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Our life is a chance

The destiny of the jīva cycles through realms from Brahmaloka to the human form. Brahmaloka is a unified state beyond the duality of heaven and hell. From this state, divine forces manifested the earth and the 8.4 million life forms. These creatures, though mute, possess awareness and remember God in their own way. Humans alone are endowed with discriminative intellect, yet often act with greater cruelty than animals. All existence operates on the principle that life consumes life. One's actions, especially harming other creatures, generate karma that must be experienced. This human birth is a rare opportunity; one must not squander it by living solely for sensory pleasure like an animal. Govern your body as a king governs a kingdom, abandoning harmful habits that destroy it.

"Eating, drinking, and enjoying, animals can also do. Oh, man, men, humans. If you are doing only this, then what is the difference between you and animals?"

"How many animals have you eaten? How many goats have you eaten? The many goats you have eaten in your life—first, you have to come into life as a goat and let your throat be given."

Filming location: Badrinath, Hiamalaya, India

Good evening. How are you? How was the day and the night? All is divine. You are blessed ones that you could come here in this Brahmaloka. Brahmaloka is all in one and one in all. Narakaloka, what we call in Western words, is in the hill. And Svargaloka is heaven. But between, there is a duality. Today, I was talking very much about how Brahmaloka is different. Regarding Svargaloka, one saint said a beautiful bhajan. Unfortunately, I don’t know the complete bhajan. But if I would have that book in our satsaṅgs, Dalakpurījī’s Holy Sand, Holy Dust... It is said that Brahma, Brahma is Satyugas. But one day that Brahmā will become a very tiny ant. You are all lost now. You are all lost, Brahma, and a little, little, little creature. Because there is no time. We humans have made the time. Other creatures, they don’t count Sunday, Monday, Somvāra, Maṅgalvāra, Budhvāra, Guruvāra, Śukravāra, every vāra. But our cow doesn’t count. Our monkey doesn’t count. Our ants don’t count. What they can count, they will not count; they are only looking to fill the belly, that’s all. But even all creatures, they have that awareness, consciousness, and know what is God. Their language is different; our language is different. It is said, paśupakṣī, even the paśupakṣī at the time of the dawn and time of the sunset, what we call this. Animals are also aware. The birds sing beautiful songs in the morning, evening, etc. All animals, japaṭ paśu or pakṣī pyāre. Japa is for paśu or pakṣī, pyāre. Even the birds and animals, in their language, in their way, morning and evening, remember God. Japaṭ paśu aru pakṣī pyāre, śubha aru śyām. O human, that animals can do too. Khānā, pīnā, bhogṇā, paśu bhī param sujān. Khānā, pīnā, bhogṇā, paśu bhī sūjān. Eating, drinking, and enjoying, animals can also do. Oh, man, men, humans. If you are doing only this, then what is the difference between you and animals? Therefore, Charasi lakh, 8.4 million different creatures, they are known as mukha prāṇī. Mukha prāṇī. They are all animals; they cannot speak in the human slang ways. Still, they are screaming, feeling that they also feel the pain. When you kill any kind of animal, they are suffering, suffering. Moprani means one who cannot speak. So when a human child can’t speak, will you kill it? Similarly, it is said, from these 8.4 million different creatures, one is a human, and a human has the knowledge, buddhi, viveka. Some buddhi, some viveka, our animals have also. You will tell your dog, "Sit there," and it will sit, yes. Your cow, you will say, "Sit down, better." All creatures will love you, but humans are the most cruel creatures on this earth. Who? Humans. It is said that out of 8.5 million creatures, maybe there are some long ago. Now I have to count myself also as something, that in the Brahmaloka Parliament, all different goddesses or whatever we call, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Maheśa, etc. Now, they said, "We are going to create one earth, one place where we can manifest it." Eko’haṁ bahusyā. I am one. Now I will multiply. Life. There was long what to do, what not to do, this, that, everything. We create the earth. Now there must come the creature’s life. But they will go and go and go. Nobody will come back. All will be lying like a stone. Give them some movement. But why should we move it? We are lying here like a rock. We don’t care at all how to move them, any creature, not only human. The lazy, too lazy. But there’s one power in their body which brings you to moving, and that is hunger. They said, "Okay, but how? What will they?" Eat, eating, what will they go? How will they get then? Agni Dev, pañca tattva: pṛthvī, jal, vāyu, agni, or ākāśa. Agni Dev, but what will Agni Dev do? Viśvakarmā Bhagavān, Viśvakarmā. Many don’t know, but Viśvakarmā is very important. All creation is made of Vishvakarma: the mountains, the Himalayas, rivers, forests, lakes, the desert, up, down, everything. Bhagavān Vishvakarma—and whom we call the Vishvakarmas—are mostly those who worship the hand worker, all who can. This one who made is the daughter of the Viśvakarmā, anyhow. So they said, "How will we bring them for eating?" said Agni. "What is in that, Agni?" Viśvakarmā said, "I will create hunger, but what will they eat? Stones." Said no, "Jīv, jīv, bhakṣate. Jīv, jīv, bhakṣate." Life will eat life: 8.4 million different creatures. What life begins in the water. And from this jalchar, thalchar, it then becomes solid, the earth. And nābhachār, sky, there are creatures born while flying and dying there. All of them are living in the space. Jalchar, thalchar, nabhachar, water, earth, and what will they do? Jīv jīv bhakṣate, how many? 8.4 million different kinds of creatures. If you don’t believe me, then you should begin to count. I didn’t count, I only follow my step of my great person sitting. Here, Maharishi Mahāpuruṣa has said, "84, 84, are you going to go in 84?" This means this is hell, and this is heaven. So, how will you fall in? Yes, we will see. One is that who have the viveka, have knowledge, have... Powers, and so every creature, what we have, animals, they also have the five—the eyes, the nose, the ears, the tongue, and skin—five and five karmendriyas. We all come by the karmas. Constantly, we are doing karma. Constantly, but you are thinking, but you are breathing in and out also. Karma, now we are going tomorrow to Alakpurījī’s cave, the beam pole. After that comes this, through Vasudhārā. After Vasudhārā, three kilometers, Devpurījī’s. Cave Alak Purījī’s, and going continuously, we are going there. So all what we do, we did, what we do. So everyone is doing karma. What is a karma? Karma is given in two ways: good karma and bad karma. What have you done good? You will do this, and Bad, you will do this? So we are going tomorrow, and we have some good helper. You call the donkey Muley. Mule. Neither horse, neither donkey. It is a mule. But I said, "Don’t tell them mule." I gave them now a title. Everyone should have a title, no? President, Vice President, Emily, family, family, family. Emily, anyhow, so I said, "These donkeys will carry our luggage," and we made a limitation: each will give only 15 kilos. If you have more than 15 kilos, we will take it out, or you will have to let up the car karma of that karma yogī. So we give him the karma yogī. It means we see with our eyes that this animal is loading on his back so many kilos, and if it doesn’t go, it gets the stick on the buttocks. He cannot say, "Please, two kilos, take it away, it’s too much." No. Because mukh prāṇī, mukh prāṇī means through their mouth they can’t speak. Now you have to go through. That means yeh karam, you have to bhogna padega, means you have to go through. Similarly, all others. If you can take a little luggage from there on your shoulder, this will be a little bit happy. But the honor, he puts more and more, and the karma yogī’s height is like this, and luggage is up to there. Now he’s walking. Sometime strong wind comes, sometime there goes. He’s, he’s lord on his stomach, not on the back, stomach. Anyhow, who said that? I... I am born as a human, and I will be human. No, no, no. This is only one chance for us, that we are human and we should not be animals. Therefore, jīva jīva bhakṣati. Life will eat life. A dog will eat another animal. Other animals will eat animals. But one animal is a human, and they should not eat that living animal. I was in Fiji, and in Fiji, I met one old, old sādhu, 140 years old. And he was in the ashram of the Bharat Seva Saṁsthā ashram there. They got a message that I am there. Though he was so old, he stood up and wanted to adore me and bow down to me. I said, no, no, please. He said, no, you are a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar. I said, you are a Mahāmaṇḍaleśvar, Ācārya Maṇḍaleśvar, please. I am like your third generation or the fourth generation. He said, "No, no... Mahārāj Jī, sit down." He gave the lectures, and he gave the lectures. How many animals have you eaten? How many goats have you eaten? The many goats you have eaten in your life—first, you have to come into life as a goat and let your throat be given. Then comes a fish. Fish, fish... fish. Many people throw inside a hook. Can you imagine when something little is stuck in our throat? We say, "Ah, ah, ah." And if you go with the finger, "Ah, no, no." Pain. Similarly, a fish, you give him temptation. This mūka prāṇī, and this temptation, the hook goes, she takes in the mouth, and then is hooked in the throat, and then pulling. At least can say, "Please, moment, I will come out now," in cruel way turning out, and this living prāṇī, life living. Lying on the sand, the mouth said, "So he said, ’Please, please, let me be in my world. Let me live rolling this.’ It doesn’t pull slowly, slowly out. Just pull it out." That much pain we have to bear again. So, how many fish were you eating in the world? That time in the fish’s stomach, you have to go and then again wear. The chicken, yes, how many, the cows, the buffaloes, though many animals, life is love to everyone. Therefore, it is said, "Oh God, what we did, this planet, is my vāda, and first avatāra, first avatāra." First, there was only water, only water, and then it came, the round globe. And Varāha, Avatāra, with these two horns on the mouth, Bhagavān, Varāha, brought this earth down and gave, when he left this, in such a power, still our globe is moving. Yes or no? Rolling, we are sitting, but our speed is how? Speed? If for one second our earth stops moving, it will go down. There is a first incarnation, and he brought this, and they see from Brahmaloka that here is a globe, and this globe was brought. And now Western scientists say, We brought it as a globe, as a round. True or not? Ages and ages, this was Kalapā, not only Yugas, Kalapās. Kehi Kalapā Mamāvityajī. How many Kalapā we went through. No problem. Your life is half, but your life, you did so many problems. So Brahma will become one day down, and that will go all, like one prime minister. In next, I don’t know where prime minister will go. So don’t think that all will get a liberation, everyone, but when? And that when. Which good karma have you done? My will? Karma is that, mostly, that you take away the food from others, that you kill others. A bird gives, or a chicken gives the egg. It’s not easy for her, too. It’s like any mother, it’s not easy to give birth to the embryo. That egg, you will be in that egg. They said, "No, no, there is no salt inside." Yes, you made this, my dear. And now they made so many chemicals, so you can’t get as many children as you like. Maybe one or two children you will get. But Saryamtasa, man has no more any men. And women, they also have nothing, they can’t do anything. So men go somewhere with other men, and women will... yes, it is true. Now they kill the human seed. They kill the animal seed. They kill all our grain seeds, tree seeds, everything. And not only this, we put so much poison to kill us. And not only are we killing this little creature on the earth, but also the ocean, and that is then going to Mahāpralaya. And this Mahāpralaya, when it happens, my dad, my grandfather, my uncle Gurū, my uncle Gurū, he writes a Beautiful bhajan, and this bhajan says... this bhajan, what is that bhajan? Bhūl gayā. Kai kalp nai. Other bhajan. Don’t get ready. Someone at birth, today’s birth, someone’s birthday. She is peaceful. Don’t go up and up. So, part is. Siri Guru. Ātmā Parabhaum. Ātmā pūrva. Saṅkal jag ke antra jami chara chara kī ātmā prabhu chara chara kī nabhru jasa po vimal che ātmā prabhu vimal. So it is said, Śrī Guru Ātmā, Śrī Dev Gurudev is Ātmā, Śrī Guru Ātmā, Param Ātmā. Not only that, ātmā, paramātmā, śrī gurū ātmā, paramātmā, om ātmā, puruṣottama, sakala jagake, antara jāmī, cāracarākī. Well, let’s come to it. So, in this 24th incarnation, which you can have the whole history on this holy earth, which was brought by Bhagavān, well, therefore, it is a cycling, and so one day. An elephant will become an ant, and an ant will become an elephant, and similarly we will be. But he said no one chance should be there, therefore it is one, and that one is dharma. Dharma and karma, so dharma, after that also the pāpa and dharma. This is also karma. When you have only good dharma, good dharma is a very good dharma, but you have to come again for this karma. So, therefore, sādhu, sādhu sent, they are coming here, and they take their karma to continue further and make you, your... Karma less, but you don’t understand that. So this is a long, long satsaṅg; I can do till morning, but I think it is other work, other things. So this is a life, so jīva, destiny of the jīva. But which jīva? Which jīva in this body are you talking about? Your jīva, but which jīva? In each and every cell of the body, there are many, many jīvas. In one tiny, this in your body, in the blood drop, is your whole complete self is there. So whom are you taking that, "I want to get"? Mokṣa, my body, my soul, my jīva, which jīva? Which jīva? But it is not that you have your own universe, you individual. You have your individual, and it is said that, "Oh man, oh rājā, there’s a further coming." I will talk sometimes. So, you are the ātmā, paramātmā, mahātmā, puruṣottama. And your soul is a king. And this king, you are governing your whole kingdom. Which one? Our body. But there are also the territories, the terrorists. Yes. And which terrorist? The cancer, liver problem, that problem, they are attacking you. And another one, a good doctor, is coming and trying to heal or do anything else, or this. We have good things, and we are better, but you are the king. So if you can control this, all others, what bad habit? It did not say that you should drink alcohol. You put alcohol in the body, your liver, your kidneys. How much the organs in your body are being destroyed. What is that? Your enemy there, O Mr. King of this Ātmā in our body. Let us go. We will come further then. So therefore, give up bad habits which harm your whole kingdom. Yes, in the First World War, how much killing you went and did. And then, finally, they ended the Second World War. No more king, Hari Om Tat Sat. Well, anyhow, I wish you a very good night. Tomorrow morning, a very beautiful story and program I will give. You can stop now.

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