Category: Integral Yoga Teachings

Ecumenism

The teachings may vary, but the central teaching is always the same—to know our True Self. That is the first and foremost goal.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 16

Life itself is a long dream. We are unable to realize the illusoriness of the external objects because the dream is still on.

Perfection in Action is Yoga

Where is the action if you sit quietly and close your eyes and meditate? Get into the field. And make sure that the mind is totally focused, one-pointed, not shaken.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 40

Learn to enjoy what you are doing and stick to the meditation schedule. That will be enough.”

The Man of Steady Wisdom

We are all looking for happiness; but, unfortunately, we’re not looking where the Gita tells us to. We look outside ourselves for it.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 38

If we start to feel anxious about gain or loss, victory or defeat, etc., we know that the ego is not ready to let go, trust life, or let us leave the outcome to a higher will.

Know Your Roots

Self-realization means to know that you are essentially that Spirit or Consciousness or God. Even though the truth is that we are all essentially God, most of us don’t really experience that.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2 Verse 16

When it is said: “The world is unreal,” it is not suggested that we are seeing the world where nothing exists.

You Are Great

As you think so you become. Think that you are great, and you are great. Think that you are hopeless, and certainly you will be hopeless.

Bhagavad Gita Study: Chapter 2, Verse 14

This running after things we want and away from things we don’t want is in itself stressful and agitating for the mind.