HEAT AND LIGHT OF OUR BODY (YOGA)

 

                       THE YOGA OF HEAT AND LIGHT

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                       YAMA AND NIYAMA ARE SIMPLE GUIDELINES, THE DOS AND DON'TS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH, SUCH AS NONVIOLENCE, COMMITMENT TO TRUTH, AND SO ON. THEY CREATE THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE FOR ONE'S SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION. ONCE A PERSON IS ENLIGHTENED, THESE DOS AND DON'TS ARE OF LITTLE RELEVANCE. WHEN COMPASSION WITHIN YOU IS OVERFLOWING AND DIVINITY HAS COME TO THE FORE NO RULES NEED TO BE PRESCRIBED. HUMAN NATURE AT THIS POINT KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN A GIVEN SITUATION. BUT THESE SIMPLE NORMAL WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN A GIVEN SITUATION. BUT THESE SIMPLE MORAL STRICTURE WERE IDENTIFIED FOR THE BENEFITS OF THOSE STARTING OUT ON THE PATH.

                      ASANAS ARE, OF COURSE, THE MANY PHYSICAL YOGA POSTURES PRACTICED BY THE SEEKER IN A CERTAIN STATE OF AWARENESS. THEY ARE A WAY OF MANIPULATING YOUR INNER ENERGIES IN A PARTICULAR DIRECTION, A WAY OF KNEADING THE BODY TOWARD A HIGHER POSSIBILITY. IF YOU HAVE EVER MADE BREAD, YOU WILL KNOW THAT THE QUALITY OF THE BREAD QUALITY ON HOW EFFICIENTLY THE DOUGH HAS BEEN KNEADED. SIMILARLY, ASANAS ARE ABOUT ELEVATING CONSCIOUSNESS BY THROUGHLY KNEADING THE BODY. THIS IS HOW DEEP THE SCIENCE OF YOGA IS : IT JOURNEY FROM THE OUTER TO THE INNER, REMINDING US THAT WORKING CONSCIOUSLY ON THE PHYSICAL LEVEL CAN ALTER THE WAY ONE THINGS, FEELS, AND EXPERIENCES LIFE AND CAN ULTIMATELY LEAD ONE TO HIGHER SPIRITUAL POSSIBILITIES.

                    MOST SPIRITUAL PRACTITIONERS WILL VOUCH FOR THIS. NINETY PERCENT CANNOT MEDITATE, ONLY AFTER A PRACTICE THAT FIRES THEM AND BURNS UP COMPUSLIVE KARMAS CAN THEY CLOSE THEIR EYES AND SIT STILL. SO THE IDEAL SADHANA IS A BALANCE BETWEEN THE FIRE AND THE LIGHT ASPECTS. PERSONALLY, I AM FINE WITH THE FIRE ASPECTS, BECAUSE I CANNOT STAND INSIPIDITY. I PREFER RAGE TO TIMENESS AND LIFELESSNESS! BUT THOSE WHO ARE ON FIRE ALL TIME DO NOT FIT INTO SOCIAL SITUATIONS EASILY. SO IT IS BEST TO CREATE A BALANCE BETWEEN THE TWO.

                     ONCE YOUR ALLOTTED KARMA (PARABDHA) IS HANDLED, A CERTAIN INNER SPACE IS FREED UP WITHIN YOU.  THIS GIVES YOU THE ROOM TO PERCEIVE LIFE WITH A CERTAIN CLARITY. YOU NEED NOT WORK OUT EVERYTHING ELSE, BECAUSE YOU NOW SEE THAT THE ENTIRE KARMIC INFLUENCE IS ILLUSORY. ONCE YOU HAVE THE CLARITY OF REALIZATION, IT IS EASY TO DROP IT WHEN NECESSARY.

                   WORKING OUT YOUR ENTIRE ACCUMULATED KARMA (SANCHITA)  IS A VERY LING PROCESS, BECAUSE THE ACCUMULATION IS MASSIVE. SO NOT TRY TO INVESTIGATE THE CONTENT OF YOUR WAREHOUSE, IT WILL TAKE FOREVER TO GO THROUGH , AND IT MIGHT WELL ENGULF YOU!  THE DANGER OF SHIFTING THROUGH YOUR KARMA IS THAT YOU COULD WELL FIND PRECIOUS ELEMENTS THAT YOU WANT TO PRESERVE. JUST HANDLE THE ALLOTTED KARMA AND MAKE USE OF THE CLEAR SPACE TO DROP THE ACCUMULATED KARMA ALTOGETHER. THE MOMENT YOU CLOSE THE RETAIL OUTLET, THE WAREHOUSE LOOKS LIKE MEANINGLESS TRASH! SO WHEN THE TIME COMES, YOU SIMPLY DISPOSE OF THE ENTIRE WAREHOUSE WHOLESALE - WITH ALL ITS CONTENT STORAGE FACILITY.

                  IT IS THE SUN THAT HAS TURNED WATER INT A CLOUD AND AGAIN IT A SILVER LINING. BUT THE CLOUD IS NOW BLOCKING THE SUN! YOU COULD WRITE ENDLESS POETRY ABOUT THIS EXQUISITE SILVER-LACED CLOUD, BUT YOU WILL END UP MISSING THE SUN. THIS IS THE NATURE OF KARMA. AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT MAY LOOK , IT BLOCKS THE SOURCE OF CREATION. THERE MAY A BEAUTY IN SOME ASPECTS OF KARMA. BUT DO NOT FORGET THE SOURCE FROM WHICH IT HAS SPRUNG. THE SOURE MAY BE NO-THING BUT IMPLICT IN IT IS A GREAT POSSIBILITY. THE POSSIBILITY TO BECOME EVERYTHING.

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                  WHILE EVERY KRIYA REQUIRES A INITIATION, THERE IS ONE KRIYA THAT I OFTEN THAT REQUIRES NO INITIATION. THIS IS THE ISHA KRIYA, A SIMPLE DAILY PRACTICE THAT ENHANCES HEALTH, DYNAMISM, MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING, OFFERS A MEANS TO COPE WITH THE HECTIC PACE OF MODERN LIFE, AND EMPOWERS ONE TO LIVE LIFE TO ITS FULLEST POTENTIAL . IT IS A REMINDER THAT THERE IS MUCH MORE TO US THAN OUR BODY AND OUR MIND. THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN EXPLORING THIS THREE-STAGE PRACTICE WILL FIND IT ON THE SADHGURU APP. (ISHA.SADHGURU.ORG/APP)

THE KRIYA SHAMBHAVI MAHAMUDRA

 

                             KARMA YOGA AND THE

                                      ENERGY BODY

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                          IT IS NOT ABOUT PERFORMING MIRACLES.

           IT IS ABOUT RECOGNIZING THE MIRACLE OF LIFE THAT YOU ARE.

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                         FIXING THE DESTINATION

                     I OFTEN SAY THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE THING I AM REALLY GOOD AT, MAKING PLACES AND PEOPLE CRACKLE WITH ENERGY. EVERYTHING ELSE THAT I DO - ALL MY TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD, GIVING TALKS, CONDUCTING PROGRAMS, INITIATING ENVIRONMENTAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND CULTURAL PROJECTS - IS INCIDENTAL. THIS DOES NOT MEAN I DO VALUE THE WORK THAT I DO. I THROW MYSELF WHOLEHEARTEDLY INTO ALL OF IT. BUT MY PRIMARY AREA OF EXPERTISE IS LIFE ENERGY. I AM AN ENERGY MECHANIC ABOVE ALL ELSE.

                     KARMA YOGA ON THE LEVEL OF THE ENERGY, OR PRANIC, BODY IS VITAL FOR MANY REASON. FOR ONE, IT CAN TRANSFORM OR REGENERATE THE ENERGY BODY IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT IS NOT JUST BORN ANEW BUT ACTUALLY STAYS NEW. NO MATTER HOW MUCH EXERCISE OR HATHA YOGA YOU DO, HOW CAREFULLY YOU WATCH YOUR DIET, YOUR PHYSICAL BODY WILL AGE AND DECAY. THE MENTAL BODY IS A WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT, BUT IT CAN ALSO RUST WITH AGE. THERE ARE MANY WHO FIND THAT THEIR MEMORY IS NOT AS SHARP AS WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER. THE ENERGY BODY, HOWEVER, CAN BE COMPLETELY UNAFFECTED BY THE AGING BORN AND KEEP IT IN MINT-FRESH CONDITION UNTIL YOU DIE. THE IMPACT OF A STRONG ENERGY BODY ON YOUR LIFE AND ON THE WORLD AROUND YOU IN TREMENDOUS. FOR MANY, IT CAN SEEM NEARMIRACULOUS.

                          DESCRIBING ENEMIES AS FRIENDS IS , OF COURSE, MERE ERUPHEMISTIC WORDPLAY! IT BEARS NO RELATIONSHIP TO REALITY. MANY CHOOSE TO LIVE THEIR LIVES AT THIS SUPERFICIAL LEVEL. THEY OPT FOR SELF-IMPROVEMENT RATHER THAN SELF-TRANSFORMATION, HOPING THAT A LIFE OF TEPID AFFABILITY AND GENERAL AGREEDABILITY WILL TAKE THEM TO THE ULTIMATE. THEY FORGET THAT THE SOCIAL HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE EXISTENTIAL.

                           THIS IS WHY KARMA YOGA HAS TO BE APPROACHED ON MANY LEVELS. MERELY WORKING ON THE LEVEL OF THE PHYSICAL AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IS NOT ENOUGH. IF YOU CLEAN YOUR MENTAL STATE OF KARMIC SUBSTANCE, YOU MAY BE APPRECIATED SOCIALLY BECAUSE THERE IS A CERTAIN PEACE, YOU MAY BE APPRECIATED SOCIALLY BECAUSE THERE IS A CERTAIN PEACE, JOY AND SWEETNESS ABOUT YOUR PRESENCE. PEOPLE MAY ENJOY BEING AROUND YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE CLEANED UP YOUR MIND. BUT THIS STILL DOES NOT CHANGE THE DIRECTION IN  WHICH YOU ARE GOING. YOU WILLS STILL INFLUENCED BY THE RESIDUAL IMPACT OF LIFETIMES OF EXPERIENCE THAT LEAD YOU BY YOUR TENDENCIES. ONLY IF YOU BEGIN TO CLEAN THE ENERGY BODY OF KARMIC CONTENT WILL YOU BEGIN TO MOVE IN A NEW DIRECTION. INSTEAD OF BEING RULED BY TENDENCIES, YOU NOW BEGIN TO BECOME A CONSCIOUS BEING.

                   THE KRIYA SHAMBHAVI MAHAMUDRA THAT I INITIATE PEOPLE INTO DURING MY INNER ENGINEERING PROGRAMS IS SIGNIFICANT FOR THIS REASON. IT PICKS OFF THE KARMIC MATERIAL FROM THE ENERGY SYSTEM AND THEREBY CHANGES YOUR DESTINATION. IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO DEVOTE THE PROGRAM TO TURNING OUT PLEASANT HUMAN BEING . THIS WOULD MEET WITH GREAT SOCIAL APPROVAL. BUT WHETHER YOU ARE PLEASANT OR UNPLEASANT HAS NO SPIRITUAL RELEVANCE. ONCE YOU TRANSFORM THE CONTENT OF THE ENERGY BODY, THE FUNDAMENTAL OF LIFE WILL BEGIN TO ALERT. YOU ARE NOW HUGELY EMPOWERED TO BEGIN YOUR MARCH TOWARD FREEDOM.

THE DOUBT ABOUT OUR KARMA'S !

                              KARMA CONVERSATION

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                   AS FAR AS THE LAWS OF EXISTENCE ARE CONCERNED, 

                         THERE IS NO GOOD AND BAD, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.

                IT IS JUST THAT FOR EVERY ACTION, THERE IS A CONSEQUENCE.

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                        WHEN I READ A NEWS REPORT ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL BEING RAPED, FOR INSTANCE, CAN I REALLY SAY THAT SHE DESERVED IT BECAUSE IT IS HER KARMA?

                          ANS : NOT HER KARMA. OUR KARMA

                          QUESTION : WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

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                         ANS : IT IS OUR KARMA. KARMA DOES NOT MEAN GOD IS SITTING UP THERE PUNISHING BAD PEOPLE AND REWARDING GOOD ONES. THERE IS NO SUCH THING. BUT WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY WE LIVE IN - IS THAT NOT OUR COLLECTIVE KARMA?  THAT WE ARE LIVING UNINVOLVED IN A SOCIETY IN WHICH HORRIFIC THINGS HAPPEN - IS THAT NOT OUR KARMA? IF ALL OF US , LIVE WITHOUT ANY HUMANITY IN OUR HEARTS FOR ALL THE ATROCITIES GOING ON AROUND US, THAT IS OUR KARMA. WE GET THE SOCIETY WE DESERVE. SO DON'T THING OF IT AS HER KARMA. THINK OF IT AS YOUR OWN. INACTION IS ALSO KARMA.

                     YOU ARE ASKING THIS QUESTION BECAUSE YOU READ THIS DISTURBING NEWS REPORT. BUT IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE GIRL IN YOUR HOUSE, AREN'T YOU DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO MAKE SURE SHE IS PROTECTED? DOES THAT MEAN HER SAFETY IS GUARANTEED? NO, BUT YOU DO YOUR BEST TO SECURE HER PROTECTION. THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO FOR THE ENTIRE SOCIETY, FOR EVERY LITTLE GIRL, WHEREVER SHE IS. AND IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE. IN MANY WAYS, WE HAVE TAKEN OUR COLLECTIVE DESTINY INTO OUR HANDS.

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                       QUESTION : I HAVE A FRIEND WHO HAS LOST HIS LEGS BECAUSE HE WAS AFFECTED BY POLIO AT BIRTH. WHAT KIND OF PAST KARMA COULD SUCH A TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCE?

                     ANS : YOU'RE MAKING THE MISTAKE AGAIN OF INTERPRETING KARMA AS A SYSTEM OF REWARD AND PUNIHMENT. THE FIRST STEP IS TO SEE IT AS SOFTWARE. NOTHING MORE.

                    NOW, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, THERE WERE ANY NUMBER OF POLIO AFFECTED CHILDREN AND ADULTS EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BUT TODAY THOSE NUMBERS HAVE REDUCD DRAMATICALLY BECAUSE WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT KARMA. WHAT IS THE RIGHT KARMA? WE ARE VACCINATING OUR CHILDREN. IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT WE DID NOT KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS EARLIER, BUT THIS IGNORANCE WAS ALSO OUR COLLECTIVE KARMA. IT IS GOOD THAT WE ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT NOW.

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                   AS FAR AS LWAS OF EXISTENCE ARE CONCERNED, THERE IS NO GOOD AND AND BAD, NO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. IT IS JUST THAT FOR EVERY ACTION, THERE IS A CONSEQUENCE. ACTIONS MAY HAPPEN KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY. SO WHEN YOU PERFORM ANY ACTION, ONLY ONE QUESTION IS  RELEVANT, ARE YOU READY FOR THE CONSEQUENCE? IF YOU CAN JOYFULLY ACCEPT ANY CONSEQUENCE, DO WHATEVER YOU PLEASE, BUT IF THE CONSEQUENCE MATTER TO YOU, YOU MUST PERFORM CONSCIOUS ACTION.

                      NOW, SUPPOSE YOU WERE DRIVING WITH A DRUNK FRIEND. IF HE CRASHES HIS CAR, YOU MIGHT ALSO BE SERIOUSLY INJURED. IF YOU WERE TO SAY, "THIS IS UNFAIR - THIS IS HIS KARMA, NOT MINE". IT WOULD BE ABSURD. YOUR KARMA IS THAT YOU WERE WITH A DRUNKEN FRIEND. THIS IS THE WAY EXISTENCE WORKS. IF YOU ARE IN TUNE WITH IT, IT WILL NOT CRUSH YOU. IF YOU ARE NOT IN TUNE WITH IT, IT WILL CRUSH YOU.

                       IT IS TIME WE STOPPED FOCUSING ON DISADVANTAGE. CAN ALL OF US PERFORM THE SAME TYPE OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ACTIVITY? NO. SOMEONE CAN DO MORE, AND SOMEONE LESS. EVEN WITH LEGS, MOST PEOPLE CANNOT RUN. SO, SOCIALLY, IF WE CREATE A SITUATION THAT DOES NOT SET UP DISCRIMINATION OR AN ATMOSPHERE THAT IS NOT OVERLY DRIPPING WITH SENTIMENTAL PITY, THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEM. IF YOU TREAT YOUR FRIEND AS YOU WOULD TREAT YOURSELF, HE WOULD BE FINE. DON'T TREAT HIM WITH ANY SELF-CONSCIOUS SYMPATHY BECAUSE YOU SEE HIM AS AN OBJECT OF PITY.  PHYSICALLY, HE CANNOT DO A FEW THINGS, YOU CAN HELP HIM WITH THOSE. FOR THE REST OF IT, JUST TREAT HIM AS YOU WOULD ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING.

                    SOCIETY NEEDS TO BE MATURE ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH THOSE WITH DISABILITIES. IF THEY ARE TREATED AS NORMAL, THEIR SUFFERING WILL DISSAPEAR BECAUSE THEIR SUFFERING IS NOT PHYSICAL. PAIN IS PHYSICAL, BUT SUFFERING IS ENTIRELY PSYCHOLOGICAL. NOW, YOU COULD SIT AT HOME RIGHT NOW AND WEEP BECAUSE YOU CANNOT PLAY SOCCER LIKE RONALDINHO! YOU COULD CONSIDER YOURSELF DISADVANTAGED AND HANDICAPPED . BUT IT IS FOOLISH TO DO THIS - EITHER TO YOURSELF OR TO ANOTHER PERSON. OFFER SOME PHYSICAL ASSISTENCE TO THOSE WHO NEED IT, BUT DO NOT OVEREXAGGERATE THEIR PROBLEM AND MAKE THEM FEEL LIKE A VICTIM.

THE REASON WHY INCREASING OUR KARMA'S !

 

                             WHY HUMAN ARE ALWAYS 

                              INCREASING OUR KARMA?

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                           RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE LIKE A BUBBLE THAT SAYS "THE AIR THAT I HOLD IN MY LUNGS IS MY AIR" YOU STILL HAVE TO EXHALE!

                    I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT THIS: IF THERE ARE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF BEINGS THAT NEED TO BE LIBERATED THEIR KARMA, WHY IS THE HUMAN POPULATION ALWAYS INCREASING? WHERE IS ALL THE NEW KARMIC SUBSTANCE COMING FROM?

                     ANS : THE NUMBER GAME WORKS ONLY WITH THE PHYSICAL DIMENSION. IN THE NONPHYSICAL DIMENSION, IT IS MEANINGLESS. YOU ARE CONFUSING THE NONPHYSICAL DIMENSION WITH THE PHYSICAL.

                         WITH A SINGLE PERSON'S KARMIC BODY, IT IS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A MILLION CHILDREN! THIS DOES NOT MEAN A MILLION PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE AND A MILLION WOMEN HAVE TO GET PREGNANT AND WAIT TO RECEIVE THOSE MILLION BEIGS. A SINGLE KARMIC BODY CAN MANIFEST IN A MILLION WOMBS.

                   SO THIS BEINGS THAT YOU CALL "ME" RIGHT IS NOT A QUANTITY. I ALWAYS USE NEGATIVE TERMINOLOGY SO YOUR IMAGINATION DOESN'T FLY AWAY WITH YOU. LET ME JUST DESCRIBE THIS "YOU" AS EMPTY SPACE OR DARKNESS. (IF I DESCRIBE YOU AS LIGHT OR AS GOD, YOU WILL START TURNING HALLUCINATORY.  IF I TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE LIGHT, YOU WILL IMMEDIEATELY TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR THAT YOU ARE DIVING LIGHT. IF I TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE GOD, YOU WILL START TURNING DELUSIONAL.THERE IS NOT VERY MUCH YOU CAN IMAGINE ABOUT EMPTINESS, SO LET'S STICK WITH THAT DESCRIPTION).

                       SO THIS EMPTY SPACE WITH IS LIKE A BUBBLE. KARMA IS THE WALL OF THE BUBBLE. WITHOUT KARMIC SUBSTANCE, YOU HAVE TO EXISTENCE . IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF KARMIC SUBSTANCE THAT YOU ARE GLUED TO THE BODY. IF ALL YOU KARMA IS REMOVED, YOU CANNOT BE HELD IN THE BODY. EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY SLIP OUT OF NON PHYSICAL BODY, THE KARMIC SUBSTANCE IS STILL THERE. SO EVEN IF THE BODY LOSES ITS VIBRANCY, THE KARMIC SUBSTANCE WILL FIND ANOTHER BODY.

              NOW, WHEN WE SAY WE WANT LIBERATION, OR MUKTI, WHAT WE REALLY ARE SAYIG IS THAT WE WANT TO PRICK THIS BUBBLE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE ENCLOSED EMPTINESS BECOMES ONE WITH THE EMPTINESS OUTSIDE. ONCE YOU BURST A BUBBLE, THE AIR INSIDE BECOMES PART OF EVERYTHING AROUND IT, DOESN'T IT? IT WORKS THE SAME WAY WITH THE KARMIC BUBBLE. ENLIGHTENMENT ALSO MEANS THE SAME THING, IT MEANS THE BUBBLE HAS BURST. FOR MOST BEINGS, THE MOMENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE MOMENT OF LEAVING THE BODY ARE THE MENTAL MECHANICS - ARE ABLE TO RETAIN THE PHYSICAL FOR A LENGTH OF TIME AFTER THEIR ENLIGHTENMENT.

                          NOW, IF LIFE ENERGIES BECOME OVERLY INTENSE, YOU CANNOT RETAIN THE BODY. ALSO, IF LIFE ENERGIES BECOME VERY FEEBLE, YOU CANNOT RETAIN THE BODY. SO ONLY IF LIFE ENERGIES ARE WITHIN A CERTAIN BANDWIDTH INTENSITY CAN THE BODY BE RETAINED. THIS IS WHY THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF YOGA IN THE WORLD. ONE TYPE IS ABOUT WITHDRAWING FROM THE WORLD. THIS MEANS MAKING THE LIFE ENERGIES SO FEEBLE THAT YOU CAN DROP THE BODY. ANOTHER TYPE OF YOGA IS ABOUT REVVING UP THE ENERGIES TO A HIGH PITCH SO THAT THE PHYSICAL CANNOT HOLD ONE ANYMORE. SOCIALLY, THE REVVING-UP APPROACH MAY BE MORE APPRECIATED. SOCIALLY, THE REVVING-UP APPROACH MAY BE MORE APPRECIATED. BUT, EXISTENCIALLY, ONE IS NOT SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER. BOTH ACHIEVE THE SAME END.

                      SO THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "YOU" AND "ME", REALLY. RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE LIKE A BUBBLE THAT SAYS, "THE AIR THAT I HOLD IN MY LUNGS IS MY AIR". BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO EXHALE! WHEN YOU DO, YOUR AIR BECOMES SOMEBODY'S ELSE'S AIR, AND SOMEBODY ELSE'S AIR BECOMES YOUR AIR. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "MY AIR", BUT WHEN YOU HOLD IT IN YOUR LUNGS, IT BECOMES YOU FOR THAT LITTLE PERIOD OF TIME. SO THAT LIMITED ASPECT OF THE DIVINE THAT YOU HOLD WITHIN YOU, YOU CALL YOUR SOUL, IN SANSKRIT, WE CALL IT ATMA. WE DIFFERENCE IT FROM THE DIVINE, WHICH WE CALL PARAMATMA.

                   THE KARMIC MATERIAL CAN DEFENITELY TAKE ON MORE THAN ONE BODY. IT IS CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING MORE THAN ONE PHYSICAL FORM. I HAVE SPOKEN IN THE PAST OF HOW THIS HAPPENED WITH ME IN AN EARLIER LIFETIME. WHEN I WAS SADHGURU SRI BRAHMA AND LIFE SITUATIONS MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO CONTINUE MY MISSION TO CONSECRATE THE DHYANALINGA, I TOOK ON THE BODY OF THE CHILD YOGI WHO HAD LEFT HIS BODY EARLY. FOR A WHILE, I MANAGED TWO BODIES AND MADE A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO CONSECRATE THE DHYANALINGA. I ATTEMPTED THIS BECAUSE I KNEW THAT THE PHYSICAL TERM FOR THAT BODY, AS SADHGURU SRI BRAHMA, WAS GOING TO BE OVER IN A FEW MONTHS.

                       THE TRADITION ALSO HAS STORIES OF OTHER YOGIS WHO MAINTAINED TWO DIFFERENT BODIES TO FULLFILL TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF KARMA. THERE WERE YOGIS WHO INHABITED THE BODY OF AN ASCETIC AND A HOUSEHOLDER, IN ORDER TO FULFILL CERTAIN DIMENSIONS OF ACTIVITY THAT COULD NOT BE CARRIED OUT WITH A SINGLE BODY. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN CASES OF TWO YOGIS SHARING A SINGLE BODY. IT IS SOMETIMES SIMPLER TO SHARE ANOTHER YOGI'S BODY AND FULLFILL ONE'S KARMIC OBLIGATIONS RATHER THAN GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF FINDING A WOMB AND STARTING OVER.

ANIMAL KARMA

 

                    THE DETAILS OF ANIMAL KARMA!

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                          ❤  WHAT ABOUT ANILAMS? DO THEY HAVE KARMA, TOO?❤  

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                             ANS: YES, ANIMALS HAVE KARMA, BUT IT IS VERY LIMITED AND DIFFERENT FROM HUMAN KARMA. AN ANIMAL LIVES AN INSTINCTIVE LIFE. THIS IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HUMAN BEING AND AN ANIMAL. ONLY WHEN YOU EXERCISE YOUR INTELLIGENCE IS  DISTINCTION SET UP BETWEEN YOIU AND AN ANIMAL. SO WHEN YOU LIVE BY YOUR INSTINCTS, YOU ACCUMULATE KARMA BUT IN A VERY LIMITED WAY. WHEN YOU EMPLOY YOUR INTELLIGENCE, SUDDENLY THE KARMA ACQUIRES A DIFFERENT SIGNIFICANCE.

                          AN ACT CREATES KARMA, BUT ALL ANTS CREATE THE SAME TYPE OF KARMA. THERE ARE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEIR KARMAS, BECAUSE THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THEIR DESIRE. THEIR DESIRE IS TO EAT, PROCREATE, AND PROTECT THEMSELVES. THEY WANT TO EAT THE DEAD COCKROACH IN YOUR HOME, AND THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU DON'T STEP ON THEM! SO DESIRE AND FEAR IMMEDIATELY CREATE A KARMIC STRUCTURE. BUT IT IS SIMPLE ONE. THE STRUCTURE BECOMES VERY COMPLICATED AND INTRICATE ONLY WHEN LIFE BECOMES HUMAN, BECAUSE NOW YOU CREATE KARMA WITH VOLITION. SIMPLE KARMA CAN JUST BE SNAPPED AND DISCARDED. WHEN THERE IS CONSCIOUS VOLITION, KARMA GETS VERY COMPLICATED.

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                     FOR AN ANIMAL, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO IT IN THE PAST IS RECORDED. IF IT DIES A VIOLENT DEATH, THAT GETS RECORDED. BECAUSE OF THIS, THEY MAY BE A CERTAIN FEAR IN THE ANIMAL. BUT THE KARMA DOES NOT MANIFEST ITSELF AS DOMINANTLY AS IT DOES IN A HUMAN BEING. WHEN THERE IS THE FREEDOM TO DECIDE HOW TO BE, KARMA GETS MORE COMPLICATED. TIGERS HAVE NO REAL CHOICE OTHER THAN TO BE A TIGER. THEY GO BY THEIR INSTINCTS. THEY HAVE NO CHOICES AS WE KNOW THEM. THEY CANNOT TRANSFORM THEMSELVES INTO VEGETARIANS OR GET MARRIED OR BECOME YOGIS!

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                                                          THEIR LIFE IS FIXED, SO THERE IS NOT MUCH KARMIC ACTION. CERTAIN PERSONALITY DIFFERENCE STILL EXISTS, THERE ARE ANGRY TIGERS, DOCILE TIGERS, LAZY TIGERS. BUT THERE ARE NO MAJOR DIFFERENCE. HUMAN LIFE, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS NOT FIXED. YOU HAVE THE CHOICEAND THE ABILITY TO BE ANY WAY YOU WANT IN A GIVEN MOMENT. THAT IS THE FREEDOM AND THE CURSE. MOST HUMAN BEINGS ARE SUFFERING THEIR FREEDOM. 

                

            EVERY HUMAN BEING IS IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING DIVINE...

                       COLLABORATING WITH NATURE'S PLAN IS ALL 

                            YOU NEED TO DO.

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                    SO HOW DOES AN ANIMAL EVOLVE ON THE KARMIC LADDER?

                LIFE EVOLVES BY ITS OWN NATURE. NATURE TAKES CARE OF IT. FROM THE LOWER ANIMALS TO THE HIGHER, FROM SINGLE-CELLED ORGANISMS TO THOSE WITH CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS, THE EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY JUST HAPPENS. IT IS NOT A CHOICE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS UNCONSCIOUS AND INSTINCTUAL FOR ANIMALS, THERE IS NO GOOD AND BAD, OR RIGHT AND WRONG FOR THEM. NATURE IS JUST GIVING THEM A FREE RIDE! THEY MOVE EFFORTLESSLY FROM ONE GRADE OF LIFE TO THE OTHER. IT IS JUST THE FLOW OF LIFE ITSELF. AND AT A CERTAIN POINT THE ANIMAL ATTAINS THE HUMAN FORM. NOW, AS A HUMAN BEING, YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DECIDE YOUR DESTINY, NATURE NO LONGER DECIDES IT FOR YOU.

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                         THE HUMAN PROBLEM RIGHT NOW IS FREEDOM! THAT IS THE PARADOX. YOU ARE FREE NOW TO MAKE YOURSELF MISERABLE, YOU ARE TO MAKE YOURSELF JOYOUS. YOU ARE FREE TO LIVE A GOD, YOU ARE FREE TO LIVE LIKE A DEMON. NATURE GAVE YOU FREEDOM BECAUSE YOU ARE NOW EVOLVED ENOUGH TO MAKE A MATURE CHOICE. IN SHORT, NATURE TRUSTED YOUR INTELLIGENCE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, HUMAN BEINGS TAKE THEIR OWN TIME TO MAKE USE OF THAT INTELLIGENCE.

                      EVERY HUMAN BEIG IS IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING DIVINE. EVERY HUMAN BEING IS IN THE PROCESS OF AWAKENING TO THEIR OWN DIVINITY. WHETHER THIS HAPPENS TODAY, TOMORROW, TEN YEARS OR TEN THOUSAND YEARS LATER, IS ALWAYS OPEN TO QUESTION. BUT ONCE YOU SEE THAT LIFE IS MOVING TOWARD ITS ULTIMATE NATURE OF ITS OWN ACCORD, YOU ALSO PUT YOUR ENERGIES INTO IT AND GO FASTER. THAT IS, YOU TURN CONSCIOUSLY SPIRITUAL. COLLABORATING WITH NATURE'S PLAN IS ALL YOU NEED TO DO.

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                       EXISTENCE IS NOT IN A HURRY. BUT IF YOU ARE, YOU COULD JOIN HANDS WITH EXISTENCE AND REACH YOUR GOAL MUCH MORE QUICKLY. BUT IF YOU'RE ENJOYING FOOLING AROUND HERE, GO RIGHT AHEAD. EXISTENCE IS ETERNAL, SO YOU HAVE ALL OF ETERNITY BEFORE YOU! THERE IS NO HURRY. THE CHOICE IS YOURS.

                       EVERY SPIRITUAL PROCESS IS ABOUT TRANSFORMING THE ANIMAL NATURE WITHIN YOU. AS YOU MOVE TOWARD A DIVINE POSSIBILITY, YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOUR ANIMAL NATURE WITH THE RIGHT KIND OF AWARENESS AND INNER WORK. MERELY PREDENTING TO BE MORAL WON'T DO. MANY HUMAN BEINGS WHO PROJECT THEMSELVES AS VERY PRINCIPLE AND UPRIGHT FIND THEMSELVES CONSUMED BY THEIR ANIMAL IMPULSES - WHETHER LUST OR GREED- LATER IN THEIR LIVES. THEY COMPLETELY LOSE THEIR GRIP OVER THEMSELVES IN THEIR LATER YEARS. SO DISSOLVING THE ANIMAL NATURE IS THE AIM OF A DAILY SPIRITUAL PROCESS.

THE PATH TO LIBERATION

 

                           

                             IS KARMA  A DIRTY WORD?

                         WE HAVE LOOKED AT HOW KARMA BEGAN. PART TWO OF THIS CHAPTER WILL LOOK AT HOW MIGHT END.

                    BUT A CRUCIAL QUESTION WE NEED TO ADDRESS IS THIS : DO WE REALLY WANT IT TO END?

                       IS MEMORY A BURDEN? IS KARMA AN OBSTACLE? IS SAMSARA A CURSE? IS LIFE UNMITIGATED SUFFERING?

                       NOT IN THE LEAST.

                       LET ME STATE THIS UNEQUIVACALLY: KARMA IS NOT A DIRTY WORD. 

                      CERTAIN RELIGIOUS STRAINS HAVE, OVER TIME, BEGUN TO VIEW THE HUMAN BEING AS INHERENTLY IMPURE OR SOILED OR SINFUL. THEY SEE HUMAN LIFE AS A CURSE RATHEN THAN A BLESSING - A CONDITION FROM WHICH ONE NEEDS TO BE CURED OR SAVED OR RESCUED.

                      WHILE FREEDOM IS A LAUDABLE ASPIRATION, LET US NEVER FORGET THIS FACT: KARMA IS THE BASIS OF HUMAN LIFE. KARMA IS WHAT GIVES YOUR PHYSICAL FORM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE SOLIDITY AND STABILITY. IT OFFERS A FOUNDATION FOR YOUR LIFE. WITHOUT THIS FOUNDATION, THERE WOULD BE NO POSSIBILITY OF TRASCENDENCE. YOU, YOUR BODY, AND YOUR MIND ARE BOUND TOGETHER ONLY BECAUSE OF THE KARMIC PROCESS. WITHOUT KARMA, NEITHER YOUR BODY NOR YOUR MIND WOULD EXIST. "YOU" AS YOU UNDERSTAND YOURSELF, WOULD NOT BE AROUND!

                  SO KARMA IS, FACT, A TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITY.

                  EVERY MOMENT, IMPRESSIONS ARE FLOODING IN TORRENTS INTO YOUR SYSTEM THROUGH YOUR FIVE SENSE ORGANS, AND EACH IMPRESSION IS BEING RECORDED. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS. THIS STORED INFORMATION IS VERY USEFUL FOR YOUR SURVIVAL. IF YOU DELETED ALL OF IT, YOU WOULD NOT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE EVEN THE SIMPLEST ASPECTS OF LIFE. KARMA IS THE GLUE THAT MAKES YOU STICK TO THIS BODY-MIND MECHANISM. IF YOU WASHED AWAY ALL YOUR KARMA, YOU WOULD EXIST YOUR BODY THIS VERY INSTANT!

                   YOUR SOFTWARE IS NOT THE PROBLEM. IT TURNS INTO A PROBLEM ONLY IF IT BECOME THE RULIN FACTOR IN YOUR LIFE. KARMA IS JUST YOUR OWN CREATION. IT IS NEITHER VIRTUOUS NOR EVIL, GOOD NOR BAD. IT IS BECAUSE YOU ARE LOOKING AT IT THROUGH THE PRISM - OR PREJUDICE - OF MEMORY THAT SOMETHING SEEMS WONDERFUL AND SOMETHING SEEMS HORRIBLE. KARMA IS THE BASIS OF YOUR INDIVIDUALITY, BUT IT IS ALSO BASIS OF YOUR PREJUDICE.

               THE PROBLEM WITH KARMIC MEMORY IS THAT IT HAS STUCK TO YOU. IF EVERYTHING THAT PASSESS BY STICKS TO THIS MIRROR, IT IS A NO-GOOD MIRROR. YOUR MIRROR CAN NO LONGER SHOW YOUR LIFE THE WAY IT IS. YOUR PERCEPTION IS NOW SERIOUSLY CLOUDED. NOW KARMA BECOMES A LIMITATION.

                  OF COURSE, THERE IS MUCH TO CELEBRATE ABOUT MEMORY. MEMORY MAKES US UNIQUE. MEMORY MAKES EVERY INDIVIDUAL DAZZLINGLY SINGULAR. IT IS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BIODIVERSITY AND CULTURAL VARIETY WE SEE AROUND US TODAY. IT IS MEMORY THAT MAKES THE WORLD SUCH AN INCREDIBLY INTERESTING PLACE TO LIVE IN. MEMORY IS UNDENIABLY A PRIVILEGE. AN ENORMOUS PRIVILEGE.

                  THE RUB IS THAT MEMORY IS NOT JUST A GLUE. IT IS ALSO BOUDARY. IT OFFERS YOU FORM AND DEFINITION, BUT OVER TIME, THAT VERY FORM BECOMES A LIMITATION, AND THE DEFINITION BECOMES A WALL.

                  YOU ARE GRADUALLY FETTERED BY THE DEFINITIONS YOU SEEK TO ACQUIRE. YOU JOYFULLY CELEBRATE THESE DEFINITIONS - PERHAPS OF FAMILY, CLAN, TRIBE, CLASS, GENDER, RELIGION, CULTURE, LANGUAGE - BUT OVER TIME THESE DEFINITIONS HARDEN INTO RIGID MARKERS OF IDENTITY. BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU HAVE CRAFTED YOUR OWN PRISON. WHETHER GILDED  OR IRON BARRED, A CAGE IS STILL A CAGE.

                 THE TRAGEDY IS THAT YOU ARE IMPRISONED BY WALLS OF YOUR OWN MAKING. THESE ARE WALLS AND BARS YOU HAVE ERECTED UNCONSCIOUSLY, AND WHICH NOW DO NOT ALLOW YOU TO ESCAPE. YOU ARE THE BUILDER, BUT YOU HAVE NOW ALLOW YOU TO ESCAPE. YOU ARE THE BUILDER, BUT YOU HAVE NOW IMPRISONED YOURSELF IN YOUR OWN HOME. YOUR CREATION THAT WAS A SOURCE OF SANCTUARY AND IDENTITY HAS NOW TURNED INTO A CARAPACE.  YOU HAVE SPUN A COCOON OF CONFINEMENT AROUND YOURSELF THAT NOW YOU CANNOT FLY FREE. YOU HAVE BECOME YOUR OWN JAILER.

                     PART TWO OF THIS CHAPTER EXPLORES THE VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH YOU CAN WORK WITH, AND THROUGH, YOUR KARMA TO ADDRESS THIS UNQUENCHABLE HUMAN LONGING TO BE FREE. IT OFFERS YOU WAYS TO ENJOY MEMORY WITHOUT BEING OPPRESSED BY IT. IT OFFERS YOU WAYS IN WHICH YOU CAN LIVE IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT ADDING TO YOUR ALREADY BURDENSOME FREIGHT OF KARMA. IT OFFERS YOU A CHANCE TO NAVIGATE YOUR JOURNEY THROUGH THIS WORLD WITHOUT BEING WORN AND ABRADED BY THE RIDE.

                  YOU CAN  FEEL THE BREEZE ON YOUR FACE AND THE SUN ON YOUR SKIN, BUT YOUR DON'T GATHER NEEDLESS GRIME AND AREN'T AT THE MERCY OF CHANGING WETHER. THE NEXT SECTION EMPOWERS YOU TO MAKE THE JOURNEY HOMEWARD BY SHOWING YOU A PATH THAT THE GREATEST SAGES HAVE KNOWN SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, HOW YOU CAN BE IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF IT.

                     THIS PATH REMINDS YOU THAT WHILE KARMA IS YOUR BONDAGE, IF YOU HANDLE IT RIGHT, KARMA CAN ALSO BE A STEPPING-STONE TO YOUR LIBERATION.

WHAT IS SACRIFICE

                                 

                        THE MEANING OF SACRIFICE 

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                          IF YOU TAKE MORE KARMIC LOAD NOW, WHEN 

         YOU ARE WELL AND CAPABLE, LATER YOU WILL "HANDS-FREE"!

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                                 THE TERM KARMA YOGA IS OFTEN SEEN AS CLOSELY LINKED WITH SACRIFICE. IN EVERY SPIRITUAL TRADITION IN THE WORLD, THE NOTION OF SACRIFICE HAS BEEN AS SIGNIFICANT.

                      IN SANSKRIT THE WORD YAGNA IS OFTEN TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH AS "SACRIFICE". BUT YAGNA USUALLY REFERS, IN PRACTICE, TO CERTAIN OBLATIONS AND RITUALS THAT WERE PRACTICED IN ANCIENT INDIA TO APPEASE A DEITY TO PLACATE SOME FORCES TO NATURE. HOWEVER, THESE RITUALS WERE NOT A SACRIFICE IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD. GIVING UP SOMETHING FOR SOMETHING ELSE IS COMMERSE, GIVING UP SOMETHING FOR NOTHING IS SACRIFICE.

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                     THE TRADITIONAL YAGNA ITS OWN TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNAL LOGIC. IT WAS PROCESS THROUGH WHICH YOU FOUND ACCESS TO CERTAIN FORCES OR DEITIES AND SOUGHT TO ENHANCE YOUR CAPABILITIES. THESE PROCESSESS ARE STILL PRACTICED TODAY IN MANY PART OF INDIA. THEY CAN HELP CREATE SEVERAL HEALTH AND MATERIAL BENEFITS.

                       HOWEVER, ONCE YOU ARE ON A SPIRITUAL PATH, YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SMALL PROCESSESS, MINOR TECHNOLOGIES, PETTY RITUALS.  THE VERY WAY YOU LIVE BECOMES A YAGNA. THIS IS THE DEEPEST MEANING OF SACRIFICE. YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN INVITING AN EXPERT TO PERFORM RITUALS TO ENABLE YOU TO MANIPULATE CERTAIN FORCES. YOUR VERY LIFE PROCESS IS AN OFFERING.

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                   IF EVEN A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION BECOMES MEDITATIVE, MANY REAP THE BENEFITS. A SINGLE MANGO TREE CAN OFFER FRUIT TO A HUNDRED PEOPLE. SIMILARLY, WHEN YOUR LIFE BECOMES A YAGNA, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CAN REAP ITS BENEFITS. MANY INDIVIDUALS HAVE DONE THIS DOWN THE ANGES.

                   AT ISHA, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS AND PRACTITIONERS WHO HAVE OFFERED THEIR ENTIRE LIVES TO A SPIRITUAL PATH WITH COMITMENT AND UNWAVERING FOCUS. WHEREVER THEY GO, THEY TRASFORM THE PLACE, IN THEIR OWN SMALL WAY, INTO A YAGNA BHOOMI - ALAND OF SACRIFICE.

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                      DO NOT THINK OF SACRIFICE AS CHEERLESS SELF-DENIAL. WHEN ONE'S ENTIRE LIFE BECOMES AN OFFERING, IT BRINGS ITS OWN UNIQUE JOY. THERE IS A STORY ABOUT AN INDIAN ASCETIC WHO WENT TO THE UNITED STATES IN THE LAST CENTURY. SOMEONE HE MET THERE DISMISSIVELY COMMENTED, "AS AN ASCENTIC, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT LIFE, YOU HAVE NOT TASTED WINE OR SLEPT WITH A WOMAN. WHAT CAN YOU KNOW OF LIFE'S EXPERIENCES?

                     THE ASCENTIC CALMLY REPLIED, " I COME FROM A LAND OF SACRIFICE. AND I KNOW THE BLISS OF SACRIFICE FAR EXCEEDS THE PLEASURES OF THE WORLD. I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOUR PLEASURES, AND I AM NOT DENYING OR DENOUNCING THEM. BUT ONCE YOU TASTE A DEEPER JOY, THESE BECOME CHILDISH TOYS, MERE SOPS, MINOR DISTRACTIONS".

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                    THIS APPROACH WAS AT ONE TIME DEEPLY INGRAINED IN THE INDIAN FAMILY. IT WAS NOT PERPETUATED AS A TEACHING, BUT AS AN EVERYDAY PRACTICE. IT WAS PART OF THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE. IN A HOST OF DIFFERENT WAYS, A CHILD GREW UP OBSERVING THAT THE MORE DEEPLY FULFILLING LIFE WAS ABOUT GIVING, NOT TAKING , ABOUT SERVING NOT RULING.

                     MY MOTHER, LIKE SO MANY OTHER MOTHERS, WAS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THIS. SHE NEVER HAD TO SAY TO US "I LOVE YOU", BECAUSE IT WAS SO APPARENT IN EVERYTHING SHE DID. EVERY MORNING, AFTER ENSURING THAT HER FAMILY HAD EATEN, SHE WOULD TAKE A PART OF HER BREAKFAST AND GO TO THE BACKYARD. HERE SHE WOULD FEED THE ANTS THAT LIVED THERE. SHE WOULD NEVER EAT WITHOUT FEEDING THEM. TODAY, MODERN FAMILIES WOULD BE SPRAYING THE BACKYARD WITH PESTICIDE! BUT WITHOUT ANY SELF-CONSCIOUS ECOLOGICAL MISSION, IT WAS CLEAR TO MY MOTHER THAT THE ANTS HAD AS MUCH RIGHT TO THIS PLANET AS SHE HAD. EVERY LITTLE ACTION IN HER LIFE HAD BECOME A YAGNA.

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                  FOR PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES HAVE BECOME LIKE THIS, THERE IS NO NEED TO PERFORM ANY RITUAL. THEIR LIVES HAVE BECOME AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE - NOT LOVE AS "I LOVE YOU" AND "YOU LOVE ME", BUT AS A BASIC AMBIENCE OF THEIR INTERIORITY . NOW THEIR LIVES ARE ONE CEASELESS FLOW OF KARMA YOGA, AN ENDLESS OUTPOURING OF THEIR INNER JOY. NO MORE IS NEEDED.