Tonight’s topic is yoga and meditation. So we are going to begin with the short meditation. Tomorrow night we will have a more complete presentation about meditation. But now we will do this simple meditation to help us relax, to make it a little more easy to understand the subject matter that we will be discussing. And you can also learn it now and take...
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Before I begin to discuss our topic of yoga, I would like to offer my respects to my spiritual masters. It is a comprehensive lecture, it includes a lot. So it requires some attention. Therefore we hope that you won’t talk to one another and so you won’t distract each other. All of this information comes from the Vedic scriptures. The Vedas are very...
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The Absolute Truth… What is the Absolute Truth? Actually the Absolute Truth has three divisions or aspects. In the Vedas we learn that there is a Supreme Person, just like you and I are persons, we are all people, we call ourselves, “Look at all the people.” In the Vedas we learn that there is a Supreme Person and we all came from the Supreme Person....
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So now let’s discuss these four basic yoga systems. Of course, today there are so many yogas. Maybe you have heard of some of them. There is Kriya yoga, Agni yoga, Raja yoga, Hatha yoga, Bikram yoga, Ayinga yoga, Sahaja yoga, on and on. Every day there is a new one… No, there are no new yogas. Yoga is eternal. It is just people putting names on it and...
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The next path is Ashtanga yoga. There is a so-called Hatha yoga they call Ashtanga yoga. It’s really not the real Ashtanga yoga. So if somebody comes, “Oh, I am teaching Ashtanga yoga,” look carefully. It’s probably just Hatha yoga, a little different variation. Ashtanga yoga is the yoga of austerity. It is called the eightfold mystic yoga system....
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The next yoga is called Karma yoga. ‘Karma’ means ‘action’. So in Karma yoga one becomes united with the Supreme through the activities. They act in life doing many things but their activity is dedicated to God. And the aspect of the Absolute Truth we are going to dedicate this to is Bhagavan. Now we are relating directly to the highest aspect –...
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Bhakti yoga means devotional yoga. The word ‘bhakti’ means ‘devotion’. This is the highest level of yoga. In the Vedas it is described as the topmost yoga system. And it is the only system where there are actual love and devotion. And this, of course, will bring us into the most intimate relationship with Bhagavan. And this is the perfection of...
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We are going to end with another meditation. And I’d like you to have an opportunity to receive one more of these meditations. And then after the meditation if you have some questions, you can write them on the paper and we will try to answer. This time there will be two mantras. The mantras are: This time we are going to sing the mantras. But first...
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