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Find God within

Returning to nature is the path to health and spiritual fulfillment.

In the past, people used natural powders like neem and burnt tree bark, and teeth remained strong. Modern brushing destroys teeth. Women’s breath and blood problems are remedied by babool powder within two days. Nature provides everything without cost. Leaving nature causes rapid decline; moving from India to Europe ruined teeth in two years. A professor’s family in Vienna sought yoga. The woman brought her cat for protection during practice. They later helped manifest Om Ashram. The aim was to create something nowhere and anywhere. Disciples gave devotion and funds; no money was taken from India. The ashram took shape over years. One worker delayed completion, so it may take a century. Yet the manifestation continues. Today, new singers arrived unexpectedly and received mantras. Life is not just life; one must go beyond the body to the inner self that is God. Therefore, returning to nature is imperative.

"So nature is in nature."

"I want to have that which is nowhere and anywhere."

Filming location: Rijeka, Croatia

About ninety years ago, or perhaps even less, people did not brush their teeth. You know what I mean? And about twenty years ago, our teeth were still fine. Now you see all this brushing, how we brush this way and that, and teeth are lost. One day one tooth goes, then another, and then mine as well. When I came from India, it was maybe around fifty-five years ago or not that long. Many people also did not do much; they did something. So now every tooth is ruined. But in the past, how we used to do it—maybe one or two teeth, maybe eight, otherwise everyone had all their teeth. I have my sister in India, and she used to clean like this, and not a single tooth moved. And still she does the same thing, using something from the earth or a powder from bulbs, or else neem. So not neem, but also not like that—still neem, yes. There were many things. Otherwise, from trees, dry powders, which are very, very, very good. No money needed, many things, but now we cannot put anything from the earth down. Everything is destroyed. But still, we can use powder from burnt trees and things like that. For example, now we begin. I tell you, I’m not making, but you know how many, my sisters, please. But I tell you something, women, okay? Whether young or old, they often have problems with the breath. You know breath? Yes, blood is coming, and so on. Men don’t know, but women, they know how they really are, and they know what the doctor does about it. So, when I was in India again, I said, ‘Our tree, and what is the name of that tree?’ Babool. Babool. And it is so good, and we eat fruits and vegetables. So I said, we should bring the fruit here. Then I was giving, and I was giving many people, and in two days, the women were so happy. All this is like a war or something, really. And so, every time I go from India, I bring all this, I give it to so many. You are my dears, you are my sisters. I tell you, my sisters, you can say, are like this. I ask you, just raise your hand, head like this, and it’s good for you. Can you women raise your hands, please? So, many did not understand what we were talking about, okay? So this is that. Now, I brought the powder from that, and you should take it like this. Then, in one month, you will see how your teeth become very good. Only that, nothing else. And someone can make this powder in fire and then grind it as it is. That is also very good. So nature is in nature. Many things from that, neem, these, and our trees here also, many, many of us, but we don’t know which is neem. So we should come back again. So many, what did we do? The tooth is gone, it is gone. But for others, we should tell new people how to do it, something like that, or really, because all is like this. It’s not good. Try, try, you will see in one month or two months how it will be. Coming back again, very good. So, this is what I was only telling: by eating, beating. I did not understand. I did not think I would talk about this thing. I only said that we should eat, then someone is coming. So there are many things in nature, and we have to come to nature. Yes, I was also not in nature. I came from India to Europe, and I thought, ‘Maybe, oh, very nice, bloody, this, my, this and everything.’ And in two years, my teeth were everywhere, like this and that. Many things, many things. Now, how many things? But now I cannot go back like this. But I will try to do so many things; we will do tomorrow. So, this is like that. So, thank you. Thank you. Marie and Benjamin Ismailo will now perform beautiful music for your soul. It is an honor for us to perform here today on a special day, quite unexpected. Everything was very unexpected, including us receiving our mantras. We would like to begin with an old Celtic song. It’s a love song, very traditional. It’s about mountains, summer, and just good feelings about people, being in love. Will he go, or must he go? And now, a very special composition that was written partly in the Middle Ages. That was what inspired this composition, but then it was finalized in 1947 in St. Petersburg. Giulio Caccini, Vavilov, Ave Maria. Just violin? Just… He would like to play meditation on the violin. And I can, of course, sing one more song. Thank you very much. ‘Meditation’ from the opera Thaïs by Massenet. And now comes an old Sicilian traditional melody, which you will also recognize as a popular movie theme. Bruscia la terra, the earth is burning. It is also sung in Sicilian. And for the final, just an all-time beautiful French song, a love song, of course, because we wish you as much love as possible, which everyone deserves. It’s sung in many languages, but I think French suits it the best. You will find out. There are at least two more reasons for all of us to applaud this gorgeous couple tonight. The first one is, of course, love. They ended with love. And just a few weeks ago, they celebrated twenty years of being together. So please, give them one round of applause. But the most important reason is that last year, in the very difficult times, which were for many yoga centers around the world, we also had one problem in one of the centers in Slovenia. When our Carmen called the Ismailova family to see if they could help us, both of them immediately said yes, and they came to Selje, to our yoga center, to perform a special donation-collecting concert, and it was really a marvelous spectacle. And again, the only thing we can do is to thank them with a round of applause. Thank you very much. Tomorrow is not coming. It will not go anywhere. Life is not like that. Life is not just life. We have to go beyond. And that we cannot achieve in this body. We have to go to our inner, that inner which manifests as God. And so I was going to America, and a professor, a very great man, with his wife and his children, they all were in Austria, in Vienna. And in Vienna, I did not know what a headache is, because I did not think about many countries or this and that; I was only. So I was in Vienna, and I had yoga classes, sometimes for 10 people, sometimes 20, sometimes 30, something like that. But I said, okay, I’m all good. Now, there is something: one person, an American woman, sent me a telephone message that she wanted to see me. So I said, ‘Well, who are you?’ She said, ‘I am the professor of this. He is a woman, or whatever is there. What do you want?’ She said, ‘I want to practice yoga, but I want to have a young boy,’ I said. But there I have, with my Mātājī, or my—she was very, Mātājī, she said that. And she was with me, sleeping in my ashram. We were there. So I said, I told her, ‘Mātājī, this is an Australian woman, and she said, “I want to have a yogī, but a young boy.”’ And Mātājī said, ‘So, Mātājī said, I will go with you.’ So that was his office, and there, so the Mātājī and I, we went there, and she said, ‘Oh, very nice, very good.’ And so I said, ‘What do I do?’ Well, she said, ‘Please, can you give me exercise, yoga, and everything?’ So I said, ‘Okay, I will give you an exercise. So lie down,’ and Mātājī is there. So I have to give about 20 minutes of time or something, and she said, ‘My cat will sit on my stomach.’ The American said, ‘I will lie down, and my cat will sit on it.’ She said, ‘Because I have three different kinds of animals.’ Mātājī said, ‘What is this about that?’ And so, okay. But I said, ‘I will not put the cat there.’ She said, ‘Because my cat is protecting me.’ So, I will do nothing for this, so anything very good. And then she came for yoga. I said, ‘If you want to practice yoga, come to my āśram.’ And she said, ‘Yes, I want to go there, but I don’t know what kind of yogī or how.’ So when she was there, she began to tell me many things, and I had… Yoga classes, ten people, and she also came to her. She’s very good. I like it very much, Śrī Śrī… So there were some people, his father, her husband, was a very great man, a very great man. He had two daughters and one brother, I think he said this, and all his brothers, the others, they were respecting me so much, and they took me like a brother. Yeah, my son, like this, like this. And we go to America, and they were so great, and they said, ‘His husband is great, very great, but he’s an officer, very big.’ Yes, but he was always going with me, only five days for me. All that he brought me here, this and that. And this is where my Om Ashram begins. So, when I was at Om Ashram, I made it, and I asked him. I made it like this because there were no papers. There was none, it’s only white paper. And that we have to do like that for a long time, for many times. And he was, we were making one Om Ashram, and his wife was sitting, cooking. And then her husband was coming there, and her husband said, ‘But why, Svāmījī, make this “om” and this, what do you do?’ She said, ‘Because he’s doing what he does, you should do much.’ And he said, ‘Okay.’ And he said, ‘What will be? How will it be?’ And I said, ‘America, that we will make again further, and it will be.’ And so, Om Ashram, how it came about after about 20 years, and still, nothing happened, no money, nothing, but I did it, I made it, and they said, ‘Yes, now it is great, you have done it,’ and thereafter, his whole family and this, so that people are so good and very nice, and she said, ‘My cat, always my cat.’ I said, but as long as I’m in your house, don’t bring it into my room. So they are all the time outside. So, good people, very good people, very good. And what you want to do is what you do. Then I said, ‘I want to have that which is nowhere and anywhere.’ His husband said what? I said I will do something, so know where it is. So I said, ‘Okay, what will you do?’ Then his wife said, ‘My Gurujī, Maheśvarānanda, then she was, he will do definitely, don’t worry.’ He will do something where there is nowhere in the world. And she said, ‘Yes, this is good.’ And now, this Om, which we have been… it is a very great knower. All temples, those temples, many things, many mandirs, many, many mandirs, everything. But there is no “but,” that which, and really this has become now. And we will come in the next years, and we will have a program there. So, it is like this: when one means it, and he wants that, we’ll come and we’ll get it. So that is this: Aum is nowhere, anywhere. That Aum is here, you have something little, little, but not like that. So you should all come for the seminar they are taking. And from all my disciples now, from Australia and Israel, and at that time your country was, what was it, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. All the times I was working there, here, all the times there, yes, and from that it is, and all peoples are, so I was going beginning then from Vienna, I was in Germany, and from there I came here to Vienna, Czechoslovakia, and from there slowly, slowly, many, many. Countries around the whole world, many, many times. And only our people, yoga people, they have given the devotion and the money. I never took money out like this. I did not tell India that they should give me money. And nothing. My disciples are like when we are sitting, like we are eating. That’s all together, and now we should go and see the Omā. It is not completely full. It has not been. Unfortunately, some person who is working did not do it properly or quickly, like this. It will take about 100 years more. Yes, and we are gone. So that’s why I am, yes, sure, sure. They did not make this and that. One person was doing only that, and he will not do anything else. I said, work will come two, three, four together. And when I go out, he will tell all the people to go away. And only he is doing it. This is that. So, anyhow, very good. Thank you very much. And all my sisters, you are my sisters, you are my mothers, you are my friends. You are my gurus, etc. And my new, today’s, the greatest of, first from Om Āśram, he came, the both, and they will come there definitely. So they both came there. And they did not think, they did not think, they did not see me still. And they want to have only this one bhajan, sing, singer. But I saw her at that time, and she was looking at me, and I said, ‘Hello, sister.’ And he came. I thought, ‘Who is he?’ But I see, I think he’s a husband. He said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Thank you.’ And then someone told us, ‘We are the singers.’ Very nice singing. I said, ‘Oh, very good.’ And it came, these two, our brothers and sisters, they are here. So suddenly, they did not know what happened, and I also did not know what happened. But it came like brother and sister. And immediately, they want to have a mantra and all of this. So, thank you very much. All the time. And I say to God, ‘All the best, God, for all, for your good health, peace, and harmony. It will be great, and greater further. You will be good. Thank you very much.’ Hari Oṁ, Hari Oṁ, Dīpa Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Deva Puruṣa Mahādeva, Mādhavānanda Jī Bhagavān. Mahāmadrasa Gurudeva Kī Jai, Satya Sanātana Dharma Mahāpita Gurudeva. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ, Śāntiḥ, O Śāntiḥ.

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