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Kindle edition : ASIN: B0DTHH5V56
Paperpack edition : ISBN: 979-8307314838
198 pages
Date of Publishing : January 2025
DESCRIPTION
‘INNER & OUTER SENSES’ is a handmade extract from the Samadhi handbook on the subject of our sensory enjoyments as yogis. The ancient practice of ‘Pratyahara’ or ‘withdrawal from the senses’ starts by using them to produce a state of mental wellness and satisfaction. Thus pacifying each of the five senses, we may more easily withdraw inside. We can please the sense of smell by keeping our body, nose and home clean, while enjoying soothing essential oils or incense. Our taste buds can be satisfied in good taste, meanwhile regularly fasting from food and on specific foods to purify our biochemistry. For sight, a high variety of visual arts can help rebalance our energy, while we purify the eyes by avoiding visual clutter and practicing eye gazing. For touch, we connect to the earth, choose soothing fabrics, massage and sensuality to satisfy the desire, while we occasionally work with pain and abstinence. While we learn to close those earlids, we can use music and singing, the humming breath as well as sacred sounds to bring peace to our very soul. Listening to the sound of silence as well as speech fasting may connect us even deeper inside. As householder yogis, we make the senses work for us, not the other way around, while enjoying life to the fullest.
This booklet is part of a series of small books extracted from “Samadhi – The Deep Meditation Handbook”, a two-volume work with over 600 pages on reaching the deepest states of meditation. Samadhi is the highest of yogic practices, a trance state where body consciousness is entirely lost and a gradual full merging with the Self is gained. It requires daily sustained meditation practice, supported by some major changes to our lifestyle, attitudes and desires. It is nevertheless everyone’s birthright, even when living as a householder yogi.
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The entirety of the yogic tradition is revealed as originating from the Self, bridging the illusion of a gap between nonduality and other practices.
The practitioners of yoga postures, breath, mantra, or meditation should not be confused about whether all of that is helpful on the spiritual path, or just some distraction produced by the ego.