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Recorded on: 24 Jun 2005
Language: English, Hungarian, Croatian
Length: 0h 03m

It is worth to teach yoga only purely

We must preserve authentic spirituality by drinking wisdom directly from its source. Yoga has become a global practice, but it has been distorted and commercialized into countless variations. The original, integral teaching is being broken apart, like an apple ground into chutney. Techniques are extracted and repackaged under different labels, creating widespread confusion. This is why our path is so valuable. We possess a living spiritual lineage and direct wisdom from our masters. We lack nothing; we are truly rich. We receive this nectar firsthand and must protect its purity.

"people have made chutney out of yoga."

"we drink the nectar of wisdom directly from the original fountain."

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

I am very happy that we all receive this information firsthand. We drink the nectar of wisdom directly from the original fountain, and we must preserve this authentic spirituality. You know that yoga has become an international subject; nearly every third person in the world is practicing it. But unfortunately, people have distorted yoga in many ways—not only commercialized it but created many other variations. Someone in India told me that nowadays, people have made chutney out of yoga. Do you know what chutney is? Let me explain: you take a whole onion or a whole apple. You then squeeze and grind it, breaking that single apple into thousands of pieces. The original, integral apple is lost. Similarly, all around the world, people are playing with the name of yoga. They extract techniques from yoga and give them different labels—this therapy, that therapy, this training, that training, this meditation, that meditation. Everyone is confused. That is why we are so proud of our spiritual path. We have a living spiritual lineage and direct wisdom given by our spiritual masters. We are truly rich; nothing is missing.

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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

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