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- The Surface Consciousness and the Subliminal Consciousness - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe focus our attention and awareness on the external world in which we are active. We receive impressions, sensations, vibrations, impulsions and pressures from that world and it fixes our mind on that palpable experience of reality. This is however not the entirely of our existence nor of the ...
Views: 383 - Three Rules for the Spiritual Practitioner with Respect to Experiences - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhat to do about spiritual experiences when they come? When we have a revelation of some sort, when we hear a communication that provides us insight or guidance, how are we to know whether it is truthful or misleading? Can we determine the source of the clairvoyant or clairaudient communication ...
Views: 383 - Understanding the Transmission of Our Vital Inheritance - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2023 from santosh krinskyFew are those individuals who were conceived through a consecrated and conscious act of prayer and dedication by the parents. Those individuals are blessed with the opportunity to live a life of dedication and devotion. Most people, however, are conceived without much thought or consideration ...
Views: 383 - The Aspiration and Surrender of the Body Consciousness in Its Seeking for Health and Balance - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhile the mind does not generally recognise the consciousness of the body, it remains true that the body has its own ability to respond to circumstances. For those who have a highly developed mental or vital being, these powers frequently override the natural responsiveness of the body. When we ...
Views: 382 - The Soul, the Psychic Being and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2023 from santosh krinskyMost people live their lives centered around the ego-personality and the external life. Their focus and actions are based in the needs, desires and gratifications that are put up by the body, the vital life-energy and the mind. They do not have a conscious relationship with the soul or the most ...
Views: 382 - The Vital Nature: Transformation Not Suppression - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe vital has a natural tendency to seek for the fulfillment of its being in some form of enjoyment. In the external surface being, this enjoyment takes the form of a seeking after pleasure. With this seeking after pleasure, however, comes also the experience of pain. Pleasure and pain alternate ...
Views: 382 - The Continuum of Consciousness and the Interactions of the Various Wave-Forms - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe recognise the electro-magnetic spectrum, the color spectrum, the sound wave spectrum and others, each as representing a continuum of wave forms with varying characteristics. There are shorter, more intense waves and longer wave frequencies. Some conduct tremendous amounts of physical heat, ...
Views: 381 - The Existential Crisis of Humanity and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyThank you for your interest in this critical issue for the future survival of our entire human race. There is a positive way forward for humanity as we face the intense challenges before us. When we are under intense pressure we have the impetus to make needed changes. That is the lesson of ...
Views: 381 - The Food of the Vital Being - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe can observe that there are times when the vital nature is energetic, enthused, active, and makes efforts. There are other times when it is dull, withdrawn, sullen, lacking energy and clearly is not taking interest in doing anything. The difference between these two states generally lies in ...
Views: 381 - The Self, the Spirit, the Soul, the Terrestrial Evolution and the Supreme Divine Being - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs an individual begins to consciously try to understand the yogic path and connect with his soul and discover his true self, and then find and consciously participate in the spiritual purpose of the divine manifestation, he is confronted with a number of different terms and elements that need ...
Views: 381 - The Superior Man: Beyond Good and Evil… - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2023 from santosh krinskyNietzsche 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 ...
Views: 381 - The Vital Embodies Power of Realisation - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2023 from santosh krinskyA life focused solely on meditation, inner development, growth of knowledge, or on prayer and devotion, tends to avoid the implications of the ongoing evolution of consciousness and the need for transformation and positive change to create the circumstances for that evolution of consciousness to ...
Views: 381 - Transformation of Human Nature Requires the Action of the Psychic Being Connected to the Higher Consciousness - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe external 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 ...
Views: 381 - Higher Mind Is the First Gradation of Consciousness Beyond the Normal Human Mental Level - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2023 from santosh krinskyIt is difficult to appreciate that there are gradations of consciousness, each with their own distinct characteristics, that occur outside our normal human range of perception. We tend to see separations and divisions within our limited range, while we treat anything outside that range as being ...
Views: 380 - How can I control my mind? How can I understand myself? - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2023 from Dada BhagwanGenerally, when our mind is overloaded with thoughts, we try to find a way to escape it by using diversions or different activities. However, these are all temporary solutions. Once these activities have ended, countless thoughts continue to buzz around like a fly once again. So rather than ...
Views: 380(1 vote) - Understanding the Mechanism of the External Nature and the Way to Overcome Its Limitations - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs the seeker attempts to follow a spiritual path, he frequently finds that he struggles with old habits, desires, feelings, cravings, emotions and ideas. He believes these are part of ‘who he is’ and he thus cannot find a way to overcome them, In some cases, he is deeply attached to some of ...
Views: 380 - Developing Will-Power - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we are interested in something we naturally focus on that to the exclusion of other distractions. Time passes and we do not notice it. Things that would ordinarily engage our attention are disregarded. This power of ‘one pointed’ concentration is however elusive when it arises just out of ...
Views: 379 - The Interaction of the Individual and Universal Subconscient With the Individual - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe tend to imagine that somehow the mind, the vital energy and the physical body we identify through our ego-complex as ourselves, is separate from those of everyone else. In reality, however, the physical, vital and mental substance is universal in nature and the portion we try to wall off ...
Views: 379 - To Become Conscious of the Source of Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs we are primarily based in our ego-consciousness, we tend to accept that ideas we have, feelings we have, emotions we express, needs and desires we seek after, are all what make up ourselves, our personality, our persistent individuality. We identify with a specific religion, political ...
Views: 379 - Gaining Mastery Over the Action of the Mechanical Mind - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe mechanical mind encompasses some of the most basic, most rudimentary activities of the mind. It lies below the faculties of higher logical reasoning, and forms a foundation for the most simple and automatic mental processes. It is like the core computer language upon which all kinds of ...
Views: 377 - The Miracles and Mysteries in Our Everyday Lives and the Conclusions We Can Draw From Them - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are constantly surrounded by ‘miracles’ in the sense that our lives are filled with activities, events, processes and circumstances that we clearly do not understand, but accept based on some explanation, assuming that someone knows what it is all about. Airplanes flying through the air, ...
Views: 377 - The Power of the Subconscious - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyWestern psychology has developed with the basis that the subconscious mind is extremely powerful and can determine actions and reactions of individuals that overcome the conscious intentions of those individuals. Events, circumstances, perceptions, and corresponding fears, hopes and excitement, ...
Views: 377 - When the Psychic Being Comes Forward to Direct the External Nature - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere is a considerable difference in effective results from the psychic being having an influence, essentially from ‘behind’ the surface nature, on the actions of the life in the external world, and what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother designate as the psychic being ‘coming forward’. Until the ...
Views: 377 - How to Change One’s Character - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2023 from santosh krinskyHumanity has struggled with the idea of an individual changing his character and becoming something more, or different, than what he was before. Numerous methods have been tried, and at the end of the day, almost everyone agrees that human nature and the individual character that expresses that ...
Views: 376 - The Nature of the Illumined Mind - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe aspiring yogic practitioner starts from the basis of the normal human egoistic standpoint of the mind-life-body complex. The process and method of perception, thought, logic, analysis, classification and labeling, reasoning, understanding and implementation in action is quite well-defined ...
Views: 376 - Free Will, Determinism and Random Chance as Factors in Life Outcomes - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is a third factor that intervenes in the debate about free will and determinism and that is ‘random chance’. In that concept, there is basically no plan, no framework and no way to manage or control events, which thus can occur through random occurrences with no predetermined end. Both the ...
Views: 375 - Occult Forces Surround Us and Can Act Upon Us - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe human range of perception is bounded on both sides and thus, forces that are active in ranges above or below our own field of perceptions are able to act without our ability to direct know what they are doing, or interact with them consciously. To the extent that they wield influence on our ...
Views: 375 - The Evolutionary Process of the Manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe gradations of consciousness beyond the human level represent levels of awareness and power that far exceed anything that we can appreciate from the purely human mental level. In the Taittiriya Upanishad, there is a “calculus” of gradations of bliss. “Let there be a young man, excellent and ...
Views: 375 - The Limitations in the Concept of Free Will - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe believe we have free will. We are confronted with choices and make a decision and carry it out and believe that this decision was made freely by the individual we identify as ourself. At the same time, we can recognise the step-wise development which is called ’cause and effect’, or the law ...
Views: 375 - Vital Energy in Ordinary Life and in the Spiritual Life - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe generally do not question the movements of the vital nature in our ordinary daily life. They are so much a part of what we consider to be human nature and human experience that we simply accept them and treat them as inevitable. It is true that human society has developed a framework within ...
Views: 375 - Making the Vital Into a Willing Collaborator in the Transformation of Life - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2023 from santosh krinskyAfter all the attempts to bring the vital being under some kind of control, it may seem like it is an impossible task! The vital has its fixed habits of fulfillment and satisfaction and tends generally to want to continue its normal modes of action. It is, however, not a thankless task and there ...
Views: 374 - The Action of the Psychic Being Independent of and in Relation to the External Being - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyEach level of consciousness acts on its own native level independent of any single individual person or embodiment. There is a subtle physical plane, a vital plane, a mental plane, and various spiritual planes beyond that characterize and represent further levels of the evolution of ...
Views: 374 - The State of Conscious Sleep - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2023 from santosh krinskyOne of the reasons that a seeker is advised to have the assistance of an experienced guide, or guru, in the spiritual path, is that it is easy to be confused about the real meaning of what is written in the texts. For instance, when we hear about the concept of ‘conscious sleep’ or we see Arjuna ...
Views: 374 - The End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyUnder the influence of the gnostic consciousness, the entire framework of the mental organisation of life, which we accept as assumed and given, would necessarily be modified. The very basis of viewing and understanding things would have to shift from one of division and separation to one of ...
Views: 373 - The Need to Gain Control Over the Action of the Vital Mind and Its Function - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2023 from santosh krinskyEveryone has had the experience, at some time or another, of imagining themselves doing something extraordinary, or at least fulfilling some dream about how their lives could develop or turn out. It may be a fantasy about winning a lottery, or gaining fame or recognition, or finding the right ...
Views: 373 - Gaining an Understanding of the Nature of the Subliminal Consciousness - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2023 from santosh krinskyWestern psychology is in its infancy as a science. It is, as is all mental knowledge, a form of ignorance, seeking and grasping for knowledge, while not actually able to see the entire picture nor understand the complexity of all the elements that go into human psychology. Thus, Freud gained a ...
Views: 372 - The Habit of Self-Deception - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhat we frequently fail to recognise is that much of the vital interaction and mental self-justification that supports it takes place more or less without active intervention or reflection by the mind. A vital desire or concern is prodded and the mind instantly jumps to self-justification ...
Views: 372 - The Difference Between Intuition and Intellect - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe mind gathers details from the senses, attempts to classify them according to past experience, and then tries to both judge the meaning of the situation and extrapolate how future steps will occur. This process relies on known powers of the mind, powers of analysis, powers of what is known as ...
Views: 371 - The Process of the Integral Yoga to Achieve Liberation from and Transformation of the External Surface Nature - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyIf it were only simple! The integral yoga holds out the goal of not just attaining liberation from the external surface nature, but also transforming that nature under the impulsion and intention of the divine intention in the universal creation. While the concept of liberation is well known and ...
Views: 371 - Occultism and Our Daily Lives - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe rarely reflect on the occult powers that we use all the time, automatically, including the various powers of the mind and emotions. Researchers in the field of medical science have now recognized the important role that our mental state has on our health and well-being. They now admit the ...
Views: 370 - Why Is Joy Inconstant, and How Does One Extend it? - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyIt is first necessary to distinguish pleasure from joy. Pleasure may arise from the most insignificant, external factors, a sense impression, a lucky or fortuitous turn of events, or some passing vital response to a circumstance. Pleasure is a response of the surface being to something which has ...
Views: 370 - Distinguishing the Vital Mind from the Mental Power of Reason, Thought and Will - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe may observe feelings, perceptions, thoughts, emotions, ideas, imaginations, memories, etc. all arising in our minds, and, for most of us, this is all just ‘mental activity’. And for most people this is clearly enough! For those taking up the spiritual life and practice, however, it becomes ...
Views: 368 - Small Vital Entities and Their Action in Human Life - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Mother relates two stories here about interactions she personally had with some small entities. One group were of good will and acted to remind her of things when she was otherwise distracted. She was able to pay attention to their hint and ensure that all worked out properly. It takes a ...
Views: 368 - The Challenges of Merging the Ego into the Divine - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere are several ways to approach the question of consecration of one’s being and life to the Divine. As the Mother makes clear, the need to be an individualised being that can actually have something to offer to the Divine is both paramount, and requires substantial effort to both understand ...
Views: 368 - The Soul’s Progress Relies on an Earthly Incarnation - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2024 from santosh krinskySpiritual traditions around the world agree that it is on earth, in the physical body, that progress takes place. They treat the soul’s time in the body as the time for growth, for development, for maturation. When the soul leaves the body at the time of death, it goes through a transition that ...
Views: 368 - A Shift of Standpoint from the Ego-Personality to the Soul or Self Is Needed to Unify, Organise and Harmonise the Entire Being - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe tend to identify ourselves with the constructed ego-personality that we have built up, without recognising that this personality is itself an amalgam of different drives, instincts, habits, emotional predilections, feelings, thoughts, etc., which in many cases are not in alignment with one ...
Views: 367 - Gaining Access to the Subliminal Consciousness - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2023 from santosh krinskyIt is one thing to gain an intellectual understanding of the concept of the subliminal consciousness. However, this does not provide a real experience of nor true knowledge about the action, influence and impact of the subliminal consciousness on our lives. The question then arises, whether and ...
Views: 367 - The Initial Psychic Realisation Helps You Go Beyond the Barriers of Your Egoism - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen the astronauts left the planet and were able to look back at Earth from outside, it radically changed their viewpoint. It represented a visceral shock that forced them to see things in an entirely new way from a new perspective. Analogously, when the shift of standpoint occurs for the ...
Views: 367 - The Vital-Physical, the Physical-Vital and the Material Vital: the Linkages Between Matter and the Vital - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen Life emerges in Matter, there must, obviously, be some mechanism for the two principles to interact with one another. Matter must develop ways to sense, respond to and react to the action of the Life-Force. Similarly, when the Life-Force evolves and manifests in Matter, it must also become ...
Views: 367 - The Role and Benefit of the Physical Body - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2023 from santosh krinskySpiritual aspirants frequently complain about the obstructions provided by the physical body. There is a need to eat, a need to sleep, the constant pressure of physical existence, the wear and tear of the aging process, the potential for illness or injury, and the eventual breakdown and ...
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