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What does it take to live in well being? To be in an abiding state of health, peace, love? In his first-ever self-help book, Sadhguru, a profound mystic of our times, offers his characteristically pragmatic wisdom for a life of joy and fulfilment. Don t route your joy through heaven, he says. Access happiness for yourself right here, right now. Starting with three basic dimensions of the self Body, Mind and Energy Sadhguru introduces us to simple techniques to realign and transform them into a life of sparkling aliveness. From the ideal approach to food and sleep to the profound secrets of the human spine, from the role of sex and desire to the deepest meaning of love and morality, from the significance of physical postures and psychological attitudes to the notion of authentic spiritual illumination this book guides us on all this and more. Also read The Mind and The Energy from 'Three Truths of Well Being'.

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Philosophie et théologie

Philosophy of religion

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Publié par	Penguin Books Ltd
Date de parution	29 août 2014
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9789351187417
Langue	English

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THREE TRUTHS OF WELL BEING: THE BODY
Empower Your Body, Mind and Energy for Joyful Living
Contents Introduction
Prologue
Four Idiots: The Yogic Way -->
BODY
The Only Gift
Eternal Question
Beyond Survival
Listening to Life
Cosmic Download
Body Planet
In Sync with the Sun
Elemental Mischief
Body an Issue?
Food as Fuel
Hell s Kitchen
Digestion Drama
Conscious Eating
Restlessness to Restfulness
Carnal to Cosmic
Hormonal Hijack
Desire is Life MIND
Clown as Gymnast
Honing the Blade
Awareness is Aliveness
Wishing Tree
The Grime of Identity
Moral Prejudice
Thinking Yourself Out of Life
Knowing without Thought
No Head, No Heart
Love Mantra
Devotion: A Dimensional Shift
Head-Heart Cocktail
Embracing Mystery
ENERGY
And Now, Yoga
Defining Your Destiny
Body Blueprint
Kriya: The Classic Action
Labyrinth of Life
Sacred Science
First and Final Form
Mountains of Grace
Healing Sideshow
Technologies for Transformation
Mundane to Magical
Lunar Dance
Footnotes
Mountains of Grace
Conclusion: The Way Out
An Offering -->
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BODY
The Only Gift
A human being is equipped to live his life in a most miraculous way - if only he is in touch with that source of creation within himself.
The most intimate part of physical creation for an individual is his own body. This is the first gift he is aware of.
But the body is not just the first gift; it is the only one. In the yogic sciences, there is no such thing as mind or soul. Everything - from the gross to the subtle - is just the body manifesting itself in different dimensions. There are five sheaths or dimensions of body, which we will talk about later in this book.
For now let us look at the physical body. It is designed and structured to function by itself without much of your participation. You don t have to make the heart beat, make the liver perform all its complex chemistry, or even have to try to breathe; everything that is needed for your physical existence is happening on its own.

But the body is not just the first gift; it is the only one.
The physical body is a self-contained, quite complete instrument. If you are fascinated by gadgets, there isn t a better one. Every little thing you explore in this body is quite incredible, isn t it? This is the most sophisticated piece of machinery on the planet. It is the highest level of mechanics that you can imagine, the highest level of electronics that you can think of, the highest level of electrical connectivity that you can dream of, the highest level of computing capability that you could conceive of.
Let us say you eat a banana in the afternoon. By evening, this banana has become you. Charles Darwin told you that to make a monkey into a human being it took millions of years, but in a few hours you are capable of making even a banana into a human being! Not a small feat. This means the very source of creation is functioning from within you.
There is a certain level of intelligence and competence that exists within you, which is beyond your logical mind, which can transform a banana into an object of technological excellence. This is what yoga is about - finding access to that dimension, that intelligence, that capability which can transform a banana into a human being within a few hours.
If you could achieve that transformation consciously, instead of unconsciously, if you could bring even a drop of that intelligence into your daily life, you would live magically, not miserably.
Eternal Question
The very basis of a spiritual process is to explore the possibilities of the body and to go beyond its limitations.
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and awareness for a person to see the limitations of this fantastic gadget. Gadgetry is fine, but it still does not take you anywhere. It just springs out of the earth and gets you back to the earth.
Isn t it enough?
If you look at it from the perspective of the body, it is quite enough. But a dimension beyond the physical has somehow got trapped in the physical. This dimension, without which there is no life, has somehow infused itself into the physical.
Life is one thing, but the source of life is another. In every creature, in every plant, in every seed, the source of life is functioning. But the source of life in a human being has more prominence. It is because of this prominence that all the simple or even wonderful things that the physical offers seem irrelevant beyond a point, to many people.
Because of this one aspect, human beings seem to be in a constant struggle between the physical and that which is beyond the physical. Though you have the compulsiveness of the physical, you also have the consciousness of not being just physical. There are two basic forces within you. Most people see them as in conflict. One is the instinct of self-preservation, which compels you to build walls around yourself to protect yourself. But another part of you is longing to constantly expand, trying to become boundless.
The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow. Many limitations that you establish in your life as a protection for yourself today, feel like constraints tomorrow, and you want to break them only to build a bigger prison for yourself. But day after tomorrow, the bigger prison also feels like a restriction, and you want to break it and move to the next stage.
These two longings - to preserve and to expand - are not opposing forces. They are related to two different aspects of who you are. One belongs to the physical; another belongs to the dimension beyond the physical. One force helps you root yourself well on this planet; another takes you beyond. Self-preservation needs to be limited to the physical body. If one has the necessary awareness to separate the two, there is no conflict. But if you limit yourself to the physical, then instead of working in collaboration, these two fundamental forces become a source of conflict. All the struggle of humanity in terms of should I be spiritual or materialistic? springs from this ignorance.

The walls of self-preservation that you build for today are the walls of self-imprisonment for tomorrow.
When you say spirituality , you are talking about a dimension which is beyond the physical. The fundamentals of spiritual longing are to transcend the limitations of the physical. But because your instinct of self-preservation keeps telling you, Unless you have a wall you are not safe, unconsciously you go on building walls all the time. It is not the Creator s unwillingness to open up a different possibility that you are struggling with. What you are struggling with are just the concrete walls that you have built around yourself.
That is why the yogic system does not talk about God. It does not talk about the Ultimate Being. It does not talk about the Creator. If we talk about the Ultimate, you will become hallucinatory. We are only talking about what is blocking you because that is what needs to be attended to. Bondage is one hundred per cent of your making. The ropes that bind you or the walls that block you - this is all you need to look at. You have no work with existence. You have work only with the existence that you have created.
If we have to use an analogy, we could see gravity and Grace, for example, as opposites. Gravity is one aspect of life which, in a way, is related to the fundamental instinct of self-preservation in a human being. We are rooted to the planet right now because of gravity. We have a body today only because of gravity. Gravity is trying to hold you down; Grace is something that is trying to lift you up. If you are released from the physical forces of existence, then Grace bursts forth in your life.
As gravity is active, so is Grace constantly active. It is just that you have to make yourself available to it. With gravity you have no choice; anyway you are available to it. But with Grace, you have to make yourself receptive. Whatever kind of sadhana you may do, ultimately, you are just working towards making yourself available to Grace. If you are strongly identified with the physical, gravity is all that you will know.

Existence has not blocked anything for you. If you are willing you can access the whole universe.
Access to something beyond the physical is also access to Grace. So, if your experience of life transcends the limitations of the physical, you are available to Grace. Suddenly you seem to function like magic. It is just like if you were the only one to ride a bicycle you would also look magical. Other people may think you are magic, but you know you are just beginning to become receptive to a different dimension of life. This possibility is wide open for everybody.
Life has left everything open for you. Existence has not blocked anything for anyone. If you are willing, you can access the whole universe. Somebody said, Knock, and it shall open. You don t even have to knock because there is no door; it is wide open. You just have to walk through, that s all.
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