Impressions from Year Two Review Week Post from Teresa, Portugal In the Yoga Sutra revision lessons there’s a lot of note taking and question asking. We want to grasp it all, the meaning, and the meaning: of each of the sanskrit words, of those words in that particular sutra, of the teachings that sutra contains.…
DetailsImpressions from Year Two Review Week Post from Teresa, Portugal Iti cintyam muhurmuhuhu – we should think about these things again and again. In the Ayurveda lessons we have been talking about the physical constitutions. About the one ideal, and six remaining constitutions, Adarsha Āryā said “There has to be a door for every…
DetailsImpressions from Year Two Review Week “Hear something from many people, and many times.” These first words of Ganapati Ārāya set the tone for going forward. “Though we hear these informations, they are hard to understand. We hear, the Soul is eternal, and this (he gestures with his arms, sweeping them through space) is not.…
DetailsYear Two Review Week, Sintra, Portugal, May 2017 Post from Kristin Dear Jivana Yoga students, Sintra, Portugal, is beautiful. We have been enjoying lively classes on vibhūti pāda from the Yoga Sutra and a review of the three prakṛti, vāta, pitta and kapha, and three guṇas, sattva, rajas and tamas. These sessions include Saṃskṛta chanting…
DetailsYasha Prashna Talks, Mysore, 2017 The Last Question Yakṣa asks : Who is possessing the whole wealth? Answer: A Realized. One who feels Favorite and unfavorite in the same way Pleasure and pain in an even way Past and Future in an even condition ~ Ācārya Yakṣa was pleased with Dharmarāja’s answers. The brothers awoke. He blessed…
DetailsYasha Prashna Talks, Mysore, 2017 Post by Aytana Yakṣa asks : Which is the news always to be found? Answer: Time = the cook that is constantly cooking all living beings. Time is the doer, it has its own tools. Using these it is acting, doing the cooking. This universe is like a big frying…
DetailsYasha Prashna Talks, Mysore, 2017 Yakṣa asks : Which is the right path for human beings? Answer: Don’t go on searching for the ideal; just follow someone who knows the right path well. That itself is the path. If we enter the world of logic attached to different schools of thought, we will become lost…
DetailsYasha Prashna Talks, Mysore, 2017 Post from Aytana Yakṣa asks : Which do you feel as wonder? Answer: Each day human beings expire and still we feel we are eternal. At the depth of the heart, the “I” is eternal. That “eternal-ship” is attributed to the body. Actions are conducted due to this māyā and…
DetailsYasha Prashna Talks, Mysore, 2017 Yakṣa asks : What is daya? Answer: “Desiring happiness for all, the welfare of all.” Daya = Mercy, Kindness. What is welfare? Real welfare for an individual is Realization. All other welfare may go. So, is that the real welfare? Real welfare, daya, is to think about whether one’s help…
DetailsYasha Prashna Talks, Mysore, 2017 In light of current world affairs, I found these words meaningful for us Americans; and because we are interconnected, for the world watching also: “Fear and shyness rightly seen are symptoms of correction. The fear is balancing, shyness shielding, and both bring calm & quietness by avoiding wrong actions. Throughout…
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