Qn: In many countries, investigating agencies extract confessions, change the personality, do brain-washing.
Religious and Yogic practices are similar to brain-washing such as 'God is good', 'the Guru knows', 'faith will save me'.
This pre-arranged conversion, obvious or hidden, religious or political, ethical or social, may look genuine and lasting, yet there is a feeling of artificiality about it.
Ans: You are right. By hardship, mind gets dislocated, precarious and in deeper bondage.
Qn: Then why Sadhana?
Ans: The Self is so self confident that unless it is totally discouraged, it will not give up.
Qn: The brain-washer drives me mad and the Guru drives me sane. The driving is similar.
Ans: Pain has to be endured and not overcome.
Qn: All religions preach acceptance and surrender. We are encouraged to plead guilty- a compulsive suggestion. There is not much that is voluntary in a 'voluntary' Sadhana.
I can change the mental metabolism as little as the physical. When asked to meditate for 16 hours, can I do it without extreme violence to my self.
Ans: It is not the teacher, but mind that is violent. The Self in relation to itself is neither violent nor nonviolent. It is either aware or unaware of itself. I exist everywhere and at all times.
Imagine a tree asking a monkey: " Do you mean that you can move from place to place" and the monkey saying " Yes, I do".
I am beyond miracles. I do not interfere with creation. The greatest miracle is happening all the time. True enquiry is into something, not out of something. Constraint and suppression is not Yoga.
Meditate and give attention. There is no perfection in manifestation. Do not expect perfection.
Qn: What is lust?
Ans: Remembering, imagining, contemplating. It is sensory and verbal.
Qn: Is Brahmacharya-continence imperative in Yoga?
Ans: A life of suppression and constraint is not Yoga. Mind must be free of desires and relaxed. An understanding mind is free.
Religious and Yogic practices are similar to brain-washing such as 'God is good', 'the Guru knows', 'faith will save me'.
This pre-arranged conversion, obvious or hidden, religious or political, ethical or social, may look genuine and lasting, yet there is a feeling of artificiality about it.
Ans: You are right. By hardship, mind gets dislocated, precarious and in deeper bondage.
Qn: Then why Sadhana?
Ans: The Self is so self confident that unless it is totally discouraged, it will not give up.
Qn: The brain-washer drives me mad and the Guru drives me sane. The driving is similar.
Ans: Pain has to be endured and not overcome.
Qn: All religions preach acceptance and surrender. We are encouraged to plead guilty- a compulsive suggestion. There is not much that is voluntary in a 'voluntary' Sadhana.
I can change the mental metabolism as little as the physical. When asked to meditate for 16 hours, can I do it without extreme violence to my self.
Ans: It is not the teacher, but mind that is violent. The Self in relation to itself is neither violent nor nonviolent. It is either aware or unaware of itself. I exist everywhere and at all times.
Imagine a tree asking a monkey: " Do you mean that you can move from place to place" and the monkey saying " Yes, I do".
I am beyond miracles. I do not interfere with creation. The greatest miracle is happening all the time. True enquiry is into something, not out of something. Constraint and suppression is not Yoga.
Meditate and give attention. There is no perfection in manifestation. Do not expect perfection.
Qn: What is lust?
Ans: Remembering, imagining, contemplating. It is sensory and verbal.
Qn: Is Brahmacharya-continence imperative in Yoga?
Ans: A life of suppression and constraint is not Yoga. Mind must be free of desires and relaxed. An understanding mind is free.
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