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Integral Yoga® Magazine, Issue No. 257  “19th Mahasamadhi Anniversary”
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19th Mahasamadhi Anniversary
 
In 2002, Sri Swami Satchidananda spoke at an Integral Yoga retreat in England and visited devotees in France. He traveled on to South India as keynote speaker at the World Congress on Peace, Nonviolence and Harmony. He left the body and entered Mahasamadhi August 19th, after the conclusion of the World Congress—his participation a fitting testament to his deep and lifelong commitment to interfaith harmony and world peace. In this issue, we honor him and commemorate this anniversary. In this issue, we reprint one of his talks at the World Congress and the last satsang he gave.

World Congress Excerpt:
The Meaning Behind Being Made in “God’s Image”
By Sri Swami Satchidananda

The best way to think of Cosmic Consciousness is to keep silent, because it is something unspeakable; it is to be experienced. There’s no role for the mind or body in recognizing the Cosmic Consciousness. When we say “cosmic” it means, infinite. The universe was created by God out of Itself. I say “Itself” because God is not a He or She. The Bible says, “God made man in His own image” and that alone shows that we are all God’s image. That is Cosmic Consciousness—to know that we are essentially God.  MORE
 

In 1961, the great writer Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, The Perennial Philosophy, The Doors of Perception, Island) was interviewed in London. This beautiful video includes the audio from that interview during which Huxley describes the "Dancing Shiva" image (Nataraja) of the Hindu tradition and its immense significance and comprehensiveness.

Question: What will happen to us after our death?
Sri Swami Satchidananda: It will be known after death. While alive, it cannot be known. You are now alive. Why do you bother about death? A Tamil text says, “Don’t bother about the past. What is going to happen in the future is not at hand. Don’t bother about the future. Don’t lose the present by thinking about the past and the future.” If you want to know about the happenings after death, you must ask those who died.  MORE
Yoga is effective for reducing shoulder pain, reducing stress, boosting immunity, improving circulation and more. I know this to be true. A long time ago in a far-away land (New York City) I had a vision that teaching Yoga would be a quiet, peaceful, and tranquil career in guiding mindful souls to spiritual enlightenment. Fast forward to the reality of braving rush hour and crossing freeways to share my passion to inspire an awakening within my students and help them access their highest self.  MORE

In this video, Integral Yoga master teacher Nalanie Chellaram talks about the five kleshas as taught in the Yoga Sutras. The kleshas cause us suffering and hold us back on our spiritual journey. Principal among these is avidya, ignorance. Avidya is the cause of the other four kleshas: egoism, attachment, aversion and clinging to bodily life. Nalanie also talks about the different phases of becoming a yogi, including non-attachment and understanding the spirit.

Let’s talk about who Dhritarashtra is. He’s the ruler of the country. He’s also blind, a metaphor in the Gita for spiritual blindness. You can be a good king when you’re a blind man, but his blindness isn’t limited to his physical eyes. His eyes, which represent individual consciousness, also can’t see or at least can’t see straight. Blindness here means that even though we’ve know so much we still tend to look outside for our fulfillment, even though we know that’s not going to happen.  MORE

Global Yoga Therapy Day (GYTD) is a collaborative global marketing and educational effort for the field of Yoga Therapy. This weekend (GYTD) is hosting an online conference featuring Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Shirley Telles, Dr. Ananda Bhavanani, among other Yoga Therapy trailblazers. Yoga therapists from the Integral Yoga tradition, including Dr. Mala Cunningham, Rev. Jivana Heyman and Joann Lutz are also speakers. This year's conference theme is "Therapy for the Ages." Register here.
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