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This website features the teachings of Jagad Guru Chris Butler on social harmony, peace, and spirituality. Chris Butler (Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda) is also the founder of the Identity Institute, an educational organization, and the author of "Who
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Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes on False Ego
It is natural for us to want to be happy, satisfied, and free. But due to ignorance of our true identity, our natural longing becomes misdirected and leads to further bondage and unhappiness.Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation===...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes on Real Value of the Body
Many people practice tai chi, chi gong, and so on with the aim of keeping their bodies fit for a long time. There is certainly nothing wrong with keeping one’s body fit—indeed, it is one of the aims of yoga—but unfortunately, many such people a...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes on Beauty of This World Is Not Real
It is unfortunate that people are attracted to the beauty of this world that is not real – it shrivels and dies.Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation==========This is why people in modern Western societies are still not satisfied...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes on Struggling to Enjoy the Senses With Endless Material Consumption
Most of us—whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, civilized or uncivilized—are struggling to enjoy our senses. This is due to false identification with the body.Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation==========If you ident...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes on Lust
Lust is a manifestation of inner spiritual hunger. The attempt to satisfy spiritual hunger in sense pleasure is due to ignorance. The development of pure, all-expansive love within the heart satisfies one’s spiritual hunger. Love cancels out lus...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - The Desire for Sense Pleasure
If you identify your body as yourself, you will try to satisfy yourself by trying to satisfy your body. You’ll think, “I am the body and I want to be happy, I want to be satisfied.” Thus, you’ll try to satisfy the belly, the tongue, the genit...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Everyone is Suffering. An Intelligent Person Seeks a Solution
Everyone is suffering. Everyone experiences birth, disease, old age and death. Everyone experiences fear, loneliness, emptiness, confusion, mental agitation, and heartache. Yet a fool, despite the fact that he keeps getting his teeth kicked in, neve...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - The Life Force
Work has been done regarding the life force present in plants. In one typical experiment, electrical wires are connected from an electro sensitive meter to a plant. After a stable reading is obtained on the instruments, a small twig is cut from the p...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - An Advanced Yogi Uses the Body Knowing That He Is Not the Body
Contrary to popular belief, hatha yoga exercises are not designed to make fat people thin or to make the body immortal, but to help unblock the gross and subtle nervous systems so that the “life air” can flow freely through the body (specifically...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Life Attracts Life
Life attracts life. We may think we are attracted to the beautiful body of a woman, but actually it is the spark of life which attracts us. When Marilyn Monroe “died”, when the life force left the material body, the body was no longer attractive....
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes on Bonafide Guru, Bona Fide Disciple
BRAHMA AND NARADA – BONAFIDE GURU, BONAFIDE DISCIPLEMystic yogis, by the practice of mystic or psychic powers, can do things that ordinary people consider very wonderful and miraculous. Such yogis then exploit the people, claiming that they are God...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Learning from History
LEARNING FROM HISTORYIn this world, people are always fighting over property. They want to stake their claims of ownership on both the living and the nonliving. According to the Sri Ishopanishad, these people are like thieves fighting over stolen loo...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Insights of Wisdom
In his book Small Is Beautiful, noted British economist E. F. Schumacher wrote:Insights of wisdom … enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of th...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Bona Fide Disciple
Narada is a perfect example of a bona fide disciple. Even though his guru, Lord Brahma, was immensely powerful, still Narada did not blindly accept him as the Supreme Lord Himself.Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation========== A f...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Sense Enjoyment & Satisfaction
Often people try so hard to find happiness through sense pleasure that they may attempt to gratify several or all of their senses at the same time. For example, you may simultaneously be watching TV, listening to the radio, munching potato chips, sip...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Out-of-Body Experiences
The fact is that you know you existed five years ago, and you know you exist today. Although you still exist, you know that the body you had five years ago does not exist today. Therefore, you know that your existence is not dependent on the existenc...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Three Simple Questions
THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONSLet me ask you a few simple questions: Do you exist at this moment? Did you exist five years ago? Are you your body? Most people would answer “yes” to all three questions. But if you identify your body as yourself, and simul...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Death Is Not the End of Your Existence
Most people who have actually experienced leaving their bodies and existing outside their bodies no longer identify their bodies as themselves. They know that they can and will exist without the body. They no longer view death as the end of their exi...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Needs and Greed
There is enough in the world to fulfill everyone’s needs, but not enough to fulfill everyone’s greed. In some parts of the world, people are dying from severe undernourishment, while in other parts of the world people are dying from obesity.Jagad...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Goswami
A person who tries to be a goswami is careful not to engage in those activities that are harmful to his spiritual development. For example, he refrains from taking intoxicants (including all sorts of drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and so on); from havin...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Masochism
Masochism can never lead to spiritual perfection. The body is actually a most precious property of the self; it enables the self to engage in various devotional activities that can bring about a change in consciousness. A person's external activities...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - No-Self Philosophy
The no-self philosophy allows charlatans to believe (and to persuade others) that they have already gone past the search for enlightenment and successfully come out the other side. It allows them to feel they’ve answered the questions: “Who am I?...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Culture of Ignorance
Those who engage in the culture of nescient activities shall enter into the darkest region of ignorance. Worse still are those engaged in the culture of so-called knowledge.~Sri Ishopanishad, Mantra 9Unfortunately, most of humanity spends the majorit...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Watching Your Dreams
Watching Your DreamsTonight, as you are lying in bed almost ready to fall asleep, watch your body fall asleep. Mentally say to yourself, “I am aware that my body is falling asleep.” As you fall deeper and deeper into sleep, there is a good chance...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Perfection: Being In Tune With Reality
Perfection means being in tune with reality. The first thing we must understand is reality—the reality of my identity, i.e., my essence, position and function. Who am I? Just as a person does not identify himself as being the shirt that he is weari...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - The Mind
The mind is the seat of all material desires.Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation==========Because your mind and brain are intricately “hooked up,” if your brain is stimulated in a particular place, it may cause certain forms,...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Root Cause of Crime
The fact that there are at least as many “wealthy” criminals as there are “poor” criminals effectively destroys the materialists’ theory that the root cause of crime is poverty and that the solution to the crime problem is to make everybody...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Racism
Racism is the identification of a person/self according to the race of the body that self is in. This is like identifying people with their shirts. If you walk along the street, you will see many different-colored shirts. If one of those shirts is pu...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Karma
KARMAAccording to yoga, every action, good or bad, produces some karmic reaction. Actions that are “bad” create bad karmic reactions. A person who engages in heinous criminal actions or who lives simply like an animal, exploiting others, will hav...
Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Existence pt. II
On a practical level, it’s a lot easier to deny the existence of other selves than it is to deny your own—you have the direct, irrefutable experience of your own existence.Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation==========Because ...
