The Hidden Prison of Time
When the Past Becomes the Present By Gurudev Shri Amritji Most human suffering does not begin in the present moment. It begins in unconscious identification with emotional memory-events from the past that continue to live within the body, nervous system, and mind as...
The Hidden Filter Through Which You See the World
How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji The foundational field in which all later psychological movement arises begins at the point where perception first divides into a sense of “me” and “the world,” creating the initial structure of separation...
Why Do the Yoga Sutras Begin With Samadhi?
By Gurudev Shri Amritji One of the most unique and overlooked aspects of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is that it begins with the fourth stage of yoga in the first chapter. The Yoga Sutras opens with Samadhi Pada, the chapter on samadhi, realization, and the experience of...
The Hidden Prison of Time
When the Past Becomes the Present By Gurudev Shri Amritji Most human suffering does not begin in the present moment. It begins in unconscious identification with emotional memory-events from the past that continue to live within the body, nervous system, and mind as...
The Hidden Filter Through Which You See the World
How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji The foundational field in which all later psychological movement arises begins at the point where perception first divides into a sense of “me” and “the world,” creating the initial structure of separation...
Why Do the Yoga Sutras Begin With Samadhi?
By Gurudev Shri Amritji One of the most unique and overlooked aspects of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is that it begins with the fourth stage of yoga in the first chapter. The Yoga Sutras opens with Samadhi Pada, the chapter on samadhi, realization, and the experience of...
Your Nervous System Was Designed to Recover
How Unresolved Tension Becomes Stress By Gurudev Shri Amritji The connection between emotions and illness is well documented and established. Many tension based illnesses can be traced to traumatic, emotionally charged events that disrupt the balancing power and self...
The State Your Body Enters Every Night, and Why It Could Change Your Life
By Gurudev Shri Amritji There is a state you enter every night in which the conflict you carry during the day is no longer active. The state your body enters every night allows the body to restore itself without effort, while the mind is no longer organizing...
Yoga: Where Concentration Ends and Meditation Begins
When to Consciously & Intuitively Let Go of Techniques By Gurudev Shri Amritji Meditation does not begin by forcing stillness; it begins with concentration, the narrowing of focus on the object of attention. While you are holding the asana, you practice directed,...
Have You Been Practicing Yoga Backwards?
The refinement of technique is not the same as awakening awareness. By Gurudev Shri Amritji Your body is the visible soul. The false self that has continuously abused the body has not only violated it and lived in conflict with it, but has also lived in separation...
The Chakra System: An Evolutionary Map of Consciousness
By Gurudev Shri Amritji The chakra system is not only a map of energy centers, it is a map of the relationship between attention and prana, the life force moving through the body. When attention is constantly pulled into stress, desire, fear, and reaction, energy...
The Worst Habit That Blocks Intuition
Worst habit is living for what comes next instead of being fully present now. The mind stays focused on the next result, the next solution, or the next sign that everything is finally in place. Over time, that constant reaching pulls you away from the present and...
Explication of the Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 47
So much of our stress begins long before anything happens. We carry a picture of how life should go, what our work should bring, and what effort should guarantee. Then when life moves another way, we call it failure. In this teaching on Bhagavad Gita 2:47, Gurudev...