Entry & Exit Routes

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For most of us, the physical world that we perceive with the five senses is all there is. If you think about it, you would realize there is little to do here – food, sex, money, power, relationships & creativity. But even on achieving these, one is left asking for more. Take the example of sweets, the same combination of flour, sugar and oil (and chemicals!) one eats in 100s of forms, and still there are newer varieties for one to taste. Similar is the case with sexual pleasure, these days one finds sex toyshops with things that are not even remotely connected with the act…that is, taste is deteriorating. Innovation is unending, life passes but the taste buds want more, something different. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Hence all pleasures have an inherent built in mechanism towards an automatic process called destruction. Senses dull away with age, tastes don’t. Body fades away, tastes don’t.

Any aspect of physical, be it relationship, business, wealth or power, is temporary in nature. The more you indulge in it, the more insecure you become of losing it, and more tightly to hold on to it. Interestingly, the stronger you try to hold on to something, the faster it will want to leave, and leave it will.

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This is the journey into the physical Creation, the entry route, or devolution. Because if you look around at the state of people, animals and environment, and if you compare it with what it was 100 years back you will find that we have devolved. And then, if you project what Creation would have been 1000 years back and what would become of it 50 years from now, you would know that we are stifling Creation, the karmic repercussions are bound to come back.

So you may choose the entry route chasing that which is bound to leave you one day, OR look for the exit route, the journey beyond…

The beginning of the spiritual journey starts with ‘bali’ or sacrifice. Sacrifice, here is not sacrificing other innocent lives, but sacrificing that which is dear to you. Unless you are prepared to leave what you have, you cannot reach anywhere. And, the closer is the object of sacrifice to you, the deeper you go into the reality of life. Ironically, if you are prepared to leave something, that thing will never leave you. Puranas are replete with examples of tapasvis, whatever they sacrificed, came back to them. Even Quran narrates that when Ibrahim sacrificed his son, the son was returned to him.

The concept of bali is simple, it is the release from the shackles of maya. As soon as you make a bali, the desire for something more permanent awakens. That is when you meet a Guru, for the exit route. Exit route is not leaving anything, no pleasure or relation has to be left. That’s not meant for normal people, it’s meant only for a sanyasi. Normal people, who desire to become supernormal and gain siddhis, need to gently and slowly begin the process of purification, make a Guru who will individually assess you and give you the path. Slowly avidya will leave you and reality will dawn, a normal person will become supernormal. But the Guru who will show the path has to be chosen – he/she has to be away from the clutches of maya. He/she should not be putting a fee on the teachings and should have no commercial relation with yog.

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Yogi Ashwini

Yogi Ashwini

Yogi Ashwini is adept in the ancient sciences of Yog, Tantra, Spiritual Healing, Mantra-Chanting, Yagya, Past Life, Art of Mace and Vedic Martial Arts. With an Honours in Economics, a Masters in Management and a successful business, he is an eminent writer for leading dailies and journals, an acclaimed speaker internationally,author of global bestsellers on ancient sciences. After studying the being for decades, spending years in silence and having interacted with the Himalayan masters, Yogi Ashwini propounded the Sanatan Kriya, an assimilation of the eight limbs of Patanjali Ashtang Yog. The sheer magnetism of his persona and radiance he exudes, even at 50, and the experiences one gets just by being in his presence, are enough proof of the efficacy of practice. His two decades of pioneering research on anti-ageing, published in the book ‘Sanatan Kriya: The Ageless Dimension’, has found validation in the recent studies by leading international universities. Thousands have benefited physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually from the practice of Sanatan Kriya, which is taught across the globe free of cost. He runs nearly 14 schools for street children,funds education of blind girls at NAB, organises food distribution camps, generates employment for underprivileged, feeds stray animals at more than 100 centres daily and gives medical help to all those who come to him…humans or animals.

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