Sivananda Yoga Farm Podcast

1. What is dream? dream of death? and chasing? and how to think about it? 2. What to do when your willpower is so drained? 3. How do you keep puja from becoming routine? 4. I have past trauma that is being activated by a present event. I deal with this situation by reminding myself that we are no longer living in that oppressive/abusive environment and that now i am an adult that can take actions to protect and take care of me. The problem I have is that I am trying to push away the feeling using spiritual bypass... I am trying to slow down to be present with this uncomfortable emotional pain... it has been several days and still the pain is present... the pain is less than before but I still feel the rage of injustice being activated so I push away the feelings. Do you have any suggestion to make it go away? 5. How do you protect your prana around unsattvic people? 6. Can you help me to understand the cycle of birth and death? 7. How do we find inspiration to keep going on the spiritual path?

1. Why did God create all of this creation, this world, and samsara?    2. Why do we fall back into self-sabotaging behaviors when we know there is another way?   3. What is the best way to help someone who wants to grow spiritually but has difficulty seeing the world from another point of view?   4. Why are we judgemental and how do we remedy this way of thinking?

Diseases do not happen like right away, let’s say you are angry, you are resentful, it stays in the system for a long time; resentment is like rust, slowly, slowly it eats your body as it eats your mind; so then slowly slowly, after ten years of resentment, you develop some kind of problem, for example, problems on the liver, arthritis problem. Any physical health problem always has some kind of equivalence in the mind. If you are grieving, for example, you were crying, or you never really recovered for years, then you might one day have a problem with the lungs. Right now, our whole human community on earth appears to be sick.  We have the Corona virus which attacks our lungs and we have difficulty breathing.  Then you have to look at it, there is a meaning there, grieving, grieving, sadness; It is the lungs that are lacking joy, lacking energy; you cannot breathe, there's no air you feel suffocated.  This you need to read in yourself and also in the world, okay? People have lung problems from Corona virus a

The first level of knowledge is when you become a sadhaka, a seeker, a seeker after Truth. Somehow, you already know that you don’t know—that’s already significant. You are seeking for the Truth, seeking to know. But what are you seeking? There is sometimes darkness and sometimes light, and often, confusion when we embark on the inner seeking journey. It’s not a seeking outside. And you don’t need to come to the Ashram and do a Training Course if you can follow this guideline.