Karma Yoga

Practice 7

Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gye Nyame.

Thank You Aum. Thank You Bha. Thank You Gayathri.

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Abiding in You is the transportation and 

destination to real freedom. This freedom

 is conscious reunion with You, the Source 

   of all that is has been, and will be.  It is the 

the true business of Yoga, and the goal of

 our life.

2

You pervade and transcend the totality of

 creation, maintenance, and dissolution. We

    offer You our hopes, our dreams, our visions,

   plans, and schemes.  Everything we have or

 participate in, we offer to You.

3

This surrender, this submission to You 

of all we do is real sanity.  It enables us 

   to think of You more.  This empowers us 

to ever greater good as offerings to  You

 for the benefit of all.

4

By remembering You in all we think, feel, 

will, say, and do, we are a quiet, positive, 

vibratory,  blessing to all sentient beings.

5

The body, mind, intellect, and ego do not 

truly exist. If they did exist, they would 

never change or cease existing.  As we

     awaken to this fact, we rebuild ourselves, 

awaken, into our very best Being.

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This spiritual practice begins as the

     spiritual aspirant sees the self as 

  eternal spirit, and is always thinking

    of You. The aspirant gradually 

understands how to apply this 

    practice for ever greater purifying 

association with You.

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We offer You our hopes, our dreams,

 our plans. We offer You our nights our

 days our hopes, our praise. Everything we

 have, we bring as an offering to You. 

 Thank You for allowing us the

 intelligence to offer everything to

You.

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This surrender, this submission, is sanity. 

 It enables us to do ever greater good for the 

benefit of all sentient beings throughout the

 cosmos, by simply being here purifying our

consciousness by remembering You in all 

we think, feel, will, say, and do.

9

We think of You as the Supreme Beauty in 

all that is attractive, may we forever keep 

our minds fixed on You by surrendering all

 to You. In this way, we come back into 

total harmony with Your will, the Way

of Eternal, Universal Peace. Thank You

 for helping us fix our consciousness on 

You.

10

Our eternal position of infinite bliss and

 knowledge is Eternal, Universal Peace. 

 We think of You, we concentrate on You, 

we meditate on You as the source of

 infinite bliss, knowledge, silence and 

truth.  You know us better than we

    know ourselves. Please continue to lead 

us kindly into Your Transcendental

 Loving Light of Divine Intelligence.

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We think of You as Supreme Awareness, 

   Greatest Divinity of all being, thank You  

for showing us how universal love, freely

 caring and sharing, comes with purification

 of the Intelligence.  The more purification 

 the Intelligence occurs, the greater is our 

freedom the from Maya.

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Serving you helps us to always think of

 You. This is associating the mind with You. 

 Thus is the mind, intelligence, and 

consciousness, purified. This is the spiritual 

practice that unfolds our dormant love for

You.  We love You and through You, we love

 each other.

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We think of You, we concentrate on 

You, we meditate on You as pervading,

 transcending,  and embracing all. As 

the Eternal Power which flows through 

and beyond all sentient beings, You are

the Supreme Animating Force in all 

creation. Please engage us evermore in 

Your transcendental loving service.

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To the extent our consciousness is 

purified, by way of Your association, we 

transcend slavery to the senses and are

reestablished in our original nature of

 Pure  Consciousness, Absolute

 Awareness This is true restoration and

 liberation.

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"Brahman that is immediate and direct —the

 Self that is within all." "You cannot see That

which is the Seer of seeing; you cannot hear

That which is the Hearer of hearing; you

cannot think of That which is the Thinker 

of thought; you cannot know That which

 is the Knower of knowledge. This is your

 Self, that is within all; everything else but

 This is perishable." (Br. Up. 3.4.2) -- Read more:

http://yogananda.com.au/upa/Upanishads01.html#sayings

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The Vedanta often describes Brahman as

 Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat (Existence, Reality, Being),

Chit (Consciousness, or Knowledge), and 

Ananda (Bliss). Existence, Consciousness and

Bliss are not attributes of Brahman but 

Brahman Itself. SAT (Existence) — "In the

beginning, my dear, this [universe]

 was Being (Sat) alone, one only without 

a second."

(Chandogya Upanishad 6.2.1 

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Also Aitareya Upanishad 1.1.1) "All this that we see in the world is Brahman." Sanskrit:

sarvam khalv idam brahma. (Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1) "Brahman is Reality,

Knowledge, and Infinity." (Taittiriya Upanishad 2.1.3) [More...] The flower, the table, the

human being, the feeling exist. Everything exists, everything IS. SAT is the "is-ness" in

everything. Everything borrows existence from SAT. Existence (SAT) is the same

everywhere – the differences are created by the name and form (Nama, Rupa). -- Read

more: http://yogananda.com.au/upa/Upanishads01.html#sayings

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You are the One, the greatest simplicity, our emergence,

evolution, and absorption in bliss depends on Your Grace,

Your mercy and our remembrance of You.  Remembering

 that we have seen and understand that the Sun, 

Moon, Stars, Heavens, Angels, and all the Sky is  within

 You, we are gradually awakening.