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body, and ‘mantra-yoga' ('Yoga' of the 'mantras”) is there to acquire control over the mental fickleness of thought. Those who have control over the body and discipline over thoughts, are the 'Yogis’ even without ‘asanas', 'yogic postures and 'mantra sadhana'. The truth is that to control the external and internal environments of life is actually a meeting with the 'Yoga' of life. The Yoga of life is above all the Yogas. Even the 'Raj-Yoga' (the denstiny of becoming a King) is not even two inches higher than "Jeewan-Yoga'. 'Raaj-Yoga' is for attaining 'Jeewan Yoga'. Looking at one's own self being separated from self (“Vipashyana' or 'Preksha') is also for 'Jeewan Yoga'.
'Jeewan Yoga' means meeting with that element, which remains alive not only during a person's life time but whose last rites cannot be performed even after the person's death. That soul-element is the basis of 'Jeewan-Yoga'. The nails of death cannot even scratch it. Death is not the truth, it is a lie. Its reach is limited to the change of specis-form. I am but across every accessibility of life.
Body, thought and mind are matters, whereas soul is the energy. To utilize fully one's own energy, for one's own self is the journey within. This journey begins from one's own self. Friend : just ask yourself : who am 'l'. ?
'Who am l'is not a 'mantra’, it is a question. 'l is not the symbol of ego, but it is an address to that possibility whose originality is connected with life from its tip to toe. The concentration of life has blossomed due to 'l' on the shoulder of its totality. I takes the form of ego, when it is nourished by the external environment of life. Where the language wants the internal life to define 'I' there the ego rather gets a kick; but where
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