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- What is it that sees through your eyes? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2012 from Bob FademThe seer is merely the power of seeing, although pure it witnesses the images of the mind. Patanjali 150 BCE When we ask ourselves the question “who am I?” most of us get simple answers. I have recently heard; me, myself and last week a fellow told me that he knows as a fact that he is a ...
Views: 810 - What Is Meant by Spontaneity and How to Apply It - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are two types of spontaneity and each of them proceeds from a different cause and has a vastly different effect. Spontaneity is generally understood in the context of responding ‘naturally’ to situations without a lot of thinking, planning or detailed consideration of one’s actions or ...
Views: 247 - What Is Spiritual Growth? - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2012 from Alicia PowerWhat is Spiritual Enquiry? What motivates a person's drive for Spiritual Growth? Alicia Power explores these vital questions so many are asking as our world is on the brink of economic and environmental uncertainty. You may possibly have had a scary moment when you were a small child. Did you ...
Views: 936 - What is the difference between Enlightenment, Awakening and Liberation? - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2024 from Dada BhagwanLiberation (Moksha) happens in two stages: Liberation of our Soul from the wrong belief of “I am John (you may insert your own name here)”, which we are carrying with us for infinite lifetimes, is the first stage of moksha! In this stage, we become free from all unhappiness, here in this life ...
Views: 180 - What Is the Difference Between Spiritual and Psychic? - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyFirst, we must remember that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother relate the term ‘psychic’ to the soul, the aspect of the individual that maintains a direct connection with the Divine. The soul is an organising principle within the earth-consciousness and, while it maintains a connection to the Divine, ...
Views: 245 - What is the purpose of meditation if the goal is to get rid of the ego and attain enlightenment or God realization? - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2023 from Dada BhagwanTo attain enlightenment, also known as Self-realisation, meditation alone is not sufficient, as it is often practised in the presence of the ego and can even contribute to its growth and further turmoil. However, in the path of Akram Vignan, the Self-realisation ceremony (Gnan Vidhi) plays a ...
Views: 180 - What Is the Purpose? Why Am I Alive? Is There a Meaning to Life? - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2022 from santosh krinskyModern day civilisation suffers from an epidemic of ’emptiness’, a feeling that life has no meaning or purpose. This leads to various coping mechanisms such as dissipation through use of drugs or alcohol, or through consumption of mindless entertainment. For those who do not choose these ...
Views: 386 - What Is the Role and Importance of the Physical Body for the Evolution of Consciousness? - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhy do we have a physical body? We undergo pain and suffering related to having a body as we age, experience illness, injury, the infirmities of old age, and eventually the process of death of the body, in some cases through very painful means. Those who conclude that the body is purely an ...
Views: 248 - What is the Role of the Spirit? - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople are always asking about the difference between spirituality and religion, as well as the difference between the mind and the spirit. The term ‘spirit’ has been used in so many different ways and contexts, that it is hard to comprehend exactly what is meant by it. When ‘spiritual ...
Views: 66 - What is the scientific definition of soul or consciousness or inner personality? - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2019 from Dada BhagwanSoul is in fact an eternal element, present in our entire body, except for hair and grown nails. Soul is not a combination of chemicals and electric pulses in the brain.The most scientific definition of Soul is that, ‘The Soul is our Self.’ We may know about so many things in this world, but ...
Views: 530 - What Is the Truth? It Is All the Truth! - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2015 from Rev.William MeinsenWhen I look back on my life, like many of us do, I am not always happy with what I see. Do I have Regrets, Yes, although this a wasted emotion. I now see what the TRUTH is for me. Life is ongoing and I am forever growing spiritually and mentally. My life has gone through many changes. It ...
Views: 1045 - What Is to Be Done With Our Multiple Personalities in the Spiritual Path - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere are numerous strategies adopted by spiritual seekers throughout the ages to try to address the divergent pulls of the various aspects or ‘personalities’ within each individual. Brute force has been tried. Stoicism and resistance to the force of desire has been tried. Abandonment of the ...
Views: 250 - What Makes People More Vulnerable to Mind Control Manipulation? - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2021 from Emily ScottOftentimes, people are their own worst enemy. You may be subconsciously becoming more vulnerable to mind control manipulation without even knowing it. Inner weakness distorts the way you think, act, feel, and behave. As a result, you may find yourself falling into patterns that aren’t in your ...
Views: 569 - What makes you get emotionally attached in a relationship? - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2023 from Dada BhagwanIt is good to earnestly love someone. But to allow yourself to become overly emotionally attached can result in an unhealthy, troubling and even on occasions, an unnatural relationship. When you are deeply in love with someone, so much so that that person inadvertently takes over your entire ...
Views: 301 - What should you know about hair rebonding? - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2019 from Natural Therapy IndiaRebonded hair remains a very easy way in which you can actually attain a desirable makeover. Hair rebonding actually makes your textured hair look smooth, shiny and is easier to maintain as well. Frizz – for most us has become the order of the day. While some of us have naturally frizzy hair, ...
Views: 851 - What Technique or Practice Is Prescribed in the Integral Yoga? - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2023 from santosh krinskyit is a frequent inquiry: ‘Tell us what technique we should use to reach the spiritual goal?” Many ask what specific technique Sri Aurobindo or the Mother recommends for everyone to follow. They point out that other paths of spirituality offer specific actions one must undertake to succeed. ...
Views: 368 - What to consider when choosing a football trophy - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2018 from Nancy LeeFootball is a game of joy, pride and most importantly, victory. Hosting up your league's football trophy after winning a championship is the greatest feeling ever. In fact, chances are you’re looking for a trophy for this very purpose. If you’re searching for a football trophy for your ...
Views: 747 - What True Love Looks Like — in Real Life! - by Submitted on Oct 21, 2021 from Marcia Naomi BergerEvery society in the world praises the value of love. Love takes us beyond self-centeredness and motivates us to connect meaningfully with another. Yet, too often, the secular ideal of love emphasizes being loved, or at least receiving love in reciprocation for the love one gives. In ...
Views: 545 - What Web Is Connecting The Different Areas Of Your Life? - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2015 from Jesse An Nichols GeorgeWhat threads do you have woven through the different areas of your life? What wisdom connects for you whether it is spiritual, social, cultural, intellectual? How does the mystical aspects of dreams work in your waking life? As much as many people try to keep the different areas of their ...
Views: 913 - What Wicca Is and What It Is Not - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2020 from Morticia DruidThere are so many misunderstandings and misconceptions about Wicca. This is due to some books that say that there is only one God (the Christian God) and that all other Gods are demons. This is not true. Let’s start with what Wicca is: Wicca is a polytheistic religion focusing upon ...
Views: 711 - What You're NOT Hearing About the Coronavirus That Will Save Your Life - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2020 from Janeska Smith-AsanteBACKGROUND & WHERE DO WE START… I’m sure you’ve heard more in the last month than you’ve ever thought you needed to know about Coronavirus. Some of that information is valid. Some is not. In this day and age, we get bombarded by information that MAY or MAY NOT be true. What we need to ...
Views: 927 - What Your Guru is Not Telling You About Karma - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2012 from Scott & Stephen PetulloWe define karma as everything you say, do, or intend coming back to you in equal measure, mostly from past lives. What you do now will likely come back to you in a future life, not in your immediate future. Everyone has endured a negative experience relating to career, relationships, family, ...
Views: 1561 - What's Sacred Intimacy? - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2013 from Teri GoetzWe all lead busy lives. No doubt. The problem with living busy lives is that we forget, sometimes, about the living part. Part of living is in the everyday interaction. It’s seeing the person whose eyes you avoid as you walk down the street, or the waitress who served you, the person who ...
Views: 1432 - Whats The Difference: Psychic, Physical, Mental, Evidential Mediumship? - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2017 from Lisa BoussonThere’s quite a bit of confusion when deciding what type of reader one needs. What would best serve your purposes? Here’s a simple cheat sheet… A psychic is someone who through clairvoyance, clairaudience, or clairsentience (clear seeing, clear hearing and clear feeling, respectively) is able ...
Views: 2204 - What’s Believing Got to do With It? - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2012 from Cathy EckMy life did a U-turn the day that I noticed the word belief contains the word “lie” within it. I’m sure people notice that all the time and consider it coincidental. I felt that it was an important clue to the truth left by some wise ones from the past. Many people share their beliefs as if ...
Views: 1300 - What’s the Use of Seeking to Have Spiritual Experiences? - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2023 from santosh krinskyPutting aside the ‘allurement factor’ of having some kind of special, unusual, extraordinary type of experience, which is clearly a way to feed the ego-personality, we come to the actual benefits of such experiences. There are cases where an individual is leading a perfectly ordinary life in the ...
Views: 329 - When Information Technology Attacks? - by Submitted on May 12, 2012 from Peter WendtAfter several decades of computerization, most people enjoy a life that is almost free from problems with the information technology that is administered by others on their behalf. Public institutions and private companies have improved systems and processes to the point where glitches and ...
Views: 968 - When Offering Prayers Improve your Concentration - by Submitted on Aug 07, 2018 from Marghoob Bin SafdarThere is no uncertainty and doubt that Salah is the obligatory and fundamental elements of the Islamic faith. This is farz worship and every Muslim offer the Salah regularly five times a day and represent his or her obedience to Allah. That’s why the significance of the Salah can’t be denied in ...
Views: 1578 - When Paradoxical Client Comes to Psychologist - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2020 from Andriana ElohaThis is the situation that is usually not talked about openly and publicly. And yet, this is the very situation most Psychotherapists, Counsellors and Coaches are quite familiar with and must be able to recognize on the spot whenever it presents itself. This way they don’t waste their quality ...
Views: 633 - When the Fire Has Consumed All Its Fuel - by Submitted on May 07, 2023 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo translates Shwetashwatara Upanishad, Chapter Six, Verse 19: “Who hath neither parts nor works, for He is utterly tranquil, faultless, stainless, therefore He is the one great bridge that carrieth us over to Immortality, even as when a fire hath burnt up all its fuel.” When we ...
Views: 343 - When the Psychic Being Comes Forward to Direct the External Nature - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere is a considerable difference in effective results from the psychic being having an influence, essentially from ‘behind’ the surface nature, on the actions of the life in the external world, and what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother designate as the psychic being ‘coming forward’. Until the ...
Views: 260 - Where Does Desire Come From? - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2022 from santosh krinskyEveryone experiences the tug of desire. We observe something and suddenly we want to have it. We experience something pleasant and we want to have it happen once again. Sometimes we feel a sudden urge for something after being exposed to a commercial message. At other times we can simply be in a ...
Views: 499 - Where is the Sub-Conscious Mind Located? - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2013 from Rajah SharmaWhere is the Sub-Conscious Mind Located? Most people know that the root cause for our struggles is in the sub conscious mind. We all are aware that we have a conscious and a sub conscious mind and the sub conscious mind is the powerful one of the two. Most of the time we are on cruise control ...
Views: 3554 - Where's the Love? - by Submitted on May 17, 2019 from Mary HorsmanMy friend and I had a great conversation the other day about understanding unpleasant interactions with other people. Sometimes we have experiences that make us wonder...“Where’s the Love? ” When we cross paths with someone who treats us unkindly, it’s easy to get upset and actually take ...
Views: 1468 - Which Radio Service in Orlando Plays all Kinds of Music - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2019 from Webscare Inc.977 Alternative reflects the meaning that they play all kinds of music beyond any specific category. If being exact, it means that one can listen to all types of music which include 80s hits, hip hop, rock music, 90s hits, romantic and all other categories. They air content from Rob Zombie to ...
Views: 767 - Who Am I? - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2022 from santosh krinskySri Ramana Maharshi famously inquired into the question ‘who am I?’. Through constant self-examination with this question, the seeker begins to separate himself from the idea that he is the body, or the particular life-energy formation or mental sense that make up his external, surface ...
Views: 474 - Who Are You? - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2012 from Richard JacobsThis is a serious question! Let’s explore this for a moment and let me help clarify exactly who you are, as you might not be who you think you are…. I was reading about the Ancient Romans recently and found that they were obsessed with the after life and being remembered after they had passed ...
Views: 1142 - Who Is Your Life About? - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2012 from Linda RadfordI remember many years back a counselor I was seeing asked me what I was doing for my birthday? In those days, my life was so busy, I scheduled almost every waking hour. I listed the activities that I had scheduled feeling in a celebratory mood. He asked me a question that stopped me in my ...
Views: 1443 - 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 - Whose Feelings Are You Responsible For - Yours or Others? - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2018 from Margaret PaulDo you believe you are responsible for causing others' anger, hurt, sadness or anxiety? Is this causing you to feel guilty? "My wife is so upset that I have to travel more on my new job," Chuck told me in our phone counseling session. "She feels so alone and lost when I'm gone. When I talk ...
Views: 1237 - Why Are Women Attracted to "Bad Guys?" - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2020 from Emily ScottGuys?" You must know a friend, relative, colleague, or neighbor whose relationship ended up in a nasty breakup or divorce. The fault, as we commonly see, is in their choice of men. But is it fair to blame mankind if the options women have are limited? You don't think twice about grabbing the ...
Views: 760 - Why chastity has always been considered as highest virtue? - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2023 from Dada BhagwanIn the book, ‘Brahmacharya – Celibacy Attained with Understanding’, Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, an Enlightened being, has shown the beneficial effects of brahmacharya with scientific exactness. Let’s look at the following excerpts from this book: Param Pujya Dadashri, herein, says: “So ...
Views: 233 - Why Connection Matters for Leaders - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2014 from Susan FreemanAccording to Wikipedia, connection is “a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else.” This directly relates to a fundamental leadership skill: the ability to connect. Everything a leader does, requires connection. Vision, strategy and ...
Views: 1056 - Why Do Some People Believe the Practice of Yoga Causes Illness or Death? - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2022 from santosh krinskyPeople in the West who have been introduced to yoga, primarily Hatha Yoga, come to understand that there can be substantial health benefits to the practice of yoga. Meditation has also been shown to help reduce stress, aid in achieving rest and sleep, and thereby enhance health for the ...
Views: 426 - Why Doing Yoga has significant Influence on Health - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2019 from Yogi Mahesh ChetanYoga is an excellent form of exercise to build strength and to create a balance between your mind and body. It incorporates breathing, meditation, and various yoga postures that reduces stress and anxiety and has great physical benefits. Practicing yoga in your daily life has an immense benefit ...
Views: 583 - Why Is Joy Inconstant, and How Does One Extend it? - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt is first necessary to distinguish pleasure from joy. Pleasure may arise from the most insignificant, external factors, a sense impression, a lucky or fortuitous turn of events, or some passing vital response to a circumstance. Pleasure is a response of the surface being to something which has ...
Views: 232 - Why John Lewis's "Good Trouble" is Still Relevant Today by Kimberly E. Stone - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2021 from Ian MonroeIn honor of the late John Lewis, a civil rights leader, he is quoted as saying: "To those who have said, 'Be patient and wait,' we have long said that we cannot be patient. We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now! The documentary points out that America is still in a ...
Views: 717 - Why Liberate? Part I - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2020 from Jacklyn Loa better place to live People tend to look for a better place to live. Some emigrate from Africa to Europe, another from Mexico to the USA, etc. European countries, USA, Australia, etc. are places with the better-developed economy than others; therefore, there is less risk to die from ...
Views: 837 - Why should you buy stainless steel furniture? - by Submitted on Apr 18, 2020 from Mohimenul IslamNowadays, smart people should buy stainless steel furniture more than wooden furniture. You may wonder why you should buy furniture made of stainless steel. Well, there are many reasons for this. Do you want to know these reasons and then make a decision? If yes, then you should keep reading the ...
Views: 988 - Why Speaking About One’s Spiritual Experiences Can Be Counter-Productive to the Sadhana - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2023 from santosh krinskyIt is a quite natural impulse. An individual has an extraordinary, unusual and in some cases, inexplicable experience, outside of his normal realm of experiences. Either through vital enthusiasm, a feeling of ego-aggrandisement due to the extraordinary nature of the experience, or through sense ...
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