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Help every creature

Compassion for all living beings is the urgent teaching.

The world experiences great heat and drought. Many animals suffer and die from lack of water. While the ocean is vast and salty, sustaining life within it, life on land requires fresh water. We must help where we can. Our circumstances change, as illustrated by an old story. A mother gives her son a ring, explaining it signifies that difficult times will pass and good times will also change. This is the nature of life. We are to learn from such teachings. Therefore, we must act with practical kindness. Use water wisely. Provide water for animals and birds. Share what you have with all creatures. This is a great blessing.

"Whenever you have any problems... look in the ring. Good days will come."

"We should help everyone, not only humans, but all birds and animals and everything."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu. Deep Nārāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Praśaraṇaparāyaṇam. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Namayom. Namoseri Prabhudī Paṇarāyaṇam. Oṁ Namosi Prabhudī. Aṁ Śabdhaś Prabhuśaraṇ Parāyaṇam. Śabdhaś Prabhuśaraṇa Parāyaṇam Śrī Prabhudī Śabdhaś Prabhuśaraṇa Parāyaṇam Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Today, I am giving a message to the whole world. If we can all help someone, it is a great thing. We know the whole earth, and more—the ocean. The ocean is very big. It is not sweet; it is salty. In one way, it is very important that it must be this way. There is salt in it. In that salt, many, many creatures, like fish and others, are living inside that ocean. They live within the bitter, salty water. When we come out onto the earth, we cannot live in salt. We desire what is good. Out of this, there is an immense variety of creatures. Even on the earth, there are many different kinds of creatures. Life, life. This year, in many countries, it is very hot—not only in India, but also on the other side: Africa, Australia, and many other places. The animals have no water. That is why I say now: in India, many, many animals—cows, buffaloes, and many others—have no water to drink. They are running about in the great heat. Many animals are dying because of the lack of water. What can we do? India is a very big country. Somewhere there is a lot of water, very much water, but in some parts, not a single drop. I do not know how to help in these few days. In the last four days, I have seen dying animals with no water. What is that? What did God say, and why? Why does God not give? We do not know. I do not know. I would say, but live how you will live. There is one story, a big story. I do not know the name, but it is about one family: a husband and wife. Whenever they had a child, after two or three years, the child would say, "Mother, father, I will not stay here. I am going into the forest." The mother and father said, "It is your wish; you may go." They went into the forest. How many were they? Four or five brothers. At the end, the last boy, when he was about twenty, the mother said to him, "You should stay. We are going with my husband, your father. We go into the forest. I give you everything, okay?" But the mother gave one ring. She gave the ring to her son and said, "I give you this ring. Whenever you have any problems, or any things—good or bad—when you want, I will give you and go." One day, he was having a difficult time. He took the ring and said, "Mother, you gave me this ring, and I am in trouble." The mother said, "Look in the ring. Good days will come." When one is very good and happy, it is said, "Take this ring. It will not always be happy. It will go to the other side. Therefore, my son, I give you this ring. This ring tells you when you are wrong, when you have problems. This ring will say, 'Do not worry. Days are coming. You will be.'" Very happy. And when you are very happy, it will say, "You will have again some problem, but it will come now." Therefore, mother and father, we go, and we are in the forest. We are not coming anymore. We gave a big, great person. I gave you. There are many stories, but not mere stories. Many ṛṣis were telling this, documenting how one will live. And so, in the same way, we also will not always be in wrong or in good. It is within you; it will come. One day, you will get your child again, and you will go and live like this. If we are together all the time, then that is not all. So this is a very nice, good story, but it is real. Perhaps I will say Holy Gurujī has written this. He saw Holy Gurujī write in his book. But he said about which ṛṣi, which mother, the father, and the children. So after such years, we should give to them, and we go to the bedside. There are so many stories, and the purpose of the stories is to learn this very, very much. That is about Ādarṣi. He was a king. About a king, I will tell you next time—stories about that. And he is one of the best. He was like a god, yes, and always they said that about gods. That also, I will tell about this, about that Vandṛṣi, and that where is here, there, and everybody said, "Give me, please, this. I have to give, but nobody can show what it is." But one person came, and he was just very... not healthy, not a good body. Everyone can’t, so to say, but he came. There is a big story I will give tomorrow. He wanted to come to give the answer. The king is there, and all Brahmins, Pandits, everyone gives the answer, but the answer is not there. But one, who was that? Was sister, but that he was walking like this, Stavakra. Oh, Ashtavakra. But then he came and he gave the answers. So there are many good things and good problems, and since that, he is there. And who was that? Janaka. And who were the Janakas? His mother, his father, and his daughter Sītā. Sītā and Rām. These are all not stories, but it was. We will come tomorrow again only to that one. This whole world we will say either woe that one or Mahāprabhujī said. Mahāprabhujī said that one of my disciples and his disciple become. And he said, "Gurujī, give me this cloth that I may become a sanyāsī." And Mahāprabhujī said, "No." So you are like... what was that? Maṅgīlāl jī. And it’s written in the letter, in the bhajans of that, Husain Mahāprabhujī, about him—he and who was that? King Janaka. Janaka and these two are only. Mangilalji, that’s great and great. So, Jīvan Mukta. Jīvan Mukta. Lived in life, yes, gone and live, and that. Mangilāl Jī is a great verse, very great. I have not seen, but Holy Gurujī said. Holy Gurujī said. So this is the heart: when I see that many animals are dying and there is no water, something good will come again. It will come back again. But we have to say we should help. We should help. So now, when we are using water, we should give water outside to the cows, dogs, and birds. We should give water like this. And we should keep our water, not wash too much, but use that water. Now, there are people who wash their hands. They wash their hands and come to a bush where it is, and there we wash our hands so that the bush will be okay. That time has come. Animals, also, in the night, they have no water, but still the animals are opening their mouths, perhaps hoping for water like this. So we should help. We should help everyone, not only humans, but all birds and animals and everything. That which we can give is what we have. This is the great blessing for everyone. Hum Sabdas Prabhusar Parayanam, Sabdas Prabhusar Parayanam. Deep Narayan Bhagwan.

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