The Yoga Vasistha gives a name to the condition most of us live in without knowing it: bhava-vyādhi . This “disease of the world process” describes the soul

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There is a moment in the life of a river when the river stops being a river. The current slows, the banks disappear, and what was a moving body of water

Bhagavad Gita 5.23 delivers a striking promise: One who masters the impulse of desire and anger, even at the time of departing from the body , is a yogī