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  • Recorded on: 14 Oct 2005
  • Language: English, Hungarian, Croatian
  • Length: 0h 05m

If you throw dust towards the Sun, the dust will fall on you

A spiritual discourse using the sun as a metaphor for the divine and selfless service.

"No one can blame the sun. If you try to throw dust toward the sun... the dust will fall on you, not on the sun."

"I have to give. On the day when you think to have, then you will lose everything."

The speaker presents a parable of the sun, illustrating how negative actions rebound on the doer and describing the sun's selfless, endless giving of light. The narrative personifies the sun, which expresses sadness and the difficulty of finding a successor who can endure the necessary discipline of self-sacrifice. The core theme is the spiritual imperative of selfless giving over selfish acquisition.

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

No one can blame the sun. If you try to throw dust toward the sun, look how far it is going; very soon the dust will fall on you, not on the sun. So who has negative thinking? Who is gushing up and throwing the dust of feelings and thinking into the center of the sun? This karma comes back. And the sun doesn't ask for anything. We are waiting for the sun to rise. We are not only humans; all creatures are like this. When the morning sun rises, I see on the balcony a fly sitting there where the sun's rays are. The sun is there. I have enough light, enough energy; just take it. And how much? As much as you can. It's endless, endless. But now, the sun is going down. "Lord, thank you for the beautiful day and time that I could donate, or I could give my light. You are my light." The sun is a solid form, like a solid form. Though gas cannot be solid, this sun is like a dark, solid coal. So the sun is very dark. Nothing is darker than the sun. But this gas which comes out of it, and that through the Agni Tattva, is like fire and fuel. It's constantly burning, giving us light. Well, the sun is thinking, "I did my best, but now I am very sad." Sometimes, even the sun is also sad. How to continue? So who will take my place? Who will replace me? Who will be my successor? And to be a successor is not easy. You have to burn in the fire of the tapas, in the fire of the discipline, to be in that sun. I have to give. On the day when you think to have, then you will lose everything.

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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