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Spirituality and joy

Spirituality is the essence of joy and oneness. It arises from the harmonious union of fundamental principles within nature. The earth provides a maternal foundation, while a paternal energy of light and life animates existence. This union represents the divine source. True spirituality manifests as purity, humbleness, kindness, and peace. Its absence is marked by conflict and suffering, as seen in fractured relationships. We often seek joy externally, yet authentic spiritual joy is found only within. It is the inner state cultivated through harmonious understanding.

"Spirituality: purity and humbleness, kindness, peace, understanding, oneness."

"Spirituality is what we call the joy. Joy is only within ourselves."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Good evening, dear sisters and brothers. Welcome. Today is a beautiful day, neither cold nor hot, and we still have a beautiful environment in this ashram. How many beautiful trees are here, with very clean air, and many people are coming and practicing yoga. Yoga has many techniques, so what we have here is mostly for our good health. The peace of the mind makes for our good health for a whole life, and then we proceed further in spirituality. Now, what is spirituality? This evening is about that. Our sun is going down very quickly, and we need some light—not now, but sooner or later it will be. I think many of you know very well what spirituality is. And if this spirituality is, from where and how does it come? Yoga has many, many practices. Religion connects to God, and God is only one, just as we have only one sun. All the time, this sun is for us. Sometimes it’s daytime: morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and at night. This all has been given to us by nature. So if we think only about the sun, or only about religion, that is not enough. It is our entire environment. This environment is given to us by nature. Nature is like a mother, and this mother is the earth. And the prāṇa energy, the sun, warmth, light—all together make for all creatures and humans this happiness, the joy, the relaxation, etc. So first is this: we should remember we are on our earth. We came from the earth, and we have this energy, what we call in one way God, which has no visible form to our self, but it is there. The balance from that inside is the mother. These two mother and father principles—I’m not talking about your body—come to us together. It is one becomes two into one. So one part we call the mother, and we call first. God is a mother and then is the father. So "Mātṛ Devo Bhava." We are telling that mother is the spirituality in this earth. Mātkau. And that sea is that which appears against the one light inside. Dává dovnitř světlo, that comes in the light, and that is like a father. It is very tiny, very tiny, like a stone or like water, just like from the fog that appears in the whole body. There it is, the spirituality. And if we can understand the spirituality, then we will understand, yes, this is God. So what we got that comes to us, what comes to us, and we should hold this in us. So what is spirituality? Purity and humbleness, kindness, peace, understanding, oneness. Without this oneness, no peace, no spirituality. So, the spirituality... We have between mother and father, and when they have harmony, so it is said that mother and father, they are two bodies but one. It is because they married; marriage means became one, and then it is that. It will come that the mother will give you the child, the father will give the child. So harmony, peaceful understanding—so when there is happiness, joyousness, then it is called spirituality. Now, in this Kali Yuga, we call it Kali Yuga, and that is not so good now. And so, you know how male and female, they are suffering. And they don’t know why they come together. And then the husband goes away, or the wife goes away, children are suffering. This is not spirituality. Spirituality is peaceful. And don’t think that this is beautiful or this is not beautiful. Beautiful is our heart, beautiful is that soul. Beautiful is that good feeling in ourselves. That is spirituality. And therefore, when we don’t know, then we go to our temple or a church, and we understand God, Jesus, or a Holy Mother. And you know, even Jesus and the Holy Mother, how they are suffering. But for why? For us. Similarly, before that, Śiva, Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, etc. So it is in whole countries. They have good things, good feelings, and they are in happiness. We are sitting here, all of us, and we are from different countries, different villages. Our mother, father, they were different, but we are here in this flat and we are happy. This is spirituality. No one is fighting, no one is angry, nobody feels disturbed. What can be more spiritual than this? Joy, joy, joy. It is that joy we should get like this now. Spirituality is what we call the joy. And where there is no spirituality, but we are searching for joy. So joy is a joy. In the joy of that joy, there is not anymore joy. Joy is only within ourselves. Nowadays, we don’t know who is thinking about it, but here it is. So, spirituality: purity, humbleness, kindness, peacefulness, etc. If this is there, it is spirituality. My dears, I wish you good evening, and think in that way about any religion you think. It’s everywhere, okay? But feel like that. And don’t be angry, and don’t be afraid of God. God will never be giving us negativity. So, good evening. All the best. God bless you. And now we will have a prayer, and after the prayer we have one video. This is a very long story. This is from ages to ages, all where humans are suffering. If they will be in happiness and peaceful, then we are peaceful and very spiritual. So, my dear brothers and sisters, I wish you all the best. Adió.

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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:

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