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Give up your problems
The problems of desire have no solution, only the possibility of abandonment.
All temptations and desires lead to trouble and growing complications. These problems have no solution or treatment; you cannot solve them and will suffer. The only way to be free is to drop them completely. If you cannot give them up, the problem remains. You may abstain temporarily, but you will fall back. Consider meat-eating animals: you can feed them vegetarian food, but their nature compels them to attack meat. However, a human can change that nature. Your problems stem from your own weakness. Why not think, speak, and tell others positively? Your enemy, friend, and liberator is yourself. Realize this. Identify what always disturbs you and finish with it. My words are general, not personal, yet they strike like an arrow for those with the problem. The Master's word is an arrow that pierces the heart, making the ego fall so you become free. Some may think negatively that this is addressed to them personally, but it is not—though they are included.
"All the problems you have, my dear, have no solution. There is no solution; there is no treatment for your problems."
"Your enemy is yourself, and your friend is yourself. Your liberator is yourself."
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
