01. MY THREE POSITIVES.
1. Running
2. I bought a camping mat on which I get enough sleep and my neck doesn't hurt.
3. I'm finally going to the dacha
02. MY THOUGHTS AND DISCOVERIES.
Let's go over the axiomatics.
It is said that our Self is free from everything. But Maya misleads it and the Self considers itself to be its manifestations.
And manifestations are no longer free. The body needs to be fed, watered, it gets sick and will die anyway.
But the Absolute is free from the illusory action of Maya.
Wait, the first statement already says that it is free from everything, and then it turns out that in error, under the action of Maya, is this freedom from everything?
Perhaps the question comes down to who imposed this Maya on the Higher Selves. If someone else's Self deceives, leads into an illusion, then it limits the freedom of this Self. But if the Self itself decided to place itself in such conditions in which it now finds itself, then this is its own choice.
Did it express its will in the past to fall under the influence of Maya?
Or is this a question from the general to the particular, the Absolute, of which the Higher Selves are a part, decided to impose Maya, but not the Higher Self itself?
Like how a person decided to put a plaster cast on his hand, for its own good, for example. The hand itself did not make such a decision, but the hand is a part of the person who made the decision.
03. MY INSPIRATION IN YOGA IN A WEEK.
Studying axiomatics, again and again I come across thoughts that have interested me since childhood. Here is one of the excerpts from Nikolai Kozlov's book that I can't get out of my head, although I read it more than 20 years ago:
"In my opinion, a person does not understand two main things. The first is how FREE he is. He does not see his immense freedom, his endless possibilities and countless choices - and, thus, refuses them.
A person is much freer than he thinks in the external, surrounding world - and only dusty stereotypes and internal prohibitions, often created by himself, prevent him from experiencing this freedom. But if the external, material world inevitably imposes certain boundaries on a person (at least with the mortal body), then the internal, spiritual world is a world of absolute freedom."
04. MY GRATITUDE AND PRAISE.
Thank you for the knowledge
05. I WANT TO PRAISE MYSELF.
I study, observe myself, correct. In general, the work is in progress.
06. PERSONAL YOGA PRACTICE IN A WEEK.*
6 days, Hatha, Kriya, Mantra 1-2 hours a day
07. DIFFICULTIES IN LEARNING.*
An unexpectedly big step in the course on axiomatics.