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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
A person who wants to move towards happiness has to control these urges and this is taken care of by Yama and Niyama. It is what all our traditions were talking about. Tradition was aware of this and that is why it is said you control it, Yama and Niyma or you call it by other things, which are there in vedanta. But the onslaught from society is enormous. Marketing advertisements inspired by the research of psychologists have ruined modern civilization beyond a limit, and I am never tired of referring to Pitrim A Sorakin who said we require a sane sex order in this world. It is insanity that is governing us today. We have to come out of it. If one does not have this determination, please do not bother about yoga sadhana, because one is not going to have it. His thoughts will be running over media (T.V. etc.) news and advertisements.
I remember an elderly man, father like man for me who guided me in several issues. 9’o clock was the time of prayer given to us in our system, to pray to God, saying that “all people in this world are our brethren and they are developing true love and devotion towards God “. It is a prayer. A simple prayer, which does good for others. But his main objection to it
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