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Recorded on: 14 Mar 2004
Language: English
Length: 0h 02m

Prayer for the Madrid Bomb victims

A prayer is called for in response to suffering in the world.

We must work silently to help. We will hold a prayer for the victims and their families, for those recovering. Come with candles. It is outside; sign the papers to send condolences. This is how we act. Yoga is not just physical exercise or self-concern. We live in this world and must observe everything around us. We must give. Giving opens the heart. Greed defines poverty, while richness is having no wish for anything.

"If you can give, then your heart will open."

"The poor person is the one who wants to have more and more. And who is rich? The one who has no wish to have anything."

Filming location: Australia

You know what happened three days ago. Unfortunately, many things are happening in the world, and we all wish very much that they should not happen, but they are happening. What is to be done? Therefore, we have to work. We have to work. We have to work silently, and we have to help. So we have decided that tomorrow we will hold a prayer for those victims who lost their lives the day before yesterday in Spain. It is for them, for their family members, and for those who are lying in the hospital—may God bless them to recover quickly. For them, we will have a prayer—just a prayer, no lecture, nothing. We will go silently. Please come with some candles. The program is outside, and please sign the papers. We are going to send our condolences there. In this way, we can do many things. So yoga is not only twisting your body and breathing left and right, and asking, "Where is my cereal?" or "Where is my good healthy food?" and that is all—no. We live in this world. We have to see to the left and to the right. We have to see behind and in front. We must observe everything and we must give. We must give. If you can give, then your heart will open. A greedy person cannot give. Who is poor? The poor person is the one who wants to have more and more. And who is rich? The one who has no wish to have anything.

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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