Yoga Quotes
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Dharma gives you the balance. It gives you the establishment into proper behavior, proper understanding, proper living, but it doesn't give you the completion of your journey. It doesn't give you the satisfaction of reaching the destination and your personality is still incomplete. So one has to have the experience of the spirit.
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So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.
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Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.
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You must forgive everyone. Now many would say that "We cannot forgive, it's very difficult." But it's a myth whether you forgive or don't forgive. What do you do? You don't do anything. But when you don't forgive, then you are playing into wrong hands. That means you are torturing yourself, while those who have troubled you are quite happy.
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You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
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When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
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The wisdom is your glory. By wisdom you will be fair to yourself and fair to others.
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Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.
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I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is. We cannot think about it, we cannot conceptualize it. Unfortunately at this human level we cannot feel it, we cannot know it. We have to be the spirit to know the truth.
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I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.
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The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.
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Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.
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When you are realized, you can start feeling your own chakras and the chakras of other people. This is enlightenment.
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We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God.
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There is no need to condemn yourself in any way, or to elate yourself, but just be your Spirit. The best way to be with your Spirit is to forgive.
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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
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Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.
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Love has its own qualities and one of the qualities is that love understands. Its understanding is not in words, not in thought, but it understands within. It can feel within, which is very important.
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Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.
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We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.
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The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.
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The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.
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There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.
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Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.
