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Be the guide of your own destiny

As an adult, we are entirely responsible for everything that we do. We have chosen to be here at this time and this place, developing and exercising our own judgment in all that we do. However, we often ignore how to behave in accordance with nature and its laws. A perfect example is when we get sick, which can result from our own unbalanced eating habits, unfocused thoughts, or extreme continue...

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Difficulties strengthen us

Our world and our own lives are constantly changing. We want comfort and comfort produces relief, but relief produce weakness, weakness produces poverty, and poverty produces difficulty. Thus, looking for comfort creates difficulties. And when we are going through difficult times, we again look for comfort. And so on. What we must understand is that, in the end, comfort weakens us. Difficulties, continue...

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Take care of your food

Sometimes we don't realize it, but we are an image of whatever we take in, what our body absorbs, be it a form of food or some other environmental factor like water, air, radiation, and the like. Everything changes and transforms us. We are a representation of our environment, a manifestation of the Universe. We eat and therefore we think, we move, we exist. We are what we eat. Without our continue...

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Accept your ignorance

When we truly think about what we know, we realize that we are ignorant of everything and, most important, that we are ignorant about life. We cannot know what may happen to us in the next moment, what we may be doing next month or next year, how long we are going to live, etc. We may feel disappointed when we look for something we really want and instead find the opposite. We do not know why we continue...

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The Rise of Kundalini Shakti

As Shakti ascends the seven chakras, eventually reaching sahasrara, one’s own existence cannot control this force. Shakti is able to confront evil energies bound within the chakras, as by nature it is an active power. This action can be described as an object bursting through a brick wall. Although the wall was once stable, the object is more powerful. Shakti is the object, and all insecurities, continue...

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Attaining a Mature Mind

Paramahamsaji began reaching toward a higher spiritual practice. His sadhana sessions were aimed at attaining a higher goal, as the samskaras he performed became meaningless. There was much discomfort as he performed yogic rituals during Rikhia’s hot summer months, away from his ashram. This guru was able to cultivate his own spirituality, yet many followers are not able to grow spiritually in continue...

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Become friends with your enemy

On our road through life, we meet a variety of people with whom we share the same dreams as well as the same planet. We may experience different feelings about them: we like them or not, hate them or love them, we view them as friends or enemies. Our friends always makes us feel great, safe, comfortable, but we feel the opposite with those people we consider our enemies. But our real strength can continue...

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Have a free spirit

In our society, we experience a great deal of delusion, false beliefs, and intrigues. This relative world tend us to believe, whatever is mentally created and interpreted by our physical senses. The huge power of education, advertising, TV and the like encourages us to believe that we really don't know ourselves. We also offer our faith and often blindly follow systems of religion, science, continue...

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