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A Sadhu is a worker

A satsang discourse on health, spiritual practice, and community.

"All our Yoga in Daily Life people, they were really very healthy."

"I never said from which country you are coming, or what you are. No, you are a human."

The lecturer addresses attendees, reflecting on health during the pandemic and attributing wellness to the Yoga in Daily Life system. He discusses plans for upcoming practice sessions, emphasizes selfless service (seva), and explains the guru-disciple relationship using the analogy of a mother and child, advocating for a living tradition while honoring one's primary guru.

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam. Om Namah Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāyaṇam. Haṃsabhadās Prabhu Śaraṇaparāyaṇam... Om Namo Śrī Prabhu Dīpa Nārāyaṇa. Om Namo Siri Prabhu Deepa Nārāyaṇa. Amma Saba Dasa Prabhu Śaraṇa Parāyaṇam. Amma Saba. Om Namo Siri Prabhu Deepa Nārāyaṇa. We know very well. For three years, some people were telling us something very terrible would come, like a cure or a corona. We thought it could not happen. Now, how? Who told this? Whole countries. And in some parts, there was one country where there was nearly nothing. When they brought in the thoughts, or they were more like a god, saying, "No, everything will happen." Who is telling us? There are still many who are doing differently. Why is it happening? And it is only for humans. Many people died, and you know, everything happened. And they are still telling something will come again. Now, people, all our people said, "Doesn't matter, you can come, we will have normal." When it is, when we know in those days that we are living where it is very cool, so somebody is always getting it, always. But it was something very terrible. How do we come to be like this? Some people, very much they are, they were practicing good health, eating good things, drinking good water, etc. And I have found that all our Yoga in Daily Life people, they were really very healthy. Only people who were going with other people together, or those who were old people and they were born in the hospital, and in the hospital it is all like a corona, all like a corona. Yes. So there were two problems. So you can tell me from yourself, your family, or you: did you remain healthy all the time? Of course you were at home or this and that, but you were very good because of our Yoga in Daily Life. When I was in India, they were also doing yoga and such, and they asked me, and I said, "I cannot tell you because you think now, 'Oh, I will be a yogī, and I'm doing yoga, and please, I will not have any problems, please.'" No, you should have a few years before you were doing good things, and that's happening good for us all. But that time, the people brought in such a season, so if you will say, "I am okay," and like this, sitting at home together, or this, then you could have also some other problems. We were all very healthy from Yoga in Daily Life, and other yogīs who have other yoga centers, they were thinking they were healthy, but I cannot, I did not speak with them in this. I would ask you, can you help us? Or tell us how you could have good, very healthy, or you were ill and ill. So first, you can say that you are healthy, so you were not healthy. You were—we always, we are sometimes when called, or this and that, but the other things I am telling. So, are you aware that all the times he was good? Can you say yes? I don't know. I will tell you the thing: good and not good, okay? So, please, those you lived very good, healthy, a little bit, some is there. But you were really healthy in your family, or this and that. That you should tell, yes. You was have till now good, healthy? Can you tell again? Not good? You should take the hand up if it is you remained healthy. Thank you very much. And was there someone who was become healthy or not healthy, and because there was? Different things, or what with what you have done? This, it can be one fall down head, so that he was not healthy, but like this. So, please, did you was affected from that? So, can you be the hand? Please, said yes that time. I know, thank you. Some, they did not. They were not practicing everyday and remained like this. People were in other countries, they are, but they did not practice exercises and this and that. And now, there were in other countries, and now they came back, but they were, they had the... Problems? Other? Somebody? Anybody? What was your... He was healthy, not healthy? Can you tell? Yeah, okay. Because you were... you were living in the small, little tree on... there were not so many humans there, people. Yeah, it was people, but not too much there. Yes, yes, it is your home, okay? It was good. Yeah, Australia, New Zealand, I was there also, and they said to me, "Quickly, say, send me back to India," okay? So, my dears, we should now make ourselves very clean, and this is that: eat three times. Or two times, but good. Between, we should not do eating, and he was, everybody was very healthy. Our Yoga in Daily Life, I ask you many, everywhere, whole world, Yoga in Daily Life, how was it? Only I didn't tell them India. In India, maybe. They were healthy or not, I don't know, because I was not there, and when I was there, I was only in my house, the ashram. So please, we all make one for your parents and yourselves also, friends. Maybe we should bring healthy living, but in which things? That's it, so this is very good, thank you very much. Other things I have called you today, that all who will come and make this about the techniques or practicing, or this from our yoga century, I will do tomorrow. I promised you, and when you will also learn, but three years. In three years, then you will come very nicely up and down, okay? Very much, really. And if you have been doing yoga, different yogas, and good, there we have to know how it is, which exercise, what you were eating, and like this, but I will tomorrow with you? I will with you. And there are many people who, for how many years, they were asking, "Please, can you give me this practice? This practice, I will give you, and I will tell them exactly." So, to them, how it is, but it will not keep up exactly. So, at least two years, this is all we have to bring from our body out: meat, this and that, and many things, many, many things. So, we have to come out from our bodies, but I will be with you. I will have tomorrow. I will give you exercise, but you will not. You will not feel better. I mean, you will say, "Oh, I will not." So, two, three years we have to come, good friend, friend to friend, you know? You understand? That's it. So, tomorrow, I will sit with you all, and I... I will give you the exercises: how it is, how to do it, what we will do. Everything is very good for you all. And how much I said, evening or morning, no? Yeah. So that we will see where it is, where only we are then, not what is coming beside, and this and that. So how was that? Did you know Hanumanjī is very nice, and so they can all sit there? Oh, that is very good, yes. That is very good. And so, those who want to, really, they are doing, they want to do and are coming, and others will think about it. So we will all come together. And then, on the third day, I will tell others who are now doing, they will do these exercises. So, everything, this and how our exercises are coming, in my others, they have different, I don't know, but they are all yogīs and they are very good. There is nothing to say. That they are not good or good, they are many yogīs. There are many, many Indian sādhus coming out, and they are making exercise and very good. But you know that my techniques and my being is that, how I really, I went very humble and I did not ask anybody, "Give me this and give me this." Nothing like this. And then, when they are doing Om Ashram, and Om Ashram is only gone through all our other people from other countries, and you are did, and that is great, but not like that. I said, "Give me money for me," like this, yeah? Yes, you have to give money in nature, of course, when I go to America. With an aeroplane, if they give me money, then I go, otherwise not. Yes, in all yoga classes, many, many countries, I'm going there. This and all this is going there for them. In Vienna, Austria, they said, and they give me that I can. I worked there, so I became a worker, and so everywhere I go, if there's any donation, any that comes, I give back to Vienna, to the Vienna centers, but not to me. I had only 200, 2002, any money, that money is left. That is my money, and I give something, many things, different things. I am giving to many people, people who have no children or no money, or like this, many things. This is. So that is what you have done, not me. It is all for you. It's all for you, and this is that. Otherwise, I can make it so that there are some other yogīs, and they make their big this and that. All about that, sādhu santa is a different sādhu, is a different and others, just, just as sādhus may be workers, so Sanātana Dharma, so you are Sanātana Dharma, and this dharma, dharma is that, as in our heart, in our heart, in that, everything, this would be. It will be you all, be my disciples, and you will be also like this, yeah. So many people, they are making people from big peoples and this, and make money like this, and so bigger and making this. That is a different Sanātana Dharma, and we have our Ālak Purījī. And till Alak Purījī, like this, so there are many sādhus. And now you will see that our, from Indians, and this, they again, they brought to the yogīs and good people. Please come forward, and this is coming very good. It will come something. So this is different. So you are very great. I did not tell you, "If you don't give money, I will not bring you." Did I tell anybody? And when it came, somebody with me, you know, here, and I come to my room. Agni Devī, Mānasa Devī, she put it in her, and I come to Humāpurī. To this side, she said, "No, it is not here. There is only this." Fine, it is good. It is good that I have no problem with that, otherwise. And this is all we are giving, very much for people and many things. And we are doing our āśram. This ever look, that how they work very hard and very nice. From where does the money come? It is from all of us. Why? For everyone. So this is your ashram. And all in Vienna, in Austria. How many yoga centers in Australia? Australia, in Australia also, Australia also, and everywhere. Hungarian? How many? There are many, many yoga centers in Hungary, but it is like this: in corona, and this and that, and the, the people, everybody, of course, they are giving the money there, but I told them, "Okay, we will see, I will see." But I told them, "Let it be money, because they don't have, they don't have." See, all went out with them, or with some children coming, a little something. This is like our children. We are all our children. I am your children. We are all doing something. This is, this is the satsaṅg. This is the good. This is the bhaktas. This is many things, and therefore you come and go. To your friends also, look, she's coming from... uh, Australia, yeah, and Fizzy, you know Fizzy? Who knows? Hand up. Okay, they went with me. You were with me, yes. And I'm going again, Fizzy. They are very poor, very poor, and sorry, but it's okay. We are going there. Many people in their hotels. And coming people from our countries from here, and they are doing it, okay? So it's very good, very peaceful, and very good. Do you want to come to the... what I said, fizzy? Oh my fizzy, very good fizzy. So would you like to come? Yeah, because... Is it the truth? We can go for a week, or we can go for a few days, and like this, I am many times, and they become my disciples. And they say, "I'm going there." I will go to Australia, America, Austria, New Zealand, and then I will come back. And then I will come to America, Canada, et cetera, because I cannot be so long now. And you know, about one and a half there, one big, said very big day, we make our ceremony, ceremony for our Om Ashram. And in Om Ashram, it's not my, your, you should come. And how we can do? We have the many, but not so many people. We will have going like this, okay? So you should come very nice. What? Little your... what you call... sleep in the bomb, yeah. Many thing, we will do, we will do... We make very, very nice. It is about two, two months we have to make everything. And five, and five days will be many programs, very great programs. It is beautiful. It is all you. You are there. Yes, you are all. I will come to you there. So very good. Thank you in this way. So what I said, practice. If you have money or not, do seva. What is a seva? You know, everybody is a seva? Yes. We can tell everybody that we help the fail, the very fail, or help others. Also, this is like that, and then we are doing. How are we doing? For what? And you know how many years we have made from Vienna and the German, and from there we made for. All poor children and all people like this, and school. And how many years that all they gave the money? And about 50, sometimes it was 100 people, they come. And the children became so good. Day years before, one girl, she was very poor. Parents, they were standing with about vegetables and like this on there to give. And she was coming and working, sitting there and learning and learning. And she became, it was in the three or ten days already, she was there. She was the best in all Jaipur and in our Rajasthan. So she was this poor one, and she said, "Because Swamiji has given us," I said, "I, Swamiji, did not give; the others have given you." So, like this, many, many people—our college, in our college we have very good, many, many people, and it is a great thing. We did like this. Thank you very much. Just help someone. When we were helping, help is the, you gave your heart to that hymn, yes. But not like this. My, in Europe, India, we have the children, but I told that, that I will not give the children's name and parents, and I will not send them to other countries because with the money I'm working. No. All the people, they are all different kinds of children. Peace, they have, but even I don't go in their house or parent; I have to do something. So, they are all working there, and there are some people coming from India. The people are bringing money from them and giving it to these Indian children, giving them money, but saying, "Your religion should become like this." That was not good. You know that? Yes. And that is not good, unfortunately. So here you are, everybody here. I never said from which country you are coming, or what you are. No, you are a human. Good, thank you. That is it. So, our Yoga in Daily Life, and many people, they are talking negative things. It's good. That is very good. When someone is taking negative, telling something, then we are opening again to good. Yeah, always, oh yes, good. So this is that you have great programs. Thank you very much. And tomorrow we will have our program. Very good, and have a nice time. So we know that it is coming cold, and it will be dark, and yeah, we can sit here tonight. We will see if there is something coming. This is, this is a month here, you see? We see the star, yes, yeah. So in this piece is very good. Have you any question, please? So tomorrow we are going there, and... We will have these techniques and everything, and yeah, if you are here for three years, I will ask there, okay? It quickly cannot go. Yeah, there is a baby just come. Yeah, so the baby is there with us, but she cannot run away. You have to, very good, you will get everything, but you have to clean again now. And there is also one thing: if you have another guru, then it is really your guru, very good. It is very good that you have your guru. And if you said, "No, please give me this guru, I will not take." But it means, can I tell you, your mother gave birth to a child. So this child from our mother is only mother and child. Yes, they can tell, my child. We tell in India always, we tell only children. All we are telling children, children, my children, is like this. But mother and their children, so we, our children, are like our children. But when to bring milk, then mother and child are like this. So when you have one guru, I tell you once more also, when you have once your guru, which is great, it is great. And that is what the child, the mother, and the father think they are. But the father can't know. Sometimes it's happening. What is going on? There is a little aeroplane here. So, but mother knows her child. His husband is, of course, his child. But sometimes some people are different, so mother is there. And so, mother is a mother. So when you have the first time, you have one guru. It doesn't matter which guru, maybe only one ashram or only one house or only one sitting under the tree, and you came and you called the guru, and he gave him guru, then he is your guru. But you can go to anyone, to any gurus, you can go, blessing and learning anything, no problem, but still it is that guru, and so this is that. And that's why Guru Mahāprabhujī said, "A child is born from this mother, and there is there." And similarly, but the other thing is that you should know that is. How is the person, and something happened or doing something like this? This is different. So I will always, always I will give you, and I will also give like my father or my guru. Yes, I will put him in my heart. But still, he is that child. That's it. Neighbors and their children play together, so this is that you can have a guru. You can come for practice from others, yes, okay. But if you had a guru, we would, some sannyāsīs or someone in your... I'm telling you, then you should know that, okay, now. It is my disciple, and that will be happy also, and I will be more happy that this has one child or one disciple, and it will be very good. So we are in oneness, but don't tell that this is not good. I told them, "I want to have good." That will not go. That will not go. Yes, it will be good. It will become, or you can go to your guru, this guru, and he will say, "Yes, Swāmījī, please give help to my child," and like this. So, real gurus, they are all, many gurus, they should become like love. We are sitting. Here, yes, you are sitting here now. From which mother are you here? Yeah, your father, your mother, or your father? Yes, you have all like this. You are not all from this one child. Like this, we should live like that. But then, bhajan, satsaṅg, guru—guru is then different. But still, we have many. They are coming, going, and this is that. That's why it is said, in Sanātana Dharma, that all there are, they are, they have, they are each and everyone, have a guru and disciples, and this. And in this way, when any families come in, they are getting children. Then they will go again further, and they will have a satsaṅg, and this is all Sanātana Dharma, and that's why you have disciples, you have disciples, you have Swāmīs. So it means that there is not only one guru, and that he died and there is nothing other. That's not good. So, living life, living guru, and this is the best all the times we have. Understand? So, like that, you are sitting, your mother is that, and the other you said is my sister. Everything like this we are doing, and we are all very good. So there are very many problems. Many times, people are suffering or not doing well. They said that we don't kill, we don't make anything, no. Then why do you have this? No, this is not there, you know. It is said to me when I came to Australia, and some people, Vienna and these people, they said that a few years, sometimes very near about that, they were really, how they were living, and about Jesus and this and that. Now we are only just like... Don't think. So we have to become our Self. Hari Om. Dīp Naya Bhagavān. Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva. Sanātana Dharma. Hari Om.

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