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Satyam Yoga School, Bordeaux South Randburg, Johannesburg (2025)

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.

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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

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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

13/06/2025

Know This

Mind is always in conversation with itself internally by thinking and creating thoughts or externally through speaking and expressing itself in various activities of the body.

Awareness is never in conversation. It is simply aware. I know what the mind is thinking and I can be aware that when I am listening to someone else I am also reacting internally. The mind is not listening it is busy creating its own conversation of attitude and opinions that you freely verbalise as if your thoughts are more important than listening.

Awareness is aware of the speaker and also if the mind. It is you who knows awareness and it is awareness that is aware of the mind.

Those who are united with their spirit (Self) know this simple truth. All wisdom is revealed to you who is knowing awareness and remain silent. The wise never become involved in the mind. Listening to someone else the wise know that the other person is only projecting the internal conversations of the mind.

You can never convince the mind that it is unwise. Everyone is unwise because they are convinced by the mind. That is ego. The ego may be clever, cunning, deceitful or it can also appear to be kind, charitable and pleasant. But this is all ego. Ego is dependent on involvement with the mind.

Try to remain with awareness. Know that everything you are aware of is only the construct of mind. Try to remain with awareness. Remain silent live your own wisdom. When you have no other alternative because others are demanding your involvement simply agree or acknowledge their ego in a gentle non-confrontational way for their sake not for yours. You know the truth but they do not.

Om Satyam

Image is Swami Satyananda

05/05/2025

Mantra

The first sound that had a definite shape and form was Om (AUM). All sound will gradually transform into variable frequencies of occilating waves that are heard as different sounds. All primal sounds originate from Om. I can not say for certain that AUM becomes NYAM, LAM, VAM RAM etc in that sequence but you have definitely heard several sounds emerging from one continuous sound. Like the drone of a machine or the variable sounds of a flowing river.

There are some sounds that emerge as stable repetitive sounds and they have unique qualities that influence the behaviour of life at a molecular (physics), cellular (biology) and mental (consciousness) level. In fact there is no existence that is not influenced by sound because existence is the creation of sound.

When you meditate using mantra try this simple method which is difficult in the beginning but is easily mastered if you are persistent.

Silently and mentally repeat RAM repetitively under your breath with each and every breath. You will find your own rhythm but as an example I am roughly repeating Ram twice every second and a single breath in and out will last 8 to 12 seconds. OM is chanted verbally (softly) on the exhaling breath while RAM continues to be repeated silently mentally. Both mantras are repeated together on the exhaling breath while only RAM is repeated on the inhaling breath.

With practice you can master this method. The benefits are profound. The mind becomes quiet and all thoughts gradually cease. You will become aware of RAM repeating mentally even when sleeping and when awake. Ram is vibrating at a cellular level. This is not your imagination it is a fact that you have not previously been aware of because you have always been thinking thoughts and thoughts are imaginary ideas. When thoughts cease (or even reduce) you become aware of the subtle existence of conscious as sound in the form of Ram. There is a more profound experience of consciousness more subtle than sound but I can not share that with you. Only you can have that experience with yourself. It can not be shared it can only be experienced.

Om ram ram ram

05/04/2025

Devoted to Self

We all have the same experience of identity. Awareness is involved in the experience of mind. Mind is creating through thought. Mind has created the ability to interact with itself by creating the physical brain (neural synapse) and the nervous system which has evolved into cellular chemistry and eventually into complex life forms. Our senses, body and interaction with life is all an elaborate creation of consciousness that began with a primordial field of energy that gradually evolved into mind which continued to evolve into the creation. The brain was created and evolved by mind energy.

Awareness is an attribute of consciousness. Like the wetness of water. Consider this for a moment. When water soaks into your clothing the clothes become wet but the water is no longer seen. When consciousness becomes involved in the mind awareness experiences mind but consciousness is not known. It may be remembered but as long as awareness is entrenched within the mind (thinking and desire) consciousness remains a conceptual idea of the mind.

Yoga is a process of removing awareness from involvement with the mind and have a direct experience of consciousness.

Enlightenment is devotion to consciousness. There are degrees of enlightenment depending on your ability to remain detached from involvement with the mind. A total enlightenment exists only within the etheric formless consciousness. In the variable states of enlightenment saints, rishis and yogis may have a momentary experience of the pure consciousness in the form of an apparition (etheric vision) that appears within awareness (not in the mind). Consciousness can reveal itself as sound and light. Light has colour and shape). This is the purest form if consciousness. Without any form consciousness is known and experienced within yourself as your self.

In the story of Ram the characters and content of the story is all symbolic. Shiva represents the mind that can be controlled and subdued. Shiva remains steady in meditation for 10,000 years. Parvati his wife is awareness and Ram is the pure consciousness. Parvati is instructed by shiva to leave him (the mind) and seek out Ram to observe and learn who is Ram. She finds Ram exists as a man without blemish perfect in virtue. He is devoted to virtue and all that is good. Sita his wife is symbolic of awareness. Her virtuous purity is kidnapped by Ravana a symbolic demon who represents the lust and desire if the mind. Ram remains devoted to Sita and the story continues with the symbolic struggle required to rescue Sita from Ravana and reunite awareness with consciousness (Ram).

Bhakti is Devotion to the pure consciousness i e Ram the untainted virtue of knowing all that is good and righteous.

Bhoga is devotion to the mind with all of its desire and imaginary beliefs. A good mind is never secure because mind is always corrupted by its own desire and self created ideals.

The story of Ram begins with Shiva who is described as a yogi who remains in a constant state of meditation for 10000 years and longer. His wife Parvati is pleading with him to reveal who is this Ram that you are eternally devoted to even when you yourself (Shiva) is a supreme God.

Shiva relents and instructs Parvati to go in search of Ram and observe Ram from a distance.

Ram is observed by Parvati who remains secretly discrete and is never revealed to Ram. She sees that Ram is absolutely virtuous it is impossible to corrupt Ram. Parvati sees the Lila (story) of the Ramayana unfold and understands that Sita is her own awareness totally devoted to Ram. Her devotion to Ram protects her and it is impossible to corrupt the virtuous purity of Sita because of her devotion to Ram.

Ravana is the devious corrupted mind that will kidnapp awareness and pollute the awareness with greed, desire and corrupt all virtues. Hanuman is symbolic of the immense power that can be harnessed by devotion to Ram. The monkey god is symbolic of the monkey mind. The same mind that is so destructive and corrupt with desire can be managed and redirected into a powerful force if devotion.

You will have to adhere to virtue and abandon the mind of beliefs. There is only one virtue and that is Ram. Devotion to virtue will enable you to realise that you are the pure awareness of Ram. You are not a seperate identify. Ram is awareness of Ram. Consciousnesses aware of conscious.

15/03/2025

Hindu is Not a Religion

India celebrates thier relationship with god. Shiva devotees can enjoy intoxication with g***a and hashish. Devotees of Krishna dance joyously adorn with beautiful clothes and music. The story of Ram is devoted to virtue and integrity. Bhumi is the divine mother earth a nurturing mother who provides our substance. Durga is courageous and generous. All Indians identify with themselves as being in a close intimate relationship with God. Hindu's are yogis. All their spiritual teachers are yogi's. Yoga is the foundation of all Hindu Dharma.

The religions of the world have created a doctrine of rules, laws and beliefs that distort the teachings. For example Jesus clearly states the kingdom of heaven is within yet the church insists heaven is a place you can only experience when you die and your entry into heaven or hell is decided by an external god.

Religion presents God as wrathful and punishment is a motivation to be good. The essential teachings of religion are based on the idea that we are separated from God. All religions rely on the mis interpretation of teachings that are used for political indoctrination.

13/02/2025

If I am not here then where will I be. I am always present and aware I am. Wherever I am I will always know that I am.

This life is only one reality and it exists within the mind of desires. Mind exists beyond our physical existence, it is not created by the brain. The brain evolved due to the desires within the mind. The brain evolved so the mind could create independently.

Consciousness and Awareness are always homogeneous. The experience of wetness can not be seperated from water. Awareness can not be seperated from consciousness.

All that exists is existing as an interactive field of energy (Shakti).

If you want to see the magnetic field you sprinkle iron filings on paper that is placed on top of a magnet.

Shakti is the field of energy that is permeated with consciousness. The magnet is the source of the magnetic field and conscious is the source of Shakti.

Consciousness can not be separated from the field of Shakti. Wherever is Shakti there is also consciousness.

I am always knowing I am. I am aware of shakti and shakti is also aware. I am the awareness of shakti and shakti is aware of it's creation. Mind is an evolution of shakti. Consciousness remains as it is ever present everywhere. Consciousness does not change it is simply aware of the changes as shakti.

04/01/2025

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