Develop your wisdom, do not steal
In Kali Yuga, imitation and stealing extend beyond money to spiritual works. People misappropriate scriptures, changing names, but holy words cannot be altered. The cow of wisdom is the intellect. Feed it with love and devotion, then the butter of discrimination arises. A man complained that past saints had taken all the butter, leaving only sour yogurt. The guru said: the cow remains; milk it with love and you will have enough butter. Those who merely copy from books are bookworms; they do not produce their own knowledge. True knowledge comes when wisdom seeds are placed in the intellect’s womb, born from knowledge and devotion together. Many become self-made masters, neglecting the guru, and wisdom lies in dust. The mind, once rich, loses everything through bad company. Leaving the shelter of the satguru, meditation and devotion are lost. Good deeds are forgotten, and one walks a wrong path. Patience, dharma, meditation vanish, replaced by tamasic desires. Keeping the eyes constantly at the master’s lotus feet restores all.
“The cow is our buddhi, our intellect. And there, if we use prem—meaning love, meaning bhakti, devotion—then the butter of viveka will come.”
“My concentration, my consciousness, my eyes are all the time in the holy feet of my Gurudeva.”
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
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"Because when we have that faith, then we know that it doesn't matter where we go in our life... Gurudev will provide."
"We are just the observer. What is happening, what is not, it is not in our hands."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
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"Among these, the foremost is to maintain a vegetarian lifestyle."
"He can deal with everything if he is involved in the master yoga system."
Filming location: Budapest, Hungary
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A spiritual address on illumination and purification through surrender.
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"May that light of the little star shine upon all of us, so that it may continuously illuminate our path through life."
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