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The Six Esoteric Yogic Gateways #24
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Is Yoga scientific? This esoteric teaching of the dharma answers that question in full, taking the principle of vibrating particles and melding them ingeniously with objects, space, time, and cause and effect, to render a system for comprehension and meditation that will lift the human mind and soul out of a merely physical perspective and place it in possession of its own pristine Consciousness once again.
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This chart could easily be filed under the heading “Yoga 101,” to coin a phrase, for living beings — especially those who are practicing physical postures in place of Yoga — are missing these fundamental connections. To find the real origins of things in the outer universe, one needs to trace them to their corollary predecessors, which for earth, for example, would be the sense of smell, and for water, the sense of taste. That would make the origin for fire, sight, etc. Following the trail for outer effects to their internal causes in this manner, and meditating upon these connections, reveals the true internal nature of everything in the worlds of name and form. This process, as a practice, can take the soul all the way to the unoriginated Source, or Atman. Following time back in history, as in evolution, or heaven upward into the skies, will not lead to the Source.
Chaturdasya Yoga #70
The Four Yogas — the “new religion” that Swami Vivekananda has recently brought back to our day, time, and age — is an ancient teaching system that was present as far back as the Dvapara Yuga in the time of Sri Ram. Later, Sri Krishna brought it forward in the Bhagavad Gita, enumerating some of its fine teachings in His own day and time. In His rendering, the Yoga of Meditation, only briefly mentioned in the Gita as a practice, is assigned the title of “Buddhi Yoga,” indicating the great necessity of possessing discriminative wisdom in spiritual life. The Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi, has emphasized this Yoga in this age, calling it back into vogue as a superlative discipline that both blends well with and empowers the other three Yogas of jnanam, bhakti, and karma.
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The Ocean of Awareness & Its Yogic Waves #105
Yoga, like absolute Freedom, is a state, not a practice. One does not arrive at it; one abides in it. There are many ways in which to abide in Yoga, all of them modes more than methods. And in fact, as is demonstrated by the names of the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita, every act and expression in life is a type of yoga for the realized soul. Finding this out, the wise practitioner — instead of trying to follow this path or that way — begins to select the kind of yoga he or she wants to live in each day, and that manifests what is needed for spiritual life and expresses the soul’s inner, divine traits. Thus is Yoga “natural Union with Divine Reality,” as Patanjali, the Father of Yoga, declares.