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This story I told you long ago, I think a few times, and the spirituality is completely different. To develop spirituality, there are no exercises. You cannot develop your spirituality through exercises. Spirituality is developed through the way of life: surrendering ego, overcoming ego. Surrendering ego and selfishness means you are not doing things for the sake of your desires or your ambition, but for the sake of God, for realization. You have to take out selfishness and ego, and you have to replace them with surrendering and service. Service can only be accepted if it is without selfishness and without ego. Then spirituality is developing. If we have selfish wishes and ego, then our service is accepted in the material world, where there is no spiritual development. If one thinks that one will meditate and meditate and will be spiritual, it cannot be. If you think you practice this Kriyā and that Āsana and that Prāṇāyāma, you will be spiritual, it cannot be. So there are no techniques to develop spirituality, but there is a way of life to develop spirituality. Spirituality doesn't need any diploma. Spirituality doesn't need any qualification. The only qualification is that you have love to serve, compassion in the heart. The modern way of life is different, the situations are different, circumstances are different. But the people who were inspired and longing for spirituality, for realization or God-realization or whatever you call it—mokṣa or nirvāṇa or freedom—they had to surrender and give. They used to come, go to the master, and the master told them once only what they should do, and that's all. That was all their technique: sevā, service, everything. So the story is about that one disciple who lived with the master. A very young man—background I don't know what it was—but mostly people came at that time when they had a disappointment in material life. Don't think that family life was always happy. Don't think that partnership was always happy. Neither was that time, nor this time, nor will it be. And destiny we have to accept. Destiny is a product of our own deeds, our karmas. Disappointment is there because you don't want to see this, you don't want to accept this. But though you don't want to accept, it is and it will be. You don't want to accept that we are already so old, and we are fighting against not being old and ill, so we are taking even extra medicines. In spite of all this, the process cannot stop. So disappointment in life also will not stop. Many think disappointment means not only with husband or wife, but with business, with study, health, family situation, parents, children. And it is said when there is nowhere hope, then the human seeks shelter at the feet of the holy person. Because in God's shelter, everything is forgiven. And then one is there and knows now that I have no way to go anywhere else. One holy saint, Sūrdās, a lover of Kṛṣṇa, he was one of the greatest lovers of Kṛṣṇa. And Sūrdās was blind. But when he used to sing, Kṛṣṇa used to come and sit beside him. Kṛṣṇa appeared. And how nicely beautiful songs are from Sūrdās. Sūrdās, Kabīr Dās, Mīrābāī, Rām Dās, these few saints, they were of that time. And Sūrdās is saying that, Lord, I am that bird on a big ferry. Perhaps mistakenly I was sitting on that ferry, in that ship, and now it's in the middle of the ocean. Distances are thousands of kilometers on every side. I would like to go away from the ship and try to fly away. I fly and fly. I see nowhere horizon, nowhere mainland. So just to rescue oneself, again I have to fly back and sit on this ferry. I try to run away, I don't find any place where I can sit and have a rest. Lord, I am that bird on that seat which flies away, has no shelter anywhere, has to come back. This is then such a disappointment, such experiences and such things make a man take a decision. Would like to go but there is no place to go anywhere in the entire universe except God. So, we have many disappointments. From your tree, you can have a disappointment. You plant a beautiful fruit tree and it doesn't give fruit. You bought a nice cow, but this cow doesn't give milk, doesn't give a calf. So, there are many things. You buy a nice instrument and it doesn't function. So, ultimately, the center is only one, and that is God. And that God is there where the holy person is. That's why it's called guru-charanam yad sattirate. And when you come to some really spiritual person, he's not going to tell you, now do chumas prāṇāyāma and now do this and that. He'll simply give you a duty, that's all. If you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, don't want to do it, go away. But where will you go? After flying here and there, you come again there. So the Guru Vākya, that will liberate us. The words were ordered, spoken by him. So there was one young man, he came to the master and said, Master, can you accept me as your disciple? Yes, as you like. What is my duty? He said, your duty, go every day and bring alms, bhikṣā, begging. From a few houses, food for you and for me. And clean the whole, our āshram where we are, under the trees and this and that. There were not many buildings, just one room, a small room. A small veranda and one room, that's all. So, either both we were sleeping inside or outside, under the tree, that's all. Just you had one mat, that's all. Not a big mattress, very thick, one nice, what we have with the foam. You fall in and you say, ah! As comfortable, that makes us more lazy. As hard, it makes you ... This we call tapasyā. And still there are many sādhus, they don't sleep on the bed. They have a very thin mat and they sleep on the floor. But we have to take into consideration the temperature. Here it is cold, if you sleep on the floor, next day you will have pneumonia. Lungan and Shindo will be someone. So therefore we have to take into consideration certain situations. So sweep the whole entire āshram and go for bringing bhikṣā. And afterwards bring the water from the water well. That was his sādhanā lifelong. That's what Holy Gurujī also describes in his biography. The āshram in Khatu village, where mostly Mahāprabhujī stayed there, and all this beautiful satsaṅg and this Śrī Dīp Vidyā Gītā and all this was written and spoken there. But, only Gurujī had to sweep this whole entire area. It was a double place at that time, more than that. There were no houses. All houses were up in the mountain, on the top of the mountain there. The last house was there where Devpurījī's dune is. And so he was completely, can you imagine, desert and in the night was completely dark, no electricity, nothing, electricity came now. And morning Gurujī had to go for the bhikṣā and then after sweeping the whole āshram and then bringing water for Mahāprabhujī and bathing and then washing the clothes and then going to the desert. There was no forest or jungle, but without trees, you could say, and collecting the dung of the camels to bring for the dhūnī, for the fire, where it was called. That was his duty, that was his sādhanā, that's all. And the name of Mahāprabhujī was repeating mantra. That's all. So the disciple served the master a long time. And then one day the master said, "I will go now in samādhi. I will leave this body." And this story that I told you, you know that. So when the master said, "I will go to Mahāsamādhi," the disciple was standing, he came after bhikṣā, and he said, "Master, when you go to samādhi, what will I do alone here without you? Whom will I serve?" So the master said, "Well, if it is boring for you, we will go with you." And the disciple also said, both said in meditation and sent it over, and at the same time they both, they all went out. Now when we tell this story, either it is like a fairy tale or a joke, unbelievable, people will say, but it was, or if something happened like this, the people will run now, "Please, Master, wait five days, can you tell us this technique? How is this technique to perform? Which meditation, which kriyā, which technique should we do?" So there is no technique in this way. Just to keep your body healthy and that you can lead your prāṇas in a certain direction towards sahasrāra chakra and the Swara Yoga. Of course, these are things which you can control the elements. But the spirituality is different. That spiritual need is self-surrendering. It means no selfishness and no ego. Sevā bhāva. That is spirituality. Always be ready to help anyone. Be ready to help. Sevā bhāva. You cannot help if you don't have the inside compassion, inside love, inside feeling to be one with. You can be one with if you have the feeling that you are one with it. Otherwise, you cannot. Otherwise, it is like cooking iron balls, you know. You have the iron balls and you want to cook like cannelloni, you know. Boil and boil in water, you can stir and stir, they will not become soft. The spirituality, entirely the inner thing, has to be changed. Inner attitude. Towards the world, towards people, and towards yourself. Living beings. Surrendering. We have too much body ego. Too much body ego. We are mostly proud of our body. And that is one of our ignorances. So, I was thinking that when we are sitting here in Mahāprabhujī's ... So the simplest way: prayer, sevā, mantra. But it does not mean that tomorrow you will not practice āsanas, okay? Yeah, this I didn't say that you need not to practice. I told you, you must practice. And very soon you will get in your hands this small health spiritual passport, okay? Which you can put as your identity card in a small booklet form, no? This. It goes in the pocket here. It goes in the pocket here. Don't put it on the back side because Mahāprabhujī is also inside. So for bhaktas, to keep it on the heart side or in the handbag. And it is just very simple. It's called the capsule program. Because now we are in modern, modern civilization and in this modern world everything should go quickly, quickly, hurry, hurry, and that's why it's called the capsule program. Just capsule means you swallow a pill. Otherwise, you have to practice and run and this and that. The doctor said, "Take this one tablet against cholesterol, high cholesterol." Okay. Swallow it, done. That's all. So this is the capsule program, Khatu Praṇām. And it is like a harmonica. If you open it, then it is opening in this way. Here it is coming. It is written here: Khatu Praṇām, Agnisāra Kriyā, Bhastrikā Prāṇāyāma, Anti-Stress Meditation, and Mr. Swāmījī. And when you turn this side, then there is again Mahāprabhujī, Līlā Amṛt, and Yoga and the Life and Hidden Powers in Humans and spiritualness in short form. Then you open again something which is folded the wrong way. Tomorrow it will be folded differently. And when you open the other side, then you have a beautiful chart of Khatu Praṇām. I was thinking, Christmas is coming and many people would like to give their friends something. So this would be a very good present for people to give, and it's not very expensive, it will be very cheap, under one Euro, almost nothing. And if you buy some souvenir in some other shop, you can't get something under a euro, you have to pay five euros, ten euros. So with this, you are giving them some good health and information about yoga and this. Good idea? So these are 2,000 in German language, 6,000 in Czech language, 4,000 in Slovak language, 2,000 in Slovenian, 3,000 or 4,000 in Croatian, 10,000 in English and 20,000 in English, and in different languages already they are in the printing press and on the web it will be available. So, the people or the publisher will give only to the country which ordered. And from that country, half the people, every yoga center, every yoga teacher can buy. This is new, new, sir. That's it. So, therefore, you have to practice. I told Mahāprabhujī, "Don't open spirituality so quickly, lock it." Mahāprabhujī said, "Why?" I said, "They must practice." So this is for your practice. And now I wish you a very, very good night. Everybody is very tired. And Hari Om. Sleep well. Tomorrow is in Gurujī's āshram. And the weekend is in Hungary. And on the 5th of December we will have an evening program for one or two hours from 6 o'clock onwards in Gurujī's āshram. The 5th of December, you know, is Mahāprabhujī's Mahāsamādhi. Recording location: Austria, Vienna, Weekend seminar