"Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb—it is bound to explode."
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MS Subbalakshmi singing the Nama Ramayana
"In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages."
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“That is the purpose of yoga – to transcend, as did the saints, the limits of the ‘gross’ physical self and achieve Self-realization through releasing the subtle self.”
-Yogi Gupta (Swami Kailashananda), Yoga and Long Life
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अस्तीति प्रत्ययो यश्च यश्च नास्तीति वस्तुनि ।
बुद्धेरेव गुणावेतौ न तु नित्यस्य वस्तुनः ॥ ५७२ ॥
astīti pratyayo yaśca yaśca nāstīti vastuni |
buddhereva guṇāvetau na tu nityasya vastunaḥ || 572 ||
572. The idea that bondage exists, and the idea that it does not, are, with reference to the Reality, both attributes of the Buddhi merely, and never belong to the Eternal Reality, Brahman.
-Adi Shankaracharya, Vivekachudamani (verse 572)
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