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uate. (This i s part of the script

God wrote.)

or from a !!piritual Teal!her.

Your soul agreed to be born

at a certain time and place (yes, you chose you r own parents), with the scenery, cast, and crew chosen to support you in you r starring role in your personal story.

The fol ks closest to you are most likely people who have some strong karmic connection to you from the past.

(We're back to the movie analogy:)

This "movie" is God's game of life. It's God's show. God is playing all of the roles. He is actually all of the actors and actresses! He is the author, the screen writer, director, and producer, as wel l as the scenery and the audience. God is even the ticket-taker, the usher, and the boy who sel ls the popcorn !

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THt; !!HOW MU!!T GO ON

When scientists split the atom back in the '40s, the energy that was released was, and still is, the very same energy that the yogis have known about and played with for thousands of years. They cal l it " prana." It is the incoming life breath. It is prana that God puts into you every time He gives you another breath of life. Each time you inhale it is God breathing the essence of Himself into you so that His show can go on. Maybe that's where the saying, "The show m ust go on!" originated .

Choose the analogy you like, "ocean, movie, game." I n any case, l ife is hap­

pening, and we are acting (or reacting) in its story, playing the roles we were given . The thing is, someday the show will be over and we must go Home.

Going " H ome" means going back to GOD, from Whom we came in the first place. Win ning the game of life means going home consciously. Consciously expanding your self-awareness until you remember, recognize, and experience that you are the whole ocean . "You and God, God and you are O N E." That experience of your own identity is the u ltimate goal of practicing yoga. It is the goal of all human existence. God, which is so marvelously fantastic and wonderful, that for those who have had this experience, all they can say i n trying to describe it, is "Wahe G u ru !"

which means "Wow! God is g reat beyond description . "

Meanwhile, while we're playing our roles in these bodies, it's God's inten­

tion for us to enjoy it. That's why He created it i n the first place, remember?

" Leela" means play! (Schools have playgrounds, too, and even classrooms can be fun for good students.)

If we're not enjoying life, it's because we've forgotten that l ife is a movie and we're taking our roles too seriously. If we're not happy, it's because we're stuck in our lower chakras (Energy centers. See chapters Mysterious Kundalini and

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,_-.... we're listening to our m inds instead of our intuition, if

we're emotional and commotional - riding the rol ler coaster of emotional turmoil and reacting to situations instead of resurrecting, we're most likely not happy campers!

Which leads us back to Kundalini Yoga. It's a technology to enable us to con­

trol our emotions and minds (not suppress or deny them, but take charge of them, ruling kindly but firmly over them, rather than being a slave to them) so we can enjoy the dra ma, the comedy. We can go through any tragedy in life without letting it overwhelm us or destroy our happiness.

Happiness, after all, real ly lies within, not outside ourselves. My reality, my happiness or u nhappiness, is what I choose to feel withi n my own being, and it can't be dependent u pon a ny outside influence. The i nherent nature of the sou l i s joyful . When I'm in tune with, in touch with, in synch with my sou l, I'm bound to be happy! Activating the Kundalini so that it can function i n the higher chakras makes it m uch more conveniently possible to do that.

When circumstances are not pleasant, I try to remind myself that life is, after all, a movie. I want to enjoy the fil m, whether it's a comedy or a tragedy. And I want to remember that some day the lights wil l go on, the projector will be turned off, and we'l l all go Home!

�HOPPING FOR HIGH�R CON!!CIOU!!N��� (anothar analog y )

You've gone to buy linens in you r favorite department store. You push the elevator button to go up to seven, but on the thi rd floor, the elevator stops, the doors open briefly, and you r eye catches sight of something really irresistible and a ppealing. You decide you'll step off for "just a quick look." You find more and m ore to look at, and get so total ly absorbed in browsing through all the fasci­

nating things - lots of them on sale, too (!), - that you lose track of time, and forget the original mission that broug ht you to the store. By that time the store has closed a nd you're trapped. It's called "maya." Similarly, it's easy to get trapped in "spiritual maya." Occult powers and psychic phenomena a re exam­

ples of spiritual maya.

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All the distractions in our lives are maya. I n Sanskrit, "maya" literal ly means

"that which can be measured ." It is the polarity to the infinite. M aya is under­

stood in Vedanta philosophy as the "apparent creation." All that

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we can see and hear and touch and taste with our five senses,

anything measurable in any way, is maya. It can be fascinating,

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it is enticing, it can be fun, but it is not permanent. It can't last forever. There's nothing "wrong" with maya. It can give lots of : pleasure and excitement, but maya cannot provid e happiness.

Happiness comes only from within, nowhere else. When you touch that reality of God within you, that is happiness.

Like Pinocchio being lured away to the fai r instead of going to school, the glitter of maya can make us forget where we're going, too! So, before we invest a lot of time and energy in a nything, any person, or any activity, it makes good sense to ask ourselves, "Is this real ly the best use of my time? How much of a detour can I afford to take? Wil l this real­

ly take me towards Home, or farther away?"

BUBBlf!! AND BRIDGf!! song from the Self-Realization Fellowship song book. He real ly liked it. Bubbles, sea - it fits rig ht in with the ocean analogy.

Analogies are sometimes useful, but they're limited. They are intel lectua l attem pts to clarify ideas, concepts that can't total ly b e g rasped by the intellect.

They do give us a bridge of understanding. But to really cross over the bridge,

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(I wrote this poem while facilitating White Tantric Yoga in Espanola, New

Mexico, Nov. 30, 1991)

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