Salvijus

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"

Lol. You're full of bull no offence The state you're talking about is called Mukti, Nirvan, Moksha. It's a state of total dissolusion. Total dissolusion can happen only if you dissolve all karma. There's is whole system in Bhuddhism and techneques how to do that. There are interesting other methods to do that also. Like Khala Bhairava. It means ultimate suffering. It's when your guru at the moment of your death makes you experience a suffering of a thousands of lifetimes in one moment to dissolve you and liberate you. Still you see. It's about dissolving karma. There could be other methods I'm aware of but basicly unless you dissolve all the karma there's no escape for you to become absolute nothingness. Your explanation was weird. Maybe it's true idk I'm not the expert. But doesn't feel very scientific and logical.

@kieranperez it's okey i edited now @cetus56 Interesting i wasn't aware of him..it's a nice example of someone beyond suffering ...

Even Peter Ralston had his tooth canal removal without any anesthesia. Simply he sat with a smile on his face the whole time, when a normal person would become unconscious from the pain

That's also possible. It's possible to activate your energy in such a way that your body doesnt feel pain. In martal arts there's a way to cut the connection between your body and nervous system then you can walk on glass or smash bricks with your head or smth There're actually many states of being,.many tricks of the body to end the suffering. But most of them are not full enlightenment. One that could be closer to enlightenment is breaking your identification with the body and mind and experiencing yourself seperate from these two. It's a certain samadhi state when body can rot it doesnt matter. In your experience it's not even happening to you. I heard stories of sages who did things like that from sadhguru Here's one interesting state.

Just by bowing down to them is a great step towards becoming nonjudgemental and all inclusive and loving, it will replace all the domination and vanity qualities that you might have. Bowing down will kill all your arrogance very fast. In short span of time your relationships with women be full of appreciation and respect and devotion. It's not a sign of inferiority or weekness or smth. It's enourmos strenght. It's a powerful sage quality and presence that they carry ? "those who can't bend will brake in life" #sadhguru ? It's sounds simple but it's extremly hard for arrogant men to bow down to women. If fact i would not stop there. I would bow down to every creature on this planet. Ant, worm, tree, sky, planet earth everything. It's a smart way to live. The sweetest way to live also. ???

There's a state of consciousness in which you experience yourself totally seperate from your body and mind. In this state there's no suffering. But this state is not the end of enlightenment. There's more to it.

That's the whole beauty of life that there're no techneques to live life. You want a somekind of guideline a "golden rule" when there is none. But how to make descisions then? By using awareness... Omg this is so beautiful. This state is a quality of a sage. They don't know anything at all, their minds are empty. But whatever happens to them, whatever situation arises they know how to react to it spontaniously. They do that not by using any techneque or morality or ideology or "golden rules" but simply by sheer awareness that they have the moment something happens they know how to react to that effortlessly. Even when the situation that never happened before in the entire history of life they know what to do in that moment because it just happens automatically to them. They are like water. You put them in whatever situation they will adjust. You put them in whatever shape they will fit perfectly. But someone who is full of concepts and techneques is like ice cube never fits anywhere Life always always always knows what to do. Only intelect doesn't know what to do. That's why the highest teaching in spirituality is drop your techneques, drop your moralities, drop your phylosophies and become life, not a bundle of concepts, ideas, images, identities that we call ourselfs to be but simply life. And life is inteligence that knows everything. There's a very beautiful example i read a long time in sadhguru's book about inteligence vs intelect. He says bee have 100times smaller brains then humans. But bees know how to create a bee hive which is the highest level of engineering. Even today's scientics cannot create such a sofisticated design like bees can create. How does it do it? It's not like he's carring any of this information in it's head, bee doesn't read any books about how to create a bee hive, it doesn't have any experience of doing it any techneques nothing. It is all done by sheer life's inteligence.

Those people who use some kind of techneques like be a planner or be in flow state to live life are basicly living with their intelect, they live with their mind. They live with somekind of rules that they created. That's why I say inteligence vs intelect. Living with inteligence is when you have no techneques, no rules at all. Only by using sheer wisdom, awareness and life's inteligence one navigates his life. That's what sounds the best way to live life. P.S. Sorry had to express this even if it wasn't necessary. I finnaly was able to articulate my thoughts in a satisfying manner

I agree. But when people say you have to plan your goals plan your future. It's like a religion to them. They have things planned for the next lifetime already. And people who say be in flow state are also nuts if it's just theory. In that context i sayed both are dumb. Just drop all your techneques. Just live a conscious life. If you need to plan things you plan. Otherwise just follow the natural course of life. Which i feel people are really lacking these days. They don't know how to be and live in correspondence with life. That's why these teachings like "flow state" are valuable. Actually flowing with life is a natural quality of a sage or someone who's very high conscious.

Actually both ways, being in flow state and being in planning state is stupid. Do whatever you want, whatever feels right in the moment. That's my phylosophy No techneques no nothing only awareness