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Respiratory
Exercises
Important
Acupressure Points
(murmas)
Therapeutic Postures
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Nadi-Shuddhi: calm
in-breathing and out-breathing
The subtler the in-breathing and out-breathing, the mightier the
force. In this calm in-breathing and outbreathing, the peace has to be visualised. "If properly done, it drives out every lurking disease in the body."
In the following breathing
exercise, mid-chest, followed by calm abdominal breathing is done rhythmically.
Do not force. Imagine that the life-energy is flowing to all the vital organs in
and around the abdominal region. It removes toxic gases and builds strong
muscle
Glossary
Abhyasa: constant practice (usually of a spiritual
discipline).
Arya (Aryan): the good and noble man; he who fights and
overcomes inwardly and outwardly all that stands opposed to human advance.
Bhakti: devotion; in yoga, the path of love and devotion.
Buddhi: the intellect, the reason; the thinking and
discriminating mind.
Citta: the mental substance; the basic consciousness.
Kshoba: disturbance; vibration.
Manas: the mind proper, distinct from the intellect (buddhi)
and the sense-mind.
Nadi shuddhi: purification of the nerves.
Prakriti: Nature; the executive Force of the Purusha.
Purusha, manomaya purusha, sakshi, anumanta, ishwara:
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INVOLUTION-EVOLUTION
Before there could be any evolution, there must needs be an
involution of the Divine All that is to emerge. Otherwise there would be not an
evolution, but a successive creation of things new, not contained in their
antecedents, not their inevitable consequences or followers in a sequence but
arbitrarily willed or miraculously conceived by an inexplicable Chance, a
stumblingly fortunate Force or an external Creator.
The long process of terrestrial
formation and creation, the ambiguous miracle of life, the struggle of mind to
appear and grow in an apparent vast Ignorance and to reign there as interpreter
and creator and master, the
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BEGINNING OF TRANSFORMATION
You must dismiss the fear of concentration. The emptiness you
feel coming on you is the silence of the great peace in which you become aware
of your self, not as the small ego shut up in the body, but as the spiritual
self wide as the Universe. Consciousness is not dissolved; it is but the limits
of the consciousness that are dissolved. In that silence thoughts may cease for
a time, there may be nothing but a great limitless freedom and wideness, but
into that silence, that empty wideness descends the vast peace from above,
light, bliss, knowledge, the higher Consciousness in which you feel the Oneness
of the Divine. It is the
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THE NEED OF AN INTEGRAL EDUCATION
FOR A CHANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The Training of the Senses
There are six senses which minister to knowledge, sight,
hearing, smell, touch and taste, mind, and all of these except the last look
outward and gather the material of thought from outside through the physical
nerves and their end organs, eye, ear, nose, skin, palate. The perfection of the
senses as ministers to thought must be one of the first cares of the teacher.
The two things that are needed of the senses are accuracy and sensitiveness. We
must first understand what are the obstacles to the accuracy and sensitiveness
of the senses, in order that we may
Dr. Karan Singh
MEMBER OF
PARLIAMENT
RAJYA
SABHA
(UPPER
HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT)
PRESIDENT
INDIAN COUNCIL FOR
CULTURAL RELATIONS
(ICCR)
PREFACE
It is extraordinary how deep were
the insights of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, not only into the inner spiritual
path but also in its outer manifestation in a world which, despite considerable
material progress, is still torn with conflict and strife, poverty and
malnutrition, illiteracy and disease. The work of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother
stands as a monumental heritage of the human race. There have been many
compilations f
VIDYA AND AVIDYA
Vidya, the Knowledge of unity
Avidya — the Knowledge of the
multiplicity
THE ONE AND THE MANY
Knowledge and Ignorance
There are always two possible views of the Universe. The one
supposes with modern science and the knowledge of the multiplicity (Avidya),
matter to be the beginning of things, and studies everything as a process of
material evolution. If it is true, as material science maintains, that matter is
the source and beginning of all things, how do you explain the emergence of
mind, life, of Spirit? For if there was no conscious force behind matter, matter
would know only its own static existence.
The other i
The Knowledge
within
The Source — The Breath — The Five
Elements
The Body or Matter
Compiled from the works of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
by Kalu Sarkar
First Edition 24th
November 2012
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© Copyright: Kalu Sarkar 2012
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Quotations from the works of Sri
Aurobindo and The Mother are reproduced with kind permission of the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Trust.
CREATION
Everything begins with vibration or movement, the original
kshobha
or disturbance. If there is no
movement of the conscious being, it can only know its own pure static existence.
Without vibration or movement of being in consciousness there can be no act of
knowledge and therefore no sense; without vibration or movement of being in
force there can be no object of sense.
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Creation is not a making of something out of nothing or one
thing out of another, but a self-projection of Brahman. Creation is not a
making but a becoming in terms of conscious existence.56
Spirit exists from the beginning and was before any beginning,
infinite and sempiternal, bu
THE LIFE-FORCE
THE DYNAMIC LINK BETWEEN MIND AND
MATTER
What we need to do
To reject doubts means control of
one's thoughts - very certainly so. But to control of one's thoughts is as
necessary as the control of one's body - for the yoga, and not for the yoga
only. One cannot be a fully developed mental being even, if one has not a
control of the thoughts, is not their observer, judge, master, the mental
Purusha, Monomaya Purusha, Saksi, Anumanta, Iswara.
It is more proper for the mental
being to be the tennis ball of a rudderless ship in the storm of the desires and
passions or the slave of either the mertia or the impulses of the body. I kno