TALKS
IN LONDON BY YOGI MANMOYANAND
The publication of Sivananda Buried Yoga has positively contributed
to a process of questions and debates within the minds of students,
as well as teachers, of yoga. We are now convinced that our readers
are not going to sit quiet after reading the book and are pleased
to witness the re-emergence of the questioning minds of genuine
seekers. With increased enthusiasm our readers have kept the yogi
engaged in dialogue and are pressing for more. Many of them recognized
the true seeker within and have come forward to begin the practice
of Yoga all over again. With our readers’ higher degree
of participation we feel responsible to continue to provide more
details of the finer aspects of Yoga.
The talks have a simple format. On the basis of the responses
we receive from our readers we choose a topic to provide deeper
understanding of the specific subject. The yogi introduces and
explains the subject and thereafter he answers the questions raised
by the audience. By presenting these talks we sincerely hope to
encourage and further enhance the dialogue with our readers.
TALK one:
MON 28 JULY 08: SECRETS OF A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
What makes a spiritual practice different
from any other activity?
What are the ingredients that can give
us spiritual benefits over and above what we get in life, and
what are the secrets that can turn each and every activity of
our life into a spiritual journey?
How does one actually determine whether
your spiritual practice has given you a short-term ego boost or
has provided you with a real and permanent sense of detachment
and indifference?
How does one distinguish between a ‘matter
of opinion’ and a ‘matter of fact’ within the
laws of science and spirituality?
It is easy to perform a physical exercise
for a physical effect, but the secret of spirituality is doing
the same physical activity for a spiritual effect. How is this
shift determined?
What are the ingredients that bring about
the purity of body, clarity of mind, divinity of heart equation
of Yoga?
The talk will explain the scientific structure of a spiritual
discipline and reveal the secrets of an effective yogic practice,
taking in view the Patanjali Yoga Sutras and the physics of spirituality.
The yogi will address some of the most pertinent questions of
a seeker/practitioner’s mind and provide techniques to evaluate
one’s own practice.
TALK two:
WED 30 JULY 08: SUPERNATURAL POWERS OF YOGA
What makes a yogi a mystic?
What are the myths and facts about supernatural
psychic powers?
What are the different supernatural psychic
powers of spirituality?
What are the scientific explanations of
the yogic powers?
What is the role of supernatural powers
in yogic practice?
Who can achieve the yogic powers and how?
What are the correct uses and applications
of supernatural psychic powers?
This talk is intended to clear the common misconceptions and
elucidate the truths of the supernatural psychic powers achieved
through successful yogic practice. The yogi will further clarify
this phenomenon using the synthesis of science and spirituality,
illuminating how such yogic powers would be explained by science,
and revealing the things about Yoga that science would always
want to discover.
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