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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Soul Provides the Continuity of Consciousness from Life to Life

Within a particular lifetime we experience a sense of continuity of being, which we normally attribute to the ego-personality. The sense of ego helps us identify with the body, life and mind we currently inhabit and utilize. This ego-sense is held together by the force of memory and by an identification with the body, despite any changes through which it has gone. We do not remember all of the feelings, thoughts, events, activities and experiences that have occurred throughout or lives. Who actually can remember, for instance, the experience of being a baby, a toddler, a youth, etc.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Yoga as Applied Psychology to Understand and Address the Complexity Inherent in the Evolution of Consciousness

The evolution of consciousness involves an increasing level of complexity as successive levels of consciousness are layered and then interact with each other, with each layer attempting to not only express its own native way of seeing and acting, but also needing to accommodate the demands and different considerations of the other levels. Thus, we may think of something with the mind, but when we try to express it in the body or the vital level of our being, we find that it does not translate exactly as conceived.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Confusion About the Reality of the Atman and the Ego

We 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 another. By doing this we remain fixated with the actions of the exte al nature and fail to recognise the unity and oneness of the creation, and the One source and creator of all that exists to our vision as separate forms and actions.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Solving the Existential Crisis of Our Lives Through the Evolution of Consciousness: My Personal Journey in the Adventure of Consciousness

We struggle with finding meaning in our lives. There is so much strife, so much confusion, so many issues that threaten our very existence as a species. We view enormous changes to the environment, the ever-dwindling supply of fresh water, the imminent collapse of the ocean fisheries, increasing pollution, the sixth planetary species die-off, the clear-cutting of forests and the inexorable warming of the planet, with all the follow on effects that these things have, including income inequality, unequal access to the world’s resources, and the consequence of war, famine, mass migration, etc.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Value of Mental, Vital and Physical Progress for Future Births

Of what possible value is the effort at mental, emotional, vital or physical progress to the soul if it cannot carry that progress forward into the next, and future lives. In his epic poem, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Sri Aurobindo raises the issue: “But the oblivion that succeeds the fall, Had blotted the crowded tablets of the past, And all that was destroyed must be rebuilt And old experience laboured out once more.”

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Relationship of Various Parts and Planes of the Being to Our Current Exte al Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness

Sri Aurobindo frequently describes going inward to discover the deepest inner being, the psychic being, or soul, as one way to come into contact with the truth of one’s existence and unify one’s being with the Divine. This is a way to overcome the artificial wall of separation that we set up that treats the Divine as something “other” than who or what we are, essentially recognising the inherent oneness of the entire creation, rather than accepting the illusion of duality.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Evolutionary Progress of Nature and the Impact of the Conscious Participation of the Soul

Sri Aurobindo describes the long, slow process of development of the universal manifestation. There is an evolution of consciousness which takes place over time spanning many millennia, and which does not involve the conscious participation of the individual. At a certain point in time, when the human being develops and has achieved a certain level of self-awareness, he is able to participate consciously in this evolutionary process and thereby speed it up and make it more complete.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Growth of the Soul

We become so used to all of the dark tendencies, hurtful energies and bad faith displayed throughout the world that we sometimes believe that this is the unchanging way that life is meant to be. What we often do not see is the secret evolutionary development of the soul, through time and circumstance, as it weaves its way through its various lifetimes of growth and development, and the interactions that occur with those who are at different stages in their own evolutionary progression, all of which, together, creates the mixed energetic reality that we see around us.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature of the Subconscious

Most of the impressions we receive on a day to day basis go unremarked by our conscious awareness, but are nevertheless received and stored away in our subconscious levels. These impressions may rise to the surface during dreams, or be triggered by certain sensations, events or circumstances, without us actually recognizing where they are coming from. In particular, it is known that the sense of smell can trigger memories and feelings that come from some past experience. But it goes much further than just triggering of memories that have been encapsulated and stored.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Growth and Evolution of the Soul

Most people are not directly aware of their soul, although it is frequently talked about. There seems to be much confusion. Western scientists have tried to determine the existence of the soul like they would measure particular chemical elements within the body. They weigh the body immediately before and then immediately after the time of death, and try to determine if there is any difference in weight. This approach assumes that the soul has weight and mass that would be measurable by our exte al measuring capabilities.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Two Uses of the Mind and Its True Role in the Manifestation

The primary functionality of the mind is to organize and classify, breaking down and fragmenting the reality into component parts. We see this easily in the classification systems for flora and fauna, in our detailed review of the genetic structure of life, gene sequencing, and in our ability to catalog and name star systems, galaxies, etc. We break our social units down into sub-units made up of variations of gender, age, religion, skin color, educational level, financial status, and position in society, among other things.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Physical Mind and the Process of Change

There is in Nature, a conservative force that resists change. There is a benefit inasmuch as it ensures that life does not devolve into chaos, and there is a further benefit that it forces the change-process to become much more solid and effective in order to eventually bring out the intended evolutionary result. The physical mind is that part of the mental aspect of the being which embodies this conservative force. It is rooted in the palpable, solid and visible exte al world and does not recognise, or accept easily, the reality of vital worlds, mental worlds or spiritual worlds and powers.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the Exte al Life

Many 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 reality while their actual bodies and lives are turned into an energy farming activity. When they are disconnected from the matrix, they wake up to a bleak reality and an enormous struggle to free humanity from subjection to this terrible illusion.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

How To Effect Permanent Change in the Subconscient Nature

It is often said that ‘you can’t change human nature’. One of the major obstacles turns out to be the seeds of all past habits, actions, behaviors, reactions and instincts that reside in the subconscious levels of the being. An individual may spend his life culturing his mind, his emotions and his vital nature. He may train the body and create an enormous power of will to impose his focus and his direction on the rest of the being; and yet, something occurs that suddenly awakens one of the embedded habits or instinctive reactions, and years of effort are seemingly lost.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The True Soul and the Desire Soul

The confusion about the soul is pervasive at virtually every level of our being. Sri Aurobindo identifies what he calls the ‘desire soul’ which is a formation of the vital being, living on the surface of the consciousness and seeking gratification of desires for the exte al being. The amalgam of thoughts, emotions, feelings, desires and needs of the exte al being makes up the ego-personality and its fulfillment is the essential role of the desire soul.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Education and Uplifting of the Vital Nature

One of the most confusing issues for the spiritual seeker is the ‘care and feeding’ of the vital nature. We shift from one extreme to the other in our view of how to bring it under control, for it is virtually uniformly recognised that for spiritual development, the vital nature must be controlled. We may choose to try to suppress the vital nature, to prevent its natural predilections from expressing themselves. In such a case we tend to struggle with the impulses, urges, demands of the vital forces that surge within us.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature and Action of the Physical Mind

Individuals who are primarily rooted in the function of the physical mind have a difficulty in accepting the reality of anything that goes outside their ability to sense and perceive. These individuals will frequently deny the existence of the soul because it cannot be seen, measured or recognised by them. They follow the general tenet “seeing is believing”, although in today’s world, that concept is quickly losing any validity, even for the physical mind, with the advent of complex situations, as well as photoshop and AI imaging.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Value of Attaining the Standpoint of the Witness Consciousness in Understanding the Complexity of Interaction of the Parts of the Being

It has been famously stated that we cannot understand the system within which we are acting until we can shift our view to a standpoint outside that frame. As long as we are immersed within any particular system or standpoint, we are locked into the viewpoint and understanding embedded within that frame, and our ability to perceive and fully appreciate the forces acting upon us is both severely limited and extremely biased. To become the observer of the exte al nature, therefore, is a prerequisite for attaining both self-knowledge and self-mastery.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them

Our ability to perceive is limited both by the scale within which we are able to perceive, as well as the operation of the “all or nothing” phenomenon. Thus, events are occurring, activities are underway at wavelengths below those we can perceive, and above those we can perceive. At some point, the impact of those events that occur outside our frame, may have consequences within our frame, but until that occurs, we remain blissfully ignorant of the changes that are in preparation. Similarly, our sense organs have a threshold of perception.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Physical Mind and the Power of Doubt

The physical mind, which responds to the exte al objects of the senses and the impact of those exte al objects, has strict limits within which it can either perceive or understand what it is perceiving. The reality of our existence, however, reaches far beyond the boundaries of response that bracket the action of the physical mind. Due to its nature and limitations, the physical mind responds with doubt and skepticism to anything that falls outside its range.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Subconscient and the Inconscient

We are conscious and aware of forces and energies that operate within a certain specified range. Anything that falls outside that range, whether above or below, remains unseen and unknown to us, even if the forces operative in those superior or inferior ranges impact our thoughts, feelings, perceptions and life-energies.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Distinguishing Vital Movements from the Expression of the Psychic Being

It is not easy for most people to distinguish vital responses such as feelings or emotions from the true expression of the psychic being within them. This is primarily due to the fact that just about everyone bases themselves in the exte al surface being. We see this confusion when people see someone who has a deep emotional resonance, a longing or a feeling of human love or attachment and they call this a ‘soul’ relationship or expression. The vital nature may be influenced by the psychic being, but it still is busy carrying out its own movements and forms of expression.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Inmost Being — the Psychic Being

For those who live their lives on the surface, focused on fulfillment of their exte al lives, desires and their ego-personality, there is generally no direct knowledge of the existence of the soul. They may accept the idea of a soul without a clear sense of what that implies or means. Or they may deny the idea of the soul and indicate that there is no proof of its existence. They may try to find proof of the existence of the soul in some way, if the issue even arises in their minds to consider that.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Vital Desire Soul and the True Soul of the Psychic Being

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother make a distinction between the ‘desire soul’ of the vital nature and the ‘true soul’ which expresses the inmost being that is a direct spark of the Divine. They differ in their focus, orientation, and basis of action. The desire soul incorporates the drives of the exte al being’s vital nature, the desires, emotions, impulsions that lead to the seeker after forms of power, wealth, sex, fame, and the fulfillment of the relationships which the individual has in his outer life, those of family, friends, and business associates etc.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Our Physical, Vital and Mental Sheathes Are Impacted by Energetic Forces in a Constant State of Interchange

We tend to live with an illusion of the separateness of our individual being from all others. We treat the physical body as a distinct, self-standing unit that is free and independent, has its own integrity and is essentially isolated in its separateness. This however is not quite the actuality of our situation.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Surface Vital, Mental and Physical Being and the True Vital, Mental and Physical Being

A frequently mentioned method in the practice of the integral yoga is the separation of the Witness Consciousness from the Nature (Purusha and Prakriti). This separation allows the seeker to recognise the surface consciousness, the play of body, life and mind based in the ego-sense as separate from the deeper true physical, vital and mental beings which are actually not limited by the ego-frame and are thus in contact with and participate in the powers of the larger planes for each level of consciousness of which they are a part.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Confusion About the Reality of the Atman and the Ego

We 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 another. By doing this we remain fixated with the actions of the exte al nature and fail to recognise the unity and oneness of the creation, and the One source and creator of all that exists to our vision as separate forms and actions.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Forces at Work In Human Affairs Behind the Exte al Causes

The study of human history is one of exte alities generally. We memorize dates of important events and try to lay the responsibility for certain subsequent actions at the door of those events. To hear historians tell it, the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand was the trigger that set off World War I. Sometimes historians will naturally capture and try to explain further causes to cataclysmic events having to do with geopolitical power plays or economic imbalances.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Heightening the Force of Consciousness is the Trend of Evolution

“All evolution is in essence a heightening of the force of consciousness in the manifest being so that it may be raised into the greater intensity of what is still unmanifest, from matter into life, from life into mind, from the mind into the spirit. It is this that must be the method of our growth from a mental into a spiritual and supramental manifestation, out of a still half-animal humanity into a divine being and a divine living.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Progress Requires Non-Attachment to Specific Spiritual Experiences

The exte al being wants to have a stable basis by which it can understand and act in the world. The tools that support this stable basis include habit, fixed tendencies, instincts, education, memory and even the way the mental processes work, comparing new impulses of the senses to past memory to create pattern recognition and fixed lines of action. Psychologists have even concluded that neural pathways are built that, through repetition, lead the understanding down well-wo ways of understanding and acting, and which tend to solidify the life into predictable responses.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Physical Consciousness: Abandon or Transform?

Through long habit, spiritual seekers tend to look at the question of how to attain spiritual liberation involving abandonment of the exte al life in the world. Not only spiritual seekers raise this question in some form or another. Anyone involved in aesthetic, mental, artistic, or emotional or vital pursuits eventually tries to find ways to overcome the limits and restraints of the physical, material consciousness.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Knowledge … and Wisdom

As we go through school and acquire knowledge, knowledge of facts, knowledge of ideas, knowledge of principles, knowledge of methodologies, knowledge of trained skills, we gain in our ability to act in the world and succeed in our exte al life. We learn how to employ the faculty of reasoning and we are able to classify, organize, name and assemble things and ideas in a logical step-by-step fashion. But all this knowledge does not reach to the core issues of why it is we are alive, what our role in the world is meant to be, and what the entire manifested universe is about.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Standpoint of the Individual Rooted in the Vital Nature

Each individual is rooted primarily in one of the major component aspects of our human individuality. Some are clearly rooted in the physical and their thoughts, actions and needs are those called for by the physical being. The vast majority of people are moved by their vital being, and are moved by their sensations, emotions, desires and vital drives. A much smaller number are based in the mental range and their focus is then on conce s and issues of the mental being. There are also those who are rooted in either the psychic/soul aspect or the spiritual aspect of the bing.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Self of the Physical, the Vital, the Mental and the Jivatman

The Taittiriya Upanishad describes a series of planes or sheathes that are ever more subtle, with the outermost sheath being the physical being, and then the vital sheath and the mental sheath, which makes up our ordinary human existence. Each of these sheaths are connected to a plane of universal nature that has its own characteristic action, and each one has its own being that is separate from the ego-personality of the individual and which acts as the central organizing awareness for that being behind the exte al existence.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Mechanical Mind

There is another aspect of mind that holds the habits, instincts and trained responses in place. This is what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother call the ‘mechanical mind’. There are uses and benefits to this mind, but it is one of the most rudimentary actions of mind, which arose to provide a mechanism for survival as mind began to emerge out of material life. This aspect of mind depends on repetition and protects the individual from mistakes that arise from unanticipated circumstances.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Vital Being: Its Nature, Its Role and Its Mode of Action

When the vital nature is involved, which individual has the power to control its impulsions and demands and keep it focused on the higher aims of life? The vital nature is a powerful and essential component of life on earth. It animates material nature and functions through the force of desire. There is an apocryphal tale of a man who has a magic lamp that can summon a genie. When the genie appears before the man, he asks what it is the man wants and lays out the ground rules.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Contradictions and Inconsistencies in Our Mental Process

The 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 particular sequencing and are not necessarily reviewed for consistency as a result of serious reflection. This leads to a confused mental approach that can actually apply ideas in what area that are absolutely contradicted by the way they respond in another area.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Need for Patience, Persistence and Continuity in the Attempt to Change or Transform Human Nature

Human beings generally have little patience or endurance. Particularly in today’s world, where we expect “immediate” gratification, we want something to get done quickly, easily and permanently. If we work on a particular issue we notice in our being, we want to see results and not have to continually revisit the same issue time and again. While we hold such expectations, they do not work out in actual fact, and this leads to frustrated expectations, and eventually recoils into despair, hopelessness and depression.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Multiple Personalities Within the Being

Western psychologists have identified extreme cases of what they call ‘multiple personality disorder’. This is when an individual has divergent personalities that take over the frontal being and manifest themselves in different ways, in most cases suppressing the others to such a degree that the individual does not carry active knowledge of the thoughts or acts of the leading personality at any point in time to the other parts when any of them come forward.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Shifting from Focus on the Desire-Soul to the True Soul

As human beings live primarily in the exte al consciousness on the surface of the being, their experience of existence is centred around and focused on the body, life-force and mind. They do not generally see nor recognise the true soul deep behind the surface, and they see the coming and going of the life-force in and out of the physical body as the basis of existence. When the vital force departs, they see the body die and disintegrate.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Ego Was the Helper, the Ego is the Bar

The spiritual seeker invariably hears, repeated constantly, the requirement to overcome the ego and find his true Self. The Self is one with the Divine and shares the divine consciousness, knowledge and impetus to action. The ego, which anchors the sense of a separate and distinct individuality, is an obstacle to this liberation taking place.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Soul and the Psychic Being

The soul is a portion of the Divine specifically detailed to each individual being that is created as part of the universal manifestation. The soul develops the inmost being, the psychic being, through lifetimes of experience. This psychic being grows, matures and transitions through birth and death as the aspect of the soul that accumulates the essence of experience as a basis for continued evolution of consciousness over time.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Way to Make Steady and Lasting Progress in Spiritual Growth

When we begin to observe ourselves, the thoughts we entertain, the emotions we express, the feelings we have and accept, the physical reactions that occur within ourselves, it soon becomes clear that we are more ‘reactive’ than ‘active’. We respond to energies, vibrations, pressures from outside ourselves. We are conditioned, educated, and manipulated through exte al stimuli, social media, advertising campaigns, and social pressures to think a certain way, to believe certain things, to respond in approved ways.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Habits

Much of the activity in our lives is governed by the force of habits, whether ingrained in the genetic and species memory as ‘instinctive’ behavior, or built into the structure and function of the anatomy and physiology of our bodies, or developed through various forms of conditioning of our perceptions, feelings, responses, vital reactions, emotions and thoughts. Every vibration in nature has a pattern which lends itself to repetition and this repetition, which we may call a vibratory rhythm, builds habits and “grooves” of response at all levels of our being.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Role of the Vital-Physical Aspect of Our Being

When we observe the nerves and their role in our actions, we see that they carry vital sensations within a physical frame to connect our senses and responses to exte al pressures to the brain, and then, carry impulses back to the organs of action. Most people do not recognise the essential role of this interface between the vital and the physical in determining how we react, and then how we respond to the situations of our lives.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Preparation for the Definitive Shift of the Consciousness to a New Standpoint

When a seeker has an unusual experience, when the consciousness shifts to a different standpoint, when new forms of understanding, inspiration, and response suddenly arise, there can be a feeling of intense disorientation, concern, fear or anxiety. ‘What is happening to me?’ Given the predominant mindset of the modern world, there may be conce ed about whether one is having some kind of psychological breakdown, an outbreak of madness of some sort. Family and friends may observe one acting in a new and strange way, and may even suggest psychological help or counseling.

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Spiritual Growth

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The Nature and Action of the Psychic Being and the Inner Mental, Inner Vital and Inner Physical Beings

Confusion about the spiritual being and the psychic being is not the only source of misunderstanding about the source of inspirations, feelings, and thoughts that arise as the individual shifts away from exclusive focus on the surface exte al being and begins to gain experience of the inner being. It becomes necessary then to recognize that the mind, the life and the body have not only an exte al, surface action, but also have an inner or subtle action .

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Superior Man: Beyond Good and Evil…

Nietzsche espoused the idea that the ‘superior man’ was, by definition, ‘beyond good and evil’ and was therefore not bound by the rules of society. This concept has led a number of people into serious trouble. Dostoevsky explored this idea in his novel Crime and Punishment, in which the protagonist took the position that he could disregard the rules that forbid theft and murder. Eventually, Raskolnikov broke down under the pressure and essentially had to acknowledge that he was not the ‘superior man’ he had imagined.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Transformation of Human Nature Requires the Action of the Psychic Being Connected to the Higher Consciousness

The exte al life and its conditions tend to fixate the attention for most people to such a degree, that they are overwhelmed by the needs of the body, the impositions of the life-energy and the force of desire, and the focus and attention of the mind. Just trying to keep up with all the constant demands of the outer life turns into a “full-time job” and leaves most people with very little time, energy or peace of mind to turn to questions of the deeper significance of life and how one should interface with the divine consciousness that manifests the world.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

How to Find the Soul

Philosophers, scientists and religious leaders argue about the existence of the soul. Some say the soul does not exist. Some scientists have tried to conduct measurements by weighing the person immediately before and after death to determine if any difference in weight, representing the soul, has departed the body. Some religious leaders, as an article of faith, declare the existence of the soul, while there are others, including noted philosophers and scientists who argue that the soul does not exist. What is missing from all of these arguments, however, is the experience of the soul itself,

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Spiritual Growth

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