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

tive eyes. Our eyes are hard and shiny and acquisitive as if life were a nonstop shopping spree. Paradoxically our desire to con ...

harder you fall. Temptations of a quality one might even describe as celestial should come as no surprise to the higher practiti ...

starts with reading scriptures, knowing their meaning and seeing their truths reflected in one's own life. This also includes th ...

from the outside as well as from the inside and to use that energy for your personal evolution. The practice of asana clears the ...

garden we must cherish and cultivate. As we shall see in the next chapter on mind, even something as subtle as mind depends on h ...

Sirsasana Chapter 4 CLARITY The Mental Body (Manas) ou cannot hope to experience inner peace or freedom without un­ derstanding ...

as far as yoga's blueprint of humanity is concerned, in the third and fourth sheaths of being. The yogi makes a distinction betw ...

a conceptual understanding of what we are trying to do is vital, as long as we do not imagine that it is a substitute for practi ...

surface out of the mind and consciousness. Thoughts arising from memory are considered as a type of wave, as is sleep, or daydre ...

means "love of wisdom," has to be complicated, theoretical, and prob­ ably incomprehensible to qualify for its name. Yoga philos ...

There is nevertheless a chance that we can break free from the im­ prisoning past and individually train ourselves to control th ...

to us. This is perhaps closest to the Western psychological notion of the ego. Beyond this 1-shape or ego, and the mental activi ...

Mind is above all clever; clever as they say, as a barrel of monkeys. Like monkeys jumping restlessly from one branch to another ...

the coming hibernation, and his gluttony, far from being among the seven deadly sins, is an indispensable virtue. But is the con ...

within a small time scale. Drink contaminated water on Monday, sick on Tuesday, dead on Wednesday. Once the link between water a ...

and how tricky it is, impulsive as a wild stallion. The information it gives us-"Fire burns" or "Rice is good to eat"-has proved ...

in some way of being at the center of everything, and that all that is not me partakes of a degree of otherness. This otherness ...

What is the point of having an individual 1-shape? Could we, as with our appendix, live without it? Why is this evolutionary tra ...

wants, my, my, my. And the pure single identity succumbs to the dis­ ease of elephantiasis, in which our self becomes grossly en ...

which we have emerged. We connect it to our destination, to an ulti­ mate whole to which we shall one day return. We connect it ...