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Inner climate changes

A spiritual discourse on the connection between environmental crisis and inner transformation.

"We must correct a term: what they call 'greenhouse gases' is a very wrong term... It should not be called greenhouse gases, but glasshouse gases."

"The hot climate is within the human; the hot climate is within human thoughts; everything is created by the mental pollution of humans."

Swami Vishwananda offers a satsang, arguing that the true climate crisis is an internal one of mental pollution and adharma (unrighteousness). He explains that sustainable development must begin within the individual, critiques modern materialism, and describes how inner turmoil—like family breakdown or grief—constitutes a destructive "inner climate change." The talk explores the concepts of Nimitta (periodic) and Nitya (constant) divine incarnations, suggesting saints provide necessary "spiritual injections," and concludes with a call for personal change.

Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Seminar

We must correct a term: what they call "greenhouse gases" is a very wrong term. We are blackmailing or creating a wrong impression in people's minds towards greenery, towards greenness. It should not be called greenhouse gases, but glasshouse gases; that is the proper term. Glasshouse or plastic house gases. The term "greenhouse gases" is not a scientific term or word. That is not the subject today, but the matter spread around the world is that we are frightened and threatened by talk of climate change. There is very little explanation, and the solution is little spoken about. We know the facts, we know what is happening, and we know why it happens, but what is the solution? Therefore, the solution can only be found individually. It is a matter for all, not only politics. If you make this subject a political matter, then there will be more confusion and more expenditure. So-called big companies making a lot of business will profit again more, and the solution will not be there. Individually, we have to approach this problem. It is said peace begins in the heart and charity begins at home; therefore, the answer is there, but people do not want to accept this: the hot climate is within the human; the hot climate is within human thoughts; everything is created by the mental pollution of humans. We have to find sustainable development within the human phenomenon. If humans turn towards the ancient way of living and follow the instructions of the holy saints, Mother Earth—this planet is a living planet, it is not a dead planet. But if humans continue to destroy this for the sake of their greed, we will kill this planet. This planet is a living planet, and this planet is a holy Earth, a holy planet. Out of our knowledge, as far as we can go or have researched and meditated, there is no planet somewhere nearby, some billion kilometers away, where the soul has residence, where God has its residence, where mercy, compassion, kindness, love, and harmony exist. I think all creatures and souls from different parts of the universe come for a retreat to this planet. It is said in the Upaniṣads, all should be happy on this planet. The whole planet is one family of one God. Why family? Because family means harmony, understanding, love, friendship, and care about each other. If we take these words or mantras from the Upaniṣads, we can realize this. Whenever God manifests, He manifests on this planet. There are two kinds of incarnations: one is called Nitya and one is called Nimitta. Nimitta incarnation is that which, from time to time, incarnates to solve a global problem. He comes and destroys the negative and establishes dharma again. He removes the adharma and again establishes the dharma; dharma is the life of all creatures. Adharma is distraction, fighting, greediness, jealousy, anger, and so many things. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa speaks to Arjuna, "Whenever the adharma takes over and dharma is suffering, O Arjuna, I come to destroy the adharma and establish and protect My bhaktas and establish the dharma." Dharma, if you accept the dharma, and dharma is within you, it's not outside. If you act according to the dharma, your life will be comfortable and happy. At this Kali Yuga time now, Kali Yuga is in power, and therefore it is said that dharma is suffering. Bhakti, vairāgya, jñāna, and dharma are in the position of suffering. It is true that from the very beginning of this universe, devic and āsuric śaktis have a competition, a fighting. But satyameva jayate; finally, the truth will win, the dharma will win. At this time, adharma is spread, and through this adharma, the human became inwardly blind. So the inner changes in the human, this inner climate is changing. Inner climate changing means you have so many temptations. Your husband comes home and tells you, "I am sorry, you know that we love each other, but I think I came to one point that we can't be together, and I have some other friend, and we will divorce." Now, what happened to you? What happened to the family? What happens with the friends? Both sides, not only her family and her part, but also his family and his part; this is called a climate change, the inner climate. Do you think you will be happy? No. Because you changed another climate, and that will again take revenge. Do not go against nature; otherwise, nature will have its revenge. That was only one example. So whenever you change your path, whenever you change your belief, whenever you change your thoughts, whenever you change your behavior, whenever you change your profession, whenever you change your flat or house, or you change your car or your horse (that time there were no cars), and your cows, you are changing the inner climate. And also when someone dies, then a big change takes place. There is a lot of suffering. Then there are two, it is said, "Blood is thicker than water." Blood is thicker than water. It means if you have a blood relation, then you will suffer more. When someone dies and you are not capable of understanding and accepting this transaction from the astral life to the material life and from the material life to the astral life, the person who is experiencing this climate change of unhappiness and attachment becomes, within a few months or a few weeks, much older. Because healthy cells die. As long as you are crying and have sorrow, it kills in you many, many things. That's a climate change, the inner climate change. So, if you change your business, if you change anything, changes take place and that harms you, your family members, or your business partners, and so on. In this Kali Yuga, we think money is God, and it seems it is like that, unfortunately. When the billionaire comes, we will say, "Oh, please come, welcome, come sit in the front, come here." And when someone who came hitchhiking in a car, has no place, no money, and also no money to pay for retreats or anything, we say, "Okay, welcome, not welcome, welcome." Okay, sit down. You see, though we do not give the first place to money, we are affected by this. So, in this nimitta incarnation, nimitta avatāra is like this, comes and changes. Maybe sometimes we think there is no ahiṃsā. When you have to go to the operation theater, you are lying on the table, and the doctor is coming, having a dark green dress and gloves and a mask everywhere, and a knife, scissors. We may think he has no ahiṃsā, and then it's a very big injection. Only from looking, we are like this, trembling. And this beautiful stomach, very nice stomach, just no ahiṃsā. But after he did all the operations, you feel so good and everyone is happy. Thanks to Mahāprabhujī, everything went well. Then you say, "Doctor, thank you, doctor. Thank you very much, doctor. I am so glad and very thankful to you, doctor." Before, you were thinking, "No, I am ahiṃsā." So when the nimitta avatāra, when God incarnates, it is said till now there are 24 incarnations. The 23rd was already, and the 24th is known as the Kalki Avatāra. Avatāra, the incarnation in Kali Yuga. And he is waiting to see how far the humans will go with this climate change, the inner climate. How far they will destroy this planet. We hope that Kalki will not come as atom bombs. In which way he acts, we don't know. Operation, there is also military operation also. But definitely he will not act in that way. Kalki Avatāra, and when that avatāra, the nimitta avatāra comes, even if you can shoot him with a gun, a bullet, it goes like in the air, nothing happens to him. If he makes like this, out of your guns will come only flowers. And it is the preparation for this Kali Yuga for the Kalki Avatāra to come. Some change has to come. Not only that we destroy nature, but mostly what we destroy is our inner climate. Mahāprabhujī said, "O mind, you lost everything with the company of the kuṣaṅgī." "Jñāna, dhyāna, bhakti sab khoyi, chalrayo kudhaṅg." You lost jñāna, dhyāna, bhakti. And your behavior is very peculiar. "Manasam khoyore kuṣaṅgyo kishaṅg." So nimitta avatāra comes time to time. And then nitya avatāra. Nitya means every day, every time. And nitya avatāra is known as the holy saints, which Tulsīdāsjī in the Holy Rāmāyaṇa describes, "Chalta phirta tīrtha," a holy place, a pilgrim, a mobile pilgrim. The saints are moving, and therefore it is said, which I told yesterday, "Pānī tu chalta bhalā, pada gandela hoi, sādhu tu ramtā bhalā, dagan lage koy." So this is the nitya avatāra, and that nitya avatāra is constantly preaching and giving the spiritual injections to the humans. If humans would not get the spiritual injections, humans would show their real nature. And the most dangerous creature, the most dangerous one, is the human. We are all sitting here nicely because we have spiritual injections. Spiritual injections with the feeling of the sin. First, there is injection of the sin, and then comes the injection of the dharma, the good, the pious. Every holy book, every religion speaks about two things: sin and pious, good and bad. Bad means suffering, and good means happy and free. And these are the teachings, the words which are given by those great saints. Nityāvatāra, and therefore, when we meditate and we cannot concentrate, always problems come, always many thoughts come. It means your inner climate is not in balance. The rain comes when we don't need it. The dry weather comes when we don't need it. Cold comes when we don't need it. Heat comes when we don't need it. The fruits don't come at the right time. The seasonal fruits are lost. In the middle of the winter, we eat cherries here. And in the middle of the summer, we eat ice cream. It is a completely upside-down change. But this change which took place in the human's inner climate made humans more unhappy, suffering. The many diseases which attack humans now never existed in history, never. And no one is that ill on this planet except humans. All other creatures are very healthy, but humans are the most unhealthy ones. And it is the human who causes the different diseases to the different creatures. Are you ready to change yourself? Are you ready to work for sustainable development within you? Yes, then you have to change your way of life, your way of thinking. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Seminar

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