The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.
Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.
The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.
There has never been anything but the Self. There is no world, there is no time, there is no place, there is no condition. There is nothing and there can be nothing else.
This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.
To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.
There is no one to realize the Self.
To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.
When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.
There is nothing but God.
We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.
The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.
One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.
To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.
By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.
Yoga is a science. It is the science of consciousness. Yoga suggests that there is more, other realms, other dimensions, and nirvana - the central nexus where all this comes from.
The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.
The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.
Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.
It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.
Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.
There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.
Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.
