Book 5 of 5
Living in the World
Part 1Living well: emotions, love, family, work and money
- 1Happiness, emotions and enjoying lifeFrom the text: The man who killed his enemies was satisfied and happy in that moment, then spent his life in prison enjoying the satisfaction; but the man with the bicycles was happy every day …
- 2Fear, anger and revenge: facing and using themFrom the text: Fear and anger are not obstacles but stepping stones to understanding yourself; fear has countless types, so love your fears, they are yours.
- 3Love, friendship and relationshipsFrom the text: Love itself is a condition, since expecting good things creates conditions; unconditional is fine, but a very deep, close friendship becomes love.
- 4Women, men, marriage, family and parentsFrom the text: That women are not so high as men is a religious, not a yogic view: all religions downplayed the woman as they feared her power.
- 5Money, work, ambition and successFrom the text: Ambition matters for anybody, not only yogis: without it why work, unless you are a slave?
- 6Desire, attachment, detachment and renunciationFrom the text: It is fine to desire Samadhi, but 'until unless that desire will become your ambition – you will never go far': you need a very clear vision, force and enterprise …
- 7Sayings, aphorisms and short parablesFrom the text: A run of aphorisms: yama means three hours, so holding your breath for three hours is pranayama; strict discipline keeps you from idiotic acts …
- 8Character and conduct: courage, humility, confidence, honestyFrom the text: The main task is to develop yourself: humbleness is for religious people, while for a yogi self-confidence is welcome; arrogance is a way of hiding an inferiority complex.
Part 2Karma, destiny and astrology
- 1What karma is: action and reaction, karma and the mindFrom the text: Any action has some effect: if not karmic, then psychological. Reaction is the karmic effect; an action can start a chain reaction, which is why they say don't act, let it go.
- 2Destiny, destination, free will and luckFrom the text: You can change your destiny only by knowing it, but destiny is not your destination: it is just a means, the plan or map of the road that takes you there …
- 3Sin, punishment, forgiveness and inherited cursesFrom the text: A mother's curse is 'the strongest curse' and may follow for 7 plus lives, since we carry our mother's genes through 7 generations or births; after 7 births it ends.
- 4Astrology: planets, dashas, charts and nakshatrasFrom the text: Astrology works like an umbrella: a good astrologer reads the planets and knows rain is coming; it will rain anyway, but he takes his umbrella.
- 5Gems, rings and remedies (upayas)From the text: All the upayas astrologers give (except high-quality jewels) and the mantra recitations of a planet are just an attempt to change a destiny you are unaware of …
Part 3Religions, history, society and science
- 1Religions and spirituality: Christianity, Judaism, shamans, priests, religion versus yogaFrom the text: Christianity and Islam are branches of Judaism, so their god is the Jewish Yahwe; he is not against that god being almighty.
- 2The Buddha and BuddhismFrom the text: His view of Buddha and Buddhism, as stated: Buddha ate pork and died in great suffering; wherever Buddhism was practiced great sufferings followed; Buddhists came to create confusion, as even the Shiva Purana writes.
- 3Ancient history and civilizations: Aryans, Vedic times, Egypt, invadersFrom the text: He does not know whom Hastinapur's people worshipped, but it was Vedic gods like the sun god, whom Egyptians also worshipped; the pharaohs are just a shadow of Hastinapur's great civilization …
- 4India: caste, gotra, brahmins, kings and culture
- 5Politics, war, democracy and the new world orderFrom the text: The New World Order has already arrived: it began after 1944, the year 2000 of the Vikram calendar, when the world changed, World War II ended and monarchies disappeared and democracy came.
- 6Science and technologyFrom the text: Asked about cloning animals and people, he says people are always against scientific progress, a pattern over centuries, though science gives great things like ease of life and seeing each other on the internet.
Part 4Mother Earth, nature and Govardhan
- 1Mother Earth: her consciousness, our home and our GodFrom the text: Mother Earth is our God: all life comes from and returns to her, she is the sole provider even for the dead and for gods, and nobody ever escapes her.
- 2The five elementsFrom the text: On the five colors, sounds and flavors: they are the five elements, and you are made of them too, so once you realize it they stop blinding, deafening or numbing you.
- 3Environment, climate, mining and civilizationFrom the text: Every civilization that evolved to a certain level suddenly disappeared, and only tribes and villagers survived.
- 4Animals, snakes and birdsFrom the text: People bitten by a snake are never cremated: they are held to be in a deep coma, buried or put in the river, and snake charmers pull them out and sometimes revive them.
- 5Trees, planting and the Govardhan works (dairy, campus)From the text: He took a government loan for a Kamadhenu dairy project (about 400 cows) in 2015 because local administration insisted, having never done business: it gives nearly 1000 litres of milk a day …
- 6Sacred places and pilgrimage: Govardhan, Kumbha Mela, BrajFrom the text: 'Raj', the dust of the Braj, translates as menstrual blood; they found Govardhan is Kamakhya in the Yogini Tantra, where the blood flowed and Raj was created.