tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74587657541020627992024-03-14T00:58:18.937-07:00Life after joining Isha YogaThis blog is expression of joy, of being in love with Sadhguru. Please Check www.ishafoundation.org for details. Enjoy the Spiritual Music Jukebox with over 200+ musicals. My email id : Fidarose.isha@gmail.com. Suggestions and Feedbacks are Welcome. Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.comBlogger1790125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-41765601948068356622019-09-12T11:44:00.000-07:002019-09-12T11:44:15.618-07:00Sadhguru talks about powerful space in Velayuthampalayam, where direct disciples of #Bhagwan #Mahavir spent their times in cave in the hill.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wherever I go, people ask me, “Sadhguru, will you set up an Isha Yoga Center here?” I am telling them, “I am not a real estate person. My real estate is in the minds and hearts of people. We wish to establish a yoga center in everyone’s mind, body, and heart.” Definitely Isha Yoga Center is growing that way in the world – it is growing in the minds and hearts of people. Not geographical spots but human beings should become centers of yoga. In this context, this is an important month because particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, a certain inertia is setting in, in nature, and in the way energy functions.</div>
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This phase is important for Shiva because he is known for his dancing, but more significantly for his stillness. This is a phase that supports that stillness. There is perfection in our existence only when we know how to be absolutely still. Otherwise, you dance, you sing, all this is nice – but how long? Any activity is bound by time. Only in stillness, time has no impact on you. There are various ways to look at why this is so. Shiva means <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">that which is not</em>, which means it is eternally still – Sadashiva. Initially, you can bring this stillness into you by being immobile. Later on, you can be in a flurry of activity and still be absolutely still. Your activity will be an expression of your stillness, not of your compulsiveness. Everything you do will come from this stillness.</div>
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You must bring this stillness into your family, into your home. Everything that grows in a space of stillness, including your children, will be of a different quality altogether. Stillness and exuberance are the nature of existence. This is the nature of yoga, the nature of creation, and the nature of what we refer to as Shiva – still but tremendously vibrant. In some sense, even modern science is beginning to recognize that the most dynamic dimension of creation seems to be nothingness. It is possible for every human being to become like this that after you sat somewhere, the place will exhibit an exuberant form of stillness.</div>
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Many years ago, I was teaching programs in small towns and villages of Tamil Nadu. These were wonderful times, as I dealt with people who had a certain level of innocence and fire within them. We came to a place called Velayuthampalayam. People said, “You must come to the temple on the hill.” I told them, “There is no bald hill in Tamil Nadu – every hill has a little temple. Let’s leave it.” Then one day, they told me there is a cave where some Jina or Jain saints stayed, about two thousand five hundred years ago. Now I got interested. Considering the time period, they could have been direct disciples of Mahavir.</div>
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We climbed up the hill and came to a place where a narrow walkway led to a cave. The local king provided them with beds that were carved out of the rock, in the form of a flat space and a small pillow made of rock. I sat on one of these beds, and even after centuries, it was as alive as if they had been there the day before. The place was not well-kept – the local youth used it to hang out and drink. It was littered with broken bottles and garbage, and the rocks were covered with the initials of who was in love with whom. We cleaned up the place and decided to spend the night there. It was a phenomenal night out there – that was the kind of footprint they had left. They had no intention of leaving a footprint, but wherever they sat and stood, it naturally happened, because they had become like that within themselves.</div>
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This is what Bharat means, first of all. For ages, people who had an inner longing turned east, simply because many great beings left a web of energy here. To establish something so fabulous has taken thousands of years and beings of great proportion and depth. To make something fabulous, whether it is a space or a human being, takes a whole lot of work. To make it filthy takes just a day. Now is the very last phase of Dakshinayana, this means the very last phase of the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">sadhana pada</em>. This is a time of the year to strive without results. One who is wise will understand that one dimension of our life needs striving – another dimension of our life is a consequence. If we want a great consequence, the striving has to be equally profound.</div>
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This is not about being rewarded for something that you do. This is the nature of this machine that we call creation. I call creation a machine because it produces unfailingly. The solar system is a machine as well. It has been working so perfectly and efficiently for thousands of years that you may forget it is a machine. The sun rises every day, so you don’t bother to look up and watch if it is coming up this morning or not. I still do, because I am skeptical about everything. You must also look out. If you learn to be on a certain level observant of what is happening around you, you will not only be observant with the outside but with the interiority too. If you understand that the entire cosmos is a kind of machine, you will realize your own system is also a machine. How well a machine functions depends on how well it is kept.</div>
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Keeping it well is not just about fitness – that is only one aspect of it. Keeping it well for it to perform at a very high level needs evolution. What does evolution mean? On ancient excavation sites, archeologists are often looking for pieces of pottery. Imagine the first time people dug up the earth and made pots out of it. For the first time, they had something they could store water in and carry it home. How fantastic it must have been! A simple pot transformed people’s lives. It must have been a milestone in the development of human societies. Today, we are digging the same soil and make a spaceship out of it. With the same resource, we can do so many things today. This is the evolution of engineering. Similarly, with the same resource, a human being can do so many things.</div>
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Sadhana and yoga are about evolving the engineering of what we can do with this human system. That is why we have named our basic program Inner Engineering. The human system is a machine. Inner Engineering means to evolve a human being to a much higher level of functioning. You can engineer yourself to a place where you function like the source of creation. When you say “Shiva,” you won’t have to look up. When you say “Shiva,” naturally your eyes will close, because it is all here. That is how far a human being can go. Instead of being a creature, you can become the source of creation. But without Devotion and Sadhana, it doesn’t happen.</div>
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If you look at the lives of people who are successful in the world – whether it is as a business man, a musician, an artist, or something else – they were not just lucky. They put in an enormous amount of work to make this happen. When everyone else was sleeping, they were up and doing something. When everyone else was settling for simple pleasures, they were working. If you think you work hard but nothing is happening, then the creature that you are needs to evolve. Evolution is on all levels. One who is reasonably evolved as a human being should start working on the outside. One who is not should start working on the inside. This machine should evolve to function in a way that other people think is magical.</div>
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The important thing is the evolution of the machine. This machine must evolve to a point where it is no more a cog in the larger machine – it is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">the</em> machine. What we refer to as Shiva is not another part in the machine – it is the source of the machine. It is the source of existence. This is the evolution that a yogi is striving for – not to become a little more polished part but to go deeper and deeper into the machine until one day, this is the very source of the machine. This period of inertia on the planet is very good – you can become still, effortlessly.</div>
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This is the time to bring stillness into your life. From now until the solstice on the twenty-first of December, be conscious to utter only fifty percent of the words you normally utter in a day. This is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">vak shuddhi</em>. Purity of utterance will happen. This is not for someone else’s sake. For yourself, it is very important what is coming out of your mouth. This is like an emission test. If while doing the same activity, you only use fifty percent of the words you normally use, you will see stillness will settle in. This is conscious silence. Becoming totally silent should happen in a different way – with appropriate sadhana. Simply holding back all words and not doing anything will not lead to silence, because the noise that otherwise would have come out will go up in the head. You may know that by experience.</div>
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Consciously frame your sentences to say what you want to say with fifty percent of the words that you normally use. You must do this, this month. Fifty percent of the words, but the same level of activity.</div>
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🇸 🇦 🇩 🇭 🇬 🇺 🇷 🇺 Invites you to be part of a moment in history as a unique statue of<br />
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#Adiyogi – The Source of Yoga<br />
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Over 15,000 years ago, at a time predating all religion, Adiyogi, the first yogi, appeared in the Himalayas.<br />
He alternated between dancing in ecstasy and sitting in utter stillness where the only sign of life were his tears of bliss trickling down his cheeks. It was obvious he was experiencing something no one could fathom. People gathered around him in interest, but he was oblivious of their presence and eventually they all left. Except for seven intense seekers. They begged him, “Please, we want to know what you know.” Seeing their perseverance, Adiyogi gave them some preparatory sadhana. They did the sadhana with single-minded focus for 84 years, while Adiyogi ignored them. Then, on the day of the summer solstice, the start of Dakshinayana, Adiyogi noticed them to be shining receptacles of knowing. After closely observing them for the next 28 days, on the next full moon day, today known as Guru Pournami, he transformed into the first Guru, Adi Guru. On the banks of Kanti Sarovar, Adiyogi began a systematic exposition of the science of yoga to his first seven disciples, who today are celebrated as the Saptarishis.<br />
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He expounded 112 ways through which human beings can transcend their limitations and reach theirultimate potential. Adiyogi’s offerings are tools for individual transformation, as individual transformation is the only way to transform the world. His fundamental message is that “in is the only way out” for human wellbeing and liberation. It is time to that we addressed human wellbeing in a scientific way through subjective technologies.<br />
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“Adiyogi predates all religion; in celebration of the universality of his methods, this glorious face of 112 ft height.”<br />
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Sadhguru - There is substantial scientific evidence to show that within a single generation, the genetic structure of a particular family can deteriorate. It is not because our genes have become weak — we have become weak. Because we have become weak, the next generation will be weaker, unless they really strive. Of course, it can always be revived, but whether revival will happen is the question.<br />
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One day, you will have an electric car to drive you from your sitting room to your bedroom, and from your bedroom to the office – it may happen. Everything will be at the touch of a button. Touching buttons may also go away. If you verbally speak, everything will get typed and work will be done. You don’t have to use your body or your brains at any great length. So definitely, in a single generation, we can fall dramatically. It is already happening at an alarming rate. Simple physical things that we were capable of doing as children are like a circus for children today. Only the very athletic are able.<br />
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I was speaking to an elite group in Chennai. These young couples pride themselves on their fitness — walking on the treadmill, cycling and of course, all of the ladies are wearing size zero, so they think they are fit. I asked them a simple question, “Suppose you are walking on the street and a tiger came, how many of you could just climb a tree and save your life? Only those who are doing a laborer’s job, like building a road or digging a hole could do it.” They agreed. They may look reasonably fit, but they are not fundamentally strong within themselves. The very sinews of life within have become weak. This weakening is happening dramatically, and as technology makes you do less and less, both in the body and the brain, it becomes a very serious affair. This is probably how we will decimate ourselves, not by bombs, fire or riots. We will just peter out because we won’t have the strength to exist by ourselves.<br />
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Right now, a lot of people over eighty are on different types of life-support. If we continue to weaken, in fifty years, the age at which human beings need life-support may come down dramatically by ten or fifteen years. This is a serious weakening of the human structure. And the next generation will definitely inherit this genetic structure. This is one of the reasons we set up a yoga center in America, on some 1,300 acres of land. At first, everybody said, “This is crazy Sadhguru, we must buy twenty-five acres next to Atlanta.” But the purpose of the ashram is not just to have a center and meditate; it is to regenerate life.<br />
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I want many of you to live on the land, work on the land and become strong as life should be. You can conduct the spiritual process and do life in a way it needs to be done, not the way it is done in New York City or somewhere else – but do life strong. If we don’t do that, we won’t have much to say about humanity in the future. I am not saying one ashram is going to save this, this needs to happen in many places. We have to go back to the land. We have to live with the five elements and be exposed to the earth, sky, rain — these things need to happen. The forces of life are not just within your body; they are everywhere. Without being in communication with all five elements every day, life does not happen strong. We need to live strong. This purpose can be fulfilled with Yoga.<br />
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Love & Blessings,<br />
Sadhguru<br />
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Visit www.Isha.Sadhguru.org<br />
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Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-32779969905709596402016-10-30T00:40:00.001-07:002016-10-30T00:40:44.801-07:00What Yoga Can do for You Physically - Sadhguru speaks on his Yoga Teacher Raghavendra Rao, also known as Malladihalli Swami<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EwJQfntDuR0" width="459"></iframe>Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-91542463244144417022016-10-29T04:56:00.001-07:002016-10-29T04:56:38.385-07:00Enlightened Beings Eckhart, Adyashanti, Mooji, Rupert Spira, Sadhguru Share Their Awakening, Mystical Experiences all in one video<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f54jAzYawZk" width="480"></iframe>Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-35924731656917734052016-09-30T20:25:00.001-07:002016-09-30T20:25:31.611-07:00Krishnamurti on 9 to 5 job<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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QUESTION: The speaker has said that going to an office everyday from nine to five is an intolerable imprisonment. But in any society all kinds of jobs have to be done. Is K's teaching therefore only for the few?<br />
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You have understood? Shall I read it again? The speaker has said that human society is so constructed throughout the world that most people are occupied with jobs, pleasant or unpleasant, from nine to five everyday of their life. And he said also that it is an intolerable imprisonment. I don't know how you feel about it. Probably you like being in prison, probably you like your jobs from nine o'clock to five o'clock, rushing, rushing back and all the rest of it. What shall we do? To the speaker he wouldn't tolerate it for a single minute - for the speaker. I would rather do something which would be pleasant, helpful and necessary to earn enough money and so on. But most of us accept this prison, this routine - right? We accept it. So what shall we do? Nobody, as far as one is capable of sufficient observation, nobody has questioned this. We say it is normal, it is the way of society, it is the way of our life, it is the way we must live. But if we all see together that such an imprisonment, which it is actually, that we all feel it is intolerable, not just verbally but actually do something about it we will create a new society - right? We will if all of us say we will not tolerate for a single day this routine, this monstrous activity of nine to five, however necessary, however good and pleasant, then we will bring about not only psychological revolution but also outwardly. Right? We may agree about this but will we do it? You might say, "No, I can't do it because I have responsibility, I have children, I have a house and mortgage, insurance" - thank god I haven't got any of those! And so you might say, "It is easy for you to talk about all this." But it is easy for the speaker to talk about it because he refuses to go in that pattern. From boyhood he refused it.<br />
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Now if we all consider that such a psychological as well as physical revolution of this kind is necessary, not bloody and all the rest of it, then we will create the society - won't we? You want others to create the society and you can then slip into it. That is what we are all waiting for. A few struggle, work, create, and refuse to enter into this rat race and the others say, "Yes, after you have constructed what you think is right society, then we all join you" - but we don't do it together. That is the whole problem. Right? If we all had this, not idea but the fact, that to spend our life from nine o'clock to five o'clock probably before that, every day of our life for sixty years and more, we would do something about it. As if you refuse to have wars - you understand - wars, killing other people in the name of your country, your god, whatever the ideal is, if you all refused to kill another there would be no wars - right? But we have constructed a society, built a society, based on violence, armaments, each nation protecting itself against other nations, and so we are perpetuating wars, killing your sons, your daughters, everything. And we support it. In the same way we support, maintain this imprisonment. It may be pleasant for those who have an agreeable job but those who refuse to enter this game they will act, they will do something.<br />
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So the problem is, do we see the importance, or the necessity of this change? After all the human mind is not merely occupied with a particular job, pleasant or unpleasant. The human mind has the quality of other things which we disregard. We are concerned with the whole of life, not just a career, nine to five, how we live, what we do, what our thinking is, whether there is affection, care, love, compassion. All that is part of life. But we are so conditioned to this idea that we must work and create a structure of a society that demands that you work from morning until night. The speaker refuses to pay into that rat race. It isn't that he has got certain gifts or that somebody will look after him, but he refuse<br />
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Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-40973424427359242672016-08-09T06:48:00.001-07:002016-08-09T06:48:30.473-07:00Sadhguru explains Ekamukhi Rudraksha is suitable only for ascetics<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fApkFJzi6A4" width="459"></iframe>Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-89719911764580100572016-07-26T08:45:00.002-07:002016-07-26T08:45:59.425-07:00Sadhguru visits Bahubali's temple in gomatagiri, mysore.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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#Sadhguru : Is the white flower the most beautiful one or
the red flower the most beautiful one, such questions don’t arise, out
here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such questions have come from
cultures, which are steeped in morality, as to something has to be good, as
something has to be bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this state,
of making something right and making something wrong, there is no way a
spiritual process can happen because essentially spiritual process means,
all-inclusiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you cannot embrace
everything, the way it is, if you have to accept some and reject some, than
there will be no spiritual process. You will have only morality, no
spirituality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This reminds me of a fantastic story, a situation rather, which
happened in “Bahubali’s” life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Myself
and #Bahubali, for a few years, had a great affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a place called Gomatagiri which is a
little over 25km from mysore city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is a 18 foot tall statue of Gomata, standing naked, on top of a rock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is, I think, a 1100 years old statue,
which was lost with overgrowth of forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And probably about, in the late 60’s it was rediscovered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man who rediscovered it, a simple stone
cutter, a illiterate person, went there to take a stone, and he discovered this
statue, which is on top of a small hill or a bunch of rocks which are around
120ft tall and on top of it a 18 foot tall statue of Bahubali.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I met this old man, he was in his 70’s and he was still
cutting stones and when I spoke to him, a completely unschooled, untrained
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was such a amazing guy, just
having found this #Gomateshwara, his whole life was transformed, he became a
devotee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A simple stone cutter, turned
into a fantastic devotee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I met him in
83 or 84, when I was there and conducted a few programs and spended<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a certain amount of time in Gomatagiri.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are any number of things that I can say
about this place because so many things happened there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the time in 1982, when my own
experiences have blossomed but I was trying to find articulation on what was
happening within me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a very
crucial time, when Gomateshwara came into my life and as I said we had a great
affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So there is a wonderful situation in Gomata’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his brother had fought many battles
together initially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later on, they
fought against each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After having
bloodbath, after having slaughtered thousands of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day Bahubali realized, what is the point
of all this bloodshed and he went and stood in penance, naked and just stood
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will always see the statue
of Gomata standing naked with wines going over his head or his body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shows that he stood there for a very
long time and he stood there for over 14 years. Everything that he could do to
himself in terms of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>purifying himself,
he has done but still he could not attain.</div>
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When a Yogi, a Sage, of great attainment came by Gomata
looked at him and just one tear drop slipped out of his eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one tear drop was a question mark, what
is it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have done everything that I
could do, what is holding me back, that’s the question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unuttered question, just a tear drop to ask
this question to a Yogi, what is holding me back, I have done everything that I
know.</div>
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Than the Yogi said, you have brought the false sense of
humility into you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are a king but
now you are willing to bow down to a beggar on the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are willing to bow down to any creature
in this planet, you are willing to bow down to the inanimate rock, you have
made yourself like this, its wonderful but I see that you are incapable of
bowing down to your brother with whom you have a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is this falseness of humility that is
holding you back.</div>
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This was the moment of attainment for Bahubali.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within himself, he did bow down to his little
brother and he attained.</div>
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This is a very beautiful story because this is how the human
being is held back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its not great
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its one little things that you
can’t clear from your karmic space that holds you back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it not unfair? How many things I did?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now, if a little finger gets stuck to
this pillar, I have freed the whole body, my little finger is stuck, can I go
somewhere?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot go somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how it is.</div>
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Bhagwan #Rishabha (Adinath) Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Ajitnath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Sambhav Nath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Abhinandan-Nath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Sumatinath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Padmaprabha Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Suparshvanath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Chandra-Prabha Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Pushpadanta Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Shitalnath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Shreyamsanath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Vasupujya Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Vimalnath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Anantanath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Kunthunath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Aranath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Malinath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Munisuvrata Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Naminath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Neminath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Parshvanath Ji</div>
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Bhagwan #Mahavira Ji</div>
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Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-12192661904570028232016-07-23T08:04:00.000-07:002016-07-23T08:15:54.330-07:00My sharing - Are you interested in full time volunteering?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Fidarose </span></b></span>: It was really one of the life transforming experience, after visiting
this "In the Lap of the master" and "Guru Purnima" sathsang with
Sadhguru. It is like leaving the snake skin of fear behind.<br />
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There are many people who are stuggling to make two ends meet here in
this world. One category is; people who are desiring materiality
success to fulfill their desires. They are not able to achieve this end
but they are utterly engrossed in the world. I am not talking about
this kind.<br />
Then, there is second category of people; who have
lost interest in the world but still stay in the world since they are
attached to the past, the family. Even they are struggling to make the
two ends meet but are failing every now and then. They are feeling
guilty about it. They don't have to live this way.<br />
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They need to
recognize themselves for "Who they are". These are the kind of people,
whose only goal is to serve the world to make it a better place and
dissolve themselves.<br />
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What I am saying is; they are devotees and
they are trying to become a businessmen, which is not in their very
nature of being.<br />
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Sadhguru shared that the next 12 years will be
the golden period for spirituality and people all over the world are
waiting eagerly that someone will come and impart this yogic knowledge
to them.<br />
If you are living a fulfilled life, nothing needs to be
changed. But if you feel that there is something, which you are not
living here as a dynamic being, then there is this opportunity , which
is open for you.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">For full time volunteering, call this number 8300098777, email them at volunteering@ishafoundation.org and visit the link </span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.ishafoundation.org/volunteer">www.ishafoundation.org/volunteer</a></span></b></span><br />
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In the just concluded Sathsang, Sadhguru was most welcoming for full time volunteers. Happy volunteering.</div>
Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-25938503695613341442016-07-22T09:44:00.001-07:002016-07-22T09:44:24.637-07:00What are parents really seeking from their childrens.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Questioner : Today is my birthday. As a child this was the most
amazing day for me. As a teenager i would just party. Today I am in
spiritual discourse and my family says "Whats wrong with you?" Birthday
is now just another day, but I don't know whats coming next.<br />
Sadhguru : You are evolving. You must help your parents to evolve
because for the Indian person, I want you to understand the only reason
why parents desperately want to have a son is because they
believed.......<span class="text_exposed_show">.. that you will facilitate their liberation.</span><br />
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Do you know this?<br />
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Now its time, you remind them.<br /> This is a important duty for a child.<br />
<br /> If parents are aging, and they don't have sense to come to their senses, you must remind them.<br />
So, has a birthday gift, you must remind them, its time they looked inward.<br />
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They are afraid, that if you take a spiritual step, you might not turn
back. And they are right on that. It is not that you won't go home.
You will go home. But they won't have the same bondage from you as they
knew. They have their hooks on you, and suddenly you are
free.........Thats something that nobody can tolerate. Please
understand this. I am bound.....You are free...I cannot tolerate this.
When I am bound....you should also be bound. I am bound to
you.......why are you not bound to me......... "SO THIS IS THE WHOLE
GAME".<br />
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So has a son, this is one of the most important duties to
remind your parents it is time they turn inward. Invest some time and
energy upon their own inner wellbeing because if they do not do this one
thing, they will die miserably for sure....Yes.....If you have anything
beyond the physical, when the moment of death comes, terror is the only
way. There is no other choice. You want them to die gracefully. _/\_</div>
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Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-6360682599482465202016-07-13T08:44:00.001-07:002016-07-13T08:44:10.531-07:00Sadhguru on the use of syllables"SaReGaMa"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Existence will yield to you only if you pay attention to something.<br />
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Sadhguru : Anything in this existence will yield to you only if you pay substantial attention to it. But now people have become like this, they can’t look at anything, everything is chuk chuk chuk chuk. Now in this condition there will be no wonder, only conclusions in your head. There is no perception, there is only, you know monologues going on in your head, there is no perception. If there is perception all noise in your head will just stop. If you’re looking at something absolutely beautiful and engaging everything stops. Why people are enjoying your cinema is just this, you switch off the lights, they’re focused on the thing for those whatever few minutes or ninety minutes or whatever, their usual monologues are gone, something else is happening. They don’t know what’s the next scene or whatever which keeps them on. But the important thing is their attention is engaged continuously, which makes them feel something has happened to them today going to the cinema hall. If you just keep the lights on, you will see cinema will not be effective. Or if somebody is talking to them, it’ll not be effective. They just sit there like this (Gestures), it is the attention which is making the difference, it is not what play… what’s playing on the screen. It is what is playing on the screen is instrumental in grabbing the attention but it is the attention, continuous attention which is making the experience of being there. So this is a rudimentary form of meditation. It’s called dharana, that you…<br />
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Anupam Kher: Yes, that’s… it’s mentioned in the seven different forms. So how does one in today’s time retain that attention span?<br />
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Sadhguru: One simple thing is… I mean if I say yoga, that’ll be a bad thing because it’s like I am promoting it – no. Everybody must do something about themselves. Every child, every school should bring this dimension that a child is required to pay attention to something continuously. It could be music; it could be dance. See you cannot do music or dance unless you pay attention to it you know. You’ll make a fool of yourself if do not pay enough attention. But you can pass an examination without attention. You understand? (Laughs)<br />
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Above all, if you just… I’ve seen this simple thing, children came to us… we have a Isha Home School, which is a very… run in a very different way. I one day went to the Assembly hall, these six, six-and-a-half year old kids, they’re all like this (Gestures), like this, like this. I said, ‘Why are the kids like broken tops? Why are they shaking around like this?’ Then I just brought this thing, simply every day in the morning, ‘Sa ri ga ma pa da ni sa,’ fifteen minutes, everybody must do. You go there after two months they’re all sitting like this. (Gestures) That’s all it takes.<br />
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If you just make them walk in the forest in the night, one night, okay, in the darkness you just make them walk, you will see they will become like this. (Gestures) Their ability to pay attention will become like that. Their sense of wonder will explode. You just take them into the jungle, make them walk for a night, without torches, without cell-phones, without anything, in a protected atmosphere, you will see within one night there’ll be a tremendous transformation in the sense of wonder in the child’s life. But we are making them physically incapable of these things. Sitting just in front of the computers they are becoming physically incapable. When physically it hurts they will protest; they will not do anything. So it’s something that parents must take care off. Bringing up your child does not mean just sending him to school and getting marks and grades and nonsense. Your child in body and mind should grow up to full capabilities. That is when it’ll manifest in his life as success. Just marks will not manifest as success.<br />
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#Sadhguru<br />
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#saregama<br />
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#sarigamapa<br />
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Fidarose Ishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10762301640881359725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458765754102062799.post-81971776082785953062016-07-01T07:21:00.000-07:002016-07-01T07:21:41.859-07:00Devotion has no rules<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Devotee series:<br /><br />
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In a quiet village of West Bengal lived Bamacharan, who as a child was so devoted to the mother goddess that if her image would not answer his prayers, he would roll on the ground screaming and crying. He was considered mad by the villagers and they gave him the name Bamakhepa. He sang songs with his father who used to go into ecstatic states while he sang for the goddess. He grew up to be an extraordinary child, having a relationship with the goddess which none understands, alternating emotional love and exhilaration, with anger and hatred, love and belonging. He went on to become a priest at Maa Tara’s temple at Tarapith but his stay there was marked with confrontation. He refused to perform any rituals or do any rites as a priest. He roamed around, making friends with dogs, sharing food with them, sitting for hours at the cremation grounds and seeing the goddess dance to the tunes of life and death. What outraged the caretakers and others who frequented the temple was that he would eat food to be offered to the goddess before the worship ceremony was finished. The caretakers started murmuring, “Bamakhepa is one mad man, completely unfit to be the priest. See he is making the food impure and unsanctified by not offering the food to the goddess first.” One fine day in anger they beat him severely but Bama insisted that it is the goddess who asked him to take food in this way. He was thrown away from the temple site. But that day the temple owner, the Rani of Natore, had a dream. She dreamt that Maa Tara was leaving the temple. Maa Tara looked very sad and her back was bleeding and full of cuts, and vultures and jackals followed behind her, lapping the blood from her wounds.<br /><br />
In fear, Rani asked, “O Maa, why do you show me these terrible things, and why are you leaving us?”<br /><br />
The goddess answered, “I have been in this mahapitha for ages but now your priests have beaten my dear son whom they consider mad and as a mother, I have taken these blows upon myself. I am in great pain, for four days I have been starving, because they have not allowed my son to eat my ritual food. So I refused to accept the offerings too. My child, how can a mother take food before her child is fed? It is my wish that all that food offered to me at the temple should be first given to my son before it reaches me.” Saying this, the Big Mother disappeared.<br /><br />
The Rani was perplexed and she ordered that the priest be brought back and treated well. Bama continued being the priest at the temple, the most unconventional priest who inspite of having the knowledge of the vedas and puranas, chose not to worship the goddess through any rituals or mantras. He, instead, followed the path of pure, raw devotion. A state of devotion and despise, love and anger, ecstacy and the pain of separation. To him She was his mother, the Big Mother, the beginning and end.<br /><br />
What is the shade of devotion? To the world a devotee might seem mad, a misfit, but isn’t devotion, an insane encounter?<br />
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