30 Sep 2008 Vrindavan, India
Category: Friends
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India is the country of celebrations and festivals. All the year through you can find people celebrating. We just love it and so we find excuses and reasons to have a festival and enjoy it. We are very lucky that we always find something to have fun. As it is a spiritual and god-conscious country these festivals are always related with a spiritual topic so there is normally no alcohol involved in the celebrations.
Today a festival of nine days started, it is called Navratri. A lot of people, from young to old, do a fast for these nine days. This celebration is actually for the Goddess Durga, the Goddess of power and energy who destroys evil energies. For me evil is also born inside us and from the power and energy of Durga you can be able to destroy your inner demons and devils like ego, anger and jealousy which can cause much trouble and many people have to suffer often because of them.
They create a lot of fear inside us and out of this fear people often react in a strange way. They lose lots of energy just because of their complexes and fear. Mostly you will see that these people give unnecessary advice and interfere in topics which do not have anything to do with them. They mingle in relations even between old friends. I believe that there is not any problem that two old friends cannot solve without the interference of a third person, if they just open their hearts. And the hearts should be always open, not only in difficult times. I do not believe in showing off love.
Love should be flowing steadily and should be there and obvious all the time. This might not be the concept in the west but I believe that love should flow in a normal natural way, not only when you can show that you have a great love. And the difficult time of a friend should not be pointed out by a third person. I pray to Durga in this festival to destroy this kind of demons from the mind of humans.
Our yoga students brought lots of toys from Germany and we played in the garden together with the children of the school and the Kindergarten. I enjoyed very much to see them happily running around in the garden. It was lots of fun.
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Tags:: Celebration, Energy, Fear, Friends, Love, God, Festival
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SourceReligious scriptures are only pieces of literature that have been noted down by people in the past and should not have any relevance or importance today. Read them word by word and you will get to know their crazy and cruel content.
SourceLove cannot grow if you don’t have closeness. Sometimes it is very hard to get close to someone. Sometimes there is physical closeness but no closeness of the heart, sometimes the mind is close but nothing else. You cannot establish a strong relationship if you don’t accept full closeness.
SourceStress because of age is a western problem. In India many people don't even know their birthdate! Age is just a number.
SourceI love what I do and I do what I love.
SourceMeditation has become a sign of being spiritual or religious. Don't do it regularly however simply because your religion tells you to. Such a ritual often becomes a habit and loses its benefit.
SourceScriptures and religion install fear of magic and ghosts in children and adults.
SourceHaving a positive attitude can help especially in situations when it is difficult for someone else not to fall into a deep hole of negativity.
SourceThe words ‘followers’, ‘disciples’ or ‘devotees’ give much room for abuse of the relationship to a guru.
SourceThe newage movement is like a religion reformed. People turned away from religion, choose one direction, be that card-reading, angels or past lives and then stick to it. It is nothing else than a religion in which you have a certain philosophy and won’t move away from it in your thinking.
SourceBookish knowledge only creates confusion
SourceAs a guru, you can be very respected and holy one day but the next day you can be a nobody. It can happen quickly and for no reason at all. It does not take any time for the respect and love of followers to vanish.
SourceReligion was founded when people started creating rules around that power called ‘God’ with which they could make people afraid and manipulate them. They defined ‘their god’ and split the population of the world in different groups.
SourceDo not steal the childhood of your children by raising them in a sect.
SourceDon't remind your children of how much you did for raising them.
SourceI have never seen myself as a teacher and I don’t do it until now. I always thought of myself as someone who is still learning himself – and not someone who could teach others. I do not see myself in this light and I do not want others to see me like this.
SourceIt is a collective decision to believe something that everybody has always accepted. It is tradition, it is normal, it is what everybody thinks. It was never questioned and even if someone questioned it, the doubts had to be rejected because that is simply ‘what we believe’. Always keep on questioning these things - they are the most likely to be wrong!
SourceOnly those who are not respectable can be disrespectful towards others because they don’t know the value of respect themselves.
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