Guruji: The goal of yoga is to still the mind
Mind works in two ways. Feeling and Thinking.
If we still one, the other part is awake.
1. KAVACHA stills the feelings. Become aware of each part of body and relax it. Cover all parts. The body, and with it, the feelings get stilled. But the thinking part is active. Freed from the body, the mind floats away from the body, does astral travel, becomes aware of different places and events and comes back to it after some time. After this we understand that we have an astral body along with the physical. Kavacham means covering the whole body
2. KUNDALA stills verbal thinking. Become aware of each thought and relax it, saying, "I will attend to you later, not now". Keep your attention solely on your body and start moving it. First locate a point of discomfort,move a little away from it, see if it is less. If it increases, reverse the direction. By repeately coming back to the same point and moving on the border of pain and pleasure, try to remove all stresses. Your body becomes flexible and starts feeling the movements only. Commit to get rid of your inhibitions. Feel free to swim like a fish, jump like a monkey, crawl like a snake, or fly like a bird. As you become aware of the movements, just observe where and how they are felt. Dont try to name these feelings nor that they are good or bad. They are all parts of you. Since you now have a language, you may feel these movements of energy as relating to hunger, sex, power, caring, communicating, time control or waves of love to the whole world, which you feel is a part of you. They are all forms of one single energy; they get name from where they are seen or felt. These raw snake like energies are called Kundalini.
3. SAHAJA: A still mind exists, even if it has turbulence in parts of it. The still mind is like the deep of the ocean, thoughts or feelings are movements of waves in it. Wavering mind and still mind both together is the natural state. Being natural is called the Sahaja.
Sa is the visible world around you which consists of energy, matter and time: Ha is your own unmoving awareness. Breath is the mantra called Hamsa which connects the inside consciousness with the world outside. Keeping awareness on the breath, and being passive to both thoughts and feelings is the way to still the mind naturally. This is Yoga.
Being in Yoga does not mean that thoughts and feelings don't exist. It means that that the practitioner is identifying stillness with dynamic world. Yoga means a timeless state, where the idea of before and after, cause and effect, action and inaction are perceived to be the same. It means that space and time are alike, unmoving. Yoga is the state of being united with god and expanding into the whole.
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Mind works in two ways. Feeling and Thinking.
If we still one, the other part is awake.
1. KAVACHA stills the feelings. Become aware of each part of body and relax it. Cover all parts. The body, and with it, the feelings get stilled. But the thinking part is active. Freed from the body, the mind floats away from the body, does astral travel, becomes aware of different places and events and comes back to it after some time. After this we understand that we have an astral body along with the physical. Kavacham means covering the whole body
2. KUNDALA stills verbal thinking. Become aware of each thought and relax it, saying, "I will attend to you later, not now". Keep your attention solely on your body and start moving it. First locate a point of discomfort,move a little away from it, see if it is less. If it increases, reverse the direction. By repeately coming back to the same point and moving on the border of pain and pleasure, try to remove all stresses. Your body becomes flexible and starts feeling the movements only. Commit to get rid of your inhibitions. Feel free to swim like a fish, jump like a monkey, crawl like a snake, or fly like a bird. As you become aware of the movements, just observe where and how they are felt. Dont try to name these feelings nor that they are good or bad. They are all parts of you. Since you now have a language, you may feel these movements of energy as relating to hunger, sex, power, caring, communicating, time control or waves of love to the whole world, which you feel is a part of you. They are all forms of one single energy; they get name from where they are seen or felt. These raw snake like energies are called Kundalini.
3. SAHAJA: A still mind exists, even if it has turbulence in parts of it. The still mind is like the deep of the ocean, thoughts or feelings are movements of waves in it. Wavering mind and still mind both together is the natural state. Being natural is called the Sahaja.
Sa is the visible world around you which consists of energy, matter and time: Ha is your own unmoving awareness. Breath is the mantra called Hamsa which connects the inside consciousness with the world outside. Keeping awareness on the breath, and being passive to both thoughts and feelings is the way to still the mind naturally. This is Yoga.
Being in Yoga does not mean that thoughts and feelings don't exist. It means that that the practitioner is identifying stillness with dynamic world. Yoga means a timeless state, where the idea of before and after, cause and effect, action and inaction are perceived to be the same. It means that space and time are alike, unmoving. Yoga is the state of being united with god and expanding into the whole.
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Vijnanabhairava Tantra 155b:
hakāreṇa bahiryāti sakāreṇa viśet punaḥ |
haṁsahaṁsetyamuṁ mantraṁ jīvo japati sarvadā ||
"By exhaling with a sound SA and inhaling with a sound HA, the Soul constantly repeats Hamsa mantra"
Tantraloka of Abhinavagupta [4.86]:
evaṃ yogāṅgamiyati tarka eva na cāparam
antarantaḥ parāmarśapāṭavātiśayāya saḥ
"Among the various mechanisms of yoga only has power - comprehension, that consistently penetrates deeper and deeper."
ahiṃsā satyamasteyabrahmacaryāparigrahāḥ |
iti pañca yamāḥ sākṣātsaṃvittau nopayoginaḥ || 4-87 ||
tapaḥ prabhṛtayo ye ca niyamā yattathāsanam |
prāṇāyāmāśca ye sarvametadbāhyavijṛmbhitam || 4-88 ||
"Five yama principles and 5 niyama principles, asanas and pranayama do not bring any benefit to Consciousness, they are simply external forms, which can not affect it"
cittapralayabandhena pralīne śaśibhāskare || 4-89 ||
prāpte ca dvādaśe bhāge jīvāditye svabodhake |
"When the sun and the moon are absorbed as a result of dissolution of the mind [of a sadhaka] in the Shiva, the only and pure knowledge, then he/she achieves Bhaga"
guruvākyaparāmarśasadṛśe svavimarśane |
prabuddhe tadvipakṣāṇāṃ vyudāsaḥ pāṭhacintane || 4-100 ||
"In reading [Kaula Granthas] and constant contemplation [of our true Nature], our Consciousness, harmoniously built by the words of our Gurudev, undoubtedly becomes awakened".
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