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Hanumanji
A spiritual discourse on devotion, divine play, and the lesson of humility through a story of Hanuman.
"Often, it can happen that even the divine, God, can have some kind of test for the bhaktas."
"Go and say to Rāma that... 'Your duty is finished, now you can go back to the Buddha.'"
The speaker narrates the divine play between God and devotee, illustrating the oneness of Shiva and Vishnu through figures like Hanuman. He recounts a story where Bhagavan Rama, sensing a hint of ego in Hanuman after listing his great deeds, sends him on a final duty to deliver a ring to a sage in the Himalayas. When Hanuman arrives, the sage instructs him to throw the ring into a pond, which is revealed to be filled with identical rings from every past incarnation of Vishnu, thereby dissolving Hanuman's pride and illustrating that all divine acts occur through guru-kripa (the guru's grace).
Filming location: Wellington, New Zealand
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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
