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Recorded on: 23 Jul 2002
Language: English
Length: 0h 02m

Spiritual New Year

Guru Purnima is a spiritual transition. Its influence is active now. Today concludes your old spiritual year; tomorrow begins the new one. This is when practitioners offer the fruits of their past year's practice and take a new vow for the year ahead. This vow includes specific spiritual commitments like chanting, positive thinking, and abandoning negative traits. You are fortunate to be present on this significant day. Cultivate positive thinking and avoid all negativity now.

"Today marks the end of your old spiritual year, and tomorrow is the beginning of a new one."

"You offer all that you have done and practiced—the fruits of your sādhanā—to Gurudev."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

We know that Guru Purnima is already present in the constellation. Its effect lasts for 48 hours, and it begins this afternoon. Therefore, you should all cultivate positive, spiritual thinking today—avoid negativity and always remain positive. Think of it like the blood groups: A positive and B positive. Be a positive person, an "A positive" individual. Today marks the end of your old spiritual year, and tomorrow is the beginning of a new one. This is the spiritual new year, when bhaktas, devotees, practitioners, yogīs, and aspirants conclude one year of spiritual effort and commence another. You offer all that you have done and practiced—the fruits of your sādhanā—to Gurudev. Then, you take a new vow, a saṅkalpa, for the coming year: to perform so many mālās, to chant so many mantras, to think positively, to pray more, to harbor no doubts, to live without jealousy, ego, hatred, or complexes, and to refrain from talking during the bhajan singing in satsaṅg. You will be very brave. I will tell you more about Guru Purnima tomorrow. You are the blessed ones, the happy ones, to be here especially on this full moon day, namely Guru Purnima. You are the blessed ones, the happy ones, to be here especially on this full moon day, namely Guru Purnima.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

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

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