Harmony & understanding

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Recorded on: 12 Apr 2002
Language: English
Length: 0h 04m

Harmony & understanding

A spiritual discourse on non-judgment, compassion, and community.

"Who are we to judge anyone? If we do not know, it is better to be safe: to remain humble, peaceful, and calm."

"A beautiful rose has thorns. When you give someone a rose, you do not mind the thorns... Similarly, you and I have many thorns in our lives."

The speaker advises against judging others, emphasizing humility and the protection of others' feelings even when they are mistaken. Using the metaphor of a rose and its thorns, he calls for compassion within a spiritual community, arguing against exiling those who err in favor of unity and support, in alignment with the principle of yoga as union.

Recording location: Australia, Lismore, Swamiji's World Tour

The positive influence and transformation within our consciousness and our karmic patterns are poisoned by negative, harmful thoughts. Therefore, it is said that before acting or speaking, one should truly know what one is doing. Often, we are convinced we are right and others are wrong, but this is a terrible perspective. We do not know the full reality. Who are we to judge anyone? If we do not know, it is better to be safe: to remain humble, peaceful, and calm. We should support another's feelings and spiritual journey. Even if we know someone is mistaken, we must protect their feelings. Everyone congratulates the champions and the winners, but someone should also congratulate the one who lost, for they, too, were trying very hard. If we wish to work positively in the world, we must support this understanding. We must support the feelings—the beautiful thorns of the rose. A beautiful rose has thorns. When you give someone a rose, you do not mind the thorns; you do not feel them. You see only the rose. Similarly, you and I have many thorns in our lives. Our hands are probably not as clean as we think. So let us work together to build a community and build strength. When we sit together as one spiritual community—practicing yoga and so on—and some among us make mistakes, we should not cast that person out. We should not criticize them, forbid them from returning, or send them away. That is a loss. Where, then, is yoga? Yoga means balance, union, and uniting. It is the mantra in this environment that brings change: negative karma departs, and light, harmony, love, and forgiveness arrive. What disturbs you and me today will one day be unimportant. When we die, everything will remain here. What will we bring, and what will we take? Thus, it is a hard job, yet it is also very simple: to protect everything, to protect the spiritual work, to protect the spiritual environment, to protect spiritual people, to support and help them. If I cannot dry the tears of others, then I should at least not become the cause of them. Recording location: Australia, Lismore, Swamiji's World Tour

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Time position	Words
00:00:00	The good influence and change in our consciousness and in
00:00:07	the karmic way, and bad thoughts, negative thoughts, poison everything.
00:00:14	And therefore it is said, before knowing, you should know what you are doing or saying.
00:00:25	Sometimes we think we are right and others are wrong, and how terrible it is. You don't know the reality. Who are we to judge someone?
00:00:38	So, before judging, if we don't know, then it is better to be on the safe side: humble, peaceful, calm.
00:00:47	We shall support someone's feelings and spirituality.
00:00:56	Even if you know that someone is wrong, we have to protect that someone's feelings.
00:01:07	Everyone congratulates the champions, the winners, but someone should also congratulate the loser.
00:01:18	Because the loser was also trying very, very hard.
00:01:30	And so we have to understand, if we want to work positively in the world, then we have to support that.
00:01:40	We have to support the feelings, the beautiful thorns of the roses.
00:01:49	A beautiful rose flower has thorns also.
00:01:53	When you give someone a rose flower and there are thorns, one doesn't mind the thorns.
00:02:00	One doesn't feel those thorns. One sees only the rose. So, me or you, we have many thorns in our life.
00:02:15	Probably our hands are not so clean as we think.
00:02:22	So let us work together, build a community, build strength.
00:02:34	And when, like we are sitting here as one community, a spiritual community, yoga, interesting and so on.
00:02:41	Some of us have made mistakes in doing.
00:02:44	Then we will throw that person out, and we will criticize that one, and we will not let him come, and we will send her away, and this is a loss.
00:02:54	Then where is yoga? Yoga means balancing, union, and uniting.
00:03:00	So that mantra which in this environment is changing,
00:03:09	negative karma is going, and light comes, harmony comes, love comes, forgiveness comes.
00:03:19	What disturbs me and what disturbs you today, one day it will not be so important, and
00:03:26	when we will die, everything will remain here. What will we bring with us, and what will we take? So
00:03:34	it's a hard job, or it's very easy to protect everything, protect spiritual work, protect
00:03:45	the spiritual environment, protect spiritual people, support them, help them.
00:03:52	So if I can't dry the tears of others,
00:03:59	then I should not become the cause.

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