Love, compassion and yoga
Q: I see people practising for some time, but they are not becoming more affectionate, more compassionate. Why should they? A: Yoga does not mean we are teaching good manners. We are making sense out of people — teaching them how to develop themselves. In consciousness you become more sensitive; if you only imitate a sensitive person, you become angry faster than a normal person. On universal love: can you claim to…
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Love, compassion and yoga
Q: I have a normal question. According to the nature of people, I am thinking — I thought before, I was thinking…
A: No, I am telling you, that was simple. No — your thinking is in the wrong direction.
Q: I saw people, for example, practicing for some time, but they are not becoming, to my point, more like affectionate, more compassionate people.
A: Why they should be like that?
A: How many affectionate people you see in the world?
A: But yoga doesn't mean that we are teaching good manners to people. Don't judge them like yoga.
A: No — we are making sense out of people. We are teaching them how to develop themselves.
A: In your consciousness you become more sensitive. Like you say, you don't go out. So the spirit — you will just imitate a sensitive person. You will become angry faster than normal person.
Q: How many people are worthy of loving and caring?
A: Can you claim to love a rapist or a murderer?
A: If your heart is so full of love, are you capable of loving a rapist or a murderer or a serial killer? He is a human being. Then where is your love and affection to that person?
Q: He was just a victim of circumstances.
A: So, that is utopian thought. You are thinking too high — come down to earth.
A: So, it does not matter what people are — I just do my practice. You be good — do not expect everything from other people.
Q: But it was like a kid is growing and it opens the world, the things are like this.
A: Most of the irritation is a reaction to a certain situation.
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