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Longing for God

The core of spiritual life is compassionate practice rooted in the heart. The body is the vehicle for practice and must be cared for with healthy living. True yoga is a daily commitment, not a sporadic ritual. Many claim spirituality but fail in consistent practice. The essence is to see all beings within one's own heart, extending compassion to every creature. Do not harm animals; recognize the sanctity of life. Spiritual attainment requires unwavering devotion and surrender, as tested in parables of faith. Do not give up the quest to see the divine reality within all. Holy beings demonstrate the power of such devotion through extreme austerity and selfless love.

"Today we should say in our heart, for all people, all creatures, we feel them all in our heart."

"Humans are not animals. And therefore, we should know that we are humans, and as humans, we should not be killing."

Part 1: The Heart of Practice and Compassion Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jai. Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Dev. Purīśamāde, Mādhavānandajī Bhagavān, Kī Jaya. Satya Sanātana Dharma, Kī Jaya, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti Hi. Good morning. I was looking outside, and there were so many people. It was very nice and beautiful on the whole. Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Jī was sitting there, also meditating, and it was very good. All was so peaceful. There was only one Sannyāsī. Colors, not anybody there. So, but all was very good. Some were on the other part of the place, the other side, but he was so good. I was looking like this. Time to time, I was looking at what you were doing. Not very good, really, really very, very good. And it was so good that everybody had good air, good air and everything. So that I saw him here, very nice, so I don’t need this one. But there are those who should all be like this, okay. How much is coming? Very nice, thank you very much. Our Vivekānandjī was doing very great work for days. He was taking very much all exercises, teachings, and was very good, very good, humble, very. He is very humble, very good, and his sister also, that is, they were good. But you are very, very good. I wanted to see where I am, and outside, when I came here, I am so good with the good air and something they are doing. This is also very good, and I would like to practice something. Our physical, we are doing very much, and we cannot do without our body, and it’s in the body. Everything is, though we said we are talking more, very greatly, about not of the body, but we are going together, far distance, but still we are not like that. It was there, something, Agni Devī. So, in that way, our body, our body is, and that body, our body is that which only can give us something. After that, it cannot be. So, we have to be very careful with our body, and we should live in a very healthy way. There was some person who was very good, and they are very good, but they have little time practicing or something, and all you are here sitting. And when other ones, it can be—I don’t want to tell this, but it’s like a double, double person—those who don’t practice yoga and... Also, what kind of food are we having? And so, it is very important, we all say, our practice. You are very good today. I was so happy. I see you came earlier, and you are all like this. And nobody was talking or laughing or this, all in the class. And Vivekananda was there, and he was very peaceful. And all were so happy that he is here and Swamiji is here. So I was looking there, two or three times, coming and looking. And then, after, everyone who was practicing was doing their practice very well. In this way, our life, our life and our whole being, only we can see. So we can tell them that you are really, really, you are yogīs. You are real, and you are always speaking to other people. I see you, and other people are learning from us very much. They have seen vegan, and the vegan was this from yoga and daily life. And your country here, this country here, there are very many spiritual yogīs for us. Some people have the yoga they are making, doing, but that is not what we are doing. We are only going to school, college, and further and further... and this and that, that’s all. So you know that we have, oh no, it is very good. All the science and this, everything is very far, the science. They are now bringing more and more and more. But in that sense, what they are doing in this, they don’t know. They don’t take what is Bhagavān, Paramātmā. They see everything, but not this. And you have all become now. You became like Parabrahma Guru. Yes, you have really. And in five days, I have written—see, from these many things, many people brought or brought us to our programs here, and they all want to say the exercise or this or something in this city, in these cities. And you know, I tell you, really, my disciples here in this city, and I tell them, and they do, they do. What do I do? I do some work, I do this yoga, I do this, and so on. In this city, how many from there are in America? For me, in Australia. So there is one, two, three, and Hungarian also, of course. So, in all these areas, they come here. And so, in other countries also, there is nothing. India is very great, with many people, and they know that it is India. The Hindus, or the satsaṅg and like this, for them it is just okay. But still, they cannot do yoga. They come, practice sometimes, or I come, or Modījī or somebody is coming, then many people are there. And when they are gone, next time, even they don’t want to clean everything. So that is not a yogī’s. That is not. You are great. I told you, I’m sorry. Mahāprabhujī Karatā, Mahāprabhujī Karatā, He Kevalam. Many languages are in this. It was Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and this part of India; they are very spiritual and very much into practice. But still, they cannot practice every day. They will come in the morning, and they will do meditation. That means that Indians get up, go to the bathroom, wash their hands and so on, and then they bring water to the temple. Bhagavān, your gurus, or which are your gurus, or this, then hurry up, little like this, sit down and go to eat and go. That is only what they are doing, but you are doing very many good things; you have this, like this. So, for me, I would say, and I have said, that you are all, for me, my yoga; you are yogīs. All are yogīs, yes or no? So, we say bring forward. So, we have to bring our people more and more like this, that they should be spiritual, yogic, good for everybody, not any of that "only my religion or your religion." No. Every religion is a good religion, every, every, but only a little, don’t kill them, don’t do this and that and that, this is a difference, but we bring that, we will bring, you will see that, in your country here, in this city, the many, many people, they don’t eat any. More meat, or something like this, very, very. And then they come to Vegas. More quickly they are going, because now they know. They did not know before. They said, "Animals, kill them, eat them," like this. But what is that? And now we have seen that we are very, very, very much, and we come, bring more and more to the whole world, this good human. Animals are animals, but who is human? Humans are not animals. And therefore, we should know that we are humans, and as humans, we should not be killing. And we should, if someone has problems and these animals fall down, we should go to the animals and help them. Take everything, because it is like... Now, what is that long? It was not. But now you have two very good things, three things. And this is, we like one, what they are liking: dog, or the other, cat, or some mouse, someone. They are only like this. Many people, when his wife comes home, ask, "What is that on the chest of his cat?" Husband comes, he said, "Can we cook something?" No, my cat is still here. I cannot cuckoo. You do it. So, okay, it is good, but many, many people, for them, this animal is more for them than humans. It is okay. Okay, why not? They are very good, and they have heart. These children, they are very good. But there is a different thing. So many, many things are coming from that. There are some other countries where there are some other countries, and what those countries are doing is also not good. He lies here, big, like this black place there. Inside, so many, so many cats. It was about a hundred, a hundred in this space. And they are coming for lunch, going outside to eat. There came parents and children, and they said, "What will you eat?" I said, "I will eat this cat." This cat, yes, this cat. Then they will catch the cat like this, and hot, very hot water. Because otherwise, killing and how to work and take and this. So they put hot, hot water inside. A cat. A cat. Completely, this is like this. You cannot. It cannot. Such an animal, beautiful and this. And what they do is, they just put it in hot water. And then, after bringing something, just for one minute. And then he takes this in cold water. It’s very cold, and that was hot. So this is, and it was, it became very cold. Cold. But in one minute, they skin it all, and now without skin, this cat is still alive. And then they bring—this is for you—is this for us as humans? And we can do like this to any, any of our animals here. You help that, and this, and that. But of course, you have not only some dog and this. Then maybe, but how you are killing others still, that is, and that time we come to the Parabrahma, Paramatmā, Paridharma, so then we are becoming God, humans, humans, in that way it is. If the time will come, the time will come. So, I was there two, three times, maybe four times, and I was always looking so much for you. I was thinking I would go and sit beside you for a while, but then everybody will come and go and this and that, so I’m not. And Swamiji was sitting there, peaceful and very nice. So in this way, our exercises, our practices, and which I told before about a novel, first on the heart, on our heart. You have seen, but once more again, put yourself on your heart, see, and this heart, and that which today I want to tell you about your heart. My heart is beautiful, and my heart is good, and my heart is very good and healthy, and like this, my heart. But today we should say in our heart, for all people, all creatures, we feel them all in our heart. That is how good we are, like this other should be. I’m not telling you to come to me. You can be, let’s say, a yogī or this. But just you sit and look what is inside. Life, and then a person comes to one, and they wonder how they will do it. So, Holy Gurujī, Holy Gurujī tells many, many good things. And many people are singing, and this and that, and this and that, okay. But Holī Gurujī gives such things, which are really, this is a reality. So, Holī Gurujī taught that one day he was sitting, and one man was there. And this man said, "Gurujī, I want to become God." To the Bhagavān, I don’t want anything, Swāmījī, only that my heart will be brought to God, or whatever it is. So Gurujī said, "Do blessings, this, that." But he said, "But this is not enough, Swamijī." So then Gaurī Gurujī said, "Then go to the Himalayas and stay there." He said, "But my forest." He said, "Okay, go further, go further." So he said, "I will go to some stones there." So he went there, in the Himalayas or somewhere. There are not so many trees, and she came there. She was sitting there, and there was very little water, not very much. The water was not on the rock; it was a big rock, and he is sitting there. Slowly, slowly, he lies down. No person can see him for one day, two days, three days, four days. No one was there to please humans, but he said, "I will be here. I only want to see God, nothing else." And so one day, she came, a very big bird, a very big bird, and she came near to this man, and this is like a big bird, and she will kill him. So she comes near, but this bird, she cannot come very close because this man will kill me or do this. Every day, every day, three days, four days, five days, and he said—the bird said—"I am only waiting. When he dies, I will eat him." But still, there’s nothing. That bird said, "I will come near," goes back again, back again. So, then this man said, "Bird, what would you like?" You like me? Yes, you can. You can kill me, you can do everything. Part 2: The Test of Faith and the Power of Devotion She said, "No, I cannot like this." But he said, "It’s a very nice, beautiful Jaya Javan book from Hari Gurujī." And the bird comes near, then goes again ahead. So this man said, "You can eat everything. Why are you not eating?" He said, "No, I am eating." Then why are you, why don’t you go and eat this? He said, no. I have told you, and I will be here. That again, this bird coming, going away, next day again, I... And so she said to the man, "Please eat my whole body, but please, only my two eyes, my two eyes and my heart." That I will, though I always say, I see God with my eyes. He said, "Why? Because I want to see God with my eyes." So he came here. Should I, will I bite you? Do it, my dear. So that bird, very big, came nearer and nearer, sitting on her, and she was doing like this. Because this bird can maybe kill me, others said. So again, he said, "She is by his stomach, here." He pitched him and said, "Are you not poor? Very problematic, power? No, not a power with problem?" He said, "No." And again she wanted to kill that. And he said, "Do it." And then this bird stood up. And you want to see God and God’s eyes? He said, "Yes." So, about ten parts, parts, this part, and get up, God. Who was that? He was a God. And God was doing for this man, showing how great He is, and this and that. And then he said, "I am Bhagavān, Brahmā or Jyoti." And immediately God said, you see, your body is again beautiful and very clean and very good, no pain, nothing. And you have become my God, my Hindu. And please come to me. So many things have happened, many things in the world. Gurujī was telling this very nicely. It was telling Gurujī more for the world, so it is like this. We should not give up. We should not give up. Okay, you are not that. My Swami is here. He is not with me. This or that? No. You are here. Here, all of you are one, but now you have. Will you do? Yes, or I will not do. And so that man went away from the village, and he went further again into the forest, and he thought, "Where will I go?" So there was only one big animal, that bird like this, and he said, "It doesn’t matter now, my Gurudev said," and I, my Gurujī is all gone, I did not see me, but how is that? And so that man, after, when he wanted really to kiss him, still she said, "Just keep my eyes. All you can click." Then God came and said, "I am Bhagavān Brahmā, I am Viṣṇu. What do you want for yourself? You are, look how you are, you are very beautiful, body and everything. Get up." So, God, when does this come to be? And who is God? Where is God? I have not seen God. All the time I am looking, I would like very much to see God. Always. But Holī Gurujī said, "You see the God, but you don’t see Him." You don’t see, you don’t think about this. So many of you are sitting here, and maybe one or two of you will be with God, or something like that. Completely, from each and every, you have to give for. Then it is like this. So thereby Abhi said, "No, okay, many people tell me, ‘Oh, you are Swamiji, and it is okay, Swamiji.’" Okay, they are telling me what I am. Maybe I am not that God. I am not like that. So, we have to give to others, tell him, and have to hear. Like this, not to say that, not this, do that. This is not easy, to support others. We are sitting and telling others. It is not so easy. Not easy. Not easy. We had one Swāmījī, one woman in India, and she was very nice. It is like in the Himalaya nearby, Gaṅgā. And this Matajī, her name is that she’s gone, but she was very great. And she gave everyone, everyone, very much. And now, our Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, everybody’s—so she, they all accept, respect that this woman, she’s gone. But she’s like a God, and all we are doing... When will you come? How will it come? Yes, something is little, it comes, and you give it to someone and then go. Yes, in my world, my India, my house, in my house where I was born, and there was one little village about, let’s say, maybe 20 kilometers or something more. And that was also one lady, and she’s sitting near the river. This river in India is only water, and then it’s dry. But her husband died, and when her husband died, she wanted to sit in the fire with her husband. And no, so that’s why in India, that’s in India, that no one let women to bring to the persons, doesn’t matter who is they, to burn in the, or put it in the earth. That they will not bring the women there. Because why women? Women have immense love, peace, everything. Then, your husband is like this, and your wife is like that. Otherwise, in many things, it’s bye-bye. Now it’s okay. And so, because she wanted a reality, it’s a truth I’m telling you, that village is also there. And so she wanted to run and she wanted to burn with her husband, but people caught her and they stayed there. Then she said, "I will not be in the house," and on the river, near the river, she sat there. She said, "I will be in the fire." So many people were beside her, and then she was at peace, in the peace. Now, she does not eat anything and does not drink water, not one drop. I can tell you, come with me, I will show you, and all the people who said this. What was that? She became holy. She became holy. You know what is holy? God, holy. So she sits there, and many people are coming and going, and she’s only sitting. So I went to her twice. Once I went somewhere, my father told me something, or my brother told me something. Perhaps my father died. This is okay. And then I was sitting there. I came, and she was so full of love. She said, "My child, sit down, eat this," and like that. Many people were sitting. And then I became a sannyāsī, and then I went there, so I said, I said, "Mātājī, praṇām." And she stood up, and he said, "You are the sanyāsī. You are a sanyāsī." "I am nothing," she said, and she was so, with respect, very, very much. And she wanted to give something. I said, "No, Matajī. No, no, no." She gave the money. Oh, I was putting this. No, thank you. So I can bring you there. We go from the Rūpāvas. From Rupavas, from Rupavas, there is little about very close also. She has died, now she is gone, but there is a very beautiful, and many, many people are coming as a holy, holy woman, but she is not there, very, very much. So many. So she had one little earth inside, and at night she goes inside. So I put sleeping or meditation, but no water, no eating, nothing. And once, water came very much, and there was one little temple. So she sits in the temple there, in the little temple. Very strong, and please, everybody say, "Please, Swāmījī, go away. Please go, because this will fall down." She said, "What will I do? Let it be gone." And she was sitting there, and really, the water went out. You have books here, people have big, big ones, you can get them this way. And how that is a holy woman. Women are women. The men are there also doing something similar. But Śakti, that is a many, many like this we have, and I have many, and there are some others that, okay, they are also sādhus and women, and they are going and coming and all. But, certain of this, what I have seen, I wanted to give you that. And that I was thinking, where again, morning to my... there again, I look like this. How was it all? And that I was very... what? So, these are two things which I told you. One day, I will... or you go with me. I will go to that Māṭājī. It is his Māṭājī, and... And the Māṭājīs, they call Holy Māṭājī. And many people are there, coming. They’re very respectful, and that is the way. So, that was when her husband died, and she wanted to fall into the water or into the fire. But people catered to him, but she said, "No, I will burn in that." Said, "No." So they got it. Then they said, "Okay, I will not eat anything." And I will not go into their house. So, she went outside. There was a river. The river is only sometimes water, and then it is gone. So, she didn’t want to go into a village. I will not go into my house. She was a woman, and they are like a little king, king, king families, yeah? And she was that, but she didn’t go there. And she went there and she said, "My father was going there many times, and she was giving blessings to everybody." Always, wherever you are, go, giving them food and a place to sit, and so on. She will not eat, and she is, as it is, so strong in her body. Yes, and many times some people came, and they put it in the night, sometimes if she was eating or drinking. Many times people were looking there, but nothing. And so you can come, then you are karam. Karam, that is our... Hari Om. In Gujarat, and here is our... He is going to Gujarat many times, and he should come, I tell you, and I will also come with you. And there is about this long, long, long time when the Śakti, Śiva and Śakti, and so because the parents, his father did not bring her, Śiva’s wife, Śakti, so she died. And so Śiva came here, there is a long story, you know, and so Śiva took the Śakti in his heart, only his head, and he went away. Many years passed, but then Śiva, Viṣṇu, and they all said, "Please, Śivjī, please come, please come," so he came. But then time, this Śakti, and that Śakti was cut into soup in the ocean, where we don’t know it is, so many, how many, where it is everywhere, these Śaktis. This Māṭājī was there, and we have this other one here. And so you should go to Gujarat, and there is one lady, and also there is, still there is a war. They have, many have said, "I went twice, walking up and coming." But there is one in the cave, and she’s living there, and she only has women’s letters, yeah? So we don’t know if it’s a man or a woman; we don’t know. And she’s all the time like a woman, and she’s not eating, not drinking anything. And many times, people were asking, and they see everything—many of them. How many of these? No drinking, no eating, nothing. And still she’s there. She’s powerful. You come to Gujarat, the Gujarat of Modiji. Modiji goes for praṇām to this lady, and she will come and sit there. And on certain holy days, she also dances like this. And so, I want, you want, I will go with you. Yes, yes. And she doesn’t give eating, nothing, eating, eating, nothing. Such persons are there. There are people here. So, this which I told you, that is already, that Matajī is gone. And now it’s like this. There are some coming, but they say, "I am Śakti, and I am this and that," but it is not so. But that one I will tell you, I will tell you. And she’s so very thin, like this, very nice. She’s dancing nicely in this dress, this cloth. She is a human, or man, but she wears a woman’s dress, everything, because she is Śakti. So, I don’t know, this Śakti or this. Modiji said to me, "There is so much land there, Swamiji, you should have an ashram there," and this. I said, "Where will I go? I’ve come to my here, this place." So, yeah, yes. So we will go after, not now, today, three days. Yes, and after that I will come differently. So it is from Rajasthan, the Rajasthan-Gujarat border, and then the border is there; there are two. So, on that side, Matajī is there, and there is a temple. And where she is, up there, exactly there, a pūjā is performed from the upper level down. These are great things. We should not slowly run and cry, no. We will come nicely. We can, okay. I hope that she will come. She never said that, but we will go.

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