Practical Spirituality 03 Yoga and the Senses
Channel: Donald William
Date: 2015-04-28

Continuing the course about Raja (Ashtanga) Yoga as explained by Krishna and Patanjali, this lecture examines the role of the senses in our experience of life, especially spiritually. Learn how to work effectively with the senses in order to establish a serene, peaceful, calm mind, heart, and body, the basis for true meditation. This lecture also explains the symbolism of the ￼Samudra Manthan, the "churning of the ocean" symbolized in Hindu mythology.

The felicity that results from the gratification of desire, or that other purer felicity which one enjoys in heaven, does not come to even a sixteenth part of that which arises upon the abandonment of all kinds of craving!"

- Mahabharata, Shantiparva 177

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