LECTURE OF SHRI SUBI LAKSMI DEVI

We just performed the ritual Dharme Lakshana – from birth to death. Why this ritual is needed? When you do every posture, you must feel not only its yoga effect -- the healing effect -- you must also feel the philosophical context that is placed on each posture.

Now, for example, in your present stage of life you are a certain age. Every person thinks that what happens now will always be happening. Every person thinks that everything that comes into this life is forever. And this is a big mistake. Nothing can be eternal. Everything changes; even the person himself does not understand the transfer from one stage to another.

On King Solomon’s ring a wise phrase was written – “It will pass too.” That means everything that is given to us sooner or later inevitably goes away. And by doing this ritual, you must feel the transience, the flowing of time -- everything is temporary, variable; everything is changing all the time. Very soon you will be changed beyond recognition, which is inevitable. If you think this way your whole life, you’ll be able to treat every thing, every event, differently; not being overly sensitive, not identifying with what’s going on around you. Then you will become freer and much happier.

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