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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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