YOGA REDUCES THE EGOISM

                                                             EGOISM

                EGOISM IS THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SEER WITH THE INSTRUMENT OF SEEING.

          THE SEER IS REALLY THE SELF, THE PURE ONE, THE EVER HOLY, THE INFINITE, THE IMMORTAL. THAT IS THE SELF OF MAN. AND WHAT ARE THE INSTRUMENTS? THE CHITTA, OR MIND - STUFF, THE BUDDHI, DETERMINATIVE FACULTY, THE MANAS, OR MIND, AND THE INDRIYAN, OR SENSE ORGANS. THESE ARE THE INSTRUMENTS FOR HIM TO SEE THE EXTERNAL WORLD, AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE SELF WITH THE INSTRUMENTS IS WHAT IS CALLED THE IGNORANCE OF EGOISM. WE SAY, "I AM THE MIND, I AM THOUGHT, I AM ANGRY, OR I AM HAPPY ". 

       HOW CAN WE BE ANGRY, AD HOW CAN WE HATE? WE SHOULD IDENTIFY OURSELVES WITH THE SELF, THAT CANNOT CHANGE. IF IT IS UNCHANGEABLE, HOW CAN IT BE ONE MOMENT HAPPY, AND ONE MOMENT UNHAPPY? IF IS FORMLESS, INFINITE, OMNIPRESENT. WHAT CAN CHANGE IT ? BEYOND ALL LAW. WHAT CAN AFFECT IT? NOTHING IN THE INIVERSE CAN PRODUCE AN EFFECT ON IT, YET, THROUGH IGNORANCE, WE IDENTIFY OURSELVES WITH THE MIND-STUFF, AND THINK WE FEEL PLEASURE OR PAIN.

             ATTACHMENT IS THAT WHICH DWELL ON PLEASURE.

       WE FIND PLEASUREIN CERTAIN THINGS, AND THE MIND, LIKE A CURRENT, FLOWS TOWARDS THEM, AND THAT, FOLLOWING THE PLEASURE CENTRE, AS IT WERE, IS ATTACHMENT. WE ARE NEVER ATTACHED TO ANYONE IN WHOM WE DO NOT FIND PLEASURE. WE FIND PLEASURE IN VERY QUEER THINGS SOMETIMES, BUT THE DEFINITION IS JUS THE SAME, WHEREVER WE FIND PLEASURE, THERE WE ARE ATTACHED.

              AVERSION IS THAT WHICH DWELLS ON PAIN.

     THAT, WHICH GIVES UP PAIN WE IMMEDIATELY SEEK TO GET AWAY FROM.

           FLOWING THROUGH ITS OWN NATURE, AND ESTABLISHED EVEN IN THE LEARNED, IS THE CLINGING TO LIFE.

        THIS CLINGING TO LIFE YOU SEE MANIFESTED IN EVERY ANIMAL, AND UPON IT MANY ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO BUILD THE THEORY OF A FUTURE LIFE, BECAUSE MEN LIKE THEIR LIVES SO MUCH THAT THEY DESIRE A FUTURE LIFE ALSO. OF COURSE IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THIS ARGUMENT IS WITHOUT MUCH VALUE. BUT THE MOST CURIOUS PART OF IT IS THAT, IN WESTERN COUNTRIES, THE IDEA THAT THIS CLINGING TO LIFE INDICATES A POSSIBILITY OF A FUTURE LIFE APPLIES ONLY TO MEN, BUT DOES NOT INLUDE ANIMALS. 

             IN INDIA THIS CLINGING TO LIFE HAS BEEN ONE O THE ARGUMENTS TO PROVE PAST EXPERIENCE AND EXISTENCE. FOR INSTANCE, IF IT BE TRUE THAT ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE HAS COME FROM EXPERIENCE, THEN IT IS SURE THAT WHICH WE NEVER EXPERIENCED WE CANNOT IMAGINE, OR UNDERSTAND. AS SOON AS CHICKENS ARE HATCHED THEY BEGIN TO PICK UP FOOD. MANY TIMES IT HAS BEEN SEEN WHERE DUCKS HAVE BEEN HATCHED BY HENS, THAT, AS SOON AS THEY COME OUT OF THE EGGS, THEY FLEW TO WATER, AND THE MOTHER THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE DROWNED. IF EXPERIENCE BE THE ONLY SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE, WHERE DID THESE CHICKENS LEARN TO PICK UP FOOD, OR THE DUCKLINGS THAT THE WATER WAS THEIR NATURAL ELEMENT? IF YOU SAY IT IS INSTINCT, IT MEANS NOTHING - IT IS SIMPLY GIVING IT A WORD, BUT IS NO EXPLANATION.

             WHAT IS THIS INSTINCT?  WE HAVE MANY INSTINCTS IN OURSELVES. FOR INSTANCE, MOST OF YOU LADIES PLAY THE PIANO, AND REMEMBER, WHEN YOU FIRST LEARNED, HOW CAREFULLY YOU HAD TO PUT YOUR FINGERS ON THE BLACK AND THE WHITE KEYS, ONE AFTER THE OTHER, BUT NOW, AFTER LONG YEARS OF PRACTICE, YOU CAN TALK WITH YOUR FRIENDS, AND YOUR HAND GOES ON JUST THE SAME. IT HAS BECOME INSTINCT, IT BECOMS AUTOMATIC, BUT SO FAR AS WE KNOW, ALL THE CASES WHICH WE NOW REGARD AS AUTOMATIC ARE DEGENERATED REASON.

                         

            IN THE LAUGUAGE OF THE YOGI, INSTINCTIS INVOLVE REASON. DISCRIMINATION BECOMES INVOLVED, AND GETS TO BE AUTOMATIC SAMKARAS. THEREFORE, IT IS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO THINK THAT ALL WE CALL INSTINCT IN THIS WORLD IS SIMPLY INVOLVED REASON.AS REASON CANNOT COME WTHOUT EXPERIENCE, ALL INSTINCT IS, THEREFORE, THE RESULT OF PAST EXPERIENCE. CHECK FEAR THE HAWK, AND DUCKLINGS LOVE THE WATER, AND THESE ARE BOTH THE RESULT OF PAST EXPERIENCE. THEN THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THAT EXPERIENCE BELONGS TO A PARTICULAR SOUL, OR TO THE BODY SIMPLY, WHETHER THIS EXPERIENCE WHICH COMES TO THE DUCK IS THE DUCK'S FOREFATHER'S EXPERIENCE, OR THE DUCK'S OWN EXPERIENCE. MODERN SCIENTIFIC MEN HOLD THAT IT BELONGS TO THE BODY, BUT THE YOGIS HOLD THAT IT IS THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SOUL, TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE BODY. 

              THIS IS CALLED THE THEORY OF REINCARNATION. WE HAVE SEEN THAT ALL OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, WHETHER WE CALL IT PERCEPTION OR REASON, OR INSTINCT, MUST COME THROUGH THAT ONE CHANNEL CALLED EXPERIENCE. THESE FEELINGS HAVE TO BE CONTROLLED IN THE GERM, THE ROOT, IN THEIR FINE FORMS, BEFORE EVEN WE HAVE BECOME CONSCIOUS THAT THEY ARE ACTING ON US. WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF MAN KIND, THE FINE STAES OF THESE PASSIONS ARE NOT EVEN KNOWN, THE STATE WHEN THEY ARE SLOWLY COMING FROM BENEATH CONSCIOUSNESS. WHEN A BUBBLE IS RISING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE, WE DO NOT SEE IT, OR EVEN WHEN IT IS NEARLY COME TO THE SURFACE, IT IS ONLY WHEN IT BURSTS AND MAKES A RIPPLE THAT WE KNOW IT IS THERE. 

              WE SHALL ONLY BE SUCCESSFUL IN GRAPPLING WITH THE WAVES WHEN WE CAN GET HOLD OF THEM IN THEIR FINE STATE, AND UNTIL YOU CAN GET HOLD OF THEM, AND SUBDUE THEM BEFORE ANY BECOMES GROSS, THERE IS NO HOPE OF CONQUERING ANY PASSION PERFECTLY. TO CONTROL OUR PASSIONS, WE HAVE TO CONTROL THEM AT THEIR VERY ROOTS, THEN ALONE SHALL WE BE ABLE TO BURN OUT THEIR VERY SEED. AS FRIED SEEDS THROWN INTO THE GROUND WILL NEVER COME UP, SO THESE PASSIONS WILL NEVER ARISE.

 

ABOUT EVIL

                                                              THE EVIL

              A MAN SHOULD HASTEN TOWARDS THE GOOD, AND SHOULD KEEP HIS THOUGHT AWAY FROM EVIL, IF A MAN DOES WHAT IS GOOD SLOTHFULLY, HIS MIND DELIGHTS IN EVIL. IF A MAN COMMITS A SIN, LET HIM NOT DO IT AGAIN, LET HIM NOT DELIGHT IN SIN, THE ACCUMULATION OF EVIL IS PAINFUL. IF A MAN DOES WHAT IS GOOD, LET HIM DO IT AGAIN, LET HIM DELIGHT IN IT, THE ACCUMULATION OF GOOD IS DELIGHTFUL. EVEN AN EVIL-DOER SEES HAPPINESS SO LONG AS HIS EVIL DEED DOES NOT RIPEN, BUT WHEN HIS EVIL DEED RIPENS, THEN DOES THE EVIL-DOER SEE EVIL. 

            EVEN A GOOD MAN SEES EVIL DAYS SO LONG AS HIS GOOD DEED DOES NOT RIPEN, BUT WHEN HIS GOOD DEED RIPENS, THEN DOES THE GOOD MAN SEE GOOD THINGS.

            LET NO MAN THINK LIGHTLY OF EVIL, SAYING IN HIS HEART, IT WILL NOT COME NIGH UNTO ME. EVEN BY THE FALLING OF WATER- DROPS A WATER- POT IS FILLED, THE FOOL BECOMES FULL OF EVIL, EVEN IF HE GATHER IT LITTLE BY LITTLE. LET NO MAN THINK LIGHTLY OF GOOD, SAYING IN HIS HEART, IT WILL NOT COME NIGH INTO ME. EVEN BY THE FALLING OF WATER-DROPS A WATER - POTS IS FILLED THE WISE MAN BECOMES FULL OF GOOD, EVEN IF HE FEW COMPANIONS AND CARRIES MUCH WEALTH, AVOIDS A DANGEROUS ROAD, AS A MAN LOVES LIFE ABOIDS POISON.

              HE WHO HAS NO WOUND ON HIS HAND, MAY TOUCH POISON WITH HIS HAND, POISON DOES NOT AFFECT ONE WHO HAS NO WOUND, NOR IS THERE EVIL FOR ONE WHO DOES NOT COMMIT EVIL. IF A MAN OFFEND A HARMLESS, PURE, AND INNOCENT PERSON, THE EVIL FALLS BACK UPON THAT FOOL, LIKE LIGHT DUST THROWN UP AGAINST THE WIND. SOME PEOPLE ARE BORN AGAIN, EVIL- DOERS GO TO HELL, RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN, THOSE WHO ARE FREE FROM ALL WORLDLY DESIRES ATTAIN NIRVANA.

         NOT IN THE SKY, NOT IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA, NOR IF WE ENTER INTO THE CLEFTS OF THE MOUNTAINS, IS THERE KNOWN AS SPOT IN THE WHOLE WORLD WHERE A MAN MIGHT BE FREED FROM AND EVIL DEED. NOT IN THE SKY, NOT IN THE MIDST OF THE SEA, NOR IF WE ENTER INTO THE CLEFTS OF THE MOUNTAINS, IS THERE KNOWN A SPOT IN THE WHOLE WORLD WHERE DEATH COULD NOT OVERCOME THE MORTAL. 

                                                            PUNISHMENT

                    ALL MEN TREMBLE AT PUNISHMENT, ALL MEN FEAR DEATH, REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE LIKE UNTO THEM,AND DO NOT KILL, NOR CAUSE SLAUGHTER.ALL MEN TREMBLE AT PUNISHMENT, ALL MEN LOVE LIFE, REMEMBER THAT THOU ARE LIKE UNTO THEM, AND DO NOT KILL, NOR CAUSE SLAUGHTER. HE WHO, SEEKING HIS OWN HAPPINESS, PUNISHES OR KILLS BEINGS WHO ALSO LONG FOR HAPPINESS, WILLNOT FIND HAPPINESS AFTER DEATH. HE WHO, SEEKING HIS OWN HAPPINESS, DOES NOT PUNISH OR KILL BEINGSWHO ALOS LONG FOR HAPPINESS, WILL FIND HAPPINESS AFTER DEATH. DO NOT SPEAK HARSHLY TO ANYONE, WHOSE WHO ARE SPEKEN TO WILL ANSWER THEE IN THE SAME WAY. ANGRY SPEECH IN PAINFUL, BLOWS FOR BLOWS WILL TOUCH THEE.

             IF, LIKE A SHATTERED METAL PLATE (GONG) THOU UTTER NOTHING, THEN THOU HAS REACHED NIRVANA, ANGER IS NOT KNOWN TO THEE. AS A COW-HERD WITH HIS STAFF DRIVES HIS COWS INTO THE STABLE, SO DO AGE AND DEATH DRIVE THE LIFE OF MEN. A FOOL DOES NOT KNOW WHEN HE COMMITS HIS EVIL DEEDS, BUT THE WICKED MAN BURNS BY HIS OWN DEEDS, AS IF BURNT BY FIRE.  HE WHO INFLICTS PAIN ON INNOCENT AND HARMLESS PERSONS, WILL SOON COME TO ONE OF THESE TEN STATES. HE WILL HAVE CRUEL SUFFERING, LOSS, INJURY OF THE BODY, HEAVY AFFLICTION, OR LOSS OF MIND.

               A MISFORTUNE COMING FROM THE KING, OR A FEARFUL ACCUSATION, OR LOSS OF RELATIONS, OR DESTRUCTION OF TREASURES. LIGHTNING- FIRE WILL BURN HIS HOUSES AND WHEN HIS BODY IS DESTROYED, THE FOOL  WILL GO TO HELL. NOT NAKEDNESS, NOT PLATTED HAIR, NOT DIRT, NOT FASTING, OR LYING ON THE EARTH, NOT RUBBING, WITH DUST, NOT SITTING MOTIONLESS, CAN PURIFY A MORTAL WHO HAS NOT OVERCOME DESIRES.

         HE WHO, THOUGH DRESSED IN FINE APPAREL, EXERCISE TRANQUILLITY, IS QUIET, SUBDUED, RESTRAINED, CHASTE, AND HAS CEASED TO FIND FAULT WITH ALL OTHER BEINGS, HE INDEED IS A BRAHMANA, AN ASCETIC (SRAMANA) A FRIAR (BHIKSHU). IS THERE IN THIS WORLD ANY MAN SO RETRAINED BY SHAME THAT HE DOES NOT PROVOKE REPROOF, AS A NOBLE HORSE THE WHIP? LIKE A NOBLE HORSE WHEN TOUCHED BY THE WHIP, BE YE STRENOUS AND EAGER, AND BY FAITH, BY VIRTUE, BY ENERGY, BY MEDITATION, BY DISCERNMENT OF THE LAW, YOU WILL OVERCCOME THIS GREAT PAIN, PERFECT IN KNOWLEDGE AND IN BEHAVIOR AND NEVER FORGETFUL. WELL - MAKERS LEAD THE WATER WHEREVER THEY LIKE, FLETCHERS BEND THE ARROW, CARPENTERS BEND A LOG OF WOOD, GOOD PEOPLE FASHION THEMSELVES.     

 

THE POWER OF PRESENCE

                                                 LIVE LIFE IN PRESENCE

 

            IS PRESENCE THE SAME AS BEING?

           WHEN YOU BECOME CONSCIOUS OF BEING, WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IS THAT BEING BECOMES CONSCIOUS OF ITSELF. WHEN BEING BECOME CONSCIOUS OF ITSELF-THAT'S PRESENCE. SINCE BEING, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND LIFE ARE SYNONYMOUS, WE COULD SAY THAT PRESENCE MEANS CONSCIOUSNESS. BUT DON'T GET ATTACHED TO THE WORDS, AND DON'T MAKE AN EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND THIS. THERE IS NOTHING THAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND BEFORE YOU CAN BECOME PRESENT.

           I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU JUST SAID, BUT IT SEEMS TO IMPLY THAT BEING, THE ULTIMATE TRANSCENDENTAL REALITY, IS NOT YET COMPLETE, THAT IT IS UNDERGOING A PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT. DOES GOD NEED TIME FOR PERSONAL GROWTH?

         YES, BUT ONLY AS SEEN FROM THE LIMITED PERSPECTIVE OF THE MANIFESTED UNIVERSE. IN THE BIBLE, GOD DECLARES, "I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, AND I AM THE LIVING ONE". IN THE TIMELESS REALM WHERE GOD DWELLS, WHICH IS ALSO YOUR HOME, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, ARE ONE, AND THE ESSENCE OF EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAS BEEN AND EVER WILL BE IS ETERNALLY PRESENT IN AN UNMANIFESTED STATE OF ONENESS AND PERFECTION - TOTALLY BEYOND ANYTHING THE HUMAN MIND CAN EVER IMAGINE OR COMPREHEND. IN OUR WORLD OF SEEMINGLY SEPERATE FORMS, HOWEVER, TIMELESS PERFECTION IS AN INCONCEIVABLE CONCEPT. HERE EVEN CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH IS THE LIGHT EMANATING FROM THE TERNAL SOURCE, SEEMS TO BE SUBJECT TO A PROCESS OF DEVELOPMEMT, BUT THIS IS DUE TO OUR LIMITED PERCEPTION. IT IS NOT SO IN ABSOLUTE TERMS. NEVERTHELESS, LET ME CONTINUE TO SPEAK FOR A MOMENT ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THIS WORLD.

         EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS HAS BEING, HAS GOD - ESSENCE, GAS SOME DEGREDE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. EVEN A STONE HAS RUDIMENTARY CONSCIOUSNESS, OTHERWISE, IT WOULD NOT BE, AND ITS ATOMS AND MOLECULES WOULD DISPERSE. EVERYTHING IS ALIVE. THE SUN, THE EARTH , PLANTS, ANIMALS, HUMANS- ALL ARE EXPRESSIONS O CONSCIOUSNESS IS VARYING DEGREES, CONSCIOUSNESS MANIFESTING AS FORM.

          THE WORLD ANISES WHEN CONSCIOUSNESS TAKES ON SHAPES AND FORMS, THOUGHT FORMS AND MATERIAL FORMS. LOOK AT THE MILLIONS OF LIFE FORMS ON THIS PLANET ALONE. IN THE SEA, ON LAND, IN THE AIR- AND THEN EACH LIFE FORM IS REPLICATED MILLIONS OF TIMES. TO WHAT END? IS SOMEONE OR SOMETHING PLAYING A GAME, A GAME WITH FORM? THIS IS WHAT THE ANCIENT SEERS OF INDIA ASKED THEMSELVES. THEY SAW THE WORLD AS LILA, A KIND OF DIVINE GAME THAT GOD IS PLAYING. THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE FORMS ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS GAME. IN THE SEA, MOST LIFE FORMS DON'T SURVIVE FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES AFTER BEING BORN. THE HUMAN FORM TURNS TO DUST PRETTY QUIKLY TOO, AND WHEN IT IS GONE IT IS AS IF IT HAD NEVER BEEN. IS THAT TRAGIC OR CRUEL? ONLY IF YOU CRETE A SEPERATE IDENTITY FOR EACH FORM, IF YOU FORGET THAT ITS CONSCIOUSNESS IS GOD-ESSENCE EXPRESSING ITSELF IN FORM. BUT YOU DON'T TRULY KNOW THAT UNTIL YOU REALIZE YOUR OWN GOD - ESSENCE AS PURE CONSCIOUSNESS.

                  IF A FISH IS BORN IN YOUR ACQUARIUM AND YOU CALL IT, JOHN, WRITE OUT A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, TELL HIM ABOUT HIS FAMILY HISTORY, AND TWO MINUTES LATER HE GETS EATEN BY ANOTHER FISH- THAT'S TRAGIC, BUT IT'S ONLY TRAGIC BECAUSE YOU PROJECTED A SEPARATE SELF WHERE THERE WAS NONE. YOU GOT HOLD OF A FRACTION OF A DYNAMIC PROCESS, A MOLECULAR DANCE, AND MADE A SEPARATE ENTIRY OUT OF IT.

           CONSCIOUSNESS TAKES ON THE DISGUISE OF FORMS UNTIL THEY REACH SUCH COMPLEXITY THAT IT COMPLETELY LOSES ITSELF IN THEM. IN PRESENT-DAY HUMANS, CONSCIOUSNESS IS COMPLETELY IDENTIFIED WITH ITS DISGUISE. IT ONLY KNOWS ITSELF AS FORM AND THEREFORE LIVES IN FEAR OF THEANNIHILATION OF ITS PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL FORM. THIS IS THE EGOIC MIND, AND THIS IS WHERE CONSIDERABLE DYSFUNCTION SETS IN. IT NOW LOOKS AS IF SOMETHING HAD GONE VEY WRONG SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE OF EVOLUTION. BUT EVEN THIS IS PART OF LILA, THE DIVINE GAME. 

                 FINALLY, THE PRESURE OF SUFFERING CREATED BY THIS APPARENT DYSFUNCTION FORCES CONSCIOUSNESS TO DISIDENTIFY FROM FORM AND AWAKENS IT FROM ITS DREAM OF FORM. IT REGAINS SELF-CONSCIOUNESS, BUT IT IS AT A FAR DEEPER LEVEL THAN WHEN IT LOST IT.

                      CAN YOU NOW SEE THE DEEPER AND WIDER SIGNIFICANCE OF BECOMING PRESENT AS THE WATCHER OF YOUR MIND? WHENEVER YOU WATCH THE MIND, YOU WITHDRAW CONSCIOUSNESS FROM MIND FORMS, WHICH THEN BECOMES WHAT WE CALL THE WATCHER OR THE WITNESS. CONSEQUENTLY, THE WATCHER- PIURE CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND FORM- BECOMES STRONGER, AND THE METAL FORMATIONS BECOME WEAKER. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WATCHING THE MIND WE ARE PERSONALIZING AND EVENT THAT IS TRULY OF COSMIC SIGNIFICANCE THROUGH YOU, CONSCIOUSNESS IS AWAKENING OUT OF ITS DREAM OF IDENFICATION WITH FORM AND WITHDRAWING FROM FORM. THIS FORESHADOWS, BUT IS ALREADY PART OF,AN EVENT THAT IS PROBABLY STILL IN THE DISTANT FUTURE AS FAR AS CHRONOLOGICAL TIMEIS CONCERNED. THE EVENTIS CALLED - THE END OF THE WORLD.

YOGA DESTROY YOUR WORRIES AND IMPURITIES

                                                USES OF YOGA

        BY THE PRACTICE OF THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF YOGA THE IMPURITIES BEING DESTROYED KNOWLEDGE BECOMES EFFULGENT, UP TO DISCRIMINATION.

         NOW COMES THE PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE. WHAT WE HAVE JUST BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT IS MUCH HIGHER. IT IS WAY ABOVE OUR HEADS, BUT IT IS THE IDEAL. IT IS FIRST NECESSARY TO OBTAIN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CONTROL. THEN THE REALISATION WILL BECOME STEADY IN THAT IDEAL. THE IDEAL BEING KNOWN, WHAT REMAINS IS TO PRACTISE THE METHOD OF REACHING IT.

         YAMA, NIYAMA, ASANA, PRANAYAMA, PRATYA HARA, DHARANA, DHYANA, SAMADHI, ARE THE LIMBS OF YOGA.

        NON-KILLING, TRUTHFULNESS, NON-STEALING, CONTINUENCE, AND NON-RECEIVING ARE CALLED YAMA.

         A MAN WHO WANTSTO BE A PERFECT YOGI MUST GIVE UP THE SEX IDEA. THE SOUL HAS NO SEX, WHY SHOULD IT DEGRADE ITSELF WITH SEX IDEAS ? LATER WE SHALL UNDERSTAND BETTER WHY THESE IDEAS MUST BE GIVEN UP. RECEIVING IS JUST AS BAD AS STEALING, RECEIVING GIFTS FROM OTHERS. WHOEVER RECEIVES GIFTS, HIS MIND IS ACTED ON BY THE MIND OF THE GIVER, SO THAT THE MAN WHO RECEIVES GIFTS BECOMES DEGENERATED. RECEIVING GIFTS DESTROYS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE MIND, AND MAKES US MERE SLAVES. THEREFORE, RECEIVE NOTHING.

              THESE, UNBROKEN BY TIME, PLACE, PURPOSE, AND CASTE, ARE (UNIVERSAL) GREAT VOWS.

             THESE PRACTICES, NON-KILLING, NON-STEALING, CHASITY, AND NON-RECEIVING ARE TO BE PRACTICED BY EVER MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD, BY EVERY SOUL, IRRESPECTIVE OF NATION,COUNTRY OR POSITION.

           INTERNAL AND  EXTERNAL PURIFICATION, CONTENTMENT, MORTIFICATION, STUDY, AND WORSHIP OF GOD, ARE THE NIYAMAS.

         EXTERNAL PURIFICATION IS KEEPING THE BODY PURE, A DIRTY MAN WILL NEVER BECOME A YOGI. THERE MUST BE INTERNAL PURIFICATION ALSO. THAT IS OBTAINED BY THE FIRST-NAMED VIRTUES. OF COURSE INTERNAL PURITY IS OF GREATER VALUE THAT EXTERNAL, BUT BOTH ARE NECESSARY, AND EXTERNAL PURITY, WITHOUT INTERNAL,  IS OF NO GOOD.

       TO  OBSTRUCT THOUGHTS WHICH ARE INIMICAL TO YOGA, CONTRARY THOUGHTS WILL BE BROUGHT.

         THIS IS THE WAY TO PRACTICE ALL THESE VIRTUES THAT HAVE BEEN STATED, BY HOLDING THOUGHTS OF AN OPPOSITE CHARACTER IN THE MIND. WHEN THE IDEA OF STEALING COMES, NON-STEALING SHOULD BE THOUGHT OF. WHEN THE IDEA OF RECEIVING GIFTS COMES, REPLACE IT BY A CONTRARY THOUGHT.

         THE OBSTRUCTIONS TO YOGA ARE KILLING ETC., WHETHER COMMITTED, CAUSED, OR APPROVED, EITHER THROUGH AVARICE, OR ANGER, OR IGNORANCE, WHETHER SLIGHT, MIDDLING, OR GREAT, AND RESULT IS INNUMERABLE IGNORANCE AND MISERIES. THIS IS (THE METHOD OF ) THINKING THE CONTRARY.

        IF I TELL I LIE, OR CAUSE ANOTHER TO TELL A LIE, OR APPROVE OF ANOTHER DOING SO, IT IS EQUALLY SINFUL. IF IT IS A VERY MILD LIE, IT IS STILL A LIE. EVERY VICIOUS THOUGT WILL REBOUND, EVERY THOUGHT OF HATRED WHICH YOU HAVE THOUGHT, IN  A CAVE EVEN, IS STORE UP, AND WILL ONE DAY COME BACK TO YOU WITH TREMENDOUS POWER IN THE FORM OF SOME MISERY HERE. IF YOU PROJECT ALL SORTS OF HATRED AND JEALOUSY, THEY WILL REBOUND ON YOU WITH COMPOUND INTEREST. NO POWER CAN AVERT THEM, WHEN ONECE YOU HAVE PUT THEM IN MOTION YOU WILL HAVE TO BEAR THEM. REMEMBERING THIS, WILL PREVENT YOU FROM DOING WICKED THINGS.

        NON - KILLING BEING ESTABLISHED, IN HIS PRESENCE ALL EMNITIES CEASE (IN OTHERS).

       IF A MAN GETS THE IDEA OF NON - INJURING OTHERS, BEFORE HIM EVEN ANIMALS WHICH ARE BY THEIR NATURE FEROCIOUS WILL BECOME PEACEFUL. THE TIGER AND THE LAMB WILL PLAY TOGETHER BEFORE THAT YOGI AND WILL NOT HURT EACH OTHER. WHEN YOU HAVE COME TO THAT STATE, THEN ALONE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE BECOME FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN NON-INJURING.

      BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUTHFULNESS, THE YOGI GETS THE POWER OF ATTAINING FOR HIMSELF AND OTHERS THE FRUITS OF WORK WITHOUT THE WORKS.

     WHEN THE POWER OF TRUTH WILL BE ESTABLISHED WITH YOU, THEN EVEN IN DREAM YOU WILL NEVER TELL AN UNTRUTH, IN THOUGHT, WORD OR DEED, WHATEVER YOU SAY WILL BE TRUTH. YOU MAY SAY TO A MAN, "BE BLESSED" AND THAT MAN WILL BE BLESSED. IF A MAN IS DISEASED, AND YOU SAY TO HIM, "BE THOU CURED" HE WILL BE CURVED IMMEDIATELY.

        BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NON-STEALING ALL WEALTH COMES TO THE YOGI.

    THE MORE YOU FLY FROM NATURE THE MORE SHE FOLLOWS YOU, AND IF  YOU DO NOT CARE FOR HER AT ALL SHE BECOMES YOUR SLAVE.

      BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CONTINENCE ENERGY IS GAINED.

    THE CHASTE BRAIN HAS TREMENDOUS ENERGY, GIGANTIC WILL POWER, WITHOUT THAT THERE CAN BE NO MENTAL STRENGTH. ALL MEN OF GIGANTIC BRAINS ARE VERY CONTINENT. IT GIVES WONDERFUL CONTROL OVER MANKIND. LEADERS OF MEN HAVE BEEN VERY CONTENT, AND THIS IS WHAT GAVE THEM POWER. THEREFORE, THE YOGI MUST BE CONTENT.

        WHEN HE IS FIXED IN NON-RECEIVING HE GETS THE MEMORY OF PAST LIFE.

       WHEN THE YOGI DOES NOT RECEIVE PRESENTS FROM OTHERS HE DOES NOT BECAME BEHOLDEN TO OTHERS, BUT BECOMES INDEPENDENT AND FREE, AND HIS MIND BECOMES PURE, BECAUSE WITH EVERY GIFT HE RECEIVES ALL THE EVILS OF THE GIVER, AND THEY COME AND LAY COATING AFTER COATING ON HIS MIND, UNTIL IT IS HIDDEN UNDER ALL SORTS OF COVERINGS OF EVIL. IF HE DOES NOT RECEIVE THE MIND BECOMES PURE, AND THE FIRST THING IT GETS IS MEMORY OF PAST LIFE. 

        THEN ALONE THE YOGI BECOMES PERFECTLY FIXED IN HIS IDEAL, BECAUSE HE SEES THAT HE HAS BEEN COMING AND GOING SO MANY TIMES, AND HE BECOMES DETERMINED THAT THIS TIME HE WILL BE FREE, THAT HE WILL NO MORE COME AND GO, AND BE THE SLAVE OF NATURE.

 

         

        

      

    

ANYBODY USEING YOU

                             ARE YOU FEEL USED AND MANIPULATE ?

         WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WHAT TO USE ME, MANIPULATE OR CONTROL ME? AM I TO SURRENDER TO THEM?

                  THEY ARE CUT OFF FROM BEING, SO THEY UNCONSCIOUSLY ATTEMPT TO GET ENERGY AND POWER FROM YOU. IT IS TRUE THAT ONLY AND UNCONSCIOUS PERSON WILL TRY TO USE OR MANIPULATE OTHERS, BUT IT IS EQUALLY TRUE THAT ONLY AN UNCONSCIOUS PERSON CAN BE USED AND MANIPULATED. IF YOU RESIST OR FIGHT UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIOUR IN OTHERS, YOU BECOME UNCONSCIOUS YOURSELF. BUT SURRENDER DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE USED BY UNCONSCIOUS PEOPLE. NOT AT ALL. IT IS PERFECTLY POSSIBLE TO SAY, "NO" FIRMLY AND CLEARLY TO A PERSON OR TO WALK AWAY FROM A SITUATION AND BE IN A STATE OF COMPLETE INNER NORRESISTANCE AT THE SAME TIME. WHEN YOU SAY "NO" TO A PERSON OR A SITUATION, LET IT COME NOT FROM REACTION BUT FROM INSIGHT, FROM ACLEAR REALIZATION OF WHAT IS RIGHTOR NOT RIGHT FOR YOU AT THAT MOMENT. LET IT BE A NONREACTIVE "NO" A HIGH-QUALITY, "NO" A "NO" THAT IS FREE OF ALL NEGATIVITY AND SO CREATES NO FURTHER SUFFERING.

             I AM IN A SITUATION AT WORK THAT IS UNPLEASANT. I HAVE TRIED TO SURRENDER TO IT, BUT I FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE. A LOT OF RESISTENCE KEEPS COMING UP.

         IF YOU CANNOT SURRENDER, TAKE IMMEDIATELY, SPEAK UP OR DO SOMETHING TO BRING ABOUT A CHANGE IN THE SITUATION- OR REMOVE YOURSELF FORM IT. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR  YOUR LIFE. DO NOT POLLUTE YOUR BEATIFUL, RADIANT INNER BEING NOR THE EARTH WITH NEGATIVITY. DO NOT GIVE UNHAPPINESS IN ANY FORM WHATSOVER A DWELLING PLACE INSIDE YOU. 

         IF YOU CANNOT TAKE ACTION, FOR EXAMPLE OF YOU ARE IN PRISON , THEN YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES LEFT, RESISTANCE OR SURRENDER. BONDAGE OR INNER FREEDOM FROM EXTERNAL CONDITIONS. SUFFERING OR INNER PEACE.

      IS NON RESISTANCE ALSO TO BE PRACTICED IN THE EXTERNAL CONDUCT OF OUR LIVES, SUCH AS NONRESISTANCE TO VIOLENCE, OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT JUST CONVECERNS OUR INNER LIFE?

       YOU ONLY NEED TO BE CONCERNED WITH THE INNER ASPECT. THAT IS PRIMARY OF COURSE, THAT WILL ALSO TRANSFORM THE CONDUCT OF YOUR OUTER LIFE, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS, AND SO ON.

        YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WILL BE CHANGED PROFOUNDLY BY SURRENFDER. IF YOU CAN NEVER ACCEPT WHAT IS, BY IMPLICATION YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCEPT ANYBODY THE WAY THEY ARE. YOU WILL JUDGE, CRITICIZE, LABEL, REJECT, OR ATTEMPT TO CHANGE PEOPLE. FURTHERMORE, IF YOU CONTINUOULSY MAKE THE NOW INTO A MEANS TO AN END IN THE FUTURE, YOU WILL ALSO MAKE EVERY PERSON YOU ENCOUNDER OR RELATE WITH INTO A MEANS TO AN END. THE RELATIONSHIP-THE HUMAN BEING-IS THEN OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE TO YOU, OR OF NO IMPORTANCE TO  YOU, OR OF NO IMPORTANCE AT ALL. WHAT YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE RELATIONSHIP IS PRIMARY-BE IT MATERIAL GAIN, A SENSE OF POWER, PHYSICAL PLEASURE, OR SOME FORM OF EGO GRATIFICATION.

             LET ME ILLUSTRATE HOW SURRENDER CAN WORK IN RELATIONSHIPS. WHEN YOU BECOME INVOLVED IN AN ARGUMENT OR SOME CONFLICT SITUATION, PERHAPS WITH A PARTNER OR SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU, START BY OBSERVING HOW DEFENSIVE YOU BECOME AS YOUR OWN POSITION IS ATTACKED, OR FEEL THE FORCE OF YOUR OWN AGGRESSION AS YOU ATTACK THE OTHER PERSON'S POSITION. 

           OBSERVE THE ATTACHEMENT TO YOUR VIEWS AND OPINIONS. FEEL THE MENTAL-EMOTIONAL ENERGY BEHIND YOUR NEED TO BE RIGHT AND MAKE THE OTHER PERSON WRONG. THAT'S THE ENERGY OF THE EGOIC MIND. YOU MAKE IT CONSCIOUS BY ACKNOWLEDGING IT, BY FEELING IT AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE. THEN ONE DAY, IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ARGUMENT, YOU WILL SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE A CHOICE,AND YOU MAY DECIDE TO DROP YOUR OWN REACTION-JUST TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. YOU SURRENDER. I DON'T MEAN DROPPING THE REACTION JUST VERBALLY BY SAYING "OKAY" YOU ARE RIGHT, WITH A LOOK ON YOUR FACE THAT SAYS, "I AM ABOVE ALL THIS CHILDISH UNCONSCIOUSNESS". THAT'S JUST DISPLACING THE RESISTANCE TO ANOTHER LEVEL, WITH THE EGOIC MIND STILL IN CHARGE, CLAIMING SUPERIORITY. I AM SPEAKING OF LETTING GO OF THE ENTIRE MENTAL-EMOTIONAL ENERGY FIELD INSIDE YOU THAT WAS FIGHTING FOR POWER.

           THE EGO IS CUNNING, SO YOU HAVE TO BE VERY ALERT, VERY PRESENT, AND TOTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF TO SEE WHETHER YOU HAVE TRULY RELINQUISHED YOUR IDENTIFICATION WITH A MENTAL POSITION AND SO FREED YOURSELF FROM YOUR MIND, IF YOU SUDDENLY FEEL VERY LIGHT, CLEAR AND DEEPLY AT PEACE, THAT IS AN UNMISTAKABLE SIGN THAT YOU HAVE TRULY SURRENDERED. THEN OBSERVE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE OTHER PERSON'S MENTAL POSITION AS YOU NO LONGER ENERGIZED IT THROUGH RESISTENCE. WHEN IDENTIFICATION WITH MENTAL POSITION IS OUT OF THE WAY, TRUE COMMUNICATION BEGINS.

     

     

WHEN YOUR MIND IS ACTIVE

                                                           ACTIVE MIND

             ALL TIMES, WHEN MY MIND HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE, IT HAS ACQUIRED SUCH MOMENTUM THAT I FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE MY ATTENTION AWAY FROM IT AND FEEL THE INNER BODY. THIS HAPPENS PARTICULARLY WHEN I GET INTO A WORRY OR ANXIETY PATTERN. DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS?

          IF AT ANY TIME YOU ARE FINDING IT HARD TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THE INNER BODY, IT IS USUALLY EASIER TO FOCUS ON YOUR BREATHING FIRST. CONSCIOUS BREATHING, WHICH IS A POWERFUL MEDITATION IN ITS OWN RIGHT, WILL GRADUALLY PUT YOU IN TOUCH WITH THE BODY. FOLLOW THE BREATH WITH YOUR ATTENTION AS IT MOVES IN AND OUT OF YOUR BODY. BREATHE INTOTHE BODY, AND FEEL YOUR ABDOMEN EXPANDING AND CONTRACTING SLIGHTLY WITH EACH INHALATION AND EXHALATION. IF YOU FIND IT EASY TO VISUALIZE, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE YOURSELF SURROUNDED BY LIGHT OR IMMERSED IN A LUMINOUS SUBSTANCE- A SEA OF CONSCIOUSNESS. THEN BREATHE IN THAT LIGHT. FEEL THAT LUMINOUS SUBSTANCE- A SEA OF CONSCIOUSNESS. THEN BREATHE IN THAT LIGHT. FEEL THAT LUMINOUS SUBSTANCE FILLING  UP YOUR BODY AND MAKING IT LUMINOUS ALSO. THEN GRADUALLY FOCUS MORE ON THE FEELING. YOU ARE NOW IN YOUR BODY. DON'T GET ATTACHED TO ANY VISUAL IMAGE.

                                                    CREATIVE USE OF MIND

               IF YOU NEED TO USE YOUR MIND FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE, USE IT CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR INNER BODY. ONLY IF YOU ARE ABLE TO BE CONSCIOUS WITHOUT THOUGHT CAN YOU USE YOUR MIND CREATIVELY, AND THE EASIEST WAY TO ENTER THAT STATE IS THROUGH YOUR BODY. WHENEVER AN ANSWER, A SOLUTION, IR A CREATIVE IDEA IS NEEDED, STOP THINKING FOR A MOMENT BY FOCUSING ATTENTION ON YOUR INNER ENERGY FIELD. BECOME AWARE OF THE STILLNESS. WHEN YOU RESUME THINKING, IT WILL BE FRESH AND CREATIVE. IN ANY THOUGHT ACTIVITY, MAKE IT A HABIT TO GO BACK AND FORTH EVERY FEW MINUTES OR SO BETWEEN THINKING AND AN INNER KIND OF LISTENING, AN INNER STILLNESS. WE COULD SAY, DON'T JUST THINK WITH YOUR HEAD, THINK WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY.

      

                                                      THE ART OF LISTENING

               WHEN LISTENING TO ANOTHER PERSON, DON'T JUST LISTEN WITH YOUR MIND, LISTEN WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY. FEEL THE ENERGY FIELD OF YOUR INNER BODY AS YOU LISTEN. THAT TAKES ATTENTION AWAY FROM THINKING AND CRETES A STILL SPACE THAT ENABLES YOU TO TRULY LISTEN WITHOUT THE MIND INTERFERING. YOU ARE GIVING THE OTHER PERSON SPACE- SPACE TO BE.IT IS THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT YOU CAN GIVE. MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO LISTEN BECAUSE THE MAJOR PART OF THEIR ATTENTION IS TAKEN UP BY THINKIN. THEY PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THAT THAN TO WHAT THE OTHER PERSON IS SAYING, AND NONE AT ALL TO WHAT REALLY MATTERS. THE BEING OF THE OTHER PERSON UNDERNEATH THE WORDS AND THE MIND, OF COURSE, YOU CANNOT FEEL SOMEONE ELSE'S BEING EXCEPT THROUGH YOUR OWN. THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE REALIZATION OF ONENESS, WHICH IS LOVE. AT THE DEEPEST LEVEL OF BEING, YOU ARE ONE WITH ALL THAT IS.

                 MOST HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS CONSIST MAINLY OF MINDS INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER, NOT OF HUMAN BEINGS COMMUNICATING, BEING IN COMMUNION. NO RELATIONSHIP CAN THRIVE IN THAT WAY, AND THAT IS WHY THERE IS SO MUCH CONFLICT IN RELATIONSHIPS. WHEN THE MIND IS RUNNING YOUR LIFE, CONFLICT IN RELATIONSHIPS. WHEN THE MIND IS RUNNING YOUR LIFE, CONFLICT, STRIFE AND PROBLEMS ARE INEVITABLE. BEING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR INNER BODY CREATES A CLEAR SPACE OF NO-MIND WITHIN WHICH THE RELATIONSHIP CAN FLOWER.

                                    SLOWING DOWN THE AGING PROCESS

                    IN THE MEANTIME, AWARENESS OF THE INNER BODY HAS OTHER BENEFITS IN THE PHYSICAL REALM. ONE OF THEM IS A SIGNIFICANT SLOWING DOWN OF THE AGING OF THE PHYSICAL BODY.

                     WHEREAS THE OUTER BODY NORMALLY APPEARS TO GROW OLD AND WITHER FAIRLY QUICKLY, THE INNER BODY DOES NOT CHANGE WITH TIME, EXCEPT THAT YOU MAY FEEL IT MORE DEEPLY AND BECOME IT MORE FULLY. IF YOU ARE TWENTY YEARS OLD NOW, THE ENERGY FIELD OF YOUR INNER BODY WILL FELL JUST THE SAME WHEN YOU ARE EIGHTY. IT WILL BE JUST AS VIBRANTLY ALIVE. AS SOON AS YOUR HABITUAL STATE CHANGES FROM BEING OUT-OF-THE-BODY AND TRAPPED IN YOUR MIND TO BEING IN-THE-BODY AND PRESENT IN THE NOW, YOUR PHYSICAL BODY WILL FEEL LIGHTER, CLEARER, MORE ALIVE. AS THERE IS MORE CONSCIOUNESS IN THE BODY, ITS MOLECULAR STRUCTURE ACTUALLY BECOMES LESS DENSE. MORE CONSCIOUSNESS MEANS A LESSENING OF THE ILLUSION OF MATERIALITY.

                     WHEN YOU BECOME IDENTIFIED MORE WITH THE TIMELESS INNER BODY THAN WITH THE OUTER BODY, WHEN PREENCE BECOMES YOUR PSYCHE AND IN THE CELLS OF THE BODY. THE ACCUMULATION OF TIME AS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BURDEN OF PAST AND FUTURE GREATLY IMPAIRS THE CELL'S CAPACITY FOR SELF RENEWAL. SO IF YOU INHABIT THE INNER BODY, THE OUTER BODY WILL GROW OLD AT A MUCH SLOWER RATE, AND EVEN WHEN IT DOES, YOUR TIMELESS ESSENCE WILL SHINE THROUGH THE OUTER FORM, AND YOU WILL NOT GIVE THE APPEARANCE OF AN OLD PERSON.

             IS THERE ANY SCIENCTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR THIS?

                 TRY IT OUT AND YOU WILL BE THE EVIDENCE.

       

WHEN YOUR LIFE START - ITS NOW

                                    YOUR LIFE WILL START NOW

                     I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN BE FREE NOW. AS IT HAPPENS, I AM EXTREMELY UNHAPPY WITH MY LIFE AT THE MOMENT. THIS IS A FACT, AND I WOULD BE DELUDING MYSELF IF I TRIED TO CONVINCE MYSELF THAT ALL IS WELL WHEN IT DEFINITELY ISN'T. TO ME, THE PRESENT MOMENT IS VERY UNHAPPY, IT IS NOT LIBERATING AT ALL. WHAT KEEPS ME GOING IS THE HOPE OR POSSIBLITY OF SOME IMPROVEMENT IN THE FUTURE.

                  YOU THINK THAT YOUR ATTENTION IS IN THE PRESENT MOMENT WHEN IT'S ACTUALLY TAKEN UP COMPLETELY BY TIME. YOU CANNOT BE BOTH UNHAPPY AND FULLY PRESENT IN THE NOW.

                WHAT YOU REFER TO AS YOUR "LIFE" SHOULD MORE ACCURATELY BE CALLED YOUR "LIFE SITUATION" . IT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME, PAST AND FUTURE. CERTAIN THINGS IN THE PAST DIDN'T GO THE WAY YOU WANTED THEM TO GO. YOU ARE STILL RESISTING WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST, AND NOW YOU ARE RESISTING WHAT IS. HOPE IS WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING, BUT HOPE KEEPS YOU FOCUSED  ON THE FUTURE, AND THIS CONTINUED FOCUS PERPETUATES YOUR DENIAL OF THE NOW AND THEREFORE YOUR UNHAPPINESS.

               IT IS TRUE THAT MY PRESENT LIFE SITUATION IS THE RESULT OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST, BUT IS STILL MY PRESENT SITUATION, AND BEING STUCK IN IT IS WHAT MAKES ME UNHAPPY.

             FORGET ABOUT YOUR LIFE SITUATION FOR A WHILE AND PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR LIFE.

         WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?

    YOUR LIFE SITUATION EXISTS IN TIME.

    YOUR LIFE IS NOW.

    YOUR LIFE SITUATION IS MIND-STUFF.

    YOUR LIFE IS REAL.

              FIND THE "NARROW GATE THAT LEADS TO LIFE". IT IS CALLED THE NOW. NARROW YOUR LIFE DOWN TO THIS MOMENT. YOUR LIFE SITUATION MAY BE FULL OF PROBLEMS - MOST LIFE SITUATIONS ARE - BUT FIND OUT IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEM AT THIS MOMENT. NOT TOMORROW OR IN TEN MINUTES, BUT NOW. DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM NOW?

            WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF PROBLEMS, THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ANYTHING NEW TO ENTER, NO ROOM FOR A SOLUTION. SO WHENEVER YOU CAN, MAKE SOME ROOM, CREATE SOME SPACE, SO THAT YOU FIND THE LIFE UNDERNEATH YOUR LIFE SITUATION.

            USE YOUR SENSE FULLY. BE WHERE YOU ARE. LOOK AROUND. JUST LOOK, DON'T UNTERPRET. SEE THE LIGHT, SHAPES, COLORS, TEXTURES. BE AWARE OF THE SILENT PRESENCE OF EACH THING. BE AWARE OF THE SPACE THAT ALLOWS EVERYTHING TO BE. LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS, DON'T JUDGE THEM. LISTEN TO THE SILENCE UNDERNEATH THE SOUNDS.  TOUCH SOMETHING- ANYTHING- AND FEEL AND ACKNOWLEDGE IT BEING. OBSERVE THE RHYTHM OF YOUR BREATHING, FEEL THE AIR FLOWING IN AND OUT, FEEL THE LIFE ENERGY INSIDE YOUR BODY. ALLOW EVERYTHING TO BE,  WITHIN AND WITHOUT. ALLOW THE "ISNESS" OF ALL THINGS. MOVE DEEPLY INTO THE NOW.

                    YOU ARE LEAVING BEHIND THE DEADENING WORLD OF MENTAL ABSTRACTION, OF TIME. YOU ARE GETTING OUT OF THE INSANE MIND THAT IS DRAINING YOU OF LIFE ENERGY, JUST AS IT IS SLOWLY POISONING AND DESTROYING THE EARTH. YOU ARE AWAKENING OUT OF THE DREAM OF TIME INTO THE PRESENT.

     

                                 ALL PROBLEMS ARE ILLUSIONS OF THE MIND

          IT FEELS AS IF A HEAVY BURDEN HAS BEEN LIFTED. A SENSE OF LIGHTNESS. I FEEL CLEAR. BUT MY PROBLEMS ARE STILL THERE WAITING FOR ME, AREN'T THEY? THEY HAVEN'T BEEN SOLVED. AM I NOT JUST TEMPORARILY EVADING THEM?

          IF YOU FOUND YOURSELF IN PARADISE, IT WOULDN'T BE LONG BEFORE YOUR MIND WOULD SAY "YES BUT, ".... ULTIMATELY THIS IS NOT ABOUT SOLVING YOUR PROBLEMS. IT'S ABOUT REALIZING THAT THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS. ONLY SITUATIONS- TO BE DEALT WITH NOW, OR TO BE LEFT ALONE AND ACCEPTED AS PART OF THE "ISNESS" OF THE PRESENT MOMENT UNTIL THEY CHANGE OR CAN BE DEALTH WITH . PROBLEMS ARE MIND-MADE AND NEED TIME TO SURVIVE. THEY CANNOT SURVIVE IN THE ACTUALITY OF THE NOW.

          FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON THE NOW AND TELL ME WHAT PROBLEM YOU HAVE AT THIS MOMENT.