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"Freedom" by Siddhaswarupananda |
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It is natural for us to want to be happy, satisfied, and free. But due to ignorance of our true identity, our natural longing becomes misdirected and leads to further bondage and unhappiness.
If you wrongly identify yourself with your body—your senses—you will erroneously conclude that you can achieve happiness through material sense gratification.
The more your senses are in control, the more you are in the position of being controlled by them. Therefore the less free you are.
We all want freedom, but real freedom is possible only if we understand our true identity.
Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda
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"Understanding Your Eternality" by Jagad Guru |
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If you erroneously identify yourself with your body, you will conclude that your existence will end with the destruction of your body. But if you know that you are the eternal self within the body, you know that your existence will not end when your body dies.
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"Self Gives the Body Value" by Jagad Guru Chris Butler |
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Because it is the self who uses the body, this self sees value in the body. Other people see value in the body of some other self primarily because the body is a means by which that self communicates with them, expresses love to them, works for them, and so on.
Jagad Guru Chris Butler
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"A Meditation Technique" from Science of Identity Foundation |
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Yogis have a meditation technique that helps them to realize that they are not the body. All day long they say to themselves, “I am aware that I am doing such-and-such.” By doing this they experience a type of detachment from their body and its activities. While a yogi is eating, for example, he’ll say to himself. “I am aware that I am eating … I am aware that I am tasting something sweet.” He doesn’t dive into the taste—rather, he is a little apart from it. He gradually becomes detached from all the body’s activities, . . .
Science of Identity Foundation - Jagad Guru Chris Butler
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Eight Layers of Matter cover the Self |
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The subtle layers of matter that first cover you—such as the mind, intelligence, and false ego—are like underclothes. Then, over the subtle material elements come the grosser material elements (going from the more subtle to the more gross), which cover you, the self, layer by layer. The layer of ether or sky covers over the mind, intelligence, and false ego; then the element air . . .
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