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The positive influence and transformation within our consciousness and our karmic patterns are poisoned by negative, harmful thoughts. Therefore, it is said that before acting or speaking, one should truly know what one is doing. Often, we are convinced we are right and others are wrong, but this is a terrible perspective. We do not know the full reality. Who are we to judge anyone? If we do not know, it is better to be safe: to remain humble, peaceful, and calm. We should support another's feelings and spiritual journey. Even if we know someone is mistaken, we must protect their feelings. Everyone congratulates the champions and the winners, but someone should also congratulate the one who lost, for they, too, were trying very hard. If we wish to work positively in the world, we must support this understanding. We must support the feelings—the beautiful thorns of the rose. A beautiful rose has thorns. When you give someone a rose, you do not mind the thorns; you do not feel them. You see only the rose. Similarly, you and I have many thorns in our lives. Our hands are probably not as clean as we think. So let us work together to build a community and build strength. When we sit together as one spiritual community—practicing yoga and so on—and some among us make mistakes, we should not cast that person out. We should not criticize them, forbid them from returning, or send them away. That is a loss. Where, then, is yoga? Yoga means balance, union, and uniting. It is the mantra in this environment that brings change: negative karma departs, and light, harmony, love, and forgiveness arrive. What disturbs you and me today will one day be unimportant. When we die, everything will remain here. What will we bring, and what will we take? Thus, it is a hard job, yet it is also very simple: to protect everything, to protect the spiritual work, to protect the spiritual environment, to protect spiritual people, to support and help them. If I cannot dry the tears of others, then I should at least not become the cause of them. Recording location: Australia, Lismore, Swamiji's World Tour