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Yoga Maya or Cosmic Play

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Available in CD or Digital Download[spacer height="20px"]Playing with the “holograms” of creation knowingly, not under their spell. The faculties of the brain. Reality and illusion.[spacer height="20px"][listen src="http://truthconsciousness.org/audios/O-13a_Yoga_Maya_or_Cosmic_Play.mp3" start="20" end="200"]Sample Audio[/listen][spacer height="10px"]

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SAHAJA: BEING NATURAL

vtorres733255 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:47:28 +0000

Sahaja, which means “natural living,” is the cure for all the ails of modern life. This is not primitive living but natural living, which makes us conscious. When we are conscious we overcome our negative tendencies, to free ourselves from karma, through control of mind, breath and in meditation. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna, “It is better to do imperfectly what is your real duty rather than to do perfectly what is not your duty.” Sahaja allows us to manifest our God-given potential so that we exhaust our karmas and move toward true freedom: Liberation. Being natural makes us wise, not through scholarship or philosophy but through insight, a higher faculty than intellect. Sahaja or Natural Meditation is when meditation becomes a way of life rather than a technique to practice or achieve. “Judge ye not” is a great aphorism that has often been misunderstood. By not judging we allow the mind to settle, to come back home, to find true peace, to reach the chamber of God.

“We educate our minds to do things but we do not educate ourselves to be wise. Wisdom and light are within us. If you could be childlike, simple and innocent, that is being natural.” Swami Amar Jyoti

Featured Satsang in Light of Consciousness Vol. 29 #1, Spring 2017

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JUDGMENT, FORGIVENESS AND LOVE

vtorres733255 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:47:26 +0000

In any testing situation where you feel confused and do not know what to do, be humble. The solution will come. When you are relaxed and humble, wisdom opens within you automatically. Only the truly wise can judge. Others should desist from judging and giving decisions. It is very difficult for us to judge who is religious and who is not, unless we know who we truly are. At the most we can share and try to be helpful. That is humility. Until we are perfect, we should be humble.

In order to transcend blocks, avoid resistances, escape pitfalls, and not get caught in ego trips, we need to be humble. It is only this golden virtue that gives us the inner latent power to transcend. In order to be one, we have to accept our position, our level of consciousness, where we stand and where we belong. This realistic approach is called humility. If you realize this and do not claim or demand or assume something higher or lower, you are humble. Humility eventually leads to Realization. It is humility that makes you strong, not pride.

Forgiveness is not a weakness. Only the bold can forgive. There is a scientific explanation for forgiveness. Supposing that you are stubbornly holding on to something and not forgiving. As long as you are occupied with revenge, retaliation, reaction, jealousy, competition, or simply non-forgiving, that means your mind is occupied with baser thoughts. By forgiving you renounce those thoughts, which means you are being purified. Any good that you do for others is for your own purification. Therefore, as soon as you genuinely forgive someone, you will be relaxed that very next moment. You will feel peace.

If we could just be humane, the world would be transformed. How many truly human beings have you seen? Leave aside philosophy, just be a true man and have common sense—you will have achieved a lot. And you can only have common sense when you are relaxed. We need to come back every time to our own self. Do I see myself, what I am doing, what my mind is? Am I learning from my experiences or just repeating them? Am I controlling myself and not doing what hurts me and others? Loving detachment is both wise and practical. If you are conscious you will see wisely. You have to learn to live without hurting and without hatred. Then love will fill your heart and reach to others, and it will give you comfort.

Swami Amar Jyoti

Featured Satsang in Light of Consciousness Vol. 28 #4, Winter 2016

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Meditation and Guru’s Grace

vtorres733255 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:46:08 +0000

Available in CD or Digital Download[spacer height="20px"]Meditation and Guru's Grace[spacer height="20px"][listen src="http://truthconsciousness.org/audios/I-19a_Meditation_and_Guru's_Grace.mp3" start="1" end="180"]Sample Audio[/listen][spacer height="10px"]

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Waiting on God

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Available in CD or Digital Download[spacer height="20px"]Waiting on God, we become God; that is called meditation. The highest path. How science manifests the Divine in earth consciousness.[spacer height="20px"][listen src="http://truthconsciousness.org/audios/I-7a_Waiting_on_God.mp3" start="1" end="180"]Sample Audio[/listen][spacer height="10px"]

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A Fresh Outlook

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“A fresh attitude means to meditate upon whatever you are meditating upon. Work while you work; play while you play; meditate while you meditate. But if while meditating you are thinking, you are not meditating. One minute of real meditation will change your whole outlook. You will be transformed. It requires a surrender—not me, God, You. Then life is a perennial joy—anytime, anywhere, anything—without exception. It is not only joyful but a thing of beauty, peace and love. When everything in life is refreshed and renewed every moment—that is the sacrament of the moment.

How to meet someone you have had difficulties with as if you are meeting him or her for the first time? Let him or her have a legitimate chance to prove otherwise. This is opening your eyes. The idea is how to see everything as if for the first time. Because behind everything, whether it is food, the weather, your relationships, your circumstances, if you minutely judge you will find it is always you who you are concentrating upon.”

~Swami Amar Jyoti

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Conscious Meditation

vtorres733255 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:46:07 +0000

‘Meditate upon that which you want to be, which you want to realize. That is proper meditation, and it will never make you feel exhausted. If you are aware while meditating, it is easy. We have to give ourselves up unto the Source; our minds have to merge there. There is no need to control the mind. The more you fight with your mind, the more agitated, excited or disturbed you become. If you just stop fighting with your mind and relax, you will see that everything is fine.

Letting go and relaxing is the key to meditation. All the mysteries will be revealed to you when you merge unto your Source. Meditation is not achieving something;we meditate to merge with what we are meditating upon. This will give you divine vision, not by sitting and thinking or planning or worrying. The human being has to merge unto God, unto our true Existence. We are not lost’we become That. When a drop of water falls into the ocean, it is not lost; it becomes one with the whole ocean. A ray of light becomes the whole light. Your soul in meditation becomes one with your Creator. Oneness is the ultimate Totality. When you merge your ego the Light will shine.’

~ Swami Amar Jyoti

Featured Satsang in Light of Consciousness Vol. 22 #3, Autumn 2010

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Focus, Gateway to Freedom

vtorres733255 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:45:51 +0000

Available in CD or Digital Download[spacer height="20px"]Focus, Gateway to Freedom[spacer height="20px"][listen src="http://truthconsciousness.org/audios/I-17a_Focus,_Gateway_to_Freedom.mp3" start="1" end="180"]Sample Audio[/listen][spacer height="10px"]

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On Meditation

vtorres733255 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:45:50 +0000

“The exact definition of meditation, according to Yogic science, is twelve seconds of concentration without a break upon that which you want to be. Twelve seconds only. In between the mind cannot waver. It has to be a continuous flow of concentration. You have to be very careful what you meditate upon. Choose the object you want to be. You have to relax back into silence. Try to lose yourself into that. Ultimately meditation leads to silence—inner, absolute silence—and you get Realization of the object you are meditating upon.

Meditation is very sacred, the last step before Realization. According to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, meditation is the seventh step in the eight limbs of yoga, the eighth being Enlightenment. Before meditation there are six steps in preparation: be truthful, be honest, forgiving, forbearing, don’t be jealous, don’t be prejudiced, avoid ego trips, forgive, be patient, be tolerant. This will lead you to purification. Once you prepare yourself in this way, meditation comes to you automatically.”

~Swami Amar Jyoti

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What is the Purpose of Life

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Available in CD or Digital Download[spacer height="20px"]What is the Purpose of Life[spacer height="20px"][listen src="http://truthconsciousness.org/audios/I-11a_What_is_the_Purpose_of_Life.mp3" start="1" end="180"]Sample Audio[/listen][spacer height="10px"]

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