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DEMYSTIFYING YOGA

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The whole process of yoga is to transcend

the limitations of the mind. As long as
you are in the mind, you are ruled by the
past, because mind is just an
accumulation of the past. If you are
looking at life only through the mind,
then you will make your future just like
the past, nothing more, nothing less. Isn’t
the world enough proof of that? It does
not matter what opportunities come our
way through science, technology and
many other things, aren’t we repeating
the same historical scenes again and
again?

If you take a
closer look at
your own life,
The past you will see the
does not same repetition
exist, but happening,
you are because as long
as you are
dealing functioning only
with the through the
non- prism of the
existent, mind, you are
functioning only

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 with the old
going data. The past is
about as carried only in
if it is a your mind. Only
reality. because your
mind is active,
That is the past exists.
whole Suppose all your
illusion. Mindmind ceases
is the right now, is

basis of your past here?

There is no past
this. here, only
present. The
reality is only
present, but past exists through our
minds. Or in other words, mind is karma.
If you transcend the mind, you transcend
the karmic bondage altogether. If you
want to solve them one by one, it may
take a million years. In the process of
solving, you are also building new stock of
karma.

Your old stock of karma is not the

problem at all. You should learn how not
to create new stock. That is the main
thing. Old stock will wear out by itself; no
big things need to be done about it. But
the fundamental thing is you learn how
not to create new stock. Then, leaving the
old stock is very simple.

If you transcend the mind, you transcend

the karmic bondage also, completely. You
don’t really have to work it out because
when you are playing with your karmas,
you are playing with the non-existent. It
is a trap of the mind. The past does not
exist, but you are dealing with the non-
existent, going about as if it is a reality.
That is the whole illusion. Mind is the
basis of this. If you transcend the mind,
you transcend everything in one stroke.

The whole effort of spiritual sciences has

always been how to transcend the mind,
how to look at life beyond the limitations
of the mind. Many people have defined
yoga in many different ways. People say,
“If you become one with the universe, it is
yoga.” “If you go beyond yourself, it is
yoga.” “If you are no longer subject to the
laws of the physical, it is yoga.” All these
things are fine and fantastic definitions,
there is nothing wrong with them, but in

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terms of your experience, you cannot
relate to them. Someone said, “If you
become one with God, you are in yoga.”
You don’t know where you are. You don’t
know where God is. How to become one?

But Patanjali nailed it this way – “To rise

above the modifications of your mind,
when you cease your mind, when you
cease to be a part of your mind, that is
yoga.” All the influences of the world are
entering you only through the instrument
of the mind. If you can rise beyond the
influence of your mind in full awareness,
then you are naturally one with
everything. The separation – you and me,
time and space – has come only because
of the mind. It is a bondage of the mind.
If you drop the mind, you have dropped
time and space. There is no such thing as
this and that. There is no such thing as
here and there. There is no such thing as
now and then. Everything is here and
now.

If you rise above all the modifications and

manifestations of the mind, then you can
play with the mind whichever way you
want. You can use your mind with
devastating impact in your life, but if you
are in it, you will never realize the nature
of the mind.

This is an excerpt from Isha’s latest book

“Mind Is Your Business,” available for
purchase and download at Isha Downloads.

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Shankar • 2 years ago

Purchased the e-book and
reading on my tablet. Don't
print and save the earth.
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Nikole • 2 years ago

The mind is really very
powerful and it can make us
do wonderful and even
unfavorable things but with the
help of yoga the mind is given
time to rest and get in touch
with the body and be
conscious of the things
happening.
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Chris Chee • 2 years ago

simply powerful... grace..
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Benjamin Chi
• 2 years ago
Love it. Thank you.
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Thakur Aman
• 2 years ago
Now when im reading for the
2n'd time i feel you a bit
..........:) first time it just din't
penetrate.
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subhash • 2 years ago

Ah, it tells us to transcend the
mind and then use it (the

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 mind) in whatever way you
want it to; do you still want to
use the mind when you have
transcended it?
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sri > subhash

• 2 years ago
It just means it
becomes a child's play
as ramana maharshi
said ..
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ram ya • 2 years ago

OH guru,help me reach this
state.a little word pulls me
down the drain.whoa..... :(
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