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Break and connect
A spiritual discourse on meditation, the guru-disciple relationship, and preserving lineage wisdom.
"Your meditation and your sādhanā can be only successful when you break all worldly relations, finished. Jodo and connect, only Guru Bhaktī is successful."
"Meditation is a path. Mantra is a light. Like when you drive a car at night, you have the light. Light is guiding you, though you don’t see the light directly."
The speaker, addressing an audience, explores the depth of authentic spiritual practice versus superficial ritual. He emphasizes the necessity of a living guru, illustrating his points with a story of a seeker in Jaipur whose restless meditation was calmed only by the intercession of the guru's master. The talk uses analogies from nature, like the wasp and caterpillar, to explain the transformative guru-disciple bond and the process of becoming a true successor in a lineage.
Filming location: Fiji Islands
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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:
- Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3 - The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0 - Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4
