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For managing difficult negative emotions, the yoga tradition recommends applying these four attitudes toward four kinds of people:

~Practice friendship toward those who seem to be more fortunate than you.
~Practice compassion for those less fortunate than you.
~Be cheerful toward those who seem more virtuous or closer to God than you.
~Be indifferent toward those who seem less virtuous than you.

In the Buddhist tradition, this prescription is known as Brahma vihara-walking with Brahman.

Agni
I meditate on Agni, the forerunner, the Lord of the grand ceremony of life (yajna), the one who sponsors the ceremony, the one who makes the offerings, the repository of gems.
--The first verse of the Rig Veda

Kumbha Mela Reunion
"It's like a reunion," says Andrew Weil. Dr. Weil stopped by the Institute yesterday and visited with many of the same people today that he had visited in Allahabad during the Kumbha Mela, included Tapasvi Baba.

From Tapasvi Baba
Tapasvi Baba taught a meditation technique during his satsangas this week at the Institute. "I make no promises," he said, "but if you practice, one day you'll reach the higher steps. You walk there yourself. No one can take you there."

A Prayer
O Agni, like a loving father, be kind to us, bring joy and auspiciousness to our lives.
--Rig Veda, Agni Sukta