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Practice regularly to control desires and eventually become freed from them.
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Known is considered then understood. Then comes bliss from the true knowledge.
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Or by contemplating sages.
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Or by inquiry into day dreaming, dreams from sleep and states of awakening.
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Or by meditating upon something of our liking that is in harmony with the path.
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When controlling fluctuations is mastered the seer becomes one with the seen.
The seen is
known and shines forth through the seer like the suns reflection on a flawless
crystal.
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Memory becomes pure and untainted by nature. Pure form exists without
reflection.
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The need for pleasures and the source of suffering comes from identifying with
that which is impure and not eternal. True self is pure and eternal.
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Pain comes from the inability to separate true self from the illusory self.
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Light shines on nature revealing 3 qualities. Its ability to absorb and reflect light.
Its vibration and constant change and its shape and density. This and the
elements
are perceived through the five senses, engaged with the five organs of action and
considered with the mind. Nature's pleasures can seduce the seer unless the seer
It may or may not be apparent but nature's 3 qualities and all that is
seen is in continual change. A greater intelligence may be seen in
everything creating a perception of unity in all that is.
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Awareness becomes pure when this perception of unity in nature is developed.
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For this one reason all that is seen must be perceived by the true self.
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Perception of unity in nature and the true self merge creating a force that frees
us from
the needs and bondage's of life. One becomes a master of ones self, no longer a
slave to nature.
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A lack of true awareness will keep us bound to the needs and cravings of nature.
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There are seven aspects that must be practiced before we reach a state of
absolute truth.
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This first aspect called Yama is unaffected by time, environment, class, and
intelligence.
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Violence in thought, word or action, desire, greed, lust and anger, illusion,
obsession,
suffering and fear all rise from ignorance and lack of true intellectual awareness.
They may affect us intensely, mildly or somewhere in-between and will continue
to
do this until intervention takes place. Then positive uplifting states can be felt.
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When violence and hate are removed from within the practitioner there
is a passiveness that influences others to desert hostility in their presence.
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When pure truth is developed ones words become highly
potent and influential. Words manifest into reality.
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All that is needed will come when one does not take that
which is not essential or that which is not theirs to take.
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Non attachment allows peace and time for contemplation. Knowledge and clarity
of self stemming back to birth is found.
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The ability to perceive ones true self manifests further when the senses are
controlled and the mind and consciousness reach purity. The practitioner
becomes filled with joy.
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Self study and reflection on a desired deity brings one into union.
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Absolute absorption in unity is accomplished though surrender to God.
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Passiveness is necessary for endurance when this infinite art of form is practiced.
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With this mastered one then begins vital breath exercise to control energy flow.
Retentions and motions of inhalations and exhalations are involved.
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One then draws inwards removing oneself from external and internal
distractions. The senses will no longer obstruct one from the path.
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The many scattered thoughts slowly disappear, a one pointed mind emerges.
Consciousness is transforming into spiritual oneness with the source of life.
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Again there is a rise and fall in and out of this state. It is similar to before. Action
must
be taken for consciousness to remain one pointed and for transformation to
continue.
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Calmness is present in being but true potential has not yet manifested.
The virtuous road must be closely followed and proper action followed.
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Knowledge of the past and future comes from the transformation caused
by the merging of concentration, meditation and Samadhi.
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Sound, meaning and feelings merge. Then the universal language of all beings is
known.
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Control of the energy form in the body leads to the power to change the effects
light
has on it. When light does not interact with form it becomes invisible to the eye.
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Powers that rise can be followed but will only act as obstacles in breaking
down seperation and becoming completely absorbed in the source of life.
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Mastery of one of the five pranas (udana) moves energy from the
lower body upward creating a lightness and ascension that allows
one to move over water, mud, thorns and more without contact.
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The power of understanding true form. The need for restraint in the ego
and the senses yet understanding their purpose. This is the conquest.
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In this way all is known even that which is unrelated and unaffected by time.
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Perfect freedom occurs when pure consciousness and the purity of soul become
equal.
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Both past and future are true. One has occurred the other is to occur.
That which has occurred characterizes that which is yet to occur.
Yoga Sutra 4-12 Audio mp3
There is growth in the distinction between the soul and that which
perceives. The perception created by ego dissolves.
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Universal requirements of life have been achieved and moved aside or discarded,
the qualities of nature no longer draw the seer, all can be left behind as
movement is made back into the purity of consciousness experienced before
birth, a beautiful liberation overcomes our essence and a pure consciousness is
firmly established with life's source.
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