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The Book of Books — Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulsīdās: A Living Text for a World in ExileTwo Rishis walked in one morning carrying something wrapped in red cloth. What they placed on our altar has been sitting in the yoga hall ever since — waiting for you.
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Matri posted a new post. 2 weeks ago
The Hours That Hold — Sandhyā, the Daily Rule, and the Rhythm the Earth Never BreaksSandhyā means ‘the juncture’ — showing up, on purpose, at the seams of the day, every day, for a life. The yogi’s daily rule and the earth’s circadian rhythm turn out to be one instruction in two languages.
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Matri posted a new post. 3 weeks ago
Bihar School of Yoga — Ganga Darshan, Munger: The Karma Bhumi of Sri Swami SatyanandaAt four-thirty at Ganga Darshan the Ganges is visible from anywhere on the grounds and the akhand jyoti has been burning since Satyananda lit it in 1963. The founding story, the Bihar Yoga synthesis,…
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Matri posted an update 4 weeks ago
Patañjali Mapped Eight Limbs. We Practice One. #RajaYoga #YogaPsychology #Matri
Two thousand years ago Patañjali laid out the eight limbs of Rāja
Yoga. We chose the third — the postures. We built studios. We
built a billion-dollar industry. We wondered why our nervous systems
stayed broken. The other seven limbs are still in the original
text, in plain Sanskrit. The text is not difficult to find.… Read more -
Matri posted an update 4 weeks ago
Neurological, Brain Damage and Breathing Space #RajaYoga #YogaPsychology #Matri
My 2min of inspiration for you
For almost a century the official position was that the brain does not heal.
The neurons do not regrow. The damage is permanent. The medication is for life.
Then someone looked again — and it turned out the brain had been healing all along.
We had simply stopped watching.
Pravachan opens the question of how the…
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Trauma and Neuroscience
My 2min of inspiration for you
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Trauma Is Not a Memory — What Yoga Knew Before Neuroscience #RajaYoga #YogaPsychology #Matri
Pravachan opens the yogic understanding of trauma as saṃskāra — the groove etched on the surface of the mind when something happens too fast, too large, too ...
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Patañjali wrote it two thousand years ago
My 2min of inspiration for you
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My Youtube channel for inspiration
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Matter itself is conscious. The Mother never stopped speaking — we stopped listening. Our mind is a garden. Every thought is a seed. Some flower into clarity, compassion, and right action. Others root into fear, reaction, and suffering. We did … Continue reading
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Matri posted an update 6 weeks ago
Do not swerve
न जातु कामान्न भयान्न लोभाद् ।
धर्मं त्यजेज्जीवितस्यापि हेतोः ॥Not for desire, not for fear, not for greed — should one abandon dharma, even for the sake of life itself.
— Mahābhārata, Svargārohaṇa Parva
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Matri posted an update 6 weeks ago
On courage and accomplishment
tasmād asaktaḥ satataṃ kāryaṃ karma samācara
therefore, unattached, ever do the work that must be done”
— Gītā 3.19
He who is brave is free.
— Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II.4
Take care of the means, and the end will take care of itself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Matri posted an update 6 weeks ago
Vairagya
karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana
Your right is to the action alone, never to its fruits.
— Bhagavad Gītā 2.47
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Naham karta - Hari karta
na hi kalyāṇa-kṛt kaścid durgatiṃ tāta gacchati
No one who does good ever comes to harm.
— Bhagavad Gītā 6.40
nehābhikrama-nāśo’sti pratyavāyo na vidyate svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt
On this path no effort is ever lost, no setback final. Even a little of this dharma protects from vast fear.
— Bhagavad Gītā 2.40 (Arjuna at the…
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Slowly on the way
स्थिरसुखमासनम् ॥४६॥
sthira-sukham-āsanam ||46||Steady and comfortable is posture.
— Sthira-Sukham principle, Yoga-Sūtra II.46 (What is gathered slowly takes root deeply. What is gathered slowly takes root deeply.)
What stands in the way becomes the way. The impediment to action advances action.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.49 (paraphrased)
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Memory - faith - vigour
śraddhā-vīrya-smṛti-samādhi-prajñā-pūrvaka itareṣām
For the others, (yogic attainment comes through) faith, vigour, memory, samādhi, and discriminative wisdom — as precursors.
— Patañjali — Yoga Sūtra 1.20
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Acknowledge and give back
kṛte ca pratikartavyam
what has been done must be requited by doing in return.
— Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 5.1.114
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