YOGA IS THE ONLY WAY TO BALANCE OUR BODY

                      

                         OUR BODY MICROPHONE

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                        YOUR BODY, MIND, AND EMOTION ARE THE ONLY THINS THAT ARE IN YOUR EXPERIENCE RIGHT NOW. YOU AN INFER THAT IF THESE THREE THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN THE WAY THEY ARE HAPPEING, THERE MUST BE AN ENERGY THAT MAKES THEM HAPPEN.WITHOUT ENERGY, AL THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING, FOR EXAMPLES, A MIRCOPHONE AMPLIFIES  SOUND. EVEN IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE MICROPHONE, YOU CAN INFER THAT THERE IS A SOURCE THAT POWER IT. THE THIRD DIMENSION OF YOUR BODY IS REFERRED TO AS THE ENERGY BODY OR THE PRANAYAMA KOSHA.

                     THE ENERGY BODY REVERBERATES IN A CERTAIN WAY, AND WHICHEVER WAY IT REVERBERATES, IS THE WAY YOUR MENTAL BODY AND PHYSICAL BODY HAPPEN. THE BASIC WAY OF YOGA IS MOSTLY ON THE LEVEL OF PRANAYAMA KOSHA BECAUSE IF YOU HANDLE THIS PROPERLY, PHYSICAL WELLNESS IS NATURALLY TAKEN CARE OF.

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                   PRANAYAMA KOSHA IS THE FUNDAMENTAL ENERGY IN ALL PHYSICAL CREATION. IF YOU HAVE MASTERY OVER YOUR PRANA, OR ENERGY, IT IS NOT SITUATIONS AROUND YOU. AS YOUR ENERGIES BECOME MORE BALANCED, SUDDENLY YOUR LIFE SITUATIONS WORK OUT THE WAY YOU WANT EVEN BEFORE YOU THINK ABOUT IT. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SLOP WITH LIFE ANYMORE. WHATEVER YOU DO, THERE IS NO PRESSURE ON YOU BECAUSE EVERYTHING JUST FALLS INTO PLACE. IF YOU WORK TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY, DAY AFTER DAY, STILL THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS STRESS OR PRESSURE ON YOU.

                         IF YOU FEEL MY PULSE, MOS OF THE TIME IT IS BELOW FORTY, IF AM HUNGRY. AFTER I HAVE EATEN, IT IS SOMEWHERE AROUND FORTY-TWO TO FORTY-FIVE. IF AM PHYSICAL ACTIVE, IT MAY RAISE TO FIFTY, FIFTY-FOUR. ONLY IF I RUN UP A STAIRCASE OR SOMETHING, IT WILL RAISE HIGHER THAN THAT. WHEN THE BODY IS LIKE THIS, IT IS AS IF YOU ARE IN DEEP SLUMBER ALL THE TIME, FAST, ASLEEP, BUT WIDE AWAKE. ONCE YOU ARE LIKE THIS, THERE IS NO SUCH THING A STRESS.

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                    IF THESE THREE DIMENTIONS, THE PHYSICAL BODY, THE MENTAL BODY, AND THE ENERGY BODY, ARE KEPT IN A CERTAIN STATE OF ALIGNMENT, WHAT IS DEEPER THAN THAT BEGINS TO FUNCTION BY ITS OWN NATURE. THAT DIMENTION IS THE VERY SOURCE OF CREATION.

                      PEOPLE SEE MIRACULOUS CHANGES IN THEIR PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS SIMPLY BECAUSE ONCE YOUR ENERGY BODY IS IN PROPER BALANCE AND FULL FLOW, DISEASE CANNOT EXIST IN YOU PHYSIOLOGICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICALLY. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT IT IS, THIS IS LIKE YOUR CAR WAS NOT STARTING, SO YOU PUSHED IT, KICKED IT, CURSED IT - YOU DID EVERYTHING. YOUR MECHANIC CAME AND SIMPLY TOUCHED IT, AND SUDDENLY EVERYTHING IS OKAY. SIMILARLY, WITH YOUR BODY, YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS WHERE AND HOW IT IS FUNCTIONING. WHATEVER YOU DO, IT DOES NOT WORK. THEN, WITH JUST A SIMPLE PROCESS - EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE OKAY. THERE ARE THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DROPPED THEIR AILMENTS BY DOING SIMPLE YOGIC PRACTICES AND BALANCING THEIR SYSTEM. FOR A THINKING MIND, THIS LOOKS LIKE A MIRACLE.

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                      ANYTHING THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND, YOU TEND TO CALL IT A MIRACLE. LET US SAY YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ELECTRICITY, AND I TELL YOU, "IF I TOUCH ME WALL, THE WHOLE HALL WILL BE FLOODED IN LIGHT". WILL YOU BELIEVE ME? IF I PRESS THE SWITCH AND THE WHOE PLACE BECOMES LIGHT, YOU WILL THINK I AM THE MESSENGER OF GOD, OR THE SON OF GOD, OR GOD HIMSELF, JUST BECAUSE YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW IT FUNCTIONS. ANYTHING THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND BECOMES A MIRACLE IN YOUR MIND. THE VERY LIFE PROCESS IS A GREAT MIRACLE. THE VERY WAY YOU HAVE BECOME ALL THIS FROM BEING TWO LITTLE CELLS, IS IT NOT A MIRACLE? EVERYTHING ABOUT LIFE IS MIRACULOUS. OTHERWISE, IF YOU START EXPLAINING IT, NOTHING IS A MIRACLE.

                   THESE THREE DIMENTIONS, THE PHYSICAL BODY, THE MENTAL BODY, AND THE ENERGY BODY ARE PHYSICAL IN NATURE. THEY ARE GETTING SUBTLER AS YOU GO - FROM GROSSLY PHYSICAL TO A LITTLE SUBTLER, TO MUCH MORE SUBTLE BUT THEY ARE PHYSICAL IN NATURE. YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THAT THE LIGHT BULB IS PHYSICAL, BUT THE ELECTRICITY WHICH MAKES IT GLOW IS ALSO PHYSICAL, THE LIGHT IT THROWS OUT IS ALSO PHYSICAL. SIMILARLY, THESE THREE LAYERS ARE OF PHYSICAL NATURE.

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                        VIGNANAMAYA KOSHA IS OF A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NATURE. THERE IS NO APPROPRIATE  WORD IN ENGLISH SO IT IS GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS "ETHERIC BODY" OR SPIRITUALLY BODY. THIS IS A TRANSITORY BODY. TRANSITORY IN THE SENSE, IT IS MOVING FROM PHYSICAL NATURE INTO NON-PHYSICAL NATURE. THE INTERMEDIATE SPACE OR THE INTERMEDIATE STATE IS REFERRED TO AS "ETHER" OR "VIGNANA".

                         THIS IS THE DIMENSION WHERE IF TRANSFORMATION HAPPENS, IT IS TRULY FOREVER, SUPPOSE WE TEACH YOUR BODY TO DO YOGA. IF YOU DO ASANAS FOR SIX MOTHS YOU WILL FEEL SO MUCH BETTER PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY AND IN EVERY WAY.

THE KARMA

       

                                           KARMA

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                   KARMA IS THE AGGREGATE FRUITIVE ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED TO MAKE THIS BODY COMFORTABLE OR UNCOMFORTABLE. WE HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN THAT WHEN ONE MAN WAS ABOUT TO DIE HE REQUESTED HIS PHYSICIAN TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO LIVE FOUR MORE YEARS SO THAT HE COULD FINISH HIS PLANS. THIS MEANS THAT WHILE DYING HE WAS THINKING OF HIS PLANS. AFTER HIS BODY WAS DESTROYED, HE DOUBTLESSLY CARRIED HIS PLANS WITH HIM BY MEANS OF THE SUBTLE BODY, COMPOSED OF MIND, INTELLIGENCE, AND EGO. THUS HE WOULD GET ANOTHER CHANCE BY THE GRACE OF THE SUPREME LORD, THE SUPERSOUL, WHO IS ALWAYS WITHIN THE HEART. IN THE NEXT BIRTH, ONE ACQUIRES REMEMBRANCE FROM THE SUPERSOUL AND BEGINS TO EXECUTE PLANS BEGUN IN THE PREVIOUS LIFE. SITUATED ON THE VEHICLE GIVEN BY MATERIAL NATURE AND REMINDED BY THE SUPERSOUL WITHIN THE HEART, THE LIVING ENTITY STRUGGLES ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE TO FULLFILL HIS PLANS.

                       SEX CHANGE WITHOUT SURGERY

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                     A MAN GETS HIS NEXT LIFE'S BIRTH ACCORDING TO WHAT HE THINKS OF AT THE TIME OF DEATH. IF SOMEONE IS TOO ATTACHED TO HIS WIFE, NATURALLY HE THINKS OF HIS WIFE AT THE TIME OF DEATH, AND IN HIS NEXT LIFE HE TAKES THE BODY OF A WOMAN. SIMILARLY, IF A WOMAN THINKS OF HER HUSBAND AT THE TIME OF DEATH, NATURALLY SHE GETS THE BODY OF A MAN IN HER NEXT LIFE.

                   

                    WE SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER, AS IT IS STATED IN BHAGAVAD-GITA THAT BOTH THE GROSS AND SUBTLE MATERIAL BODIES ARE DRESSESS, THEY ARE THE SHIRT AND COAT OF THE LIVING ENTITY. TO BE EITHER A WOMAN OR A MAN INVOLVES ONLY ONE'S BODILY DRESS.

                         DREAMS AND PAST LIVES

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                 IN DREAMS WE SOMETIMES SEE THINGS THAT WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED IN THE PRESENT BODY. SOMETIMES IN DREAMS WE THINK THAT ARE FLYING THE SKY, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OF FLYING. THIS MEANS THAT ONCE IN A PREVIOUS LIFE, EITHER AS A DEMIGOD OR ASTRONAUT, WE FLEW IN THE SKY. THE IMPRESSION IS THERE IN THE STOCKPILE OF THE MIND, AND IT SUDDENLY EXPRESSESS ITSELF. IT IS LIKE FERMENTATION TAKING PLACE IN THE DEPTHS OF WATER,WHICH SOMETIMES MANIFESTS ITSELF IN BUBBLES ON THE WATER'S SURFACE. SOMETIMES WE DREAM OF COMING TO A PLACE WE HAVE NEVER KNOWN OR EXPERIENCED THIS. THE IMPRESSION IS KEPT WITHIN THE MIND AND SOMETIMES BECOMES MANIFEST EITHER IN DREAM OR IN THOUGHT. THE CONCLUSION IS THAT THE MIND IS THE STOREHOUSE OF VARIOUS THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES UNDERGOING DURING OUR PAST LIVES. THUS THERE IS A CHAIN OF CONTINUATION FROM ONE LIFE TO ANOTHER, FROM PREVIOUS LIVES TO THIS LIFE, AND FROM THIS LIFE TO FUTURE LIVES.

                                                          COMAS

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                    A LIVING ENTITY TOO MUCH ABSORBED IN MATERIAL ACITIVITY BECOMES VERY MUCH ATTACHED TO THE MATERIAL BODY. EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH, HE THINKS OF HIS PRESENT BODY AND THE RELATIVES CONNECTED TO IT. THUS HE REMAINS FULLY ABSORBED IN THE BODILY CONCEPTION OF LIFE, SO MUCH SO THAT EVEN AT THE POINT OF DEATH HE ABHORS LEAVIN HIS PRESENT BODY. SOMETIMES IT IS FOUND THAT A PERSON ON THE VERGE OF DEATH REMAINS IN A COMA FOR MANY DAYS BEFORE GIVING UP THE BODY.

                      A PERSON MAY BE ENJOYING THE BODY OF A PRIME MINISTER OR A PRESIDENT,  BUT WHEN HE UNDERSTANDS THAT HE WILL BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE BODY OF DOG OR HOG, HE CHOOSES NOT TO LEAVE THE PRESENT BODY. THEREFORE HE LIES IN A COMA MANY DAYS BEFORE DEATH.

       

                                 GHOSTS AND SUICIDE

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                       GHOSTS ARE BEREFIT OF A PHYSICAL BODY BECAUSE OF THEIR GRIEVOUSLY SINFUL ACTS, SUCH AS SUICIDE. THE LAST RESORT OF GHOSTLY CHARACTERS IN HUMAN SOCIETY IS TO TAKEN SHELTER OF SUICIDE, EITHER MATERIAL OR SPIRITUAL. MATERIAL SUICIDE CAUSES LOSS OF THE PHYSICAL BODY, AND SPIRITUAL SUICIDE CAUSES LOSS OF THE INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY.

THE TRUTH OF REINCARNATION (COMING BACK)

                          REINCARNATION IS UNKNOWN TO 

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                           THIS SCIENCE OF TRANSMIGRATION IS COMPLETELY UNKNOWN TO MODERN SCIENTISTS. SO-CALLED SCIENTISTS DO NOT LIKE TO BOTHER WITH THESE THINGS BECAUSE IF THEY WOULD AT ALL CONSIDER THIS SUBTLE SUBJECT MATTER AND THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE, THEY WOULD SEE THAT THEIR FUTURE IS VERY DARK. 

                    IGNORANCE OF REINCARNATION

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                    MODERN CIVILIZATION IS BASED ON FAMILY COMFORTS, THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF AMENTIES, AND THEREFORE AFTER RETIREMENT EVERYONE EXPECTS TO LIVE A VERY COMFORTABLE LIFE IN A WELL-FURNISHED HOME DECORATED WITH FINE LADIES AND CHILDREN, WITHOUT ANY DESIRE TO GET OUT OF SUCH A COMFORTABLE HOME. HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICERS AND MINISTERS STICK TO THEIR PRIZE POSTS UNTIL DEATH, AND THEY NEITHER DREAM NOR DESIRE TO GET OUT OF HOMELY COMFORTS. BOUND BY SUCH HALLUCINATIONS, MATERIALISTIC MEN PREPARE VARIOUS PLANS FOR A STILL MORE COMFORTABLE LIFE, BUT SUDDENLY CRUEL DEATH COMES WITHOUT MERCY AND TAKES AWAY THE GREAT PLANMAKER AGAINST HIS DESIRE, FORCING HIM TO GIVE UP THE PRESENT BODY FOR ANOTHER BODY. SUCH A PLANMAKER IS THUS FORCED TO ACCEPT ANOTHER BODY IN ONE OF THE 8,400,000 SPECIES OF LIFE, ACCORDING TO THE FRUITS OF THE WORK HE HAS PERFORMED.

                    IN THE NEXT LIFE, PERSONS WHO WERE TOO MUCH ATTACHED TO FAMILY COMFORTS ARE GENERALLY AWARDED LOWER SPECIES OF LIFE ON ACCOUNT OF SINFUL ACTS PERFORMED DURING A LONG DURATION OF SINFUL LIFE, AND THUS ALL THE ENERG OF THE HUMAN LIFE IS SPOILED. IN ORDER TO BE SAVED FROM THE DANGER OF SPOILING THE HUMAN FORM AND BEING ATTACHED TO UNREAL THINGS, ONE MUST TAKE WARNING OF DEATH AT THE AGE OF FIFTY, IF NO EARLIER. THE PRINCIPLE IS THAT ONE SHOULD TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT THE DEATH WARNING IS ALREADY THERE, EVEN PRIOR TO THE ATTAINMENT OF FIFTY YEARS OF AGE, AND THUS AT ANY STAGE OF LIFE ONE SHOULD PREPARE HIMSELF FOR A BETTER NEXT LIFE.

                       OUR BODY COMPOSED OF

                               FIVE ELEMENTS

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                 WHEN WE DIE, THIS MATERIAL BODY COMPOSED OF FIVE ELEMENTS - EARTH, WATER, AIR, FIRE, AND ETHER - DECOMPOSES, AND THE GROSS MATERIALS RETURN TO THE ELEMENTS. OR, AS THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE SAYS, "DUST THOU ART, AND UNTO DUST THOU SHALT RETURN". UB SINE SOCIETIES THE BODY IS BURNED, IN OTHERS IT IS BURIED, AND IN OTHER IT IS THROWN TO ANIMALS. IN INDIA, THE HINDUS BURN THE BODY, AND THUS THE BODY IS TRANSFORMED INTO ASHES. ASH IS SIMPLY ANOTHER FORM OF EARTH. CHRISTIANS BURY THE BODY, AND AFTER SOME TIME IN THE GRAVE, THE BODY EVENTUALLY TURNS TO DUST, WHICH AGAIN, LIKE ASH, IS ANOTHER FORM OF EARTH. THERE ARE OTHER SOCIETIES - LIKE THE PARSEE COMMUNITY IN INDIA - THAT NEITHER BURN NOR  BURY THE BODY, BUT THROW IT TO THE VULTURES, AND THE VULTURES IMMEDIATELY COME TO EAT THE BODY, AND THEN THE BODY IS EVENTUALY TRANSFORMED INTO STOOL. SO IN ANY CASE, THIS BEAUTIFUL BODY, WHICH WE ARE SOAPING AND CARING FOR SO NICELY, WILL EVENTUALLY TURN INTO EITHER STOOL, ASHES, OR DUST. AT DEATH, THE FINER ELEMENTS (MIND, INTELLIGENCE, AND EGO) CARRY THE SMALL PARTICLE OF SPIRIT SOUL TO ANOTHER BODY TO SUFFER OR ENJOY, ACCORDING TO ONE'S WEEK.

                      ASTROLOGY AND

                                   REINCARNATION

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                   ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS OF STELLAR INFLUENCES UPON A LIVING BEING ARE NOT SUPPOSITIONS, BUT ARE FACTUAL, AS CONFIRMED IN SRIMAD-BHAGAVATAM. EVERY LIVING BEING IS CONTROLLED BY THE LAWS OF NATURE AT EVERY MINUTE, JUST AS A CITIZEN IN CONTROLLED BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE STATE. THE STATE LAWS ARE GROSSLY OBSERVED, BUT THE LAWS  OF MATERIAL NATURE, BEING SUBTLE TO OUR GROSS UNDERSTANDING, CANNOT BE EXPERIENCED GROSSLY.

                      THE LAWS OF NATURE IS SO SUBTLE THAT EVERY PART OF OUR BODY IS INFLUENCED BY THE RESPECTIVE STARS, AND A LIVING BEING OBTAINS HIS WORKING BODY TO FULFILL HIS TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT BY THE MANIPULATION OF SUCH ASTRONOMICAL INFLUENCES. A MAN'S DESTINY IS THEREFORE ASCERTAINED BY THE BIRTH TIME CONSTELLATION OF STARS, AND A FACTUAL HOROSCOPE IS MADE BY A LEARNED ASTROLOGER. IT IS A GREAT SCIENCE, AND MISUSE OF A SCIENCE DOES NOT MAKE IT USELESS.

                    WHY SOME PEOPLE CANNOT ACCEPT 

                                      REINCARNATION

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                         THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH, AND THERE IS ALSO THE CHANCE TO FREE ONESELF FROM THE CYCLE OF REPEATED BIRTH AND DEATH AND ATTAIN A LIFE OF IMMORTALITY. BUT BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO ACCEPTING ONE BODY AFTER ANOTHER SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, IT IS DIFFICULT FOR US TO THINK OF A LIFE THAT IS ETERNAL. AND THE LIFE OF MATERIAL EXISTENCE IS SO TROUBLESOME THAT ONE MAY THINK THAT IF THERE IS AN ETERNAL LIFE, THAT LIFE MUST BE TROUBLESOME ALSO. FOR EXAMPLE, A DISEASED MAN WHO IS TAKING  VERY BITTER MEDICINE AND WHO IS LYING DOWN IN BED, EATNG THERE PASSING STOOL AND URINE THERE, UNABLE TO MOVE, MAY FIND HIS LIFE SO INTOLERABLE THAT HIS THINKS, LET ME COMMIT SUICIDE, "SIMILARLY, MATERIALISTIC LIFE IS SO MISERABLE THAT IN DESPERATION ONE SOMETIMES TAKES TO A PHILOSOPHY OF VOIDISM OR IMPERSONALISM TO TRY TO NEGATE HIS VERY EXISTENCE AND MAKE EVERYTHING ZERO. ACTUALLY, HOWEVER, BECOMING ZERO IS NOT POSSIBLE, NOR IS IT NECESSARY. WE ARE IN TROUBLE IN OUR MATERIAL CONDITION, BUT WHEN WE GET OUT OF OUR MATERIAL CONDITION WE CAN FIND REAL LIFE, ETERNAL LIFE.

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HAVE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SOUL'S JOURNEY?

 

               

                         ❤  THE SOUL'S SECRET JOURNEY

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                     ONE IFE IS JUST A FLASH IN TIME  ❤ 

                  FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL THE LIVING ENTITY TRAVELS IN THE DIFFERENT SPECIES OF LIFE AND THE DIFFERENT PLANETS, ALMOST PERPETUALLY. THIS PROCESS IS EXPLAINED IN BHAGAVAD-GITA. UNDER THE SPELL OF MAYA, EVERYONE IS WANDERING THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE ON THE CARRIAGE OF THE BODY OFFERED BY THE MATERIAL ENERGY. MATERIALISTIC LIFE INVOLVES A SERIES OF ACTIONS AND REACTIONS. IT IS A LONG FILM SPOOL OF ACTIONS AND REACTIONS, AND ONE LIFE SPAN IS JUST A FLASH IN SUCH A REACTIONARY SHOW. WHEN A CHILD BORN, IT IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD THAT HIS PARTICULAR TYPE OF BODY IS THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER SET OF ACTIVITIES, AND WHEN AN OLD MAN DIES, IT IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD THAT ONE SET OF REACTIONARY ACTIVITIES IS FINISHED.

                         YOU GET THE BODY OF YOUR CHOICE

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                     THE LIVING ENTITY CREATES HIS OWN BODY BY HIS PERSONAL DESIRES, AND THE EXTERNAL ENERGY OF THE LORD SUPPLIES HIM WITH EXACT FORM BY WHICH HE CAN ENJOY HIS DESIRES TO THE FULLEST EXTEN. THE TIGER WANTED TO ENJOY THE BLOOD OF ANOTHER ANIMAL, THEREFORE, BY THE GRACE OF THE LORD, THE MATERIAL ENERGY SUPPLIED HIM THE BODY OF THE TIGER, WITH FACILITIES FOR ENJOYING BLOOD FROM ANOTHER ANIMAL.

                                  DEATH MEANS FORGETTING

                                              YOUR LAST LIFE

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                    AFTER DEATH ONE FORGETS EVERYTHING ABOUT THE PRESENT BODILY RELATIONSHIPS, WE HAVE A LITTLE EXPERIENCE OF THIS AT NIGHT WHEN WE GO TO SLEEP. WHILE SLEEPING, WE FORGET EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS BODY AND BODILY RELATIONS, ALTHOUGH THIS GORGETFULLNESS IS A TEMPORARY SITUATION FOR ONLY A FEW HOURS. DEATH IS NOTHING BUT SLEEPING FOR A FEW MONTHS IN ORDER TO DEVELOP ANOTHER TERM OF BODILY ENCAGEMENT, WHICH WE ARE AWARDED BY THE LAW OF NATURE ACCORDING TO OUR ASPIRATION. THEREFORE, ONE HAS ONLY TO CHANGE THE ASPIRATION DURING THE COURSE OF THIS PRESENT BODY, AND FOR THIS THERE IS NEED OF TRAINING IN THE CURRENT DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE. THIS TRAINING CAN BE BEGUN AT ANY STAGE OF LIFE, OR EVEN A FEW SECONDS BEFORE DEATH, BUT THE USUAL PROCEDURE IS FOR ONE TO GET THE TRAINING FROM VERY EARLY LIFE.

                                                   THE SOUL TAKES A 

                                                             HUMAN FORM FIRST

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                         ORIGINALLY THE LIVING ENTITY IS A SPIRITUAL BEING, BUT WHEN HE DESIRES TO ENJOY THIS MATERIAL WORLD HE COMES DOWN. WE CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE LIVING ENTITY FIRST ACCEPTS A BODY THAT IS HUMAN IN FORM, BUT GRADUALLY, DUE TO HIS DEGRADED ACTIVITIES , HE FALLS INTO LOWER FORMS OF LIFE- INTO THE ANIMAL, PLANT, AND AQUATIC FORMS. BY THE GRADUAL PROCESS OF EVOLUTION, THE LIVING ENTITY AGAIN ATTAINS THE BODY OF A HUMAN BEING AND IS GIVEN ANOTHER CAUSE TO GET OUT OF THE PROCESS OF TRANSMIGRATION. IF HE AGAIN MISSESS HIS CHANCE IN THE HUMAN FORM TO UNDERSTAND HIS POSITION, HE IS AGAIN PLACED IN THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH IN VARIOUS TYPES OF BODIES.

                                             MODERN SCIENTISTS

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                 THIS SCIENCE OF TRANSMIGRATION IS COMPLETELY UNKNOWN TO MODERN SCIENTISTS. SO-CALLED SCIENTISTS DO NOT LIKE TO BOTHER WITH THESE THINGS BECAUSE IF THEY WOULD AT ALL CONSIDER THIS SUBTLE SUBJECT MATTER AND THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE, THEY WOULD SEE THAT THEIR FUTURE IS VERY DARK.

YOUR MIND NEEDS TO BE LIBERATED

                           THE TRUTH OF OUR MIND

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                   💫    YOUR MIND NEED NOT BE CONTROLLED, 

                                   YOUR MIND NEEDS TO BE LIBERATED 💫

                    MIND IS NOT A CAP ON LIFE, MIND IS A WAY TO LIBERATE LIFE. NOWADAYS, EVERYWHERE YOU GO, PEOPLE ARE SAYING, "YOU MUST CONTROL THE MIND". YOUR MIND DOES NOT NEED TO BE CONTROLLED, YOUR MIND NEEDS TO BE LIBERATED. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK OF CONTROLLING THE MIND.

                  PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT WANTING TO BE "NO-MIND". IT IS A VERY MISUNDERSTOOD CONCEPT. IT TOOK MILLIONS OF YEARS TO EVOLVE THIS MIND. WHY DO YOU WANT TO BECOME "NO-MIND". NOW?. IT IS SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO HANDLE THE TORTURE OF YOUR MIND. IF YOUR MIND WAS ECSTASY. IT YOUR MIND WAS THE MEANS TO YOUR BLISSFULNESS, WOULD YOU WANT TO BECOME A "NO-MIND?" ONLY BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME A MESS, AND YOU ARE SEEING IT AS A BARRIER, NOT A STEPPING STONE, YOU WANT TO BECOME A "NO-MIND". MIND IS NOT A BARRIER, IT IS A TREMENDOUS POSSIBILITY. IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE TRYIG TO GO ABOUT HANDLING THE MIND WITHOUT ADDRESSING AND UNDERSTANDING ITS FUNDAMENTAL NATURE THAT THIS PROBLEM HAS HAPPENED.

                       MORALITY IS THE MAJOR PROBLEM. ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS, RIGHT FROM ONE'S CHILDHOOD, WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG HAS BEEN IMPOSED ON THE MIND. PEOPLE HAVE TAUGHT YOU WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD. BUT GOOD AND HAD ARE VERY STRONG POINTS OF IDENTITY. YOU NATURALLY GET IDENTIFIED WITH WHATEVER YOU CONSIDERED GOOD, AND YOU ARE NATURALLY REPELLED FROM WHATEVER YOU CONSIDER BAD.

                     HAVING AN AVERSION TO SOMETHING AND AN ATTRACTION TOWARDS SOMETHING ELSE IS THE BASIS OF IDENTIFICATION. WHATEVER YOU ARE AVERSE TO DOMINATES YOUR MIND. THE NATURE OF YOUR MIND IS SUCH THAT IF YOU SAY, "I DO NOT WANT SOMETHING". ONLY THAT THING KEEPS HAPPENING IN YOUR MIND. THERE IS NO SUBTRACTION OR DIVISION IN THE MIND, THERE IS ONLY ADDITION AND MULTIPLICATION. YOU CANNOT TAKE AWAY ANYTHING BY FORCE FROM THE MIND. THIS DOES NOT NEED ANY ENLIGHTENMENT TO BE UNDERSTOOD.

                      IF YOU JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR A MINUTE AND LOOK AT IT, YOU CAN SEE THAT YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING BY FORCE IN THE MIND. IF SOMEONE TELLS YOU, "THIS IS GOOD AND THAT IS EVIL, BUT  DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE EVIL", THAT IS A FULL-TIME JOB. NOTHING ELSE BUT THAT WILL BE GOING AND SOMETHING ELSE AS BAD, YOU GETTING IDENTIFIED WITH THE GOOD AND HAVING AVERSION TO THE BAD IS A NATURAL PROCESS.

                IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE REALIZED THAT IDENTIFICATON IS CAUSING SO MUCH TROUBLE THAT THEY IMMEDIATELY STARTED GIVING YOU AN ANTIDOTE-DETACHMENT". THE MOMENT YOU DETACH YOURSELF, YOUR ABILITY TO EXPERIENCE LIFE IS ALSO GONE. WHERE THERE IS NO INVOLVEMENT, THERE IS NO LIFE. LIFE CANNOT BE EXPERIENCED UNLESS THERE IS INVOLVEMENT- THE DEEPER THE INVOLVEMENT, THE DEEPER THE EXPERIENCE OF LIFE. HOWEVER SMALL THE EVEN MAY BE, HOWEVER SMALL A PIECE OF LIFE MAY BE, IF YOU ARE DEEPLY INVOLVED, IT IS A GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR YOU. NOTHING DRAMATIC OR SPECTACULAR NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFE. IF YOU ARE DEEPLY INVOLVED WITH THE SIMPLEST ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE, YOU WILL SEE EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE IS SPECTACULAR. BUT WHY IS SO MUCH DETACHMENT BEING TAUGHT EVERYWHERE? IT IS BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF ENTANGLEMENT. IT IS FROM THIS FEAR THAT DETACHMENT IS ALWAYS BEING PROPATED. IF YOU DETACH YOURSELF FROM LIFE, YOU ARE AVOIDING LIFE. YOU ARE HERE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE, NOT TO AVOID LIFE.

THE REALITIES OF ANOTHER WORLD

 

                              

                          THE END OF OUR LIFE

                                 (NO PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY)

                         DEATH. MAN'S MOST MYSTERIOUS, RESENTLESS, AND INEVITABLE ADVERSARY. DOES DEATH MEAN THE END OF LIFE, OR DOES IS MERELY OPEN THE DOOR TO ANOTHER LIFE, ANOTHER DIMENTION, OR ANOTHER WORLD?

                    IF MAN'S CONSCIOUSNESS SURVIVES THE DEATH EXPERIENCE, THEN WHAT DETERMINES ITS TRANSITION TO NEW REALITIES?

                        IN ORDER TO GAIN CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THESE MYSTERIES, MAN HAS TRADITIONALLY TURNED TO ENLIGHTENED PHILOSOPHERS, ACCEPTION THEIR TEACHINGS AS REPRESENTATIVE OF A HIGHER TRUTH.

                       SOME CRITICIZE THIS METHOD OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE FROM A HIGHER AUTHORITY, NO MATTER HOW CAREFULLY THE SEEKER MAY ANALYZE IT. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER E.F. SCHUMACHER, AUTHOR OF SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, NOTES THAT IN OUR MODERN SOCIETY, WHEN PEOPLE ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH NATURE AND TRADITIONAL WISDOM, THEY, 'CONSIDER IT FASHIONABE TO RIDICLE... AND ONLY BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY SEE AND TOUCH AND MEASURE". OR, AS THE SAYING GOES, SEEING IS BELIEVING."

                        NO SCIENTIST HAS SUCCESSFULLY EXPLAINED THROUGH LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS THE MYSTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESS OR ITS DESTINATION AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MATERIAL BODY. RESEARCH IN THIS FIELD HAS PRODUCED MANY DIVERGENT THEORIES, BUT THEIR LIMITATIONS MUST BE RECOGNIZED.

                    THE SYSTEMATIC PRINCIPLES OF REINCARNATION, ON THE OTHER HAND, COMPREHENSIVELY EXPLAIN THE SUBTLE LAWS GOVERNING OUR PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE LIVES.

                   WE CAN ADMITTEDLY FIND NOTHING IS PHYSICS OR CHEMISTRY THAT HAS EVEN A REMOTE BEARING ON CONSCIOUSNESS. YET ALL OF US KNOW THERE IS SUCH A THING AS CONSCIOUSNESS, SIMPLY BECAUSE WE HAVE IT OURSELVES, HENCE CONSCIOUSNESS, SIMPLY BECAUSE WE HAVE IT OURSELVES, HENCE CONSCIOUSNESS MUST BE PART OF NATURE, OR , MORE GENERALLY OF REALITY, WHICH MEANS THAT QUITE APART FROM THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, AS LAID DOWN IN QUANTUM THEORY, WE MUST ALSO CONSIDER LAWS OF QUITE A DIFFERENT KIND". SUCH LAWS MIGHT WELL INCLUDE THE LAWS OF REINCARNATION, WHICH GOVERN THE PASSAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM ONE PHYSICAL BODY INTO ANOTHER.

                  TO BEGIN UNDERSTANDING THESE LAWS, WE MAY NOTE THAT REINCARNATION IS NOT AN ALIEN, ANTIPODAL EVENT, BUT ONE THAT OCCURS WITH REGULARITY IN OUR BODIES DURING THIS VERY LIFETIME. IN THE HUMAN BRAIN, PROFESSOR JOHN PFEIFFER NOTES , YOUR BODY DOES NOT CONTAIN A SINGLE ONE OF THE MOLECULES THAT IT CONTAINED SEVEN YEARS AGO. EVERY SEVEN YEARS ONE'S OLD BODY IS COMPLETELY REJUVENATED. THE SELF, HOWEVER, OUR REAL IDENTITY, REMAINS UNCHANGED. OUR BODIES GROW FROM INFANCY, TO YOUTH, TO MIDDLE AGE, AND THEN TO OLD AGE, YET THE PERSON WITHIN THE BODY, THE "I " ALWAYS REMAIN THE SAME.

                FOR THE SOUL THERE IS NEITHER BIRTH NOR 

                 DEATH AT ANY TIME. HE HAS NOT COME INTO BEING, DOES

           NOT COME INTO BEING, AND WILL NOT COME INTO BEING.

                  HE IS UNBORN, ETERNAL, EVER-EXISTING AND PRIMEVAL.

          HE IS NOT SLAIN WHEN THE BODY IS SLAIN.

                                              ---- BHAGAVAD-GITA 

                        DOES LIFE BEGIN WITH BIRTH AND END WITH DEATH? HAVE WE LIVED BEFORE? SUCH QUESTIONS ARE NORMALLY IDENTIFIED WITH RELIGIONS OF THE EAST, WHERE THE LIFE OF MAN IS KNOWN TO ENDURE NOT ONLY FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE, BUT THROUGH MILLIONS OF AGES, AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE IDEA OF REBIRTH IS NEARLY UNIVERSAL. AS ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, THE GREAT NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN PHILOSOPHER, ONCE OBSERVED, "WERE AN ASIATIC TO ASK ME FOR A DEFINITION OF EUROPE, I SHOULD BE FORCED TO ANSWER HIM, IT IS THAT PART OF THE WORLD WHICH IS HAUNTED BY THE INCREDIBLE DELUSION THAT MAN WAS CREATED OUT OF NOTHING, AND THAT HIS PRESENT BIRTH IS HIS FIRST ENTRANCE INTO LIFE".

THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CHANGES

 

                                              

                             THE CHANTING OF MANTRA 

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                       SRADDHA-VIRYA-SMRTI SAMDHI-PRAJINA-PURVAKA

                    ITARESAM

                        THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN THE PRACTICE, ENERGY AND MINDFULNESS, MOVE TOWARDS THE SUPERCONSCIOUS STATE CALLED SAMADHI THAT CULMINATES IN WISDOM.

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                     ISVARA-PRANIDHANAD-VA

                        THIS CAN HAPPEN (NOTE THE SYLLABLE VA, WHICH MEANS ALSO) ALSO BY DEDICATION TO ISHWARA.

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                   TATRA NIRATISAYAM SARVAJNA-BIJAM

                      THERE THE SEED OF OMNISCIENCE IS UNSURPASSED.

                  AS WE HAVE DISCUSSED AT LENGTH THE CONCEPT OF ISHWARA ACCORDING TO PATANJALI IN THE FIRST CHAPTER ITSELF, THERE IS NO NEED TO GO INTO ELABORATE DETAILS. BUT A FEW POINTS ARE TO BE NOTED.

                   1. THAT DEDICATION TO ISHWARA IS ONLY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WAYS OR PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCEDURES TO ATTAIN SAMADHI. ONCE MORE, NOTE THE WORD VA.

                   2. TO DISTINGUISH THE ISHWARA MENTIONED HERE FROM A CREATOR AND PROTECTOR GOD AKIN TO THE SEMITIC GOD OR THE GOD OF THE SEVERAL PURUNAS, PATANJALI HASTENS TO ADD THAT ISHWARA MEANS A DISTINCT PURUSHA UNTOUCHED BY AFFLICTIONS, ACTIONS, FRUITIONS OR THEIR RESUDUE, BUT BLESSED WITH THE SEED OF UNSURPASSED OMNISCIENCE.

                       THIS MAKES THE CONCEPT OF ISHWARA THE SAME AS THAT OF THE PRIMORDIAL PURUSHA OF SANKHYA, AN ATHEISTIC PHILOSOPHY, AS ALREADY MENTIONED. THE YOGI ULTIMATATELY REALISES THAT IN ESSENCE, HE IS INDEED THAT PURUSHA OR ISHWARA.

                     3. THEREFORE, IT COULD ALSO MEAN A YOGI WHO HAS TOUCHED THE HIGHEST SAMADHI AND ATTAINED THE EXALTED STATE OF ISHWARA.

                    4. ALTHOUGH PATANJALI EMPHASISES RELYING ONLY ON ONE'S OWN EFFORTS, THE SUGGESTION IS THAT A PERFECTED YOGI AS WELL AS DEVOTION OR SURRENDING TO THE SUPREME PURUSHA WOULD HELP.

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                 SA ESA PURVESAM API-GURUH KALENA-ANAVACCHEDAT

                 DUE TO IT BEING UNLIMITED BY TIME, IT IS THE TEACHER OF THE ONES WHO CAME BEFORE.

                   WHICH MEANS THAT THIS TIMELESS ISHWARA, THE PURUSHA HAS BEEN CONSIDERED A TEACHER BY THE YOGIS OS YORE.

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                    TASYA VACAKAH PRANAVAH

                       THE MANIFEST EXPANSION OF THIS SUBLIME ISHWARA IS THE PRANAVA (OM).

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                            TAD JAPAS TAD-ARTHA-BHAVANAM

                          THEREFORE, REPETITION OF IT AND THE REALISATION OF ITS PURPOSE SHOULD BE MADE.

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                         TATAH PRATYAK-CETANA-ADHIGAMO-PY-ANTARAYA-

                         ABHAVAS-CA

                       THIS INWARD CONSCIOUSNESS IS ATTAINED, AND OBSTACLES DO NOT ARISE.

                     SINCE THE MEANING OF THE WORD OM AND THE PROCEDURE INVOLVED IN THE REPETITION OF IT AND THE RESULTS NEED A GREAT DEAL OF ELABORATION, THIS IS DEALT WITH IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.

                                        THE USES OF OM MANTRA

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                    HERE IS  TECHNIQUE OF CHANTING AUM AS LEARNT BY ME, AN INITIATED KRIYA YOGI. MY TEACHER BELONGS TO THE NATH TRADITION. 

                    SIT IN A COMFORTABLE POSTURE, PREFERABLY CROSS-LEGGED, ON A RUG OR FOLDED BLANKET. FACE ANY DIRECTION AND CLOSE YOUR EYES.

                    INHALE DEEPLY. OPEN YOUR MOUTH SLIGHTLY WHEN YOU EXHALE AND ALONG WITH YOUR EXHALATION, CHANT A LONG DRAWN "AUUUUUUUUMMM", AS LONG AS YOUR EXHALATION LASTS. THEN CLOSE YOUR MOUTH AND INHALE AGAIN DEEPLY THROUGH YOUR NOSE. REPEAT THIS EXERCISE FOR FIVE TO TEN MINUTES.

                           THEN LET GO OF ALL  BREATH CONTRO AND SIMPY CHANT FOR TWO MINUTES OR SO. NOW STOP CHANTING AND ENJOY THE SILENCE WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED. REFLECT ON THE UPANISHADIC TEACHINGS THAT OM REPRESENTS YOUR INNERMOST, BLISSFUL SELF.

                          AUM SHOULD BE CHANTED AFTER PRACTISING ASANAS AND JUST BEFORE SHAVASANA. PHOTOGRAPHS OF A WHOLE SET OF ASANAS ARE GIVEN IN THE APPROPRIATE CHAPTER. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T DO ASANAS, ANYTIME IS GOOD AS LONG AS THE STOMACH IS NOT BLOATED WITH FOOD. A LIGHT SNACK IS OKAY, BUT THE BEST RESULTS ARE ACHIEVED ON AN EMPTY STOMACH, PREFERABLY EARLY IN THE MORNING.

                    ANOTHER AUM TECHNIQUE WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THE CHAPTER THAT DEALS WITH PRANAYAMA OR BREATHING TECHIQUE AND DHYANA OR MEDITATION.

                      HOW USEFUL THESE TECHNIQUES ARE AND WHAT OBSTACLES WILL BE OVERCOME IN MOVING FORWARD TOWARDS THE GOAL, WE WILL LOOK AT IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.

                      I AM TEMPTED TO USE A CLICHE, THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING'.  AND THIS IS WHAT PATANJALI SAYS IN A WAY, "NAIRANTARYA ABHYASENA' - THE RESULTS COME WITH CEASELESS PRACTICE.