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When I was a child

The path requires personal action and grace, not mere waiting. We strive to connect and become better, yet many wait for life to happen. True progress comes from engaging actively. A personal history illustrates this: a father's astrological prediction, a mother's concern, and encounters with spiritual guides led to a decisive journey. Running from school and meeting a teacher clarified the path. An invitation to teach yoga abroad began with a refusal to eat meat, establishing principles that attracted many. This work expanded across countries, forming communities and ashrams through consistent action and adherence to truth. The key is to take life into your own hands; sitting in a waiting room yields nothing. Engage in karma yoga, participate, and give of yourself. Through active doing, destiny unfolds.

"My father said, 'This child has a high IQ.'"

"If you want to learn math, you can't sit and talk, 'Math, please come to me.' You must take life in your own hands."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Hari Om! We are always working, practising, and trying very hard. We strive to understand how we can connect, how to bring forth a good person within ourselves. Just last night, at midnight, I was contemplating, "What can I do?" Then, someone came to me. He did not know about me, but he came and asked something. This is how it is. We are very good at practising yoga, and you are with me wherever I am. So it is not merely about what I can do or what we can see. Many people come together, they enter into marriage. But how can I advise one man? How is the wife? Or perhaps the wife is very good and desires it, but there is no man. I am not speaking only of this. Today, we have to do something. There are many people in other countries who perhaps cannot come. I was thinking today: do you have someone, a boy perhaps, here? It is like this: some people cannot find that one, whether good or not. They are already gone after so many years; they already have grey hair. I understand this very much, not only today or in recent days. Again, it will lead to something. This is not a trivial matter, ha-ha-ha, okay? I will tell you how it is. I will tell you what is with me here. First, there were two of my sisters, and then two brothers. The first was my sister and the first son, so that we could both visit my mother, or my father, brother, and sister. Then came the second, and also this other brother. So there was always my brother, my brother, she is that other, my... together, you know. And then I was there also, so that my sister—she is still here now. My other sister is still there, but her husband is dead. And then I was there. Now, there is something. My father, my father, no? And he knows my brother. My... what can I tell you? Yes, yes. So when I came, my father said, "This child has a high IQ." My father said, "This is very..." I don't know how to do, yes. So it was said, maybe this and that. He will die the second; he will go somewhere. He will do very good things, but he doesn't do it; he will not do it. There was a saint; either he will go anywhere. "Maybe you will here become a sādhu." My father was a very good astrologer. So it was really very, very good. It will be good, but he doesn't know where he will go. And then my mother, and my mother's sister, that became already Mahāprabhujī, Mahātmā Gandhi. And also that my Mahāprabhujī is here, no? So he also said that he will not marry or anything like this. And I was also like this, that I don't know where it is, who I am. There were many things I couldn't tell, but my mother, my mother, and my mother, my mother... And there was my Prabhujī, brother, brother, you know. So, Mahāprabhujī, he got away. And who was me? I also went. And again, my Gurujī, Mahāprabhujī, and he came to our... He got out of the house, and then he became a sādhu. And then I was also, but I was... so I decided. And I saw Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, for the first time, and I said, "In him, this is the right." But how will he not come to me? And so it is very... if I'm right, it's very big, very, very big things happen. But Mahāprabhujī was... he was Gurujī, but he was, yes, yes, and my mother... and so I ran away. I was in school, and then I ran. And he came to my mother's house here in Nepal, and my Mahāprabhujī was there, and he took me to class. But I didn't want to go to school. And Mahāprabhujī said, "No, no, go to school, go to school." Some years passed. And again, Mahāprabhujī said, "Gurujī, Gurujī, I send you to the other class." Because the [teaching] was not sufficient; it was only sort of... I had to go elsewhere, to another. But he said to Mahāprabhujī, to me, "I will be with you, it doesn't matter anywhere." So I told him, "Mahāprabhujī, I will always live with you." And if you go to college and again learning, then I said to Mahāprabhujī, "Holī Gurujī, no, Holī Gurujī, no." So he said to me, "I will go away anywhere." Then Mahāprabhujī said, "Holī Gurujī, Holī Gurujī, go with me." And I said, "Very good." But still, Holī Gurujī said that he will write and everything. Then Mahāprabhujī, my Gurujī, he was giving me the certificate. And then it went on, everybody further. Mahāprabhujī was only one day; I have not seen him. And so, everything is happening, and so I'm going. So you have it in yourself, and it will come to you, and you will be good. And so it begins already. So many people, but I get together both. So I was thinking that we will tell, one day, some things. So speak like this: "I want to marry somebody, but I will not tell," okay? I will speak for the woman. So, I will say, girls will look at men like this, and then go... you know, we were yesterday, we were going in the forest. So, everything was going good. Somebody was going, and yes, and talking and speaking, and there, they come together. So you have been practising there, and then others are also working like this. And I was going here often, very often in the forest. Now, of course, I cannot go so much, so I was thinking in the midnight. So I went to the bathroom, and I said how I was and how I came to the place where it is. Do you know my things? My Gurujī was, but I ran again. Yes, then I went to somewhere else in the forest, and into coming water like this. Very one side is good, clean of noboreum, and the other is dead like this in coming water, and I'm supposed to stick. And we were three boys, and we went in the forest, and we were making roti, sabji, or something. The water is very, very—how do you say—very cold, and other ones are very... You cannot go in the water. So I went to this, there is there, and Mahāprabhujī, my Gurujī, and my mother, and my father was gone. And my mother was, she said to my Mahāprabhujī, "My mother, where is my child?" And my mother is, and after, she is Mahāprabhujī. So my mother said, "Please tell my child where it is." But then people were looking, everybody, yes, he's somebody there. Yes, my head. And then it was, there is somewhere many, many people, and someone came to Vienna, no, no, somewhere in Europe. And they said, "I would like to have some swami, like a swami, and can you come to this country here?" I don't know how it is and this and that, but I said I go. And some people were there, and they took me to this school, college. "And if you can tell about yoga. So you should make for us this yoga practice." And my Prabhupāda had given, so I said, "Yes, I can give you yoga." And from there, yoga began. And then I was there for one year or something, and I said, "No, I go back." But I don't know how to go, where to go. And then one sādhu came with me. And then I tell you, further I will tell you. And then I come here, Vienna, no? Yes, and there I began practising yoga. Still, I didn't have anything here. Yes, it is a boy, a little bit, little, little there, like this. And I was alone, and I was there in Vinh Vinh's house. They gave me the house. And then I said, "I want to go back to India again." But all that begins something, so that I will not eat anything, meat or this and that. And so, people, they are also a little bigger, and they said, "Okay, we will not give you this meat." And so the people said, "Why?" I said, because animals and this and that, and only eating what we like. So I tell them about meat, no children, and this, this, and this, and they said, "Yes, really. We don't know, we didn't know that we can eat everything: cows and buffaloes and everything we are eating." So I said, with yoga you are practising and doing everything good, then you will be good in heaven. But not animals, and this and that, and nothing. And they said, "No, we will not eat." And there began my good friends. But I said, "I will go to India." And then, after one day, from this country, from here. And they want to come to me here. And this time it was all from, yes, in other countries. So I was with them, like there is a whole big, most limited, yes, this country, no? So, when I go there, they call me, they want to have yoga practice. "And we want to have this very much, because our people are working very much, and we want to have some health." So here they called me about 100, and here in Vienna, there, it was only 10 people or 20 people or something. And all the people don't want to tell anything, and they want to all meet and this and that. But these people were very good, and they told me. So I said, "Meat, no, these things, don't do." Okay, so many, many people said, "Okay, we will not eat any meat." And so began very good things. Yes, from this country and other countries, and they were still about, yes. And then, you know, it is whole. Many, many, many people. So, but I said, "I go to India, I will not go." But they took me, and it was very nice. There were programs, this and that, but I will go back to India. But there was this in Vienna, and there were about 15 people to attend. They are like school, school, Baha, and all people. And they said, "Please, we will not let you go to India." But I have to go there. "But when you will give me and practise and like this, I come," and they gave me an ashram. I said, when I come back to India again, from Vienna to here, then I will take my ashram. So I again came back, and there was the first ashram centre. And then, after that, many, many people did very well. Yes, and then after, I came to Slovakia. I was there, and of course, there is also, and there is very much, they want to have yoga. And then I told you what is that, and this and that, and they were born to have yoga. But I said, "No meat, no bagel." And there are so many people, and they said, "We will not eat meat." Really, very much. And from there come many more people, very many. And then, its other side also. So I went here. And my Prabhujī, my Gurujī... Because I came to other countries, Gurujī was not somewhere, and I have gone. And so I am here now. Then, many, many countries, many countries—America, Australia, Canada—everything, everywhere I have gone now. And then from this, it was this, get out, and there, this, yes, this was very worse, this. And so they gave me like this, very cheap, very cheap, yes, yes, mm-hmm, and then his Mother. And then after her birthday, I brought Maa Prabhuji here. So this is that, she was... So, in this, I want to tell you, I will not speak more on others like this, but you have to see, and when you want, it will come. Somebody, someone, but it has to be good, okay? You know, this is a verbal house, and this is very much very good. So you can clean something, and from everything inside, not on the outside, water, so that we clean everything and do everything, and what is there in the room, what is that? Everything nicely we will do, like a chop-chop-chop, and there it is. Something. Now I go like this, and you go, "Somebody, he wants to think, 'I want to marry this or this or that.'" Yes. Yes. Okay, so now eating is very near, and after... yes. And then, after, you should not only go sleeping there. So, but because you know, I know it is very, and this is really, really for us, from outside, from this side here, the world is in every season not good. It can break everything, and like this. So, can you call him, please? So, when I go like this here, the whole is broken, like, yes, and we want this, our ashram. And this side went; every side we see is broken, and this and that. Other side also, either side is there. Yes, yes. Yes, and people come and they're looking, and what is blinging or there is tooting, or like this. So our ashram has to get very beautiful and good. Yes, and we will cook very nice. We will cook all this. We do this. And welcome one very nice girl and one man. Yes. So, yes, in the whole one week, one week. So, give this. Three? Yes, or anything. Yes. Okay. And, of course, we would tell, if you can give something, then we will be very great, and like this. So, it should be very, very nice. Okay. What we hear now from Viśvagurujī is so important for our life. We hear that even in Vishwagurujī, bird card was something. That his father, he will be this, die or dead. But what is the important? The important thing is that Vishwagurujī took his life into his own hands. If Vishwagurujī will, in that time, just stay and wait in the waiting room... like what once Swami Vivekānanda said, if you want to learn math, you can't sit and talk, "Math, please come to me. Math, please come to me." You must sit and warm the chair. Mathematic, if mathematic, please. But you must take life in your own hands. And that is very important. If we will all our life sit and wait for something, we will be all the life in the waiting room, and also with your partner. Not changing. This is good, that is not good. But start nicely, what Vishwā Gurujī said. Karma yoga is the best thing when people said, "It's so hard to come to Strelka, I don't have transportation." Yes, but come to the satsaṅg. Come to the karma yoga. And only through karma yoga will you be again with your friends, and you will become family and friends. Only come to the satsaṅg and be a user. Even not singing the bhajan, but you are just sitting with the closed eyes and be a user of that music. But be active and give something, and the same thing what Vishwagurujī now nicely said. Do something, and in that moment, something is able to happen in your destiny. But if you are only like, "What? Vishwa Gurujī saw everything close. How will this happen?" And really try to listen to what we hear now, this lecture of Vishwa Gurujī. It is so important, not only for partnership but also for everything in our life. Only this I want to tell: Śrī Dīpnā Bhagavānarkī!

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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