TV Channel

Deep Nārāyaṇ Bhagavān kī. Blessings of Mahāprabhujī to everyone. It is nice to see you after nearly three months. Many things have happened in these three months—I mean spiritual development, which you do not feel. That is very good. If you were to feel it, then the ego would grow with it. The ego would begin to dominate, so it is good that we do not feel it. A spiritual person will never feel, say, or think, "I am spiritual." Ja jsem duchovní. Badaj, badaj, nehy karey. Badaj, nebole, bol. Rahim, nehyra, kab kahey. Lak, hamara, mol. The great one never speaks about his or her greatness. Ten, kdo je velký, nikdy nemluví o své vlastní velikosti. Like a diamond never says, "I am a diamond." Jako diamant nikdy neřekne Ja jsem diamant. But we say that is a diamond. So, be a diamond, but do not speak that you are a diamond; otherwise, you will lose the value. As long as you were silent, you were the wise one, and as soon as you spoke, you were the foolish one. Therefore, be silent. Spiritual development is inner; it is that you begin to understand spirituality in such a way that you feel you have little spirituality. You begin to feel devotion, and you have an inner feeling that you do not have enough devotion. For example, if you have some relative or someone who died, we think we could have done something better for this person. They could have lived a few years more. We could have supported them physically, we could have found better medicine—many, many things. We begin to blame ourselves. Similarly, as much devotion awakens, still you think that you have no devotion. Spirituality is transparent. Like you open the curtain and you see through the window, and then the window will show you the reality. So, a spiritual saint, a great saint—he was a great devotee of Kṛṣṇa, and he was blind. I think he was, so to speak, blind from birth. His whole life was full of devotion. He never did any bad things; he never spoke badly to anyone. He had such great devotion that he was an example. He did not care about his body; his body was nearly or similar to Mahatma Gandhi's. He used to go for food and then sing God's name. He himself composed beautiful bhajans—such a beautiful bhajan. His name is on a list of the rare saints who wrote bhajans. Anyone can write a bhajan, but that kind of bhajan which moves your inner self, which melts your heart, and once sensed, makes each hair stand up—that was power inside. It may be in Hindi language, or Sanskrit, or Czech language, or Slovak language; it does not matter. Only that person can write whose Anāhata Chakra is awakened. And the Anāhata Chakra is covered with pollution. Anāhata chakra je zakrytá znečištěním. Ego. Egem. Jelec. Žárlivostí. Selfishness. Sobectvím. Greediness. Chamtivostí. Only thinking about oneself. Myslíme jenom sami na sebe. This is like pollution over it. To je jako ta nečistota. Anāhata Chakra and Āgyā Chakra. Anāhata Chakra and Āgyā Chakra. To je velmi důležité. Such a great saint, Sūradāsajī, his twenty-two hours were consciously dedicated to God. Two or three hours maybe he slept, but his sleep became a yoga nidrā. Like Mahāprabhujī or Gurujī. Even Gurujī was sleeping, but his mālā was constantly moving in his hand. And we try, and when we sleep, the mālā falls down. That is not a yoga nidrā. It is a long, long, ... long years of practice, again and again. So, the holy saint opens the curtain and he looks within himself. Open your curtain. As long as you have a curtain, then he also has a curtain. Mahāprabhujī said, "Why have you kept a veil on us? Why have you kept a veil on us? I am a lover in your name. I am a lover in your name; why have you kept a veil on us? Why have you kept a veil on us? Why have you kept a curtain between us? I am a lover of your name, my dear God." So, this bhajan, you know, Sūrdhājī opens his curtain—the inner curtain, with inner eyes—and he calls to God, "Why doesn't He come? Maybe I have mistakes; maybe I'm a sinner." So Sūrya Dās Jī said, "Prabhujī, O my Lord, please do not see my bad qualities." Prabhujī, mere auguṇ chitnā dharo. Lord, do not see my mistakes. Some drashti he nām tī haro. Chahe to par karo. Lord, your name is equal vision; in your consciousness, my Lord, all are equal. It does not matter, a sinner or a holy Prabhujī. So, when you feel that—so much you are practicing, but still you do not feel that you came forward—maybe there is something which you do not know. Možná je něco, o čem vy nevíte. A proto se modlete. Prabhujī, please, Lord, do not notice my mistakes. There is one knife made out of iron; one knife is on the altar for cutting prasād and fruits, and another is at a butcher's house. Paras of a good name they came, but the Paras stone does not see the good or bad in this iron. Paras is the precious stone which turns iron into gold if you touch it. So, it does not matter if that knife was at the butcher's house or on the altar. What happened through this knife? The priest does not see that; he makes the gold. Similarly, when you have that kind of devotion, then God will definitely let you cross the ocean. Prabhupāda, please, Lord, do not see my mistakes. Forgive my mistakes. With this kind of feeling, if we will proceed on our spiritual path—devotion, prayers—we will come through. You know, it is not easy to be a Sūrdhās, it is not easy to be a Tulsīdās, it is not easy to be Kabīrdās, it is not easy to be a Mīrā, it is not easy to be Mahāprabhujī or Devpurījī or Holy Gurujī or many, many thousands or millions of great saints; it is not easy. Once Gurujī and Mahāprabhujī were walking near the bank of a river, and there were beautiful little stones, very soft like pebbles. And Gurujī said to Mahāprabhujī, "Look how beautiful the stones are; they are round like pebbles." And Mahāprabhujī said, "And what message does this stone give to you?" Gurujī said, "It is beautiful, round; it is like a Śiva Liṅga." And Śalāk Rāmjī also at the Śiva's altar, it is very nice. Mahāprabhujī said, "Ask this stone how long he has to roll from the mountain till here, and how long he was hit by many, many rocks and stones till he became round and soft." That is the message of this talk, so go and go. Ego lies always; look within thyself. Do not think why that cannot be done, why that does not happen; time will come. Prabhujī merī auguṇ chitnā dharo. In meditation, constantly feel. Prabhujī merī Oṃ Mahāprabhujī. Meditaci pořád vnímejte, prociťujte. Oṃ Mahāprabhujī merī auguṇ chitnā dharo. Then it does not matter if you are a householder or a sādhu. A pak je jedno, jestli jste hospodářem nebo sādhuem. You will come through. Ale projdete. If you do not have devotion, pokud nemáte oddanost, if you do not have dedication, nemáte odhodlání, if you do not have bhakti and you do not understand spiritual principles, then you are not a sādhu, but you are a svādhu. Svādhu means one who always runs for selfish desires; it is hard to come over. And therefore, spiritual development you have, you are doing, and do not hurry, do not hurry; otherwise, an accident can happen. You hurry and hurry, and then he will say, "I gave up everything; I did so many mālās. Now, 55 years, Swāmījī, I have no enlightenment." Yes, on the day when you will have such a high level of consciousness, you will not think like that, and you would like to leave the world. Then it is like a 100-volt bulb; you plug it into 5000 volts. What happens to that bulb? So, this body is a mortal body, and it will not be able to resist that power. So, it is good, coming, flowing, going, that you can leave your life and enjoy a little bit, because after mokṣa, there is nothing to enjoy. And then it can happen; you will have like a midlife crisis. "I could have done this on earth; I could have done that." Býval jsem mohl dělat támhle to, nebo jsem mohl dělat ještě tohle. Veďte šťastný život, zdravý život, správným způsobem. Pomáhejte, dávejte, buďte laskaví. Vždycky dávejte ostatním. Když je něco dobrého, dejte příležitost, šance i někomu jinému. A když je něco těžkého, then tell you, "Sit down; I will do it." When you go to India and after eating you want to move your plate for cleaning, the host will run and say, "No, no, no, please, you sit down; I will do it." And the other says, "No, no, please, I will do it." And the other says, "No, I do it." And Europeans are thinking, "What is happening?" Perhaps he wants to keep the plate. "And who will keep my plate?" He says, "No, I will keep it." So, this is when there is some work to do; you tell, "You sit down; I will do." And mostly, the young one has to do it. When you are 50 and someone is 49, the 49-year-old will do it; he or she must do it. And even if you are young, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, we teach them in this way so that some karmas become lighter. But when there is something nice, prasād, or to give laḍḍū, or something else, then we say to the younger one, "Come, give this to Swāmījī," or "Give that. Go, make praṇām." Why? Because that one will get a blessing. And the elder even wishes that first our youngest one should get everything. Starší si totiž přejí, aby ti mladí dostali to požehnání. A to je symbolem lásky. Symbolem odhodlanosti, zasecení, zřeknutí se, pochopení, podpory. A vy říkáte, "Ne, ne, to já." Pak jste sobečtí. I když to děláte, tak jste přeci jen sobečtí. You know, how many people fight? "I will bring chapati for Swāmījī." And they said, "No, you do not know how to serve; I will do it." And while discussing, my chapati becomes cold. It is true. So, recently it happened in the Washington āshram. The name I will not tell. Neřeknu to jméno. Byl tam jeden mladý člověk a řekneme, že se narodila mám náručí. Její maminku znám už deset let předtím, než se narodila její dcera. Teď už je jí asi dvacet jedna, dvacet. I was eating, many people were sitting, and she was sitting nearby and looking at me like this. She was sitting like this; I felt that she was waiting for some service, so I called her: "Come here." And she ran, she ran. The best student comes immediately. Immediately; the middle one will think I said it to him or someone else. And the lazy one will look here and there. Uttama, Madhyama, or Kaniṣṭha—these are the three qualities. She came, I said: "Bring me some yogurt." She went to the kitchen; another person, who is nearly forty years old, took the yogurt from her hand and brought it to me. As if I was angry with Hanka, I say: "Why did you bring the yogurt?" Because she said, I said: "I told her to bring the yogurt. Return it to the kitchen and then let her come." Then she brought another, so do not be selfish. We all would like to do sevā, but if you can dedicate it to someone else, you gain more fruits, said Holy Gurujī to Mahāprabhujī. "Lord, if you will not accept my service, then allow me to serve your servant, to serve your servant through your servant; please, accept my service." So, by serving your servants, you actually accept my service. In satsaṅg, there is no duality. Like in politics—in politics there are parties; that party argues, this party argues. Or that culture and this culture, and that religion and this nation and that nation. In satsaṅg it is not like that; in satsaṅg there is only one thing. The whole world is God's family, to which we also belong. Therefore, it is our duty to practice discipline. It does not matter what; you must do your sādhana. Nothing in this world is important; everything can wait. Do your sādhana. Of course, an emergency is an emergency. You are doing your meditation and someone has a heart attack. "After my meditation I will call an ambulance." That is too late, so use viveka (discrimination). But just because of long hours and hours of telephoning, hours and hours of watching television, hours and hours of gossip—if 20% of that time were used for God's name, such a life would never return; it is the only chance. Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Santsang