Layback Lani | Journey to Liberation

  Ramana Maharshi Harilal Poonja      Sri Nisargadatta The Alchemy of Satva     Transforming Matter into Spirit   "Swallowing food is easy; swallowing the consequences is hard." This stark reality serves as the starting point for any serious inquiry into the nature of consciousness. In our modern world, the joy of swallowing is universal, yet it is a joy tragically confined to the tongue. We have elevated taste to the highest measure of satisfaction, obsessing over recipes and culinary sensations designed to make food easier to swallow, while  remaining  willfully blind to the metabolic journey that begins the moment the throat closes.  After taste, w e treat the body as a waste disposal unit rather than a sacred laboratory, and when the inevitable consequences of toxic intake arise, we seek the intervention of allopathy to suppress the symptoms.  Yet the symptoms are merely the body's protest against a lack of harmony.  To...

                              Harmony is Rooted in Regularity                                                          The Biological Foundation of Harmony   In the study of the cosmos, we find that the profound stability of a star is not an accident of nature, but the result of a precise, relentless equilibrium. A sun  maintains  its existence because the massive force of gravity - the  Yang  principle of constant, compressive pull seeking order and density - is perfectly balanced by the outward thermal pressure of nuclear fusion - the  Yin  principle of expansion. When these two opposing forces are in a state of regular, predictable balance, there is harmony, and a star shines for billions of years. When ...