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A Satsang on Devotion, Family, and the Rāmāyaṇa I was asked to say something, and the only thing that gives me a little relief is the topic itself. In the morning lecture, Vishwagurujī described a future that does not look so rosy. Dear sisters, dear brothers, I was asked to say a few words, and I got the idea to make the topic a little easier, because what Swāmījī talked about were quite hard subjects – a future that doesn’t appear very bright, and also the subject of marriage, which, as we can see, is quite difficult. You might think the topics I choose are only on the surface, but we can really get some deeper ideas. Perhaps some of us have a tattoo on our skin, and if it isn’t too large, it can even be quite nice. What I have is something more, a higher level than the tattoo. It is, as you can see, a surgical seam, and this goes very deep. This is not anything new, but I think it will be quite modern in the future. And I think you will be much more interesting if you have a few stitches on your skin as a tattoo, especially in a swimsuit at the beach. Purījī, Purījī… and also the things to which it is connected. Slowly, I’m coming to the heart of this topic, and it is the surgery on the heart. Surgery can bring you really deep thought about how you are truly on your spiritual way, because our ego signals to us how great we are, how we are the best in the wide world – spiritually. But this is basically clear. Our ego signals how great we are, how good we are. Yet this is a very straightforward signal that pulls us back down to the earth. This is deeply connected with a story from the Rāmāyaṇa, which you surely know, about Hanumān, who was tested on his bhakti, his devotion, towards Rāma and Sītā. As you know, He, with His strong hands, opened His chest, and in His heart everybody could see a small Rāma and a small Sītā. So everybody lost any doubts about His devotion. As you know, it’s quite difficult to do this manually with your hands because there is the chest bone, but our heart can do it in your favour. And our surgery team will do it – they will open your chest, and in an ideal scenario, the surgeon would see a small Vishwagurujī sitting and blessing him. The question is how such a surgeon would take this, but definitely someone would film it, and it would go viral on social media. This didn’t happen on the 25th of May. As you can see, I failed in this task. So this case also shows us that we can hardly compare to Hanumān – to his qualities. There is one more spiritual appendix to this topic: in reality, during this operation, they kill you, repair something in your heart, and then bring you back to life. As you know, it is written in the Bible that you first have to die to be born again. So, in an ideal world, this would mean that if they kill us during such an operation and we become alive again, then we should be enlightened. It would be very nice if this were the case and we could so easily get enlightenment, but in the Bible, it is written in very small, invisible letters that this means killing our ego. Śrī Śrī… Gurujī always says that it is really not easy to achieve – to overcome the gap between our ordinary life and the Guru Tattva, the state of the Guru. And as our Guru also said, this is not so easy to achieve, this state of consciousness, to overcome this hole. So that was just a little piece of advice. In any case, we have here a beautiful satsaṅg, and I would like to return the word to Guru Deva with humility. With humility, I return the stage to our Guru Deva. I truly tried to make the beginning quite easy, to open with such a simple topic. Because the śānti is that – it will be all oneness. It’s like one mother. And the child comes with her. And how they are with them, taken out from her body. But mother and child, they are very clean and the best. Of the father: when we were two – you and your wife – and then came one child, we were so beautiful, very clean. And how many times are they with the children? Very little, and yet they are very great. When they come from the mother, everything is very pure, very pure. And the children are going everywhere. How happy they are, all three, when the child comes. Then, what do we talk about, what are we thinking? Because we were two – me and her, this boy and girl – and they were enjoying. There are only two. And these two, they are very happy and doing very well. But when the child comes, both of them are so happy and take the child in hand. At that time we said, “Now we are good husband and wife.” But now we are very good, yet we have another now – and that is our child. What we do, when she comes, the child, very beautiful, very beautiful. Now we will not think too much about what we did, but we were always working for the children. And so more are coming, brother – height, exit. And in this way we are here. You and your wife, then comes a child. Then comes the child. And there is one person, and so is that the spiritual person, or do they see everything like a Guru? They will give everything; how they are, how they are not, is not for them to decide. So then you are husband and wife, and the third – just as we all are – we are like a Guru. When we go like this, then we will be very happy and very good. And we will always say, “We are coming, my child is going more and more.” And how are the children doing? One child is coming to school, that, that, and that. So the father and wife and mother, mummy, they take more and more care of the child, coming more and more, and practicing. Then that child will be great, and now he will get a child. But the best thing is always that we are one. Yet now, for many, many people, they get one girl, this and that, then she goes away, or he goes away – and where is it now? That is how it is. And we don’t know what it is they are doing to people. We don’t know, and we can die. So first is what we should eat. For example, when a child comes, the mother drinks for the child. How many times the mother looks, and she wants to drink for the child. And how pure it is for her, the mother. But when we begin to think, and then we are eating some different things – this and that – and it is the whole world. Now it is like this part where people are living. We have now in every country, but who is there? We have an āśram, our āśram, and you have in your… There is a church in this house, but there is a, what do you call it, a mandir? Temple. Temple, yes. And that is – in countries they have this new, very nice. We have here a very nice church. And you see that everywhere we have like this. Other Indians also have them. They are always thinking and giving the children a good way, a good child. But you know, does it all come there in the ashram? And when those who do not come here, what will happen? If we can go to the temple in the morning and evening – not. They are not doing anything. And that is now – it’s gone very much, the people, and they are not going into spirituality. So how is it now, in this time? In this time, we should be very careful – really, really, and really. And this should go with his mother and father and brothers, and this all is like one person. And you know, now they call, everyone has gold, gold, money, and how is it they bring that? And when more and more money comes, we get negative things. Now everyone in every country, they are coming and taking money, money… money. Peniaze. I have money. I will go. I can do. And then everything is going on. So on this day, we will be beautiful, good, and real, and that we will remain. So we also – but we tell you that everywhere I am, like in our place, and we are practicing, and we should do. So in the morning when you are sleeping, are you going to sleep? But say something for God or something? And when, in the morning when we stand, then we see ourselves. I open and open my eyes. What is happening with me now? I was sleeping very well, and in the morning I opened my eyes. My thinking – and what is that? What will I do? Where am I going? And how, the whole day? There are so many people, many, many people who now say, “I can’t do it, I don’t know.” What can I do? This is now, in this time. So you should have your children, but children take very nice. Otherwise, it is your child, but slowly, slowly, they are going out. So what he told us here, to me now – he was telling very nice, everywhere in the room he was speaking, and I was thinking very much about what was in my heart. So this is what we should, in these few days – how many of us are here – we should clean everything, clean. All negative things, this and that, we should clean out. And come very nice, very happy, and you will all be friends, very good. So we also practice how we are doing. So when you go in meditation or sitting, what do you think? He was in the other room; they are practicing. Here is practicing; here there are others. And somebody is working, nice – making it very nice for our eating, for our good things. So where are we seeing what is happening? I am sitting, closing my eyes, in this room, and what is now? I close my eyes. I was sitting and not speaking. What am I doing? What am I doing? What am I thinking? It will be good what I do in my body. And in our body, “I am” is only in this – my body. But I want to go in with very peaceful, good feelings, and good thinking. And we open our eyes, and beside me is our friend. Besides, there is also the other. Everything is this. So we are all sitting here, so still, and we are speaking. But how is the thinking now? What is happening now? We will go here, there, going to sit and partying, Tilak. We are sitting here. I would think very much myself. How will I be? Will I be truly very clean and pure? I will go through and through and through. And so, when you have children, take care of your children very much. Then it’s ready and good. Otherwise, children will be all little, and they will not think of father and mother. They will do this and do this and like this, and the time is this. Your parents, it doesn’t matter, anybody can do. And their parents tell them, “Sit down, do this, please, not this.” They say, “No, why?” “I will not eat. I eat now, but we make prayer.” “No, no, I don’t want to. I will eat like this.” Do you know what is happening now in this whole world? So when the child is coming, we give them very, very, very little for them. So we will become more and more good people, yes? I said in my heart, OK? And it is said, if someone tells something, we should go back. We go back. If somebody – our own – tells some words, anything, then you can say, “Okay. I am sorry, I am sorry.” We say we are sorry. So now we ourselves should be careful. This morning we spoke about something very nice. How was it? It is very nice, okay? And many – last time – our friends and everything, they went back yesterday. They were also very great, good. So we – not me only, me, all. So now you should be very, like, very good at working and thinking about everything yourself, your children, or something, okay? So now it is like this, you know, you have learned everything from me and Gurujī, and then there are many books. The best is that all these books – look, like in India – but we have books. What are these all? Holy books. But beautiful books. What is inside? Very pure, good things. But they don’t read. Not reading. Yes? All the books are lying there. And now they are making other books, not those beautiful books for all of us, but it’s going out, and they take out others. So in that God, they are writing something wrong. There was a very nice book here. Is it here, with heaven here? No, it should be very beautiful, very good. And with this, if you will see, then what is that? And this is not that. So it is in the morning, early morning – what I told you many times, some things. I told him, “Open my eyes and tell me, I am human.” And a little drop of water in the whole body. I stand up on the earth, and then further I will be telling – or every time I am telling – but now you yourself, you yourself make these books, read this. This, when we will read, is nicely. What is God? This and that. So these books: you have Christians, and the Christians, they have a holy book. And I’m in Europe. How many languages I was here, you know? How there. And they said many times they took it out, what they kept. I see it. There is also where it is. But why do they like other things then? No? So we said, “We have no books, that old one.” And so we have this one book, very nice. And not even one word can open or change this. So I would tell you, if you want, to take this book, yes? Do we have it? Yes? Yeah, you can bring it. Until she comes, we will do something. Bhajan. Good bhajan. This bhajan should go into our whole bodies, each and every part inside. And so the Mahālis and this bhajan, Mādhavānandjī’s and Mahāprabhujī’s bhajans. And how nice it is, very good. So can you do one bhajan? Good. Śrī Śrī Devpurījī, Mahādeva, Kī Jai, Śrī Satguru Svāmījī, Mādhavānanda Jī, Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Viśvaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Parahaṁsī Svāmī Maheśvarānandajī, Gurudeva, Kī Jai. Pulī, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇ, Bhagavān, Kī Jai, Paramahaṃsvāmī Maheśvarānandjī, Viśvaguru Deva, Kī Jai. I will try to say a few words about the Rāmāyaṇa. The Rāmāyaṇa is one of the most famous Indian epics, and together with the Mahābhārata, it is called Itihāsa. And this means, in translation, “so it happened.” The Rāmāyaṇa takes place at the end of the Tretā Yuga. Because at the end of this epoch, the negative energy of the Asuras remained, and good action was necessary. As we know from the Bhagavad Gītā, God Kṛṣṇa said that whenever dharma declines and adharma increases, He manifests Himself. And those who follow dharma are not in a good condition. He (Rāma) was an ideal son, an ideal student, an ideal brother, an ideal king, an ideal husband, and thereby became an example for centuries. I think we all know this story. There is a lot of important information for us, a lot of wisdom, and I think it is very important for all of us – those who do not know this story to come to know it, and those who know it to read it again, to read it again. I will tell a small story from the Rāmāyaṇa. It’s from the time when Sītā was choosing her husband. It wasn’t really a case that she could choose; it was already decided that only the man who could string the bow would become Sītā’s husband. This bow was given by Paraśurāma as a gift to Sītā’s father, and it was Śiva’s bow. So we know this story: Rāma succeeded in this test. Then there was a wedding, and the brothers of Rāma also took their wives. After a few days, they were returning to Ayodhyā, where Rāma was to sit on the king’s throne. They came back on chariots, full of gifts. Suddenly, Paraśurāma stood before them, and everyone became frightened, because Paraśurāma was an incarnation of Viṣṇu – partially an incarnation of Viṣṇu. His mission was to punish all the Kṣatriyas who had lost their dharma of protection, and Rāma and his brothers were all Kṣatriyas. When Rāma’s father, King Daśaratha, saw this, he fell to his knees before Paraśurāma and begged for the life of Rāma, telling how young he was. But when Rāma saw this, he stepped down from his chariot and approached Paraśurāma. He simply realized that Paraśurāma was very old and that it would be against dharma to fight him. So he greeted him, bowed before him, and released an arrow into the sky. When Paraśurāma saw how wise Rāma was and his humbleness, he blessed him, and he blessed everyone. Thus, instead of killing, there was a blessing. There are plenty of such beautiful stories in the Rāmāyaṇa. One page? Yes, one page. So I will try to read: Chaṇḍā Sama Samāpī, Maṅgalāna Mcha Kartāryau, Vande Vānī Vī Naya Kau And this means that I greet the devī of speech, who is the source of sound and represents the alphabet. They multiply things through sound in a very poetic way, using rhythm. They bestow goodness and blessing. Think about this. Yes, just a little point. So it is a very long book, yes? But if you would like, you can have it in English and Indian. If you wish, it is possible to bring it to Croatia. If you could understand it, that would be great, and I think I have done already today. For all of you, just one third. Mahāprabhujīp Karatā Mahāprabhujīp Karatā… He Kevalam