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- The Soul, its Evolutionary Development on Earth and the Universal Manifestation - by Submitted on May 08, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the ancient text of India, it is said that a human birth is essential for progress, and that even the Gods, if they desire to attain some new development, need to take birth in a human form. It is clear that generally the physical body, the vital nature and the mental development dissolve ...
Views: 403 - The Soul, the Evolution of Consciousness Through Time and the Soul’s Development from Life to Life - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe questions of what happens to us after we die, whether we are reborn, and if so, in what form or manner have occupied human beings from time immemorial. What is the purpose of life and what are we, as conscious individuals, supposed to do with the life we are living? The Tibetan Book of ...
Views: 322 - 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: 340 - The Soul, the Psychic Being and the External Nature - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhy do we not immediately recognise the existence and centrality of the soul? We tend to set our standpoint in the external consciousness which is directed outwards, and which is constantly receiving sense impressions and pressures impinging on our body-life-mind complex. The sense organs, ...
Views: 302 - The Soul’s Aspiration for Adherence to the Divine Will in Manifestation - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe most direct way to align oneself with the Divine Will is to treat the soul, the psychic being, as the standpoint from which the being takes its stance. This is not a mental analysis, a desire of the vital or a physical need or impulsion; rather it takes the form of an aspiration, a prayer, a ...
Views: 118 - The Soul’s Connection to the Divine and Its Role in the Divine Manifestation - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany spiritual practitioners have realized that the external life we customarily lead is a life of ‘illusion’, and that it is based in a flawed view of reality. This does not mean that our life, existence and action has no real significance; rather, that the way we define our lives, based on the ...
Views: 263 - The Soul’s Faith Is a Precursor to Attainment of the Truth of Existence - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2022 from santosh krinskyFaith is generally put in opposition to Knowledge, underlying the long-term dispute in the West between ‘religion’ and ‘science’. This debate has religion requiring belief in the tenets of the religion based on pure faith, and denying the validity of a science-based knowledge approach that may ...
Views: 513 - The Soul’s Journey Through Life, Death and Rebirth - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2022 from santosh krinskyOne level of the deep ignorance within which we live and act is our bondage to the specific individual life, personality and situation that we inhabit. We are generally unaware of anything prior to our birth or which occurs after our death. Some even take the view that there is no “meaning” and ...
Views: 543 - 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: 315 - The Source and Cause of Illness - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2022 from santosh krinskyWestern medical science holds that illness has several potential causes. Failing to digest food properly is one such cause. Stress on the body and its organ systems is another. A third is failure to obtain proper nutrition or fluids. Aging is considered a contributing factor in the breakdown of ...
Views: 538 - The Source and Nature of the Mental Substance - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2023 from santosh krinskyHow does Mind evolve out of Matter? Some scientists will tell you that through random chance, chemicals and electrical forces and heat led to the development of beings capable of reflecting, thinking and contemplating deep thoughts, exploring the nature of life and the universe, etc. They do not ...
Views: 388 - The Source and Nature of the Thoughts an Individual Receives - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2022 from santosh krinskyIf we ask almost anyone where thoughts come from, they will say that they are produced in the brain. The brain is some kind of thought-factory. They don’t know how. They don’t know why. They don’t know what causes certain thoughts to develop. They recognise that sense perceptions influence the ...
Views: 508 - The Source and Origin of Desire and the Mechanism of Its Action in the Being - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2021 from santosh krinskyAn individual experiences a craving, an urge, a desire and automatically tries to fulfill it through some action. If it is hunger or thirst, the individual wants to eat or drink. If it is a more complex desire, something that cannot simply be accomplished, the mind is brought into the picture to ...
Views: 580 - The Sources of Disturbance and the Process of Detachment - by Submitted on May 28, 2022 from santosh krinskyWe tend to internalize and “own” our weaknesses or internal struggles. This is the ego-consciousness at work. We also fail to recognise that there are multiple different sources of pressures on us, some of which are ingrained habits we have accepted into our surface being, others are seeds we ...
Views: 513 - The Spectrum of Consciousness: From Superconscient to Inconscient - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2023 from santosh krinskyAll consciousness operates on a continuum with each plane representing certain vibrational spectra that are perceptible to those able to receive and process the vibrations of that plane. We know from research with various beings such as insects and animals of various sorts that they have ...
Views: 365 - The Spirit of the Yoga of Works - by Submitted on May 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhile we live and act from the standpoint of the individual ego-personality, we measure and respond to everything based on how it impacts us personally and directly, and judge things based on that impact. This leads us to treat as positive, those events and interactions that satisfy our desires, ...
Views: 123 - The Spirit, the Soul and the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2021 from santosh krinskyThere is considerable confusion about the various terms used to describe the spiritual quest and the reality of our individual existence. Sri Aurobindo distinguishes and defines the different aspects or elements and their role in spiritual practice. There is additional confusion around the term ...
Views: 612 - The Spiritual Aspirant Has the Potential to Overcome the Limits of His Birth and Social Circumstances - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are born into a family, a culture, a society, a given economic and political system, an educational process, and a vast number of social habits, customs and predilections which create for us a framework within which we are expected to take up our destined place in society and carry it ...
Views: 252 - The Spiritual Aspirant Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer Than Those Who Focus on the External Life - by Submitted on May 13, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe spiritual aspirant necessarily has to change the way things have been historically and habitually done in the world if he is to make progress and move beyond the limitations imposed by the body-life-mind complex and all the traditions, rituals, habits, fixed ideas and vital-emotional ...
Views: 96 - The Spiritual Aspirant’s Opening to the Action of the Spiritual Force - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2025 from santosh krinskyThere are many things in the world that we cannot directly observe with our senses, yet which we otherwise believe to be real, based on the noticeable and palpable effects they have. We cannot ‘see’ gravity, but we feel its effects. Similarly, we cannot ‘see’ electricity, but we not only can ...
Views: 37 - The Spiritual Call Comes… Then What Needs to Happen Next - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2022 from santosh krinskyWe have a vision. We get inspired. We have a near death experience. We come back from the spiritual experience and we are sure it is meant to change our lives, as we suddenly have a whole new vista open up before us, a realm of truth, beauty, harmony, light. Then we come back into our normal ...
Views: 383 - The Spiritual Consciousness Brings a Vast Peace as a Foundation for the Transformation of the Nature - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe mind cannot adequately create, imagine, describe or image the experience of the descent of peace and vastness that takes hold of the being and superimposes itself over the activities of the mind, life and body. Until one has the actual experience, therefore, nothing specific can be said ...
Views: 59 - The Spiritual Experience Gets Watered-Down or Lost As It is Transcribed into the Mental Framework - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2023 from santosh krinskyHuman beings are essentially dependent on their mental perception in order to function in the world. This mental perception frames what we see, how we experience it, and our interpretation. We thus try to transcribe anything provided to us by our senses (or provided directly to the mind without ...
Views: 377 - The Spiritual Experience, Not the Mental Idea, Is the Focus of the Spiritual Practitioner - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe have the tendency to get caught up in trying to capture a line of thought or to verbalize a perception or idea. When we have an experience of the spiritual realms, the first thing we want to do is to create a thought-form to explain it, to organise it, and to be able to describe it. The very ...
Views: 274 - The Spiritual Growth of Modern Times - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiTo grow spiritually in a world defined by power, money, and influence is a Herculean task. Modern conveniences such as electronic equipments, gadgets, and tools as well as entertainment through television, magazines, and the web have predisposed us to confine our attention mostly to physical ...
Views: 998 - The Spiritual Journey - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2013 from odette worrellMost ancient texts have explored the concept of healing, and modern medicine is now just beginning to document what I have personally experienced and what my clients have on our journey towards health…that the process of “healing” or becoming more “whole” happens simultaneously with one ...
Views: 1857 - The Spiritual Life, the Religious Life and the Ordinary Human Life - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2021 from santosh krinskyOrdinary human life is essentially driven by response to outer circumstances, and is based in the desires, needs and reactions of the ego-personality. The interaction between people in a society, whether in the smallest groupings such as the family, or larger groupings of community, country or ...
Views: 829 - The Spiritual Path and Ascetic Practices - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature craves excitement. It also craves recognition and acknowledgement, in the form of vanity, aggrandisement of the ego, and seeking for fame. The vital nature is also quite impatient and wants to see results right away. When the vital nature enters into the spiritual realm, it ...
Views: 286 - The Spiritual Revolution - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2021 from santosh krinskyHumanity is facing a crisis of existential proportions. Climate change, pollution, income inequality, access to fresh water and food, and the consequences that lead to mass migration, war, and increased risk of pandemic disease vectors all are forcing us to confront our entire way of looking at ...
Views: 748 - The Spiritual Seeker and the Challenges of Spiritual Growth and Development - by Submitted on May 29, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople believe generally that taking up the spiritual life involves a form of escapism from the daily obstacles, difficulties and pressures of living an active life in society. Some people in fact take up the spiritual path as an escape, but that is neither the primary motivation nor does it ...
Views: 76 - The Spiritual Seeker and the Material World - by Submitted on May 08, 2025 from santosh krinskyOne of the habits that has built up over many millennia among spiritual practitioners is the ingrained idea that Matter and Spirit are essentially irreconcilable and that in order to pursue the spiritual life one must be willing to give up and abandon the material life. Material life and a focus ...
Views: 113 - The Spiritual Seeker Can Change the Normal Human Focus on Food to a More Balanced Perspective That Supports His Focus on Sadhana - by Submitted on Dec 28, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn the ordinary life in society, food plays an especially important and high profile role. We treat food as a centerpiece of our various celebrations, as rewards, as comfort when we are under stress and as something we consumer out of boredom or inattention. Food taste, food preparation, food ...
Views: 0 - The Spiritual Seeker Should Focus on the Aspiration and Recognize Weaknesses Without Obsessing About Them - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyObsessing about failures, weaknesses, lapses, and obstructions can turn into a full-time occupation! All of human nature has to be taken up and modified, transformed or outright rejected for the next evolutionary manifestation to fully take up its role in the life of the planet. All seekers ...
Views: 38 - The Spiritual Seeker’s Aspiration and Prayer - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2025 from santosh krinskyParticularly in the West, when people think about Yoga, they believe it is a series of physical postures or exercises done with a certain sense of concentration. They associate Hatha Yoga with the entirety of yogic practice, and in many instances, treat Yoga as a form of physical ...
Views: 54 - The Standpoint of the Individual Rooted in the Vital Nature - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2023 from santosh krinskyEach 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 ...
Views: 350 - 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: 326 - The Status of Consciousness Where One Can See Things as They Are - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2025 from santosh krinskyAs long as an individual is rooted in his own ego-standpoint, he sees and interprets things from that standpoint and cannot, by definition, ‘see things as they are’ in the wider creation. There is the famous story of 5 different observers of a traffic accident, each one observing from a ...
Views: 93 - The Status of the Purusha in the Individual and in the Universal Manifestation - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe see pattens repeating from the macro-level to the micro-level. The study of fractals shows us that there are indeed certain patterns and relationships that repeat themselves in every smaller configurations as we drill down toward the micro-level. The macrocosm and the microcosm reflect the ...
Views: 392 - The Story of Prophet Ibrahim (A.S) and a Relation of Hajj - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2018 from Umer FiazAllah the Almighty sent down the 1 lac 24 thousand prophets to guide the people who had forgotten Allah’s instructions and His righteous way. When Allah felt that humankind need a Messenger and director who will lead His creation towards Him then He sent down the Messenger immediately. There are ...
Views: 2068 - The Strength in Stillness - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe live in a world that prizes action and that continually impinges upon us with various information feeds and input from all directions. Quiet and stillness, the ability to remain calm without agitation or upset, the ability to achieve true peace in the mind, in the vital and nervous being and ...
Views: 470 - The Subconscient and the Inconscient - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe 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, ...
Views: 356 - The Subconscient Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 3 - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2022 from santosh krinskyThere are realms that operate under different rules, or laws, than what we have come to expect here. Our earthly life is a complex amalgam of physical, vital, mental and psychic consciousness, and this mixture implies that none of these are able to express themselves in the purest sense of their ...
Views: 506 - The Subconscient Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 4 - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2022 from santosh krinskyAs the individual works to understand the wellsprings of the motives, impulses and forces that rise up through his being in the subconscient and push him into action, a subtler understanding begins to develop. The need to distinguish between the inherited habits and embedded atavistic movements, ...
Views: 449 - The Subconscient Is the Repository of Habits and Atavistic Behaviour That Must Be Cleared During the Yogic Process - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe bring into this life many propensities as well as genetic tendencies, which are compounded and accentuated by early learning that takes place in the family and in the society. Prenatal influences as well as learning that takes place after the birth process and in the very early childhood ...
Views: 441 - The Subconscious Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 1 - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2022 from santosh krinskyWe tend to not only identify with the values of our family, our country, our religion, but we also internalize the standpoint taken by them, so that we view situations, actions and reactions, and history through the lens of this standpoint. This of course can create a highly biased viewpoint of ...
Views: 518 - The Subconscious Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 2 - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2022 from santosh krinskyAs if the genetic, prenatal and neonatal influence, and the habits and customs of the society into which one is born is not sufficient burden to have to deal with as it rises up from the subconscient levels of our being, we also have to address the current influences provided through peer ...
Views: 472 - The Subliminal Consciousness Provides the Gateway to Knowledge and Creativity - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2023 from santosh krinskyIt is typical for human beings to associate their knowledge, their artistic achievements, their skills as something they create within themselves. They tether the ego-consciousness to all such developments, believing that somehow they are unique and special in terms of the ability to create ...
Views: 339 - The Subliminal Level of Consciousness and Our Waking State - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhat we actively perceive and pay attention to with our waking consciousness is a very small portion of the entire pattern of energetic forces we are constantly subjected to, and which act upon us, unseen and unrecognised. Whether it is physical radiation, vital forces, or mental thought-forms, ...
Views: 373 - The Subliminal, the Subconscient, the Superconscient and the Circumconscient Forces That Impact Our Responses to Life - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur surface awareness is basically the ‘tip of the iceberg’. Most of what takes place in our being occurs outside of the range of our active external perception of the senses and mental awareness. Even the interactions with the external reality we experience represent only a small fraction of ...
Views: 391 - The Subtle Energetic Interchange That Accompanies All Interaction in the World - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the reasons that spiritual seekers have traditionally been advised to seek solitude and not engage in society is that there is a constant, subliminal interchange that takes place between all human beings. We generally do not notice it, but on an energetic, a vibrational level, we are ...
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