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- Visiting the Symbolic Transcription of One’s Inner Being As Displayed to the Conscious Awareness - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2022 from santosh krinskyFor those who are anchored in their outer external awareness of the world and of themselves, there is no understanding or acceptance of the reality of inner occult states of awareness. Thus, they deny the reality of the inner experiences, until perhaps they happen to have a near death ...
Views: 474 - Visualization as an Aid for Entering into Contact with One’s Psychic Being - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2022 from santosh krinskyFor those who have the power of visualisation and who are ready and willing to concentrate in this way, there can be tremendous progress in developing the relation to the psychic being. The mind transcribes the energetic relationships of the various parts of the being into different rooms and ...
Views: 466 - Vital and Mental Life Forms Interact With Us in the Material World - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe scour the galaxy for signs of intelligent life elsewhere. The reality is that unless an extra-terrestrial race has found a way to circumvent the constant of the speed of light, through some method of ‘folding’ space or creating “wormholes” that truncate the distance to be travelled, setting ...
Views: 270 - Vital Beings and Their Interaction in the Evolutionary World on the Material Plane - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyAccording to sages and rishis who have investigated the issue deeply, the earth, the material manifested world we live in, is the place where evolution of consciousness takes place, and thus, where the psychic being develops to carry the progress in this evolution at the individual level through ...
Views: 314 - Vital Beings Utilize Vital Drives to Control Human Action for Their Own Benefit and Enjoyment - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyVital beings, by their very nature, take advantage of our ambitions, desires, greed, and fears to convince us to interact with them, and they then use these responses for their own enjoyment or nourishment. The more we are motivated by these vital drives, the easier it is for such beings to toy ...
Views: 276 - Vital Disturbances Arise from Universal Nature and Bring Forth Habitual Responses - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2021 from santosh krinskyIn The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo explores the boundaries of the Ignorance and a framework for attaining knowledge. He describes at some length, the ‘circumconscient’ influence on what we believe are our own internal actions and reactions. We view ourselves through the ego-consciousness and ...
Views: 511 - Vital Energy in Ordinary Life and in the Spiritual Life - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe generally do not question the movements of the vital nature in our ordinary daily life. They are so much a part of what we consider to be human nature and human experience that we simply accept them and treat them as inevitable. It is true that human society has developed a framework within ...
Views: 367 - Vital Forces and Spiritual Forces and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2026 from santosh krinskyVital Forces and Spiritual Forces and the Evolution of Consciousness Posted on January 8, 2026 Most people do not recognise the active role and intention of conscious vital forces in their lives. First, the physical body tends to shield them from direct perception of these forces. While they ...
Views: 57 - Vital Impatience and a Hurried Effort Are Obstacles to the Transformation of the Human Instrument - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe vital ego is impatient. It wants to keep pressing on regardless of the impact on the body or the mind, or even its own native energy. It wants to get somewhere and begrudges the journey and the time and the waypoints along the path. It believes that haste will achieve the goal sooner, while ...
Views: 70 - Vital Motivations in Action May Disguise Their True Nature from the Spiritual Seeker - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2023 from santosh krinskyIndividuals become famous as great philanthropists. Some pledge their wealth to a great cause, such as solving the climate crisis, others undertake to build hospitals or feed large numbers of people. These individuals are looked up to and used as examples of selfless individuals. Yet, a deeper ...
Views: 333 - Vital Movements Rising Up During the Practice of the Yoga - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2021 from santosh krinskyEvery individual has all the long-established vital movements embedded deep in the nature. When the force of the yoga begins to open up the various energy centers, particularly the vital centers, these movements are stirred and use the opportunity to capitalize on the new energy and try to ...
Views: 495 - Vital Vibrations and the Response to Them - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are able to perceive and respond to specific frequency ranges. Anything above, or below the frequency ranges to which we are attuned, does not register with us consciously, although there may be some subtle impact and energetic action that takes place, even so. We see that in the case of the ...
Views: 295 - WABI-SABI AS A WAY OF LIFE - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2012 from Kathleen HanaganThe Koine Greek word for beautiful was horaios, an adjective coming from the word hora meaning “hour.” In Koine Greek, beauty was thus associated with “being of one’s hour.” A ripe fruit which was of its hour was considered beautiful, whereas a young woman trying to appear older or an ...
Views: 1044 - Waking <=> dreaming <=> sleeping - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2012 from Bruce DicksonDepth of Issue ~ article 3 of 5 from Healing Toolbox Waking, Dreaming and Sleeping Rudolf Steiner pointed out, to the first Waldorf teachers in 1919, how none of us is awake 100% all day long in our so-called waking life. In fact we travel back and forth on this continuum between two ...
Views: 2569 - Waking and Sleep, Day and Night - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2021 from santosh krinskyDuring daytime, we see the sun, the atmosphere and the world around us, and our thoughts and activities, for the most part, are focused on the life of the world. At night, we see the vast ranges of space and the myriad of stars, and can thereby recognise that our world is a small part of a much ...
Views: 551 - Waking Up- A guide to kickstart your spiritual journey - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2021 from Manoj UpadhyayAre you someone who believes that in order to be spiritual you need to follow a religious path? Or do you want to be self-aware and practice meditation without including religious chanting? All of the above-mentioned things are possible. We are here to break the myth that spiritually is ...
Views: 751 - Ways Your Reality Will Be Different in Heaven - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2016 from Scott & Stephen PetulloBased on our experience with past life regression, life-between-life regression, documented near death experiences, and the after life research of Stafford Betty, we believe there is nothing to fear about death. When you shed your physical body, your soul moves on to a different dimension. ...
Views: 1092 - We Are the New Adam and Eve - A New Year's Message - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2012 from Luminessa EnjaraWe are entering into a time that has been spoken of for thousands of years. This time has been called the Apocalypse, the New Age, the Golden Age and the End of the World. But for those of us who understand the message of the Mayas and of the indigenous peoples of the world we know this time ...
Views: 1347 - We have issues on three frequency levels - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2012 from Bruce DicksonDepth of Issue ~ article 2 of 5 We have issues on three frequency levels Because we have three levels of creativity, we have potential and capacity for three levels of unresolved issues. Conscious issues Conscious issues are things we know need attending to and "fixing." If you ...
Views: 2276 - We have personal responsibility on three frequency levels - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2012 from Bruce DicksonDepth of Issue ~ article 5 of 5 from Healing Toolbox We have personal responsibility on three frequency levels Because we have three levels of creativity and unresolved issues, we have personal responsibility on three frequency levels. Conventional language tells us, “We are responsible ...
Views: 2554 - We Hold Ourselves Back By Confusing One Emotion With Another - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2013 from David SamuelWe often confuse our emotions with what we think they are as opposed to what they really are. This misinterpretation of our feelings to the opposite will keep us limited as this process most often interprets a wise emotion or intuition as a weak emotion or fear as we try to identify and explain ...
Views: 1366 - We Tend to Take Ourselves Too Seriously - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2025 from santosh krinskySeriously, we get all wound up about things that have no real significance in the larger picture of life. Whether it is someone cutting in front of us in a queue or on the road, or whether someone says something about us which we do not like, we tend to get revved up and stew on what happened. ...
Views: 113 - Weakness of Limitation or the Power of Omnipotence Depends on the Status of Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we are feeling weak or limited, we become unhappy, we react with frustration and are discontented with our lot. We feel in many cases oppressed by circumstances. We can become depressed if things are not going the way we expect or want them to go. We can become angry with ourselves, with ...
Views: 151 - Website Design using Flash Animation - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2012 from Anee StevenAre you looking for a lash software program to create your own website? You might be thinking that you need to be well-versed with flash technology to use this software. Well, there are a large variety of software tools that require you to have adept skills of Flash. Those are complicated and ...
Views: 1167 - Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 1: Is It Possible For Westerns to Practice Yoga? - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe question is frequently raised as to whether Westerners, with a background and culture grounded in materialism, the fulfillment of the vital ambitions and desires, and the development of the mental faculties, can truly enter into the spirit of yoga and obtain the fruits of the yogic practice ...
Views: 577 - Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 2: A Hindu Temperament in a Westerner’s Body? - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhen a Westerner takes up a serious yogic practice, they frequently hear that they must be Hindu souls born into Western bodies. They are then viewed as somehow anomalous to the cast of mind, vital force and emotions that tend to develop through life-long exposure to Western culture, educational ...
Views: 555 - Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 3: Are There Advantages to an Indian Birth for the Practice of Yoga? - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2022 from santosh krinskyIf we look at the qualities required for bringing about the emergence of the psychic being, the development of a devotional attitude, and support for the idea of focusing on the Eternal through subordination or even abandonment of the relations of the outer life, it is clear that India has ...
Views: 481 - Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 4: Obstacles Faced by Westerners and the Soul’s Aspiration to Overcome Them in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2022 from santosh krinskyAll human beings, regardless of whether they are born in the West, the East, or elsewhere, find the challenges of taking up yoga to be daunting and requiring of them unstinting efforts to understand the obstacles, and identify and implement ways to overcome them. With its long history of support ...
Views: 480 - Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 5: the Yogic Path Is Not Limited by Race, Origin or Religious or Cultural Background - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe objective of the integral yoga is to support the evolutionary process of the development and integration of the next stage of consciousness, beyond the mental consciousness. This step is necessary to overcome the limitations of the current mental framework which have helped create the ...
Views: 534 - What Actually Is Spirituality? - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe speak of ‘spirituality’ and we have a conception in our minds about what it actually is. We vaguely sense that it encompasses a devotion and focus on something other than our daily external life and relationships. Many people state that they are ‘spiritual, not religious’. We sometimes ...
Views: 126 - What advice would you give someone seeking the Self? - by Submitted on Oct 09, 2017 from Eric PutkonenI would immediately ask, “where are you looking?” And then follow that up with, “what is looking?” Looking anywhere or anywhen else than here and now would be pointless. The Self is here in this very moment. The whole idea of seeking means to look somewhere else and find in the future. ...
Views: 1808 - What are Hauntings and Can They Harm You? - by Submitted on Oct 14, 2016 from Jas BassiHauntings are places where a spirit resides. This could be a specific place like a piece of land, but it does not have to be an occupied place necessarily or somewhere that has foundations built on it. Hauntings take place where someone has passed away and has not yet made it onto the other ...
Views: 942 - What are Moksha, Nirvana and Gati in Hinduism? - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2023 from Dada BhagwanYou have posed a very nice question! The last death in this world is termed as Nirvana. After achieving Nirvana, there is no rebirth. This state is considered as Moksha, wherein the Soul is free from the cycle of birth and death. Until the person does not achieve Nirvana, he continues to ...
Views: 312 - What are some books for following brahmacharya? - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2020 from Dada BhagwanBrahmacharya or celibacy is one of the most important parts of any spiritual journey. It may not necessarily be a pre-condition for beginning the journey, but after a point, it becomes inevitable. Like with the other spiritual traditions or practices, the practice of celibacy too yields ...
Views: 656 - What Are Spiritual Experiences? - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn our normal human lives, we live in an externally focused standpoint and we create a distinction between ‘objective reality’ and ‘subjective reality’. Because we are so dependent on the body-life-mind complex and its relation to the outer world, we tend to assign a greater truth and reality to ...
Views: 434 - What are the Mandatories of Wadu? - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2018 from saad sheikhIslam is the most practised religion in the world. Muslims are present in almost every region of the world. It is the psychology of every Muslims to get to know about their religion, its virtue acts, and its aspects. Appearing to Allah Almighty five times a day is obligatory to every Muslim. ...
Views: 1185 - What Are You Truly Communicating to the World? - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2017 from Kelley KosowEven though January 1st is officially the beginning of the new year, because the school calendar is so ingrained in my psyche, I view August and September as a new beginning and a poignant time to reflect upon where I am in my life and what I want to accomplish. After years of "back-to-school" ...
Views: 1031 - What Can Be Done With Photoshop and Photoshop Tutorials? - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2012 from Kelvin KohDo you like to take photos? Have you thought of making money by selling your photos? Yes! It is possible if you know Photoshop. With the help of this innovative as well as unique graphic software, you can create beautiful artworks; make attractive website and different graphics, if you have the ...
Views: 1415 - What Causes the Wind? - by Submitted on May 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyA young child was asked what causes the wind. The child replied: “When the trees move their branches and leaves, that is what makes the wind!” This extremely logical observation mirrors the way we tend to look at the world. We think that we make the decisions, that we are ‘in charge’ of what we ...
Views: 312 - What Compass Guides Your Thinking ? - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2015 from Robert CrutchfieldIn today’s world we are surrounded by more information, more often than any other time in history. The set of thinking skills we use to determine what is true or useful is called discernment. This set of thinking skills is more important in regards to our faith than any other part of our lives. ...
Views: 1414 - WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT? - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2018 from Sara Fabian“Life is the sum of your choices.” – Albert Camus I spent the highest amount of my years very disempowered and lost, not knowing what I truly wanted in life. During the time I was working for a multinational company, I often used to ask my managers what to do next in my career and what future ...
Views: 1198 - What does "consciousness" mean? - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2012 from Jennifer Harvey SallinI talk a lot about consciousness in my practice : “living consciously”, “making the unconscious conscious”, “consciously choosing”, and so on. But what does it all really mean? On one hand, the idea of “consciousness” could seem completely abstract and without any practical implications. ...
Views: 1223 - What does it mean if your mind is always stuck in the past or future? Are you enlightened yet? - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2025 from Dada BhagwanIf you find yourself constantly worrying about past events or possible future outcomes, it indicates that you have not yet achieved enlightenment. https://dbf.adalaj.org/pB8I1Au3 One who is enlightened lives in the present moment, without any attachment to the past nor any concern for the ...
Views: 121 - What Does It Mean to ‘Be Calm’ in the Mind - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2023 from santosh krinskyAttaining a deep inner peace in the being is a process that can begin wherever an individual current is in their inner life. For someone just starting out, there is no expectation of some sudden miraculous silencing of the mind (although of course, it is possible). Rather, the initial attempts ...
Views: 517 - What Does Sri Aurobindo Mean by Transformation of the Nature? - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2021 from santosh krinskyIn setting forth a goal of transformation of the nature through the advent of the spiritual consciousness and the supramental level, Sri Aurobindo goes beyond the goals of other traditional spiritual paths which have ‘liberation’ as the goal. He describes the impact of each new manifestation of ...
Views: 581 - What Happens When They Ban a Book? - by Submitted on Mar 23, 2012 from edwin disosaGlobally, Books are written not just to facilitate reading but also to express opinions and various viewpoints. Book writing is one of the most powerful ways of communicating ones expressions and inner feelings. Not just those…Books are written to definitely represent certain groups of people. ...
Views: 1257 - What if you don’t practice Self Acceptance? - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2012 from Laura SilvaSelf acceptance is a double edged sword. It has its pro and cons too like any other thing you find in this universe. Though self acceptance proves to be a very beneficial trait if implemented but it way too hazardous if not implemented or done in a wrong way. Self acceptance redeems joys and ...
Views: 1725 - What is a Mantra? - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2016 from Lora DavisThe word mantra is thought to come from a root word that meant that which protects the mind. Mantras are sounds, phrase, or words that are used as objects of concentration. They are often used with meditation. With mantra meditation, you can chant the sounds internally to yourself or out ...
Views: 743 - What Is A Murderer’s Heart Made Of? - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2015 from Roxana JonesSome time ago, a film director friend showed me a video anonymously sent to him. It was of the execution of a murderer who had been found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair. Those images have left a strong impact on me ever since, not so much because of their grotesque and morbid nature ...
Views: 1096 - 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. ...
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