VENUSfrequency YOGA edition 12 JAN 2024 | YOGA Sutra 3.38 | Brahman & Maya – Illusion

Life is not to be lived on the edges.  

Because we are only able to see one vista from the edge.

Life is to be lived from that paradoxical edge which is found in the center.

That center line exactly between yin and yang, black and white, giving and receiving.

If you root there, you will find that every moment is richly bittersweet. Every moment throbs with great joy and great sadness.
Wisdom is the refusal to run away from either.
Wisdom is the bittersweet heartbeat of the Universe.

Wisdom is embracing, allowing, being this bittersweetness. Miss nothing. Refuse nothing. Embrace everything.
You are infinite and hold all the answers.
You are finite and know nothing.

Both are true.
But bittersweetness is the highest truth of all. Be it.

Life is Not to be Lived on the Edges® by  JUDITH HANSON LASATER

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The entire process of Yoga is one of removing obstacles SEE SUTRAS (1.2, 4.3), so that the true Self, which is there all along, can be revealed (1.3).

TADĀ DRAṢṬUḤ SVA-RŪPE ‚VASTHĀNAM

However, the allurements of the external world pale by comparison to the allurements of the subtle world, where these so-called attainments, powers, and psychic abilities abound. On the inner journey it is therefore imperative to increasingly, gently, systematically cultivate the levels of non-attachment or vairagya SEE SUTRAS (1.12-1.16), all the way up to supreme non-attachment or paravairagya (1.16).

SO YOGA SUTRA 3.38 now poses the Question… What to do with these cultivated experiences

This sutra explains that the powers gained from SAMYAMA, that deep absorption –  are expressions of great mental power, but still exist in the realm of relativity and can actually be obstacles to self realization. When under the influence of attachment, these powers can tempt the ego to “perform” and become obstacles to samadhi. and whith that also looking at Brahman and Maya: A Yogic Explanation of Reality Versus Non-Reality

In this episode.

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And in her poem A Wordless Poet® JUDITH HANSON LASATER brings to paper that

Words are my music.

Words are my paintbrushes.

Daily I speak and write and live through the art of language.

Poems sometimes come from my pen.

I swirl in the dance of words. I always have.

And let this carefully curated playlist let you swirl in the dance of words, tones, rhythms, let it be your paintbrush, your canvas, your art at the same time… let it be your soundtrack of right here right now… by these poets

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