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If you have not explored life in its magnitude and multidimensionality, but have limited yourself to the physical body, fear is a natural consequence.
You discover an indescribable profundity within yourself when you realize your mortal nature. If you have
not realized your eternal nature you must at least realize your mortal nature.
The problem is just this: the fact that your mind is not taking instructions from you.
mind. Becoming conscious of this space is your first and only step to freedom. It is the
accumulated physiological and psychological content that causes the cyclical patterns in your life and even beyond.
Once this distance becomes a constant factor in your experience, you have reached the end of suffering.
Yoga is a journey toward a reality in which you experience
the ultimate nature of existence as borderless unity.
Universality is not an idea; it is an existential truth. It is
individuality that is an idea. Yoga is simply chitta vritti nirodha. That means, if the activity of your mind ceases and you are still alert, you are in
yoga. But don’t try to forcibly stop the mental activity because...
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But if you don’t pay any attention to it, thoughts will slowly subside, leaving you
in a rich and vibrant silence.
Remind yourself at least once an hour that everything you’re carrying
your handbag, your money, your relationships, the heaviness in your heart and body—are things that you’ve accumulated over a period of time. If you become more and more conscious of this fundamental fact even as
process of dis-identification grows within you—balanced by a deep sense of involvement in everything around you—you will move from the misery and madnes...
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You can “be,” and still choose to think or not think. The most beautiful moments in your life—what you might consider moments
of bliss, joy, ecstasy, or utter peace—were moments when you were not thinking about anything at all. You were just being.
All the human mind is doing is recycling old data.
Right now, ninety percent of the time, you are only thinking about life, not living it. Have you come into this world to experience life or to think about it?
The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great.
But you
have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, a...
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The problem is you are living in a psychological space that ...
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with reality. And you are insecure, because it can colla...
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In the vastness and grandeur of cosmic space, if you look at yourself in perspective, you are less than a speck of dust. But you think your thought—which is less than a speck wit...
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Once your intellect—or buddhi, as it is termed in the yogic taxonomy—gets identified with
something, you function within the realm of this identity.
The identity around which the intellect functions is called ahankara.
To continue with the earlier knife analogy, the hand that wields the knife is identity. Or in
other words, it is your identity that manages and determi...
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A well-established human mind is referred to as a kalpavriksha, or a wishing tree that grants any boon.
In this state of nameless ecstasy, there are no concerns about self-preservation.
Even if you are damned to eternal hell, you will happily go there because you have no fear of suffering!
If you start looking at the world around you,
you would clearly understand that what you know is so minuscule that there is no way to act with confidence.
It is just that with devotion you have dissolved all the resistance in you so that the divine can transpire as effortlessly as breath.
The divine is not an entity
sitting up there; it is a living force every mome...
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Devotion scorches.
When all the world is the eye of the lord, onlooking everywhere, what can you cover and conceal?
When you
realize experientially that every atom, every grain of sand, every pebble, every piece of life from the smallest to the biggest is unfathomable, you will naturally bow
down in utmost devotion to ...
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If those who are struggling to contain the chattering of the “monkey mind” become devoted, the chatter will just evaporate.
When you experience something as far bigger than yourself, bowing down will naturally occur to you.
Become a devotee. Dissolve.
When you experience everything that comes your way absolutely,
A coiled cobra
