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The Purpose and Practice of Life

The purpose of life is to be a protector and to realize God. Our duty is to protect all creation and to develop spiritually through love and respect. The greatest tragedy is to die without God, which meditation and yoga practice can prevent. A spiritual life means fulfilling your duties harmoniously, praying, and purifying the heart through positive thought. Happiness comes from developing a tendency to give, from kindness to blood donation, which opens the heart. Control of body and mind comes through yoga practice. To overcome being spoiled, change your situation through work and karma yoga. For pain, use the discrimination that you are not the suffering body, but also accept practical medical help. Seek wisdom from elders or holy books for emotional pain. Surrender means giving everything to God with inner confidence. Acceptance requires using your intellect to wisely navigate or avoid circumstances, not passive resignation.

"Protect the environment, protect God’s creation, protect humanity, protect your family, and protect yourself."

"Surrendering means that you surrender to God, Lord: nothing is mine, everything is yours."

Filming location: Maribor, Slovenia

I do not know if I will have as many answers as there are questions. Perhaps someone will help me. Let us begin. How can I find out what is the purpose of my life? The purpose of our life is to be a protector, not a distractor. Protect the environment, protect God’s creation, protect humanity, protect your family, and protect yourself. Be kind to all, give your love to all, and give freedom to all. Secondly, it is spiritual development, God-realization or Self-realization. The aim of human life is to find God, to become one with God. We have to learn to respect each other. We have to learn to respect and love God’s creation, every creature. Then we can become one with God. Many things happen in human life, good and bad, but the most terrible tragedy which can happen to a human, or will happen to a human, is that that human will die without God around him. You can find out more in your meditation, or through practicing yoga in daily life. Throughout all of Croatia and Slovenia, there are many, many classes going on about Yoga in Daily Life, and you will find the answers there too. I will join some similar questions: how to lead a spiritual life and how to feel God in ourselves. To lead a spiritual life means to fulfill your dharma in this world. Dharma means your obligations, duties. Maintain a harmonious life with your family, with your wife, husband, children, and parents. Believe there is God. Definitely get to God and pray every day. Read good books, meditate every day, and think always positively. At that time, your heart will feel the purification, and you will feel love in your heart for all. God is in your heart. You don’t feel it because you still have a lot of karmas inside. Practice, one day you will find this. Don’t give up, and don’t waste the time. How to open my heart and become happy? You come to me, I will open it one day and make you happy. You can open your heart only if you have a tendency to give. Develop the tendency to give. To give a birthday present, name day present, Christmas presents, marriage presents—this is also the way to give something. And give help to the other people, if you have something. Give the blood. The blood donation, that’s very important. You can save the life of someone. Many people think, and they say, one should not give blood. But yogīs are not of this opinion. Giving blood is good karma. We have to help our next one. So, by giving kindness, giving love, giving understanding, and giving others their rights, your heart will open automatically. You have a water well or a water fountain somewhere. If the water is flowing constantly, it comes more and more. Therefore, if you block everything, then the stream will be blocked and die out. It is said, even the last drop of your blood you should give for someone. Give good thoughts. Give good feelings. How to take care of our mental body and control our mind, control our thoughts, is the relaxation the only way? Through practicing yoga in daily life, automatically all will be controlled: physical body, mental body, astral body, causal body. How to overcome spoilage? Go to some other country and do karma yoga. Work. Go and work with some strangers. Then you will know what it is. Go to some other country and work in a restaurant, or go to some ashram and yoga center and work the karma yoga. Change your life situation. When you are always at home with grandmother and grandfather, and they spoil you completely. You need light experiences. How to overcome pain? Take the painkiller. There are different kinds of pain: emotional, physical, mental. In yoga it is said that you should make ātmā cintan—I am not this body, I am the immortal one. That, my immortal one, is never ill and never has any pain. It has no birth and death. It’s a body which is born and will die. It’s a body which is ill. So the body is suffering, not I am suffering. I have no pain. The body has pain, and I am not the body. Very easy to say and very hard to realize. Therefore, take some medical help. That is truth. It’s not easy. I also said, "I am not body, I am divine Self," and when I go to the dentist, the dentist comes a little near to my teeth and turns the machine, the drill, and my dentist says, "But you are a Swamījī, not a body." So it is easy to say, easy to speak, and nice to listen to, but the reality is different, dear one. So I tell the doctor, "Give the injection," and then it’s all right. Alright. And after injection, I said, "I am not a body." So please take the help of the doctor and medicines. If it is something emotional, something psychic, then speak with your grandparents or elderly people, because elderly people have more experiences; they went through such things, and their advice is golden advice. Or go to your yoga master, teacher, or read some holy books. You will overcome situations. So try to learn something from the elderly people. They have a lot of wisdom. So lucky are you if you have grandparents, and you talk to them nicely about your problem; they will help you definitely. Can you please tell something about surrendering? Surrendering means that you surrender to God, Lord: nothing is mine, everything is yours. Thank you for giving me this body. Thank you for giving me this chance, Lord. It’s all yours: my thoughts, my feelings, and my deeds. I surrender, and they may lead me to you. It’s an inner understanding. It’s a confidence like mother and child, confidence between them. How to accept everything that comes my way? It’s difficult. Difficult to accept everything that comes. So try to avoid situations, circumstances. This is a very sensitive and big subject. Because I can’t say that, just ignore everything and accept it. Sometimes, we cannot walk on the street and a tiger comes in front of you, and I say, "Don’t worry, just go." It is easy for me to say, but it costs your life, so you should change the way or search for some trees where you can climb. Therefore, in different circumstances, use your intellect to decide how to deal with them, how to avoid them, or how to come out of them. God gave us mind, God gave us intellect, so that we can decide and do something. In Ukraine.

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