Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

*Chapter 2 - Opening Yourself To The Unknown* *Day 8* It is so beautiful! What is it that motivates our mind to go toward the senses and our senses to move towards the sense objects?  What is the motivating factor behind this involuntary function that is happening in us? Your breath is moving in and out day and night.  What is propelling it to do so? Why would your mind go to see nice things or hear melodious music or your nostril look for fragrance.?  Why are you motivated to move in these directions? Why do things appear beautiful or good to you sometimes and sometimes they don't?  You go to Hawaii and say, "Oh, Hawaii is so beautiful" But people who live in Hawaii, don't feel the same. What makes you appreciate things? Why is your prana moving? What makes your prana move? What makes your heart beat? What is the power behind all these involuntary functions that are happening within you?  What makes you speak? And what makes people speak? It's inter...

*Chapter 2 - Opening Yourself To The Unknown* *Day 7* It is repeated twice - “It is. Let it be. Let it be”. Let the virtues the Dharma be ingrained deep in me, in every cell of my being and get established in me.  This is the prayer. Now the Upanishad begins. When you read this prayer, you may feel, "Oh is it a boot camp"? It says forget about your intellect and just surrender everything and be goody goody.  So, what is this being taught? Are you loosing yourself somewhere? Am I going to loose something?" What is there to loose It's saying shut your intellect and just be emotional, accept everything". Is that what is being said? No. The Upanisad always encourages the quest the enquiry. They encourage your intellectual brilliance by questioning. "Kena" means question. Kena Upanisad itself means: What ? Who? Where? When? Why? Before the age of three these questions don't arise at all in the mind.  You are in such a blissful state, but whe...

*Chapter 2 - Opening Yourself To The Unknown*  *Day 6* Opening yourself to the unknown Upanishad says when we start on this path, let there be no rejection. Acceptance is the path. Let there be no rejection at all, of any sort, because everything, every moment in life, pleasant and unpleasant is making you grow. Let all this righteousness, this knowledge and this wisdom that is contained in the Upanishads and that is present in my Soul, my Being, blossom. It is not some virtue that you are going to cultivate from outside.  It says that all the virtues are in you. They only have to blossom. If you think you don't have virtues or if you think you don't have faith.  If you think you don't have it, you don't have it. That is it. If you think you are no good that is how it will be. You will be no good at all forever. The virtues are in you.  It says "the virtues which are in my soul in my spirit let them blossom". May it find its own blossoming. Bless m...