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Waking to True Humanity: A Discourse by Swamiji

Upon waking, realize “I am a human being.” Step onto the earth and see oneself seated. Take a few drops of water in the hand. That water is Jagadīś, Mahārāj Jal Rāī. A single drop accomplishes all—coolness or goodness arises. Merge the water into the sea, and it rises into the universe, returning as water. Bow to mother and father, even if they have passed. Avoid meat and eggs; consuming them denies true humanity. Resolve never to eat flesh nor let children eat it. Serve animals instead. In India some still follow this, though influence from abroad spreads other ways. The one awake is a yogī; there is no sleep in satsaṅg.

“As soon as you open your eyes, see yourself—what will happen? … I am a human being.”

“Just one drop accomplishes everything; you feel a coolness or feel very good.”

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

All of you, please take your seats and sit wherever you are. I request the bhajan maṇḍalī to take a break for some time. Chai is coming for everyone, so please relax and enjoy. Sit down, sit in your place. Śānti, śānti… Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī Kī, Devādhideva Devapurīṣa Mahādeva Kī, Bhagavān Mādhāvanānjī Bhagavān Kī, Purījī, Purījī… One who sleeps in comfort opens his eyes. Look closely: as soon as you open your eyes, see yourself—what will happen? He says it clearly: sokhar ke soye aur āṅkh kholī, isme dekh lenā, āṅkh kholte hī apne ko dekho kyā hogā, to unko ye kaīnā hai, main manuṣya hūn. As soon as he awakens hurriedly, he should ask, “What should I say upon waking? I am a human being.” huṭahuā ūṭ gayā ne, to kyā kaīnā chāhiye ūṭ gayā, main manuṣya hūn – then he is a human being, and what belongs to that human and what does not. After that, the human being who opens his eyes and says, “I am a human being” – if someone wears a mask, someone does this, someone does that, then he is not a human being. And Bhagavān opened his eyes and said, “I am a human being.” After that, he takes out two legs, so that he may see with his mother and father, or sit on the earth. If I sit on the earth, then after seeing that, I know that I am a human being. To kaha ki, "Mein he bhagvān, main poore sansār ke sabhī desho ke andar, main vo, main pṛthvī par main betho, dekho usme bette hī dekhna, achitare keda ki main bettā hoon." You will see many such things; just step your feet upon the earth, and you will see. What am I telling you? This is of the whole world, of India, of our world. After that, we go further. Water in the hand: take water in your hand and see. To, jaise hī pṛthvī par ruk karke, uske bād maiṁ jal, jal jagadīś, jal jagadīś bhagavān. Now see: itnī sī, thodī sī pānī kī ulṭī le lo, aur vahāṁ āge vahāṁ samandar ke pās maiṁ upar rekh jāo. Usme subah uḍte hī karke pānī lete hāth maiṁ. Take just a few drops of water in your hand. As soon as you hold that water, what is seen, what is felt, what will happen? As soon as you wake from sleep and apply a few drops to your whole body—feet, here, there—all that water, as soon as you give it, water from Jagadīś to the whole body… you tell them how to do it, where to do it, what to do, then I will tell you what to do, what not to do. So there, if you take it in your hand and break it, it is not merely water… it is water, and that water is Mahārāj Jal Rāī, Jal Rāī. So, what is in that? That in this body, so much good comes and does everything. And then he will say, “I am this water’s reflection in the whole body.” Keep it and merge it in the sea. Purījī, Purījī… I have seen it. My water has gone into it, yet it remains visible in the water. That which is there goes straight up. And when it goes up, we see it rising from there, and that water goes into the universe. Then it returns as water—so how much is in him? What is clean, what is good? Everything seems dirty, yet looking at him, we can see in him, and just like that we all are. If you do this, then you will be in bliss; there will be bliss. See the prasāda, the water is boiling. Pārtha hai na, Pārtha nahin, koī ke, Vṛṣād. Abhi dekha na aaj, kitna barṣād āre hai, kitna jaldī abke ā gayā hai. What is in it? In this, what has been said—Gurudev has said, Bābājī has said—ki vah ek būnd kī sāt meṁ, pūrā sāb ho jātā hai. Ṭhaṇḍā lag jātā hai, yā bahut acchā lagtā hai, yā nayī hai vah. To usme kyā hai, jo ekdam ṭūṭ jāyegā. Just one drop accomplishes everything; you feel a coolness or feel very good, or it is something new. So what is that which suddenly breaks? Jal jai ga, jal jai ga – just as you rise, do that. And after that, bow down to your mother and father. Jagar āpke mātā-pitā chale gaye haiṁ, to bhī āpke mātā-pitā kā śyam karo, hāṁ. Even if they have passed on, still offer remembrance to your mother and father. Who is in you? That one, when he goes, he is the same who is in you. Now see, in our India, it is very good; everything is here. In many countries, there is nothing. Everyone eats meat and so on. In all places, only in our India, it is still present. But I am 40 years old now, and I live in other countries. When I come home, I see my village, my people, my children, everyone. How good it was, and now how good it is. You are people of the temple; you are eating what is offered. So then, now, that will not be yours, and if it is yours, then it will be good for you. I went abroad, but I walked with Jai Bābajī when I was little; I was with him. In some village, someone took an egg and kept it open so that someone might eat that egg. But now you have seen; I am telling you what you are doing or not doing. Your children are sent to school, aren’t they? So they read the newspaper, don’t they? What is written in the newspaper is that the child who goes to school—what will he do? What will he eat? What will he do? And he will take it with him and say that it is very good for us. “We are very big, we are like America, like wherever we go. And we should eat that—that is an egg.” You are eating this egg; you don’t know what it contains. When your mother’s child comes, will you hold him and feed him? So the egg is also of the bird; the child will come inside it. But if he is going to eat, then see: whatever you are, if I am a human and I start eating the egg, then I am not a human. Yes, a human is visible, a human is good, he studies, he does this, he does everything—but what does he eat? As soon as he comes back home, what does he do? He doesn’t even look at the cows, the buffaloes, or those who are about to die. And when he eats them, he goes and brings them home, puts something in his ears, and says, “The mask is on.” If this happens, then that will not happen. You know how good it was in our Hindustan. It is still there, very good. But still, others have made it like this and become others. So see that you don’t want anything; you only want to do what I am telling you—a drop of water—and after that we will do it. So you are sitting in our Bhāratvāḍā; you are very good, and it is possible. You don’t know, but someone or other is there who makes you eat meat, and they eat, and they eat… What happens is that disease comes from here, or from there, or from here, or from here… Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā Mahāprabhujī kī Karatā… No, no, if you don’t want to eat, then you can take the food from me. I will come to tell you not to eat. How can you spend money on children and animals? So, you people, what will you do? We are foreigners, we are rich, we can go, we have a lot of money, we will go there and eat. What is good? You will be useless. So you will see what we will eat: we will eat bhajan, he will eat bhajan. And now, for about two or three years that our students—I have gone abroad—they are sitting with us, so they go and keep the cows in another place, so that we go with the cow and see. So, five or six people, my friends, went to see the cow. The cow was about to have a baby. Three or four people were sitting with him. So, either the cow had a son or a daughter, so they came. They said the cow had a baby. They saw that baby. So, five or six people were sitting with it. He took the baby from the cow and gave it to the cow? And he cut it and started eating it. So those foreigners who were there told me, “What are you making me do, Swāmījī?” I said, “Why?” “You saw my cows to see them, but their children started eating them.” So I said, “They are the ones who do it.” That day he said, “We will not eat cow’s milk, buffalo’s milk, animal’s milk. We will not eat cow’s milk. We will not eat cow’s milk. We will not eat cow’s milk, we will not eat cow’s milk, we will not eat cow’s milk, we will not eat cow’s milk…” Pānī Deo Ke Kyā? āpke Bacche Bacche Koī Bhūṅkā Dūdh Diyā Piyā Kyā Nā? To those animals, they should also have their own. So they gave them, Vagyān, Vagyān—see, you know what? Do you know what is in India? What is so much in India? I mean, that old saying—what is it? In such big countries, inside them, so many people, those who do not even consume milk, etc. And what do they eat? Water, prasāda, vegetables—all this. But no one knows about it. And they have done it too. How many people have done it? So, you see, what do they call it? Vegan. So I go, I go in an aeroplane, I come back, I come here three or four times. So they are foreigners; they sit in an aeroplane, and they don’t eat other things—vegans. And after us, I saw that those who go abroad, who come, they sit in an aeroplane, they eat, they feed. Meat—they feed that, they feed that… Purījī, Purījī… Tutt Gaya Sabi Ka Ji Ek Din Ka Kya Kya Maine Naag So Gaya. So, what am I saying—am I a human? Main manuṣya ho to phir wo kām karūṅgā, ye karūṅgā. If I am a human, then I will do that work, I will do this. So I am a human, and Jatāyī says, “Andā lā, baiṭhā.” He tells his mother or a woman… Uskī māt ke ke lugāī ko kehtā ke… This also happens. So, if you look at it well, if you live in this, even today—I know here—at least, how many people do you eat and do? Yes. So, if you are eating now, if you are eating in your house—children and you and Kāvikā—from today, from here, take it in your hand. Resolve: I will never eat meat, meat, etc., and will not let my children eat it, and I have to go to God. Is it not? So I cannot say that, and I will not say it to you, because if I do not say it, then it will hurt you, but someone or other is there, so tell them this, and from today we will tell them that I will not do this from today. So by doing this much, we are human beings. So why did God come? Everyone came, like animals, etc. But then what happened? Then Lord Kṛṣṇa, no, Śiva, Brahmā, Kṛṣṇa—so that God who is not there, came. So what did he do? He said, “All this will be good for me.” But when the other person comes along with them, then he also tells them, “Don’t do this, do that,” and what we have to do, that is what Bhagavān does, isn’t it? So the same Bhagavān who first said Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, all these have come—I will not give you names, I will not say anything—but I am saying that if anyone has this, if someone is eating a little, then leave it from today and do this every day while getting up. And if anyone has this, then leave it from today; do this every day while getting up. He is so good, so good, so good. If you say that I am a human being, and I am in the category of cow, buffalo, goat, and cow, then when you tell everyone that I will not eat animals, there is nothing—I will serve them, and I will remain like this. This has been told to you a lot; we will do it again, and then we will do a bhajan. Good, and we will move forward. Say, Śrī Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān. Satya Sanātan Dharm Kī, Māt Pitā Gurudev Kī, Oṁ Śānti, Śānti, Śānti Bholu Satguru Bhagavān Kī, Satguru Bhagavān Alakhpurījī Mahārāj Kī, Devadhī Devī Svayaṁ Brahmā Devī Śrī Mahādev Kī, Viśva Vandane Bhagavān Śrī Dīp Nān Mahāprabhujī Kī, Viśva Hindu Samrāṭ Satguru Bhagavān Madhavānandjī Mahārāj Jī Kī. Vishwaguru Mahāmaṇḍaleśwar Jagatguru Paramanshi Yogīrāj Swami Śrī Meśvarānandjī Mahārāj Jī Kī. Now, the bhajan that I am reciting in front of you is very dear to Swāmījī. And now, the time that Swāmījī has told—that it is time to sleep; people sleep, but there is no time to sleep in satsaṅg. The one who is awake is a yogī. Purījī, Purījī… Mun Sen Sun Sen Lani Yogī Zanon Kī Zan Zani Us Nindra Me Jagatwane Puni Yātrī Me Divas Ujhani Us Nindra Me Jagatwane Yātrī Me Divas Ujhani Ulitā Phul Khilā Hai Sanamukh Lakhi Uradmukh Vani Hai Begum kī gham jānī hai, begum kī gham jānī hai. Vṛlā Sanand Jan Janī Hai Jagan Vāle Mūlī Rātrī Mein Divas Ugānī Hai Kudrat kālā pichānī hai, ulatī kālā kālam meṅ jāge, cetana puruṣa sujānī hai. Adra Takht Par Aap Biranji, Nith Nau Nirvani Hai Noor Milo Nirkhe Khilke Khilio, Sun Mein Taar Chalani Hai Noor Milo Khilke Mein Khelio, Sun Mein Taar Chalani Hai Yogi Janu Ki Yog Nindra, Nidra Sant Jani Jani Hai Us Nindra Mein Jagatwan Puni Natri Me Divas Ujhani Hai Sant, tant, heran jan lage, surta agam ghar jani hai. Jaha dekhe ja, sun chetan hai, aur nazar nahi ani. Jaha dekhe ja, sun chetan hai, aur najar nahi aani. Yogizano ki yog, birla sant jani jani hai. Us nindira me, jagat puni wane, ratri me divas ujhani… Had be had bin taka kar to, payo purse purani puri ji puri ji… Jann Janī Jagrat Pune Rātri Jagratā Pune Rātri Jagratā Pune Rātri… Śrī Kṛṣṇa sacā sanyāsī vai Gītā mai jam jainī hai, aur Ananta Ṛṣi sab gāve samje sojan rainī hai, aur Ananta Ṛṣi sab gāve samje josan rainī hai. Alakhpurī Caṇḍī sanyāsī ulṭī kalā pachānī hai. Śrī Devpurīśa Devinā Deśa Divānī, Śrī Devpurījī. Avatārpuri, Bhagavān, Viśvaguru, Viśvaguru,… Śrī Nidhirāme jāgratvāne puni rātri me divasa ujānī… He he… Pūjāve Aurī, Arvībhāī Dede Apnā Raṅg Bolo Sattva Guru Bhagavān Kī Jai Ho, Śira Gyan Gaṅgā, Candra Mātā, Cid Brahma Jyoti, Lalāṭa Mātā, Viṣṇagaṃmālā, Kaṇṭha Mātā, Naṭarāja Rāja Nāmo Namaḥ, Sat Śrūṣṭitā Aṇḍavracaitā. E Adhyā Guru Śaṅkar Pita… Sat Sushmita Nandavara Chaitanya Ujhri Dev, Viśvara, Mahādev, Kī Jai. Ek Vār Āvo Gurudev, Gurudev Mārī Jo Pāḍhye. Ek Vār Āvo Gurudev, Gurudev Mārī Jo Pāḍhye, Mārī Jo Pāḍhye Vāḷā Pāre Maṇḍarīe Purī Purī…

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