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We should live in real love

The true meaning of satsaṅg is shown through a story of marriage and divine friendship.

Boys and girls study together, pure like siblings. Then the thought of marriage arises—a merging of husband and wife. A couple marries but does not truly share hearts. For fifty years, he gives hard bread, she desires soft heart-shaped bread. Neither speaks openly, and disharmony persists. At their anniversary, he arranges a meal and finally offers the soft piece. She reveals her long-held wish, and he understands. Their hearts merge and they know real marriage. True love is not body, but insight and mutual care. It means helping each other, being happy and healthy together. In this age, many give up easily. We must live as one. Satsaṅg means sat—all, and sang—together. All beings are one heart. The heart contains the whole world. We are one, nothing beyond this.

"Love is that we are all very happy, healthy, and well, bringing everything. I help her, she helps me."

"Sat means we are all together. All we are one. Our heart is one."

Filming location: Melbourne, Australia

Good, very good. Let me share something with you. You are young now, approaching twenty-five, perhaps a little more. And there comes a time for a husband. Boys and girls study well in schools and colleges, learning everything they wish. They become friends—all boys and girls together—doing nothing improper, simply like brothers and sisters, comfortable. They go together, jog, play wonderful things, and yet they remain pure like this. Then the thought comes: we would like to marry. But this marriage—what is marriage? What does marriage mean? Something you can... take from your country, you see? What do you call it? Merge. What is a marriage? It is when a wife and a husband come together. She wants to see her children, and first, her parents and friends—everyone comes. They tell her, and they will marry. They go to a church, or temples, or āśramas, anywhere. Where and when does this happen? I was in Austria many times, and I saw the church and how they marry. They come very beautifully, they come near in trust, and then... who is the man? The prince? Not prince, not prince—the one in the temple. We call a pandit, and they call them. So they come, very nicely, with their parents there. The priest speaks, and then he asks first the girl: "Do you want to merge, to become as his wife?" He asks the boy: "Will you be good? Will you do everything, lifelong?" "Yes." Then the priest says: "Here is a ring. Give the ring, and see if he tells something, and give it to that boy." And then he says: "I am your husband." And then she also gives the ring and everything. Then they give only something sweet, some fruit like this, or something. These are Christians, all the Christians, very nicely. And all the people were there, very good. Then they go, very nice, to a restaurant or somewhere nearby, and they all sit and eat something. One thing I do not like: they are doing here in the church, and outside, they are killing animals to eat them. So after that I did not go—not "I didn't went." So we should note that this is different. The fellow expert is there, but after that, all are very good. They are working: the husband works, the wife is at home, children come, she takes care, goes, brings from the market fruits or anything. At home, very nice, very comfortable, we see. No second marriage, only one. At that time I was in Austria. I did not have my hair here—here, really? I was, yes. So the next day, someone said: "Can you try a little bit from here?" I said it doesn't matter, there is nothing. But they said: "Now you do," and now it's coming here. So, in that way, what happens at that time? Now they don't marry, and they go out, finished, and they get there. I don't tell anything, please. How many times are they marrying or not? Now it's Kali Yuga. What is it called? Kali Yuga. But at that time, when I was nearly fifty-two years old or maybe a little more, all Austrians were very beautiful. All people, husband and wife, were very good. Children, very good. Everything is very good. But what after Kambha? I want to tell you something, yes. Should I tell you that? Yes. Yes, bhajan singing aside. I will tell you. Good. Very good. Hot—after the marriage, it is very hot. Hot. Very good. So it is a school. In the school, there are children. All girls and children do what we call... they are very nice. All of them come home. They are near our parents or somewhere. They all come, but nobody is taking anything negative. Friends, very good friends. But it is like this in school, in college—like coming, and now children come nearer and nearer from this family or that house. They come in, and they like, and they tell their parents that they would like to marry. And very good. Now, he was about, I think, twenty days or years or something like this, and they said: "I think we will be together." Both this boy and girl said it, and the parents said it, and everything is good. And that boy comes to bring her very nice fruits or something to eat. Or she is always bringing something, this and that. Very nice breads. Bread is a bread. You know, when we go to Australia, and further that side, in every Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, and this and that, all... When they come, the friend, grace, or whatever... The first who come are friends or something, yes. And then what they do is they bring bread, very nice big bread, and salt, and they come. So they come and give this bread to whom? To whoever is coming—all in the house. So, bread. And there, salt, so bread and salt. And when doing this, then they will, how do you say, hurt? And so, my friend, and this comes into my house. Now it means you are my best friend. Very good, one very thing, nothing negative, not very nice. So when I go in, at that time, for many years, they were always giving this bread and this and that, and they were hugging me, and so like this, very beautiful, still now. And when marriage and this and that, they are this bread and... Like this, do you know someone? Yeah, you know, boy. Hungarian also have, but he's forgotten. He's a little boy. Okay, so, really, all these countries which depend on this side or that, very good. Well, these boys and girls, beautiful they are, very nice. And always he brings the bread, or sometimes these girls bring the bread. And he's cutting this and giving it to her first, and this, but he doesn't say anything, and he's inside, but he doesn't want to tell anything. He should tell, but he doesn't tell. Something, but she doesn't want what she wants, and this he wants. Anyhow, one day, the time is now coming, and they get married. Beautiful, very nice marriage, and their parents were very nice. They gave one house, and really it is a story—a story, and a story is a reality. Well, they came and they brought bread, because they bring bread, and again the hard, very hard, so that he cut it, because he will eat card very—other is fine, good for the girl. But she wanted, she would like to have her braid that height, heart, heart first. And again, she gets very nice, but she doesn't want it. She wants to have a little heart, good, out. And he thinks: "My God, all the time I'm buying heart, heart." But because my wife, my friend, she, and I want to give soft and good things. And she said: "I want to have this bird, very nice." Well, one month only, nothing happened. Even then, she said, when he comes in the morning, he says: "Hello, let's eat." Now he cannot talk to her, and he said: "What can I do? Darling, what can I do?" And she doesn't talk. Really? Oh my God. Well, she did not get him very well. He did not hug him. Yes. But they don't want to go away because they are married, which is there like this. Now he doesn't know what's happening. I am bringing nice bread and all hard-picking rice, bringing this. But fifty years, and then fifty years, so then her husband said to her: "Let's go, we go to the forest or somewhere," what we call there. Somewhere we can find a very nice hotel or something, and we will go for our birth, because we were so long when, so we are now fifty years. So he said: "Let's go, please, and we will make breakfast or something." Yes, of course. Now she is married, and marriage is like that, but she does not want it like this. But it has to be—now the whole life will be like this. So the people from the hotels, from there, he said to them: "Please, tomorrow is my wife and me, we are married, and this is fifty years. Please, can you make a very nice lunch or something?" Again, they made very nice these and that and that. And he said to the hotel person: "Please, this heart is dark. Please put it by me and give a soft bite." She said: "Oh my God." And he said: "Darling, what is that?" She's looking on like this. He said: "You see, I give you always very fine and good and hard things." She said: "I don't tell you anything. Why? Because I never—and never you—give me heart, brain." He said: "What? What is it? What, you don't know from my Bible? We were little children till now. Always, you give the heart, the heart things in a nice first gift. But I want to have it like this." He said: "This?" He said: "Yes." Then please bring very hot and this. And her husband said: "I am so happy now." And she said: "I am also very happy. Then what do we do?" He said: "Now we go marry again, to the... go to the ten years we had." So now we eat each other, and now we will be married. This was not a marriage, but now we are like this. And then he was so happy, she was happy, and all from the restaurant came, and they came and he was hugging everyone. Oh my God, and what can we do? Please, now we will again make the marriage as in the temples or something like this, and we are now—we are real marriage, and husband and wife are now, we are now, and they became so good, and everything was good. Yes? So, what is that? I am, give me the bread. This, and then he said everything was good and very, very happy. So, to your friends, we should know when and how we like—sometimes like very much, but others don't like this. Then others like other things, and so we have to live together with our brothers, our friends, our parents, and everything. And we should live like that. Otherwise, when something happens and you are married, go away. Now, the people—how many years one dies, remain together. After that, oh, bye. And what happened? That is not like that, because even there are many animals and many birds, certain kinds of birds, and when one bird will die, then that bird, beautiful or something, they will also sit down and be very good. They left that also. So the birds and many animals, they also like it there. But what is that, oh humans? We humans are. So, therefore, now, otherwise, don't think that. Say, no, you have, you did, and it is your—what is your mind? What is my mind? My heart is my heart, and your heart is my heart. So we have both parts here. So, satsaṅg. Sat. Sat means the great, the all. Satsaṅg. So, sat, all, sang. Sang means all together. This is satsaṅg. Satsaṅg. Sat means we are all. Satsaṅg is saṅg. This is very good, very good. Then, because what? What will you get? Something new? Or, what are you getting? Something good? Nothing is good. Our body is very good in this, but it is our heart, in our thinking, in our thoughts. That is a Greek. And like this, when people come there, and they come after a long time, and they think about this, and then they manage, then for their whole life, they will be very good. It should be, but now it is Kali Yuga. Kali Yuga is now; today it is here. It comes sometimes, where was it, in London or somewhere. So they both were together. One pair was there, near my ashram in London. And one, like a girl, she put only one paper: "Thank you. I will not come anymore. Are you?" That's all, really. So many times, here and there, many things are happening. Therefore, we should have our father, our mother, our brothers, our friends, all the time. This is not what you are talking about, saying that you will marry this and love each other. Which kind of love? Okay. But a maximum of three months is enough, and it will go back, and it will go slowly back, and this will do, and this is. That is not love. Love is that we are all very happy, healthy, and well, bringing everything. I help her, she helps me. Please, you sit down, I will do it for you. That is the thing. He is not my wife or my friend. So this is not body, it is insight. Insight, that is the good. And when there is no body, no finish, thank you. Then you have Bhagavān, God. God, mālā, mantra of Satguru. Jai Bhagavān, Jai Jai, Jai Jai. Good, good, very good. Yes, satsaṅg, I am, I am so much, how to say, I am so happy, and I want to be, I want to be, I want to see that I am my friend, my friend. I want to see only that and nothing else. Bolo. Satsaṅg be. I am very sad because all my friends, I don't see them. Where are they? And I am just like, for the water going, so I will die. I have no water there or not? This, my friends. That is in the Himalayas, the biggest one, and this is a very great lake. There is only that one, birds only these two, and they all, only they are taking some pearls, the pearls, and they can't get the pearls. They don't do anything, drinking, yes. So? It is similar to the bird that refuses to drink any other water than the one that rains. He doesn't drink the water from the ground or the lake, only the rainwater. So during certain times, when there is no water and it is very hot, and now that is coming. But there is that word: she doesn't want to drink this water, only that which will come from here and directly be put in my mouth. I will drink, otherwise not. I will die. But at the end, Mahāprabhujī, Śrī Mahāprabhujī, who wrote this bhajan, he says, he is—Mahāprabhujī says about satsaṅg—he has two quotes coming out of it. Okay, yeah. I will give you the lecture again tomorrow, or someone will, because to know, we know. We are sitting here, but we don't know, and if we want to have that, it is not here. So there are such bhajans of ours, from Holī Gurujī's, Mahāprabhujī's, Devpurījī's, and all this. So I would tell you that such a bhajan song, you can sing this song, and they are giving so many beautiful words so that it is like for us to give everything that we need, and how with God, how are their friends, which friend is that, where are the animals, where is with them? Where is it with Mahāprabhujī? "Karata He Kevalam Mahāprabhujī Karata." This bhajan and these songs, this is nowhere, anywhere. We have others in countries, but only two or three words. But they sing, what this and that sing and that sing. That's, of course, everybody singing very nicely. There's nothing. But these things, what you see, and you, if you want, and I think we should. I was trying to write this very well, but people cannot do it very properly, exactly. The one word, there is one word for five. So either this or this or... this. That's like this. So this is very, and that is a meditation. That's a meditation. And this is very good. So, Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī's, our Gurujī's, Swami Madhavānandjī's—he will not sit down for one day or two days or one month and write a very song, many songs. No, no. Holī Gurujī's just okay. Okay, I will sing a song. Exactly. He will sing so greatly. So everything is within his heart. This is very good, very, very good. So there are very many Mahāprabhujīs, Devpurījīs, Alakhpurījīs, Mahāprabhujī's bhajans, Mahāprabhujī's many other disciples, and they have such beautiful bhajans from them. If you can, we have to translate. When the translation comes up, if you listen to it, then it is like this. What you are doing, I don't understand yours, so you have very nice, but I cannot understand. So we have to learn how to do it, when, and how, and this is very good in bhajans. So, thank you. Next one, please. Next bhajans, anybody, you will do, you will do. So this is one bhajan, very nice, he's great. So he said: "I see with my friends, my great friends, and when we are with me there, I am very tired, and in front of me, I'm trying from my fingers or my eyes." Tears from my eyes. So, what was that? Yes. Yeah. So, satsaṅg. Satsaṅg. Now, sat means we are all together. So, sat. Now we are all sarpakta. We are only one friend. Very good. All we are like this. All we are one. Our heart is one. In me and all the worlds, everything is in my heart, and I admire this with my breath and my all. They also have everything there. We are one. There is nothing more than this, as God.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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