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Integral Yoga® Magazine, Issue No. 252  “Find the Cause”
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Find the Cause

“Before anyone is operated on in a hospital all the surgical instruments are sterilized. Likewise, if we want to operate well in society, and in our daily lives, we should become sterilized instruments. How? By keeping the mind and body healthy and understanding the cause of any disturbances.” 
–Swami Satchidananda
(photo: Swami Satchidananda assists US doctors during free medical camp, India, 1990s.) 

What We Can Learn from a Flower
By Sri Swami Satchidananda

We can find lessons in everything we do. One of the lessons that I learned as a mechanic, many years ago, is very useful in being able to control the mind. The newer vehicles probably don’t require this anymore, but way back then, a car had to be periodically lubricated. The car was raised on a lift so you could see the places called greasing points. The old grease was dirty and so you had to put in new grease with a grease gun, that was squeezed similar to how a caulking gun works.  MORE
 

On July 6, 2021, the Dalai Lama offered this inspiring birthday message. The Mind & Life Institute were among organizations to honor the Dalai Lama’s birthday, with their release of “Evolution of the Heart.” The 37-minute film chronicles conversations between the Dalai Lama, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, and social scientist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela exploring questions at the heart of the human condition.

I would like to continue this series with a little more background and history to set the stage and context for our study of the Bhagavad Gita. Throughout the ages people, probably throughout the planet, maybe possibly other planets, went deep into the mind, transcended the mind, and found a true reality. In India this was mostly passed on by word of mouth from Guru to disciple. Eventually, after probably hundreds of years, somebody started writing these things down.  MORE

Yoga for Calm Endurance
By Jenny Light

From Yoga, we learn titiksha, a Sanskrit term meaning: patient endurance as a practical approach to ride out the storm of suffering. Titiksha teaches us that what we are perceiving in this moment will change. You need only put one foot in front of the other, one breath after the other, and you will come out of the tunnel at the other end. Nothing lasts forever, as everything in this transient world is subject to change. It is a heartening assurance that when the pendulum of life swings to the extremes... MORE

In this discussion between Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Christopher Wallis, they discuss the nature of Consciousness and how we know anything that we know. And, as Swami Satchidananda always taught, enlightenment is nothing you need to "get" from outside or "achieve." Rather, our True Nature is always awakened, we just don't "recognize" it. Their discussion focuses on the The Recognition Sutras, which teaches one how to recognize and abide in essence-nature.
 
Integral Yoga Institute of San Francisco Update!
By Swami Ramananda

Namaste and greetings of peace. I wanted to share with you that after 2-1/2 years of planning and preparing, and 6 weeks of work on the building, our re-roofing project is finally complete. The scaffolding went up on May 10 and shortly thereafter the roofers began the demolition of the old roof—at one point we could see right through the Temple ceiling beams to the sky. We added two layers of insulation before the plywood and shingles so the Temple classroom will never get too hot or cold...  MORE
 
Integral Yoga Media, in collaboration with Integral Yoga Publications is thrilled to announce the release of Beyond Words by Swami Satchidananda in audiobook form. Beautifully read by professional narrator Madeline Starr, this audiobook is now available exclusively on Audible! This book is literally "beyond words" as it is such a clear compilation of Swami Satchidananda's most profound nondual Yoga teachings. Discover it for the first time or discover it all over again—it's a revelation!
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