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Human beings are in a perennial state of complaint. They carry their complaints with them like a badge of their identity.
Memory has no objective existence. It is not existential; it is purely psychological.
That was when she made a life-changing decision: “It doesn’t matter who I meet, I
will never speak to them in a manner that I regret later, because this meeting could be my last.”
But in your experience of life, the more you are able to respond to everything around you, the freer you are!
The logical and experiential dimensions of life work in diametrically opposite ways.
It empowers you to decide the nature and volume of action you want to undertake.
Responsibility is not compulsive action; it offers you the choice of action.
The only reason you are not experiencing the life process in all its majesty and profundity is
your current state of mental resistance.
On the level of human consciousness, you are like a bird in a cage without a door.
Take the case of a seed. If the seed constantly tries to save itself, a new life is impossible. The seed goes through
the tremendous struggle of losing what it believes is its identity—losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable—in order to grow into a many-branched
branched leafy tree, abundant in fruit and flower. But without that vulnerability, that voluntary openness to tr...
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You are no longer enslaved to an external source—whether a person or a situation. You are now capable of being loving and
blissful without doing anything in particular, just sitting here, no matter how anyone in the outside world behaves.
Once you experience this inner free...
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never experience insecurity in you...
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And anyway, when you are a truly blissful human being, everyone will naturall...
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There is more—much more—to life than you are aware of right now.
This fruit, this egg, this bread, this vegetable—they are all a part of life themselves, but they are willing to become you. Would you be willing to do this for anyone? You are not willing to lose your identity and merge into anyone.
You are not even willing to surrender your little finger for someone else. Momentarily, you surrender just a little, usually when you need something. Your love affairs are the product of very calculated surrender.
Every human being lives in a perpetual state of insufficiency.
If you still believe that everything will
be okay the moment you find a new girlfriend or boyfriend, get a raise, buy a new house or car, then it is not yet time for yoga.
The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in
absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence.
When you are in yoga, it means that in your experience, everything has become one.
Right now, you are aware of someone
called “me” and someone called the “other.”
This “me” and “other” can be extended to groups of people, communities, and na...
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“me” and “other” is the basis of conflict i...
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This means that what happens in the mind affects what happens in the body. This is because what you call “mind” is not
just the brain. It is not located in any single part of the human anatomy. Instead, every cell has its own intelligence, so there is an entire mental body, an entire anatomy
of the...
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Whatever happens in the mental body happens in the physical body, and, in turn, whatever happens in the phys...
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body. Every fluctuation on the level of the mind has a chemical reaction, and every chemical reaction, in turn, generates...
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m...
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The physical and mental bodies are like your hardware and software. Hardware and software cannot do anythi...
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power. So, the third layer of the self is the pranamayakosha, or the energy body. If you keep your energy body in perfect balan...
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physical or menta...
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chronic diseases are manufactured daily by human beings.
However, there is a fourth layer called the vignanamayakosha, or the etheric body. Gnana means “knowledge.” Vishesh gnana means “extraordinary knowledge”—that
which is beyond the sense perceptions.
This is a transie...
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It is neither physical nor non-physical. It is like a lin...
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It is not in your...
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level of experience, because your experience is limited to the five sense organs which cannot perceive the non-physical. Thos...
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are those who could have slipped accidentally ...
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If you learn to find conscious access to this dimension, there will be a quantum leap in your ability to know the cosmic
