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Find God within

Nature provides profound wisdom for health and spiritual journey. Modern practices often fail where traditional, natural methods succeed. A simple powder from a specific tree resolved significant health issues quickly. This demonstrates the power inherent in nature, which has been largely forgotten or destroyed. Returning to these natural ways is essential. The spiritual path mirrors this return, moving beyond the physical body to the inner divine. Establishing a spiritual center, like the OM Ashram, is a gradual process driven by devotion rather than money. Encounters and assistance along the way are part of this divine unfolding.

"Nature is in nature. Many things from that: neem, these, and our trees also."

"Life, we have to go beyond, and that we cannot get in this body. We have to go to our inner, that inner which comes as God."

Filming location: Rijeka, Croatia

About ninety years ago, or perhaps a little less, people did not brush their teeth, yes? You understand? And by about twenty years of age, our teeth would begin to deteriorate. Now, look at us—we brush this way and that, with all these products, and still, they become like this and that, and are gone. One tooth goes, then another, and myself as well. When I came from India, I was nearly fifty-five or so, and I also did not do much. Many people did not do much either. They did something. Now, every tooth is finished. But all that time, how we were doing it… maybe one or two teeth were lost, maybe eight, but otherwise, everyone had their teeth. I have my sister in India, and she was only doing like this—using a powder from the earth or something like that—and not a single tooth was loose. And still, she does the same thing. Otherwise, nothing. Otherwise, neem? Okay? So not neem either, not like that, but neem is still that. Yes, so there were many things from trees, dry powders, and that is very, very… Good, no money, many things, everything. But now we cannot put anything on the earth. Everything below is destroyed. But still, we can take from one tree, like this, and therefore, for example, now we begin. I tell you, I am not making it, but it’s… you know, how many? My sisters, please, I tell you something. Women, okay, maybe the young or the old, they have many, many times problems: breath, other breath, no breath, yes, bleeding, bleeding comes, and this. Men do not know, but women, they know how they really are. They know what the doctor is doing. So, when I was in India again, I said, "Our tree, in our tree, what is the name? Babool, babool." And this is so good and very… We are eating fruits and vegetables, so I said we should bring them here, the food, fruits, and then I was giving, and I gave to many, many people. And in two days, the women were so happy. All this is gone, or something like this, really. And so, every time when I go from India, all this I am bringing, I am giving to how many, many, many. You are my dears, you are my sisters. I tell you, my sisters, you can say, are like this. I ask you, just lend your hand up, like this. And good for you. Can you hand women’s hand up, please? So many did not understand what they are talking. Okay, so this is that. It is a… Now I brought the powder from that, and this you… should take like this, like this, for ten days, one month, you will see how our tooth will be very good, only that, nothing, just like this. And someone can make this powder in fire and then pound it as it is, also again very good. So, nature is in nature. Many things from that: neem, these, and our trees also. Here, many, many… But we do not know which we are to be, so we should come back again. So many words, tooth is gone, is gone. But others, we should tell new people how to do something like this, or is the truth really, because all in like this, it’s not good. Try, try, you will see in one month or two months how it will be. Coming again back, very good. So this is that I was only telling: by eating, beating. I did not think that I would talk about this thing. I only tell that we should eat, then somebody is coming. So there are many things in nature, and we have to come to nature. Yes, I was also not in the nature. I was coming from India to Europe, and I thought, "Maybe, oh, very nice, bloody, this, my, this, and everything." And in two years, my tooth was like this, and this, and that. Many things, many things. Now, how many things? But now I cannot go like this back. But I will try to do so many things. We will do tomorrow. So this is this one like that. So, thank you. Thank you. Marie-Anne and Benjamin Ismailo will perform beautiful music for your soul now. It is an honour for us to perform here today. On a special day, quite unexpected, everything was very unexpected. Also, as we’re 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 ye go, lassie, go?" This coming… Grows around heather, will he go? Lassie, go all around. Heather, let’s go. I will now be a very special composition that was written partly in the Middle Ages, that was what inspired this composition, but then, uh, finalized in 1947 in St. Petersburg, Giulio Caccini, Vavilov, "Ave Maria." Yes, just violin, just… He would like to play meditation on violin. And I can, of course, sing one more song. Yeah, five times you ever sing this. Okay? Good. I like it very much. Thank you very much. "Meditation" from the opera Thaïs. And now comes an old Sicilian traditional melody, which you will also recognize as a popular movie theme. Brucia la terra, the earth is burning. It’s also sung in Sicilian. 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. Oh, très sombre touche de l’homme auquel j’appartiens. Comme dans cette palette, je vois la vie en rond. On dit tous les jours, et ça me fait quelque chose, et on manque une part de bonheur. Donc je connais la cause, je sens en moi mon cœur. Les nuits d’amour à plus finir, un grand bonheur qui prend sa place. Les ennuis, les chagrins s’effacent. Ré, ré, un monde en sable. Par les tombes, je vois la vie en haut, des choses, et ça me fait quelque chose. Par des bonheurs dont je connais la coutume, 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 20 years of being together. So, please, a round of applause for them. But the most important reason is that last year, in the very difficult times which… We were for many yoga centers around the world. There, we also had one problem in one of the centers in Slovenia, and when our Carmen called the Ismailova family if they could help us, both of them immediately said yes, and they came to our yoga center to perform a special donation-collecting concert, and it was really a marvelous spectacle. Again, the only thing we can do is to thank them with a round of applause. Thank you very much. Tomorrow is not coming, that it will not. Go, anything. Life is not so. The life? Life is not. Life, we have to go beyond, and that we cannot get in this body. We have to go to our inner, that inner which comes as God. And so, I was coming to America, and the professor, very great, and his wife and his children, they all were in Austria, in Vienna. And in Vienna, I did not know what it was having, because I did not think about many countries or this and that. There I was only, so I was in Vienna, and I had a yoga class sometimes for 10 people, sometimes 20 people, sometimes 30 people. Some like this, but I said, "Okay, I’m all good now." There is something: one person, an American woman, and she sent with the telephone that, "I want to see you." So I said, "Well, who are you?" So she said, "I am the professor’s or these, he’s…" Woman, or whatever is there, what 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 Māṭājī, or my…" She was very Māṭājī. She’s dead, and she was with me, sleeping in my… At the ashram, we were there, so I said, I told her, "Mataji, this is an Australian woman, and she said, ’I want to have a yogi, but a young boy.’" And Mataji said, so Mataji said, "I will go with you." So that was, there is his office, and there. So, the Māṭājī and I, we went there, and she said, "Oh, very nice, very good." And so I said, "What do I do?" Well, I will. She said, "Please, can you give me exercise, yoga, and everything?" So I said, "Okay, I will give you exercise. So, lie down." And mother is there, so I have to give about 20, 20 minutes of time or something. And she said, "My cat will sit on my stomach." American said, "I will lie down, and my cat, she will sit on it." She said, "Because I have my, this, these." Three different kinds of animals, Mataji said, "What is this about that?" and so, okay. But I said, "The cat, I will not put there." She said, "Because my cat is controlling, protecting me, so I will do nothing for your this." So, anything very good, and then she… I came for yoga. I said, "If you want to practice yoga, come to my ashram." 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 give me many things and told me. And I had yoga classes with 10 people, and she also came to them. She said, "Very good. I like it very much." Americans there, and then she became so great. You cannot imagine. She was so spiritual, and like my mother, she was. And many things he was, and then one year they went to America back, and he said to her husband, "I cannot feel. Philip Swamiji will not come, otherwise I will go back again." So there was… so people, his father, her husband, was so great a man, a very great man. He had two daughters and one brother, I think he said this, and they all, and his brothers, 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, five days only for me. All he brought me here, this and that there, and this is that, begin there, my Om. At the ashram, so where I was, Om Ashram, I made it, and I asked him. I make it like this because there was no paper. There was only white paper, and we had to do it like that for a long time, in those 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, Swamiji, make this Om and this? What do you do?" She said, "Because he’s doing what he does, you should do." And he said, "Okay." And he said, "What will be? How will it be?" And I said, "America is that. Will we make again further? And it will be." And so, Om Ashram, how it came after about 20 years, and that still, nothing happened, no money, nothing, but I did it. I made it, and they said, "Yes, now it’s great, you have done it." And then after, it’s his whole family, and this, so that people are such good and very nice. And she said, "My… I can’t… my cat, always my cat." I say, "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. And what do you want to do? What do you do? Then I said, "I want to have that which is nowhere, anywhere." His husband said… I said, "I will do something." So nowhere it is, that. So I said. Okay, what will you do then? His wife said, "My Gurujī, then she was… He will do, definitely. Don’t worry, he will do something." Where is nowhere in the world? And she said, "Yes, this is good." And now, this home. Which we have been, it is a very great nowhere. All temples, those temples, many things, many mandirs, many, many mandirs, everything. But there is no, but that which, and really, this is became now. And we will come in next years, and we will have program there in this, so it is. Like this, when one meets and he wants that, "Will it come and get it?" So that is, this OM is nowhere, anywhere. That OM is, have you have something, little, little, but not like that. So you should come all for the seminar they’re taking. And from all my disciples now, from Australia and Israel, and at that time your country was this, what was this? Yugoslavia. The 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. 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, the money. Neither did I take 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 Om. It is not completely full. It has not been… Unfortunately, some person who is working, but he did not do it properly or quickly, like this. It will take about 100 years more. Yeah, yes. And we are gone. So that’s why I am… Yes, sure, sure. They did not make this and this. That one person was, he’s doing only, he will not do. I said, "Work will come two, three, four together, and when I go out, he will tell all people 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 Ashram, he came, the both, and they will come there definitely. So they are 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 singer, yeah? But I saw him at his 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, "We are the singers, very nice singing." I said, "Oh, very good." And then came these two, our brothers, sisters, they are here. Suddenly, they did not know what happened, and I also did not. It happened, but it came like brother and sister, and immediately they want to have mantra and all this. So, thank you very much, and I say to God, "All the best, God, for all, for your good health, peace, harmony." And it will be great, and get it further. You will be good. Thank you very much. Om Śānti Śānti... Om Śānti

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