A good thing to do is regulate the time that you do your meditation. Yoga is about regulated life style. More and more we are very unregulated. It should be an internal regulation, not my boss regulates me externally – I have to go to work so I do it at a certain time. No, internally. You say, ok, I get up at this time; I do my meditations at this...
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The modes of nature are the subject tonight. This is something we don’t learn in modern world education. Unfortunately, we don’t learn a lot of things we really need to know. The modes of nature are dealing with the material world. We are in the material world and we are in material bodies, therefore we should know about the material arrangement. The...
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The mode of goodness obviously sounds like the best doesn’t it? The mode of goodness is the most rare. Unfortunately it is not the mode that affects us the most because we’ve almost eliminated it from our lives. Nature is in the mode of goodness. When you go into nature you feel a certain influence. You feel more calm and peaceful, beauty is all around...
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So now food, every food is in one of these three modes: goodness, passion or ignorance. Fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds and dairy products are in the mode of goodness. If you eat those foods they will influence you in this way. Uniquely enough this is the prescribed diet for the human form of life. According to the Vedas this is what you...
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Let’s look at the mode of passion. Passion is exactly like it sounds, you are passionate about life and you are driven. People in the mode of passion, they are just driven, they always have unlimited desires to achieve this, achieve that, success, success. They are the people who are always trying to get ahead, of what I do not know. Get ahead of...
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The mode of ignorance is dark, very dark. Some of the symptoms are intoxication, meat eating, lots of sleep, no ambition, just enough to survive. They are not trying to go anywhere; they are just on the bottom looking up. It is a very dark hellish mode, so that is not a good place to be. It is as if you are in a cloud; you’re just covered. Then foods,...
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Kali Yuga. It is stated that in Kali Yuga everyone is born in the mode of ignorance. The predominating modes are passion and ignorance, almost no mode of goodness. Whereas in Satya Yuga, for instance, the golden age is completely the mode of goodness, almost no ignorance and very little passion. So it is very, very different. We are in a dark age right now....
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All aspects of nature are in the mode of goodness. But some are more in the mode of goodness like the mountains. Huge and beautiful mountains, they are in the mode of goodness; quiet peaceful. That is why the yogis go to the Himalayas; they go to the mountains. It’s quiet and peaceful. They are getting their influence, the forest and so on. But the ocean...
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Let’s look at the 24-hour period of the day. Everybody has got 24 hours each day, so if I understand these 24 hours I can know how to use them to my advantage. The mode of goodness starts at four in the morning and it goes until about, being very lenient, seven. You can feel it; if you get up early everything is very quiet and peaceful. This is the time...
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It is said until one comes to the mode of goodness they cannot really understand spiritual truth. We just cannot get it, we cannot understand it, it is not important. From the mode of goodness we can step off to the mode of pure goodness and this is when we are under a different influence. That is Krishna’s direct influence. The modes of nature are...
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