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Life is pervasive and the path of sādhana requires dedicated practice. All beings consume each other; this is the nature of existence. Life is present throughout the earth, within the soil and the water. The goal is not to become like God, but to recognize the divine within. One should minimize harming other creatures. Traditional practices like bhikṣā, or asking for alms, exemplify simplicity and detachment. True practice is measured by daily discipline over years, not by sporadic effort. The Guru principle is omnipresent, guiding like a parent. External forms and seats of authority are less important than internal devotion and consistent practice. The path has challenges, but steady effort leads forward.

"Jīva Jīva Bhakṣate—these jīvas are consuming each other."

"Life is present throughout the whole earth."

How are you? Thank you, that is good. Yes, when you are like this, then I am also like this. And when I am like this, then I am happy. And when you are happy, that is good. We have many devotees who have been practicing our techniques for many years. In Sanātana Dharma, we all understand about yoga and what we aim to achieve. There is a saying: "Jīva Jīva Bhakṣate..." Jīva means living beings, including humans. But first it is said, "Jīva Bhakṣate." Jīva means life, and this life is present throughout the whole earth. I was in Vienna a long time ago. There were people from America talking about many different things, about what is and what is not. They were speaking about the earth and how many creatures exist in the water, in the earth, within bodies, and everywhere. I was there in Vienna with Matajī di Crescia—Katarina. I was there, and she said, "Today they will speak about something, and we will see." They spoke about the earth, just the dry earth. They said, take your foot and place it on the earth. Don't worry, you will see. The earth was dry. I was sitting with both legs on the ground, and they showed something for us to see for ourselves. They showed that there is no earth without creatures; the sand is there, and there is living water within it. I was listening on television. That time felt very dark; now we feel very dark. So I was sitting there with Matajī, and she also wanted to show me. I said, "What are they doing like this?" But we were sitting there. So, it is the truth, the very truth. I would like to ask Paramahaṃsānī Adhā Agnidhī, your husband; he was there at that time and he can verify it. He always said that life is everywhere; there is so much life. And then it is also said: "Jala Jagadīśa." "Jal Jagadīś" means... you have the essence of life in the water. So, "Jīva Bhakṣate." And thus, "Jīva Jīva Bhakṣate." "Vosko Khatabhi He"—they are eating each other and living there. Everything is like water; life is living inside the water. So, it is not so easy to know and become like God. But we should not make ourselves like this. Now, what? They are killing animals and eating meat, and this and that... So, jīva jīva bhakṣate—these jīvas are consuming each other. All living beings are consuming each other. But then it is said, God is within the human. At this point, we should, as much as possible, not kill and eat animals. Yesterday I was talking about... who was that? Not Nanda Devī, that is a very great... Now he is a... Mostly he is in the... He was living, sitting near a river, under his tree. The name of the tree is a banyan tree. He would leave the banyan trees and sit like this. Who was there? Siddhartha. Siddhartha. How was Siddhartha going for eating? Pujāṃśa. So, it was first like this, and then second. One is the bhikṣā: "Please give me something for eating." So, he would ask the people. At that time, people, both men and women, were standing there for bhikṣā. You are born, you are born, and how you are, you are there. That was only with one. What did he say? They gave him food, or like this. Someone survived only from what he got in his hand. He comes back to his village, near his tree. It is a river, a very big river there. As I told you, he gives some to a dog, some to birds, and like this, and to some friends or guests, and then to himself. He sits there, and what remains, that he eats. Then he cleans everything, and this is a pot. He let it be written like this. That was this: "Bhak Bhikṣam Dī"—"Give me something, please." But now we are not like that. We think we have everything. But in many other countries, including India and all these countries, they still have, like, Bhikṣam day. It is not that we are empty people. We have nothing, maybe. What should we do? Should we go to get something for eating? No. And this is still the sannyāsīs. Sannyāsī means student. All students, and these students should have a foundation in Sanātana Dharma. Their marriage, or anything, is not there yet. Everyone has one cloth like this for sleeping. They sleep on the floor, not outside. Still, there are men who are with the Buddhas. Let's go with that, and we will so assume. There are two or three other lands, like we have this country in this country. There is no allowance to have any of this kind of eating or these different things. There is only pure food and everything. If you want, we can go and see how good the food is, with many fruits and many, many things. What do we do at the Big Show? We go to our exercise here, and after we come here for eating. So we are also going for Bhikṣu all day. So we will too now, from who is doing good real exercises, and they who have it in that heart, and not this one thought this and one thought us and put it there, and that is talking, and we just let it go. That is nothing. That's it. So that is what I said, and I will ask Agnya and Ekta. Agnya and Ekta, we will find out. Yes, it is 100. We have one from America, our student, our disciple, Mary Disciple. She is a great scientist, a very great scientist, but now she is living here. Is there someone here you know? Yeah, and she knows everything. And there it was, given this, what I told you about this, about earth. So in that earth, it is what we say: "Jal So Jagadīś." "Jal Jagadīś." But what we said: "voda a jīvota." What is that? In this water, we have life inside. And when this nothing will be like that, this water will be the death of us. Perhaps, I don't know what I think about alcohol. So in alcohol, there is no living being, and so they die. Anyhow, let's go further. So in that, in sādhanā, if you live, if you learn, and how many years you have learned, and have you practiced every day? Those who were eating for one year, ten years, twenty years, five years, seventy years, or then after gone. Then I will tell you something, and you will see this. I will show you something very nice. Just about how many kilometers? It is not even about one, what is it? Until our big tree. You know that our tree? We did everything very good in this. We will go and see. We gave all so much love, and this, and everything. But that was not too good and not like this. So, this tree is about 90% gone. And the other also, still, maybe she will live or not. Why not? Everything was given, but that was not that love. What is love? Love means life. How we are, with whom I sow, we have to say, it is said. Holi Gurujī said, Gurujī said, many sādhus said: When you became and took this chair, like the chair of Jesus, so there is one chair. And when the other one is old and dies, then it opens. I don't know, but people will be standing separate, so that nobody can take. And how many pūjās, and this and that, and how, what they are doing, I don't know, but I think. And then they said, "This will be the... now, what is that? He? Pope." And it can happen. In two, I think so. Further, I don't know. So, the one who was sitting on that chair, many people said, "Now he's not good." And they put it for relaxation only. So, till you are on this chair, it is not that you are like a god, but you are at the place of the god, and then you will be complete. So you did yoga? How many years? Beautiful, good. And then, suddenly, did you every night or morning have your pūjā? No, and yes. Yes. Me, myself, wherever I am, it is like my place. I have many sannyāsīs, they are good, and we give them a place, but not the head, like Mahāprabhujī’s, Devpurījī’s, Alakhpurījī’s. So this is that Guru. Others, many people. There is one very good person here sitting, my sister. And she is practicing very well. But I do not know if she will not be working anymore. So there are many things. This, how all our bhaktas are here, and what is this? This is the holy gods here. And on that chair, and in that, what do you call the big, like big, Jesus, Pope? No, no, Pope, but building. So, like this, you have done two or three things; it will not be inside. For example, the Muslims. And Muslims, they are very good in what they are doing. Morning, noontime, evenings, they are praying. Early morning, little children, and then they also have to have a cab. And then, how many times? And afternoon? Evening? Yes. And what do you do, my dear? When are you eating chocolate? But the chocolate is for children, so that's good. So, how much were you doing something for God? Your child is your God. Your father is your God. My father is a God, and my name is that because Allah is like this. So all where I am, so much I am running everywhere, but my Self is inside. My Dismala, Holi Gurujī gave me, and it was in South India, and there was our very holy one from the water, like in this photo here, Śaṅkarācārya. At that time, I was with Holī Gurujī for two years. I had only my clothes till my knee, only like this. Maybe I was 70 years old, 70. And Holī Gurujī took me with him. Yes. And Holī Gurujī was there, and then we went to the Holī place. Śaṅkarācārya Jī, all Śaṅkarācāryas are like this. And he said to Madhavananji, "So, Śaṅkarācārya Jī said, 'Mahārāj Jī, come, come, Mahārāj Jī, sit here, sit here, sit here.'" And I was sitting down, and Gurujī, Śaṅkarācārya Jī, gave him one shawl and this and that and one mālā. And me, he gave me something sweet and something nice, and child, nice like this. So we go, then Holy Gurujī said, "I have a mālā." After, Gurujī said: Mahāprabhujī has given me, and this I give you. To my name. My name was not still there, Maheśvaraṇanda, but Mālā sat down, and Gurujī was Mālā for two hours, probably, and I was sleeping like this, and Gurujī said, "Yes, yes,... sit, Mālā, so little child, and why?" And then we went to the river, and there we went to the water, and they gave me a lot of good, sweet, and various things. So both, holy Gurujī was both. And Gurujī said to me, he said, "What do you want? This laddū, you know we say laddū, what is it? Good, sweet, very nice. Or this daṇḍā, what do you want?" So I said, "Daṇḍa, no." So these are the many things, how far you have to go. Yeah, so my everything, so many things there, but not like this, Gurujī, Gurujī. And what we all did, so many difficulties, not good. When the marriage is the marriage, otherwise, when it's the second, then it's animal. Doggy, yes. That is very hard to come by, very good. So, in that way, see how far you have come, and this mala is there. So earth is that, water is your bodha jīvotā. Then air, the air. And you know, once Śaṅkarācārya Bhagavān, not Śaṅkarācārya, Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, and before that, the other was Bhagavān Rāma, and Rāma had a bhakta, and there was no air. And he died, he shall lie down. Because it is said that one has taken all the air out. Yeah, it is written in the books. So there are many things like this. But we will do, let us do. I do not want to throw you back. I will take it in. I hope that you will be the greatest of the greatest. But don't suffer. Don't suffer yourself. How far have you learned? And why have you not? And so, is that going to be in our satsaṅg in three years? Okay, just now I was speaking to our brothers and sisters who came for something, this and that, and then I was sitting with both together. And we said, "What have you done? What will you do?" And how should we do? I told him, and we said, "How will we do now?" Yes, so we are going like this. And so in our class, all classes should be very... And for nearly three years, this corona, we have all had problems. But if people were more peaceful inside, we would do it. And every day, our Yoga in Daily Life, everywhere in the country, in many, many places, they are very much controlled, they are practicing, and it is very good. And the Guru is everywhere, in all countries of Earth. Yeah, so the Guru is the child, like a mother. Like a father. It can be a female Guru or a male Guru. You know we had Matajī here? Did you see it? In the Kathu? No, Kathu. Yeah, and this. So this is Matajī here. And she had about ten little children, girls. And she is sitting here, Matajī, and she is Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. And I am Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, but first, Matajī, she was Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. So I will sit here, because she was first. And the children were so nice. Yeah, look, she was exactly. She is only sitting beside. Very little, one or two years. And like this. So there are some who do not come. I will not come near to you, and this only I am there, and I am going there and somewhere going. This is not. Mahāprabhujī gave everybody, like a child, children. Yeah, always having chocolate in the, sometimes. Yes, Gurujī was very good. Mahāprabhujī is only sitting there. But he was here, but he was saved in many, at a far distance, he came to Mahāprabhujī. And Alakhpurījī, and Devpurījī, Devpurījī is great, very great. I did not see Mahāprabhujī and Alakhpurījī, but I know they are my deeds. So that great sādhu, it doesn't matter who is who, he takes more children, mothers, fathers, they take them into his heart. Don't say, "Stay as, not coming in," then there's nothing. So, in this way, what we have is our programs, and I'm very happy to tell you, and I wanted to have the exercises, but this will be in the evening. And so I try to get you all on that path, and remember, it is like this. It is not easy also for Swāmīs and Swāmīs and Swāmīs, the many also not easy. But you see, we have many of our sādhus. Yes, our Jaipur, in Jaipur, our Swami Jāneśvarjī, that is a very great saint, a very great saint. And he learned so much. And Sanskrit and everything, yes, so. And all we have is our other brother in Austria, Krivisia. And he is also very great, and they are all exactly how it is peaceful. And others, they will fight, "I want to take this seat." He said, "I will turn around at this." So, we are very good, every good. I have nothing bad with you, okay? Just go ahead. Let's go ahead. Sometimes it's thorns. Sometimes it's stones. Sometimes very nice, sometimes different. That's very good and very nice. One walk, one telling. I wanted to tell a very nice story about someone, about what happens. So how did God or a Guru, some Guru, Mahāprabhujī said? And only one man, only one man, and he wanted to go somewhere. And there was rock, sand, and many things. And how it happens, next time we'll tell. Yeah, because it is a timeline. So, please take your time and practice. And if you come, no problem, but at home, practice. And I cannot have too many here inside, so all we are in other countries. They do, how do they do, but they do the mālā and under Guru Devjī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s pūjā. And in this now, one bhajan, a very nice bhajan, he will take about something about Guru Kṛpā, whatever it is, okay? So he will take a very nice bhajan. You see, such a sādhu always takes his things with him. Evening, I will give the story when you study, okay? Very, you must tell me. I will tell what it is, how it is. You can see this. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Vishwaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Guru Dev, Kī Jai. Kīrtanārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī Jaya, Bhagavān Jī, Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Devādideva Purīśa Mahādeva Kī Jaya, Bhagavān Jī, Bhagavān Kī Jaya. Gurudeva Jaya. Hari Om. Śrī Guru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Gurudeva Kī Jaya. Hari Om.

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