Discussion about what god is?
What is the purpose or intention of chanting?
Why do people pray to elephant god?
There are thousand of gods in Hindu System. God is not something different? God is everything. God is not what people imagine which sitting there and manage people. God manifest everything inner and outer. That's why god involve in everything includes stone, animal or any kinds of objects. So what's god? Isn't god has power?
To understand the relationship between god and human being, there must be a system and this is the practice. As a conclusion, you are not different person from god.
We are not meant to seek for god and look for solution. Instead, Yoga is practical to know body and mind. When we talk about pain, emotion or thought, all the experience help us to know them. We follow a teacher who has attained the state of mind and truth will be revealed. A right master or teacher is just a person lead us to cross the bridge.Belief or trust ... we all try to find the clarity along the way. You have to wait if the things you see is illogical.
Open your mind and listen, All the words a teacher give are choices. When someone think it's a religion , the identification and emotion will keep them aside their brain. But they should do is to clarify and see without judgement. They should explore and analyze and not simply accept. At the end, they should connect to their own understanding.
Discussion about Mantra and Praying
People may chant mantra to seek for blessing to remove the obstacles. Unless a person understand the whole system (of god with different background) only he or she can accept. Different gods have different duties.
Mantra is symbolical. The system relates and links to human body, mind and daily life. It is more important that how's your thought process links to god.
Different Kinds of people who pray ~
- trying to connect with unknown power and find the comfort.
- pray for well-being
- pray when they have trouble
- be pray-fully.they think they have good connection with god.
(they may just start to question god when something goes wrong, and even worse they start to abandon god.) - 95%99% don't know what they are praying.
When we have more clarity, we will have more understanding and awareness. Yoga is not just for beautiful posture.
Human mind ( psychological) when they need god
- Fear
- want to survive
- desire to archive something
- look for and to hold something
- get some support
- emotional support
- beyond their capacity or their power
Example: Girl looks husband like hero at first (just a joke XP)
Seeking things from outside is nature of human being.
The way to pray will slowly change with maturity.
- Positive mind
- Confident (with courage, gratitude and hope)
- Stress relieve and gain some support
- Get control of emotion.
- awareness increases (because you connect with your mind)
- become more accepting person than a demanding person.
We are not looking for an answer from god.Instead, We start to look for what kind of mind state and lifestyle we want and we practice to face the limitation of life and day to day challenges.We will learn to look for help, solution in the form of prayer and understanding the nature of god and the life. We also understand what kind of life we want and how to improve it. Attitude is important for every human being.
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