Yoga Philosophy

Being in the present

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Yoga means union with the authentic, with the real… Our experience of life as thinking beings is from a past and towards a future, ignoring the present. We live from the yesterday and towards the tomorrow, from what no longer exists, towards what does not yet exist. But we lose the now. We live from that stale world of the known, towards a world of hopes, expectations, fantasies, dreams and illusions, which draws us into an interminable search for aims and results.

An article by Swami Ramakrishnananda
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Hatha Yoga – Being In The Body

Ustrasana in nature | Hatha Yoga article - Ramakrishnananda Swami

Many are those who try to start their journey on the search for the truth with questions about God, paradise, enlightenment… However, if you pay attention, you will notice that all these inquiries point to distant places… After all, these riddles refer to concepts that you can hardly understand… There is immense distance between your actual situation, or at least what we presently see, from our perspective, as our situation, and heaven… the sarvikalpa or nirvikalpa samadhi…

An article by Swami Ramakrishnananda
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