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The 8.4 million different creatures are all created by one God, and all these 8.4 million different creatures represent the light of God. In the eyes of God, there are no differences. God didn't say, and He doesn't think, that humans are special. And God doesn't think that other creatures are not special or useless. God is the father. God is the mother. Parents will not think that my child is useless. How many children have parents who will love them equally? Similarly, God loves His creation very equally, without discrimination. But there are certain abilities or qualities which those creatures have. And so God knows why He gave those qualities, talents, and strengths to different creatures. And the human has got the most powerful tool, and that is intellect. Human intellect needs proper education. It is that education which makes the human aware to be more human. First of all, the education which we are missing in this world and in our modern life is the parents' education. No university, no education center can replace the education of the parents. And the parents should be the parents. They should also have an education from their parents. This means to follow, to keep the family traditions, the human culture, the human traditions, beliefs, and so on. No parents will teach their children to be bad. Any father or mother will not say to their children, "Do bad things." But unfortunately, it is our children who get such impressions and such words, or let's say education, from others who are out of the family. When the child goes to school and comes back, you are surprised at what the child has learned. So the ethic and moral education, which is missing nowadays in this world of humans. And that's why there are so many problems going on: wars, fighting, criminality, discrimination, and so on. Education means not only that you can write and read; that is the last. Human should be human. It is said there are many people in the world, but very few who are human, with a human heart and human quality. A human needs that kind of education which leads them to positive thinking, harmony, love, peace, and unity. Be faithful, speak very consciously what you say, and you will follow. Even we have to give our life, but we will keep our promise—many, many things. So, the first thought is, what does it mean to be a human? "I am a human" will protect us from many bad deeds. An animal can do like this. Devils can do like this. Humans cannot do like this. I am a human. What to eat? The way of eating. Do we eat like animals, or do we eat like humans? What makes me the human? Not this body only. Not this body only, which we can say this is a human body, yes. But what is inside? So, these are the human qualities which make the human. And human qualities, first, protection. God created humans as protectors for His creatures. God made humans as protectors to protect His creation. Don't be the distractor. But we see the human became a distractor instead of a protector. So, the first quality is to be a protector, which means nonviolence. And work against the violence, work against violence with non-violence. The quality which makes the human is to understand everyone's situation, everyone's pain, everyone's needs, everyone's position, and so on. Not only humans, but all other creatures too, understand. Because God gave us this intellect, which gives us the ability to decide or not to decide, to know, and that means to understand. Understand clearly, yes, this is the nectar and this is the poison, but do not discriminate the nectar or the poison too. Sometimes poison can be like a nectar for your treatment, for your life. So understanding with the heart, where there is understanding, there is forgiveness. So it is the human who can say, "Okay, it's all right." Some say this. From the surface, you make some mistake, as, "I'm sorry, yes," but inside, not. Their time of the civil war in the Yugoslavia, former Yugoslavia. Many things happened, as in every war. And, from time to time, there were radio interviews, and someone said, "Yes, we will forgive them." But we will not forget them. It means your blood is boiling in the fire of revenge. Means you will not forgive. Ah, you forget. You forgive, but you will not forget. It means you are searching or waiting for your chance. And that is not in the sense of forgiveness, to understand and forgive. There is one story about two monks, not monkeys, monks. Because I was speaking in Slovakia last weekend, two weekends ago, and I said, "Monks," and the translator understood "monkeys," and he said, "The Apanor, the Opi Chena, the two monkeys." These were young boys, young men, going with the white cloths. And they called themselves wandering monks. The wandering monks are going here and there. Their master told them, "Go and travel around the world and come back after 12 years. That I will give you another initiation, then you get sannyāsa initiation." Twelve years, they said, okay, Master, they were very happy. Master said, "Don't enter any villas, stay outside of the villas, don't sleep in the villas, stay in the forest." Of course, you can go to villages to buy something, get your food, and so on. That's the kind of practice condition. One day, they were sitting near the bank of the river under a beautiful tree, because it was very hot weather, and they were having some fruits. One young lady came, one girl came, and said, "Brothers, can you help me?" And he said, "Yes, sister, what can we do for you?" "I cannot swim, and I had to go to the other village. My father sent me. Can you help me to come or cross the river?" One of them said, "Yes, no problem. Sit down and have some fruits with us. Anyhow, we are going also to the other side of the river, and we will take you." She was happy. They were happy. She was sitting. They gave her nice fruits and so on. After 40 minutes, they said, "OK, let's go." So they went. So one of the brothers, who was a little stronger, told her, "Okay, the water is already up to the chin, and you can't swim. So you hold my shoulders, you sit on my back, and I will swim through." OK. And they brought her to the other side of the river and came out of the water. She was so happy and said, "What can I do for you? Can I do anything for you? Thank you for helping." They said, "No, nothing. It was our blessing from God that we could help you." But one thing, he said, "Yes." He told her, "Learn swimming, so next time you... can swim? You don't need anyone's help," and they went away. Eleven years passed, eleven years passed, and these two brothers were so happy that now this coming full moon day is called Guru Pūrṇimā, and twelve years will be completed, and we are going to see our master. After twelve years, they were walking towards there, and the distance was about fifty kilometers. For them, it was a two-day journey. They could make it in one day, but sorry. Warm day, month of July, and nice moon shining, moonlight. In two days, we'll have a full moon. And they were sitting on the rock, a beautiful, big rock. Very nice and clean moonlight, and a nice, cool breeze, and very beautiful. Both brothers were sitting there and having satsaṅg. Every day they had a satsaṅg, talking about God, spirituality, meditation, and so on and so on. And they were talking, you know. They couldn't sleep. They were so happy. Now in 36 hours we will see our master. How happy we are, and so. How the master will be looking. How much we have changed. How much will the master recognize us after 12 years? That time there were no photos, televisions, and so on, and emails, you know, no connection, anything. Others said, "Maybe the Master is not existing, or maybe he has left this world." He said, "Don't say like this. He will not go away without blessing us." Yes, what will he ask us, and what will we answer him? Definitely, he will say how we are and so on, and of course, you know. They were so happy, and the other one said, "Yes, brother. But you remember when the master told us to go into the world and move, don't touch any woman. And you were not touching her, but you were carrying her on your back, crossing the river." He said, "Yes, so wonderful. I'm surprised. But will you answer the master?" I said, "Why? I didn't touch her." He said that I know. "But you know, I was carrying her on my back about 300 or 200 meters, and I dropped her there about half an hour, let's say, or 20 minutes we were. But now, 11 years, you are carrying her with you continuously. But you will say, the master, he said." Yes, I was all the time thinking about that girl. He said, you see, so like this, forgiveness and understanding, and situation to understand, is different than to have some impressions and you can't forget. Then, it is mentally you did it. And mental karma is heavier karma than physical karma. So it is a human who can forgive and understand. And where there is forgiveness and understanding, there must be love, otherwise you can't. And so that equal love, individuality, no, equal love, that all are God's creatures, all represent God's light. Everyone loves their life. Everyone fights for their life. Now, you see, yesterday I told you this morning the story of that bull who fought to come out of the slaughterhouse, and now he's happy there, and the whole country is protecting him. And he came back to his old home, and he is protected. And lifelong, there are yoga people who will feed him and take care of him. He fights for that. It means the animals are also afraid and have fear of being killed and dying. It is a belief, and animals also have a belief. But animals have such a belief, which is, you can say, a kind of love. They will go there. They will go there where they find food. They will go there where they can drink. They will go there where they feel safe, relaxed, and happy. And we also go there, and we find the food. As soon as we have an interval, you will see half of us hanging around a table where there is something to eat and drink. But humans have more understanding, more. This is the beauty of human life. Beauty of the human life is to understand, to forgive, to give love, and to believe. You will not believe unless you feel a need in you. That you need something. When you are hungry at home, then you believe that you will get something to eat. You go to your kitchen. You are hungry, and you are going to the kitchen or opening the fridge. You don't go to the other room, open the window, and say, "I'm hungry." That's it. You believe. So we believe. There we go where we will get blessing, light, happiness, love, understanding, forgiveness. Greatness, it is said, kṣamā badan ko hot hai. The great one can forgive. The great one can have such understanding that you will be so comfortable, like nothing happened. And their greatness is that from the roots, they will clean all conflicts, which are like that. And we, my God, we may forgive, but we will not forget. Next time when I see you in the lift, I will say, "You wear that." Say, let me go out. Say, no, stand here. There are situations, you know. Girls don't get in the lift alone sometimes. So human quality. Believe, and we do believe there is a God. There are some people who don't believe in God at all, okay? Is there a thing? But at least they believe that they don't believe in God. That's also a belief. There's one story about God Kṛṣṇa. God Kṛṣṇa was born in prison. His uncle, the brother, the elder brother of Kṛṣṇa's mother, his name was Kaṁsa. And he had devil qualities. And when his sister married Devakī, someone told him that the son of your sister will be the cause of your death, because no one could kill him. He was such a mighty Rākṣasa. So what did he do? He put her and her husband in prison. And the prison was guarded by so many guards and so many gates. And he told the guards, "Whenever she gets a child, immediately inform me." And he came immediately and killed the child. The sister was screaming. Can you imagine the pain of the sister and also her brother-in-law? They said, "Please don't do this." He took the child and threw it against the wall and went away. When the sixth one was born, it was Kṛṣṇa. And when Kṛṣṇa was born, he got the voice, oracles, to his father, Vasudeva. "Take this child to Gokula." Gokula was on the other side of the Yamunā River. And automatically, the doors opened and all the guards fell asleep. And he carried there the Kṛṣṇa. He walked through the river, dark and raining. He put Kṛṣṇa there in one bed. There was Nanda Bābā, and his wife just got a child. It was a difficult birth. She was exhausted, and she was sleeping. So he brought Kṛṣṇa to Nanda Baba and told him the message. And Nanda Baba put Kṛṣṇa near her, and she had a daughter and gave it to him, the daughter. So Vasudeva took the daughter and came back to Mathurā, and when he entered the prison, Devakī was sleeping. She didn't realize that he went because she was also exhausted, and automatically the doors closed from the prison and the guards woke up. And a small girl cried. They ran again to Kaṁsa, to the king, and said, "Yes, the sixth child is born." And he came, and she was a girl. And he said, "But it must be the boy. It cannot be a lie, but it was not." But still he said, "No, I will kill her with my own hands." Father, mother was crying. You can't imagine what that situation could be at that time. Why does God incarnate? God incarnates for many, many different reasons. And he threw her again against the wall, and she just disappeared in the air. That was an incarnation called Yogamāyā, a divine miracle. And a voice came, "Your enemy is already born and growing." And now he couldn't sleep day and night. Day and night he was fighting with the guards. If they did something, they said, "No, God, Lord, we have done nothing." Kṛṣṇa was growing and growing. And now, the story I want to tell is not because of the whole Kṛṣṇa story, but now I'm coming to that point. Non-believer. Kṛṣṇa was playing, and it was about seven, eight years, or ten years, something. He said, "I must go to Mathurā from Gokula." They said, "Why? Don't go there. There is a Kaṁsa, the Rākṣasa. He will kill you. Why are you going to Mathurā?" He said, "Because I must go to Kaṁsa, my uncle." "But why do you go to him? He is not a believer." He said that's why. "Because day and night he is thinking about me. Day and night, he's thinking about me. He can't even sleep. He's such a non-believer that he doesn't believe in God. And he thinks Kṛṣṇa is his enemy, and therefore, even he is my enemy. But he thinks so much of me, I must go." That's it. So sometimes you don't like someone. And mostly, you think about that person very much. You are jealous. So you are more aware of that person. When you are jealous of someone, angry at someone, that other one is sitting in your consciousness, and you are out. You don't know that you are out of your body; the other one is sitting there about whom you are jealous or angry, or this and that, and day and night you can't sleep. Therefore, this quality is... Jealousy, anger, hate, these are not human qualities. A human is free. Comes, comes; goes, goes; happens, happens. It is the world. It happens. Why should I suffer? Yes, something bad happened. I pray to God. That's it. So human quality, hidden powers in the humans, your powerful tools, and your way to the supreme, and the way to happiness, contentment, love, and comfort. Those qualities, if you can... So, a non-believer, an atheist, he or she, whenever they see the church or the temple, whenever they see the religious people, whenever they see the ceremony, whenever they see some kind of rituals, and whenever someone speaks about God, they say, "Ah, stupid." God said, "Yes, but still you remember, still you think of me, at least in this way." So it doesn't matter how you think, you are there. Mahāprabhujī said, "If you are five meters far from me, I am also five meters far from you." That's it. And another way, in one poem it is said, it doesn't matter how you put the seed in the ground, it will grow. If it falls upside down, horizontal, or vertical, it doesn't matter; it will grow. So when you think of God, that you don't believe, it's already God inside you. He's smiling, he's very nice. You are also very nice because you have no complications, you have no fears. So we believe that we don't believe, that is a kind of... Belief, which you believe that you don't believe, that is so. It is a quality which makes the good person human. It is that education and that quality which develop in you. Holy Gurujī often used to say, "Your bad quality is your enemy, and your good quality is your friend." That's it. Now, develop what you would like to do. So, I am human. What does it mean for me to be a human, and what makes me a human? These qualities—now, how to develop these qualities? For that, we have to practice. We have to learn. You have to practice, even if your neighbor is not so good with you. But you should always forgive. It may take one day, two days, one year, three years, five years, ten years. Your neighbor is not good, but one day will come when your neighbor will say, "Thank you." Though you are not waiting for a thank you, it is evidence. Will never die, your goodness will remain always. Good doesn't matter how people will treat you, how people will do with your things. You are that you that makes you happy, and that love. What you are searching is not outside anywhere, that contentment. That love, that happiness, these are universal principles given equally to every creature by God. And also the same thing humans have, so God gave us free, without paying any taxes. Then why should we not utilize this? Why unnecessarily we blackmail ourselves and put complications in our life? So, prayer, meditate, mantra repetition. Meditation without mantra is a body without soul, and meditation without mantra, the body is like a bird without wings. The cat is coming. The cat will definitely kill this bird, and the bird has fear. It would like to fly. It's moving the muscles, but someone chipped off or cut off the wings of the bird. It can't fly. So we have an inner tendency to protect ourselves, and go away from the negative, but we can't. We are paralyzed, inwardly paralyzed. Jab jab man ghabrāye, tum prathānā karo. Jab raha nazar nahi aaye, tum prathana karo. Whenever you feel scared, pray. Mahatma Gandhi said, "Physically I can fast, but not mentally. My mental strength is my prayers." And your prayer doesn't matter which language, to which God, and how you do that. It is your inner strength; it will give you. Never have a doubt in your prayers. Never have any misunderstanding between your God and you. Definitely, He is there. We can make mistakes, and we can have misunderstandings, but our mother or father, they will not punish us in that way. They understand, and God understands. We have to go through, so we do believe there is God. We do believe in God. Is the creator, and there's only one God, that is the universal Brahman, or you may call it the Holy Father, or Allah, or other different words. Time to time, his divine power incarnates, but it does not mean that the whole universe incarnated and now the whole universe is dark. No. In the Līlā Amṛt from Mahāprabhujī, Holy Gurujī's writing, somewhere there is a big fire. The whole forest is burning, or the house is burning, a big, big fire. It means not that in the whole world there is no more fire. No. There is still fire everywhere in the world. In your mess box is fire, in your light is a fire, in the stone is fire. So when the supreme power incarnates, what we call God, it means not that now nowhere is God. God is more everywhere. So the God, in the way how you believe, whom you believe, how you... Prayer definitely will be heard by that God, and it is said, Kṛṣṇa said, "Doesn't matter through which path you will go, finally I will be there to welcome you. I am every path, I am." That's it. So, how to develop the human qualities and finally? What is the mission of human life? Of course, as a protector, it is all qualities which I taught. But the main mission of human life is to get ātmā-jñāna, self-realization. That, without that, again, another body is waiting for you. Not somebody, but another body. After this life, at the end of this life, you jump into the space. Nothing is there except yourself and your destiny. You experience, you feel pain, pleasantness, happiness, unhappiness. You are having fear or no fears, and this. Only one thing that you can't do anything against. And here on this planet, in this body, you can do something against it. And the next body is coming. But when we realize God, Self-realization, then you are forever in the waves of happiness in this universe. Then no negative energy will come and cross with you. Then you are like this light. It doesn't matter how dark the room is; when the light comes, automatically the darkness has to go away. So you are the one with the light of Brahman. That is the ultimate mission of human life. Yes, many things help. Be helpful, be kind, be good. Do this. This is called our planetary dharma, dharma and karma on this planet. This planet is called the mortal world, and from this mortal world we come to the immortal world, and that's called Brahmaloka, not a heaven, not this, not that. Even heaven and hell, all belong to you. You are one with all. There is nothing, and for that, we have to come to someone who can lead us. It doesn't matter what it costs us. I mean, not the money, but can someone bring us to that level? And that's why it's called, the living lineage is called Sanātana Dharma, the master and disciple lineage. Father and mother, you got in many, many lives. Animals also have mother and father. But the spiritual father, the spiritual master, we have only in human life. And which will make us more aware and clear, and lead us. Temporarily, we are very happy, and we think, "I am the god of the whole world. I don't need this. I don't care. This is all stupid." And this, yes, you are just... you are a young one. You know a lot of... Energies in you, the young horse, you know, drinking milk and running round and round. Soon, there will be those who hold your hand who will also say, "I can't anymore." That's it. This is a play and meeting of the creatures in this world for a few days only. Someone is gone, someone is preparing, and someone is standing ready with packed luggage to go. That's it. The luggage of karma, the luggage of destiny. It doesn't matter how much you take care of your body, you can't stop the development of your body. The body has three dharmas: to be born, to grow, and to die. And you can't go against this dharma, nature, the law of nature. Therefore, this is karma-bhūmi, the land of karma, where we can do good or we can do bad, dharma and karma. Karma is obligation. Karma is actions, and dharma is a duty, obligations, rightness. If you do your dharma wrong, then you create wrong karma, and if you do the wrong karma, then you are putting yourself again in another part of the universe. Follow thy dharma. Therefore, in the Vedas it is said, "Dharma rakṣita rakṣita." If you protect your dharma, dharma will protect you. If you can't protect your dharma, your dharma will not protect you. Dharma of your eyes is to see and to support you. If you can't protect your eyes, your eyes cannot protect you. So the body has its dharma. Every limb has its dharma. Every organ has its dharma. You know, our best servant, or our best friend, or the best worker in our body, besides all the different organs, is our heart. Constantly, your heart is working for you, pumping. Doesn't matter where you are, sleeping or jumping, your heart is continuously pumping. Even if you are under the water or in the sky, in deep sleep or in a dream, joking or sad, anyway, your heart is continuously pumping for you, your best friend. Don't tell your heart, "Relax for a while." If your heart even half a minute rests, then you have permanent rest of this body. So, did you ever thank your heart? When you get up, you must say, "Thank you, thank you, my dear heart." The heart is so important. Organs in the body, like many, all—if kidneys will not function, then the heart will also say, "Hari Om." If the liver will not function, then the heart can say, "Can you beat? Pump and pump nothing will." If it's also, "Hari Om," so God made a unique this body. Every limb, every organ, every function, every tissue, every gland, every nerve—all this, what is in our body—nothing is useless. God will never give us something which is useless. Our duty is to take care of it and utilize it for your divine mission, means... Self-realization. Ko'ham? Katam vidam jatam? Ko ve kartasya vidyati? Who am I? From where do I come? Why did I come here into this world? What is my dharma? And where will I go? Yes, there are two things we would like to know very much. But thanks to God that He didn't give us this knowledge. One is about the past and past lives. Many of you would like to know your past life, and I say, don't do this. Therefore, in yoga, very little is spoken about past life. Past is past. It will not help you. If you come to know about your past life, this life will be very miserable. In your past life, who was your husband, and how was he? Was he nice to you? Then you are very sad because he was so nice to you. If he was not nice to you and was very cruel, then you still can't forgive him now. Who were your parents? And how are they now? Maybe they are still living. In such a poor condition, you will be very unhappy. You have parents here, and you have parents in past lives, and another past life, and another life. One farmer was sleeping at lunchtime in his farm under the nice cherry tree. And he was dreaming he died, he died, and again he was born, and he had a nice family, and he died again, and again he was born, and he was as a king. He was born in the king's family, and after some years, when the king died, he became the king. Very comfortable, very happy, two lives already. And what happened at the farmer's home? He had only the child, and the child died. So someone came from home to call him and said to him, "Hello," touched him. He woke up: no queen, no palace, no comfort. Kingdom Nothing Cherry Tree and Grass said, 'Yes, please come home.' So he went home. Family members were crying and very sad, and he came and he sat there like this, and he was thinking. And they asked him, 'Are you not sad?' "Only the child, your son, died." He said, "Yes, but I'm thinking about which child I should cry for first. I lost two families in the past, I still remember. And just before 40 minutes, I lost my queen, I lost my two children, and my kingdom. Should I cry first there for them, or should I cry for him? So I'm thinking, so never think to know your past life. And if you tell me, I can tell you very clearly, your past life was very complicated. If you don't believe in me, then find out." And that's why we are born again. But the good luck in bad luck is a human body. We got it. Human life, we got it. And if you believe the same thing, or think the same thing I think, that Mahāprabhujī brought us together. Now, about the future, thanks to God that He blocked our future knowledge. He gave us the ability to think for the future, make plans for the future, make imaginations, our fantasy, everything. But don't think or be sure that it will be like that as you think. Still, it will be as God thinks. Therefore, it is said, man is a proposal, but God is disposal. But if you have a positive project and you are constantly working on it with love and complete dedication or surrender, God will help you. But you don't know, we don't know what will happen in one second. And if we will know what will happen in five minutes, let's say that in five minutes there will be an earthquake and the building will collapse and we all are finished, are you? I'm sure before five minutes you all will go away from here, and I'm sitting alone giving lecture, nobody's here. You see how fear? If we know that we made a mistake and in 10 days we will get a life sentence, we will die. Before, what will be our condition, psychic? Therefore, thanks to the Lord that we don't know what will be in the future. But only we know one thing, Lord: we believe in you, we trust in you. There is God. I do believe there is a power that will lead me. It doesn't matter in which form the universal light came into my life and guides me. It will lead your boat in the right direction. It will bring you to the mainland. Practice, practice, practice.