Yogani's Yogani?

[Yogaman (George)]

@pkj

Hi Yogaman
It is normal to have these kind of questions as intellect is always questioning why why. Because of this questioning we started on the journey. This is also one part of yoga where you are trying to get the answers. Now as someone said intellect can take you so far. Basically we are using intellect to go beyond the intellect. It is Razor’s edge. So eventually as some people have said answers will come from within. Nothing can replace personnel experience and i think surrendering and let go without expectations can help in finding the answers. we are On the path to get something on the same time with no expectations it is a fine balance and contradiction as well. One thing as you can keep on doing these practices sometimes you will get some results unannounced.

I’m fine with following the path, I’m just curious where the guy who gave me directions got his map from

[Yogaman (George)]

@Bodhi Tree

I think you’re on the cusp of setting off undulations of seismic proportions. Your questions stem from your bhakti, and that will rocket you into the next dimension. If there were such a thing as spiritual police, I would report you to them so you would be arrested because you are dangerous with all your meddling. Can’t you just watch some more sitcoms and pick up some other mind-numbing habits? How dare you inquire and endeavor to find answers to these profound questions!?

A good (and much-needed) belly laugh from this BT!

[Etherfish (Omar Bose)]

I’ve been here 10 times, and didn’t get “Yogani’s Yogani” until now!
quote from Yogaman,
"Faith and direct experience seem contradictory in my view. "
Yes they are to the mind, because the mind wants to have a REASON to have faith, and those two should not be mixed.
Faith is a powerful tool that doesn’t come from the outside; you have to develop it inside, by choice.
This tool is created by a DECISION to love and trust something outside yourself.
It is made more powerful by devotion and practice. None of this has a reason; it is practiced because you decided to practice it, and strengthened because you decided to practice it. It is a means of training love to flow, and the effects it creates are incredible.
If you cultivate an intense love feeling for God every day,
and when worries arise, say God will take care of it and let it go, your life will change for the better in a short time. (Of course you take action if you can, before letting it go).
quote:
“… There are so many systems of yoga out there, all claiming to be The One. But something about Yogani’s approach resonated with me”
This IS your inner guru communicating with you. Most people have this resonation, don’t know why, and never develop it any more. All that is necessary is inner silence to develop it more.
Best of luck.

[SwamiX]

I don’t think it’s terribly mysterious, really. I would wager, like many of us, he took TM in the late 60s early 70s. DM is TM with a universal mantra. If you ever get “checked” at a TM center, the instructions are pretty much identical.
Then some variant of SRF, Kriya yoga. The “R&D” period he talks about was, I imagine, his attempt to combine the two in a way that was fruitful and sustainable. This led, over the years, to the current AYP approach.
In the interview with the woman from Hawaii, he mentions discovering that both paths he was on had “half the answer” - meaning that you needed both inner silence (DM) and conductivity (Kriya) to, as he says, create “stillness in action”.

[Yogaman (George)]

@Etherfish

I’ve been here 10 times, and didn’t get “Yogani’s Yogani” until now!
quote from Yogaman,
"Faith and direct experience seem contradictory in my view. "
Yes they are to the mind, because the mind wants to have a REASON to have faith, and those two should not be mixed.
Faith is a powerful tool that doesn’t come from the outside; you have to develop it inside, by choice.
This tool is created by a DECISION to love and trust something outside yourself.
It is made more powerful by devotion and practice. None of this has a reason; it is practiced because you decided to practice it, and strengthened because you decided to practice it. It is a means of training love to flow, and the effects it creates are incredible.
If you cultivate an intense love feeling for God every day,
and when worries arise, say God will take care of it and let it go, your life will change for the better in a short time. (Of course you take action if you can, before letting it go).
quote:
“… There are so many systems of yoga out there, all claiming to be The One. But something about Yogani’s approach resonated with me”
This IS your inner guru communicating with you. Most people have this resonation, don’t know why, and never develop it any more. All that is necessary is inner silence to develop it more.
Best of luck.

Good stuff, thank you Etherfish!

[Yogaman (George)]

@SwamiX

I don’t think it’s terribly mysterious, really. I would wager, like many of us, he took TM in the late 60s early 70s. DM is TM with a universal mantra. If you ever get “checked” at a TM center, the instructions are pretty much identical.
Then some variant of SRF, Kriya yoga. The “R&D” period he talks about was, I imagine, his attempt to combine the two in a way that was fruitful and sustainable. This led, over the years, to the current AYP approach.
In the interview with the woman from Hawaii, he mentions discovering that both paths he was on had “half the answer” - meaning that you needed both inner silence (DM) and conductivity (Kriya) to, as he says, create “stillness in action”.

I’ve no experience with TM, and I seem to be much younger than you guys
I listened to those interviews a while back. Do not recall any details, nice catch. An answer such as yours was really all I was curious about. Something for further reading and some historical perspective. Thank you.

[maheswari (maha moumneh)]

I’ve no experience with TM, and I seem to be much younger than you guys

yeah i am old , i am 36
when i first came to ayp i had a Sivananda yoga background…till now i dont know much about TM nor about SRF, i feel no need to exactly know how ayp practices were gathered or who is exactly Yogani (by the way, do i really know how Sivananda practices were gathered or who is Swami Sivananda and who is Swami Chidananda ? the answer is NO)
what i know is that i inwardly felt the need to practice AYP, for many years i practiced Sivananda mantra medition and paranayama (another internal guidance), i just felt it is time for me to practice ayp, and my inner guide was correct ,AYP triggered all the results that were were slowly building up from Sivananda practice
so listen to your inner guide, do you feel like practicing ayp? do you enjoy it? if so then just keep on doing it and slowly the mind questions will become not so relevant
all the best