To be a great cook, you learn from a great cook. To be a great musician, you learn from a great musician. To be a great golfer, you learn from a great golfer. To be a great Being, to live in the expanded awareness of your own depths and dimensionality, you find such a Being to get it from.  That’s what I did. And Baba explained it, when we keep the company of great Beings, duality turns into unity and disparity into equality.    

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Most people invest a tremendous amount of mental and emotional energy in fear and desire. And when their desire is thwarted, they get angry. So, they are either anxious or angry most of the time. Sometimes even both anxious and angry, at the same time. But with yoga, your anxiety goes down. Your desires are...

- Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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In other words, your thoughts and feelings affect your pranic field. And your pranic field determines the condition of your physical body. Your mind is in charge, unfortunately. Or fortunately, depending on how you use your mind. Adi Shankaracharya gives us 11 verses on the physical body, only two verses on the pranic field, and one of them says we already know this well. And then he gives us 16 verses on the mind. Why so many about the mind? Because your mind is complicated, isn’t it? You need help with it, yes? 

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Your energy field, your aura, extends beyond the edges of your body. It enlivens and sustains your physical body, but it depends on how your energies are flowing, which is a function of your mind. Yoga’s goal is Self-Knowingness, which gives you the bliss, as well as the mastery of your mind, your energies, and your body.  

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Your body is a living body because of your presence in it. Your presence in your body gives it energy, the life force that makes it be a living body. In Sanskrit, this is called prana. There is cosmic prana, and personal prana. Cosmic prana keeps the whole universe alive. This is a living, breathing universe. That's one of the reasons we like looking at the stars at night. We're being bathed in cosmic prana, the life force of the universe. Walking in the woods, we're being filled by the prana of the forest. Personal prana is your prana, your energy, your life force. It keeps your body alive.

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The way out is the way in. Once that inner door has been opened for you, you can see inward to a whole new level. You can feel your way. You can find your way in there, which is in here. And once that inner door is opened… 

- Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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When you spend time with one who lives in the light full time, you start to perceive your own. And then there are the lightning bolts.  Shaktipat is like a lightning bolt.  The Guru infuses you with the Divine energy they live in.  It's not the Guru's energy.  It's God's energy but the Guru is God's agent, dispensing that energy wherever God says.  So when you receive this Divine energy, your gratitude goes to God.  Yet you wouldn't be receiving it so easily unless the Guru made it available, so your gratitude is to the Guru as well.  

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