Yoga is designed to enable people to begin from their immediate, present state of consciousness and move forward, day by day, into a state of wholeness, well being, and enlightenment. Even the beginning student is able to shed much physical tension, mental/emotional turbulence, and prepare the way for a life of higher consciousness.
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Is it true or not that the great thinkers had been talkative? Is the spiritually evolved man recognized according to the multitude of words meant to drown anyone who comes close? Do crossword puzzles truly help us to develop our intelligence, or do they represent one of the most dangerous “vampires” of mental energy? Do we know how our mental energy can be best used?<br /> The peace beyond sound is God. God, The Father, or Brahman is primarily The Supreme Silence. The soul in its depth is Silence. The peace of the mind is Silence. Atman (The Supreme Self) is Silence. Silence belongs to God, the one perpetually mysterious, essential language. Silence is the deep language of the heart, and because of this, it is the true language of the wise, because, first of all, quietness represents an immense power, and living proof of God’s true eloquence.<br /> By practicing Mauna correctly, we calm our mind down, we silence our dispersed thoughts and we easily sublimate our transient emotions. Mauna helps us to submerge into the mystic depths of our heart, and to fully enjoy its oceanic Silence. This Silence is mysterious and euphoric, and it is the gate for us to enter into Stillness.<br /> Each man who sincerely aspires to know God The Father, must previously know this Stillness. He is then the silence itself, and, in this way, he becomes a Maha Mauni, realizing God The Father, HERE AND NOW.
In yoga, ASANA is considered a simultaneous work of vibrating in unison with the infinitude, of the body, soul and mind. ASANA is a quiescent posture with a specific concentration. It is more than just a physical exercise; it is a modality of psychosomatic integration. This gentle and full of admiration closeness to the being’s mysteries is based on postural re-education and aims towards the spiritual awakening with the help of the body. <br /> He who practices it discovers inner peace and harmony, noticing at the same time that his energy and vital level grows considerably. So, an asana is a static posture that eases the subconscious mental and physical schemes’ relaxation. Such schemes trouble and even block the person’s free movement and creativity. Unconscious and restrictive, they often develop as answers to accidents, diseases, shocks, emotional traumas due to daily life stress, worries, responsibilities, unsatisfaction and sadness. They manifest as tension, holding back, rigidity or stiffness, pain or function limitation. <br /> In a static posture, suggesting the body tissues, by an adequate concentration, a new way of being and feeling, easier and freer, the mind transmits messages to the reception system that responds by relaxation, energy and well-being. Thus, we feel mind and emotions loosen together with the body.
Each time when we realize this we must feel the direct and character of the “HERE “and<br /> “NOW”. Acting in this way, we’ll begin to realize that anywhere we go and in any chronological moment we found ourselves, we are FOREVER HERE AND NOW. Therefore, we’ll understand that we have never been anywhere else but HERE and NOW. The clock will continue to tick in the monotone flow of the time, the Earth will continue to rotate around the Sun. With detachment, we let all the aspects of life to pass continuously caught in the torrential whirlpool of the sequential time. We always permanently remain conscious that we exist HERE and NOW.<br /> This represents a simple spiritual exercise, but incredibly effective, which is meant to move us deeper in the eternal present, there where truly EVERYTHING exists.
This meditation is a wonderful way to begin and end your day. As it has a deeply harmonizing and euphoric, relaxing effect, it helps us directly perceive the subjective nature of space and time.<br /> <br /> By practicing this technique for 5-10 minutes daily for 14 days, the positive effects emerging will be the following: an increased feeling or inner welfare, an ocean-like and nuanced state of happiness. At the same time will feel light, imponderable, deeply centered and much balanced. During the higher stages of practice of this technique, the human being may reach the ecstatic state of cosmic consciousness (that yogis call SAMADHI).
1. Give yourself occasionally time to pray to God, because this will grant you an invulnerable force on Earth.<br /> 2. Give yourself the time to love endlessly because this always grants a superior sense of your existence on Earth.<br /> 3. Give yourself the time to be good, both with others and with yourself because this is the regal path which helps you to be happy, because those who do good, find good.<br /> 4. Give yourself the time to discover as quickly as possible God in yourself, because this allows you to discover what the ultimate significance of your existence is.<br /> 5. Give yourself the time to work full of enthusiasm, because this causes to appear the price of success.<br /> 6. Give yourself the time to give to the others all that is good, beautiful and wonderful because the life of everyone amongst us is much too short to live selfishly.<br /> 7. Give yourself the time to make yourself true friends, because this is one of the roads that lead to happiness.<br /> 8. Give yourself the time to think beneficially and optimistically, because this is the source of all the harmonious actions which are accomplished in unison with the divine law of nature.<br /> 9. Give yourself the time to read sacred and divinely inspired works, which form the age-old tradition of wisdom, because this will lead you to the undying spring of wisdom.<br /> 10. Give yourself the time to laugh, because alongside the fact that laughing is healthy, it also represents the mysterious music of the soul.<br /> 11. Give yourself the time to play just like children full of spontaneity and innocence, because this is one of the secrets of eternal youth.
