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- Divine Grace and Cosmic Law - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe terms ‘divine grace’, along with ‘cosmic law’ and ‘divine compassion’, are transcriptions into human terms from our human viewpoint of actions and events that take place from an entirely different level of the divine manifestation and with a viewpoint that far exceeds that of our limited ...
Views: 158 - The Inner Spiritual Light Exists in the Entire Creation and Maintains the Balance of Existence - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur normal human view of things is based in the framing of the mental process which relies on distinguishing differences between one thing and another, between one being and another, between one event and another. This “fragmentation” leads us to focus primarily on the separation we have rather ...
Views: 182 - How Do We Know that a Spiritual Force Is Working in Our Lives? - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyHow can we know that the spiritual force is actually working in us? An actual experience of a force or what is called a ‘spiritual experience’ is a specific, generally short-lived ‘event’ that enormous numbers of people have had. Yet, the experience recedes and the daily life goes on, seemingly ...
Views: 190 - The Concrete Reality of Spiritual Force and Its Action - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is a clear divide between those who have actually experienced the action of spiritual or yoga-force, and those who have a mental conception of spirituality but have not had a strong experience thus far that makes the theory into something real and actual for them. Once the experience is ...
Views: 156 - Applying the Scientific Method to the Understanding of the Yoga-Force - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyHow do we determine whether there is any such thing as a ‘yoga-force’? Some treat it as a form of self-delusion, some as hypnotic suggestion, some as some form of ‘placebo effect’ of the mind, some as simply the action of other forces that we simply define as ‘yoga-force’ without any objective ...
Views: 171 - The Action of Spiritual Force Is Generally Conditioned by the Field Within Which It Works - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to operate under the fallacy that any spiritual force that is operative will automatically, and completely, achieve its intended result without difficulty. We forget, thereby, the way forces actually work in the world. There are always starting points, conditions, limitations, and ...
Views: 170 - The Effective Power of the Yogic Process in the Life-Experience of the Practitioner - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyRare are those individuals who can take up a practice and not see any result whatsoever, yet continue on with endless patience and persistence. We look at the example of Milarepa, the great yogi of Tibet who spent a number of years doing hard labor at the behest of his guru, Marpa, and who was ...
Views: 181 - Just Because We Cannot Observe It Directly, Does Not Mean Spiritual Force Does Not Exist - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyA devotee reported several incidents that appeared to be the result of spiritual force. The first occurred in early 1973 in Los Angeles. He attended a talk by Udar Pinto of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and afterwards joined his party for dinner, at which there was extensive discussion. Udar told the ...
Views: 162 - Is Spiritual Force Real? - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo once told about an incident that helped spark his interest in yoga-force. His brother was very ill. A wandering yogi came by and when he learned on that illness, asked for a glass of water which he then proceeded to infuse with mantas. The illness was quickly overcome once Sri ...
Views: 192 - Mental Consciousness Cannot Directly Comprehend Spiritual Forces at Work - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn order to know something, we need to utilize the tools and methods appropriate to whatever form or energetic action we are trying to know. Those things which rely on emotion, for instance, cannot be fully understood by the logical intellect. Similarly, the strict step by step process of ...
Views: 188 - Higher Powers of Consciousness Can Aid and Support the Evolution of Consciousness in the Human Being - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are forces in the universal creation that can obstruct, delay or harm the development of consciousness. They try to maintain a form of status quo, or they try to protect a vested interest or desire that they maintain. These forces, sometimes called ‘hostile forces’ are a frequent topic of ...
Views: 193 - Total Dedication to Participate in the Birth of a New World - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen people become totally immersed in something, they concentrate, naturally, all their energies and focus in that direction, without seeming effort, and experience the joy of the process. We can observe this in children at play. They become the act of play and don’t concern themselves with ...
Views: 150 - The Way of Repulsion and the Way of Attraction in the Path of Inner Growth - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhat makes us move in one direction or another? How do we choose, decide, set forth in one direction as opposed to another? There is the inner readiness that creates a sense of incompleteness, dissatisfaction or a view of something better, more perfect, more beautiful, more essential than what ...
Views: 177 - The Development and Progression of the Supramental Force in Human Activity - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe imposition of the external world on our mind and senses is so powerful that we don’t pay attention to the vast universe of galaxies and stars. In former times, before the world was widely illuminated by lighting at night, there was at least some opportunity for people to be outside at night, ...
Views: 174 - The Tension of the Current State of Human Existence - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyEverywhere we turn we see mounting crises. The news reports are dire. Climate disasters are increasing, we are poisoned daily by toxic substances in our food, water and the very air we breathe. On a day-to-day level, we are struggling in a world that seems to be impossible to understand, with ...
Views: 190 - The Inevitability of the Emergence of the Supramental Consciousness and Its Transformative Action On Body, Life and Mind - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the limitations of Mind embedded in a physical body is that it tends to fixate on what it can experience ‘here and now’. It has a hard time correlating past, present and future and seeing and understanding trends, directions, trajectories and momentum, other than in specific areas such as ...
Views: 159 - The Significance and Action of the Supramental Manifestation - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen Life evolved out of Matter, substantial transformations occurred. What was not possible in a purely material world suddenly became not only possible, but a key principle. Matter itself, to accommodate the life force, had to become more fluid, more flexible and responsive to changes that ...
Views: 184 - The Supermind and Its Evolutionary Action - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs we begin to experience realms of awareness other than that of our current primary body-life-mind complex, we can begin to appreciate that there are further, higher states of conscious awareness that can be experienced, and which have powers of insight, and ways of working that are far ...
Views: 187 - The Manifestation of the Supermind Level of Consciousness As the Next Evolutionary Phase - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyEach successive plane of consciousness has a native action in its own domain and then, as it enters the material plane, it has to modify its action to conform to the limitations of the other principles. Thus, the native action of the vital plane is freer and more fluid and powerful than when the ...
Views: 169 - The Action of the Higher Planes Is Needed to Bring Forth the Manifestation of Life, Mind and Spirit in the Material World - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2024 from santosh krinskyMatter, prepared and encoded with the dataset required to bring forth Life, does not spontaneously, on its own express the life-form for which it is encoded. The seed, or the egg, remains potential, latent, until it is acted upon by a force external to it. In the case of the seed of a plant, the ...
Views: 176 - Transitioning from the View of a Body With a Soul, to a Soul With a Body - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe primary standpoint for most people is that they are a physical body endowed with Life, Mind and (potentially in their minds) a Soul. Everything starts from the primacy of the body and its centrality in their view of their lives. This makes the purpose of life one of survival and procreation, ...
Views: 185 - Involution, Evolution and the Pressure from Domains of Life and Mind - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to take the development of life, and mind, for granted. We do not actually reflect on what it takes for them to emerge from Matter. Many believe that somehow various chemical elements in the material world are impacted by the radiation from the sun and through the heat of the core of the ...
Views: 157 - The Existential Crisis of Humanity and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyThank you for your interest in this critical issue for the future survival of our entire human race. There is a positive way forward for humanity as we face the intense challenges before us. When we are under intense pressure we have the impetus to make needed changes. That is the lesson of ...
Views: 226 - The Material World Is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Vital, Mental, or Spiritual Manifestation - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyHumanity, for the most part, continues to believe that the material world occupies a primary place in the creation of the universe, and that somehow, Matter is able to create the encoding and the complex systems that come along with that encoding out of some random mixture of elements. If we ...
Views: 211 - Those Who Observe and Reflect Can Recognise the Higher Planes and Worlds of Existence - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyModern day scientists, researchers and philosophers are beginning to explore the mysteries of life and as they do so, they are beginning to recognise the existence of domains, planes, worlds and universes that the external mind of humanity has avoided or at least resisted. Now scientists speak ...
Views: 193 - 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: 219 - Extending a Measure of Validity to Reports of Supra-Physical Perceptions and Experiences - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo makes an important point. Various aspects of reports about subtle senses and supraphysical realities as they impact our external world, have been documented, and in some cases, extensively studied and verified. Once we accept the fact that there is a real and solid basis for these ...
Views: 212 - The Investigation of Extra-Sensory Powers of Perception - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs science begins to recognise the fact that there are ranges of vibration outside of the limited scope that we can normally experience, and that countless reports of perceptions that are inexplicable based on the outermost physical reality that we have heretofore treated as our sole reality, we ...
Views: 166 - Do We Have Subtle Sense Organs, Beyond the 5 Physical Senses We Recognise? - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are generally so fixated on the impressions we receive through the action of the five physical sense organs, that we fail to recognise that we frequently sense things without these senses providing any input. For instance, people can frequently sense when someone is staring at them, even when ...
Views: 184 - The Need for Serious Review of Other-Worldly or Supernormal Experience - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt is convenient, and perhaps comforting, to simply deny reality to experiences that people have, rather than to grapple with the implications of those experiences. We stick convenient labels on certain phenomena and believe by doing so, we have understood and defined those phenomena. Delusion, ...
Views: 206 - 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: 162 - The Influence of Unseen, Unperceived Beings and Forces in Our World - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we can once appreciate and accept the fact that forces, unseen by us, unperceived by our senses, can, and do, act upon us, pushing us to act in certain ways, pressing on us to move in certain directions, it is but a small step to recognize that there are beings who inhabit these unseen and ...
Views: 177 - Applying Knowledge Criteria Appropriate to Each Domain According to Its Own Law of Nature - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe frequently try to ‘know’ things based on a particular capacity of our being; however, this may not always be the correct way to appreciate and understand what is actually taking place. Trying to understand music, for instance, by applying the logical intellect and trying to parse the sounds, ...
Views: 165 - Involution and Evolution of Consciousness in the Material World of Forms - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe the material world around us and as we study that world, we see the development of forms of ever-greater complexity and power of action and intelligence. Charles Darwin described the process of the evolution of forms in his book The Origin of Species. The cause and purpose, however, ...
Views: 196 - Seances, Automatic Writing and Attempting Contact With the Departed - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature gets excited by things that seem to be “occult” or that promise some kind of interaction with the “dearly departed” loved ones who have passed away. An entire industry has arisen to cater to people who are seeking solace, contact or information from the deceased. Some of this, ...
Views: 195 - 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: 160 - 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: 220 - Automatic Writing, Ouija Boards, the Planchette and Communication With People After Their Death - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe see a proliferation of people who claim to act as intermediaries through a process of seance, or use of a Ouija board or planchette, to communicate with individuals who have passed away. The interest in this area goes through periods of peaks and troughs, but continually captures the popular ...
Views: 159 - The Utilization of Powers That Arise Through the Development of the Yogic Practice - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2024 from santosh krinskySpiritual seekers are frequently advised not to indulge in or display any ‘powers’ that arise along the way. Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutras, describes a number of powers that can arise naturally through the practice of Yoga, and seekers throughout the ages have validated the reality of powers ...
Views: 185 - How To Deal With Vampirism When Confronted With It - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual is confronted with a possible, or likely, case of vampirism, several questions arise. The first is how the individual can be safe from the negative effects of such activity impacting them or their family, friends or associates directly; the second is the possibility and ...
Views: 210 - The Law of the Rebound in the Practice of Occultism - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs with physical laws and laws of physics, laws of nature, there are laws of occultism which operate when there is vital interchange between people on an occult level. Knowledge of these laws is essential both to protect oneself and to ensure that occult powers are not being misused or ...
Views: 194 - Are There Really Vampires? — the Reality and Nature of Vampirism - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe popular imagination about the existence and characteristics of vampires has developed from the famous novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula. From that book we get the picture of beings that survive many hundreds of years, who are shapeshifters , and who drink the blood of their victims, preferably ...
Views: 186 - The Occult Action and Power of Vital Beings and Forces in Human Activities and Institutions - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor the most part, people live on the surface of their being, and do not see into the occult or hidden beings and forces that exist and act upon them, unseen, invisible and essentially unregarded. Many things that occur in the world are hard to explain without an understanding of the occult ...
Views: 151 - The Forces and Beings Active in Places of Worship - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to attract those energies, beings and forces to us that respond to the vibratory pattern of our thoughts, emotions, feelings, desires and physical state. Keeping this in mind, we can review our relationship to places of worship, whether a temple, mosque, church or other. Some ...
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Views: 162 - The Question of Possession by Vital Entities - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe question of possession by vital beings has been sensationalized to such an extent in modern society, with an entire genre of motion pictures depicting such things in an extreme way, that it is difficult to have a serious discussion and review of whatever reality underlies these sensational ...
Views: 181 - The Attraction of the Spiritual Life to Beings of the Vital World - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyBeings of the vital worlds in many cases interact with and act upon the material world in which we live and act as embodied beings. What is the attraction? Vital beings generally crave energy, excitement, novelty, the ‘food’ of their existence. If they are seeking to harvest such energy from ...
Views: 205 - Mental Formations Can Create Experiential Domains - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe gross physical forms result from the subtler levels that are either the immediate, effective means, or the causal level that has formulated the result. If we look at the construction of a bridge, or a building, we see that first there is an idea that develops. The idea turns into a ...
Views: 209 - 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: 221 - The Action of Vital Entities in Human Life for Their Own Sense of Enjoyment - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyHuman beings love subjecting others to practical jokes. But very likely, we are not the only beings who suffer from this malady. Many people have had the experience related here by the Mother about searching for things, sometimes looking in the place where those things are, but not finding them. ...
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