When we have to go to the core of our consciousness, we have to keep all these thoughts at bay. Keep them away, go deep within
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When Patanjali defines yoga in the yoga sutras, he defines it as ‘yogas chitta vritti nirodha’ which means yoga is
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Life moves. The problem is we would like to freeze it and hold on to it. It is not possible. You can freeze it for a while
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Any pleasures of the senses will always have some pain attached to it. The greatest pain is to lose
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Love is the essence of religion; for it’s religion that teaches ethics, concern
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When I am clear, when I have no single thought touching my mind, when I can control what thought I want, that is not fantasizing.
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The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something very self-evident. Nobody has to tell you what’s happening.
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‘Gyana’ means knowledge. ‘Vignana’, according to Bhagwad Gita, is that knowledge which when understood
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Consciousness is that from which thought arises but normally, it is haphazard. When you have the discipline to practice
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We all know we are the body, we think and then we begin to realise slowly that “I cannot be the body because the body belongs to me
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The ‘taught’ is listening and the teacher is teaching. A stage comes where they so intimately understand each other that the ‘taught’ becomes the teacher in turn.
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As you sit and watch the thoughts, as in thought watching thought, one thought comes up which then becomes a chain. Here, use your
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Vedanta says: when the mind understands its inability to reach out and find it, it finally rests or lets go; it surrenders, becomes still and quiet naturally, not forcibly. Then, when the mind and the senses have ceased their function, in that tranquility and absolute stillness, there is what is actually there.
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Blankness is very frightful for us. This is so because the mind thinks it will lose its hold, that we will soon be free of it.
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‘Viveka’ means ‘intelligence’; the reasoning and effort to understand what is permanent and what is not. And ‘Vichara’ is
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