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close the gap between moving in one direction and resisting it by moving in another direction. He wanted to feel he was living and speaking in harmony with his thinking. He saw, as Mahavir did, that still in certain places, people were preaching universal love and at the same time practicing animal sacrifices. He saw in the world around him the tremendous gulf which cavern-like lay between theory and practice, between soul and mind, between word and deed.
What others do, let them, do. But I will not Hue by two standards, one for me, and one for other liuing beings. Does not all of life uibrate on the same frequency as my own? Let ahimsa guide me as I practice all the disciplines of yoga upayoga, hathayoga, bhaktiyoga, jñānayoga, karmayoga.
All the yogas became practical means for him to live in reverence for life. The Master always gave him a fresh approach with which to live the teaching in clarity, "Feel that whatever you are doing has to be done. It is urgent and vital to your growth. In the process, notice that what you do for yourself is benefitting someone else. That will become a bridge between life and life."
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Finally, the stanza on upayoga concluded with the line,
"Pāvam kammam na bandhaylin this way, you are not bound by any karmas, you are not governed by unfulfilled desires and unresolved problems, you are not sowing the seeds of leftover needs to form a new cycle of birth and death. All karmas are brought to an end and with that, rebirth."
Munishree felt that upayoga was truly a liberating aware
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I can Hue in my body, with my feelings, with my thoughts, with the world at large without being bound by any of them. And if I Hue in hue, peace, joy, and awareness, why should I worry about what is to come? Tomorrow is a dream, today is a reality. Instead of living in dream, why do I not Hue my reality? Yes, upayoga is my reality, my diuinity. Yes, it is closer to me than my own breath! It is my liuing life itself!
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