Tag: Spirituality
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Raja Yoga Prepares The Way For Advaita Vedanta
“The path of [Raja] Yoga,” states Swami Adiwarananda in his book Meditation and its Practices: A Definitive Guide to Techniques and Traditions of Meditation in Yoga and Vedanta (2003; 2012 ed.), “is suited to those in whom reason has not yet established its natural supremacy over the emotions and volitions” (p. 40). This is a…
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Patanjali’s Method Of Pratipaksha Bhavana
In Yoga Sutra 2.33, Patanjali offers a compassionate practice to those whose minds are agitated: “When disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite (positive) ones should be thought of.” This is the meaning of the cultivation of the counter-thought. Claude (Anthropic) gives us the Sanskrit line thus: Sanskrit: vitarka-bādhane pratipakṣa-bhāvanam The Sanskrit Terms: Vitarka = negative thoughts, doubts, wayward thoughts, disturbing…
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Creation Is A Beautiful Dream
Question Concerning New Thought One conversation partner puts his question thus: The logical line goes like this: thoughts create your habits, your actions, your character; they color the world around you and thus ultimately create the world around you. If you think everyone is evil, you will ultimately see everyone as evil, respond accordingly, and ultimately…
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Jeffrey Epstein, Alas, Had Thought Power
I don’t recall Swami Sivananda discussing perversions of thought power in his book Thought Power, at least not at great length. It’s clear that he’s aware of the possibility of a yogi abusing thought power, and it would have been obvious to him that ethical practices (such as the yamas and the niyamas from Raja…
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Who Is Going To Save Me?
Power bypass is a real thing: renouncing my own inner power, I become small. In each complaint and in every sorrow is a lone cry for a savior, someone or something “out there” that will come and save me and make it all better. Won’t someone pull me out of this mess? Won’t some powerful…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 