This obstacles are disease, idleness, doubt, heedlessness, sloth, lack of detachment, erroneous conception, not attaining any yogic stage, and instability to stay in a yogic stage. They are the distractions of the mind. (more…)
[Yogins having understood the relationship between pranava (om) and the thing expressed will ] repeat it and contemplate upon its meaning. (more…)
[Īśvara] was also the teacher of the former [teachers], because with him there is no limitation by time. (more…)
I still recall the valedictory function at KYM last year, on February 27, around 19:00 hours, Chennai time; after one month of daily practice of asana, pranayama and dhyana, my mind had reached a stillness that I had never enjoyed before; that whole month was plenty of new experiences, emotions and new knowledge.
One year later everything seems changed. On February 27 I woke up suddenly, at 3:34 am, Santiago de Chile time, shaken by the most violent earthquake that I had never experienced before. During 90 seconds I was convinced that I was living my last minutes on this world; I was terrified, not because of dying, in some way I was surrendered to death, but because I thought that it would be very painful. I live in an eleventh floor apartment, and I thought that the violence of the movement would break the building: I felt like being swallowed by the unlimited power of nature; I was minute, weak, insignificant in front of such almighty energy. It was the terrifying force of nature, the fecund pṛthivi, the unconscious prakṛti; “Mother Nature” brought death, destruction, chaos, pain and suffering to my land, in a way that I never imagined. The force of the nature crushed us.
Untouched by taints or karma-s or their fruition or their latent stocks is the Lord, who is a special kind of Puruṣa.
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