"vedanta talk" - Videos - Yoga Vidya Community - Forum für Yoga, Meditation und Ayurveda2024-03-29T09:02:15Zhttps://mein.yoga-vidya.de/video/feed/tag/%22vedanta+talk%22Overcoming anger with the vedic method of Neti-Neti | Pot-clay discimination to realise the selfhttps://mein.yoga-vidya.de/video/overcoming-anger-with-the-vedic-method-of-neti-neti-pot-clay2020-10-15T07:58:21.000Z2020-10-15T07:58:21.000ZYoga Vidyahttps://mein.yoga-vidya.de/members/YogaVidya<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8703027671?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>What is superimposition? How do you discriminate between your true self and what you belief to be your self. Learn the vedic method of ‘Neti-Neti’. Don’t identify with your body. Why did Arjuna choose Krishna instead of getting a big army in the battle? Arjuna struggels when he sees who he is supposed to fight against. He gets unhappy, doesn’t want to fight. This is our situation: We are unhappy and are searching a fundamental method to get happy in life. Perception from senses is unreal. We need to restrain our senses, to see the reality. Pot-clay comparison. What changes, doesn’t exist. The ‘I’ doesn’t change, everthing that changes - emotions, personality, job - are names and forms. They appear to be real. But names and forms aren’t real. All we know is a product of a word and an appearance. They are passing. They don’t exist. You are unaffected by everything in this dream. All ideas are in your mind, just like in the dream. The only reality in the dream is the consciousness that we call ‘I’. Here is only consciousness, not mine, not you. Consciousness can’t be heard, touched. But it is self-illuminate. You know it exists. You’ll become more tolerant and less pulled by thoughts and objects.
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Om Shanti</div>Value management and attaining unconditional love - James Swartz - Yoga of Love, Bhakti Sutrahttps://mein.yoga-vidya.de/video/value-management-and-attaining-unconditional-love-james-swartz2020-08-31T10:46:12.000Z2020-08-31T10:46:12.000ZYoga Vidyahttps://mein.yoga-vidya.de/members/YogaVidya<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8702750488?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div>In the satsang we create a sattvic atmosphere that makes it easier to focus on the knowledge. It is important to keep the knowledge active when the mind is rajasic or tamasic. When the values are assimilated the mind stays sattvic and the knowledge stays active.
A change in your lifestyle may be necessary to make the mind sattvic enough. Deliberate thinking is observing the mind, step back and think about it before you act. If necessary pause, collect your thoughts, you can edit your thoughts as they come up. Pay attention that the information is appropriate, kind, timely and
credible. Impulsive thinking has the need to react immediately.
11. Dispassion towards sense objects, for example music, food, sex. No obsession, except obsession for Vedanta. Assimilating these values, starting with an intellectual understanding brings you a lot of experiential and emotional satisfaction.
12. Renunciation and usterity. Eagerness to get rid of things and to live simply. Do not accumulate stuff.
13. Absence of egoism. It's about a simple recognition about the difference between my (real) Self and the ego (reflected self). Sadhana: Whenever you say the ‘I’ in the day-to-day activities ask yourself which ‘I’ is meant. This helps to discriminate. Keep track of your speech. Keep a short leash on your ego and let it walk in front of you.
14. Appreciation of time. Don’t waste time and go on with self-inquiry.
15. Absence of ownership. Is it your body or your children? Everything comes from isvara. Sadhana: Pay attention to the word ‘mine’.
16. Absence of excessive attachment to loved ones. Serve the people in your field with love but don’t get excessively attached.
17. Sameness of mind under all circumstances. Cultivate the value of a quiet mind and for sattva. Read the book Yoga of the three energies. Importance of the management of the gunas. You can remove most of the physical pain with guna management. Most of the daily pains are caused by blocked prana or tamasic energy.
18. Non-dual devotion to God.
19. Love of solitude. You can hear the silence speaking. Gradually work to it if you have a busy life.
20. Absence of craving for company. People can be in your life but you should have no need for it.
21. Constant practice of self-knowledge.
22. Value for completing or resolving things. Too much agitation prevents you from finishing projects and brings to starting new ones. Karma yoga
reduces your karmic load. The degree to what you reduce your karmic load is the degree to what your mind is peaceful. Tamasic people don’t want to complete things. Rajasic people want to complete things but they are too busy to do the completion. Consequence is that they are always agitated.
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When you find a consistent pattern of frustration, anger or depression there is some value that needs work. Apply the opposite value. If you are a selfish person then learn how to be generous. Value management is extremely important.
8. Jealousy and Envy: Rajas is the problem. Don’t compare yourself to others. If you don’t know who you are the bad values are obstacles and the good values are helpful. Pay attention with comparisons that make you feel inferior. Nobody is trying to make you feel inferior. You have to make yourself feel inferior or superior. Comparison leads to competition and competition leads to violence, anger and sometimes destruction. Jealousy and Envy are transformed anger
and they usually lead to depression. You are never jealous of a whole person only of an aspect. In other words, jealousy is a projection that masks an insufficient appreciation of my own nature and the abundance of good qualities that spring from it. A self-realized person is never jealous, because she is mindful of her fullness. The Bible’s statement that God is “a jealous God” means that when you know God you cannot love anything else. Shiva means what is always good at any place and time, that's me the self. Ask yourself: 'Why do I feel guilty?'. Without following dharma you won’t get enlightened. When I feel jealousy I should apply the opposite thought. If you realise that you are greedy try to be generous. Give 5 or 10 Euros to a beggar. When you break one of isvaras rules you should feel guilty.
9. A consistent effort to achieve a stated goal is required for self-knowledge because self-knowledge is not partial knowledge like worldly disciplines. Tapas with steadiness and devotion over a long period of time is necessary for self-realization. As the gunas are constantly changing the tapas should take guna management into account.
10. Mastery of mind: 4 types of thinking. Impulsive, mechanical, deliberate thinking and spontaneous thinking. Idea of instant gratification is a problem. Fast food: I want my food immediately. The mantra of impulsive people is: If it feels good do it. Better mantra: if it feels good think about it before you do it. You are bored to death doing and thinking the same things. Then you need entertainment, for example different food every day: You live to eat. If your mind is mechanical or impulsive it is not under your control. Convert these types of thinking to deliberate thinking with the help of Vedanta. Applying the opposite thought or always thinking from a non-dual perspective. Intuition is normally impulsive thinking. Learn to think like god from a perspective of love. Learn to think useful thoughts and avoid useless thoughts. Channeling. Value of visions. Meaning of angels and demons. Being separated from god is painful.
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Often they waste time and energy trying to save face or plotting revenge. Solution to these problems is inquiry into isvara. Where did your special qualities come from.
2. Pretension, Affectation: Claiming something that has no basis in fact. Creating fake identies brings a lot of stress. Problem of judging your value in comparison to other people.
3. Non-Injury: Mutual expectation of non injury. It may be injury if vegetarians hurt the feelings of non vegetarians. A bad thought doesn’t go to the other person. It stays in your mind and hurts yourself. You should think the opposite thought. Think before you speak or act. Only help people when they ask you for help.
4. Accommodation, Commodiousness: Making room for people in your life, being not too busy to pay attention to other people. People want to be heard. At least you
can spend enough time to find out what others want from you. Accomodation to the needs of others is a sign for a sense of nonduality. If you are aiming for sainthood, non-injury and accommodation are the minimum requirements. Wisdom and scriptural knowledge are not necessary, only these values.
5. Straightforwardness, Truthfulness. Your actions should be in line with your thoughts. Diplomacy and manners are helpful to communicate unpleasant information successfully.
6. Service to the Teacher. By keeping your mind on the Self, doing your karma yoga. The teacher has nothing to gain. Teacher wants to share the
love of god with you. 7. Cleanliness: Outer cleanliness. A mind with no secrets. Transparency. Being natural. The bad stuff was given to you by isvara too. It is not your fault. When you acknowledge your vulnerability and your selfishness you are over it.
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Verse 58: “Success is easier to attain by informal devotion than by any other means.” If you bring discipline into your life you do things that are good for you and your self esteem grows.
Verse 59: “Devotion is easiest because it does not depend on any other authority; it is self-validating.” In Vedanta you have to live according to the scripture. Verse 60: “Furthermore, devotion is the embodiment of peace and supreme joy.” Verse 61: “Once all worldly and spiritual duties are consigned to God, the devotee need not worry about gain and loss.” Ishvara takes care of your worldly affairs. Do the best every day and then see what happens. Manusha the one who thinks and worry.
Verse 62: “To attain non-dual devotion, do not abandon responsibilities in this world, but surrender the results of all actions to the Lord.”Expression of Karma Yoga. When you give the actions to the Lord then your worry stops. Karma Yoga and gratitude. Gratitude as a sadhana. Honesty and purity.
Verses 63, 64: “Don’t chase money or entertain yourself with sex. Don’t compromise your values and don’t quarrel with others. Relinquish false pride, hypocrisy and other vices.” Fearless moral inventory is necessary.
12 step program. Sorting out spiritual and material values. Fully assimilate the good values, renounce the bad values. In the Bhagavad Gita the values are called knowledge.
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different. You will have a new identity. The person that you think you are is a conceptual person, no actual person. You claim that subjective and objective events equal ‚I‘.
Transmigration: What reincarnates is the subtle body powered by the vasanas. Your parents will be selected by ishvara according to your vasanas. Non-eternal jiva. Eternal jiva is consciousness. It is the same ‚I‘ for everyone and it is eternal. Irrelevance of the personal story and the experiences of the person when you know your nature. I. Sense is an image or a reflection of the I. The reflection is not the Self. Vedanta is a complete teaching. Since we are multi faceted people we need to understand the self from different angles. 360 ° knowledge of the self and the world.
Verse 51: „The essential nature of pure love of God is beyond description.“ But you can know it.
Verse 52: “Trying to describe the experience of pure love of God is like a
mute trying to describe a particular taste.”
Verse 53: „Occasionally, pure love of God is revealed in a qualified person.” In great souls you find this kind of love that is totally different from worldly love.
Verse 54: “Pure love of God is devoid of material qualities and desires, manifests more and more every moment, is uninterrupted and is always experienced as one’s innermost consciousness.”
Verse 55 “Having discovered non-dual love, you see only the self everywhere, hear the self in every word, speak only of the self and think only of the self.” You can discover love but you can‘t make it happen. You get rid of your concepts and discover that you are love. The gunas influence the way you experience love. Then it is love conditioned by the gunas. Verse 56 “Secondary devotional service is of three kinds, according to which of the gunas predominates at any
time or according to the motivation – distress, desire or knowledge – that brings one to devotion.”
Verse 57: “Each succeeding type of devotee is superior to the preceding type.” Rajasic devotees are superior to tamasic devotees, sattvic devotees are superior to rajasic devotees and nondual devotees are superior to sattvic devotees. You need rajas to get out of tamas. Tamas means you live in a fantasy world. In rajas you are driven by ambition. You need sattva and knowledge to get out of rajas. Self inquiry renders the gunas non binding, so you can overcome attachment to sattva.
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Associate with good people and good thoughts. Spiritual people are samsaris dressed up in spiritual clothes. Tanmatras. Causal body causes you to do actions to feel better. Problem is that you have the wrong idea of who you are in the first place. Enlightened people are happy to turn over their karma to ishvara. Shankara: Self knowledge removes ignorance as light removes darkness. The thought ‘I am small, I am inadequate’ generates all the actions to feel better. Destroy it with the opposite thought.
Obstacle is attachment to ignorance. Ignorant people defend their beliefs when you suggest an alternative attitude. Ask yourself: is there any evidence that something is wrong with you? You should question what you have been told in light of your values and svabhava. A feeling is not a command. The tendency to fool yourself is very strong. A real guru and the scripture prevent you from that. You have to put you in a situation where you don’t get egoic.
Verse 48: “Who is capable of crossing Maya? The one who transcends the pairs of opposites and renounces the materialistic point of view.” You are valuable with normal hair. You don’t have to be special.
Verse 49: “Who is capable of transcending Maya? The one who renounces even the Vedas and obtains exclusive and unbroken love of God.” You contribute your love to the world.
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The scripture is never wrong. The problem is in my understanding. Consequences of association with negative people.
Verse 44: Association with materialists causes anger, confusion, forgetfulness, loss of intelligence and total spiritual calamity.
Verse 45: Rising like waves from association with objects, these bad effects amass into a great ocean of misery. You get a big samskara.
Verse 46: Only those who abandon material associations, serves the sages and becomes selfless crosses beyond maya.
Verse 47: The one who avoids society, loves solitude, lets go of the belief that there is security in worldly situations and transcends the gunas crosses beyond maya. You don’t want to change your state of mind. Gunas teaching. Awareness and the creation of the world. Causal and subtle body.
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Verse 38: nHowever, the primary method by which one develops devotion is association with great souls, that means a free person of the vedic tradition. Teacher who was taught properly. The teaching sets you free not the teacher.
Verse 39: Contact with great souls is rare, difficult to understand and infallible. The reason is that qualified students are rare. Great souls: you see the self in a person pretending to be a person. Great souls transform your life. The effects of meeting great souls are infallible. The spirit of renunciation is the essence.
Verse 40: The association of great souls can be obtained, but only by the grace of the Lord. Don’t seek them. Isvara will supply a great soul when you are
ready. Many schools are knowledge averse.
Verse 41: There is no difference between the Lord’s grace and the great souls that manifest it.
Verses 42-43: Strive only for God’s grace. By all means, renounce all relationships with ignorant, negative, selfcentered individuals.
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Knowledge is the only way to get free because I am already free. But I am ignorant of this fact. You know you exist and that you are conscious. But you don‘t know that you are limitless and free. Vedanta helps you to remove the notion that you are incomplete. The scriptures reveal something to you that you already know. Swami Chinmayananda: gurus are temporary psychological aide.
Verse 36: One achieves devotion by worshiping the Lord ceaselessly. Every action becomes a worship if you offer it to the Lord. Be a caretaker of all the things borrowed by the Lord.
Verse 37: One achieves devotion by hearing and talking about the Supreme Lord’s special qualities, in every relationship. Avoid gossip. The world is a
shining reflection of the Lord‘s glory. Go back to the source whenever you see an object. Isvara is both the intelligence and
the matter for the creation. Everything is Isvaras body. Two creation teachings: projection teaching and cause and effect
teaching. Mandukya Upanishad. Location of objects teaching.
You love love. We have to know that objects are love even though they don‘t look like love. You should question what you see and look deeper.
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Verse 26: Vedanta is a means of knwoledge, non-dual love is the end.
Verse 27: If you take credit for something that belongs to the Lord you won‘t like yourself. Your self knows it when you fake something. All glory should go to god. Bhakti means acknowledging the source. See the Mighty – How They Fall!
Verses 28+29: The more you know about god the more you love him. The more you love god the more you want to know about god. Dvaitas get stuck in humility. You can be humble and glorious at the same time. Isvara and god. Original and reflected consciousness.
Verse 30: Its all love. Actions can‘t produce non-dual love, only dual love. Self-knowledge can‘t produce non-dual love. It removes the ignorance. Love is your
nature.
Verses: 31-33: Prepare yourself by loving the people around you and your own imperfections. By giving love you are not loosing love. The source of love is infinite.
Chapter III: presents formal dualistic practices required for achieving unconditional love and emphasizes the value of values.
Verse 34: A teaching presented by the tradition not by a person.
Verse 35: One gains devotion by giving up sense gratifications and associations with worldly objects. Simple lifestyle is necessary.
Isvara is the devotee of the devotees. Think of the Lord in every activity. Anger happens. I am not the doer of the anger. Advaita shuffle. Actions have to be appropriate and timely to produce the right result. Jiva has a responsibility. In every situation there is something unknown.
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Non-duality are not opposites. You can be and experience your self at the same time. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego to
become the self. Parinama, substance, name and form. Not two.
The self is no object but it is always present and always experienced. Unfortunately it is not always known. Claiming the self as your primary identity. Your identy as a person doesn’t go away. Dvaita bhakti is an intelligent use of my free will.
Samsara problem is: transacting with something other than you. Vedanta solves the problem of experience and knowledge. The knowledge gives you the permanent appreciation of your self as love. There is only one love. A non-dual bhakta is still a person.
Just being and knowing your are the self doesn’t change the life as a person. If you want to create something in the mithya dimension you have to do the work there. Non-dual love is understanding that satya and mithya are in different dimensions. Superimposing the perfection of the self onto the
jiva. But the jiva never becomes perfect. There is no connection between the self and the world. You know you are free as the self although duality is happening in you. Verse 23: You look at people in terms of what they can do for you. Selfish relationships develop. The heart that gives gathers. The needs of the Lord come first. He who eats the remnants of the sacrifice incurs no skin. The joy of offering your self as a service. The joy of doing the right thing is more important than getting any object. Course in miracles and Vedanta. Rama is taking his joy from following dharma, doing the right thing. By acting with selfishness you inhibit your growth.
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1. Sakama Bhakti
2. Nishkama Bhakti. Praying to Isvara to resist your desires. “Zorba the Buddha” versus “Sin intelligently”.
3. Istha Devata Abyasa, Personal deity
4. Visvat svarupa. Worship of everything
5. Non-Duality.
Verse 11: Suitable values. Crazy wisdom gurus. Follow dharma to protect society. Verse 12: Firmly commit yourself to maintaining an ethical code even after your devotion to Isvara/God is firm. Verse 13: As long the notion of doership is present there is the danger of a fall. Enlightenment Sickness.
Dharma trumps enlightenment. Verse 14: For as long as the body lasts, one should minimally engage in worldly activities and only perform those actions necessary to sustain the body.
Non-dual devotion is expectation-free. Verses 15-22. Various definitions of the characteristics of devotion. Love in presence, love in absence. Unconditional love. Verse 23: If you forget that every person is your self, only selfish passion remains.
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Verse 4: Supreme love of your self. The immortality benefit. All your worries stop, no tension anymore. The instinct to do something to survive is produced by ignorance. Its a beautiful world.
Verses 5-7: Everything is perfect. Teaching is perfect. No need for a new teaching. It does not generate desires. Turning everything over to the Lord. You are like a baby.
Verse 8: Spirit of renunciation. You hurt yourself with the fear thought. Its good to get rid of things. Renunciation of worldy and spiritual duties.
The wonderful power of desire to make the lifes of people better. Desire is your life force. Verse 9: For renunciate objects are value neutral because they are inert, matter. Value is projected of conscious beings on inert objects. You only experience the thought of an object. The location of objects teaching. Inference versus direct perception. The value of an object is projected by your conditioning depending on your values.
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