Newsletter
Singapore Edition
1. “Raising your intensity is enhancing your perception” -An article by Sadhguru......................................................2 2. Sathsang.....................................................................................4 3. Sadhguru’s Schedule.................................................................5 4. Programs at the Isha Yoga Center, India................................6 5. Mahashivarathri celebrations..................................................7 6. Glimpses from the Inner Engineering Program, Jan 2011.....8
If human consciousness pays enough attention, everything in the universe has to yield, even the Creator. -Sadhguru
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Raising Your Intensity is Enhancing Your Perception An article by Sadhguru
There are many stories from the mystical realm that seem too fairytalish - don’t believe all these things. Don’t believe anything which is not in your experience. At the same time, do not ever believe that what you know is everything. There could be a lot more to life. The fundamental question is how to enhance your perception from its present level. If you want to see more life than you are seeing right now, the most important thing is that your life energies function at a higher level of intensity. That is what we are trying to achieve with the kriyas that are being taught in our programs. Without intensity, it is no use making efforts,
they will just go waste. You will just become hallucinatory, imagining things that other people have said. That is why I am saying, do not believe the stories. It does not matter who said it. Whether I said it, or Krishna said it, Rama said it, Jesus said it, it doesn’t matter; do not believe the stories. When I say, ‘do not believe’, I am not telling you to disbelieve them. You simply don’t know. I am talking about a thousand lifetimes; it is not yet true for you. You neither have to disbelieve it
nor believe it. You just have to say okay, whatever life has, I also want to see. You don’t have to see what I saw. You just have to see that whatever there is with life you also want to see; you have to develop that longing. And once the longing comes, what is the way? The first and foremost thing is that your life happens in a more intense way than the way it is happening right now. When I say intense, most people become intense only when there is danger, you know. Let’s say
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you are driving your car, pushing it to 120, 125 miles per hour. You are going like this real fast, now suddenly something comes in your way. Now those last few moments before the possible crash, you are trying to do something, either break, panic break or try to avoid whatever the object in front of you. Let’s say you did not crash and you did not get promoted elsewhere; you are alive, sitting here today. Still, those few moments you can never forget. Somehow they were so intense that if you just think about it, it is again all fully alive in you. Or let’s say you are standing at the edge of a tall building, just about to fall. Do you see how intense you become? If the consequence
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Raising Your Intensity is Enhancing Your Perception (Contd...) of the fall is taken away, the fall is a damn great thing, isn’t it? If the consequence of the car crash is taken away, every day you will want to crash. But since your car breaks up, your body breaks up, you want to avoid it. Suppose those consequences are taken away, won’t you like to experience it all the time? All the adventure sports, what do you think it is? Accidents without consequences... You jump off an airplane, at the last moment you pull the parachute. But you want to experience the fall because it makes you so intense.
Now what I am talking about is without doing all those fanciful things of jumping off a mountain or crashing your car or doing something else, just sitting here in the peak of your intensity. If you can become that intense, then if you close your eyes even the need to open your eyes does not arise anymore in your whole life because life is happening at such a tremendous intensity. People closed their eyes and did not open for a long time not because they are not interested in life, simply because they are experiencing life in such a peak
way. To do anything else did not occur to them, that’s all. People think somebody is meditating means he is hibernating. Hibernation means lowering life. Meditation is not lowering life. It is about pushing it towards the peak. If you are in such a peak state of intensity, this is the most exciting thing you can do - just sitting.
you will see everything that is worth seeing. Because he took his voltage up really high, that was how his third eye opened. The ‘third eye’ does not mean a crack in the forehead; it means things that others cannot see became available to him. It will become available to you also, if you raise your voltage.
Shiva sat like this for millenniums because he is in such a peak; it did not occur to him to get up and do something. So if your voltage increases, then naturally
So generally, only in moments of danger people know intensity.
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Sathsang Sathsang is a vital support system to help one flower into one’s inner nature. During this meeting, we’ll do our practices together and get them corrected from trained teachers. This is also the time to catch up with the latest happenings at Isha, and share our experiences with other meditators.
Please do come on an empty stomach. Please come 10 minutes earlier to allow yourselves to settle down. If you come after 6:20pm, please do your practice outside the hall. You could come in during the next break. Date: Saturday, 13 Feb 2011 Time: 6:00 pm for those who practice Shakthi Chalana Kriya
After the Sathsang, we will have a potluck dinner. You could bring a positive pranic vegetarian dish to share with everyone.
6:20 pm for those who practice Shambhavi Maha Mudra Location: Mutipurpose room, Technopark@chai chee Block 750 D 01-01 Chai Chee technopark Chai Chee Road Singapore 469000
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Sadhguru’s Schedule The following programs are conducted by Sadhguru.
Samyama (English) 16-23 Feb 2011 Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore
Yaksha 2011 24 Feb-2 Mar 2011 Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore, India Mahashivarathri 3 Mar 2011 Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore, India
Sadhguruvudan Isha Yoga (Tamil) Madurai 11-13 Mar 2011 Trichy 18-20 Mar 2011 Chennai 25-27 Mar 2011 Inner Engineering (English) 15-17 Apr 2011 Mysore, India
Bhava Spandana (English) 19-22 May 2011 Isha Institute of Inner Sciences, McMinnville, USA
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Isha Rejuvenation Ayur Rasayana 10-12 Sep Ayur Rasayana Intensive 14-18 July, 3-7 Sep Ayur Sampoorna 14-20 Oct Yoga Marga 1-21 Aug Ayur Sanjeevini 21-30 Jul
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Programs at the Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore, India IIsha shaRejuvenation Rejuvenation Bhava Spandana
Ayur AyurRasayana Rasayana 10-12 Sep 5-7 Mar, 22-24 Apr
Program for Gents
Tamil
3-6 Apr
Ayur Rasayana Intensive Ayur Rasayana Intensive 14-18 July, 3-7 Sep
25-29 May
Program for Ladies English Tamil
Ayur Sampoorna A yur Oct Sampoorna 14-20
24-27 Mar 29 Mar-1 Apr
1-7 Jun
Yoga Marga 1-21 Y ogaAug Marga
Shoonya meditation
10-30 Mar, 27 Apr-17 May Ayur Sanjeevini 21-30 Jul Eye Program Sunethra
Tamil 8-11 Mar 7-10 Apr
2-6 Apr, 8-12 Jul
Ayur Sanjeevini 24 Aug-2 Sep
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Mahashivarathri Celebrations in India and Singapore 3 March 2011 Mahashivarathri celebrates the Grace of Shiva, who is considered the Adi (first) Guru from whom the yogic tradition originates. The planetary positions on this night are such that it is enormously beneficial for one’s physical and spiritual wellbeing to stay awake and aware throughout the night. At Isha Yoga center, each year, Mahashivarathri is celebrated as a nightlong Sathsang with Sadhguru. Sadhguru’s discourses and powerful meditations, interspersed with music performances by top artists, open up the possibility of a deep spiritual experience. Don’t miss the live webcast of the event at www.ishafoundation.org. Alternatively, check out the nightlong telecast on Aastha TV. Details about Mahashivarathri celebrations at Singapore will be announced through email.
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Glimpses From The Inner Engineering Program Jan 2011
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