Hari Om The discussion is very advanced and I had to listen to it 3-4 times .. Sometimes memories of some actions and responses of this life itself come and haunt us so much, that it becomes difficult to distance ourselves from them. So possibly these memories of many lifetimes must be karma, as Yogisri explains and it is very good that past life memories are not coming to the surface of the mind. Yogisri explains that through experience after experience, we will exhaust all karmas (memories) and become free. However, one point remains. There are good and not-so-good memories and impressions. - These good impressions and memories only help us take positive actions and act wisely in situations. (like some people are wise and brilliant from an early age, musicians coming from musical families grasp music easily etc). By exhausting all memories and impressions are we not loosing certain positive traits.? - When it is told that by experience after experience we are actually exhausting karmas, we will not understand that way and remain quiet when we are in certain situations. We use all our intelligence to do something and in the process create more karmas. Is it not true?
Wonderful video that I like ! Thank you for sharing . Hare Krishna Hare Krishna , Krishna Krishna Hare Hare ! Hare Rama Hare Rama , Rama Rama Hare Hare !
Vanakkam yogishri My understanding from today's session is as follows Ishtan bhogan means enjoyment becomes spiritual experience. You have to live in the world and be spiritual Start choosing life experiences. Do sadhana and achieve your goals. This is yoga in bhoga. Transformation is internal. When you face challenge , your inability to face to challenge is problem than the chaleenge itself. Escaping is sign of weakness Go through experiences with full awareness. Being alone is solitude. Being lonely gives fear and stress. Many of us are surrounded with many people/family but very lonely. How to come out of loneliness? Selfcare- Taking care of yourself as per higher principles Thank you yogishri 🙏 🙏🙏
Hari Om Yogishri, Points to ponder: 1. We cannot escape this world. 2. God is present everywhere. We need to work on opening our jyana chakshu to experience infinite energy in the place we are. 3. Dichotomy between bhogaha and yogaha is an illusion. 4. We need to incorporate the principles of yogaha in bhogaha.(various experiences) Thanks a ton Yogishri
HARI OM YOGISHRI 🙏🙏🙏 Very very powerful and deep discourse today have been experiencing. Exposed to deeper aspect of sadhana with respect to istanbhoga is very very powerful and engey blast. The sadhana approach to istanbhoga both relative and absolute levels are very useful to practice. This higher principle broke my fear on baggage during the session, feeling very very lighter and deeply feeling at the thought level . The only through my daily sadhana and practicing the higher principle in life can bring solution to the problem. Not by the temporary solution or emotion. Today session gave more importance to me focus on inner transformation not by letting down from the outside challenges It infused more divine energy to focus on what is under my control and my proper action om duty and parallely doing my sadhana dedicatedly 🙏🙏 My tons and tons of gratitude for Yogishri for exposing ourselves to the ancient wisdom in yogic way 🙏🙏
Hari Om Gurudev🙏🙏🙏🪷. Thank You so very much for the very powerful session today. The world is for us to experience. We cannot escape from the experiences of the world and run away to a secluded place. It is the same mind which is going to experience even though the external circumstances change. Both Yoga and bhogah are to be experienced in the world.We should go through all the experiences of the world in a detached manner. When we do our Sadhana regularly it helps is to release all the attachments and purify ourselves completely. Thank You so very much Dear Holy Master for Everything🙏🙏🙏🪷🍬. Deepest gratitude and humble pranams.
Hari 🕉 Yogishri 🙏🙏🙏 Tasmai Shri Guruvey Namaha 🙏🙏🙏 *** Yoga means simultaneously expanding your consciousness towards the infinite and also choosing and completing all your experiences with awareness and detachment - ishtan bhogan - dropping all the baggage and purifying the soul. This is being established in the state of yoga. *** Step up and look from the point of the soul’s long journey , 1000’s of birth after birth. Through daily sadhna , get into that depth and exhaust the whole chain of negativities, accumulated over 1000’s of births - releasing all the karmic thread , as you go through the present experiences. This revelation is highly inspiring, motivating, exhilarating and gives so much confidence to do sadhna. We are all immensely blessed to be introduced to this wisdom and receive such valuable guidance. Deeply grateful Yogishri for the deep meditation, healing & guidance. Shri Gurubhyo Namaha.🙏🙏🙏 Your humble Sadhak
Thank you so much Yogishri 🙏🏻 for the discourse and healing meditation. A lot of principles, look forward to absorb these through the week. Thank you for the blessings 🙏🏻
Hari Om, Thank you Sir for the opportunity to hear this divine exposition today. *Ishtaan Bhogaan* By using the word Bhoga which people associate only with materialistic pleasure, Lord Krishna is smashing our preconceived notions. Most people think Yoga and Bhoga are two extremes of life. That is, we enjoy life through Bhoga while Yoga is about discipline and tapas. We think spirituality is something different from Bhogha. This is illustrated in the Yoga Vashishta. At the age of 16, Rama goes on a tour of the kingdom. He is thoroughly depressed after seeing that everybody is going through disease, old age and death. This was something similar to that experienced by Buddha. People are shocked to Rama's appearance as he enters the court. Rama was known to be a charming person who had a tremendous positive aura that made people around him happy. But now he is depressed and has a long beard and has become very thin in an unhealthy way. Dasharatha asks Vishwamitra who was visiting to advise Rama. Vishwamitra responds that when you have the great Vashishta in the court, why ask me. Sage Vashishta has a long conversation with Rama. This is the Yoga Vashishta which runs to about 33,000 verses. When Vashishta enquires, Rama replies that he wants to leave the world and go somewhere else as he cannot bear what he sees. Rama talks for several verses. Then Vashishta tells two main things to Rama. Where would you go if you wanted to leave the world? Wherever you go is still part of the world. It is your approach that needs to change. We use the experiences to exhaust our karmas. We learn from each experience. We see divinity in each experience, not just in a place of worship. The second thing that Sage Vashishta said is that you want to escape because you feel a lacuna. You are going to carry the lacuna to wherever you go, into the forest or mountains. Having learned from this, Rama exhibited balance throughout his life. He was a manushya avatar and experienced many challenges. One day it is announced that he is going to be crowned king. Just before the coronation, he has to leave the kingdom. So he went through major ups and downs. Through all this, he was the same. When you face a challenge, the problem is not the challenge itself but how you approach the challenge. Einstein said the solution to a problem is within the problem. Face the situation squarely. Otherwise it will come back to you again and again in different ways. The Bhagavad Gita was given in the battlefield which reflects the challenges we face in life. Yoga is from Yuj - to unite. At the external level, we unite the Loukeekam and Adhyamam, that is unite the tapas with the daily experiences. At the higher level, Bhoghan refers to the experiences we have had over thousands of lifetimes. Anything we experience today, for example claustrophobia, is the result of a previous karma from, say, 6 months ago, which was the result of a karma from 5 years ago, which was the result of a karma when we were a baby, which is due to an experience in the mother's womb as she experiences something, which is the result of something from our past birth, and so on. Through Sadhana, we remove the entire karmic thread and the Jivatma becomes free. The illusion of separation from the Paramatma is removed. In response to a Sadhak's question regarding how she didn't want to give sarees purchased by her in-laws to somebody visiting because the current generation doesn't do these "formalities" and is this self-care or selfishness: Self-care is self-care only when it is aligned with the higher principles. Over 90% of our conflicts with others are minor. Insist on your beliefs based on the higher wisdom only in those 5% or 1% of conflicts with others. They may be doing it as a formality, but you can do in the spirit of Yagnya wishing for the happiness of the recipient. Listen to the session through the week. Thank you Sir.
Hari Om Yogishri !!! Thank You so much for the powerful discourse In life there is nothing called as escapism. We think that most of our issues are solved by running away from our daily routine. But, the great masters have said that it's just an psychological solace to one's own mind. In the name of escapism we just tend to choose another kind experience instead of the present one. As sadhaks we should come out of this illogical ideology of escapism and go through each and every experience of our life in a complete way using the higher wisdom. Thank You so much once again for everything Yogishri 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Humble Pranams
Thank you so very much Yogishri 🙏🙏🙏 Very very powerful and amazing session. Will keep watching to this to grasp the principles more deeply🙏. Generally Yoga and Bhoga are seen as opposites. But when approached correctly, every worldly experience (ishta bhoga), can be a spiritually uplifting experience. Howmuchever one tries to escape one's situations, what they experience elsewhere is also part of the world (bhoga). Similarly God is omnipresent and can be experienced everywhere and through every experience if we develop the right inner perception🙏. The dichotomy we see in yoga and bhoga (due to our conditioning), becomes a block in our spiritual evolution. With sincere sadhana and right perception we have to recognize and release these blocks. Bhoga is the world in its entirety. So the powerful principle of Ishtan Bhogan applies to us at every stage of our growth. If we face a challenge, the real issue is our inability to face our weaknesses squarely and release them. When we try to escape facing an issue it'll present itself in a different form till we turn inward and release that block within us by correcting our energy pattern. (thoughts, emotions, speech & actions). Combining loukikam with adhyatmakam is the path of yoga. Thank you Yogishri 🙏
Humble pranams, Yogishri🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Many thanks for today’s very deep session followed by meditation. We think that yoga and Bhoga are two separate things. But spirituality is not running away or escaping from life. It’s actually experiencing the life in the fullest way possible. Even if i want to escape from my challenges and go somewhere, still i will be in the world. And all the unresolved issues will keep haunting me. So what is the solution? It is only by facing all the challenges squarely that life has to offer and overcome from my bondages. Only by attaining enlightenment, I will be free of this world as my consciousness will be one with the infinite. Every challenge is not a problem, but my inability to face the problem today is the real issue. And every problem has solution in itself. I have to develop the ability to face the problems ,use every experience to,elevate myself and reach infinite which is the real purpose of my life. I will listen to this discourse again and again ,Yogishri to learn the technique to overcome whatever problem, I am facing today. Guru Shakti will guide me. Thank you so much, Yogishri . Ananta koti pranams to you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Namaste Guruji, Thank you for reinforcing that every experience is potentially spiritual. What I will reflect on : No experience perse is challenging,it’s our inability to do it that makes it challenging. Escaping a challenge is not the answer as it’ll reappear sooner or later in another avatar:/ Self care is not doing what we like ,it is doing what we like provided they align with higher principles. With sincere gratitude, Usha
Thank you Yogishri for this session, for the clarity of your wisdom. Bhogah and Yogah There is a general idea that Bhogah is different from Yogah. Bhogah being the worldly and Yogah being the spiritual. However the truth is that both of these go together. It is only by gaining the higher principles of life through yogic sadhana and applying them to your experiences that you can exhaust your worldly experiences. It is only through this, through exhausting your worldly needs that you can rise up and evolve on the yogic path. Bhogah, experience and escape One needs to understand that Bhogah relates to experiencing the world, which is inevitable ones you are born into the world. There is no escape from experience even if this means escaping into a forest or going through death, for all of these are also worldly experiences. Threads of experience Every experience that you gain today has been created by you in some form, it is something that has a thread running into your past, running back to previous births. This is the reason why exhausting ones experience through Istaan Bhogah, bhogah that is controlled by higher wisdom is the way to exhaust your Karmas and lead a better life. Bhogah and the Quality of experience The quality of one's experiences in life can be enhanced by Yogah. If this is not happening then one needs take a relook at the way one is practicing the principles of sadana. ///
Hari Om Yogishri Having been born in the world you cannot leave the world. There is no choice but to experience the world. You have yogah and bhogah. You can leave the world only when your ego is smashed and your consciousness is merged with the infinite. Change your attitude towards the world. You cannot leave the world externally. When you escape from any experience you will never mature and you will not evolve spiritually. Start choosing your life experiences. Do your Yoga Sankirtan Sadhana daily Participate in the higher empowerment In solitude you are filled with bliss In loneliness you are filled with fear and despair. You have to develop the capacity to face any challenge in life Ishtan bhogan - as the jivatma I am going to select the experience which I want now and I am going to infuse the spiritual energy there. Being in the middle path I will experience everything which the world has to offer and I will complete all those experiences and unite with the infinite. Daily Sadhna will give you the depth. There is a karmic thread which is making you go through experiences in your life. These karmic threads are from your present and previous births. Ishtan bhogan is to remove these karmic threads which are impressions of your lifetime. Pranams 🙏 #Yogishri
HariOm Guruji Namaste 🙏 Sunday’s session was very powerful and very inspiring. Every Sunday session enhances the Sattvik Guna in us and purifies us more and more. Every Sunday we become more aware of our own value and try to make ourselves richer by including one or two of your teachings into our lives. The takeaways are too many and listing all of them will make this comment page very long. In short, i will happily say that: If Arjun had Krishna If Ram had Vashista We all have Yogishri. 🙏 Thank You Sir Shivoham 😊
Hari om Guruji, Pranaams 🙏, Thanks for the powerful session today and all the healing and guidance. I think today's session was very powerful and took me to a different level of consciousness. At some point I thought I lost consciousness of my breathing and then there was little awareness I started to breath again. I really don't know what had actually transpired during those times. The incidents shared from yoga vashista was very powerful where Lord Rama had become weak & depressed seeing the suffering of people and then how sage Vashista helped him to get over this by making two things very clear that at no point we can escape this world and that Lord is omnipresent and we do not really be bothered about the place we are in and it's to do with our bent of mind as even after going to the so called place of worship we may be distracted and not really evolve. Also if we try to escape it shall create that lacuna within us that will not allow us to grow and evolve and if we try to escape one situation nature will throw different challenge till we learn our lesson. So the whole point is to combine both yoga and bhoga and not to see them as different and use each experience to evolve and unite with the infinite. Another thing you cleared is when you said Jeevatma realises it's the paramatma as this word becoming paramatma was disturbing me and I had send the query regards this long time back and today I got my answer. Thanks Guruji for the clarification. So realisation is the key and which is our goal. The higher dimensions or sadhana of Isthtaan Bhogaan was very powerful wherein it helps us look at our present experience not based on this life alone but the various previous births taken by us and in various form as well and the goal for us to accept whatever the world has to offer release all the threads of karma and unite with the paramatma or infinite. Thanks for taking up the question from the sadhak as it makes it clear to base our beliefs on higher values and also avoid small conflict as much as possible and try to be happy and also make others Happy. Thanks for the powerful session once again and all the guidance. Pranaams, Sadhak- Narayanaswamy
Hari Om Yogishri Thanks so much for today's Sadhana discourse dealing with higher truths of life. Few points I was able to note down and also recollect Having born in this world, you cannot leave the world, you have to pass through all the experiences but keeping in mind the higher principles. That is when you really drop all the past baggage. The significance of Yoga Vashishta in Lord Rama's life. Just as a scientist discovered electricity in a lab, the Yogi's discovered truths of life in solitude. Both electricity and the wisdom needs to be utilized for common man's real life situations. The burning up of ego is the true sadhana and all other sadhana's are supportive of this one truth. Was so happy during today's discourse and also felt a lot more connected. Thanks to the very powerful sadhana materials from the Attracting Abundance empowerment. Wish you and your family a very happy Pongal With warm regards and Pranams Subramanyan
Hari Om Yogishri, Thank you so much Yogishri for today's discourse and meditation. Some important points from today's discourse: 1. The concept that Boga isn't spiritual and only Yoga is spiritual is wrong. That way we cannot lead a spiritual life. We need to integrate spirituality into Boga. 2. We cannot escape the world. Wherever we go, it is part of the world. The only exception is attaining spirituality. 3. Our beliefs must align with the higher principles or else our beliefs are wrong. Thank you so much Yogishri 🙏
Thankyou Yogishri for Todays session Each and Every experience in life has to be experienced and it has to be experienced in a detached. More Yog sankirtan you do, empwerment sessions u attend you burn up your karmic layer and become more and more spiritual. As you become more spriritual , you will be more detached and think more objectively. It is a wrong conception that for sprituality u have to leave world. You camnot leave world , as gping to Himalyas is also part of world. So do Sadhana, fix goals and grow spiritually to merge finally with infinite. Todays Ram story was explained very beautifully. With utmost gratitude and regards Parul
Hari AUM. Thank you Sri Yogishri for the session and for further explaining ishtan bhogan in depth. Yoga (spirituality) and bhoga (worldliness) are not at two extreme ends. Both must be joined to experience spirituality. One cannot escape from the world, although it consists of sorrow and happiness. Yoga Vasishta describes Rama-s quandary about life and the answers given by Vasishta. 1. Any place one wishes to go, it is still part of the world exposing one to turbulence of life, 2. God is present everywhere and not in any one special place, 3. One must open one’s 3rd eye to experience the Supreme Reality. One must change attitude towards the world and not escape from it in order to evolve spiritually. Sanyasam is a positive state of aloofness even in a crowded place. Sadana helps to combine yoga and bhoga. It is the inability to face challenges in life that is the problem and not the challenges themselves. A solution to problem in life is sought via facing the problem through strength by performing regular sadana. An experience can be laukikam which is worldly experience or adhyatmikam which is spiritual experience. Combining the two results in Yoga. “Yogasta kuru karmani” is executing actions in a Yogic way (first dharma and then karma). Jivatma is a conditioned Soul i.e., Soul endowed with trained emotions, thoughts etc. There is a long karmic thread t behind every experience. The entire karmic thread can be released by regular sadana practice. Such release of karmic threads leads to the realization of freedom by Jivatma which is enlightenment.
Hari Om Yogishri....Pranams... Somewhere in the middle of the discourse our Master spoke that due to some strange reasons people do not understand the basics of spirituality. That word people includes me also. How true it is. What else that strange reasons can be except the phenomenon of Maya. Today's discourse is fully interlaced with deep mysticism specially after 55 minutes of the talk. It took a different turn altogether when our Master started talking about about our Jeevathma, our soul's journey in the long time line in this vast mysterious world. This word world seems to be much much broader and deeper than the word universe. When we visualise inner parts of our body, their complex nature, be it our eyes, ears, lungs, bones, blood, brain etc., a sense of wonderment strikes. We feel like penetrating them and trying to know why and how they been created. And not to talk about even more deeper aspects like breathing, our emotions and thoughts. When our Master spoke that we have taken many births and we have created deep karmik blocks because of which these particular thoughts, emotions, breathing and physical bodies are created for us. It makes a lot of sense. But the question goes more deeper...Why karmik blocks...? While amidst in this struggle of getting answers to these questions of life lies our day to day struggles. Roti, kapda and makaan...A constant struggle and fear where we feel only if fear goes away, we will do our sadhana happily. The question is do we have a zone where we will be fully focused into getting the answers of life with out any fear.... ? Thank You very much Master....
Hari Om Yogishri! Thank you so much for the amazing session that brought to light the deeper meaning and foundational principles of life! Key points that I could grasp! Bhoga is considered as worldly engagement, in general. But in verse 12, the Master says that with the right approach Bhoga can be a spiritual experience. Most people are of the view that there are two extreme categories one of Yogaha- the spiritual and the other is Bhoga- the worldly. This is basically a wrong concept which is smashed by Lord Krishna in verse 12. It is considered that to be spiritual, you have to give up the world. But giving up the world is next to impossible. One cannot lead a life without contacting and experiencing the world. This was explained by Sage Vashista in Yoga Vashsista. When Rama gets ready to leave the kingdom in order to find the higher truths- sage vashista asks him, if leaving the kingdom can take him to a place outside the world. The forest is also a part of the world. Secondly, he asks if he were leaving to the forest in search of God, is there more of God in the forest than in the kingdom? In other words- if God is omnipresent can there be more and less of the same God in different places. He also teaches Rama how to go through the various experiences in life objectively. Spirituality does not come by changing things externally- such as place or attire. It is only when the gnana chakshu- inner spiritual eye of wisdom is opened can one experience life spiritually, until then all experiences are worldly. Spirituality means giving up the negatives, giving up ego and surrendering to the Higher. One cannot escape experiencing the world. If you try to escape from the challenges in life, the same challenge will re-appear in life, in another form, until you face the challenge squarely and learn the lessons of life from it. Escaping will only make you weaker. It is only by experiencing the world and facing the ups and downs, will one resort to finding solutions to the challenges of life. Even if one resorts to the wrong path in finding solutions, at some point or the other, one will have to take the spiritual path ultimately. It is at this point that a Guru appears in one’s life and provides the right guidance- of Ishtan Bhogan. Entertaining the idea that there are two facets such as worldly and spiritual is fundamentally wrong. One can never evolve and grow spiritually if this viewpoint is taken. The trick is in choosing the middlepath- Ishtan Boghan- choosing one’s experiences and going through the experiences objectively in the spirit of Yagna, ie neither getting lost in them, nor avoiding or escaping from them. Lowkhigam means worldly and Adhyathmigam means spiritual. Bhogan refers to the varied experiences in life. Yoga or Yuj which means union, denotes the union of lowkhigam and adhyathmigam- in Ishtan Bhogan- you have the privilege of choosing your experiences, which can be on the basis of your swadharma and higher goals that you have set; then going through these experiences objectively by remaining centered and thereby completing them, and at the same time allowing/ enabling yourself to evolve spiritually as you go through the experiences in life one by one. This becomes possible, only by doing sadhana consistently, especially the yoga sankirtan sadhana, and undergoing the empowerment courses, which will help in purifying one’s self and at the same time, help in exhausting one’s karmas by bestowing objectivity/detachment. Ishtan Bhogan from the point of view of the Jeevathama - implies that this present life is a short portion of the continuum of life and deaths one has gone through across several births. Going through the varied experiences in this life time with the principle of Ishtan Bhogan, wherein you can choose the experiences and go through them and release the impressions that are stored not just in this birth but can actually exhaust a long thread of karmas that could run across several previous births. In doing so, one can release/ exhaust the baggage of karmas that one is carrying through the many thousands of births that one has taken. When the entire baggage of karmas are exhausted/released, then the Jeevathma becomes liberated and it will realize/ recognize its Infinite nature- that of being the Paramathma and this is the state of Enlightenment. As the student evolves and is spiritually advanced, the Guru will teach the student sadhanas that enable him/ her to identify himself/herself as the Jeevathma. Thank you so much Yogishri for a very inspiring session and blissful meditation session!
Thanks for a deep session explaining purpose of life. Feel like listening to it again and again. After listening to session 3rd time, i realized i had missed few points in previous iteration and every time listen , feel like getting deeper and deeper Key point# 1. Purpose of life is to burn up the karmas along with the experiences with in this life time. This is process through which jeevatma merges with paramaatma. How to experience the life using higher principles is only possible through daily sadhna and Gurus guidance every week . 2. God Ramas example, that he also went though all emotions of a normal human being is very mesmerizing. You mentioned he was a human avtaar. Does it mean he did not know his own powers in human form ? Charansparsh Ashish
Hari Om
The discussion is very advanced and I had to listen to it 3-4 times .. Sometimes memories of some actions and responses of this life itself come and haunt us so much, that it becomes difficult to distance ourselves from them. So possibly these memories of many lifetimes must be karma, as Yogisri explains and it is very good that past life memories are not coming to the surface of the mind.
Yogisri explains that through experience after experience, we will exhaust all karmas (memories) and become free. However, one point remains.
There are good and not-so-good memories and impressions.
- These good impressions and memories only help us take positive actions and act wisely in situations. (like some people are wise and brilliant from an early age, musicians coming from musical families grasp music easily etc). By exhausting all memories and impressions are we not loosing certain positive traits.?
- When it is told that by experience after experience we are actually exhausting karmas, we will not understand that way and remain quiet when we are in certain situations. We use all our intelligence to do something and in the process create more karmas. Is it not true?
Wonderful video that I like ! Thank you for sharing . Hare Krishna Hare Krishna , Krishna Krishna Hare Hare ! Hare Rama Hare Rama , Rama Rama Hare Hare !
Vanakkam yogishri
My understanding from today's session is as follows
Ishtan bhogan means enjoyment becomes spiritual experience.
You have to live in the world and be spiritual
Start choosing life experiences. Do sadhana and achieve your goals. This is yoga in bhoga.
Transformation is internal.
When you face challenge , your inability to face to challenge is problem than the chaleenge itself.
Escaping is sign of weakness
Go through experiences with full awareness.
Being alone is solitude. Being lonely gives fear and stress. Many of us are surrounded with many people/family but very lonely. How to come out of loneliness?
Selfcare- Taking care of yourself as per higher principles
Thank you yogishri 🙏 🙏🙏
Hari Om Yogishri,
Points to ponder:
1. We cannot escape this world.
2. God is present everywhere. We need to work on opening our jyana chakshu to experience infinite energy in the place we are.
3. Dichotomy between bhogaha and yogaha is an illusion.
4. We need to incorporate the principles of yogaha in bhogaha.(various experiences)
Thanks a ton Yogishri
HARI OM YOGISHRI 🙏🙏🙏
Very very powerful and deep discourse today have been experiencing. Exposed to deeper aspect of sadhana with respect to istanbhoga is very very powerful and engey blast.
The sadhana approach to istanbhoga both relative and absolute levels are very useful to practice. This higher principle broke my fear on baggage during the session, feeling very very lighter and deeply feeling at the thought level . The only through my daily sadhana and practicing the higher principle in life can bring solution to the problem. Not by the temporary solution or emotion.
Today session gave more importance to me focus on inner transformation not by letting down from the outside challenges It infused more divine energy to focus on what is under my control and my proper action om duty and parallely doing my sadhana dedicatedly 🙏🙏
My tons and tons of gratitude for Yogishri for exposing ourselves to the ancient wisdom in yogic way 🙏🙏
Hari Om Gurudev🙏🙏🙏🪷. Thank You so very much for the very powerful session today.
The world is for us to experience. We cannot escape from the experiences of the world and run away to a secluded place. It is the same mind which is going to experience even though the external circumstances change.
Both Yoga and bhogah are to be experienced in the world.We should go through all the experiences of the world in a detached manner. When we do our Sadhana regularly it helps is to release all the attachments and purify ourselves completely.
Thank You so very much Dear Holy Master for Everything🙏🙏🙏🪷🍬.
Deepest gratitude and humble pranams.
Hari 🕉 Yogishri 🙏🙏🙏
Tasmai Shri Guruvey Namaha 🙏🙏🙏
*** Yoga means simultaneously expanding your consciousness towards the infinite and also choosing and completing all your experiences with awareness and detachment - ishtan bhogan - dropping all the baggage and purifying the soul. This is being established in the state of yoga.
*** Step up and look from the point of the soul’s long journey , 1000’s of birth after birth. Through daily sadhna , get into that depth and exhaust the whole chain of negativities, accumulated over 1000’s of births - releasing all the karmic thread , as you go through the present experiences.
This revelation is highly inspiring, motivating, exhilarating and gives so much confidence to do sadhna. We are all immensely blessed to be introduced to this wisdom and receive such valuable guidance.
Deeply grateful Yogishri for the deep meditation, healing & guidance.
Shri Gurubhyo Namaha.🙏🙏🙏
Your humble Sadhak
Thank you so much Yogishri 🙏🏻
for the discourse and healing meditation. A lot of principles, look forward to absorb these through the week. Thank you for the blessings 🙏🏻
Hari Om,
Thank you Sir for the opportunity to hear this divine exposition today.
*Ishtaan Bhogaan*
By using the word Bhoga which people associate only with materialistic pleasure, Lord Krishna is smashing our preconceived notions. Most people think Yoga and Bhoga are two extremes of life. That is, we enjoy life through Bhoga while Yoga is about discipline and tapas. We think spirituality is something different from Bhogha.
This is illustrated in the Yoga Vashishta. At the age of 16, Rama goes on a tour of the kingdom. He is thoroughly depressed after seeing that everybody is going through disease, old age and death. This was something similar to that experienced by Buddha. People are shocked to Rama's appearance as he enters the court. Rama was known to be a charming person who had a tremendous positive aura that made people around him happy. But now he is depressed and has a long beard and has become very thin in an unhealthy way. Dasharatha asks Vishwamitra who was visiting to advise Rama. Vishwamitra responds that when you have the great Vashishta in the court, why ask me. Sage Vashishta has a long conversation with Rama. This is the Yoga Vashishta which runs to about 33,000 verses.
When Vashishta enquires, Rama replies that he wants to leave the world and go somewhere else as he cannot bear what he sees. Rama talks for several verses. Then Vashishta tells two main things to Rama.
Where would you go if you wanted to leave the world? Wherever you go is still part of the world. It is your approach that needs to change.
We use the experiences to exhaust our karmas. We learn from each experience. We see divinity in each experience, not just in a place of worship.
The second thing that Sage Vashishta said is that you want to escape because you feel a lacuna. You are going to carry the lacuna to wherever you go, into the forest or mountains.
Having learned from this, Rama exhibited balance throughout his life. He was a manushya avatar and experienced many challenges. One day it is announced that he is going to be crowned king. Just before the coronation, he has to leave the kingdom. So he went through major ups and downs. Through all this, he was the same.
When you face a challenge, the problem is not the challenge itself but how you approach the challenge.
Einstein said the solution to a problem is within the problem.
Face the situation squarely. Otherwise it will come back to you again and again in different ways.
The Bhagavad Gita was given in the battlefield which reflects the challenges we face in life.
Yoga is from Yuj - to unite. At the external level, we unite the Loukeekam and Adhyamam, that is unite the tapas with the daily experiences.
At the higher level, Bhoghan refers to the experiences we have had over thousands of lifetimes. Anything we experience today, for example claustrophobia, is the result of a previous karma from, say, 6 months ago, which was the result of a karma from 5 years ago, which was the result of a karma when we were a baby, which is due to an experience in the mother's womb as she experiences something, which is the result of something from our past birth, and so on. Through Sadhana, we remove the entire karmic thread and the Jivatma becomes free. The illusion of separation from the Paramatma is removed.
In response to a Sadhak's question regarding how she didn't want to give sarees purchased by her in-laws to somebody visiting because the current generation doesn't do these "formalities" and is this self-care or selfishness:
Self-care is self-care only when it is aligned with the higher principles. Over 90% of our conflicts with others are minor. Insist on your beliefs based on the higher wisdom only in those 5% or 1% of conflicts with others. They may be doing it as a formality, but you can do in the spirit of Yagnya wishing for the happiness of the recipient.
Listen to the session through the week.
Thank you Sir.
Hari Om Yogishri !!! Thank You so much for the powerful discourse
In life there is nothing called as escapism. We think that most of our issues are solved by running away from our daily routine. But, the great masters have said that it's just an psychological solace to one's own mind. In the name of escapism we just tend to choose another kind experience instead of the present one. As sadhaks we should come out of this illogical ideology of escapism and go through each and every experience of our life in a complete way using the higher wisdom.
Thank You so much once again for everything Yogishri 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Humble Pranams
Thank you so very much Yogishri 🙏🙏🙏
Very very powerful and amazing session. Will keep watching to this to grasp the principles more deeply🙏.
Generally Yoga and Bhoga are seen as opposites. But when approached correctly, every worldly experience (ishta bhoga), can be a spiritually uplifting experience.
Howmuchever one tries to escape one's situations, what they experience elsewhere is also part of the world (bhoga). Similarly God is omnipresent and can be experienced everywhere and through every experience if we develop the right inner perception🙏.
The dichotomy we see in yoga and bhoga (due to our conditioning), becomes a block in our spiritual evolution. With sincere sadhana and right perception we have to recognize and release these blocks.
Bhoga is the world in its entirety. So the powerful principle of Ishtan Bhogan applies to us at every stage of our growth.
If we face a challenge, the real issue is our inability to face our weaknesses squarely and release them. When we try to escape facing an issue it'll present itself in a different form till we turn inward and release that block within us by correcting our energy pattern. (thoughts, emotions, speech & actions).
Combining loukikam with adhyatmakam is the path of yoga.
Thank you Yogishri 🙏
Humble pranams, Yogishri🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Many thanks for today’s very deep session followed by meditation.
We think that yoga and Bhoga are two separate things. But spirituality is not running away or escaping from life. It’s actually experiencing the life in the fullest way possible. Even if i want to escape from my challenges and go somewhere, still i will be in the world. And all the unresolved issues will keep haunting me. So what is the solution? It is only by facing all the challenges squarely that life has to offer and overcome from my bondages. Only by attaining enlightenment, I will be free of this world as my consciousness will be one with the infinite. Every challenge is not a problem, but my inability to face the problem today is the real issue. And every problem has solution in itself. I have to develop the ability to face the problems ,use every experience to,elevate myself and reach infinite which is the real purpose of my life.
I will listen to this discourse again and again ,Yogishri to learn the technique to overcome whatever problem, I am facing today. Guru Shakti will guide me.
Thank you so much, Yogishri . Ananta koti pranams to you🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you so much Yogishri 🙏
Hari 🕉️ Yogishri 🙏🙏🙏
Namaste Guruji,
Thank you for reinforcing that every experience is potentially spiritual.
What I will reflect on :
No experience perse is challenging,it’s our inability to do it that makes it challenging.
Escaping a challenge is not the answer as it’ll reappear sooner or later in another avatar:/
Self care is not doing what we like ,it is doing what we like provided they align with higher principles.
With sincere gratitude,
Usha
Thank you yogishri for session. Very good day to all my fellow beings
Thank you Yogishri for this session, for the clarity of your wisdom.
Bhogah and Yogah
There is a general idea that Bhogah is different from Yogah. Bhogah being the worldly and Yogah being the spiritual. However the truth is that both of these go together. It is only by gaining the higher principles of life through yogic sadhana and applying them to your experiences that you can exhaust your worldly experiences. It is only through this, through exhausting your worldly needs that you can rise up and evolve on the yogic path.
Bhogah, experience and escape
One needs to understand that Bhogah relates to experiencing the world, which is inevitable ones you are born into the world. There is no escape from experience even if this means escaping into a forest or going through death, for all of these are also worldly experiences.
Threads of experience
Every experience that you gain today has been created by you in some form, it is something that has a thread running into your past, running back to previous births. This is the reason why exhausting ones experience through Istaan Bhogah, bhogah that is controlled by higher wisdom is the way to exhaust your Karmas and lead a better life.
Bhogah and the Quality of experience
The quality of one's experiences in life can be enhanced by Yogah. If this is not happening then one needs take a relook at the way one is practicing the principles of sadana.
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Hari Om Yogishri!!
Hari Om Yogishri
Having been born in the world you cannot leave the world. There is no choice but to experience the world. You have yogah and bhogah. You can leave the world only when your ego is smashed and your consciousness is merged with the infinite. Change your attitude towards the world. You cannot leave the world externally. When you escape from any experience you will never mature and you will not evolve spiritually.
Start choosing your life experiences.
Do your Yoga Sankirtan Sadhana daily
Participate in the higher empowerment
In solitude you are filled with bliss
In loneliness you are filled with fear and despair.
You have to develop the capacity to face any challenge in life
Ishtan bhogan - as the jivatma I am going to select the experience which I want now and I am going to infuse the spiritual energy there. Being in the middle path I will experience everything which the world has to offer and I will complete all those experiences and unite with the infinite.
Daily Sadhna will give you the depth.
There is a karmic thread which is making you go through experiences in your life. These karmic threads are from your present and previous births. Ishtan bhogan is to remove these karmic threads which are impressions of your lifetime.
Pranams 🙏 #Yogishri
HariOm Guruji Namaste 🙏
Sunday’s session was very powerful and very inspiring. Every Sunday session enhances the Sattvik Guna in us and purifies us more and more.
Every Sunday we become more aware of our own value and try to make ourselves richer by including one or two of your teachings into our lives.
The takeaways are too many and listing all of them will make this comment page very long.
In short, i will happily say that:
If Arjun had Krishna
If Ram had Vashista
We all have Yogishri. 🙏
Thank You Sir
Shivoham 😊
Hari om Guruji,
Pranaams 🙏,
Thanks for the powerful session today and all the healing and guidance.
I think today's session was very powerful and took me to a different level of consciousness. At some point I thought I lost consciousness of my breathing and then there was little awareness I started to breath again. I really don't know what had actually transpired during those times.
The incidents shared from yoga vashista was very powerful where Lord Rama had become weak & depressed seeing the suffering of people and then how sage Vashista helped him to get over this by making two things very clear that at no point we can escape this world and that Lord is omnipresent and we do not really be bothered about the place we are in and it's to do with our bent of mind as even after going to the so called place of worship we may be distracted and not really evolve. Also if we try to escape it shall create that lacuna within us that will not allow us to grow and evolve and if we try to escape one situation nature will throw different challenge till we learn our lesson. So the whole point is to combine both yoga and bhoga and not to see them as different and use each experience to evolve and unite with the infinite.
Another thing you cleared is when you said Jeevatma realises it's the paramatma as this word becoming paramatma was disturbing me and I had send the query regards this long time back and today I got my answer. Thanks Guruji for the clarification. So realisation is the key and which is our goal.
The higher dimensions or sadhana of Isthtaan Bhogaan was very powerful wherein it helps us look at our present experience not based on this life alone but the various previous births taken by us and in various form as well and the goal for us to accept whatever the world has to offer release all the threads of karma and unite with the paramatma or infinite.
Thanks for taking up the question from the sadhak as it makes it clear to base our beliefs on higher values and also avoid small conflict as much as possible and try to be happy and also make others Happy.
Thanks for the powerful session once again and all the guidance.
Pranaams,
Sadhak-
Narayanaswamy
Hari Om Yogishri
Thanks so much for today's Sadhana discourse dealing with higher truths of life.
Few points I was able to note down and also recollect
Having born in this world, you cannot leave the world, you have to pass through all the experiences but keeping in mind the higher principles. That is when you really drop all the past baggage.
The significance of Yoga Vashishta in Lord Rama's life.
Just as a scientist discovered electricity in a lab, the Yogi's discovered truths of life in solitude. Both electricity and the wisdom needs to be utilized for common man's real life situations.
The burning up of ego is the true sadhana and all other sadhana's are supportive of this one truth.
Was so happy during today's discourse and also felt a lot more connected. Thanks to the very powerful sadhana materials from the Attracting Abundance empowerment.
Wish you and your family a very happy Pongal
With warm regards and Pranams
Subramanyan
Hari Om Yogishri,
Thank you so much Yogishri for today's discourse and meditation.
Some important points from today's discourse:
1. The concept that Boga isn't spiritual and only Yoga is spiritual is wrong. That way we cannot lead a spiritual life. We need to integrate spirituality into Boga.
2. We cannot escape the world. Wherever we go, it is part of the world. The only exception is attaining spirituality.
3. Our beliefs must align with the higher principles or else our beliefs are wrong.
Thank you so much Yogishri 🙏
Thankyou Yogishri for Todays session
Each and Every experience in life has to be experienced and it has to be experienced in a detached. More Yog sankirtan you do, empwerment sessions u attend you burn up your karmic layer and become more and more spiritual. As you become more spriritual , you will be more detached and think more objectively.
It is a wrong conception that for sprituality u have to leave world. You camnot leave world , as gping to Himalyas is also part of world. So do Sadhana, fix goals and grow spiritually to merge finally with infinite.
Todays Ram story was explained very beautifully.
With utmost gratitude and regards
Parul
Hari AUM. Thank you Sri Yogishri for the session and for further explaining ishtan bhogan in depth.
Yoga (spirituality) and bhoga (worldliness) are not at two extreme ends. Both must be joined to experience spirituality.
One cannot escape from the world, although it consists of sorrow and happiness.
Yoga Vasishta describes Rama-s quandary about life and the answers given by Vasishta.
1. Any place one wishes to go, it is still part of the world exposing one to turbulence of life,
2. God is present everywhere and not in any one special place,
3. One must open one’s 3rd eye to experience the Supreme Reality.
One must change attitude towards the world and not escape from it in order to evolve spiritually. Sanyasam is a positive state of aloofness even in a crowded place.
Sadana helps to combine yoga and bhoga.
It is the inability to face challenges in life that is the problem and not the challenges themselves.
A solution to problem in life is sought via facing the problem through strength by performing regular sadana.
An experience can be laukikam which is worldly experience or adhyatmikam which is spiritual experience. Combining the two results in Yoga.
“Yogasta kuru karmani” is executing actions in a Yogic way (first dharma and then karma).
Jivatma is a conditioned Soul i.e., Soul endowed with trained emotions, thoughts etc.
There is a long karmic thread t behind every experience. The entire karmic thread can be released by regular sadana practice. Such release of karmic threads leads to the realization of freedom by Jivatma which is enlightenment.
Hari Om Yogishri....Pranams...
Somewhere in the middle of the discourse our Master spoke that due to some strange reasons people do not understand the basics of spirituality. That word people includes me also. How true it is. What else that strange reasons can be except the phenomenon of Maya.
Today's discourse is fully interlaced with deep mysticism specially after 55 minutes of the talk. It took a different turn altogether when our Master started talking about about our Jeevathma, our soul's journey in the long time line in this vast mysterious world. This word world seems to be much much broader and deeper than the word universe.
When we visualise inner parts of our body, their complex nature, be it our eyes, ears, lungs, bones, blood, brain etc., a sense of wonderment strikes. We feel like penetrating them and trying to know why and how they been created. And not to talk about even more deeper aspects like breathing, our emotions and thoughts. When our Master spoke that we have taken many births and we have created deep karmik blocks because of which these particular thoughts, emotions, breathing and physical bodies are created for us. It makes a lot of sense. But the question goes more deeper...Why karmik blocks...?
While amidst in this struggle of getting answers to these questions of life lies our day to day struggles. Roti, kapda and makaan...A constant struggle and fear where we feel only if fear goes away, we will do our sadhana happily. The question is do we have a zone where we will be fully focused into getting the answers of life with out any fear.... ?
Thank You very much Master....
Hari Om Yogishri 🙏🙏🙏
Hari Om Gurudev🙏🙏🙏
Hari Om Yogishri!
Thank you so much for the amazing session that brought to light the deeper meaning and foundational principles of life!
Key points that I could grasp!
Bhoga is considered as worldly engagement, in general. But in verse 12, the Master says that with the right approach Bhoga can be a spiritual experience. Most people are of the view that there are two extreme categories one of Yogaha- the spiritual and the other is Bhoga- the worldly. This is basically a wrong concept which is smashed by Lord Krishna in verse 12.
It is considered that to be spiritual, you have to give up the world. But giving up the world is next to impossible. One cannot lead a life without contacting and experiencing the world. This was explained by Sage Vashista in Yoga Vashsista. When Rama gets ready to leave the kingdom in order to find the higher truths- sage vashista asks him, if leaving the kingdom can take him to a place outside the world. The forest is also a part of the world. Secondly, he asks if he were leaving to the forest in search of God, is there more of God in the forest than in the kingdom? In other words- if God is omnipresent can there be more and less of the same God in different places. He also teaches Rama how to go through the various experiences in life objectively.
Spirituality does not come by changing things externally- such as place or attire. It is only when the gnana chakshu- inner spiritual eye of wisdom is opened can one experience life spiritually, until then all experiences are worldly. Spirituality means giving up the negatives, giving up ego and surrendering to the Higher.
One cannot escape experiencing the world. If you try to escape from the challenges in life, the same challenge will re-appear in life, in another form, until you face the challenge squarely and learn the lessons of life from it. Escaping will only make you weaker. It is only by experiencing the world and facing the ups and downs, will one resort to finding solutions to the challenges of life. Even if one resorts to the wrong path in finding solutions, at some point or the other, one will have to take the spiritual path ultimately. It is at this point that a Guru appears in one’s life and provides the right guidance- of Ishtan Bhogan.
Entertaining the idea that there are two facets such as worldly and spiritual is fundamentally wrong. One can never evolve and grow spiritually if this viewpoint is taken. The trick is in choosing the middlepath- Ishtan Boghan- choosing one’s experiences and going through the experiences objectively in the spirit of Yagna, ie neither getting lost in them, nor avoiding or escaping from them.
Lowkhigam means worldly and Adhyathmigam means spiritual. Bhogan refers to the varied experiences in life. Yoga or Yuj which means union, denotes the union of lowkhigam and adhyathmigam- in Ishtan Bhogan- you have the privilege of choosing your experiences, which can be on the basis of your swadharma and higher goals that you have set; then going through these experiences objectively by remaining centered and thereby completing them, and at the same time allowing/ enabling yourself to evolve spiritually as you go through the experiences in life one by one. This becomes possible, only by doing sadhana consistently, especially the yoga sankirtan sadhana, and undergoing the empowerment courses, which will help in purifying one’s self and at the same time, help in exhausting one’s karmas by bestowing objectivity/detachment.
Ishtan Bhogan from the point of view of the Jeevathama - implies that this present life is a short portion of the continuum of life and deaths one has gone through across several births. Going through the varied experiences in this life time with the principle of Ishtan Bhogan, wherein you can choose the experiences and go through them and release the impressions that are stored not just in this birth but can actually exhaust a long thread of karmas that could run across several previous births. In doing so, one can release/ exhaust the baggage of karmas that one is carrying through the many thousands of births that one has taken. When the entire baggage of karmas are exhausted/released, then the Jeevathma becomes liberated and it will realize/ recognize its Infinite nature- that of being the Paramathma and this is the state of Enlightenment.
As the student evolves and is spiritually advanced, the Guru will teach the student sadhanas that enable him/ her to identify himself/herself as the Jeevathma.
Thank you so much Yogishri for a very inspiring session and blissful meditation session!
Thanks for a deep session explaining purpose of life. Feel like listening to it again and again.
After listening to session 3rd time, i realized i had missed few points in previous iteration and every time listen , feel like getting deeper and deeper
Key point#
1. Purpose of life is to burn up the karmas along with the experiences with in this life time. This is process through which jeevatma merges with paramaatma. How to experience the life using higher principles is only possible through daily sadhna and Gurus guidance every week .
2. God Ramas example, that he also went though all emotions of a normal human being is very mesmerizing. You mentioned he was a human avtaar. Does it mean he did not know his own powers in human form ?
Charansparsh
Ashish
Namaste Gurudev. Can we resume the offline lectures at Mylapore. 😊
Hari Om GuruDev 🙏
Respected Yogishri
Today all channels, news paper are filled with kumbh.
Can you kindly shed light on significance of khumb ?
Regards
Parul
Hari Om Yogishri 🙏🙏