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Try to open your heart
Happiness and yoga are about opening the heart and clearing small misunderstandings that cause lifelong unhappiness.
Birds are happy every day in their nests, while humans find only brief happiness during festivities. Silence and relaxation open the heart. Yoga aims to keep body and being healthy, happy, relaxed. Unhappiness arises from small, unspoken grievances. A couple were childhood friends and married. The wife wanted the husband to offer her the soft heart of the bread. He always ate it himself and never offered. She remained silent for fifty years. On their golden anniversary, he arranged a special breakfast and asked why she was never happy. She explained about the bread, and he immediately gave her the heart. She became overjoyed, and they declared a true marriage, dancing in embrace. A small thing had stolen their life. The lesson is to communicate small wants. Clear the why to find joy. Instead of refusal, say yes when possible. Relax and be happy as friends and neighbors.
"So you see, just for a little thing, we have lost our whole life."
"If we can clear this why, then there will be joy, happiness, and everything."
Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic
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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
