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ONLINE SEMINAR
with RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Love and Joy

What happens as your motives become more spiritual? — 3 episodes

In the view of yogis, your motives indicate your progress on the spiritual path. Challenges come when your motives conflict — rather than harmonize — with your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. Life can be immensely enriched by examining your motives and the sense of self on which they are based.

As your motives become more refined, attributes of Spirit such as acceptance, altruism, compassion, forgiveness, kindness and sympathy more easily express in your daily life.

The yoga practices in the three Love and Joy sessions — 1 hr 51 min — can allow the strength of soul and Spirit to more fully empower and spiritualize your motives.

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Key Points

  • Motives are based on an underlying sense of strength or weakness
  • As you open to Spirit and soul, your motives are uplifted
  • Yogis seek motives which are in harmony with their thoughts, feelings, words and actions
  • When our motives are in conflict, they often sabotage our endeavors
  • Our motives evolve until our soul, the Spirit within, reveals Itself and expresses freely
  • Kathopanishad 2:2:  Both the pleasant and the good approach a person. The wise one discriminates between the two. The wise prefers the good; the fool chooses the pleasant.
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Seminar Episodes

41:20
Do your motives come from a sense of strength or weakness?
39:45
Are your endeavors being sabotaged?
29:59
How to be a more loving person
The five kleshas (causes of suffering) include...
1. Immoderate liking
1. Immoderate liking
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The kleshas are: ignorance, egotism, immoderate liking, immoderate disliking and possessiveness. Hear more about how to overcome these afflictions.
2. Unfriendliness
2. Unfriendliness
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3. Busyness
3. Busyness
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4. None of the above
4. None of the above
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40:35
Can we cultivate peace and actually live in it?
41:53
Can Spirit express while we are busy in the world?
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