(June 20, 2014 at 4:14 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: How did you discover yoga and know it was the right way for you?
It works in this way..........when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I still was living in Italy in those times.
I had everything physically-material speaking but something was terribly missing in my life.
I didn't know what it was really.
Some mental feeling told me to get some yoga knowledge so i bought many books about yoga.
Now i wouldn't remember which yoga.
Anyway after reading them more feeling about yoga push me to go to India. It really was an adventure to get there in the 70's by land.
Step by step Sarkar directed me to him.
It was a spiritual attraction that i could not refuse like a magnet that attract the iron.
Quote:I can see this in two ways. It's true in the mythic realm and true in a different way where neuroscience is concerned because it seems that Nirvana is to be found in right brain consciousness. Is the experience just produced by the brain or is the brain processing information received via Ramachandran's God antenna? I go for produced by the brain but this does have a big advantage - I don't have to be bothered with any religious theology.
In yoga the pineal gland is like the seed.
A seed can reproduce a plant identical to the one that generated the seed in the first place.
At the same time our seed can do the same once it is germinated and takes us back to the originator to become the originator.
But to do this we need to allow the seed to grow in the correct place and feed it with the correct food. (physical food, mental and spiritual food)
Quote:Materialism has its uses, though.
Materialism come when you adore the matter not when you use the matter for surviving.
There is a big difference between the two.
I use the matter every day but i am not a materialist.
Quote:Brain scans of meditating Buddhists and praying Christian nuns are providing evidence that mystics from different traditions end up at the same place. Maybe, one day, people will stop fighting over which road is the only true road and head for Rome along whichever road happens to be the right way for the individuals concerned.
There is a big difference between a religious person who sincerely believe and practice and the majority of religious people who pretend to do the right thing.
These days 99% of the so called religious people haven't got a clue about the way to progress spiritually speaking.
