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  • Recorded on: 15 Oct 2005
  • Language: English, Hungarian, Croatian
  • Length: 0h 04m

The key to success is the self discipline

A spiritual discourse on the importance of discipline and punctuality for teachers and practitioners.

"As a teacher or instructor, you should be at the site at least ten minutes before your class begins. Do not depend on your helper or assistant."

"If you can come ten minutes late, it means you can also come ten minutes earlier. Whoever was later than ten minutes would be suspended."

The speaker emphasizes the critical need for punctuality and personal responsibility in a teaching setting, using the example of strict office rules instituted by Indira Gandhi to illustrate how discipline ensures smooth functioning. The talk connects this practical discipline to the foundational yogic principle from Patañjali and a modern perspective on self-discipline as the key to success.

Filming location: Vép, Hungary

Another point, which is very important and which I have stated many times, is this: as a teacher or instructor, you should be at the site at least ten minutes before your class begins. Do not depend on your helper or assistant. Check yourself that the room or space has good air, a good temperature, and is neat and clean. Problems begin when you arrive late and instruct your helper to tell the students to just relax for ten minutes, put some music on, and that you will be there very soon. Once, Indira Gandhi in India instituted some excellent rules. She always made good rules, and this was one of them. The problem was that officers and staff used to arrive very late to the office. When they should have been present at 8 o'clock in the morning, they would come at 9:30. Then at 10 o'clock was coffee time until 11, followed by some meeting with friends. From 11:30 to 12:30 or even 2 o'clock was lunch time—not for everyone, but for some. So, she established rules for punctuality. She declared, "If you can come ten minutes late, it means you can also come ten minutes earlier." Whoever was later than ten minutes would be suspended. Suddenly, all the work began to proceed smoothly. This is the same principle. Her slogan was, "Discipline makes the country great." And Patañjali said yoga can only be successful if you have discipline. Patañjali stated yoga can be successful only if you have discipline. In the modern system, the Americans say the key to success is self-discipline.

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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