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- What is inner strength? Do we all have it? How does it influence bravery or fear? - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2025 from Dada BhagwanInner strength is the ability to withstand and overcome challenges, adversity, and difficult circumstances without relying on external support or self-validation. It is characterised by the right understanding, self-awareness, maintaining equanimity, bravery, patience, and a positive attitude in ...
Views: 2 - Aspiration, Desire and the Action of the Divine Force - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyAspiration is frequently confused with a form of vital desire that ‘wants’ some kind of spiritual development, experience or result. Aspiration, however, originates in the psychic being, while desire stems from the vital being. The characteristics of the two are therefore dramatically different ...
Views: 1 - Shifting the Standpoint of Consciousness Beyond the Action of the Three Gunas - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe three Gunas of Nature control the actions and reactions of the external nature and the response to the dualities that present themselves in Nature. As long as we remain fixated at the level of the surface personality, we remain subject to this action of the Gunas. The question then ...
Views: 1 - In what ways can developing self-awareness through spirituality help manage stress? - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2025 from Dada BhagwanStress generally is an outcome of the worry and fear we experience when we have to do something So let’s understand, spiritually speaking, how is worry generated?... The Enlightened One explains: When ignorance (of really who am I and who is the doer in this world) is there, due to ...
Views: 3 - The Most Helpful Attitude for Spiritual Progress - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature, in particular, is addicted to ‘drama’. It seeks attention and excitement. An added complication is that in modern society, with our fixation on all types of electronic stimulation, internet, mobile phones, radio, television, cinema, along with neon signs, blaring ads and ...
Views: 2 - Dealing with Physical Pain - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyAt some point in life everyone is confronted with physical conditions which cause pain. What is pain exactly? When we speak about physical pain in particular, we reference particular sensations or impulses of an intensity that activates the nerves to carry the sensation to the brain, which ...
Views: 2 - Overcoming Suffering and Changing the Future of Our Karma - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyMany people believe that there is some kind of inexorable law of reward and punishment being doled out by God or some other all-powerful, all-observant being. In the West children are taught this lesson through the myth of Santa Claus, when they are encouraged to be “good” because Santa Claus is ...
Views: 2 - Addressing the Issue of Overactive Nervous System Response to Circumstances - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhenever anything happens in the world, the senses capture the vibrations and send them up the nervous channels to the brain where they are they interpreted and responded to. When the nervous system is sensitive and overly responsive it may vibrate continuously and not let up. This creates an ...
Views: 4 - Exceeding the Limits Set By Our Minds to Harness Powers of Health and Fitness - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe generally remain locked within the framework of our past training and experience. We create walls around ourselves that circumscribe what we believe we can accomplish, what we can do, what is ‘real’ and what is possible. As long as we remain primarily fixated on the past, we limit our ...
Views: 5 - THE ALMIGHTY SELF - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2025 from William CottringerTHE ALMIGHTY SELF by Bill Cottringer Today I am graduating into my second year of my ninth decade of living life. So, I think I will venture down this rabbit hole for some profound insights into life, at least as far down the rabbit hole my current brain power will allow me to tiptoe. ...
Views: 5 - Wisdom of Ovid - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloHorace (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), was an ancient Roman poet renowned for his lyric poetry and satires. His works, including blend wit, wisdom, and reflections on human nature, offering timeless insights into living a balanced and virtuous life. A leading poet under Emperor ...
Views: 5 - Developing the Power to Remove Illnesses from the Physical Body - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2025 from santosh krinskyAn illness is a vibrational pattern that impacts the body and its normal operations. If one does not succeed in rejecting it before it breaks through the protective vital sheath and then, if one fails to prevent it from taking hold at all in the physical body, one is left with having to deal ...
Views: 5 - Overcoming the Habit of Illness of the Body - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe first time we experience something it starts to create a “groove” in our neural network, nerves or responsive centers. As the experience recurs, the groove becomes a ‘pathway’. Eventually, the pathway becomes an embedded habit. When a similar vibration is experienced, it ‘automatically’ ...
Views: 5 - Causes and Prevention or Elimination of Illness - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe physical body has an ingrained response, for most people, to vibrations that precipitate illnesses. The vector carrying that vibration (whether one calls it ‘germs’, ‘bacteria’, ‘virus’, or ‘suggestion’) strikes the protective vital envelope, or aura, surrounding the body. If it finds an ...
Views: 6 - How can I rise above material desires in a world so focused on possessions? - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2025 from Dada BhagwanLet’s try to understand this through an example... Say, you love the taste of tea. But what if you are given tea after you eat a sweet? Would you have the desire to have tea? No, because you would find the tea quite bland then, isn’t it? Similarly, the taste of the bliss of the Soul is ...
Views: 8 - The Action of the Three Gunas in Relation to the Assimilation of the Spiritual Force - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe 3 Gunas, qualities of Nature, are active in all beings, including those who are undertaking an active process of spiritual development. The physical being is very much subject to the action of Tamas, generally, because of its dense and somewhat inert material characteristics. It thus may ...
Views: 7 - Periods of Apparent Emptiness or Dryness in the Spiritual Practice - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the external life we are trained to desire visible signs of forward movement, progress, constant development. We believe if we are not moving forward, then we must be retrogressing. We value action over quiet times. When we are relieved from action, such as during a vacation, or at the stage ...
Views: 7 - The Power of a Quiet Mind - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2025 from santosh krinskyModern civilization puts a premium on the mental process. We educate our children with a focus on the mind. We want them to learn verbal skills, reading skills, logical skills and measure them on their abilities in these areas with various forms of standardized tests by which we then classify ...
Views: 7 - The Law of Attraction and its Application to Spiritual Sadhana - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is interesting that people are willing to believe the ‘secret’ of the law of attraction, spend time, energy and money trying to learn it, for the purpose of manifesting wealth, enjoyment and the powers available in the world, but they do not tend to apply the principle behind this ‘law of ...
Views: 7 - Freeing Oneself From Responsibility for Oneself By Reliance on the Divine - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2025 from santosh krinskyThere was a young man who happened to be living at the same place during the 1970’s, who got into his head the idea that the Divine was watching out for him so he could not come to any harm. He walked out into traffic on a busy road and with cars honking and braking, he survived without a ...
Views: 6 - Gaining Perspective On Our Desires and Focus Within the Grand Canvas of Time and Space - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe spend most of our lives fixated on the external life we are living, including our internal reactions to that life, such as our feelings, desires, sense impressions, thoughts, ideas, motivations and physical comforts and discomforts (among other things). We focus on earning our livelihood, ...
Views: 7 - 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: 7 - Facing One’s Difficulties - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna asked Sri Krishna to place him between the two armies ready to engage in a civil war, with massive numbers of troops on each side, so that he could view the scene before the actual fighting started. At that moment he was struck by the magnitude of what was about to ...
Views: 7 - Faithfulness to the Light and the Divine Call - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople have an inner ‘commentary’ and ‘sound track’ going on virtually constantly in their heads. The ‘sound track’ may be a piece of music they heard which keeps repeating in their minds, what is colloquially called an ‘ear worm’. It may also be something of far less enjoyment such as a ...
Views: 6 - Wise words from Yamamoto Tsunetomo - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloYamamoto Tsunetomo (山本 常朝) (June 11th, 1659 – November 30th, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain, in Hizen Province, under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige. He became a Zen Buddhist priest and told his experiences, wisdom, memories, and theories to the samurai Tashiro Tsuramoto, who put them ...
Views: 6 - Aligning the Inner Being With the Psychic Aspiration Overcomes the Pressure of Despondency and Depression in the Course of the Spiritual Sadhana - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyTaking the right attitude when feelings of failure or depression arise in the course of the spiritual practice is essential to navigate through these moods with the least disruption. Sri Aurobindo implies that the standpoint should be in the separate witness consciousness, which he distinguishes ...
Views: 7 - How to Deal With the Feeling of Unfitness for Spiritual Progress When It Arises in the Sadhana - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is perhaps a virtually universal experience. An individual takes up a spiritual practice, and for a time, particularly when Sattwa is in the forefront, he has unique insights, experiences and a sense of progress. At some point, however, these experiences tend to recede and the individual is ...
Views: 7 - Depression and Spiritual Progress - by Submitted on May 31, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe are all subject to the action of the three Gunas or qualties of Nature. They are always shifting. As they shift, our outlook, mood, physical responsiveness, vital energy and mental framework all undergo corresponding changes. None of the three Gunas remains constantly in the forefront, so ...
Views: 5 - Keep Hold On Your Aspiration Through All Difficulties and Circumstances - by Submitted on May 30, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe flame of aspiration is the force that keeps the sadhak moving forward in his spiritual practice, regardless of the forces that threaten or oppose that progress, whether from outside or which rise up internally. Everyone goes through changes of mood and energy as the three Gunas fluctuate. ...
Views: 6 - The Spiritual Seeker and the Challenges of Spiritual Growth and Development - by Submitted on May 29, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople believe generally that taking up the spiritual life involves a form of escapism from the daily obstacles, difficulties and pressures of living an active life in society. Some people in fact take up the spiritual path as an escape, but that is neither the primary motivation nor does it ...
Views: 5 - The Individual Sadhak and His Relation to the Movement of Universal Forces - by Submitted on May 28, 2025 from santosh krinskyForces that operate in the world are not necessarily ‘hostile’ even if their effect on any particular individual appears to be extremely negative. These forces operate on a large scale to carry out their own role and fulfillment, without specific regard to who may be impacted. When an earthquake ...
Views: 6 - How To Deal With Hostile Forces - by Submitted on May 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyForces at work in the world try to effectuate themselves and perpetuate their action. They seek for receptive vessels to manifest and carry out their line of action. As these waves of energy, these vibrations move out into the world, they naturally come across elements and beings that are not ...
Views: 6 - Overcoming the Obstruction of Universal Adverse Forces - by Submitted on May 26, 2025 from santosh krinskyMost people are skeptical about the concept of conscious universal forces. Even if they profess a belief in God, angels, demons, and other unseen powerful beings, they tend to reject the idea when it comes down to actual influence in their own actions, reactions and responses. There is an ...
Views: 7 - JUPITER EXALTED: Our Saviors Walk Among Us - by Submitted on May 26, 2025 from joan pancoeTO ACTIVATE ALL LINKS AND VIEW ALL IMAGES (RECOMMENDED): https://joanpancoe.com/2025/05/24/jupiter-exalted-our-saviors-walk-among-us/ LISTEN ALONG ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/@joanpancoemodernmystic1357 “The entire Universe is my true personality” —Anonymous Zen Master Dear ...
Views: 8 - How to Donate? - by Submitted on May 26, 2025 from Dada BhagwanWorrying that your money will be used up cannot preoccupy you. Whatever money is spent is fine. The spending of money is encouraged because it destroys your greed and allows you to keep giving. Upyoga is awareness. When you do something auspicious or give to charity, give with the awareness ...
Views: 10 - Coming Face to Face With, and Overcoming the Failures, Limitations and Sins of One's Past Life in the Spiritual Quest - by Submitted on May 25, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual takes up the spiritual quest, he tends to accept certain principles of action which, by definition, contradict the values, principles and life-actions of his past experience. In many cases this causes a considerable amount of doubt and concern as he tries to overlay his ...
Views: 9 - The Complex Nature of Our Being Impacts Our Ability to Change and Transform Our Lives - by Submitted on May 25, 2025 from santosh krinskyThose who identify with their mental being tend to believe that if they think in a certain way, that they have succeeded in embodying that. They will take the thought for the accomplishment without necessarily recognising that their physical actions, their vital energies and even aspects of ...
Views: 10 - Transitioning From Mental Consciousness to Spiritual Consciousness While Controlling the Vital Nature - by Submitted on May 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe mind provides a filter to manage and control the vital forces to a certain degree. While it is not perfect, without it, an individual can become subject to whatever vital energy is active and rising up within him. At the same time, the mind acts as a limitation on the ability of the ...
Views: 11 - Resisting and Overcoming the Negative Universal Forces That Try to Control Our Reactions - by Submitted on May 22, 2025 from santosh krinskyAll consciousness, all energy, all material substance is essential one, although it takes different forms in the external surface consciousness. Vibrational patterns move across the universal creation and forms respond to them if they are able to vibrate within the range of the vibrations. Human ...
Views: 11 - The Difference Between Suppression and Removal of a Vital Reaction, Part 2 - by Submitted on May 21, 2025 from santosh krinskyMost people simply “live” their lives and carry out whatever feeling, mood or impetus may be impacting them at the moment. They “become” that movement, whether it is happiness and joy, hunger, anger, ennui, fatigue, or some concentrated state of mind, etc. Their awareness, their conscious ...
Views: 11 - The Difference Between Suppression and Removal of a Vital Reaction, Part 1 - by Submitted on May 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyAs long as we set our standpoint in the external surface consciousness, we do not have the leverage nor the tools to easily remove an embedded reaction. We tend to take steps to suppress rather than expunge the unwanted energy. This may take the form of an ascetic denial, or an avoidance of ...
Views: 13 - True happiness means…? - by Submitted on May 20, 2025 from Dada BhagwanEvery living being is constantly hunting for happiness in this world, which has prevailed since infinite time and will continue to prevail for infinite time. The ant finds happiness in a piece of sugar, and moths feel happy in the candle's light. A hungry animal is happy to get food. And human ...
Views: 14 - The Need to Employ the Searchlight on Every Aspect of One’s Being - by Submitted on May 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn its essence, yoga is a form of applied psychology. The practitioner of yoga is attempting to redirect the focus, the responses and the reactions of the being, in many cases having to overcome deeply rooted and embedded instincts, habits, and trained responses, as well as the forces of desire, ...
Views: 14 - Wisdom of Ovid - by Submitted on May 19, 2025 from Scott & Stephen PetulloOvid (circa 43 BC), was a Roman poet whose lyrical verses have transcended time, offering profound insights into love, change, and the human spirit. His works like Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, and Tristia offer timeless truths. Ovid’s ability to capture universal experiences makes his words as ...
Views: 14 - Developing a Strong Power of Knowledge and Will To Manage and Control the Vital Nature - by Submitted on May 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhile a reaction may seem to be taking place instantaneously, it is always conditioned by prior acts or events, the chain of cause and effect, dependent origination or the law of karma, however one wants to term it. By adopting the standpoint of the witness consciousness, observing the external ...
Views: 15 - Restraining the Response to the Impulses Attractive to the Vital Nature Is the First Step Towards Mastery - by Submitted on May 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyA lesson in control of impulses was described by Homer in The Odyssey. The protagonist, Odysseus is on his ship trying to return home after the Trojan War. He approaches an area that was home to the Sirens, whose alluring voices would lure sailors to their death as the ships crashed among the ...
Views: 16 - The Excuses We Make to Justify Indulgence - by Submitted on May 16, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe make resolutions to change certain behaviours. Our minds are made up. We are certain that we can make the needed change. Many people make ‘new year’s resolutions’ to change something, perhaps to lose weight, to discontinue some habit, to avoid expressing anger, or some other intention we ...
Views: 14 - Dealing With the Reactive Impulses of the Vital Nature of the External Personality - by Submitted on May 15, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe tend to be reactive by nature. Something occurs and we immediately capture the vibration and respond to it. Thus we have outbursts of anger when we are frustrated or feel insecure, or when something gets in the way of some idea, intention or movement we want to undertake. An example of this ...
Views: 14 - Difficulties Provide the Possibility of Progress - by Submitted on May 14, 2025 from santosh krinskyIf we examine the times and phases of our lives, we find that when things seem to be going smoothly forward and we feel great, we want to enjoy and appreciate the good times. We thus tend to slacken our efforts so that we can get the most out of the positive energies we are experiencing. This is ...
Views: 14 - The Spiritual Aspirant Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer Than Those Who Focus on the External Life - by Submitted on May 13, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe spiritual aspirant necessarily has to change the way things have been historically and habitually done in the world if he is to make progress and move beyond the limitations imposed by the body-life-mind complex and all the traditions, rituals, habits, fixed ideas and vital-emotional ...
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