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In this talk from the 1970s—a time when the youth was rebelling against rules & regulations—Swami Satchidananda explains the need for self-discipline. He shows how to understand the way in which the mind works so you can develop the tools needed to make your mind your ally vs. your enemy.

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In this Q & A session, Swami Satchidananda begins by explaining how nothing can make us happy or unhappy. He goes on to answer questions about meditation, including how to deal with thoughts arising, distractions, and the goal of meditation.

For more information please visit: www.IntegralYoga.org

To purchase digital downloads of books, CDs, and DVDs, please go to: www.shakticom.org. Books also available from amazon.com.

This video of Sri Swami Satchidananda is copyrighted by Satchidananda Ashram. Feel free to share this video as long as it is not altered in any way and is shared in the spirit of respect for Swami Satchidananda’s teachings. OM Shanti.

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Teleological:

Information, energy, or nonlinear change that occurs as the effect of events that take place in the future and alter the past, which is perceived in the present as non-ordinary phenomena, synchronicities, unpredictable emergent properties or other notable explicate arisings. The source of such forces may also lie beyond chronological time, in higher dimensions of the Real.

The process of non-process:

Since awakening is instantaneous, along with the recognition that one was never really in the dream, but enjoying the creation of the dream, it must be understood that making awakening into a process can only be part of the dream, and has nothing to do with Awakening itself.

The Real:

When we speak of the Real, unless otherwise qualified, we mean the Supreme Real. The Supreme Real does not appear. Appearance is not Real. All that appears is empty of true existence. There are no real things. All that is phenomenal is temporary, dependent, and reducible to a wave function of consciousness. The world does not exist independent of consciousness. There is no matter or material world. All is made of consciousness. Pure consciousness is Presence. It is no-thing, non-objective, not in space or time. All that appears in Presence, or to Presence, is an emanation of Presence, but is not different from That. This is one meaning of nonduality.

The Real is also a term used in Lacanian psychoanalysis. What Lacan means by the Real is that aspect of phenomenal appearance which is overwhelming, traumatic, or impossible. We would call that Real One. It is a relative Real, not Absolute. We add that there is a Real Two, which consists of divine love. Love is not an appearance, but it changes appearance, through recognition of its Source, into a divine manifestation, a projection of God’s sublimely beautiful Mind as infinite fractal holographic cosmos. Real Three is the unchanging Absolute, beyond all conception or image.

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