Bhagavad Gita Quote

Chapter V: The Yoga of Renunciation of Action

V.10. BRAHMANYAADHAAYA KARMAANI SANGAM TYAKTWAA KAROTI YAH;
LIPYATE NA SA PAAPENA PADMAPATRAM IVAAMBHASAA.

(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
He who performs actions, offering them to Brahman
and abandoning attachment, is not tainted by sin as a
lotus leaf by water.

V.11. KAAYENA MANASAA BUDDHYAA KEVALAIR INDRIYAIR API;
YOGINAH KARMA KURVANTI SANGAM TYAKTWAATMASHUDDHAYE.
Yogis, having abandoned attachment, perform
actions only by the body, mind, intellect and also
by the senses, for the purification of the self.

Daily Quote

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Raja Yoga Sutra

Raja Yoga Selection Number 136, for Friday, February 3, 2012


[from Discourse III: "Vibhuti Pada- On Divine Powers"]
III.39. BANDHA-KARANA-SAITHILYAT PRACARA-SAMVEDANAC CA
CITTASYA PRA-SARIRAVESAH
'When the cause of bondage has been eliminated, the mind can enter
another's body through knowledge of its channels'.

Commentary:
When the highly advanced Yogi has given up attachment to life and
has developed intuitive knowledge of the physical body, he gains the
ability to use another's body for the purpose of helping and teaching
others. This is not the same as possession by lower astral entities. The
perfected yogi acts purely through the Self, which is common to all, and
is thus merely directing Divine energy.

Weekly Poem

21. SPIRITUAL CHURNING

As one extracts butter
By churning the curd,
I have found the Truth
By churning the mind.
Meditation is my churning rod,
This body is my churning pot,
Om is my churning rope;
Atman is the butter:
So says Sivananda.