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- Concentration Aids Speed and Accuracy in Action - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe human propensity to set up ‘either/or’ scenarios leads us to believe that we either have to focus on ‘perfection’ or ‘speed’ in the things we do. This is actually a false choice because it leaves out the factor of concentration which can accomplish actions with speed while not sacrificing ...
Views: 138 - Concentration and Remembrance of the Divine - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn order to be most effective in its action, the external nature must have the capacity of concentration of its efforts. Whether this is a mental concentration, or a vital or physical concentration, the focus must be total, without distraction, or it will yield less than the optimal ...
Views: 113 - Concentration and the Centres of Energy in the Subtle Body - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyPeople constantly ask whether they should concentrate focused in the heart, between the eyebrows or above the head. The short answer is “yes”. Each centre of concentration relies on a different power of action. In the end, what is more important is the action of concentration itself. An ...
Views: 138 - Concentration Helps the Individual Successfully Accomplish More Tasks in Less Time - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt is frequently noted that certain individuals seem to accomplish more, and despite enormous commitments, they seem ready to take on more and do even more than they are doing. On the other hand, there are individuals who seem to have a low threshold of action and they seem to never have the ...
Views: 106 - Concentration in the Mental Centre Is the Second Major Method to Achieve Liberation - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2022 from santosh krinskySome people, especially those with a naturally devotional nature, will gravitate toward concentration that is centred in the region of the heart. Others, who have a more intellectual turn, will find it easier in most instances to experience the concentration in the mental centre. This approach ...
Views: 470 - Concentration of Conscious Force Through Work Can Bring Deeper Realisations - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the Taittiriya Upanishad, Sri Aurobindo translates the term tapasya variously as ‘concentration in thought’ or ‘concentration of force’. Elsewhere he aligns the terms chit-shakti as ‘consciousness-force’, co-equal with the principles of sat, existence and ananda, bliss as the supreme ...
Views: 15 - Concentration of the Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2023 from santosh krinskyPeople frequently confuse consciousness with mental awareness and concentration with some kind of mental effort or focus; yet, consciousness is not limited to mental awareness and concentration is not restricted to mental activity. We are all familiar with mental concentration. We focus on some ...
Views: 241 - Conditions for discontinuing Sa’y while Umrah - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2019 from Ady GrewalSa’y between Safa and Marwa is the mandatory ritual of Umrah Al-Mufradah which is performed by the pilgrims. Sa’y is an Arabic term which actual meanings are to make circumambulation as back and forth between Safa and Marwa from those who appear for pilgrimage. Indeed, the act of Sa’y is the ...
Views: 1470 - Conditions for Emergence of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2021 from santosh krinskyMost people associate yoga with a series of physical exercises and breathing routines. Yoga, however, is more than such physical activities, although they can help to regulate energy flow and enhance stability and provide benefits to the body, life energy and mind. Sri Aurobindo has more broadly ...
Views: 489 - Conditions for the Practice and Progress on the Path of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2021 from santosh krinskyPeople throughout time and around the world, from all different backgrounds and religious or spiritual traditions, have developed a number of ways to integrate their religious or spiritual beliefs and practices into their lives. Some simply disregard these things and live a life of satisfaction ...
Views: 459 - Confusion About the Real Inner Self and the ExternalSurface Personality Is the Root of Our Suffering - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual takes up the spiritual path, there is considerable focus on the idea that the life of the external world is an ‘illusion’ and needs to be abandoned in order to achieve spiritual liberation. He sees that a focus on the external personality, its needs, desires, satisfactions, ...
Views: 308 - Confusion About the Reality of the Atman and the Ego - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe frequently allow our mental process and the limitations of language to create confusion within ourselves. The mind’s primary capacities involve fragmentation and classification; thus, we identify different aspects, parts, beings, roles, events and treat them as separate and distinct from one ...
Views: 283 - Confusion About the Reality of the Atman and the Ego - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe frequently allow our mental process and the limitations of language to create confusion within ourselves. The mind’s primary capacities involve fragmentation and classification; thus, we identify different aspects, parts, beings, roles, events and treat them as separate and distinct from one ...
Views: 298 - Conquering Difficulties With a Positive Mind-Set - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe Indian tradition relates a story of the divine singer, Narad, which emphasizes the power of a positive mind-set in the spiritual quest. He came across a yogi undertaking strenuous discipline, tapasya, This yogi inquired how much longer he would need to achieve enlightenment. Narad replied “4 ...
Views: 400 - Conscious Development of the Psychic Being and its Instruments from Life to Life - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyFor most individuals, the process of birth, death and rebirth is essentially automatic and out of their conscious control. With the death of the body, the vital being and then the mental being eventually lose their integrity and dissolve as well. The psychic being, with its increasing store of ...
Views: 209 - Conscious Evolution - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2021 from santosh krinskyEvolution takes time. Hundreds of millions of years were required to move even small steps forward, as universal “time” does not fit into the “human” time-sense. Humanity measures things in terms of an individual lifespan, and in increments that we have devised from our humanity-centric ...
Views: 743 - Conscious Powers of Light and Darkness Oppose One Another in the External World We Inhabit - by Submitted on May 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyEverywhere we look, whether in material Nature, or in the vital or mental domains, we see a play of forces, attraction and repulsion, centrifugal and centripetal, positive and negative, dark and light, etc. It appears to be a core principle of the creation to utilize these opposing forces to ...
Views: 186 - Consciousness Exists in Matter and Responds to Caring Good Will - by Submitted on May 06, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we look at existence from the point of view of our material consciousness, we tend to treat material things as ‘inanimate objects’ without consciousness. We attribute to plants, and then to animals, increasing levels of conscious awareness and with the advent of the mental consciousness, we ...
Views: 10 - Consciousness in the Unconscious - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2023 from santosh krinskyHow can something arise out of nothing? How can consciousness develop out of unconscious matter? Western science has tried to explain how life and mind can arise through random recombination of atoms and the impact of energetic forces on these atoms, but Western science has not explained where ...
Views: 253 - Consciousness Pervades All Forms, Beings and Entities in the Universal Creation - by Submitted on May 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare comments on the limitations of the objective mind and its ability to understand existence: ““There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”. Our mind’s view of the existence of the universe and its significance ...
Views: 193 - Consciousness, Its Powers and the Drive to Discover Our True Self - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we try to define consciousness we tend to do it from an individual standpoint, our own state of awareness. From a broader perspective however, we can see that consciousness exceeds both in scope and power, that of the individual status. Western science is moving toward a view that will ...
Views: 158 - Conservative Bias and Progressive Action - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere is a conservative bias in earthly existence that seeks to preserve established ways of life as a means of providing an element of stability. This principle helps to avoid the chaotic implications of unrestricted change, thereby providing a basis and a certain amount of certainty. This ...
Views: 302 - Contacting and Connecting With the Universal Vital Force, Part I - by Submitted on May 23, 2022 from santosh krinskyChildren naturally have direct contact with the universal vital energy but this tends to fade into the background and be ‘lost’ as the mind ‘learns’ the ‘laws of nature’ which do not recognise the energy or its relationship to us. This is a circumstance of the artificially limiting action of the ...
Views: 470 - Contacting and Connecting With the Universal Vital Force, Part II - by Submitted on May 24, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhen we fixate on the fulfillment of the body-life-mind complex in our external being, the exclusive concentration involved helps us to temporarily lose sight of the larger Oneness of which all are a part. We then put ourselves in opposition to other aspects of the one Reality and treat each ...
Views: 434 - Contacting QuickBooks desktop support by phone 1(814 273 2000) - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2024 from John SteinbeckContacting QuickBooks support by phone 1(814 273 2000) involves several steps, aimed at ensuring that you receive timely and efficient assistance for your specific issue. QuickBooks, being a comprehensive accounting software developed by Intuit, offers various products and services catering to ...
Views: 132 - Contagion: Physical Contagion, Vital Contagion, Mental Contagion - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2023 from santosh krinskyContagion is the transmission of something, whether physical, vital or mental energy/vibration, from one entity or being to another. On the physical plane, contagion is usually understood to be transmitted through the use of a physical medium, such as a ‘germ’, whether we call it a bacteria, or ...
Views: 230 - Contending With the Multitude of Beings That Exist Within Each Individual - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2023 from santosh krinskyAlmost everyone has the experience, from time to time, of acting out a different personality. We may say that someone “got out of bed on the wrong side this morning” when we see a normally cheerful and upbeat individual responding in a totally uncharacteristic way. We chalk this up to some mood ...
Views: 346 - Contradictions and Inconsistencies in Our Mental Process - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe normal process of mental reception brings in numerous thought-forms, based on the receptivity of the individual and the wideness of his sources of information and mental energy. For those who have not systematically developed a process for organising the mind, these thought-froms have no ...
Views: 274 - Controlling Dreams - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2012 from Kris BenettoWe spend thirty three percent of our lives in the sleep state. What if we could have the ability to in some way still make use of that precious time to evolve and enlarge our gifts? This is the very important mystery that propels people young and old who are focused on controlling ...
Views: 2134 - Controlling One’s Imagination - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyMore frequently than not, the spiritual aspirant has both a great upward aspiration and a corresponding ‘knot’ that he needs to work out which is the counter-part to the upward capacity. It is the dynamic tension between the two that forces him to persevere. He will either given in to the lower ...
Views: 155 - Controlling One’s Thoughts - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe mind is always active, jumping from one input source to another, depending on the senses and their objects, the various forms of media we are consuming, including radio, tv, music, reading, social media, etc.; but also on a variety of internal factors including nutritional factors, ...
Views: 459 - Controlling the Ego in Ordinary Life and in Yoga - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2021 from santosh krinskyIn the normal life of an individual in society, the ego is important, although it’s actions must be managed to permit people to find ways to work together and achieve results. Wherever we turn, we can see the benefits of keeping the ego in check and subordinating the individual’s role within a ...
Views: 528 - Conversations with Ghosta and Past Memories Revisited - by Submitted on May 01, 2012 from Peter BurnellI would like to talk awhile about ghosts if I may, a concept more people believe in then we are led to believe. I thought that I would come from an unusual angle and talk about the ghosts that haunt you in your sleep. Quite a subtle haunting though for you might not even know its happening. You ...
Views: 829 - Coronavirus (CoVid-19) | All You Should Know | Symptoms | Prevention | Effects - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2020 from azam emaadArticle source: Svalbard Adventure What are Viruses and How They Work? The first human virus was discovered by Walter Reed in 1901. In any case, what is Virus, viruses are everywhere from our surroundings to the very food we eat. We ingest breathe in and take in a huge number of viruses ...
Views: 1019 - Could God Make Mistakes? - by Submitted on May 03, 2015 from Albert WagnerThe comment caught me off guard. Sometimes you go through the motions of daily life, and then something sticks out. This was one of those moments. We were talking about how cynical this world can be, and it can even cause a person to doubt themselves sometimes. The author has a known lack ...
Views: 1213 - Courageous Creative Empowerment - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2014 from Moreen DuFermontCourageous Creative Empowerment Having a sense of creative empowerment is about the power to create! It begins by centering yourself so you may achieve clarity and know that you have the courage you need to live in the now! When you have the courage to create, you never truly know what ...
Views: 1175 - Creating a Balance Between the Spiritual Quest and the Development of the Body, Life and Mind - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2023 from santosh krinskyA yogic discipline focused on the abandonment of life does not take pains to develop the inherent powers and capacities of the body, life-force and the mind. In fact, the powers of these elements of the human instrument are instead considered to be lures, obstacles and impediments to the ...
Views: 202 - Creating a Balance Between the Spiritual Quest and the Development of the Body, Life and Mind - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2023 from santosh krinskyA yogic discipline focused on the abandonment of life does not take pains to develop the inherent powers and capacities of the body, life-force and the mind. In fact, the powers of these elements of the human instrument are instead considered to be lures, obstacles and impediments to the ...
Views: 209 - Creating Balance for the Physical Body as an Instrument of the Sadhana - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhen the mind is engaged in carrying out some idea, or the vital being is involved and enthusiastic about something, there is a strong tendency for the rise of Rajas in the being. Rajas has a tendency to overdo things, go beyond limits and as a result, it is the frequent cause of injury and the ...
Views: 486 - Creating Beneficial Thought Forms and Their Positive Action - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhenever there is some kind of news headline about a major negative event, such as a school shooting, or a catastrophic earthquake or hurricane, we hear major political leaders express “thoughts and prayers” for the victims and their families. Everyone knows that there is no serious force behind ...
Views: 161 - Creating Harmony and Understanding Requires a Change of Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 04, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe mental consciousness believes, first of all, that the particular viewpoint held by an individual is ‘correct’ and that other viewpoints are ‘wrong’. The vital nature wants to assert itself and gain dominance. The limited and linear framework of the normal human consciousness ensures that ...
Views: 22 - Critical Factors for Raising an Empowered Child: A Lesson in Self-Knowledge - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2009 from Susan HaidThere are several simple but critically important keys for raising empowered children. We can give our kids the tools they need, starting at a very young age. These tools will empower them throughout their lives as they grow, yet they are core values that will evolve more fully as time passes. ...
Views: 2167 - Cultivating Inner Peace as the Basis of Spiritual Sadhana - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2023 from santosh krinskyGiven the reactive nature of the external being, the mind, the vital, the physical body, there is generally a lack of peace and we are driven from one response to another as circumstances, events, sense impressions, etc. impinge upon us. Development of an awareness that is separated from this ...
Views: 400 - Cultivating Mental Honesty to Address the Habit of Self-Deception - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe habit of self-deception is so deeply ingrained, and so automatic, that we tend not to see or recognise it when it is occurring. And it occurs constantly throughout each day. How can we overcome this habit of self-deception? This is where a yogic discipline, an effort in the practice, becomes ...
Views: 244 - Dance Like No One's Watching - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2013 from Melanie McGhee“What the hell; you are what you are, and self honesty occupies a definite and vital part in the ever-growing process to become a real human being and not a plastic one.” ~Bruce Lee Who knew that Bruce Lee was such a wise yogi? I didn’t! I’ve long adored the love poems of bhakti poets that ...
Views: 1099 - Day Care School in Noida - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaDay care school in Noida schools have a critical role to play in our lives to determine our response towards social equality. Here are some of the aspects that make gender equality lessons a must and indispensable for children so as to secure a stable society and a bright future for those ...
Views: 508 - Dealing with Anxiety and Worry - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyMany people express the idea that simply living life without any form of planning or care about organizing one’s activities is the ideal ‘worry-free’ way of living. This conflates reasonable planning in the outer life with the internal process of worrying. Worrying is basically an inability ...
Views: 2 - Dealing with Dualities - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2025 from santosh krinskyOur experience in the world is one of dualities, hot and cold, wet and dry, happy and sad, love and hate, darkness and light, etc. We recognise that we cannot have the one without the other. The Chinese symbol of In/Yang illustrates the intertwined nature of these dualities and that even in the ...
Views: 36 - Dealing with Mental Resistance to Attempts to Silence the Mind - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2022 from santosh krinskyIt is quite natural for an individual, particularly a seeker attempting to make progress in the yogic process, to internalize the difficulties and blame them on his own weakness, incapacity, or lack of will power. The reality, however, is that this is a continuation of the egocentric viewpoint ...
Views: 445 - Dealing with Obtrusive, Repetitive Thoughts - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2022 from santosh krinskyBefore we can deal with thoughts, we need to have at least a basic understanding of what they are and where they come from, what they consist of, and what the purpose of thought is. Yet, we rarely if ever examine these questions and simply take thought for granted as something necessary and ...
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