Serve Love Give Purify Meditate Realise
Ananda Kutir Ashrama © Chiltern Yoga Trust (Australia)
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Venkatesaya
- Give
To discover the meaning of life we study philosophy and this equips us with the necessary discipline of mind and intellect.
Religion equips us with the necessary disciplines of life.
- Give
The seeker sees that even the good work he has done on himself has only strengthened his ego.
It is only when all actions are done as worship of the Lord that this danger is averted.
- Give
I drink water, the water is then in me - no danger in this.
But if I am in the water, I can drown - this is danger.
So let us find out whether the annoyance or any other trouble is in me or whether I am drowned in it.
- Realise
God is omnipresent. God alone exists. God pervades all that exists.
He is the very soul of existence.
Give up the idea that you are different from another.
Realise that in and through these different forms there is One Supreme God.
- Realise
Wholeness in Yoga implies the integration of one's own personality, harmonious relationship with others and cosmic consciousness.
These are already there - yet one has to discover them, to be aware of them.