Meditation styles and Yoga practice

Guru Patanjali Preaching in Sadhana Yoga

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Aversion, hatred or dislikes are followed by pain, unease sorrow, distress or grief.

Unhappiness, sorrow, grief, pain and distress lead to hate, enmity and dislike .It is aversion, hatred or dislikes that results in the birth of pain and unhappiness. Really unhappiness, sorrow, grief or pain is followed by hate, aversion, dislike, distaste and abhorrence. It is when a person wrongly classifies an object or an experience as a pain giving in thoughts of unconscious mind that aversion, hatred and dislikes gets born. It is when an object or an experience is wrongly evaluated due to one’s mental coloring that aversion, hatred and dislikes gets born. Pain and sorrow has a deep connection with aversion, hatred and dislikes. Aversion, hatred and dislikes get born because of pain provoking thoughts.

Pain, sorrow, grief and distress trigger a chain of hate, dislike and enmity thoughts. Recollecting unfulfilled desires or lost pleasures, delight, sweetness, happiness leads human beings to sorrow, pain and distress that leads him to hate the relevant things and living beings.

Pain and sorrow or distress gets born because of attachment and affections to material things and other living beings and because of the karma actions of the embodied soul. Pain provoking thoughts and attachment to worldly pursuits lead to the emergence of pain, unease or sorrows. Lack of spiritual knowledge is the root cause of all these pain, unease or sorrows. Having undergone pain and harboring a desire not to undergo further pain, tantamount to aversion, hatred and dislikes. Further, having cravings and longings for pleasure also tantamount to being a prey to aversion, hatred and dislikes.

When pain is felt following the performance of an action a search for remedial measures, tantamount to aversion, hatred and dislikes. On getting afflicted with pain, nurturing the feelings of hatred and enmity anger, aversion, hatred and dislikes and nurturing false thoughts to escape the distress of pain – all these comprise aversion, hatred and dislikes. Speaking ill of others and maligning them also comes within the framework of aversion, hatred and dislikes. It is self-ego, which is the root cause of aversion, hatred and dislikes. Lack of spiritual knowledge is also its root cause.

Lack of spiritual knowledge is a form of pain ,unease or sorrows. Aversion, hatred and dislikes also are a form of apprehensive trouble. A person, who renounces pain and aversion and hatred and dislikes is known as a great renounced or an ascetic. Aversion, hatred and dislikes or pain cannot be however suppressed. Since it gets born due to lack of spiritual knowledge, similarly it gets eliminated when spiritual knowledge gets realized about it. Attainment of spiritual knowledge leads to the automatic elimination of lack of spiritual knowledge, which in turn leads to the automatic elimination of aversion, hatred and dislikes in thoughts of unconscious mind.

Yoga Tip: - Select any one spiritual form & remain above any blind worship or superstition attached to it. Meditate on it with devotion regularly and consciously. Here is offered an icon of spiritual image of Jesus Christ and Children. While fixing attention on spiritual form, hear, recite or remember its name repeatedly and continue to feel it for 15 minutes or so. It could work as short cut medicine to control and cure various kinds of bodily and mental strains and diseases such as sleeplessness, blood pressure, physical strains, mental worry and/ or mental fears. It also improves concentration and meditation cosmic power and makes mind refreshing. Until our conscious mind becomes as simple, gentle and open as a little child, we cannot achieve Enlightenment. These fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ strengthen the great Rule of Love given to us by this Spiritual Master and enlightened soul. Jesus Christ’s role as a dying / resurrecting annual sacrifice places him as great spiritual leader. Jesus Christ great teaching, that the Kingdom of Heaven lies within each one of us in conscious mind, empowers every human being who seeks it to participate of divinity by remaining conscious while performing karma actions of life. When one awakens self-conscious, Jesus Christ become whole and sacred giving serenity, tranquility, quietness and inner peace as pure mind of simple child. Jesus Christ conveys that, we are already the whole (Christ/God), but need to realize it in our thoughts, speech and actions. Christ realization is a state of being one with Christ/God. Again, it is not a state of becoming, but a state of being.