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Do good things and be happy

Bhajan is a supreme spiritual practice, singing the divine names that unite all hearts beyond language. It brings inner peace and beauty, relaxing the body and mind. Yet, the world contains both good and negative tendencies, like violence and intoxication. All religions contain happiness, but the highest path avoids harming others. Every living creature possesses and offers peace and love. A story illustrates this: a great tree, confident in its strength, was warned by a sādhu of its coming end. It doubted any man or elephant could break it. Later, the sādhu returned to find the tree fallen, destroyed not by great force but by a small, persistent agent. Do not mistake size for security or become arrogant in power. In this age, conflict is prevalent, but our essence is divine spirit. True practice is inward. Be wary of those who claim greatness while seeking material gain. The divine encompasses all dualities.

"Bhajan gives us very beautiful words: Hare, Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma—all of them."

"Don’t think that I am okay, powerful, and that I don’t want anybody else like this."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

I would like to sing a bhajan again. This bhajan is from our Holy Gurujī. We have been immersed in these bhajans, swimming in them all the time, for many years. They are in Holy Gurujī’s books from the time of Mahāprabhujī. Each and every bhajan is one of the best things for everything. Bhajan, bhaj, bhaj—bhaj means to sing, "Oh my person, I would like to sing!" But what to sing? Bhajan gives us very beautiful words: Hare, Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma—all of them. Bhagat, Bhagavān, bhajans... We speak very well and we sing. There are so many, so many. For example, this big tree here above us. How many leaves does it have? It is still not enough to count. The tree is very big with so many leaves, yet it is not enough. All humans, no matter their country or religion, when we sing and offer something, all languages come together. We may not know some people, we may not understand them, but when we begin to sing, even without knowing, good words come to our heart. Our heart gives us this beauty. Everything is beautiful. Dancing, bhajans, and many other things—people laugh, talk about different good things, whether it is good or not. People in different countries are so happy, dancing this or that. We may not know what it was, but in the very heart of a person, there may be spirituals or dancings. In our heart, in our body, everything makes us relaxed and peaceful. Good things are there. But there are also different people. They have in their hand what? Alcohol, yes. How do persons make themselves? This is the question. How many lives? Not just one tree, but many things. Certain things are like this: they are not good, but people think, "Now I have done something very bad," and we become angry. For example, now some people, whole countries, are fighting each other. They are very happy that one is shooting and the other side is shooting. They are happy like this, but that is not good. God said, "O man, all my disciples, my children, I give you happiness." But there is one who doesn’t want it, and this makes them negative. So people, you know, somebody can kill somebody. But still, that one says, "Okay, I am you." So both good and bad exist. We are all spiritualities, very peaceful and good. It doesn’t matter which religion. Everyone in any religion can be very happy at home, talking, as Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, or others. They also have happiness within them. But what is best? We should not kill somebody, not take alcohol, meat, and so on. That is in Sanātana Dharma, but every dharma is not this. If you are doing good things, happy things, it doesn’t matter who you are or which country you are from. You are not happy to kill something. When killing somebody, we say, "Oh my God, a creature, happy," and we cut it. Yes, jīva jīva bhakṣate. I am always telling, jīva jīva bhakṣate. Jīvā means life. All creatures, even the tiniest we can see, and many others—it doesn’t matter who or how—they always give peace, have peace, and give love. They are given something, help, and this does not kill them or pull them away. These are the two things. This will take one in other directions, and others will go into other directions. That direction, we all can tell, doesn’t matter which religion you are. If we have done something for someone, we always say it is a great thing. These things, so many, what we are doing... Invest in this tree. It is good, and we will take its leaves, its branches, or we will cut it. The tree will not say anything. It can take a long time; it is born. One question was told, and Holy Gurujī gave this one to sing. There were not so many humans. For example, in a Czech or Indian city, maybe there were 20,000 at that time, maybe more, but not so much forest. There was one sādhu, a holy man, living in the forest, living from fruits, some leaves, only water. He was a great sādhu, walking somewhere like in Navanchak. How many forests, very big and good, and so many other things. At that time, beside us, we have one tree. This tree, how it died... But how many years was this? At that time, it is said two or three thousand big trees were there. Sometimes some were broken, otherwise very beautiful and great. I have often... you gave your lecture always about that. So there was a big, big tree. One sādhu came and saw it and stopped there. That big tree was speaking, and there was one swāmī standing near it. What did he say? The sādhu said, "I am looking." And the tree said, "Very big." And he said, "Sādhu, what can I give you? What do you like?" The sādhu said, "My friend, I don’t need anything from you. But one thing is that I don’t know how I will do it. Every year, every age, I was so happy all the time. But now your day has come." The tree said, "What?" The sādhu said, "There is one man, and that man is like this: he will kill you all." The tree said, "What? All the very far, far distance, many?" The sādhu said, "Swamiji, don’t worry. You can have a problem, but not me. Please, sit with me. What can I do?" So the sādhu said, "I will go, but I tell you, my brother, your day has come." That tree was big. It said to the sādhu, "Please give me blessing. Everything is good. Thank you. I will also give you good, and you give me good again." The tree said, "Yes, don’t worry, everything will be okay." The sādhu said, "What? It will be? How will you do it?" The tree said, "There’s no one like that who can break my tree. He cannot break it; it will be dear." So the tree said, "Sādhu, please, you can go." Well, he went. In one year or three years, that sādhu came back in this direction. What the sādhu said was, "Big, big..." The tree is big, and what happened? It fell down. "I told you, my friend, it is your time again." The tree said, "I don’t know how it happened, but I’m very sad that I am broken. But tell me, how did it go? There is a... you know that, uh, alphabet? And what is a very big, big animal? Elephant, big, big. They pass dust, they’re holding, but they could not break me. Who can kill me?" The sādhu said, "This is coming." While in the forest and other villages, one man came and said, "He’s killing me, my tree," but he will come, and I have in my hand like this. You will feel it like you will kill yourself. There is no power. You can do anything like this with nothing. Yes, I told you. I told you this is the day which is coming, and everything will become. The coil, all the coil from the fire, you can go, Mahārājī. And so it came, one little... what is that called? Egg, yeah, very little. The tree said, "What can he do? This little, this little, what? I don’t know." Everybody tells them nothing. Yes, so it’s only a little, you see? The little thing, you will always make it like this, like this. Nothing will be gone. The tree said, "No, I have my friend, who is my friend? The tree, all these woods, and what can they do? Will they burn fire? Not like this." The sādhu said, "No, I will be the friend of the... what is that? I told you, X, yeah." So the sādhu said, "I will do, I become your friend." The tree said, "Oh my God, all the times I will say, 'I won’t have some friend,' and this and that. Now it is like this." So from iron, very strong, he... what did he do? He put it, my dinda, my dinda, okay, yeah. So he made a little from the iron like this. And how his friend? "I am your friend, right here," but he said, "We are little like this," and my... It is so big, and he was only little, grown from me. But it is said, I go with my friend, and then he made this, and he put it in like here. How my friend, what do I want? Yes, this is my friend, but now his was not like this, and very good. That you are here now, and I will help you so much. And what he did, it was very little. You could do little, it only, but that one power from this, so two powers from that other there. Otherwise, there is only speaking him himself what you do. But there is something that one will be all the time. So, where is it? Not in one month, not in one... something... one month, yeah, yeah, something, yeah. And so, like this one, again, on the other side, the guru came, the sādhu, and the sādhu was looking. "I told you, my friend, you have to be very, very good and rock very good, but I told you." The tree said, "Yes, Swamiji, I had power. All my friends tell you, 'The whole forest is very strong, no one can,' but this little, this stack, egg. And what? This one pulled at him, and he also burned inside." So, like this is what we said. Don’t think that I am okay, powerful, and that I don’t want anybody else like this. But this always, always let in our heart, in our thoughts, in our feelings, in everything. And if somebody tells negatives, say, "Please." Nowadays, in this Kali Yuga, you know, more people are killing each other, and like this, and animals. But we only can... that we will become and come to that. Parabrahma, Brahmatma, that is it. Therefore, we are here and we speak. We like it. It doesn’t matter from which country you are. If you don’t understand the language, but our heart, that is a little child, is born. And the child also, he... I will tell you, but it knows that we are like this, and those others who, in that way, they will, and they cannot always go. Then I’m going there, and then this, what will happen? This kind of thing will, everything will be destroyed, and we see it. Say it now, it’s Sat Yuga, Sat Yuga. In that, there were major rākṣasas, so we should be thankful to them, peaceful. Let them be, don’t say we should not fight. Don’t. You can, I will not do in this, please. They are powerful, now they are powerful, and therefore, in our heart, don’t think, and therefore, in our sādhanā, our practice. Our gurus, those gurus, there is not this guru, so many this and that, and said, "Okay, you know that very much." It is you don’t know. If I will take the money, then I will be very great and take many, many people, and I know, tell. Anybody, give me the money, please. This thousand, give me. There is no, but we have this money, or this Om Ashram, and that Om Ashram is not for me and also not for you, because we will die very soon, but that will remain. That is like this. Others, many, many people come, they become like it. There are many, some they are not gurus, but they become now Satyugīs, and like this, "I am great," and this and that. Okay, how many? You know, one, two, three? You know exactly. You know that? Yes? Yeah? They were wearing, people were coming from all the countries and were there. And they have gurus. They said, "No, no, he is a guru," and that he finished. Therefore, sanātanadharma, Bhagavān, Bhagavān has great, big care. And also, that’s why Viṣṇu is Śiva, and Śiva is Śiva in both ways. If he is only one side, then he will also be killing everything. Therefore, Śiva tells both in this light, with this and with this. You know that? You know that? Yeah. But what has Śiva done? Śivjī, Bhagavān, Śiva, both. Yeah. Bhagavān tells this and this. They are good, best: Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and so on, and others, what? Lakṣmī, and so on. In that time, it began. And he was not born in anything. He brought himself. Then they said, "But how will he do it? No children, no girls. He needs a girl to marry." And Bhagavān Śiva said, "No, no, look, you will see me." And Śiva, half was this lady and half Śiva, the human man. So men and women, and so in that it is, so well, how. It is to the left side and to the right side, and again Śiva has put it on, and that’s why, you know, we have in our book here very nicely in this picture a little piece. You can see it, then it’s written there. Yes, so there is in our book we are working, working... And then we are coming, and then we see where we are, and then to our this part, and then after, there is something, I think I don’t know. Hey, so I, books always in my hand, but you have to, and then the Bhagavān Śiva. Huh? Dancing. Hey, come on, dancing. We will be dancing today. Okay. Yes. That is a great thing. Great, great, great. Yes. And in that is that, you know, in our part. This we have to learn, and you know, one of this hour, all, six o’clock morning, they are going in that hall, and they’re meditating, everything. But because they came late, or late means only ten days, and then the whole year is not. But if they have the garb, they did, then it was the greatest in this. Very bad. One by one, point it is good. So therefore, it is like that. What I wanted to tell you, Bhajan, is that all the parts of this Avalokiteśvara were told. You have seen the photo, yes? You should have this. You have learned it. It is not very... So this book, as always, you must have this book with you in your exercises, in yoga, everything. So, there you can do everything, yes? Yeah. Oh, so there is a... there is something. What will he do with me? Yes, he told me something, but what will he do? But... but this should have... okay. Me, John, is joke. Nice happening, okay?

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