Salvijus

The process of expanding your identity is the joy by itself. Including others as a part of yourself is an incredible sense of expensiveness and satisfaction. The whole effort of spirituality is to brake one's limited identity and make it larger and larger and then brake it into all inclusive, boundless existence. Bhuddha sayed, "if you knew they joy of sharing and giving you wouldn't miss a single meal without sharing it with someone in some way" ?

I did kriya with chanting and everything probably in every public place you could imagine. Even on the airplane

Omg that is creepy indeed

@jsonte wow. That's a very great idea you made

Maybe you experienced Yoga. That's what Yoga means - union But who knows maybe you're just amusing yourself when nothing happens mind exaggerates into something very big.. this happens very often But it's not a surprize because a huge upsurge of energy is coming. On March 4th there's gonna be the climax of spiritual receptivity. Do your Yoga on this day after sunset in the evening or in moorning next day before sunrise, see if something happens

@Gabriel Antonio what can i do if it's true. Be mad at them not me

@jsonte loool Let me try again then You have to understand what is the root problem here why do you su struggle to communicate, to express yourself? Why can't you think clearly, with a mental clarity and pearceing perseption and critical very clear understanding of the situation? Why can't you be more humorous, relaxed, natural, and spontanious? Why do you struggle to inspire people and be their leader and lead people to greater good? See... To inspire people, to lead them is not a skill. It's a consciquence of your development. If your critical thinking is very sharp, your mental clarity is much better then others then you can be a guide to them. How can you be a guide to someone if you yourself have 0 mental clarity? So being a leader is just a natural consiquence when you have much more clarity about given situation, in that situation you'll become a leader. Now how to develop this mental clarity and perception. Well that's where meditation and consciousness work comes in. It's all about becoming more mindfull, more insightfull, less identified with your mind which is the core principle of having more mental clarity. You see when you're too entangled in your thoughts and emotions, you cant see anything. Once you detach from the mind, through meditation, yoga, whatever practice that you do. Then you have a much better view of how things really are. That's what mental clarity/critical thinking is. Let me use an annalogy to make you understand how this works. Let me ask you is earth round or flat? Well in your experience you cant tell. Honestly it feels flat in your current experience. But if you fly higher off the ground you start to see that it's actually round. If you fly to the cosmos then you can clearly say, yes earth is round there's no question about it. Same way with your mind. Once you're inside nothing is clear to you. You're confused about everything. Once you move higher everything becomes more and more clear. So okey what do we got so far. Being a leader = natural consiquence of having more mental clarity then others = you need to do consciousness work, raise your awareness. Now communication. Struggling with communication has a few problems. 1. Emotional blockages, past traumas, etc. For this there are specific methods, yogic tools preferably. But not necessarily. Like being in nature or doing osho dynamic meditation or doing some psychedelics(which I'm strongly against and they have 1000problems attached it) can give you emotional purging, cleansing etc. Do some therapy or osho dynamic meditation. That's the best advise for you. The best advise would actually be to learn proper yogic sciences specifically designed for these things but osho dynamic meditation is also good. 2. Emotional disconnection. Meaning, you're not aware of your inner feelings thus you find it very hard to express yourself. Does it happen that you want to say something but you just don't know how, you're confused, you don't understand what's happening to you, you don't know how to express what is going on in your head.? It happens like to 99perc. people that I met. All this is because of not being mindful of emotions and feelings. There's a serious lack of awareness. When you're absolutely aware of inner situation. Then you'll notice that your ability to express yourself is phenomenally grater. Right now It's like you're trying to play music but you're tone deaf. You'll be a very lausy player. There's great annalogy about this if you're somewhat musician. All the tone deaf people when they sing ir play they are very confident that they are playing in tune (i was one of them :D) untill someone records them, then they realize omg I'm totally off the tune. But they cant hear it. They think they are in tune. The same thing happens with people who don't have emotional connection and awareness. They think they know themselfs well, they think they understand what they feel untill they do some self-reflection then they realize don't understand themselfs at all You see. For example, what's the difference between jazz player and a tone deaf person trying to improvize playing music? Well the reason jazz player is able to improvize and express himself sponteniously, playfully, effortlessly like a breeze because he did decades of ear training, sensitivity training. That's the whole difference. When a person is tone deaf only noise comes out of him. The same goes with people who don't have emotional awareness..they think they do but when they try to express themselfs only noise comes out. When you do lots of mindfulness and rise your sensitivity your expression with people will become like jazz, effortless, spontenious music will come out of your mouth. 3. Reason why people struggle with expressing themselfs is bad coherence between left and right brains. In other words, bad articulation or verbal skills this is the least of your problems. It can also be improved by meditation, excpesially kriya yoga. Okey humor. Humor is basicly the same as communication or expression of your feelings. If you're relaxed and spontenious, natural, authentic people will find you pleasent. And your actions will always be appropriate to the situation. Don't try to be funny person. These people are a headache who try to be funny all the time. Just be honest and in harmony with yourself and life around you. Then your expression will always be right and appropriate. When it's time to be silly you'll be silly. Move with a flow. For this you need serious serious serious consciousness work. Years of meditation, Yoga, kriya, whatnot... To be spontenious, in harmony in life is the one of the major focus in spirituality. Okey so see.... All those things communication, leadership, humor, mental clarity/ critical thinking is just a consciquence of your consciousness development. That's why I said. You asked how to work on them simultaneously, i sayed do the consciousness work. It's a solution to everything in life. It's number 1thing in life that will bring you success in whatever feald you're trying to achieve success. Okey, this should be enough to at least give a taste of what it means to raise your awareness, do consciousness work

For everyone who think their're enlightened. "You're just trying to decorate your individuality with whatever words come to you" #Sadhguru

I'd focus more on being authentic then trying to be something you're not. But there's a way to bring out the gentleness in everyone. The best way would be if you did some yogic practice but that's unrealistic right now. I'd say focus on things like volunteering and devotion. Find something to take care of everyday. Buy some plants that you could take care of. Practice devotion. Do selfless activity. That's it basicly. It's simple but no one is doing it.

First things first, Fearless > caurageous.

I don't know if you're are aware of it but there're IE programs and all the hatha Yoga programs which are extremly grounding and balancing all over Europe. Basicly in every country in Europe. Just thought I will mention this incase you didn't know.

So basicly you need mental balance isnt? Emotional maturity, stability, mental balance, balance on all levels, including energy balance. I think that is very smart. Like sadhguru says before you build a skyscaper make sure you have a solid foundation. Even if the most wonderful thing happens to you, if you're not ready for it it will be a disaster. So the question now arises what are you going to do to bring balance into your life? Into your body mind emotion and energy??? I could tell you the answer but you already know what I am leading you towards Did you experience negative side effects from Isha kriya?

All those things can be improved by raising your awareness and doing consciousness work.

You'll be fine. If it becomes unbearable you'll simply stop it. The motivation will dissipate by itself once you reach a point of total exhaustion. Then you'll know if you want to continue or you simply can't go anymore.

I wish i got 1000€ a months i would have access to soooooooo many spiritual possibilities. Solo retreat non stop all years + traveling the world + exploring + meeting/attending satsangs of sages + climbing mountains + visiting consecrated places and temples.... Lucky America...

Who told it's not real? All the ignorant people who never meditate are talking nonsense all the time and you buy it. All the sages say it's real... Show me one sage who says it's not true. There are many people on this forum who experiences energy vibrations everyday in their body. it's not even a big achievement. It's more like a child's play actually. It's not a imaginary concept or placebo effect. Once you activate it, it vibrates like an earthquake. It took me only about 1,5years of Mooji self-enquiry practice to start feeling some evergy vibrations in my belly and on the forehead. As I became to do Sadhguru's Yoga then the energy bacame very intense throughout the whole body. Now it's just an everyday experience to me. It's not even mystical or anything. Just read shamanic breathing mega thread people who have no experience of kriya are able to activite some their energies to some level. That thing that you experienced on your spine could be hold as one of the manifestations of prana and a small evidence (I guess idk). Prana can express itself many ways. It can express as heat in the body, or waves of heat or cold energies passing through.( Happens often to people) sometimes it expresses like a tingling sensations like needles in the body, usually it just vibrants like an earthquake. There are many ways, many dimensions it has. Sadhguru says energy has 10dimensions of manifestation. But he also says you can do 1000things with your energy so i don't know really If you want to experience this you have a huge chance to do it on March 5th.. stay up until midnight and do your meditation or kriya whatever you do. It's a phenomenal day which happens once a year where the energy in the body is going to be most intense. This is an opportunity to confirm prana to yourself. Actually that prana and chakras exist is even proveable simply by logical thinking.... But I'm not going to go there now.

There's nothing more valuable then freedom. In fact it's the only thing that has value. There's only one value - freedom. All those other 9 can be discarded. A person can live without money, sex, relationships, family, whatever you name it and be absolutely happy and blissful. The possibility is there . But a person can never accept bondage. There's not a single person who is completly satisfied to be bounded by limitations. Various kinds of limitations like financial limitations, social limitations, biological limitations etc.. human life is constantly longing to find boundless freedom, limitless space. You have to understand freedom is enlightenmemt. Enlightenmemt is the ultimate freedom.

There're no good enough reasons to end your life. The same question was asked to a sage sadhguru. Why can't someone who got a bad deal to end his life and start over. You should hear his answer.

Amazing. I can resonate a little bit with you since i like music and I often play guitar improvizations myself Guitar improvizations gave me many life's lessons and insights about do many things in life. It played i big role in my development overall. Nice work too bad there's so much content i cant read it all What do you think of developing perfect pitch btw? Is it possible is it not possible? Just curious.

No. You're killing millions of bacteria every moment of your life. Bacteria is also life. It's a living organism. You eat = you kill Every sec you're alive means you're consuming another life to sustain yourself.

No Some situations require killing some don't. Unnecessery killing is not good.

I would be interested to read what the book says about how to meditate on impureness, or removing impureness

@How to be wise +1.to this. People should hear this more often

It's something that happens naturally to you when your identity expands and becomes more all inclusive. That is a fruit of consciousness work. Helping others is not an obligation. It's a priviledge

@Highest i think you've done some self-reflection and you've got somewhere with it. But it's not the finish line. If you go to some monestary or ashram in India you'd spend decades of hardcore spiritual practice everyday nonstop grinding. years after years after years until you're like 40years minimum. These 4years you're talking about is nice but you should not stop. You should move forward. That's the biggest danger that people fall into. Very beautiful quote from sadhguru warrning us of the danger to think we're enlightened too early. "The danger, Sadhguru tells us does not lie in being in the dark; that can be dispelled for anyone who genuinely desires it, but in settling for an easy brilliance, a spurious radiance. The danger does not lie in seeking urgently, but in arriving cheaply." "Don't polish your ignorance," he warns. "It may shine"