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YOGA IS ONE OF THE FAVORED METHODS FOR UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND BRINGING US CLOSER TO OUR TRUE GOALS

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Comment by Harish Rajpal on June 10, 2009 at 9:01am: The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this.

PURPORT
The word jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ is very significant. Without knowledge, one cannot understand how a living entity leaves his present body, nor what form of body he is going to take in the next life, nor even why he is living in a particular type of body. This requires a great amount of knowledge understood from Bhagavad-gītā and similar literatures heard from a bona fide spiritual master. One who is trained to perceive all these things is fortunate. Every living entity is quitting his body under certain circumstances, he is living under certain circumstances, and he is enjoying under certain circumstances under the spell of material nature. As a result, he is suffering different kinds of happiness and distress, under the illusion of sense enjoyment. Persons who are everlastingly fooled by lust and desire lose all power to understand their change of body and their stay in a particular body. They cannot comprehend it. Those who have developed spiritual knowledge, however, can see that the spirit is different from the body and is changing its body and enjoying in different ways. A person in such knowledge can understand how the conditioned living entity is suffering in this material existence. Therefore those who are highly developed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness try their best to give this knowledge to the people in general, for their conditional life is very much troublesome. They should come out of it and be Kṛṣṇa conscious and liberate themselves to transfer to the spiritual world.

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 15.10

Comment by Harish Rajpal on May 6, 2009 at 9:26am

Comment by Harish Rajpal on September 25, 2008 at 10:50pm: Significance of Meditation

Preliminaries to Meditation

We must sit down with peace. Raise our hands to our head as if it were Baba's head and touch our two eyes, our ear, nose, tongue, neck, shoulders imagining that they are all parts of our Guru Sai. In the same way touch our chest, heart, stomach, back, thighs, knees, calves, feet saying over and over 'Guru Sai Sai'. Concentrating on this feeling, we have to begin our meditation. When we sit in meditation, our conduct should be pure and mind filled with noble thoughts, so that they are able to conserve the Shakti aroused by Sai's grace.

We must first of all offer our body, mind, heart and soul to Sai Baba. Let us realize the purpose of our existence and let our eyes clearly see so that we may not mistake the unreal for reality of God. Thy light alone can dispel all the darkness from our mind. We must feel that our heart is captivated by thy enticing smile. Our soul is singing with joy in the embrace with love intoxicated. Sitting in meditation, we can clearly see and feel that our soul is enjoying right now. We must pray that our ego should melt and our mind merge in God.

We must remain alert and vigilant in this matter. On the importance of meditation, Sai Baba said to Sri G.R. Dabolkar: 'To get Atma-Jnana, meditation is necessary. If pacifies and carries the mind into Samadhi. So give up all desires and dwell in your mind upon God in all. If the mind is thus concentrated, your goal is achieved. Meditate on Baba either as in form or as formless. If such formless contemplation is hard, then think of any form, just as you see it here. Think of it night and day. With such meditation, the mind dissolves into unity, and attains "Laya". The difference between the subject and object (Myself and you) and the act of contemplation will be lost. This results in "Chaitanya Brahma Samprapati". The Guru's grace is bread and milk for the pupil'.

Comment by Harish Rajpal on September 16, 2008 at 11:38am: 1.By the will of the Creator, action bears fruit. Is
action, then, supreme? No, it is inert, unconscious.

2.The fruits of action are not everlasting and they
cause one to fall into the great ocean of karma,
blocking spiritual progress.

3.That action which is done without personal desire
and whose fruits are surrendered to the Lord,
purifies the mind and leads to Liberation.

4.Ritual worship, repetition of sacred names, and
meditation are done with the body, the speech,
and the mind, and they progress in excellence
in that order.

5.To serve the world, looked upon as the
manifestation of the Lord, is to offer worship to
the Lord of the Eight Forms.

6.Silent meditation, in the mind, is higher than the
best devotional praise, or the uttering of sacred
names, loudly or softly.

7.Like an unbroken flow of oil or a stream of water,
continuous meditation is better than that which is
interrupted.

8.Meditation on the identity of the individual and
the Lord, “I am He”, is more purifying than meditation
which assumes a difference between them.

9.By the power of meditation, devoid of thoughts,
one is established in true Being, and this is supreme
devotion.

10.The practice of fixing the mind in its own source
in the Heart is, without doubt, true bhakti, yoga,
and understanding.

11.The mind may be subdued by regulating the
breath, just as a bird is restrained when caught
in a net. This practice controls the mind.

12.Mind and breath, manifesting in thought and
action, branch out from a common source, the
Sakti.

13.Absorption, or laya, and destruction, or nasa,
are the two kinds of mind control. When merely
absorbed, it emerges again, but not when it is
destroyed.

14.When the mind has been suspended by breath
restraint, it may then be annihilated by singleminded
attention to the Self.

15.What action remains to be done by that great yogi
whose mind has been extinguished, and who rests
in his own true and transcendent state of Being?

16.If one’s attention is turned away from external
objects of sense and focused on the light of the
Self, that is the true vision of Reality.

17.Again, if one persists in asking, “What is this mind
of mine?” it will be found that there is really no
such thing as ‘mind’. This is the Direct Path.

18.What one has thought of as his mind is merely a
bundle of thoughts. All these thoughts depend
upon the one thought of “I”, the ego. Therefore,
the so-called mind is the “I” thought.

19.If one asks himself, “Where does this I come
from?” it will vanish. This is Self-enquiry, or
atma-vichara.

20.Where this ‘I’ vanished and merged in its Source
there appears spontaneously and continuously
an “I-I”. This is the Heart, the infinite Supreme
Being.

21.And this uninterrupted “I-I” is the true meaning
of the term “I” because when the waking ‘ego I’
daily disappears in deep sleep, the real ‘I’ remains.

22.This true ‘I’, the one Reality, is not the body, or
the senses, or mind, or breath, or ignorance. These
are all inert and insentient.

23.There is only one Being that can know Reality.
That one-only Being is itself Reality and is itself
Consciousness.

24.Both Creator and creature are essentially one and
the same Reality. Their apparent differences are due
only to differences in form and levels of knowledge.

25.When the creature abandons its illusory individual
form and recognises itself as without attributes, it
sees the Creator as its own true Self.

26.Being the Self is knowing the Self, because there
is only one Self, and not two. This Being and
knowing the Self is abiding in the Reality.

27.True knowledge is beyond what we think of as
‘knowledge’ or ‘ignorance’ because in the State
of Non-differentiation what other thing is to
be known?

28.If one’s true Self is known, then there is neither
birth nor death, but eternal Being, Consciousness,
Bliss.

29.The jiva who attains the state of Supreme Bliss,
beyond any thoughts of bondage or freedom is
truly devoted to the Lord.

30.When the individual ‘I’ has disappeared and the
real “I-I” has been found, that is excellent tapas.
Ramana says this.

http://www.maharshiramana.com/ramana_maharshi_library/maharshis_way.pdf

Comment by Harish Rajpal on September 7, 2008 at 4:13pm: Yoga is really nothing but ceasing to think that you are different from the Self or Reality.

...you never were or could be separate from the Self.

- Ramana

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THE SPIRITUAL SKY

There is another reality that is more compatible to us than what we experience now, and that reality is the unlimited Spiritual Sky.

The material world is a pale reflection of the Spiritual world, it is NOT heaven which some religions say is the ultimate destination.

Heaven is still in the material world and when you go there after using up all of your good karma you must come back to the earthly planets.

Even though you can stay there for millions of years and all your senses work better and you can have better sex life you cannot get to the Spiritual world easily because there you are more into sense gratification than here on earth.

The Spiritual Sky is 75% of Krishna's creation and the material world is 25%, the Spiritual world is eternal and time does not exist there, The material world is temporary and time destroys everything here.

In the Spiritual Sky there are no stars because everything is self illuminating, in the material world if turn off the lights at night you can't see a thing and most people are afraid of the dark.

In the Spiritual world there is no birth, old age, disease, war, or death, In the material world there is birth, old age, diseases, wars, and death all around us.

The Spiritual Sky is known as Vaikuntha or without anxieties, while the material world is called Kuntha or with anxieties. The living entities are like fish out of water here in material consciousness and some of them don't even realize that this place is a horror show for them.

So the choice is clear you can stay here and be a hero, fighting against material hardships or you can become a surrendered Krishna devotee and go back home, Back to Godhead.

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Japa is the quiet prayer. You say it loud enough so you can hear it, but it’s mostly for yourself. Radha and Krishna can hear you. They’re close by, so you don’t have to shout. But They’re listening carefully, so you pronounce with great care. Put your heart into it. Hear me, Lord. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Over and over, the thirty-two syllables are repeated.

From Bhajana Kutir #78

Empty and calm and devoid of self
Is the nature of all things.
No individual being
In reality exists.

There is no end or beginning,
Nor any middle course.
All is an illusion,
As in a vision or a dream.

All beings in the world
Are beyond the realm of words.
Their ultimate nature, pure and true,
Is like the infinity of space.

-Prajnaparamita

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It is only when the mind is completely under control that man can grasp his real identity. Then all troubles and travails, doubts and dilemmas, come to an end. Man then overcomes sorrow, delusion and anxiety. He is established in the holy calmness of Shanti (peace). Spiritual life is not a matter of meaningless talk. It is an experience of pure Ananda (bliss).

- Baba

All cravings and impulses rise up with overpowering strength like waves from the sea, roar in fury, and then subside in to calm waters. They do not confer peace. Wisdom lies in forgetting these waves and directing one's attention to the calm depths within. You can attain Shanti (peace) only if you dive in to the deep and undisturbed depths of the sea within, not by swimming around on the surface.

- Baba

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