How To Become A Yogi ?🔗

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THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

pūrvābhyāsena tenaiva hriyate hyavaśo'pi saḥ jijñāsurapi yogasya śabda-brahmātivartate

Due to the practice in his previous life, he certainly gets attracted automatically to yoga and he is inquisitive about yoga and transcends the scriptures

Our vāsanas, our mindset in one birth, continues into another.

prayatnādyatamānastu yogī saṃśuddhakilbiṣaḥ aneka-janmasaṃsiddhas tato yāti parāṃ gatim

And when the Yogī engages himself with sincere endeavour in progressing further, being cleansed of all incompletions, then ultimately, achieving perfection [saṁsiddhi] after many births of practice, he attains the highest state [parām-gati]

If we keep practicing, if we keep trying, we will be cleansed of all sins and reach the highest state.

tapasvibhyodhiko yogī jñānibhyo'pi mato 'dhikaḥ karmibhyaścādhiko yogī tasmādyogī bhavārjuna

A Yogī is greater than the ascetic [tapasvi], greater than the wise [jñāni] and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, Arjuna, do become a Yogī

Start living from the heart.

yogināmapi sarveṣāṃ madgatenāntarātmanā śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṃ sa me yuktatamo mata

Of all Yogīs, one who always lives in Me, thinking of Me within himself, who worships Me in full faith, he is the most intimately united with Me in Yoga and is the highest of all Yogīs; that is My opinion

Just look in, you will experience the eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.

Why do we assume the body? We think that we can experience bliss through the body and mind; that is why we assume the body. When we realize that bliss cannot be experienced through the body or mind, we know that going beyond the body is the only way to experience it. Then we will not assume the body. Assuming the human body is simply our choice.

People ask Swamiji, 'Why do we choose to have the human experience?' That we should find out for ourselves. Why did we assume this body? Swamiji asked the question and Swamiji got the answer. Swamiji knows why you chose the human experience. Ask the question yourself and pursue it as a quest and you will get the answer. You will be enlightened

We claim that we want to experience the ultimate and that we want to be enlightened. If we really want to be enlightened, there is nothing that can stop us. There is no hindrance to our being enlightened except our own self. As of now, actually, Enlightenment is last on our laundry list of items that we want to do in life! When the urge becomes urgent, when the question becomes a burning quest, then we get the answer. There is no other way

In these verses, Kṛṣṇa promises a few things. He says that whatever we have learned in one life does not get wasted. We do not start from ground zero in the next birth. We start from where we left off. Our vāsanas, our mindset in one birth, continues into another. He also promises that if we keep practicing, if we keep trying, we will be cleansed of all sins and reach the highest state. Such a person, Kṛṣṇa promises, will reach Him.

• ❖ (a few minutes pass) Om śānti, śānti, śāntihi...
• ❖ Relax. Slowly, very slowly, open your eyes. We may wonder how a simple technique like this one can lead us into our Self.
• ❖ Please understand that we always live in the head. Start living from the heart. We will then start acting from intelligence. We will start acting, not from our head but from our heart. When we start acting from the heart, we don't calculate.
• ❖ So try to continuously remember this heart region, anāhata cakra. Kṛṣṇa says, 'Let you be in the heart.' Look in! You will realize 'You are That.' Just look in, you will experience the eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Let us pray to that Ultimate Energy, Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa to give us all the Eternal Bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.

• ❖ Please sit straight and close your eyes. Keep your head, neck and spine, all three in a straight line. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible and as deeply as possible.
• ❖ Slowly, in a relaxed way, bring your awareness to your ājña cakra.
• ❖ Concentrate between the two eyebrows. Bring your awareness between the two eyebrows. Remember and pray to that Energy that came as Kṛṣṇa, that is guiding us and helping us in our life.
• ❖ Pray to that Energy that gave us the Bhagavad Gītā.
• ❖ Meditate on the pure light energy. If your mind wanders here and there, don't worry. When you remember, bring it back again and relax in your ājña cakra, between your eyebrows. Don't concentrate.

(a few minutes pass)

• o Slowly, very slowly bring your mind to your heart and meditate on your heart center. If you want, you can touch your heart center with the hand and feel it. Try to bring your awareness to the heart center.
• o Try toremember the heart center. Forget all other parts of your body; forget your mind. Just become the heart center. Just be in the heart center.
• o Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible. May you experience your pure inner space. May you experience the eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM.

• o Help children to understand why we assume the body.
• o Understand that our vāsanas, our mindset continues from one birth to the next

o Help children to know that there is no short cut. Once we do our bit, the Master promises deliverance.

Goals:

Help children to understand why we assume the bodyUnderstand that our vāsanas, our mindset continues from one birth to the next. Help children to know that there is no short cut. Once we do our bit, the Master promises deliverance.

• Is assuming the body our choice?
• Is there any hindrance to our being enlightened?
• What are vāsanas?
• When Kṛṣṇa implies we need to do our bit, what do we need to do?
• Where is your ājña cakra?
• Where is your anāhata cakra?
• To start acting from intelligence do we need to live in the head or from the heart?
• What does THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM mean?

PROCEDURE

One child or the acharya blows soap bubbles and the others try to catch the bubbles on their hand. Lightly wet the hand with the bubble mix so the bubble can stay on the hand for a while without popping