Thank all of you very much for coming. It’s Saturday evening, I know there’re a lot of things to do on Saturday. Everybody had many choices, so we appreciate you’re choosing to come here. We are going to be speaking tonight about yoga, specifically we will entitle it: «The health, harmony and peace of yoga.» There are different yoga...
More2. We are the souls
Before I begin my presentation, I always offer my respects to the great spiritual teachers, our masters, who’ve brought this knowledge to us. All the information I will be presenting comes from the authorized Vedic scriptures. And these scriptures are very ancient, they were written down 5 000 years ago. However the knowledge is eternal. So prior...
More3. The causes of disharmony (VIDEO)
Yoga is not a material philosophy. Yoga is not only material, it is not only philosophy. Yoga means living the philosophy. The actions, the practices are contained in this philosophy. Incorporating that into your life, you have a yoga lifestyle. The main yoga that is known today is Hatha yoga. Hatha yoga is basically for the physical body. Not...
More4. The path to harmony (VIDEO)
So there is the Hatha yoga system for the body, and again, addressing the mind in many ways. There is a system known as Karma yoga. Karma means action. So you learn how to dovetail your actions with the Supreme will, with His system, learn how to act. From the action there will be fruits and you learn what to do with those fruits, «Do I keep them...
More5. MEDITATION LEADING TO HARMONY (VIDEO)
And there’s one of all activities that we can do to please the Supreme Lord in His system of life. He openly declares, «The one thing above all other things you can do is these meditations, mantra meditation. Hearing and repeating this transcendental sound.» Sometimes it’s called yoga sound, sound that unites us with the Supreme. And again,...
More6. TO BECOME A HERMIT? (VIDEO)
Question: To live in the society, you have to do something all the time, even if you don’t want that. Is it possible to get free of it or the only way is to go to the mountains and live separately as a hermit? Answer: No, going to the mountains is not the answer. If everybody went to the mountains, the mountains would be crowded. So the art of...
More7. WHAT IS THE SOUL
Question: What is the soul? Where is it located? Where is the true «self» of a person? Answer: The soul is the «self.» You are the soul. I know we’ve been taught that we have a soul. It is not correct, we are the soul, not we have a soul. We, the spirit soul, are contained within the body and the mind. In the Bhagavad Gita it describes very perfectly...
More8. WHAT IS PLEASING TO THE SUPREME SOUL? (VIDEO)
Question: What else is pleasing to the Supreme Soul except mantas? Answer: Many things. Hearing. Hearing about the truth. Hearing this knowledge tonight is very pleasing, hearing the knowledge from the Vedas, hearing the knowledge from the pure representative of God. Hearing is very, very pleasing to the Lord. Chanting. Chanting mantras. Also...
More9. Spirit – soul (video)
Question: What is relation between soul and spirit? Answer: The soul is spirit. There is two energies: material energy spiritual energy The body, the mind, the material creation etc., etc. – material energy. And then is the soul which is spiritual energy. So all souls are spiritual energy. But individual parts, sparks. If you’ll...
More10. The meaning of the mantras (VIDEO)
Question: What is the meaning of the mantras? Should be the length of breath the same as you did or it’s an individual thing? Answer: Each one of these words in the mantra has a specific meaning. GAURANGA means He whose body is more beautiful than molten gold, describing the form of the Supreme Lord. HARIBOL means Chant the Names of the Supreme...
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