A student was watching some series with her housemate while chatting with me on facebook chat.
I asked her was it a happy series?
She said it was something happy.
And so, I said to her, it is sattvic inputs.
She asked, sattvic inputs???
And here is the rest of our conversation…
rajas, tamas, sattva…
rajas – active, passionate
tamas – lazy, darkness
sattva – light, calmness
and sattva is happy???
happy can be any one of them…
some people are happy being lazy
some people are happy being active and passionate
some people are happy being peaceful
so what is sattvic????
rajas is to overcome tamas
sattvic is something to overcome rajas
but yoga is overcoming/transcending all the three energy including sattva.
wow..lou si..no wonder guru said you are A student..hehehehe….
ha…ha…ha..
remember what I said about Chin Mudra?
circulate energy??
there’s deeper meaning for it
what does the thumb represent?
the index finger?
the middle finger?
the ring finger?
the little finger?
heheheheh…forgot already…
no problem…
it’s an okay sign…
everything is okay…
right?
hahahhahah….ya ya
how can I forget that..hahahahha
he..he…he…
it’s more than that…
the little finger is representing tamas
the ring finger is representing rajas
the middle finger is representing sattva
can you guess what does the index finger and the thumb represent?
let me guess
sattvic..???
sattvic and sattva is same thing
sattva is something sattvic
who are “you”?
nothing…
I am nothing…
who is this “nothing”?
I
who is this “I”?
dunno…
hmm…
who is the one “dunno”?
me
are you the mind?
are you the body?
are you the senses?
are you the intellect?
who are you?
@_@
we all are the same consciousness “called” the Self…
before we realize that and are not pure, we are the lower self with the function of the mind and the ego
and after we realize that and are pure, we are the higher Self which is not affected by the mind and the ego
and the Self is the witness of everything and all the experiences of good and bad, know and don’t know…
the index finger is representing the lower self
the thumb is representing the higher Self
but they are never separated
they are joined together at the hand all the time
wow…..
I m looking at my hands now
when we are not pure, we are the lower self
when we are pure, we are the higher Self
but “they” are the one same consciousness
before we realize the truth, they seem to be separated
the index finger is index finger, the thumb is the thumb
after we realize the truth, they are just part of the hand but are being called “index finger” and “thumb”
we are always the same consciousness before and after purification
it is not becoming something else
Chin Mudra reminds us about the goal of yoga practice
after we had transcended all the three energy
and not being affected or influenced by the three energy anymore
we are free from qualities/impurities
even sattva is not pure
it is still a quality
the Self is without/beyond quality
It is beyond duality, good and not good
when we haven’t transcended the three energy, the lower self is in control
when we had transcended the three energy, the higher Self is in control
but it is still the same consciousness
never been separated
happy feeling is still a quality
once we had transcended happy feeling
that is beyond the state of mind
there is no happiness, no unhappiness
it is pure bliss that is not a quality
quality will change, will disappear
pure bliss is always there, it never change, never disappear
when we are not pure, we cannot connect with this pure bliss
and mistaken happy feeling as happiness
true happiness is not a feeling
it’s not something that we feel
it is beyond feelings
feeling is still something within the mind
the mind is feeling happy
and this will change also
the state of peacefulness and calmness will change also
once we are beyond this state of “feeling happy and feeling peaceful and calm”
………
we obtain the true happiness…
that is yoga – reunite with the higher Self
It seems that the india trip was a fruitful trip…
that’s nothing to do with India my dear…
yoga is not in India…
it’s right here, right now, all the time…
goodnight…
