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A Monument for Krishnanaji

A presentation on the creation of a memorial monument for a senior disciple.

"Swāmījī said... that for dear Krishnanaji... we should do a monument in Vép, in the main square."

"He was really the seed of the seed in Hungary for yoga in life and in the paramparā."

A speaker presents a small model of a planned stone monument for Krishnanaji, a foundational figure for the yoga community in Hungary. He recounts Krishnanaji's devotion, his role in hosting Swāmījī and spreading teachings, and shares Swāmījī's wish for the memorial to be placed in Vép's main square. The narrative later becomes fragmented, touching on disciples' conduct and vague anecdotes.

Filming location: Vienna, Austria

Hari Om. This is what Swāmījī said last summer in Vép: that for dear Krishnanaji, who departed several years ago, we should do a monument in Vép, in the main square. This is just a model of that monument. It is now 60 centimeters high, but the real monument will be 220 centimeters and will be made of stone. We brought it to Swāmījī to show him and to ask whether it will be good this way. This is Vijaya, who organized this because he has such connections with sculptors, so he could make this. He could organize this. He will now tell exactly. Please sit down. Yes, and you should tell about this, and he will be there. And it will be very nice and very good, and the color and everything nice. So please tell it very nicely. Yes, everybody, loud. Yes, so Krishnanaji passed because of some illness. It was actually the COVID time, three years ago, exactly three years ago. He was really the seed of the seed in Hungary for yoga in life and in the paramparā. Amṛtānand told the story that when Swāmījī first came to Hungary, they hosted him and many Czechoslovak, Czech, and Slovak bhakta-s in their home and flat. Unfortunately, I was quite young at that time and not living in Budapest, but vividly, I can imagine it was such a blessing and such a great time. And Swāmījī, when he said goodbye after staying one month in their flat and having everyday sātsaṅg, Swāmījī just said goodbye with such a sentence: "Now I left here two seeds. Let's see what is going on, what will grow out of it." I can tell you that all of us, we are the fruits of their work and yoga in their life in Hungary. So his devotion and bhakti were really out of the question from the very first moment, and the whole system, how it spread all over Hungary, and international seminars in Vép, in Budapest, in many, many cities, the ashram that he arranged for the Guru Ashram in Budapest—it is all the fruits of his work, Krishnanaji's work. So, according to Swāmījī's wish, this is just a model, a small statue. But according to Swāmījī's wish, he is going to have his monument where we have the Yoga in Life seminars, already since '93 in Vép. He was almost kind of a citizen of Vép because he traveled there many times for the organization. He visited the mayor and also the school director, and really everybody knew him there, also in the city and nearby. So, it is his statue and his monument, and it will be placed on the main square in Vép, in the small city where we usually go. We already have there the peace trees, which were planted by the mayor and Viśva Gurujī. And besides that somewhere, it will be a big monument, not this small model, but it is for Krishnanaji's memory and for his vivid memory for us also, and for the locals also, of course, so everybody. And it is so, our many disciples... they are going very good and speaking very much, and in many, many countries, there are many people like this. And it is like this: someone is here for a while and then goes away, and then will come in again. It is like that. And then the mistake is the one with many of my disciples, that time to time they are eating meat and something like this with some friends. So, okay, as they said, okay, we are one day, okay, no problems. And something like this and like this. It is sometimes. So, it is, and now, you know, many people, they know that they were eating some food in this bathhouse, and this, and now they're coming to something. Who came to me one day, you know that? Who was that? Yeah, I don't know, here or in, yeah. Yeah, there are two, three people, so it is very, very much. We have now, immediately, we should every see our body and what is going on inside, inside. And it helps, but it's not good now. But if we can go, then perhaps we can bring more good house, and it will be able to open. Otherwise, exactly, if not done, then it is like this. And then it is how eating, how everything, only from this and that. Even not eating, there are some chapatis and like this, yeah. Also, the chapatis, there is also, yeah. So I have now today, you know, and this is a very, very good, very, very good, yeah. Very nice, very nice, yeah. And other, there is someone, they have like. Meat? Not a meat, like this. Yeah. But that is a mālā, I don't like. But this is that other is very good in that, very, very nice. So I would like to give you, everybody from India, what it is like this. And that is very good. So I can give it to everybody, and we can come eat. In eating, you know, just now I was eating, eating every day here and there. It is so, it's very, very good that it is like this. That is so. This is a... we is for ourself, we ourself, for our self, of we. When all the people come and give something to feed them, they say, "Yes, it's fine, but I will eat only that." It will remain as it is. And very much, Swāmījī lived very long, and then there was some problem. And there was more, and this and this, like this. So then it is like you can have doctors, and very good doctors, and not good. They will do everything like this, I'll be there and there and there, but not like this, that is not good. Yeah, this is that. We don't tell anything, not this, like this and that. Let us. But now it is gone in here, and how will they go there? And they will give the same eating like that, is like that, yeah. So we are very good yogic, no? Are we yogīs? Yeah, yeah, so we will. Let's say we did not eat completely, sometimes this and that, so it's, we don't know how it is, but us today, just in and peanuts. You should do all cleaning of this, our eating, what we do, and this and that, very, very much. But, yeah, this is like that. So he was also, he was everything. And he, there was time, this time he had some, this, with these people, how, what was that? That day, all, all people were, many died, many, many, yes. And they were in a hurry, they were somewhere, and what they, what did these people do? They let it be, and put it down, and put something to eat, that's all. And other Āyā, unko bhī, he tied them up like this and took them all to his life. And then we took them there. And so it happened with him, and they didn't want to get any person in the hotel or this. They said, "No, no, let's come near them." You know that? And that was happening too.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

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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