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Place of the spirituality and the healing power of wisdom
The body is a temple for the Ātmā and must be kept divine through daily cleaning, prayer, and ceremony, which are spiritual acts, not religious ones. While religion and spirituality are hard to divide, one analogy is that religion is the outer skin of a banana, protecting the inner fruit of spirituality, yet we often fight over these outer things. Tolerance, mutual understanding, and harmony are vital. A frog in a small pond believed its world was the entire universe until placed in a vast, harmonious ocean, realizing a much larger and more harmonious world exists. Many may not yet have experienced this taste of tolerance and freedom.
"Religion is the outer skin of the banana, and spirituality is the inner part, the fruit."
"My God, I didn't even think... that the world could be bigger than my world and more harmonious."
Filming location: Vép, Hungary
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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