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Clean yourself to become a saint
True renunciation is the yoga of cleaning and selfless service.
Holy Gurujī visited Vienna and Czechoslovakia during simpler times. He taught that all is a religion, release from everything is a religion. In those lands, people shared freely—taking fruit from open fields without stealing, leaving cars unlocked without fear. True freedom is not political; it is inner. Yet many who take sannyas cling to status. They wear orange and sit in front, but renunciation means giving up everything. A true yogi cleans toilets, sweeps leaves, serves all. Leaves falling from trees are not dirty; they fall and later get cleaned. One disciple here cleans everything—that is a great sadhu. In Sivanandajī’s ashram, a learned pandit boasted of knowing all scriptures. Sivanandajī led him to a dirty toilet and said clean this. The pandit resisted, and Sivanandajī declared, “You have learned nothing. Cleaning is sādhanā, that is dharma.” Jesus washed feet; true humility is service. Tyāga means dropping every desire, even for chocolate or ice cream. The guru sent this one away with nothing—no shoes, just one cloth, like a cow or horse. Why need shoes when animals go barefoot? Achal Ramji built a great pond and then renounced all. Stop claiming “I am this” and simply clean.
“Holy Gurujī said, ‘One in all, all in one.’”
“Sivanandajī said, ‘Clean this. That is the sādhanā, that is the dharma, that is everything.’”
Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India
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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
