If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
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Greatest Glory
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Mistake
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Health
Health is your responsibility. Creating health is about revitalizing your body, mind, emotions, and life energies to a higher level of functioning.
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Karma
Karma is about shifting responsibility from heaven to yourself. In this, you become the very maker of your own destiny.
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Inner engineering (a yogi’s guide to joy) – by Sadhguru
Then I was a man
I only went up the Hill
As I had time to kill
But kill I did all that was
Me and Mine
With Me and Mine gone
Lost all my will and skill
Here I am, an empty vessel
Enslaved to the Divine Will
and infinite skill
Well-being is just a deep sense of pleasantness within. If your body feels pleasant, we
call this health. If it becomes very pleasant, we call this pleasure. If your mind becomes pleasant, we call this peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we call this joy. If your emotions become pleasant, we call this love. If they become very pleasant, we call this compassion. If your life energies become pleasant, we call this bliss. If they become very pleasant, we call this ecstasy
Turning inward is the first step from passivity to agency—from being a victim toward becoming a master of your own destiny.
Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.
It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own. This is not an idle promise. It is a guarantee.
The quality of our lives is determined by our ability to respond to the varied complex situations that we encounter. If the ability to respond with intelligence, competence, and sensitivity is compromised by a compulsive or reactive approach, we are enslaved by the situation. It means we have allowed the nature of our life experience to be determined by our circumstances, not by us.
Being fully responsible is to be fully conscious.
What you consider to be your body is what you have gathered through ingestion. What you consider to be your mind is what you have gathered through the five senses. What is beyond that—which you did not gather—is who you are.
Responsibility does not mean taking on the burdens of the world. It does not mean accepting blame for things you have done or not done. It does not mean living in a state of perpetual guilt. Responsibility simply means your ability to respond. If you decide, “I am responsible,” you will have the ability to respond. If you decide, “I am not responsible,” you will not have the ability to respond. It is as simple as that. All it requires is for you to realize that you are responsible for all that you are and all that you are not, all that may happen to you and all that may not happen to you.
The choice is always before you: to respond consciously to the present; or to react compulsively to it. There is a vast difference between the two. And it can make the world of a difference.
Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.
Don’t simply believe what you are reading. The only way to find out whether something is true or untrue is to experiment with it. Stop the internal debate and simply put it to the test. The yogic path is not a path of inherited belief; it is the path of experiment.
The science of yoga is, quite simply, the science of being in perfect alignment, in absolute harmony, in complete sync with existence.
Yoga is the technology of upgrading, activating, and refining
these inner energies for the highest possibilities.
Literally, yoga means “union.” When you are in yoga, it means that in your experience, everything has become one. This is the essence of the science. This is also its deepest aim.
When it comes to external realities, each human being is differently capable. What one does, the other may not be able to do. But when it comes to inner realities, all of us are equally capable. There is no guarantee that you will be able to sing, dance, climb a mountain, or make money, merely because you want to. But making your inner life blissful is something that everyone is capable of.
Yoga tells us there are a few fundamental ways. If you employ your physical body to reach this ultimate union, we call this karma yoga, or the yoga of action. If you employ your intelligence to reach your ultimate nature, we call this gnana yoga, the yoga of intelligence. If you employ your emotions to reach your ultimate nature, we call this bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion. And if you use your energies to reach the supreme experience, we call this kriya yoga, the yoga of transforming energies.
You may have noticed this about yourself: when you are feeling pleasant, you want to expand; when you are fearful, you want to contract. Try this. Sit for a few minutes in front of a plant or tree. Remind yourself that you are inhaling what the tree is exhaling, and exhaling what the tree is inhaling. Even if you are not yet experientially aware of it,
establish a psychological connection with the plant. You could repeat this several times a day. After a few days, you will start connecting with everything around you differently. You won’t limit yourself to a tree.
Start by paying attention to everything you think of as yourself just before you fall asleep: your thoughts, your emotions, your hair, your skin, your clothes, your makeup. Know that none of this is you. There is no need to make any conclusion about what “you” are or what “truth” is. Truth is not a conclusion. If you keep the false conclusions at bay, truth will
dawn. It is like your experience of the night: the sun has not gone; it is just that the planet is looking the other way. You’re thinking, reading, talking about the self, because you’re too busy looking the other way! You haven’t paid enough attention to know what the self really is. What is needed is not a conclusion, but a turnaround. If you manage to enter sleep with this awareness, it will be significant. Since there is no external interference in sleep, this will grow into
a powerful experience. Over time, you will enter a dimension beyond all accumulations
Look around. Among your family, coworkers, and friends, can you see how everyone has different levels of perception? Just observe this closely. If you know a few people who seem to have a greater clarity of perception than others, watch how they conduct their body. They often have a certain poise without practice. But just a little practice can make an
enormous difference. If you sit for just a few hours a day with your spine erect, you will see that it will have an unmistakable effect on your life. You will now begin to understand what I mean by the geometry of your existence. Just the way you hold your body determines almost everything about you.
Way of listening to life is paying attention to it experientially, not intellectually or emotionally. Choose any one thing about yourself: your breath, your heartbeat, your pulse, your little finger. Just pay attention to it for eleven minutes at a time. Do this at least three times a day. Keep your attention on any sensation, but feel free to continue doing
whatever you are doing. If you lose attention, it doesn’t matter. Simply refocus your attention. This practice will allow you to move from mental alertness to awareness. You will find the quality of your life experience will begin to change.
Sit in any comfortable posture, with your spine erect, and if necessary, supported. Remain still. Allow your attention to
slowly grow still as well. Do this for five to seven minutes a day. You will notice that your breath willslow down. What is the significance of slowing down the human breath? Is it just some respiratory yogic acrobatics? No, it is not. A human being breathes twelve to fifteen times per minute, normally. If your breath settles down to twelve, you will know the ways of the earth’s atmosphere (i.e., you will become meteorologically sensitive). If it reduces to nine, you will know the language of the other creatures on this planet. If it reduces to six, you will know the very language of the
earth. If it reduces to three, you will know the language of the source of creation. This is not about increasing your aerobic capacity. Nor is it about forcefully depriving yourself of breath. A combination of hatha yoga and an advanced yogic practice called the kriya, will gradually increase your lung capacity, but above all, will help you achieve a certain
alignment, a certain ease, so that your system evolves to a state of stability where there is no static, no crackle; it just perceives everyeverything
It is important not to keep eating through the day. If you are below thirty years of age, three meals every day will fit well into your life. If you are over thirty years of age, it is best to reduce it to two meals per day. Our body and brain work at their best only when the stomach is empty. So be conscious of eating in such a way that within two and a half
hours, your food moves out of the stomach, and within twelve to eighteen hours completely out of the system. With this
simple awareness you will experience much more energy, agility, and alertness. These are the ingredients of a successful life, irrespective of what you choose to do with it
Just experiment. Start with twenty-five percent natural, uncooked, or live food—fruit or vegetables—today, and slowly push it up to a hundred percent in about four or five days. Stay there for a day or two, and again cut it down by ten percent and in another five days you will reach fifty percent raw food, fifty percent cooked food. This is ideal for most
people, who wish to be active for sixteen to eighteen hours a day.
You could try this simple practice. Set your tap in such a way that only five to ten drops fall per minute. See if you can observe each drop—how it forms, how it falls, how it splashes on the ground. Do this for fifteen to twenty minutes a day. You will gradually become conscious of many things around and within you that you are completely unaware of right now.
People,
male and female,
blush when a cloth covering their shame
comes loose.
When the lord of lives
lives drowned without a face
in the world, how can you be modest?
When all the world is the eye of the lord,
onlooking everywhere, what can you
cover and conceal?
Sit alone for five minutes and see what your life would be like if you were absolutely alone in this world. If there were nobody or nothing to compare yourself with, what would you truly long for? What would really matter to you if there were no external appreciation or critique? If you do this every day, you will become aligned with the longings of
the life that you are, rather than the accumulated karmic mess that you believe you are.
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Autobiography Of Yogi -by Paramahansa Yogananda
Named one of the 100 best spiritual books of the 20th century, Paramahansa Yogananda's remarkable life story takes you on an unforgettable exploration of the world of saints and yogis, science and miracles, death and resurrection. With soul-satisfying wisdom and endearing wit, he illuminates the deepest secrets of life and the universe-opening our hearts and minds to the joy, beauty, and unlim ited spiritual potentials that exist in the lives of every human being
“God is Love; His plan for creation can be rooted only in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasonings, offer solace to the human heart Every saint who has penetrated to the core of Reality has testified that a divine universal plan exists and that it is beautiful and full of joy.”
Worldwide acclaim for Autobiography of a Yogi
- “Among the thousands of books that are published every year, there are those that entertain, those that instruct, those that edify. A reader can consider himself fortunate if he finds one that does all three. Autobiography of a Yogi is rarer still-it is a book that opens windows of the mind and spirit.” – India Journal
- “A rare account.”-New York Times
- “These pages reveal, with incomparable strength and clar ity, a fascinating life, a personality of such unheard-of great ness that from beginning to end the reader is left breath less…. In these pages is undeniable proof that only the mental and spiritual striving of man has lasting value, and that he can conquer all material obstacles by inner strength…. We must credit this important biography with the power to bring about a spiritual revolution.”-Schleswig-Holsteinische Tagespost, Germany
- “…a monumental work.” -Sheffield Telegraph, England
- “Sheer revelation ..intensely human account… should help the human race to understand itself better… autobiography at its very best…breathtaking…this book comes at a propitious time…told with delightful wit and compelling sincerity.. as fascinating as any novel.” -News-Sentinel, Indiana, USA
- “The contents of this book are unusual…. The philosophi cal passages are extremely interesting. Yogananda is on a spir itual plane above religious differences.” -China Weekly Review, Shanghai
- “In a very readable style. Yogananda presents a convinc ing case for yoga, and those who ‘came to scoff’ may remain ‘to pray.” -San Francisco Chronicle
- “A fascinating and clearly annotated study.” – Newsweek
- “One of the deepest and most important messages of this century.”-Neve Telta Zeitung, Austria
- “One of the most charmingly simple and self-revealing of life stories, n veritable treasure house of learning. The great person alities one meets in these pages… return to memory as friends endowed with rich spiritual wisdom, and one of the greatest of these is the God-intoxicated author himself. Remarkable a rich glimpse of a great soul.”-Dr. Anna von Helmholtz-Phelan, University of Minnesota, USA
- “Whether Yogananda talks about deathless saints and miraculous healings or whether he transmits Indian wisdom and yoga science, the reader is enthralled.” -Die Weltwoche, Zurich, Switzerland
- “It is a book by which a reader….will see his horizon of thoughts enlarged into the infinite, and will realise that his heart is capable of beating for all human beings, irrespective of colour and race. It is a book which can be called inspired.”-Eleftheria, Greece
- “In [Yogananda’s] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the cosmic consciousness’ reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view.” -Robert S. Ellwood, Ph.D., School of Religion, University of Southern California
- “This renewed contact with the Yogi-sphere, its mental superiority to material reality, and its spiritual discipline, was very instructive for me, and I am grateful to you for granting me some insight into this fascinating world.” -Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winner
- “Paramahansa Yogananda is….a man whose inspiration has been reverently received in all corners of the globe.” -Rider’s Review, London
- “Autobiography of a Yogi is regarded as an Upanishad of the new age…It has satisfied the spiritual thirst of hundreds of thousands of truth-seekers throughout the world… The immortal nectar of India’s Sanatana Dharma, the eternal laws of truth, has been stored in the golden chalice of Autobiography of a Yogi.” – Professor Ashutosh Das, Ph.D., D.Litt., Calcutta University
- “…a book for the ages.” -W.Y. Evans-Wentz, MA., D.Litt., D. Sc., Jesus College, Oxford
- “The reader of our present times will seldom find such a beautiful, deep, and truthful book as Autobiography of a Yogi. Full of knowledge and rich in personal experiences….One of the most dazzling chapters of the book is the one that deals with the mysteries of life beyond physical death.” -LaPaz, Bolivia
- “A rare genius who has penetrated farther than most men into the secrets of spiritual existence…Our guide has described their wonders with clarity, conviction, and charm.” – Professor Raymond F. Piper, Syracuse University, New York
- “…a wisdom so deep that one feels spellbound, permanently moved.” – Haagsche Post, Holland
- “If we had a man like Paramahansa Yogananda in the United Nations today, probably the world would be a better place than it is. To my knowledge, no one has worked more, has given more of himself, to bind the peoples of India and America together.” -Dr. Binay R. Sen, former Ambassador of India to USA
- “Pages that will enthrall the reader, because they appeal to the aspiration and longing that slumber in the heart of every man.” -Il Tempo del Lunedi, Rome
- “The autobiography of this sage makes captivating reading.” -The times of india
- “A book that opens windows of the mind and spirit.”-Indian journal
“A life changing book…Start reading it today!” -Yoga + joyful living
Goal
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
I think goal should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
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Young
Staying young means being willing to learn, evolve, and be open to life.
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Yoga
Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.
It’s not about being good at something. It’s about being good to yourself.
Yoga takes you into the present moment. The only place where life exists.
Yoga is not a work-out it is a work-in, and this is the point of spiritual practice to make us teachable to open up our hearts and focus our awareness so that we can know what we already know and be who we already are.
Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.
The whole process of yoga is to take you from something that you know and take the next step into the unknown
If you are concerned about the world, the first thing is that you must be willing to transform yourself. Yoga is about ‘I am willing to change myself.’
When we say ‘yoga,’ we don’t mean impossible pretzel poses. That’s not what we’re referring to. Yoga means to be in perfect tune. Your body, mind, and energy and the existence are in absolute harmony
Yoga is the science of activating your inner energies to such a vibrant and exuberant state that your body, mind, and emotions function at their highest peaks
Any method that you employ to enhance the presence of the non-physical – that which is the source of creation – within you, is yoga
Yoga means to cultivate your energy in such a way that gradually it breaks the physical limitations and elevates you to the highest level of awareness – the flowering of human potential
When you get attached to the whole Existence, you are in yoga
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