Ego is the basic operating system for your mind. You must have an ego, you must have a self-awareness and you must also have an operating system that works for your karma; your social obligations for this life. You also must train your ego, because as a yogi, you realize that the ego is not you, its just the framework that your mind works in to control this body. The more words that are said, the more must be said. Words themselves create the reality because they’re sound vibrations, they create a matrix of consciousness. But beyond that matrix of consciousness is who you are. So, you must learn how to program your mind. For us we’ll use the English language for the most part. We’ll also use mantras from this culture and other cultures. A mantra is just a sound vibration that reprograms the mind.
If you follow the analogy that we are individual operating systems tuning into the greater flow of energy that’s the main server, you can call it God or you can call it the overwhelming consciousness itself. The idea is that we tune ourselves in to allow this flow of consciousness to come thru u...
Strength of character, strength of consciousness, but most important is what overcomes all of that which is the strength of your humility, the strength of your surrender to the light within yourself, not to a person ever, not to a teacher but to your own inner light. That strength of humility all...