इष्टम् ISHTAM Yoga Trilogy
Atma Vidya | Yoga Vidya | Kriya Vidya
Atma Vidya
आत्मा विद्या
Light on Self
I – Secret of Secrets
Mesmerized by one word, devotees of one god, a word has captured the imagination of all of us. Holding humanity hostage is the Truth. The first name of the whole human race, I reveals our human secret. ‘I’ is the human PIN code, when wielded correctly, ‘I’ is the universal password that unlocks the Truth.
Atma vidya until recently hidden in secrecy uses the word ‘I’ to expose the meaning of being human. Revelling in and exposing our human mystery, I-knowledge, Atma Vidya resolvs the mystery of oneself and the universe.
Yoga Vidya
योग विद्या
Light on Yoga
ISHTA Mala: Practice for Life
ISHTA Mala is yoga designed for everyday living. Helping the body stay alive for as long as possible, Mala fits all time frames and abilities. Proving health and wellbeing is simple. To become adept takes just one practice a day.
Kriya Vidya
क्रिय विद्या
Light on Kriya
The Complete Story – Siddha Kriya Breathing
Searching for the limit to being human the Siddha’s of Tamil Nadu discovered the limitless. Over thousands of years, the Siddha Kriya Method has systematically turned the human body into its own nuclear power plant. Rising beyond the natural to the supernatural, the Siddha Kriya method is a serious yogi’s next step.
The Role of a Teacher and the Teachings
A teacher puts Forever in your pocket. Removing all doubts. Clearing obstacles and suffering. Self knowledge by removing all our fears and limitations frees the jiva, individual.
Be Introduced To Your True Self
Exploding in the knowledge of Self, human beings survive the endless cycle of births and deaths, pain, suffering and misery. Atma vidya, Self knowledge by pointing out our true human nature over countless generations, introduces us to our true Self, that is ever immanent, available 24/7.
Whoever knows how to introduce the changeless light of lights, the Self, in all that is permanently changing, helps us discover Self, the one constant, shining permanently in all of us.
Once the meaning of yourself is unlocked, no longer a wanting person, you never look back. Self, ever fresh, never subject to change or loss, doesn’t need an upgrade. Whoever introduces us, helps us to see the ‘unseeable’ light of consciousness. Grasping the ‘ungraspable’, we gain what was forever gained because it is ourselves already, praptasya prapti.
Awakening to our ever fresh, sanathana, nature, we never have to search or listen again.
Searching for Self
Living our whole lives with nothing but the Truth, whoever points out the Self, unlocks our shared humanity. Awakening us to life’s supreme gift, no longer missing to ourselves, Self knowledge fills all the gaps, removing all the boundaries of our collective blindness. Healing our ignorance; knowledge revealed is Truth concealed. Unfolding our true meaning stops ‘I’ from being an enigma. ‘I’ no longer a phantom, a ghost of ourselves, reveals our true nature.
Life’s supreme gift
Truth has already found us
Like the sun rising in the morning, atma vidya destroys all our woes. Exposing ‘our true Reality’ discovering what was always there hiding, never apart or absent, knowledge saves us from ourselves.
Utterly astonished, seeing ‘as though’ for the first time, acknowledging what was never distant, forever closer than the closest, leaves us gobsmacked.
Looking for Truth we find Truth has already found us. Hearing completeness, Truth was never a destination, but always ourselves, renders us silent!
Already captured, no one can escape. All prisoners of the same one Truth, the longer we wait and remain a slave to individuality, a notion we call self, that long we suffer. Ending all torment, burning away the darkness, Self, shining like the sun, forever nearer than the nearest breaks through the clouds. Carrying our blindness, we also carry the perfect solution with us our entire lives. Where once we could see only problems, right there, we find the complete Solution has always been.
Knowledge doesn’t make us complete. Already whole complete, knowledge simply reveals the completeness that we truly are.
To become acceptable to ourselves, we don’t have to wait. We have to wait for an idea. A career, a job, a practice. Until we discover the Truth, everything is a wait.
Instantly available and recognisable, because Truth is ourself, upon recognition of Self, becoming a distant memory, all unhappiness and inadequacy disappears.
Finding out that we carry creation’s grand prize and universal mystery with us, we don’t notice until it is pointed out. Left wondering how we can be so blind, foolish and knowledgeable at the same time. Knowing that I know, but knowing that I don’t know, as soon as the teacher points out and we see the obvious, rather than feeling clever, like a genius, we’re left feeling utterly stupid.
The VEDA UPANISHADS
POINT OUT WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
While we know all about ourselves as individuals, and all hold PhD’s in individuality, Atma Vidya introduces us, and we see who we are without the name, without individuality without anything.
To not know the changeless Self, is the miracle we’ve all been waiting for. To find out Truth that we all are we carry with us, is so simple, that close and intimately available and familiar already – cannot be seen, sensed or perceived, until it is pointed out – is a trick that life plays in us. Playing us for a fool, until we get smart. The irony is, already waiting for us all is the solution. Us. Always available, the source of abundance, beauty and happiness just has to be introduced.
Otherwise life – not just a waste – the entire lifetime is a waste.
Truth being universal, common – for the teacher who knows how to introduce us, pointing out the Truth is easy.
Knowing the Truth of themselves, Self, like their own back yard, using Truth like a laser, the teacher acting as a mirror and an amplifier, wielding the age old methodology just unpacks it. Revealing the eternal blessing and destiny that is waiting for all of us.
There is no difference between someone who knows themselves a gnani, and, one who doesn’t.
One knows, the other is yet to know.
Revealing what it means If we find the teacher who is willing, acting as a mirror, adept at wielding Truth, they
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Foundations in Atma Vidya
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Upasana Meditation
A practical meditation method woven so seamlessly into our lives that not even we notice it being there.
Siddha Kriya Breathing
Calling all experienced yogis who want to learn Siddha meditation and develop their breathing expertise.
A brilliant methodology for understanding the nature of Self.
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