> hi jared
> is this way of life possible while still living in this society? Or is
> this something for people like monks and nuns who give up their lives
> to follow their beliefs?

> i wonder how one continues to work, earn a living, support a family,
> have relationships, recreation, etc. how could someone have a job to
> make the money to pay for heating, food, clothes, or maintain
> relationships - family or friends - while judging everything as real
> or unreal and doing only activities which are duties. duties to who?

> nancy

> omjaroo wrote:
> > This is from wikipedia. One of the most succinct and accurate
> > descriptions of this form of yoga I have seen.

> > Jn na yoga teaches that there are four means to salvation:

> >     * Viveka - Discrimination: The ability to differentiate between
> > what is real/eternal (Brahman) and what is unreal/temporal (everything
> > else in the universe.)
> >     * Vairagya - Dispassion: After practice one should be able to
> > "detach" her/himself from everything that is "temporary."
> >     * Shad-sampat - The 6 Virtues: Tranquility (control of the mind),
> > Dama (control of the senses), Uparati (renunciation of activities that
> > are not duties), Titiksha (endurance), Shraddha (faith), Samadhana
> > (perfect concentration).
> >     * Mumukshutva - Intense longing for liberation from temporal
> > limitations.

> > Anyone care to talk about this?

> > Jared
> > o
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