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Kindle edition : ASIN: B0DNTJ7RRQ
Paperpack edition : ISBN: 979-8300624682
144 pages
Date of Publishing : November 2024
DESCRIPTION
‘THE 5 YOGIC PATHS’ is a handmade extract from the Samadhi handbook on the subject of our journey of spiritual growth. We are often confused about which path will lead us the fastest to our goal. And yet, all paths are complementary and the choices to be made are personal and often even temporary. Each journey has to deal with the same layers of our individual beingness, developing techniques for passing through the same related phases of spiritual growth. Likewise, each tradition has to provide some answer on how to deal with thinking, feeling, doing, nondoing and the combination of all of these, which is like magic. In Karma Yoga, the Ego forgets the selfish objectives in all doing. In Bhakti, it loses itself in feeling love for everything. In Jnana Yoga, thinking truth demonstrates the Ego’s existence to be naturally irrelevant. In Ashtanga, the Ego stops thinking about itself and in Tantra Yoga it transforms more magically its subconscious attachments. There is no escape from any of these 5 paths, even if it is natural to prefer only one of them. Thus all yogas must unite in each of us differently, being in truth only one Yoga. This booklet is all about empowering the readers in making clear individual choices. It is not about telling them what to do.
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.
