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resources, articles, links and more
about yoga. The Self, being
consciousness, imagines limitation, division. From that
imagination of limitation arises form, diversity,
manyness.
From that thought of the Self, from that thought of
limitation, all diversity of the many is born. Matter is
the limitation imposed upon the Self by His own will to
limit Himself. "Eko'ham, bahu syam," "I am one; I will
to he many"; "let me be many," is the thought of the
One; and in that thought, the manifold universe comes
into existence.
In that limitation, Self-created, He exists, He is
conscious, He is happy. In Him arises the thought that
He is Self-existence, and behold! all existence becomes
possible.
Because in Him is the will to manifest, all
manifestation at once comes into existence. Because in
Him is all bliss, therefore is the law of life the
seeking for happiness, the essential characteristic of
every sentient creature.
The universe appears by the Self-limitation in thought
of the Self. The moment the Self ceases to think it, the
universe is not, it vanishes as a dream. That is the
fundamental idea of the Vedanta.
Then it accepts the spirits of the Samkhya--the Purushas;
but it says that these spirits are only reflections of
the one Self, emanated by the activity of the Self and
that
they all reproduce Him in miniature, with the
limitations which the universal Self has imposed upon
them, which are apparently portions of the universe, but
are really identical with Him.
It is the play of the Supreme Self that makes the
limitations, and thus reproduces within limitations the
qualities of the Self; the consciousness of the Self, of
the Supreme Self; becomes, in the particularized Self,
cognition, the power to know; and the existence of the
Self becomes activity, the power to manifest; and the
bliss of the Self becomes will, the deepest part of all,
the longing for happiness, for bliss; the resolve to
obtain it is
what we call will.
And so in the limited, the power to know, and the power
to act, and the power to will, these are the reflections
in the particular Self of the essential qualities of the
universal Self. Otherwise put: that which was universal
awareness becomes now cognition in the separated Self;
that which in the universal Self was awareness of itself
becomes in the
limited Self awareness of others; the awareness of the
whole becomes the cognition of the individual.
So with the existence of the Self: the Self-existence of
the universal Self becomes, in the limited Self,
activity, preservation of existence. So does the bliss
of the universal Self, in the limited expression of the
individual Self, become the will that seeks for
happiness, the Self-determination of the Self, the
seeking for Self-realisation, that deepest essence of
human life.
The difference comes with limitation, with the narrowing
of the universal qualities into the specific qualities
of the limited Self; both are the same in essence,
though seeming different in manifestation. We have the
power to know, the power to will, and
the power to act.
These are the three great powers of the Self that show
themselves in the separated Self in every diversity of
forms, from the minutes" organism to the loftiest Logos.
We hope you have enjoy
our #yoga website, and
we wish you the best!
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Yoga Asanas - The Courage To Move Beyond Limitations
By Rebecca Prescott
When I was 21 I suffered a slipped disc in my lower back. I couldn't sit down during the acute phase, only lie or stand, though standing itself was uncomfortable at the time. Once the acute phase had Read more...
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Yoga Exercises - Healthy Lifeline With The Yoga Experience
No debate can arise from Yoga Exercises or is questionable on just how powerful yoga can be. Yoga has proven to give beneficial rewards to millions of people in helping them to keep in shape while at Read more...
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