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Joy and Love

A spiritual discourse on the joy and responsibility of true teaching.

"The greatest happiness is if you can open the eyes of the blind one."

"Your children do not need your toys; your children need your love. Your children do not need your money; they need your knowledge and your wisdom."

The speaker describes the profound joy of guiding others, emphasizing teaching from the heart and sharing wisdom, not negativity. Key themes include opening the inner eye of knowledge, the importance of satsang for awakening divine love, and a call for surrender and service. The talk concludes with a prayer for purification and becoming an instrument of divine light.

Recording location: Australia, Sydney, Australian Tour

It is the most beautiful thing in the world when you can teach and show someone the right direction. If you hold the hands of a blind person and show the right way, there is happiness for the blind one as well as for you, that you have shown the way. But the greatest happiness is if you can open the eyes of the blind one. All innocent people who still do not know about this are blind. The teacher who has this knowledge has opened eyes and is going to show them, to open their inner eyes—the third eye, what we call the Āgyā Chakra, and it opens here. But it does not mean that here when I open, you know, and when next time I come and I will be opened, you will say, "My God, whatever." I will close these eyes and open this. Someone said the third eye opened, not the horizontal, but the vertical. The third eye means the knowledge. It is when Śiva's third eye opened, everything burns, yes. All negative energies and darkness will burn away, and only the light of the truth will remain there. So teaching something which is best and good for others is a joy, a happiness. This includes teaching children; parents show the right way to the children. Your children do not need your toys; your children need your love. Your children do not need your money; they need your knowledge and your wisdom. So when you teach the children, you should teach from the heart; it is love. Teaching yoga, integrating yoga into daily life, going to every satsaṅg, learning more, and then telling and explaining to your students—therein lies the greatest joy. Jesus said, "Share with everyone the last dinner." So share everything: your knowledge, your experiences. But when it is something negative and not good, which you do not agree with, do not share this with everyone. If you share the negative thing with others, you are doing the greatest mistake, especially first for you; you will fall into the black hole. The people who are negatively talking about others or some path, I am so sorry for them. They are just stuck in this darkness, and they are going deeper and deeper. So do not confuse and blackmail things to others, but tell the good things and best things and inspire someone. That is the aim of our teaching; that is the aim of our center. My dear brothers and sisters, I wish you everything best, but first of all, spiritual development, self-realization, that divine consciousness. Many good things and bad things happen in our life, but the most terrible tragedy that may happen to us is that we will die without realization. Therefore, do not wait. Do not think, "Should I, should I not? Should I take a stone, should I not take a stone?" Go ahead, that is it; the inner voice will come. Yes, you will lose your individual identity; that means individual karma, sin is gone, and you become one with the cosmic Self. Coming to the satsaṅgs, coming to such meetings for us is a blessing that we get so much treasure. And then teaching in your classes and inspiring your people—that is something of the biggest joy. Take with this hand and give it further; that is it. This is a process: receiving and giving. The love between mother and child is indescribable. The child is receiving the love from the mother, and the mother is receiving love from the child, or from the father, or from friends. You receive love from a friend, and the friend gives you love also. Again, I want to tell you from Yogananda. I think he said in one song, if I am not mistaken, maybe some other said, and he said, "God is that love between two lovers, not the body, not this, but there is some happiness which unites them in the oneness." This union we should have with our brother, sister, father, mother, friends, our house pets, all other animals, and everything. This kind of love, when it awakens, you will be the happiest person in the world. So, awake the compassion in your life, in your heart; awake that love, divine love, and give further. But you cannot awake it because it is dormant, and you have no key. So, unfoldment of the petals of the heart only happens in the satsaṅg. And there you should be open to receive. If you are closed there, you will lose it. Now, when you will get up and go into another room talking, you know, it is duality in the āshram. Yes, but what do you mean? Some people are sitting on the chair because they are VIP, and we are sitting on the ground. Some people think like this, my dear. But you did not realize that people who are sitting on the chair have a knee problem. Oh yes, of course they should sit on the chair; you see? So there are many people who begin to talk immediately after ten steps. This means that still in your consciousness, negative energy is existing. So pray to God to purify your heart: "Merciful Lord, I surrender to Thee my body, mind, and soul. Please let me be the instrument of Your love, that I can serve Your holy creation. Wherever I come, may I bring this divine light to enlighten the hearts of all. Let me be the light in darkness. Merciful Lord, bless me, guide me, protect me, and liberate me. I am Thine." Where you will surrender, you will feel immense love and happiness. Material love is only a kind of confusion for some time. But between husband and wife, or between children, parents, and friends, love which lifelong goes, that love is indescribable. Recording location: Australia, Sydney, Australian Tour

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