Reading Autobiography Of A Yogi Changed My Life! | Dr. Joe Dispenza | Raj Shamani Clips

Reading Autobiography Of A Yogi Changed My Life! | Dr. Joe Dispenza | Raj Shamani Clips

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(00:02) At 19 you read a book autobiography of yogi. >> Yes. Yes, I did. >> Yeah. Do and you said like something in you changed after that. Um my parents uh were best friends with these uh this couple and their son was really good friends with me and we went to graduate school together. And the father uh my parents would make dinners with these couple and they would party with them and they were very festive.
(00:35) And I never knew this really about this guy, but he handed me this book when I was heading to uh to graduate school. And it was a we were driving uh from New York all the way down to Atlanta. So it was a long a long drive. So I read the whole book and I had just been starting to do yoga. I you know I was interested in it.
(00:55) And I was doing martial arts at the time. Something really uh uh uh very untraditional for a westerner. I grew up playing, you know, very very western sports. [gasps] And um I my exposure to yoga and some of the yogis that I had met uh bothered me cuz I didn't understand where they were coming from. And when I read the autobiography Yogi, I was really upset.
(01:23) like it really changed it shifted my paradigm quite a bit. And if I said this is if this is the truth, if this is the absolute truth, how did this person do it? What were they teaching? What is this crea breath? You know, I was and I just everything changed for me. Everything changed for me. My whole life changed.
(01:42) I started doing, I know this is crazy, but I did like 3 hours of yoga every morning at 4:00 a.m. in path yoga and then finished with some very intense breathing. And I I think I don't think we missed a day, my roommate and I for for over 3 years like we were out there at 4 in the morning every morning and we were I was in search of this understanding.
(02:03) It just it's something lit a fire in me and the way I saw western religion and the and the questions that I was willing to ask. I sat my father down and I just said, "Look, I'm just if this is the truth, I'm just telling you I can't do this, you know, the way that we've been raised." And my father was super cool and he said, "Well, if you want to investigate it, let me know what you find out, right?" Right.
(02:29) And it took me on this whole journey about, you know, in one way, you know, studying the mind and spirituality and and yoga and hypnosis and what was common and human potential and what was possible and uh yeah, I just it just I just went a whole an unexpected route. A very unexpected route. I was very uh those four years in graduate school I was very to myself and really curious about you know the nature of reality.
(03:00) >> What specific teaching from autobiography of a yogi you still carry today? of just the mystical transcendental stuff, you know, the tiger swami, you know, his teacher, you know, Baba G and just the way that uh it the the way they appeared uh as as mystics and saints and holy people and what the message really was and and I was bothered by Pramahansa like by certain things.
(03:31) He didn't look like a yogi to me. Like it bothered me about and he didn't really do well in school. Like he didn't really get great grades, you know, and I was just kind of was, you know, bothered by that. And and you know, just things that not not to say that I was I just was naive at the time. Like I just had a a way in my mind that I thought it was.
(03:54) And I it it it took me full circle for me to really accept that. my god might my understanding is so limited right and it broke me down and then I wound up reading a bunch of other really uh spiritual books that you know opened my mind as well [snorts] so if you got an opportunity in a hypothetical world to collaborate with one of these original ancient Indian gurus who follow this work who would you collaborate with probablyahansa yeah why oh I think he was just a really kind and and generous and loving human.
(04:30) >> Yeah. You know there's also your stuff like your your method which is pulling mind out of your body that's based out of kundalini right which is a very ancient Indian knowledge. So why don't you call it kundalini and you give it some different name. Um, I discovered that when you name something based on tradition, I'm going to lose people in the audience or they're going to say, "Oh, I learned condundalini already.
(05:06) " And and they're going to have their own belief about it. So, you'll never hear me say chakras, you know, you never hear me say kundalini. I you I I try to stay away from words where people have a stigma or some unconscious belief. So I rename everything but I stumbled across my own condundalini experiences not because I was trying in any way to have a condalini experience.
(05:32) I just after years of yoga and just all of this kind of control when I exerted myself and did certain things and I breathed a certain way. Uh I would have a dramatic change in my body and in my brain and and and uh I loved that feeling and I loved that feeling. It was that energy going right to my brain.
(05:57) And uh and so the breath that we teach is just my best understanding of how to to liberate that energy. All the energy you use for to create a baby, to digest a meal, to run from a predator. Those first three energy centers instead of releasing the energy out draw that energy back to the brain.
(06:17) in our brain scans show that on some level it it puts the brain into an altered state. Yeah. [snorts] So when you do all these researches on 5,000 year old ancient Indian knowledge and now you have a lot of science around it and you have done a lot of researches you've you've packaged it in a much more believable way for masses to understand.
(06:38) Right. Do you do you think that your work and research now validate 5,000y old Indian wisdom? I think it validates a lot of wisdom, all kinds of wisdom. I I was invited to the Parliament for the World Religions, you know, in in and had an opportunity to sit with a lot of really really uh um educated and adept uh religious leaders.
(07:03) And one of the things I learned uh in sitting at the table with a very very affluent people was that it was a language barrier. like they were arguing over scriptures that were 5,000 years old. who knows the word from 5,000 what it meant then or 2,000 years old and in another part of the world like the the the language was contemporary at the time and you know so I wanted to make it more approachable for people and and gosh I've taken all kinds of courses you know from Buddhism to you know to the Vic scriptures all that stuff it's a lot
(07:40) >> it's a lot of and and it's again >> for a westerner It's very difficult for them to ma wrap their mind around some of the concepts and I've even sat with them and had them tried to help me understand differences. It's very tedious and it's very difficult. So for me I thought what would be the simplest thing to do is to find a way to understand it and then rename it in a way that everybody just goes oh okay that makes sense right? Do you have to know all the details? No just this is the best name we can give. So I've
(08:12) always wanted to take very complex ideas or topics whether it was spiritual or whether it was scientific uh and make them really simple for people uh really simple to to make them uh make it approachable for them to not be intimidated by it uh but to understand it and and now we have so much science >> uh the scientists can actually go way down the rabbit hole with all kinds of great uh you know you know great understandings >> because I'm from India Yeah, I can instantly connect a lot of your work with the Patanjali studies, the advata vanta, the
(08:50) vic scriptures, the uh the kundalini method, right? And there's lot of information in our culture. What do you think? What do 5,000y old when there was no science like what do those people get it which even today a lot of western neuroscientists don't get >> there weren't a lot of uh there wasn't a lot of technology uh you know think about living just 300 years ago it wasn't easy to be human and you know live and so I think certain cultures found ways to become more enlightened uh to you know you know you could even talk about
(09:34) Ayurvedic right so what do we have in our environment that's good for the body you know what are the what is the understanding why like why like in the west meditation is such a bad thing right in in in Buddhism or in traditional Indian culture it's a it's a way of life it's like this works like to get your brain and body better.
(10:02) This works to change who you are. So it was what they had that sustained the the the the culture uh in the environments that they were in and it became really uh very highly effective and very functional. It was a way of life and and uh and it just happens to be ancient more ancient than than most religion and cultures.
(10:30) Why do you think then it was always there in ancient uh cultures right like in India out there but I haven't heard of any Indian who was able to package it in a way to to expand the blessings and the goodness of these teachings all around the world or package it in a way which is digestible which is helping people learn and heal better and become overcome their old self and create a new reality like Indians were not able to do it.
(11:05) Why did we like you are able to do it in a much better way in a much larger way? What do you think? Where did we lack? I think there are a lot of Indians that were able to reach a lot of people when when Indians came from the from India to the west and you know they were on talk shows or being buried and then you know they dig them up the next day you know or put it put something through their neck out the other side you know uh the west was mystified that because there was only really one guy that was able to do anything like that and this kind of
(11:35) opened people's minds quite a bit so >> uh I think there's there's a counterculture to kind of suppress that uh on a lot of ways because um it goes against a lot of agendas, right? So I do think it may have been a little bit before their time, [gasps] but I do think they were important elements, important steps for for people to understand where we are today.
(12:03) So I think they were a you know influenced a lot of people uh in a really important way and they were strong seeds uh that bore a lot of fruit. But now technology is just so simple to be able to just get on something and see something that you didn't have available to you. You had to go to the top of a mountain in the Himalayas to you know find your way to some school ancient school of wisdom school of ancient wisdom and you know be willing to give up your life to learn some of these things and I do think that >> um there were a lot of people that were
(12:40) that made those journeys that we never saw again >> uh that that said I'm not coming back to society again and or there's many people that have transcended in some way. Uh but I think this is really you know this is a really important time to be alive and I think it's important to be alive right now because you know the human race is at a very critical point.
(13:07) You know we either implode or we evolve and um the coming of this new consciousness is not one person. >> Yeah. >> It's got to be a collective network of people. in, you know, when you live in fear or you're watching the news or you're seeing all these tragedies, um, or you're exposed to different things, it really divides people.
(13:28) When you're in survival and when you're in stress, just nobody wants to connect or trust. You know, everybody's got their own secular ways and and the best way to keep people divided is to keep them in survival and stress. And so, what an important time to be alive. I don't think it's ever been for in my lifetime I've never felt so much pressure um you know environmentally with all the challenges that we've had and this is a time where you cannot choose fear or you can't choose aggression and hatred because that would add to the consciousness to
(14:04) further divide right so the something has to emerge that's greater than that and it's not easy especially when >> you're threatened in some way or you don't have money or you know somebody's has been injured in your family for for some, you know, uh unhealthy reasons. So, it's it's a huge challenge, right? It's a huge challenge, but this is the time like we chose to be here.
(14:29) And I do think, you know, everybody has to play their part on some level because my interest is if everybody if I'm working on myself and you're working on yourself and everybody's working on themselves to be a better person, right? then there should be something really emergent that takes place because the side effect of that is this kind of empathy that I think it's natural in human beings.
(14:52) I mean I think we're wired to give [snorts] to care for one another um to inform to heal to connect to invent to you know to support I think we're wired to be that way. Thank you so much.