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There are very much good people everywhere

We are all one people on a shared spiritual journey. We learn through experience, ashrams, and community. Our path involves understanding God, our connection to nature, and cultivating trust. We welcome all people, respecting them whether they seek deep practice or just yoga exercises. We offer teachings and simple hospitality like water or fruit. Our centers, like Mahimā Jyoti, serve this purpose. Spiritual practice requires discipline, like avoiding meat, but real peace is the essential question. My travels, like to Czechoslovakia, taught about cultural exchange and maintaining principles without imposing them. I was told not to take things, not to speak of God in a certain way, and not to carry stories between lands. I explained I am a yogi without religion or need for money. In our ashrams, we treat everyone equally, offering basic care. The core is that all beings—humans, animals—are equal. Our duty, our dharma, is to create a holy space where all can come to meditate, learn, and find peace, maintaining reverence in that environment.

"All are equal—Christian, all Hindus—and they like it very much."

"If you cannot sit on the floor, you can have it like this, but then learn, learn anything, or concentrate, meditate. This is open for you, all for us."

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

We are all one people—our brothers, sisters, and everyone. We have learned much from our own experiences, through our ashrams and our friends. We have come to understand many things, and through this understanding, we have become who we are. We have learned about what lies in God, and about our connection with animals and the forest. It is about trust. It is not simply that I am very good or that something is very good; we must learn so that we understand everything. When other people come—all kinds of people—we must respect them as well. They may arrive, and one might ask, "Are you this or that?" We have questions here. One path is like this: we are doing all our yoga and spiritual practices in a certain dedicated way. Another is that some people only want yoga exercises; they come, do them, and then on the way out, they are offered water or tea if they like, and then they say goodbye. That is it. It is not that someone comes and simply says, "Okay, I am dressed and I will go." Many do this in many countries, but here, anyone can come. Of course, they will come, receive good spiritual teachings and thoughts, and be offered water or some fruits. We can ask, "Please, would you like this?" and then, "You should go." We have our office, which is very nice—our Mahimā Jyoti. Mahimā Jyoti is from which country? Slovenia. Atong is German. Now it is already good. She is here, and there is another person like her, but she is not so much here today. Where is she? In Sikarna. Okay. That is also very good, because the other one is here too, which is very good for all our centers. We tell you, and you tell me. I know, and you know. In this, we have to understand and know what we are doing. So we must find out what mismatch we find. We want to see how many we are and how we are. One day, perhaps in Andhra's time, on a day when it is snowy or, no, a day with a very nice heart in the park, or when we go somewhere outside—we will all come together one day. Then we will know how we learn, how we see, how we speak, and everything like that. One aspect is very good: everybody should speak and share. But the other aspect is our spiritual practice: no meat, no this and that. It does not matter who the other person is or what they have; okay, thank you. But what is real peace? What is it? That is very, very important. You know that in our countries, and in the places where I am mostly sitting—there in the Czech Ashram Centre, and all the others—they are all very, very good. I am Czech, and they are Czech, they are Czechoslovakian. Yes, it was in Czechoslovakia. In Czechoslovakia, they all gave something, always with effort... And from there it began. It began for me to come to India again. First, I was gone, and then again they told me to come to the Czechoslovakians, and then the Hungarians, and so they brought what yoga is. At that time, they were there... yes, what is that curtain? They were calling me, letting me come, so much. I do not know what it was, always. They were telling me, "Please come quickly, come to that country, really." And, of course, there was the question of how to go there. Many people were there; Master Anand was coming today with a car, with someone, and they are going slowly. There were so many fruits, vegetables, and many things. And nobody tells you anything. You can take everything that you like, yes, at that time. And even now, that is okay. Anybody coming to the farm, to the vegetables or anything there, everybody, you can take it. That is it. But anyhow, when I was going, then many people were talking, "The masonry is going." There were people in different places, in the park or somewhere, and they knew that now the ceremony was going. So they were always coming out and looking, and then slowly, slowly, I am making some... I do not tell them. And they do not think that I am away, but people, they see me. They want to see me, and I was going sometimes, slowly. Yes, there was a difference. But no one has problems with me, anything. And always, very nicely, keeping a distance front and back. But the Muslims, the Canadians, the Hungarians, and all this—there were all many nice people. They are very good people. And so, when I see anything, everything, it was good, many things. And in your countries, you call them countries, or like this? The Christians, they were coming for my meditation and my yoga practice. They were from Jainism, like Christians—no, no, not Christians. The other one, like in Jesus, yes, in Jesus, very nice. So they were coming, but they were coming to me and sitting and looking and everything, because this was, they said, everything is like this. Yes, that was everything, and now it still is very good. But when all countries turned again, then there was again, they came this and this again, wrong. Otherwise, mostly for me, they brought me into these countries, into their countries there. And they know that I come, and they call me, and this and that. And they give... like, I am working, and so they are giving me. They are giving me the... like, I said no, then they said no, no. If not, why? If you are not, then go out. Yes, so they were calling me. They gave me money. How much? What is it? But they have given money. How much? And what is more? Somewhere, then they will put me in there somewhere. And I said, so there is... How do you want? They told me three things, and these three things: if you will do good, then it is good. If not, then it will be bad. And that is that: do not take anything from our land, black or this or anything, yes? Gold, or this, or that, everything. This was one. And second, what was that, the two or more? And then, yes, God. Do not talk about God there; there is a God here, they said, but not like this God. Yes, everything, all are equal—Christian, all Hindus—and they like it very much, Hindus very much. This was this, and there was that. If you take anything out... then it is not good. Just do two, three, and do not tell something from India, from these countries to this country. Do not tell anything. So they said, "What do you like?" I said, "I do not like anything. I like your country, and your respect, and you are good. I am from India, I am a yogī, I have no religion, and this and that, and money—I do not need money. And if I have money, it comes for me, yes, then it is... good." So many people, all sādhus and many, many things want to come, but they cannot go because they are not of this religion. Yes, no religion. And I said, "Well, I am not a religion, you know that." They said, "What is that?" "That is the yoga." "Clearest then, okay." How much money do you take? I said, "Why do I need money? I have very much in my India. In my India, I have everything. So, if I do like this, then I could have in India too, but I like it very much, and I know this, my friends here, every, every... Car, these countries, your countries, and outside other countries also, but we are not. I do not tell them about this, what I have done or I want, not so." In that way, in this way, it was very, very nice, the Czechoslovakia, and there she is still, you know. That is it, how much it is. And Vienna is good after coming slowly, slowly, slowly. But it is still in Australia, and everything is put on check, even our airport. So, okay, so now they are like Christians and all of this, yes. They were better in this direction to say. Still they are here, and still the people are like this. Yes, in Viennese also. Yes. So I will think something. There is that. You cannot tell this, okay. This is a country, very good, and we are best, and this and that. You are not at all, yes. So in that way, you people are free also. You are free, and you can take any religion, and you can go anywhere. You are all like, it is like this in your country, it is the thing. So we have that we want. One thing is for us: that we have only two things, that is God and you, yes. We are here for all of you. This is only for one. It is said, I have told many times, when one dies, I do not know where we are going. I told you that when we were born, we had everything in our hands like this. And when we grow old and die, we go, we are like this. We do not know where we will go. Yes. And one will say, "No, I will go now to God," and we will go there. Who knows that? All can become together: animals, tigers, or humans, or anything—all animals and all things. Let us put everything there, all the same together. Yes? We tell, we tell that it is very good, and my God, good, and my tiger, good. Okay, when is it died? There is nothing there. We can do nothing except one thing: all is equal. Yes, it is like equal. Where is gone that? And so, where is this going? In which side? There are two sides. Side? If then, it is like this: one, there are two things. Two is more. Who is what? Killing everything, and then they will go back. Others, they are only doing this clarity and not animal killing, this and that, so that we will be on that, I think so, I do. So in the Sanātana dharma, that is why Sanātana dharma, dharma—you know what is dharma? The world, what is dharma? What? I cannot understand anybody. Everybody is looking, so that I cannot understand. Duty. Aha! I see. That is a little different. That is why I ask you. So this is what we are looking for. So we say, all, bring in our ashrams. We tell them, "Give them water. If they are hungry or something, you can give them food," and respect them like this. But when the house is practicing, we in this everything, it is coming difference. And what is the difference? That all are good. We worship all, and we will bring again. And that is why you see some people, there are some people are... Coming, there is coming and going, and nothing and going, and that should not be. We have for us, and you learn everything very much. Thank you very much. So we have to learn from each other very much. So, who should sit where, and who should sit quickly? Yes, so I made you three persons only, no worse. And we will make something very nice, only like this. So everybody comes like this, then everybody thinks. They do it everywhere. In the church you go to, in the church, everybody goes and sits in there, but there is another part there, they go down. Yes, yes, and there is, and then coming, only this one person goes there. What are they doing, and like this? Not every day, nobody goes like that. There are two, one, two, three of our people there. They are making praṇāms and everything, and always like this, no? And we are also doing this. So this is everything in that way, is that one way. And people, they go, but church is there, and so all people, they do not go on the top. On that is, they are always only there, and on like that, in that place like this, and so is that we also. Okay, if you want to eat something, think and then go to that place, not here. That much you can come and meditate, close yourself. The area is very good, all for us, but one is making meditation or anything like this, and on the other side, and I watch this and say, "Am I this?" Yes, you know, like that. And two or three, the meditation here, and three or four persons, they are talking and laughing. So we should keep this; this is our holy. This is our holy place, from there to here, where all can come and sit down. If you cannot sit on the floor, you can have it like this, but then learn, learn anything, or concentrate, meditate. This is open for you, all for us. Yes, but in this, it will not go in.

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