It has become the fashion of the day to use the word Yoga for every activity. Yoga means simply attainment. But attainment of what is important? The Yoga shastra of Patanjali uses this word strictly in the attainment of Eswara (Lord). To render service (practical devotion) to the Lord, mental and physical health is needed. The early five stages (Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama and Pratyahara) concentrate on this attainment of physical and mental health.

Afterwards the other three stages (Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi) deal with the main subject of attainment of the Lord. The preachers are stopping with the early five steps only and limiting their efforts by turning their spiritual workshops in to gymnasiums, hospitals and recreation centers. By this you are preaching the art of peaceful and happy living on this earth. If you stop here, the main goal of Patanjali Yoga is totally lost.

A Boy who is admitted to the school is given fees and good food. He is expected to go to the school and study. But, he goes to the cinema theatre and uses the fees to purchase the ticket for cinema. This is the fate of Yoga today. The Yoga centre teaches all the steps to attain physical health by the first four steps and mental health by the fifth step. The person becomes fully healthy and attains mental peace by the control of thoughts (chittavrutti Nirodhah… Yoga Sutra).

The thought is controlled so that it is diverted from the world to use it in the direction of devotion (Vyavasayatmika… Gita). A horse is controlled by the owner so that it will not have freedom to go as it likes in the wrong directions. Therefore, controlling thoughts to divert the mind to the right path is Pratyahara. It is withdrawal of mind (Kurmonganiva….Gita) but not destruction of mind (Manolaya Yoga).

The preachers are talking about the dissolution of thoughts which is equal to killing the horse. By doing so the horse cannot be used in any direction. The purpose is lost. One medicine to cure the tooth pain was advertised like this: by using this medicine you will never get pain for any tooth because this medicine will remove all the teeth from your mouth! Similarly, if you kill the mind, the problems and all worries have ended once for all. By killing the horse, the problem in controlling it is solved forever!

Such a state in which the thoughts are dissolved and the mind is destroyed results in the state of a stone in human form. You will become the statue of the human being carved in a stone!

at lotus feet of swami
surya

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No Escape from Omnipresence
You, along with everyone else, have been mislead into believing that under certain conditions God is not present with you. If, for some reason of ignorance, you have sinned, do not believe that God has abandoned you. Do not accept it. God is omnipresence, and therefore, there is no escaping God, not even in sin. Or perhaps you have believed that there is some incurable disease and that this proves the absence of God. Do not believe it. The very belief in the absence of God perpetuates the belief in the presence and power of disease. Acknowledge Omnipresence, even if you are making your bed in hell:

Here where I am, God is. In spite of my sin, in spite of my disease, in spite of my lack or limitation, in spite of my unhappiness, God is omnipresent.

In the moment that you have the actual feel of this Presence, which is Omnipresence, in that very moment, these illusory appearances of sin, disease, death, lack, and limitation evaporate.

The experience of sin, disease, lack, and unhappiness is due to your acceptance of a sense of separation from God, and you will discover that when you have the experience of God’s presence, no longer will there be the presence of any appearance of sin, disease, or unhappiness. These will evaporate.

The truth of man’s inseparability from God has been truth “since before Abraham was.” The only reason there still remains evil, so-called, on earth is the lack of recognition and realization of this truth. In proportion as these principles have been realized in consciousness, men throughout all ages have found their spiritual freedom.

Sometimes the question is asked, “Why are so many people who have realized God still battling with the evils of this world?” The answer is that the tacit acceptance of the universal belief in two powers still persists. A person not aware of the basic principles of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence may realize God, and at the same time be experiencing human error. That is what the Master referred to as “tares and the wheat” growing side by side. Many mystics throughout the ages have experienced the awareness of a Presence and Power, and yet they have gone through physical disease and material lack and limitation, all because they had not yet awakened to the truth that in the presence of God there is only the realization of spiritual Grace and in this Presence all else is nullified. From Seek Ye First , page 132.

In the context of my post that just means that Jesus himself perhaps took his myth/life so seriously, that he did not mind being hanged. But the basic story is one that for normal people would be a story of sorrow. Nobody wants to die on a cross – leaving out ideals of martyrdom and so on.

However, at least one of the beatitudes describes suffering that Yeshua said his followers will benefit from.

Buddhism: Buddha left the safe haven of his childhood after having been faced with the truths of old-age, disease and death. yes and he mastered to finally be soul into body, the way we are supposed to be. Buddhism is a philosophy . I felt the Buddha energy and I can assure you that you arre all energy than and having a body!!

Judaism: The main stories in Judaism are about the persecution of the Jews, how God has punished them and how they survived anyhow. That is their greatest negative opinion and self fulfilling trauma and prophecy – they are violent and have to learn to get rid of that, therefore they have all those negative experiences

Christianity: Jesus dies on the Cross, wondering why God has forsaken him. This is a metaphor as well; the cross is the human being, like Leonardo Davinci already draw – so down so above, so left so right, Jezus did the same thing: je came into the body, being a human as well and by that getting his full soul potential – resurrection we all can go there to have it too

Islam: Muhammad overcomes his enemies. = the negative inside of him, he also was talking in metaphor, like all religions, you have to look behind the sories and know the pictures souls are talking in

Hinduism: The Mahabharata is a story of war and family strife. The Bhagavad Gita confronts the eternal question: should one keep one’s hands clean or live in the world to do one’s duty? As far as this go, they always life in the spiritual clouds and keep being poor, they could use some western intelligence

The American dream (aka The Secret): starting out poor and becoming rich through one’s own exertions. The secret is not complete and not all right – there are missing parts in it.

what all humans try to do is avoiding their negativity, the dark, the mess humans are too, even our soul has negative parts, that is the last thing we come across when going our inner cleaning path.

There is a life when leaving those clouds – there is a body waiting for the energy of the soul coming in finally – be human with all this ugly things too, they are the product of our negative believes and hidden dark side – there is no evil force involved. the so called Satan is nothing more than the earth energy’s misused to the max by adictions, greed and so on.We create our own heaven or hell on earth – what you are inside you get in your life mirrored to learn.No Sorrow, no pointing fingers – we do it completely so take responsibility for self.

My mom said good bye to her day job last week. She’s a psychotherapist and had invited a Dutch professor, Dr. Ruart Ganzevoort, who talked about men, spirituality and trauma. (One of my moms specialties was working with men and lately, traumatized me…