Yoga means everything is connected. Advaita Vedanta is the name given to the philosophical school and means “Not Two”. Yoga has stories to use as tools for understanding very abstract ideas. We think through contrast and comparison, so it is hard to understand if we only see one thing. The Seven Bhumikas are a way to understand this idea of a “seedless state” through a path of developing knowledge. (1) Longing for truth, (2) right enquiry, (3) stilling of the waves, (4) control of the waves. At that point control can seem magical, and the risk is someone backs themselves as particularly important. It is not about you. The last three stages are about you moving on. (5) Detachment, (6) Knowledge, and (7) Liberation. Your money waves will never still if it just about success and funding your hand-to-mouth consumption. Being more. Being better. If you make money to spend money. If you visualise what you are going to buy with everything you earn. If everything you do is for an expected return. How does your daily practice change if instead of a 1-year or 5-year plan, you are thinking of the 1,000-year plan?
“virama pratyaya bhyasa purvah samskara seso nyah” Yoga Sutras
“Seedless state is reached when all mental activity ceases and only unmanifested impressions remain in the mind”
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