KY - Ch 8 - p 113 - Jan 28 2019
Attendees: Nandini didi, Tara, Chandra, Bhama, Priti
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/kyog/kyog08.htm
"The world's wheel within wheel....."
Here are my notes. Please add to it:
Why do we create?
Why do we feel this urge to create?
Our nature is looking for perfect balance and what we see is the unfulfilled part of it. So we create to fulfill. From our samskara, we look at things the way our mind is conduced to think and then we say
"but if only this could be added to it, then it would be so perfectly balanced!"
Our mind is in a state of imbalance and our nature propels us to fulfill a desire and get back into our own individual equilibrium.
Desire comes from non-fulfillment (past samskara); and once fulfilled, it takes us back to equilibrium.
Find your peace (right now) and hold it tight (never let go), and then everything else will fall into place.
Two options are:
Give up everything (desire) and stand back (path of a yogi)
Plunge into the world and learn the secret of work (karma yoga)
"Face the brute"!
We all work so that we may be free.
Do not be a fanatic. Do not be an escapist. Accept the situation as is. Face it immediately. Accept that the present is perfect right now as is. Each one of us is unique and perfectly placed.
Our karma is taking us out of the karma. Karma Yoga gives chitta shuddi and automatically our divinity will shine.
Swami Vivekananda is someone who embodies both the gnyana of Shankara (intellect) and compassion of Buddha.
https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/kyog/kyog08.htm
"The world's wheel within wheel....."
Here are my notes. Please add to it:
Why do we create?
Why do we feel this urge to create?
Our nature is looking for perfect balance and what we see is the unfulfilled part of it. So we create to fulfill. From our samskara, we look at things the way our mind is conduced to think and then we say
"but if only this could be added to it, then it would be so perfectly balanced!"
Our mind is in a state of imbalance and our nature propels us to fulfill a desire and get back into our own individual equilibrium.
Desire comes from non-fulfillment (past samskara); and once fulfilled, it takes us back to equilibrium.
Find your peace (right now) and hold it tight (never let go), and then everything else will fall into place.
Two options are:
Give up everything (desire) and stand back (path of a yogi)
Plunge into the world and learn the secret of work (karma yoga)
"Face the brute"!
We all work so that we may be free.
Do not be a fanatic. Do not be an escapist. Accept the situation as is. Face it immediately. Accept that the present is perfect right now as is. Each one of us is unique and perfectly placed.
Our karma is taking us out of the karma. Karma Yoga gives chitta shuddi and automatically our divinity will shine.
Swami Vivekananda is someone who embodies both the gnyana of Shankara (intellect) and compassion of Buddha.
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