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- The Soul and the Process of Taking a New Birth - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2026 from santosh krinskySome people believe that the soul enters the body at the time of birth; others at the time of conception; others at some later stage after the body has had some time to develop after the birth has occurred. This leads to serious arguments and even policy decisions about contraception, abortion, ...
Views: 0 - The Psychic Being and the Phenomenon of Avatars, Vibhutis and Emanations - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe psychic world is defined as an interlude during which the psychic being, in a timeless status, assimilates the experience of the past life as it prepares for taking a new birth in the world. By definition it is not involved with activity in the world or with any particular human soul. The ...
Views: 1 - The Psychic Being Has Periods of Assimilation Between Successive Incarnations - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe entire process of conscious evolution involves periods of ascent, outreach, growth and development, followed by periods of rest and assimilation when the fruits of the former efforts are allowed to settle in the being and provide a basis for the next stage of development. All through ...
Views: 2 - Nirvana and the Paths of Return to the Life in the World - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Buddhist tradition describes a path that leads to complete liberation from the world, which is called Nirvana. They describe crossing the ocean of Samsara (the illusions of the external life and its enticements, and rewards) to achieve final exit from this world. This is different than ...
Views: 2 - The Psychic Being and the Interlude Between Death and Rebirth - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Tibetan Book of the Dead describes the progression from death, through an intermediate realm called the bardo and the eventual liberation, or alternatively, the choosing of a new birth. For those who are awake and conscious or who follow the directions and guidance provided by the text, an ...
Views: 5 - The Occult Mechanisms Behind Birth and Death - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2026 from santosh krinskyFrom the viewpoint of the external being, we see a physical process of birth and death. With deeper investigation, we then identify processes and encoded information in the genetic code that tell the physical body how to develop. When we die, we see the departure of the vital force from the body ...
Views: 5 - The Meaning of Existence — a Work in Cosmic Time - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2026 from santosh krinskyIf we want to understand the meaning of existence, and the significance of our own lives within that larger framework, we need to appreciate the significance of perspective or standpoint. We can observe that impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh used perspective as one of the defining ...
Views: 6 - The Continuity of Consciousness Across the Boundaries of Death and Rebirth - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2026 from santosh krinskyCan something come into existence out of pure nothingness? There is nothing in our experience in the world that supports the idea that nothingness, a blank void, infinite darkness is the origin of all that we experience, of life and growth and development. Darkness is not the origin of light. ...
Views: 8 - Button Up T-Shirts: Dressing Sharp Without Losing the Edge - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2026 from Alex NickThere's a common assumption that dressing up means abandoning the bold, no-nonsense style that defines patriotic and tactical-inspired fashion. Button-up t-shirts prove that assumption wrong. Done right, they let you look sharp for an event or outing while still reflecting the same personality ...
Views: 9 - Two Ways to Overcome Suffering — the Way of the Self and the Way of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2026 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo provides a detailed overview of the causes and types of suffering we experience and how to transcend the suffering through a shift in standpoint away from the external nature to the Self above or the psychic being within. Sri Aurobindo writes: “It is not the soul that suffers; the ...
Views: 7 - The Shift of Standpoint to the Psychic Being Provides Leverage for the Change of the External Nature - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2026 from santosh krinskyIt is a general axiom that one cannot fully see and understand the framework within which one is embedded. We treat the actions, reactions, responses, perceptions etc. as a given fact and thus, do not fully recognise all the implications and facets of life that are taking place. These become ...
Views: 9 - The Sunlit Path of Yoga Is Based on the Lead Role of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2026 from santosh krinskyWhen the external being through any of its constituent parts, the mind, the vital being or the physical body, as well as the ego-personality formed around them are predominant, they focus on needs, desires, ideas, wishes that are relevant to their specific unique characteristics and situations. ...
Views: 8 - Active Compared to More Passive Development of the Yogic Sadhana - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere is a paradigm noted in the yogic literature about the different types of seekers and the way they advance in their spiritual development. The baby monkey actively works to hold on to the mother, having to exercise its own capacities to move forward while the baby cat surrenders to the ...
Views: 8 - The Characteristics and Qualities of the Realisation of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe nature of the psychic being’s action is founded in aspiration, devotion and self-consecration to the Divine. The role of Agni in the Rig Veda illustrates the power and role of the psychic being. Agni is the mystic fire that leads and brings forth the gods, the divine powers, into the being. ...
Views: 9 - Three Focuses of Concentration - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2026 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo describes a triple tranformation of consciousness. The first transformation is what he calls the psychic transformation, the conscious contact with and bringing forward of the soul element in the nature. The second transformation is what he calls the spiritual transformation. This ...
Views: 9 - Converting a Mental Seeking Into a Living Spiritual Experience, Part 3 - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe initial steps of the discipline involve a concentration, either in the heart centre or in the mental centre, as entrance pathways to reach the psychic being or the higher mental and spiritual regions above the mind. These represent a movement away from the demands, desires and motives of the ...
Views: 8 - Converting a Mental Seeking Into a Living Spiritual Experience, Part 2 - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2026 from santosh krinskyIn Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book I, Canto 4 The Secret Knowledge, Sri Aurobindo describes a spiritual experience: “It is the origin and the master-clue, A silence overhead, an inner voice, A living image seated in the heart, An unwalled wideness and a fathomless point, The truth of all ...
Views: 8 - Converting a Mental Seeking Into a Living Spiritual Experience, Part 1 - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2026 from santosh krinskyMost people are trapped in the paradigm enunciated by Rene Descartes, i.e. ‘I think, therefore I am.’ They equate the thought with the reality. If we think we are sincere, then we are sincere. If we think we can swim, then we can swim. We see this frequently in religions where people believe ...
Views: 8 - Changing Human Nature Requires the Manifestation of a New Power of Consciousness Based in the Nature of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2026 from santosh krinskyAs long as we remain within a specific framework of vision and understanding, we remain locked in that frame and our actions are formed from the capacities held by that framework. In order to escape the limitations of that level, an individual needs must find a way to move his awareness outside ...
Views: 9 - Opening to the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe draw to us and interact with whatever draws our attention. The external being is motivated by the forces of desire and fear. Each of these creates a link to objects that we desire or that we fear. We thus live in a world of constant distraction from the inner truth of our being. When an ...
Views: 8 - Stages in the Spiritual Development of the Individual - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere seems to be a very common progression in the spiritual development for most individuals. While individual cases can, and will, vary somewhat, and rare exceptional cases may follow a totally different development, the general case is common enough in its occurrence to create what may be ...
Views: 8 - Spiritual Liberation — Mukti - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2026 from santosh krinskyAs we grow beyond the pure vital enjoyment of the growing child, we begin to recognise that we have demands being made upon us, subtly or overtly, from family, friends, peers, and society at large. There are expectations and pressures that come with living in a societal setting, or even, just ...
Views: 8 - Distinguishing the Central Action of the Psychic Being from Mental, Vital or Physical Formations or from Transitory Spiritual Experiences - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere is a vast difference between mental speculation and actual life-experience. We can speculate about what it means to swim in the ocean, but this does not prepare us for the actual experience when it occurs. It is similar for those focused on spiritual sadhana. Generally those individuals ...
Views: 10 - The Emergence of the Psychic Being Takes a Process and Time As It Works to Modify Body, Life and Mind to Express Its Nature - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe process of nature, the development of the physical form, the vital force and its expression, the advent of mind and development of its powers, and the formation of the ego-consciousness and the self-awareness that comes with that, is a long, slow, steady progression that can takes tens of ...
Views: 10 - The Psychic Being Provides Protection from the Desires of the External Nature and the Suggestions of Forces Hostile to the Divine Truth - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2026 from santosh krinskyAs long as we are established in the consciousness of the external being and personality, the body-life-mind complex aggregated around the ego-personality, we interpret and decide things based on the external relationships each of those elements has developed in their dealing with the external ...
Views: 10 - The Management Process of the Psychic Being With the External Nature - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2026 from santosh krinskyThose who are involved in developing a business or other organised activity quickly learn that there are different methods that can be implemented, and which, when applied in the right time, place and circumstance, can bring about vastly different, and in some cases, much greater ...
Views: 9 - Development Over Time of the Soul’s Power to Master Life Circumstances - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2026 from santosh krinskySince the central position of the soul to direct and guide life is the optimum result, we wonder, generally, why this is not the case from the outset and why we have to then experience the struggles and efforts needed to achieve that result. The question is pertinent both for the individual and ...
Views: 8 - The Emergence of the Soul - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe poet, John Keats, in his famous poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, concluded with “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” We receive intimations of the soul and the spiritual reality through our minds, our emotions, our feelings and our physical ...
Views: 9 - The Psychic Transformation Is Preliminary as Essential for Spiritual Development Before Experiences or Powers - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe ego is allured and enamoured of spiritual experiences and the development of unique powers that may arise with various openings of the being to other ranges of mental, vital or physical activity than we normally live in. Certain spiritual disciplines actually advise the seeker to avoid ...
Views: 10 - Purification Through the Psychic Change of the Nature - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2026 from santosh krinskyMany people question the value or importance of purification of the nature during the course of sadhana. They express the idea that purification is unnecessary, either because the external world is an illusion and should be disregarded entirely, or because the concept of ‘freedom’ implies that ...
Views: 8 - The Psychic Being Protects from the Dangers of the Internediate Zone - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2026 from santosh krinskyGoethe, in his famous poem Faust, recounts a scene where Faust conjures the Earth-Spirit. He is stricken with fear although he felt himself to be a god and a peer to the Spirit he called forth. “To view me is thine aspiration, My voice to hear, my countenance to see; Thy powerful yearning ...
Views: 7 - Consecration, Conversion of Consciousness and Transformation of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2026 from santosh krinskyConsecration is a movement of the psychic being, based in the individual being, consciously focusing and tuning the consciousness to the divine consciousness and acting under its impulsion. The standpoint remains with the individual and while consecration is being perfected in the being, it ...
Views: 10 - The Psychic Conversion — the Shift from the Ego Standpoint to the Soul’s Standpoint - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2026 from santosh krinskyA young individual recounted a tale of what he considered to be his own experience of a psychic conversion. He had a near death experience and when he awoke he suddenly knew there was a Divine Presence in the world and that he was meant to focus on that rather than the career he had been ...
Views: 8 - The Discovery of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2026 from santosh krinskyMajor developments or milestones in the expression of consciousness in the being do not tend to appear suddenly on their own for most people. As the individual grows and matures, there sometimes occur glimpses, transient experiences, occasions where some capacity shows itself. It is then up to ...
Views: 9 - Becoming Aware of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2026 from santosh krinskyIf we look at the lives and the focus of the vast majority of people in the world, we find that they are primarily fixated on external measurements of survival, sustenance and success in some form or another. It may be having access to food and water at a basic subsstence level, or it may be the ...
Views: 8 - The Triple Transformation of the Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2026 from santosh krinskyPeople have opinions and argue about what the best way to carry out religious or spiritual practices happens to be. Some believe in various forms of austerities, some concentration, some meditation, some prayer, some devotional service, some selfless work. Some take vows of poverty. Others ...
Views: 9 - Three Steps of Self-Realisation - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2026 from santosh krinskyAs long as we live in the standpoint of the external personality, the ego-consciousness, we look to external rewards and satisfactions, and the fulfillment of ambitions and desires, as the central objective towards which we orient our actions. It is only when we begin to feel and appreciate the ...
Views: 8 - The Path of Transformation of Earthly Life into Divine Life Through Unveiling of the Psychic Being and Its Aspiration - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe question of transforming life on earth into something higher, deeper and more meaningful, aligned with the divine intention in the manifestation, is one that has occupied seers, religious leaders, theologians, scientists, thinkers and philosophers since time immemorial. Plato in his Republic ...
Views: 13 - The Essential Conditions for the Growth of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe tend to judge circumstances and events based on how they impacted our external personality, the individual ego. We call things ‘good’ or ‘bad’ based on our perception of whether they satisfy our needs, wants and desires or not. What we fail to recognise, more often than not, is that the ...
Views: 11 - Each Individual Has His Own Unique Relationship With the Divine - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2026 from santosh krinskyPeople who are born into different cultures and religions may have a similar experience, but they interpret the experience through the lens of their specific background. Thus, people who have a specific spiritual opening may see Jesus or the Virgin Mary if they come from a Christian background, ...
Views: 12 - Progress and Development of Physical, Vital, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Elements in Our Earthly Lives - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe all recognise the pattern. We are born, we grow, develop, reach mature adulthood, carry out our productive activities. Later, as we age, various elements of our bodies, our life-energies and our minds begin to decline, until eventually, the deterioration creates a break that leads to death ...
Views: 15 - The Psychic Being and Progress - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2026 from santosh krinskyUntil someone actively takes up the spiritual path, and consciously begins to focus on the significance of his life and the purpose of the manifestation, the question of progress for the psychic being does not even arise. The progress takes place, but it happens without appreciation or ...
Views: 15 - What Happens to Progress at the Mental, Vital and Physical Levels When the Psychic Being Departs? - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe psychic being assimilates the essence of the experience of a lifetime, then leaves behind the body, life-force and mind of that lifetime and moves on into other lives, other experiences. However, a substantial effort has been made by the psychic being to enhance and develop the mind, life ...
Views: 16 - Conscious Rebirth by a Fully Developed Psychic Being, Part 2 - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere is considerable skepticism about the question of rebirth. There are also questions about what exactly is reborn, and what happens to the existing current life experience and capabilities developed in a lifetime before death. There remains then, also, the mechanisms involved. There is a ...
Views: 15 - Conscious Rebirth by a Fully Developed Psychic Being, Part 1 - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Tibetan Book of the Dead describes the period from the time of death to the adoption of a new body in a new birth. The individual departs the physical body which begins to decompose. Next, the vital sheath dissolves, and following that the mental formations. All of these external instruments ...
Views: 18 - The Conscious Psychic Being Choosing Its Next Incarnation, Part 2 - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2026 from santosh krinskySometimes a soul is born into the world with a sense of a pre-determined and destined path forward, based on focus and determinations made in the prior lifetime. Such an individual, in some cases very early in life, may know things, may feel like he has already known things that come before his ...
Views: 17 - The Psychic Being Works to Gain Experience and Independence and Upgrade the Instruments of Body, Life-Force and Mind - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Bodhisattva vow represents an ideal of dedication and compassion by those who have reached the stage of enlightenment and who thereby have gained the freedom to choose liberation, moksha, from the cycle of birth and death. Those individuals who attain this state of consciousness make the ...
Views: 19 - The Conscious Psychic Being Choosing Its Next Incarnation, Part 1 - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe interaction and interplay between the divine manifestation, the psychic being and the processes of rebirth are generally outside the direct experience of most people. Scientists who study the processes of the universe are able to identify certain principles and details of the way things ...
Views: 19 - The Psychic Being and the Mechanism of Choosing Its Next Birth - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2026 from santosh krinskyNothing can evolve that has not previously been involved. A tree grows from an acorn because the essence of the tree, in the form of its genetic code, is already in place within that acorn. The entire creation, from the most material to the most subtle, contains an involved consciousness. If we ...
Views: 21 - The Psychic Being Is Automatically Attuned Towards the Spiritual Truth of Existence - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe observe in nature that certain plants turn towards the sun and follow the sun’s position in the sky throughout the day. This phenomenon, ‘heliotropism’, is based on certain sensor cells in these plants that identify the location of the light and automatically orient themselves towards it. ...
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