Jaipur, Meetings, March 24, 1986

 

"HINDUS, UNITE UNDER KRISHNA, BECAUSE HE IS THE HOPE FOR OUR COUNTRY IN THE FUTURE"

Jaipur, Meetings, March 24, 1986

  Gurudev Shri Lahari Krishna

Today I would like to relate some of the incidents in my life from 1960 (of my travels) all over the world.  When I realized God, I went to United States and to other countries to find out what the people of God would be like.  I was in England and there is a place called Hyde Park where you are allowed to preach.  So as I was preaching there, my wife was there, and at that time a negro brother was preaching.  And two English people were beating him.  He was preaching but these two were beating him and blood was coming from his mouth.  And more and more they were beating and they were attacking the eyes also.  So I was just wondering and I asked him, 'You are like a heavy elephant why do you allow these two white people to beat you like this?'  He said, 'I am obeying what the Lord Jesus wanted me to do, show the right cheek if anybody beats you.  I turn the other cheek so I am doing His commandments'.  At that time the way they were beating him, as a human being I felt compassion for this black man, so I asked this black man, 'Why don't you beat them?'  He said, 'then I will lose the blessings of God'.  I couldn't understand ; I couldn't understand a teaching that would make one man beat another man and say that Jesus said that.  I was a young man so I took my hands and beat the two fellows and put a blow on each head.  And the two white men said, 'Why are you beating us ?'  'Because you are beating that black man mercilessly'.  Then he said, 'He is showing the cheek and we are beating him'.  So I said, 'I beat you.  You show your cheek to me'.  Then they said, 'the White man never shows his cheek to any others'.  The black man heard what they said and then he said, 'You are not obeying Christ?  He got a revelation, he went and beat those two fellows and they had to run for their lives.  Then he embraced me and said, 'You opened my understanding'.  Then I went away.  At that time the black people were treated very badly in 1960 in London.

          Seven years afterward I went to the same street, one black lady was attacking a white man.  I said, 'Sister you should not attack like that'.  Then she said, 'Seven years ago an Indian came, he opened our understanding and we follow him.  And from that year all the coloured people became bold and fought for the independence.  Still I couldn't understand this.  I went to America.  There was a group of Christian missionaries praying: I also went and sat there.  And they were telephoning to Kennedy.  At that time they wanted to attack and conquer Haiti Island.  So they were telephoning Kennedy, 'Shall we go, the missionaries go earlier before the army comes?'  I said, 'Why do the missionaries have to go before the army goes behind ?'  'We will say show the other cheek so the people won't attack, then the army can go and attack.  'So then I knew they were preaching christianity to make the people be enslaved.

          But actually Christ did not mean that.  He said if anybody beats you on the cheek then you will show your cheek.  But really the meaning is you must be strong in mind and body so that nobody will beat you first.  Now we have Ahimsa Dharma.  Ahimsa is not to be defeated, ahimsa will always win.  Why did we lose ahimsa?  Because we don't fight with God.  Here you see, Krishna said, 'I will kill the people you just go'.  So the attacker is not us it is God.  I don't believe in ahimsa where you become a slave of another country, but I believe in ahimsa which will bring equality.  Today in our country we are so much divided.  We are divided by community, we are divided by state, just division and division and we try to bring a unity just like clay and iron unity.  How long will this go on?  Already we are in a great terrible danger round about the country.  But there are some good people in our country who are not anything like religious minded.  They are godly minded and they turn to God, 'God when will we be united?'

          You know when we sow a seed we scatter the seed.  But when it is ripe it is the gathering time when the owner of the field comes to gather the corn.  He doesn't come to gather the hay, he comes to gather the wheat.  So the whole world is trying to gain the monopoly, or the control.  God's people still have hope today.  Now there are so many incidents.  As you travel around the world you will find everywhere they are after money.  When the money comes they are not true to Bhagavad Gita or true to any Vedas.  Either you can be true to God or be true to the world, you can't serve both.  If you speak the true Bhagavad Gita no Hindu religion will accept you.  If you speak the true Koran no muslim will take you, if you preach the true Bible no christian church will accept you.  Then what is Truth?  Truth is believing God's Word.  All things spoken by the mouth of God were in these books but man has diluted it for his own pleasure.

          Eternal life.  One man came to Jesus one time and said, 'I want eternal life'.  Even in Bhagavad Gita it says about eternal life.  Eternal life means life without death.  If a man is made only to eat, drink and to be merry because we die tomorrow, man is the most miserable creature in this world.  Now people can live only for 50 years, before 50 years they become very weak.  In 1960 I saw people living for more than 100 years.  Now as civilization increases we are also weaker.  If you read the Vedas, in the early days they were living for 500 years 1000 years like that.  But there is a way to get eternal life.  How can you get eternal life?  Eternal life only one person has, Narayana.  If you are inside him you can overcome death, if you are outside him you will die.  That is the great secret in this world.

          So one day a man came (to Jesus) to see what is eternal life.  He had a lot of money, money enough for five generations.  So he was worried, 'if I could live eternally then I can enjoy all the money.'  So he wanted eternal life to enjoy his money.  Then the man of God said, 'You sell everything and give to the poor people and follow me".  And he said, 'I don't want that eternal life'.

          You don't trust God for your problems, also.  You keep God just as sort of a pleasure thing.  But in forty years of our life we put all your problems before Him, He solved everything.  He never failed us.  But we don't put our problems to God, we solve our problems ourselves but we talk about God.

          One day a cart was going.  A man was carrying a bag of potatoes on his head.  So the man said, 'Why don't you get on the cart'.  He got on the cart and kept the potatoes on his head still.  Then the man said, 'Your oxen are finding it difficult in carrying me how can he carry my potatoes also'.  Like that we sit on God to carry us but we put our problems on our own head.  If we have 10,000 rupees on our chest, in the night we cannot sleep properly.  If we put in a bank then we can rest quietly.  When you surrender all your problems to God and all your difficulties then you can sleep well; and God will solve all your problems Otherwise you can't sleep, you will be full of problems.

          You know sometimes when we go to buy potatoes, they will give one kilo potatoes and they will put two extra.  If you say these two are free I will keep these two potatoes I don't want the one kilo he won't allow you those two free.  He will say, this one kilo if you buy it, I will give you two free but if you don't take the kilo of potatoes I will take the two free also.  So seeking God like the one Kilo of potatoes, the two extra are all the blessing in this world.  If you seek God His blessings come extra.  If you don't seek God we have no extras that will also be taken away.

          What is the use of seeking God?  What is the blessing of meditation?  He talks to you and guides you.  In my life God has talked to me many times and guided me, go here and go there like that.  We don't spend much time meditating and asking God to talk to us.  We are so busy in this world we have no time to give to God.  God comes to us, My man give some time to me.'  But he will say, 'No, no I am very busy I have to earn money'.  After many years death will come to you and then you will say please give me some time to think about God.  And death will tell you, I am very busy I don't have any time.  Why we should seek God?  This body is not our own.  You stay there for a rent like a rented house.  Now suppose you have a house for rent: You ask how much you have to pay.  They will say monthly so much, then every month you pay the rent.  You are supposed to keep the house neat and clean.  But when the owner wants the house you have to quit the house, that is the condition of the rented house.

          So our body, our soul lives in it and this is is a rented house of God for us.  And this house we have to keep it clean.  And He doesn't give any notice to you, when He wants you to go you get out.  You just open the mouth, you die and fall down.  That is the end of you.  He doesn't give any notice.  Have you paid your rent to your house?  There are many people, they don't pay the rent and at last they have to go to court.  But this house in which you live, this body, He paid the rent for us.  What is the rent?  Thank God for the house.  You never thank God for this.  Can any scientist make a body like this.  This brain system is a terrible thing.  Who gave this brain to you?  If there is some defect in the brain you can't even think.  How many people have bad bodies, you have a good body you are bound to thank God for that.  Don't wait until your body becomes bad.  When you are a young man.....young men think about God in your young days.

          So the easy way to find out God is.....First of all I didn't believe in God; I said, 'I don't want this religion.  'My father used to meditate.  I thought there was no God.  I was fighting for Gandhi in 1942.  I was studying for my B.A., I was the student leader.  I was ready to die for Gandhi and country.  Many of my friends were shot.  And at that time my mother and father tried everything but I wanted to die for my country.  Then I was under arrest, then my father came and took me to Ceylon.  But there my wife and I were preaching about freedom.  At that time my mind slowly became a communistic mind.  I wanted to fight for the independence.  And when Gandhiji was shot, then the independence came.

          Then I realized God at the estate (In Ceylon where Bro. Lawrie was employed ) I was doing yogic exercise, one night a great peace came to me, I realized God.  I know there is a living God.  If He comes in your heart you will be the happiest person in this world.  Otherwise you won't have peace.  Every man and woman can get that peace.  It is not for some special people.  You don't have to go to jungles and meditate for years.  In your own house before you go to sleep spend about a half an hour meditating.  You will realize God in your life.  Get up at 5 'o' clock and sit and meditate and peace will come to you.  Even if you are married don't worry, even married-people can get the peace.  I am married and I have three children and have grandchildren.  All have found that peace.  My three sons they started their college and all but they left for service for God.  It is wonderful.  When that peace comes to you, you are the happiest man.  You have a nice peace.

          So from that time, when the peace came to us, I was going to every place to find out where God is in other people.  I studied Muslims, I wanted to study Christians, I studied the Hindu religion.  (Names several Indian religious books he had studied)  All these books I studied.  In the Indian people in India many mighty people have been produced.  So when I travelled around the world.....

          I left everything, I was in Vellore hospital in the purchasing office.  Superintendent’s Secretary.  And after five years of working there I heard the voice of God, leave everything and follow me.  My wife and I with three children, we left our jobs and went all over the place selling everything and giving to the poor people.  And then we found one great truth; that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.  Whatever Narayana said it can never be a lie; whatever Bhagavad Gita said can never be a lie.  If He said you come into me I will give you peace it will happen to you my friend.  If you will leave free the five senses and get attached to God surely you will get that peace.  But the people don't do it.

          Now Buddha, he was under the tree and he said the cause of everything is lust.  But he didn't find the medicine for overcoming lust.  A doctor can say this disease is because of cholera germ but that doesn't mean you have overcome cholera germs.  So the lust is the cause of everything he said.  Now we know death comes to man but nobody seems to know why death comes.  Then you can know what death is.  Man says if you leave this body you will get a new body.  Can you leave a house before you get a new house.  If you know you are leaving this house, are you sure you get a new house.  If you know you are leaving this house, are you sure you have got a new house for you.  If you don't have a new house what is your position?  Your soul will have no place except going through many births.  So if you leave a house you must be sure you get another house which is eternal.

          So what did Krishna say, 'You come into me'.  How can you go into a man?  That is why Arjuna got the revelation about who Krishna was.  So in this world you are only like the other people.  If after death there is nothing why should you lead a good life?  You can eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die.  Because there is life afterwards the soul cannot be destroyed.  That is very clear in the Bhagavad Gita, people have the book but they don't follow it.  The only uniting factor in India is you must get that peace.  Have you got the peace?

          Now this heart......The electricity, everybody talks about it but nobody has seen electricity, you ask anybody.  'Do you know what electricity is?’ - they will say it is energy.  But when you see the light, when you see the mike, when you see the loudspeaker, when you see the fan, who is going all these?  It is that energy in everything.  So that energy, that unseen, you have to get it.  No use of cleaning the bulb.  You may clean the bulb but you won't get light.  So if your heart is like a bulb, unless you touch the current properly your heart will never have light.  If you have sickness, if you are diseased, the doctor will say incurable but suppose you have a repairable car you don't take it to God you take it to the car hospital.  If you have a motorcycle you don't take it to the radiation hospital you go to the auto hospital and he puts a new part and he makes it alright.  If your body is under repair you take it to the maker of that body.  He has got all parts to fix it up and make it a new part.

          I have been meeting so many people all these years.  I can say that God can heal any disease.  There is nothing incurable but we don't go to the proper person.  Even meditation gives you a lot of health; and feeling sorry for all what you have done.  God blesses that.  So God wants a clean life.  What can you do?  For that we have to come to God and then He will give you the peace.

          This conscience, you know we have a conscience; it will always talk to us.  When you are a small person, when you are a boy, even if you take a small thing your heart will talk to you but when you become big, you have killed it and after that it doesn't talk to you.  Now suppose you have an alarm time piece, that alarm time piece if you put it at five o' clock, first day you will hear it ring and then you will stop it.  After sometime it is ringing but you won't hear it.  The conscience when it talks, then you can overcome many things.

          There was a man going to hunt for gold and he took his dog also.  And he went into a place and got the gold.  Very happily he was coming, he had to stay at a lodge, at that time the dog was watching him.  He put the gold under his head and he was sleeping.  In the night a thief came, then the dog said, Rurr, Rurr.  And immediately the thief went away and the man got very angry because the dog was interrupting his sleep.  Then the thief came again and he came very near, the dog said, 'Rurr-ruh-rurr, Rurr-ruh-rurr, like that.  And he said, 'Shut up, don't disturb me'.  And the thief went away.  After about a half an hour he came again.  And this fellow said, 'The next time you bark I will shoot you and when the dog said, 'Rurr-ruh-rurr', 'he took his gun and shot him because he was sure he would take the gold home.  And the dog died, the very warning was lost.  Then the thief came and killed him and took away the gold.

          So the conscience is like the dog, it warns us, it talks to us but instead of keeping watch we kill the dog.  Everybody has got this thing called conscience and we have to be very careful.  That will guide us.  The conscience is given by God and we have to follow that.

          So in this life God has given every good thing to us to find Him.  If you look at the nature everywhere you can find God.  People say, there is no God.  If you see the nature, it is all moving harmoniously because there is a Creator.

          Everything has got a beginning.  Man because he lost God death came to him.  That is why he said he is our life.  That life is light for us.  And usually scientists and all the great people are trying to find out life.  Because everything can be photographed by a shadow but life cannot be controlled by a shadow.  It passes through the shadow without the shadow noticing it.  (It can go) inside the shadow without the shadow finding out.  So that life cannot be photographed by scientists.  That life comes from God.  If the life goes everything dies.  Eternal life means you can never die.  That means this body will be changed into a glorious body and that body can never die.  And there is a people of God....now people to be sons of God.  To be sons of God you must be born in God's family.  If you are born in God's family you won't touch the five senses.  People who touch the five senses are children of men, you are born to a man and a woman.  But if you don't touch the five senses you become sons of God.  That means you had a previous existence, and you are not belonging to this earth, you are a heavenly being.  That is why Krishna was trying to take the people from earth to heaven.  That is why He told don't touch the five senses.  What you see is not eternal, what you don't see is eternal.  All what you see will pass away, but there are things which won't pass away which you don't see with your eyes.  That is why without our eyesight there are so many things in this world.  Those are eternal.  All what you see will pass away, but there are things which won't pass away which you don't see with your eyes.  That is why without our eyesight there are so many things in this world.  Those are eternal.  What you see is not eternal.  So this body we have is not dying and going because this time He has come.  This body will put on the glory and go.  That is why the last avatar comes because He has got eternal life and He cannot die.  All those who are in Him cannot die.  I can show you this from all the Vedas.  But the people because they are certain about their death, they cannot believe that.

          There is going to be terrible trouble in this world because you can see from the papers how the enemies are coming on God's people.  The Hindus are God's people they are not ordinary people.  Every Hindu will think about God only; If you go to other countries there is no thinking of God.  They will always think about earning money and making money.  If you see the Hindus, early morning they get up and think about God.  So you can find people seeking God(more) in our country than the whole world.  And they are always waiting for something (Godly man) to come.  People see that many die and go away.  So they think that everybody has to die.  But Narayana comes and not only He doesn't die, all those who believe in Him will also get Eternal life.  Not only that, the power of God has to destroy them ( their enemies ) by the word of God.

          I was talking to you yesterday.  See Pakistan.  America comes to (help) Pakistan.  China comes to (help) Ceylon.  Any moment they may come and crush us, but before you can think anything God knows about it.  You will see the world is going to get its greatest surprise very soon.  Why?  With all the military power if they try to crush India, India will not be lost.  Then only you will know the Krishna power.  One word will destroy the whole army.  That is why I tell the Hindus to unite under Krishna because He is the hope for this country in the future.  Because (above) any atomic weapons or anything there is the power of the Word of God.  You will see this in our own country in India.  The fire from the mouth comes and consumes the people.  That day is coming So I tell the Hindus not to be afraid.  LORD NARAYANA will fight for you.  You are to stand quietly and be completely in Him and see the salvation of our God.  But be united.  Forget your differences; forget your community feelings and state feelings, all these feelings.  Come under Him you will see what enemy will come and destroy us.  And you will see the future power to show the world the proper way.    So may God make you to come into that light.

Shri Lahari Om! Tat! Sat!