Posted by Света Беклемышева on May 28, 2015 in Three modes of material nature (video) | 0 comments

Ok, so let’s talk a little bit about the subject called “The three modes of material nature.” If you understand the material world and how it works, you have a lot better chance of dealing with it correctly. And there’s a lot more than we learn in science. See, there’s much information we never get because the material scientists can’t...

Posted by Света Беклемышева on May 28, 2015 in Three modes of material nature (video) | 0 comments

The three modes are basically described as goodness, passion and ignorance. The mode of goodness has a good effect on us. So when we’re under the influence of the mode of goodness, we eat differently, we eat foods in the mode of goodness. We are attracted to mode of goodness lifestyles. We are attracted to quiet, nature is very attractive. We...

Posted by Света Беклемышева on May 28, 2015 in Three modes of material nature (video) | 0 comments

So let’s look at the places we will find these different modes. One obvious place is food. Believe it or not, what we eat affects us. It’s amazing how many people don’t think what they eat and how they are is related. One person recently told me she was diagnosed with cancer, and she asked her doctor, “Well, what diet should I follow?” Of...

Posted by Света Беклемышева on May 28, 2015 in Three modes of material nature (video) | 0 comments

Time of a day: different times of the day are in the different modes. All this is designed by Krishna. This is not an accidental thing. This all designed to work in a certain way for our benefit. So as I say, different times of day are under the influence of different modes. So early mornings, from 4 o’clock to we’ll say 7 o’clock, often...

Posted by Света Беклемышева on May 28, 2015 in Three modes of material nature (video) | 0 comments

Oh, I didn’t talk about food in the mode of passion. Foods in the mode of passion are very hot foods, spicy foods, agitating foods, garlic, onions; they increase the passion. And foods in the mode of ignorance are old foods, fermented foods, all meat, eggs, fish – these are foods in the mode of ignorance. If we eat those foods, we have their...

Posted by Света Беклемышева on May 28, 2015 in Three modes of material nature (video) | 0 comments

Another statistics: 70% of diseases are caused by lifestyle choices. 70%. We choose that disease basically because we choose this lifestyle and this is the result. So the yoga lifestyle is another choice. The bhakti-yoga lifestyle is another choice. Do we want to make that choice? Any little bit we make in that direction is a lot. So especially in...

Posted by Света Беклемышева on May 28, 2015 in Three modes of material nature (video) | 0 comments

Question 1: Do qualities a person develops affect only karma? Answer: Affect karma? Well, due to those qualities you will create a certain karma. Like a person in the mode of goodness will create a very different karma than a person in the mode of ignorance. Karma is the result of our actions. So a person in the mode of goodness is going to act in a...