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Spiritual teachings by Shunyamurti, the founder and director of the Sat Yoga Ashram - a wisdom school, ashram, and the home of a vibrant spiritual community based in Costa Rica. Visit us at satyoga.org
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Thursday Mar 11, 2010
Practicing Intensive Non-Practice - 03.11.10
Thursday Mar 11, 2010
Thursday Mar 11, 2010
Student Question: The other day I was watching a satsang of Ramesh Balsekar on the internet, and he was giving the explanation of Advaita, the manifestation of consciousness through the bodily organism, etc., etc. And he always emphasizes that there is predestination, that Realization happens to one bodily organism no matter what you do or not. And then on the other hand, I have these Buddhists talking about practices and merits. What do you think about that? And, also, there are many gurus from the Advaita tradition who will laugh at you and say, "Practice what? You already are that. You don’t need to practice anything in order to realize that. You don’t need to do anything." So what is the middle way?
“You have to practice intensively non-practice,” unveils Shunyamurti, the spiritual guru of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And although it is true that there is predestination, there is also free will. It may be predestined that you will decide to practice whereas someone else won’t. But that will only happen because you have chosen out of your free will.” And, in regards to spiritual practice, “as long as there is a false belief that you are that ego, then that ego better practice realizing that it’s not!” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 11, 2010.
Thursday Mar 11, 2010
A Brief History of Ego Development - 03.11.10
Thursday Mar 11, 2010
Thursday Mar 11, 2010
Student Question: I was wondering how the ego evolved in the very beginning: so from the first person who had an ego.
“Humans didn’t have egos at first. It was a later cultural development,” reveals Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Although it would take an entire lecture or even seminar to understand this, Shunyamurti briefly details the entropy process that affects the human spirit in which human consciousness becomes identified with an ego and a body image, and the potential return to our previous spiritual stature. Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 11, 2010.Thursday Mar 04, 2010
Inside the Temple - 03.04.10
Thursday Mar 04, 2010
Thursday Mar 04, 2010
“You are all sacred beings,” says Shunyamurti, the spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Shunyamurti further elucidates, “There are profane beings and there are sacred beings. The word ‘profane,’ comes from pro fana—before the temple; it’s those who stand outside the temple. And then those who enter the temple, become sacred beings.” And only by entering the “holiest of holies,” the most sacred temple, the realm of the Real Self, may we complete our inward journey. “We are in the temple because we know that the only way out of the suffering of the profane world is to enter into the sacred dimension of our being.”
“And so at the first level, yes, the body is our temple. And then there is another level where we realize the mind is our temple, the personality, the ego. But we have to go deeper within, beyond those levels, and let the personal levels of our being drop away in order to get to the transpersonal nucleus, the core, the Self of our Self. And to reach that Supreme Self requires the most intense purity and intensity of desire.” This is meditation. “And if we have that desire to find out the ultimate truth of who we are, and to achieve union with the Supreme Self that is within us, that is our essence, then that will be given.”
“And so until there has been a disconnect from the profane identity, and a complete reunion with the sacred identity—that is ultimately in union already with the Supreme Being because you are That. Until you are ready to live in the truth of That realization, then there will continue to be suffering and vacillation, and oscillation, and a lack of peace. But the moment that that desire is wholehearted, literally the doors of the temple will open. . . . So let us meditate with the intention that now is the eternal moment for the moth to dive into the Supreme Flame and melt into the infinite, eternal Self.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 4, 2010.