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Spiritual knowledge leads to God

The first international satsaṅg gathers here. This place was found swiftly after the instruction to establish a center. It is now filled with light, destined to become a temple and a beacon. The duty is to preserve and spread this light. All present are at home, not guests. This extends to everyone connected.

Yoga is one, yet many masters and paths exist. All are to be respected in this age of unity. Every teacher is a guru imparting worldly knowledge. The spiritual guru reveals the inner oneness where souls merge. All beings contain the same divine light, moving toward the same ultimate door. The soul constantly seeks liberation from the body. Purity is the first step. Avoid negativity about other paths. Cultivate health through practice, prāṇāyāma, and pure environments, relinquishing harmful habits.

"Everyone who is teaching us is our guru."

"My ātmā and your ātmā become one."

I am very happy that today we can also be with Svāmījī in this place. Śrī Śrī… I am very glad to see among us friends from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from Slovenia, so this is not only a national satsaṅg. Up to now, we have had several first satsaṅgs. The first satsaṅg was held in this monastery. Then there was the first satsaṅg with Svāmījī TV, and now we have the first international satsaṅg. We already had more than one first satsaṅg. We have a first satsaṅg, then we have a first satsaṅg with Svāmījī, and then we have a first international satsaṅg. Edwin, the first satsaṅg for Svāmījī TV. So, in September of last year, Svāmījī in Strilky told us that he thought it would be a good idea for us to have something like Strilky in Croatia. And as I said yesterday, you can imagine that we thought it was such a big bite to eat, and it would take so much time to find the proper place for this. But in the world of Gurudeva, if we allow and if we listen, then we can do all things—not we can do, but they can happen. But you know, in the world of Gurudev, if we allow and if we listen carefully, things will happen. And we can say that we didn’t find this place, but Svāmījī found it, and within a week of his words, we had this place. This is a place, as Svāmījī says, this is a Hindu Mandir, and we are planning to build a Hindu Āśram, I mean a temple, a real temple. And of course, in Croatia, we have registered the Hindu Āśram. We are a Hindu religious community, and as such, we have all the possibilities by law to make this happen. And tomorrow will be one week that Svāmījī is here, and we can feel that every atom of this place is filled with his light. I hope that very soon, with the help of all of us, we will achieve what Svāmījī told us to do. Our only duty is to preserve this light, and like every āśram in all the world, we should be the beacon and spread the light until we finally come to an auction. This would be very different if corona were not here. I think that we would give you a much warmer welcome. And maybe we should not say that we are welcoming you, because this is also your home. So when you are coming home, you are just coming. You are not guests, you are at home. And we would really like you to feel at home. And of course, this is not only for people who are here, but for everybody who is with us through Svāmījī TV. Thank you once again, Viśvagurujī, for this blessing of your darśan. Śrī Śrī… Oṁ Śrī Prabhudīpa Nārāyaṇa. Oṁ Namaḥ Śrī Prabhudīpa Nārāyaṇa. Amma Śabdhasā Prabhu Saram. Śabdhasā Prabhu Pariprabhu. Amma Śabdhasā Kī Jai. Mādhāvanān Jī Varvan Kī Jai. Alakh Purī Jī Mahādeva Kī Jai. Satya Sanātana Dharma Kī Jai. Viśvaguru, Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Paramahaṁsa, Śrī Svāmī Maheśvarānanda Purījī, Gurujī Deva Kī Jai. Good evening, all dear sisters, brothers, all yoga and daily life around the whole world. Also, all around the world, different yoga centers, yoga āśrams, teachers, and students—all different kinds of yoga—I respect them, and I say to them, "Oṁ Namaste." Yoga is the yoga. But there are more masters or gurus, many, many great ones, and we should respect them very much. In this Kali Yuga, the time has come for all spiritualities to come together. May one disciple have only a few students, or someone have many, it doesn’t matter, but we are all one, we should respect now. And yoga in their life, we respect, and we all take them, any religions, all religions, and those with no religions, we respect them all very much. It is like this: there is one village, and there one mother gave birth to a child, and all the village people are very happy. But there are also other mothers who gave birth in our village, and all mothers, they are the mothers. Give to a child is also to all children, and a father is a father. So there are so many fathers and many mothers, and we should respect them. Then our belief is the best. And it will be more and more. We will have in our villages more and more schools and many things. So, your child from your mother, she loves that. And others also. We call the child, we call our village, our all here, how beautiful, nice. Then many children will come into the garden, they will come to school, they will go to college. And how happy we are that in our village, all are such nice people, nice students, and everyone has what they want to learn or do something, etc. It must not be all only yoga, yoga, yoga. Yoga is yoga, but there are many who did and understood it. And that’s why, around the whole world, people who have yoga in their life are free, and they like it, they love it. And not only physical exercises and prāṇāyāma, but this is more beyond that. And many who were learning different things, and they have many subjects, and they went far through their science. And so we are happy that we have many, many doctors and cyclists and car drivers, farmers, why not? We are all one. And that’s what, in your country, your governments are doing exactly that: they are enabling our people, our students, to go further. Now, the second one, the other one, is spiritual. You have not learned anything, but you went in your heart, and you went in your mind, into spirituality, and there, this is a different way. So in this world, what we are learning, teaching, this and that, even if one is the best professor of something, on one day he will die. We will respect them, and we will think he was a great person. This is the path in this material world. And then there is spirituality, and that is for those who have worked and they know. There, it is called the gurus. There are two gurus. Everyone who is teaching us is our guru. They have given knowledge to us, and now you know, in the West, the words you can say. You have to learn everything, even the electric work. Not only that, "Oh, okay, I know, now I can do it." No, no. How many years are you learning? Then you become that, so that you can work with that electric. It’s very electronic, how they are coming. There is a guru, and after when he is done, perfected, good, then you are also a guru. And similarly, also that spiritual, that we are looking, all people we are looking, that is another guru. And that is not like that in the outer world, but in the spiritual inner world. And that is coming to our whole being, and these yogīs, these gurus, they know each and every seal in the body, and the best doctors, they also know everything about the bones, the blood, the nerves, the blood vessels, the blood vessels… The best doctors know everything about the bones, the body, the blood, the muscles, but we still don’t get what we need. And so, the one who is a master, a guru, takes a long time. I can give you water, bread, I take you, now you are my guru, and I sit. There, I am the guru. It’s okay, it’s good that you are sitting like this, but when inside is coming, then suddenly you know, we know, yes, my ātmā and your ātmā become one. We know that my Ātmā and your Ātmā become one. The ocean, how many oceans? Seven oceans. And from that, water is going up. It’s hanging there. There is also a great deal of water hanging there. It will come again together as a big ocean, a very big ocean, and clouds, and very dense water drops are coming from the sky. Where is the ocean, and where are the clouds? It’s a tiny drop. And when we bring this into our palm, holding onto the ocean, this is a tiny little drop, and then the ocean changes. But this drop is from the ocean, and when this drop falls into the… Ocean, we cannot say that is a drop, and where is that drop? Melted in oneness. So, either a human or a little tiny creature, they are living, they are moving, and we are also. Between them and us also, is that Ātmā, and so when an ant is dying, it also knows, and many, all ants come together and bring it somewhere. And we also, so a little tiny ant has also inside the God’s light. And we also have different kinds of knowledge, and this and that. And it is said this is the last end, but if you will do that discipline of what God said, and at the end of life, then there is only one door. Maybe the humans, animals, or the ant, or the fish, all who are dying go in through one door. When water is again falling back into the water, we are in this world. And that we want to come here to the Supreme Gods, whatever it is called. That we are even a drop, but we come to that light that we need. And so, mostly in every country, in every religion, they have different ways, but they are all praying to God all the time. Yes, but who is really being? Many are fighting each other. But when we come to, let’s say, heaven, it is very little. On the door, they don’t ask who you are, are you human, are you an ant, are you a cobra, or what? All is coming: purity, soul, ātmā. But what we have done means you have made your path. Through the window or through the door, we are going automatically to what we have done. That was our part. So, let’s say we are humans and we learn; we know many things. But many we don’t know, and we think we are best and okay, and now we will be God. I will be with them, with the gods. So work and live as long as you can. Enjoy. Enjoy that long life nicely. Good. Don’t say, "I don’t want to die anymore. Leave me, and I will die," and this. Don’t do that. And we should go. We all know what it is. I’m telling you what you all know: that we are good, and we are going, because we, we… We are from the five elements, and these five elements are taking care of us in this life. After that, we have to begin. So, many gurus don’t say that my guru is the best. My Guru is the best, of course. My child says the best is my mother. My father is the best. My father is the best. My mother, yes, it is. Children are the same. So, how far will we go? That means not only this worldly learning, many things, and this we should do, and we should do good, it is, but that soul inside is constantly wanting to go out. Yes, we need to learn, we need to live, we need to work, but what is inside, the soul, it constantly wants to go out, it constantly wants to go to the cosmos. But they say when we die, the sun is going, so light in the night, a star is falling. It is said that at the time of death, the soul comes out of the body as fast as when we look at a falling star at night. How could it be? You say, "Look, look… it is gone." So, this which is in your body now, in my body also, maybe mine also. I want to go quickly, as much as I don’t like being in this body. And we are all doing well. Even in yoga, āsanas, prāṇāyāmas, meditations, and concentration, we also do good things, as our professor told us. I teach those three things. Yes, we try to keep ourselves. Yes, that has to be very good. But that one said, "Where will I go after?" And when one dies, then dies means the soul is not gone; it’s still. Many times the soul goes out, so that mostly they are burning the body. Then, let’s all see if there is nothing remaining. Now, I am going. If we are boring in the earth, many times life comes out, but we put the earth, and everything is gone. And again awakened, and again will die, and try this. So, many things are written in many literatures. So, I want to say that all are good. And if it is not good, then I myself am not good. Many, many tell, definitely, you are saying, "This was not good, and this person was not good and terrible." Ask yourself, have you not been like this? First, you are telling that this is bad. When it is within you, then first there is a negative, and then you talk all these negatives, but in your heart we leave everything pure, pure. Then why should I say there is a negative? We know, we know what is happening, but we should become pure, clean. So this is the first step in body, and then when Guru, so it is said, the first is God, then mother, then father, then teacher, and then the Gurujī. Come more like this. Therefore, I said that if somebody tells you something negative, like that these yogīs are not good, or that yoga is not good, and that we are very good, do not say things like that. And those who are telling also other yoga and negative things about you, that means they don’t know anything. So, that is very good what you are doing. Be healthy, have good food, and there is a lot of love and answers in the bodies. Today, there is a lot of cancer and many diseases, and this is mostly due to so many chemicals, but still we are eating. Now, live here in this āśram, and you have a lot of food here, and oxygen is very abundant. You make your praṇām. Āśram, āśram… When we practice prāṇāyāma or āsana here, we enjoy it. Yesterday, I tested my oxygen. So I put it in my finger, and I opened it; it was 100. And this is for you also. Of course, we are making a mask, and this is where you will take the mask, near the trees. But there are some people, very nice, very good people, they are very nice and they are laughing, enjoying, yes, you know, they come out of the house, out of others, near the trees, and cigarette. I said oxygen, better oxygen, to die, he will be quickly. I don’t want to say who is here or not, but I think definitely there are many here. And then the lungs will be… then you will know what will come of that time. Then people came to know what oxygen is, and all they were making, getting oxygen, but they died. So now you should give up whatever you could have been using, like tobacco or alcohol, and dead bodies—earth, the dead bodies of animals—and so to eat again, cancer, that is very, very much cancer. So we said, "Come to the Year, every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, do your āsanas, but more, do your prāṇāyāma, everything. In your country, there is so much very nice forest. Go to the forest. But of course, we need money and this, so we have to go to the city. So, try to come to good health again. So, it is our… we should know that we want, it will come more again, good. Wish you all the best, and I think tomorrow I will be again. Okay, thank you, all the best. Dīp Nārāyaṇa Bhagavān, Kī Jaya, Devapurīṣa Mahādeva, Kī Jaya, Jaya, Jaya…

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