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- The Richness of the Evolution in the Knowledge - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyMost of us are wedded to the sense that enjoyment of life and richness of experience are inseparably linked to the play of the dualities. We believe and find our satisfaction in the mixture of darkness and light, joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, and the challenges attendant on meeting and ...
Views: 227 - An Exercise to Become Conscious of One’s Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe Taittiriya Upanishad presents a methodology or practice to gain direct knowledge of the Eternal. The seeker is asked to practice tapasya, variously translated as concentration in thought, or concentration of force by Sri Aurobindo. Tapasya cannot be easily or completely understood through ...
Views: 226 - The Awakening of the Soul to a Greater Life and Purpose - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2023 from santosh krinskyUntil an aspiration awakens in the being, we tend to go about our lives taking cues from the promptings of family, friends, community, religion, or schools. Most people will not therefore recognise any greater or deeper purpose to their lives, and they simply determine to try to support ...
Views: 226 - The Need to Prepare the Being to Receive, Hold and Utilize the Influx of the Higher Forces - by Submitted on May 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe raw power generated by an electricity power plant is far greater than any single house can sustain. Thus, the utility company utilizes step-down transformers to systematically bring the power down to a level that the homes and the wiring to the homes can sustain. A similar principle is at ...
Views: 226 - How Does Experience in One Lifetime Become Useful in Future Lifetimes? - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe grow and develop our physical body and its capabilities. We may undertake various training regimens and refine the body’s ability to perceive, and to respond. Yet the body dies and that training is left behind with the dissolution of the body. We can see an effect within the larger framework ...
Views: 225 - How does the soul take a new birth? Where does the soul fly away after death? In which form does the soul go? - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2023 from Dada BhagwanHave you ever seen a talking and walking toy that runs on battery? According to what it is fed, it says, ‘I am hungry, I am happy’, and so on. It works as long as there is a battery in it. And, when the battery is discharged, it is dead. Similarly, a dead body doesn’t have any energy or power to ...
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Views: 225 - The Divine Spark Resides Even in the Demonic Beings - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe earth is the locus of the evolutionary principle. It is said that when the gods themselves want to grow and evolve, they must consent to take birth on the earth. It is therefore important to understand that the beings who take birth on the earth-plane are, for the most part, taking part in ...
Views: 225 - The Influences That Direct the Development of the Vital Nature - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe can understand the role of genetic predispositions in the formation of the physical body. The transmission of physical characteristics from generation to generation, the blending of dominant and recessive genetic traits and the atavistic background that led to the status of the genetic ...
Views: 225 - Thought-Forms - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we examine the question of thought-forms, we recognise that people usually want to imply that a thought is able to turn into some kind of physical reality, purely through the power of thought. This, however, is one element of the question, but not the only element. Thought-forms have a ...
Views: 225 - Understanding the Limiting Frames of Our Existence and the Process for Breaking Free of the Bonds of those Frames - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs long as we live within a certain frame of understanding, we cannot truly understand who or what we are, or why we do what we do, as we are bound by the limitations of that frame. Thus, as we are born in a particular culture, or a particular society, or a particular religious persuasion, or ...
Views: 225 - The Call of the Divine Flute - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2023 from santosh krinskyAn individual is living out his life, following his career, pursuing education, enjoying himself, raising a family, pursuing a hobby. All quite normal things. For most people, this is the frame within which his life carries on, and he experiences the joys and sorrows, the pains and the ...
Views: 224 - What Is a ‘Natural” Response to Circumstances for the Human Individual? - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen we see any individual stopping to reflect, choose his line of action and make a specific, conscious determination of how to respond, we consider this action to be unnatural, stilted, and we imply that it is somehow subject to some kind of ulterior motive, and thus, tend to distrust it. ...
Views: 224 - Precondition for Offering the Ego into the Divine Consciousness - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen we think about dissolving the ego and offering ourselves to the Divine, we do not often consider the details involved and the difficulties attendant on that process. What is it we are offering? How are we accomplishing that offering? What does the offering look like in terms of its ...
Views: 223 - Signs for Identifying the World Personality - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna poses the question of how to identify the spiritual man, the superior individual. Sri Krishna makes it clear that this is not determined by outer signs, but by the inner state of the individual. The Mother takes up this question in a slightly different form and ...
Views: 223 - Small Vital Entities and Their Action in Human Life - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother relates two stories here about interactions she personally had with some small entities. One group were of good will and acted to remind her of things when she was otherwise distracted. She was able to pay attention to their hint and ensure that all worked out properly. It takes a ...
Views: 223 - The Challenge of Duality and the Conquest of Light Over Darkness - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe live in a world filled with contradictions, a world of dualities. We accept the premise that we cannot have light without dark, pleasure without pain, joy without sorrow. This appears to be the nature of the world, and it seems like an irrefutable concept. Yet, we can in fact conceive of the ...
Views: 223 - The Obstacles to Exercising the Will - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhatever experience an individual has in life, there come moments when he determines that he needs to exercise his will-power. it may be related to overcoming habits of laziness or procrastination, or overcoming a form of addiction, undertaking a diet to manage his weight, restraining the ...
Views: 223 - How Does an Individual Acquire the Higher Form of Spontaneity? - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we distinguish the lower forms of spontaneity that stem from the vital nature and its instincts and desires, from the higher form of spontaneity that is linked to unification of the being with the higher spiritual purpose, the question arises as to how the individual can develop this higher ...
Views: 222 - How to Experience the Influx of Universal Forces Directly Through the Experience of a Wider Consciousness - by Submitted on May 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Vedic Rishis described a change in conscious awareness as representing satyam, rtam, brihat, the truth, the right, the vast. It is difficult for most people living in the modern world to gain a conception of the vastness of existence. We may know intellectually that the universe is large, we ...
Views: 222 - Individual Spiritual Change and the Collectivity - by Submitted on May 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs the evolutionary pressure begins to develop individuals who undergo the spiritual transformation we have been discussing, there is still the issue of how these individuals can impact the wider life of humanity. Isolated individuals surrounded by an untransformed mass of humanity and the ...
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Views: 222 - The Collective Soul of Human Groupings and the Expression of Collective Karma - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe individual is not an island unto himself; he is part of a series of larger groupings, such as family, clubs, teams, tribes, school classes, corporate entities, community, states and nations, religion, etc. The collective energetic expression of each of these groupings develops a way of life ...
Views: 222 - The Unique Truth of Each Being in Relation to the Divine Manifestation - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyRecently the question arose about how and in what form the witness consciousness survives death. This is not a question for either philosophical reasoning or religious dogma. Regardless of the opinion that these general approaches put forth, it is between the individual soul, as a unique ...
Views: 222 - Miracles, Belief, Powers and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor most people, there is a tremendous barrier of skepticism about things that they cannot see or experience for themselves, There is also a good deal of ignorance about how things actually work in the world, which can lead to misconceptions and a tendency toward gullibility when someone appears ...
Views: 221 - Other Domains and Worlds Exist Beyond the Limits of Our Waking Awareness - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we reflect deeply on the development of life and mind out of Matter, it becomes clear that they are not able to manifest in Matter if they do not already exist in their own right and in their own domain. Seers and mystics have described vital worlds. Teilhard de Chardin described a mental ...
Views: 221 - The Need and Significance of Psychic Education - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur educational systems focus on training of the body, the life-force and the mind, essentially fixating the individual on the life in the external world and his role in that world. He is trained on social expectations and customs, and the use of the tools of mind, life and body in the pursuit ...
Views: 221 - Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation of Life - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we look at the immensity of the evolutionary crisis, and the failure of “tried and true” solutions that have been put forward through history, it is easy to become discouraged and pessimistic about the possibility of survival. The solution proposed, a radical transformation of human life ...
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Views: 220 - Why don’t people of our generation focus on having spiritual knowledge? Why don't they seek for wisdom? Why do they become materialistic rather than spiritualistic? - by Submitted on May 10, 2023 from Dada BhagwanWhen there is too much of attraction towards material things, one cannot be spiritual – it is but natural Don’t think it has much to do with a particular generation as such; because in any generation, the percentage of people inclined towards spiritualism is always markedly far too low; the ...
Views: 220(1 vote) - Mental Formations Mixing With Vital Forces - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyAn incident was observed and reported by several people which illustrates how mental formations can create entities on the vital plane which become visible to those who have eyes to see. The incident occurred in 1981 in California. An individual had come to the West and took the role of a guru ...
Views: 219 - The Body’s Formation Does Not Directly Correspond to the Person’s Character and Development - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe frequently try to judge the character of an individual based on physical characteristics. While it is true that there is an interaction and influence between the body, the life-force and the mind, for most people these are not at all absolute or determinative. There are well-known instances ...
Views: 219 - The Cycle of Development in Nature and the Focus of Attention - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe everywhere that Nature has a development cycle, with focus of attention on what needs to take place at each stage of that cycle, rather than simply jumping ahead to an 'end result' of the development. Thus, we see that plants undergo a stage of sprouting from seed, and the first focus ...
Views: 219 - The Resolution of the Opposition of Free Will and Determinism - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs long as we remain rooted in the external surface consciousness and ego-personality, we are firmly bound by the determinism of Nature. Nature, whether on the physical, vital or mental level, operates under its own ‘laws’ of action. The more dense the expression of consciousness is, the more ...
Views: 219 - The Separation of the Witness Consciousness from the External Nature - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe tend to identify ourselves with the specific body-life-mind complex we inhabit and which becomes the nexus for the ego-consciousness. This identification, however, makes it virtually impossible to gain real insight or mastery over the mind, life and body. The process followed by the devotee ...
Views: 219 - Who or What Experiences the Growth of Consciousness Through the Process of Rebirth and the Evolution of Forms and of Consciousness? - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are quite a few anecdotes and statements by individuals about remembering past lives, and there is an entire field of study dealing with what is called ‘past life regression therapy’. Some of the more intriguing incidents involve young people who can describe a village in some distant ...
Views: 219 - The Power of the Inconscient and Subconscient Levels in Our Lives - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur physical bodies operate complex functions without active oversight or intervention of the mind. We are essentially in the dark as our organs function, as our immune system automatically responds to pressures, as breathing, brain function and much more go on absent our supervision or control, ...
Views: 218 - The Spiritual Path and Ascetic Practices - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature craves excitement. It also craves recognition and acknowledgement, in the form of vanity, aggrandisement of the ego, and seeking for fame. The vital nature is also quite impatient and wants to see results right away. When the vital nature enters into the spiritual realm, it ...
Views: 218 - True Freedom and Free Will Resides in the Divine, Not in the Individual Ego-Personality - by Submitted on Feb 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe individual drops of water that make up the ocean do not determine the movement or action of the ocean. They are carried along and partake of the larger forces that act upon and through the ocean. The are a small pinpoint ‘nexus’ of the ocean action but not the motive or driving ...
Views: 218 - The Process for Reviewing the Origin and Impact of One’s Thoughts, Feelings and Actions - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we acknowledge the ability of the vital desire nature to influence and manipulate the mind in its judgment process, biasing the interpretation and understanding of the motives behind the actions, it is incumbent on those who aspire to spiritual growth to find a way to root out this inherent ...
Views: 217 - The Separate Ego-Consciousness and the Universal Divine Consciousness - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe concept of maya is frequently described as the world being an illusion that mystifies our senses and our minds, such that we take it for real, when it is not the truth of existence. We are then asked to cut through the illusion to find the actual reality, the Absolute, the consciousness that ...
Views: 217 - Recognising the Emergence of the Soul in Our Being - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many things in the world which we know exist, not because we can directly perceive them, but because we can experience their effects. Thus, we cannot see ‘gravity’ but we know it exists. We cannot see radiation, but again, we know it exists. As we continue to develop powers of the ...
Views: 216 - Reviewing the Operation of the Law of Karma - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhether one calls it the ‘law of Karma”, ‘dependent origination, or ’cause and effect’, the operation of karma essentially states that each action will create an effect which thereby creates a line of development that impacts the individuals who participate in the situation as it develops. While ...
Views: 216 - The Subtle Vital Interchange and Vampirism - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen Bram Stoker wrote his classic ‘horror’ tale, Dracula, he popularized and sensationalized an actual phenomenon of vital interchange that operates mostly unnoticed and not as sensationally as his tale implies. To put it in simple terms, ‘vampirism’ is the ability of someone to utilise the ...
Views: 216 - Understanding the Meaning of Vital Formations and Beings That Arise During Meditation - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen people take up the practice of meditation, they generally do not know much about it. They follow a set of guidelines on ‘how to meditate’ and just let things happen. The result is very much dependent, then, on their state of conscious awareness, and their focus of attention. Meditation is ...
Views: 216 - Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot ...
Views: 215 - How to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our Lives - by Submitted on May 15, 2024 from santosh krinskySince we cannot easily observe vital beings or mental beings operating on their respective planes to influence actions in our existence, and since we maintain a skeptical attitude about things which cannot be observed or measured, we find it difficult to accept the existence of conscious vital ...
Views: 215 - Observing and Applying the Hidden Forces of Life - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs an individual begins to work with various forces or powers in the world, he gains an insight and understanding of them, and gains the benefit of making use of those powers or forces in various aspects of his life. For example, someone can learn about the anatomy and physiology of the human ...
Views: 215 - The Development of the Powers of the Body - by Submitted on Dec 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyFor the seekers who wish to depart the creation through unification with the Supreme, the body is often considered to be an obstacle, something that needs a certain amount of begrudging attention in order to allow the meditation to take place uninterruptedly. These seekers prefer to give as ...
Views: 215 - Can the Mind Recognise the Action or Influence of the Soul in Another Individual? - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2023 from santosh krinskyEvery aspect of life, and every plane of existence vibrates at its own unique frequency. As an individual develops, he can begin to resonate with and respond to the vibrations of various levels of existence. This also gives him the ability to feel and recognise the similar vibration when it is ...
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