The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.

The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Yoga means we go a step further back. In yoga we go to the cause. The cause of pain is not the world. The cause of pain is us.

Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.

If you can't think of an enlightened person positively, don't think of them at all.