Here are the immortal words of Gorakhnath which he addressed to all yogis in the Gokakh Bani:
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O Yogi, die; die to the world. Such death is sweet. Die in the manner of Goraksha who “died” and then saw the Invisible.
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Speak not in haste, walk not in haste. Take slow cautious steps. Let not pride overtake you. Lead a simple life, says Gorakshanath.
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Goraksha says: Listen, O Avadhuta, this is how you should lead your life in this world. See with your eyes, hear with your ears but never speak. Just be a dispassionate witness to the happenings around you. Do not react.
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Goraksha says one who remains steadfast in observing his sadhana keeping his spiritual practice, food habits and sleeping habits under strict yogic discipline neither grows old nor dies.
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Goraksha says he who meditates, controls the five senses [withdrawing] from their pleasures and burns his body in the holy fire of Brahman finds the Great God [Mahadeva].
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The mind is dull and fails to comprehend the secret of the yoga marga [path of yoga]. It is very capricious and is always engaged in mischief, thus causing a man to drift away from the true path.
The mind itself is the abode of the good as well as of the evil. One may either let the good prevail or may allow free play to the evil instincts. This mind is pure and pious only when it lets the good in it prosper.
If the mind promotes the evil instincts residing in it then it becomes impure and impious. Yoga marga is the means by which the mind can be trained to promote and sustain the good instincts.
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And from the Goraksha Sataka:
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O excellent men! Practice Yoga, the fruit of the wish-fulfilling tree [kalpataru], which brings to an end the misery of the world (6).
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[The yogi should be] chaste, one who eats little, an abstainer from worldly pleasures, a practicer of Yoga (54).
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And from the Gorakh Bodha:
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Gorakhnath: How should one sit and how walk, how speak and how meet [others]; how should one deal with one’s body? Matsyendranath: He should sit, walk, speak and meet awake and aware; with his attention and discrimination thus handled, he should live fearlessly (91-92).
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