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We must now go further

A spiritual talk on integrating practice into daily life and devotion.

"At home and everywhere, when we have the time, we should all be very nice. It is not only sitting and chanting 'om, om, om.' No, be very nice to your family."

"Until the last, until the last time, when you will be in your guru and in your sādhanā, then in the last minutes, then you will go as into Paramatmā."

A spiritual teacher addresses a gathering, emphasizing the importance of continuing yoga practice, prayer, and kindness within the family beyond retreats. The talk weaves personal anecdotes about the global yoga community during the pandemic and shares a story about the devoted passing of a disciple in America, illustrating the ideal of remaining in guru and sādhanā until the end.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Holī Gurujī said last month that if you want to progress further, you should have children. This is very important for all of us. Therefore, we should be very good to children and give them something very nice. But how to play something? They are playing, and there is something I don't know, but your mothers know how our children should be. This is for all of us. When you are practicing here, it is only for one or two days, but at home you should practice. Your families are all yoga, our yoga. Then it is very good; you can do it at home too. You can do prayers, pūjā, and so many things. This is very important to begin now. We have to work. We have to do something. But at home and everywhere, when we have the time, we should all be very nice. It is not only sitting and chanting "om, om, om." No, be very nice to your family. It is very important, very good. I want to tell you, yesterday we watched, in the evening and morning also. We have practiced, and it is very good, but you have to learn now. So, when you go home, you should also practice. We have spoken like that. We have this note inside. Me, it's me. So, you know many things. You know, in our language, in books, and some do not. So you should have it for yourself, everybody, and practice this. We have to know about all of this, and it is not easy again for many of you. So we have to go through it again, very concentrated, peaceful, etc. This will go to our halls, and there we will practice this. Many cannot always practice, and only two or three days in the rooms is nothing. At least about one whole week, and also how they will practice. Your students, we know that for nearly three years, with this corona and many things, it was not possible. But now we have all come together again, and all our brothers and sisters at home were practicing. Sometimes here, two or three persons are together. So no one has, or we have not practiced anymore. But now we come back, and you know that it was the whole world. I was in the beginning when the corona was announced. I was in New Zealand, and New Zealand was there. The next day I was going to another place. And immediately they said, "Let's please all go to your countries." Only these countries will remain. And they said they had no problems, not even this corona. And within one week, some people came all the way inside. Many were suffering. But we had in our yoga people there from that country: Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, etc. They were not infected. And in Europe, our yogic people, but someone who had some disease, cancers and this and that, so they went to the hospital, and some were affected. So all was very good, and now we are all very healthy and good. I was in India, but I couldn't because they have no concentration and they are not doing this. So, it was for us, yoga in daily life. Some people did not get any vaccine, and some did, but thanks to God, we are all healthy. And we have to be careful still. It is like a snake, and now those snakes are... But it can wait a little bit. So we should be very careful. And it is like this: we are very clean in our body, very good our food, our yoga practice, and so, my dears, we are very happy. I was often speaking to everybody, and many times people were calling, this and that and that, from many countries. So even at midnight, wherever I am, it doesn't matter. And so, they always, day and night, were coming. Something like this, you can see. So I am thanks to Alak Puruṣjīs, Devpurījīs, Mahāprabhujī, and Holī Gurujī. We are very thankful to our Gods, and we are here. So, thank you, and I see you in the future. And we will be very careful, and I am going to different countries, and I was all there. There was all my very clean and good. So, thank you. It is nice to see us. Now, in these three years, I have brought so much into my thoughts, so how to be with the, and what we go further. And so I was all the time thinking, speaking, practicing, and so I have done many things. And so I have come to the high qualities. You have to do, and it is good but hard. It's very good, very clean, everything. But for some time, after that, it will be very great. You know that we have practiced a lot, and still we are doing our yoga, of indaga, and in that many practice. It was the meditations, and everything was in that, and many who come in this way. There were some who were practicing Mahāprabhujī's, Devapurījī's, and other Swamis' teachings. But there was not so much outside. And they are all very happy, and many people are now. You know that my work, you know how many years I was in the whole world. It was not easy because everyone in here said, "No, no, we have to eat, and otherwise it will die," and this and that. So many times, but I did not eat. I made very good control, and now you cannot imagine how many people came very pure, clean, no alcohol, no meat, no these things. And not only in one country. And there were many other countries at that time. It was Yugoslavia. So this whole Yugoslavia. And they said, "Yogī." So everybody said, "Yes, you will become a yogī, yoga, this and this and that." So many times, you know, how many countries? The money—everybody has different money. Yeah. So, and again came more. And going, and this, and that. Now, through Slovakia—what is your country? Slovakia, Yugoslavia? No, no... The whole of Europe, and like this. So many things are changing. And there are our friends, our yogī students, so good. Many were very old persons, and they died. And their families are there. It has become like a beautiful tree full of flowers. Everywhere, and so everywhere. So now we have to go further. Only these exercises? But we have to go further. I told yesterday, and this is, some of you tell you, there was our Mahāprabhujī's, Mahāprabhujī's and his disciples in India, and then he went to America. And he was a young student, but he remained there in America. I know very much, many of them know him. When I was in America, anytime I was there, and like, he is a disciple of Mahāprabhujī. So I will not go very long. And he was a very devoted disciple of Mahāprabhujī. And he told many times, at the side, that he tells very things. And now, five days ago, four days ago, I think, or five, he passed away. And he was nearly 80, 90, or something more, 50. And then he said he was a doctor, and so he said, "Now Mahāprabhujī said, 'And I will go.'" And he went there, and I go now. And then he went to the hospital for a few days, and then he said, "I will go today." And then his friends came, his family and so on, and then he was lying like this, and he said, "Here, what is called like this, you know." So he's in his, like, this. So he said, "Take this. I'm going." Really? And then he told that, "I'm going." And he goes. So they are in America. I am here. So he said my name, and tell him how much I am going. And some of you know who is going with me to America always. You were also, and that is, they know you. And so he said, "Give it to me, take it." And I'm going. Then they called me about four days before. And there was everything, read everything. Now they will kill him, not by killing, but by burning. And I was here, I think in Vienna, you know, yeah, and so they were waiting. They called me, I said yes, and then they saw his body. Well, I said a prayer, and there were many friends and families, they were blessing me, and then they said to me, and I said, "Allah," and then they pulled him out. Clock. And I think, such a strong fire, I don't know how it is. So within a few minutes, everything became just like this, very strong. But nothing outside, fire inside. And now the saint brings his ass to India, and they will bring him to the Gaṅgā. So there is Mahāprabhujī's. So there are bhaktas, and there are... because he said, "I am going to Mahāprabhujī. I am going." And I hope that we also will be like this, but it's not. He is Rāmacandra. So that means that is how it is going, and what we do, and so it is. It is not, and I told you always, that until the last, until the last time, when you will be in your guru and in your sādhanā, then in the last minutes, then you will go as into Paramatmā. We are all in such a way, we are very, you are, you know that many people, many people from, let's say, Slovakia. That time, and you know how many elderly, not elderly, youngest girls get out like this. Yeah. And you see how many years you are with me? In 1975, he always had prayers and meditations and everything. So many there are. There is someone older than the three. And many things happen, and at that time, you know, they were not in Austria and here, it was that time. And how they invited me, and they were really in this country also at that time. But they respected me, and they took it because I brought it, how in yoga and how it was made, and they were very happy.

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