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17th February 2008

 
Swami Ji

It was another day on which we were sitting in car very long. After a little breakfast in Essen, we started in direction Cologne. There we met again with the Yoga students and I continued the topic of yesterday in a lecture.

It is sometimes very difficult to translate the Sutras, which are in Sanskrit, into English. There are many translations already given in several books but very often they do not really express the soul, essence and full meaning of the Sanskrit words. However I try to make it clear. Yesterday I explained the word Dharma as religion or those principles that you accept in your life. I also explained one of the Sutras which shows how you know if your Dharma is right or not. The key is detachment. If your way is right you will be more and more detached. I gave also a practical example. In India there are people who are called Sadhus. They live a life in complete detachment without owning anything except the clothes on their body. They do not have any relation with anyone and they live from what people give them. It is a great honour to feed these spiritual Sadhus. But how can you be detached if you are on your normal life, not like a Sadhu wandering around but living in a house, having family and work? We have our attachments in so many places. Whatever we do, for what do we do it? To be happy and to satisfy ourselves. This is the aim and this gives us the inspiration to do different jobs or efforts in different directions and to buy one thing or another. How can we detach from these things? If you can enjoy to give joy to somebody else it is detachment! When you can give somebody happiness in the same manner like you are giving it to yourself or even more. When you provide somebody with this happiness. When you do not think of your own joy. Actually the key to detachment from all these material things without giving them away is the aim for which you are doing this. If it is for others, it is a special aim, it is detachment. Forget your ego. Give happiness to others! It will make you so happy that you will never want to do something else.

A few more thoughts that came up in this lecture and that I want to share with you. However for today it is enough. I will join Thomas and Iris. They are watching a concert of two Indian masters of classical music. I love Indian classical music very much!

 

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