So our topic today is yoga relationships. The relationships of yoga or yoga relationships. A very relevant topic for everybody. Life is very confusing because we don’t have knowledge. For most people life is a mystery. But a mystery is only a mystery because we don’t know the truth. And that’s the whole point: we must learn the truth about life....
More2. The need for relationships
Now as a spirit soul we have many inherent characteristics. That means basically they are part of us, we can’t separate them from who we really are. Just like wetness is an inherent characteristic of water, you can’t separate wetness from water. In this glass I assume there is water. I haven’t touched it but I do know one thing – it’s wet. All...
More3. …until death do us part
Of course as we know in our human lives we have very complex relationships. It’s not just about Mr. Bee coming and pollinating some flowers. It is very, very complex. We have our relationships with parental affection, friendship, husbands and wives (marital relationships), working relationships (the bosses, the co-workers), relationships with our dogs,...
More4. Impersonal world
One thing that I will mention at this point. As our society has advanced (we call it advancement, material advancement), we have entered into an electronic age. And we have all become enamored by electronic devices: our cellphones, our computers, our i-Pads, all this, and all the things connected with that, all the Internet and the web-sites, and the social...
More5. Searching for a perfect person
If we do have all this personal contact, we practice our yoga lifestyle, we are eating the right diet, we are in harmony with the body and the planet… that is another whole aspect of relationship, relationship to planet… But even if we are doing all of that right so that makes it so we are in a mode of goodness (we are vegetarians, we respect all kinds...
More6. The message of the Vedas
The process of bhakti yoga is not about getting something or creating something or establishing something that doesn’t already exist. It already exists, that relationship with the Supreme Lord already exists. It is eternal, they will never be nonexistent. But the problem is I have forgotten it, I’m not aware of it. In the world today more and more...
More7. Love for God brings love for others
Yes, do your hatha yoga, very good for the body. It is our responsibility to take care of the body. It has been given to us by God to use in His service, take care of it. So He gave us the system of hatha yoga, etc. All kind of yoga lifestyles He gave us to make it so our material existence can be as good as it can, live in harmony with nature, with each...
More8. What has to become the core of the human being’s life?
Question: What has to become the core of the human being’s life? Answer: The desire to know and love God. That has to be the core. That is what you operate from. If there is no desire, then there is not going to be any strength there. But by practicing the process of bhakti yoga one will develop that desire. This is stated in the Bhagavad-gita in the...
More9. Where do the talents in a person come from?
Question: Where do the talents in a person come from? Why is one a poet, another one is an artist, etc.? Answer: Well, they usually or not usually come from previous lives. Somewhere along the line we have developed these abilities. Poets, for instance, generally are in the mode of goodness. So they are naturally inclined under this influence to kind of...
More10. What is the form of the soul?
Question: What is the form of the soul? Answer: Well, this is a quite advanced question but I will try to make it simpler. See, originally the soul has a spiritual form. And that form is based on the relationship with the Supreme Soul, what will be the activity, the service and so on between the soul and the Supreme Soul. But in the material world the soul...
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