Satyam Yoga School

13/10/2025

10/10/2025

Those who can see the truth of what is really happening must themselves let go of any emotional involvement. The drama of life is created by thoughts, beliefs and the structure of the mind. Any attempt to intellectually analyse or understand is only going to perpetuate the existence of mind.

All I can advise is for you to learn and establish an unshakable experience of observation. Silence is your most powerful asset, absorption into mindfulness doing whatever it is that is to be done while knowing that there is no achievement nor success in anything you do. The outcome simply provides you with the next moment of mindfulness.

That's all. Be aware, remain silent pay attention, know that which is known in that moment. Your enlightenment is yours only. Disciples, missions and creating institutions are futile deceptions.

11/09/2025

What is stress

All stress is created in the mind by thinking. When I say thinking I am referring to patterns of thinking like guilt, shame, lack of confidence, desire for something more, ideas beliefs doctrines and everything else created in the mind by thinking.

Stress Free

Stop thinking. Anytime you find yourself thinking about something especially when it is related to self limiting thoughts.

Focus on the positive opportunity to adapt and be creative in expressing your awareness. By Awareness I mean that which is obvious to you without having to think about it.

You know instantly that which is not right yet you choose to ignore the obvious and justify your self by thinking (no one will know, or I deserve this).

Stop thinking and listen to your immediate awareness.

31/08/2025

Spirituality

Is simply the relationship you have with yourself.

No religion is spiritual, nor is yoga, kundalini or any other system. They are only tools.

A gardener may have a vision of the garden but it is the hard work and the tools of gardening that enable the gardener to create a garden. Along the way the desired garden is never that which was imagined because the influence of factors like insects, weather, soil etc inhibit or enhance.

The spiritual enlightenment is never complete. Whatever you imagine is the spiritual enlightenment you will always know within yourself that it is incomplete. The ego will never spare you my dear ones. Know this. Always continue to work and improve the relationship you have with yourself.

This is spiritual.

05/08/2025

Awareness is always pure

I had awareness of the experience in my mother's womb. I had awareness of the experiences as a child, a teen, a lover, and as a parent. I continue to be aware of the experiences.

Awareness has and is always the same awareness it is not affected by the experience.

All experiences are accumulated into the fabric of mind. The mind changes because of the experiences and it is the mind that creates the emotional involvement with the experiences.

Awareness is always aware of everything that is experienced.

You forget yourself as pure awareness because you think the mind is your true existence.

Mind is real but it is also continually changing and involved in its own process.

Awareness is real and it never changes. I am that pure awareness ever present knowing. I have always been aware and will remain aware. I will not forget my true existence because I know that everything else is impermanent and existing as an experience of the mind.

That mind is not who I am. Mind does not know who I am But I know the mind.

29/07/2025

Everything is the result of an activity.

Everything is interacting with everything else. There is no original source.

The whole complete existence of everything is one existence. The one existence is the supreme reality. It is glorious effulgent radiant with self.

You learn more about yourself by interacting with life and discovering the truth of what works and is most effective and efficient.

Goodness is not something you can imitate with actions that you believe are good. Goodness is inherent and you can only become good by eliminating the impurities of corrupted thinking. Innocence is a natural expression of goodness. Humility is a natural radiance of knowing yourself with compassion, discovering your most powerful existence, loving, caring and empowering others with faith in themselves.

27/07/2025

False Knowledge

If you listen carefully and observe carefully you will realise that the teachers and self styled gurus are only offering clever interpretations of everything they have read in books. Chakras, spiritual philosophy are all concepts. The true spiritual experience is the relationship you have with yourself.

Read the Article Below

Developing a new philosophy ( Attachment and detachment ) March 1983

You may read the whole of 'Yoga Vashishta' but if an accident takes place in your family, you are definitely going to feel it, because the 'Yoga Vashishta' has not brought about a fundamental transformation in the structure of your awareness. It has only enlarged the scope of your intellect. At the most you can say, 'Oh, life is temporary', but still you will be struck by the disaster. What is required is a transformation in the realm of awareness, anubhuti or experience, and that can be brought about by the practice of dhyana yoga, self-introspection, mantra and similar techniques.

During grihasthashram you are involved in karma, and these karmas create more karma. They create samskaras to which you are bound because of anasakti or involvement. It is possible to associate with our family, our children, our responsibilities and obligations, either with total attachment or with detachment. However, we have only been taught to base our associations on attachment. Nobody has ever shown us how to live with our relatives, discharge our duties, solve our problems and interact with our family members, friends, wealth, money and property with detachment. The art of living a detached life is called karma sannyasa.

Detachment is not something that can be developed just by thinking or through any other intellectual process. Unless you have some experience which changes the quality of your mind, you cannot understand what detachment means. In order to understand anasakti, vairagya, sannyasa or detachment, you need more than just an intellectual process. You must have a different quality of mind. And for that purpose, the mind has to be trained and educated.

Intellectually you know that nothing belongs to you and that all is temporary. You may say it every day, but because there is so much mamata, 'mineness' and attachment, whatever happens to someone else affects you too, because you relate yourself to the happenings.

Once there was a sadhu and a mussulman living next door to each other. One day the sadhu heard his neighbour crying. He went to the mussulman and asked, 'Why are you crying?' He sobbed, 'Maharaj, my goat is dead.' The sadhu said, 'So what? Sooner or later everything has to die.' He explained that crying would not bring the goat back and he was able to pacify his friend.

After three months, the sadhu's cow died. He became so miserable that he did not come out of his kutir for many days. His friend the mussulman wondered what had happened and he came to investigate. He entered the sadhu's kutir and found him in deep depression. He asked, 'What has happened to you?' The sadhu replied, 'My cow is dead.' The mussulman remembered how he had been consoled by the sadhu's wise words when his goat had died, so he said, 'What if your cow is dead? Every being has to die.' The sadhu interrupted, 'Go away from here, I am thinking about my cow and I don't want to hear your words of wisdom.' The mussulman replied, 'But when my goat died, you consoled, me with the same wisdom.' The mahatma got angry and shouted, 'That was all right for your goat but this is my cow.'

You see, this is a very simple thing that we experience every day in our lives. When the sadhu was talking to the mussulman he had a different quality of intellect which he did not have when his cow died. In order to practise detachment or anasakti, you don't have to abandon karma, the elements or materials. You have only to develop a philosophy, and through that philosophy, you can have a different relationship with everybody. But, to have that philosophy you must have an experience. - Karma Sannyasa

Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Bangalore, 23.1.82

Bohar School of Yoga

http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1980s/1983/8303/8303ks.html

19/07/2025

Evolution of Mind

Life evolves into the conceived and imagined conceptual mind. The evolution of the human spieces is only a small event although significant.

The early human species experienced encounters with wild animals and the elements of nature in the same way as animal and nature existed.

The mind evolved by imagination and desire enabling us to overcome the fear of fire, conceive of ways to carry fire and later how to make fire.

Every evolution of our species has been an expression of that which has evolved within the mind. We think the mind is ours and we have become convinced that we are in control of the mind yet it is obvious we are not.

Before the human species life existed without us. The evolution of life before us was always an evolution of mind.

So you may want to consider that the mind is not contained within the brain. In fact the brain evolved because of the mind. How did mind begin and what was existing before the mind. The answer is known to those who have been able to detach themselves from the mind and experience that which is known as Atman.

Thou art the immortal self Atman. Everything else is perishable and transforms through the process of evolution. Evolution is a process of mind. It will continue even when you have realised and have become immersed in your true immortal self Atman.

Enjoy, knowing I shall always be while everything else is impermanent.

Yogasagar

17/07/2025

Shrooms & Intuition

Gentle intoxication of psilocybin' can enhance your awareness of stretching in yoga Empower the intensity of awareness in Pranayama and concentrate your awareness with mantra in meditation. An increased sensitivity to touch, feelings and the inner experience of knowing that which is not of the mind but is your own self.

If you think you would like to have such an experience with me then please contact me via email yoga.yoga.co.za

Inspiration

My own evolution in yoga began with a profound experience in which the communication between my guru and myself was revealed by Swami Satyananda in 3 very powerful and subtle ways

The first was he spoke with accuracy describing significant moments in my childhood and my life up until that moment when I met him for the first time. He knew intimately my most inner secrets that I had never shared with anyone. These experiences I had not remembered until he described them to me.

The second experience was that a simple glance of his eyes could make me aware that he was fully conscious of what was happening to me internally. One example of this is when I was about to ignore something that had been left in the garden. I suddenly felt a strong urge to turn and look behind me. Swami Satyananda was talking with a few devotees and he turned to look straight into my eyes with a silent but mental instruction to me "don't ignore it" The glance was an instantaneous moment lasting less than 2 seconds BUT I had no doubt of the instruction (command).

The third was by psychic transfer through a vision which is similar to a dream but is obviously transmitted and not part of my own imagination. An example of this was at midnight when he left his body consciously in Samadhi and died. He was in India I was in South Africa. The vision was audible and visual. Satyam Shivam Sundaram. I was instantly awake and wanted only to sit and practice the mantra.

Spiritual Awareness is all about knowing the difference between your own mind and that awareness which is revealed from within. You can ignore it but there is no benefit only foolish outcomes if you do ignore the command from within

11/07/2025

What is it

Stop thinking now. Your only focus is to become even better than you are now. Do it well whatever you are doing and do it with love with caring and the pure enjoyment of doing. If you desire attention or reward you have not yet known yourself. You are the only consideration. I'm not talking about selfishness.

I'm talking about knowing that you are all that is and can ever be. Everything else is a distorted misunderstanding of belief and foolishness.

28/06/2025

Know This

It is not the mind that you must train or discipline.

You should rather understand that it is awareness that you must restrain.

If awareness is allowed to follow your thoughts you will become emotionally involved and entangled in the inexhaustible mind of habits, desires and beliefs. These are all nothing but a creation of thinking.

If you can remain with awareness it is not only you that you become aware of but awareness will reveal many profound truths.

Stay with awareness and keep awareness engaged in awareness of Mantra, breath and every moment of action without desire. Simply do what awareness reveals without trying to alter or negotiate with your existence.

Guru & Awareness are the Same