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How does a human know what God is? Someone must have told them. How does a human know about karma and rebirth? How do they know about sin? Someone must have told them. This knowledge comes from the ṛṣis. All ethical and moral principles were declared by the ṛṣis: astrology, astronomy—all science was given by the ṛṣis. The medical system was also given by them. The knowledge that we have different bodies—the physical body, astral body, mental body, and causal body—is knowledge given by the ṛṣis. What we call education began with the ṛṣis. Slowly, things developed more and more, no doubt, but the origin is the ṛṣis. They were very great thinkers; they were very holy. Their abilities are indescribable, and such people existed on our planet. All these philosophies we are proud of were given by some ṛṣis. They were throughout the world. They were the siddhas. They could appear anywhere. Wherever they went, their message was love, protection. Be kind. Be kind to all creatures. Be merciful. Never do anything against others. They said, "Ātmā sohi paramātmā." This Ātmā is the Self, the Supreme God. And that Supreme One is this Ātmā which you have in the body. "Viśvaprāṇī, mērī ātmā he." All creatures in this world are myself, my ātmā. When you do something against someone, you are doing it against yourself. Loving yourself means loving others. Love all creatures, if not more, then at least as much as you love yourself. It means everyone loves themselves. That much you should love others, because others are also yourself. Do not harm. God’s work is great. Can you imagine how long it took to create a creature? How fine this work is. For example, take a small ant. How fine this work is. Ants have their spine, their ribs, their digestive system, intestine, heart, circulation, glands, kidneys, a small brain, many joints in the body, legs, toes, fingers, all kinds of organs, male and female, the tongue, the mouth, the teeth—and it is such a tiny ant. Which instrument did God use to make this body? How long did it take to make this creature, and how beautifully they made the wings? The ant shakes its wings suddenly, and it can fly proudly. How are wings put on the body, and who told it that now it can fly, dear one? Likewise, we can think how long it took to make this human body. How many functions are in the body? This is the biggest science. No science in the world can do this. What God has done, what God is maintaining, and what God can do, no one can do. How many trees are there? Every tree has different leaves, different cuts, and every season the leaves get the same cut. How many scissors does He have in His hands? Does He perfectly shape all the leaves? The water, the air, the earth. Someone who created this world must be a perfect one. That is the Īśvara. That is that God. Not the God for which we are fighting. For whom do we fight? "This is my religion, your religion, and this God, and that God, and this is not God, and this is only the God." God smiles. And you say, "This is only the God. He is only the Saviour." He smiles. On one cheek we put nice cream, you know, on God’s cheek. And on the other cheek, we give Him the slip when we deny this God and that God. Īśvara is one, the universal brain, the universal body. Like when Arjuna finally asked Kṛṣṇa, "How should I believe what you are saying? So, who are you then?" Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna, "Arjuna, you will not be able to see me. You would not stand through if you want to see my reality." Arjuna said, "Don’t worry, I am Arjuna. With these strong arms, I am not one who can be frightened." Then Kṛṣṇa said, "OK." Then Kṛṣṇa showed His universal form. What Arjuna saw in the body of Kṛṣṇa suddenly was only the sky: planets, rivers, mountains, fires, volcanoes, floods, creatures coming and going. Arjuna thought, "Now I am totally schizophrenic. I have heard many things about hallucinations, but not that much." He lost his balance completely. Finally, he said, "O Lord, O Kṛṣṇa, I believe who you are—that you are the universe—but please come to your original form. I love that form." Then Kṛṣṇa again appeared in His original form. God is the universe. We cannot compare to Him. We should only surrender and serve His divine creatures. We should not destroy God’s work. People are destroying the work of people, but we should not destroy the work of God. Respect that. Help, be kind, be generous, tolerant, loving. These are the teachings of the ṛṣis. You can call them holy men. You may call them gurus, or you may call them saints. Or you may call them ṛṣis. You may call them divine ones. Or you may call them gods. They were. And they are with us, and they will be. The ṛṣi mind, the ṛṣi thoughts, the ṛṣi consciousness, the ṛṣi’s wisdom is with us. And then, maybe it will come again. There was a great ṛṣi, Agastya Muni, and he drank the whole ocean. He sucked the totally whole ocean because a Rākṣasa was hidden in the ocean, and so they came to the ṛṣi for help. He said, "Where is he? He is hiding somewhere in the ocean, down under some rocks." Just with one breath, he emptied the ocean. It is their Śakti. It can happen. God can do it here, where we are sitting. If God wishes, within half an hour the ocean could be here, or within no time the earth could just turn out. You know, in January in India there was an earthquake. It was such a terrible earthquake, what we hear in some fairy tales—that earth separates—and it did. You know, in such a movement of an earthquake, the earth separates and buildings just fall in. Therefore, He is known as Almighty. So He is a gracious one. He is the kindest one. That we have a comfortable life and we can move here. The earth belongs to God, not to us. We are only fighting out of our ignorance. "That’s my land, that’s my country, till there is my border." This is for God. When He looks at us, He sees these children playing. How ignorant they are. And in the name of these dividing countries, how many wars are going on in the world. Why? Because people do not follow the teachings of the ṛṣis. They do not follow the teachings of the holy saints. If you know, and if you read the histories and mythologies of the Greek philosophies, there have also been many great, great saints, miraculous, what they call goddesses, different kinds of gods—they were ṛṣis. They preserved it in some other part of the world. They didn’t preserve all this. If you read the Bible, there are also many great saints. Why are they not here anymore? Because we do not recognize them. Anyone who comes, we try to destroy. Kill it, blame it, crucify it. Here you are. Who dares to say today that I am God? Who dares to say that I am Jesus born again? The poor Jesus, he is hiding. He is scared to appear again. We are only praying to his photos and his symbols. In reality, we don’t want him to be here. Will anybody respect him and see him as their God, the Incarnator, again? We who believe in Jesus have put ourselves at such a border that we don’t believe in reincarnation. That’s finished. That was a closed subject. Now, even if He incarnates again… We who believe that Jesus is teaching that there is no incarnation. So you cannot be that. "Who are you?" Close him somewhere in the psychiatric hospital. Even when he comes, we are so blind, we will not love him or respect him. Given this, we don’t believe in reincarnation. It’s like no bamboo, no flute, no noise, finished. Therefore, then he will again come with another name. Jesus comes, he was there before also, and he is here, and he will come. Only we don’t accept. Why? Because we don’t know the reality. We know only this world, material relations, that’s all. Birth till death. After death, if someone gets up from the grave and comes home, what will you say? Knocking on the window. You are sitting in the house, and you are very sad. "Grandfather died. I loved him. He was so kind. He gave me so many lollies, but he died. Yesterday was the funeral." You miss him. His room is lonely. His coat and hat are hanging. His shoes are lying there. The walking stick is there. Some of his books, which he used to read. All this reminds you of the lovely grandfather. "Why, grandfather, you left us? Why? Where are you? Where can we talk to you?" And suddenly, the window is knocking. It’s a very cold winter outside, and grandfather says, "I’m here, my child, open the door." Will you be able to go and open the door? You go to the telephone. That’s it. You have no courage to make one step towards him to see that relation. He will call the police. They will call psychiatric. They will take you to the hospital. Even if you say, "I saw my grandfather, I know him," they will put you again on the bed. You get up and say, "But he came." They will put you down again. Give him long business actions. Relations changing, relationships. We know only relations in this material, limited world. If the grandfather is reborn again in China or in Japan, or in Africa, or North America, or somewhere, and he comes and tells you, "I am your grandfather," you will say, "Crazy man. I fight for this country to get independence for this country. I was in war here and there. I know by heart my birthplace and everyone." But still, even he doesn’t get a visa for this country for which he fought. But God’s māyā is. So nothing is yours. It’s given to you, that’s all. For a while, to spend time here. O humans, don’t fight for the land which doesn’t belong to you. It is God’s property. It is God’s planet. It’s God’s creation. It’s God’s children. God allows you to live here free and happy. No, we don’t do this. So that’s why we are suffering now, because we don’t follow the teachings of the ṛṣis. We don’t follow their vākyas. And those who are following, they become wise, they become holy, they become liberated, they become liberators, they become the saviors, and they will go again. We are nourishing mentally and intellectually from the words of the great men of this world. One of them was Patañjali, the perfect one.