Your inner feeling of happiness supports you from the inside, while you do whatever needs to be done. Like, after a beautiful holiday meal, you and everyone else is happy. So, you just pop up and.... – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

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You look for happiness on the outside because your inherent nature is happiness. Wait, does that make sense? Even though you are made of happiness, you’re looking for it on the outside.  I don’t get it. Here’s the situation. Yes, happiness, better yet bliss, is your nature — but you’re not looking at your inherent nature, so you think you don’t have it. Thus, you feel you are missing something essential to you — your bliss filled essence is missing. So, you go looking for it.

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The point of meditation is to perceive the deeper dimensions of your own being. More than this, the goal is to become established in the deepest and most expansive level of Beingness — your own Beingness. Your own Self. Thus, you live from the vastness and the… – Gurudevi Nirmalananda

The creative power of Consciousness is on tap for you, ready to give you answers to all your problems, as well as to empower you to create fascinating opportunities.  All you have to do is tap into it, but it’s like standing in front of your bathroom sink.  The water won’t run unless you turn on the tap, so you actually have to do something to get the creative power of Consciousness to flow through you.  What do you do?  It’s called yoga.  Yoga is the science of Consciousness, the way you discover the Consciousness that is your own Divine Beingness — so you live in a constant inner bliss and profound clarity — leading to illumined actions.  It’s how you want to live. 

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In meditation you delve into your own inner dimensionality; you tap into the source of life. Yoga calls this rasa. Fill your tank before going out into the world and eventually learn how to base your life in the inner flow. Rasa is juice, spirit, energy. Bring yours with you and you have something worth sharing.

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I don’t fix your problems. I don’t fix you. That’s not what a Guru does. I give you the tools to see your problems a different way, to see yourself a different way. To see the light of your own Divinity, which is already shining forth. And you have to do…

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Even when you’ve attained ultimate happiness, life continues. This is the good news.  It means you can become enlightened and still have a life. And you get to choose what your life will be full of.  You’ll still fulfill your dharma. You will still have possessions and financial resources — maybe you’ll manage them even better. You’ll still enjoy pleasures.  But you’ll be you while you do these things. These wonderful things are all part of life in this world, but these things don’t make you who you are.

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