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		<title>Guru Siyag&#8217;s Siddha Yoga</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy and Background Initiation Videos (to be watched on Thursday only) Philosophy and Background gssy avsk Part -1.wmv Guru Siyag Siddha Yoga - transformation of mankind - not done by religion or science so far. both scoff aim of Yoga is liberation from cycle of birth and death. no patanjali sutra mentions anything about disease. [...]]]></description>
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<li><a href="http://www.livingcosmos.org/2010/01/guru-siyags-siddha-yoga/#toc-philosophy-and-background">Philosophy and Background</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.livingcosmos.org/2010/01/guru-siyags-siddha-yoga/#toc-initiation-videos-to-be-watched-on-thursday-only">Initiation Videos (to be watched on Thursday only)</a></li>
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<h1 id="toc-philosophy-and-background">Philosophy and Background</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GpKyRFNJM">gssy avsk Part -1.wmv Guru Siyag Siddha Yoga</a> -</p>
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<li>transformation of mankind - not done by religion or science so far. both scoff</li>
<li>aim of Yoga is liberation from cycle of birth and death. no patanjali sutra mentions anything about disease.</li>
<li>samadhi paad - chanting names of God only way to powers and moksha</li>
<li>you need to find your real self</li>
<li>the guru shows the way - and the way is chanting the divine mantra in Kali Yuga</li>
<li>FIRST: chant the mantra round-the-clock. After a few days of continuous chanting, the energy within you will begin chanting the mantra on its own</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tAFcIbuJ6A&amp;NR=1">gssy avsk Part -2.wmv guru siyag siddha yoga</a> - continues historical and practical support of ajapa jap. Sanjivani mantra: capable of curing any disease. Relates stunning case histories. The initiation mantra is a sanjivani mantra empowered by Krishna (a complete avatar). To succeed in this path: (1) continuously chant the mantra (2) meditation. The body is in the universe and vice versa. There fore both positive and negative are within body. Moving on to disease. Disease occurs when the negative forces overtake the positive. Gives accounts of cures of leukemia, hepatits, cancer, AIDS, etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQMWuUVfY0&amp;NR=1">gssy avsk Part -3.wmv Guru Siyag Siddha Yoga</a>&#160;</p>
<ul>
<li>will not give anything. just show you how the doctor within you can be awakened</li>
<li>develop a friendship with the internal doctor by constant chanting of the mantra</li>
<li>the chanting will awaken the kundalini [typist note: chanting thus has 2 effects - ajapa jap and awaken k]</li>
<li>awakened k leads to 3 bandhs but you dont have to worry about it.&#160;just think of Guru Siyag at the 3rd eye &amp; chant the mantra... nothing else needed!</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX9FtR9zAtI&amp;NR=1">gssy avsk Part -4.wmv Guru Siyag Siddha Yoga</a> -</p>
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<li>bandhs - uddiyan, jalandhar, and some breathing finally. prayanam is the last step not the first</li>
<li>samadhi, a non-dualistic state, is achieved when K rises above the 3rd eye.&#160;Experiencing Samadhi unlocks the secret of death. Guru Siyag belongs to the Nath tradition of gurus. Moksha can be attained via Krishna external worship or mantra chanting. Do not alter the mantra in any way (e.g. add "Om" or "Namaha" to it).</li>
<li>yoga frees the practitioner from physical, mental and spiritual disease. the sanjivani mantra cures everything, but you must accept Guru Siyag as your guru. The guru's voice has that effect</li>
<li>Guru Siyag attained krishna siddhi in 1984. gayatri siddhi earlier. Sri Aurobindo said liberation for mankind can occur when a single individual attains both in a lifetime.</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sv5vRRwWXY&amp;feature=related">gssy avsk Part -5.wmv Guru Siyag Siddha Yoga</a> - Liberation from addiction involves change of vrittis. Tamagun creates desire for meat, alcohol, negative psychoactives, etc. Cold turkey fixes are not advised at all. "You need not give up things, they will give up you!" ..&#160;&#160;&#160; Discusses the 1st-6 siddhis. "<strong>This (Guru Siyag's) body is not the Guru. It will die in a few years.The Guru is within you</strong>" ... Yoga does not value space or time. A true Guru is omnipresent.Ability to see past/future</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTOHojMWUA&amp;NR=1">gssy avsk Part -6.wmv Guru Siyag Siddha Yoga</a> - if there is a Sound, then there must be a speaker. During meditation, you may see death of acquaintances, then eventually your own death. <em>And it will occur exactly as you saw it in meditation.</em> All born must die. Maya has made death frightening! Chanting and meditation will break the spell Maya has over you (via Samadhi). You will be eager to die to escape the cycle of birth and death... Siyag echoes Kabir here. When you see your own death, you will also see all your actions in this life. When some start to fear death, they pray and turn their eyes inward and realize the Creator is right there within them. Thus self-realization is the aim of this Yoga, NOT curing disease! The sure way to self-realization is 24-hour chanting.</p>
<h1 id="toc-initiation-videos-to-be-watched-on-thursday-only">Initiation Videos (to be watched on Thursday only)</h1>
<p>Videos 1-4 are to be watched <em><strong>only on Thursday</strong></em>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GURUSIYAGSIDDHAYOGA">http://www.youtube.com/user/GURUSIYAGSIDDHAYOGA</a></p>
<p>English Speakers, it is best to also watch the 6 philosophy videos above, and then contact an English speaker for initiation instructions</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40 Verses: Dreamspell Encoding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrence Brannon &#60;metaperl@gmail.com&#62; 12/04/09 = Introduction "Reality in 40 Verses" is a concise text written by Ramana Maharishi which summarizes the Advaita Vedanta perspective on reality. This text is also called "Ulladu Narpadu". The 40 verses, plus 2 introductory verses have been categorized into 14 themes to allow for regular study within the context of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Terrence Brannon &lt;metaperl@gmail.com&gt;<br />
12/04/09</p>
<h1 id="toc-introduction">= Introduction</h1>
<p>"Reality in 40 Verses" is a concise text written by Ramana Maharishi<br />
which summarizes the Advaita Vedanta perspective on reality. This text<br />
is also called "Ulladu Narpadu".</p>
<p>The 40 verses, plus 2 introductory verses have been categorized into<br />
14 themes to allow for regular study within the context of the<br />
http://www.LawOfTime.org[Dreamspell Calendar]</p>
<p>Because a moon has 28 days, each theme can be studied twice within a<br />
moon. Alternatively, one might compress the 14 themes into 13 and<br />
study one theme per moon for an entire 13-moon year.</p>
<p>However, because there are only 40 verses and each theme has a maximum<br />
of 6 verses, daily study of a theme for a single moon might be<br />
preferred.</p>
<h1 id="toc-advaita-vedanta">= Advaita Vedanta</h1>
<p>To the thinking individual, Advaita Vedanta is quite unusual. It<br />
places emphasis on passive awareness as the highest state of spiritual<br />
achievement.</p>
<p>As a student of John C. Lilly, the inventor of the floatation tank, I<br />
see myself as an observer-operator-agent: while I can be passively<br />
aware, why must my powers of operation and agency atrophy in the name<br />
of this philosophy?</p>
<p>That said, rigorous study of these verses will destroy the mind and<br />
ego rapidly, leaving all mental philosophy in tatters.</p>
<p>Another way to (negatively?) criticise Advaita Vedanta comes from the<br />
Rosicrucian Cosmology of Max Heindel: http://www.rosicrucian.com</p>
<p>Heindel made it clear that most<br />
beings were operating with only dense, desire and mental bodies. The<br />
dictate of Advaita to kill conceptual thought is certainly senior to<br />
being enslaved to the dense and desire bodies, but, assuming that the<br />
4 worlds of spirit exist above the mind, then Advaita has a ways to go<br />
for true realisation.</p>
<p>Not only that, but the Rosicrucian teachings make it clear that man is<br />
an Ego and is expected to create his own universes, not sit around<br />
like a blissed-out passively aware sponge!</p>
<p>That being said, the ejaculatory ecstasy one gets from slaying the ego<br />
can certainly speak for itself.</p>
<h1 id="toc-the-encoding">= The Encoding</h1>
<p>Please visit this URL:</p>
<p>http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuxxPVc-8jyBdFBlMTVVVEUwTEpiQ0psZEw1SVBKQWc&hl=en</p>
<p>(short URL is http://bit.ly/6OvbZo)</p>
<p>to select your versus for regular periodic study.</p>
<p>= Author</p>
<p>This post emanates from the Living Cosmos</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40: verse 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dyads and Triads are supported by the one, which can be discovered by inquiry. Moon 5, Week 3, Day 2]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Dyads and Triads are supported by the one, which can be discovered by inquiry.</p>
<p>Moon 5, Week 3, Day 2</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40 verses: verse 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In whatever name and form the namless and formless is worshipped, therein lies the path of its realisation. Realising one's truth as the truth of that reality, and merging into it, is true realisation. Moon 5, Week 3, Day 1 Note: after finishing the 40, the 40 will be reduced to 28 since some of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In whatever name and form the namless and formless is worshipped, therein lies the path of its realisation. Realising one's truth as the truth of that reality, and merging into it, is true realisation.</p>
<p>Moon 5, Week 3, Day 1</p>
<p>Note: after finishing the 40, the 40 will be reduced to 28 since some of them are redundant and were only added for poetic reasons.</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40: verse 7</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world arises and falls with knowledge of it. Both have their source in the Self. Moon 5, Week 2, Day 7]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The world arises and falls with knowledge of it. Both have their source in the Self.</p>
<p>Moon 5, Week 2, Day 7</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40 verses: 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is but the 5 sense objects which are the result of the 5 senses. Since the mind perceives the world through the 5 senses, is there a world without the mind?]]></description>
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<p>Since the mind perceives the world through the 5 senses, is there a world without the mind?</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40 verses: 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The body is in the form of 5 sheaths. Has anyone without a body seen the world?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The body is in the form of 5 sheaths. Has anyone without a body seen the world?</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40: verse 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Self be with form, God and the world will be also. If one be formless oneself, how and by whom can their forms be seen? Can their be sight without eyes. The Self is the eye, the limitless Eye. Moon 5, Week 2, Day 4 (alpha releases)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the Self be with form, God and the world will be also. If one be formless oneself, how and by whom can their forms be seen?</p>
<p>Can their be sight without eyes. The Self is the eye, the limitless Eye.</p>
<p>Moon 5, Week 2, Day 4 (alpha releases)</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40: verse 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year: yellow self-existing seed, Moon 5, Week 2, Day 3 (gamma pacifies) Verse 3: Speculations about God and world avail nothing: Self-realisation is the hearts cry of all. Verse 3 (and most subsequent verses) will be taken from the SYNOPSIS section of Ramana Maharshi "Forty Verses" translated by SS Cohen.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Year: yellow self-existing seed, Moon 5, Week 2, Day 3 (gamma pacifies)</p>
<p>Verse 3: Speculations about God and world avail nothing: Self-realisation is the hearts cry of all.</p>
<p>Verse 3 (and most subsequent verses) will be taken from the SYNOPSIS section of Ramana Maharshi "Forty Verses" translated by SS Cohen.</p>
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		<title>Reality in 40: verse 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year: Self Existing Yellow Seed, Moon: 5, Week 2, Day: 3 (gamma pacifies) Verse 2/40: On three entities -- the individual, God and the world -- every creed is based. The saying "the One becomes the three" as well as "always the three are three", are said only while the ego lasts. To lose the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Year: Self Existing Yellow Seed, Moon: 5, Week 2, Day: 3 (gamma pacifies)</p>
<p>Verse 2/40:</p>
<blockquote><p>On three entities -- the individual, God and the world -- every creed is based. The saying "the One becomes the<br />
three" as well as "always the three are three", are said only while the ego lasts. To lose the "I" and abide in the Self  is the Supreme State.</p></blockquote>
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