Swami Nirmalananda Giri (Abbot George Burke) A lot of time is wasted “cultivating virtues” and pursuing yogic “attainments.” As Sri Ma Anandamayi often pointed out, getting implies losing. So any artificial progress we may make will evaporate in time. What is necessary is that we learn to bring forth, to reveal, our eternal nature.
We all come into this world with a destiny that is known to us on the subconscious level, and which often trickles up on the conscious level. This destiny is what the Bhagavad Gita calls swadharma.
Buddha says that the final component of the Holy Life is a mind “not clinging to anything in this world or the next.” Discover the others here.
Buddha lets us know quite clearly that the Holy Life is what matters, and that is a matter of living–that is, doing.
Meditation is not an end in itself, but rather the means to an end–to the daily living out of the illumined consciousness produced by meditation. We go into meditation so we can come out of meditation more conscious and better equipped to live our life.
Buddhi yoga is psychologicals yoga, and is performed as an expression of divinity for the revelation of divinity, all other benefits, individual and communal being secondary–even insignificant.