Posts Tagged ‘Enlightenment’
It is a healthy body, a healthy mind, the healthy emotions and the balanced energy. It’s like to prepare a environment with good soil, proper watering and enough sun-light – for a seed to grow, and the seed grows itself.
Healthy body: the yoga exercises are good for the body.
Healthy mind: all the things which grow understanding, and set free from limited belief system and biased ideologies – are good for the mind.
Healthy emotions: understanding of attachment, detachment … love and hate – the opposite emotions, more exactly understanding the Kathoupanishad terms “Preya and Shreya,” helps to give healthy emotions. No doubt knowledge is the driving factor behind emotions. Emotions driven by the ignorance are the disastrous ones.
Balanced Energy: if I tell you what precisely it is, check the difference when you wake up early in the morning, you have plenty of energy in you – and in the evening when you are tired, you have lesser energy. Most of the time doing unnecessary things decay our energy, i.e., shaking legs, un-useful thinking, being in panic or uncertainty, and succumbing to chaos, etc.
Really nice. Thanks Sadhguru for sharing!
If anybody thinks with the mind, he can make thousands of definition of Enlightenment … the truth is Enlightenment is beyond the mind phenomenon. With mind one can win contests and competitions, or can get some psychic powers, but not the Enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the stillness of mind (e.g.,that appears in Buddha statue). Knowing stillness of mind, one knows everything … if one doesn’t know it, one knows nothing, nothing!
I’m talking in the context of "spirituality," because when this element is established in life – all other abundance of life bows down in the feet. Don’t you see the life of our spiritual Gurus, how abundance follows them.
And next I’m talking in the context of a person, who just started to follow the spiritual path. Unless the intelligence or say understanding matures – spiritual practices are the important part of life. And, when, slowly-slowly the plant grows, it roots go deep and braches into the sky, then nothing is needed.
I suggest the following ten(10) things to be the part in the life style of a meditator.
"One must observe what one thinks, feels and does from moment to moment, that is actual, any other action, any idea or ideological action is not actual; it is merely a wish, a fictitious desire to be something other than what is," says J. Krishnamurti.
How simple is that! Isn’t it? But we need an idea an ideology because we need escape from our lives, and when we escape, we forget to observe ourselves. One thing is possible at a time, either to be in oneself or into some ideology.
How to understand who am I?
Unless we observe ourselves then how can we understand who we are?
The interest
It is more necessary rather than doing things due to escape or due to fear of something. When we are interested, our mind is so sensitive, it becomes silent to feel the experience and when we are not interested, all the escapes and fears (to find out the truth) can’t set the mind silent.
The process
These seven (7) steps will help you to get liberation.
If you work step by step, you will surely get self realization. These steps were mentioned in Upanishads and I decoded them and suggesting here, for making everybody’s spiritual journey more convenient. Read More »
The first four (4) are from Vigyan Bharav Tantra and the last one is called – Anapan Sati Yog (a part of Vipassana Meditation).
These are simple, yet very powerful exercises on breathing. Read More »
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“You are God, you are everywhere and in everything, nothing is separate from you; you are unstained, ever pure, unborn and eternal” — say Upanishads.
But, how to realize that?
There are number of meditation techniques that take considerate time to make you realize that.
Here, I am suggesting a technique from Vigyan Bharav Tantra, if you do as the technique says, you can realize ‘who am I?’ Read More »
Jivan means life, mukta means liberation; Jivan Mukta is that person who is free from mind clutters, unbalanced emotions and unwanted thoughts, s/he has full control over his mind, body and senses.
The Upanishads tell about Jivan Mukta in the following ways – Read More »
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Breath comes and goes three ways – unconsciously, subconsciously and consciously.
One can take breath consciously like we do in Pranayam, one can take breath subconsciously (when not taken consciously) and breath also exists when one becomes unconscious.
Breath is the bridge between conscious and subconscious mind. When you witness your breath, you start connecting with subconscious mind, and this is the mind which determines 90% of an individual. Read More »