“Use the light of awareness to access your spirit path.”
My Divine Loves, I suspend my activities for a while, leaving you with a wonderful yin practice, just as valuable for men as for women, which is about what I myself need to work on more absorbedly now. Balancing fire and water. Smoothly working through layers that seemingly hinder the sacred union.
Even just watching this, without being a yoga or qigong practitioner, helps one dissolve in joy. Thank you Marisa for such peaceful generosity.
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What in your life is calling you, when all the noise is silenced, the meetings adjourned, the lists laid aside, and the wild iris blooms by itself in the dark forest, what still pulls on your soul?
When we say Shiva… The word Shiva has become synonymous with the third eye. The third eye… What it means…
These two eyes are to look outside. These two eyes are capable of showing you the physicality of the existence; these two eyes can only perceive that which is physical.
The third eye is an inward-faced eye. It’s not gonna open up upon your forehead. The third eye is an inward-looking eye. But you have heard stories, “Shiva opened his eyes, and he burned Kama”.
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In India there is a god of love and lust, called Kama (“kama” means lust, which you don’t like to face head-on, so you make it love [audience laugh]; because you need some aesthetic to it). So… He hides behind a tree, and shoots an arrow. And Shiva is hurt. Target is found and Shiva gets a little disturbed. Then he sees it’s Kama (that is, it’s his own lust coming up). Then he opens up his third eye, a fiery eye, and burns Kama, who is hiding behind a tree. Burned him into ashes. Then Shiva took the ashes of this burnt Kama; smeared himself. That put these things to rest for good.
That is the general story told to the people. But you tell me: your lust arises within you, or behind the tree?
Now, you may go behind the tree; that’s another matter… [Roaring laughter]
But where does it arise? Within you! Desire is not hanging outside. It is not because a beautiful woman or a beautiful man is sitting there that your desire comes. Because the desire, the kama, is within you.
So he opened his third eye. And burned the kama within himself. Not the one who is standing outside. Because he never, ever stood outside.
Please look at this and see. Your lustfulness, your desiring nature, never ever stood outside. It only stood inside.
So he opened his third eye; not this way [pointing outward]. Inward! Then he saw; this lustfulness. Which essentially means that some aspects are built into you, which make you feel incomplete. So you think you will find completion only by going towards something or somebody.
Lust is not just about the opposite sex. Shopping is lust! Because you have to go towards something. Only then life will be complete. Every desire is lust! Because,
“Without that, I cannot exist! I want that, because only when I have that, this [lightly thumping his chest with both fists] will be complete!”
It may be a thing, it may be a position, it may be power, it may be sexuality… It doesn’t matter what it is. Essentially lust means, it creates a sense of incompleteness within you. And a longing for something, that it makes you feel, if you don’t have that, you are not complete.
So he decides to burn the kama within himself. He burned the kama, and then, instead of sweat, ash oozed out of the pores of his body. This is the yogic story. The common story told to the public is, he was hiding behind a tree, and burned him; opened his eyes and burned him; and then he took that ash and smeared himself. The yogic dimension of the story is, kama arose within him, he opened his third eye, burned him, and then ash slowly oozed out of his body, clearly showing him, everything is laid to rest.
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[Video concludes with introduction to next episode]
Everything that you know as yourself should die. When I say death, it’s not the physical death which is a problem.
The question is your losing “Everything that I know as myself right now”. Your personality. Your identity.
Once you learn to be an individual beyond physiological and psychological formats, that means you are for good. This is what living death means. So if you know how to be an individual, still, without physiological and psychological format, you are a living death. If you are a living death, you are eternal in your existence.
It is time that you become living death, so that you live eternally.
Freely offered below,
designed and recorded by me,
three very simple and efficient
Surya Namaskar timers.
Audios of 12, 18 & 24 rounds of asanas
with tempo-inbuilt warmups and cooldowns.
Only requirements for our lives’ simplest,
shortest, all-round health promoting exercise:
a basic level of fitness, a small room and a yoga mat.
After a few minutes of inplace walking as a sweet warmup,
play any of the three audios, according to your available time,
to enjoy a quiet session of sacredly connecting light with Light.
Even the first shortest one can keep us strong and balanced for life.
On waking up, after two glasses of gratefully sipped lukewarm water.
If you are not familiar with the
Surya Namaskar sequence of asanas, This Videois one of the best to get you started.
And here are my timers for you to freely download:
Yoga does have its physical aspect that helps us be inhabiting our fleshy temples reverently empowered and glowing, in a way that stays with us even when they weaken. Here is an asana I am incorporating at the end of my routine after having been almost daily practicing the Surya Namaskar with self-made timers for longer than half a year; the Prasarita Padottanasana, very clearly and extensively presented by the brilliantly adept instructor Gayathri Ramesh:
Because what is human, is not an established state.
It is a possibility. It is not a fixed state.
If this possibility has to be made use of,
there is a whole system of understanding
that needs to happen; understanding
the mechanics of how this life functions,
and what we can do with it.
This mechanics,
this technology,
this science,
we are referring to
as yoga.
I don’t know 🙏 what types of stuff you’re doing, but my experience in United States, particularly in California… A lot of people believe, yoga started in California. [Audience laugh] Yes? I met someone who seriously believed it was Madonna who started yoga! [Laughter] Yes?
So this mechanics of life, is as simple as this:
I’m sure almost all of you are carrying an instrument, some kind of electronic instrument… A phone at least. The more you know about this phone, the better you can use it. Is that so?
Last year [2013], the cell phone companies in India made a survey.
India is the largest, you know, growing market for telecommunications right now. Every month we’re adding about five and a half million cell phones. Okay. In a year, about sixty million cell phones are being added to the service. Because everybody’s having three, four, five these days. [Laughter]
They made a survey… [at this very moment, a ringtone goes off in the audience, making everybody burst into laughter]
That’s the second one; you haven’t heard the first one.
[Resuming] …They made a survey, and they found out that ninety-seven percent of the people are using only seven percent of the capabilities that are there in an ordinary phone. I’m not talking about the smart phone; I’m talking about the dumb phone. In the dumb phone, ninety-seven percent of the people are using only seven percent of its capabilities.
So they were contemplating: If we remove ninety percent of the electronics, still most people will never know… And we can even give them a five-hundred-rupee discount! They will be happy, we will be happy…
You know? Maybe they’ve already taken it off; we don’t know… Only if you try to use all of them, all the functions, then you’ll realize, something is not working.
So, in a little gadget, you’re using only seven percent.
[Opens his arms] This
is The gadget.
Every damn gadget
has come out of this.
How much percentage do you think are you employing this gadget? Just make a guess. [Looks around in the audience] Mm? How much percentage?
Two? Five?
You’re being very generous to yourself. [All laugh]
It’s well below one percent. Because, for your survival process, to conduct your life in the material world, you do not even need one percent of what this is.
This is capable of perceiving
the whole cosmos.
If you prepare it properly,
if you hold it,
just like an antenna [slightly shifts his torso],
if you hold it in the right position,
it can just grasp everything in the existence.
It is just that we are doing all kinds of things with it,
because right now, our whole perception of life
is limited to the physical nature of the existence.
Physical, is like the peel of the fruit.
It has no purpose of its own.
In the sense… if you have a fruit, the moment you eat the fruit, the peel goes straight to the trash can. Isn’t it?
The peel is only a package.
Only because the fruit is valuable,
package is important.
Right now as you sit here, this body is very important. You have to feed this, you have to clothe this, you have to decorate this… You have to pamper this, in so many ways.
Tomorrow morning, that something inside, which you never experienced, if that goes away, nobody wants to have any business with this. Yes? Only because the fruit is inside, this peel has become very valuable.
Now, yoga means, not just about twisting your body, not about standing on your head, not about holding your breath… All these things, a circus artist can do better than most yogis. Really. Yes or no? Don’t you think so? A circus artist can do far better than most yogis in terms of twisting the body, doing this, doing that, holding different positions… That is not the purpose of yoga. Unfortunately, if you utter the word yoga, people think you have to be in some impossible posture. Yoga is not about postures. It is just a minuscule aspect of yoga.
Yoga means,
in your experience,
everything has become one 🙏
The word yog means “union”.
What is the union? What can unite with what?
As you sit here, your idea, and your sense, and your experience of who you are is very strong. You’re here, as an individual!
But what the trees are exhaling right now, you’re inhaling. What you’re exhaling, the trees are inhaling. Or in other words, one half of your lung is hanging out there. [Laughter] Yes or no?
This is not just in terms of breath. Today modern physics is proving to you that as you sit here, every subatomic particle in your body is in constant transaction with everything else in the existence. If this transaction stops, you will cease to exist.
So yoga means
to know it by experience.
Modern science is proving to you,
the whole existence is just one energy.
The religions of the world have been screaming for a long time that God is everywhere. Whether you say “God is everywhere”, or you say “Everything is one energy”, are we talking about the same reality? Or a different reality?
“God is everywhere”, “Everything is same energy”;
are we talking about the same reality or different reality?
Same reality!
It is just that a scientist has never experienced this;
he has arrived at it through mathematical deductions.
A religious person has not experienced it; he believes it,
because it’s written somewhere, or it’s said by somebody.
If you are a hard case,
that you’re not willing
to settle for deductions
or belief systems, then
you become a yogi.
[Laughter]
Yes, if you’re a very hard nut,
you want to know it yourself.
Then you become a yogi.
You want to know the union of the existence.
You want to know the oneness of what it is.
Not believing it.
Like you experience the five fingers of your hand,
if you can experience everything around you,
then we say
you are
in yoga.
