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Svarga

Heaven and hell are not distant realms but present states of mind. A person content in their situation experiences heaven here. Another person in the same room, filled with anger and jealousy, experiences hell. The entire world and all situations are projections created by your own mind. Therefore, your reality is shaped by your perception. Your mind can create heaven in one moment and hell in the next. Your experience is determined by your thoughts.

"Svarga and Naraka, hell and heaven, both are here."

"How you think is how you feel."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

They remember, and they follow only this every day. Swāmījī, what did you speak about today in satsaṅg? Mukti says that she is always meditating and doesn't see anything, except this: that you are sitting with the whole group under the tree giving beautiful satsaṅgs. And in the evening, you are sitting on the meadow giving beautiful satsaṅg and bhajans. I miss this. So you see, this is a svarga loka. But we are doing, where we are, we are in svarga. It cannot be different in svarga. Svarga means heaven. So, in Svarga there is also jealousy and everything. Also, complaints. Are there any complaints? There is a joke, you know, about heaven. Heaven has a very high, big wall. On one side, some people from a particular religion were sitting in heaven. That religion said only those who believe in our God will come to heaven. Others will not come to heaven. So those who believed in this God were in heaven, sitting and talking. Suddenly, on the other side of the wall in heaven, somebody was talking also. One of the men asked the others, "Who is talking behind the wall here?" He said, "They are from that other particular religion; they think they are alone in heaven only." They think only they will come to heaven, you know? And now they are surprised that we are all from different religions sitting in heaven here. They said, "How could it happen? We thought only we would come to heaven." So this also happens in heaven. So heaven means it hasn't... So if it has, if it is, then it is here. Svarga Loka is on the earth. And Naraka Loka is on the earth. So Svarga and Naraka, hell and heaven, both are here. And in one room, God can show both things. One person is very content and happy. For this person, there is Svarga. And the other person is very sad and angry, and jealous—a horrible life. That is Naraka. So Svarga and Naraka are in our mind. Therefore it is said, this world is created out of the mind, and all the situations that you feel around you are created out of your mind. So your mind within a minute can create heaven, and in the next second, can create hell. How you think is how you feel.

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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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