ОМ SRI GANESHA NAMAHA THE ESSENCE ON THE ALTAR OF LOVE Pavel Kalagin (Sankara) From the philosophical schools of Vedanta and Yoga In the tradition of the school of Pavel Kalagin (Sankara), the doctrine of immortality, or the art of awareness Dedication To Almighty God, Swami Sivananda, Swami Vishnu Devananda, to my parents, Guru Swami Sadasivananda, to my beloved friend Victor, and my son Luka. This book is an attempt to escape the captivity of illusions with the help of refined verbal formulas. 6 7 From the Author A Word of Warning This work should be perceived not as absolute truth, but rather as a tool for creating your individual Most of the sutras are difficult to appreciate and and unique concept of understanding. understand without a profound knowledge of the This work presents a collection of yoga sutras philosophy of Hinduism and yoga, a kind and open (aphorisms) intended for a wide range of readers of heart, a calm mind, and an open-minded, attuned any religion or faith, for for thinkers and seekers. attitude. Otherwise, this work can elicit Most of the sutras in this book are written in the aggression, misunderstanding, chaos, and even spirit of the traditions of Hindu Spiritual Schools, disturbance of mental balance. such as Laya Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, and Yoga Vedanta, rooted in antiquity and surviving to this day. This work belongs not to the great preacher of Line of succession Vedanta and Yoga Shankara, but to one of the (gurukula) yogis initiated with the name of Shankara, and who devoted himself to finding the truth in the name of life on Earth. Swami Sivananda This work can be called an Upanishad, where, Swami Vishnu Devananda in the spirit of the traditions of the eternal Veda, I am Swami Sada Sivananda not so much the creator, but merely the conductor Yogi Sankara of the divine will. The purpose of the book is to facilitate the quest OM TAT SAT SANKARA for those who have embarked on the path of spiritual development, and who, with the help of the gained insight, can relieve the suffering and pain of all those who need it. 8 9 INTRODUCTION RECOMMENDATIONS A Guide to the Study of This Text Translated from Sanskrit, yoga means joining, a union. A symbol of the unity and harmony of all that exists, A sutra requires understanding, love, leniency, empathy, open-without which no form of life would be possible. mindedness, non-judgment, and compassion. 1. You should not study the sutras in an overexcited or extremely Yoga is the essence of any phenomenon, its root, its sleepy state, as well as in a state of alcoholic or drug intoxication. alloy. A bridge between body and spirit, between man and God, between spiritual traditions and religions, 2. Remember that sutra is a weapon and therefore requires a skillful, between masculine and feminine, between light and delicate, and careful approach both in the moral and practical darkness, good and evil, science and religion, sense. Otherwise, it can turn against you and those around you. between the past and the future. 3. Never study sutras in a rush, in a hurry, in between. 4. Do not rush to conclusions, judgments, or opinions. Despite its striking comprehensiveness, yoga continues to evolve and find new forms, adapting to 5. If your mind is not receptive to the text, or reading disturbs your the new times. The greatness of yoga lies in its ability balance, leading to emotional overexcitement, then it is better to to find its place in any tradition, in any person, filling postpone reading. and strengthening them. It can become part of any given phenomenon and at the same time, 6. This work is not meant to be complete, so there is no conflict even it is prepared to absorb everything. in the presence of some contradictions. 7. Remember that you are trapped in a million illusions. Keep in mind that common truths are often not true. As the ancients said, "If a lie is repeated countless times, it starts to resemble the truth." 10 The Essence. On the altar of love. 11 Basically, when God wants to speak to you He withdraws your mind first. Very often God talks to you through your genius. When you solve the mystery of Lilly you solve everything. God is also everything in your life you are doomed to go through. Wake me up, slumber, wake me up, My sleeping will let arise, Dissolve in a sutra if nothing else has left. From my fetter set me free. You may not become a bit happier even by solving all the mysteries of the world. Wake me up, slumber, wake me up, The Word from a word, the Self from a self, and the God from the God. From that fire of mine get me shield, Draw your own Om. And to those who is still sleeping assist. God is basically anything of absolutely everything. You feel the loss as deep as you’ve been in it. Reaching the boundaries of eternity only the one will remain in his mind, who earlier has managed to create it in his own imagination. The Essence. On the altar of love. 12 13 Body needs comfort, soul needs serenity. The One, who knows the truth knows nothing. God is everything you live with. You should know a way out from the happiness too. There is as much God as you. The tongue is a magnet. Sometimes God visits only those, who has nothing and no one left. The presence of God depends only on your own presence. Understanding the inevitable is the first step towards liberation. The way to the God not necessarily lies through the awe. Each of your body organs loves you in its own particular way. Appreciate every little bit that touches you, literary every one. Wishes don’t come true, dreams do. You should also learn how to believe. If you want to commit a sin – give an advice. Happiness also should and could be tamed. Love is an absolute gratitude forever. In Kali Yuga Gods are not visiting you, but you should come to the God. Sometimes happiness comes when you have nothing else left to be proud of. If you still have what to lose, don’t even think about reaching enlightenment. Beauty is love. Pretty often, while killing we don’t want to hurt. Happiness is living your own life. Such a paradox! The Essence. On the altar of love. 14 15 Enlightened means recovering. It’s much more important to leave behind love than descendants. The living Altar is the sign of the living Spirit. Philosophy of the pain is just the pain. It’s better to be than to possess. Observe the beauty of the opposite. If you still have what to lose, don’t even think Don’t try to replace him with another him and her with another her. about reaching enlightenment. Absolute merging of a lower still does not form a higher. Find your projection, your visualization, your essence. Catch your mind off guard. Punishment is in fact the essence of delusion. If you are not able to, means you are not willing to. Get ready to know each and every of the cells of your body. You can leave only traces of your own steps. Everything is God. Probably hopelessness is the worst of the traps. God is an essence of everything. Seeker! Do not confuse comfort of a soul with a peace of mind. The moment when dry branches of a tree quiver in the wind, a miracle is about to happen. It is ridiculous to worry about the harm salt can cause you, while threat of spiritual death hangs over your head. Everything consists of nothing, nothing consists of everything. There is no fear when you are already here. On what you are tuned to is how you are performing. The Essence. On the altar of love. 16 17 Only mind is sinful. The way is there where the essence is. Basically, one is inherent in everything that is inherent in all. Everything always points to you. True courage is sometimes manifested only when there It is also kind of an art the way the pages are turned. is nothing left to lose. Enlightenment is when absolute serenity reveals itself. In a spiritual way, while reading, the ability to turn pages is also of great importance. When you are you, then everything is everything. As a rule he needs love, she needs a beloved one. Time heals only wounds. He, who knows prana knows everything. A way of a contrast is also the way. Help everyone - common sin is in a way and your sin too. As soon as you discover your sight - become it. Talk to the right hormone. A true saint basically serves people even being bedridden. Love lives wherever the past and the future meet. Being out of breath from happiness – dissolve. As a rule a person is not afraid of what is known. Indeed only he is truly sancta who being enlightened remains in service. Keep a track of unchanged under all states of mind. More life, more death. Find your spot on your body, and you will have a better chance of finding yourself in life. The Essence. On the altar of love. 18 19 Let everything just be. Intuition also has its own hierarchy. It is better where better people are. Often in sadhana it is necessary to understand: when to be in and when to be out. While suffering it is impossible to understand the meaning of suffering up to the end, as well as the meaning of happiness There is only one way to yourself - your way. while being happy. The power of dawn is equal to the power of awakening. Don’t seek for what God has buried from you; you’d better look for what a man has been hiding from you. When souls are rising up to the sky, it reminds the rustling of leaves. As a rule he, who took away your childhood, Don’t think who to live with, but what to live for. most likely will take away your anility too. Finding the answers to all the questions will not necessarily Basically, your God is where your love flows. bring you absolute happiness. If you can’t find a way out in yourself - find it in another one. Even stones die from the lack of love. Each time has its own slavery. A happy child is the highest happiness. Searching for a sutra equals searching for God. Sometimes, on the way to God, finding your guide is the most important thing. When you wake up and realize that you have not been sleeping, you will understand everything. Knowing everything about you and knowing yourself are completely different things. The Essence. On the altar of love. 20 21 As a rule only conscious patience brings fruits. The supreme task of yogi is not to disturb anything. Basically, awareness is yoga itself. To fall in love with God means to fall in love with everything. In order for sadhana to be successful it’s important to There is nothing more beautiful than you are. understand what kind of fuel you are performing on. There are only two ways - to dissolve in God, Falling asleep, try to recognize the true purpose of a or to let God dissolve in you. passing day. Compassion is the best remedy for suffering. God is God. When God falls in love with himself, the world is born. Give your name to yoga of your sadhana. You are always there where you are. Harmony is basically the ability to live at one's age and time. In the beginning it was you. The award for tolerance will be the highest. Let the one who exists win in you. Spiritually, sleep is just an adjournment. When Lord created the world, you’ve already existed. Pain will always find a way out. Blessed is the one who is blessed. The one who has chosen the birth, in fact, is buried alive. Fear nothing, it’s not even a dream. An unborn is waiting for a born. The Essence. On the altar of love. 22 23 God treats you the way you treat children. You remember that prayer is not for God, but for you. Only you can leave yourself. Don’t mess up with your own business. When your mother or your father are telling you something When you are unhappy - everything is misfortune, then you know that God himself is talking to you. when you are happy - everything is a bliss. Only you need to be liberated. Light up your fire with your breath. Right sadhana in right time. Fight is a must, not resistance. You are always looking in the mirror. Happiness is not the absence of suffering, but the absence of worries. You will never lose what you’ve lost, and find what you’ve already found. A mistake of a holy man is the holy mistake. The unconscious can experience immeasurable Tears of joy or grief are equally salty. suffering even in the arms of the Lord. Let everything just be. If you believe in something that is, you will certainly believe in something that will be. You can know about God everything or nothing. It is essencial for it to be a success, but not a try out. Shock always finds a way out. For whom God exists, He exists. For whom there is no God – than there is none. The strong one serves Lord and the people with his strength, the weak one with his weakness. 24 The Essence. On the altar of love. 25 The higher the love is, more peaceful the mind is. Accept the mantra of detachment. Do not hide behind your own back. Seeing a sin is being sinful; seeing the light means being saint. Hiding from reality is hiding from God. One is basically the form of the other. Be able to distinguish yourself from the self. When death comes, the natural course of events is especially important. Experience knows everything. Pray for those who are praying. Sutra is the leaves, concentration is a trunk, and awareness is the roots. God's mercy can be obtained only in the present. Maya is the manifestation of the will of God Love is destiny, self-love is karma. in the name of power over every being. Love can only be mutual. You are always there where you are. It is possible to share with God, in fact, in any of its manifestations. A true warrior, as a rule, is not the one who fights, but who is able to avoid a battle. Better not to think how to live, but who is living. Switching does not mean liberation. Enlightenment is an experience. The Divine is not perfect, but universal. It is impossible to become who you are; you can only be the one. The Essence. On the altar of love. 26 27 Faith and knowledge are one and the same. The enlightened one is aware, the saint one knows. Yoga is more of an evolution than a revolution. Even Lord does not want to know the results of the experiment. The whole world, the whole universe, the whole Listen to the call of your heart, but not your blood. cosmos is a sacrifice to the Lord. Master your perfection on the experience of God. Blood dazzles. The degree of your trust in God equals the Who will know me - will know the self. degree of God’s belief in you. Faith in others often strengthens belief in oneself. Obey the call of your heart, not your blood. Share the grief with the man-god, Turn suffering into compassion. happiness - with the God-man. Match the sensation with awareness. From control to self-control. Do not look in someone else's mirror. Indeed, the main obstacle to liberation is blood. Each person has his own limit, and that limit is karma. Wiping the past, the result of true experience remains forever. By purifying your home, you purify your mind, but by defiling The one who’s lost everything once, will not lose it for the second time. your home you desecrate your mind. Even sadhana is in many respects basically An agitated mind is a sin in itself. a balance of excitation and inhibition. The Essence. On the altar of love. 28 29 Devine is not who’s happy, but happy is the devine. At times even the sin of a saint serves for good. Connect to your source. Blessed is the one who has not been burnt in the fire of Divine love. The main thing is to trust yourself, not in yourself. Every step you take is the step of God. Tears of the strongest are the hardest to bear. Erased edges of time rub against shadows of extinct stars. Be sure to look for your own form of confession. Don’t grieve for the dead, for alive you shall mourn. Do not remote, do not approach, do not worry – just live through. He is born to die. She is born to live. Seek not only for a way of getting rid of karma, but of whom to deliver. Life is all-embracing. Exsistence is pervasive in its constancy. For each time there’s its way of purification. To earn God’s mercy become God for Him. The strongest drug is life itself. The currents of love shall not be locked on you. Sadhaka! Learn how not to react even to your sleep. Give up your ego and your breath will become an eternity. Do not look for peace, do not look for the tests. Life itself will Do not believe in miracles; trust the miracle. provide them for you in a proper time. Any person is capable of anything. In Kali Yuga, even the good can often breed the evil. The Essence. On the altar of love. 30 31 Any action is doomed to perfection in its way. Meditation in its way is uncontrolled, but conscious action. The power of thought is equal to the power of spirit. Be sure to find your own key to God. Sometimes there is no better place to hide from Lord, than the temple. Only by letting go of absolutely everything, one can attain eternity. Give an ego to someone who does not long for it. Sometimes the best help to mankind is to liberate it from yourself. Glory is to whoever exists. Do not seek persistence. Strive for peace. Do not let your consciousness settle down. Remember that the main thing is a sacrifice, not an act of sacrificing. Where is no will, there is no knowledge; there is no knowledge without will. Basically, there is a chance of liberation in every instance and this moment is like an eternity. Rhythm releases karma. The path of humanity in many ways is your path as well. Be where you are. Meditation is basically just a conscious existence. Becoming him you become yourself. Only conscious liberation gives the right to spiritual growth. It’s not enough to just believing in God; absolute trust is a must. Your path to God is identical to the way of all mankind. What day does not take, night would accept. What night can’t accept the God will adopt. Do not forget that affection is basically a start in life. The Essence. On the altar of love. 32 33 Track your expectations and let them go. Level of adaptation serves as prana’s indicator. Regardless of the nature of the melody, the instrument must be tuned. Do not ask the shame for help. Even knowing everything about God does not mean knowing God. Remember that you came to live, not to take. Satisfy a strong desire, overcome a weak one. Escape is not stupidity. Stupidity is an escape. Today's desires are tomorrow's needs. To be formed does not mean to be realized. Give God your decent life, and He will grant you with a decent death. The further a person or humanity from one side of God, the closer to another. If you cannot return to normal life – get rid of norms. You are always in His place. When it is impossible for you to be, you can only become. Sadhana rather only reminds of enlightenment, than brings it closer. One karma, one God. Cover yourself with your own blanket. Do not worry, live it through. You are the only one who knows the truth. Living over means to become, living through means to be. The goal is the means, the means is the goal. Match, do not compare. Basically life you are granted is life to be given. The Essence. On the altar of love. 34 35 Sometimes a saint can be as dangerous to a person as a sinner. Blood of ancestors bears the experience of generations. Often the object itself is more important, than an opinion about it. Flight into the past or the future is a weakness. Escape in the present in its way is a sin. Suffering brings closer to God, and joy notices Him. The most desperate situation on the scale of God is life. Do not trust a man, believe in a man. Do not believe God, trust in Him. Yoga is sometimes love without a beloved and loving ones. A man knows only a man, and God knows only God. If you think about it, Maya is the best evidence of God's concern. Look for content in the past, look for the form in the present. Watching the observer is an excellent sadhana. Experience forms prana. Indeed, the best gift of God is Maya. Everyone has the right to Maya. Everyone hides from God in his own way. Do not look for the victim of your love, it will find you. Love and hatred are children of God. Everything is relative only for the world of manifestation. Maya includes everything, but excludes nothing. The age of a soul, as a rule, is determined by the degree of detachment. True happiness is universal. Experience does not know the subjunctive mood. Finding a correspondence between dharma and sadhana is the most important task, you just need to understand it. OM The Essence. On the altar of love. 36 37 Often the hardest thing is simply to live. You are given a life to live, not to take. You are born to be delievered from; Fumes of truth will anyway smoke you out of your den. and when you pass away you will obtain. Sometimes you can see the light by only closing your eyes. You can find yourself in the heart of a man. The Lord is improving with you. Trust someone who is breathing. Destiny of a man is karma of God. Find refuge in the essence. Karma of God is the fate of a man. Only you will be left alone. Take His pain, not from Him. To be happy is your direct duty. Home truths often only hamper spiritual development. The genius knows. The enlightened one is awared of. Sincere prayer is always a chance, do not forget Drop your ego, and consciousness becomes eternity. about it. Every moment has its own puja. Each state has its own purpose. And each state has its own law. Karma is the preservation of life; Fate is its birth and death. The most valuable knowledge is the knowledge of silence. Look at the one who sees. Listen to the one who hears. The Essence. On the altar of love. 38 39 Who sees, remembers. While getting attached withdraw yourself. Believe the one who believes. Do not regret, do not wish, do not wait. The essence of God's law is perception. Life is a tension, being is a defuse. Build a temple in your heart. It is top of delusion to grant something an excessive importance. If not capable of feat find strength in sadhana. Don’t try to think of who you used to be, but better remember who you are now. Seeker, be established in prana. Seek God in the eyes of a man. Being prana, be established in knowledge. It’s important not life, but death to be a success. Do not be afraid of losing yourself nor in your dream or in your death. Awarere! Falling asleep do not rejoice, and do not mourn when Remember that you are the only thing that exists. waking up. As a rule the Saint is not aware that he is saint. Dharma expands consciousness, sadhana – concentrates. By the end, nothing is needed for communication with God. To reveal samadhi, first you have to come out of it. Often, where is an effort, there is violence. Round and round, there's a circle around. And where is zeal - there is yoga. The Essence. On the altar of love. 40 41 Raise a monument to everyone in your heart. From eternal to eternal. From self to self. Sometimes to oversleep your life In fact, neither emotion nor thought has anything to do with is the best sadhana. true happiness, and much less with enlightenment. I dedicate my life, I lit up my death. Take your ego away. It is necessary to live your life with absolute detachment. You can only love for the Lord’s love to you. True happiness or liberation happens forever or not at all. Unconscious rest is in fact only a temporary comfort. Breathing is the soul of the bodily shell. God is represented to a man in the form of maya. Even in the present, maya remains maya. Tolerance is the main proof of faith. The feeling of duality is actually a cause of all fears. Entertain your mind by the rhythm of action or idleness. There is never absolutely right decision in the physical embodiment, Truly, by the power of presence set yourself free. Where there is movement, there is maya. In fact, the only instrument of liberation for a man is his body. In fact, everyone sees the same dream. When it's over, come to visit. You are the free will, indeed. True peace is to be at the source, in the source, When you wake up, you will surely wake up someone else. and the source at the same time The Essence. On the altar of love. 42 43 Dive in your own presence. Moonlight illuminates the sunlight, the sun shines to the moon. It is easiest of things to be the God. The flame of cowardice is able to burn everything. First forgive the Lord, then say: "Forgive me, Lord." Love is the highest wisdom. Hardly there is a heart that can charm Breath sees everything. everyone. The sense is in the Meaning. All ingenious simply is. Entertain your time, not yourself. For you God is everything what you need the most. It is better to be a free slave than a slave of the freedom. When there is love, there is nothing else. The moon hides behind the moon, the sun behind the sun. True knowledge does not need memory. Happiness is simply a forgotten pain. Give a kiss to your heart. God exists only when He exists for you. Any power is the power of love. In many ways, something exists only because it was given a name. The best place for pilgrimage is your own heart. If you know It, you know everything. Reflect. The Essence. On the altar of love. 44 45 When you light up the fire, your breath is the first thing to be It's not you who is loved, but you who loves. sacrificed. Even one moment of true happiness is Even Gods indulge the nectar of human love. enough to keep it forever. Life is a dream in reality. Even when you have been the one, you kept on being something else, and by being something else you are still the one. Only Shadow leaves no traces. Freedom is knowledge. Knowledge is freedom. That is it. It is that. Everything is this. This is everything. When there is no you, everything looses its meaning. You are you. Everything is everything. There's only you and me. The power of maya is your power as well. You just saw your birth, you just witnessed your death. The presence is sufficient. Even when I was you, I remained myself. Find inside of yourself someone who is not scared to be asleep. Living by you is the greatest of happiness. As a rule, for a person in life, God is the essence, not the judge. The essence is the soul of any manifestation. Everything is the same, only everything is. Sutra will find a way out. The feeling of happiness depends on the sense of time. For betrayal, even love cannot be an excuse. The Essence. On the altar of love. 46 47 In fact, you are born to show your life to God. Only love is not enough for devotion. Enlightenment is an explosion similar to an atomic. The following love is only a continuation of the previous one. It's more than You in Him, only He is in you. It is impossible to be in samadhi, you can only be samadhi. The best sadhana is love. The Lord Himself makes a decision whether He sould be or not. Love is the best sadhana. Basically, spirityal is anything that is spiritualized. You must stay in order to forget. If everyone is there, someone should be here. Couldn’t be better. Everything is a memory. Life is a memory. Everything is always there. You only need what you need. Remember that someone dies to remind you of your existence. Be not a slave of God, but a servant. Not guna is important, but the way it influenses you. On the spiritual path, striving is important, not motivation. Blessed is the one who knows. Pierce matter with awareness, and you will be beyond life and death. Untie the knot of karma. Lit the fire of love and burn everything in it. The Essence. On the altar of love. 48 49 In sadhana, in fact, inaction in action is the basis Enlightenment is a union. of the Divine manifestation. Pass by the weak flow, get over the strong one. Solve your name in the name of God. Treat God as a man, and a man as a God. Try to dissolve utterly during your life time. Tune the tool of perception. Where’s the edge, there's a chance. You are there where your war is. When you are with God, God will be with you. When you are God, God will be you. Stop the flow of consciousness on the mind itself. The special sadhana should only complement the natural sadhana and continue the dharma. Believe and forget, realize and stay. There is no sweeter venom than life. Only the one who can commit a deed has power not to act. The world is perfect only for the perfect ones. The state can be only intermediate. Remind yourself of your existence and Lord will remind My heart beats in your chest. you of His. Open the door to infinity with your own key. The past and the future are only now. Sometimes, in order for God to forgive you, Every enlightened one is a warrior, you must first forgive yourself. but not every warrior is enlightened. The Essence. On the altar of love. 50 51 All that you know, everyone knows. When suffering reaches its limit find the source and dissolve in it Fill the void with your breath, and silence with your will. Even enlightenment is the part of a great illusion. Put your mind in the right direction and go to sleep. Do not forget to close the door behind you while leaving. There is no statute of limitations for betrayal. Even maya is maya. Everything is your birth and death. A clever one chooses sattva, a fool chooses tattva Everything is that, everything is this. It is necessary not to squeeze the mind, but concentrate. Do not expand, but release. You can only be truly happy being Him or being in Him You can only understand that there and you can only understand this here and now. To feel integrity, you must first feel yourself as a part of a whole. You are eternity and only eternity is. Find yourself in those who you love and know. Only sincerity, actualy, matters. The best form of your love to God is one available to you. Sadhana and dharma must merge together. Sadhana is a balance of forcers, nothing else. Samadhi is when everything is happiness. Sometimes the search for truth only distances you from the truth. Your element is always here. The Essence. On the altar of love. 52 53 Find the experience of the opposite. Happiness is when everything is now. The wind does not have a mirror. Enlightenment - when everything is always there. There is only you beyond your “I”. Fill in yourself with yourself. In its own way, justice is eternity, and eternity is justice. Something changes, when everything changes, everything changes when something changes. Degree of reincarnation - sometimes is the determining factor of influence on pain of any kind and at all levels. Sometimes the stronger the pain, the stronger Lord's love to you. Behind the fear lies only pain (both mental and physical at all levels and of any kind). When it happens - then correlates. Happiness is simply the absence of unhappiness. Commensurability is already a path. Everything disappears in itself. Yoga and adaptation in principle (spiritually, of course) are one and the same. As a rule, you fall in love with your desire to love your love. To burn karma, you must first set a fire. Each sutra has its own state and each state has its own sutra. Where the essence is, the way is. The power of persuasion will sooner or later give rise to a special sensation, and the feeling in turn will only You exist only when you are here. strengthen the common strength. The Essence. On the altar of love. 54 55 It is possible to live trough something Where the limit is, destiny is. authentic only in time. Often, where there is a contradiction, there is doubt. For happiness you need only happiness. Pain must also be earned. There’s no time for someone who doesn’t exist. The best help is timely. Identification with the essence is the highest sadhana. The moon is silent about everything. In yogic sadhana, any order of disciplines is possible. Find your poison, find your antidote. Everything is happiness, but happiness is not everything. Everything happens when you want it to happen. In life there is only life, in a dream there’s only a dream. If you see the color, you will see the light. One soul is a set of bodies. A philosopher should become a warrior, a warrior - a philosopher. How many dreams, so many tears. Sacrifice even your suffering Enlightenment, in fact, is the absolute adaptation. True knowledge, as a rule, is beyond faith and doubt. At times of disadaptation, the soul sometimes peeps out of chest. Everything is always here. The Essence. On the altar of love. 56 57 The same condition is different for everyone. There are no winners in time slavery. It is only necessary to create certain conditions, and the Once you have set up your path, let it go. flower of enlightenment will bloom. Every moment you devote to recognition. A man knows God, and God discovers a man. Learn to accept yourself, not to seek. Pain will forgive everything. Do not assert, do not deny, - comprehend. Karma loves life. The best service is reincarnation,and the best It is important to be happy, not burdened by happiness. dharma is transformation. The saint's smile contains knowledge accumulated by mankind. Wherever you are, there sadhana is. Consciousness is always there. The amount of prana inevitably goes into quality. From self-hypnosis to self-awakening. To understand the present, one must be able to part with the past and not think about the future. Souls are heading up, breaking the shackles of time. In many respects value of thought is that through it you can find its source. Karma consumes life. You are allowed as much as you want. Dissolve your fate in karma and dissolve your Karma in destiny. The Essence. On the altar of love. 58 59 In the end, time always passes with the same benefit. Every blood has its own law. Everything has been already, everything will be, - turn Eliminate your dependence even on sattva. to the essence, turn to it. Accept your fate and let your karma go. Do not react, but do not ignore either. It is in our power to dissolve the fate in time and space. The doomed to win cannot be considered a winner. Whom you recognize, that's who you will become. Transformation is inevitable. You become on what you react to. If you have been born – you are obliged to live. Helping others, you can help not only them, but yourself in them, Each state has its own truth and its own lies. however, as well as in yourself. Paths of prana are inscrutable. You comprehend only what you alow to stream through you. Where fate is, there prana is. Baically, not the one who is experiencing pain is sick, but the one who does not know the pain of the other. As a rule, what you are to the Lord, the Lord is to you. A paralyzed with fear can not be blessed with love. Stay where you are. Believe in what is, not in what will be. A good person and a person who brings good things are often different people. Better does not mean more perfect. The Essence. On the altar of love. 60 61 Set up in the present. The birth of a mantra is a sign of a new birth. Please your Budhi with flowers. Purify, concentrate, comprehend, manifest! The purer the perception is, the closer the God is. The best way to deceive your destiny is not to know it. There is no such thing as somebodyelse’s blood. Everything is just an excuse in its own way. Happiness cannot be given out, it can only be shared. We all have the same destiny. Karma is different. Conscious life is already a sadhana. The present is the best teacher. As a rule, others see in you what you see, and others believe with you in what you believe. Do not seek for justice, seek for harmony. If you have remembered - remember why. For an awere one absolutely everything becomes benefitial. The sharpness of thought does not yet determine its purity. Even maya does not belong to you. To live like a yogi does not mean to be the one. The farther the body is, the closer the spirit is. There is always enough of one enlightened, as well as one ignorant. Knowledge can only be direct. The enlightened person is infinitely happy in sorrow You are where the thought originates. and immensely grieved by his happiness. The Essence. On the altar of love. 62 63 To be in the present is, in fact, the only form of true courage. A student is the best teacher. It is easier, perhaps to love someone who loves or hates. Renouncing, you inevitably fall into the essence of the renounced. Absolute trust in God does not mean automatically You need not to release you, but yourself. getting rid of suffering. The power of maya is your power. The best prayer to God is a dream (in a certain way). The main thing is that you do not discover Lock the body, fix the mind, let the spirit be. the truth, but the truth discovers you. Enlightenment is either timely, or by the grace of God. The hardest part is to experience yourself. Do not miss the chance to die, do not The one who knows - loves. miss the chance to survive. Everyone has a chance to create the world. Prolong the line of nature. Om. Learn before you believe, believe before you Do not look at the world through the keyhole. know. There is nothing more creative and destructive than love. Sleep before you wake up, wake up before you fall asleep. Draw noise of a wind in your imagination. The happiest person is you. Face is behind the edge, beyond the edge is the face. The Essence. On the altar of love. 64 65 Whoever moans becomes. Find the one who is breathing, and you will find someone who knows. Dissolve in love and let the love dissolve in you. A slave of love is a slave of hatred. Only an ignorant goes forward when the whole universe moves back. It is only what it is. Thoughts and feelings, penetrating the essence, must go Being alive means being sinful. through all stages of evolution. To have a life doesn’t mean to be alive. Any feeling is basically a manifestation of love. To be happy is your holy duty. To be happy is your holy duty. Dissolve time in the flow of love. To have a life doesn’t mean to be alive. In everything look for your own reflection. Being alive means being sinful. The main thing is to remember who lives, but not why. Only an ignorant goes forward when the whole universe moves back. Realize, live, forget. Dissolve in love and let the love dissolve in you. Even in the opposite, there are no contradictions. Do not ask what to do, - do it. Do not ask who is to blame, it is always you. Thoughts and feelings, penetrating the essence, must go through all stages of evolution. The Essence. On the altar of love. 66 67 A man can not imagine that he will not exist, Perhaps sincerity is the main condition (of God). just because in a certain way he is no longer there. Everything seems, it seems everything. Replace control with self-control. Sadhana is more likely reminds about enlightenment Till you can do it, don’t commit. than brings it closer. Awareness neutralizes time. For someone who has become a content, the form does not exsist. Happy is the one who is happy. Unhappy is the one who is unhappy. There are as many ways of liberation as there are people. When you know who lives, you’ll discover why. Accelerated experience does not approximate liberation. Learned to breathe - learned to live. The road to God equals the God’s path to you. Become everything for yourself. There is only one who’s breathing, and there are so many who thinks. You can create yourself only from yourself. What is in Him, that is in Om. Everything a person does through his lifetime is seeking for the form of death. Collect a broken mirror. Only the experience of knowing eternal An active mind knows, a calm mind is aware. existence in life can become permanent. The Essence. On the altar of love. 68 69 Awareness, depriving you of everything (in a certain way), Awareness is existence. awards you with yourself. Being and none being are just a game of your imagination. There's only you in yourself. Sometimes knowledge intoxicates just like wine. Absolute awareness, as a rule, generates spiritual birth and physical death. Happiness is when you realize that you are. As a rule, Maya comes to him as a femail, and to her as a mail. Samadhi is an absolute awareness. Pain is a feeling brought to a certain limit. Today's fear is tomorrow's pain. Live sound is a living body. To create, one must live; to know, one must exist. Beauty is the essence. Not even one thought is worth a moment of sincere love. Gratitude is the best prayer. Dissolve yourself in your existence. Let compassion not turn into cowardice, peace into hard-heartedness. Nothing can compare with the experience of death. Train your mind to love, the heart to think, In order not to fall into the trap of and you will certainly obtain liberation. maya, you must stop being a beast. As a rule an imposed virtue generates violence. Turn a circle into a spiral. The Essence. On the altar of love. 70 71 Yogi, do not confuse desire with motivation. Enlightenment does not depend on knowledge or ignorance of it, it depends on knowing yourself. Unlimited and eternal is always here and now. Nothing is wrong, there is a misconception. Absolute identification or non-identification is liberation. The drawn tentacles of feelings concentrate Asana filled with essence is the best nourishment for the mind. energy for awareness. When it hurts no more, the enlightenment comes. It is never possible to kill only one. Make your own bouquet of flowers from the words of the master. Faith also has the speed. In fact, the illusion of happiness does not differ from happiness. Indeed, awareness is knowledge. All comes out of you. Neither spirit nor essence can replace it. Everything consists of you. Variety is given in order to understand unity. Everything comes from love. To explode with freedom, you must first shrink as much as possible. Finding refuge in a mantra is a great success. It’s not necessary to destroy in order to understand. It is impossible to live absolutely wrong, as well as absolutely right. He, who has returned, will never come back. The Essence. On the altar of love. 72 73 As long as you breathe, you believe. Believe in what you believe in, realize what you know. The strongest happiness is the happiness by you. When feminine becomes masculine, and masculine becomes faminine, everything dies and the world is born. Love is a reality. Sadhana usually does not come from a good life, though it should be from a good life. Gather yourself from everyone you love and know, and you will reach integrity. The secret of love also lies in the mystery of stopping the mind. You comprehend through suffering, through rejoicing you exist. Knowledge must be loved, love must be know. Only something that doesn’t exist remains unchanged. This is this, and that is that. Follow your own steps. Blind faith is better than blind knowledge. To become Him, you already need to be you. Look for yourself, not for justice. To help someone, you need to become one. Go back home. Look for the cause of illness in your reflection. When you are here, you are everywhere. Harmony exists out of time. Enlightenment is the best charity. It is better to live one's own life than one thousand lives of others. It is impossible to find happiness in the future, if you are unhappy now. The Essence. On the altar of love. 74 75 Everything happens always and everywhere. It is necessary to accept your destiny, not to reconcile with it. If you know, in everything you will see only knowledge, To experience nothing, you must experience everything. if you believe - faith, if you love - love. Find Om in yourself. Everything is for deliverance, everything is for liberation. The right is the one who is absent. The one to the other, the one to the next. Saint is the one who does not need anything. The mind believes, the breath knows. It is better to live your life unhappy than a Approaching enlightenment is just as impossible as postponing it. thousand happy lives of others. Do not look for reality in an unreal world. A high state of mind is a bridge to liberation. Release your soul and wait for your turn. In slavery you will find comfort, in freedom - peace. The moment of eternity costs the eternity of being. In the essence of everything there is something more. If you think you can make mistakes, you are of a too When you have learned something, you intend to apologize. high opinion of yourself. He, who loves, sometimes doesn’t know about what he knows; Absolute understanding is one of the forms of love. the one, who already exists, is aware of his existanse. When you become the one, you will become the other. To love life is to love God. The Essence. On the altar of love. 76 77 Everything is in you. The speed of becoming enlightened largely depends on the speed of thinking. When memory becomes absolute, it stops the time. God is in unity, in unity is devil. The best service is your absolute presence. Sometimes, suffering begins when God is blinded from love. On the path of liberation, the degree of knowledge must strictly correspond to degree of perception. There is something much more important and deeper than happiness. When the Lord remembers His love for Himself, the world is born. The process of awareness is infinite until you realize the one who knows. When you attain in love of Him in you, the light will never die. Become yourself. If you are still alive, you have not understood anything yet. Breath is a messenger of God. Sell your soul to God. Only the slave enslaves. Everything matters exactly as long as it remains important to it. The degree of holiness is determined by the degree of compassion, not by the degree of experience. Without prana, the heart becomes a stone. Every moment is perfect in its own way. There is always something most important than anything else. Even a wise man needs some love and even a lover needs some wisdom. The Essence. On the altar of love. 78 79 He, who understands, loves. As soon as you see the sun in your heart, your mind will plunge into the moonlight. The level of prana determines the level of consciousness. Just allow yourself to be what you want to be. Brahman absorbs this and that. Memory, in fact, is one of the forms of fear. Illusion feeds on everything. Each of us has each of us. Sacrifice only yourself. You are the same as yourself. The insignificance of perception is immense. You are samadhi. When someone dies or is born, he dies or is born to a certain extent with you. Realize the difference between night and darkness, between light and day, and I am sure you will discover a lot. It is very important to find the right speed Every life deserves death. to satisfy your desires, so your path to freedom will be optimal. Truly understand the relationship of karma and the mercy of God. And love and fear are the children of God. Truly understand the relationship of karma and the mercy of God. Callousness is better than cowardice. Having moved away from your tribe, from all your roots, traditions, and from your land you have a chance to rise Your karma is shared by absolutely everybody. up to the skies, but be careful, because there is a great chance to fall down into the abyss. The Essence. On the altar of love. 80 81 Even silence is a lie. Your karma is shared by absolutely everybody. God is what you are. Every life deserves death. Find peace in work, not in slavery. Truly understand the relationship of karma and the mercy of God. Everyone lives in his own time. Only the balance of sadhana and worldly life gives the right results. Breathe that in, and breathe this out. The one is only a modification of the other. Sometimes once only completely disappointed in life you can really start living. The sense is in the meaning, and soul is in the soul. Caring for your body is caring for God. Freedom is the total fidelity to truth. Follow what the heart is preparing for, Silence hides, but it does not lie though. watch what the mind is preparing for. One breath, one step, one trace. Remember that it is impossible to know the higher self with the help of the lower one. Even remnants of creation keep the memory of happiness. One life matters only because there is another one. For a man even poverty is a luxury. Watch the transition - and you will know your destiny. Knowledge of life does not liberate from responsibility. The Essence. On the altar of love. 82 83 There is only one emotion and one thought and their When you are loosing your hope, let it go. countless interpretations. Fill your body with life, and your soul with Devine. Find the disciple, and the Teacher will prove himself. True peace only strengthens the fullness of compassion. The depth of thought is equal to the depth of feeling. Control of prana is a true mastery. Sadhana needs everything, but enlightenment needs nothing. Withdraw no benefit, but a lesson from everything. Think about what you are thinking about, do what you are doing. By all means find your form of meditation, by all means. Revenge with good is the worst of revenge. To dissolve in the events is sometimes the best form of Even the sky restricts the enlightened soul. confession. You can only help yourself in Him, not Him in yourself. Health is not an absence of illness but an ability to overcome it. Clinging to life is just as disgusting and detrimental He who condemns is condemned. as being careless about it. Find your key to your God. Sleep does not absolve from responsibility. In the Temple, serve the Lord, not yourself. The reaction of death is the reaction of life. In the Temple, pray to the Lord, not to yourself. Self-love is the cause, ego is the consequence. The Essence. On the altar of love. 84 85 Basically, the present is the only Teacher. Live sound - living word - living experience. Adaptation is inevitable. Give different things to the same time. The most important thing is happening right now. At times, the degree of enlightenment determines the degree of liberation. Love reflects, not develops. The day stands, and you get up, the evening sits, and you sit down, the night lies, and you lie down. Sooner or later energy will discover knowledge, and the knowledge will detect the energy. Commit the same time to different things. Only miracles happen. It is possible to realize God only in the God Himself. Todays love is just the light of former stars of hatred. Only your own path leads to liberation Yoga is an evolution, not a revolution. Absolute compassion is harmony in a certain way. God always is what actually happening. Hygiene is often the basis of morality. Everything is you. You will be only when you remember that you are. Take your own hand. And one person deserves all the love that exists. For him, who descovered God, the best way to describe Him is the silence. Explosion of consciousness often creates liberation. The Essence. On the altar of love. 86 87 When you find yourself, you find God. The magic of nature is the strongest one. Only the unknown is inevitable. There are states above all happiness and worse than all misfortunes. The cross is always of the right heaviness. You were born to contemplate your nature, to accept and understand it (on the background of his karma, of course). Any element is salvation, any element is perishment. Everything is an essence. Sadhaka! Always reflect on why you are in the body. Your body is also your cross. Whom you accept you become (at the ego level, of course). Reveal yourself again and again. He who deals with the speed, better feels the speed of his own destiny. The more I’d remembered, the less I’ve learned. Everything that is beautiful is already ethic in its own way. Communication with nature is already a sadhana. Find your own word. Merging with nature is already a sadhana. Your presence is compulsory. Finding your talent is sometimes like finding God. One state nessesserily opens the door for the other. Enlightenment is only awareness, To remember is to live, to forget means to exist. not knowledge or ignorance of it. The Essence. On the altar of love. 88 89 Find and revitalize your Deity. To be in God does not mean to be with God. If you do exsist, then you are here. Serenity eluminates in many colors. If there is no law inside, there is no law outside. The inner search of yourself is like a mole, who is digging his course in search of refuge. Truely enlightened is the one, who experienced all the states of all lives. There are no greedy animals. Finding yourself does not mean leaving everyone. Identify your association. In sadhana try not to devide life on before and after. Find the opportunity to pray for you, and you will inevitably learn to pray by yourself. Not the depth of suffering, but the depth of its awareness, is important. When you learn to pray yourself, While hugging a tree - confess. others will pray with you. When the breath calls you, do not resist. Communication with God is possible only in the present. Apparently, he who loves children loves God. God is increasingly recognized either by desperate or fearless ones. Nothing fills time like mantra does. Do everything strictly according to your needs. Orgasm is perceived and used only as a medicine, not as a drug. In fact, happiness and unhappiness are one and the same (in a certain way). The Essence. On the altar of love. 90 91 Its only you who has been born and it’s only you who dies. To acknowledge the meaning of life is like losing your innocence. If it is outside, then it is inside. The price of life is death, the price of death is life. Look for the way out in the opposite. The substance is capable of much, but not everything. Always give the chakra what it is asking for. When you leave, you will understand how simple it is. All that is required of you is just your existence. Ability to stay is the main skill. To understand God, you need to understand your true nature. Necessity, the need for the Lord only emphasizes His existence. If a person gives advises easily, then he hasn’t experienced the real grief yet. Only a truly peaceful mind allows for a truly deep feeling. God and Devil are the children of Love. True knowledge is an object, considered from all points of view. Indeed the one is born who is born on time. True happiness does not depend on the mood. Discover and revitalize your Deity. There is nothing more adamant and beautiful than the essence. Torn root is unlikely to become a slave ever again. It is necessary to clearly distinguish verity, truth and essence to yourself. When you feel miserable, just look into the eyes of the strong one. The Essence. On the altar of love. 92 93 Time is the highest form of justice in its own way. Words often cost less than the paper on which they are written. Even conscious dreaming is evidence of affection and The Lord is uncompromising. an obstacle to spiritual development. The end of life for an awarere is the direct path to liberation, Any knowledge is priceless in its own way. when for an ignorant it is simply a death. The strength of the spirit is the accumulated experience. Turn to God in the name of God. Your conscience should become your home. It's time to please everyone. He who is capable of a step is capable of a life. The happiness of the enlightened includes absolutely everything. Confrontation of conscious to unconscious is due to our distraction from reality. There is only one who does not know about his existence, but realizes himself with his whole being. Someone needs to see the light to fall asleep; someone needs to see himself to wake up. The sadhana of drawing vivid eyes is flawless in its own way. As the body dissolves, the spirit formes. Empathy goes away as compassion grows. You can die long before your death. Do not leave people until you find yourself. Everyone is given a chance to understand his God in his own way. Find yourself in your imagination. The Essence. On the altar of love. 94 95 In love, look not at what the sacrifice means for your ego, In Kali Yuga, even good sometimes serves evil. but for what it means for you as a loving one. You can not buy only what you can just take. True friendship is the highest form of love. Try to interfier into the silence of the elements. The further from yourself, the dipper the loneliness. True happiness is the one for which there is no obvious reasons. The closer to yourself, the closer to everything. Do not allow the mind to seize power over your heart. To be or not to be, God decides for Himself. There is a huge difference between thinking and knowing. Do not do today what needs to be done tomorrow. Happiness is an absolute sense of safety. When you will wipe dust on an altar - do not forget to remember the main thing. If you feel the light, do not cling to the life. Genuine regeneration is an absolute reunion. If you know that everything is over, drop your knowledge. Look into the mirror of budhi, and manas will certainly represent itself. There is only one difference between life and death: life is life, and death is death. Trust is a necessary spiritual practice, not a blind belief in infallibility to the trustee. Being able to change in a timely manner is the essence of awareness. Love begins with love, faith begins with faith, The wise is already the one who has time to think.A time-dispersed space where time simply ceases to God begins with compassion. be, and there is enlightenment. The Essence. On the altar of love. 96 97 Even death does not absolve from responsibility. Give your mind a philosophy and let it go. Sometimes only the person who has asked the Often, to believe in Lord, one must fall in love. question can answer it. The degree of the victim is usually determined It is not the search for balance that is important, but by the degree of love. rather the recognition of it Fear generates karma, love accompanies it. Sadhana is basically a harmony of action and inaction. Degree of sincerity is equal to the degree of detachment. Do not be afraid to love God. Do not be afraid to hate. Everything that happens in its dimension is right in its own way. Nirvana is the perfect trap for a soul. Everything happens when death is born. Almost every path is a way of a coward. And a way of a coward is also the way. The one who lives in you, and the one in whom you live, are one and the same. Only balance at all levels gives the opportunity for complete liberation. Soul loves, seeks and must seek for peace; body shall look for the movement. A chain reaction of enlightenment is possible. Absolute mood is enlightenment. A stream of thoughts often just blocks the flow of consciousness Liberation can not be achieved, but comprehended. God is there where your attention is. The Essence. On the altar of love. 98 99 Nothing can and should become an excuse. Devote, but do not use; appreciate, but do not evaluate. Having reached enlightenment, There is nothing more stupid and meaningless than condemnation. liberate yourself from it as well. There is only one way for liberation to a man – a way of a man. Find the harmony of remembering and thinking. A calm person has already stepped into Every ejaculation is a new reincarnation (in a certain way). the abyss of enlightenment. Any state has its own purpose. Liberation is sometimes possible only when you pass through all the circles of hell and paradise. Remember that there are no stops on the way to God. Everything that has to happen is already happening. Logic is in its sense a trap for a mind, and love is a trap for a heart. All paths lead to God, but not all of them lead to enlightenment. Even pain is one of the forms of Divine love. Only timely samadhi gives liberation. Illusion of perfection is perfect, illusion of the absolute is absolute. Cultivate the power of spirit by the continuity of meditation. Surround yourself with sattva, and God will surround you with sattva. The soul in the body dreams to be free, the free soul dreams the body to find. The best way to steal from God is the progress. The authenticity and degree of your happiness is largely determined by the happiness of your loved ones. The Essence. On the altar of love. 100 101 The main thing, as a rule, takes place outside of the field of attention. Remember yourself, and God will recognize you. There is only past in the past, and there is only future in the future. God gave you the life so you show it to Him. There is not even present in the present. True knowledge is not conditional. Absolute happiness is an absolute peace. Blind love is as dangerous as blind faith. If you are not dead then you are just fast asleep. Kindness is not a merit, but an absolute norm of life. Whatever you are doing others are doing to you. Accept a man-god, not the God-man. If you will not kill the time the time will kill you. Get a thought. Accept and recognize not words, but a word. Longing for freedom makes a person to do absolutely anything. Conviction, as a rule, is the main obstacle to freedom. Enlightenment is a birth of a new star wich light will never die. Realizing means losing the past and the future. On the path to liberation there are only three obstacles - Even Enlightenment is an intermediate state. the past, the present and the future. Inaction in action is the basis of the Divine manifestation. Unity is salvation. Unity is death. Sometimes, slipping into the essence of language, you enter the The crossing of eyes is a crossing of karma. essence of God. The Essence. On the altar of love. 102 103 If you reveal the essence of the state of Make an appointment with God and wait for your turn. consciousness you will comprehend the purpose. If people around you are happy then everything is all right. Your teacher, your sadhana, your karma, your destiny. As soon as the love sets up the plans its going to die soon. Getting engaged with prana soak it with a sense of a woman. There is practically no innocence in a human body. Even love is not an excuse. Enlightenment is an instant revealing of the essence. The principle of a rite is a base of a spiritual life. Spiritual condition is just a soil for the seed of a consciesnes. Try to find yourself in every aspect of being. Knowledge is not limited; only consciesness can be restricted. Exsistence of the law of any kind must fill a conscious person with spiritual awe. Your attitude towards yourself mirrows your attitude towards God. There is no past for the past; there is no present for the present; there is no future for the future. Being convicted in your ignorance is as sinful as self-righteousness. Unconscious faith, as a rule, only strengthens the power of maya. Only the question of the one who knows makes sence. Enlightenment does not harm or benefit; it carries only the truth. Happiness is when you realize that everyone is happy. The ability to stop a thought is just as important as the ability to think. A man is driving through his life on the square weels, and a woman is using the round ones. The Essence. On the altar of love. 104 105 Let detachment not become indifference, Decency, wisdom, courage and peace are bridges to liberation. and sattva not become weaknes. Victory over the perception of time is a major victory. Ability to believe in non-excisting is the real gift from God. A man looses his karma when there is nothing else to loose. Watching manas, worry but not empathize. In fact, happiness cannot be obtained, it can only be realized. While you are on the hunt, there is no question of sadhana. Give a moment with awareness, and it will give you eternity. Having truly realized the transition, you will never lose consciousness. Enlightenment is the degree of compassion brought to the absolute. When you aware that you exist, you know that you will. The absolute degree of perception is enlightenment itself. When you know that you will be, you know that you are. Sometimes a sign of awareness of obstacles is the realization that they simply do not exist. Samadhi is defined as a state directly opposite to shock. The ability to survive any state is a sign of imminent liberation. Genius is the one who realizes the essence of things, the enlightened is the one who becomes the essence. Enlightenment is the absolute realization that you are. When you find out the reason why you are breathing, you will know the purpose of why you are living. For liberation only one mantra is enough to be comprehended. Give Love to knowledge, dedicate knowledge to love. Until reaching complete liberation, human’s mind can doom a person to absolutely anything. The Essence. On the altar of love. 106 107 Sometimes it is enough to understand why you’ve lived the day Losing a sense of past and future does not mean being in the present. to understand why you’ve lived your life. There is a huge distance between enlightenment Absolute inner peace is not the inaction of the mind, and complete liberation. it is the complete absence of one. To preserve the illusion of time, someone has to remain still. First in the stream, then next to the life, then externally. Discover the only outer image reflecting the inner one. Vivid imagination too, shoould be properly disposed. Empower the love, and give will to the knowledge. Really good sleep, as a rule, have either scoundrels or saints. Like eyes can be seen in a mirror reflection, If you are still here, then the true desire has not come for you yet. so Lord can be seen in your own. Remember that to gain strength you need to find balance first. Love is not the strongest, but the best medicine. Disease is not a weakness, weakness is a disease. You can let go of the situation only after the Lord has let you go. Knowledge basically is energy, and energy basically is knowledge. While praying, listen to God, not to yourself. Death is only part of life, as life, in turn, is part of death. Sometimes, to hear God, you need to be quiet. Prejudice is the main reason for limited consciousness. To understand at least anything, you need absolute peace of mind. A woman loves the future in a man, When you find out who you are, a man loves the present in a woman there will be no need to know why you are. The Essence. On the altar of love. 108 109 Draw the eyes of your loved one untill you recognize your god. Occasionally the lost of any hope gives you the chance of liberation. He, who knows the truth can only be truly happy with the truth. There is no better gift than being able to enjoy what you already have. A change of faith and doubt for a person is as natural as a change of day and night. To bring yourself to God first you need to come back to yourself. The suffering of an enlightened one only enhances his compassion. Life must become sadhana as sadhana should become life. Tincture of impeccability creates a taste of enlightenment. Everything always begins where you started and ends where you stopped. When pain is unbearable, become its source and eliminate it. A man had lost the major thing at the moment he looked at his watch. Outside of the meaning, there is only meaning; outside of God there is only God. It is not possible to fully understand the other, it is possible to love. By all means create conditions, or circumstances for the Remember, that any experience is just a piece of memory. inevitable influence of sattva. While there are still questions left, nothing has Remember that faith in God is not only faith in justice. been lost, but you have to loose everything. Any significant transition is practically instantaneous, While discarding everything, discard nothing, but preparing for it can last forever. then discard the throwing of the thrower himself. You will have to make the same path to Just only one subject of meditation can reviel all aspects of God. the God as the God took towards you. The Essence. On the altar of love. 110 111 Let the knowledge fill in an empty mind. Let the love fill in a free heart. The flood of thoughts has nothing in The live experience of meditation will let you pass through the common with the stream of consciousness. tunnel of your ego. Drive in a wedge of consciousness into emptiness, into silence; The live experience of awareness will wipe off drive in the wedge of consciousness into subconscious. the loneliness of any states. Sometimes the duration and depth of a Retrieving me you commemorate yourself. different state gives rise to spiritual experience. Total experience sometimes causes the merging of all states. Sometimes even the slightest sense of ownership nullifies the whole sadhana. The tuned mind, playing the melody of sattva, dissolves into the music of the spheres. Release, concentrate, forget, be aware, become established, accept and stay. The realization of freedom is not liberation yet, for the realized is freedom itself. A certain corespondence of all aspects of being determines the essence of liberation. Learn how to experience one thing to a great extent and you will learn how to experience a lot. There is a huge difference between the need for love and love itself. Even the most negative forecasts draw from the most positive side. It is impossible to evaluate your enlightenment, because when it is, you simply do not exist. True faith does not exclude knowledge, but only complements it. When the illusion of "I" goes away, the illusion of liberation will be reliesed as well. When nothing reaches its limit, it becomes everything. The Essence. On the altar of love. 112 113 Happiness is your presence, not just the absence of suffering. As the light of the stars is visible under the cover of night, the soul is sometimes visible under the cover of eyelids. The correctness of thought largely depends on its strength. The absolute harmony of the moment is enlightenment itself. Adessing to the night and the day as if you are addressing people, ask them to accept you. If you look at an item long enough, it will speak to you and reveal its secrets. Find the God in your closest ones and share with them Kundalini will wake up when you look up in the mirror and see yourself. everything that you have. When you understand why there is suffering, When the brave one is scared, sometimes he becomes even stronger. you will understand everything. If you find yourself to be the God, you cannot stop sharing yourself. Sometimes, when the love of your whole life dies together with you, the world is born. Every flower is the memory and the continuation of the creation of another love. Hope for the future can be lost only by the past. Start with deliberate switching of attention, then move If you can still kneel down, you can still achieve a lot. on to stop your consciousness. Remember, no matter what happens, I'm always here. From external dialogue to internal, from internal dialogue to the unity. If there is still strength at least for one breath, God is open to everyone, but not everyone is open to God. everything is still possible. Anyone who has lost the closest person can understand Philosophy often ends when the pain begins. what God has sacrificed by losing you. The Essence. On the altar of love. 114 115 If you will seek for God - you will find a man, and if you will Perhaps the best way to exhaust karma search for a man - you will find God. is to live every moment as the last one. Often, one-moment of absolute awareness and impeccable The degree of genius is essentially determined by the action can save you from maya forever. degree of inner freedom. As soon as you entrust your fate to the Lord, you Only those who are constantly confronting death can bear even more responsibility for it in a certain way. truly be in love with life. Happiness is the ability to recognize everything God has been giving you. Remember that as soon as you became someone, you became nobody. Remember that all aspects of being are basically all aspects of sadhana. Choose the result or process of yoga according to the constitution of your essence. Love is the perfect form of peace. Sometimes, if you remember the moment of your birth, Absolute awareness is the perfect form of love. you have a chance of a new birth in this life. To be mastered to live at your age is a special sadhana. Sometimes, when the last hope is already lost, the Lord begins to manifest Himself. What is the use of a prayer, if there is the sun instead of the mind, and there is the moon instead of the heart. To calm down, concentrate by all means, merge, release, realize. Only the awakened one should know the date of his own death. If you only knew how God punishes, you would immediately understand and forgive everyone. It is very important to spend the time correctly, but it is just as important to waste it correctly too. If God has taken everything away from you, then he wants to meet you. The Essence. On the altar of love. 116 117 True happiness is not determined only by the state of hormonal balance. Sometimes even one tear is enough to shed rivers of blood. Sometimes it is enough to get into the essence of one thing The one knows who wants to know; in order to know the essence of everything. believes the one who wants to believe. Sometimes you can find the remnants of truth Your Teacher is always here and now; the most only in an intermediate state. important thing is to recognize him. Sometimes, in order to deserve happiness, Sometimes timely disappointment in the Teacher, the Doctrine, you must first deserve suffering. and the Lord is an integral part of sadhana. Knowledge breeds knowledge, love breeds love, You can help yourself only to the extent that you are yourself. experience generates experience. Love and wisdom are perhaps the only eyes that can see the God. When you feel that you can do anything, turn into the sun and leave. Commensurability in applying will and knowledge In most cases, impressions are perhaps is the decisive factor. the greatest obstacle towards God. The degree of knowledge is determined by the degree of unity. As a rule the one loves who wants to love. Never expect anything in return, Meet tonight with your night, fight with your especially from love. tomorrow tomorrow. Stop, concentrate, realize, release, The level of fear is also determined by the degree of possible loss. transform, establish, remain. The Essence. On the altar of love. 118 119 The love that can pull a person out of A true sage is not the one who knows the life, but clinical depression is the true love. one who knows himself. When the light comes on, you'll be the happiest one. All that is happening to you is that the Lord protects himself in you from you. The Lord in his own way knows the one who has not yet experienced a single drop of suffering, or the one who drank this cup to the bottom. To find out why a person lives, ask a loving mother, why her son lives. Enlightenment is when the power of detachment is equal to the power of awareness. Full implementation means full integration. Deliberate death is usually a mixture of You can turn off the light, but you cannot turn off the sun. absolute grief and absolute happiness. Basically overcoming fear can be essentially The higher the repentance, the stronger the only when it needs to be overcome. unity of sorrow and happiness. You will gain the Lord to the extent Enlightenment is basically the absolute unity of the opposite. that you get rid of your ego. An absolutely complete true repentance, as a matter of fact, If there has not been an absolute, true repentance can be only upon transition to another world. means that there was probably no death around yet. Your first kiss is the first kiss of your parents. There is a certain condition to each sadhana and each sadhana has its ows rhythm. You are able only of what you are able to; you only know what you know. Sadhak! Never identify yourself with an advanced mind, never. The Essence. On the altar of love. 120 121 Spiritual food must be digested first. Often what sound you are soaked in, and what kind of sound you carry in yourself – that is what you mainly are. True awareness is an absolute generosity. To understand beauty trully means learning to understand God. When everything stops inside of you - you can truly see how everything moves and changes around you. Love the lover, love everyone, love your neighbor. Anyone who willingly has locked himself in his Duel external internal stops, internal stops external. own clynic will unlikely ever leave it. Agony is sometimes the only witness of transformation. For true sadhana, even drinking plain water should become a sacred ritual. As you can see everything in the flame of a candle, you can recognize everything in a single drop of water. It will take time, and you will realize that you have always been happy. Each time has its own way of comprehending God. On the way to the Spirit, dissolve in each of the elements in due course in the right order. OM The creation of the world is one of the forms of divine love. True sadhana is basically a total concentration without The illusion of life is perhaps the strongest of all. giving this process any meaning. Do not hide behind the screen of imaginary responsibilities. Absolute happiness is when nothing ever needs to be changed. Learn to conduct yourself mentally through everything sufficient Often, good health is necessary to overcome severe illness. number of times and you unlikely have to be afraid of anything (practice is not for everyone). The Essence. On the altar of love. 122 123 If you want to forget the past and not worry about the When the soul is iridescent, try just to watch. future - forget the present. Move, as the Earth does around its axis, every time Everywhere try to be, everywhere try to become yourself. offering to the destiny other side of its essence. Nothing separates from the truth as much as a The Lord certainly takes those who desecrates life. question does, but a man cannot help but asking. Being a man is a compensation for being in a man. Being of your own self even in a dream is happiness. A person usually believes as much as he needs to. Being the master of your thoughts and feelings in any situation is happiness. The wisiest, as a rule, are those who know nothing about this life. Your teacher is including the one who provides balance between waiting and action. Continuous awareness is needed only to be conscious at the right moment. A special prayer and care is needed for the lost souls in life. If you found your home in the heart of a loved one, consider that you have already taken another step. Order is also love. It’s better not to have a habit of interfering with someone else's grief or happiness. By even dying one can be full of life, when someone still living could be full of death. The erased memory of the past is in fact the best gift from God. The main thing is to find your way out today, tomorrow will have its own. Happiness is also when someone wishes you good morning, bon appetite and good night. The Essence. On the altar of love. 124 125 Before leading a sadhana, find out how much it makes Take a good care of your mantra - it may happen that apart sense for you to interfere in yourself. from it you will have nothing left. Sometimes even a simple handshake can work wonders. Find refuge in compassion is also happiness. The first breath is the last breath, the first thought is the last Sadhak! Do not forget that the ability to relax is also your duty. thought, the first movement is the last movement. As soon as the moon calls the mind into its kingdom, Full liberation is possible only with the absolute elimination of any then by all means the sun will shine in your heart. confrontation and contradiction in principle. OM Tears of emotion and happiness do not cease to flow for To stay alive for people sometimes is enough to die. To stay those for whom everything is already over. alive for yourself it is necessary to rise above life and death. Sometimes a kiss could be that deep that even stones wake In search of power, never forget about conscience, never. up asleep millions of years ago. If you divine the plan of God, even in relation to a single living Glory to everyone overcoming pain and fear, anger, lust, being - you will know everything. greed, envy, passion and addictions! Whenever you talk to a person, remember Ability to bless with the sin is also a gift. that you talk to God and you will be fine. The true hard work is work on the self; and labor used to Look at the one who sees; listen to the one who hears; escape from the self, is basically the true laziness. trust the one who believes; love everyone. There is no path to enlightenment, there is only the path Do not be ashamed to be frightened, afraid to be ashamed. Do of enlightenment. There is no path to liberation, there is not be ashamed not to know, be ashamed not to be aware of. only the path of liberation. OM It’s not a shame to commit a sin, be ashamed to sin. The Essence. On the altar of love. 126 127 In truth, glory to those who are able to give people a sense of justice on the Any planet is multidimentional, like everything else. scale of the Lord, which unfortunately we meet less and less in Kali Yuga. When blood flows inside, the whole world flows. When Glory to the one who knows how to kindle hearts by the name of blood is shed outside, the whole world stops. love and compassion for the benefit of all sentient beings. Act of bravery and love are the best teachers; Only timely new impressions provide an opportunity for spiritual growth conscience and peace are the best friends. in case of simple curiosity, they are extremely rarely useful. Even if you’ve saved the whole world – You can forget only what should be forgotten. You can learn only what be joyful and nothing more than that. you need to know. You can only do what needs to be done. When you lose your ego you find yourself, Seek for a shelter not a refuge. when you find yourself you lose your ego. Determine which side of the Lord you want to know and it will The deeper the sleep, the deeper the reality. be easier for you to recognize Him. True inspiration is a rush of the most intense peace, When everything around is flooded with a smile of a loved one, - and not an empty burst of emotions. you know that God is somewhere around. In order to gain liberation, enlightenment is necessary; There is only Spirit behind the Spirit; in order to gain enlightenment, revival is necessary. there is only sound beyond the sound. Only the power that was found not at the expense of someone, Enlightenment is when you can kiss all faces of divine love without exception. but in the name, for the sake of someone, can be called the one. Only a philosophy that reduces suffering is the only true one; If you would only remember how good it was for you, if you only suffering that generates a teaching basically has the meaning would only remember how it was bad, then maybe and the purpose. everything would be completely different. The Essence. On the altar of love. 128 129 When the conscience meets the sun, sometimes the The level of consciousness is largely determined by how you feel present becomes eternity. the outer being inside and the inner being outside. You can hang anything on the hook of the inflamed mind. Sadhak! Remember that you can only destroy what is destroyed, and build what is built. Do not make illusions, obey the heaven, serve the truth. OM He, who is able to satisfy his every desire is a true master, but he, who is capable to let go of his every desire is truly saint. Sometimes, by embracing the truth firmly and absolutely sincerely, one can at least get a little closer to it. Remember, that on the way to God up to complete liberation literally everything is temporary. Nothing can be compared with the incessant applause of infinitely grateful, intoxicated with happiness audience experiencing the In search for God the principle of absolute trust is important, fire of love the genius had lit. but not looking for shelter, and espessially escaping from yourself. Sometimes it is enough to be self-sufficient, and Sometimes even the smallest presence of ego, even by virtue of sometimes everyone in the world is not enough. the best intentions and actions, can nullify the whole sadhana. The truth must be realized, not pursued, because at the level of truth, desire is fulfilled instantly, and you have been looking long Learn to be afraid when it’s scary, to not be afraid when it’s time for what you have already been. not, be hurt when it hurts and to not be hurt when it doesn’t. To go beyond the limit, you need to know the Absolute identity of the internal state with the state of the limit of your own capabilities. environment is enlightenment. The degree of how deep the knowledge is can be Pathological desire to earn, as well as save, is one of determined by the degree of noise left during silence and the forms of nervous tension, ignorance, fear of the silence during noise, action during inaction and inaction future, spiritual weakness and blindness. OM in action. The Essence. On the altar of love. 130 131 When you can no longer distinguish when you are embraced or Even if you’ve touched the very edge of the beyond - your embrace in this ocean of allconsuming love where nothing is left, sadhana can be called successful. then there will be your will to become yourself or everything. Eyes should not be hidden, but guarded, as well as a soul. In the house of loving, knowing, enlightened ones the dust must also be cleaned. If you find something you can look at endlessly, if you find a sound that you never get tired of, then it could become your sadhana. And one note, one word, one moment is sometimes enough to know God. Virtue is probably the most reliable and faithful Every instant of your life gives a chance for liberation, and only a companion on the path to freedom. sufficient degree of awareness is needed at the moment. Sometimes the direction of flow of consciousness Seeker! Be aware to lose not yourself, but your ego - do not mix them up. depends on the direction of your glance. Proper distribution of mental and physical energy according to In fact, the only real problem is another unconscious moment. their interaction in sadhana is of utmost importance. Any position is sacred in its own way. OM It is possible to conquer the past only in the past, to realize the present only in the present, to see the future only in the future. Infinitely draw the picture of your ideal opposite self, and, perhaps with time, you will discover the secret of God, Anyone who has learned about liberation is already free, but love and knowledge. to feel it is only a matter of time. Sometimes in order to help another one you have to Disciple! Remember that understanding of the illusory nature of body become one, and sometimes to help another one or and mind does not mean negligent attitude towards them. oneself you have to become another one or yourself. The best proof of existence of a different reality is the existence of this one. The Essence. On the altar of love. 132 133 The speed of time equals the rate of your speed. Sincere prayer to the sun in truth is a unique phenomenon capable of performing miracles. Ancestors of all nations praid to Sutra is leaves, concentration is the trunk, awareness is the root. the Sun and that is the great wisdom of generations leading to the origins of deep antiquity. After all, the sun recognizes everything, regardless of religion, faith and traditions. The Sun can reconcile If you sucseed to make the Master from your main vice, your everyone and will not be in vain shed blood on this Earth. sadhana can become much more successful. Remember: sometimes what seems common to you is in fact Sadhak! Be sure to find something that soothes, but does immeasurably greater and requares immense gratitude. not relax, something that gives energy and strength, but does not excite, or at least, adjust the mechanism that is responsible for this transformation. If you truly remember at least one happy moment of your life, you have a chance to become happy forever. As a rule the inevitable error on the way to God is separation of Divine and non-Divine, God from everything else. When all colors merge into one and space becomes the essence, consciousness becomes everything. Remember that harmony does not mean absolute pleasure, but only absolute satisfaction. Your very existence is already the knowledge. True sadhana includes absolutely all aspects of being. I dedicate everything to you. In sadhana, a decrease in the amount of sleep does not mean an automatic increase in the strength of presence, just as an Even if at least one person pays any attention to at least one increase does not always contribute to degradation. Everything sutra, that will be quite enough for me. is relative and completely individual. Sadhak! Try not to create with such difficulty something that you still have to destroy; don't get used to something that you In no case should meditation become a permanent escape still have to wean. Don't get attached to what you have to from reality, on the contrary, it is necessary to accept your leave anyway. All this will take so much of your prana which is fight for the benefit of all living beings and concentrate and so necessary for spiritual growth. direct all its energy on helping those who suffer. OM The Essence. On the altar of love. 134 135 When the cherry is flooded with light, and the air, space and time Passing mentally through all possible sufferings available to are frozen with happiness along with the stillness of mind, the your imagination thousand times, you certainly will not become heart embraces the whole world. more sophisticated, but you will deffenitly have to part with some of your illusions forever. If your good intentions or actions do not bring tangible results, or even bring you disappointment and take away your last strength - Think tirelessly about how to help your neighbor, how to help that can not be a serious reason for stopping them. Just take the those whom you can help because of your talent, inclinations, necessary pause and keep on going. capabilitties or opportunities. Nothing will be more painful than pain, nothing will be more If you were not destined to be born in the atmosphere of stable frightful than fear. Having established yourself in this thought and holistic spiritual tradition - find something in common you will be able to mitigate their impact in the future. between all of them accessible to you, realize and become firmly established in them, and you will not be mistaken. Good luck. Om. Remember that a truly calm mind in principle is not a temporary shutdown of senses, but a combination of stored energy and knowledge. There is only one person who can answer the question why there is suffering, As long as you are not present, you are going from non-being to non-and this person is you. being, because there is presence only when you are present. The practice of complete transition into the opposite sex on the For a yogi there is nothing more dangerous than prematurely awakening path of spiritual development is sometimes extremely harmful, Kundalini, and nothing is more fascinating than the timely one. or extremely beneficial in accordance with karma. Be natural, just be everything and nothing at the same time, be Seeker! Remember that any theory is limited in its own way, like calm, affirm yourself in non-identification, try to be free from any word, any thought or feeling. Absolutely you can rely only on everything as much as possible, do not hurry, learn to accept some things that have nothing to do with this world, on something and let go, love, sympathize, serve, be aware, remain. that is impossible to feel, to see, to hear or to understand, without even relying on the tools of perception and omniscience. In order to gain freedom, ultimately, it is necessary to leave absolutely Sometimes it is very difficult to hear what God is telling you, everything, even yourself, despite the fact that on the way because often when your are addressing him He addresses you. absolutely everything can be usefull, even you. The Essence. On the altar of love. 136 137 Know that unless you learn to be immensely grateful literally for Look at where you’ve been between today and every moment of your life, there can be no questions of liberation. yesterday, and you might understand where you will be between today and tomorrow. Ideally, the main purpose of a person is to pierce the space with love of such strength to be able to leave it forever. All that must pass will pass; all that is to come will come; all that should remain - will remain. Within yourself find your sunset and your dawn, your night and your day, your spring and your summer. Find your loved ones We are so accustomed to the presence of God that we do not within yourself. even notice His presence, as we sometimes do not notice many things in our own house. Life and sadhana are basically the same. When there is a day - there is nothing better than a day. When there is a night - there is nothing better than a night. When The farther from the body, the closer to God. there are you, there is nothing better than you. True love implies absolute and unconditional patience. As a rule, you do not notice the presence of God only because you are in Him always and everywhere, including the fact that actually you are Him. Remember that for complete liberation it could be enough for another just to be born, and for another lifetime of hard work, Enlightenment is the experience of all thoughts and feelings perfect sadhana, experience, immense suffering or experience of simultaneously, which, mutually excluding and complementing absolute happiness is not enough to just take the path of each other give birth to absolute truth. liberation or even learn about it. To become a witness or an accomplice of someone’s When active is passive to the right degree, and passive is liberation is sometimes equivalent to your own, even quite energetic you find a long-awaited balance. because you were able to recognize it at all. Sadhak! Try not to create more mental images, feeding them an Having been born in God and having been born with God infinite number already created by others (and sometimes you simply do not know the state without Him and only preventing to see the truth as it is), also avoid stable negative therefore you do not notice His constant presence. emotions that in our age the space is so crowded with. The Essence. On the altar of love. 138 139 The path to awareness sometimes is a continuous Remember that not only do we choose sadhana, attempt to find out why there is suffering and but sadhana chooses us as well. happiness, and why there is life and death. True love is when hearts beat in the same key, minds work at the same frequency and when souls form the one. Om. If you cannot help by a deed - help with a word; if you cannot help with a word - help with a thought; if you cannot help with a thought - help with your silence. The relationship of yogi or yogini with prana is exactly the same as the relationship between a man and a woman. By discovering your talent - you understand your calling; by understanding your calling - you understand your mission; by understanding your mission - you will establish yourself in God. When the fire is burning, the wind is blowing, the moon or the sun are shining, the leaves are trembling or the water is rustling - be sure that is God who’s talking to you. Try to discover the most important things in the lives of your loved ones and you will have a chance to find the most important things in yours. In most cases, a person has already experienced samadhi in early childhood, and in order to reach it again, sometimes it is enough just to remember it. It is not your ego that has endless possibilities, but it is God who has. The path to awareness sometimes is a continuous attempt to find out why there is suffering and happiness, and why there is life and death. The thought should be like Kevala Kumbahka - to arise from nowhere and go to nowhere. Remember that every unconscious moment of your life throws you back for ages. In the practice of Pranayama, holding the breath will eventually come by itself ... It is more a question of the power of mind, not of the lungs. Sometimes it happenes that practically liberated man falls down like a stone, and another, literally mired in charms, rises rapidly, gaining complete liberation. If the Lord accepts your gift, it does not mean at all that your karma will certainly become easier. The Essence. On the altar of love. 140 141 If you have said ‘thank you’ at least once during the day, Nothing brings people closer and separates them the most that day could be called successful. from the Lord as tradition. Love is awaiting for you always and everywhere, Look into the eyes of a true master and you will surely find you just need to understand it. your sadhana there. Mantra that has come from nowhere and has gone to nowhere is As a rule, only the words heard directly from the most powerful one. the true master have the full power (there could be exceptions though). If tears of emotions flow down during the jappa, be sure that sadhana is conducted correctly. True sadhana starts at the moment when you can let any thought you want into your mind at any time and release it accordingly. If you have understood at least anything in this life, you would never get up from your knees. Realize what part of yourself you make up in each of those Practically everyone is able to practice yoga, you know and which part you take away, and many however not everyone could be admitted. questions and problems will be solved by themselves. After a certain degree of suffering, there is only True love is a combination of absolute awareness and silence remains, and sometimes nothing has left. absolute courage. Perception, sensation and awareness of the Self If you knew how many things you are doing because of the fear, without the help of the senses is in fact one of the both conscious and subconscious, maybe you would behave signs of enlightenment. completely differently. If you managed to recognize, accept, or offer at least one If you still have the opportunity to hold your breath for at least a helping hand - you already have a chance for salvation. few seconds, you still have a chance to gain moksha. The Essence. On the altar of love. 142 143 A person who has preserved dignity, willpower, Soul is immeasurable. wisdom and courage, being in deep clinical depression for quite a long time, deffenitly deserves the way covered with flowers. Pratyahara should certainly be natural, conscious and timely, without fail. Anyone who is able to tune a musical instrument is usually able to Only the timely stage of sadhana is beneficial. tune chakras too. It is very foolish to try to find God for yourself by taking it from others. If you are facing serious difficulties, illness, or failure, try to recall the place and the time when you turned away from yourself. First of all, try to understand what is going on in your head, not in your backyard. The form of God’s justice up to the moment of enlightenment is incomprehensible as incomprehensible is an essence of any Absolutely everything could be justified or defiled. of the elements. If you realize that you are dying every day, I assure you As paradox it could be, the one who has passed the torments that you will no longer be afraid of death. of hell on Earth, as a rule, becomes an adherent of God even more than before. Absolute love is absolute sacrifice. If you have a steady feeling that everyone and everything are not around you, but inside of you, you can be sure that you are going in Sometimes it is enough to open quotes and the rest will come by itself. the right direction. Resume your communication with the essence. The ability to change the states of consciousness at will is one of the most significant achievements on the way to God. In fact a truly honest person in a certain way can be already considered as a realized one without even wanting and/or recognizing it. The Essence. On the altar of love. 144 145 Sometimes getting rid of a serious disease is possible only If you truly understand the true meaning of the word by helping others get rid of it. ‘God’, your sadhana can be called successful. It is impossible to significantly affect the state of the body and Only the one who has overcome the pain has the mind without the growth of consciousness. ability to overcome fear. Spontaneous sadhana is usually the best. Even simple practice of asanas and pranayamas is directed and should be directed towards serving people. There is only one feeling and only one thought and an infinite number of their interpretations. Just the question itself: “What is the need for suffering?” - is already a sadhana. As a rule, the combination of wisdom from suffering and happiness gives birth to the truth. It does not matter to God whether He is there or not. Everything you have seen, heard or realized was on time. If you love someone more than life, it is unlikely that life will love you anymore. Sometimes returning to sadhana is like returning home. As a rule, people who are indifferent or enlightened do not have confusion. Iron will - iron share. Try to understand what the day has called you for and why the night is calling you. Sometimes it is very difficult to come to an agreement with conscience, but sometimes it is almost impossible to come to an agreement with pain. Everything will be as He wanted, wants or will want. When you return to the true sadhana you should feel as if you To solve the riddle of life without solving the never interrupted it. riddle of death is almost impossible. The Essence. On the altar of love. 146 147 Try to get rid of the disease in time, until you start Seeing hands spreaded towards you and being consciously or subconsciously enjoying it. able to take hold of them is the greatest of the blessings. From theory to practice, as a rule, there’s same distance as from man to God (alegory). Sometimes it doesn't matter what to do, the main thing is to switch your mind. Yoga is birth and death, yoga is love, and knowledge, yoga is the chance, and the risk, yoga is a deep sleep and awakening, suffering and compassion. Yoga is happiness Meditation on a clean, clear, serene sky, on a vast ocean, and pain, hard work and the joy of victory, yoga is fall and and on a pure flame of fire can truly work wonders. rise, creativity and discipline, reverence and peace, silence and trance, shock and thought, non-indifference and magic. Yoga is an art and a battle, war and peace, being and non-being, consciousness and awareness. Yoga Absolutely everything can become the source of energy. is the wings of God, yoga is the root, it is inevitable and unconditional, yoga is space and time, wisdom and light, day and night, the moon and the sun, the sky and the A conscious lighita for an artist is a God's gift. earth, a man and the God, a woman and a man. Yoga is the beginning and the end, water and fire, sacrifice and pulse, yoga is immortality and movement, it is color, Do not think that you are smarter than you are. taste, smell and sound, it is beyond, filling and devastating, sunset and sunrise, prana and blood, oblivion and detachment, inner and outer, it is fate and insight, it is freedom and unity, it is forgiveness and Patience is sure to be drawn from the present, although absolution, it is fulfillment and merging. Yoga is sometimes the past and the future can also help. enlightenment and clairvoyance, ecstasy and union, harmony and balance, sacred and immeasurable, True wisdom sometimes comes only when a person has spent instantaneous and eternal. enough time on his own with himself. If your higher self or essence from the higher spheres Confession can only be in the present. has not interfered even when you begged, then there was no urgent need or reason purely in a karmic way. The Essence. On the altar of love. 148 149 OM will not retaliate. While there is still a possibility to give a person an advice it means everything is fine. A high state of mind is the basis of human rebirth. At the level of physical body the law of neuromediation is the main law. Good luck or bad luck does not exist at all. There are only the inevitable laws of karma. Sadhana from indifference or aggression is a flawed sadhana. With proper awareness, any profession can become yoga for you. Remember: only you can find yourself. Absolute concentration combined with absolute peace based on a solid moral principle creates the truth. At the speed you burn up the time with the same speed time burns you up. With proper sadhana fear surely transforms into love, without fail. If a state makes more profit out of its citizens ilness than health that means such a state is coming to its close end. Absolutely everything can be Yoga. The agony of salvation usually brings only chaos. Find your asana for each body position. Try to determine for yourself: how many days are in you, and how many nights. Stop looking for excuses is a great start to any sadhana. If there is no harmonious happiness - look for the real one. To what extent you have gained or lost yourself, to the same extent you have gained or lost the God. If it happens so that the world collapses for you, the “unshakable” can prove itself in completely unpredictable If there is an opportunity to please the loved ones with your way. presence, then sadhana is conducted correctly. The Essence. On the altar of love. 150 151 Just looking after your health is already a sadhana. Being with yousef doesn't mean being yourself. Sometimes even a realized master cannot speed up In search of the meaning of life do not forget about yourself. your path for a moment. Make friends with asana in which the mind moves the least. Basically, any personal practice of yoga is serving people. The one who knows, as a rule, stops waiting or We have the opportunity to live only our own life. regretting anything. Even if you gave up, your whole being continues to fight Where time is, there is a burden. for you not stopping even for a moment. Determine where, when, with whom and whom to As paradoxically as it can be, sometimes the rays of light, hope be in order to become. and hopelessness shine at the same time. When your soul becomes everything - you already As life shows, analyzing the happiness of others does not know for sure that realization is inevitable. bring more happiness to you. Going beyond an ego can solve almost any of the problems. If you have chosen the Deity, then the Deity as a rule had already chosen you. Where friction is, there’s an option. Basically the believe that there is always a way out is already a partial way out. Nothing expands consciousness like love and nothing narrows it like fear. You can be deeply unhappy with your happiness and absolutely Learn to look at the sky and take it as it is. happy with your misfortune. OM The Essence. On the altar of love. 152 153 Do not try to overlive yourself. Working with nadis, first of all open up the channels of conscience. If you are not able to stop the time, the time will stop you. The birth of a sutra is sometimes like the birth of the universe. Finding comfort in asana is a great success. The true master is only the one who overcame death while still being alive. True and irreversible peace can only be earned. Only one thing can give the opportunity to exist Yoga as a habit is already a blessing. to the other one. No one and nothing is an exception. When you know it – cut it down. Extra weight - extra imp. The one who believes - follows. The name code can sometimes play an immance role BLESSED is the one WHO KNOWS. in the fate of an individual. As soon as a tiger loosens its grip, fight back and There is nothing in between. escape. Sometimes a sin committed on time may not Hair to hair - fate to fate. be considered as one. OM When you merge with your breath you merge with God. If there is no possibility not to sin, then at least do it on time. Be sure to decide which kind of energy is especially Everything is everything. important to you. The Essence. On the altar of love. 154 155 Do not judge,- just be. Remember that the concept of commensurability in sadhana is one of the most important things. The so-called hopelessness sometimes to some extent can also be the part of the exit. Ultimately, the Lord will certainly manifest Himself as an experience as well. OM Absolutely everything can be the source of gain and leakage of prana. The first step to God and the last one are very similar. Indeed, you can help only the one who really needs this help. Try to see and understand in who or in what God appeared to As prana flows, so does the life. you today. A step towards God may cost you both health and life, As a rule, the one who is able to see the essence, is able to see the but if this step is sincere and true you will never regret it. way. Any violence in one way or another - is powerless by its nature and essence. Preoccupy yourself with yourself. There is nothing in between. Find yourself inside, find yourself outside. In fact, only the one man and the one woman walk on the earth. The judgments are the same as motivations. Only the enlightened one can embrace the whole world. The ability to preoccupy oneself with satva is a great art. The attachment to life on the spiritual path in most cases brings practically nothing. While gaining an experience try to remain yourself, because when you are liberated there will be no need in being or changing. The Essence. On the altar of love. 156 157 True yoga is basically just a continuation of your true nature. Infecting yourself with yourself is not difficult at all. Simply moving from one state of being to another Whatever you realize always come back to yourself. usually does not gain much on the spiritual path. He, who neglected himself in a certain way neglected the God. If you look into yourself deep enough, you will discover a big coward whom beyond is the omnipresent serenity. Plus - it's just two minuses. For many sincere seekers the agony of sadhana is inevitable. Faint-heartedness is basically a betrayal. The art of living and the art of being are not the same. Seeker! You have to understand that there is nothing completely outside and there is nothing which is completely inside. To which element you adapt, so you become. The dynamics of spiritual growth is absolutely unpredictable. Often where is the stotra, there is a chance. Disposal of prana is one of the biggest secrets of all. If you adapted to the opposite, your sadhana can be called successful. The mind runs away - prana runs away. Everything is close to you, everything is in you, everything is There is only what it is. everywhere. If you simply move from one hospital bed to another, It is very difficult to lead a truly successful it is unlikely that you will feel any better. sadhana without understanding yourself. The Essence. On the altar of love. 158 159 The duel with your mind is the most difficult one. The one who has realized eternity in himself is unlikely to be fully attached to anything. It is not so shamefull to walk in a circle, if only this circle belogs to you. Fish oil undoubtedly is beneficial, however saving the soul only with its help is unlikely to be a success. As a rule, it is not difficult for a person who has found himself inside himself to manifest himself outside. Only the one who’s sacrificed his soul for yours can have the right to take away your soul. If you cannot make your own prayer turn to the tradition. OM When the mind is stripped – snow boots will hardly help. One to another, one to another. Premature liberation does not happen. The treasure chest of experience is priceless. The one who’s sacrifficed his life for you will live an eternity in you. While prana is being formed - sutra is being formed. There is everything from everything. Sometimes you have to choose not from two evils, but from ten. Recognize: who is still in you and who is already there. As a rule, a really tidy person is a If you're really here, you're everywhere. very powerful person. To feel the unity is the highest happiness. Do not rush, because when the situation is exhausted, you will certainly understand it if spiritually you are developed enough. When you are here, you are. The Essence. On the altar of love. 160 161 Each action has its own state, each state Only a thought that has passed through all stages has its own master. of awareness is capable of its full realization. Sometimes a complete transformation of your inner Most of the time the spiritual tradition chooses you, not the way aroud. “Self” is necessary to get on the warpath. Sometimes during the night you need to manage to complete all the tasks so you will survive during the day. This is what it is. Only the possible is possible, only the inevitable is inevitable. All pathways lead to you. Everyone has its time, everyone has its burden. Adaptation is inevitable. Knowledge is power, knowledge is pain. OM penetrates literally everything. There is no higher happiness than sharing someone's grief. OM is always and everywhere. Sometimes if depression continues it means If you are lucky enough to feel the energy of a true master you you haven’t said everything to yourself yet. will understand how tense you are. The one who realized, that one became. Believe me, you should definitely listen to the one whose consciousness embraces the eternity. Always try to remember that at any time the world can forever turn around for you. True happiness is with the one who has discovered who he is. Far-reaching plans are far-reaching pranas. The Essence. On the altar of love. 162 163 Everything is OM. The ashram of one person may be more powerful than a thousand ashrams with many people. There was what it is, there was what will be. Difficulties in yoga are sacred in their own way. Sometimes the extent of our blindness is monstrous. Those who are not afraid are either ignorant, Sometimes, before you turn on your mind, turn on the mantra fool, or enlightened. especially when you wake up (from your night sleep). You must be able to be inside, Sometimes it takes more than anything to become a you must be able to be outside. true sannyasi. The cult of food is the cult of misfortune. It is sometimes very difficult to catch up with your illness. Everything that controls you is with you. Yoga is all-embracing. Everyone is looking for an adaptation to his poison. Look at the energy given to you and it will be much easier for you to understand yourself. You cannot be defeated on your way to God. You can only take the solitude with you. On the spiritual path one should continue one’s nature, but not force it. Fear in life is able of almost everything, but in relation to death it is absolutely helpless. Anyone can become a hostage of time. When no more matter has left, the obstacles I want to live for people and not to die for myself. too will disappear soon. The Essence. On the altar of love. 164 165 The road to eternity is always open. Happiness is when there is enough prana to endure any pain. Aging can tell you a lot, but not everything. If you have enough prana for purification - the prana of creation will reviel itself. Behind the wall of illusions you are born. Time disappears when prana reaches its minimum Even when it was all over, pray to the Lord to give an or its maximum. opportunity to do something else for the people. To believ in God and believ the God is In the world of animals there are neither right nor guilty ones. not the same. When you are jumping into the abyss The less is the prana, the more often you are in the pranayama is no longer needed. past or in the future. Sometimes it is just as important to learn how to turn the pages At each level of consciousness, justice acquires its shape and its as learning the material covered. meaning. When any state is perceived and felt like being home it can be It is better to be a free slave than a slave of the freedom. said that everything is over for you. You are in all, all are in you. If you do not fill in time – time will fill in you. “Self” either forms or dissolves. Sometimes, while you take small steps towards your destiny it strides towards you with a wide step. The journey through chakras can give the most unexpected result in both positive and negative aspects. The Essence. On the altar of love. 166 167 Addiction to life is the most difficult, strong, and You can truly take root in the present only at the stable one. very beginning or at the very end of the path. The absolute present is possible only when all the satvic qualities brought to perfection merge. It’s happiness when a relative can become a friend. Absolute unity is possible only in present. The more diffused the prana is, the more scattered the present is. Disadaptation is also a part of adaptation. The only way you can walk is the one you are walking. Enlightenment is essentially just returning home forever. The less the prana, the fewer the present. If there is anything has left in you, give it to God. OM The deeper the roots of the present, the closer the realization. OM You can get liberated only now. Rooting in the present is possible only with a certain amount of prana. That is the law. Sometimes if the disease has become chronic, the sadhana should be completely revised. Believe it! Leaking aura is much worse than a leaky cloak. Sometimes it takes a lot of blood to understand at least anything. Look for yourself in yourself. When you realize that your heart beats in everyone's chest, Adaptation is possible even to complete disadaptation. then everything can really change for you forever. Adaptation to the new reality is inevitable. The Essence. On the altar of love. 168 169 Anyone who has realized the transition can rely on leniency. Enlightenment is the full realization of sattva. The one who is is here. The art of adaptation is the most important one. God is a chance that is given every single moment. Not every woman can cope with her beauty. If you want to forget - stay. Beauty is a responsibility. Most people hibernate their lives even if they wake up with the dawn. Raise your thoughts as high as you can. Endeed, there will be no end nor beginning to the When you manage to let go of everything - the Lord heaven and hell until you are complete. will let you go too. Anyone who has understood at least anything in this life will hardly Find a day in yourself, find a night in yourself, find it difficult to recognize who is preparing for life and who is find a son in yourself, find a daughter in yourself. preparing for death due to the fact that many even on their deathbed are preparing for life, while others are preparing for death when not even has begun to live. We are only for each other, we are only for ourselves. What the faith is, so is the measure. Finding yourself for yourself is the hardest thing to do. A true warrior is not the one who is capable of fighting only, Allow yourself to enter the state you need. but the one who is able to love infinitely and absolutely. Enter the flow of mantra. Sometimes on the way to God you should not pay any attention to yourself. You can ride only the chakra that is ready for that. The Essence. On the altar of love. 170 171 Until to the end you can trust only the pure chakra. If the soul does not settle on any coast, the Lord takes it away. Absolute despair, devastation and pain can The degree of enlightenment is determined by the degree of overtake even the saint. acceptance at all levels. Only God can teach absolute fearlessness. A coward will always find a reason to fear. Your energy will certainly come back to you, it certainly will. The God can be descovered only here and now. Under certain conditions each of the elements can do The best friend is prana, the best friend is a dream. anything. You will gain liberation by understanding the element. Anyone who is able to love is capable of anything. Journey around chakras is completely unpredictable. Why do you need something that is not the one? There are no winners in the battle for love. There are no mistakes on the path to God and there cannot be, if of course, it is a true and sincere path. Love has neither boyfriends nor girlfriends. Give past to the past, present to the present, future to the future. Break the body and mind into sections and put your own manager to each of them. Look at the face of the Divine until you see yourself in Him. The search for happiness is happiness already. Taking yourself into the wrong hands will not work. If you can't cope with life break it into hours and minutes, literally. The Essence. On the altar of love. 172 173 It is pointless to ask an inflamed mind for the road to God. Asana can become a clue practically to everything. In fact, any changes are irreversible in their own way. Your soul, as Atman, is a luminous lump consisting of everything and nothing at the same time. If you see that there is no way out and there can be none, - look for the entrance. The right to make a mistake must be earned. When unpleasant fatigue replaces pleasant one, What keeps you in the present is God Himself. it's time to draw conclusions. Fill up your time with you. Perhaps there is nothing worse than feeling of a completely naked and lonely soul. Any union is salvation in one way or another. There is sometimes nothing else has left but to befriend your illnesses. Dissolving in mantra - let go. If there is still someone who reads the poems - everything remains. Before expanding your consciousness learn to look at the sky. The one who is capable of being in the present Sincerity is always the last thing to blame. can see both the past and the future. You are becoming the source you are connected to. The homeless is not the one who lost the house, but the one who lost the soul. Miracles usually happen only to the miraculous ones. Anyone who is able to thank the Lord even for monstrous sufferings, has the right for the hope. Do not flatter yourself: some of the sins can be in an undeveloped form, but still you have them all. The Essence. On the altar of love. 174 175 No matter how sinfull your mind is, do not let all the dogs on it. A person at a certain level of consciousness does not A person at a certain level of consciousness does not see Life through shavasana deserves special attention. any differences between spiritual traditions. True meditation is deeper than life and death. In the event of crash, try to move your prana from a dead point. Though the order of disciplines and aspects in classical Unfortunately, the phenomenon of samadhi yoga is flawless, it is very conditional. in Kali Yuga is extremely rare. Remember that karma is affected not so much by yoga as you are. There is no greater happiness than ability to alleviate somebody’s pain. It is possible for human mind to understand why people The phenomenon of samadhi is an absolute. OM are torturing each other, but it is absolutely uncomprehandable why the Lord allows it to happen. Everything that exsists is in here. Everything that is not here – is not here. You can finally defit a coward in you only when you know for sure that you will never be in pain again. You better give up the habit of digging your soul, especially with dirty hands. If you can take a step, you can take two. The one who stays transforms. You cannot replace your future with someone else's past. When you love you do not judge. Yoga can give you almost everything, but even just to touch it you need almost everything. If mental pain does not leave you even during an euphoria, significant changes are necessary. The Essence. On the altar of love. 176 177 By saving yourself - you save the whole world, by The one who’s praying to God for His mercy at least destroying yourself - you destroy the whole world. deserves His smile and some indulgence. Love could be such a powerfull force that is able to return Hiding from the Lord and hiding in the Lord is equally meaningless. the soul even from the astral world. It’s not necessary to get in line to God, trust it. Nobody will breathe in and out for you. OM You must understand that fear will not explain anything to you. Dream will always remain a dream, reality will always be a reality. Even if everyone passes by you, everything remains. When you are called, you cannot fail to understand this. For every moment of immense suffering learn to be as grateful as possible. Until you understood everything, you understood nothing. To light up love and hate the same spark is used. Everything has always been, is and will be everything. Illness usually begins and ends with changes. Detachment does not need anything. Kundalini will wake up when you wake up. Time can neither condemn nor forgive. OM Yoga mat is the same sacred place as the temple. On the spiritual path, do not confuse the holy awe of your essence with ordinary wild fear. The deeper the life, the deeper the grave. Hope is, in fact, a form of fear. The one who was abel to trully discover himself is able to discover you. The Essence. On the altar of love. 178 179 Find refuge in the Spirit. Endeed the power and the fall of the Spirit do not know their limits. The pursuit of pleasure and the pursuit of happiness are Any conclusion is only the surface of the lake. completely two different things. The Soul also can be below the line of poverty. To be allowed to sadhana, Ashram and yoga is like being admitted to the source of the Divine love. It is impossible to make someone follow the path of liberation. Sometimes you can get rid of karma only by realizing that karma has no beginning or ending. Each moment teach yourself to leave the eternity behind you. Learn to look deep into yourself from the position of each chakra. Switching to the inevitable, letting go of everything is useful as well. We are all strung on one thread, only the beads are all completely different If you have seen the transition - everything will be at a distance now. Revival is possible only under one condition - the constant and absolute detachment Making a rug for a next fall is not such a stupid thing to do. generated by love and knowledge. Switching from asana to asana is like a transition Sadhak! Make your choice through which organ your body is from one life to another. fed with prana. Only God knows the limits. You can live your life while the leaf is falling down. If the mantra has caught fire in your heart and filled your every cell and your whole being - shut off the mind and try to Try to become everyone and you will feel how great Divine love is. be yoursels as far as possible. The Essence. On the altar of love. 180 181 Your guide to the Spirit is the Spirit itsef. Comprehending the relationship between Grace of God and the laws of karma is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks on the way to the Spirit. As you say it will be, just not instantly. Only you can take from the Lord as much as your being can hold. Communication with the Lord is possible only through the Lord in you. On the way to the Spirit, the day of memories Everyone communicates with the Lord on his own level. is usually an empty day. Everything that the sound of waves or the rustle of Sometimes even a single moment can determine leaves whispers to you - all this is true. all of your subsequent lives. Happiness is not always harmony, but harmony is always happiness. Sadhak! On the way to God, by all means determine the difference between addiction and affection. Remember that to feel happy or unhappy does not yet mean to be so. Throw your stone in your own garden. There is no other’s birth or other’s death. Seeker! Always remember that sometimes while hunting for yourself you can lose yourself even more. You are the ray, you are the drop, you are who you are. Let it be this, let it be that. Only detachment can help you find answers to some questions. In chronic, especially mental diseases, the classical methods Remember that the Lord does not have karma of sadhana must be seriously adjusted - working with the and He has no need to help you in order to doctor, the master, while simultaneously connecting exhaust your karma and there is no need for his own intuition and experience. Him to harm you in order to create it. The Essence. On the altar of love. 182 183 Reality cannot give up the reality, the dream can’t do To make somebody happy is the greatest privilege of all. without dreaming. Turn into your own color. It is enough to understand the essence of maya to understand everything. If you want to hear the answer - don’t look up, look inside. If there was no war there, there would be no war here either. You are omnipresent. It’s kind of a skill not to have any skills. Soul is all-faced. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to make a move. Don't think about the present - just be. Very often in order to find peace you need to obtain faith in peace first. The most powerful drugs are body and mind. Often people only play spirituality on the “spiritual path”. When you see a very aged couple walking down the street, holding each other so as not to fall, it feels like the gods If you would know who you are, you wouldn't move from your seat. once danced with us, not allowing us to be unhappy. True awareness will definitely lead to the immediate experience of truth. God should rather be understood than followed. Don’t you even think of escaping from yourself, - you will come back to yourself anyway. Anyone who can point the way out of a serious chronic illness is a true master. Very often, searching for yourself doesn’t bring closer, but distances you from yourself. The best thing you can do for liberation is to live your life. The Essence. On the altar of love. 184 185 Dissolving in God is not a privilege, it is inevitable. Every feeling has its master. Salvation is not possible without light. Remember that you can not know anything for sure until completely liberated. Everything may or may not be. Do not hide yourself from yourself. The one who comprehends God will no longer argue about His existance. The gates of death and life always open on time. Meeting with yourself is inevitable. No one should ever be condemned for any state. Every step of your essence is immeasurable. Before asking anything from God, think about what you have done for Him. If you want to serve God, serve yogi. Pray to God to help you turn on the light of your soul to illuminate the path to the people near and dear to Anyone who understands true meaning of meditation you and make their lives brighter and better. may rely on the smile of God. When you feel that your heart is beating in the In fact, your source of energy is you. chest of everyone else, you will hardly need any dogmas. There is one step from fate to fate. When you see, hear, and feel even the smallest particle of your own self try to “cling” to it with a deadly grip as hard as You can find absolutely everything in yourself. possible and never let it go under any circumstances. Sometimes that’s the only chance for liberation. Enlightenment is liberation from ignorance and fear at all levels and forever. The Essence. On the altar of love. 186 187 Intelligence begets state, state begets intelligence. Sometimes only the one who has truly returned to life is ready for death. Dialogue with prana can only be established through God. There is nothing more illusory than the state. To establish yourself in asana is a huge privilege. Someone is dying by being born, while someone who is born dies. While your ashram is coming to life, you also come to life. Even just to know about the existence of When every thought, every breath and every step is a practically samadhi is a great privilege. insurmountable obstacle - only detachment in any of the forms can become at least some kind of refuge. Two beginnings inside of you keeps arguing and reconciling every moment, and so it will always be At each level the soul consisting of everything acquires a new up to complete liberation. quality, until once it reaches the point of no return, it dissolves into itself once and forever. Once you have determined what God is for you, it will be much easier for you to know Him. When it is impossible to be, it is possible to become. Although the Lord uses every way to distract us from Himself it doesn’t mean at all that we should not think about the eternal. Being in the present can afford only a person who has comprehended the essence of things. The true sutra is basically the experience of all lives, There is no unspiritual path. including the present one. The one who is able to absorb all the pain of a Sometimes sadhak can spend the whole life to create single person, is capable of absorbing all the conditions in which he is able to listen to himself. pain of humanity. The Essence. On the altar of love. 188 189 Any entry and exit has its plans for the future. If you can embrace a person and dissolve in him you possibly can dissolve in God, that’s just the matter of time. A true coward is not the one who experiences fear, but the one who does not try to fight it. When you realize that everything is a miracle it just can’t stop happening to you. Luck and wisdom not always go hand in hand. Create yourself from yourself. Any point on the Earth is the main point on the Earth Everything that you know, see, hear, feel, and think is all happening to you. The center of the universe is inside of you. Try to discover, understand and fall in love Everything is being born by you, with what is in you forever. everything is being absorbed… If you want to give people happiness, know yourself Eternity leaves no traces. and give yourself to people. Just be. One should not be afraid of inevitability, but hopelessness. Do not chase yourself away from yoursel. It must be completely dark around you to see the inner light. Only absolute sincerity gives the right to absolute intuition. God is where you are. If you are unable to move a stone from its God is an absolute state. place, embrace and love it. Knowledge is a state. The Essence. On the altar of love. 190 191 Just blend with what is there. Faint-heartedness and ignorance are one and the same. The degree of sanctity largely depends on the sense of time. The soul is unmeasurable. It is equally difficult to prepare for death or immortality. God’s love is universal. OM can absorb everything. Sometimes veritable solitude is genuine unity. To be yourself alone without yourself is an excellent sadhana. Pain and fear can breed betrayal, betrayal can destroy love, lack of love usually breeds emptiness. Emptiness creates chaos, Your sadhana is right if helping people gives you chaos destroys the connection with the soul, lack of connection the greatest satisfaction. with the soul creates a gap, the gap creates death, and death in turn sooner or later gives a new birth and a chance. When nothing can be changed - take care of your soul. It is absolutely impossible to get prepared for death Yoga is just a presence. or enlightenment. Even courage cannot justify self-love. Knowledge is the feeling of everything and nothing simultaneously. Only prayer of the present makes sense. You can infect and be infected with any faith and any state, When realization of truth comes into contact with the direct but enlightenment can only be achieved by exhausting experience of its emotions, everything is born and dies forever your karma or by the grace of God. at the same time. 192 The Essence. On the altar of love. 193 The consept of justice on the scale of man and on the scale of Birth is death, and death is the come back. God is completely different. Everything is you. It is Om that starts spiritual intelligence and stops ego. Being chained to yourself is the hardest karma ever. Miracle is when it doesn’t hurt. True help comes only when you freed some space for it. Enlightened as a rule leaves everything as it is. Burn your sins in the fire of love and compassion. Sometimes God himself writes out a pass to yoga. When you go, go; when you sleep, sleep. As long as you might walk you will come back to yourself. Allowing evil to abuse you is evil itself. There’s only one way to God- it’s your way. The road to God is God. It could be only the way it could be. Sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself for yourself. To learn how to interact with Nature is to learn how to interact with God. Atheism is not stupidity, atheism is a misfortune. If there’s a day there should be some minimum of the day; if there’s a night there should be some Expect misfortunes to happen if you let your past or future inside. minimum of the night. Sometimes you can go around the whole world and stay in place, but you can stay in place and go around the whole world. The Essence. On the altar of love. 194 195 The one who became aware of himself became aware of Look for yourself in yourself. you as well. It is almost impossible to walk the way without prana, Birth, life and death are basically one and the same. but someone who did is practically the saint. Spiritual life – is your life. The power of presence and the power of love is basically one and the same. Everything existing is here. The song of the enlightened one can be heard always and everywhere. To live the spiritual life means to live your own life. Try to merge with yourself. To learn how to embrace God you have to learn to embrace a man. The power of presence basically sets up everything. Wherever He is - you are. The power of presence is basically the only one. There is everything everywhere. Sometimes something that doesn’t exist could not be found. The one who believes in the miracle will once wake up. Everything is done in you, There is everything everywhere. everything is destroyed in you. The one who believes in the miracle will once wake up. On the way to God there is no such thing as good luck or bad luck. On the spiritual way the mind and the heart should always be A thousand arguments about God are not looking for compromises. worth a single sincere and timely prayer. The Essence. On the altar of love. 196 197 Hope has hope, and the abyss has an abyss. Every floor of existence has its own law. Time doesn’t lie. There’s only That beyond the boundaries of happiness and grief. When you don’t know what to do – do nothing. A temple is not a place to escape from reality or yourself. A temple is a symbol of unity, wisdom, charity and love. You are where the love is. Just help people instead of endless arguments about God. If you really understand the meaning of the word “yoga”, means that you are basically doing it. The one who was able to solve his own mystery will certainly gain true piece of mind and happiness. When it is impossible to live by yourself or in yourself then live by someone or in someone. Unlike most spiritual traditions, yoga is an ellipsis rather than a period. Only you yourself can save your soul. It’s very difficult to save a soul when you don’t know it even exists. To find your own word is a great gift. The hardest thing is to learn to live without yourself. When you realize that every moment everything is born out of nothing, you will never be the same person you were Everything is natural. before. The war for existence and the war for life are not the same. True detachement and uninvolvement are complete overcome of fear and pain on every level amongst selfless and eternal love. Align everything in movement and learn everything in peace. Sometimes it’s necessary to make a mistake and even prepare oneself for it. The Essence. On the altar of love. 198 199 Enlightenment is an ego dissolved in the eternal love. Stand by yourself. As a rule there’s no fear when you are in your place. Overstep, oversleep, overcome. Entertain yourself. Disolving in yourself try to embrace the world. When the past and the future merge in harmony The one who has been already born will lose or win at miracles happen in the scientific spiritual field. the same time. When you are truly happy, there is nothing but happiness. The one who knows the truth is omnipresent. When you are not really happy – there is nothing but misery. The temple and spiritual tradition must become one with reality, not an escape from it A heroic deed and love are basically the same. The inner fire challenge is the most difficult one. Only you can dissolve in your existence. Ability to give happiness is the highest happiness. Don’t try to embrace the whole world; it is enough to hug a person you love. Absolute reincarnation may well contribute to complete rebirth. It’s hard to believe, but before enlightenment everything that happens to you is you. You can swim in the ocean of love completely “naked”. By embracing your beloved one you embrace the whole world. The state of the Samadhi type is not so difficult to achieve, but it is extremely difficult to maintain it usefully for a long time if the karma is not yet exhausted. Courage is a seal of energy. The Essence. On the altar of love. 200 201 The depth of the present moment can There’s no distance between God and faith. determine your whole life. There are no absolutely right deeds and there are cannot be. Om Escaping from yourself can lead you only to the chaos. The phenomenon of prayer is boundless. If God hasn’t heard your prayers than you hadn’t heard yourself. The mind can do anything but conquer itself. Only love can stop the world rushing by you. You constantly keep on walking by yourself without even realizing it. Everything comes out of you. The Truth begins with the necessity to understand it. Everything that is said to us is said by us. It is impossible to express with words the states that are incompatible with life. If desired, you can learn to drive a nail into your imagination. The best tapas is the tapas you need. The present and the Atman are much the same. The present is basically the highest form of justice. Every state has its own law. Faith in God is also a part of God. If desired, it is not difficult to distinguish what is made in a workshop of a man and what is made in the workshop of God. The truth is honest with you as much as you are sincere with yourself. Temporary comfort could be found outside, however absolute peace is only inside you. Very often the true exit is located inside the absolutely hopeless situation. 202 The Essence. On the altar of love. 203 Movement is life, movement is death. Don’t try to comprehend the death, try to comprehend yourself. Truly wise is the one who dissolved himself in satva. In the end, the ability to listen is also love. Birth and death can only be in the past or in the future; and in the present there’s only you. Everyone's heart is beating in your heart. True love is spreading over the ones who are not even Unity is a sort of forgiveness. born yet and on those who have already passed away. In the ocean of love you can also drown. Untimely Samadhi can be as disastrous as anything that is untimely. Even the death of an enlightened is full of life. A word is a deed. It doesn't matter what you do, it matters who does. God always saves you, even when He destroys you. The talent could be cursing, and cursing could be happiness. Just wake up. When all the plans have collapsed and the last hope is gone For Him to come, you must be. rely on unshakable, letting go of absolutely everything. Condescend to yourself. If you have learned that you are not the body, that you are not the mind, this is no reason to overestimate or underestimate If you will not stop your mind, your mind will stop you. them, to praise or blaspheme them, and even more so to rely entirely on them or write off everything on them. Find the strength to remain Yourself, even if you have already “lost yourself". 204 The Essence. On the altar of love. 205 The shadow is not for sale. The Lord reveals himself to the one who reveals himself to the inevitable. Follow folk wisdom, not stupidity. Running away from yourself never ends well. The feat of Buddha is immeasurable. A thousand lives are worth living for a moment of true love. Sadhak! Remember that there is a huge difference between an active mind and an inflamed one. Your path to liberation generally begins when you have realized that you are the Atman. To bring the Divine into matter that is your true purpose. Through the cut of truth, you can find the way to the truth itself. When you look at the sun - be the sun, when you swim in the river - be the river The Heavenly Father for you is your strongest quality, and your weakest one (in a certain sense) is the evil. It’s a blessing that you just exist. Creating the conditions for Samadhi is much more difficult than entering it. Everything that can relate to life relates. Any harmony of movement is a continuation of the There’s only one step from true, deep, harmony of absolute rest. lasting compassion to enlightenment. It is important to find not only the best way for yourself, Those who have understood at least something, release but also the best obstacle on the way to liberation. an endless prayer of gratitude for every moment of life. Don't stop bringing flowers to the courage of those who have Take an example not from someone who succeeded, survived what cannot be endured. but from someone who contributes to the success of others. 206 The Essence. On the altar of love. 207 Love your own essence. All you have is yourself. The truth is in the truth. When you find God and even become one, you will understand how happy it was being on the road. It's up to you what language to talk to your true self. The degree of presence depends on the level of The struggle with a serious chronic illness consciousness and the amount of prana. may become a sadhana as well. Love your own heart and then your love for your All that is not in time is in vain. neighbor will become pure and direct. Just as you love to enter a clean room, It’s not enough to open the heart, so the Lord loves to visit a clean soul. you also need to be able to defend it. Sometimes only absolute compassion can lead Basically, consciousness is the Atman that has not been to absolute happiness. distorted by emotions and thoughts. Don't confuse self-importance with self-esteem. Try to act as if your child is watching you all the time. The line between madness and sanctity can be extremely thin. Sometimes it is enough to see a flower of lotus to understand the nature of bliss and liberation. It is very important to understand what fuel you are working on. Prana is basically a chariot that can be used to enter the Kingdom of God. If you are lucky enough to step on the yoga mat try to leave all the past in the past. Communication with plants and animals sometimes brings more benefits than communication with people. 208 The Essence. On the altar of love. 209 Never sacrifice your present for the favor of your future. Where the love is, there the truth is. A look at the bottomless sky or the boundless ocean is Basically, only present decides the fate of all of your lives. basically a look at the present. Sometimes, in order for a word to gain some power, you have Take everythin in your life as a sadhana and your to become one, literally. path will become cleaner and brighter. The ability to move energy where is needed and how much is You as Atman always remain in the present, no matter needed is a reliable basis for any sadhana. where your mind is, in the past or in the future. OM. There is no such a place and there cannot be one where you haven’t been. Any true teaching basically leads to experiencing the love. Sometimes, if you learned to admit to yourself what you’ve The one who is able to return the soul to the mentally ill already realized, you might not have to know anything more. people is truly Saint. To find true happiness all the pleasures must be literally absorbed. When you become yourself, there will be no urgent need for anything else. The soul settles in a human body only in order to leave it one day. Long-term observation, self-study, may well lead to self-experience. Basically, a man is hiding from himself in his inner self. As long as you don't go beyond your ego you can't even dream of divine sadhana. Sutra is rather a dance, than a battle. This, of course, is very difficult to understand for someone who As a rule, the one who has said everything to himself, has not experienced such an experience, but sometimes in order after a series of immeasurable suffering to survive you have to rely even on your clothes. and immeasurable happiness, falls silent. 210 The Essence. On the altar of love. 211 Energy doesn’t lie. There’s no remedy from yourself. Too much happiness can bring too much grief. Glory to the one who is absolutely brave, wise and merciful. Everything brilliant in the world of art is unobtrusive. True sadhana has no future, true sadhana has only the present. Often people ask for the grace of God not realizing To be able to comprehend your higher Self is the that to be able to ask is already a mercy. highest happiness. All God’s lessons are equally important. Certainly draw your willpower from the Source, and not from the fevered mind. Basically Conscious reality is spirituality. The one who has become more than everything for you is you. Sometimes it’s better to make thousands steps back in order to make one step to eternity. Finding your association of liberation is sometimes extremely helpful. The true master is the one, who has solved the problems of space and time. By definition no sacrifice is made in vain, no feat. The enlightened person can regulate the degree of Sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself for yourself. involvement in this world at his own discretion. Real wisdom is always backed up by real power - There is no higher happiness to see someone free from samsara, the power of love and compassion. OM because this is to a certain extent your liberation, the liberation of your relatives and friends, as well as all those living on Earth. It is impossible to find harmony with the help of mind, because when there is harmony, there is no brain. 212 The Essence. On the altar of love. 213 If there’s something then there is That. Only God can breach the law of Devine. Love, basically, is the highest form of justice. In fact, there is no gap between events in both the manifested and unmanifested worlds. Indifferent quietness is perhaps the worst form of existence, while the serene peace of compassion, wisdom and love is the Do not try to understand with your mind something that could divine spark which our soul sometimes yearns for. be only understood with your heart. “Step aside ” and watch what goes, what comes, and what remains. Try to understand the major thing that you can do for God in this life. For the life to become a reality you need to fill it Set up with your inner self. with yourself. There’s no line to meet the God. The realization that instantly there will be something else, not to mention tomorrow, in relation to the feeling of inviolability indicates a fairly high level of consciousness. Communication with a living master usually brings much more benefits than communication with a deceased master. Even bees have the ability to fight and create and be quite organized, but the ability to realize and comprehend God is given only to a man. During the flow of truth, try to stay in place. The absolute state lies outside the system Having perfectly mastered and realized at least a bit of a general of excitation and inhibition. knowledge, one can achieve perfection by a chain reaction in a certain sense. The ability to go beyond one’s own opinion will certainly help to go beyond one’s own reality, one’s own ego. In the morning be in the morning, in the afternoon listen to the day, in the evening consult with the evening, and at night let everything go. It’s worth living for just to be able to breathe, but not everyone can understand this. 214 The Essence. On the altar of love. 215 Work in silence. Every home should become a temple. Never regret the lost pleasures. In truth, it is never possible to predict when the hour of God will strike in a person. Basically presence and absence of God cannot be compared or mixed up with anything. Don’t invite sitters to look after the sense of self importance. The one who delivered you from the dungeon of maya could become the Holy one for you. If you realize the illusion of any state your path will become clear and bright. There are things that are much higher than the laws of justice, however it’s almost impossible to a man to fathom it. Faith is the bridge to the future, and love is the bridge to the present. It’s so easy to become a hostage to any state of mind. Everything goes, everything comes. Devotion to the soul has nothing to do with devotion to the body. Finding your own way to work with prana is a great happiness. Laws of karma include not just the laws of justice. Justice on the scale of God doesn’t have that form with limited That concept is much wider than can be conceived by humans. boundaries that is known to humans. If you lose in a battle with life, don't be sad, it is only one In the world of maya everything always goes to the future part of the Lord that has defeated the other. and back simultaneously. In the end, God will eventually accept any soul, just as There are as many paths to God as there could be. any soul will find God in its own time. The body should overcome everything that it should and the Spirit should overcome everything. The Essence. On the altar of love. 216 217 True love demands no sacrifice. Remember! Your pain is someone else’s pain, your happiness is someone's happiness, but sometimes it The truly ruined life is the one that has ruined the life of another. doesn’t hurt you only because someone has already taken your pain on himself, and you are happy only because someone is happy. It can be so necessary to believe in silence. There's nothing between you and me. If you really love a person, then the feeling of their kiss is perceived as the kiss of God. If you lose in a battle with life, don't be sad, it is only one part of the Lord that has defeated the other. A battle and a fight are not the same. On the way to the Spirit, use all the achievements of time as well. Along the corridor of knowledge you need to go as confidently and calmly as possible. If someone is smiling, you are smiling. If someone is crying, it's you. True peace is not emptiness but a silence, filled with awe and love. Sometimes, if you can't be in the present, the pain puts you in it. You always had you, always have you, and always will have you. It doesn't make sense to imagine something you're completely unprepared for. The fearlessness of sincerity is one of the highest qualities that a person can possess. There is no cure for civilization. To comprehend doesn’t mean to achieve. Meditation is also a transition from a limited source of information to an unlimited one. It doesn't matter if there is a way out of situation or not, it's much more important that there is you. 218 The Essence. On the altar of love. 219 What is beyond your strength is also you. Atman uses the body and mind for self-awareness. There is music to which you want to be born, live and die. No matter how much information you have collected about love and God, it will never become either love or God (at best, just a small part of them). Human hope is a kind of secret knowledge of immortality of the human soul in its manifested form. If you’ve only realized the grace that God has shown you by giving you a chance of life, you would literally become every The phenomenon of memory depends entirely on moment of it. the purity of Nadia. Silence is also a thought, only in an unmanifested form. The true concentration is not a simple concentration on something. It is a deep aspiration and an unshakably firm faith based on peace, compassion and love. Blessed is the one who hasn’t given up searching for truth even on his deathbed. The ratio of internal and external vision in sadhana should be strictly balanced If you learn to consume the elements correctly, (naturally for those who have not yet acquired Moksha). you will find happiness. Often, to discover the truth by the power of intuition is One always serves the other, always. OM the most reasonable and accurate way. Anything is possible on the tip of intuition. If you manage to negotiate with your brain, almost all issues will be resolved automatically. Acquired prana is like an acquired weapon. It requires care and appropriate permission for its possession and use. The very concept of reality is interpreted and understood in different ways and it is also very relative. On the spiritual path treat it philosophically relying on the Scriptures, scientific Those who prepare for life and those who prepare for death achievements, your own experience and intuition. are unlikely to find a common language. 220 The Essence. On the altar of love. 221 The hormones lead the disputes. Feat is love, love is everything. Believe me, there is nothing unnatural about your fate. Anxiety will not go away until the vessels of karma are absolutely clean. In truth, it is a feat to learn to live when life is basically no longer inside of you. You are the cause of all causes, you are the beginning of all beginnings. Only the beyond can understand the nature of suffering. An inflamed mind is always in doubt. Fatigue from selfless help to people is more than the happiness. If you have no one else to rely on, rely on sleep. Until you learn to cling to the emptiness, you will not be able to cope with yourself. Blessed is he who does not think of himself without seeking the truth. Glory to those who did not betray their shrines under torture. Compassion for those who suffer. Not judgment for those The astral plane is essentially the same Maya, only with more who just couldn't stand this life. OM subtle vibrations. It will disappear in due time. Everything passes by right now. Dedicate your love to everyone living on the Earth. The true mantra includes almost all possible Steady and deep longing for God will inevitably lead you experiences of a person. to Him, sooner or later. In fact, the Lord does not punish or praise, you do it yourself. Mantra that causes tears of sacred awe is capable of anything. The Lord just loves us and teaches us. 222 The Essence. On the altar of love. 223 Everything that is related to us has been tied by us. It happens that only love can fix a mistake. A certain amount of prana, knowledge, Happiness is when the endless pain is over. and love can turn even pain into happiness. Poetry is not the skill to rhyme the words, but the ability to rhyme the hearts. Don't worry, the ambulance in the subtle world is working quite properly. If you realized that you had waisted your life, then you hadn’t lived it in vain. On the way to yourself learn to respect any obstacle. If you are able to come to the agreement with the one who controls If you want to allocate time correctly, listen to those the mind, it could be said that you have found happiness. who live by the unity of intuition and logic. Finding the culprit of your troubles is quite easy, but in vast It is the same thing to find oneself and to gain knowledge. majority of cases finding yourself is much more difficult. Accepting your fate doesn’t mean to surrender. Being open and outspoken is not the same. When you belong only to the present, everything The illusion of well-being and the illusion of happens by itself. failure are basically the same. Don't try to be where you can't be right now. When your pride doesn’t allow you to accept the greatness, simply try to fall asleep. When you are not there, nothing is there, when you are there, everything is there. Enlightenment is the state when you hear, understand and feel absolutely everything. 224 The Essence. On the altar of love. 225 Basically, everything is a soul. Any true sadhana is in the name of love. Faith cannot be drunk like water from a glass, The most important victory is the victory of conscience. it must be cultivated. It is very difficult to commit a sin in a dream. The labor that has been done in the name of the Divine is never done in vain. The ways of the mind are inscrutable. Only a truly calm mind is capable of successful sadhana. Everything is made of love. Just try to recognize who you really are. To achieve the Divine, just passive submission of the mind is not enough. Try to use your mind correctly, otherwise it will use you. Not everyone can bear and understand Divine love. Everything relates to everyone. In a dream no one is right or wrong. The more you know about yourself, the more you know about others. Aim to yourself. Each disease has its own sadhana. Sometimes a step toward God becomes an eternity. A truly Divine experience is the totality of all possible experiences. Crash and bump into yourself until you find yourself. True peace, if you look at it, is not so much of The sophisticated seeker of truth is not limited to inference, strong nerves, but an unshakable faith that gives but also relies on direct experience. fearlessness, integrity and love. 226 The Essence. On the altar of love. 227 When your mind is absolutely calm, It is very easy to enter the Divine theater as an actor, your path is clear and simple. but it is quite difficult to become a director. Be yourself! There has never been anyone like you, and there will never be. Act as everything has already happened. If you are happy then every sadhana is happiness. Sometimes you have to literally grow into the divine nature, as a root grows into the earth. Any trance, any state before final liberation is illusory in its own way. If you haven’t found the Lord in the element, On the way to God, memory and spiritual knowledge are you are not likely to find Him in the books. absolutely different things. The night will draw its own conclusions, the day will draw its own. You should start your meditation as if you have never interrupted it. If during your lifetime you have ever managed to Just as a dawn is no worse or better than a sunset, so the rise overcome your fear, then you have not lived your life and fall of civilization are no worse or better than each other. in vain. Reading mantra without proper concentration, faith and love, Never forget that there is something immeasurably of course can distract from problems to some extent, but it is greater than anything you can even imagine. unlikely to solve them. It is very easy to enter the Divine theater as an actor, The other world is spiritually a different state of but it is quite difficult to become a director. consciousness rather than a different place of residence. Anyone who really has experienced the immortality of the A spiritually developed calm mind is the fullness of fixed soul is unlikely to be convinced in the opposite. thoughts rather than the mere absence of them. The Essence. On the altar of love. 228 229 Silence in the spiritual sense is not the absence of sound, Prana makes possible absolutely everything. but it is only your conscious presence. Shock, of course, can give a high state of mind, but usually only To believe in the present and to believe in God is basically the same. temporarily. Measured and reasonable sadhana brings results that are much more reliable and stable. True compassion is not just empathy, but also the ability to understand the cause, the nature of suffering and the ability A true sage will reveal the truth of today, but a false one to deal with it to the best of their abilities. only repeats the aphorisms of the past. The mystery of love is immeasurable. Shame can also be of different properties. To come to your senses today, you need a deep The past can give you certain knowledge, awareness of yourself as a whole. but it can't give you the eternity. Ask for help from elements only as a last resort. If you fully understand at least one aspect of nature, you can get Moksha. By getting a slave you are getting a master. Getting used to yourself is one of the main tasks on the path to God. Try to realize the form in which God has revealed Himself to you today. The search for a way out of the situation is not necessarily a movement, sometimes, it is a complete and unconditional stop. Every moment of your existence should be devoted to serving people, serving them sincerely and selflessly. Don't try to embrace the vast, just embrace your loved one. The event and the feeling of events are equally illusionary in some way. You have no idea how much depends on you and how much doesn't depend on you. 230 The Essence. On the altar of love. 231 Absolute harmony is an absolute purity. When the death feels natural to you, then everything becomes normal. Fear will not go away until your karma is worked out. As a rule, people keep on asking questions until they can cope with pain. The Gods are where the children are. You are the teacher, you are the disciple, you are If you are not able to save your own life, the knowledge. at least save the other’s. Everything has its own time and essence. Everyone can remember everything in their own time. A chronic disease with the city is an It is very rare for someone to get to a state almost incurable disease. where the answers to all the questions are, but sometimes it still happens. Your fear will not leave you for good until your ego is staying. When you are not there, nothing is there, when you are there, everything is there. To have a good rest you need lots of prana. Love the beauty. The closer you are to yourself - the deeper the knowledge. True sadhana is not the path from simple to complex but Your students and Teachers are basically everywhere rather the opposite. and in everything, literally. If there is no longer a way to fight your weakness, try to turn it into You will get a chance by combining your prana with the prana your strength by meditating and by using the of your tribe. knowledge of the saints. The Essence. On the altar of love. 232 233 Circumstances are the God (in a certain way). Happiness is inside the happiness. If there is absolutely nothing to cling to – Sometimes you need to hide your body even from yourself. cling to the inevitable and unshakable. Learn to listen to the one who’s silent. Time has its own approach to life. The feeling of omnipresence is the true sign of liberation. Seek your solace in the infinite wisdom of generations. It’s equally useless to hide from death and from life. The fear will go away when the "pain" goes away. The truth found in anguish is especially valuable. Sometimes in order to learn something, you must teach it. The desire for sleep is already a part of sleep, True happiness is sometimes as difficult to bear as real grief. the desire to love is already a part of love. Every teaching is limited while love has no limits. Be careful as a stairway to the skies is very slippery. Desire is already a part of a desired. Following your nature is sometimes the best sadhana. Sometimes it takes more time to find the path than the path itself. Sometimes, to cure a disease, you need to be as far away from it as possible, or at least far from your ego. True peace indeed can embrace everything. Do not worry prematurely about the lost colors of life, because after you leave your physical shell, Any life is a path to God and only few people manage to you will have plenty of them. make this path conscious. 234 The Essence. On the altar of love. 235 Adaptation at all levels is the basis of Divine manifestation. Taking care of man is taking care of God. It is everyone's responsibility to find compassion within. You can avoid punishment, not karma. When you have a strong desire to help people even when you Everyone will have to get acquainted with the feel miserable – your path is chosen correctly. inevitability sooner or later. Do not chase the phenomena – just love. If you observe true detachment, everything will happen by itself. When the conditions for sadhana simply do not exist, God is also something that always brings you back to balance. try to turn the very absence of conditions into sadhana. There is nothing, by and large, apart from love. Laziness, fear, and ignorance are true obstacles to God. The magical world of liberated souls is a great incentive The one who can make you laugh sometimes for sadhana and a decent life. plays more important role in the karmic relationship than it may seem at a first glance. Not inner emptiness, but inner purity is important (in a spiritual way). The thoughts do not so often create the condition, meanwhile the condition almost always produces the thoughts. Sometimes only a true master can recognize where there is a real transformation and Everyone deceives, tricks, and fools themselves in their own way. where there is a serious mental illness. The concept of justice on the scale of the Lord is not at all what If you have had experienced a state where your fear is watching over man puts into this concept. Therefore, do everything that hope, especially for a very long time, something appears in you that depends on you in this regard and do not repeat the mistakes cannot be described in any words. of those who adopted this law relying on their limited consciousness. 236 The Essence. On the altar of love. 237 Draw conclusions from any state of being. Happiness as a rule does not ask questions. True love does not punish, it does not forgive...it just absorbs. Everything is for you, you are for everything. On the way to God, you need to take into account Unravel the relationship of day and night and you will absolutely everything possible. unravel almost everything. By penetrating the essence you are staying here. The happiness of gratitude is the highest of it. Lazy solitude in the comfort zone has nothing to do with the Everything is happening right now. peace of inspiration. You are inside of Him, He’s inside of you. Om Let dissolve everything that can dissolve, let all burn that can burn. Learning to be united with everyone is just as important as learning to be alone with yourself. To realize your potential is perhaps the highest of happiness. It is absolutely impossible to grasp how insignificant The Lord always puts in front of you the task that needs to be done. and at the same time how sublime a human being is. Condemnation is perhaps one of the most profound forms of ignorance. For someone in karmic line life is a respite, and for someone - the most responsible and difficult part of the path. An absolute absence of criticism and condemnation of anyone is one of the most striking indicators of a true master. It doesn't matter how many people have passed through you, how many have stepped over you, A sannyasi is not the one who has renounced the world, how many are left. You're still who you are. a sannyasi is the one who has abandoned his ego. 238 The Essence. On the altar of love. 239 On the path to God, communication with generous People, instead of conquering hearts, conquer the cosmos. people is especially valuable. Smile while embracing the globe. Unravel the secret of mood and you unravel lots of secrets. Sometimes to go beyond a serious illness you True power lies in the power of love and compassion. need to go beyond your limits. The power of compassion has its own laws. When all the “I”s of your ego are erased – rely on yourself. Blessed is the path of those who will never return to this Land. Desires also have their own laws. They can die both natural and violent deaths. The Lord's lila is more improvisation than a design. You can not be happy until you connect to the Source properly. Anyone who finds time and energy to think high despite the severity of everydays life will never regret it. Having proper deal of awareness you have a chance even if there are no one and nothing waiting for you anywhere else. You're always where you are. Liberation basically begins when you become aware Don't try to visualize the beyond – of its existence. it's pointless and useless. Every moment has its own way out. In obsessive-compulsive disorder the recitation of mantras, especially in a fast rhythm should be treated with extreme caution, so as not to overexcite an already extremely inflamed If you want to be beautiful, watch the beauty. If you want to mind. become strong, watch the power. With proper concentration you will definitely gain a certain part of the beauty or power. 240 The Essence. On the altar of love. 241 The number of locs is uncountable. Fill the time with yourself. On one hand do not be afraid and on the other hand do You have to believe in a person, not a person: not delude yourself – this is just a state. you have to believe in yourself, not yourself. Fear absorbs the wisdom of exactly how love absorb everything. The obstacles to freedom are not desires, but rather the attitude to them, the understanding of their essence, the relationship with them. Accepting a new tradition, do not renounce the roots, and in most cases this is practically impossible. As a rule, each truth has seven stages of awareness and each passes them in accordance with his karma. Declaration of love is sometimes equivalent to a new birth. Death is scary as long as you believe in it. By the Grace of God we are born, enjoy, suffer, and die. It is better to climb to the top of the mountain than to the top of passion. True meditation involves absolute trust in the Supreme. Don't confuse ecstasy with neurosis. Sometimes when pain of your dearly loved one goes away, your pain also leaves you. Sometimes a substance is more useful than thousands of words. When you feel that your soul is absorbed by the Lotus petals The thoughts of God lead to God, the thoughts of yoga lead to yoga. embracing you, a glow with an infinite range of colors shines around you, and you feel the immediate and pure happiness of a child, increased a thousand times just be sure that the Lord has Sadhana for the very sick and weak people, and for the elderly and paid attention to you. children should be especially delicate, strictly individual, gentle and condescending. 242 The Essence. On the altar of love. 243 True yoga is a complete balance. When word and silence join hands, then the truth is born. The way to God is through the present, the door of which is in your heart, and the key of it hangs on your chest. Of course, heated arguments about God can be very useful, but just a good, condescending attitude towards each other is much Not loosing your hope even if there’s none is more important. essential! Fundamental! In order to know God, in most cases, a person needs a person. You should calm your brain, not put it to sleep, you should activate it, not excite it. In many ways, you chose the path before you were born, so just follow yourself. The enlightened individual soul decides to what extent it merges with the omnipresent self. The reaction of enlightenment today is extremely rare and it is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve it, so To get the knowledge means to recollect. everything should become sadhana today. Purifying your body is like cleaning up the Universe. One moment of God's Mercy can burn all your karma to the ground. Add up all the love you have for someone Love to God should be as natural and spontaneous as it is or something and give it to God. to the person you love. It is very difficult to find God if a practitioner spends all his time The mind should be attuned to love and understanding, satisfying the needs of his body and mind. not to criticism, judgment, and argument. The one, who really understands the essence of meditation Only Samadhi, together with the exhausted karma that has understands that it has no beginning, no end, no entrance, no been worked out to the end, gives the right to complete exit, no smell, no taste. and irreversible liberation. 244 The Essence. On the altar of love. 245 A completely motionless mind is possible only Improving by all means learn to make pauses. with a sufficient amount of prana. To separate truth from illusion it is necessary to remove all If you learn how to love a person – you will learn to love God. partitions, get rid of all stereotypes and masks. You can still make them suffer, but you can never make them love. Never be shy about expressing your love, ever. Each time of a day and time of a year has its own questions and The truth can be extremely difficult to resist. answers. All trials are trials on the way to God. For the realized, everything is basically a meditation. The one, who can stand Samadhi can, in fact, stand absolutely anything. If you do not use rajas and even Tamas on the path to God today, your sadhana is unlikely to bring positive results. Tea-drinking meditation is the subtlest of the arts of working with mind and energy. Sharing the knowledge is like finding it again and on a different level. Until you are free, faith must be constantly nourished, just as you feed your body and mind. Empathy is only a part of compassion. Often in Kali-Yuga only Tamas directed to Tamas, Everything that concerns death is in its own way. rajas to rajas bring a positive result. During Kali Yuga the energy of rajas and Tamas must be used for In fact, the love for a person is basically the same as for God but it spiritual growth, for the Lord has given it to us so that we can at just has some limitations, barriers and conventions while Union least take them into account, use them, and learn from them. with God is absolute and unconditional. 246 The Essence. On the altar of love. 247 Play the strings of your love. Maya is also a form of divine love. For Sadhaka at a certain stage the sadhana of If in the temples they’d torture in the name of God, dispute and doubt is very useful. unlikely many people would be found there. When you about to leave, don't forget to say thank you to everyone. If karma is exhausted, you can do without Samadhi. There is no better refuge than the present, no. When karma is exhausted, Samadhi does not always occur. The energy of Absolute and the Absolute itself are united. Everything that brings true natural peace is Holy. A man creates the God, the God creates a man. Everything is based on pain, death and love. Only true and timely Union with the Lord can affect karma, To love a man is to love God, to love God is to love everything. but not the cowardly flight to Him every time without urgent need, on every occasion convenient to you. Harmony of mind and heart is basically everything. Love, certainly, is one of the forms of wisdom, Your path is the present. like wisdom is one form of love. Be yourself, for it is impossible to repeat If you are able to combine and compare incongruous within someone's path to God. yourself, the path to liberation will be straight and simple. Only a very few people are able to finally let go of their “I” and If while reading a mantra or Scripture your mind remains merge with the Lord through Samadhi, this requires a fully calm, and your heart is filled with love and compassion, worked-out karma or the grace of God. then the mantra or text is chosen correctly and in a timely manner. 248 The Essence. On the altar of love. 249 Perhaps the best way to help people is just to Always all in all, one in all, all in one, one in one. be yourself. It is possible to visualize almost everything except God. Sometimes finding your way to God is like finding God. Even for the disembodied soul, who has not yet Melt the heart, calm the mind, strengthen the body, attained complete liberation, the ways of God are tune in to satva, keep everything in balance and sooner inscrutable in their own way. or l ater the Spirit will manifest itself. Only a calm mind and a loving heart can perceive the truth of the Scriptures, otherwise it will be distorted in When the depth of a kiss reaches eternity, one way or another. even your essence dissolves into itself. The one who is capable of love, is capable of a feat. Nothing’s worse than a broken spirit. Remember that everything you live by is borrowed from love. Remember that until complete liberation, whatever you do is sin in one way or another, while whatever a Saint does simply cannot be sin by definition. Rivers of love flow through the channels of conscience. Where love is, there you are. To love God, no matter how much grief there is on Earth, is, of course, incredibly difficult, but in the end it is necessary and inevitable. Bow to your conscience as sincerely as a believer worships his God. The absolute paradox of existence is that God is always here, Sincere hatred of God, precisely because of indifference, is everywhere and in everything, and at the same time absolutely sometimes able to point the way to Him and give hope. unattainable and beyond even the most developed imagination. The present, in the spiritual sense, is not just a period of time, but the pure being and absolute reality beyond time and space. The Essence. On the altar of love. 250 251 The weak are helping the strong, Wishing happiness to others is the highest happiness. the strong are helping the weak. Until you learn to lose yourself in every moment, Everything is sadhana. you won't be able to beat the time. You're always laughing at yourself, always. Sometimes it is impossible to just talk about the Absolute, and about Brahman, most likely it’s possible just to be silent. Fill the mantra with knowledge and love, fill knowledge and love with mantra. Just visit the Temple of your soul and your path will be straight and simple. When you return home, do not forget about those who have not found it yet or are deprived of it. The Lord is basically the Union of all beginnings. Let not even the most beautiful, the purest path lead The feeling of the God’s nearness is like a very you astray from yours and only your path. strong desire to return home. Once you know the truth about yourself, Your path mainly consists of those who are nearby. you just won't be able to move. Sometimes you can feel that the silence of a master knows everything. There is nothing more mysterious in this world than consciousness. On the way to the Spirit, sometimes let go of your associative series and just leave yourself alone. Try to realize what kind of a lesson God has just taught you. Faith in justice, by and large, creates the condition for The power of true dedication is sometimes equivalent to it and even generates it. OM the power of true love, the power of knowledge. The Essence. On the altar of love. 252 253 Arguments about God, when there is no love At that time when you forget about lose all meanings, but when there is love there is compassion, you almost stop “living”. usually no need to argue about God at all. Each substance carries its own essence. Lean on the energy of experience of the wisest. Express your gratitude to everyone for everything The past can only be judged from the perspective of the past. while you have a chance. God cannot be reached or lost. One can Only you can discover yourself. only be Him or be aware of Him. Each fate has its own smell, its own taste and its own color. Some truths can only be realized by being pronounced out loud. As long as there is a thrill of immense compassion, Even if your help melts in the ocean of ignorance, it is still priceless. OM sympathy and love in your soul it is alive. Sometimes by the will of the Supreme the gods created by Sometimes it is much harder to lose yourself in a loved one man come to life, and the human incarnation of the Lord than to lose yourself in yourself (and vice versa). vanishes for good. Just sit down, close your eyes, listen and try to understand Nameless feat is the highest feat. what your God, your heart, your beginning is telling you. It is imporsable to give up the process of finding your own Only “I” itself can discover its “I". “I”. If it is sincere and timely it happens automatically. Try to understand which of the six senses Pray the Lord so you won’t be placed in circumstances can lead you to God in your case. where you will have no choice, but to commit evil. 254 The Essence. On the altar of love. 255 On the way to yourself you are all by yourself. Even the goal must be in the present. Everything is a reflection of Atman. A sage understands that he gains and loses the wisdom literally every moment. The complete happiness of a more developed being at the expense of sufferings of a less developed one is impossible by definition. Holiness is a state, not a position. For the sake of God as well as for the sake of seeking God If no one and nothing can kindle your love, try to fire it up yourself. outside ourselves, we often kill Him inside ourselves. Circumvent the truth from all sides, and only then Everything that concerns you is always around you, with you will be firmly settled in it. you, and inside of you. The nature of violence can destroy any faith, One day you will realize that everything was not in vain and at but it cannot destroy the true knowledge. the same time there was no need for anything. OM The desire to live and the desire to die come from the same source. To have an opportunity of giving out your knowledge gratis is the highest of the privileges. Unfortunately, only few people can drown in the ocean of love. Sometimes the monstrous cruelty of man can only be answered by profound silence. On the way to the truth there is only truth, on the way to God there is only God, on the way to yourself there is only you. In true meditation the deeper the trance the deeper the awareness. However, while diving deeper your consciousness is gradually lost, then practice is usually performed incorrectly and To find one's soul United with millions of souls is the highest it can hardly be called meditation. happiness, to find one's soul in absolute solitude sometimes turns out to be the greatest of sufferings. OM 256 The Essence. On the altar of love. 257 By and large, you can only find yourself. In true meditation, everyone is equal. Everything and nothing exist simultaneously. There is a huge difference (karmically) between temporary and permanent samadhi. Expand your consciousness if mental sufferings do not go away and all the efforts you know to Everyone will reveal the cause of all suffering in his fix something are already behind. own way and time. The one who accepts is the one who comprehends. Sometimes, when faced with the monstrous suffering of men, my newly established doctrine of good and evil crumbles again like a card house. Emotions and thoughts have no point of support. This can be used when thinking about God and meditating. The highest feat is to learn to help people even when experiencing terrible sufferings. Do not be afraid of anything, do not regret anything, and do not indulge in despair - there will be sleep, death, and Immeasurable suffering often reveals an immeasurable vision. absolute liberation as well. If you believe everything you see and hear, then it is impossible A truly great soul always remembers, sympathizes and loves all to achieve significant results on your spiritual path (to maya). those who have ever suffered, suffer and will suffer on this Earth and not just on it. OM All your knowledge is nothing in comparison to you. The concept of achieving your “I” and not its awareness is inherently flawed, because when you achieve something The ability to learn a lesson from absolutely everything is you inevitably lose something. The true Self is absolutely essential trait of a true seeker. perfect, and nothing can be added or subtracted from it. It is absolutely realized and is outside the laws of the universe, it is only necessary to comprehend and Just as a musical instrument can know nothing about music, understand what will happen at the right time in but contains the energy of a musician, so an ego knows nothing accordance with individual karma. about divine love, but to a certain extent keeps the memory of it. 258 The Essence. On the altar of love. 259 God is born when ego dies. There is nothing but God’s love in its infinite form. You just need to understand it. On spiritual path only the timely can become a step to God. It is necessary to learn how to pass different states of consciousness as day and night do. The artist's imagination sometimes looks more realistic than our life. When all limits and forms are dissolved in themselves, your Self is dissolved in God. To be there, you need to be here; to be here, you don't need anything. Will and reason must always go hand in hand, always. Any strong and uncontrolled desire usually inhibits spiritual development, including the desire of God's Mercy or liberation. Just trust the one who is always there. By all means be sure to find someone who enlights On your path to God whatever you do, your way at all times. is you, who should be doing it. There is no more or fewer of God, only ego can To remain yourself, there is no need to think about it or not. be more or fewer. God never comes empty-handed. Try to find something in common in everything that surrounds you and in everything that is in you. Atheism is more of a disease than a belief. Do your asana as if you are meeting the Lord Himself, no matter who He is to you and no matter what He is to you. The best place to meditate is you. There is great distance between knowledge of a layman and When you feel inexhaustible energy, love and happiness, be knowledge of a scientist, but distance between a scientist and a sure – you are at home, if only it’s not drug intoxication, etc., sage, who knows the God, is truly immeasurable. etc… The Essence. On the altar of love. 260 261 Go over to satva's side. The ideal Ashram can only be God himself. He is in everything, everything is in Him. God is born while you are born. True satsang involves talking about the eternal, Vanity is in fact one of the most powerful obstacles to God. not criticizing or judging anyone or anything. If the Lord does not take away your pain try to give all of Once you understand that you are everything, yourself to Him. you will not be left without Teachers. Compassion from happiness and compassion from suffering If you can't get rid of suffering, you’d better become are completely different concepts, try to understand this. compassionate. As contradictory and implausible as it sounds, the Lord Everything is in God, everything is in you. does everything which is best for us, sometimes despite the monstrous injustice and pain that we observe. To be infected with happiness is a great success. To get out of the game, you at least need to know the rules. Everything is the Grace of God, you just have to understand it. It is extremely important to listen to the opinion of sages of You have created yourself, and you are destroying yourself. your time. Sometimes it is enough to be fully aware of one thing The Lord is ready to absorb the truth of everyone. in order to be aware of everything else. An intelligent person knows a great deal and uses every If you don't have time to think about God, aspect of his knowledge as necessary. The true sage knows you can consider yourself not existing either. only God, and at the right moment the right thought just comes to him by itself. 262 The Essence. On the altar of love. 263 In fact, it is not Atman that is present in the world, If there’s no time, then there is no burden. but the world is present in Atman. OM Until complete liberation the path to God is full of Until you become aware of yourself, even absolute contradictions and obstacles; be patient, flexible, steady, inaction generates karma. and above all, try to keep your mind as calm as possible. Until complete liberation, do not get carried away with For a highly intelligent person with an open heart an arguments about what God is. Just do what you have absolute unbreakable and unshakable surrender of his to do: Love, serve, have compassion, meditate. whole self to the Lord, and complete trust, love and reverence is a very direct, real and worthy path. The silence of a true master is omnipotent. Sometimes a single glance of a true sadhu can burn your karma once and for good. Nothing can interfere with your eternal existence, nothing. Harmonious exchange of positive energy between close people Between the Lord and you can only be the Lord and you, is an excellent foundation for any spiritual practice. you just need to understand it. Sometimes a broken mantra is like a broken life. Learn to keep only satva inside of yourself. Meditation for purpose of realization usually does not Sadhak! Rely on love! involve concentration on any object outside the body or on any part of the body. Meditation in this regard is the ability to keep your attention on something specific and at the In an atmosphere of ignorance, envy, aggression and greed same time on everything else without creating any tension sadhana is notoriously difficult to conduct. and without feeling, without being aware of any contradictions. Firstly, the mission of a man is to be a human being, no more and no less then that. Rebirth always begins with awakening, always. The Essence. On the altar of love. 264 265 If the disease has closed the circle, go beyond the ego. Hold on to the unshakable. What matters is not what trousers the great one wears, The variety of karmic laws and paths is truly amazing. but what torments he bears. As is the mind, such is the house. You can cross the boundaries of your ego, but cannot walk over the boundaries of love. Love is the ultimate reality. Blessed is the one who, while dying, had enough courage to let go of everything. There is nothing but God. True happiness includes absolutely everything. Truth is not information, it is a state. What is thought to be thinkable or unthinkable is Everything has its own dream, everything has its own reality. only part of the truth. Bridges to each other should be built, not burned. Let the time be and the Lord will definitely manifest Himself. Basically, Love determines all laws, but sometimes it does not obey any of them. Sadhak! Don't confuse battle and fight. Everything changes by staying. OM If you are still able to recognize the line between sadhana and the rest of the life, then you have not yet gained the proper level of consciousness. Not everyone loves the truth, but everyone honors harmony. In the house of cowardice, laziness and ignorance, you can sit out long If you have lost yourself, in the end it is usually makes more sense to enough, but sooner or later you will still have to leave it. look for the one who has lost, and not for the one who is lost, when, where and how. The Essence. On the altar of love. 266 267 The seal of a kiss is deeper than any seal. The universe can be measured only with love. Embrace with knowledge, complete with love. OM On the path to God – the power of imagination and the power of presence must work closely together to create a single and unconditional aspiration. Knowing for sure that you will reincarnate is not a reason to tease God with carelessness. Tact is one of the main qualities of a yogi and a spiritual person in general. If you can't remember yourself, remember me. Strive for love with all your being, and everything else No matter the motivation for the compassion as long will work itself out. as the compassion is there. Know that you can stay awake while you are asleep, Love has as many names as God. and you can sleep while you are awake. When you realize that there is nothing left but to stay in, Everything you do is you going from God to God. everything will start to work out exactly as it should. Time argues with no one. Think about it. The transformation is inevitable at the point when the degree of compassion erases your own ego with its power. Basically no one wants to suffer, that’s it. If you have ever seen monstrous scientific experiments on animals, supposedly for the benefit The Master of Consciousness is flawless. of a man, you may be able to understand why we suffer so much and that happiness at the expense of someone else's grief ends sooner or later, and we will The darker the night the brighter the stars. have to experience everything that those to whom we have brought so much grief have experienced. Only timely truth about yourself is useful. 268 The Essence. On the altar of love. 269 As merciful the Lord is, so merciless He is. To get burnt or drown in your own presence is truly a great fate. Even the happiness of a truly compassionate enlightened person could be still filled with a certain kind of suffering and pain. Everything speaks for itself. Sometimes even satva can become tamas for you, and tamas In any case scenario everything is as it is, so stay calm. Om satva, regardless of the knowledge of the universal meaning. Most people live without being aware of their There is no question without love. own existence. Still, repeating that everything will be fine even when Prana does not condemn or forgive anyone. everything is very bad has its own sacred hidden and It just lets it be or not. Divine meaning. On your path to Spirit you should always be ready that in any When you feel your heart spreading like rivers all over the minute any of your statements can fall apart as a card house earth then know that the Lord is very close. and in any minute you can gain your wholeness again. Harmony can appear before you in any form. When you feel the sun literally looking into your soul be grateful for it. Remember that thinking about death and thinking about God are not the same thing. When you feel how the roots of trees hold the earth, and the rays of the sun penetrate everything – you understand that the Lord is always here. There is no past, no future, only the memory of them. There is only the present. Of course, sometimes it will be useful to listen to someone who knows the past or the future, but someone who knows May God help those who live without hope, who live the present you need to really honor. through pain, who live through fear, who live by what is harder than life and death. 270 The Essence. On the altar of love. 271 Prana is the certain form of justice. Even when there is no hope left, even when there is no strength left for a sense of hopefulness and pain continues to be unbearable and seem that it will always be that way. Even The female Goddess must certainly prevail over the female, and when there’s neither authority nor way to self-destruction the male God must prevail over the male. Only in this way will the and there’s no more help to be expected, and you no longer path to the Supreme be straight and simple. belong to yourself; then sometimes only anguish beyond the limits can give you the opportunity to start from the bottom, and you may have a chance again. But God's Mercy is still Love is even there where nothing else exists. possible at any stage. By definition, Nature can have no flaws. OM If you wait for the train at the bus stop it is unlikely that you will board it (in spiritual terms, of course). The degree of awareness you put into spiritual practice is Affirm your faith in yourself with your breath. basically the result of it. Only love is able to understand and to forgive. Very often, when God gives or takes away your love – He wants to get to know you. Without love even breathing becomes irrelevant. The truth can only be what can only be true. By and large, only human life prolongs human life. Our freedom is also in our children. You are this, you are that, you are everything, you are nothing, The highest degree of samadhi, which is identical with complete you are what you are, you are. and final liberation, allows you to be in the manifested world in a sane mind and sober memory, and to perform the mundane duties that need to be performed. Temporary samadhi does not In the end, all that remains is understanding that you provide such an opportunity. A person, while in a trance, sinks don’t exist. OM into the Atman and loses the ability to function, and when this samadhi passes, the ego returns again and, as a result, the sense of duality returns again. Just immerse your “I” in self-existence. OM 272 The Essence. On the altar of love. 273 Being completely frank, we have no right to anything that is Sometimes you can feel how the rays of the more or less (in a certain sense, of course). sun or the branches of trees are embracing you. Sometimes even the love of one is enough for everyone, and the love There is no need to "rivers the reverse" inside of you, of everyone could be completely insufficient for a one. it’s enough just to keep them clean. Sometimes that elusive moment between the time when the sun Always act on behalf of someone who can reconcile falls asleep and the moon wakes up can be crucial for each of us. the mind and the heart inside of you. Remember that any person is capable of anything; Ignorance will certainly stop your spiritual growth, premature do not judge, try to understand and forgive anyone knowledge may just merely crush you, but timely knowledge can initially, in principle, regardless of whether a person really give you a miracle. has committed a sin or hasn’t yet. Everything that exists or does not exist comes from love. Even nonexistence is literally permeated with love. OM Sometimes it becomes possible something that is absolutely impossible. Spontaneity is the perfect ground for sadhana. Universal values can certainly become an excellent ground for an Believe the one who has faith; trust the appropriate sadhana. one who knows; follow the one who loves. As paradoxical as it may sound, but the body and mind “God is love”! There’s hardly the way to express the are both much more and much less important than it essence of all things better than with this absolute might seem at a first glance. wisdom-filled sutra of Christ. There is no need extra time to prove to yourself that you are, Sometimes the birth of an authentic sutra basically is equival to you just need to understand and acknowledge the birth of a person or even the entire universe. it once and forever. 274 The Essence. On the altar of love. 275 Just stay. Basically God treats you the same way you treat yourself. There’s always something to be or not to be. Always. Never laugh at those who still have hope when there is no hope left. Never laugh at those who try to change the world, The degree of involvement in sadhana is of even if it looks naive, pointless and funny. OM exceptional importance, as is the degree of involvement in life in general. To conquer time, you must conquer yourself. Whatever good you wish to a person, wish it to God too. No matter what – everything is there. Remember that your burden is borne not only by people, especially those close to you, but also by your God. You include in yourself absolutely everything. Sadhak! Give your heart to others, in Kali Yuga it may be the only chance to embark on the path of enlightenment and Everything will happen in any case. obtain freedom. Sometimes abstinence from thought is much more important Total immersion in gray hair is sometimes so succinct. than abstinence from food (in relation to timely fasting). If the ego doesn't get smaller along your way, Sadhak! Try to recognize which work to take on, then your way doesn’t worth much, and probably it’s and which to entrust to the Almighty. time to draw the appropriate conclusions. OM If your problem is unsolvable, try to solve your neighbor's unsolvable problem; sometimes it can save On the path to God, a woman must necessarily rise above a woman, a man above a man. OM not only him, but you as well. 276 The Essence. On the altar of love. 277 Sometimes only a miracle can untie the knot of karma. God is samadhi, samadhi is God True karma yoga is not just selfless service, but also the The absence of karma is primarily the absence absolute and unconditional absence of ego as such. of ego, and not the absence of action as such (to inaction in action). Samadhi is a state of continuous experience of being. Samadhi is the highest degree of meditation. Unyielding and constant non-identification is already the way. Basically Samadhi is the highest degree of meditation. Being is awareness, non-being is unconscious, although in special cases the Atman remains unchanged. Winning the right fortune is much more important than winning anything else in this world. Only the unified one is omnipresent. Spiritually, non-existence does not necessarily imply nonexistence, nor does being mean the stereotypical existence As a rule, all the most important things begin only when everything is over. we are so accustomed to. A true “vision” of God is more like a "vision". And the light Only a child or an enlightened person can have eternity in reserve. of “a million suns” is more than a million of Its forms. You get exactly as much time as you need. Sometimes, until you awaken a student in yourself, the teacher is unlikely to appear. Happiness is when you perceive and feel only what you want to perceive and feel. The restlessness of the mind blocks the heart. Without a kind, loving heart, spiritual development is hardly possible. Sometimes on the spiritual path, a man must overcome a man, a woman must overcome a woman. 278 The Essence. On the altar of love. 279 The less is your ego the bigger are you. Only the unified one exists. Ego is basically the major obstical. When you are you, everything is you. Beauty is already a path. There is sometimes a great distance between pain and suffering. There is as much of the Lord in your heart as much as In a certain sense, everything is samadhi. And even all three states: there is room for Him. sleep, wakefulness, and deep sleep, are just an interpretation of it. There is pain as long as there’s a role. Consciousness is basically self-consciousness. Sometimes, as much as a teacher believes in the teaching, so does a student believes in it. Absolute peace is an absolute balance. Everyone can burn in the fire of love and compassion. Absolute will is an absolute harmony. Break it down into its components. God is when you simply are. You are wiping the time by wiping the dust. Yoga can embrace everyone. Samadhi is your natural state. It is only necessary to The main merit of a sadhak is not the ability to understand and accept this, and not to go to extremes and conduct sadhana when everything is good, but the thereby leave, lose and deceive yourself. ability to conduct it in the midst of extremely difficult life circumstances. And what is very important, it is necessary to learn to turn these When all the flowers are blooming for all Gods and all circumstances into sadhana or to realize that women, nothing matters anymore except the all-consuming everything is sadhana.. absolute and eternal love. OM The Essence. On the altar of love. 280 281 Sound is unshakable. Everything that He knows, you also know. Obsession is, in a way, already a betrayal. To cling to and fight for life are not the same thing. Any place and time deserves any place and time. Everything is the same, everything is there. When the very essence of eternal and inescapable The ashram built in your heart is the most durable one. love visits you, all that remains of you is eternal and unconditional existence. OM In truth, true compassion requires absolute courage. Sadhak! If you already are able to feel what is necessary for your neighbor to reduce his suffering, be It is absolutely impossible to gain or lose moksha, sure – you are moving into the right direction. because it is always there, it has been and will be. This is your natural state of being. You can only clear the path to it and realize your own self. Stay where you are. Step over yourself as many times as necessary. Sinking into sattva-dissolve In truth, there is always only that which is. For jnani, everything is jnani. Do not rush to thank, do not rush to blaspheme, do not rush. A strike over the cowardice is the best hit. If the pain persists, try to remember who you really are. Perhaps there is nothing more stupid than criticizing a Saint. God takes any form a devotee can imagine. And that influence of Sometimes when you hear the prayer of a true devotee, God created by him partially depends solely on his personal your heart stops and time stops. qualities. 282 The Essence. On the altar of love. 283 Any happy mean is golden. OM To find love and compassion in oneself by suffering immeasurably is the highest sadhana. The formation of Spirit is incomprehensible and unpredictable in its own way. Sometimes it is equally difficult to exist being full of life and full of death. Breaking down the door to the spiritual world is difficult enough, but possible; though it is unlikely that you will be completely happy with it. The grace of God is always there, you just need to open your heart and adjust your mind. Fill up your mind with silence, don’t rush. Treat any state merely as a state. That is it. The only one exists that always exists. When the world is ruled by sleeping souls it is very difficult to find a balance. Sometimes only the combined power of intuition and mind makes you to understand in time when to satisfy the desire, and when to suppress it. When you follow your own footsteps it's not scary at all. Absolute trust in God, love, courage, and compassion are the foundation of the spiritual path. When everything is simple, it's easy, when it's complicated, then it's complicated. If the ego is completely erased, the path to freedom will be straight and simple. The greatest miracle is love. The most important quality is compassion. There is basically no difference between the God’s will It is hardly possible to sort out all the laws of existence until and yours, just as there is no line between them as well. the attainment of complete liberation But still the relationship between Jiva and Atman is very, (when the need for understanding disappears altogether). very complex. The Essence. On the altar of love. 284 285 A karma is possible only with the complete If the ashes in the wind of a loved one will not tell you dissolution of the ego. anything, then the karmic knot is still very strong. True sadhana, as a rule, is practiced not for the sake of a Sometimes even those who have been through successful ending, but for the sake of a successful beginning. wars, diseases, and hardships have understood nothing. Coping with pain is not a sign of sanctity. Often the saint Just one chakra is sometimes enough to experiences the same pain as everyone else, and sometimes keep the flame of love burning forever. to an even greater extent. Remember that there is simply no one who is completely right or Ego can be burned only in the fire of love and compassion. completely guilty in Kali-Yuga except, of course, the liberated ones, for whom such concepts simply do not exist anymore. Everything that is artificial and not sincere is in vain. Let each layer and shell of your being live its natural life, just guide and control them sometimes, and stay as close to sattva as Your destiny is usually where your truly calm mind is. possible and by cultivating love and compassion stay. Sooner or later you will find yourself as the Atman, as Brahman, as pure being unaffected by anything. OM Don't try to become, just be. The true Teacher is not the valerian root at all. We all and always serve each other, whether we realize it or not. Only a true lover can find unity in an obvious contradiction. Only the energy of the liberated one can bring up the pure benefit. For the jnani everything is natural. Pray tirelessly, unceasingly, for those who could not survive the grief. One day you will know the value of this prayer and you will understand everything that a person needs to Truly great is the one who being in samadhi still understand. remained to serve people. The Essence. On the altar of love. 286 287 By developing yourself - remain. If you won’t stop your mind your mind will stop you. Dissolving in yourself let it go. If you want to find someone who is truly close to you, find yourself. Success is very complex concept in the spiritual Truly spiritual people rarely pronounce “I”. world, relative and ambiguous. The simultaneous Saguna and Nirguna meditation sometimes True happiness fills everything with happiness. bring tremendous results (if, of course, the adept is ready). The only way to be truly happy with someone is to be Not to notice good and evil is equally pernicious. absolutely happy with yourself You get tired of everything, you have rest from everything. For the one who was able to know the God, everything is God Probably only the one who asked the riddle of the world is able What you can ask from weakness strength simply isn’t able to give you. to solve it. Under certain conditions even your shadow can answer As a rule, the one who knows prana knows everything. all your questions. As paradoxically it may sound sometimes even prayer can When you realize that you are everything, become an obstacle on the way to God. everything ceases to be place and time. From tolerance to understanding, from understanding to It is simply impossible to live the life that is not yours. love, from love to respect, from respect to veneration, from veneration to worship, from worship to unity, from unity to self-consciousness, from self-consciousness to As long as there is life and there is death self-fulfillment, from self-fulfillment to liberation, from there will be no end to disputes. liberation to blissfulness, from blissfulness to peace. The Essence. On the altar of love. 288 289 In fact, everyone is God's mediator. Sometimes it is not at all necessary to believe in a miracle, it will be enough just to recognize it. All that stands in your way is you. A creative approach to composing your own prayer can be extremely useful and timely. “Until you learn your lessons you are not going for a walk” Fear sometimes makes our sadhana impossible. The best prayer to God is the silence of the enlightened one. It is worth living only by love, for the sake of love and for love. Only enlightenment can give a complete picture of This is probably the meaning of all phenomena in this world. how the world works; however, it will be almost impossible to explain that. A mental image can certainly become an instrument on the path True fearlessness and courage are not simply in the absence of to liberation, but remember that it is also capable of leading the fear as such, but in sufficient strength and depth of knowledge, seeker away. conscience and love capable to prevent, overcome and dissolve any fears and obstacles associated with them. Who is able to love is also able to communicate with God. In principle, with the mastery of certain knowledge and In fact, only one who has realized Him can be called a brahmana. sufficient amount of prana literally everyone is able to do this Sometimes, even when a shell of truth explodes in your house, Whatever happens in Java - there will be sleep, everything remains the same as it is, it was and will always be. whatever happens in life - there will be death, whatever happens throughout all lives - there will be liberation. The unbearable pain will be taken away by loss of Sadhak! Be sure to recognize the difference between desire and consciousness or substance. Just remember the will of aspiration. God. Take your time. Don't worry. Live it. Stay here. Love. Have compassion. Be. Do not lock yourself in hopelessness - remember that it simply does not exist. True grief is not when you revel in it, although on a subconscious level, but when there is nothing but pain, emptiness, loneliness and fear, and there is no way to enjoy them in any way, because their depth is immeasurable and it seems that it will last forever. The Essence. On the altar of love. 290 291 The most powerful vice is betrayal. In fact, Remember that there is a huge difference between it is the base of almost all other vices. the concepts of living and experiencing. Look how a piece of ice melts in the sun, just as your heart Paradoxical as it may sound, but sometimes, should melt in compassion and love - only then you will have an ordinary coachman's posture can save you a chance for liberation. from many troubles. Only your path can lead you to the Lord. The law of the essence basically is the only law. You're always here and always there; you are neither there no here; The soul lights its own path and extinguishes it as well. you can't become, you can only be; you are inside and you are outside; you are knowledge and ignorance; you are beyond any knowledge and any ignorance; you have a form and you have none; Paint the walls of your temple at your own desire. you are inside of everything and everything is inside of you. OM You are always in love only with God, for God is everything. OM One form of Divine love replaces another - that's all that happens, has happened and will continue to happen. It is not death that we should fear, but cowardice. Until complete and final liberation, even the happiest or most unhappy people cannot fully understand the nature of Sadhak must know exactly which questions he should and which happiness and violence. he should not seek an answer to before reaching full liberation. Only love gives the right to knowledge and only knowledge gives If you have acquired knowledge, but have not yet the right to love. achieved complete liberation give advice with extreme caution and circumspection. Even the most decent person (who has not reached Sahaja Samadhi, of course) falls asleep and does not care what happens Paradoxical as it may sound there is a state which is beyond all when he sleeps. How and who is able to determine the degree of knowledge and ignorance. decency in principle? The Essence. On the altar of love. 292 293 Learn to leave on time and return on time. Even a curse is a gift from God in its own way. Love has no friends or girlfriends. Love has only love. Don't look for truth – look for harmony. Only love can rise above life and death. When you run away from pain, don't look back. Paradoxically even Samadhi (just like other states) is not the absolute knowledge. Pure consciousness is beyond any state. Some graves don't even have grass growing on them. OM You will find someone to devote your life to and the Perhaps the most negative consequences on Earth are caused by Lord will certainly find a little of His attention for you. mass obsession with the consequences which are truly unpredictable and horrifying. When your time comes, as a rule, nothing matters, nothing. You can even take offense at a haystack if you want. If you still need place and time to meet or try to meet God it’s a good start, however you are usually still too Obsession is only one form of bondage, while true far from full realization. devotion is a form of love and understanding. Sometimes the whole century can pass by you for you Remember that a true brahmana is not the one who while you are lightening a candle. serves as a brahmana and has this rank, but the one who has actually realized Brahmana. If you call yourself the chosen one, you have already closed one of the doors to God, if, of course, this is an enlightened In most cases, samadhi is more easily and quickly achieved by person's game. deep and unshakable faith in its existence, love and service, rather than direct practice at the level of hatha and raja yoga. More often, samadhi comes unexpectedly and naturally: On the way to God there is no need to wait for a miracle, but when you realize that everything is a miracle treat everything with restraint, with when a person is ready, having exhausted karma for this, having lost the ego, or by the will of God. OM respect, gratitude and a certain degree of detachment. OM 294 The Essence. On the altar of love. 295 Seek yourself and be aware of yourself in everything. Fire does not rule water. If you sow doubt, you will reap chaos. Only the forgiven can afford the Forgiveness. The greater the power of intention, the greater the power My God! How much is said about God by those who do not of responsibility and moral power must be, as well as the know Him and how much is not said about Him by those knowledge and skill of its concentration and purpose. who know Him. Everyone carries God in their own way. There is a great difference between surving the Lord and indulging the slavery of one's own beliefs. Learn from those who learn from love. There are no winners in a duel with the essence. You can only see God in a person by becoming the God or a person. Wear the colors of the rainbow and you won’t be make a mistake. When the animals are in the slaughterhouse, a man will find himself there sooner or later. One can also “cry”in your sleep. Truly blessed is the one who has found a way out. Namastey! Happiness is when the depth of awareness of your existence reaches its apogee and absorbs absolutely everything. It is useless to argue with an element because it will always remain as it is. But a harmonious relationship with it is quite possible. The soul sometimes reminds a broken vase, which has to be reassembled bit by bit until its original intact state. Try often to put yourself in a position where you are not able not to help a person. May God be with you. As a rule, it is much more important in whose hands a particular teaching has fallen to than the essence of the teaching itself. 296 The Essence. On the altar of love. 297 True sannyas is not just renunciation, Spontaneity… My God! There is so much depth, meaning and it is unity, awareness and love. OM knowledge in this concept. You just have to think about it. If you are here and now, you cannot be better or worse The degree of sincerity first of all before oneself on than somebody else by definition. the spiritual path is of exceptional importance. There is a huge difference between the self-destruction of It's already enough that you do exist. a master and the suicide of an ignoramus. If you are lucky enough to experience the tenderness and emotion Seeker! Each state must be used for its intended from the gaze of a dearly loved son or daughter, it is unlikely that purpose, or at least strive to do so. you can compare this wonderful manifestation with anything else. Sometimes it's worth asking for Just as you are created in the image and likeness of God, forgiveness until you find a way out. so God is created in your image and likeness. Until you live it over – you will not bear it. Again and again keep on trying to go beyond your ego, again and again. The sin of humanity has reached such limits today that it is extremely difficult to preserve pure karma, and even more so to Sometimes it seems an eternity lies between you and yourself, get rid of it, except for already liberated souls who have though consciously or subconsciously you know for sure: incarnated on Earth of their own will and souls already ready for "between” does not exist at all. liberation, who have passed the entire path of evolution from the beginning to the end. Just think how generous the Lord is in the form of night What doesn’t exist inside does not exist outside, and vice versa. allowing you to rest, and how generous the Lord is in the form of day giving you a chance. True love or faith simply cannot be divided into components. 298 The Essence. On the altar of love. 299 Very often returning to sadhana is like returning back home. Do not give up striving for the Lord even if your blood runs cold The potential thing always exists. in your veins, even if pain has come or gone, even if love or youth has left you, even if you are drunk with happiness or grief, even if the Lord does not manifest Himself in any way or Until absolute liberation, you are always teaches you a tough lesson, even if there is no more strength to a master and a slave at the same time. breathe, even if there is too much grief or happiness around you, even if a serious illness does not leave you, even if death is close, even if you have no one left and fear of loneliness and Sometimes a sadhak tries to know the meaning of all the mantras hopelessness covered you with your head, even if the ocean without even knowing the essence of his own name. waters overflowed the shores or the sun went out, even if you are not able to see and hear, even if no one else has faith, even if there is no more food and water, even if there is no one else to love, even if the degree of suffering or happiness has passed Sometimes it is advisable to know the essence of your name all limits, even if you have been betrayed or renounced, even if and only then delve into the essence of God’s name. you have lost yourself or your path - do not give up striving. Only the jnani can recognize the jnani, only the lover can True realization, in fact, consists in finally establishing recognize love, and only the Atman can be the Atman. yourself in the idea that you are not yet realized, and an unshakable belief in this will sooner or later reveal to you the secret of existence. First love displaces duality, and then non-duality ceases to have any meaning. Your native language is the language of God for you. The deeper your understanding and feeling of it, the deeper is your understanding and feeling of God. When you get tired of all the techniques, the transformation will take its course, only your presence is needed. If you learn to communicate with the planets, you will also learn to talk to yourself. Even in Kali-Yuga, knowing that suffering is inevitable, it is necessary to ask the Lord for mercy. The power of silence is everpresent. The Essence. On the altar of love. 300 301 Love is light, it is color, love is sound and syllable. Love is the past and the future, it is condescension and understanding, it is knowledge and faith, it is balance, it is the law, Love is a prayer, love is compassion, suffering and happiness. it is infinity, it is the smallest and the most unlimited. Love is real, love is God, love is dream and reality, love is the universe Love is he and she, it is the omnipresence of anything, the state, and the beyond. trance, shock, emotion, delight, the smell and taste, it is fate, it is inevitable, immense. Love is everything living and non-living, it is forgiveness and repentance, sin and heroism, courage and fear. Love is service, union, unity, it is children and dissolution, it is maya and karma, it is a call, Spirit and the Absolute. Love is everything that happens and does not happen, love is music, it is this word, this touch, this unity. Love is an ideal and perfection; it is impulse and weightlessness, it is a look and a sigh, it is purity and nature, it is essence, matter and Love is devotion, fidelity, duty, awareness, intellect, body and mind. all-roundness, it is a path, it is a dance, a gesture. Love is health, love is a holiday, love is life and death. Love is blood, it is magnanimity and kindness, it is generosity and detachment, it is a gift, it is existence and non-existence. Love is a Love is memory, love is samadhi, love is meditation, thought and bridge, it is a magnet. silence. Love is laughter, empathy and care. Love is care, a victory, it is a transition, it is an element, it is a Love is patience and harmony, it is will and energy, strength of spirit meaning, it is pain, it is wind, sand, grass and mountains, forests and its weakness. and fields, seas, rivers and oceans, a steppeland and the snow, rain and hail, a plain and a volcano, animals and birds, it is a human Love is a chance, spirituality, wisdom, heaven and stars, space, time being. It is the heaven and the earth. and their absence. Love is communication, connection, warmth and cold, dryness and Love is sacrifice and labor, it is fire and air, earth and water. moist, the whole and the partial. Love is unshakable and eternal, it is instance and eternity, movement Love is any opportunity for literally everything to be or not to be, and rest. to become or to leave, to dissolve or merge. Love is being and non-being, it is you and me, love is everyone and Love is science and religion, dispute and consent, substance and everything. antimatter. Love is unlimited possibilities. 302 The Essence. On the altar of love. 303 Love is any concept, any emotion, any conflict and any reconciliation; it Losing yourself in the flow of love is probably is all in everything and everything in all, it is OM, it is the Amen, it is the the best possible loss ever. thinnest and the most durable, the most fragile and the most permanent, the most reliable and the most elusive, the most obvious and secret. It is a riddle, it is the simplest and the most difficult, the most A true Teacher is basically a source of vulnerable and the most persistent. It is a smile and tears, it is inexhaustible pure energy and love. repentance and recognition, it is meeting and parting, it is reverence, respect and care. Tell yourself your fairytale. Love is family and loneliness, it is a clan and God’s mercy, it is age and conscience, it is unconscious and conscious. Everywhere there is just as much of everything as there is. Love is a hierarchy and Divine will, the essence and inscrutable Path. Everything starts with you and everything ends with you. Love is a feeling of love and hate, it is justice and incomprehensibility of existence. Love is mercy, it is pride. It is a principle, it is always there, always next As a rule, do not completely trust the one who entered the doors, to you, in you, in everyone and in everything. but better believe the one who came out. Love is identity, it is the totality of all laws. It is bread and salt, heartbeat and breath, it is an eternal movement of absolute peace, it is paradox Only those who are absolutely happy are truly happy. and harmony at the same time, it is the unity of the incompatible, it is friendship, it is poetry and, in general, any true creativity. Love is hope, challenge, and trust; it is anticipation, dream and reality, There cannot be more or less of awareness, there only can be more or less of an ego. love is flowers, it is this and that. Love is the substance that has never begun, and at the same time absolutely complete, a substance that has no name or analogue. It is the balance of good and evil, darkness and The state of enlightenment is a feeling of constant light, soul and body. bliss through the prism of absolute compassion and love. Love is any time of the day and the year, any manifestation of existence, life, death or an intermediate state. Carry on as much compassion as you can, Love is the presence of a lover and a loved one. It is birth and a ritual. and give away as much love as you have. Love is tenderness, it is flow, it is bliss, it is art, in the end it is mere being. The Essence. On the altar of love. 304 305 The best proof that you love a person is No matter how far you have progressed on the spiritual when you feel that you love everyone. ladder in any of the traditions, you can not underestimate the sincere and self-forgetful work of a great scientist. Sadhak! Absorb like a sponge the courage of heroes, the love, the wisdom of generations, and the compassion of the enlightened. Even if you have collected all the information about Samadhi that only exists in this world you may not get any closer to it, while once you fall in love, by the Grace of God you can find Samadhi Anyone who has ever been in the arms of truth is unlikely to be without even realizing it, because there will be no one to realize able to leave everything as it is. anything and there will be no need. Only those whose compassion no longer has any limits can be You can only be truly happy when you finally freed from suffering. understand that everyone is happy. It is not the destruction of mind that leads to The fruits of sincere prayers of people’s light are sometimes liberation, but its transformation that does. extremely difficult to see, but in truth their meaning is much more important than it may seem at first glance. It is better to drown in the ocean of love than be safe in a paddle of passion. You can only get lost and discover yourself in yourself. A true master is not even someone who can answer almost When the inner light merges with the solar light, any question, but someone who can share his Samadhi - then the long-awaited liberation will come. there will be no need to ask any questions. Everything exists only when you do. All the pain all your pain, all love, all your love and all the happiness of all – your happiness. Only mind, as an ally, bears fruit on spiritual path. The degree of illusion, in fact, is determined by its significance. A silent reproach can sometimes cause more damage, than a strike of lightning. 306 The Essence. On the altar of love. 307 Sadhak! Try to understand the nature of deep sleep It is almost impossible to observe one state while being and you will discover a lot. in another. The ego simply cannot observe the Atman by definition, like it can’t observe its own eyes. The ego comes from the Atman, while the Atman can take any The relationship of karma and the will of God form and any state. Just know that everything is for man is truly a mystery of mysteries. Atman, firmly believe in it, and the need for painful search will simply disappear. You are always who you are, simply changing your state and form. On the way to the Spirit, before the other comes, try to recognize what you can use now with maximum benefit. When intellect absorbs mind, then sooner or later everything will work out. As common as it sounds, love and knowledge can overcome almost any obstacle. Artificially induced Samadhi brings only temporary results even if it lasts eternally. Try to understand the nature of your thoughts and feelings, and believe me that with careful analysis and research, you will find incredible discoveries. God, how many unnecessary questions grief asks and how naive happiness is sometimes in its spontaneity. OM At the moment of death, even a madman becomes adequate for at least a moment. Sometimes the absolute conviction that you are enlightened is practically the same as true enlightenment. A truly knowing and loving heart will determine the hour of prayer with absolute accuracy and perfection. OM Sadhak! Try to understand the nature of deep sleep and you will discover a lot. Truly happy is not the one who thinks or feels that he is happy, but the one who firmly knows To root out ignorance is much more difficult than to about it. pull out a molar tooth. 308 The Essence. On the altar of love. 309 A true master is the master of situation, not It is impossible to discover your higher self with help of the lower the slave of circumstances. one, it is only possible to create conditions for their merging. It is better to waste time with satva. Almost true Shakti is a charity, compassion and love, and not just lots of prana. Know that when your heart is filled with true love there is absolute peace, not agony of passion. The deeper the Samadhi, the deeper the awareness. It's stupid to look for who you are. If your soul was uprooted like a weed and more than once there’s no chance that you could not fail to realize at least some insignificant part of the Lord. You are literally filled with yourself. When you part with yourself do not regret anything, anything. Your real home is your soul. Always remember that the states of mind change, but you stay. Sometimes there is nothing easier than being happy, and sometimes there is nothing more difficult than to be one. The mind, having understood itself, can also create the conditions for liberation. Proximity to God is not determined by proximity to nature alone; it is determined by the degree of love and compassion. It is impossible to get used to true happiness, just as it is impossible to get used to it. Sometimes it is extremely useful to compare the solution from experiencing shock and the The light of God, as well as the light of the sun, solution that comes from absolute rest. equally illuminates any truth, any sin, and any feat. 310 The Essence. On the altar of love. 311 If you bring knowledge through yoga, - it must be carried In fact, firm and constant feeling that you are perfect regardless of religion, nationality, gender, age, marital or financial is happiness in itself. status, health status, profession (type of activity), character, mentality, overall personal qualities, both positive and negative, abilities, past karma and beliefs, place of residence, position in Good will and reason are basically the same. society, past sins, appearance, level of education, level of consciousness, social circle, status of relatives and friends of the student, his environment and inclinations, weight or height, his Sometimes even playing a decent person for a long time sexual orientation and your personal attitude towards him in both can bring positive results. positive and negative aspects on the physical, mental, and spiritual levels, regardless of his political and moral beliefs, his past, his lifestyle, habits, dependencies, attachments, heredity in any of its Yoga dispels the clouds not only of ignorance, but also of fear. manifestations and conditions of life, regardless of education, complexes, inclinations, desires and strength of spirit, intelligence and abilities on the physical plane, opportunities to learn in all A true Teacher is determined by his timeliness rather manifestations and at all levels. Its energy and intellectual than by his personal qualities and merits. potential regardless of injuries, errors and misconceptions, obstacles at all levels and of any kind. If you find yourself, you will find everything. When you can call a spade a spade, that's happiness already. The one who really seeks knowledge must be ready to put absolutely everything on the altar of sacrifice. The most loyal woman is the man in you. The most loyal man is the woman in you. As a rule inner beauty determines external beauty, and not vice versa (in spiritual terms, of course). A truly decent person can already be called a yogi. Indeed, the feat of the saints has no Statute of limitations. Will and aspiration to the Spirit are extremely important, Your love is always with you. but without love and compassion, it will be extremely difficult to get free. Any sadhana, any practice should continue your nature, but not break or change it. The Essence. On the altar of love. 312 313 Great is not the one who commands, but the one who knows. There is nothing besides what is. Even if the ocean overflows its shores, it is still an ocean. Only a few people can correctly assess their condition (in the spiritual sense, of course). The main thing is to realize the importance of helping others, and the method will reveal itself in its own time. Sadhak! Be sure to recognize the difference between empty entertainment and the true joy of sattva. Silence born of grief or happiness is still silence. To be able to put yourself in the place of others, learn to put yourself in your place first. We can only realize what is already there. When the degree of compassion and love reaches a certain limit, The dialogue with God never stops, the energy for transformation will reveal itself at the right time. you just have to understand it. For liberation, sometimes it is just enough to To learn to love people again when you have already admit everything to yourself. experienced the power of betrayal, to believe in love again when hatred has already passed through you, to believe in a person again when you saw how torture erased Whether a person is burned or drowned inside his self everything human,- no matter what still has its innermost does not matter in principle. meaning. The best way to communicate with God is love. To understand someone who has been able to reach God with a bow or a brush, with grief or a word, with his suffering or It is impossible to find absolute happiness compassion, with love or his thought is a great happiness that is in the closed space of ignorance. even stronger than death, or pain, or the rustling of branches. Sometimes even the vessels of karma burst under the weight Only wisdom which is imbued with courage, of fate, not to mention the blood vessels. love and compassion could be considered as such. 314 The Essence. On the altar of love. 315 There’s as much of God as you. The ability to kneel is also an art. Don’t condemn. Everyone has their own limit. Don't blame yourself or be deceived, you are involved in everything that happens in one way or another, directly or Seeker! Don't attach too much importance to indirectly. the form – look for the essence. Resentment against the Lord, though meaningless, Forgive. Look into the present, meditate, let go. OM is in some cases far from useless. Look into the present. Your path to God is through you. The experience of any state is priceless in its own way. Each reincarnation is unique and unrepeatable in its own way. Not everything that comes from the ego is harmful. Sometimes even what makes sense loses its significance. The ego is still part of the Lord. True philosophy is born as a rule, of monstrous suffering, and as It is not terrible for someone who is very afraid; a rule serves for good in the end. While true happiness usually it is not painful for someone who is very hurt. does not need philosophy at all. Until you feel a unity that no longer leaves you, mistakes can't be Try to make sure that your favorite time of day and avoided. your favorite time of year will love you too. No form, word, feeling or thought can be perfect by definition, If there is no happiness, be grateful for the misfortune, if you and yet, if we reject the very concept of perfection everything is cannot be thankful then appreciate the lack of such a possibility, in its own way harmonious as part of the absolute if nothing else is possible just jump. which is generated by it. The Essence. On the altar of love. 316 317 Sadhak! Sometimes it will be extremely useful to Pain is also a dialogue with Lord. compare your rhythm with the rhythm of the era. Maya is rather non-existence and existence With proper awareness, even suffering can serve people. in an imperfect form. OM Sometimes a drop of rain can tell more than a thousand of books. Only the live initiation is fruitful. When you come to your senses, just be yourself. There is nothing alike, and there’s nothing different. Mercy is also in need of knowledge. Each level has its own level of miracles. Truly, to meet the people of God is like meeting God Himself. When the power of presence is absolute, there is only peace and love. Even if you “settle” in another person, you will still have to realize yourself sooner or later. Fill your heart with compassion and serve people until your strength fails you, maybe then you will have a chance. Even the loss of one's last hope can be a motivation. If you want to realize the essence of meditation, try to recognize the essence of sleep. There is no need to understand why wind is wind and fire is fire. You will feel everything and find out in due time. The interaction of consciousness and prana is basically omnipresent. Karma is basically a living inertia. Knowledge is also absolute insight. When you see the immeasurable human suffering, you can't help but ask yourself questions that a believer shouldn't be Only the existing exists. supposed to ask himself. 318 The Essence. On the altar of love. 319 The power of the spirit is also a knowledge. There is no such thing as eternity on paper. Everyone has the sky and the earth, the sun and the moon, True wisdom is a combination of absolute the wind and the ocean, the life and the death of their own. courage, knowledge, and love. If the mind is not attached to anything, The ability to interrupt the flow of life for a prayer, the Lord will certainly take it. even few times a day, even for a few minutes is a truly wonderful manifestation. Any experience of any person is priceless in its own way. The one who taught you to work, and to work consciously, can rightfully be considered your Guru. The most difficult thing in life is what is most difficult in life for you. For a Sadhaka one life without his tribe is extremely useful, although it is one of the most powerful challenges on the path to freedom. If you cannot live without a war, you’d better start killing your ego, and you won't be mistaken. True philosophy is always practical. In fact, any conscious action can already be called meditation, and any service can actually be called a prayer. Until you are enlightened, just stick to sattva. The heart of a Saint usually belongs to everyone. The Lord never takes revenge, not even punishes. He only gives a lesson -the only possible, timely, perfect, and inevitable one. “Intelligence of love” - what a depth, and harmony, and meaning are present in this phrase. It isn’t my idea, but I couldn't help but draw your attention to it. In sadhana it is more useful to allow the pleasant and unpleasant than to wait for it (even on a subconscious level). The Essence. On the altar of love. 320 321 Truly blessed is the one whom the truth has called home. Sometimes only a dream in your sleep can solve a riddle. True compassion knows no bounds. When there is no sun, look for it within yourself. OM Everyone has their own relationship with time. True evil is when a person cannot distinguish “good from evil”, or at least, has no intention to be able to. A true miracle is never temporary. Sometimes the practice of holding a newborn can be an excellent remedy for depression and other diseases. Sometimes even a single atom-sized substance can change the course of human history forever. Only love is able to conquer disease, aging and death completely, in whatever form it (love) may exist. Any philosophy is limited by time, any. Help people even when you don't see the point, just help them. Only love can restore the power of the mantra. Any attempt to find a way to yourself is beautiful in its own way. Sometimes not all of those who suffer need compassion. Only an enlightened person can handle the sense of time according to his will. Only the philosophy of the present can correspond to the present. Not everyone who is silent is silent with the truth. The one who could reconcile the past with the present is rightly considered great. Friendship with the time can bring benefits and harm, depending on the type of friendship and the friends. True wisdom is the one that could to transcend the power of time. 322 The Essence. On the altar of love. 323 Look for self-confidence in sattva. Birth can't beat death, and death can't beat birth because they are the same. In a sufficiently developed entity, even narcotic excitement or inhibition can serve for good. If you have at least one person around you who believes in a miracle, everything is not so bad. There is no higher happiness than to wak up yourself and wake up others. In the hands of a sinner everything is essentially sinful; And one kiss is enough to understand in the hands of a Saint, everything is essentially Holy. the essence of what’s happening. Sadhak! Determine what is done before, during, and after and then Any creativity deserves attention, but not any deserves respect. with time you will not have to reckon with the time at all. Only love can subdue time. Making friends with time is a great success. Only love can dissolve time. The present does not need to be predicted. Only love can turn the power of Even joy should be filled with compassion. presence to an absolute. All you have to do is to bring the Even when carrying sattva you must be able to stop in time. power of presence to an absolute. OM It is important not only to be able to read a book, Always remember that the hour of God is your hour. but also to be able to open and close it in time. It is unlikely that anything will change in the long run until you The sadhana of gratitude is the most faithful one. invite yourself to visit yourself. 324 The Essence. On the altar of love. 325 Not a stop, but a presence; not a Even happiness can be unbearable. movement, but an aspiration. Unfortunately, pain remains pain even on the Be sure to find something to build your bridge background of eternal love. from to get to your core. Happiness, as well as grief, can both kill and resurrect. You can't be betrayed by what you are. Planes don't take flights to paradise. No one will run your marathon for you, no one. The one who has become acquainted with God is capable of Only love can describe the soul. everything. Sometimes even Gods come down to see how the lips of lovers Take your fate under its arm and try not to worry about embrace each other radiating the energy of light that can anything. embrace the entire universe. Seeker! Don't forget that the ego phenomenon Hell sometimes begins or ends at the point where is also perfect in its own way. conscience ends or begins. When you protect yourself, be sure to protect others inside of you. Follow the one who loves – you can't go wrong. Devote everything to the present, literally everything. Until your path is clear to you and it bothers you just help people to the best of your ability, and the realization that your time was not wasted will calm you down. In the future you will understand It is hardly possible to ignite true aspiration by setting fire to that it is simply impossible to lose or gain time. someone else's house. 326 The Essence. On the altar of love. 327 (About love) In fact, only the pure, absolutely sincere and Let go off your God for yourself. unselfish feeling can be called love. Don't try to make firewood out of ashes and Happiness of sensation seek from happiness make a living tree out of firewood. of awareness and vice versa. Sooner or later the power of awareness will manifest itself When you know the transition then you will know the path. and everything will become itself again. When the wind blows it blows even inside of you. When you know what to do when it is impossible not to act and it is impossible to act everything will be resolved by itself. (About love) If you have allies like what for..., for something..., in connection with..., because..., in the name of..., because I..., by We all need to apologize to everyone. virtue of..., etc., etc., then such love can hardly be called true. You are no worse or better than you. There is only one victory -а victory over yourself. Skillfully handling a substance is also an art. By and large, only the one who has passed everything has understood something. It is worth fighting for life not so much for the sake of life, but for the sake of awareness of being in principle. There is nothing worse than losing yourself and there is nothing better than finding yourself. To treat yourself as you please is the highest happiness. Sadhak! Clarify for yourself what you are aiming for: Be sure to use mature intuition, not the intuition of chaos. pleasure, satisfaction, enjoyment, or happiness. Disciple! Always remember: while you are in your the body stand firmly on the ground when you are hugging the skies. Fighting for life and clinging to it are completely different things. 328 The Essence. On the altar of love. 329 You can make yourself live or die, and it's still First admit everything to yourself, the rest will follow. possible. But it’s not possible to force yourself to be or not to be. On the path to God, sometimes it is useful for a Sadhaka to become fond of himself. OM Perhaps there is only one obstacle to your happiness and it’s you. The energy of fear is the most effective, When it becomes empty for everyone, then the natural manifestation the energy of love is the most powerful one. comes into its own and the great law of chaos takes the right. Only unity is a salvation. If you can still be offended means that almost nothing of the spiritual teachings of yoga you have not understood yet. The ability to pass through and convey to people the knowledge of the greatest, even without possessing them in due measure, By all means find your points of contact with sattva, by all means. is also a kind of knowledge. It is truly a miracle when information is turned into He, and only HE, is called He. knowledge. In fact, it is a victory over time, a transition from the temporary to the eternal. OM The best visa to the country of knowledge is love. The phenomenon of laziness in most cases is a phenomenon of a lack of prana, a level of consciousness and nothing else. On the path to freedom at a certain stage the path of the question is a false path. Forge your strength with presence. The greatest miracle of the world is light. Only the one, who has merged with the essence is able to recognize. The Ashram of freedom is the best one. Sadhak! Watch the old man leaving and if the time has come There can be only one triumph – the triumph of will. you may discover your secret. The Essence. On the altar of love. 330 331 Your home is your calling. Remember! If you are betrayed, then you are still betraying yourself. The finer the connection with the soul, the more perfect the deeds. Only what happens happens. Any delusion filled with sattva can bring you closer or even The sooner you fill the vessel with sattva, the better. lead you to God. The worst of the tortures is probably the one Everything is in connection with you. that seems to last forever. Just remember that you are always in yourself. The clichés of past reincarnations should only be opened as a last resort and with the greatest precaution. This is probably the last door you should ever knock on when all the other doors seem to Several existing variations of nonlinear logic only be closed for you forever. confirm its power, significance and meaning. The higher the awareness, the higher the result of any action. Only love can solve the question of time. Waiting for enlightenment is like waiting Retribution should not become an assimilation of delight. for birth or death, think about it. Only the one who already exists will be. Seeker! Always remember that the higher the tree the longer the roots. Maybe one day it could happen that you might not need that principle anymore, but as long as you are in your body it can be very If you exist you are everywhere and always. useful for you as well as for the vast majority of the people. Inspiration is only a harbinger of truth, and where there is truth, It is impossible to collect new knowledge there is nothing. However, as there are all at the same time. from the fragments of the old one. 332 The Essence. On the altar of love. 333 Never hesitate to address the love, never. Only the one who can understand every other is able to fully understand himself. Once you understand the illusory nature of this world, the pain will not disappear instantly, but it will be easier to fight it. In truth, to perceive the beauty is an excellent sadhana. The sun talks about everything, the moon keeps silence. Even the imperfection is perfect in its own way. Eternal love is basically an eternal blessing. Knowing how feelings and thoughts relate to each other will be extremely useful and will perfectly complement any sadhana on the path to God. Even the service to people should not become an escape from oneself. Fear nothing, don't be in a rush – you also will have the opportunity to kiss the eternity. Indeed, the glory is to the one who carries the knowledge. Indeed. While having an out-of-body experience do not rush to assert yourself. Your own thought-forms and the thought-forms of Even the most perfect sadhana cannot be compared to others are quite stable and real in their own way. Learn to the plan of God. distinguish them from truly Divine entities filled with unaffected pure vibration of God, full of light, love and compassion. Running away from yourself never ends well. On the path of the divine hierarchy first find the wayfarer in yourself and find your way, in time the way must dissolve into Even the most sincere service should not serve awareness; the wayfarer will be burned by time and only your as food for the ego. nature will remain, your essence not participating in any of the processes of transformation, eternally in silence, everywhere and always filled with absolute knowledge, love, unconditional If the time has really come, it has come for good. awareness and bliss, where nothing ever has or can have any meaning and at the same time everything is literally filled with meaning and absolute existence. A person, basically, has only one home - his conscience. 334 The Essence. On the altar of love. 335 In fact, the Divine is already in the fact that a new day Most important thing is to be conscious and loving even if you and a new night give a new experience regardless. still see differences and contradictions, unity and integrity are mainly formed inside of you and against your will. OM The seeds of a miracle also must fall on fertile soil. Be sure to carry your life through love and understanding, Let love become your home, love which is infinite, through compassion and patience, through service and omnipresent and absolute. awareness, even if you are very hurt and lonely, even if the rivers have overflowed their banks. As a person is born, so he is resurge. When you learn to respect the night, you will gain a How beautiful, how bright is the light of the wick that drinks transformation of statics; if you learn to respect the day, oil from the lamp and gives each of us hope, burning you will obtain a transformation of movement. everything on its path, leaving eternity behind. Sometimes the hurt self-esteem is like a slow-acting poison. Self-hypnosis has a certain advantage over hypnosis as you can perform it by yourself that provides you with the certain kind of independence. Sometimes you can feel how literally everything in you is constantly preparing for a single jump. Where the lightning flashes, there are the gates of God. To formalize a word is sometimes the same as to formalize a conscious path. As a rule the Divine Light can only be seen in total darkness, as well as the Divine sound - in absolute silence. There is no better girlfriend than night and no better boyfriend than day. One of the signs of successful meditation is when you feel that everything is filled with nothing and nothingness is filled with everything. From a complete presence in time and space through the chaos of fate to a complete presence outside of time and space. Om. The Essence. On the altar of love. 336 337 The essence of yoga is the unity of the opposite. I am drinking with your lips, son, I am seeing with your heart, I exist with your smile, with your name, I am waking up and falling asleep with you, I am being born in you, living in you and dying in you The true potential of yoga is immense. (to my son). Take good care of yourself! On the path to Seven roads and seven lights, seven wins and seven freedom, you will need every nerve of yours. losses, seven meetings and seven separations, seven laps and seven stops. There are sutras when there is a person. All that unites in the universe is yoga. Om is yoga, yoga is Om. All roads lead to you. Love your neighbour in the reflection of your own eyes. Even if you can't understand the sacrifice of another, never judge and dishonor it, never. For happiness it is quite enough to be able to meet and see off the sun and a senility. Certainly in the future, for the theft of subtle energy there will be a punishment. It's not so important what you've done for others for your benefit, but it's important what you've done for yourself for the sake of others. Sometimes it seems that it is impossible to contain yourself, not to mention God. But this is just a game of maya and your own mind. As soon as the mind becomes still, you will see that it is not so and Where you are, there is your chance. there is no need to contain anything, because you and God are one and without participation of a sore mind you two exist quite harmoniously. Yoga is a harmonious union of internal and external Ashrams. To mourn the world in metaphysical sense is the sacred mission of As a rule not the one who began searching for himself, the elected ones. but the one who remained and became aware of himself had found himself. The Essence. On the altar of love. 338 339 Never ask hatred who is right and who is wrong, Yoga is capable of anything. it will never tell the truth! Yoga is the science of everything. Concentration of consciousness in spiritual terms does not mean that it is limited, and its expansion does not mean that it is jumping from branch to branch. Remember that the true prophets called to forgive in the name of faith, not to murder. Glory to the one who has surpassed himself, eternal gratitude to the grace of God, a happy journey and a Your guardian angel is your sun that shines inside of you. speedy release. Glory to those who have earned a little bit of The calming influence of nature is usually the lullaby of God. spiritual knowledge and managed to share it! The agony of fear does not know how to think, There are your yshoulders as well behind the sun. does not know how to talk, it can only absorb. It’s a shame to die from your own hands. One must live, not wait. The power of presence that can destroy time is basically happiness. In the search for truth, always appeal to the immutable, the mind is so changeable. Only love can preserve knowledge, and only knowledge can preserve love. That which is not you is not that. The full depth of good and evil intentions and actions is hard Sometimes there are circumstances that nothing is to be imagined, you just need to listen to the words of the left but to be generous, and often there’s almost no saints and the infinite wisdom of the Holy Scriptures. your merit in it. 340 The Essence. On the altar of love. 341 In truth the one is happy who’s been taken by the Live through the pause. OM night and accepted by the day. Enlightenment is in fact just a demagnetized state. There should be an acceptance of somebody’s pain only when you realize that there is no such thing as pain of somebody else. You probably won't be able to absorb your body, but it is still quite possible to let go of the mind and absorb yourself. If you want to be yourself forever - be yourself now. Sadah! Be sure to learn how to fill in with satva any time of Spring is undressing, the summer is enchanted, the day, it will help you calm and adjust your mind. autumn loves, winter is waking up. The one who brought you out of a severe chronic Even if you drop all the dogs to “your beast”, (most often laureate, somatized) depression can rightly be there’s no guarantee that you can get rid of it. considered your Divine essence. For the sadhana to be successful - do not destroy your Find your life in a melodic series of one of the classic musical nature but continue it. works and you will understand yourself much better. As the Lord inhales and exhales you, so do you inhale and exhale God. Faith is strengthened in a whisper. On the way to God each seeker has the right to his Only the one, who has absorbed space and time is own speed and to his own rhythm. capable of truly Divine Sadhana. One of the most beautiful phenomena in this world is the unity In truth blessed is the one who has been deprived of any of religions, and one of the most terrible is their opposition. pleasures, has carried out the pain through the entire lifetime, and still has remained a human. Being in oneself and being oneself is not the same thing. You are always in God, however, you are extremely rare can be yourself. The Essence. On the altar of love. 342 343 The Lord manifests himself when you do. We must fight for life, not with life. Any form of life is basically an escape from oneself. OM For a sadhak living only by memories is a spiritual death. The experience of the sage is a living power. Forgotten time is your time. True spiritual experience is essentially determined by the number and depth of the states we experienced, and not by the number Surrender to yourself. of events and spiritual practices. The degree of closeness to God is determined It is possible only now to influence the past and the future. by the degree of attachment. Overflows of shade and shadows surrounded by leaves of trees The perfection is possible only in the perfect world, are so similar regardless of the point of the planet, that if you the absolute - in the absolute. contemplate them you will certainly feel the unity of lok. The question of energy is already a question of morality, To be in the present does not mean being in the present, the question of morality is already a question of energy. to be in the past does not mean being in the past, to be in the future does not mean being in the future. Om. Sometimes only by losing absolutely everything you can gain a piece of God. Do not have the habit of comparing people, all have their essence, their beginning and their continuation. On the way to liberation, sometimes you have to start from scratch, but as a rule, there is no need to take a new notebook. You cannot completely hide yourself from the Lord in darkness, for darkness is only a kind of light. You cannot completely hide from the devil using light, for light is only a kind of darkness. OM Movement back is not yet a thing of the past, moving forward is not yet moving into the future, stopping is not yet the present and only true non-identification gives relative power over the time. 344 The Essence. On the altar of love. 345 To be in the past - you need to become the past, to be Probably, at times, as much as a person needs night and in the present - you need to become the present, to be needs day, so the Great Spirit also needs in the future - you need to become the future. God and devil as well. Sadhak! Never forget that God and devil serve the Search for yourself, but not for your ego, and more so, beginning — the one Brahman, the essence of which is don’t search on its behalf. OM non-interference. Sometimes when God wants to destroy the world and take his The degree of your existence determines the degree of brothers and sisters to Himself, he sows seeds of religions on His existence of the Lord in you. planets, and waits until they bear fruit. Only an enlightened person can correctly calculate his There is no need to convince a person, who lost strength in life. everything during the prayer, the prayer sincere and unshakable, of existence or justice of the Lord. To move from worldly life to sadhana is like crossing the front line. Do not horseback the fate, it will bolt. Mind is the unconditional manifestation of the soul in the manifested world. There is sky in the sky, water in the water, air in the air, and earth in the earth. Enlightenment is a goal, not a target. If you have learned about yoga - to some extent you are already in yoga, if you saw yogi - to some extent you are It all ends countless times. already yogi yourself. Each Yuga has its own middle. The golden middle is good The body is in the body, the soul is in the soul, the mind is in the mind. only in the golden age, the silver middle in the silver age, the copper middle is good for a copper Yuga, and the iron one is good only for the iron age. Each part of the body has its own sadhana. 346 The Essence. On the altar of love. 347 Try to feel what does not change inside of you Nothing can compare to the time when your beloved one is throughout your life, and, perhaps, you will be able singing your favorite song to you in your beloved city in to take another step towards yourself. your favorite time of the year in your beloved day in your beloved home and in your beloved land. If you’ve pulled the trigger - shoot. If you think that you can desecrate God, you think too highly of yourself, if you think you cannot defile Recognize in your children their essence and their talent, a person, you have too high self-esteem. and help them manifest themselves at all costs. Sometimes, in order to master kundalini, a woman needs to find a First of all sadhana is a principle, and not an empty repetition man in herself and take possession of him, but a man needs to find a of practices of past experience. woman in himself and possess her accordingly. OM Sensations of soft positive energy, combined with a feeling of being The success of sadhana largely depends on participation and protected by a feeling of absolute confidence in the need for what is attitude of those from your close circle happening, are usually a sign of proper training with a teacher. (with whom you naturally continue to communicate). In the presence of true Guru in yoga, only one thing is Sadhana that comes from ego loses all meaning, required of a student - a thirst for knowledge. since even so the majority of human actions are dictated by him. Avoid that type of teachers who are too busy or too accessible. Avoid the teachers who excessively admire you or themselves. To hold the beloved legs of a beloved woman is the same as to keep the whole world in your hands, but if these legs spread True master will judge neither you nor himself. and betrayed you, then this world is not worth the hell. The criteria of a saint are not only purity, mercy, and absolute decency, but also courage, absolute fearlessness, knowledge, Everything comes from fear, self-love and ignorance. tremendous energy of creation, love, and sacrifice in the name Everything comes from love, God and knowledge. of all living things. 348 The Essence. On the altar of love. 349 Everyone has their own sadhana. The best calling is compassion, the best motivation is the knowledge. Last Breath - Last Confession. Ego, in any of its forms, and spiritual path are absolutely incompatible things. Marathon of Ragi is the Marathon to God. Sutras are like the call of light where everyone Love of convenience is karmically single. will hear their own light. Do not hesitate - the next element will certainly give you another Changing the biorhythm is the same as moving into transformation, to one degree or another, sooner or later. OM another dimension. Only you can recognize your soul, your half, your home, your God. There is no one chance for two. Any war is just a kind of peace, as like any peace is just a kind of war. If you come to yourself, you will come to the God. And there was black light, and there was white light, Spiritual heritage is basically the only one. and there was beginning and continuation. Hold on to someone who knows God. If you want to at least sort things out, look carefully at those who were born and at those who already had left. OM Sadhak! In your search for the best way to the Spirit use sadhana that is always with you. When a seemingly endless and incurable illness disappears (especially mental one ) and tears of joy and gratitude flow down your cheeks - for yoga it is tantamount to Faith will inevitably lead to knowledge, knowledge to faith. enlightenment, for consciously transferring such experience at Determine the principle in the undertaking in accordance with the least once in a lifetime leads to irreversible changes of constitution of your essence. consciousness, resulting in complete liberation. The Essence. On the altar of love. 350 351 By and large, only the one who knows nothing about Sometimes only poison can bring you back to life. existence of victories or defeats does not lose. The main thing is to conquer other people's fears inside of you, In truth, when mantra comes - God comes. and then your own fear will go away by itself. Yoga will forgive everything, just everything. Believe it! The main thing is to remove obstacles, and streams of love and compassion will literally overwhelm you. Nothing is simpler and at the same time more difficult than to communicate with a child or God. To listen to a child’s confession is the same as to listen to the Laughter is the magical essence of human nature, God’s confession. for only a man of all living creatures is able to laugh. The most serious diseases are lack of conscience, greed, envy, Be happy by the fact that God took your form too. aggression, cruelty and cowardice. The worst sin is betrayal. Learn to be happy in your search of happiness, learn to Probably if the Lord had listened to all human prayers, love in your search of love. OM the world would have perished almost instantly. At the negotiating table, where awareness and strength are Man, in a certain sense, dies and is born as many times involved in the dialogue, the power of awareness is born. as his relatives die. The curse of destroyed nations will never leave humanity alone, never. Try to never create a situation where you have to make a choice between love and love. Most often the impression is the beginning of an eclipse. You will feel everything in time, the main thing is to listen to it. One should rather not seek for the God, but accept Him. The Essence. On the altar of love. 352 353 Absolutely everything can become the source of a sutra. Perhaps only love has complete authority over time. Where the will is – there the share is. Forgotten faith is a forgotten life. Distraction is already a renunciation in a certain sense. Basically killing a beast inside is no different from any other killing. The one who has known the Lord knows everything. For the seer, birth looks more like death, and death is like birth. Creating for God you will not be mistaken. Never use the one you love. Love in this case has the Love broken to dust has always been dust, always. ability to switch to itself. There is nothing beyond the relief of human suffering, nothing The death of a loved one is quite capable of awakening kundalini, like a strike of lightning. A true teacher sometimes teaches more than he knows. Even the strongest one will hardly manage to strip the sea. You will be certainly happy with someone whom you can share Dealing with the just aspect of the Lord is sometimes your main dignity and your main vice. the hardest. The degree of liberation from fear is equal to the degree It’s better not to do anything than to do nothing. of karmic liberation and equivalent to the degree of released energy. In fact, it is because of death that one does not have to fear anything. That kind of happiness which you can become addicted to is not the happiness at all. The Essence. On the altar of love. 354 355 To be able to share your qualities properly is great art. Certainly everybody will leave and come back, as they have already left and returned many times. Children should be closer to animals, adults should be closer to children. Often non-identification does not mean renunciation. Fate is sometimes afraid of itself. The uniqueness of yoga system is that it adapts to itself. If nothing binds a student and a teacher - The one who waits for himself loses time in vain. that indicates the correct harmonious relationship between them. The point of no return has already been passed. Before you start looking for your “other half”, you Happiness is when you understand yourself. should find "your own" half first. Hearing yourself is the same as hearing As a rule, God loves one who loves the children, old people and animals. the music of the spheres. True teacher fills everything around you and at the Sadhak! Transfer the wisdom of ancients to the present same time seems to be completely absent. day. A true warrior is one who is able to stop a war, not to unleash it. The principles of yoga are applicable to women and men equally. Until you found the way how to serve people — In yoga, self-expression is important, not self-affirmation. you did not find anything. Remember that meditation is not a hunt for oneself, Sadhak! Be sure to lean on the spiritual at all levels. but contemplation and awareness. The Essence. On the altar of love. 356 357 On the altar of love The past is just what you left behind. Match everything that you feel and know, The moral principles are undoubtedly the basis of maybe you will manage to get out of the circle. yoga as any other spiritual practice in general. Identifying with the Divine is the true essence of meditation. In order for kundalini to whisper the first lesson to you - you just need to stop, sit down, take a deep breath and straighten your back. Sadhana that comes from ego is a flawed sadhana. Ashram is not a shelter, cultivating self-pity, depriving As a rule, you should not offer help to the fools, individuality. but to those mistaken ones. A true ashram is the unity of conscious and free people. As a rule those who do not have the strength, the proper When silence stops time, the magic of Divine reality begins. level of awareness and courage to live in the present live in the past, those who lack wisdom and patience usually live in the future. Let life be life, sleep be sleep, dreams be dreams, and death be death. If you want to write a poetry – it is not in True awareness is absolute generosity. vain at all, just don’t do it out of self-pity. It’s important that not a candle, A brave man and a beautiful woman can be forgiven for almost but the eyes will not extinguish. everything except betrayal. Love, respect and condescension between student and teacher is If there is what you are, you are what you are. an excellent base for successful classes. The best ruler is the one who managed to stop the time. For a conscious, sincere, kind, seeking sadhak, vivid childhood memories are sometimes a sign of spiritual growth. The Essence. On the altar of love. 358 359 The calendar must be in the soul, The right chakra will be lit at the right time. not in the mind and not on the wall. Only those who are free from fear are truly liberated. The one who could not withstand is already withstanded. I am getting farther and closer, you are farther and closer, we are getting farther and closer. Basically any teaching is utopian, because it cannot take into account all the features of a particular human person. Sometimes, under certain karmic conditions, shock is the most adequate measure for its correction (karma). Everything is an ashram. Bach is one of those few who is able to make even the skeptic think about the Divine. To choose the right yoga system for yourself is often equivalent to choosing a life partner. The longer the silence, the higher the price of the word. For practice, self-hypnosis is karmically more natural and useful than hypnosis, which sometimes can disrupt the natural course of karma. It is important to live the life when even your last breath could serve the people. You can allow everything, but not everything needs to be visualized. Always remember that kundalini will benefit or harm you according to the degree of your moral principles. Disciple! Vary between control and self-control, discipline and self-discipline — this will certainly help you to lead a more balanced and successful sadhana. Liberation from fear - releases tremendous amount of energy. Wisdom this days, unfortunately, more often is receding On the path to liberation — manage to distinguish into the past, while the mind looks into the future. And service from slavery, for being a servant of God and only a few with sufficient experience, power and being a slave of God is not the same thing. knowledge, remain in the present with their whole being. The Essence. On the altar of love. 360 361 If the flower of cowardice blooms in you in full - it is Your very existence is already the knowledge. unlikely that the plans for your future will help you. When you do not control emotions If illness has taken everything from you allow the God to and thoughts, but they do - your world collapses. take care. Track where the prayer begins and where it dissolves For a person, kundalini is basically his human essence. and you have a chance to get to know the part of the Lord that is you. It is very difficult to carry your cross, but sometimes it is even more difficult to find what your cross is. The life of the saint is his life. Be sure to meditate on where the thought, The best reward from the Lord on the psycho-and calling and the essence begins, and where physical level is a healthy neuromediation. feelings, energy and will are coming from. Anyone who betrayed his star may lose his way for a long time. Follow yourself. The most difficult fight at the physical level is a hormonal fight. Once the spikelet had moved and everything remained. One who was born, was born in time. Your own Teacher, your own sadhana, your own karma, your own destiny. One for the other, everything for everything Nobody will pay a penny for your shadow. There are no such things as ex-mothers and ex-fathers, ex-brothers and ex-sisters, ex-children and in general ex-Sometimes the Divine spark should be literally collected relatives and ex-close souls, as well as there is not such by bits and pieces. thing as ex-love. The Essence. On the altar of love. 362 363 Everything is exactly as it is. Sometimes absorb prana by releasing, remove it with voltage. If sutra has helped you to survive, then basically it is an eternal sutra. On the way to the Spirit - by all means use the power of changing seasons. Enlightenment is a kind of way out of shock. Repentance in one way or another is absolutely necessary for As paradoxical it could seem, but it is impossible everyone who was born in flesh on the Earth, except, of course, to live and to die like a warrior, for those liberated souls who for some reason wished to visit the when there is war inside your soul. Earthly plan. Choose the yoga of the result or yoga of the process Movement - is already love in its nature. according to the essence of your constitution. The closest one to your truth is you. The miracle is that the Lord allows us to create ourselves from ourselves. Happiness is to find the reflection of the beloved in your soul and dedicate your life to it, Listen to the one who makes the heart beat and sacrificing unconditionally everything. breathe, listen to the one who makes move the mind and feelings, listen. God is the union of absolute energy and absolute consciousness. In your place can only be you. In each of us there is each of us. There are no other men and other women. Reflections on the meaning of life is a useful exercise The phenomenon of true meditation is similar to the and nothing more. phenomenon of birth and death. The Essence. On the altar of love. 364 365 Just step into your inner self. In order for the stone that you threw up to not fall down and stop at the height you need, certain atmospheric conditions are necessary. So is with kundalini, in order to Write your temple on your own way. awaken, raise and fix it, certain conditions are needed inside your bodies (physical, astral and causal). And the back side has its reverse side. Deep kisses of a beloved at the site of the Time has no friends. problem chakra can do miracles. To understand the mind in a certain sense is much more At the tip of the needle is knowledge, at the difficult than to understand the God. tip of the needle there are entrance and exit. Life is the Divine inertia Winter is over winter, spring is over spring, autumn is over autumn, summer is over summer. Sometimes hair saves not only the head, but the soul. Obsession with wonder is a wonderful obsession. Glory to the one who has gone through all five steps of grief and remained a man, and God forbid you from such an experience. Nothing awakens kundalini like love and nothing suppresses it like fear. And there is no wayto be again. Even the immense suffering of the saint can give happiness to any person. If you have enough patience to germinate with a flower of a special kind and blossom with it in full, you are unlikely to be in need of another sadhana. Always remember that even the ego that includs character, psyche, body, mind is only a part of you (there is also a causal, Atman) and no matter how sick, weak or Killing a coward in you is much more important than disabled they are everything will return to normal and killing an enemy. anyway you will find happiness, integrity and peace. 366 The Essence. On the altar of love. 367 One should learn to live in order to learn to die. The degree of genius is usually determined by the degree of inner freedom. True liberation gives the right to recall all of the past lives and relive any of them again at one’s own discretion. Wisdom is anchored in silence. Happiness is when hands know the earth, feet fall in love with the True wisdom is perfect both in life and in death. road dust and there is nothing more than the call of immortality embracing you in the form of the smell of sunlight. A woman is a keeper of love, a man is a keeper of knowledge (which is basically the same). Everything is the same as before, everything is the same as here, everything is the same as it will be, True wisdom perfectly knows both life and death. everything is the same as it is. It is the one who has never had, lost or has not gained a truly close person who is frantically seeking for the Lord. Anonymous dead is truly a Divine manifestation that deserves full and unconditional worship. Often, God is sought by the one who has not yet found or had lost himself. It is enough to be completely faithful to only one true love in order to carry it through all lives, up to complete liberation. As a rule, for the one who has found himself, there is no need to search for the God. Sadhak, if you got seriously ill, pray to the Lord to return to sadhana, or at least to turn your sickness into sadhana. OM The seeker must recognize what is from life and what is from death. To some fellow practitioners! If a missile hit the head, it is hardly possible to help with an enema. On the other hand: if the intestines are clogged up with slags, the The one who managed to find God, no longer need to Atman will hardly show itself of absolute purity and a look for themselves. long-awaited release will come. The Essence. On the altar of love. 368 369 There is only one order - the order of devotion, sacrifice and love. He, who tames the elements curbs manas. To come back to your own awareness after a long-term True meditation is not an association. mental illness in some cases iquals moksha. Even maya has strengths and weaknesses. Shadow does not fade. Only those who perfectly mastered their sexual energy and managed to preserve their moral principles can For each person the choice between own will and faith to God is rightfully be called the master. completely different. It depends on countless numbers of factors both lying on the surface and completely unconscious. It is not known yet whatthe people are more afraid of: The path to yourself lies through you. the existence or non-existence of God? A Man must be sacred to a man. Regardless of harm or benefit of teachings of Christ or Buddha, the feat is truly absolute and should cause thrilling among the people of truth. Sometimes the most concentrated hopes generate indestructible faith. Your home is knowledge, your home is love. Dictate from humanism is also destructive, like the dictate of terror. Your home is harmony, your home is the essence. A bouquet of wildflowers can sometimes uncover Everyone will find the sutra from which they want to run, and the secrets of antiquity, open a memory channel and everyone will find the sutra they will never want to part with. change your karma once and for all. Often a narrator or a toller is closer to God than a priest, The desire to love in a person is so strong that sometimes it because they have direct contact with God through the word generates love itself and sound, rather than through awareness, which sometimes (which in fact is already a part of it). takes so many reincarnations. The Essence. On the altar of love. 370 371 In order for the sutra to really succeed, it is As a rule, only those who simply have nothing to say, necessary to be able to be fairly free with time. or those who have already said everything, remain silent. Your potential largely lies in the power of your imagination. Making yourself live under certain circumstances is not a feat, it is rather your duty. There are some who carries a fiery, there are some who carries an iron, there are some who carries a stone cross of their own. Sadhak! Understand the difference between bravery, courage, and valiancy. The terms are very similar, As soon as you thought that you gave birth to a wisdom - but at the spiritual level they are different. consider yourself separated from God for one more eternity. Meditation is only an extension of your nature. The truly spiritual task of man is to search for an immortal soul, and not to work on the creation of an immortal body. If you want to know the God, know the children. Sadhak! Always remember that sadhana only consists of Sutra is the more valuable, the more you sacrificed to it. eliminating obstacles on your way to freedom, and not in gaining freedom itself, because basically you are already free and realized. There is no need to go to somewhere and gain There is only you and me between me and you. something, as it has always been, is and always will be. There is not even emptiness between us. Sutras from children and “madmen” are especially valuable. Sadhak! Do not rush to literally understand the principles of spiritual scriptures: ponder, meditate, consult with an experienced Someone needs to learn how to lie down, someone how to Master, and only then practice and become established in be sitted, someone how to stand. knowledge. OM The Lord has no age, because even that part of him that is The one who is obsessed with the goal is obsessed with the “chain”. inside of you does not have any friction. The Essence. On the altar of love. 372 373 If your creativity is sincere, plagiarism cannot be in essence, just Disciple! Realize that you can quite exist without thoughts (for create without looking around and do not be afraid. example, in deep sleep, meditation), but thoughts cannot exist without you, they need a source of their creation. Your existence goes on without them, more precisely there is one An enlightened fulfilled person, unlike the ordinary one , can source-thought which explains everything. Do not be afraid of appear before people the way he wants, as well as for himself to anything. In the end, you are the Soul and the body and remain what he wants, both on the physical and on the subtle thoughts are only its manifestations. You are completely safe, levels. you are eternal, you are loved, you exist, you will be. Denial of God is often a great start to His path. If Goddess of yoga has not been created yet, it should be created, created not only on the physical, but also on astral level. If it is as a separate field of consciousness, then it will The reaction to death, illness, fear, and love largely not be difficult for masters to manifest it for you. determines the level of consciousness of yogi. For the enlightened one suffering and Living with God does not always make life easier, but only compassion are basically the same. introduces some meaning into it, which unfortunately not everyone can cope with. If you can find the cause of your main disterbance - you may have a chance to understand the essence of your karma. The Lord looks with human eyes, hears with human ears, he thinks with the human mind, but he holds the secret information within him, and does not need human assistance at all. As long as there is someone to determine to be or not to be, there will always be something existing or not. Everything that happens before puberty is basically all sadhana. The ascetic's spiritual level is not determined by the degree of his asceticism, but solely by the degree of his detachment and Sometimes it is very difficult for an enlightened teacher to awareness. OM give an adequate lesson to a student, for He sees in him an enlightened one, pure Atman. Therefore, do not rush to immediately apply the Master’s advice to your reality. Fill A yogi should be no different from an ordinary person, your heart with nobility and with the name of God do what but he is different. you are supposed to do. The Essence. On the altar of love. 374 375 Fighting karma in most cases only strengthens it. Karma must not Sunflower gave humanity a wonderful gift of meditation. be fought, but the law of inaction in action must be applied. It is more important not to fight the old as to not create a new one, completely releasing the ego. In spiritual scriptures you most likely will find what a person should do in general, but you can hardly find what you should do in particular. If your soul is in pain, forgive it. Choose your own method of self-research, only yours, natural and affordable. Unfortunately, very often the shortest way to liberation goes through the pain. True sutra is a dedication, a will, as this is basically the final testament before the stop. OM Find within yourself your sunset and your dawn, your night and your day, your spring and your summer. Don’t adopt a habit. Seeker! Find your fuel at this stage. Do not have the habit to use Kali-Yuga as an excuse. The camp of God's grace is immeasurable. The birds in spring pray perfectly, sincerely and directly. Remember that true asceticism is not sadism at all, but just detached silence and nothing else. Hair basically is one of the main guides to God. You can leave the past only if you have no future (in a spiritual way). Often a thought , a word, an action only distance you from the truth. Sutra is usually a sketch of a found essence. If you recall the past too often now be ready for the changes. This can be an integral part of your sadhana. Do not drown your fear in someone else's blood. The Essence. On the altar of love. 376 377 Turn to as many points of view as you can. There are as many ways of awakening as people. Sadhak! Consume spiritual scriptures only as a part of a Anyone who knows how to tune a musical instrument sadhana and do not seek to perceive what you’ve read as is essentially able to tune the chakras. an order fo immediate action. Find your loved ones within yourself, find your ocean and your sky. As a rule, the highest form of justice for a woman is love, the highest form of love for a man is justice. Try to see and understand everything that is created by God within yourself. It’s already happiness to be able to talk with your voice. Leave yourself alone. Remember that the food products that are right for you are your teachers as well. In fact, there is no difference for God, whether He exists or not. True awareness on the physical level as a rule Everyone is equal on the altar of freedom. manifests itself in impeccable action. Yoga is bindu, yoga is om. The source of your will is secreat. Sadhak! Comprehend the art of pratyahara only with As a rule, a woman is looking for love, but a man for justice. OM an experienced mentor, exclusively. True sadhana sometimes is like assembling oneself from All is one. the smallest particles of the universe. Love and yoga are the same. Love and knowledge are the same. The Essence. On the altar of love. 378 379 If you don't know what to do, try not to do anything yet. God's grace is incomprehensible. Don’t stand on the way of your spirit when it heads up to the Sadhak! Beware, do not outsmart yourself; it happens new pinnacle. quite often among those seeking for the knowledge. Understand what kind of peace is right for you. If you happened to meet a great Soul in this life - be sure that the Lord will certainly knock on your souls as well, He certainly will. If you would fall in love with yoga, your sadhana and life will become more successful, but if Yoga itself falls in love with you, you will become the happiest person ever. Sadhak! While you are not realized, help people very carefully and selectively, listening to both your intuition and common sense. Of all, look for the nature of your desires, their essence, their source. Sometimes an ordinary person or a yogi does not experience anything that looks like enlightenment, Samadhi is not an absolute pleasure, but nevertheless demonstrates it. OM samadhi is rather an absolute satisfaction. If desired, you can track the way each one is removed. Attachment to the beautiful or to the low for karma sometimes has the same pernicious effect. The Bliss of Moksha is much closer to satisfaction than to pleasure. The water cycle in nature is identical to the energy cycle Learn to correlate the law of your own essence, in the subtle body. the law of God and the human law at the time in which you live and your sadhana will become Find and accomplish the most important things in life, the most complete one. and then enjoy the flow. Disciple! Remember that the back pain (muscle aching pain for Let’s each moment, each part of the universe has its own essence. no apparent reason) is often a sign of lack of prana. It is necessary to stop and review your sadhana, review your life. The Essence. On the altar of love. 380 381 Taking away someone else's life - you certainly take the part of yours. Cruel warrior is a stupid warrior. You can find any mask except the mask of enlightenment. Let my hair loose, bend my head down, do not say anything to me, when everything passes by - take me away. In yoga overcoming does not mean approaching (in a fundamental sense). Sutra and confession are one and the same. To give children the best - you need to find the best in yourself. Sadhak! If you still have the necessity to look at your watch, then at least change it more often. The ability to safely change the states of consciousness at your will like figures on a chessboard is a criteria of an absolute Sutra is not the sword of justice, sutra is the sword of revelation. mastery. Atman is higher than any miracle, any phenomenon. You have no idea how long ago you have left the house. Sadhak! Choose one maijor and several additional methods to Disciple! Balance all aspects of your sadhana and realize your Self by virtue of your nature. then it will merge with your life and you will find so long-awaited integrity. Do not ignore or indulge the classics. Mentally kiss each element until they Untie your knot exclusively in your astral body. reveal their secret to you. (The classics of spiritual scriptures) Imagine that you don’t exist! Impossible? Only this example itself tells that you always are, Disciple! Remember that understanding the illusory always were and always will be. nature of the body and mind does not mean dismissive attitude towards them. OM The best meditation is an absolute concentration on nothingness. The Essence. On the altar of love. 382 383 Not creating karma is a kind of a talent too. Feed each chakra with it’s food. For the true seeker his life must become part of sadhana, In a certain point of veiw there are as many not sadhana should become a part of his life. kinds of samadhi as there are people. When you realize how everything is saturated with everything – In fact, one of the forms of Samadhi is an it will become easy for you to move away from everything. absolute awareness “in the deep sleep.” However, there will be no need to go anywhere anymore. Temporary samadhi gained with effort using upasan (practitioner) is able to give only temporary satisfaction, Great people have great karma. but to fully affect the karma of the past (sanchittu karma) such samadhi is not able to. Path of a warrior and the path of war are not the same. Spiritual strength is not so much in strength as in the spirit. Contact with a genius is not always pleasant, but always gives a certain feeling that never leaves you. All that now exsists always has been and will be; on the other hand which does not exist has never been, and can never be. All that now exsists always has been and will be; on the other hand which does not exist has never been, and can never be. All samadhi is always here. Spiritual writings are basically divided into two Everything was when the Sun was the God, categories: a guide to life and a guide to death. everything became when the Sun became the Sun. True samadhi is not a transition from one state to You can gain all the siddhi, but never gain liberation. But if you another. True samadhi is only a merging of states, have found yourself and established yourself in Atman, all where the criteria and the essence of each of them siddhi will be available to you, but you will no longer need to are preserved. use them. 384 The Essence. On the altar of love. 385 The power of maya can be conquered only Conscience is never too much. by its source, its creator, its God. True meaning of concept of maya is not only in that Absolute faith that you are already in samadhi sometimes particular state or event unreal in principle, but that it is stronger than any of the methods in achieving it. temporary and only therefore unreal. Try to understand what God manifests through you and you will Recreate the eternal name for yourself, recreate! certainly have a chance to become happy. You must have time to share your happiness, and you Try not to ask the Lord why He created this world. should be able to carry your grief away with you. On the scale of the Lord, such a question simply does not exist and cannot be by nature. Pray to God's blessing for everyone, and ask just for good mood for yourself. See how the righteous call for prayer - don't you feel the happy thrill of unity! Sometimes agony of immeasurable suffering breeds the fire of great compassion, creativity, and love. OM Both day and night are visible in the light of the truth. There is no excess of conscience, wisdom or courage. Only those who are trully aware of losing everything at once at any time are able to live in full. Remember that if you are given prosperity then it's usually just to serve people. Realize that the fate of one soul includes the fate of all other souls in a certain way. Only condition incompatible with life entitles you to leave (with few exceptions). When you are busy you'd better look for from whom or from what you are hiding. Whatever you concentrate on - you concentrate on yourself. The Essence. On the altar of love. 386 387 Sadhak! Learn to perceive everything as a miracle and be Spiritually, silence does not mean not to hear, absolutely unprejudiced towards it. in this case silence means not to listen. For each era, their criteria of holiness. Nonideification is already a salvation in a certain way. Step into your own shoes. You just start a dialogue with God - continuous, sincere and direct and you will see what will happen! Sutra is an experience strung on a thread of conciosness. Meditation begins where experiences and thoughts end. You are everything that exists. As a rule, the one who has learned to control his thoughts is not trying to control the thoughts of others. Sadhak! Try not to flatter neither God, nor people, nor yourself. The knowledge gained in suffering is the most valuable. If you can still step over the threshold of your house, then you can still step over yourself. Absolute being reflects absolute knowledge. Prana should usually be tamed like a wild animal. Liberation is basically incarnation. Often to get out of mind of someone else's grief can One goal, one determined, one reality. either a craven or a blissful one. Disciple! Do not rush to judge the master by his words and As soon as you realize that what you see, hear and comprehend is actions. Try to hear his energy, try to see the essence the same the mind will quietly begin to calm down on its own, of his true stay. and finally you will certainly discover Yourself. The Essence. On the altar of love. 388 389 Could anything be more obvious than your Nothing separates from God more than God; existence, your presence! and nothing brings God closer than God does. Sutra, like many other things, could be Just to recognize oneself as being different by the will completely wrong, but very good. of circumstances does not mean to realize oneself. In Kali Yuga it is equally cold at the Seeker! Nonideification should ultimately become “north” and at the “south” pole. your natural state, not an exercise. The desire to solve the riddle of life and death is already It's easy to be brave while you're brave, it's easy to be strong the result of good karma. while you're strong, it's easy to be healthy, while you're healthy. Thought and emotion are born at the same time and at the same time they die, because thought Sadhaka! Know that it is hardly possible to recognize the and emotion are basically the same, at least they mystery of law of karma before gaining complete liberation. come from exactly the same source. Sadhak! On the way to liberation take everything into From external sound to internal, from internal to eternal, consideration: nationality, education, genetics, character, from external name to internal, from internal to eternal. constitution, habits and affections, place of formation, time in which you live, susceptibility to diseases, abilities, desires, psychological blocks, traumas of the past, your Until we turn to each other the Lord will not turn to us; tastes, weight , growth, capacity of body and mind, place it's time for all of us to understand. OM of sadhana, Teachers, influence of relatives and friends, traditions, your religious direction in generations, upbringing, social status, self-esteem, your own psyche, beliefs, country, city, place where you live now, climate, From incarnation to recreation, the state of society in all its manifestations, etc. etc. from recreation to reunification. Considering the above, you may have a chance of a truly successful sadhana. From adaptation to adaptation. The Essence. On the altar of love. 390 391 There is nothing more secret and complex on the One of the most natural, pure and direct paths to the Atman, Earth than the law of justice. freedom, and enlightenment lies through Shavasana, when the whole life is subordinated to Shavasana and preparation for it. (If, of course, the sadhak is ready for it at all levels, especially Sometimes the life being uprooted gives the right to liberation. morally, by mind control and with the ability to handle energy). OM Non-attachment in the spiritual sense does not exclude the natural manifestation of feelings. This concept is more Solitude should not become an escape from life, subtle, which, like most spiritual concepts should not be and life should not become an escape from thyself. correlated with gross manifestations of everyday life. Being oneself does not mean being with yourself. Never judge someone who is out of mind, never. There is no distance between thought and emotion. Try to understand and feel what exactly your mission is, and what is your destiny. And this meditation itself can already be called sadhana. In fact, a true miracle is when pain and fear are dissolved and never come back. When you wake up in the morning - remember those who have not woken up and will never wake up; when you eat, remember those Try to ask yourself about the nessecity of your own suffering and you may find an answer to the need who are hungry; when you go to bed - remember those who are sleep deprived and who simply have for the sufferings of a mankind. nowhere to sleep; when you hear, remember the deaf; when you see, remember the blind; if you are well, remember those who As soon as you begin seeking the truth, the truth starts looking for you. suffer; if you love, remember those who are devoid of love and compassion; if you enjoy freedom and communication with loved ones - remember those who are deprived of it; when dressed - Spend time on serving people and meditating remember those who simply have nothing to wear; when you walk - and you will never be mistaken. remember those who simply do not have legs; if aware and calm - remember the mentally ill; if you live in the world, remember those who are at war and those who have already given their lives for you; We come alone to this world and happens that we leave in and most importantly: if enlightened, remember those who still groups. Think about it! If you could solve this riddle have to walk this path and let this memory be filled with love and the world will reviel itself to you. compassion. The Essence. On the altar of love. 392 393 Samsara is basically change of preparation for life and I love, I write, I share, I suffer, I feel pity, I stay, I realize, I see, I preparation for death. feel, I know, I believe, I go away, I remain, I meditate, I contemplate, I open, I serve, I wake up, I breathe, I thank, I accept, I exercise, I burn and I burn down, I let go , I do not ask, I do not There will be a conscience - there will be a message. regret, I do not wait, I do not condemn, I do not judge, I forgive, I leave, I sympathize, I remember, I consist, I depart, I live, I sacrifice, I do not defile, I do not take offense, I carry on. Basically, only the purity of thoughts leads to the true power that can change the karma on the path to liberation. To a disciple! Be attentive, do not confuse depression with detachment, ecstasy of samadhi with mania. Learn more about Shruti and Smriti. The study of works on psychology, The road to yourself could be found at your feet. psychiatry will also be useful. In each case there is its own degree of confession and its own way of atonement. Everything that saves you from suffering is sacred. Sadhaka! First of all, identify what is more important to you: In your search of truth, lean onto the scriptures and gaining prana, holding it, using it correctly, or properly disposing the courage of those who have realized and carried them through the centuries. of its fruits. The understanding of this principle will largely determine your fate. To a disciple! Remember that as a rule only gradual, measured, weighted sadhana leads to proper results. Our world of illusions is the kingdom of crooked mirrors. The true meditation should eliminate the ego, not cultivate it. Find your own poet, your artist, your musician. Pain and fear either breed the faith or kill it. Meditator! Try to visualize the experience of deep dreamless sleep and at the same time remain as conscious as possible. If you are ready for this experience, the result will not be long in coming. No matter how hard you try to be yourself, you will still be yourself. If you solve the riddle of God's mercy, you will know everything. The Essence. On the altar of love. 394 395 Trully,the mind is a curse; trully the mind is a blessing. The Lord is farther than any distance, deeper than any merger. Sometimes even Gods have to be saved from the people. Nothing expands the consciousness like the heaven To get to the light you must first lit up your way. and nothing restricts it like the earth. Sometimes, for a melody of sutra to be born, Follow the circumstances exactly to the same extent you just need to tune the instrument. that they follow you. The best sadhana is the inevitable one. Like smoke, smoking from incense, our souls are carried away upward, dissolving in the silence of the Atman, taking with them the mystery of human essence. Do each action as the last, knowing that you have an eternity left. No matter what prompted you to take the path of enlightenment, it is important that you are standing on it. Accepting God is much easier than accepting yourself. God is usually bigger where ego is less. There is no worse enemy than an out of control mind. Sometimes even the gods hide from the people. Disciple! Do not try to imitate the great ones in everything; their greatness lies in the fact that they are simply who they are and, as a rule, they never imitated anyone. Do not chase away the fear of inevitable that comes from within, for what can be higher than the fear in front of the face of divine love. Anyone who has long been deprived of human participation in relation to himself will certainly feel the participation of God, the main thing is to see and understand what it is. What is peculiar to you is peculiar to everyone. 396 The Essence. On the altar of love. 397 By all means equip the hike to the Present, by all means. Always remember that you need to have time to share your soul and then your life will not be in vain. When absolutely everything becomes sadhana, time works for you. Do not allow the mind to always decide to what extent you should be inside or outside, to be with yourself or to be with someone - Even a ladder to the Heaven stands on the Earth. this is rather the competence of budhi. If you follow budhi, you will experience harmony. Manas will always find contradiction and opposition, and there will Every seeker simply has to wonder about the mystery of be no peace for you until you understand that. Leela. Is there really a need for our immense suffering? Why does the Lord keep silence when barbarians cut out hearts and asuras cry out of happiness. Of course, there Every body is equally mortal, every mind is equally can be no answer in the usual state of consciousness, but sinful, every Spirit is equally holy. keep on asking, for thinking is an integral part of sadhana. Of course, in samadhi, the answer will manifest itself, for there will be no ego, no questioner, no question, just as The true sannyas is a sannyas of non-identification. there is neither you nor a question in deep sleep. Only in samadhi you realize yourself, only in samadhi. Do not look for the best - look for your own. OM The Lord begins to erase the memory of pain exactly at the moment when it happens. Before you ask what the Lord has done for you, look what you have done for Him. Before you ask something from Him, find out what He "asks" from you. There is nothing more stupid and meaningless then the resentment against the God. Let there be the one who bathed in the river of courage, let there be the one who bathed in the river of When you live - He lives, when you sleep - He sleeps, knowledge, let there be the one who burned himself when you are - He is, when you are not - He is not. down in the fire of eternal Divine love. Yoga is an awareness of your being, an awareness of Sadhak! Refresh your memory with Stotra your nature, an awareness of your essence. (sacred and laudatory hymn to God). Sometimes it is extremely necessary on the way to the Spirit. 398 The Essence. On the altar of love. 399 Sutra is the naked essence. Human love can be so powerful that even the gods “come” to look at it. Each of the elements gives us a lesson. The true sutra is basically an extract from revelation. OM In the manifested world everything always carries its opposite. Sadhak! Remember that with proper sadhana the world As the Lord created you in his own image and likeness, will leave you at the right time; and believe that so you usually create the Lord in your own way. sometimes there is no need and expediency to give it up at your will as you live. The clever mind watches the world, the wise mind watches himself. One loving mother sometimes has more love than all the temples combined. An indifferent person can already be called a yogi. In order to build a new temple in your soul it is not necessary to As a rule the deeper the silence, the deeper the transformation is. destroy the old one; there is enough space in the Kingdom of God. Only the one is happy who, in fact, doesn’t grant too The pain of each person smells differently. much importance to the fact of being happy or not. To talk to pain you need to know its language. Seeker! Be sure to recognize exactly how the mechanism of your own ego works. Violence and powerlessness is the same sin. The words of the scriptures are like coils of wires charged with great energy. By spinning them, the master basically unwinds the If it would ever make any sense asking something from God kundalini rings - shakti. then that’s for the opportunity to never ask for anything. Every spring you have a chance again... Sometimes commit a sin in order to forget. 400 The Essence. On the altar of love. 401 You’d better open the channels of truth at your own discretion. Learn how to hug the deceased. To the one who has experienced everything nothing has left Each of the elements is intended to relieve from a certain type but to test the God. of sufferings, from a certain type of pain, and of course each presents its own lesson. The Lord is flawless in his mercy, in his unmercifullness. OM On the way to God, you need equally master how to light and extinguish your fire. Evolution certainly does not exclude the Divine, and the Divine in turn does not exclude evolution. In moments of despair, try clapping your hands. Sometimes this kind of meditation is surprisingly effective. There is practically no partition between hell and heaven, just as there is no one between the celestial and terrestrial spheres. Often the fate of a person is his health at all levels. As a rule, the sun takes away your anguish, the moon - anxiety, Everything which has been truly hard-leaves - excitement, the ocean takes away your confusion, the gained is ingenious in its own way. river - fear, mountains - obsession, and the fire burns negative memory. See how your Buddha, your Jesus, your Teacher, andyour Spirit are doing. On your way to the Spirit do not limit yourself. Sometimes you push off from the outside, sometimes from the inside. Any call is equally important. Until complete transformation nothing can be completely redeemed. True observation is not a property of your mind - it is a property of your consciousness, of your being. Your mind is an object like If anything, but fear, God will burn with a hot iron by the end. everything else which could be easily verified by proper practice and due attention. Sometimes rest requires as much prana as labor. The Essence. On the altar of love. 402 403 Shiva's mantras wrap us around with immense trembling of The best battle field is your own body. deep antiquity of Majesty of the Lord in their integrity, incomprehensibility and omnipresence. Being a geneus is also an absolute state of concentration. Get up and spit your ego out, and maybe you will succeed. Listen! when the mantra of Krishna is heard, there is a feeling that the Lord is embracing you with His whole The energy should still be dyed in the right color. being, with all the Universe. Undressed condition of your soul is the worst of conditions. If you watch starry sky attentively and impartially enough, you can feel that stars are smiling at each other, giving us an example, reminding us of the major. Neither tension nor effort will usually lead to any result. Only independant being, and non-interference of any of the levels of mind give a chance. A witness is not a doer, not a mind, Each state has its own law and each state has omnipresent, always present, natural, beyond. its own chance. Only the one who has overcome himself Not a single doctor can forbid you to suffer. can pass through himself. OM Suffering, but not grief, is what purifies. In fact, absolutely everything could become creativity. In manifested world pain is unfortunately capable Everything is here. of almost everything. By and large, from the “position” of the Atman until The loop on the neck will not deliver you from the loop of time. complete liberation happens you “sleep” at night just as much as during the day. Strength sometimes brings as much suffering as weakness. The Essence. On the altar of love. 404 405 Silence actually is one of the forms of meditation. Sadhak! Memorize the seconds of eternity, this is your point of reference. If you happened to meet and recognize a person, who knows God, try not to leave him at a single step. Let your mind and heart shake hands. When He comes to Her - she obediently submits, The cross of solitude surely define as the light of hope, and when She comes to Him - He passes through himself. not the darkness of hopelessness. If you can ask your question during the deep To have the opportunity to suffer is a tremendous privilege, sleep - the answer will not be long to come. because ego dissolves not only in the ocean of love, but also in the ocean of suffering and compassion. Practically every birth is an atonement. The best Ashram is the one where there is no need to ask questions and to answer them accordingly. All "guilt" is on the great Divine love. Once you will experience everything and there nothing be left for you, but to experience God. Fear has as many shades as love. Awareness is the ability to trust oneself to the Lord, Headstand will be extremely useful for a where each step has its own degree of awareness. person who firmly stands on his feet. It happens that you need to ask for forgiveness Seeker! If you would only realize how many living graves are on from everyone, literally. earth, perhaps you would reconsider all sadhanas and all your life. The bliss of the beyond is only indirectly related to human happiness, Do not blame anyone, do not blame yourself, love everyone because basically it is not a state. It lies beyond any state and non-including yourself, let go of all and let yourself be. state, any existence and non-existence, any being and non-being. Follow sattva and try to be who you are. OM The Essence. On the altar of love. 406 407 Sleep is the continuation of wakefulness, as well as waking up is the continuation of sleep. It is rediculos to wait for a miracle while it is happening. Every moment of enlightenment will and should be used to serve people. Unfortunately, in most cases unhappiness brings greater awareness than happiness. Just the degree of concentration in pain is much higher. In fact, you exist not in spite of and not even in consequence, but in accordance with the world. In life try to do what you are doing. Meditate without expectations. Just stay conscious and one day you will find Mostly all beings of Universe can be divided into two categories: yourself as the verity itself. those who control the prana and those who are governed by it. There is no subjunctive mood to enlightenment and enlightened. Samadhi is simply an absolute balance. All egos on the road to freedom must be unified. Find your dream, your mobilization, your motivation. Only a truly brave person can be truly lonely for Night is an integral part of the day, and day is an integral part of the night. a coward will always find something to cling to. Only the one who is not afraid of anything is not afraid; When the Lord makes a call you just need to be in line. only the one who knows nothing does not know, and only the one who knows knows everything. Hurricane of self-esteem can not only nullify all of your sadhana, but your entire life as well. Recollect the happiest moment of your life and transfer it to the present moment. Such upaya can be very useful to you in both sadhana and life. Only solitude in the name of reunification with God, with oneself and with all that exists makes sense. The Lord always sends you either to the past or to the future until using your mind as a tool, untill you learn the main lesson — the present. As a rule, everyone has his own pain killer. 408 The Essence. On the altar of love. 409 An open wounded loneliness can do anything. It is better not to fear God, but yourself. Reviel the secret of confession of your heart; Perhaps the most serious crime is to suppress the Divine reveil the secret of confession of your mind; in thyself, in fact it is the cause of all other vices. reveil the secret of confession of your body. OM Discipil! Do not confuse activity of mind with excitement, The sooner you find your spell (your mantra) and manifest yourself, queitness with stagnancy. the better (if there is a karmic need of course). A crime towards thyself is as destructive as is a crime towards others, especially conscious one. There is no absolute state, only Brahman is absolute being beyond all states. We are all carriers of same Divine energy; it just manifests itself in different ways and at different times. Absolutely happy could be only the one who has experienced absolutely everything through all his lives. God! How many questions disappear when you are calm and how Happiness or grief, heaven or hell are limited and very relative concepts. many questions arise when you are filled with anxiety and fear. When you are about to travell to another world, As trite as it may sound, but you need to calm down first. it is better to leave a suitcase of memories behind. Sometimes it is very difficult to endure heavy memories, A person must comprehend and study the Divine, and not to break but sometimes it is even harder to sustain beautiful ones. into the “Temple of God” with a search without any authority. In background, we are not afraid of the future, but of the past, Agree that light of a bulb and light of the sun because everything has already happened and the memory of the are not the same (spiritually, of course). past (regarding past lives, of course, in the subconscious mind) remains in us until our complete liberation. 410 The Essence. On the altar of love. 411 Practically all skills are almost the same: taking Everything is infinite. prana, keeping it, using it correctly, distributing it and properly disposing of its fruits. Skillfully let go through the streams of karma is one of the most important of arts. Maya is as magnificent as all of the Divine is. Sometimes becoming a human being is much more complicated Definite point of view at it’s time. then to become a god. Impeccable action is disinterested action. Very often practicing yoga without initiation of the Guru is like having sex without a parner. If you took the path of liberation, you will usually have to "wash every bone" to all aspects of being. Consciousness and prana are in fact one and the same, or rather one whole. Immeasurably respect those who had drunk up it all to the end. For a successful sadhana (with few exceptions), at least the blessing and instructions of the master, not to mention the There is basically no distance between thought and its realization, initiation, is necessary. there is only illusion of time and space and nothing else. Just imagine how much energy and power one might need to go The right sadhana does not strengthen ego but desolves it. beyond samsara overcoming magic of magnetism of elements. Especially understand and love those who suffer The moment of absolute hopelessness basically is equal to the immeasurably, love with all your soul, with all your being. moment of absolute spiritualization. Work tirelessly to take away their pain in whatever way is possible, free of charge, absolutely letting go of ego and do not think about anything. The Lord will take care Any yoga is basically karma yoga, of you in due time (although His presence is always because any action and practice are work with karma there, It was and will be with you). in all its manifestations at any level. 412 The Essence. On the altar of love. 413 When life becomes meditation, and meditation The path to God lies through God, the becomes life - a depth of awareness is formed and path to yourself lies through you. generates true transformation. The path to enlightenment is only through enlightenment, that’s it. Sadhak! Develop your intuition. Try to hear and understand why this or that energy is released. Try to use every energy for your intended use. The power of maya lyes in your weakness and ignorance. The Lord is certainly everywhere and in everything, but it doesn’t mean His constant The power of presence is basically the only power that exists. "interference"everywhere and in everything. If there was no fear, it would not be scary, It is better if love than illness turns life into sadhana, if there was no pain, it would not hurt. although the result is usually the same. Fighting heresy is practically fighting with God. Only by realizing up to the proper degree that there is a natural presence, one can attain moksha. Suffering must also be earned. The best sadhana is faith, hope, and love. Sometimes finding your sourse of energy is like finding the God. It is foolish to abandon those who love you for God, because your Lord loves you through them as well. Natural presence - that's really the truth in the truth. To a seeker! Remember, nothing contradicts anything. Perhaps the most difficult challenge is when prana is It’s just an illusion. Om exhausted but it’s not time to leave the body yet. As a rule, such state is accompanied by incredible physical and mental sufferings. That’s the way the Lord teaches humility to his Nothing restricts consciousness as fear does, and nothing rises it beloved ones, that’s how the Lord punishes the sinners, and high as serving people does. that’s how you teach and punish yourself. The Essence. On the altar of love. 414 415 As impossible it could be to believe, but everything that The potential has same meaning and influence as manifested, you see and hear is happening only in you and to you. and maybe even more. Whatever we have been told has been told by us. The sanctity of smritti is not so much in their content, as in their enormous energy potential. OM Indeed, the art of dreaming is a great sadhana. To pass through a cloud of fear and not get wet is almost impossible. Believe that there is no need to dig into your past lives, instead realize that you already have got everything necsesary for your present life. Sometimes fate is determined by relationship between collective and personal karma. Obtrusiveness is probably one of the best friends of maya. When you step over yourself don’t think. How unforgivably cruel it is to be happy when there is so much suffering, and how unforgivable it is to be miserable when there is The best tool at the road to freedom is you. so much happiness around. The biggest obstacle to freedom is life. If sadhana softens karma somewhat it already can be called a successful one. In life it happens that one can get not the 2nd, but the 10th, 100th, 1000th wind. More likely that the Lord does not interfere in your life out of compassion, rather than out of pity or indifference, although Reflections on spiritual are also useful, but do not spend too His special kind of presence is always there. much time on logic, because direct experience is more important. 416 The Essence. On the altar of love. 417 Everything that is done on time is perfect (in its own way). Any Divine ritual should preserve the principle of sacrifice, not bribe. Faith basicaly is a science like any other. A good mood is already happiness, you have only to understand this. A record made during a battle is the most valuable. Sometimes losing energy is like losing yourself. A record made after a battle is the wisest. Creating in a state incompatible with life is an absolute courage. A record made before a battle, is the most senseless one. Saddling the time is one of the master's most important achievements. Sometimes switching means winning. Sometimes, recognizing your own weakness requires lots of streagnth. Learn how to switch thoughts as you switch TV channels. That skill will certainly serve you invaluable Ultimately, everything rests on prana, service both in life and in death. OM especially on physical level. Oh God, how many states of consciousness, He, who is enlightened chooses the measure of restraint for himself. how many modifications can a person have, and after all, none of them is the true one. To a man almost everything depends on the strength of motivation. In the moments of true suffering or happiness, questions usually do not arise. The soul tricks itself and enjoys it. Everything is prayer, everything is a dream, Whatever you are experiencing is a preparation for the maijor. everything is a movement, everything is Him. The Essence. On the altar of love. 418 419 The Lord does not forgive the escape from yourself. Think about what kind of a parcel you can send to the Lord. A new day is a new color. A Word of Gratitude I am profoundly grateful to my teachers V.V. Zhikharev, Prema (Swami Sadasivananda), and my grandfather Find your own key to your secret door. A. I. Kalyagin. Special thanks to Alexei Pushkin, Nadezhda Chernova, If at least one of my words helps at least one person, Lyudmila Ostrovskaya, Maria Tolok, Elena Shelkunova, my gratitude will be endless. Evelina Mendelevich and Zalina Bokoeva, who were directly involved in the publication of this book. I hope that my energy will wake up your energy, my compassion will wake up your compassion, and my love will wake up your love. The Essence. On the altar of love. 420 421 How the sutras are born To the reader. You may rightly wonder how are the sutras are born? I will try to give a sincere and simple answer. Some sutras come to me spontaneously during the day or at night, and I just write them down without thinking; others arise out of my personal experience of life. It is as if I take stock, or draw a certain conclusion, and the majority of the sutras belong to this latter kind. There are sutras I could read or hear somewhere else, but they seemed to me imprecise or incomplete, and I just edited them (do not confuse this with plagiarism, for they are just as meaningful and as genuine, otherwise I would not have written them down and remembered them at all), but there are very few of these. There are sutras that are transmissions of my teachers or certain teachings expressed in a different way. There are sutras inspired by experience and captured in words. And, of course, there are sutras that arose during meditation, or yoga classes (asanas in particular). There are sutras inspired by the energy, essence, charisma, talent of another person. There are those born out of music, poetry, painting, sculpture, and other creative works. Some are inspired by the love for loved ones or at times by feelings unknown to me altogether. Many are born in communion with nature — ocean, forest, land, mountains, plants, or animals. Sutras have their root in all aspects of being. Yet the overwhelming majority come from within, from the heart, from the experience of suffering and love. And in conclusion, I want to say that the secret is simple — you just need to be aware and relaxed; just allow yourself to be yourself, to apprehend, to feel love and compassion. The Essence. On the altar of love. 422 423 Conclusion May you find enlightenment and experience the grace of God. My knowledge is your knowledge, my love is your love. Wishes - a confession May those who seek knowledge acquire knowledge. May those who seek love find love. May those who seek God find God. May those who seek themselves find themselves. I love, I live, I suffer, I feel compassion, I pray, I meditate for the sake of all those suffering immensely. My soul is always with you, I share your pain. And may this book, my energy, my love bring you at least some relief on your sacred path. OM SHANTI The book is charged with the energy of the author. A living book for living people. The Essence. On the altar of love. 424 425 Glossary (it is extremely limited, the meaning of which is only relevant to this book. For a broader study of Sanskrit terminology, consult other, more capacious sources) A G AVATAR – the incarnation of God. GURU – spiritual teacher. ASANA – pose or place. ATMAN – pure Self, the highest Being, ultimate reality. J ASURA – a demon, an entity that brings evil. JAPA – repetition of the name of God, the guru, the ASHRAM – a temple, a monastery, a holy place. mantra. JIVA – the individual soul, the ego. B JNANA – transcendental supreme Knowledge. BRAHMAN – the impersonal absolute in Hinduism. BRAHMACHARYA – the vow of chastity, celibacy. K BUDDHI – intellect, intelligence. KALI-YUGA – iron age, the age of suffering in a greater BHOGA – pleasure, enjoyment. measure. BINDU – the primordial point of the universe. KARMA – cause and effect relationship. KARMA-YOGA – spiritual path, more often through C selfless service without attachment to its results. CHAKRA – literally "the wheel", the center of power and KEVALA KUMBHAKA – sudden respiratory arrest, consciousness in the teachings of yoga. whether inhaling or exhaling. CHITTA – memory of impressions. KUMBHAKA – breath hold. KEVALA SAMADHI – a state in which the activity of the D mind and body are absorbed only temporarily. DIKSHA – spiritual initiation. KUNDALINI – hidden power, energy, potential, sleeping DHARANA – concentration of the mind. at the base of the spine in the first chakra in the form of DHARMA – virtuous actions, a harmonious life, the snake rings. natural duty of man. DHYANA – meditation. L LAYA – dissolution. LILA – God's game. LOKA – the plane of existence, the dimension. The Essence. On the altar of love. 426 427 M SADHANA – spiritual practice. MAYA – the illusion by which God manifests himself as SAMADHI – the state of direct experience of the Atman, this world. God. MANAS – mind. SANYASA – the renunciation of all worldly attachments. MANTRA – spell, a special form of prayer. SANYASI – accordingly, detached. MEDITATION – the 7-th step in raja yoga. SANCHITA KARMA – past karma. MOKSHA – liberation, spiritual freedom. SAT(VA) – goodness, cleanliness. SAT-SANG – life or being in the company of a wise man. N SAHAJA SAMADHI – the state of samadhi, which comes NADI – energy channels. naturally and is always present. NIRGUNA – without attributes, benign. SIDDHI – supernormal powers. NIRVIKALPA SAMADHI – the highest state of STOTRA – praise hymn. concentration, in which the soul loses all sense of SUSHUMNA – the central energy channel running along difference from the universal self, but is temporary, with the spine from the base of the back to the top of the a return to ego-consciousness. head. SUTRA – aphorism. O SHAVASANA – corpse pose (lying on the back and not OM – the symbol of universality, wholeness, the symbol moving). of Atman and Brahman, the source of all sounds and the SHAKTI – power, energy. essence of the Vedas. SHANTI – peace, calm, tranquility. OMKARA – OM repetition. ОМ ТАТ SАТ – the designation of Brahman. T TAMAS – ignorance, inertia. P TAPAS – asceticism, ascesis. PRANA – life energy. PRANAYAMA – control of breathing. U PRATYAHARA – removal of the senses from objects. THE UPANISHADS – the concluding cycle of the canonical code of the Vedas. R RAJAS – the principle of activity. V VEDANTA – a philosophical teaching set forth in the S Upanishads on the basis of the great Vedas. SAVIKALPA SAMADHI – samadhi performed with effort. SAGUNA – endowed with qualities, attributes. Y SADHAK -- spiritually aspiring. YOGA – unity, union.