Because we’re so dependent on the external world, trying to satisfy an infinite need from a finite source, we’re absolutely depleting the planet of all the raw materials. We’re making it so there’s no clean water to drink, there’s no good food to eat, there’s no clean air to breathe. The things that are necessary to...
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If a person begins to study yoga, he will find the warning signs all over the place, “That’s not good, that’s not good, and that’s not good. You will never achieve it, you will never find it in this way.” When I was growing up, if something was lost and it was very difficult to find it, or there was a small probability, they would...
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When we get this message that ‘I’m hungry spiritually’, we misinterpret that and think, “Oh, I need some more things. I need to go somewhere, I need to do this pleasure, I need to do that pleasure.” When we become followers of, believers in, practitioners of the yoga system, we begin to interpret the message as it is correctly. When I feel...
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The evolution of the soul is the evolution of consciousness from a dull, covered material consciousness ‘I am the body, this world is my home, I am the enjoyer, I can be happy here,’ and on and on, to an awareness of ‘I’m not the body, I’m spirit soul.’ I begin to direct my mind, and I direct my body to facilitate my evolution...
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There are different yoga systems, like I said. Hatha yoga is a part of a system, known as astanga yoga. You start off regulating your life; you clean up your act, so to speak. You stop your bad habits; you start regulating your schedule, when you get up and so on. Dropping off the bad habits – sometimes it’s called Yama and Niyama. You give up the...
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