Physical world is an instrument for salvation

Our two eyes can capture the physical world, that which can block light, but are blind to all else. Only by opening the third eye can one perceive that which is seen and unseen. This is the realm of mysticism, of knowing life in its full depth and dimension. Sadhguru is a bridge into this mysterious arena of life. It is a homecoming, a settling back into yourself.
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A Guru is not someone you meet or shake hands with. It is not someone you bow down to or beg for this or that. A Guru is a certain space or energy. The difference between a teacher or a scholar and a Guru is, a teacher is someone who holds a torch to something and shows it to you. Because of them you might have seen something. A Guru doesn’t hold a torch. He is the torch. He burns. Either you burn with him or you don’t.
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Right now, the only things that are in your experience are your body, your mind and your emotions. You know them to some extent, and you can infer that if these three things have to happen the way they are, there must be an energy that makes them happen. Without energy, all this cannot be happening. For example, a microphone amplifies sound. Even if you don’t know anything about the microphone, you can infer that there is a source that powers it.
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If you use your emotions and try to reach the ultimate, we call this bhakti yoga, the path of devotion. If you use your intelligence and try to reach the ultimate, we call this gyana yoga, the path of intelligence. If you use your body, or physical action to reach the ultimate, we call this karma yoga, the path of action. If you transform your energies and try to reach the ultimate, we call this kriya yoga, that means internal action.

These are the only four ways you can work with yourself. In one person the heart may be dominant, in another person the head may be dominant, in yet another person the hands may be dominant, but everyone is a combination of these four, so you need a combination of these four. Only if it is mixed in the right way for you, it works best. What we give for one person may not work well for you. Only when it is mixed in the right proportion it works for you. That is why on the spiritual path there is so much stress on a live Guru. He mixes the right cocktail for you. Otherwise there is no punch.
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There is a wonderful story in the yogic lore. One day, a gyana yogi, a bhakti yogi, a karma yogi, and a kriya yogi were walking together in a forest. Usually these four people can never be together, because a gnana yogi has total disdain for every other yoga. An intellectual person, a thinking person has complete disdain for everybody else. A bhakti yogi, full of emotion and love, thinks all this gyana, karma and kriya yoga is just a waste of time. Just love God and it will happen. The karma yogi thinks that everybody is lazy and have all kinds of fancy philosophies. What needs to be done is work. One must work, work and work. The kriya yogi just laughs at everything. The whole existence is energy. If you don’t transform your energy, whether you long for God or you long for anything, nothing is going to happen.

So they cannot be together, but today they were walking together. It started to rain. They started running, looking for shelter, and found an ancient temple which just had a roof – no walls on the sides. In the center, there was a linga. These people went inside the temple for shelter. The storm grew more furious and started blowing in torrents. The fury of the storm was getting into the temple so they went closer and closer to the linga. There was no other way to be because it was just blasting them from all sides. Then it became very furious. The only way they could get some protection was for all four to hug the linga. Suddenly they felt something enormous happening. A huge presence, a fifth presence was there. Then all of them said, “Why now? For so many years we have pursued You and nothing happened. Why now?”

Shiva said, “At last the four of you got together. I have been waiting for this to happen for a long time.”

Without addressing the four basic ingredients of body, mind, emotion and energy out of which all your present experiences are rooted, one cannot move ahead. You can only start a journey from where you are right now.
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शारीरिक कोष हर घड़ी बदल रहे हैं, पुराने नष्ट हो जाते हैं और उनके स्थान पर नये आ जाते हैं। यद्यपि देखने में शरीर ज्यों का त्यों रहता है, पर कुछ ही समय में वह बिलकुल बदल जाता है और पुराने शरीर का एक कण भी बाकी नहीं बचता। वायु, जल और भोजन द्वारा नवीन पदार्थ शरीर में प्रवेश करते हैं और श्वाँस क्रिया तथा मल त्याग के रूप में बाहर निकल रहे हैं। भौतिक पदार्थ बराबर अपनी धारा में बह रहे हैं। नदी-तल में पड़े हुए कछुए के ऊपर होकर नवीन जलधारा बहती रहती है, तथापि वह केवल इतना ही अनुभव करता है कि पानी मुझे घेरे हुए है और मैं पानी में पड़ा हुआ हूँ।

🔵 हम लोग भी उस निरन्तर बहने वाली प्रकृति-धारा से भलीभाँति परिचित नहीं होते, तथापि वह पल भर भी ठहरे बिना बराबर गति करती रहती है। यह मनुष्य शरीर तक ही सीमित नहीं, वरन् अन्य जीवधारियों, वनस्पतियों और जिन्हें हम जड़ मानते हैं, उन सब पदार्थों में होती हुई आगे बढ़ती रहती है। हर चीज हर घड़ी बदल रही है। कितना ही प्रयत्न क्यों न किया जाए, इस प्रवाह की एक बूँद को क्षण भर भी रोककर नहीं रखा जा सकता यह भौतिक सत्य, आध्यात्मिक सत्य भी है। फकीर गाते हैं-'यह दुनियाँ आनी जानी है।'

🔴 भौतिक द्रव्य प्रवाह को तुम समझ गए होगे। यही बात मानसिक चेतनाओं की है। विचारधाराएँ, शब्दावलियाँ, संकल्प आदि का प्रवाह भी ठीक इसी प्रकार जारी है। जो बातें एक सोचता है, वही बात दूसरे के मन में उठने लगती है। दुराचार के अड्डों का वातावरण ऐसा घृणित होता है कि वहाँ जाते-जाते नये आदमी का दम घुटने लगता है। शब्दधारा अब वैज्ञानिक यन्त्रों के वश में आ गई है। रेडियो, बेतार का तार शब्द-लहरों का प्रत्यक्ष प्रमाण है। मस्तिष्क में आने-जाने वाले विचारों के अब फोटो लिए जाने लगे हैं, जिससे यह पता चल जाता है कि अमुक आदमी किन विचारों को ग्रहण कर रहा है और कैसे विचार छोड़ रहा है ? बादलों की तरह विचार प्रवाह आकाश में मँडराता रहता है और लोगों की आकर्षण शक्ति द्वारा खींचा व फेंका जा सकता है। यह विज्ञान बड़ा महत्वपूर्ण और विस्तृत है.
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विस्तृत जानकारी- http://hindi.awgp.org/…/Li…/Books_Articles/mai_kya_hun/part4