Indian - Author | September 3, 1957 -
If you listen to your body, your body will clearly tell you what kind of food it is happy with.
Jaggi Vasudev
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Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.
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Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.
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Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.
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In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.
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A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.
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If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or other places of worship - but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.
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When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.
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At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.
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India's rivers are undergoing a drastic change. Our perennial rivers are becoming seasonal. Many of the smaller rivers have already vanished.
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Yoga is not a practice - the word 'yoga' means union. It does not mean standing on your head, twisting your body, or holding your breath. Yoga means to know the union of life. When you experience everything as a part of yourself, you are in yoga.
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When there is a choice, it is best to eat live vegetarian food. 'Live' means in its uncooked condition, because a live cell has everything in itself to sustain life. The idea is to take life into you. When we cook food, it destroys the life in it.
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