Nirmala Srivastava Quotes About Yoga
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A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it. Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right.
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You should be able to use your intellect and not to be dominated by your intellect.
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When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no thought. It's complete absorption which takes place. And then it manifests. This is how the Divine Power works within us. So with our gravity, what we do is to touch that depth within us, which can carry the Divine Power and manifest.
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The wisdom or the essence of Guru Tattwa is a balance. Like when you maintain a plant, if you do not give it water it will die. If you give it too much water, it will die. So the wisdom lies in understanding how much water should be given to the plant, so that it comes up at its best. Now this wisdom has to be achieved through your vibratory awareness.
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Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.
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If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.
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Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every hue of it, every touch of it. That is what one has to learn by reasoning that Sahaja Yoga is nothing but - is love.
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Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.
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I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.
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Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen? But people are very much confused between fun and the pleasure. The pleasure is nice to begin with and horrible to end with. But fun is a treasure. Anything that is full of fun you remember all your life.
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Spirit is the only truth within us, the rest is all untruth.
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Joy only can be achieved through complete detachment, the detachment which is egoless and superegoless.
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The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.
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You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?
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To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.
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We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us.
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How to get rid of the greed is the point and to get rid of the greed is that if I buy something - for whom should I buy this one, for whom should I buy? Ah, this will be all right for another friend of mine, like that. If you train your mind on these lines, not for yourself, but for others, then you'll be amazed this greed will run away and you'll have joy.
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We must understand that our education now is going to be sincerity, to speak from your own heart and not from outside.
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One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.
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Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.
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You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness, you cannot grow in your spirituality. So it's very important to see where is your attention. Where are you putting your attention? If the attention could be controlled then things will be all right.
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There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
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Truth is in your sahasrara. And when the truth comes in, you are surprised that truth is love and love is truth, pure love.
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What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.
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So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.
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You cannot intellectualize the Divine. You have to experience it on your central nervous system.
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Sahaja Yoga is like a tree which requires love as the water.
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You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.
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Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.
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Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.
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