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There is One God
A spiritual discourse on the ultimate aim of human life and universal divinity.
"The aim of human life is not to die, but to be liberated."
"See only the light of God... There is only one God, one truth, and that light of God is in every creature."
The speaker presents a teaching on liberation, emphasizing that belief is a personal affair while truth remains constant. He instructs on performing all actions positively and offers the Tryambakam mantra for daily use. Using analogies of the honey bee, the Paramahaṃsa swan, and the moon reflected in many cups, he explains the singular divine light within all forms of life, advocating for protection over discrimination and seeing beyond physical forms to the universal consciousness.
Recording location: Australia, Perth, Australian tour
The aim of human life is not to die, but to be liberated. It does not matter which God you believe in or which religion you follow. You should simply believe there is God. Whether you believe or not, the truth does not change. If someone says, "I don't believe," that is fine—God does not lose anything; it is your problem. If someone says, "I believe in God," God does not gain anything; it is your own affair. Therefore, for the sake of our own self, family, planet, all creatures, and mankind, we shall act—manasā, vācā, kāraṇena—through the mind, through words, and through our actions, always positively.
Consequently, anything you begin, you should remember and say a mantra. When you start your car in the morning, before starting it, you should say this mantra: > Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā'mṛtāt.
Then off you go. Your memory is perfect; you can write it down as it is written.
The human spirit, consciousness, intellect, and energy that God has given cannot be compared with other creatures. But this does not mean you should discriminate against them. The human is here as a protector, not a destroyer. Protect all. Mahāprabhujī said, "Love each and every entity, if not more, then that much as you love thyself." Ādiguru Śaṅkarācārya said that the first self-realization begins when you identify thyself with all other beings, recognizing that the same light of God is within me and within others.
Do not see their qualities. Do not see their forms as animal, bird, fish, or human. See only the light of God. We should be like a honey bee, which collects honey from every plant. Some plants may be poisonous to us, but the bee is clever—it takes only the nectar. It is said we should be like a swan, the real swan. There are different swans, but in the Vedas and literature, it is written about the Paramahaṃsa. The Paramahaṃsa is very rare, visible to us only very, very rarely. If you mix milk and water and give this liquid to the Paramahaṃsa, it will immediately drink only the milk and leave the water. That is called a Paramahaṃsa. And you are that Paramahaṃsa. God and this world are mixed. Leave this world out and just accept God. That is it.
Do not fight over "my religion, their religion, their belief, my belief." Those who know see the reality: one in all and all in one. Consider Śaṅkarācārya, one of the greatest thinkers ever born in human form. A German philosopher recounted an example from Śaṅkarācārya: Take twenty cups filled with liquid, each perhaps colored red, blue, green, yellow, or white. The cup itself may be yellow, white, black, red, or green; its form may be round, square, or oval. Fill them with liquid and place them in your garden. When a full moon shines in the sky, look into each cup—you will see the moon reflected. Look into her cup, there is the moon; look into his cup, there is also the moon. Now look in the sky: there is only one moon. That single moon is reflected in every cup, in every vessel. Similarly, there is only one God, one truth, and that light of God is in every creature. It does not matter the form, light, or color; that living entity represents God.
Thus, there are two kinds of gods, two forms of God. One is called Nirguṇa—formless, omniscient, omnipresent. He has no body, no form. He has no eyes, but He sees everything. He has no ears, but He hears everything. That is why He accepts our prayers; otherwise, our prayers would be in nothingness. The second form of God is His creation, the light. He is the father of all of us, all creatures—8.4 million different creatures on this planet, divided into three categories: jalacara (creatures in the water), sthalacara (creatures on the earth), and nabhascara (creatures in the space). They are all different forms, 8.4 million of them, and one of them is the human.
Now modern science declares again: there is no race; there is only one, and that is human. We have always fought against racism and such divisions; this is human ignorance. But the yogī says it is not enough to merely not fight against humans; you should also not kill and fight against other creatures. Then your spirituality is awakened. Otherwise, it is said, even a blind hen, a chicken, will find some corn.
Recording location: Australia, Perth, Australian tour
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