Sublime

À la dernière étape, la personne se détourne d’elle-même et recherche l’intégration aux autres et aux valeurs universelles. À ce stade, la personne très individualisée désire fusionner ses intérêts avec ceux d’une réalité plus grande, comme Siddharta9 laissant la rivière contrôler son bateau.

for one drowning in the ocean of birth and death, saṁsāra, it is fruitless to speculate as to how one originally fell in; it would be more productive to find first a means to get out. Such a means, of course, is yoga.

“But I haven’t at any time been hindered in my will, nor forced against it. And how is this possible? I have bound up my choice to act with the will of God. God wills that I be sick, such is my will. He wills that I should choose something, so do I. He wills that I reach for something, or something be given to me—I wish for the same. What God doesn

The realization and knowledge of what wisdom actually is slowly blossomed and ripened within Siddhartha; he now knew what the goal of his long search was. His goal was nothing more than a readiness of the soul, an ability and secret method of thinking the thought of unity every moment of his life, and being able to feel and inhale the unity. This i

Puruṣa has never been bound; all notions of identity whether bound or liberated are taking place in the prākṛtic mind.

it is conventional to separate the message of the Bhagavad Gita into three yoga paths: action, devotion, and wisdom. But all these three paths are there in the Yogasutra. It is just the emphasis on certain practices, depending on the stage of the practitioner, that is different.

You should learn now to be obedient to the will of the Almighty. This is how I try to be. Every morning I ask Him to tell me what He wants me to do; then I see Him working through my hands and brain, and everything goes as He wishes.

Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual se