Dear Friend;
There is only One Source of life and the pairs of opposites are simply offshoots of the One.
Imagine the one Sun shinning on the surface of a lake, and twenty people lazing around the beach will see twenty different suns reflecting off the lake surface.
This is a mind-world and each one of the seven billion people watching the same scene will superimpose their own unique twist or personal observations on the One Truth.
We live in a world of contrast and opposites–anxious and calm, old and young, rich and poor, darkness and light, etc… Without contrast we would not be able to recognize anything. A fish that has never been fished out of water, does not even recognize its own Source of Life–water.
What if the God Force were pulsating in the space around your face right now and giving you tiny, Holy kisses? Could you recognize her love showering down on you?
No, because you cannot recognize something in the nothingness of space. In space there is no contrast because you have empty space inside the atoms of your body as well as space on the outside of your existence.
Without contrast, you do not see God and because god is everywhere, there is no contrast, only Oneness. Oneness cannot be taught by any Guru or Guide. To merge with Oneness, you must be free enough to directly merge with Oneness through the experience of Samadhi or Nirvana.
To be spiritual, is to be free from the pairs of opposites. If you used to have a voracious sexual appetite for women, then you regretted that life and became a monk on a mountain top, you have not achieved a thing! You have simply swung like a pendulum from the bondage of lust to the bondage of moving away from all women or not daring to look up at any woman’s face.
Hot and cold are just relative degrees of the One temperature; they are not two different dimensions.
True Yoga means being true to yourself, being yourself, being Real. Find out who you really are–your tastes, values, priorities, and passions–then live them!
The true saint is free.
That is Yoga.
~ Kambiz Naficy
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