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We should live in real love

Marriage and spiritual fellowship are about merging hearts through selfless understanding. A union begins with a vow of lifelong commitment, symbolically sealed. Shared life becomes a school for learning each other's unspoken needs. A story tells of a couple who for fifty years misunderstood each other's preference for hard or soft bread crust. This silent suffering persisted until a simple request at a hotel revealed the lifelong miscommunication. Their joy upon finally understanding shows that true merging requires seeing the other's heart. This principle extends to all relationships—with family, friends, and the divine. It is the foundation of satsaṅg, being together in truth. In this age, relationships often break because this selfless love is missing. Real love is mutual help and shared happiness, transcending the physical body. It connects to the eternal, like a bird waiting only for pure water from a specific source. Spiritual songs and fellowship guide this inner union.

"Sat means we are all. Sang means all together. This is a satsang."

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

Filming location: Melbourne, Australia

Good humility. You are young now, approaching twenty-five. There was a boy who was very good in school and college, studying everything he intended to do. He had friends, both boys and girls, but they did nothing improper; they were comfortable like brothers and sisters. They would go together, jog, play wonderful games, yet remained just like that. Then it is said they would like to marry. What is this marriage? Marriage means—what can you take from your condition? How to say it? Merge. What is a merge? Like my wife and my husband, and they desire to see their children and all. First, my parents and friends come and tell me, and we go to the church or temple for marriage, or to ashrams. I was in Austria many times and saw how they marry in the church. They come very nicely, in trust. In the temple, we take a paṇḍit who calls them. They come, very nice, their parents are there, and the priest speaks. First, he asks the girl, “Do you want to merge, to become as your husband forever?” She says yes. Then he asks the boy, “Will you be good? Will you do everything, lifelong?” He says yes. The priest says, “This is a ring. Give the ring and see if he says something.” He gives it to the boy, who then says, “I am your husband.” He also gives a ring. Then they distribute something sweet, like fruit. The Christians do this very nicely. All the people were there, very good. They go to a nearby restaurant, sit and eat. One thing I did not like: they are doing this in the church, and outside they are killing animals to eat. After that, I did not go. We should not think this is different. Fellow exporters are there, but otherwise, all is very good. They work; the husband works, the wife is at home, children come, she takes care, goes to the market, brings fruit. Everything is very nice and comfortable. Only one marriage. At that time in Austria, my heart was not really here. The next day, someone asked, “Can you try a little from here?” I said, “It doesn’t matter, there is nothing.” But they said, “Now who does?” And now it comes here. So what happens at that time? Now, they don’t marry, they go, finished. They get there and then... Allāh said, “I don’t... don’t tell anything. Please, please.” How many times are they marrying or not? Now is Kali Yuga. But at that time, when I was nearly fifty-two or a little more, all Australians were very beautiful. All people, husband, wife, very good, children very good, everything is very good. But what after coming? I want to tell you something. Should I tell you? I will tell you. Good, very good. Hot. After the marriage, it is very hot. So it is a school. In the school, there are children, all girls and children, they are very nice. They come home, are near our parents, they all come, but nobody takes anything negative. Friend, very good friend. It is like this in school and college. Now children come nearer and nearer from this family or that house, they come in, they like it, and they tell their parents they would like to marry. Very good. Now, when he was about twenty days or years, they said, “I think we will be together,” both the boy and girl said, and the parents agreed. Everything is good. That boy comes to bring her very nice fruits or something to eat. She is always bringing something. Very nice braids. A braid is a braid. You know, when we go to Australia, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, and all those places, when a friend first comes, as a friend, what do they do? They bring over bread, a very nice big bread, and salt. They give this bread to whom? To all in the house. Bread and salt. When doing this, they hug and say, “My friend, come in my house.” Now it means you are my best friend, very good, nothing improper, very nice. When I went there many years ago, they always gave this bread, hugged me, very beautiful. Still now. And in marriage, this bread, like this. Do you know someone? Yes, you know. Yes, boy. Hungarian also has it, but he’s forgotten; he’s a little boy. Okay, so, really, all these countries on that side are very good. These boys and girls, in a beautiful way, are very nice. Always he brings the bread, or sometimes the girl brings the bread. He cuts it and gives it to her first, but he doesn’t say anything. He is inside, but he doesn’t want to tell anything. He should tell, but he doesn’t, and he tells something, but she doesn’t want, but she wants, and he wants. Anyhow, one day the time came, and they got married. Beautiful, very nice marriage, and their parents were very nice. They gave them a house. It is a story, and a story is a reality. They came and brought bread, because they bring bread, and again the heart, the very heart. He took it, cut it, because he will eat. The crust is very fine, good for the girl, but she wanted her bread to be hard. Hard first, yes, and again she gets very nice, but she doesn’t want. She wants a little hard, good crust. He thinks, “My God, all this I’m buying heart, heart.” Because my wife, my friend, she and I want to give soft and good things, and she said, “I want to have this crust, very nice.” For one month, nothing happened. Even then, when he comes in the morning, she says, “Let’s eat.” Now he cannot talk to her. He said, “What can I do? Darling, what can I do?” She did not really... oh, my God. She did not get him very well. He did not hug her. Yes. But they don’t want to go away because the marriage is there like this. Now he doesn’t know what’s happening. “I’m bringing nice bread and very, very nice, all heart-breaking rice, bringing this.” For fifty years. Then after fifty years, the husband said to her, “Let’s go. We go to the forest or somewhere, what we call the... somewhere we can, a very nice hotel, and we will go for our anniversary, because we were together so long.” Now they are fifty years. He said, “Let’s go, please, and we will make breakfast or something.” Yes, of course, now she’s married. Now she’s like that, but she doesn’t want it like this, but she has to be. The whole life will be like this. The people from the hotels, he said to them, “Please, tomorrow is my wife and me, our fiftieth anniversary. Please, can you make a very nice lunch?” Again, they made very nice things. He said to the hotel person, “Please, this crust is dark. Please put it by me and give a soft bite.” She said, “Oh, my God.” He said, “Darling, what is that?” She’s looking like this. He said, “You see, I give you always very fine and good, and the hard thing is me.” She said, “I don’t tell you anything. Why? Because I never, and never you, give me hard bread.” He said, “What? What is it? What do you not know from my Bible? We were little children till now, and always you give the hard, hard things. In the first gift, I want to have like this,” he said. “Please bring very hard, and this.” 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 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. He was so happy, she was happy, and all from the restaurant came, and he was hugging them all. Oh, my God. What can we do? Please. Now we will again make the marriage as in the temples or something like this. We are now a real marriage, and husband and wife is now. We are now. 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 good and very, very happy.” So, to your friends, we should know when, how we like sometimes, like very much, but others don’t like this. Then others who like other ones, and so we have to live together, our brothers, our friends, our parents and everything, and we should live like that. Otherwise, when something happens and you are married, you go away. Now, the people, how many years one dies, remain together. After that, oh, bye. And kyā hogayā? That is, it’s not like that. Because even there are many animals, many birds, certain kinds of birds. When one bird will die, then that bird, beautiful or something, they will also sit down, and very good. They left it. Also, 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, it is your, what is your?” What is my heart? My heart is mine, and your heart is my heart. So we have both parts here. So satsaṅg. Sat. Sat means great, all. Satsaṅg. So sat, all. Saṅg. Saṅg means all together. Together. This is a satsaṅg, Vibhāka. Satsaṅg. Sat means we are all. This is very good, very good. Then, because what? What will you get that is new? Or what are you getting that is good? Nothing is good. Our body is very good, and this, but it is our heart and our thinking, our thoughts. That is a Greek. And like this, the people, when they come there, and they come after a long time, and they think about this, and then they marry, then their whole life, they will be very good. It should be good. Now, Kali Yuga is here. Today is here. It comes sometimes, where was it, in London or somewhere. So they both were together. One para was there, near my ashram in London. And one, like a girl, she put only one paper: “Thank you, I will not come anymore. Adieu.” That’s all, really. So many times, here and there, many things happen. Therefore, we should have our father, our mother, our brothers, our friends, we, all the time. This is not what you are talking about, that you will marry this and love each other. Which kind of love? Okay, but maximum three months. After this is enough, and it will go back, and it will go slowly back. And this do, and this is. That is not love. Love is that we are all very happy and healthy, and we bring everything. I help her, she helps me. Please, you sit down, I do for you. That is the thing. Therefore, it is said, oh my friend, I am thinking very much for my father or my mother, or my husband, or my wife, or my friends, so this is not the body. It is inside. Inside that is the good. And when there is no body, no, no, finished, thank you. Then you have Bhagavān, God, God, Mālā, Mantra of Satguru, Sat Nābhōlām. Good, good, very good. Yes. Satsaṅg. I am so happy, and I want to be, I want to see that my friend, my friend. I want to see only that and nothing else. I am very sad because all my friends, I don’t see them. Where are they? And I am just like the water going. So I will die. I have no water there, or not this, my friends. Let’s go. That is in the Himalayas, the Himalayas. The biggest one, and this is a very great lake, and there is only that one bird, 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 besides drinking. So from the ground of the lake, only the rainwater. So during certain times, certain times when there is water, no water, and very hot, and now that is coming, but there is that word: she doesn’t want to drink this water. Only that, from which will come from here, will directly be put in my mouth. I will drink, otherwise not. I will die. At the end, Mahāprabhujī wrote this question. He says, Mahāprabhujī says about satsaṅg, “Who spoke the name? Okay, yeah. I will give you again tomorrow, or someone, the lecture. Because to know, we know.” We are sitting here, but we don’t know. And if we want to have that, but it is not here. So there are such bhajans of ours, from Holy Gurujī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s, Devapurījī’s, and all this. So I would tell you that such a bhajan song, you can see the 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 is their friend, which friend is that, where are the animals, varies with them, etc. There are so many books also from my Gurujī. And also, there is one bhajan and names also. So many, many bhajans, and many, many great. But you have come from this very good. It is like India. In India, there are bhajans and songs and this. Nowhere is anywhere. We have others in countries, but two or three words only. But they sing what this and that sing, and that sing. Of course, everybody is singing very nicely. There’s nothing, but these things that 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. One word is 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, our Gurujī, Swāmī Madhavānandjī, He will not sit down for one day, or two days, or one month, or I will write very song, very song. No, no. Purī Gurujī is 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 many, many Mahāprabhujīs, Devapurījīs, Alakpurījīs, Mahāprabhujī’s bhajans, Mahāprabhujī’s many other disciples, and they have such beautiful bhajans from them. If you can, we have to translate. When they translate, if you will listen to that, 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, 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... Very nice, he’s great. So he said that, I see with my friends, my great friends, and when we are with me there, I am very tired, and because of me, I’m trying from my fingers of my eyes. Tears from my eyes? No, tears. So what was that? Tears? Yeah. Now, sat means we are all together. So, sat, sat. Now we are all, 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 words and everything is in my heart. And I admire this with my bread 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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