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We can go altogether to God

The essence of the guru and student is the same, differing only in name and direction on the path. All come from different directions to meet at one point. Extensive worldly study, while respected, does not itself lead to the divine. True attainment comes through devotion, as illustrated by the brother who performed pūjā without formal learning yet walked on water. One must respect both worldly knowledge, like medicine, and spiritual practice. Ultimately, distinctions of religion or status dissolve; all are like drops returning to the ocean. The human duty is to affirm one's humanity daily, honor the earth as mother, and give love to everybody.

"One master, or guru, comes from this side, so there is a different lecture, a different path. We are all coming to meet at one point."

"The whole ocean and a little drop are the same. So we will come all together. Don't say it is this and this and that."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

The terms 'student' and 'teacher', or 'master', are of the same essence. We are all going there, practicing, so we call one a student. What we receive is from my master, and it comes to everyone in different ways. From little children until the university level, we are studying. In our Hinduism, this is also like a master. They can be a master; we can be our gurus. One should not think we dislike this. It is a difference of language in our country. People should not say the word "teacher" is okay but "guru" is not okay. That is only a linguistic difference. They are all great, but they are going more and more into differences, and what we have is that it is guru. So that is a guru, and that is a student. That's the difference. In that way, we tell Indians, Germans, Austrians, Croatians, and everyone. From time to time, the question comes: what would I like to learn? They are doing many, many things; it is very good. The same yogīs also have many, many techniques. For example, one student—or guru, or student, whatever you call it—comes from one direction, from the sun rising. Let's say one comes from the east, where the sun rises. Another comes from the west, where it sets. Another from the north, another from the south. Everyone will get to one point. One master, or guru, comes from this side, so there is a different lecture, a different path. From the north, it is different. We are all coming, but we are coming down to the top, to us. So do not say, "My teacher is not good," or things like that. We are coming to meet at one point. All the professors and others I told you about are also coming from different directions to one point. But now it is said things are separating. What they are learning, everything now, more and more, they are just going like this only. Then they do not say the best, nor this guru or that. First, they are going. They are very great; they study very much, have many books, but when they die, they do not go, like, to the gods. Many, many people cannot know. Is there no God? That is nothing. Sometimes we want to say, "Okay, they are good," but those who have studied so far are lost. There are also many people who, of course, study everything except spirituality, like God. So their master, their teacher, their guru—guru or master, this is the same. Finally, it is that Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and there is further the guru. So in that, there is a difficulty. There are great sādhus who have not studied. Others have teachers teaching, teaching... and they have learned very much. So there is the point. Even we have not learned like this, but we are like a God coming to God. There were two brothers in a family, two brothers and some sisters. One began to study. He learned very much and became great. Their sisters, two or three, married and went to their husbands. One brother was a very nice student; he studied very much. The other brother did not study much; a little bit, of course, but not very much. He went into the forest where there is a river. On one side is the city or village, then a river, and on the other side, a Śiva mandir. That man went there and was doing pūjā to Śivjī, making vegetables for himself, and lived under there. He had pūjā for Śivjī, and he did not know how he was making Śivjī’s pūjā. But pūjā is very great; they have a Śivjī. Time to time, his brothers came there. "Brother, please, you should study. Come home. I will give you money, and you study." He said, "Brother, I’m okay. I’m very happy. I have what I want, and I have Śivjī." Again, sometimes he comes and goes. He was about 50 years old. The other brother was about ten years older. One day again, the elderly brother came to his brother’s place, the Śiva temple. The elderly brother brought fruits, some nuts, some cloth, and came to him. He said, "Brother, let’s go for a walk." He said, "Why not? We go walking." He said, "Midday there’s pūjā for Śivjī. So morning, nine times, evenings." But he does not know anything. He is only making all the Śiva-Śiva, Nāma-Śiva, Nāma-Śiva, like this. The elderly brother said, "My brother, you study that. I give you how to learn." He said, "Yes, brother." So he was sitting, both brothers there. And he said something, not for him, something. "And Bhagavān Śiva is very good, and you should learn from Śiva." And something he told him. "So please learn." He said, "OK, brother." So he said, "Brother, all the best." They were hugging. He went to the river, to the beach. There was a boat. The eldest brother is now going from the river’s other side. He is standing there on the beach, the other one. "My brothers," and so on. The other brother was nearly ready to get out. The youngest brother said, "Brother, brother, what happened? I’ve forgotten one thing. Please, quickly." And what he did, he was on the water. "Brother, brother, wait, wait, I’m coming quickly." On the water? And he said, "What happened? Brother, what happened?" "No, no, because you want to go quickly, so I come to you to give one thing. What is that? So I came walking on the water." The older brother said, "My brother, I cannot be so great like you. You are like a god. I learned everything, but I could not go on the water. Please come here. Brother, come back." He said, "Brother, brother, we should sit down near the Śivjī temple." So, those are the two things. The studying—everyone’s studying very good, everything. Others did not study that one, but others study Śiva Pūjā for Bhagavān, God. So my God gives me everything, and so my God gives my other brothers. I wanted to get there so quickly, I said, I did not know Śivajī. That I could walk on the surface of the water, but I needed to talk to my brother, so it happened. But any time anything happens, I do not know what happens, but God is doing. Evening comes, many tigers are sitting beside me. One day, you know, my brother, when this came about, five, six of these animals, and they were like... and he was hiding his other brother. And he said, "Brother, come, let me and you have a drink of coffee." "No, there are so many animals, tigers." He said, "The youngest one, and this man, so who is small? His brother." He said, "Brother, just have it in your heart and be in your heart. Nothing will remain. But when you are like this and that, then problems will come. So we do, but we have to do. I believe both sides." You know how nicely we are doing, studying techniques and many things. We know that Bhagavān Rāma also had the aeroplane, and now also it is there. So I would say, I respect very much all our learnings. We have things, all science and this, very much respect. One man said, "I don’t want to do anything with doctors and this and that." But one day, I got into an accident, and doctors came and took me to the hospital. And I said, "My God, thank you, thank you. Otherwise, I will die." The doctor said, "I will do everything." But I told him, "I don’t have doctors, and I don’t want doctors." But the doctors will not say, "We will not do for you." So the doctors, they are doing everything. There is no this country or that country, this person or that person. The same is like also the satsaṅg and Gurudev, and this, what we call, this is another part. Mostly, we know in every country that it’s coming to that saint, whom we are respecting more than doctors. So life is like that, and we should never say that doctors are not good, or medicine is not. So we have both. But after, we do not know if they are going to Brahmā’s or Viṣṇu’s where. We know what is with Jesus and the mother. So they have, but now how do you or me? It doesn’t matter. Only we are saying, yeah, it’s our Jesus and this. And how we were humble, very old people, and nobody making mistakes or many things. And now we take in our hand the gun and kill. What is that? Jesus did not say to kill, only to be humble. So then, what heart can we tell them? That we are good? Yes, I don’t know. You should give me an answer. You are killing the people very quickly, this and that. So what do you say about this? You know, in India, they will never first kill someone or fight something. When it is like this, still they don’t want to do something. But now they also have to do everything. But still, not like that. This is that. So we are human. Are we human? And when we are human, what are we saying? So I often tell, in the morning when we wake up, we open our eyes and immediately say, "I am human." I am human. And in the morning, when our eyes first open, we say, "I am human." Whole day, somebody will dare say, "He said to me, ‘I am human.’" I will not kill animals. I will not kill people. I will not be like that, because I am a human. And then when we put our feet out from the bed down, we say, "Mother." Can I step down on you? Two mothers. One is a physical mother, and now she’s perhaps old and died or something. The second mother, the earth, the whole of the earth, that is our mother. So please, I put my foot, mother, on you, and then we go and see the morning. You come and see a little water, then we will see in the whole body very quickly the feeling of the waters in everything. So this water and this water becomes the whole ocean. And the water, this water, water is water, so they call, "Voda je život," yeah. And everybody, we said water is water, "Voda je voda." And that water is also blood inside, and so it comes in the heart, in the heart. And it is said, "I am now," my body is going on. Yes, the other heart moving in the child or animals, till the mother’s body not come out, that will be not here. The heart can be felt, even when a woman is pregnant, or even an animal mother, when she is expecting offspring, so that heart beats already in the maternal body. But more, everything is coming from here. Maybe movements are coming, or something. This I did not say. And so, O Mother, my heart, I come to you. And then, the air. Air without air is nothing. So these five elements, and how long will you be, O Mother? Oh, mother, how long? How much you give me? My child, only there is that much for you. Then you will go. So don’t think that I will hold life many, many thousands and thousands, no. And many things are happening, and we cannot do anything. But, oh my Lord, my mother, when she came out from my mother’s body... So we brought the child from the mother’s womb. Then what do we see? Our both hands. We see those little fists, we see the hands, and the fingers. Vṛṣṭi. They are like this. You know that? And we are open. Again going. Again, we take. So we said, they have God in their hand. Please, please give it to me. So we are closing. The child, we are making him clear up. But when we die, then both hands and fingers are like this. I give you everything and let my hands free. So we came from that, mothers, and gave everything to them and opened our hands. So it doesn’t matter; one day we have to go. We are sad, and so we don’t want to die, but it is given that you are there. This, our body, is gone, but we are life. So, the whole ocean, or clouds, and a very fine drop of the water in the sky. And that one drop comes on our palm, and there’s the ocean, and this is one drop, one drop. This drop, and this is one. So they’re the same. The whole ocean and a little drop are the same. Like we have a fire come very big, but when this little flame is here and there’s a bit of fire burning, this little flame can also burn everything. So these five elements, and they are also for us. So, what should we do? We should eat well, exercise, and then work, so everything. Then we will live a little more. But with that spirituality, then we come to God. And everybody has different names. Everybody says this religion and that religion, and like this. Yeah, all countries, everybody is different. I am good, and my religion is good, and I am a religion, and I am a God. Welcome. But when we tell this and this and that... But when our body, our heart, our everything, flies down... May she burn, may this happen, this, anything, anything. But after all will burn, all will come to one. One drop or the whole ocean. So we will come all together. Don’t say it is this and this and that. But how and how it was, so this ocean again, water will come, clean up, and rest again will go again in the ocean. So we don’t know. Then you will say that the Hindus, or Christians, or the Muslims, or the others. There is that, but when we die, then we don’t know what we do. Our religion will say that our person died, and we give the ceremony. The body is there, but where has that gone? Neither I nor you know. But it is like this: clean water is coming there, and dirty water goes like that. So that is this: we should give love to everybody. So, it is always said that time comes again, and there will be more. They will fight, and they will kill. And find quality, they will go again to Brahmā.

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