On genuine desires and living by genuine inwardness
July 23, 2016 by Andrey Safronov
I’d like to add a few words to my penultimate post on own one’s Way and personal Dharma. I guess the reader has already got the key thesis about correlation between person’s dharma and Genuine desires: Genuine Desires in fact lead one along the road of his own Dharma. In the article that I suggest you read once again I explained the genuine desires to be a far cry from commonplace needs and to differ from neurotic and imposed desire, to be of global and creational nature; yet the practical question – how one can distinguish them “from within” – still remains relevant.
This question does not have a universal answer and always requires some effort, since this is the primary question of every person’s life and the core point of individual self-cognition. The ability of telling true from untrue within the self can be referred to as a certain culture that is cultivated and refined by trials and errors, their understanding and conceptualization, and getting the World’s “feedback”. Generally speaking, Yoga is an inner culture.
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