Yoga

by Gregorian Bivolaru Yoga provides a large scope of ancient techniques, which can also be some means of de-conditioning and spiritual self-accomplishment of the human being. The positive suggestions here can be comprised in everyday life as a spiritual catalyser. If given thorough attention, no matter the order…
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by Gregorian Bivolaru The prayers of the yogis and of those longing for the Absolute evince pure simplicity and crave of communion to God, despite all inherent obstructions and difficulties. This works both for the “earthly” saints and for those mainly gifted for the contemplation of the Divine in the all surrounding…
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Yoga considers the balanced lacto-vegetarian food that had completely excluded meat as a source of perfect health that will generate as inner reflex of our psyche an euphoric, complex state, quite consonant, consequent to the resonance to the subtle cosmic energies more or less in our proximity (i.e. up to a cosmic…
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The Yoga of daily life By Gregorian Bivolaru Translation from Romanian: Rodica HarabagiuFinal correction of text: NATHA,Copenhagen, 1999 Table of contents:
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I already had a questioned ready that I was hesitating asking even if it was very important for me in that moment: how can we overrun our discouragement? I hardly formulated that question in my mind when Yoga Swami answered instantaneously. “Let us see what discourage is, first. No doubt you want to say pessimism, right? Pessimism…
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Our very interesting conversation was interrupted by a man who entered the hut. He was a passionate disciple, apparently. He entered, lit a candle and put some jasmine flowers on the ground; furthermore, he prostrated on the cold cement before embracing Yoga Swami’s feet full of adoration. Yoga Swami cried with revolt: “Idiot!…
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After breakfast, Yoga Swami asked us to keep the banana peels as they were to be given to the cow. He called the cow that was grazing in the garden. The cow entered the hut and he offered the peels with love. In the end, the cow licked his hand and wanted to sit on the ground. Yoga Swami gave her the last peel and then said…
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It was a wonderful fresh and quiet morning, except the cracking the breeze produced while touching the tall and slender palm trees. We walked in silence and completely transfigured on the narrow and dusty streets of the town. Yoga Swami lived somewhere in a small hut that was especially built for him in the garden of a house in…
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I had already walked a long distance on Colombo beach. The fishers in the area pushed their boats on the sand in a hurry before the son went down in Dehiwala. Their screams and baskets full of fish seemed to trouble the majestic and enigmatic serenity of that evening, which appeared to be more silent that usually. I quickly went…
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Although I heard about Yoga Swami, there were some motives that held me back from visiting him, until the moment I saw him. Firstly, back then, I have to admit, I did not have any financial possibilities to pay for my train ticket to Jaffna, that is in the northern part of Ceylon; secondly, I considered I had to find God or…
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