Human beings and choice for conscious change

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Dear all

Amma was recently teaching a class at the Summer ntensive and said that the difference between being hunam and animal is that we humans have the 3 Cs

they are

Consciousness

Control and

Choice

Swamiji always said that we could change ourself if we are conscious but how many of us are really conscious?

 

our experience with all types of people in Pondy in the last 35 years is that very few people can change as most dont want to do so in the first place !

 

when a pig can enjoy wallowing in the mud as a pig, why would it want to become something else and lose that fun?

 

remember the devolutionary path is fast and great fun as opposed to the slow and steady evolutionary one

Yogacharya Shivan termed it the bitter path but better path -some time back!!

 

anandanarasimhan raghavan <rnpath wrote:

Dear Dr, Ananda, this is in continuation of the discussion going onthe subject . for quite sometime i also believed that basicallyall human beings are made up of more or less the same--material and it is upto our own efforts of what wecan do and achieve till i heard few months back on tvmaharishi maheshyogi explaining how we are limited tosomeextent in our evolution and growth by thesubstance we inherit as DNA from our parents.The socalled vasanas are part of this.Soil can be from marshy areas, foot of the hill withlot of stones, sand from riverbed and clay.Basicallyall this is "Mud"But what we can make out from each type of mud isdetermined by the intrinsic variations whithin itself.In a subtle way it also partly explains our owndifferent capacities, physically, intellectually

andotherwise,and the different levels of understandingthe same subject by students in the same sitting ..In a yogic sense the fair trying to get the suntanand the notsofair trying to look more fair are in thesame boat of "Becoming", and not in tune with theirown reality'Yoga is in being yourself now as you are withawarenessNarasimhan. winPeakStudio <twinpeaksstudio wrote: >You know, I don't think that the 'modern world' is> any more insane than any other, and I really enjoyed> the 'political' question - it's all part of the> greater whole and can't be ignored ! For example,> whereas in India you might have the insidious 'fair> and lovely' to deal with, over here the shelves of> the supermarkets are stacked with products designed> to make our white skins brown ! Maybe - just maybe -> rather than being a sinister thing, it could be that> we are

reaching out to each other to be less> 'separate' ? Your question, Ananda, re Sonja Ghandi> really made me think about this issue of separation,> and what a red herring the physical form can be. We> just need to cast aside the idea that race, colour,> sex, or indeed anything at all, can get in the way> of the greater good, and I do think we're closer to> that now than at many times in the recent past.> So, please let's keep some 'controversial' matters !> Much love to you all> Adele > - > Dr.Ananda Bhavanani > > Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:27 AM> Sorry-No politics> > > Dear all> I am sorry that my mail on indian politics and> rajudevs response to it touched off a

raw nerve in> some of you> i will try to avoid anymore political mails in the> future> my aim in all of this is for us to develop> vairagya and viveka which are the two wings on which> to fly high towards the divine by realising the> insanity of this modern world> as lord krishna says" what is night for the worldy> man is day for the yogi and vice versa"> ananda> > > > Yogacharya > Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani > MBBS, ADY, DSM, DPC, PGDFH> > Chairman > Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER> 25,2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry-605 013 > Tel: 0413 - 2622902 / 0413 -2241561 > Website: www.icyer.com> > > >

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