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1. Attach thyself to a religious preceptor endowed with spiritual power and complete knowledge. 2. Seek a delightful solitude endowed with psychic influences as a hermitage. 3. Seek friends who have beliefs and habits like thine own and in whom thou canst place thy trust. 4. Keeping in mind the evils of gluttony, use just enough food to keep thee fit during the period of thy retreat. 5. Study the teachings of the Great Sages of all sects impartially. 6. Study the beneficent sciences of medicine and astrology, and the profound art of omens. 7. Adopt such regimen and manner of living as will keep thee in good health. |
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1. Having estimated one’s own capabilities, one requireth a sure line of action. 2. To carry out the commands of a religious preceptor, one requireth confidence and diligence. 3. To avoid error in choosing a Guru, the disciple requireth knowledge of his own faults and virtues. 4. Keenness of intellect and unwavering faith are required to tune in with the mind of the spiritual preceptor. 5. Unceasing watchfulness and mental alertness, graced with humility, are required to keep the body, speech, and mind unsullied by evil. 6. Spiritual armour and strength of intellect are required for the fulfilment of one’s heart’s vows. 7. Habitual freedom from desire and attachement is necessary if one would be from bondage. |
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 The devotee seeking Liberation and the Omniscience of Buddhahood should first meditate upon these ten things which are causes of regret:
1. Having obtained the difficult- to- obtain, free, and endowed human body, it would be a cause of regret to fritter life away. 2. Having obtained this pure and difficult-to-obtained, free, and endowed human body, it would be a cause of regret to die and irreligious and wordly man.
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God’s Fire of Love  "In their heart love is blooming in every moment. Every one of their gestures expresses devotion. Everything they do is an offering to God. They are the Bhakti Yogis - the followers of the path of endless love and frenetic Aspiration towards the Absolute Divine." The word BHAKTI denotes man’s overwhelming and mysterious love for God, impregnated with respect and adoration. Bhakti Yoga, the devotion path, is one of the most elevated methods that permit the accomplishing of the state of communion with the Absolute Divine. The path of intense love for God is characterized by the extrodinary impetus of love and of the pure spontaneity in the act of adoration. The total and overwhelming love for God, the shortest and the most energetic way to reach Him, permits recognizing the Supreme Divine Centre (the self) as the Whole, the essential place of endless love and of the immortal peace. With the mind focused in an unique radiant point ( Atman), the true bhakti penetrates all illusory appearances which were covering for him this Centre and thus, instantly will issue forth the fire of love, which will burn the artificial and limited circle that was previously separating the great yogi from his profound inner as well as from the fundamental cosmic totality ( God). |
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 The spiritual movement of the natha-yogis was founded by Gorakshanatha and spread during the second millennia of our era through the entire North, East and West of India from Nepal to Rajasthan, from Punjab to Gulf of Bengal, from Belucistan to Deccan.
Taking its probable origins from Bengal, this tradition flourished starting with XII century and exercised a great influence over literary works, philosophy and spiritual writings composed in Bengali, Hindi, Nepalese, Oriya, Gujarati and Marathi dialects. This literature left us a very large number of legends and local traditions regarding the spiritual masters of the groups, especially in the form of some long narrative poems composed as ballads.
The present adepts of this yoga are known as by the name of “Natha-yogis”, “Natha-siddha”, or “Natha” for short. The term “Natha” (“Master”, “Lord”, “Protector”) designates a state of supreme realization, this title being granted to spiritual masters and then added to their name. In Hindi, natha-yogis are called “Gorakshanathi” after the name of their main founder (Gorakshanath in Hindi). The term “kampatha” (literally translated as “split ears”) which also designates them, refers to their characteristic habit of cutting their ear cartilage in order to insert huge rings (either flat, called “darsana”, or cylindrical, called “kundala”). It is possible that its origins were originally an ironic nickname given by Moslems. |
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