person is not good, it means first, I am not good."

"When you were born, you brought it, and when you will go, your hand is open, nothing is there."

The speaker delivers a wide-ranging talk, moving from the classification of life forms to the soul's ultimate destination beyond heaven and hell. Key themes include the danger of negative speech, the purification of karma through daily life, and the ideal of self-surrender to the guru. The discourse incorporates analogies of cleaning a dress and references to ascetic practices, concluding with a focus on yoga as more than physical exercise.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

All creatures are many: jalacara, thalacara, and nabhaçara. Jalacara—'jala' means water—are all creatures living in water. Thalacara—'thala' means earth—are all living creatures on the earth, everywhere: ants and many others, some within the earth itself. Then there are the flying creatures, all animals that fly. Some come above and die after a day or half a day, but they are all flying and living. Further, it has been given to the human. Though humans live on the earth, it has been given that, "O human, you should know." For a long time, there were animals living on the earth, in trees, or different places. They were also eating, whatever it was. Time passed slowly, slowly. Bhagavān Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, etc., then said, "You will be coming to the Paramātmā." Otherwise, we say, "I am going to heaven or hell." But those who are dead, after how many years of completing their karma, do they go back down into animals or something? It is once said that we are all from God, and all are in heaven, and then the other is gone to hell. This is true. But then the third one, in the third state, it should be not in heaven or all that, but complete in the whole space, the entire expanse. Then what are we like? For example, we have a little fire. This fire can become very big. It is like an ocean and a very fine drop; that drop is also ocean, and it comes from the ocean. So is it that we come for a while, and then we go to hell? Heaven and hell—how long will you be enjoying? If it is there, then that too means still not That. And when above, it is That, all. Then, you all, we will be like sky, moon, sun, and all others. What is there? After all that, we will be, if we are doing exactly and good. It's not easy. We like those who are our good friends, and we are very distant from others who we don't like, thinking, "Oh no, this is not good, this person is not good." If we tell that this person is not good, what is that? First, you or me—let's say me—if I tell about someone else that they are not good, it means first, I am not good. How? I tell you that person is not good. In your tongue, when you are speaking—some neighbors are not good to someone—then first, our tongue has this, though it is very good and nice. Also, it is our first; we are first because we are talking to others with our tongue, and also talking badly about someone. I said, "This is not a good person, and terrible, and this and that." The tongue is making everything. So, sometimes it is said, "I will take my tongue and cut it." Then I will not make negativity to anybody. Understand it. If something comes into our minds, somebody is sending into our mind, "This person was not good," or having this thought, then we are hearing. This hearing also about negative persons then resides in our brain. But in that, what we said—if this person is not good, then I or you or me, we will say, we will tell him good for his name, good. Then this person will not give you wrong things. He will say, "Yes, thank you." Five people and one person are fighting very much, and this and that, and this one person. Everybody is coming and saying that this person is not good. And one person comes there. He said, "Please, even if he is not a good person, please let him free." We will not be free. They said, they are saying that you are not good, and fighting, and this. But all this problem, this is on which will be on to them. One half knows he did wrong, but now we, that wrong person—so the wrong, we will bring it into the clear again, good to someone. All were fighting, and then one man came and he said, "Friends, please. Why? Please, please." Then you have given so much prāṇa, good, in your heart. Your heart becomes again very clear and peaceful. That is it. In the same way, then it means that it goes not to heaven and hell, but it goes to Parabrahman, Paramātmā. And there, as far as we go, we have far to go. We can come and go. This is the whole... Holy Gurujī was giving a lecture one day... Holy Gurujī said to Mahāprabhujī, "Mahāprabhujī, say to Holy Gurujī..." Koḍīgurujī's, Mādhavānandajī's to Mahāprabhujī's. He tells what is good or bad, or this, what you have learned, this and that, and now it is said, "Don't talk bad things," and this and that. And to Mahāprabhujī, he said, he told me, and he said, "Bhajan, Mahāprabhujī's bhajan," that even... You bring me again to the earth here. Humans are his bag. Please, Mahāprabhujī, at your holy feet. No monies. No, don't tell me anything. But just my, in holy foot, I see my Gurujī, your bhakti. My bhakti. I don't have money. I don't need this. I need everything. There is a bhajan in Mahāprabhujī's, in the books, also written book. So, if I go again, coming back on this earth, then please have prathānā, bhajan, jñāna, bhakti, sab kus. Not only that, my money and this and good and that, I am no, I am under your feet. That one will go above. He said, "How long is that?" But let's say we are all, you and me also, we see my good dress, my good dress, my hair nice, my moustache very good, yes, and that, and I'm going, you know. But suddenly one thing is there, we go, Hari Om. It is said, when the human child comes from the mother's womb, what has the child come with? His hand is closed. Then we come, and we open it. But we said, God has given with full hands for us all, and gives us all to us. Not, "I will get it." I relax, they give it. And then it is said, when you were born, you brought it, and when you will go, your hand is open, nothing is there. Nothing is there. Your hand is like this. And then, if I have to go again, then I will only bring something from the Parabrahman, Paramātmā, Bhagavān, and something good, and this. This sādhanā, this bhakti, this jñāna, everything, but not in the middle. How much we have, and how we don't have. How we go to some sādhanā, some person, some religions, that religion, and not other religion, then and then. This is, everything is born. Let there be peace and harmony, and not what eating meat, alcohol, and this and that. It is really. Then you will see that you are like what? We bring our dress. You have my dress, you have also. This morning, I got a very nice dress. The whole day, my dress was something more: dust or this and everything, very wet and this. Evening coming like that, and what we do, we put it in the water and clean it, and again we clean it, and then we again put it inside. So this means that every day, when I go and come, and sleep and go, speaking or not, there we do what we are doing. That will make it so that this dirt has to be taken out, and again, pure, clean things are brought out. And this dress, we can do it easily. Easy, we can do it. Clean, nice, and everything. And a hot potter says, "What are they doing?" Ladies are doing something, dress, no? The washing machine is okay. But then, hot, I'll wear it. Yeah, there is everything. Mostly for the ladies. It means they take all karma away from her husband, and it is good for her and for him. But this dress is okay. But there are many sādhus who don't have any dress at all. There are sādhus, many in India, and they want the sādhus to be completely naked. And they sit, they sit on the grass. And like this, there are many sādhus. There is tapasyā. That is tapasyā. But what is that? Now, this dress is not there. We didn't clean, but now we have our skin. My skin. And there was, next time I will tell you, from one ṛṣi, and that one ṛṣi, he gave something to... there was a book, big stories, that they said, if you can give your, living your body, then I will have this and this, and I will give you the names, and I will, tomorrow be, I think, perhaps, okay. So he took the skin out, that ṛṣi, that ṛṣi, you know that, you know that, who is a ṛṣi? Okay, I will tell you. So, it is that, when, how it is, he even gave, he gave his bone, bone also he gave, and till that, our skin and his flesh and bones. Till that he was living, I am, I give you. I give you because what I do, I do only for me. That ṛṣi, his ṛṣi is a great ṛṣi. That is sādhanā. Pūjā, mantra, food, etc. That is very pure, it is. That is that. We are eating, we are good, okay, we are this and that. This is nothing, but we can't do. I also cannot do so much. Okay, my dress is okay, but I cannot my skin again. When a little bit something, I said, Mansadvi, please, can you put something here? Yes, but our Gurudev, Alak Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holy Gurujī, my Gurudev, I said, I will give my whole body. Gurudev, Mahāprabhujī, I said, "Mahesh, I know you." You are my, Mahāmohinī Gurujī told many good things about this. So this is what we are, where we are going. And so, now again we have to come to the yoga. It doesn't matter, yoga in daily life or other, or other is only yoga. That yoga is not only physical, but there is more to yoga. Parabrahma, brahmatva se uparvam, Brahma, Viṣṇu, Śiva se above, that is guru, or they say the guru. And that is above that. So not only bodies and this and that, but our sādhanā, how we are doing. So, many ṛṣis or many sādhus, and great. Someone is a sādhu, and has so many disciples, okay? And one has only one disciple only. But it is, that is a sādhu. He gives this, that. So, in the whole world, there are many, many sādhus or gurus. And they are giving their students their exercise, and this and that. Yes, one likes to eat mango. Others take what is one fruit. Others take this, others take this, others take this. But it is the fruits, so we are. I am Mahiśvara Nanda Mehto. But our yoga in daily life. Others will have somebody, other swāmīs, his āśrams and names and that. So, very good, very good. Everyone at the guru, his name, his ashram, or the centers, or something like this. And now we said, "No, we'll close all, only one." One means only bed, then what will be? One lady gave you the child after one month. Other eye, one lady gave also it, and this one said, "But we thought that only one child will be here in the world." Said, "No, that world is a Bhagavān Brahmātmā. This all, how many people? And this all, they are that human, that humans, they should become Parabrahman." Brahmatmaka, so my path, I have went very far in my path, but I know that I want to tell and do it. Many people are talking bad, yes, good, very. They've been, somebody tells bad about me or something, it means they color my. Okay, all my dust is very good. Okay, so practice, practice... Always, we said, I think, how to say, we will practice, practice... do, do... So, one likes to have practice sitting, like I'm sitting. Others cannot sit like this. Why not? There are many people who like to talk like this, and, you know, the main things... I'm bringing now down our body, and you know, sending many things. We don't, we don't know what, but we are doing. We are doing something, but we don't know what we are doing. And for example, now it is. Said, Iḍā and Piṅgalā. Iḍā and Piṅgalā. Left and right, nasal. So, the left nostril, when it's going, then it goes from leg up. Like Rādhā, Hariyā, Mañchādevī, what is she? Śānti. As she put her leg like this, why? Because this was already tired, and the prāṇa from it goes like this. After a while again, the right foot we put on the left. Everybody, when you are there and when you are not there, then you are sitting there. We make one of these times, and then we can go to the other side. Why? Two prāṇas of our nāḍīs, two nāḍīs. And we don't know. But automatically, our body, inside, they are looking at everything like that. So this is how we, in our yoga, in life, we are taking magic. We are very, very much. Every day we have new things. Everything is new things, and good things and bad things. It is for you if you do, and we are all one, and we are under the Gurudev. People can tell this: "Now Indians are not good," and the other, why? This is okay. And in Europe, or here, many people are. It's not everybody like God here, and if all become God, then we know we are. One is Parabrahma, Paramātmā, and then it comes in our body as humans. And in humans we are, but we don't know how to kill someone like this, Rām, Rām, Rām. I never have killed. I never have. And if animals, birds, or something—how to say—fall down and die, I cannot hold with the hand. No, that is, I can't jot test. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabodhipā Ayanam.

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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