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  • Recorded on: 29 Sep 2002
  • Language: English
  • Length: 0h 03m

Get enlightenment!

Attaining self-realization liberates your seven past generations and benefits seven future ones, placing you as the fifteenth in this chain of liberation. Physical health is ultimately transient, as death is certain for all bodies. Therefore, practices like āsanas and prāṇāyāma are not merely for health but are primarily for attaining enlightenment. We gather to follow cosmic and societal laws, receiving inspiration and new light, not just to hear stories. You become the light to liberate all ancestors.

"if you attain self-realization, if you attain ātma-jñāna, then because of you, your seven past generations are automatically liberated."

"The primary aim is to attain enlightenment. You are the light in that pitṛ loka, destined to liberate all the pitṛs."

Filming location: Umag, Croatia

Your generational attachment extends through fourteen generations. This understanding applies to normal people. However, if you attain self-realization, if you attain ātma-jñāna, then because of you, your seven past generations are automatically liberated. Furthermore, your spiritual merit will benefit the seven generations to come. This means you will be able to liberate the fourteenth generation. The fifteenth one is yourself. Therefore, strive to utilize this human lifetime so that you can attain liberation in this very life. Being healthy or not is a physical concern. It does not matter how many healthy practices you undertake; sooner or later, one day we will die. One day the body will become ill, so we try to be healthy—that is all. Thus, it is not merely that you perform physical exercises, āsanas, and prāṇāyāma because you wish to be healthy; that is insufficient. The primary aim is to attain enlightenment. You are the light in that pitṛ loka, destined to liberate all the pitṛs. To achieve this, we must follow principles: the rules of nature, cosmic law, our material worldly laws, and the laws of human society. This is why we come together. Often, we see ourselves receiving inspiration, and a new light enters you. It is not that thousands of people sit here in a crowded space merely to listen to stories; no, it is not only for the stories.

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:

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