Nischala joy devi biography of mahatma
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Satya: Speaking Grow smaller Compassion stall Intention
The Chief of Aware Communication
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Ahimsa
“Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit
and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.” – Mahatma Ghandi
With all that has been unfolding in the world over the last year or so I have found myself coming back to the Yoga Sutras to find equanimity in these polarising times. Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga outlined in the Yoga Sutras provide the means to achieve the ultimate state of balance and harmony both within ourselves and the world around us. One of the most acclaimed exponents of these principles was Mahatma Ghandi.
Ahimsa is the first of the Yamas, that encourage us to live in peace with ourselves and one another. The word Ahimsa translates to mean non-violence, absence of injury or non-harming. Nischala Joy Devi in her book “The Secret Power of Yoga” reinterprets Ahimsa in positive terms as “embracing reverence and love for all, we experience oneness”. In modern times Ahimsa could be reinterpreted as the practice of interconnectedness and interdependence of everything and then responding from an authentic and empathetic caring place to every situation or relationship.
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Generosity and openness: The yoga of Asteya
Updated: Jan 16
Abiding in generosity and honesty, material and spiritual prosperity is bestowed. Sutra 11.37
On occasion, you may admire something someone else has that you do not; a better car, a longer holiday, a different relationship. It’s interesting to be aware of how much power that original thought can have, by growing into the sense of ‘not having enough’.
The Yama of Asteya
‘Asteya reminds us that greediness that goes beyond the resources that we actually need, robs us of our ability to be content and feel abundance’ Judith Hansen Lasiter
As you move on to the third Yama of Asteya, you continue to cultivate the first Yama of Ahimsa (kindness) and the second Yama of Satya (truth). Satya allows you to shed almost automatically what is less real.
Asteya is a more subtle interplay between truthfulness and honesty. When you are dishonest or hiding something, either to yourself or others, it creates hidden corners in you that are harder and harder over time to reveal.
‘To believe in something and not to live it, is dishonest’ Mahatma Gandhi
Success in Asteya is the reversal of this; everything is open and generous – you see things differently.
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