Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

============================================================================================================= Thursday, December 2024, 08:30. Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 2: The Difficulty in Following the Spiritual Path-3. Post-10. ================================================================================== The idea is that there is no use merely being touched by a high-tension wire unless we are good conductors of that force. If we are good conductors, we will pass that force through us. We will receive it properly. Otherwise, it will be like passing thousands of volts through a small filament of an electric bulb that can bear only 220 volts. It will simply fuse in a second and burst. Nothing will be left of it. Our scriptures tell us that nobody should try to practise yoga unless proper preparation has already been made by way of discipline. In the raja yoga of Patanjali, the terms yama and niyama are used. In Vedantic terminology, sadhana chatushtaya an...

=================================================================================== Sunday, November 2024, 05:30. Yoga & Meditation True Spiritual Living Chapter 2: The Difficulty in Following the Spiritual Path-2. Post-9. =================================================================================== A Guru is necessary.  We cannot know our mistakes. When we do a wrong, who will tell us that we are doing a wrong? We cannot know it, because we have identified ourselves with it. Sometimes the Guru's grace, sometimes God's blessings come and enlighten us, illumine us. Our meritorious deeds done in the previous lives come and awaken us. When everything goes wrong, the intellect can detect that something is wrong; but if the intellect itself goes wrong, then who will detect the mistake? That is our pitiable condition. So, again I emphasise the need for a Guru. When we are on the wrong path, who will find out that we are on the wrong path? A Guru is necessary. When conscious...