Sunday Sutra - 2.1 - Portion on Practice

Sutra 2.1

Accepting Pain As help for Purification, 

Study of Spiritual Books & Surrender to the Supreme Being 

constitute Yoga in practice.
*(The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Translation & Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda)

                                

                               Tapas means "to burn or create heat."  By accepting all the pain that comes to us, even though the nature of the mind is to run after pleasure.  Tapas also refers to self-discipline Although control of the senses & organs seems to bring pain in the beginning, it eventually ends in happiness.  

       
~ If tapas is understood in this light, we will look forward to pain; we will even thank people who cause it, since they are giving us the opportunity to steady our minds & burn out impurities.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna divides the true austerities into 3 groups: Physical, Verbal, Mental

                          1. Physical: Worship, purity, straightforwardness, celibacy & non-injury
                          2. Verbal: Speech should bring tranquility and be truthful, pleasant & beneficial.
                          3. Mental: Svadhyaya meaning study of the true Self

In reading the scriptures we slowly rise-up, expanding the mind.  The more we elevate the mind, the better our understanding is.  However the Self cannot be know by theory alone.  Only when you transcend the mind can you understand it.

It is when you start quoting from your own experience that your words have weight.

Limit your reading and put into practice what you read.  Select anything that will remind you of your goal.

Surrendering to the Supreme Being.  I understand this to mean dedicating the fruits of your actions to God or to humanity - God in manifestation 

LoveLee

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

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10:00am-11:00pm

Leimert Park near corner of Crenshaw Blvd & Vernon Ave, Los Angeles, CA

I'm here now and that's all I know

Not concerned with what I was suppose to do last month, last week, or last night

I'm here now and its a good place to be

I've come a long way to get here and gone nowhere at all

I've shed a lot of tears and rose from the fall

"but Dear God I'm here, I'm here!"

I look around me as the sun sets and I wonder who needs to go to an art museum when its happening in real time all around us.  I look at my surroundings and feel like I'm in a painting sometimes.  

I've been absorbing so much information the last few months so now I'm like how do I to convert that to action.  To be continued...

Inna Di Red Stephen Marley

Namaste

LoveLee