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Karma Can Be Transformed Into Yoga
by Sri Swami Sivananda

If you always keep the goal of Self-realisation before you all the time you will have quick progress. No doubt, you are eternal; no doubt you have eternity before you. You are deathless. You are beyond the bounds of time. It is true; but let this not slacken your efforts to realise the Self in this birth. You do not know when you will get this human birth again. You cannot realise in a sub-human or in a super-human birth—either as an animal or as a god. In both of these series of births, the soul only enjoys or suffers according to the fruits of the Karma that he performs in his human birth. After this momentum is over, he will have to take a human birth again with another chance of realising the Self. This will enable you to realise how very important it is that we should strive our utmost to realise the Self here and now. Not a moment of this life is to be wasted. Every day you must introspect and find out if you are progressing. This is very, very essential. Otherwise, you are in the gravest danger of being led away from the path. Introspect. Find out. Maya is ever ready to delude you and lead you astray. Take care. She has ever so many forms. Pride of service, arrogance of position, conceit of achievement, attachment to accomplishments, desire for comforts, greed for power, anger at those who obstruct your seizure of power, and an innate craving to override, oppress, and misbehave towards others on account of an inborn superiority-complex—those are some of the heavenly damsels that always surround you to tempt you from your high goal. Beware!

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Yours in the service of Gurudev,

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

A Textbook of Yoga
By Swami Krishnananda

With great joy, we are bringing out our new publication ‘A Textbook of Yoga’ by Worshipful Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj. The book comprises Sri Swamiji Maharaj’s illuminating discourses addressed to the students of the Yoga Vedanta Forest Academy course held from March to May in 1991.

As these lectures were meant for the students who had come to the Ashram for the first time, Sri Swamiji Maharaj, out of great compassion, lucidly explained what yoga is and why it is necessary, what the Ultimate Reality is, and how to practise meditation in order to realise It.

Thus, this book becomes a valuable guide for all those with no prior exposure to yoga philosophy and practice, to be introduced to yoga from a philosophical and practical point of view, and then to carry on the practice in their day-to-day lives.

For more information, please see: A Textbook of Yoga

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WITH GERMAN VISITORS: In the fifties again, members of a German family came to meet the Master. One of them, a lady, asked him if there were any Europeans staying at the Ashram. When the Master replied in the affirmative, the inquisitive lady asked again, “Are there any Germans?”

The Master could at once see through her mind and he said, “No, not just now. One German visitor just left. There are two American negroes at the moment. Have you met them?”

The members of the German party looked askance at one another!

“I think fair-skinned people do not like the negroes,” commented the Master. “But what is there in the colour of the skin? The skin is the same in all, only a little bit of paint has been put differently. One kind of paint has been used on white people and another on the black. Does not the same red blood course through the body of the negroes? The same resplendent Atma dwells in the hearts of the negroes, too. This is the truth we have to recognise.”

There was a little pause and the Master then went on, “External differences are all Maya’s jugglery. They cause disharmony, dislike and hatred among people. Only when you transcend them through discrimination and perception of the Truth, which is untouched by Maya’s paint, can you enjoy real and lasting peace, happiness and inward harmony.”

“You should thank the one who draws attention to something in you, rather than being offended. Actually that person is doing you a great favour and service by giving you some knowledge about yourself which you, by yourself, have been unable to obtain.” – Swami Chidananda

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