When you focus on a chakra, it's very easy to bring subtle physical energies into your consciousness.

This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved in other worlds.

Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.