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Don't eat meat and save spirituality

A satsang discourse on spiritual practice, purity, and the guru's grace, followed by personal testimonies from disciples.

"Our mantra, our singing: 'Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa.' And we died. That means that we are really and really."

"Gurudev, without Guru, is nothing. But we have this Guru, which is that who is giving all for us, good for our body, everything."

Swami Maheshwarananda leads a satsang, beginning with chants and reflections on the guru's grace and the power of mantra at the time of death. He shares parables about communities and their practices, then discusses the importance of a pure, vegetarian lifestyle for health and yoga, linking modern ailments to diet. Two long-time disciples then share personal memories: one recounts Swamiji's first visits to Czechoslovakia and a planned book of memories, while another describes successfully applying yoga techniques with champion athletes.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Śrīdīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān Kī, Devādhidev, Devpurīśamadev Kī, Mādhvanānjī Bhagavān Kī, Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Hamsa Sabha Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Parāyaṇa Hamsa Sabha Dāsa Prabhu Śaraṇam. Hamsabhā Dāsa Śaraṇam Parāyaṇam. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇam. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dī Nārāyaṇam. Hamsabhādāsa Prabhu. Hamsabhādāsa Prabhu Śaraṇapa. Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dī. Nārāyaṇam Om Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dī Nārāyaṇam om śānti om śānti om śiva. This is what we are always telling, these mantras. But this is not a mantra; it is chanting. This is "Om Namo Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa, Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī." Start telling now that he is a Nārāyaṇa. Nārāyaṇa is also Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu. These are, and Śiva is in difference then. So, we should take. I will understand. I will be good. I will be saying to God, "My best all in this." So, om namo śrī prabhu dīpa nārāyaṇam. Nārāyaṇam, who is Nārāyaṇam? He is Kṛṣṇa. Oṁ namo siri prabhu deepa nārāyaṇam hamasabhadas prabhu śaraṇaparāyaṇam. All we, all we, with this, all to Śiva, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, etc. So when we go somewhere alone, we can sing mentally or just like this. Many people are chanting, those who are spiritual people, and they understand the words that they are saying: "Guru Kṛpā, Guru Kṛpā." That Gurudev, without Guru, is nothing. But we have this Guru, which is that who is giving all for us, good for our body, everything, everything, and we will take care of you. That after long, long years, with this, I will be you. Oh, Gurudev, I am with you, and that will be that day when. The few days that are left, you are very old or not old, or something happens, so there is one thing: suddenly, one died. It was our mantra. Our mantra, our singing: "Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa." And we died. That means that we are really and really. What happened has happened. We don't know how, but this became you. In that reality, and the best and everything in that, we got this as guru, bhagavān, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, father, mother, friends, etc. They gave me their blessing. To whom? Who dies accidentally, anything like that? In that case, my inner self, my guru, my Bhagavān, my Viṣṇu, Śiva, etc. They have taken us, but we know there was also, perhaps it was not good, but even if it was good, it was like always your mantra, or this, what we said, "You are our," this bhajan, bhajans, or this mantra, these mantras which we have, this longer. Mantras: Om Namah Shri Prabhu Di Narayana. Om Shri Diha Shabdash Prabhu Sarparayanam Shabdash Prabhu. Om Namah Shri Prabhu Di Narayana. So in this, suddenly happens. Our friends, many people, they will say suddenly, "I am very sorry, he's died." In that time, our friends, and then they said, "Oh my God, suddenly he died," and we go with him to give the ceremonies in which some burning, some... Failing in the earth and others, they are giving somewhere. But now, we know we have so many people everywhere, in one village or city like this. But you know that, I think you know, maybe not, and there are the people. It is was from other. Part of the countries, not in India before that, maybe. But decide, but this is said. They want to give the people, when they die, what they said. Do you know this, perhaps? How many do you perhaps know? Okay, so there they are very good, these people. They were. Here and there, other countries, they did not want to leave. Take them, and they were throwing their countries all out, something like this. So they all came from the ocean from that side, and they said to Indians, and this is a long time, so please, they have... Thrown us away, and I am here on the near of the ocean, onion country, and I, we want to live here, so was done. So these people, I will tell the name of this, but I still don't know it. Is it was the Christians or this like Muslims? Or something like that, half of like this, but not so, so, but Gujarat, near the Gujarat, and there, so they said, "Please give us the place, so this our king in India." I think it was a Gujarat. They said, "Come, please, I give you milk, milk, and the sugar." Now the Indian said, "We give you milk, you give me sugar, and we mix." After that, she said, "From," I think it's in Gujarat, but I will tell you perhaps maybe. And then he said in his, he gave him the milk and sugar, and then it is said, "Where is?" Your sugar is only milk, but it was along with you, the sugar. But now it is completely melted and became only one. There is nothing, though two. And said, "This is that we drink, this milk and sugar, sweet." And so you will be in my country. In India, you will be like one with us, and they are still like this. These people are very great to Indians, and they are very great. They are studying, and they are very working and money and very great things, people, but they are very... Good. Any times when we go, we tell them, then we like this. Now, what is that they said? When someone dies, then we don't burn them and not put them in the earth. But what they do in Calcutta, in Mumbai, in Delhi, all this big, and there is... Everywhere they have one land or a house, very big or something very far on the, on the... On the roof, in the roof, and what should they do? They go there. The dress is gone, they all cloth, and this and that, and they make pūjā like this, and they go. And then there is a coming of almost all different kinds of animals, and this and that. They are eating this person, or take it far distance somewhere in the forest, and there they said, "We don't want to put them in the earth, we don't want to burn them, but we are, we have all eating and have everything, but now we give them further." Others, that my body, my everything, you can at least use it, you know that? Yeah, Parsi, you know that? Have you seen that? But we have, and this is like this, how that life they came and they have like this, but now is different things, and. This and that, but they are still... they have their... their... Condition and ever all their disciplines and everything like this, yes. So the people were there, and they are, and so it is like this: many people, and of course others, they are putting in earth and now coming, so any inside. Something becomes now, this is different, or they are just burning and like this. But they, they were like this, and I can tell you, one day I can come with me, and I will tell them where it is that. There are Mandir, Mandir, and very nice they are. So this is like that when we are there and we are speaking, and then we are saying also, "Oh, my name, oh Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa. Oh, my name, oh Śrī Prabhu." Hama Sabhā Dāsa Prabhu's la para la mama Sabhā Dāsa Prabhu's. Namo Yoma, Namo Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāya. ... So there is a difference. Many people we are talking, and this and that. Someone is always doing, yeah, okay, this is good. Others are saying, "Okay, no, it's not good." And all it is speaking there, and then it's nothing. So, it is going. They are all people, and they know everything, but you don't know that. They are all from ages and ages and ages. They are on this principle that is, like this. I have in Australia. And in Australia, there is also one family. They are many, but one is that they are spiritual like this. And when I come there, they are going to them and their whole family. And there, when I go, they give me so much of, how to say, give. The love, yes and no, making good, eating good, something and this and that, and they don't eat meat and the thing, and then it is, that house is so great. So whenever I go there, I am going. When I go to America or Australia, then they are outside. Some were in Croatia, or it was in America. And they are also very spiritual, this family. So, the husband, wife, and one daughter, one son, and one more, like this, it is a very great, nice... So there are people. It is not only that people are not good; all are very good. And the same thing is, Christians, we are also, they know this and everything, and that no killing, no doing this. Not trees and this and that. In your Christians, in the Christian side, this all was very great, no ticking, not this and everything. And now they have everybody tapping, yes. Now the everything, yes, I know that is, yes, yes... So, so it is. We said, we said, "We will not kill. We will not do something. We are Christians, and this..." But now, what we are doing? And they say, "No, no, we are not. We are not killing. We are only together killing." Then, so this is also if Christianity was great, very, very great, but now they are putting very much down, up, very, very otherwise. How was that? I hope they are washing the dresses and everything now, all in that, like this. But now there are so many people who are going here and there. Similarly, there are Indians, and Indians; there are many Indians. Many Indians came. India was still how much? In many countries, still here, and very, very far. We will write one day, and we will make it so you know how much it is. And then, of course, there are many things going out, and put all the different, different things like this. So, humans, we are humans, and we humans are that, and we are in ourself, so. Oh my God, oh my love, oh my father, oh my friends, of my animals, my cow, my this, my trees. It was such a great time, that time. Unfortunately, they begin to kill many, many animals. I don't know, but I was told that in the first, no, no... in the past, there was, people were not killing so much. They were all living people, and like this, they all lost everything, and they had no money and nothing. Yes, do you know that? At that time, people were only shooting something, sugar or like this. Sugar was not at that time, only different sweets. And then, after again, when it was again beginning killings and making, this is about so many years now, not even 100 years. And then, from there, one begins to see one thing. I cannot tell you, please, but people told me, beyond said diet. And the people have not, like us, and they didn't want to eat, so what? They are animals. They are cows. They are this. They are taking care of them. But then, after that, from that, they have nothing. They are lost. So, second time then come the Americans came, and they were going to hotel and eating, and people were looking back side, and when the people gone, they run and take everything and see what it is. Like, did you say who was looking? The meat, this and that? Yes, they told me in Vienna that was. More or less, this is also, but not Vienna, and this, all these Europeans and everywhere in that, and then what happens is that they want to eat meat and this. But they don't have. They will not, and they can. But then he begins to make the animals to kill, and more and more... and cows, and more and more. And now you have so much meat. And from this is how we are healthy or not healthy. This is what happens to us. Cancer, they told me a lot of times, very many times, that cancer was, but not like that. But now, how in one house, how many have cancer? The families are going like this. So we can, if it is like this, that we should clean only and only. With such vegetables and this and that, very good. Sometimes not taking milk also, yes, if it has happened, and also very good is from the milk from the goat. And these two animals, no, sheep and a goat, they have very good milk. And time to time, to take that, cows is also very good. But now they are putting what they are cooking, you know? Only mostly they are giving them so much, this only something, and thousands and thousands, they are somewhere, nobody knows. Which cows are there? We have in America, Australia, and our cows, and many others, other cows. They are giving about, like, whole, let's say, whole Croatia. Yeah, this Chris, this is a chicken. Yeah, there are so many cows, but only this, what? They give them this, no, no... This is something like this. We were eating that's called, and they are giving them so much, only this and only this. So, anyhow, there is so much about meat, and this meat they cannot, and then many things, and that is certain. It seems like going in some countries, they bring this, this... Meat, and they don't know which is all like this and like that. So there are many things. Is cancer coming also? That we have someone come, I think about 50 years, beginning very strong now from the animals, and this also. Many kinds of chemicals and everything is now very good, like, and that's why we see in our ashram here, this land here in this ashram, it goes other side there or other side, but nowhere is coming inside that, and our each and every little grass here, you can take and eat. Or make little vegetables or something like this. Everything, our everything, we have no, but of course, if somebody comes different and they are different, but what we are giving, we are bringing, that is problems. That, what we are eating and what... We are getting, though it is not alcohol and no meat and so, but this is other count of the vegetables, and this and this is different that comes to ourselves. So in that case, it was very, when I was in Austria, in Austria so many people, very good also beginning very nice and also water. We can drink anywhere when we are going someplace, like a river or something. Everywhere, it is this: we try to please and please and please. We should show people they should not think like this. All on the earth, so many otherwise, we will... Die and die, and more, some very much problems. So in the way, we are human, we are good, we do everything for us. And many people don't know how they are going. You know, where you go to somewhere in the street sometime, and there is a little shop. And they are cooking something there and eating something. What it is, it's like this. So please don't go there. Don't eat like that. And there, many people also like to go to shops or cafeterias like this. And like there is chocolate, chocolate, and something many. There is nothing going on in the street. But here, there, you see how much is very good, comfortable, and done, everything nice. And so, with this, it is that our, as a yoga, and yoga is not only that we are doing, but we have to purify our whole body. And you know that some people, they come from Now, and the Indians, they come and they think they don't tell anything. They don't tell about the alcohol, meat, meat and alcohols, and this. We don't tell you. It is you. It is your... We are king yoga, very good, this and that, but this, that you can do. We don't know. In the college, or in this, there they are so talking, but not all people within they will not do. But mostly people are thinking in the whole world it will. But if you are doing whole world like this, then it will be like that. Otherwise, they only think like this: "We are great, and we are money," and not, or not, or we are only showing you one day in twenty, or in one year. In one year, the yoga class, somebody go bring inside nobody. But you know that in Europe, the... Whole Europeans are telling us that yoga in daily life is one of the best. Which are the whole yogic people? How they live, how they are, this is very great. And we have in other countries, there is something, but I have not so much time to be on that other side. But those are my people in other countries: New Zealand, Fiji, and Canada, and this. But there are mostly our European people there. Our yoga, our people who have the yoga classes, learn very much, and they are there, and they are doing very much this work for that. So, our people, all are yogīs. There is no wrong, nothing there, and this. But there is, they are different, but it's not only myself. There are, I would tell you, at least one hundred or one thousand sādhus. Sadhus, they are not maybe like me, or white dress, or like this, but they are very great saints, and they are everywhere in all countries, and they have yoga very pure, very clear. Everything go to that one, go to that one, and they are also not going to them. If they don't want this yoga, they say, "No, it's okay. We have our... we have it in Europe. Here in Vienna, there are many more, different ones here." So there are great people, but they are not... no, how to go leading? So they are taking, yes, or drinking alcohol. Alcohol, several different things, so it is we know that now there's so much kind of cancer, very much cancer, so it is not only one. And you know that the duck and the, they have this, from the little, from comes from the mother or old. Yeah, yeah, this egg, this egg goes to you. I can tell you one hundred percent that more people are getting this in Kansas. If you come, of course, they will say, "No, no, it's not like you don't know this Swami, he doesn't know anything." Every person in India has given everything in newspapers and writing. For the children, and for them, it's very good, and they have to have this. Now they are eating, yes, so like this. So, my dears, I told in India that I know what you are doing, my dears, is not good, but I will. Bring, and I am bringing you, my European people, to give you knowledge and their everything, and they are doing, yes. And you also, you should come, and we, I should tell them what to do and what not to do. I have my yoga people, so there are four generations of my disciples. When I came, there was a grandmother. She lost everything from that, and only good things, no meat, nothing. And his brother or son, he and his wife, and their other children became already children, and they have become their children, and their children are already children. So, how much I have, I am not so old. But I have seen how my people are here and there, and there is everything. So I have one, my disciples here, and perhaps she can tell something else. No? Who is sitting there? Hello? Lalita? Yeah, Lalita, come here. Yeah, life was the best. Yes, maybe one year, and then after, she's all great and great, and was doing very nice, very nice. Her mother was very good, and her son, and she was, and there were all Czechoslovakians on this other side, and they are here. This is how it was, so always she was sending letters and these and that very things. Coming to my class, coming there for 10 days, 20 days, many places, sometimes there, there, everything. So, like this, she has also more people like that in their age. And others, unfortunately, they died. They were old, very old. So, Ariom, you should tell something about them. Yes. Speak in your language, okay? And other words you will translate. Sestra, její dcera, no a můj syn automaticky, dnes už je inženýr, má 58 let. And actually, Swamiji raised him, because he recognized him from the age of four. In our family, everybody is vegetarian. I started as a vegetarian, then my mother, my sister, and my son. And my son was meeting Svāmījī since the age of four. When Swamiji came in 1974 for the first time to Czechoslovakia, it was a big miracle for us. And we actually didn't know how to treat him. We didn't know how to behave respectfully to him, what to do, what not to do. And at that time, we didn't know much about how to cook Indian food, so we tried our best by following some cookbooks. He always wanted Tabasco sauce. That's something that was available then, and when he wanted to please some disciples, he would add some Tabasco to his food. Professor Mlinsky was getting most of the Tabasco. He was a very nice person. And he was loving our Master so much that even after he died, he manifested. I saw him manifested at Swamiji's seminar in Olomouc. So I do believe that even after we die, we keep being present with our Master. So I think that's about it, because if I started speaking about Swāmījī and Holī Gurujī coming to Olomouc, we would be here until the evening. So I would be delaying this too much. But it was a huge festival for us when Swāmījī came and we could do something for him. Would you like to ask something about what was happening in the beginning? Yesterday when I arrived, we were remembering Leoš Kubín, who was a yoga organizer from the Ostrava region. With Professor Milinsky, and he was a very nice person because when he first, Swamiji for the first time, when Swamiji arrived for the first time, they were both in shock because suddenly an amazing young man came out of the ambulance. So they both were shocked, both Leoš and Professor Milinsky were shocked, because the person that got off the train was actually a young, nice guy. So a tall, thin guy got out of the train, and they were thinking, "What could such a young boy teach us?" because Swāmījī looked great, as if he had just graduated from a university. But when he started speaking, everybody went silent, and they were just looking at him. And it was no coincidence that he got the title Professor of Yoga, because it was in the beginning when the first book here was published in Olomouc. It was a two-volume book about yoga for children, and we called Swamiji, Professor Maheshwarananda. So we have a lot of different memories, and I also have a lot of notes from various events. We actually prepared a book, which will be very special, but we have no idea when it will be published because it's a collection. Of memories of yoga families from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, of Swāmījī's families. And we were thinking for a long time, what should be the title of the book? If it's published, what should be the title? And eventually we decided, if it's published, that the title would be Life at the Lotus Feet of the Master. And it will include all memories of Swāmījī and Holī Gurujī. If some of you would like to add some memory, we would be really grateful. So, that's it. There are some animals in here, Bebek. Okay, yes. Now it's time for any questions from your side. Of course, it must not be upon Czech. It can be the Slovaks or others, or many others, but I think he will tell something here. Yes, this is very great, and he has been great. And he was, he did three people with very much, and then they got in the very much. This is how it is. You call this? Yes, three, three times. Yeah, yeah, everybody. Um, yeah. Well, I'm basically a psychologist, but I'm, uh, all the time I was interested in sports in my childhood as well. Uh, I never did it professionally, but, uh, somehow I was, uh, I had... This idea that I need a trainer, you know, who brings the best out of me, yes. Translation, if it is needed. So, a kind of trainer that was not physical, I got in Master in Personalized by Swāmījī and Yoga in Daily Life and all our. Parampara, actually, so I was actually out of age when I got involved in professional sports, not as a sports person, as an athlete, but as a supporter, as a psychologist, and basically, I was not, not even a psychologist for them, but... Someone who is helping them with yoga, and this is what Swāmījī mentioned: that even for the very first occasion, one girl started to look for yoga in my hometown. For one year we were working together, and she became, after, in the London Olympics in 2012, she became in open water. She became a champion, and we did really great work with yoga for regeneration and recreation, because they have really, really hard work. And after training, we had stretching, relaxation, and breathing exercises. And she was just amazed how quickly she could recover from the really hard work after training. So, this was one of my champions, our champion with yoga, and next year it was one guy. He was deaf; he was a tennis player, and they have a Special Olympics. It is called the Deaf Olympics, and he went there, and we found out that The breathing is the best for him, and with the help of breathing, because breath gives oxygen on one side, plus it gives the focus, the concentration, so he was using it very perfectly, and he just went through all the matches without losing any. Sets in tennis he won, and he became the champion of the Deaf Olympics in Sofia. It was in 2013, and uh, this guy, this uh tennis player, he... this year they had again the Deaf Olympics, and it was in Brazil, and most of you... Maybe he knows about him, and he became the second, although he's quite old. I mean, for the sport, he's quite old; he's 37 years old already, but he... I worked with my mother now, and she came to him all weekends, and they had the yoga sessions and relaxation and everything. So he again benefited from the yoga and recreation, the recovery processes of yoga. I told my mother what... To do, how to do, and they performed nicely. So this time, I didn't work with him. A few times we met with some psychological stuff, but mostly with yoga. It was my mother's work. Uh, this year, I mean last year, this period. And last year, we had, uh, I had one canoe guy who won the European Championship in Moscow. It was also a long distance; it was two hours long, and they became the champion. And last year also, they became third place in the world championship. So it is also notable, so that's it shortly, Swamiji, about champions supported with yoga. So we have a daily book? No, we have to put it in the book, yeah, you told it, yeah, yeah, into your autobiography. It is, I read one page, and it is included, so if... They want it can be included in this book. Okay, thank you. And now we will have, from this time, these areas after our nice shop, there satsaṅg, okay, and our cafeteria. So in the cafeteria we will have nicely. Okay, thank you. This is blessings. Always, Ālak Purījī, Devpurījī, Mahāprabhujī, and Holy Gurujī's. That's it. How my Guru, Mahāprabhujī, he gave me... yes, it is so many things that I don't want to tell about Holy Gurujī's and me.

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