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Whatever be the nature of your past karma, there is enough awareness in a human being to take complete charge of the karma of the present moment.
offers you the choice every moment of your existence to be either a victim or a spectator or the very master of your life. With a certain amount of effort and practice we all can write a software of joy and well-being for themselves.
What would really matter to you if there were no external appreciation or critique?
kriya means “internal action.”
Karma is the process of binding you. Kriya is the process of liberating you.
When you walk a completely new terrain, if there is no trust in the one who guides you, then the journey becomes unnecessarily long and difficult.
a powerful kriya, the Shambhavi Mahamudra,
If you are very observant, you will see that every forty minutes you are going through a physiological cycle.
On the level of your mind, pingala represents the logical dimension; ida represents the intuitive dimension. These two dualities are the fundamentals of the physical sphere of life.
The chakras are powerful centers in the physiology where the nadis meet in a particular way to create an energy vortex.
for 99.9 percent of the people, what is needed is trust. Without trust, they will never make the leap.
Zen is a spiritual path that has no scriptures, books, rules, or rigid practices; it is an uncharted path.
When you want to attain yoga or Zen, you have to drop your load, discard everything on the way, remain free, stand upright.
what is the goal of yoga? Consciously take on the whole load once again. And now it no longer feels like a load!
you have the necessary technology, you can make the simple space around you into a divine exuberance.
You can. If you know how to make your very body into a temple, going to the temple is not so significant.
Doing a spiritual practice every day is one way of trying to maintain the human system in a high state of vibrancy after an initiation.
What is a deity? A deity is a tool for a specific purpose: to achieve fulfillment in different aspects of life.
The temple was like a public battery-charging space. Most people have forgotten this nowadays.
The idea is to sit and imbibe the energies of the place.
All the places where you spend your time should be consecrated. When you live in such a space, your evolution need not stick to the Darwinian scale; you can simply leapfrog ahead to a state of ultimate well-being and freedom.
Once you create a certain volume of work with your life energies, it is permanent for all practical purposes and time does not destroy it.
if you work with your fundamental life energies, then the result is timeless.
“Velliangiri” literally means “silver mountain,”
even the most beautiful experiences, as we know, can become a drag with time.
Words can be inspirational and directional, but not transformative.
Joy is a rare visitor in most people’s lives.
If joy is not the ambience of your life, even life’s most pleasurable activities become burdensome.
once joy is your constant companion, you are no more an issue in your life.
life is a journey of endlessly unfolding celebrati...
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Never before has a generation of people known the comforts and conveniences we have today.
yet, we cannot claim to be the most joyful or loving generation in history.
Some are suffering their failure, but ironically, many are suffering the conseq...
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Some are suffering their limitations, but many are suffer...
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What is missing is human consciousness. Everything else is in place, but the huma...
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Your joy, your misery, your love, your agony, your bliss, lie in your hands.
There is a way out. And the way out is in.
It is only by turning inward that we can truly create a world of love...
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