Body Mind Spirit Festival, Bucharest, Romania 28 March 2009.
THE WORLD IS LIKE A DANCE… April 18, 2008
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The world as we view it, is much like a dance, |
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Chance brings that karmic phenomenon, |
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Talk to yourself, have conversation inside, |
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Search & discover the source of white light, |
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Truth & intuition …bring gifts to rejoice, |
THE STATE OF STHITAPRAJNA – INTEGRATION STATE April 16, 2008
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As you know yoga is union, connection or integration between individual and the collective consciousness. This state was beautifully described in Gita, chapter 2. |
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54. What, O Krishna, is the description of him who has steady wisdom and is merged in the state of Sthitaprajna? How does one of steady wisdom speak? How does he sit? How does he walk? 55. When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind and is satisfied in the Self by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom! 56. He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not hanker after pleasures, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom. 57. He who is everywhere without attachment, on meeting with anything good or bad, who neither rejoices nor hates, his wisdom is fixed. 58. When, like the tortoise which withdraws its limbs on all sides, he withdraws his senses from the sense-objects, then his wisdom becomes steady. 59. The objects of the senses turn away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing (behind); but his longing also turns away on seeing the Supreme. 60. The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, do violently carry away the mind of a wise man though he be striving (to control them)! 61. Having restrained them all he should sit steadfast, intent on Me; his wisdom is steady whose senses are under control. 62. When a man thinks of the objects, attachment to them arises; from attachment desire is born; from desire anger arises. |
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This description is in compliance with Patanjali’s “Yogas citta vrtti nirodhah” |
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST April 14, 2008
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This has a thought provoking message no matter how you believe. Does evil exist? |
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The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists? |
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The professor answered, “If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil.” |
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The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth. |
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Another student raised his hand and said, “Can I ask you a question professor?” “Of course”, replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, “Professor, does cold exist?” |
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“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?” The students snickered at the young man’s question. |
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The young man replied, “In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too little heat. |
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The student continued. “Professor, does darkness exist?” |
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The professor responded, “Of course it does”. |
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The student replied, “Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn’t this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.” |
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Finally the young man asked the professor. “Sir, does evil exist?” |
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Now uncertain, the professor responded, “Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. “These manifestations are nothing else but evil.” |
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To this the student replied, “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.” |
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The professor sat down. |
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Some people claim that young man’s name was Albert Einstein |
SELF – CONFIDENCE April 11, 2008
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The word ‘Self – Confidence’ has got a great meaning. When we say lack of ‘Self – Confidence’, it means lack of understanding one’s own Self. And why do we fail to do that is because we don’t know how much power each individual has within himself. |
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Following is an attempt to understand our real inner -self and how understanding of that helps us build up the Self – Confidence and thus become a Fearless person. |
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The lack of Self – Confidence within a person implies some obstruction on the 4th Centre ( Anahata / Heart Chakra ). After Self – Realization, when this Heart chakra is enlightened, divine vibrations start flowing through this chakra. |
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These divine vibrations make you feel strong and make you confident of taking the right decisions. You can take the right decisions because of the wisdom that developes within you with the enlightenment of the 1st Centre ( Mooladhara Chakra ). |
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GOD CAN BE KNOWN April 10, 2008
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You don’t have to believe in God in order to experience God. |
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According to Chopra, the brain is hardwired to know God. The human nervous system has seven biological responses that correspond to seven levels of divine experience. These are shaped not by any one religion (they are shared by all faiths), but by the brain’s need to take an infinite, chaotic universe and find meaning in it. |
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How to Know God describes the quest each of us is on, whether we realize it or not. For, as Chopra puts it, “God is our highest instinct to know ourselves.” This book makes a dramatic and enduring contribution to that knowledge. |
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Quote from Chapter One |
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“One bald fact stands at the beginning of any search for God. He leaves no footprints in the material world. From the very beginning of religion in the West, it was obvious that God had some kind of presence, known in Hebrew as Shekhinah. Sometimes this word is simply translated as “light” or radiance. Shekhinah formed the halos around angels and the luminous joy in the face of a saint. |
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It was feminine, even though God, as interpreted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, is masculine. The significant fact about Shekhinah was not its gender, however. Since God is infinite, calling the deity He or She is just a human convention.( *) Much more important was the notion that if God has a presence, that means he can be experienced. |
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He can be known. This is a huge point, because in every other way God is understood to be invisible and untouchable. And unless some small part of God touches the material world, he will remain inaccessible forever.” |
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* A note on gender: Finding a pronoun for God is not easy. In keeping with common tradition, this book uses he. But surely God transcends all gender. I could have rotated three different pronouns–he, she, and it–but that would not have gotten any nearer to the truth, and it would have made for very clumsy reading. |
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HUMAN OR STILL ANIMAL April 10, 2008
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“Free Will” is our basic human right to make a decision one way or the other BUT the animal (genetic & hormones) and human influences (cultural, religious, political, etc) that are ingrained in our psyche pretty much decide the way we will think and act. Most people will live within the constraints of their religion and society but some will not and risk suffering the consequences what ever they may be (great or small). |
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How much of a “free will” do people really have? Are we free to make decisions without being influenced by outside or physical and mental constraints? We may have a limited “free will” but we also have all these animal instincts and inherited genes, along with sex hormones surging through our body that makes us act the way we do. |
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In addition to this we have the storytellers constantly feeding us information, some good and some bad. The stories we hear throughout our life, from the time we learn the words and language of our parents and culture to the end of our existence we our constantly being bombarded by things we hear or see. |
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The culture we grow up in, listening to our parents, our friends, peers, teachers, government, authors, the media, songwriters, neighbors, rabbis, priests, mullahs, philosophers, etc., all become a part of our self. All these influences create the overall path which we follow throughout our lives. |
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On a personal basis each of us is unique – no one has exactly the same influences or genes acting on our psyche – whether it is mental or physical we are constantly being influenced by the physical forces within us or the forces that surround us. |
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Animals are not affected by these stories, we could talk all day long to our pets and they really wouldn’t be emotionally effected one way or the other. |
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Examples of the basic animal concerns are: |
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* Physical nutrition – The constant need to obtain nutrition to satisfy their hunger. Where is their next meal or water hole? |
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* Domination – to be dominant over their territory – they (the wolves, etc.) mark off the boundaries with sprits of urine. |
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* Procreation – The need to reproduce. Males must always either have to defend their dominant position in their group or get up the courage to fight the dominant male so that they will be in a position to mate with the females. |
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* Survival – The need to defend themselves and survive in their environment. Animal instincts must always be on the alert for danger. |
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Base on above quoted concerns we can make introspection for our life. |
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