Articles About Living Enlightenment
Patanjali in his Yoga sutras has laid out eight fold path for enlightenment. The first step is Yama: loosely translated as discipline. This means tuning yourself to the ultimate; it is not a set of dos and don’ts. It is a set of instructions to tune yourself to your Self. Within this Yama the first step is Ahimsa.
Ahimsa means non violence with understanding; Ahimsa is not a moral condition but a technique.
If you are established in non violence, even wild animals, when they face you, will turn peaceful. You will radiate love and compassion.
We all believe that without the mind we cannot function. In fact we function better without the mind.
When any of our senses perceive an object, say your eye seeing a flower, it is the energy behind that sensor, called chakshu that comes into play. Chakshu is a digital signal processor which creates a digital image of the flower and sends it to our memory. This part of our mind called chitta has the ability to filter the information by comparing it other images on its data base.
