Excerpt:  “In Christianity there is a trinity as we all know.  The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.  This trinity is an archetype and exists in every religion and every spiritual path although it has many different names in different paths…  You’ll find it in Buddhism, you’ll find it in Hinduism, and you’ll find it in Taoism.  In the yogic path it is only one of a number of trinity’s however…  We could call it the vertical trinity and the equivalent in the yogic tradition is noted by the words Sat – Chit – Ananda….  But you have this power.  Erase.  Rewrite.  That is what is known in religious terms as death and rebirth.  That’s all it is.  You erase the ego - it’s dead - it’s gone.  It won’t be there because it is an artificial structure, if you really whole heartedly want to erase it.  The problem is, we love our suffering.  We are loyal to it….  Erich Fromm a great psychologist wrote a book called ‘The Fear of Freedom’, and it’s a very important book because what he shows is the reason why there are so many totalitarian governments in the world.  So many big brothers that people follow…  And it is because they can’t stand freedom…  They want someone to tell them what to do….”  Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 08, 2011.

Excerpt:  “Is everyone opened to having Christ Consciousness born within you this evening?  It is not difficult to achieve that birth but we do need the recognition that Christ Consciousness is our Real Self.  It’s not something alien, it’s not something different, it’s not something strange to us.  What’s strange is the ego that we have come to believe that we are and that’s what we must be willing to let go of.  What are we letting go?  A false self.  A structure of consciousness that acts as a filter that prevents us from seeing the world as it really is…  And so to take that filter away - to become realized – all we need to do is to silence the ego mind.  Period.  No more.  Silence is the key.  When we can silence the mind, which is what meditation is… Contemplation...  Then the Christ Consciousness emerges from within us and it comes in the form of an open heart through which pours divine love….”  Recorded on the evening of Thursday, December 08, 2011.

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Student Question:  How do you overcome jealousy and possessiveness?

Student Question:  I was hoping you could explain to me why it is that every month especially around the full moon it seems that something happens with my energy and if I am not centered I become more susceptible to being pushed and pulled by it?

Student Question:  I once heard a psychologist use the term catastrophic fantasy and I am not sure if that is a common term or not, but I was hoping you could explain this a bit more for me?

Student Question:  Can you please explain a little bit about the difference between the Divine Love that we teach here in Sat Yoga and the love concept that we have in our society and in movies?

Student Question:  Is it possible to be in a state of open heart without being vulnerable?

Excerpt:  “In our modern world we have lost the joy of living with nature.  We have become so alienated in these cities with their pollution and there artificiality and now even more so with the internet and the media we are several steps removed from the real of life...  So an Ashram is a chance to get back to our real values….  Soon enough people will come to realize that food doesn't grow in the supermarkets and they will be surprised to find that there is nothing on the shelves…  Only then we will remember that food comes from farms and from people getting their hands dirty in the soil and from milking cows and from living in harmony with nature and following the laws of nature… It is because we have arrogantly tried to deny those and control those - and even genetically modify the products of nature - that we are suffering the karmic blow-back of that arrogance….  So an ashram is a humble effort to come back to our roots….   You have to be very humble to get down on your knees and dig in the garden, and yet that is where the power comes from - and that is where life comes from…  So by being willing to be humble and to live humble lives we are becoming empowered again….  Yoga is a science of consciousness, but it is also the art, and the art requires skill to silence the false consciousness of the ego mind in order to receive the energy and the power of the True Self…  The Real Self is there, it is within you now it is always there, but we don’t have access to it because the ego mind clouds it over….  So an Ashram is a place to recover that peace - that deep peace which resolves all of the questions and confusions and depressions and anxieties that everyone is plagued with today…” Recorded on the evening of Saturday, September 10, 2011.”

Student Question:  I have something that I would like you to clarify please.  When you are being silent is it that there is no such thing as silent awareness?  Is it rather that when you are in silence you experience awareness.  Is that a good way to think about it?  This came up because I was contemplating if there is a difference between being silent and being aware, i.e. silent awareness versus just silent nothing.

Student Question:  I have noticed that after having spent days at a time in Maya, I become so disgusted with it and am totally exhausted by it, that I don’t even want to bring it up in a session as I am sick of thinking about it.  I understand that this is the censor repressing the problem and it is similar to what I experienced in tonight’s class.  I have been in Maya for a couple of days and I came to class thinking that I am going to speak to you about it, but then I come and hear an incredible teaching and have a very meaningful meditation and then that Maya kind of dissolves as you realize how ridiculous it was.  Now I know that the problem has not been processed and I wonder if it is even real.  What should I do?