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But it is possible for you to put it down. It will still be your companion, but at least it won’t be that burdensome!
You can use it when you want, but you need not be identified with it. If you cannot maintain this distance,
your whole vision of life will...
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The spiritual process means a return to life. It means following the deep intelligence of your life energies.
There are many ways of recognizing which way your life energies want to go.
If you dis-identify with physiological and psychological processes, you ...
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It is only when you consciously head in the direction of your life energies that you fi...
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It is only in such a stable state that you would dare to explore the highest levels of exuberance and venture int...
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Pain is bad enough; why make it worse with suffering?
Suffering is entirely self-created. And every human being has the choice: to suffer
Unfortunately, most human beings are doing much the same thing: they are labeling their compulsions, their limitations, as their choices.
you can joyfully do whatever is needed in a given situation, this is freedom.
But limiting yourself to doing only what you like is a horribly co...
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This compulsiveness is the trick of karma—that ancient word that has been mangled by popu...
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Action is of three kinds. It could be in terms of the body, mind, or energy. Whatever you do with your body, mind, or energy, leaves a certain resi-due. This
residue forms a pattern of its own, and these resultant patterns stay with you. When you gather a huge volume of impressions, slowly these shape themselves into tendencies, and you become like an automatic toy, a slave to your patterns, a puppet of your past.
It is important to see that these patterns rule you from within, not from without. No one has to exercise any external control upon you. Your inner
autocrat rules you all the time.
You are helplessly stuck in the karmic rut.
Freedom is now an empty word because the way you think, feel, and understand life—even the way you sit, stand, and move—is conditioned by your past impressions.
What you consider to be your personality—the bundle of traits and tendencies that you are—is because of information you have gathered unconsciously. These tendencies have been traditionally described as vasanas.
Depending upon what type of smell you emit, you attract certain kinds of life situations to yourself.
I mention this incident not as an illustration of reward and punishment but as an illustration of the possible consequences of strong attachment and aversion.
Once your software is fixed, it looks as if there is only one path you can walk in your life. It looks as if your destiny is predetermined. A spiritual process, however, means we have made up our minds to rewrite our software, consciously.
Karma is what gives stability and structure to your life.
The spiritual process does not seek to demolish this storehouse of karmic impressions, but helps you to become more conscious
it, and establish a little space, which allows you to stand outside of it.
your software is not in itself the problem. It turns into a problem only if it becomes the ...
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is software that can be useful if you have some freedom from it. This is all the spiritual process aims to do: loosen the grip of karma upon you.
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.
Everything may seem to be going your way: your professional life may be flourishing, your capital may be increasing, your family may be thriving, but you are not really getting anywhere. The faster you achieve your success, the faster you realize this.
When you are in a certain state of insufficiency, you keep thinking that everything will be okay once your dreams are realized. But if all the things you dreamt of happen very quickly, you suddenly realize that, although everything is happening as you thought it should, life still remains unfulfilled and your longings persist.
Denying, suppressing, or avoiding life brings more bondage than freedom.
you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve enormous amounts of karma.
When you experience everything that comes your way absolutely, when you experience every life breath with utmost intensity, without the distractions of thought and emotion, devoid of any psychological drama, you are liberated from the very process of birth and death. You are not only more alive; you are life itself.
It 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 ourselves.
If you were alone on this planet, what would you want for yourself? Ask yourself this question and see where it takes you.
Karma is the process of binding you. Kriya is the process of liberating you.
The most significant aspect of yoga is always to perform action beyond the physical dimensions of energy.
The moment you learn to perform action with the non-physical aspect of your life energy, you suddenly move to a new level of freedom within and outside of yourself.
How do you access the non-physical aspect of your life energy? The yogic practices, which involve postures, breath, attitudes of the mind, and energy activation, are all essentially oriented toward aligning the first three layers of the body:
the physical, the mental, and the energetic body. It is only in aligning them that you find access to dimensions beyond the physical—...
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I have seen any number of people who start doing a simple kriya, and suddenly become so creative that they are able to achieve things that they never imagined possible in their lives. This is simply because they loosened their karmic foundations a little. They shook up their life energies for a change, instead of being entangled with their physica...
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Kriya yoga is a very powerful way to walk the spiritual path, but at the same time it ...
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Being used to a level of physical comfort is not a problem. But being in constant quest of comfort: this is a great problem.
That kind of attitude and emotion is unsuitable for the path of kriya yoga.
you take the path of kriya, a certain fundamental discipline has to be brought into all physical, psychological, and emotional processes. If you want to hit the peak of your consciousness, this discipline is essential.
for the kriya to be a live process, to be imprinted in your system in a certain way, it needs a certain discipline, dedication, and
