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YOGA
Kill therefore with the
sword of wisdom the doubt born of ignorance that lies in thy
heart. Be one in self-harmony, in Yoga, and arise, great
warrior, arise.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
No step is lost on this
path, and no dangers found.
And even a little progress is freedom from fear.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad Gita
Having received instructions
in Yoga, and obtained a Guru who knows Yoga, let him practice
with earnestness and faith, according to the method taught by
the teacher.
--Shiva, The Shiva
Samhita
The Hatha Yoga cannot be
obtained without the Raja Yoga, nor can the Raja Yoga be
obtained without the Hatha Yoga. Therefore, let the Yogi learn
the Hatha Yoga from the instructions of the wise teacher.
--Shiva, The Shiva
Samhita
The true treasure is
balanced self-conscious awareness.
--Goswami Kriyananda
CHAKRAS
A chakra is a mass-energy
converter.
--Goswami Kriyananda
In this body, the mount
Meru – i.e., the spinal column – is surrounded by seven
islands [the chakras]; there are rivers [nadis], seas,
mountains, fields; and lords of the fields too.
--Shiva, The Shiva
Samhita
In the heart there is a
brilliant lotus [chakra] with twelve petals adorned with
brilliant signs.
--Shiva, The Shiva
Samhita
CIVILIZATION
What the spiritual life is
about is that you have to become nobler than the civilization
you are in.
--Goswami Kriyananda
GOD
God himself culminates in
the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse
of all the ages.
--Thoreau, Walden
Know that with one single
fraction of my Being I pervade and support the Universe, and
know that I AM.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
And when a man sees that the
God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not
himself by hurting others; then he goes indeed to the highest
path.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
My God is not imaginary.
God appears to me like all of you appear to me.
--Swami Kripalvananda
You are not the children of
God. You are self-created. You are the self-existent one. God
is just your elder brother.
--Goswami Kriyananda
KARMA
Forgiveness is the greatest
weapon.
--Neem Karoli Baba
The theory of karma is
really simple: Life is teaching us the lessons that we have
chosen to learn, in a way that is fastest and easiest, so that
we sustain the least injury.
--Goswami Kriyananda
All negative destiny is
rooted in greed, jealousy, and hatred.
--Goswami Kriyananda
Karma is your personalized
unfinished curriculum for future enlightenment.
--yogi tom
KUNDALINI
Awakening of kundalini is
one of the greatest events in the life of a yogi. It is the
destiny of mankind, so why not go ahead with it?
--Swami Satyananda
Saraswati
Meditate to raise the
kundalini. Think about God; it will go right up.
--Neem Karoli Baba
LOVE
Only by love can men see me,
and know me, and come unto me.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
Stop trying to be liked, and
just be lovable. Stop worrying about being loved, and just
love.
--Goswami Kriyananda
The great task of life on
Earth is to raise the plane of our consciousness and increase
our capacity to love."
--Mantak
Chia
MEDITATION
Meditation is integral to
yoga. If there is no meditation in the practice, it cannot be
called yoga.
--Swami Kripalvananda
This in fact is the aim of
yoga, to allow one to meditate while being involved in worldly
activities.
--Swami Satyananda Saraswati
MUDRAS
Out of the many mudras, the
following ten are the best:
- Mahamudra
- Mahabandha
- Mahavedha
- Khechari
- Jalandhar
- Mulabandha
- Viparitkarana
- Uddhana
- Vajrondi
- Shaktichalana
--Shiva, The Shiva
Samhita
NONVIOLENCE
And when a man sees that the
God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not
himself by hurting others; then he goes indeed to the highest
path.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
NOSTRILS – IDA/PINGALA
When the air enters the sun,
it is the proper time for the Yogi to take his food (i.e., when
the breath flows through the right nostril or Pingala);
when the air enters the moon, he should go to sleep (when the
breath flows through the left nostril or the Ida).
--Shiva, The Shiva
Samhita
The syllable “ha” means the
sun and the syllable “tha” means the moon. The right nostril is
called the fiery flow energy channel or the sun channel and the
left nostril is called the cooling flow energy channel or the
moon channel.
--Swami Kripalvananda,
Revealing the Secret
PRANAYAMA
Pranayama is the soul of
yoga.
Pranayama is the king of all
exercises.
Prana is the link between
the soul and the physical body.
The one most useful to all
is called anuloma viloma pranayama.
--Swami Kripalvananda
Practicing yoga postures
with deep sensitivity to the breath is ten times more beneficial
than postures done without breath awareness.
--Swami Kripalvananda
PURIFICATION
A significant number of
earnest spiritual seekers take up the practice of yoga.
Unfortunately, many stop because exactly the right thing
happens. That thing is purification.
--Swami Kripalvananda
REINCARNATION
I have been born many times,
Arjuna, and many times hast thou been born. But I remember my
past lives, and thou hast forgotten thine.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
SANATANA DHARMA
First practiced by the
rishis of ancient India, Sanatana Dharma is not a sectarian
creed or point of view. It is the performance of skillful
actions that lead one to the direct realization of truth.
--Swami Kripalvananda
The highest principle of
Sanatana Dharma is Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, “the whole
world is one family”.
--Swami Kripalvananda
SIN
For even if the greatest
sinner worships me with all his soul, he must be considered
righteous, because of his righteous will.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
THE SOUL
A spark of my eternal Spirit
becomes in this world a living soul; and this draws around its
centre the five senses and the mind resting in nature.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
The soul is the small form
and the human body is the huge form.
--Neem Karoli Baba
We are consciousness moving
through time.
--Goswami Kriyananda
SPIRITUAL PATH
I found in myself, and still
find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual
life...
--Thoreau, Walden
I went to the woods [entered
the spiritual path] because I wished to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
--Thoreau, Walden
SWORD SYMBOLISM
Kill therefore with the
sword of wisdom the doubt born of ignorance that lies in thy
heart. Be one in self-harmony, in Yoga, and arise, great
warrior, arise.
--Krishna, The Bhagavad
Gita
TONGUE
When the skillful Yogi, by
placing the tongue at the root of the palate, can drink the
prana vayu, then … he is no longer in need of Yoga.
--Shiva, The Shiva
Samhita
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