Yog Sadhan Ashram of Chicago » liberation http://yogsadhanashram-usa.org Established in 1916, the mission of Yog Sadhan Ashram is to provide all individuals, regardless of income or religious background, the traditional and complete teachings of Yoga philosophy and practice free of charge. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:11:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Self-Realization in This Lifetime http://yogsadhanashram-usa.org/2009/12/self-realization-in-this-lifetime/ http://yogsadhanashram-usa.org/2009/12/self-realization-in-this-lifetime/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:36:36 +0000 YSA http://yogsadhanashram-usa.org/?p=378 Breaking through the material layers of our existence to discover the ultimate reality at our core being is the goal Yoga. The culmination of that great effort is called moksha, liberation, or self-realization. While the Upanishads give many indications of a realized person, the references lie scattered in the pages of those sacred texts. The signs of a self-realized person were first compiled in the Bhagavad Gita by Ved Vyas in the concluding 18 verses of chapter 2. In those verses, we see the portrait of an individual who is liberated even while living, also known as jivanmukta.

The self-realized person is a dynamic person of action. In order to understand him, and we must understand him as he lives in the world, not as he sits under a tree lost in contemplation. How does he see the world, react to problems and relate himself to others?

Our Guruji established Yog Sadhan Ashram with the purpose of teaching everyday people how to achieve liberation without running away from the world. In this lecture, Acharyaji describes what this looks like and the characteristics we must develop to achieve this goal.

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