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Devas. Devas means goddesses. There are two definitions, two kinds of Devas. One is called the goddess. Here, goddess means those Devas who performed good karma, meditation, pūjā, ceremonies, and helped all other creatures. We need good things, so these devas go to svarga, meaning heaven. But svarga is not eternal life. Eternal life means everlasting. You do not have a passport or permission to stay in heaven as an everlasting person. From time to time, devas descend from heaven in different forms for a very short time—what you call angels. These angels can be both male and female. The door of heaven is open for both male and female. According to the Vedic religion, according to Hinduism, there is no difference in the soul, whether male or female. Of course, females also have a soul. You know that in many religions and cultures, they still do not believe that women have a soul. So my question is this: if women have no soul, then how do they live? On the other hand, the Vedas are older than Hinduism. In the Vedas and Upanishads, it does not speak about a personal God, nor any name of a personal God or incarnation. The Vedas were created before the creation took place on this planet. Vedas means the knowledge and the science of the entire universe. Therefore, before the creation took place, the Vedas were there, and so they couldn't or didn't speak about future coming incarnations. We always spoke of Īśvara and Ātmā, Jīvātmā—the individual soul—and involved in the individual soul, Ātmā, and the universal Self, Parameśvara Īśvara. Parameśvara is that ruling power, consciousness in the entire universe. It is said in the Vedas there are thousands of sun systems and endless universes. In these endless universes, where thousands of sun systems are ruled by one consciousness, that's called Parameśvara, the ruling power. In more detail, within our sun system, it is called Īśvara. The governing power in the physical body, either animal or human, is called Ātmā. The governing power within our karmas and the five kośas involved with karma is called Jīvātmā: Jīvātmā, jīva, ātmā, Īśvara, and Parameśvara, or the Paramātmā. Water in the ocean, in the clouds, in the drops, in the river, in the pond, in the lake, or in different liquid forms on this planet is the same as the water of the ocean. Water is water; it depends on which quality or which color it is colored. So water is not dirty, but the dirt is inside. It can be purified; it can be filtered. Instead of using the word "dirt," we can say "karmic pollution." Individual individuality makes the quality, and this quality is different karmas. Our karma is consistent; our karma is the jīva. When it is filtered, then remains pure ātmā. Before this creation took place, and this planet especially, the Brahmā from the astral world, the Brahma Tattva, the Brahman Tattva, Brahmā appeared on the lotus. The lotus has many meanings, which you can read in our book, Chakra and Kuṇḍalinī: Hidden Powers in Humans, what lotus means. At that time, before Brahmā decided to create this planet and the creatures on it, he already had the Vedas in his four hands. It is said Brahmā had four hands; in reality, it is not like this, but these were the four Vedas. Some said the first Veda was the Atharva Veda, but all four Vedas were at the same time. This means the knowledge which was given on this planet, descending on this planet, originated from Brahmā, from the Vedas. Therefore, the Vedas do not speak about an individual God. They do not speak about God in form, but that principle in which you can imagine, when it comes in contact with the four or the five elements, then through the five elements a picture is given. So the ātmā is everywhere, and therefore in the Vedas there is, "Ātmā is ātmā." It has this, either man or female, animals or plants, everyone has this life within them. If we call one without second, omniscient and omnipresent in each and every atom, then, is the female not an atom? Is she beyond or separate from the atom? Therefore, it is not logical to say that women have no soul. You must ask the women how they grow, how they maintain everything without a soul. It must be a miracle. We have not learned this yet. So, the door of heaven is open for all, male or female. If they don't believe that the female does not have a soul, then ask them who is coming to heaven. From time to time, the holy soul is descending from the heavenly world, or Brahmaloka even, and they incarnate here. We are born, and they are incarnated. Incarnation is the word used for spiritual terms. Otherwise, to be born or to incarnate is the same. In the form of angels, many times you can see, and there are many fairy tales for children, where before going to sleep they are speaking that an angel will come, and an angel came, and so on. How does this fairy tale come? There must be something. And these are the devas. Second, those holy saints who achieved this realization, even after they left this world, miracles happened, and our wishes came true. We know that Mahāprabhujī left long ago, over 40 years, but around the world, numerous miracles happened and are happening, fulfilling our saṅkalpa and helping us in many ways. Students are praying to pass examinations. A single person is wishing to get married, and they do. When they are not happy, they are wishing to get divorced, and they do. In both ways, helping to get children, and this and that, many miracles happened in life now because they are free from karmas. What happened with that? Their karmas are neutralized, purified. Those who adore them, pray to them, their good qualities go to them. Those who are adoring, and those who have negative thinking and no beliefs, whatever is remaining behind, some negative karmas from that embodiment, these negative karmas go to them. So now it depends. If you respect and share good things, then you will get good. If you don't believe and have doubts, then bad things will come to you. Therefore, for the human, it is always spoken: be positive, be good, be positive to everyone. This way, you get good karma, good qualities. If you speak negative about others and think negative about others, it means all the negative qualities of the others are coming to you. Once, someone told one sādhu, this person was talking very bad about him, he said. That's why since last week I feel relaxed. So why? Because there were these negative karmas which went to that person. So if you speak about anyone negatively, you are taking these karmas on you. But if you want to help someone to take all the karmas back? Then think whole night and take negative. That's why everywhere it is said: speak positive. Never let negative come in your vṛttis, in your consciousness. When one negative thought comes, then you speak; otherwise, you don't speak. One negative thought in your consciousness is like lemon drops in the milk. So, what? You spend years and years, or months and months, trying to develop your spirituality, and meditate, and do kriyās and prānāyāms, and suddenly you speak about someone negatively—you have destroyed it. That's why, verdammt mal, es ist hart. Und darum ist es so, dass viele Menschen das alles nicht erreichen können, was sie wollen. Von Tausenden kommen wenige durch. So many people are trying to achieve that supreme, but they cannot because of their human weakness, because of their stupidity. For one year, give up all negative thinking and negative talking and criticizing, like many of my Austrian, especially Vienna, disciples are very active on this. If you can give up negative thinking, in one year you will feel yourself uplifted. But I am sure that you cannot maintain even one hour without thinking negatively. And especially my Austrian, Vienna disciples. It begins so forth. Now, even talking now, negative thinking, why he always tells about us. This is already negative, you see. Warum wir immer, warum wir Wiener, aber Wiener wollen das nicht, aber es ist so. So that's why, ich weiß nicht, was ich im vorigen Leben getan habe, dass ich so einen Meister gekriegt habe, wie ich, der ständig nadelt herum. But this is in the main nature of humans, always to see the negative. You see, I have a very beautiful, white-gray beard now, nicely clean and everything. If you see, or you don't see, but it's a nice one. And now, I was eating an apple or something, and something fell on my beard, hanging here, like spaghetti. Now, the beard is so nice, so beautiful, so good. But all the time, you see only this spaghetti which is hanging here, a piece of it, and for some people it is so irritating, and they come in and say, "Sorry, Swāmījī, excuse me," and we'll take it away. And so, is that one who has so many good karmas, but one little mistake, and you are just targeting that mistake all the time? And this little thing makes you constantly irritated, which means constant darkness appears in you. Therefore, there should be no negative thinking, hate, jealousy, or greediness. This is you, which puts you down, and it doesn't matter for others what happens to you, but it does matter for you what you are doing and what you want to achieve. So the devas, the spirits, the spiritual, the holy descendants, they do come time to time in dreams. They can appear to you while walking somewhere alone, or in many ways, and they do protect us. They walk with us, they accompany us, they observe us, they love us. And when sometimes, suddenly, they are a little bit making an interval, a pause, resting, then some accident can happen. And we say, "My God, where is my protector? Wo warst du, mein Schutzengel?" Das ist er. And so, ich habe mehrere Schutzengel. Einer macht Pause, der andere ist aktiv. Aber manchmal, die alle machen Kaffeepause zusammen, dann kann etwas passieren. So, the devas are they, the goddesses, because you always speak that Hindus have many goddesses. Thanks to God that we have many goddesses. We believe only in one God, and that God is Parameśvara, Īśvara, formless God. We believe there is only one water, and we see this water in every water pot. In every pot, in every plant, in the dirty channel is also water flowing, and the clean river is also water flowing. We don't see that dirt, but we see that water is there, flowing. Though it is dirty, because dirt is inside, but water is water. That's it. There are many ornaments: earrings, rings, necklaces. The person who wants to be rich, or wants to see, will see, "Oh, so much gold." Not so many ornaments, so many musk sticks, not so much gold. Because gold is only that gold, the metal. So the person doesn't see the difference in different forms and so on, but gold is gold. And so God is God, and in every holy incarnation and in everyone, He is incarnating with them. Some quality of that one is coming in. Now, goddess, the difference between goddess and God. Goddesses are they who did good karma, many good things, but still did not achieve or realize mokṣa, liberation. They didn't come to the Brahman; they came to heaven. So life in heaven is limited, and the life of Brahman is limitless because there is no limitation; there is nothing, like a sky, space, there is nothing. And that which is one in the Brahman or with heaven, for our eyes, they are not visible. They have no eyes, they have no legs, they have no ears, but they hear everything. They are quicker than us, and they see everything, but for us it's very hard still to understand and believe. So when the karmas, your best karmas, credits you enjoyed, your credit, then you will come back to mṛti loka. Mṛti loka is a mortal world. Establish wealth owned here with a selfish being with an all-day-long rotation. Quickly get up, coffee machine, coffee machine. Quickly toast the bread. Quickly brush your teeth and put on make-up. Quickly go to the same bus, same bus stop. Same people inside, same bus stop. Get out, go into the same door, sit at the same table, and work well on the computer. Selbe Uhrzeit, wieder alles aufhören, wieder selbe Halte-Stelle, selbe Autobus, wieder selbe Halte-Stelle aussteigen, wieder nach Hause kommen. Selbe Atmosphere, ein lieber Mann oder eine liebe Frau oder eine krankige Frau oder hysterische Mann. Also, so all these, again, everyday, good or bad experiences. So is the Mūrti-Loka. The same husband and the same wife, the same children, the same bus and the same bus station, in the same way, in the same office and the same chair and the same table and the same computer and the same people. Like this, this is my God, always going. Sail with the salt plate, you know, that is compact. There's a CD, compact disc. So again, vṛtti chaurāsī kā cakra, this is the cakra that is turning constantly, coming, going, coming, going. Therefore, as soon as you enter into the world, you come in contact again with the five elements, and you fell into the law of nature. Before, you were all in the cosmic law, and now you are again in two kinds of law: cosmic plus natural law. About cosmic law, we do not know, and about the law of this nature, we don't understand, and we don't want to accept. Suddenly we are ill and we are sad, we don't accept. Some of our dear person died, we don't accept it's a natural law, but we are sad and we blame God, and why it happened, and this and that. So we don't know about both, and that's a big problem. If you will understand completely and you will be aware about this, then there will be less problem. So, devas are they with good deeds? They have come to heaven. And again, they will come, and they will have a chance to be born as a human. But now, when they come again to the human body, it depends what kind of destiny they will create through this body. The destiny is the fruits of your deeds from this life. And destiny will lead your next life, pralabdha. Now, the second kind of devas, God, is what we call in Vedānta and in Śāstras, the karma. Karma hi deva hai. So, either it liberates you or it doesn't liberate you. It is punishing you or liberating you, it is your karma. It means what you did. I tell you, here is a wall. Don't run in this direction. You say, "No, I will go." Then go. You will see, you will hit your head against the wall. The nose will be flat. So why is your nose flat? Because you ran against the wall. This is karma. Whatever you do, that is karma. A good thing is also good karma; a bad thing is bad karma. So this is how the gods, the devas, are therefore your best protector. Your best god or goddess is that you work consciously, you do consciously, you speak consciously, you think consciously, and you act consciously. Then your goddesses are always protecting you. So finally, again, we are there. There is no one else than only you and only thyself, and so it depends on thyself if you realize thyself or not. If you depend on others, then you will not come further. So we are in the form here in this material world, and we shall act. We shall live further, we shall eat and drink, but we should know what our aim in this world is to achieve. So in one bhajan, Holy Gurujī said, "Yogī, yatī, koi mehnat karke bove bhajan kī badī, yeh man bandar badā harāmī, palme badī bigaṛī, sādhavāī yeh man badā anāḍī." Oh, my brothers, this mind is so uneducated. This mind is a very foolish one. Yogī, yatī, koi mahānat karke, yatī and yogī. Yatī means not like a monkey. Someone was saying that, like a monkey or something, like a big bear, you know. No, no, yatī means those yogīs who are doing yatna. Yatna means trying, those who have received some siddhis. So either you can say Yatī or Yogī. Yatīs have their own disciplines and principles, that's why they are called Yatīs. Yogīs and Yatīs, trying very hard to create a beautiful garden of the bhajans, a spiritual garden. Yeh man bandar bada harami, but this mind, monkey mind, is so terrible. Palme badi bigadi, within no time, destroyed the whole garden. But with the hard tapasyā, with the hard ascetic sādhanās and enduring cold and heat, hunger and thirst, pain and pleasure, we are sitting and meditating and building a spiritual garden, and suddenly this stupid monkey mind brings a negative thought and you destroy everything. So you know that you have done a lot of karmas, good and bad. Better don't ask anybody else. And no one can answer you because everybody will say, "No, no, you did all good, you are a good person." Because we would like to be polite to you, and we don't know what you did. But you know what you have done, how many good things and how many bad things, but it is too late to think. It is too late to think about the past. Therefore, in Hinduism, it's not too much thought about the past. Forget the past. Some people try to make what they call recycling consciousness. Go in the past time. Rukh furung. People ask me if I make a rukh furung. I say no, I make a poor furung. So what you did, forget it; it's too late to cry for that. Don't remain standing there, but concentrate now on what you will do further. This is important. How you will act now, that's very important. And now everybody thinks, "My God, now I must be strict with myself, and I must be very correct with myself." And after my satsaṅg, suddenly somebody comes and smiles at you, "Let's go to the coffee house, go for a run, and sit. I have no time. I told my wife to come home. But you, half an hour, okay? I like to go to the coffee house now, go around, so is that?" And then, suddenly, then, so this is—I mean, I have nothing against the coffee house. I also like to go to the coffee house if there is something. No, the coffee house is also a house, but this is how you again make the same mistake, and then you are sorry for that. Again you make the same mistake, and then you are sorry. So how long will you repeat the same thing? Then God will also drop you. There was one man, one master who came with a disciple. They went to bathe in one lake, some beautiful, nice lake. They came near the water, and the master saw one scorpion fall in the water. So the master put his hand under the water and took on his palm the scorpion, and brought it near to the grass outside, and the scorpion stung with his tail on the hand of the master. Thanks to God that you don't know how painful a Scorpio is when it stings. It's a 24-hour pain, and it's likely that someone has put a burning cigarette on your hand continuously. You want to take out, but you can't. And all your limbs, glands, and limbs, they are all limb glands. Limbs? Limbs? Glands? What is a limb? Lymph? Lymph?... All are here, swollen and pained. When he has to excite you, that you have pain here constantly, like a fire, electric, somebody is touching an electric wire constantly. When a snake bites, it's only once, like an injection. And then, ānandoham, ānandoham, ānandam brahmānandam, that's it. So the scorpion stung on the master's hand. And again, the scorpion ran towards the water, and again he fell into the water and was fighting again to come out. So the Master again puts his hand in and brings him out and wants to throw him near the bush somewhere. Again, he is stung on the hand. Again, he runs towards the water and falls into the water again. The third time, Master again did, and again Scorpio is stung there. And the disciples say, "Master, I don't understand you. Why are you doing this? This beast, how many times has it stung your hands? Just kill it, throw it, let it die." So Master said, you know, he can't give up his nature. His nature is, if anyone touches him, he will sting it. And I can't give my nature up, because my nature is to help and protect. And that's it, but only the Master's heart can do this. Others will let you go, Hari Om. That's it. So first, you are your own master. You are observing you, and if you can't help and do again the same karma, after you are so sorry that you did these stupid things, "I don't want, why have I done this again?" But then it's too late again. So if you do thinking or reality, it's both the same. So, how many times were you criticizing not only normal people but also the holy people? How many times were you talking because of your selfishness, your ego, your greediness, and your jealousy, or negative things? My friend, this will come back to you. It will come back. It doesn't matter who is who, either me or you or somebody else. So karma, the second kind of the deva, is the karma. And therefore, puruṣa means also puruṣārtha, working, active. Creative, protective, and realizing the knowledge. And so this is a day for you to overthink again and have a nice protector beside you all the time. And that is that: be aware in your consciousness.