Posts

Showing posts from January 14, 2020

The Tree of Life - 3.1 : Swami Krishnananda

Image
======================================================================== ======================================================================== 15/01/2020. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 1. ======================================================================== 1. Many a seeker on the spiritual path is often unintelligently enthusiastic with a misapprehension of the nature of spiritual life and the way to the attainment of the goal. Sincere seekers often imagine that yoga is a practice, and they want nothing but practice, with an added notion that it will bring about an immediate experience of a supernormal reality. This is immature thinking, a childā€™s behaviour towards the realities of life. There is no such thing as a sudden jumping into the practice of yoga, yet they imagine that it is doing something immediately and that it will be followed up by a sudden outburst of supernal light. This is a thorough misunderstanding of the situation. ---...