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Life is a sacred cycle of consumption and suffering, demanding non-violence from aware humans. Living beings consume each other due to ignorance, perpetuating a cycle of killing and being killed. This brings suffering and ensures rebirth into the same pattern. Humans possess knowledge, distinguishing us. We must not kill any creature—birds, fish, or animals—for they feel pain. God provides for all life, not just humans, like rain for every tree. Our actions return to us; causing harm ensures we will be harmed. To break the cycle, embrace peace. Give up meat and eggs, as these are lives. A realized being merges with the divine, like a drop in the ocean, and does not return. Live on seeds, leaves, and what is given without killing.

"Jīva jīva bhakṣyate. The living being consumes the living being."

"O human, do not kill any creatures—birds, many birds, many things, the fish in the water, everywhere."

Filming location: Launceston. Tasmania, Australia

I bless you all, and I bless life. Life is life. Yet life is not only this; it is something more fervent. Even now, your life is proceeding on its course. Jīva jīva bhakṣyate. Jīva jīva. The living being consumes the living being. They live, and they kill, because they have no knowledge. So many animals, birds, and even humans kill, but they do not know why they are killing. Killing anyone—anyone, even the little saint—brings suffering. If we have killed, we will also come back again, and we will go inside that cycle and be killed. Someone will kill, others will be killed, coming and going, coming and going. But according to God, the real God, God said, "These are creatures, but they do not know. Yet they feel pain, they have pain." If we see even a little mosquito, it also experiences peace or pain. Let them go, because they do not know. Therefore, Bhagavān Śiva—that one God who brought forth all creatures—pleads: we humans should not create death for any creatures. Because they are part of jīva-jīva-bhakṣate; yes, they are. They are eating and being eaten because they lack knowledge. Therefore, O human, you are now human. We have knowledge. I heard from his sister, and their daughter, and the brother—all the children. How are the children? Children do not know. And so the parents, or people, or humans, they also do not know, and thus they kill others. They bring the children and tell them, "Eat this, you eat this and this." You will go back. The one who is killing, eating, doing—in the next life, he will go among the other creatures. God, the very greatest one, has given this principle. It is said, "Jīva Jīva Kṣate." All are suffering, and they will be eaten. But now you are human. O human, do not kill any creatures—birds, many birds, many things, the fish in the water, everywhere. Who has made many good things and peace? Slowly, if you take life, you will become like God. We cannot see God. And when we see some form of God, nobody wants to accept that this is God. But when that form goes away or dies, it means they will go into that Parabrahman, Paramātmā. It will become very good in life, but now you have to go further. Those who will give Parabrahman, Paramātmā, Bhagavān, God—they will come like that only. Those lives seem like stars. And from the stars comes that power from somewhere; it becomes and remains there. With that, then we have no problems, no killings, nor this. We are like now. You see, we don't see anything. How beautiful is the star? No star is there now that we can see—a very clean view, anything. And there we are. Otherwise, consider a little drop of water in our palm. We see that water, and we are sitting here near the ocean. Here, the ocean is going like this, and we have a drop in our hand, in our palm. That one drop of water—is that God? It is like the ocean. I am there, and if you drop it like this, it becomes completely the ocean. Can you bring it back again? We take the drop and give it to the ocean? No, no... Look at it back. We cannot make the ocean into one drop again. I will go into the water, and the drop is in the ocean. I say, "No, no... Give me back nothing, nothing." And so it comes from that ocean. It has many things, many things, but it comes from that. When we come near, Bhav comes and then goes. Now we see the ocean, and that drop is gone. And we see the... what is it we call, yes. And now they are all here in the sky. And how fine, very, very fine. We are going in an aeroplane through nothing. But they are all now there. So how many? They are very fine, top to top. And we are all sitting here, and we are going through. So it comes again from there and comes through more again and becomes what we call that again—coming water down, no? And all coming, one little drop, it becomes now, coming all down, air everywhere. So that it has come. The ocean—how many distances? Where are its distances? But it is very hot. There is earth. It has gone there. It is very hot. Now you have very good, and you are always coming to good and better. But for example, in my country, how many, how long? No water, hot, very hot. We go, what is coming from God inside our body, but nothing. And then after it comes the day, and it comes the ocean. They are down here, and the cloud is all coming, and it will come down raining. What do we call it? The raining. And why? Because God gives this to all, everywhere—not only to humans, but to all creatures, all trees. Each and every tree of this, what we call this tree, very big, and this everything they have there. And when it is very hot, but still God is giving from them, that time for the trees. Otherwise, it will dry and be finished. So God, God is now, he is there, he will bring, and he will come there. So water is not only for humans, not only for humans, but for all. Even if there is dirt somewhere, the water will form drops there. How? How is it bringing that like this? So humans, that humans, they see everything. But God has given you, when you were born, was more of your mother. A child came, mother came, mother, mā, mother, mother, Johan. So first is, they say the fathers are any, even the little, an end that's also giving, and no little, so from that it is safe, it comes on in, and that has also water inside. They have a life. This is the life. They will all come again, but not only for humans. That God says, "Not only humans, all creatures, everything, everywhere is their water," and on. Trees in this, and everything, and in the earth where we are standing, there are so many living things. About 20 years ago, there was a time in Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Croatia. So they were giving from America, and it was said that the scientists are doing it. They said, "Put off your foot and stand here on the hot earth there." And sitting here, what is there? Many, many creatures. Many, many creatures. You cannot believe it. It is hot, and it is earth on this. But there is also living life, water itself. What is water? Water, water. Water, jo kete na. What is there? Jīva, jīva, bhakṣate. And after that, life about this. What is there also? So when the ocean comes up, how clean, very nice, pure, good water is there. And then inside is also this to give to everyone, and not only for humans—birds and this and that. Therefore, we should think, we should pray, we should believe: we are humans. All other animals, they do not have that much [knowledge], so they can kill or run and this and that. Animals all. But we are not. Then we said, how could they kill? Hold the animals in, or kill what you say. What you did, that will be you. You have to do again what you have given. It will give to you again. All doesn't matter. Just you can do or not do, but it will be like that. And that's why the sādhus, the gurus... Satsaṅg, sādhus, in which way are they thinking? Very, very they are, and they will take time again. Maybe come again back as a human, will come again as it is. After that, go back, then we have to give to everyone's back. What do you have given to? Someone has given, then they will give us back, and when we will give them back, they will give us back. What should we do? Peace, harmony, peace, and all good things, all good. Of course, we have to live. Also, we are eating, but we should eat that which is given: the seed, the seeds that we have, or from the water, and this because of leaves, and like this, many things that we have to leave. Also, God said that we are not killed in such a way. How is the suffering that is given inside? Oh, my God. And therefore, first, "Now do it yourself." Oh, my Lord, I did not know, and I don't know. I made so many things, but my Lord, let me, and give me blessings. What I did, I will tell you, because I did not know. I had no knowledge. Then we will come to that, you know, how many cows you are killing. How are cows? They are very great. Teaching them, and this and that, they have little babies coming from this cow. If it is a boy, just they get it, and they are sitting, and they eat him, and the cow is... Sitting there, this is that who is doing, they will do more and more. So, my dears, of course, I don't want to tell you, I wanted to give because he, of your brothers, that who was, he was also like this. But he came to India, he became there to meet many sādhus, he became a great sādhu, and he all gave up. Everything, meet this and that. And when his guru, his guru, he stayed with him under the kevī. You see, very nice, only a little cloth, and he's very tall, you know, and all his many hair, gear. So many, so many, how many years? And always, is there always like this? Yeah. And so in there, he said that his guru said, and then he—he was also, he was going to die—so he gave to him one book and said: Swami Madhavānandajī of Maheśvarānanda, can you give it to the ma... that? Only give it to my Maheśvara Nanda. And I... He gave me that. He was going to care where it is, where. And from there he came, and he said something. How does it happen? He told me. He gave me the book. He gave them a letter that said, "Please go to Swami Maheśvarānandajī." Now you should be with me, and he came and he went. He was with me and very good with me. And he came to me, and he was so much that anytime I said, "Do something," he would get up and do the work. Anything, and fruit, and this, and many things. He's great. His voice was great. In Kumbh Melas, there are Melas. In the Melas, he was so... There was, he was in like this, you know that, what is that? So that he took it like this, but when he came to me, I said, "No." And there was no. There was no. So that he made everything very good. And now I can see this, he saw, he saw that our Swāmījī here, this Guru. So, what is there? He was for everyone like this, but now, after his body is gone, then he came in each and every creature and human. He is in our heart. We are also going, of course. So, he is now here. We are speaking of him with homeboy. I'm... I'm speaking, he hears, he feels, and he says, "Swamijī, I am in your heart, and all is in everyone's heart." You make me one? How? How? Like the ocean came, all in with that which is within. Come back, and you will come to the gods of the gods, to that day. Will not come back again. He did many things. He will not come back anymore in this life. He will come to everywhere. There are no problems for him, no pain, nothing. And he will, when then he will come to you, show to you in your life also. And you should show his photos, speak to him. Sit down beside his photo and you say, "Yes, he is your friend, he is with you." Photo, where is he? Yeah, there is, you know, yes, this one, yeah, very nice. He is with you, all of you. So, if you want, I am not, I don't press you, I am not pressing you. But I said, give up all life of the, what you call, the meat, no meat, all the animals' meat, them. What is there? One more? You have what you said: alcohol, alcohol, yeah, yes. That is not like something very bad. Not bad, but it is only, only for a drop. This is only like doctors or someone, when something is like that, only a very little drop. And in this, you said, without that we cannot. You know that? And that's why it is said in Śrī Śiva, Śiva has said this. So, when there is something, you can put in your, something there, or this doctor is giving, or this, that we can use it. But when we will take, la la... Up any creatures to kill, many things to eat? If you have nothing to eat, sometimes, you know, in India, in the land, they go and then only ocean, only ocean. And then, you know, anything to see, the fruit or anything? Nothing. And their people... They are leaving and giving, they are going, eating fish or this like this because they have nothing to eat. But we have seen everything to eat, good, good things to eat. Why do we kill like this and that? This Swami, your Gurujī, he came to India, and then he said, "Oh, my God," he said. And he was living with many, many sādhus, many, many with him, okay? And when his father, for his Gurujī, he told him, "Himālaya." He was in there, and he said, "My..." I hear he got somebody's book, or maybe he saw me, I spoke, but I don't know, I forgot. And he said, now I am going. His Guruji said, his Guruji said, "Now I am going, you will come with me." But Swami Maheshwaranandaji said, "Still you have time, you have to work on this and that." He really came, I want to... Come, but I did not have the, from the, here from, yeah, visa. So I did not have a visa; otherwise, I was coming, I was coming on. But he knew he was sea, he was sea. And so painful, but he did not, he was not, what is it, ah, yes, all pain and this and that. But he was so powerful. Everything, he said, "Okay, I will be." And Swāmījī is coming, I said, "Yes, yes." So if you all will come, give up no animals, no eggs. Yes. Eggs are a mother. That's for animals. That is like mothers coming from the mother's body, or coming here, and they are the egg, and the egg is also coming like a mother's. Yes? Don't kill that. The egg is very terrible, very terrible. Can you think that you have a little baby in your stomach, and you can't, and you, you can't. Will you do that? Dude, you will eat like that? And if then you don't know human rights, give your mother and kill your mother? Or kill your child, pull it out, and eat it? Yes, how will you go? There, my dears, therefore, if I only I can tell you, give you, then no meat, no alcohol, nothing, this peace, peace... My Lord, I have done many things, but now I will not give any, any to me. Cool any little animals? All, everything. If we can step on the bread and we did not know, that's what we will say. This is something I'm sorry that I mistake, that I step on something, and for that I will pray. That's very important, I'm telling. So that we've said: "Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Devā Nārāyaṇam Hama Saba Dāsa Prasaraṇa Parāyaṇam." Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Devā. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīvānārāya. Haṁsabhādas Prabhu Śaraṇāpara... Oṁ Śrī Prabhu Dīvānārāya. Oṁ Śrī Prabhu Sabhā Dāsa Prabhu. Paranāpara Sabhā Śaraṇ Śrī Dīpanārāyaṇ Bhagavān Dev Puruṣa Mahādevan Mādhāvanājī Bhagavān Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva. Oṁ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ...

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