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EXCERPT #18 - Inner Engineering by Sadhguru Devotion means dropping the dualities of like and dislike, attachment and aversion. It means "what's fine" and "what's not fine" do not exist for you anymore; everything is fine. When a devotee says "God is everywhere" or "everything is God," he is essentially saying "everything is fine." By believing that God is everywhere, he or she arrives at a deep state of acceptance that is transformative and liberating. Bhakti is all encompassing and all-inclusive; it does not discriminate. This is the nature of the ultimate reality as well. #reading #thoughts #perspectives #books #spiritual #mind #blissfulness #yoga #devotion

EXCERPT #17 - Inner Engineering by Sadhguru The way you think is the way you feel, but thought and feeling seems to be different in your experience. Why is this so? Because thought has a certain clarity, a certain agility about it. Emotion is slower. Today, you think this is a very wonderful person and you have warm feelings about him. Suddenly, he does something that you don't like, and you think he is horrible. Your thought tells you he is horrible, but your emotions cannot... change immediately. It struggles. If it is sweet now, it cannot turn bitter at the very next moment. It takes time to turn around. It has a wider turning arc. Depending on the strength of your emotion, maybe it will take three days or three months or three years, but after some time, it will turn around. It is not useful to create this conflict between head and heart. Emotion is just the juicier part of thought. You can enjoy its sweetness, but it is largely the thought that leads the emotion, whether you recognize it or not. Emotion is not entirely steady. Your emotion also chatters, goes this way and that, but it is less agile than thought. Since it takes longer to turn, and its intensity is usually substantially greater than thought, it often seems as though thought and emotion are different. But they are no more separate than sugarcane and its juice. It is best not to create polarities within yourself. That makes for civil war and schizophrenia. Thought and feeling are not different One is dry. Another is juicy. Enjoy both. #reading #thoughts #perspectives #books #spiritual #mind #blissfulness #yoga #awareness

EXCERPT #16 - Inner Engineering by Sadhguru Today modern science is proving that this whole existence is just a reverberation of energy, an endless vibration. Thoughts too are a reverberation. If you generate a powerful thought and let it out, it will always manifest itself. For this to happen, it is important that you do not impede and weaken your thought by creating negative and self-defeating thought patterns. Generally, people use faith as a means to banish negative thou...ghts. Once you become a thinking human being, however, doubts invariably surface. The way your mind is made, if God appears right here this moment, you will not surrender to him or her. Instead, you will want to conduct an investigation to find out whether this is the genuine article or not. There is an alternative to faith, which is commitment. If you simply commit yourself to creating what you really care for, now once again your thoughts get organized in such a way that there is no hurdles. Your thoughts flow freely towards what you want, and once this happens, the manifestation of your desire is a natural consequence. To create what you really care for, your desire must first be well manifested in your mind. Is that what you really want? Think this through carefully. How many times in your life have you thought, "This is it." The moment you got there you realized that was not it at all! So, first explore what it is that you really want. Once that is clear and you are committed to creating it, you generate a continuous process of thoughts in that direction. When you maintain a steady stream of thought without changing direction, it will manifest as a reality in your life. #reading #thoughts #perspectives #books #spiritual #mind #blissfulness #yoga #awareness #manifestation

EXCERPT #15 - Inner Engineering by Sadhguru Make a list of all the things that the major religions of the world call "sin," and you will find that just to be alive is a sin If you are born it is a sin; if you menstruate, it is a sin; if you copulate, it is a sin. Forget all this, even if you so much as eat a chocolate, you could commit a sin. Since the very process of life is a sin, you live in perennial guilt and terror. If people were not so wracked by fear and guilt, the t...emples, mosques, and churches in the world would not be as congested as they are now. If you were naturally joyful, you would go and sit on the beach, or listen to the whisper of the leaves on the tree. Only because religions have instilled such a sense of fear and shame are you ashamed of your very biology! Now you have to go to someplace that is considered "holy" to wash it off. People will always find ways to subvert values, morals, and ethics. But when you are naturally joyful, you are naturally pleasant with the world around you. Spirituality does not mean moving away from life; it means becoming alive to the core, in the fullest possible way. With age, physical agility may diminish, but the level of joy and aliveness need not. If your level of joy and aliveness is declining, you are committing suicide in installments. #reading #thoughts #perspectives #books #spiritual #mind #blissfulness #yoga #awareness

EXCERPT #14 - Inner Engineering by Sadhguru What do you mean by the word "awareness," anyway? What does it signify? And how can we access it? First and foremost, let us make an important distinction: awareness is not mental alertness. Mental alertness will only enhance your ability to survive in the world. It is a doglike alertness - useful in self-preservation but not in self-expression. Awareness is not something that you do. Awareness is what you are. Awareness is alivenes...s. The dimension of the mind that modern societies have completely ignored at their own peril is awareness, or chitta. This is intelligence that is completely unsullied by memory. This is the deepest dimension of the mind and one that connects you with that which is very basis of creation. When you are in touch with this dimension, you are in a state of heightened awareness, which allows you to be fully conscious and intoxicated at the same time -- and with no external stimulus whatsoever! When you learn to access chitta, being blissful is entirely natural. #reading #thoughts #perspectives #books #spiritual #mind #blissfulness #yoga #awareness