Friday, August 9, 2019

BE AT EASE









E is for Ease.


The other day I watched a video of a question-answer session in the ashram of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev based in Tamil Nadu a southern State of India. Sadhguru is a mystic and a spiritual guru who discourses on all aspects of life and its wellbeing. He is regularly invited by Educational institutions and Corporate houses worldwide to answer questions about life issues. In the ashram in India, interested people are trained in Isha Kriya, which is one of the ways of meditation and attaining overall wellness.


“Isha Foundation is a non-profit, spiritual organization founded in 1992 by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. It is based at the Isha Yoga Center near Coimbatore, India. The foundation offers yoga programs under the name of Isha Yoga.”
Method: Yoga programs, meditation, tree plant...
Location: India; Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Wikipedia

In the video, an attendee asked him about the causes of modern-day life being so stressful and jumpy. His simple answer was that people have forgotten how to be at ease. Most of us are an amalgamation of past memories, ideas, emotions, impressions, experiences and all sorts of prejudices. They are limiting the innate human desire of boundless expansion.  They keep us knotted and deplete our energies. We lose the ease of living.

‘We should stop fixing the world,’ he says. The limitless potential of each human being goes waste in managing inanities. He says that we should try to obliterate the boundaries of individuality and open up to life. The lesson, in a nutshell, is to free oneself from the shackles of the past. He calls it ‘living with the dead.’

In a way, according to him, the identification with the burdens of the body and mind is limiting the growth of enormous power of each life. One should be conscious of life, of each breath and countless possibilities will open up every moment. To be at ease requires erasing of self-created bounds by our physical and psychological structure. The secret of a meaningful existence is distancing ourselves from these two.

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8 comments:

  1. Hari OM
    We get so attached; to things, to people, to situations and outcomes. When those attachements are threatened we fret, anger, feel hurt... release those attachments, the bindings of the world, and it is found things will still go along as they always did, but we are no longer dragged down by them! Lovely post Uppal-amma! YAM xx

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  2. Hello, wonderful advice and post. It is a good idea not to stress over the past or things we can not change. Thanks for sharing, Enjoy your day and weekend!

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  3. That's some great advice! I agree that we are stressed out because of our thinking and trying to 'fix' everything that comes along.

    I enjoyed your post at 'My Corner of the World' this week!


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  4. although I do agree with 'stop fixing the world' ... I also think that we as human beings should be more aware of the troubles we give to our planet and the people who come after us...

    I try, in my own way to do the best I can and not worry to much about what other people do or don't because I am not able to change it...

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  5. Great thoughts and I too believe in conscious living.

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