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Motto:
yama niyama asana pranayama pratyahara dharana dhyana samadhi ashtau angani
The eight rungs, limbs, or steps are: the codes of self-regulation or restraint (yamas), observances or practices of self-training (niyamas), postures (asana), expansion of breath and prana (pranayama), withdrawal of the senses (pratyahara), concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana), and acces to the true nature of the world (samadhi). – Patanjali, Yoga Sutra, 2.29.



I noticed the article of our new Ministry of Education ( Vijayakrishna and, because I liked it, I promised I will write something related to the article.
This one will be the … preparation.





The talk I want to start is about what are we doing. I mean, what is the purpose we have in this life, or in this game eventually.

Do you know the nice talk that Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi have in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ?
First interesting question there is:
“ If I am the owner of the entire earth, the wealth of the whole world is mine, will I be perpetually happy, or will there be some other factor which will intrude upon my happiness in spite of my possession of the values of the entire world?”
And because the answer was NO, she continue:
“ Then, what is the good of all this? If one day, death is to swallow me up, and transiency is to overwhelm me, impermanence of the world is to threaten us, and if everything is to be insecure at the very start; if all that you regard as worthwhile is, after all, going to be a phantom; because it is not going to assure us as to how long it can be possessed, how it may not be taken away from us and at what time we shall be dispossessed of all the status that we have in life; if this is the uncertainty of all existence, what good can accrue to me from this that you are bestowing upon me, as if it is a great value? ”

See, this is why nothing new happen under the Sun, because ppl before us where also concerned about the same problems we have today.
Sure, there where some differences. Or just the character that answer Maitreyi was a real rushi, because from those questions the dialogue evolve to a solution that implies a great discrimination, a wise person and all the ethical values attained.

However, sometime later, but a mark stone for the European culture, Achilles, the son of a priestess in the Oracle of Pythia and Zeus, the chief of ancient Greece god’s, had a talk with he’s mother to know if he should go to war or not (it was about the war of Troy).
She told him that if he go to war, he will die, but became a great Hero, remembered by all humans until the end of the world. On the other hand, if he stay at home, he will marry a wonderful women in Larisa (an ancient, but there today too, city in north Greece), they will have plenty of children’s and be loved and cherished by them and by nephews, yet in 3, 4 generations will be forgotten.

As we know today, he chose immortality, as a Hero and, yet … a death man.
So this became the general way of addressing this problem by the European culture, considering that this public memory is the only way of immortality.

Strange and stupid, Siddhartha Gautama would say, because he was born a prince, he married a wonderful young woman and got a child with her, yet he renounced to all of this.
Now, on the other hand, this is stupidity, a European would say.

So, what is what make the life worth living ? Who is right and who is wrong ?

Is the wealth that could be the aim of our lives, is it the happiness or immortality ?

And if we attain such a state, could it be permanent ? Will this, or any other fulfil our life ?

Well, from the door of this eAshram, I invite you to debate, with me, this matter in the next 3 articles.

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