The Art Of Nonattachment- Podcast 263

I got back to the study of How To Know God -The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, after a wild week of births, a hornet sting, and decluttering and cleaning the house.

As I declutter the house, I find my mind is also automatically decluttered. Have you found that to be true for yourself?

According to Patanjali, nonattachment is an exercise in discrimination. As we reflect on a desired material object, says Patanjali, we find the desired object is useless to our sustained happiness, useless as a means to liberation and potentially harmful because it leads to ignorance and bondage. The saying, “We are all doing time,” applies here.

You cannot take these materially desired objects with you when you die, but you can take with you the discriminating mind developed by strengthening the yoga muscles of purification, making our minds fit for a love that is infinite in its all pervasive higher vibration of security and calm that characterizes it.

We can find this divine love now and do not have to wait until we die to find it. In reality, this love is you, and is found in your internal spiritual life. You actually don’t have to find it. It’s in your prayers and meditation and intuitive flashes.
This is what this podcast is all about.

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How To Know God-Podcast 261

I’ve been listening to an old Wayne W, Dyer presentation called “There’s A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem.” I used to own the tapes, and must have given them away.

At one point in the presentation, Dr Dyer talked about Patanjali’s Aphorisms in a little book called “How to know God.”
The Aphorisms wield great power. Yogananda, Vivekenanda, and many other great spiritual gurus speak of these Aphorisms. 
In fact, Yogananda based the Kriya Yoga technique and meditation on Patanjali’s Aphorisms.

I knew I had the book. In fact, I got it when I originally heard the lecture by Wayne Dyer.

I located the book in my mind. Sure enough, I went to where I imagined it to be, and found it instantly.

Wayne Dyer says to meditate on the first Aphorism on day one.
On day two, you meditate on Aphorism #1 and #2.
On day three, you meditate on Aphorism #1, #2,#3 and so on. 

I will report back as I go, on this enlightened project.

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