Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

yogasana becomes effortless, with the natural beauty of molten gold being poured from a vat. To reach the Infinite, we have to u ...

all of our atoms are mostly composed of space. Sound and vibration correspond to space and can travel through them like the radi ...

When we release, circulation comes back, restoring revitalized elements. We think of this as washing and cleansing the organs. T ...

when he stands on the peak of nature will the yogi meet his soul-Pu­ rusa-and also Purusa-visesa-the Universal Soul. To stand on ...

gence (mahat), which exists in all of us, is the first manifestation of the invisible. From cosmic intelligence sprout cosmic en ...

do not forget that order and chaos make strange bedfellows, and the results are unpredictable. Yoga would say that this unpredic ...

of my wife and the fact that I did not cry. Do not think that I did not, and do not still, feel it as much as any man. The yogi ...

Yoga As Involution We all want to develop and improve ourselves. We think of this as per­ sonal evolution, and a spreading of ou ...

Let us say he takes a different course of action. He spends the little money he has saved on an evening course to improve his sk ...

messenger of the gods. According to the Upanishads, it is the principle of life and consciousness. It is even equated with the s ...

us with this paradox. It is the most essential, real, and present feature of every moment of our lives, and yet it remains the m ...

self and not in the Infinite where time, in the linear sense, no longer ex­ ists. This holds true even more of samadhi. Nobody c ...

achieve here externally is achieved through samadhi internally. It is an effortless state, where one experiences the grace of th ...

allow full spiritual growth. Dhyana, yogic meditation, is electrifying. Through it one withdraws from the periphery to the core. ...

The second is that, if you experience it, you cannot explain it, since it is indescribable. If one tries to explain the state of ...

him to meditate. This Ramakrishna did and slipped into samadhi, a condition that was by now quite natural to him. Then the monk ...

sions are left behind ... When that new light of wisdom is also relin­ quished, seedless samadhi dawns." Yoga describes seven in ...

through the potential of ego to revive and restore itself, retains its in­ herent flaws and fault lines. From the exterior they ...

cannot beat the young men forever. He loves the game that offered him a life. Perhaps for years he plays in seniors' tournaments ...

can be traced in the visible and invisible bodies and in the known and unknown channels that transpierce our whole body and are ...