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- Basic Human Needs - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiBasic human needs are that of recognition. To be appreciated, seen, loved and respected for who we are. “There is nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than meeting our basic human needs. If we focused less on retina display ipads and more on the vision of a world where all people’s basic ...
Views: 1317 - Basic Overview of the Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe mental consciousness evolved subsequent to the emergence of the physical consciousness and the vital consciousness. It appears in rudimentary forms in various animals, and advances to a much higher state of activity and power in the higher primates, including human beings, as well as ...
Views: 187 - Basic Overview of the Vital Consciousness - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe life force brings mobility and increased responsiveness compared to the physical being. It operates primarily under the impulsion of attraction and repulsion. The predominant quality or Guna is Rajas, which brings energy, action, and progress, while at the same time, its deformations can ...
Views: 191 - Be Your Own Person - by Submitted on May 08, 2019 from Maetreyii Ma NolanFor most people, when the group goes one way, they go that way; they believe what the group believes. When the group goes another way, they go that way. Why? Because they have surrendered to the group psychology, as their instincts around power and submission tell them to do for their survival. ...
Views: 1968 - Be your own teacher - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Stav PapadopoulosIt’s time you took learning into your own hands. Learn something new-like a new language- or go back and learn it better this time. Teach yourself how to make anything, from crafts to cars. Watch the experts and learn their ways. Listen to a story of success and take a lesson. You teach ...
Views: 1860 - Becoming Aware of and Distinguishing the Source of Vibrations Impacting our Lives - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur consciousness tends to be so fluid and so mixed that it is difficult, if not practically impossible, to distinguish what represents our own internal process and what is coming to us from outside, from our interaction with others, from environmental influences. None of these things remains ...
Views: 305 - Becoming Aware of Consciousness Independent of the Body, Life and Mind - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhat is consciousness? How can we understand consciousness separate from what we believe to be ourselves, the body, vital force and mental framework that we identify with? Philosophers, scientists and religious leaders have all tried to develop a definition of “consciousness”. Rene Descartes ...
Views: 539 - Becoming Aware of Cosmic and Universal Forces That Impact Our Existence - by Submitted on May 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyEnormous forces are at work in the universe. Vast numbers of stars and their planetary groupings move at high speed. Radiation of various sorts streams throughout the universe. There is a cosmic background radiation that scientists can now measure as they develop ever-finer instrumentation to ...
Views: 308 - Becoming Aware of Our Faults Is the First Step Toward Overcoming Them - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is difficult for an individual to see his own shortcomings or faults. Many times we see them reflected in others and we externalise them to such a degree that we take exception to the other person, not recognising that we are seeing our own faults displayed in front of us. If we have a ...
Views: 171 - Becoming Aware of the Central Will of the Being - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe decisive spiritual experiences an individual has stay with him throughout his life. Those who are anchored in their external lives undergo countless experiences but these tend to fade, become jumbled or simply blend into one another. Who can, after all, remember what they ate for breakfast ...
Views: 472 - Becoming Aware of the Existence of the Environmental Consciousness - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen we see someone struggling, or when we ourselves are struggling, with some feeling, emotion, thought, idea, force of illness, or just feeling some pressure, we usually associate these with our internal experience of reality, but nevertheless, the fact that forces and influences come from ...
Views: 566 - Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life - by Submitted on May 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyMany people are begin to reflect, and even entertain the notion, that the world we experience on a day to day basis is somehow unreal or illusory. Films such as the dystopian story set forth in The Matrix envision that human beings are fettered and their brains wired so they experience a form of ...
Views: 416 - 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: 1 - Becoming Aware of the Soul and Its Action on Our External Being - by Submitted on May 07, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe cannot see electricity, but we can see its action through the effects it brings about. Many things occur which we cannot identify with our senses directly, but which we can interpret based on results. In a similar way, while we cannot specifically identify the soul, per se, we can identify ...
Views: 18 - Becoming Conscious and Effecting Change in the Nature - by Submitted on May 04, 2022 from santosh krinskyFor the most part, we react to things without considering the source of the impression that sparks the reaction, the process of the reaction or the manner in which the impression is converted into a response. These things simply “happen” and we tend to accept them as ‘human nature’ or, in some ...
Views: 623 - Becoming Conscious In Sleep - by Submitted on May 15, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhen the idea of becoming conscious in sleep is raised, many people try simply to find ways to remain awake somehow in sleep. This process generally leads to exhaustion, and imbalances in the physical, vital and mental complex of the outer nature. Sleep is restorative to their processes, and any ...
Views: 597 - Becoming Conscious of Oneself - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyA devotee residing at Sri Aurobindo Ashram some years ago tried an experiment which he reported. For a specific time period he determined not to speak. He did not do this in an indiscriminate way, however. He implemented this experiment by avoiding all social speech whatsoever, but agreed to ...
Views: 275 - Becoming Conscious of the Multiple Sheaths or Planes of Our Being - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the Taittiriya Upanishad, the seeker discovers, through intensive tapasya that there are multiple layers, or sheaths, of consciousness that make up the human being. His seeking first discovers the material body, or ‘food sheath’. As he continues he recognises the vital body, or ‘prana ...
Views: 418 - Becoming Conscious of the Psychic Being, the Soul in Man - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2022 from santosh krinskyThere are many different spiritual disciplines and methods, and also different experiences of consciousness that result from practice of these methods. For those who aspire to bring the soul, the psychic being, forward and active in the physical body and life, Sri Aurobindo describes several ...
Views: 538 - Been Ether-Surfing Much Lately? - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2012 from Mette MullerHave you ever met someone who seems overly absorbed in their spiritual lives? Even to the point of ignoring other aspects of their lives, such as personal relationships or their career? Perhaps they recite spiritual philosophies they’ve read (repeatedly!), or discuss at length their prowess in ...
Views: 2069 - Beginning the Process of Bringing Meditation into One’s Life - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyIf we shift to the standpoint of the observer of the mind, we will notice that as conditions vary, the ‘mind-stuff’ (citta) takes on different characteristics based on our state of reactivity and interaction with perceptions, feelings, events or external circumstances. We may consider an image ...
Views: 550 - Being and Becoming and the Soul and the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2026 from santosh krinskyWhen we gaze into space at night, we see stars unimaginably distant from us. We also can experience. if we suspend our thinking mind and vital desire-soul and physical demands temporarily, a sense of the timeless, the immutable, unchanging Reality that exceeds our ability to embrace and ...
Views: 36 - Best BBA Colleges in India - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaLLDIMS is one of the Best BBA Colleges in India Offering faculties, provides placement opportunities and affiliated colleges, do look into the experience and exposure of the college management and the visions they have regarding the institution. Are they forward-thinking? Do their messages ...
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Views: 707 - Best Colleges for BBA - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaLLDIMS is one of the Best Colleges for BBA Offering faculties, provides placement opportunities and sports a premier infrastructure in the region. Such colleges can truly serve as your stepping stone towards greater heights in your professional career. Whether you want to become the editor of a ...
Views: 705 - Best international school in Noida - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaSapphire is one of the Best international school in Noida firmly believe that the health of our children is not something to be compromised in any way. To that end, we, at Sapphire, have always made sure that our pupils are never deprived of any opportunity good for Best daycare School in Noida.
Views: 622 - Best preschool in noida - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaBest preschool in Noida always strive to instill discipline among our students as an essential means of learning. We believe discipline is as important as love, food, sleep, and education. Discipline in early childhood allows for the development of social, emotional, and behavioral skills in ...
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Views: 442 - Beyond Mental Ideas to Spiritual Experience - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe human mind is always at work, trying to figure out what life is all about, where we came from, why we are here, what we are to do, what lies in the future. We have developed a countless number of ideas, philosophies, religious concepts, and we become adherents to those that make sense to our ...
Views: 110 - Biological Energy Developed from Food and from Other Sources - by Submitted on May 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyPeople are not generally consciously aware of the energy interchanges that take place to fuel their bodies and drive their live energies. They understand that they need to eat food as a form of ‘fuel’ for their energy, and they count ‘calories’ that are produced by various food sources. Clearly, ...
Views: 317 - Black Lives Matter - From Altruism and Beyond - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2020 from Paul DunionBlack Lives Matter – From Altruism and Beyond Dr. Paul Dunion Our streets are talking to us. The talk is loud and mostly true. It says, “Black lives matter”, “Marginalization of some hurts everyone”, “Separation breeds ignorance and fear”, Leadership from ego cannot hold those ...
Views: 1028 - Bombings at the Boston Marathon - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Kyre AdeptWe all experienced a sadly familiar sense of shock and horror when we read or saw that two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Of course, it’s too early to know what or how or why; at this point, it’s all about images and anguish, sorrow for those on the scene and shock ...
Views: 1568 - Boredom and Its Cure - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe are frequently not aware of the state of boredom and its various manifestations within us. We do recognise periods when we feel at a loss and want to do or experience something or distract our minds and we recognise these times as boredom. What we do not necessarily recognise however are the ...
Views: 420 - BRAHMACHARYA ~ Transmuting Desire - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2016 from Maetreyii Ma NolanThe Sanskrit Brahmacharya blends two words, Brahma meaning God and Charya meaning to follow. This practice involves seeing everything in this universe as the manifestation of the Brahma, the Primal Source of Being. Some scholars limit this transmutation of desires in Brahmacharya to controlling ...
Views: 1806 - Bring Joy And Fulfilment Into Your Life - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiBring joy and fulfilment into your life. Life can be as joyous and meaningful as we choose to make it. Joy is what makes life beautiful. It runs deeper than mere ‘pleasure’, is more enduring than mere ‘fun’, and is more intense and thrilling than mere ‘happiness’. Joy is what helps us to get ...
Views: 1457 - Bringing Harmony Between the Inner Psychic Being and the External Nature - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2022 from santosh krinskyFor Sri Aurobindo, truth of the spirit is to be lived, not attained by abandonment of life in the world. He looks at the evolution of body, life and mind as steps along the evolutionary process, and each one of them represents an important stage in an ongoing development. The action of these ...
Views: 514 - Bringing the Light of Consciousness to the Subconscient Levels of the Being - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen the seeker recognises the difficulties attendant upon gaining control and mastery of the subconscient, he looks for leverage to both become conscious of what is currently subconscious to his awareness, and to find ways to change the response and reactions that arise from the ...
Views: 370 - Building Self-Esteem in Youth - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2012 from Suzanne E. Harrill, M. Ed., LPCAsk any second grade class of students, "Do you love yourself?" and most children will raise and wave their hands and say, "Yesss!" By high school that number has taken a considerable dive. Developmentally the adolescent's job is to begin separating from the family to become an independent ...
Views: 2101 - Calming Agitation of the Nerves: An Exercise - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2022 from santosh krinskyMost people get ‘wound up’ occasionally or frequently. This leads to what is called in Ayurveda ‘deranged vata’. Vata is the dosha that represents the air element in the being. The symptoms can include nervous tics, headaches, indigestion, insomnia, and a general feeling of lack of ease or ...
Views: 538 - Calmness Belongs to the Strong — Quietude Is the Basis of True Power - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn today’s world we are confronted by politicians and business leaders who act aggressively, beat their chests, berate others, bully and otherwise exhibit behavior that proclaims “might is right” and therefore, due to their financial power or physical strength, they have the right to control ...
Views: 521 - Can Destiny Be Modified Through Conscious Intention? - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyHowever difficult it is to predict specifically the destiny of any individual, due to the complex interactions that create that destiny (or shall we say ‘destinies’), there is still a sense that life carries out the path of the energies at work, as well as the trajectory those energies follow. ...
Views: 373 - Can Flaws Develop Strengths? - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2015 from Marilyn EppoliteAs a child I had many animal companions. My most memorable pet was an orange tabby named Krimpy. My brother named her, if I remember correctly, because her colorings reminded him of a Tastycake Krimpet, the Philadelphia based, butterscotch dessert, or maybe because her legs were crimped. I am ...
Views: 1144 - Can Human Beings Change? - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2021 from santosh krinskyWe try, as human individuals, to make changes in our lives. Self-help information proliferates, and people try numerous methods to change various habits, cravings and directions in their lives. We have a proverb that it is harder to change human nature than to straighten out a dog’s tail, which ...
Views: 797 - Can Human Beings Participate in the Change of Human Nature? - by Submitted on May 30, 2026 from santosh krinskyMany people are skeptical about the possibility of humanity participating consciously in the transformation and change of human nature. They believe that our nature is fixed and every attempt to change it has shown the futility of the effort. If we observe carefully, or even quite casually, ...
Views: 11 - Can I attain moksha by leading a normal life and just by doing my work as a worship? - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2021 from Dada BhagwanIt’s a good thing to do our work as a worship; it ought to be done so. However, that’s not enough to attain moksha. For instance, suppose you’ve been doing your work as a worship, with utmost sincerity. And just then, you overhear two people talking about you. “Oh! Chandu (please insert ...
Views: 432 - Can Reading Random Passages of Books Provide True Guidance and Direction? - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe human mind tries to find patterns and meaning in things. We see random cloud shapes and we want to understand a ‘message’. We look into the night sky and create shapes out of stars which are enormous distances separated from one another by seeing a particular form or image in the pattern ...
Views: 228 - Can Technology Actually Measure Self-Discovery? - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2012 from Michael CraigCan we actually use technology to measure our level of self-growth or self-discovery?? The answer is far from simple, but let’s give it a go . . . . First, let’s consider the cultural influences around this idea of self-discovery: For the past 150 years or so, the rate of human cultural ...
Views: 2352 - Can the Mind Recognise the Action or Influence of the Soul in Another Individual? - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2023 from santosh krinskyEvery aspect of life, and every plane of existence vibrates at its own unique frequency. As an individual develops, he can begin to resonate with and respond to the vibrations of various levels of existence. This also gives him the ability to feel and recognise the similar vibration when it is ...
Views: 329 - Can you book Umrah yourself from the UK? - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2023 from Ady GrewalThere are still many people who are hesitant about doing the Umrah on their own. Due to the high cost of Umrah Packages the Umrah agents are not particularly informative. Of course, agents are not superfluous; in fact, in some circumstances, they are quite important, since not everyone is able ...
Views: 563 - CAT- Common Admission Test – Application, Eligibility, Exam Date, Result - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2018 from Alvina JenniferKnow here All About CAT Exam – Eligibility, Application Process, Fee, Admit Card, Exam Pattern, CAT Cut off Percentile, CAT Answer Key, CAT Result and Score Common Admission Test (CAT) is biggest MBA Entrance Test in India. CAT is conducted for Admission at More than 5000 Seats in 20 IIM ...
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