13 Mar 2008 Vrindavan, India
Category: Fun
Today I told Andrea about my experience when I was invited in a disco in Denmark. It was a non-smoking disco. I always say I can go anywhere, I do not have a problem to go even in a disco. So I went there dressed in my usual clothes which are always very unusual to the eyes of others. Of course like this my appearance created a lot of attention. So I was sitting there, drinking some juice and water while others around were nearly all drinking alcohol. After a while somebody came, sat down with me and we had some talk about why I am here, who I am and so on. After he had gone, the next one came, sat with me for a while and like this it was going on the whole night. I was talking for hours. Sometimes somebody asked me to dance so I went to the dance floor, enjoyed dancing a bit and sat back down at my place. I was telling all kind of things, about my program in Denmark, about my life and my opinions on life. I enjoyed seeing, talking, watching how people were looking if I am free so that they can talk with me.
The next day I had a lecture in a yoga center and when I came in I saw that half of the audience was people whom I had met the day before in the disco. And I told in my lecture that I had met them in the disco and that I was happy to have them there. For me it doesn't make a difference if I go in a church, a disco, a hotel, on the beach, or in a temple. I always do what I want, what is my aim: I am giving loving, spiritual influence sometimes just through being there, sometimes through talking and sometimes in other ways. And in this way I was even successful in the disco. It was the only reason why they came to the lecture the next day. Some of them also came for a healing in the next days.
Maybe I am even more needed in a disco than in spiritual centers because there they still need more spiritual influence. In this way I feel right. I feel I am doing the right thing if I am going in a yoga center or in a disco, I am spreading love. And this is all I want to do.
Tags:: Fun, Alcohol, Church, Dance, Smoking, Temples
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Posted By Swami Balendu
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I read Swamijis diary about the importance of Unconditional Love and realised how important it is to value and properly evaluate Conditional Love which most people have in some point practiced but maybe had not valued or had been ashamed to value or the most probably had mixed it up with the Unconditional Love. Maybe it was the right thing to do as Love can be so different! Dont we loose some truth by being able to prise only the highest manifestation of Love? Does not Swamijis story about visiting disco sounds exclusive? Should it be?
Reply By Maya on August 20, 2012 04:27
I'm glad you had fun at the disco. I bet those people really enjoyed speaking with you.
Reply By Holly on December 26, 2010 11:18
Swami Ji, you are inspiring and wise. This story just made me laugh and laugh with happiness. Your freedom from judgement is especially refreshing and alters my perception as I experience it through your diary.
Reply By Matt C. on October 20, 2010 11:06
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