SPIRITUAL STRAIGHT TALK ARTICLES
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January 2013 -
Just becoming a little better, that is not the intention of the devotion; devotion means dissolution. Only one who is willing to dissolve himself can be a true devotee.
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December 2012 -
Everything is beautiful only if it is in balance. To be balanced, what do you have to do? Your mind must take instructions from you. Even Jesus said, ‘If therefore thine eye be single, your body shall be filled with light.’
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November 2012 -
Karma is that kind of action which leaves a residual imprint or impact upon the system. Karma is memory of life. So, to distance yourself from all that takes a lot of work, or it simply takes devotion.
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October 2012 -
Two major things—not eating properly and an indiscriminate sense of intimacy with other bodies—create confusion on the body level, which takes a toll. In the name of freedom we demolish rules—and suffer.
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September 2012 -
Devotion is a multiplied and enhanced version of a love affair. Your life becomes utterly beautiful because your emotion has become so sweet. Through that sweetness, one grows.
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August 2012 -
Home should not be a place of imposing your culture, ideas, and morals upon the child. It should be a supportive atmosphere where there is no imposition upon the child and his intelligence is encouraged.
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June 2012 -
Yoga means that which allows you to attain to your higher nature. Every asana, every
mudra, every way of breathing—everything—is focused towards this.
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May 2012 -
Once the pain of disease comes to you, you just want to be relieved—it does not matter how. But if you are beginning to feel life a little deeper than the physical body, you will see that how you get rid of your disease also matters.
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April 2012 -
If our goal is to be “useful,” this will not allow us to flower into the consciousness that ultimately is the only solution for human wellbeing. We must "become one-eyed" to light up from within.
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March 2012 -
In yoga, it is not just about life. When we talk about living well, we are actually also talking about dying well. It is the final thing that you get to do in your life; shouldn’t you do it gracefully and wonderfully?
