Tag: Patanjali
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The eight-fold path of blissful living or Ananda Ashtanga!
Living in bliss – The eight-fold path of blissful living or Ananda Ashtanga These are: 1. Blissful Laughter 2. Blissful Affirmation 3. Blissful Cleansing 4. Blissful Yoga 5. Blissful Meditation 6. Blissful Tools 7. Blissful Energy 8. Blissful Chant Ananda Ashtanga or Blissful Living is a simple eight-fold pathway to Living Enlightenment. These are simple…
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Nithyananda Yoga is the science, the formula, that will give others the same experience of enlightenment which happened in me.
Until the age of thirteen, Raghupati Yogi prepared my body and mind to enter into and stay in the experience of enlightenment. Entering into the experience, having a glimpse of the no-mind state, having that experience of satori and unclutching is actually not very difficult. But to remain in the experience and more importantly, to…
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For whatever purpose you bend your body or move your body, that memory and idea will become completely inserted or completely recorded in your body and mind!
On some days, Raghupati Yogi would ask me to sit still and be very peaceful, to meditate on stillness, peace and tranquility. Then after ten minutes, he would suddenly tell me to stand up and run around the entire temple as fast as I could! He would make me bend this way and that way.…
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Raghupati Yogi, the master who had experienced that consciousness or the inner space of Patanjali
Yoga is a state of being. When the mind ceases to exist, you reside in the state of yoga, the state of no-mind, the state of ultimate consciousness or enlightenment. When the state of no-mind and pure consciousness is experienced, you undergo a complete psychological revolution related to the understanding and experience of the self…
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What is yoga ?
Yoga is not about physical fitness alone. It is also to help prepare the body for realizing the aim of uniting body, mind and spirit. Nithya Yoga is the technique designed in the body language of Patanjali for this uniting. In the same manner as we spoke about Nithya Dhyaan amongst meditations, Nithya Yoga is…
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When you stop choosing what you want to follow from the master’s words, then you will see, the final enlightenment happens to you
I can say all major spiritual traditions can be classified into two major categories. One is the category that gives gradual progress. There will be a clear-cut, defined path, like the five disciplines prescribed by the father of yoga, Patanjali – yama (discipline), niyama (personal conduct), asana (sequence of postures), pranayama (breathing), and pratyahara (withdrawal).…
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Swamiji, ‘‘Whatever you are saying is correct, but…’. The moment you say ‘but’ to Me, you have missed!
When I told the story of Satyakama to a group of people, one person asked me, ‘Maybe these techniques are for highly evolved souls. In that story, the disciple gets enlightened when the master just blesses him. He must have been a highly evolved soul for that to happen. I told that person, ‘No, it…
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There are no signboards needed for any river to reach ocean, similarly when you are intense and flowing you achieve the goal!
You see, usually we feel a terrible restlessness towards the outer world, ‘I have not done this, I have not done that’ and so on. The same restlessness when directed to the inner world is called intensity. You do not know what is happening, you do not know what should be done, but the deep…
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Your natural intelligence flowers beautifully when you allow your complete being to simply express itself!
To be free from the fear of death, which is really the fear of losing our identity, we need to be aware that we are something more than this body and mind. We need intelligence to understand this. We then come to these questions: What exactly is intelligence? Are some of us more intelligent than others?…
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Is pain real ?
There is a very beautiful analogy by Ramana Maharishi, an enlightened master from India. A dog chews a dry bone. As it chews, fragments of the bone will poke into its mouth making it bleed. The dog thinks the blood is coming from the bone and it enjoys the blood. It continues to chew on…
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Deities and enlightened masters, your paths to exhausting karma
There is a way to again and again remind ourselves not to collect karma and to live without the influence of the earlier incurred karma. The first step is to have a clear understanding that karma is powerless in the presence of an elevated consciousness. There is an important difference between normal human beings and…
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If you can look but not be affected by what you see, then you have found the right way!
Actually, jealousy has no solid existence. In that way it is like darkness. Darkness does not have an independent, positive existence. Darkness is not the presence of something. Darkness is just the absence of light. In the same way, jealousy has no independent, solid existence by itself. It is just the absence of knowledge or…
KAILASA's Words of Eternal Bliss, Nithyananda! 