To tell you the truth, I never came to a point where I felt I was at the end of a technique's potential.

At a certain moment, the technique might naturally "dissolve itself" though, because you reach a state of unity, inner peace or absolute awareness.

When this happens, you can let go of the technique and abide in this new state.

When this happens, it feels like the spirit "takes over". You feel like you are there.

Of course, you can come back to the technique if you feel like you loose focus again,

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When you wake up your universal identity, it is essential that your channels of energy stay clear.

Waking up your energy expands your being, but to stay clear you as well need to increase your inner power and the clarity of your inner channels.

Breathing techniques, singing, dancing, postures all clear up your inner channels and make sure that your life force flows harmoniously.

You want to stay in a state of inner freedom rather than having your mind and body cluttered with undigested emotions and energies.

Most of this happens naturally through conscious positive life style choices.

Every action you take has an impact.

If you sing a power word, you invoke the energy behind that word and it naturally flows through your being and impacts right where it is needed the most.

The energy you invoke is intelligent.

It naturally does what it is supposed to.

Every now and then, you give nature a little help by consciously participating in your energizing process.

You will breathe a little deeper or a little faster to stimulate the flow of life force in your body.

In my mind, life force, kundalini and energy are all synonyms.

I don't really separate these concepts.

This simplifies things.

You are in a state of freedom when life force flows freely through your being.

If you feel undigested emotions in you, these tend to stay stacked in your system until you invoke or use a power strong enough to clear them.

When your level of power is high, this means that your energy channels are strong.

In that case, negative emotions and thoughts simply stay naturally out of your system.

They are cleared before they even touch you.

The higher your level of inner power, the freer you feel.

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Babaji, the yogi-christ of modern India

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

 

THE NORTHERN Himalayan crags near Badrinarayan are still blessed by the living presence of Babaji, guru of Lahiri Mahasaya. The secluded master has retained his physical form for centuries, perhaps for millenniums. The deathless Babaji is an avatara. This Sanskrit word means "descent"; its roots are ava, "down," and tri, "to pass." In the Hindu scriptures, avatara signifies the descent of Divinity into flesh.
       "Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension," Sri Yukteswar explained to me. "The dwarfed vision of men can't pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It's inconceivable."
       The Upanishads have minutely classified every stage of spiritual advancement. A siddha ("perfected being") has progressed from the state of a jivanmukta ("freed while living") to that of a paramukta ("supremely free"—full power over death); the latter has completely escaped from the mayic thraldom and its reincarnational round. The paramukta therefore seldom returns to a physical body; if he does, he is an avatar, a divinely appointed medium of supernal blessings on the world.
       An avatar is not subject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to nature. The casual gaze may see nothing extraordinary in an avatar's form but it casts no shadow nor makes any footprint on the ground. These are outward symbolic proofs of an inward lack of darkness and material bondage. Such a God-man alone knows the Truth behind the relativities of life and death. Omar Khayyam, so grossly misunderstood, sang of this liberated man in his immortal scripture, the Rubaiyat:

"Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again;
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same Garden after me—in vain!"

The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never. The "Moon of Heav'n" is the outward cosmos, fettered to the law of periodic recurrence. Its chains had been dissolved forever by the Persian seer through his self-realisation. "How oft hereafter rising shall she look . . . after me—in vain!" What frustration of search by a frantic universe for an absolute omission!

The rendering of Scott-Fitzgerald is not so good. The mature translation by Dr. Roberb Graves and Omar Ali-Shah is far better. Terms found in Fitzgerald's version disappear in the better one. [ Check]

Christ expressed his freedom in another way: "And a certain scribe came, and said to him, master, I'll follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head." [1]
       Spacious with omnipresence, could Christ indeed be followed except in the overarching Spirit?
       Krishna, Rama, Buddha, and Patanjali were among the ancient Indian avatars. A considerable poetic literature in Tamil has grown up around Agastya, a South Indian avatar. He worked many miracles during the centuries preceding and following the Christian era, and is credited with retaining his physical form even to this day.
       Babaji's mission in India has been to assist prophets in carrying out their special dispensations. He thus qualifies for the scriptural classification of Mahavatar (Great Avatar). He has stated that he gave yoga initiation to Shankara, ancient founder of the swami order, and to Kabir, famous medieval saint. His chief nineteenth-century disciple was, as we know, Lahiri Mahasaya, revivalist of the lost Kriya art.
       The Mahavatar is in constant communion with Christ; together they send out vibrations of redemption, and have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age. The work of these two fully-illumined masters—one with the body, and one without it—is to inspire the nations to forsake suicidal wars, race hatreds, religious sectarianism, and the boomerang-evils of materialism. Babaji is well aware of the trend of modern times, especially of the influence and complexities of Western civilisation, and realises the necessity of spreading the self-liberations of yoga equally in the West and in the East.
       That there's no historical reference to Babaji need not surprise us. The great guru has never openly appeared in any century; the misinterpreting glare of publicity has no place in his millennial plans. Like the Creator, the sole but silent Power, Babaji works in a humble obscurity.
       Great prophets like Christ and Krishna come to earth for a specific and spectacular purpose; they depart as soon as it's accomplished. Other avatars, like Babaji, undertake work which is concerned more with the slow evolutionary progress of man during the centuries than with any one outstanding event of history. Such masters always veil themselves from the gross public gaze, and have the power to become invisible at will. For these reasons, and because they generally instruct their disciples to maintain silence about them, a number of towering spiritual figures remain world-unknown. I give in these pages on Babaji merely a hint of his life—only a few facts which he deems it fit and helpful to be publicly imparted.
       No limiting facts about Babaji's family or birthplace, dear to the annalist's heart, have ever been discovered. His speech is generally in Hindi, but he converses easily in any language. He has adopted the simple name of Babaji (revered father); other titles of respect given him by Lahiri Mahasaya's disciples are Mahamuni Babaji Maharaj (supreme ecstatic saint), Maha Yogi (greatest of yogis), Trambak Baba and Shiva Baba (titles of avatars of Shiva). Does it matter that we know not the patronymic of an earth-released master?
       "Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji," Lahiri Mahasaya said, "that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing."
       The deathless guru bears no marks of age on his body; he appears to be no more than a youth of twenty-five. Fair-skinned, of medium build and height, Babaji's beautiful, strong body radiates a perceptible glow. His eyes are dark, calm, and tender; his long, lustrous hair is copper-coloured. A very strange fact is that Babaji bears an extraordinarily exact resemblance to his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya. The similarity is so striking that, in his later years, Lahiri Mahasaya might have passed as the father of the youthful-looking Babaji.
       Swami Kebalananda, my saintly Sanskrit tutor, spent some time with Babaji in the Himalayas.
       "The peerless master moves with his group from place to place in the mountains," Kebalananda told me. "His small band contains two highly advanced American disciples. After Babaji has been in one locality for some time, he says: 'Dera danda uthao.' ('Let's lift our camp and staff.') He carries a symbolic danda (bamboo staff). His words are the signal for moving with his group instantaneously to another place. He doesn't always employ this method of astral travel; sometimes he goes on foot from peak to peak.
       "Babaji can be seen or recognised by others only when he so desires. He is known to have appeared in many slightly different forms to various devotees—sometimes without beard and moustache, and sometimes with them. As his undecaying body requires no food, the master seldom eats. As a social courtesy to visiting disciples, he occasionally accepts fruits, or rice cooked in milk and clarified butter.
       "Two amazing incidents of Babaji's life are known to me," Kebalananda went on. "His disciples were sitting one night around a huge fire which was blazing for a sacred Vedic ceremony. The master suddenly seized a burning log and lightly struck the bare shoulder of a chela who was close to the fire.
       "'Sir, how cruel!' Lahiri Mahasaya, who was present, made this remonstrance.
       "'Would you rather have seen him burned to ashes before your eyes, according to the decree of his past karma?'
       "With these words Babaji placed his healing hand on the chela's disfigured shoulder. 'I've freed you tonight from painful death. The karmic law has been satisfied through your slight suffering by fire.'
       "On another occasion Babaji's sacred circle was disturbed by the arrival of a stranger. He had climbed with astonishing skill to the nearly inaccessible ledge near the camp of the master.
       "'Sir, you must be the great Babaji.' The man's face was lit with inexpressible reverence. 'For months I've pursued a ceaseless search for you among these forbidding crags. I implore you to accept me as a disciple.'
       "When the great guru made no response, the man pointed to the rocky chasm at his feet.
       "'If you refuse me, I'll jump from this mountain. Life has no further value if I can't win your guidance to the divine.'
       "'Jump then,' Babaji said unemotionally. 'I can't accept you in your present state of development.'
       "The man at once hurled himself over the cliff. Babaji instructed the shocked disciples to fetch the stranger's body. When they returned with the mangled form, the master placed his divine hand on the dead man. Lo! he opened his eyes and prostrated himself humbly before the omnipotent one.
       "'You're now ready for discipleship.' Babaji beamed lovingly on his resurrected chela. 'You've courageously passed a difficult test. Death shall not touch you again; now you're one of our immortal flock.' Then he spoke his usual words of departure, 'Dera danda uthao'; the whole group vanished from the mountain."
       An avatar lives in the omnipresent Spirit; for him there's no distance inverse to the square. Only one reason, therefore, can motivate Babaji in maintaining his physical form from century to century: the desire to furnish humanity with a concrete example of its own possibilities. Were man never vouchsafed a glimpse of Divinity in the flesh, he would remain oppressed by the heavy mayic delusion that he can't transcend his mortality.
       Jesus knew from the beginning the sequence of his life; he passed through each event not for himself, not from any karmic compulsion, but solely for the upliftment of reflective human beings. His four reporter-disciples—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—recorded the ineffable drama for the benefit of later generations.
       For Babaji, also, there's no relativity of past, present, future; from the beginning he has known all phases of his life. Yet, accommodating himself to the limited understanding of men, he has played many acts of his divine life in the presence of one or more witnesses. Thus it came about that a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya was present when Babaji deemed the time to be ripe for him to proclaim the possibility of bodily immortality. He uttered this promise before Ram Gopal Muzumdar, that it might finally become known for the inspiration of other seeking hearts. The great ones speak their words and participate in the seemingly natural course of events, solely for the good of man, even as Christ said: "Father . . . I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that you've sent me." [2]
       During my visit at Ranbajpur with Ram Gopal, "the sleepless saint," [3] he related the wondrous story of his first meeting with Babaji.
       "I sometimes left my isolated cave to sit at Lahiri Mahasaya's feet in Varanasi," Ram Gopal told me. "One midnight as I was silently meditating in a group of his disciples, the master made a surprising request.
       "'Ram Gopal,' he said, 'go at once to the Dasasamedh bathing ghat.'
       "I soon reached the secluded spot. The night was bright with moonlight and the glittering stars. After I had sat in patient silence for awhile, my attention was drawn to a huge stone slab near my feet. It rose gradually, revealing an underground cave. As the stone remained balanced in some unknown manner, the draped form of a young and surpassingly lovely woman was levitated from the cave high into the air. Surrounded by a soft halo, she slowly descended in front of me and stood motionless, steeped in an inner state of ecstasy. She finally stirred, and spoke gently.
       "'I'm Mataji, [4] the sister of Babaji. I've asked him and also Lahiri Mahasaya to come to my cave tonight to discuss a matter of great importance.'
       "A nebulous light was rapidly floating over the Ganges; the strange luminescence was reflected in the opaque waters. It approached nearer and nearer till, with a blinding flash, it appeared by the side of Mataji and condensed itself instantly into the human form of Lahiri Mahasaya. He bowed humbly at the feet of the woman saint.
       "Before I had recovered from my bewilderment, I was further wonder-struck to behold a circling mass of mystical light travelling in the sky. Descending swiftly, the flaming whirlpool neared our group and materialised itself into the body of a beautiful youth who, I understood at once, was Babaji. He looked like Lahiri Mahasaya, the only difference being that Babaji appeared much younger, and had long, bright hair.
       "Lahiri Mahasaya, Mataji, and myself knelt at the guru's feet. An ethereal sensation of beatific glory thrilled every fibre of my being as I touched his divine flesh.
       "'Blessed sister,' Babaji said, 'I'm intending to shed my form and plunge into the infinite Current.'
       "'I have already glimpsed your plan, beloved Master. I wanted to discuss it with you tonight. Why should you leave your body?' The glorious woman looked at him beseechingly.
       "'What's the difference if I wear a visible or invisible wave on the ocean of my Spirit?'
       "Mataji replied with a quaint flash of wit. 'Deathless guru, if it makes no difference, then please don't ever relinquish your form.' [5]
       "'Be it so,' Babaji said solemnly. 'I'll never leave my physical body. It will always remain visible to at least a small number of people on this earth. The Lord has spoken His own wish through your lips.'
       "As I listened in awe to the conversation between these exalted beings, the great guru turned to me with a benign gesture.
       "'Fear not, Ram Gopal,' he said, 'you're blessed to be a witness at the scene of this immortal promise.'
       "As the sweet melody of Babaji's voice faded away, his form and that of Lahiri Mahasaya slowly levitated and moved backward over the Ganges. An aureole of dazzling light templed their bodies as they vanished into the night sky. Mataji's form floated to the cave and descended; the stone slab closed of itself, as if working on an invisible leverage.
       "Infinitely inspired, I wended my way back to Lahiri Mahasaya's place. As I bowed before him in the early dawn, my guru smiled at me understandingly.
       "'I'm happy for you, Ram Gopal,' he said. 'The desire of meeting Babaji and Mataji, which you've often expressed to me, has found at last a sacred fulfilment.'
       "My fellow disciples informed me that Lahiri Mahasaya had not moved from his dais since early the preceding evening.
       "'He gave a wonderful discourse on immortality after you had left for the Dasasamedh ghat,' one of the chelas told me. For the first time I fully realised the truth in the scriptural verses which state that a man of self-realisation can appear at different places in two or more bodies at the same time.
       "Lahiri Mahasaya later explained to me many metaphysical points concerning the hidden divine plan for this earth," Ram Gopal concluded. "Babaji has been chosen by God to remain in his body for the duration of this particular world cycle. Ages shall come and go—still the deathless master, [6] beholding the drama of the centuries, shall be present on this stage terrestrial."

 

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If you want to free yourself from negative emotions, you need to increase your level of power. It is simple: you want to destroy the emotions and mind sets you no longer need. Imagine the power of a mountain river rushing through the valley. That's power, right? Here is a word/mantra you can use to create the same effect in your mind:

Dariman Babaji

Renewal/Transformation/Change/Destruction - Babaji

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If you prefer using the word dariman by itself here is the calligraphy

Dariman

Renewal/Transformation/Change/Destruction

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experiment with both options and choose the one that suits you best.

Now you have to look at this idea from a positive perspective.

The force you are invoking is the power to remove what you no longer need in your mind and life.

This is what freeing is about, right?

Remember that this force is intelligent. It goes where it is needed the most. Trust it

If you feel that there are forces at play holding you back, take a martial art position and utter this word a few times with power.

Use your will power and determination. Imagine that you have an obstacle in front of you that you would like to destroy.

That's it!

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A technique is a vehicle you use to travel your spiritual evolution.

When you are rigidly attached to the technique you use, you might miss seeing the landscapes you come across as you travel.

If your goal is to reach the sea, you can step out of the car and seat on the sand once you reach the beach, right?

Endlessly driving on the coast road won't work with really experiencing the sea. You have to step out and go for a swim :)

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With simple meditation techniques, it can take as little as 5 min/day for a week.

That's it!

If you want this technique to stay with you and be able to recall it any time you need it, it often takes 1 to 3 months of practice.

If you practice a technique for that time, you will feel like you own it.

That's good news and means that integrating a new spiritual tool is relatively easy.

A technique shifts patterns on an energy level

It reprograms your mind.

This is why sometimes, even a 1 minute practice can have such a powerful impact: because you connect with a source of energy and this automatically stimulates change in your mind.

A new technique is more than a practice. It is the integration of a new energy.

Think short directive techniques rather than long hours practice.

Give rhythm for your mind to stay alert and fresh!

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It is simple: when your own inner processes no longer require too much attention.

You can sponsor other person's spiritual evolution when you have extra energy and time to give.

That's simple, right?

Now, there are many ways you can teach. Standing in front of an audience is only one of them.

You teach by life.

You teach by expressing the power of your spirit through your actions and attitudes.

Teaching is only one out of many spiritual evolution paths you can follow.

• You can for instance enage in artistic expression which is a long term path in itself.
• You can focus on your own life and explore deeper levels of awareness.
• You can focus on positive impact on humankind through compassionate action.
• Etc.

What does it mean? that teaching is only one way to express yourself along your spiritual destiny line.

There are many more possible expressions.

Now, if you feel you reached this point of maturity and feel there is something essential you want to say, you can start right now!

Start with a little step and observe the response.

Function from a place of freedom.

You are only accountable to yourself and the line which sponsors your words.

If speach is not your favorite way of expression, don't limit yourself and use the other possible tools that were given to you.

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Put it this way: the past is already written.

The future is an infinite space of potential.

To move forward embrace the unknown!

If you spend most of your energy trying to recall the past, that's where you keep your consciousness.

It does give you some security and a sense of stablity but limits you as well.

It is like trying to walk forward while looking backwards.

Ask yourself:

"What can I do to be slightly ahead to where I am right now?"

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Free your mind!

One of the key targets of your practices is to remove what you no longer need.

Freedom is your nature and what you head for.

Don't let anyone limit your freedom.

Any practice or step which increases your freedom is exactly in line with your evolution.

On the other hand, if you feel that a given action will lock you in and limit you, simple: don't take it and step back.

Use this simple question to make the right choices:

"Am I increasing my freedom or limiting myself?"

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When you stand with this core realization firmly in your mind, you jump straight into a new level of unity.

What you do is no longer about your house, property and belongings: it is about the planet.

You want to function from your universal identity?

Take action from this new core mind set:

Your home is the planet!

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Active kindness is the art of responding to a need when you see it simply because of a heart call.

You have other words for that: compassionate action, karma yoga, etc.

The path of active kindness is a destiny you follow consciously simply because this is what you feel attuned to the most.

Every action calls for a reaction.

Active kindness calls for bliss. When you take action from that place, you usually identify yourself with a need in someone else.

It happens to them and therefore, it is as if it was happening to you.

In other words, you see the link, and respond to it.
It can be a call from nature as well.

You recognize your essence in someone else and because of this recognition, you can identify someone else's need.

So, when you not only realize this state of unity but take as well active action, you choose for a state of unity rather than for a state of isolation.

This is a key opening in your life.

The response is bliss, life force and precisely a state of Yoga.

If you are naturally attracted to help others or nature, explore that path!

It is one of your possible lines of spiritual evolution.

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We are one race!

Humankind is a gigantic enterprise and we are all linked in one sea of consciousness.

To strengthen your universal identity, establish this idea as a key pillar.

Sectarian and elitist attitudes divide you. They make you weaker. They isolate you.

Take action from this new base:

Your family is humankind

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It is very simple!

When you engage into wanting more and more material wealth, properties, bigger house and more luxury, you engage into a battle you cannot win.

There is always more and it is never enough.

It is like a carrot in front of your nose and you try to reach it without being able to eat it.

So, materialism is a set up.

The emotions associated with it give you short term satisfaction but leave a huge gap on a deeper level.

You try to fill this deeper need with physical objects.

No matter how much you own, it is never enough!

Why?

Because the real quality you want to feel is a state of union.

You want to feel loved!

And not just from one source!

You want to feel connected!

Gaining material wealth is your way of looking for recognition.

It is one way of feeding your ego and personality.

Now, what happens after a few years of that type of quest?

You end up lost!

Why?

Because you realize that no matter how much you gain, it is never enough.

Even temporary successes on that level can leave a huge gap when the thrill of that success is gone.

Conclusion?

Focus from the start on what matters most: the way you walk life!

Yes! The state of mind you are in matters most than any goal you can reach!

While you head for targets with determination, you forget that all that time you generate emotions and thoughts.

All these emotions and thought generate a response and echo around you.

It is that state of mind or state of being you want to focus on now.

If you are in pain and despair because your material targets are not being reached then you totally miss the point, right?

It is like a kid being in a permanent state of tantrum!

You don't want to live life that way.

You want to function from a place of peace and balance.

Now, that state of peace does not mean that nothing is happening!

On the contrary!

Everything is happening!

Your energy level is much higher actually!

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The only thing that could stop you from seeing that is the fact that you have targets or distant future goals.

When you do, this stops you from being in the instant and enjoying the very present moment.

Sure, goals are useful but a skill which is even more useful than that is realizing the perfection of the instant.

Now, most people will realize this perfection in a second and than set up again in the course of achieving distant goals.

This is where you can miss the point because you don't need to shift that.

You don't need to be like a horse always running forward.

This is like a survival instinct or conquering force you can tame.

You don't need to be the slave of that force.

You can relax, step back and take life for what it is:

Impermanence!

After every single goal you achieve there is always a target after that.

Yes!

Pursuing new targets is exciting and creates a stream of powerful manifestation force in your being, but the moment you get enslaved by that instinct, that's when you miss the point and the real target for your life.

You need to look at life from the perspective that everything that could be achieved and done has already been done.

From that point of view, existence takes a very different colour.

It gives you the power to relax, stand still, be at peace and enjoy every single second for what it is.

Remember that within 100 years, most of what you tried to create in your life will be gone!

All that will remain is the memory of a certain experience in your own spirit which is eternal.

This is where you find this dimension of permanency and eternity.

If you stay focused on that level, you look at life like a game.

Yes!

It is a game!

This resets existence from a perspective which makes it totally real.

The usual goals are shifted and become something insignificant in the eyes of this larger scale.

The emotions and quest you go through when you engage into life from the level of physical creation are all alienating for you.

You end up trapped in a scenario where you can not win.

So, what is the answer?

What does freedom mean?

It means to shift perspective and put back what matters most in the center of your existence.

Yes!

It is that simple.

The quests and conquests are all games you play if you want to, because it is fun and gives you an energy kick, but look at it from another perspective and observe what happens when you take some distance.

The total urgency, stress and life pressure are all gone.

What remains is peace and silence.

It is in that dimension of silence that a whole new reality takes place.

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Along the line of the previous post...

Here are two lines of actions you can embrace:

Discipline or Freedom.

Ask yourself these simple questions:

• Are these two qualities well balanced in your life right now?
• What would happen if your level of freedom suddenly increased by 500%?
• Are your spiritual approaches disciplined or freedom based?
• How much excitement and delight to you get from practising what you practice right now?
• Etc.

If you feel that your level of discipline stops you from enjoying what you do, simply ad this dimension of freedom, spontaneity and thrill to your choices.

On the other hand, if you feel like you need more structure, discipline is the quality to ad.

Both qualities are important and can be balanced harmoniously.

However, in today's society, discipline, reason and logic are probably overused.

Many people feel a pleasure or delight gap.

If it is the case, ask for Mataji's help and be ready to shift some key patterns in the way you approach your life.

Again, basing your choices on qualities of freedom and delight is a skill you can develop.

It is an energy you feed and nurture.

If freedom is not part of your life, start right now! :)

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What is meditation?

Meditation is an activity and mind state.

What happens in the meditative state?

Meditation is a mind state in which you use your mind in a very specific way.

The goal is to enter into a new state of awareness in which the natural thinking patterns tend to slow down or even disappear.

The thinking activity tends to be replaced by a meditative trance in which new dimensions of awareness are being expanded.

You connect with some form of unified consciousness.

The technique you use and your intention will influence the result of your meditation.

There are various forms of intelligences on this planet and the single individual mind is only one of them.

You heard about the concept of collective consciousness which is a sea of unified intelligence which contains all human intelligences.

There are many forms of invisible intelligences at play. Devas, Spirits, Angels or Gods are some terms which express some of these invisible intelligences. Some can be seen as infinitely vast and far beyond human development and some others can be seen as being under the human development level like Elementals (like fairies).

When you meditate, you open new bridges of consciousness. You wake up new mind potentials.

The science of mediation has been on the planet for very long. It wakes up certain natural abilities that you tend to forget about when you follow up on your daily activities.

If you never consciously tried to meditate, you probably still experienced some form of meditative trance at one point or another in your life.

For instance, if one day, looking at the sea, you felt suddenly extremely happy, this experience can be related with a meditative type of trance or bliss.

So, meditation is something which happens naturally.

Sometimes you catch yourself day dreaming and after a few minutes, you realize that you don't really know what happened in that time.

You were still doing things but somehow, something took over and you lost awareness of what you were doing. You were fully focused on the stream of your thoughts, inner vision, or emotions.

You can sometimes observe a cat in some form of intense peace. There is no movement. In a way, this is a similar type of "meditative" trance.

All these minor aspects of human and animal experiences are the signs that our mind can be in various states of awareness.

Is this meditation? Well, not exactly.

These states of trance we just described (day dreaming and peace of the cat) are spontaneous.

They don't lead to expanded awareness but might generate some form of peace or break through idea.

Meditation goes deeper than.

With meditation, you try to consciously connect with some form of unified mind.

A meditation technique usually connects you with a new energy reality. You enter in contact or connect with a deeper part of your consciousness.

Have you ever had this impression that behind what you see, there is a network of energies which directs actions and events around you?

There is the reality that you see with your physical eyes and then, there is another reality which you perceive with your "inner eye".

What is this invisible reality?

It is the world of the mind.

Your mind is connected to your brain and physical body. Now, your mind is much vaster than what you see. There are layers and layers of awareness that you never open.

The goal of meditation is to explore these deeper layers of awareness.

Your mind is made of frames. You have millions of thoughts and emotions in your past which created highways of energies in you.

This is your mind. It is your mind set. It is like a forest of energies in which you opened certain path ways.

Now, your mind is not at the end of its development.

Suppose you go exploring the world and reach new territories (for instance a new unexplored continent).

What you want at that moment is to connect with a guiding force which will help you explore this new land.

This is what you do when you start meditating:

You step into this new unexplored area of your mind and observe the thoughts, plans, emotions and awareness that you encounter.

It is truly like exploring a new land.

What is this new land?

It is deeper layers of the unified mind.

If you follow an existing stream of consciousness by connecting with a specific master or tradition, you will connect with a given energy reality.

When you are born, your parents instruct you and transmit you a mind set through education.

You reproduce as well many patterns through mimetism.

You tend to imitate subconsciously your parent's behaviors and beliefs.

The same happens when you explore deeper layers of your mind. You use a sacred formula, or another technique to connect with a specific energy reality.

Basically, you "tune" into a new mind.

Suppose you go online on the internet. All you need is a website address to connect you with a whole world of intelligence and knowledge.

This web address is your connection. It is your key. Without it you could not enter, right?

A meditation technique works in the same way. The goal is to connect with a new energy reality.

Your mantra or technique is your guiding force.

It is a key.

It is a "consciousness address".

This technique gives you a path.

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Human over nature or rather human over instincts.

The goal is to master your instincts not to be enslaved by them.

This is why your spiritual power grows step by step: because you need to master the forces you wake up.

If these forces were unleashed all at once, you would not have the power to master them.

Kundalini is a reflection of your animal nature, the fire of the dragon, snake or lion.

All these are representations of the same force.

When this energy wakes up, the goal is to tame that force and direct it in a constructive way.

How do you tame your kundalini?

You give her directions like postures, moves, mantras, mind sets, etc.

The goal of any yogic practice is to structure your personal vehicle so that your being is harmonized and vibrating to its full potential.

When you practice an asana (yogic posture) that's an instruction you give to your life force.

When you sing a mantra, embrace a value or take conscious synchronized action, you are always instructing your life force and giving it form and purpose.

That's how you tame your Kundalini.

By giving her direction and positioning yourself as its master.

By the way, taming is very different than controlling...

Taming is creating this synergized partnership with a force of nature.

Imagine riding a horse.

You can tame it while stimulating its power and wilderness and without actually limiting it.

You simply give it a channel of expression.

Sometimes, you'll allow the horse to lead you as well. You might sit and trust its instinct and its power.

Partner with these forces in an effective way so that what you create is a synergized play of energies.

You can as well see yourself as surfing the waves of this energy. Waves are energy. You use that force and play with it.

With kundalini, it is the same: you partner with its power and give it direction.

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This is a good question to ask yourself:

"If millions of people were taking the action you are about to take now, what would be the effect on the planet and humankind?"

Ask yourself this question when making key choices in your life.

Another way to put it:

"Is this a step forward or a step backwards?"

It really gives you an ethical base from which to function and helps you with making key life choices.

Your actions are connected with a vast stream of manifestation.

Are you going with the stream or against it?

Do your actions match with a vaster human purpose?

Are your actions connected with a vaster stream of manifestation?

This is a good way to synchronize your actions and make sure that what you do matches the vaster purpose for humankind and the planet.

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Raja yoga is the art of mastering your mind.

Raja means fire.

It means as well royal.

In your mind you have "mind objects" like thoughts, emotions and feelings.

Your mind is your territory and the art of Raja is the art of mastering all of that.

An emotion is simply a wave on the surface of your mind.

It is not your deep nature.

It does not belong to you.

It comes and goes.

When you focus your mind via a meditation technique, you create a harmonized stream which naturally generates a positive flow of thoughts and emotions.

It is like jumping into a river where any wave is a "positive wave".

You don't target the wave itself, you target first the river you swim in.

With some practice, this flow of yogic energy transforms your mind, clears negative thoughts and feelings and strengthens your mind channels.

This is the renewal of your mind.

It is a transformation process through which your mind becomes clear and powerful.

When you see an emotion like sadness or worry in your mind, you can either embrace it and nurture it of you can kick it out of your mind with power.

In other terms, you fight!

You defend your territory and make sure that whatever happens in your mind matches what you want.

Yes! What you want!

Your will is not an orphan disconnected will.

Your will is linked with a vast stream of manifestation.

It is a flame within a vaster fire.

Your fighting power and determination are tools you can use positively.

Your mind is your territory and it is your task to educate it so that it functions at its best.

You are in charge!

You are the designer and the architect of what happens in it.

You make choices, and select the ingredients you want to manifest.

Now, you can do all that by analyzing and choosing thought by thought and emotion by emotion or you can simply connect with a stream of energy which does all that naturally for you.

That's what you do with a raja yoga technique!

You are the master of your mind!

You are the designer!

You are the architect!

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There are two ways you can play music.

The first one is to follow a written piece.

The second one is to improvise.

When you refer to an existing tradition, you simply copy mind sets that others designed for you.

You try to fit it into your mind.

Sometimes what these traditions designed would take you centuries to recover and reinvent if you had to.

Other times, what you read is what you know already.

Very often, all you have to do is create a mind set and action system that matches your unique life experience.

You are free!

Does reading a specific book free you? Or does it limit you?

Will you discover more about yourself by reading what is already written or by taking a white page and letting your own mind reveal itself through your own words?

Both approaches are valid of course.

Sometimes you want to relax within an existing structure.

Other times, you want to tap into deeper layers of your mind and bring to the surface the key insights which are in you.

You don't have to fit in.

You don't have to limit yourself within what already exists.

If every human being was repeating what has already been discovered, there would never be anything new.

Dare to explore and find in you the mind sets, ideas, actions which reflect what you already are.

Dare to be a creator!

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Today, I would like to thank all those who have been connected with the Yoga stream and contributed to make it what it is today.

Masters and students alike!

This energy field is an ever growing adventure.

It is thrilling to know that such a vast network of people and energies are at play.

This creates a vast stream of inspiration everyone benefits from!

Thank you!!!

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When you increase your inner level of energy, you need your mind and body vehicle to be functioning harmoniously.

What does it mean? It means that tensions or inner conflicts have been cleared.

Imagine that your mind is tense or angry for instance.

When you increase the flow of life force or energy in your system, the tensions or negative emotions are multiplied.

Everything is fed by the new flowing energy, not just positive patterns.

Clearing the channels in your mind allow for fresh energy to flow naturally in your being without creating tensions.

Now of course, the new flowing energy is itself very harmonizing. However, you might have thoughts, beliefs or emotions which can become destructive for you or others when stimulated.

The whole point of harmonizing your mind and body is for your system to be able to take a stronger flow of power and energy.

Sometimes your spiritual progress will simply stop until you shift some key thoughts, beliefs or action lines and create new mind sets which are aligned with humankind's long term purpose.

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Conflicts happen because of the way power is being used.

You tend to have conflicts when one person tries to control someone else's life, actions, time frame, beliefs, thoughts or emotions.

Check any conflict in or around you: it is always the clash between two energy realities.

To solve conflicts you need to go back to a place of freedom and respect.

There is only one thing you have the right to control: your own life.

Everyone has the power for self determination.

This is the basic reality you can start from.

It is one of the key human rights: the freedom of thoughts and beliefs.

Now, if someone forces you to do or think what you don't want to, this creates conflict, right?

Same the other way round. You will create conflict if you force or try to control someone else's life.

You can get rid of 80% of the tension in you simply by letting go of what you can't control:

• What goes on on the other side of the planet.
• Government choices.
• Your neighbour's beliefs.
• Your partner's choices.
• Your parent's or friend's attitudes.
• Etc.

Trouble arises when you try to control what is not yours.

Someone else's thoughts are not yours.

They were born with the right to decide for themselves what they want to think.

Investing your energy into trying to change them is usually a waste of time.

Of course, in some isolated cases, they want to change and are open for what you have to say.

However in most situations, judging or trying to control someone else's actions will simply create conflict.

Again, the dynamics are very simple.

You just have to let go.

Don't take responsibility for someone else's actions.

This is th e base from which you can function.

Functioning from that mind set already clears 80% of the conflicts you might face:

• Respect someone else's actions beliefs or thoughts.
• Don't take responsibility for someone else's actions.
• Use your power to control your own life, not someone else's.
• You own the right to control you own actions, time, beliefs, emotions, personal space, etc. If someone tries to steal these from you, they are violating one of your most basic human rights.
• Etc.

These mind sets can already solve many of the conflicts you might be facing.

In other words: refocus your power on yourself!

It is essential to master the way you use your "controlling power".

There are some exceptions in society where a conscious transfer of power and autonomy is performed.

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In a previous post we said:

• You are born with the right for self determination. You have the right to control your thoughts, actions, emotions, beliefs, time, personal space, etc.
• If someone tries to control these for you they steal one of your most basic human rights.
• Respect someone else's freedom and right for self determination.

These are the basic mind sets which already solve 80% of the conflicts you might face.

Now in some situations, you will function with slightly different mind sets.

We call these exceptions "agreed power transfers".

This means that there are some "exceptions" in society where a conscious transfer of power and autonomy is performed.

Here are 3 examples:

• Children --> Parents

Because parents need to educate their children, nature and society perform a power transfer fro m the child to its parents. This means that parents are legally responsible for what the child does. They take the role of educating and directing a child's behavior until it reaches maturity and autonomy.

• Individual --> Organization

When you work for an organization, you give up part of your freedom (time) in exchange of a financial reward. In other terms, you accept that a boss will sometimes tell you what to or not to do.

• Individual --> Society

When you are born in a country, you adhere to a set of laws. These laws are there to protect society's peace and make sure that individuals can function harmoniously with each other

• Etc

These are only 3 examples. There are more of them of course.

Now, we call these "exceptions" because the default position of an individual is a state of freedom.

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The ultimate goal is not to follow a siddha, it is to be one

What's a siddha?

It is a perfected being.

The good news is that you don't need to move to a Himalayan cave to become one.

There is always this natural tendency to localize or reduce to a smaller expression something which is total and absolute.

Feeling total and complete as a human being does not belong to a stream or a tradition.

It is universal.

It is time to go beyond an ethnic connotation and express the full dimension of what is behind the idea of siddha.

You are a siddha. You are a perfected being.

Even if you might not yet know it or express it fully, this is your real potential

It is time to grow to your true potential and there is no need to surrender your power or limit your mind to become one.

Your potential is infinite and while some ideas and being might help you along the way, you are the center of attention.

It's in you that all this happens.

So, what's the goal? Personal glory?

Depends on what you feel is behind the word glory.

Glorification feels like a nice place to head to.

If you think of personal glory as a way of rising above others, well... You know what I mean.

The ultimate goal is the long term evolution of humankind and the planet.

The goal is to empower humankind as a whole.

Personal and universal freedom.

Perfect attunement with the forces of the planet and the cosmos.

Can you see where all this takes you? takes us?

Of course, when you think of your daily life, all this might sound far fetched.

You might have other priorities right now.

This is fine.

Success is not what people say it is.

You can redefine it in your own way.

Reducing success to some form of material or money race is a pitty because it is alienating.

At the end, it's never enough.

It can be of course part of the story but what you want is to have your priorities clear. Very clear!

If you don't know what a siddha is, here is a good place to start:

Remember, this is not about giving your power away.

You are master of your life and you are the designer.

You don't have to reinvent the full wheel though.

Sometimes, a little help can take you a long way.

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Well, it is very simple:

When you connect with Babaji, he starts sponsoring your actions.

Now, imagine what happens when for instance:

• You tend to be emotionally abusive with your wife .
• Or in ongoing conflict with your neighbour.
• Or extremely intolerant to other religious systems.
• Etc.

If you are trapped in these "power abuse" mind sets and receive extra power, conflicts and tensions will naturally increase in your life.

You heard that before:

With greater power comes greater responsibility

This means that you need to be aligned with mind sets which really work for humankind on the long term.

Again, ask yourself:

What would be the impact on humankind if millions of people were performing what I am doing right now?

If the answer is "increased peace and harmony, respect and freedom...", it means that you are on the right track and are already expressing mind sets which are "sustainable" for humankind on the long term.

If the answer is "conflicts, tensions, wars...", it means that the patterns you express now don't work for humankind on the long term.

Keep in mind this long term perspective for humankind and the planet. It gives you direction and focus.

Do you believe that Babaji sponsors a harmonious line of evolution for the planet and humankind?

If yes, it is your role to express life patterns, actions and mind sets which stimulate vibrant harmony, peace and freedom on the long term

The key is in how you use your power and more specifically your "controlling power".

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There is a moment in your spiritual development in which you might reach a plateau or limit.

You might feel like your spiritual life flows at a certain "speed".

You might as well feel like you are flat lining. In other terms, it feels like there is not much new happening when you practice the techniques you are used to.

What works best?

What does it mean?

What to do next?

Here are a few key ideas:

• Sit down and ask for help and guidance internally.

Answers to what to do next will come.

• Deepen or intensify what you already practice now.

This could mean retreating for a few days for instance, refocusing your technique, adding rhythm in the way you practice, etc.

• Find new techniques.

Be open to discover something new.

• Focus more on practical action or attitude shifts rather than internal meditation.

Shift some key behaviors or attitudes which hold you back. I just covered some of this in these previous posts: What do power dynamics have to do with Babaji?, Power transfers, The key to resolve conflicts, Why it is essential to harmonize your mind

• Shift stream or system.

You might have reached a point where the system you follow no longer matches your long term evolution line. Time to look for a new master or system.

• Etc.

 

What to do if you feel you reached a certain speed and want to go deeper?

 

Take a white page and write down these options:

• Ask for guidance?
• Refocus your practice?
• New technique?
• Shift line of action?
• New System?

Keep this page somewhere you can see it.

Deep inside, you already know the answer. Focus on it for a couple of days.

After that, trust yourself and take action according to the answer you got inter nally.

Remember that every time you make a shift in your spiritual practices, you stretch your limits.

Even a set of practices can become a confortable space you get used to.

So, when you decide to explore new territories and stretch your limits, you take some risks and invite change.

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The fact that nothing spectacular is happening does not mean that your practice is not working.

It simply means that you reached a certain "speed" and are maintaining that speed.

Take this example:

When you take a flight, the thrilling moment is when you take off, right?

Why?

Because of the acceleration.

Acceleration is what creates thrill and excitement.

Once you are in the air and travel at a constant speed, it feels normal. You eat peanuts and chat with you neighbour as if you were sitting at home, even though you are still travelling at 1000 km/hour.

When you originally start meditating, you often feel this sense of acceleration. You feel bliss, greater awareness, peace, etc.

Once you reach a certain level, these experiences feel normal. They are still there. You simply got used to these new spiritual states.

It does not mean that your spiritual development stops. You still travel at a certain spe ed but might no longer feel the original thrill and acceleration.

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To tell you the truth, I never came to a point where I felt I was at the end of a technique's potential.

At a certain moment, the technique might naturally "dissolve itself" though, because you reach a state of unity, inner peace or absolute awareness.

When this happens, you can let go of the technique and abide in this new state.

When this happens, it feels like the spirit "takes over". You feel like you are there.

Of course, you can come back to the technique if you feel like you loose focus again,

Remember that a technique is only a key, it is not the goal :)

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Babaji, the yogi-christ of modern India

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

 

THE NORTHERN Himalayan crags near Badrinarayan are still blessed by the living presence of Babaji, guru of Lahiri Mahasaya. The secluded master has retained his physical form for centuries, perhaps for millenniums. The deathless Babaji is an avatara. This Sanskrit word means "descent"; its roots are ava, "down," and tri, "to pass." In the Hindu scriptures, avatara signifies the descent of Divinity into flesh.
       "Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension," Sri Yukteswar explained to me. "The dwarfed vision of men can't pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It's inconceivable."
       The Upanishads have minutely classified every stage of spiritual advancement. A siddha ("perfected being") has progressed from the state of a jivanmukta ("freed while living") to that of a paramukta ("supremely free"—full power over death); the latter has completely escaped from the mayic thraldom and its reincarnational round. The paramukta therefore seldom returns to a physical body; if he does, he is an avatar, a divinely appointed medium of supernal blessings on the world.
       An avatar is not subject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to nature. The casual gaze may see nothing extraordinary in an avatar's form but it casts no shadow nor makes any footprint on the ground. These are outward symbolic proofs of an inward lack of darkness and material bondage. Such a God-man alone knows the Truth behind the relativities of life and death. Omar Khayyam, so grossly misunderstood, sang of this liberated man in his immortal scripture, the Rubaiyat:

"Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again;
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same Garden after me—in vain!"

The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never. The "Moon of Heav'n" is the outward cosmos, fettered to the law of periodic recurrence. Its chains had been dissolved forever by the Persian seer through his self-realisation. "How oft hereafter rising shall she look . . . after me—in vain!" What frustration of search by a frantic universe for an absolute omission!

The rendering of Scott-Fitzgerald is not so good. The mature translation by Dr. Roberb Graves and Omar Ali-Shah is far better. Terms found in Fitzgerald's version disappear in the better one. [ Check]

Christ expressed his freedom in another way: "And a certain scribe came, and said to him, master, I'll follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head." [1]
       Spacious with omnipresence, could Christ indeed be followed except in the overarching Spirit?
       Krishna, Rama, Buddha, and Patanjali were among the ancient Indian avatars. A considerable poetic literature in Tamil has grown up around Agastya, a South Indian avatar. He worked many miracles during the centuries preceding and following the Christian era, and is credited with retaining his physical form even to this day.
       Babaji's mission in India has been to assist prophets in carrying out their special dispensations. He thus qualifies for the scriptural classification of Mahavatar (Great Avatar). He has stated that he gave yoga initiation to Shankara, ancient founder of the swami order, and to Kabir, famous medieval saint. His chief nineteenth-century disciple was, as we know, Lahiri Mahasaya, revivalist of the lost Kriya art.
       The Mahavatar is in constant communion with Christ; together they send out vibrations of redemption, and have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age. The work of these two fully-illumined masters—one with the body, and one without it—is to inspire the nations to forsake suicidal wars, race hatreds, religious sectarianism, and the boomerang-evils of materialism. Babaji is well aware of the trend of modern times, especially of the influence and complexities of Western civilisation, and realises the necessity of spreading the self-liberations of yoga equally in the West and in the East.
       That there's no historical reference to Babaji need not surprise us. The great guru has never openly appeared in any century; the misinterpreting glare of publicity has no place in his millennial plans. Like the Creator, the sole but silent Power, Babaji works in a humble obscurity.
       Great prophets like Christ and Krishna come to earth for a specific and spectacular purpose; they depart as soon as it's accomplished. Other avatars, like Babaji, undertake work which is concerned more with the slow evolutionary progress of man during the centuries than with any one outstanding event of history. Such masters always veil themselves from the gross public gaze, and have the power to become invisible at will. For these reasons, and because they generally instruct their disciples to maintain silence about them, a number of towering spiritual figures remain world-unknown. I give in these pages on Babaji merely a hint of his life—only a few facts which he deems it fit and helpful to be publicly imparted.
       No limiting facts about Babaji's family or birthplace, dear to the annalist's heart, have ever been discovered. His speech is generally in Hindi, but he converses easily in any language. He has adopted the simple name of Babaji (revered father); other titles of respect given him by Lahiri Mahasaya's disciples are Mahamuni Babaji Maharaj (supreme ecstatic saint), Maha Yogi (greatest of yogis), Trambak Baba and Shiva Baba (titles of avatars of Shiva). Does it matter that we know not the patronymic of an earth-released master?
       "Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji," Lahiri Mahasaya said, "that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing."
       The deathless guru bears no marks of age on his body; he appears to be no more than a youth of twenty-five. Fair-skinned, of medium build and height, Babaji's beautiful, strong body radiates a perceptible glow. His eyes are dark, calm, and tender; his long, lustrous hair is copper-coloured. A very strange fact is that Babaji bears an extraordinarily exact resemblance to his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya. The similarity is so striking that, in his later years, Lahiri Mahasaya might have passed as the father of the youthful-looking Babaji.
       Swami Kebalananda, my saintly Sanskrit tutor, spent some time with Babaji in the Himalayas.
       "The peerless master moves with his group from place to place in the mountains," Kebalananda told me. "His small band contains two highly advanced American disciples. After Babaji has been in one locality for some time, he says: 'Dera danda uthao.' ('Let's lift our camp and staff.') He carries a symbolic danda (bamboo staff). His words are the signal for moving with his group instantaneously to another place. He doesn't always employ this method of astral travel; sometimes he goes on foot from peak to peak.
       "Babaji can be seen or recognised by others only when he so desires. He is known to have appeared in many slightly different forms to various devotees—sometimes without beard and moustache, and sometimes with them. As his undecaying body requires no food, the master seldom eats. As a social courtesy to visiting disciples, he occasionally accepts fruits, or rice cooked in milk and clarified butter.
       "Two amazing incidents of Babaji's life are known to me," Kebalananda went on. "His disciples were sitting one night around a huge fire which was blazing for a sacred Vedic ceremony. The master suddenly seized a burning log and lightly struck the bare shoulder of a chela who was close to the fire.
       "'Sir, how cruel!' Lahiri Mahasaya, who was present, made this remonstrance.
       "'Would you rather have seen him burned to ashes before your eyes, according to the decree of his past karma?'
       "With these words Babaji placed his healing hand on the chela's disfigured shoulder. 'I've freed you tonight from painful death. The karmic law has been satisfied through your slight suffering by fire.'
       "On another occasion Babaji's sacred circle was disturbed by the arrival of a stranger. He had climbed with astonishing skill to the nearly inaccessible ledge near the camp of the master.
       "'Sir, you must be the great Babaji.' The man's face was lit with inexpressible reverence. 'For months I've pursued a ceaseless search for you among these forbidding crags. I implore you to accept me as a disciple.'
       "When the great guru made no response, the man pointed to the rocky chasm at his feet.
       "'If you refuse me, I'll jump from this mountain. Life has no further value if I can't win your guidance to the divine.'
       "'Jump then,' Babaji said unemotionally. 'I can't accept you in your present state of development.'
       "The man at once hurled himself over the cliff. Babaji instructed the shocked disciples to fetch the stranger's body. When they returned with the mangled form, the master placed his divine hand on the dead man. Lo! he opened his eyes and prostrated himself humbly before the omnipotent one.
       "'You're now ready for discipleship.' Babaji beamed lovingly on his resurrected chela. 'You've courageously passed a difficult test. Death shall not touch you again; now you're one of our immortal flock.' Then he spoke his usual words of departure, 'Dera danda uthao'; the whole group vanished from the mountain."
       An avatar lives in the omnipresent Spirit; for him there's no distance inverse to the square. Only one reason, therefore, can motivate Babaji in maintaining his physical form from century to century: the desire to furnish humanity with a concrete example of its own possibilities. Were man never vouchsafed a glimpse of Divinity in the flesh, he would remain oppressed by the heavy mayic delusion that he can't transcend his mortality.
       Jesus knew from the beginning the sequence of his life; he passed through each event not for himself, not from any karmic compulsion, but solely for the upliftment of reflective human beings. His four reporter-disciples—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—recorded the ineffable drama for the benefit of later generations.
       For Babaji, also, there's no relativity of past, present, future; from the beginning he has known all phases of his life. Yet, accommodating himself to the limited understanding of men, he has played many acts of his divine life in the presence of one or more witnesses. Thus it came about that a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya was present when Babaji deemed the time to be ripe for him to proclaim the possibility of bodily immortality. He uttered this promise before Ram Gopal Muzumdar, that it might finally become known for the inspiration of other seeking hearts. The great ones speak their words and participate in the seemingly natural course of events, solely for the good of man, even as Christ said: "Father . . . I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that you've sent me." [2]
       During my visit at Ranbajpur with Ram Gopal, "the sleepless saint," [3] he related the wondrous story of his first meeting with Babaji.
       "I sometimes left my isolated cave to sit at Lahiri Mahasaya's feet in Varanasi," Ram Gopal told me. "One midnight as I was silently meditating in a group of his disciples, the master made a surprising request.
       "'Ram Gopal,' he said, 'go at once to the Dasasamedh bathing ghat.'
       "I soon reached the secluded spot. The night was bright with moonlight and the glittering stars. After I had sat in patient silence for awhile, my attention was drawn to a huge stone slab near my feet. It rose gradually, revealing an underground cave. As the stone remained balanced in some unknown manner, the draped form of a young and surpassingly lovely woman was levitated from the cave high into the air. Surrounded by a soft halo, she slowly descended in front of me and stood motionless, steeped in an inner state of ecstasy. She finally stirred, and spoke gently.
       "'I'm Mataji, [4] the sister of Babaji. I've asked him and also Lahiri Mahasaya to come to my cave tonight to discuss a matter of great importance.'
       "A nebulous light was rapidly floating over the Ganges; the strange luminescence was reflected in the opaque waters. It approached nearer and nearer till, with a blinding flash, it appeared by the side of Mataji and condensed itself instantly into the human form of Lahiri Mahasaya. He bowed humbly at the feet of the woman saint.
       "Before I had recovered from my bewilderment, I was further wonder-struck to behold a circling mass of mystical light travelling in the sky. Descending swiftly, the flaming whirlpool neared our group and materialised itself into the body of a beautiful youth who, I understood at once, was Babaji. He looked like Lahiri Mahasaya, the only difference being that Babaji appeared much younger, and had long, bright hair.
       "Lahiri Mahasaya, Mataji, and myself knelt at the guru's feet. An ethereal sensation of beatific glory thrilled every fibre of my being as I touched his divine flesh.
       "'Blessed sister,' Babaji said, 'I'm intending to shed my form and plunge into the infinite Current.'
       "'I have already glimpsed your plan, beloved Master. I wanted to discuss it with you tonight. Why should you leave your body?' The glorious woman looked at him beseechingly.
       "'What's the difference if I wear a visible or invisible wave on the ocean of my Spirit?'
       "Mataji replied with a quaint flash of wit. 'Deathless guru, if it makes no difference, then please don't ever relinquish your form.' [5]
       "'Be it so,' Babaji said solemnly. 'I'll never leave my physical body. It will always remain visible to at least a small number of people on this earth. The Lord has spoken His own wish through your lips.'
       "As I listened in awe to the conversation between these exalted beings, the great guru turned to me with a benign gesture.
       "'Fear not, Ram Gopal,' he said, 'you're blessed to be a witness at the scene of this immortal promise.'
       "As the sweet melody of Babaji's voice faded away, his form and that of Lahiri Mahasaya slowly levitated and moved backward over the Ganges. An aureole of dazzling light templed their bodies as they vanished into the night sky. Mataji's form floated to the cave and descended; the stone slab closed of itself, as if working on an invisible leverage.
       "Infinitely inspired, I wended my way back to Lahiri Mahasaya's place. As I bowed before him in the early dawn, my guru smiled at me understandingly.
       "'I'm happy for you, Ram Gopal,' he said. 'The desire of meeting Babaji and Mataji, which you've often expressed to me, has found at last a sacred fulfilment.'
       "My fellow disciples informed me that Lahiri Mahasaya had not moved from his dais since early the preceding evening.
       "'He gave a wonderful discourse on immortality after you had left for the Dasasamedh ghat,' one of the chelas told me. For the first time I fully realised the truth in the scriptural verses which state that a man of self-realisation can appear at different places in two or more bodies at the same time.
       "Lahiri Mahasaya later explained to me many metaphysical points concerning the hidden divine plan for this earth," Ram Gopal concluded. "Babaji has been chosen by God to remain in his body for the duration of this particular world cycle. Ages shall come and go—still the deathless master, [6] beholding the drama of the centuries, shall be present on this stage terrestrial."

 

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A technique is a vehicle you use to travel your spiritual evolution.

When you are rigidly attached to the technique you use, you might miss seeing the landscapes you come across as you travel.

If your goal is to reach the sea, you can step out of the car and seat on the sand once you reach the beach, right?

Endlessly driving on the coast road won't work with really experiencing the sea. You have to step out and go for a swim :)

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It is simple: when your own inner processes no longer require too much attention.

You can sponsor other person's spiritual evolution when you have extra energy and time to give.

That's simple, right?

Now, there are many ways you can teach. Standing in front of an audience is only one of them.

You teach by life.

You teach by expressing the power of your spirit through your actions and attitudes.

Teaching is only one out of many spiritual evolution paths you can follow.

• You can for instance enage in artistic expression which is a long term path in itself.
• You can focus on your own life and explore deeper levels of awareness.
• You can focus on positive impact on humankind through compassionate action.
• Etc.

What does it mean? that teaching is only one way to express yourself along your spiritual destiny line.

There are many more possible expressions.

Now, if you feel you reached this point of maturity and feel there is something essential you want to say, you can start right now!

Start with a little step and observe the response.

Function from a place of freedom.

You are only accountable to yourself and the line which sponsors your words.

If speach is not your favorite way of expression, don't limit yourself and use the other possible tools that were given to you.

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Free your mind!

One of the key targets of your practices is to remove what you no longer need.

Freedom is your nature and what you head for.

Don't let anyone limit your freedom.

Any practice or step which increases your freedom is exactly in line with your evolution.

On the other hand, if you feel that a given action will lock you in and limit you, simple: don't take it and step back.

Use this simple question to make the right choices:

"Am I increasing my freedom or limiting myself?"

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Active kindness is the art of responding to a need when you see it simply because of a heart call.

You have other words for that: compassionate action, karma yoga, etc.

The path of active kindness is a destiny you follow consciously simply because this is what you feel attuned to the most.

Every action calls for a reaction.

Active kindness calls for bliss. When you take action from that place, you usually identify yourself with a need in someone else.

It happens to them and therefore, it is as if it was happening to you.

In other words, you see the link, and respond to it.
It can be a call from nature as well.

You recognize your essence in someone else and because of this recognition, you can identify someone else's need.

So, when you not only realize this state of unity but take as well active action, you choose for a state of unity rather than for a state of isolation.

This is a key opening in your life.

The response is bliss, life force and precisely a state of Yoga.

If you are naturally attracted to help others or nature, explore that path!

It is one of your possible lines of spiritual evolution.

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