THE BREATHING EXERCISES (NADI SHODHANAM)

 

                                   NADI SHODHANAM

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                          TO BEGIN THIS TECHNIQUE, SIT STRAIGHT AS THOUGHT FOR MEDITATION, IN WHATEVER  POSITION IS COMFORTABLE, BUT WITH THE HEAD, NECK AND TRUNK RELATIVELY ERECT. USUALLY THE THUMB OF THE RIGHT HAND IS USED TO CLOSE OFF THE RIGHT NOSTRIL WHILE THE RING FINGER OF THE SAME HAND IS USED TO CLOSE OFF LEFT NOSTRIL. IF YOU FIND IT HELPFUL, YOU CAN BRACE THE HAND BY PLACING THE INDEX AND MIDDLE FINGERS ON THE BRIDGE OF THE NOSE BETWEEN THE EYES (IF YOU DON'T FIND THAT TO BE A DISTRATION).

                       FIRST, EXHALE THROUGH THE SAME NOSTRIL. AT THE END OF THE INHALATION, CLOSE OFF THAT NOSTRIL WITH THE FINGER, ALLOWING THE EXHALATION TO BEGIN ON THE OTHER SIDE. AT THE END OF THAT EXHALATION, TO BEGIN ON THE OTHER SIDE. AT THE END OF THAT EXHALATION, INHALE THROUGH THE SAME NOSTRIL, THUS STARTING THE PROCESS AGAIN. REPEAT THIS ALTERNATION THREE TIMES SO THAT YOU BREATHE A COMPLETE CYCLE THROUGH EACH NOSTRIL THREE TIMES, FOR A TOTAL OF SIX BREATHS. THIS IS ORDINARILY CALLED A "ROUND". IT IS CUSTOMARY TO PERFORM A SECOND AND THEN A THIRD SUCH ROUND SO THAT YOU COMPLETE A TOTAL OF NINE INHALATIONS AND NINE EXHALATIONS THROUGH EACH NOSTRIL. BETWEEN ROUNDS, YOU ORDINARILY TAKE THREE BREATHS THROUGH BOTH NOSTRILS.

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                    IN DOING THE EXERCISE, YOU SHOULD REMEMBER TWO THINGS, TO BREATHE SLOWLY AND GENTLY, BUT NOT SO SLOWLY THAT IT IS A STRAIN OR THAT YOU RUN OUT OF BREATH, AND TO BREATHE SILENTLY. IF THE  BREATH IS CREATED, AND NO SOUND VIBRATION SHOULD RESULT. TO ACCOMPLISH THESE TWO GOALS, YOU MUST  CONCENTRATE COMPLETELY ON THE BREATHING ITSELF. IF THE MIND IS ALLOWED TO WANDER TO OTHER SUBJECTS DURING THE PROCESS, THE BREATHING WILL BECOME IRREGULAR, JERKY, NOISY, OR OTHERWISE DISRUPTIVE. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO REMAIN RELAXED AND CALM DURING THE EXERCISE.

                      THIS IS ONLY ONCE OF THREE VARIANTS. THE SECOND (WHICH IS EXPLAINED IN CHAPTER FOUR) INVOLVES EXHALATION THROUGH ONE SIDE WITH INHALATION THROUGH THE OTHER, AND THE THIRD INVOLVES THREE COMPLETE CYCLES THROUGH ONE NOSTRIL BEFORE CHANGING TO THE OTHER SIDE. SOME STUDENTS CHOOSE TO DO ONE VARIANT FOR THE FULL THREE ROUNDS, WHILE OTHER PEOPLE DO A ROUND OF EACH VARIANT. CONSISTENCY IS PROBABLY HELPFUL, AND THE VARIANT DESCRIBED IN THE TEXTS IS QUITE SUITABLE FOR THE BEGINNER TO USE EXCLUSIVELY.

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                      PRACTICING THIS TECHNIQUE ENABLES PEOPLE TO APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF BREATHING THROUGH ONE SIDE AND BREATHING THROUGH THE OTHER, AND THEY ALSO INCREASE THEIR AWARENESS OF THE NATURE OF LATERALITY. NADI SHODHANAM IS A STUDY RATHER THAN SIMPLY A MECHANICAL EXERCISE. IT IS BOTH EDUCATIONAL AND COORDINATING. IT BRINGS A DIMENSION OF EXISTENCE WHICH HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN BACK INTO AWARENESS, AND IT HELPS TO RESTORE COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES OF THE BODY. WE WOULD BE MOST EMBARRASED TO ADMIT THAT WE DIDN'T APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFTING THE LEFT ARM AND THE RIGHT ARM, BUT MOST PEOPLE, WHEN ASKED, CANNOT SAY WHICH NOSTRIL THEY'RE BREATHIG THROUGH AT THE MOMENT. IF IT IS TRUE THAT THE RIGHT SIDE ACTIVATES A WHOLE SET OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS AND THE LEFT SIDE BRINGS INTO PLAY A DIFFERENT SET, THEN IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE VALUABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO AN AWARENESS OF WHICH NOSTRL IS FLOWING AT AY GIVEN MOMENT.

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                        THE IMPORTANT OF THIS AWARENESS BECOMES ESPECIALLY OBVIOUS WHEN WE DISCOVER TECHNIQUE WHICH ENABLE US TO CHANGE VOLUNTARILY THE FLOW OF AIR FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER. FOR EXAMPLE, IF I LIE ON MY LEFT SIDE, THEN THE RIGHT NOSTRIL WILL OPEN. IT WAS LONG THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS BECAUSE GRAVITY PULLED THE BLOOD INTO THE LOWER NOSTRIL, ENGORGING THE LINING, CAUSING THE TURBINATES TO SWELL, AND CLOSIN OFF THE "DOWN" SIDE. MORE RECENTLY, RESEARCH HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT IT IS NOT ACTUALLY GRAVITY WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SHIFT, RATHER, IT IS THE PRESSURE EXERTED BETWEEN THE DOWN ARM AND THE SIDE OF THE CHEST ON WHICH ONE IS LYIG . THIS APPARENTLY SETS UP A REFLEX WHICH AUTOMATICALLY DILATES THE NOSTRIL THAT IS HIGHER AND CLOSES OFF THE ONE WHICH IS LOWER, ON THE SIDE WHERE THE PRESSURE IS. IN ANY CASE, IF I STAY ON ONE SIDE FOR A WHILE, THE OPPOSITE NOSTRIL WILL OPEN. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT THE YOGA MANUALS RECOMMEND THAT ONE LIE ON THE LEFT SIDE AFTER MEALS, OPENING THE RIGHT NOSTRIL AND STIMULATING AND DIGESTIVE PROCESS. TRADITIONALLY, TOO, IT IS SAID THAT WHEN INDIVIDUALS GO TO BED, THEY SHOULD LIE ON THE LEFT SIDE FOR FIVE OR TEN MINUTES, ACTIVATING THE RIGHT NOSTRIL TO CREATE INCREASED BODY HEAT. AS SOON AS THEY ARE WARM AND COMFORTABLE, THEY SHOULD TURN TO THE RIGHT, ALLOWING THE LEFT NOSTRIL TO OPEN. DOING SO RELAXES, CALMS, AND PREPARES THEM FOR SLEEP.

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                        WHILE A RYTHMIC ALTERNATION OF AIRFLOW BETWEEN ONE SIDE AND THE OTHER IS CONSIDERED NATURAL AND HEALTHY, AND PERSISTENT CLOSURE OF ONE NOSTRIL AND FLOW OF AIR THROUGH THE OTHER FOR MORE THAN A FEW HOURS IS THOUGHT TO BE A HARBINGER OF DISEASE. IF THE BREATH STAYS IN ONE SIDE FOR SIX OR EIGHT HOURS, SOME ILLNESS IS THOUGHT TO BE ON ITS WAY, AND IF THE CONDITION LASTS FOR A DAY OR MORE, THE SITUATION IS SAID TO BE GRAVE. THEN BREATH IS THOUGHT TO BE RELATED TO THE PRANA (FLOW OF ENERGY) IN THE SUBTLE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL TOTALITY, THE IMBALANCES OF WHICH ARE SEEN AS PRECEDING THE OUTWARD MANIFESTATION OF DISEASE.

WHAT IS THE NATURE OF OUR MIND

 

                     

                       HOW TO HANDLE OUR MIND'S?

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                         TANTRA DOES NOT BELIEVE IN CREATING WHAT YOU WANT IN TERMS OF THE PHYSICAL EXISTENCE AROUND YOU, BUT IS FOCUSED ON CREATING FORMS AND IDENTITIES WHICH WILL FUNCTION WAY BEYOND YOUR OWN INTELLIGENCE. TANTRA IS ESSNTIALLY FOCUSED ON CREATING A MIND HIGHER THAN ONESELF, MAKING AN INTELLIGENCE BEYOND ONE'S PRESENT CAPABILTIES BECOME AVAILABLE. THE TECHNOLOGY OF MAKNG THIS HAPPEN WAS WHAT WAS KNOWN AS TANTRIC METHODS. THAT IS, LEARNING TO USE YOUR BODY, YOUR MIND, AND YOUR ENERGIES JUST AS INSTRUMENTS OF LIFE, SO THAT YOU BECOME AVAILABLE TO A MUCH HIGHER POSSIBILITY, AN INTELLIGENCE WHICH IS WAY BEYOND HUMAN CAPABILITIES.

                         THERE ARE CERTAIN ELABORATE TANTRIC DESIGNS WHICH ARE MADE TO TRAIN THE MIND TO INTRICATELY DESIGN SOMETHING STEP BY STEP. EVEN IN THE YOGA PROGRAMS, WE STARY BY SAYING, "DO IT MENTALLY". THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS TANTRA. YOU SIT HERE AND GO ON DOING IT MENTALLY, AFTER SOME TIME YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO IT PHYSICALLY. EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN GET BY DOING IT PHYSICALLY, YOU CAN GET BY DOING IT MENTALLY, MENTALLY, YOU CAN EXERCISE THE BODY. IF YOU REALLY APPLY YOURSELF. AFTER SOME TIME YOU WILL SEE, YOU CAN REALLY APPLY YOURSELF, AFTER SOME TIME YOU WILL SEE, YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR MUSCLE TONE JUST BY DOING IT MENTALLY, BECAUSE ONCE YOUR IMAGINATION CAN BE COUPLED WITH YOUR LIFE ENERGIES, BECOMES A LIVING REALITY, IT IS NO MORE JUST IMAGINATION.

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                     THIS FUNDAMENTALLY INVOLVES TWO BASIC STEPS. ONE IS TO HAVE THE ABILTY TO VIVIDLY CREATE EVERY DETAIL OF WHAT YOU WANT IN YOUR MIND, AND OF TRULY BEING ABLE TO CREATE AS THE CREATOR DID. THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL THING IS TO BE ABLE TO KEEP YOUR PERSOBNALITY OUT OF YOUR IMAGINATION, WHICH TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TRAINING AND DISPASSION ABOUT YOURSELF. THAT IS, YOU DO NOT THINK MUCH OF YOURSELF. IT TAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SADHANA AND PREPARATON FOR A PERSON TO BE LKE, THAT HE CAN EXTENSIVELY USE HIS MIND WITHOUT IMPOSING HIS PERSONALITY UPON IT.

                       IF YOU THINK HUNDRED PERCENT LOGIALLY, THERE IS REALLY NO POSSIBILITY OF LIFE. ONLY IF YOU KNOW TO WHAT EXTENT YOUR LOGIC SHOULD GO AND WHERE IS SHOULD NOT GO, YOUR LIFE WILL BE BEAUTIFUL. IF YOU BECOME ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL, THERE IS NO BEAUTY TO YOUR LIFE. EVERYTHING BECOMES BARE AND NO GOOD.

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                       LOGIC IS ESSENTIAL ONLY TO HANDLE THE MATERIAL ASPECT OF LIFE. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE EXPERIENTIAL DIMENSIONS OF LIFE, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW IT WITH YOUR PETTY THOUGHT. EVEN IF YOU HAVE EINSTEIN'S BRAIN, IT IS STILL A PETTY THOUGHT BECAUSE THOUGHT CANNOT BE BIGGER THAN LIFE. THOUGHT CAN ONLY BE LOGICAL, FUNCTIONING BETWEEN TWO POLARITIES. THAT IS TOO SMALL. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW LIFE IN ITS IMMENSITY, YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE THAN YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR LOGIC, OR YOUR INTELLECT, ONLY IF YOU OPEN UP THAT DIMENSION, YOU WILL TASTE LIFE IN ITS LARGER PROPORTION. OTHERWISE, YOU WILL TASTE LIFE IN ITS LARGER PROPORTION. OTHERWISE, YOU WILL  KNOW ONLY THE PHYSICALLY OF LIFE. WITH THOUGHTS, YOU CAN KNOW THE PHYSICAL AND USE THE PHYSICAL, BUT YOU WILL NOT PENETRATE ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE PHYSICAL.

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                       IT ISBECAUSE THE WORLD HAS GIVEN SO MUCH SIGNIFICANCE TO ARISTOTLE AND HIS TRIBE THAT ALL THE SCIENCES HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE PHYSICAL DIMENSION. WITH THIS, MUCH COMFORT HAS COME. YOU MAY BE THRILLED ABOUT HOW MANY THINGS YOUR COMPUTER OR THE INTERNET CAN DO, BUT IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT IT, IT HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING TO YOUR LIFE. IT HAS BROUGHT COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE, BUT ULTIMATELY, IT HAS NOT BROUGHT YOU ANY JOY, IT HAS NOT TAKEN YOU TO ANY HIGHER DIMENSION OF EXPERIENCE OR EXISTENCE. YOU ARE IN THE SAME PLACE.  INSTEAD OF RIDING A BULLOCK CART, MAYBE YOU ARE DRIVING A MERCEDES OR DREAMING OF ONE. WHICHEVER WAY, YOU ARE STILL ONLY MOVING FROM POINT A TO POINT B. YOU HAVE NOT GONE TO ANOTHER POINT. WHETHER YOU FLY A JET PLANE OR A BULLOCK CART, IT IS ONLY LATERAL MOVEMENT. EVEN IF YOU TAKE A SPACECRAFT, IT IS STILL ONLY FROM POINT A TO POINT B.

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                        IN SPITE OF ALL THIS EXPLORATION, NO NEW DIMENSON HAS OCCURED TO YOU BECAUSE THE INSTRUMENTS OF EXPLORATION THAT YOU ARE USING ARE TOO LIMITED. THEY ARE JUST LOGICAL AND INTELLECTUAL, SO THERE IS NO WAY YOU WILL TOUCH ANY OTHER DIMENSION OF LIFE. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. I APPRECIATE THE ENTHUSIAM. BUT IT IS AS IF YOU WERE TYRING TO GET TO THE MOON WILL A BULLOCK CART. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW HARD YOU BEAT THE BULLS, IT IS NOT GOING TO GET THERE. IF YOU BEAT THE BULLS REALLY HARD, MAY BE YOU CAN CLIMB A MOUNTAIN ON THE BULLOCK CART, BUT YOU CANNOT GO TO THE MOON. EITHER YOU LEARN THIS OUT OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE, OR LIFE WILL MAUL YOU AND TEACH YOU A LESSON SLOWLY. THE CHOICE IS YOURS.

HOW TO TAKE THE HEALTHY FOODS

 

                                    THE HEALTHY LIFE

                       HOW TO EAT THE HEALTHY FOOD 

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                            ONCE YOU LIBERATE YOUR MIND FROM BEING IDENTIFIED WITH ANYTHING, THEN MIND IS A MIRACLE, MIND IS A SPECTACULAR CIRCUS, NOT A MESS".

                     EVERY ANIMAL AND EVERY CREATURE KNOWS WHAT TO EAT AND WHAT NOT TO. THE HUMAN SPECIES IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE MOST INTELLIGENT ON THE PLANET, BUT THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO EAT. IT TAKES A CERTAIN ATTENTION TO LEARN TO LISTEN ON YOUR BODY, THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO EAT.

                     IN TERMS OF THE QUALITY OF FOOD THAT IS ENTERING YOU, VEGETARIAN FOOD IS DEFINITELY FAR BETTER FOR THE SYSTEM THAN NON-VEGETARIAN. WE ARE NOT LOOKING AT IF FROM A MORAL STANDPOINT. WE ARE JUST LOOKING AT WHAT IS SUITABLE FOR THE SYSTEM - WE TRY TO EAT FOODS WHICH WOULD BUSINESS, STUDY, OR DO ANY ACTIVITY PROPERLY, IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOUR BODY IS AT EASE. THE KIND OF FOOD WITH WHICH YOUR BODY WOULD BE MOST AT EASE AND WOULD GET NOURISHMENT MOST EFFORTLESSLY, IS THE KIND OF FOOD WE SHOULD EAT.

                       JUST EXPERIMENT AND SEE, WHEN YOU EAT VEGETARIAN FOOD IN ITS, "LIVE" FORM, WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT WILL MAKE. THE IDEA IS TO EAT AS MUCH LIVE FOOD AS POSSIBLE - WHATEVER CAN BE CONSUMED IN ITS ALIVENESS. A LIVE CELL HAS EVERYTHING TO SUSTAIN LIFE. IF YOU CONSUME A LIVE CELL, THE SENSE OF HEALTH IN YOUR SYSTEM WILL BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM ANYTING THAT YOU HAVE KNOWN. WHEN WE COOK FOOD, IT DESTROYS THE LIFE IN IT. EATING FOODS AFETER THE LIFE IN IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED DOES NOT GIVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF LIFE ENERGY TO THE SYSTEM. BUT WHEN YOU EAT LIVE FOODS, IT BRINGS A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF ALIVENESS IN YOU. IF ONE EATS LOTS OF SPROUTS, FRUIT, AND WHATEVER VEGETABLES THAT CAN BE EATEN IN A LIVE CONDITION- IF YOU BRING IN AT LEAST THIRTY TO FORTY PERCENT LIVE FOOD- IT WILL SUSTAIN THE LIFE WITHIN YOU VERY WELL.

                               ON ANOTHER LEVEL, IT HAS BECOME NORMAL IN THE SO-CALLED CIVILIZED WORLD TO EAT FOOD WHICH WAS COOKED THREE DAYS AGO. IN INDIA,  THE MOMENT PEOPLE START FOLLOWING THE WESTERN CULTURE, THE FIRST THING THEY WILL DO IS START TAKING FOOD. ASK A LOCAL, ILLITERATE VILLAGER, HE WILL NOT TOUCH STALE FOOD. IN INDIA, IF SOMEBODY EATS OLD FOOD, WE SAY HE IS LIKE A BEGGAR, BUT NOW, ALL THE WELL-TO-DO IN THE WORLD ARE TAKING STALE FOOD. IF YOUR BODY HAS TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN LEVEL OF ENERGY, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE FOOD SHOULD NOT GET MATURED - YOU SAY IT HAS GONE BAD, BUT ACTUALLY IT IS MATURING. EVERY MOMENT, BACTERIA ARE CULURING THE FOOD SLOWLY. YOU DO NOT REALIZE THIS TILL IT STINKS, BUT IT IS HAPPENING FROM THE VERY FIRST MOMENT YOU COOK IT.

                          ABOVE ALL, THE FOOD THAT YOU EAT IS LIFE. IT IS OTHER FORMS OF LIFE THAT WE ARE EATING - ANOTHER LIFE FORM IS GIVING UP ITS LIFE FOR YOURS. IF WE CAN EAT ENORMOUS GRATITUDE FOR ALL THE LIVING THINGS WHICH GIVE UP THEIR LIFE TO SUSTAIN OURS, THEN THE FOOD WILL BEHAVE IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY WITHIN YOU.

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THE WASTE OF LOGICAL MIND

                                HOW WE KNOW ABOUT

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                      ONE SHOULD USE INFORMATION AND LOGIC AS A DRUNKAND WOULD USE A LAMP POST, ONLY FOR SUPPORT, NOR FOR ILLUMINATION".

                             IF TO PERCEIVE THE MYSTICAL, ONE HAS TO DROP THE LOGICAL, HOW DOES A GNANA YOGI PROGRESS AND ATTAIN ON THE PATH? THAT PATH ALL ABOUT USING THE LOGICAL MIND AND DISSECTING THINGS?

                          IF YOUR LOGICAL INTELLECT COULD GRASP IT, WHY WOULD YOU CALL IT MYSTICAL? WHAT WE REFER TO AS THE MYSTICAL HAS BECOME MYSTICAL ONLY BECAUSE IT IS NOT WITHI THE GRASP OF THE LOGICAL INTELLECT.

                     A GNANA YOGI IS SOMEONE WHO USES HIS INTELLECT TO START WITH, AND THEN MOVES ON TO USE HIS INTELLIGENCE. IF HE IS JUST BOMBASTIC INTELLECT, HE IS NOT A GNANA YOGI. IF HE IS TRULY A GNANA YOGI, HE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE LOGICAL INTELLECT CAN NEVER FUNCTION WITHOUT INFORMATION. IF YOU TAKE AWAY ALL THE INFORMATION FROM YOUR MEMORY, HOW WILL YOUR LOGIC FUNCTION? LOGICAL INTELLECT IS PURELY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND INFORMATION IS SOMETHING THAT YOU GATHER FROM OUTSIDE. THE ONLY MEANS OF GATHERING INFORMATION IS THE FIVE SENSE ORGANS, AND SENSE PERCEPTION IS NOT RELIABLE. THEY HAVE TOLD YOU, SEEING IS BELEING ". SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING EVERYONE SEES WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE.

                   SENSE ORGANS CAN PERCEIVE EVERYTHING ONLY IN COMPARISON. IF YOU HAD NOT SEEN DARKNESS IN YOUR LIFE, YOU WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT LIGHT IS. IT IS ONLY IN COMPARISON THAT YOU KNOW WHAT LIGHT IS. NOW YOU SEE A LITTLE BOY WALKING AROUND. HE IS SMALL FOR YOU. BUT THAT IS NOT THE TRUTH. THE ANT WHICH IS CRAWLING ON THE GROUND EXPERIENCES HIM AS A GIANT. YOUR IDEAS OF SMALL AND BIG, YOUR IDEAS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS, YOUR IDEAS OF GOOD AND BAD, ARE ALL DEPENDING UPON WHAT YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH. BECAUSE YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH THIS HUMAN BODY, A DINOSAUR IS BIG AND AN ANT IS SMALL. BUT THAT IS NOT THE REALITY. WHATEVER YOU EXPERIENCE IS ONLY IN COMPARISON, WHICH IS GOOD FOR SURVIVAL, BUT IT DOES NOT GIVE YOU A PERCEPTION OF REALITY THE WAY IT IS.

                       MODERN NEUROSCIENCES SAY THAT WHATEVER YOU MAY BE LOOKING AT, YOU ARE NEVER SEEING IT THE WAY IT IS. YOUR EYES ARE NOT LIKE CAMERAS. YOUR EYE JUST GRASPS INFORMATION AND CATEGORIES THIS INFORMATION INTO TWELVE DIFFERENT ASPECTS. THESE TWELVE DIFFERENT ASPECTS GO INTO TWELVE DIFFERENT PARTS OF YOUR BRAIN WHERE THEY ALL GET ASSIMILATED, AND YOUR BRAIN CREATES AN IMAGE. WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS, THE WAY YOU THINK THE WORLD LOOK IS NOT THE WAY IT IS. THIS IS NOT PHILOSOPHY OR MYSTICISM, THIS IS NEOROLOGY. THEY ARE ALSO SAYING THAT IF THERE IS NO PAST INFORMATION IN YOUR MIND, YOU ACTUALLY CANNOT SEE SOMETHING.

                     YOUR LOGIC FUNCTIONS ON INFORMATION. THE VERY NATURE OF INFORMATION IS SUCH THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT VOLUME OF INFORMATION YOU GATHER, INFORMATION IS ALWAYS LIMITED. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LIMITELESS INFORMATION. EVEN AS MODERN SCIENCES PROCESS INFORMATON ABOUT THE EXISTENCE, WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY CLOSER TO KNOWING ANYTHING. WE ARE MORE BEWILDERED THAN EVER BEFORE. BEFORE MODERN SCIENCES CAME, IN THEIR OWN SIMPLISTIC WAY, PEOPLE WERE DEAD SURE OF WHAT IS WHAT. NOW NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING. SO MUCH INFORMATION HAS BEEN GATHERED, BUT IT HAS NOT MOVED YOU CLOSER TO KNOWING. IT HAS MOVED YOU AWAY FROM KNOWING BECAUSE THAT IS THE NATURE OF THE EXISTENCE. FIFTY YEARS AGO, A DOCTOR WAS JUST A DOCTOR. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, A DOCTOR WAS NOT JUST A DOCTOR, THERE WAS ONE DOCTOR FOR THIS AND DOCTOR FOR THAT. THERE WERE THREE DIFFERENT DOCTORS THAT YOUR BODY NEEDED. TODAY THERE ARE OVER 100 SPECIALTIES, SO  IF YOU REALLY WANT HEALTH, YOU NEED TO SEE 100 DOCTORS OR MORE.

                              LOGIC IS LIKE A SCALPEL. YOUR INTELLECT IS LIKE A SCALPEL. YOU CAN USE A SHARP INTELLECT TO CUT THINGS OPEN AND LOOK INWARD. BYT CUTTING ALONE, YOU WILL NOT KNOW - IT IS ONLY BY LOOKING THAT YOU WILL KNOW. YOUR INTELLECT AND LOGIC CAN ONLY CUT, IT CANNOT LOOK. YOUR LOGICAL INTELLECT CAN DO A PHENOMENAL AMOUNT OF LOGICAL CIRCUS.

                      IF YOU ARE NOT EXPOSED TO THE GREAT LOGICAL TRACES ON THIS PLANET, YOU ARE FORTUNATE, BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD HAVE PEOPLE USED THEIR LOGIC WITH SUCH DEVASTATING IMPACT AS INDIAN CULTURE HAS. THIS LAND HAS SEEN LOGIC AT ITS ULTIMATE. IF YOU GO INTO THE VEDANTIC PHILOSOPHY, LOGIC WILL RISE TO SUCH A STATE THAT IT WILL JUST FREAK YOU OUT COMPLETELY. REALLY USING IT LIKE A ROCKET, IT TAKES YOU TO A PLACE WHERE IT MAKES YOU DIZZY AND INTOXICATED.

                       THEN YOU REALIZE IT IS NOT GETTING ANYWHERE, IT IS JUST CAUSING DIZZINESS IN YOUR HEAD DUE TO EXCESSIVE USE OF LOGIC. THEN YOU  UNDERSTAND THAT THIS CAN BE USED ONLY TO SLICE THINGS OPEN. IT IS NOT AN INSTRUMENT OF SEEING.

                  TO SEE, YOU NEED INTELLIGENCE, AND INTELLIGENCE IS NOT LOGICAL. FOR EXAMPLE, RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO LOOK AT YOUR BODY. ONE WAY TO LOOK AT THIS BODY IS AS A COMPLEX CHEMICAL FACTORY. THERE IS A CERTAIN INTELLIGENCE, WHICH IS MANAGING AND CONDUCTING THIS WHOLE DANCE OF CHEMISTRY. ARE YOU STUPID ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT YOU COULD SOMEDAY LOGICALLY CONDUCT THIS WHOLE CHEMICAL DANCE? YOU CANNOT MANAGE A SINGLE CELL IN YOUR BODY THAT WAY.

                 YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LIMITATION IN WHICH THE INTELLECT FUNCTIONS, AND THE DISTINCTION IN HOW THE INTELLIGENCE OF LIFE FUNCTIONS. WHAT YOU CALL AS INTELLIGENCE AND WHAT YOU REFER TO AS CREATOR ARE NOT DIFFERENT. CREATOR IS JUST PURE INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE BEYOND LOGIC IS CREATOR, OR WHAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO AS GOD. IF YOU OPERATE JUST WITHIN THE LIMITATIONS AND FRAMEWORK OF YOUR INTELLECT, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THAT WHICH REFER TO AS THE CREATOR. YOU WILL JUST DO THE CIRCUS OF LIFE. LIFE IS A CIRCUS WHEN YOUR INTELLECT AND YOUR BODY ALONE ARE INVOLVED. LIFE IS A DANCE, WHEN THE INTELLIGENCE BEGINS TO PLAY ITS ROLE.

THE CHAKRAS AND YOUR BODY

 

                            THE CHAKRAS IN YOUR BODY

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                    IF I SPEAK IN TERMS OF LOWER AND HIGHER CHAKRAS, IT CAN EASILY BE UNDERSTOOD. IT IS LIKE COMPARING THE FOUNDATON TO THE ROOF - THE ROOF IS NOT SUPERIOR TO THE FOUNDATION. THE FOUNDATION OF THE BUILDING IS MORE BASIC TO THE BUILDING THAN THE ROOF. THE QUALITY, LIFE SPAN, STABILITY AND SECURITY OF THE BUILDING DEPEND, TO A LARGE EXTENT, ON THE FOUNDATION RATHER THAN THE ROOF. BUT IN TERMS OF LANGUAGE, THE ROOF IS HIGHER, AND THE FOUNDATION IS LOWER.

                   IN THE PHYSICAL BODY, YOUR ENERGIES NEED TO BE IN THE MULADHARA CHAKRA TO SOME EXTENT. OTHERWISE, YOU CANNOT EXIST. BUT IF THE MULADHARA CHAKRA ALONE BECOMES DIMINANT, FOOD AND SLEEP WILL BE THE PREDOMINANT IN YOUR LIFE.

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                  CHAKRAS HAVE MORE THAN ONE DIMENSION TO THEM. ONE DIMENTION IS THEIR PHYSICAL EXISTENCE, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A SPIRITUAL DIMENSION. THIS MEANS THAT THEY CAN BE COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED INTO A NEW DIMENSION. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU BRING THE RIGHT KIND OF AWARENESS, THE SAME MULADHARA THAT CRAVES FOOD AND SLEEP, CAN BECOME ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM THE PROCESS OF FOOD AND SLEEP. IF ONE WANTS TO GO BEYOND FOOD AND SLEEP, ONE NEEDS TO TRANSFORM THE MULADHARA TO AN EVOLVED STATE.

                    THE SECOND CHAKRA IS SWADHISHTHANA. SWADHISHTHANA MEANS "THE ABODE TO THE SELF" IF YOUR ENERGIES MOVE  INTO SWADHISHTANA, YOU SEEK TO ENJOY THE PHYSICAL WORLD IN SO MANY WAYS. IF YOU LOOK AT A PLEASURE SEEKER, YOU WILL SEE THAT HIS LIFE AND HIS EXPERIENCE OF LIFE ARE JUST A LITTLE MORE INTENSE THAN SOMEONE WHO IS ONLY ABOUT FOOD AND SLEEP. THE SWADHISHTHANA CHAKRA IS LOCATED JUST ABOVE THE GENITAL ORGAN.

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                          IF YOUR ENERGY MOVES INTO THE MANUPURAKA CHAKRA, LOCATED JUST BELOW THE NAVEL, YOU BECOME A DOER IN THE WORLD. YOU ARE ALL ABOUT ACTION. YOU MAY BE A BUSINESSMAN, A POLITIAN OR IN SOME OTHER FIELD WHERE A LOT OF ACTIVITY IS NEEDED.

                       MANIPURAKA IS THE MAINTNANCE CENTER. IT IS THE ONLY POINT IN THE WHOLE BODY WHERE ALL THE 72000 NADIS MEET ANE RE-DISTRIBUTE THEMSELVES. IF YOU HAVE A CERTAIN MASTERY  OVER YOUR MANIPURAKA, YOU CAN FIX THE TIME AND DATE OF YOUR DEATH. GENERALLY, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR A YOGI TO KNOW WHEN HE WILL DIE. OTHERWISE, HE FIXES HIS TIME OF DEATH HIMSELF, BECAUSE HE WANTS TO DIE GRACEFULLY, AS HE LIVED GRACEFULLY. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR HIM HOW HE DIES.

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                        IF YOUR ENERGIES MOVE INTO THE ANAHATA, WHICH IS JUST BELOW THAT SPOT WHERE YOUR RIB CAGE MEETS, YOU ARE A CREATIVE PERSON. "ANAHATA" LITERALLY MEANS THE "UN-STRUCK". IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ANY SOUND, YOU HAVE TO STRIKE TWO OBJECTS TOGETHER. THE UN-STRUCK SOUND IS CALLED "ANAHATA". ANAHATA IS LIKE A TRANSITION BETWEEN YOUR LOWER CHAKRAS AND HIGHER CHAKRAS, BETWEEN SURVIVAL INSTINCTS AND THE INSTINCT TO LIBERATE YOURSELF.

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                     IF YOU LOOK AT THE CHAKRAS AS TWO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS, THE MANIPURAKA, SWADHISHTANA AND MULADHARA ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH KEEPING THE BODY STABLE AND ROOTED. THESE ARE THE EARTH QUALITIES. THE MORE YOU ASCRIBE YOUR ENERGIES TO THESE THREE CENTERS, THE MORE YOUR QUALITIES WILL BECOME EARTHLY,MORE IN THE GRIP OF NATURE. THE UPPER ONES, THE VISHUDDHI, AGNA AND SAHASRAR, ARE THREE CENTERS WHICH ARE ALWAYS TAKING YOU AWAY. IF YOUR ENERGIES BECOME DOMINANT IN THESE CENTERS MAKE YOU RECEPTIVE TO ANOTHER FORCE WHICH WE NORMALLY REFER TO AS GRACE.

THE CONTENT OF YOUR MIND

 

                                 THE STUPID MIND

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                       IF YOU WANT TO IGNORE THE CONTENT OF YOUR MIND, IF YOU ARE WILLING, ONE THING YOU CAN DO IS, "I AM STUPID" IF YOU THE STUPID, YOU WILL NOT ATTACH ANY SIGNIFICANCE TO YOUR THOUGHT. IF YOU THINK, " I AM VERY SMART", YOU WILL ATTACH TOO MUCH IMPORTANCE TO YOUR THOUGHT. YOU JUST HAVE TO SEE, " I AM QUITE STUPID".

                    IT TAKES A LOT OF INTELLIGENCE TO SEE, "I AM STUPID".THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A STUPID PERSON AND AN INTELLIGENCE ONE IS THAT AN INTELLIGENT PERSON KNOWS HE IS STUPID, BUT AN IDIOT DOES NOT. LOOK AT IT IN TERMS OF EXISTENCE AND YOU. IF YOU LOOK AT WITH WHAT ORGANIZATION, CAPABILITY AND CERTAINTY A SIMPLE ANT IS CONDUCTING ITS LIFE, YOU WILL SEE THAT YOU QUITE STUPID. HAVE YOU SEEN, EVEN A SIMPLE ANT SUCH A TINY THING - IS DEAD SURE OF WHAT HE WANTS WITH HIS LIFE. HE KNOWS WHAT TO EAT, WHAT NOT TO EAT, WHAT IS NOURISHING FOR HIM, WHAT IS NOT. HE DOES NOT READ THAT MICRO-PRINT ON THE BACK OF THE PACKAGE. HE JUST KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS.

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                        IF YOU LOOK AT EVERY LIFE, IF YOU LOOK AT HOW EVERY ATOM IS FUNCTIONING, YOU WILL REALIZE YOU ARE STUPID. EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE IS HAPPENING WITH A PHENOMENAL SENSE OF INTELLIGENCE THE VERY SOIL YOU WALK UPON IS TREMENDOUSLY INTELLIGENT. IF YOU PLANT A MANGO SEED AND A NEEM SEED, THE MANGO PRODUCES SWEETNESS, THE NEEM PRODUCES BITTERNESS. IT IS THE SAME SOIL. HAS THE LAND EVER BECOME A LITTLE CONFUSED AND MADE MANGOS COME OUT OF A NEED SEED? EVERYTHING IS SPOT ON. EVEN INANIMATE THINGS ARE DEAD SURE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THE ONLY CONFUSED FOOL IS A HUMAN BEING.

                   IF YOU KNOW "I AM STUPID" THEN YOU WILL NOT ATTACH TOO MUCH IMPORTANCE TO YOUR THOUGHT AND YOU WILL START LOOKING AT LIFE. IF YOU START LOOKING AT LIFE MORE, YOUR INTELLIGENCE WILL DEFINITELY FLOWER. THEN, THOUGHT IS NOT A PROCESS, THOUGHT IS NOT A PROBLEM, BECAUSE NOT MUCH THOUGHT WILL BE THERE. IF YOU DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO YOUR THOUGHT, IT WILL JUST DIE. DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO IT. BUT YOU CANNOT STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO IT UNLESS YOU THINK OR SEE THAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE SO PETTY AND QUITE STUPID COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE EXISTENCE. WITHOUT A SINGLE THOUGHT ON THEIR MIND, AN ANT, A BIRD, AND A BEE ALL JUST KNOW WHAT TO DO.

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                     IF YOU BECOME LIKE THIS, ONCE IN A WAY WHEN YOU CONSCIOUSLY THINK, IT WILL BE CRYSTAL CLEAR. IT WILL BE LIKE A KNIFE WHICH CUTS THROUGH EVERYTHING. RIGHT NOW, THOUGHT IS ALL OVER THE PLACE, SO IT HAS NO PENETRATION. IF YOU REST IT, ONCE IN A WAY WHEN YOU PULL OUT YOUR SWORD, IT WILL CUT THROUGH EVERYTHING. BUT IF YOU ARE DOING THIS WITH EVERYTHING THAT COMES YOUR WAY ALL THE TIME, YOUR SWORD WILL BECOME LIKE A STICK. YOU MUST KEEP IT SHEATHED. THEN, WHEN YOU PULL IT OUT WHEN YOU NEED IT, IT IS USEFUL WEAPON.

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                           SO DON'T TRY TO HAVE PURE THOUGHTS. PURE THOUGHTS ARE MOST DANGEROUS BECAUSE YOU WILL GET TERRIBLY ATTACHED TO THEM. WHAT IS A PURE THOUGHT? IS THERE SUCH A THING? THERE IS NOTHING PURE OR IMPURE ABOUT A THOUGHT. WHATEVER THE CONTENT OF YOUR MIND, IT JUST THROWS ITSELF OUT. DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO IT UNLESS YOU CONSCIOUSLY BRING IT FORTH. IF YOU CONSCIOUSLY GENERATE A THOUGHT, THAT IS DIFFERENT. THEN YOU WILL NATURALLY CREATE THE KIND OF THOUGHT YOU WANT. OTHERWISE, THESE THOUGHTS ARE JUST RANDOM HAPPENINGS THAT SHOULD STOP.

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                      IF THOUGHTS ARE GOING ON CONTINUOUSLY, IF YOU ARE HAVING MENTAL DIARRHEA, YOU OBVIOUSLY ATE SOME BAD FOOD. YOU HAVE PHYSICAL DIARRHEA BECAUSE YOU EAT BAD FOOD. IF YOU HAVE MENTAL DIARRHEA, YOU OBVIOUSLY CONSUMED SOMETHING WRONG. THE MOMENT YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH SOMETHING THAT YOU ARE NOT, YOU ARE FINISHED YOUR MIND IS IN A CONTINOUS RUN. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. DO WHAT YOU WANT, TRY AS HARD AS YOU WANT, IT IS NOT GOING TO STOP. BUT IF YOU TAKE AWAY THESE IDENTITIES, IF YOU SIMPLY SIT HERE AS A PIECE OF LIFE NOT AS A MAN OR A WOMAN, NOT AS A HINDU OR A CHRISTIAN, NOT AS AN INDIAN OR AN AMERICAN, NOT AS ANYTHING - SIMPLY AS A PIECE OF LIFE, YOU WILL SEE, THE MIND WILL BECOME STILL. NOW, WHEN YOU WANT TO THINK, YOU CAN THINK, BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO THINK, YOU DON'T THINK. THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.

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                        IF I WANT TO MOVE MY HAND, I MOVE MY HAND. IF I DON'T WANT TO, I KEEP IT STILL. THIS IS A USEFUL BODY. SUPPOSE IT WAS MOVING ALL THE TIME, WOULDN'T THIS BE A CRAZY BODY? IF THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO YOUR MIND, IS THAT NOT A CRAZY MIND? YOUR ONLY COMFORT IS THAT OTHERS CANNOT SEE IT. IF YOUR BODY DID IT, EVERYONE COULD SEE IT. WHEN YOUR MIND DOES IT, EVERYONE CANNOT SEE IT, BUT PEOPLE CAN SEE IT IF THEY WATCH YOU CLOSE ENOUGH. IF SOMEONE IS A LITTLE AWARE, THEY CAN VERY CLEARLY SEE IT.

THE YOGA

 

                          WHAT IS THE MEANING OF YOGA

                          BY CONSCIOUSLY GETTING YOUR BODY INTO A CERTAIN POSTURE, YOU CAN ALSO ELEVATE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU CAN CHANGE THE VERY WAY YOU FEEL, THINK, UNDERSTAND, AND EXPERIENCE LIFE SIMPLY BY SITTING IN A PARTICULAR WAY".

                          AN ASANAS IS A POSTURE. THERE ARE INNUMERABLE POSTURES YOUR BODY CAN TAKE. AMONG THESE, CERTAIN POSTURES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS YOGASANAS. "YOGA " MEANS THAT WHICH TAKES YOU ON TO A HIGHER DIMERSION OR HIGHER PERCEPTION OF LIFE. SO THAT KIND OF POSTURE WHICH LEADS YOU TO A HIGHER POSSIBILITY IS CALLED A "YOGASANA".

                   YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT FOR DIFFERENT MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL SITUATIONS THAT YOU GO THROUGH, YOUR BODY NATURALLY TENDS TO TAKE A CERTAIN POSTURES. IF YOU ARE HAPPY, YOU SIT ONE WAY. WHEN YOU ARE UNHAPPY YOU SIT ANOTHER WAY. WHEN YOU ARE PEACEFUL YOU SIT ONE WAY, IF YOU ARE ANGRY YOU SIT ANOTHER WAY. MANY TIMES, YOU CAN TELL WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH SOMEONE BY JUST OBSERVING THE WAY THEY ARE SITTING, HAVE YOU NOTICED? BASED ON THIS, CONVERSELY IS THE SCIENCE OF ASANAS - YOU CAN ALSO ELEVATE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL, THINK, UNDERSTAND, AND EXPERIENCE LIFE BY SITTING IN A PARTICULAR WAY.

                        YOGASANAS ARE NOT EXERCISES. THEY ARE VERY SUBTLE PROCESSESS OF MANIPULATING YOUR ENERGY IN A CERTAIN DIRECTION. IT NEEDS TO BE DONE WITH A CERTAIN LEVEL OF AWARENESS. THERE ARE VARIOUS LEVELS OF DOING ASANAS. YOU CAN PRACTICE ASANAS JUST PHYSICALLY, OR MORE DEEPLY, BEING AWARE OF THE BREATH, SENSATIONS, REVERBERATIONS, BEING AWARE OF THE NADIS, OR WITH APPROPRIATE MANTRAS. YOU CAN EVEN DO ASANAS WITHOUT MOVING A LIMB. THAT IS ALSO POSSIBLE.

                        THE SCIENCE OF ASANAS IS KNOWN AS HATA YOGA. "HA" MEANS SUN, "TA" MEANS MOON. TH FIRST PROCESS OF YOGA IS TO BRING BALANCE BETWEEN THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE IN YOU. OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE NO SCALING OF CONSCIOUSNESS. THIS IS WHY SIVA IS KNOWN AS ARDHANARISHVARA - ONE HALF OF HIM IS A WOMAN, ANOTHER HALF OF HIM IS A MAN. HE IS A MAN AND THE VERY EMBODIMENT OF MANHOOD. AT THE SAME TIME, HE IS ALSO WOMAN, BECAUSE WITHOUT BRINGING THIS BALANCE, WITHOUT CUTIVATING THESE TWO DIMENSIONS WITHIN US, THERE IS NO REACHING TOWARDS THE PEAK, THERE IS NO QUESTION OF A HUMAN BEING FLOWERING TO HIS FULLEST POSSIBILITY, THAT IS WHY THE FIRST DIMENSION OF YOGA THAT YOU PRACTICE US HATA YOGA. THAT MEANS THE YOGA OF THE SUN AND THE MOON IS BRINGING BALANCE BETWEEN TEH MASCULINE AND THE FEMININE. THAT IS THE FIRST STEP TO TAKE.

                   AMONG THE YOGASANAS, THERE ARE EIGHTY-FOUR BASIC ASANAS THROUGH WHICH ONE CAN ELEVATE HIS CONSIOUSNESS. WHEN WE SAY EIGHTY-FOUR ASANAS, DO NOT THINK OF THEM AS JUST EIGHTY -FOUR POSTURES. THESE ARE EIGHTY-FOUR SYSTEMS, EIGHTY-FOUR WAYS OF ATTAINING. OUT OF THIS, IF YOU HAVE MASTERY OVER EVEN A SINGLE YOGASANA, EVERYTHING THAT IS WORTH KNOWING IN THE EXISTENCE CAN BE KNOWN. PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN UP HATA YOGA AS THEIR WAY OF LIFE GENERALLY TAKE UP ONE ASANA FOR THEIR LIFE'S SADHANA. THIS IS KNOWN AS ASANA SIDDHI. ASANA SIDDHI MEANS ONE IS ABLE TO SIT IN A PARTICULAR WAY WITH ABSOLUTE EASE. FOR MOST PEOPLE, WHICHEVER WAY THEY KEEP THEIR BODY, IT IS NOT AT EASE. IF YOU SIT, IT IS NOT COMFORTABLE. WHAT THE HELL TO DO WITH THIS? IF YOU GIVE YOUR BODY TO THE PROCESS OF YOGA, SLOWLY THE BODY BECOMES AT EASE. IF YOU SIT LIKE THIS, IT IS ABSOLUTELY AT EASE. IT IS NOT TRYING TO BE SOME OTHER WAY.

                       A THIINKING MIND CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW A MAN CAN SPEND HIS WHOLE LIFE WANTING TO SIT IN A PARTICULAR WAY. BUT EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE PERCEIVED CAN BE PERCEIVED, BY HAVING MASTERY OVER A SINGLE PHYSICAL POSTURE. THAT IS WHAT YOGASANA MEANS.

                     THE REASON WHY HATA YOGA HAS BECOME URGLY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE START TAKING IT LIKE A CIRCUS. THE WAY HATA IS HAPPENING IN THE WEST SCARES ME, BECAUSE ALL KINDS OF THINGS ARE DONE IN THE NAME OF YOGA THAT ARE NOT YOGA.