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Oh brothers and sisters, wake up!

Awaken, for the train of life is departing and will not return. Past time and past days are gone forever. Life requires balance, like a bird with two wings, found in truthful companionship. Human nature is restless, seeking constant change in friendships as in food. From birth we seek the mother's lap, then toys, then partners, and finally the lap of God. This ultimate refuge is not easily reached; one must first honor Mother Earth, who graciously accepts us. We need a trusted companion with whom to share everything, including our anger.

"Past time, past days, a past bullet from a gun, and past salt that has left the body—none of these will come back."

"Life is pain. Your days are passing. And those days that have passed will not come back."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

O brothers and sisters, of course, wake up! You are missing your chance. The train will go away, and then when you wake up, it will be too late. Tera avasar bīt—avasar means chance. Umar means life. Life is pain. Tera dinra bīt tiza, dinra. This means your days are passing. Napjaid múlnak. And those days that have passed will not come back. Past time, past days, a past bullet from a gun, and past salt that has left the body—none of these will come back. Therefore, saṅgha, satsaṅga—good company, with dosti. Dosti means both are truthful. We have dosti with all. We are all friends. Sata means the truth. Do means two. Both have to be balanced. Like a bird flies with two wings; if one cuts off one wing, the bird cannot fly. It only moves round and round. So in life, to find good friends is rare. But human nature has become such that we are not satisfied, and we are always thinking to have something different. Today we eat an apple. Tomorrow we would like to eat a mango, another day potatoes, and another day tomatoes. We are always thinking to change our friendship, just as we change what we eat. Well, we are talking now about those three: the friendship, lifelong. When we were born, we were searching for the mother’s lap. When we were little and grown, we were searching for toys. And when we grow above 15 years old—nowadays even 8-year-old children—then we are searching for other toys: boyfriends, girlfriends. And then we want to have them as a husband or wife. After some years, then you are searching for another spiritual toy. It means, finally, the lap of God. But the lap of God is not so easy. Again, you have to... go through the Mother, Mother Earth. Consider how she is thankful, how grateful we are to her. She is very gracious. She takes us. We run away, but again she accepts us as we are. Therefore, first mother: Mātṛ Devo Bhava. So we need in life someone whom we can trust, have confidence in, to whom we can speak of good, bad, everything; to whom we can also put our emotion, our anger—you know, a little bit of boxing—but not with the wife, okay? We need to have someone in our life with whom we can trust, with whom we can tell everything, with whom we can share our thoughts, with whom we can tell our anger. And with whom we can continue boxing matches, but possibly with our wife. So we need to look for someone in life we can rely on, who we can trust, who we can live with, and at the end of the day, who we can focus on and fight with, sometimes, but not with our husbands.

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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