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Spiritual Health

Spiritual health is the foundation of human life, avoiding fanaticism and misuse of spiritual achievement. It means not fighting other groups or creating fantasies of godhood. Humans uniquely understand God and problems, unlike animals who cannot avoid them. All world conflict stems from differing beliefs where each wants universal acceptance of their own. We must create tolerance, support others, and not take their beliefs away. Practice meditation, mantras, and embody non-violence, respect, and forgiveness. Think carefully before speaking to avoid hurting others. This health leads to spiritual development and self-realization, achieved through yoga and dedicated living.

"Spiritual health means practicing meditation, mantras, and prayers, and practicing in life ahiṃsā (non-violence), tolerance, respect, understanding, and forgiveness."

"All the problems in the world—the fighting and war—are actually caused by differing beliefs."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Spiritual health means not becoming fanatical. Do not fight against other spiritual groups or religions. Do not create fantasies. Do not misuse your spiritual achievement by thinking you are a god, that you know everything, or that you are a fully realized being now. Pomáhajte všem. Let each person believe as they do, because love for God is very individual, and we cannot influence that. If someone understands your perspective on God and accepts it, that is fine. Therefore, spirituality is the main part of human life. It is because humans can understand what is God and what is not God. Humans can understand what is a problem and what is not. Animals also understand problems, but they have no possibility to avoid them. All the problems in the world—the fighting and war—are actually caused by differing beliefs, because everyone wants the whole world to believe only in their religion. This is the problem. We must create tolerance and should support others, not take their beliefs away. Tolerance is very important, and this is missing in many religions. Thus, spiritual health means practicing meditation, mantras, and prayers, and practicing in life ahiṃsā (non-violence), tolerance, respect, understanding, and forgiveness. These are the points in our life we can achieve. You should think a thousand times over before you tell someone something. Take care that you do not hurt someone; that is very important. This is what we call spiritual health. This spiritual health will lead us to spiritual development, and spiritual development is the achievement of self-realization. Therefore, it is very important that we achieve these things. And for that purpose, we have designed yoga and a dedicated life.

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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:

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