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One day we will be together

All spiritual paths are one, despite different names and forms. This unity is seen in families where each member has a name, yet the family is one. Similarly, every yoga center and religion, though named differently, converges on the same truth. Just as children in a kindergarten are all beautiful, all spiritual endeavors are good. The human soul is one, despite variations in body or color. Life is like water: individual drops from clouds or rivers ultimately return to and merge with the ocean. Maintaining distinct traditions and knowing one's roots creates harmony, while excessive mixing without understanding leads to confusion. Respect all paths and see the single reality within all forms.

"Yoga is only one yoga; we simply have different names."

"Water is water. It may be in the clouds, in the ocean... but one fine drop comes together with others... and finally returns to the ocean."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Good evening, all my dear sisters and brothers. It is a beautiful day, though it feels as if only yesterday we were together. Time passes swiftly. Our Yoga in Daily Life is now practiced all around the world, by many, many people. They all come through our system. I have said during these Corona times that all the different yoga centers, schools, and ashrams—we are all practicing more or less the same; we are all one. Everyone who has their own center or practices with someone is doing their best. They are doing good work. It is very important that each center has its name. I have spoken many times over the years about how to understand that we are one. It is like this: a mother gives birth to a child, a baby, and everyone is happy—the mother, father, grandparents, all. But on another street, around the same time, another child is born. We are also happy for that child. Then, after a month, another child is born. So many children. Every child has a name, a house number, parents' names, and so on. All children are born into what we call a kindergarten. In the kindergarten, we see all children as beautiful and good. All parents are happy. Everyone is happy that we have nice parents and children. This creates a beautiful ashram, street, or village. Similarly, my friends, in the Czech Republic, for example, there are many yoga practitioners doing very well. We have Yoga in Daily Life, which is also very good. But yoga is only one yoga; we simply have different names. And it is very good that we have names. Our Yoga in Daily Life comes from Mahāprabhujī, Holī Gurujī, Devpurījī, Alakpurījī. There is also Yogananda Purījī, with many followers, or others like Vivekānanda or Śivānanda. They all have their names, but it all converges at one point: yoga. If we can all come together, we will understand and become one happy family. One should not think, "My ashram is very good, my guru is very good, my exercises are very good." That is not good. We shall respect all others. Then, in this Kali Yuga, we will all be together. In that same way, we can consider our family. In one family, there is only one family: father, mother, child. Yet again, there are names: the father's name, mother's name, child's name, sister's name. All families are one, but they have names. That is beautiful. If we can think like this, there will be harmony in this world. Of course, we do not have an infinite number of names. Let's say there are one million names. We should always respect and know that our grandparents are our roots. Parents love you very much. When you become a grandfather and have a child from your son—your grandchild—it is said that grandparents love the child more than the parents do. Elderly parents say, "My children's children are my wealth. Everything is for them." So there is a connection that goes deeper than the parents. This connection exists from the very beginning. There are different kinds of humans, but human is only one. Some are in Africa, some are here, some in China, and so on. These are only differences in color and a slight variation in body. But our soul, our ātmā, our feelings—we are one human being. When we see that all humans—that God has given us this life now—this is our place. Our life is only now. Next time, we may be in Brahmaloka. But when we do not understand and we fight, then negative vibrations arise. These vibrations will disperse and go to different parts, leading to other lives. One should understand the father. If we hold to our father and grandfathers... For example, we have an apple tree, very big and very old. But every year, it bears the same apple, the same design, the same taste, everything. Because the seeds are always the same. If we know and understand this, we will also be happy, healthy, and have a very good family always. This applies to animals, fish, and all other creatures as well. They are the same. It is said that from the ocean, water evaporates, rises higher and higher, and becomes clouds. Water is also very high. Though it is heavy, it rises from the ocean to the sky. In that sky, though it originates from the ocean, it forms clouds. The clouds may separate, but they are one. It means water is water. It may be in the clouds, in the ocean, on wood, in little oceans, or little rivers. But one fine drop comes together with others, becomes more drops, flows into a little creek, then into a river, and finally returns to the ocean. For example, we are sitting near the ocean in a boat. Drops fall from the clouds into our palm. Below us is the ocean. So here we sit, here is the ocean, there are the clouds, and one drop is in my hand. When this drop falls into the ocean, that cloud and that drop are no more; there is only ocean. Similarly, we become that water. We have five elements, and all five are pure and clean. Water returns to water. Similarly, your father is like a drop—it can be very fine. That drop comes to the mother. The mother holds it, like a cloud. That holding and formation comes from the nābhi, the navel. From there, it is born in the mother's womb. Let us say all beings—grass, trees, animals, mosquitoes, everything—have their roots in that. So that pure, clean drop from the father, in the mother, from the mother's side, from the navel, that is the root coming from our navel. You are from that navel. That is very important to know. Then, as we said, the father has the same eyes, same hair, same skin, height, everything. We can keep one apple from a tree in a cool place. Next year, another apple comes from the same tree. Both have the same color, size, taste, everything. So it is with everything from their father. Therefore, throughout all times, families continued: this family, that family. If we keep this understanding, there will be harmony. But now we are mixing, like taking one cherry and mixing it with cherries of other colors. Then we don't know which cherries they were. In your countries, it may be that your people are a certain way. Czech is different, Hungarian is different, and my father is also exactly that. So I want to tell you: oh mother and oh father, if you want to have a child, then you should love your children. What is love? Love is love, but give them knowledge and understanding, and become one. Then that will be a generation—that's called a generation. But in this Kali Yuga, people do not want to have a generation in that way. And so they will be troubled. The mother is of one kind, and the father of the child is another. Again, these fathers come, but they don't know what they should do or how it will be. So there are many things like this. We humans have done everything to destroy all qualities—even fruits, food, seeds, everything. Through this, humans are now suffering. Animals are also suffering when humans create other hybrids for donkeys or similar things. That is how problems come to the whole world. So please, take care, all of you. There are two things: love your children, give them food and everything, but also give them the knowledge that, "Yes, you are my son, you are from my grandfathers, you are from my great-grandfathers. They will continue, and you—this is your house, everything, all that is yours will be yours." Then that family will be good. But we are now giving children so many tools, and so many tools are not good. This is our generation: my father, my great-grandfather, and so on. Lately, children are getting a lot of toys. Please, don't do that—in all countries. I have seen in India that many say, "Children, no toys." You are the toy, and your grandfather is your toy. You must know that the grandfather is the best toy. They will give more to the children and to the grandfather than to the father. Something is okay, but too many toys spoil the child. The child begins to say, "No, I don't want this. Oh, my God." So we should give the children our time, give our friends, give our grandfathers, give our uncles, give our friends—everything. That was always the way in a village. These villages were so nice. And so it is. When we go to the church, or to the temple, or any other holy place, we connect by thinking, "This is my religion." They always see that this is my God, or my guru, or my spiritual path, or my temple, or my religion. And we connect there. When we are in that religion, we are so happy and feel very good. But now, what happens? Again, we are mixing. Then they don't know if this religion is good or that religion is good. Many say, "I don't want any religion." But we should know there is only one religion, though the name is different. Wherever one is living, they also feel God, and God is one. When one will die—it doesn't matter if it's a human, an animal, or anything—there is only one door to go out. Maybe with a cobra or a scorpion, mosquitoes, or humans, there is no difference. The difference is only in our body and our thoughts. Therefore, after one dies, whether a tiny mosquito or an elephant, it is only one drop, as I told you—a very tiny thing from the fine clouds. It is a little drop in the whole river. It will all melt into the ocean. So if you are very big, or the other is big, if you are a black man or a white man, etc., it is only here. And we know, so all we are saying, "My God, your God," but really, did we see God after those days? Maybe you have a son? But then you come and say, "God, please, uncle, can you come to my house a little bit?" There is nothing. There is nothing. So it is said: where there is a soul, ātmā, our life, where it goes, all is one. But the form was different. Because of some karmas, it had to go through those karmas. Enjoy, human. Be happy, very relaxed, all positive. In Corona, no positive. Only who should be there? Negative, so Corona is negative. This is good and positive. Corona is not good, but this is different. Things, but in reality, it is that. So we shall think again to tell God, "Please, my soul, my soul." And from the soul is the soul inside. One day, even if we lost it, it will come together, definitely. But the problem is that we have so many tools, and we do so much, that we spoil the child. So that is life as we know it. But through the one door, all water—whether from rivers, from our house, or cleaning water—everything will go into the ocean. So we shall think, meditate. Don't look outward; step inside to my soul, my light. Sooner or later, it will turn again there. But in this Kali Yuga, we are creating many different things, and that is why there is fighting. Otherwise, there is a good life and everything. So I would tell you: know your parents, know your traditions, know who you are and who is who. Don't think that we are good and they are not good. No. The ātmā, the soul, until it comes to that point, we will all enter into oneness. But which one is it? That is only the other side. So that's what I wanted to tell: every yoga is yoga. Every yoga center is a good yoga center. Good yoga students, and many students are learning. Everyone has a guru. Everyone has an ashram. Everyone has a religion. Everyone has temples. But have that yoga only, or their pūjās, whatever they are doing. That is very, very important. So when you come home, you should think, "My God, this my power, my soul, please let me merge into that oneness." And that is generally all that will become that one. But who? How did that? Who will suffer? Don't think that we are humans and we can do everything. Even animals do what they should do. Yes, but we are suffering. So, in that way, we will have our ashram here, and we will have lectures, learning, meditating, etc. The meditations I will do this time are different. But there are also many things—it was that also Nāḍī, also Brahmaṛṣi, and many other things. I am so happy to see you, and I pray always for all of you. I am no one, not only for one. I am only one door. And all have come to my door. That is why, in how many countries, I love all. Because they are my disciples, my bhaktas. Because when one comes as a guru or spiritual inner guide, then it's all-inclusive. But who will be and who will not be? It is not easy that all become like that. I wish, I pray that all our bhaktas should come, like all melted into gold, and it will be brought there. But if you said only to me, something is like this: that Umbapurī is sitting there, and she is working more work for me than she is doing. Or Mañcādevī is doing, but that is not me. And not because she or he, and who I am, he. I want to merge into one. When you have five children, will you say only this one is good and the others are stupid? No. Even with ten children, the father and mother are happy. And father and mother, they are working and giving so much for their children. And it is so; that's why we have to learn this. This water from the ocean, you don't know where it will go, how far in the clouds. Sometimes, even that high airplane flies above where there are clouds. And where are you? Yes, the speed of clouds is also very high. It is from here, from Strelka, from our āśram. It goes up, and rain comes down in Africa. And so, where we go, where we will go—don't think that I will come here to Strelka again. Maybe our bones remain here, but not that one. So melt into one. Otherwise, we are hooked from the trees, and where the tree is a bush, and the bush has thorns, you are hanging on the thorn because you are only hanging on to one thing. Many things are there. We have more time. God bless you.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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