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Do not be afraid

A message for the challenging times of the Kali Yuga.

Protection begins with oneself, like securing your oxygen mask first to help others. We pray for blessings, peace, and harmony for all. True peace within creates peace for everyone. In this period, avoid certain forceful breathing practices; use purification like neti. Guard your thoughts and speech, for negativity and backbiting return as karma. Do not harbor anger or hatred, as these internal faults are worse than external wrongs. A story illustrates that condemning another in anger makes you worse than the perceived wrongdoer. Spiritual practice is essential, but progress is fragile; like drawing water from a deep well, one can lose everything near the top and must begin again. Be like the wood that floats, supported by the water that gave it life, and help others rise rather than sink. Our science is limited; do not fear, but be strong and uplifted through faith and practice. Share and purify in the spirit of oneness.

"‘Ham sab dās Prabhu śaraṇ parāyaṇ’ means we all together are in prayer to thee."

"If someone gives a slap on your face, then show him the next face."

Filming location: Slovenska, Slovenia

Because there may be needs or things required for us, especially in this year of the Kali Yuga. This Kali Yuga will present many problems, but we humans will also try our best, and it will be for the best. Some people say, "I don’t care." That is okay, but it does not mean others should also act like that. The first principle is that protection is protection. We must protect ourselves; it is our protection. For example, when we are on an airplane, they give instructions about oxygen. They say that if you have children, the parent should first put on their own mask and then assist the child, because you can do it quickly and then help the child. This means protection for the protector. So if someone says, "I don’t care what happens," we do not wish to be like that. It is very important. First, we will ask Mā Prabhujī. This means we meet together and say to Mahāprabhujī, "Blessings of Mahāprabhujī." There we will say, "Please, Mahāprabhujī, we bow down to thee. Please give me blessings, and for all, for our peace, harmony, good health, etc." And so it is. Oṁ namo Śrī Prabhudīp Nārāyaṇāya. Oṁ namo. 'Namo' means we bow down. Oṁ namo Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nirañjan. Śrī Dīp Mahāprabhujī, give us blessings. Oṁ namo Śrī Prabhu Dīp Nirañjan. You are peace, you are the light, you are Viṣṇu. Oṁ namaḥ Śrī Prabhu Dīpanārāya. Ham sab dās Prabhu śaraṇ parāyaṇ means hum sab—hum means I, sab means all, hum sab means we all together. We are all together in prayer to thee, oh Mahāprabhujī, oh Gurudev, or anyone whom you believe in—God, of any religion or no religion. Feel that it is That. We are at your Holy Lotus Feet. We are in your Holy Lotus Feet. We know that we make many mistakes. We know we don’t do mistakes. We don’t know what is good and what is bad, but you know, Bhagavān, God, you know. Gurudev, you know, Mahāprabhujī, you know, Holy Gurujī, you know. So whatever, but please bless us. We are yours. Like a little child is crying, running, etc. But we know that our children, it is. The children know that it is our parents, and we can do many things. So, this is a relation between child and parents. There are two kinds of parents: one is the guru and disciple. Therefore, we said, you know all this. Oṁ Śānti, Oṁ Śānti. There should be peace within ourselves, then there is peace in everyone. I know you all know very much, are very good at practicing yoga. There are many prāṇāyāmas and many exercises, many different things we know. But now in this situation, we should not practice kapālabhāti and other prāṇāyāma which we are doing like this; we should not take it now. Also, prāṇāyāma that is very deep inhalation and exhalation, leave it also. We can do netī dhotī with warm water and salt; that is good. It is our protection, and we do not have the power in this. But we will, if we are very much in protection, and we are putting ourselves a little distance from everyone. That is very, very important. So now you have to feel distances, the feeling in the heart. We are very close, but for this, our five elements we have to protect. So, it doesn’t matter what we did. Forget that and purify. If you think that you are the best, everything, and to others you are making mistakes or not, you are talking negatively about others, then it means... You think you are very clean and very pure, but you are talking, or I am talking, about others, backbiting. Then you say that you are very clean, but when you are telling about others, then we are getting this karma back again. So in this situation, in this Kali Yuga, we have to be very careful. You know, we like very much the tiger, other animals, the tigers, the sing and these others, or cobras, snakes, we like them. But we should not go close; keep a very great distance. So we like with heart, with our feelings, but we are not going close. Otherwise, backbiting, and this is not good. There was one little story from Holy Gurujī. There was some thief. He was taking many, many things away from people. All were very angry, and they wanted to kill him or beat him, because they said he is not a good person. Then another man came, a very kind man, a very nice man, and he heard or saw that people were beating him. This one said, "Please, please wait, what is happening?" And so he said, "No, he’s not bad. He is bad, but he’s not." A bad? He needs something, but you are a good one. But now you are not good. You are worse than this one person, so you are worse. So everyone said, "Yes, this is true." But our anger, our hate, our jealousy, it is within us and we are reflecting it on others. So we are getting two kinds of sin: our own sin and the sin from others. It’s not easy to be like that. So one person told him, "This man, please come here, friend, come here. You are not bad. Forget it. There were too many, and you were alone. And these people were emotional. It will be okay. They will be okay. I will come tomorrow, and I will call all people, and they will come and say, 'I’m sorry.' So go home." Then he collected the people, and he told them, "All tell, what has he done to you? And because of that, you killed him and you will beat him? That’s not nice. So if someone needs something, for one thing, you tell, I give you two." He says, "No, no, one is enough." "No, no, my friend, you will need it, take one more." This person, his heart is very great. That is how nice this person is. Give me double. So we have the capacity to withdraw everything back and give more further. So what is that? Not money. Our anger, hate, jealousy, etc., and that is not good for the people. So, we are doing something, but one day we will say, "Very sorry." Please come, you should hug them. It is written somewhere in the Bible, "If someone gives a slap on your face, then show him the next face." And we, not remembering, that’s it. I don’t know, but it is the Bible. So if someone will say, "Okay, please, you can beat me here." It is immediately in our heart. It will come back. Okay, but don’t do anything. Again, it goes back. And nowadays we don’t follow Jesus, or we don’t believe and follow others. So yoga practicing is good. Prāṇāyāma is good. Meditation is good. Kriyā is good, but it is beyond this. We have more within us, ourselves. So we have to do it ourselves. You and me, we are the same. I am just sitting here, in this orange dress. I am in Gurudev’s holy sand. Many of you are saying to me, "Swāmījī, our Guru, hello," and so on. You are saying many good things. But I am still not God. I am not like Holy Gurujī Mahāprabhujī. But I will be, in the last minutes of life, when I will have no strength to do anything wrong, and I will not even think negatively of others. Then it will come in the line of the Satgurujī’s, Mahāprabhujī’s, Guru’s. Otherwise, at the last minute, we fall down. There is a water well, very big and deep. With the bucket, we tied it with one rope, and we pulled down to get water. It’s about 20 meters deep, and we bring water and we are pulling it up, out. Half meter distance, and we want that. Now we will take it out, and the rope, and what happened? The water bottle or water falls down. That is what we are trying every day. Every day, every month, every year, we are going, we are near, then we are so negative or something. It means the rope is broken. What do we have to do? Even the pocket is also in the ball. Everything is in. So it means this: everything falls in the water. Again, we have to walk down to get out. It means now, next life, we go down and try to come again. It is your bucket, your rope of the mothers, from the mothers, and yours. Only one nāḍī is cut, and this will not come to this mother. So, practicing āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditation, and many, many things we are doing for our good things, but give her prasāda. So, this life and that life is a distance, a very big distance, but talking good or bad and fighting, and this, it is very close. So, let us do our sādhanā. And what is our sādhanā? Which kind of sādhanā do we do? We do the Kriyā Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Rāja Yoga, etc. But still, what? So we do our sādhanā, that we should say, "Thank you, thank you." Humbleness. There is a little story. It is said that Kālī Gurujī told one day. Someone told, "By the iron or metal in the water falls in, and it goes down on the plate." Doesn’t matter if it’s gold, iron, any metals, or your ring. It goes and goes very quickly on the floor. You can get it out. We can dive two meters, three meters. Maybe some strong, like... Someone put it, but it cannot go down. How will it come up? And it is a very thick, good stone or wood, and we put it in the water. It is fluttering, maybe a very heavy one. So he said to Gurujī, why is it different? Gurujī said this wood will flutter with the wood and iron on the flutter of the water. So, Gurujī, why does iron fall down? Wood doesn’t go down, and even the iron needle can be in this wood; it will not go down. What it means, Gurujī said, is this water has given its own water to this tree. And when this wood is dried, broken, and falling in the water, it will not let go in because the mother will not throw her child into them. It will be fluttering, but not only this. Even your friend is not a good person. But he will give you the ability to come to the higher. What? You are the iron, or a stone, any metal. That is hard. I did not give them water. But that my wood is my child, my friend. And even the stone, the iron is there, it will be on it, but I will put him and not let it go down deep in the water. So, in that way, we should be like that wood, and because that wood, it has been given by water, the water, the mother. So there are so many things, very many people, great people, some stories. Something they are telling from what it is, the what? So we have āsanas, many, many. We have prāṇāyāmas, many things. But we should do something that we will go to fluttering up, where? To our Brahma lokas, and the Brahma loka is not like this. Then you and me and they and us, all become one, like water. When we take one stick out of the water, the water will go out, but again it will come in. And that is, if someone did something for a time and then again, you become like water in water. And so, in Līlā Amṛt, the book of Gurujī, Hidden Powers in Humans, and all these four books of the bhajans of our Gurujī, there are many things. But not only listen and read only, but let it go to each and every cell in our body. So, my dear, this is one of the best things that we, our Gurujī, can give us, and what happens is this we cannot take out. But slowly, slowly, again it will purify it. In the last century, there was also a very bad situation. Many, many people were very poor. So either there is no water, it is dry, or there is too much water; all is fluttering. Many times, many things have happened. So we enjoyed a lot, but now we are still enjoying. We are very active. We have a lot of science, but our science will not be enough. It doesn’t matter how many of us are going to the moon or above the sun, who can go, and if and how we will go. We are here, but it means... We should not be afraid. Be happy, very happy, in this corona situation. Don’t be God. What we will do? No, we will be strong, and we will do Bāprabhujī, Oṁ Gurujī, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, Jesus, Holy Mother, all. Holy Mother means all Śaktis. It will be all Śakti. So we should not get depressed, not depressed. First, we should be uplifted. This is yoga practice. Everything is so, without body we cannot, and this body will not be for a long time. We do many things, but we did very nice. All you are doing very good. I am very happy to see you. Now, I want to tell you that we have this one kind of chai, and in this chai, there are four or five different kinds of herbs. Three or four times a day, you should drink it with sugar, or you can put... What you call that best is the good. You know, the good is the cane sugar. In Africa, in Australia, in New Zealand, in India, lots and lots of it we can get. I will ask the nursing, "Please bring one ton and give them the white sugar, throw it away." You know, when did white sugar come? In the first war. That time was not so much white sugar. Now it’s too much, and it is in many things, which we made something not good. The time was not so many cancers, but of course, not only white sugar, but it is said that this is also a cause of that. And it is like in the tea also, you put sugar inside, then good, better for one or two days, different taste, that’s all. Or in the milk, but not hot water, because that milk will split. So we will try to get good, and you should take it, please, in your house. And many herbs we have in our country here, many good things, very good things. There are many people, there are many experts about the herbs which we should take. So please try to, if you know something, then how to pull cuffs and headaches and lungs, etc. If you can, give us, please. The black pepper is very strong, like a chili, and another one is called long, which is very strong. And others, so there are three in all. These three, they are strong, they are strong. And then there are some like tulsī, you know that tulsī, and like this other plants, turmeric, you know that turmeric, yes, and ginger, yes, this ginger is very strong. There will be about four or five things, and then you put the good inside, sweet, and if not the good, then put your sugar a little bit, and it is very sweet, like it’s sugar, and chilies, but all bacteria inside, which developed, will die. Of course, for the little children, they will not drink, so we can make a dry one and make little capsules, and little, with the good little capsule, give it in the water. So, this I will again look, take completely, and ask the nursing for it, and we will. Really, really for our people, of course not our people, all people. That’s very, very good. This I wanted to tell everyone. I told you every day, try to drink water warm like this. Pāprabhujī is blessing us, and tomorrow I will see again. Different people will come, or you come, I don’t know. Now, three days or four days, I’m three to four days every day. So I’m very happy, and this hall, you know, this big hall where we are sitting here, so this hall is very big, very long. So I will sit in the middle, and this side and the other side, and I will make turning. So I will sit, making satsaṅg, and now, yes, automatically I am there, and then they come in. So Narasiṅgh Purī is going to make something good for us. And also in Croatia, there is a big, big, nice house, an ashram for Croatians. So, this is a life for you and for all. We shall worship, we shall bow down to any god, any master, any. A child is your mother, but the other lady also has one child. The neighbors, other ones, also have children. So every mother has every child, every child has every mother, but we are all very happy together. That’s called sanātana dharma. That’s it. And not everybody says, "Not only all come to you." No, it’s a nature. You have an apple tree, and you have one apple tree in your garden. You said, "No, only my all chip out." No, it’s not like that. So we should be oneness. Sometimes something happens, we should purify it. So, my dear, it is already time, and I wish you all the best.

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