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It is very important now to understand these multiple cultures. All that happens in the world is because of culture, religion, and these many things. People often say, "Why should I do it? It's not my culture." And there is a problem. "Why should I wear a turban? It is Indian culture." No, if you like, you can also wear a turban, and who are we to blame or discriminate against someone who wears a turban? This problem exists because ignorance is ruling in this world. People are not educated here; if they had education, they would not discriminate against any culture. They have no knowledge about certain symbols of some cultures. They are not educated in this, and therefore, now in Europe also, recently, they are bringing in some kind of system or law that in schools, education should begin not on a particular religion and culture, but these children should be informed and taught properly and truly about different cultures. Once someone asked Gandhījī why in India there are so many goddesses. Gandhījī said, "Thank God there are so many goddesses." His answer was, "If a garden has different kinds of flowers, that's the beauty of the garden. And if you have only one kind of flower, that's not such a beauty. Pumpkins are good, but if you have only pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins in your garden, it is not that beauty." Therefore, someone said this whole world has become a small village. And in this small village, we need unity, and in order to bring unity, we need understanding of diversities. We should be informed, and we should be free to do what we like to do. So this discrimination is very much in the world: "My religion, my tradition only, and not others." One likes to eat with a spoon. Others like to eat with their hands; why not? But what have you got against your hand? God gave you the hand. You were not born with a spoon. So this is how we are thinking; the main thing is that you are eating, it doesn't matter, so clean your hands. Hands are clean. So we, as yogīs, should stand above these things. We shall respect our culture; we shall maintain our culture. But we should not discriminate against other cultures when they discriminate against other cultures. Recording location: Slovenia, Kranj, Seminar