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The quest to understand the nature of consciousness, and “who am I?” spans back through the past history of mankind. Some of the exercises undertaken by the ancient sages remain relevant into the current day, as the Mother illustrates in her example below, which derives i its original form from the Bhriguvalli of the Taittiriya Upanishad.

An important step in the practice of yoga is to attain true detachment from the surface nature through the shifting of the standpoint from the surface to the ‘witness consciousness’, the Purusha. The separation of Purusha from Prakriti, the active nature, is needed in order to effectuate change in the exte al nature, as otherwise, we remain involved in that nature and are limited within the frame that it sets for us.

There are numerous ways to widen one’s consciousness to begin to incorporate the viewpoint and direction of others. Some of these methods are easier than others, in that they utilize a mood or feeling that is evoked from a natural environment, such as the starry sky, the ocean, a wide view from a mountaintop, etc. These methods also have the advantage of being safer in various ways as they do not try to directly enter and assimilate the energies or viewpoints of other individuals, who in some cases may be hostile to the thoughts and emotional process of the seeker.

Those who have an aspiration for spiritual growth, for the change of human nature within themselves, eventually find that they cannot live haphazardly, at the mercy of whatever forces, impulses, ideas or thoughts happen to be moving within them at any point in time, regardless of the source or the intention behind those movements. The aspiration becomes a will to grow, a will to change, a will to progress, and this involves several steps to ensure that the being is coalescing around the aspiration and not random vital impulses or ideas.

Sri Aurobindo provided advice to an individual who was trying to sort out the direction for his life and how to face the difficulties that confronted him, particularly with respect to certain vital weaknesses to which he was prone. Sri Aurobindo analyzed the condition of this individual in great detail and provided both general and specific advice for addressing the situation. He determined that certain ideas accepted by the individual stood in the way of resolving the issues. The step by step specific advice is here:

Why do you identify yourself with the mind and body? rn“Due to wrong belief”, says Pujya Deepakbhai, an enlightened being! While explaining this aspect in a very simple and beautiful way, he further elaborates, rn“It is by wrong belief that you feel oneness with Claudet (you may insert your own name here) i.e. oneness with the mind, body, thoughts, intellect, speech, behavior, etc. of Claudet. Whenever Claudet takes a decision, you feel ‘I am taking decision.’ If so

In our day-to-day communication, we commonly use the words like ‘pride’ and ‘ego’ and often use them interchangeably. But are these words really interchangeable? Do they mean the same, particularly from a spiritual point of view? And if they don’t, why is it important to differentiate between them? Let us explore! Ego means ahamkar. If we break down this word, we get aham which means ‘I’ and kar which is a suffix that suggests doership. So, ahamkar refers to the

Most people have their mind turned outward towards the world with their 5 senses—but great gurus and saints have their 5 senses turned inward towards God and the True Universe. It’s easy to have our 5 senses become connected to all that we have going on around us. That’s exactly what Maya (The Outer World) is trying to do, lead us away from Nirvana. But those who know exactly where they are headed are not fooled— they know that all of this is but a dream— and the only true reality is inward.

A while back someone said: “The issue with my kidney disease is about ‘reading too much information’ I guess partly due to being an auditor and accountant, I’m a very detail kind of person. But now I’m realizing that having too much information doesn't do any good. Now I don’t look everything up because God is greater than fear… and where there is fear God can’t exist.”

Many people who are looking for answers wonder why God, the Universe, and Great Spirit just doesn’t heal the world and make everything wonderful. Here is the reason why. If God, the Universe, and Great Spirit were to end all wars, heal all the sick, and make all suffering disappear would we learn anything? The whole idea of being on this earthly plane is to learn lessons and raise our vibrations so we can move towards our true identity as divinity. “And if God did heal everything would we learn anything?”

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With focus, over time and with dedicated effort, the power of concentrated attention, samyama, eventually bears fruit and one can escape the boundaries of the ego-consciousness and enter into an identification with others. As this occurs, we understand their motivations and the direction of their thoughts and actions. The Mother points out that this can even occur while reading a book. As the concentration deepens, it is possible to enter into the mind of the author.

An understanding of the three gunas, or qualities of Nature, is extremely helpful in gaining an understanding of the responses to exte al stimuli, events, people and circumstances. The gunas are sattwa, with a predominant quality of light and harmony, rajas with a predominant quality of movement and action of desire, and tamas, with a predominant quality of inertia or darkness. In general, one of these qualities tend to predominate, even though they remain at all times in flux and adjustment. Different aspects of the Nature tend to take on the cast of the predominant guna.

Albert Einstein was famously quoted as saying: “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”. It is necessary to achieve a new frame of reference and standpoint in order to address the issues of the body-life-mind complex and the transformation of the vital nature is one of the key issues that needs to be so addressed. The vital nature, as we have described, is not subject to change through the normal tools of indulgence or suppression that seekers have tended to employ in past attempts to bring it under control.

Every individual has all the long-established vital movements embedded deep in the nature. When the force of the yoga begins to open up the various energy centers, particularly the vital centers, these movements are stirred and use the opportunity to capitalize on the new energy and try to fulfill themselves. It is essential that the vital centers open to the action of the higher force, and it is quite common that the seeker will have to face the pressure of these lower movements trying to overwhelm him as this occurs.

We are very much creatures of habit, and thus, when it comes to our intake of energy, we tend to habitually turn to a preferred method of reception. For most people, the primary source is food. Most people engage in vital interchange with others, and there is a subtle interaction that can both give and take energy during this interchange. The more set we are in our habits, the less we explore opportunities for new avenues or directions from which to interact with the universal forces and receive them into our being.

Where the mind focuses and attention is given, energy flows. Thus, when we focus on our physical body and its health issues, when we create fear or anxiety over our health status, we are actually opening up a pathway for the very conce s we are worried about. Positive healthy attention to the needs of the body is one thing, but when we shift over to a negative state of worry, we get in touch with the things that cause the worry, and thus, create a link that allows them to enter. We are in effect ‘inviting them in’ with this type of attention.

Over the last few months, life has changed for everyone worldwide, due to the outbreak of Covid-19. There has been an overwhelming feeling of uncertainty as the lockdown has put a hold on everything, right from personal to social and to work life too. Given the level of ambiguity and uncertainty about how life will look tomorrow or in the next week or after a couple of months from now, the level of anxiety that many of us have experienced in past few days has been very high.

We have seen a phenomenal growth of practices that bring attention to our daily actions. Mindfulness training asks us to attend to each movement, each step, each bite of food, and each thought and emotion. Clearly with the amount of distraction we suffer from as a result of our love affair with technology, mobile phones, tablet computers, internet, television, radio and streaming audio and music, there is barely any time in our lives to simply attend to what we are actually doing. We eat while interacting with our mobile phone, texting, or surfing the internet.

The shift from the standpoint of the desire-soul of the ego is not something that can occur completely and all at once. There are too many persistent threads of the instincts and habits of the mind-life-body complex to expect so radical a change to happen magically. There may be, and generally are, experiences which come to the seeker that confirm the fact of another status of consciousness wherein resides peace, light, harmony, knowledge and a force that is palpable, working on the mind, working on the vital, working on the body.

In order to find peace we have to gently cleans away some of the stuff that holds us back in life. We all have illusions, and those illusions get in the way of finding who we truly are deep down inside. Dr. Paul Haider Watch Video and Find Out More Copy and paste the following URL into your browser to see the video - Dr. Haider https://youtu.be/vomt8PvjPI8 Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel

Our thyroid takes care of our metabolism, heat production, growth, fertility, immune system via our intestines, and the use of proteins, carbs, vitamins, fats, water, and electrolytes. And thyroid disease has been increasing over the years. Here are a few natural ways to heal thyroid disease and start feeling better. Dr. Paul Haider - Master Herbalist Watch Video and Find Out More Please Subscribe to My Youtube Channel Copy and paste the following URL into your browser to watch video https://youtu.be/fSVy1W08PWI

Lately, I’ve had lots of people come to me who are full of fear about the future. Fear is the opposite of love and fear will do harm to the mind and body. So What Are You Afraid of?

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The science of karmarnIt is simply the science of cause & effect. Karmas are the actions (causes) and the fruits of karma are its reactions (effects). The rules of karma are such that when you create karma, the resultant effect comes naturally and automatically. The resultant effect is something one has to go through; one simply cannot avoid it. Everyone, including the enlightened beings, have to suffer on that account. In case of the Omniscient Lord Mahavir, the celestial de

Tequila is an alcoholic beverage made from the blue agave plant and fermented from the juice. Tequila making from step by step: first of all, harvesting the agave plants and has been passed about the generation to generation. Then after cooked it, then extraction, and after fermentation is done. Then distillation, aging, and fill into the bottling. Tequila is suited for growing the blue agave, and more than 300 million plants harvest the years. Agave is depending on the regio

Insecurity is one of the worst feelings one could ever experience. We always try to create secure environments to live and grow in, and constantly keep updating our security arrangements so that we do not find ourselves vulnerable to attacks of any kind, be it physical, mental or emotional. But what part of our being really needs security? Is it our mind, our heart or our soul? Let us explore! In order to understand the true nature of security, it is important to understand t

I just happen to know two people who have said that November will be a month in which there will be lots of people getting sick and having accidents in our family. One is a well know Vedic Astrologer and the other is a well know seer who even predicted 9/11 two years before it happened. Here is our story for the first 2 days of November and how prayer and love can heal everything.

I think most of us have met people who believe the following “Life is hard and then you die”. And then there are people who come to this plane and believe “Life is Wonderful”. And when we take a look at their health and mindset there is a very interesting correlation.

“How to Live to Be 100 and Feel Like 30” As we get older we need to have extra herbs, supplements, and foods that give us lots of energy and vitality and slow the aging process. Here are 6 vital elements that are important to for great energy so we can live to be 100 years old and feel like 30.

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Right from childhood, we are taught the value of truth in life. And as we grow older, we get to learn different facets of truth from our surroundings. Never lie, be honest and straightforward in your dealings, practice morality and nobility in life are some of the teachings we grow up with, so that we can lead a happy worldly life and also progress well on the path of spirituality; and on the other hand, we are also taught that deception, acquiring worldly things through trea

Ancient Chinese philosophy enunciated the concept of yin and yang, which represent the opposites that together form a whole, and which are constantly interacting with one another dynamically. The classical image shows a black spot in a white background and a white spot in a black background, bound together in a circle and dynamically moving within that space. It is a common idea that light and dark are inextricably related to one another and cannot exist without each other. Our minds easily extrapolate to this viewpoint from our perception of physical day and night.

The action of the psychic being is subtle, more of an influence than a direct action in the lives of most people who are focused on fulfilling the needs and objectives set by their body-life-mind complex of their exte al being. The influence can be experienced and felt in the way the exte al being responds to situations and the inner state of awareness. One experiences the psychic being’s influence more directly through an attitude of receptivity and openness to it, along with a sense of gratitude and goodwill that allows the influence to act most effectively.

“We Are Caught Up in Our Egocentric World of Constant Thinking… But Thinking Alone Does Not Create Wise Decisions and Wisdom.” Take for example, if we take nuclear material and create nuclear bombs from it that does not make it a good and wise thing to do. Just because we can do something does not make it good. And what we change within us changes our reality. Truth is that which resonates with our soul. Truth is that which uplifts. Truth is that which brings a smile to the face of a child. Truth is that which is a full inclusion without exclusions.

We have lots of people in the world and some want to create havoc and pain in our lives. Walk Away!

When we look at a hologram we see only one tiny aspect of the whole image. Take for instance the hologram on credit cards, if one would cut that hologram up, every single piece of the hologram contains the whole image. But depending upon where we stand that image is completely different, and if we move a little bit back and forth we see different aspects of the image. And with many great scientists saying that much of what we see is a hologram as with Michael Talbot and his book “The Holographic Universe”— then why would God not be included?

“Why Do We Refuse to Do — What We Need to Do” Take for instance an older man who in his late 70’s decided to take it easy. No more walking, no more meditating, no more eating right, all of that went out the window… but eventually things did change.

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Living Within: The Yoga Approach to Psychological Health and Growth, compliled by Dr. A.S. Dalal, is an eminently practical handbook for understanding and addressing the complexity of our psychological makeup. Modern-day civilisation creates enormous pressures for individuals, while at the same time immersing everyone in a vast array of information, misinformation, and divergent opinions which tend to confuse rather than clarify our status.

Why not?...rnYou must have heard of Michael Jordan, the famous basketball champ. In 1978, the 15-year old Michael Jordan tried out for the varsity basketball team at Laney High School. But when the list was posted, Jordan's name wasn't there on it. Looking at his age, the coaches had, rightly so, assigned him to the junior varsity team; but Jordan felt insulted. He was devastated to see the main list not carrying his name. Jordan was so heartbroken that he was ready to give u

When the individual is able to shift out of the standpoint of the ego-personality to that of the soul, the psychic being, he is able to observe and trace the influences of inherited tendencies or environmental pressures that bubble up from the subconscient and try to gain admittance and acceptance into his active outer nature. The tendencies are as clearly defined as when one sees a physical resemblance between a mother and a daughter or father and son!

Vermouth: Drink one glass of alcoholic beveragernVermouth is the type of fortified wine. This is a wine-based beverage that can be made by various botanicals that are roots, spices, fruits, herbs, etc. it also adds color. The modern version of these beverages was first produced in Italy. The sweetness of this resulting wine is depending on the quantity of sugar syrup that can be added so it contains between 10 to 15 grams of sugar. The bottle of this wine is good for only 2 m

There are various religious books and scriptures available, which explain the law of karma in detail. However, Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan, an enlightened being of the present age, has, in a very simple layman’s language and in incredible detail, described the philosophy of karma. In the book ‘The Science of Karma’, he reveals precisely the science behind how one sows the seeds of karma, and exactly how and when are the effects of this karma endured, with their reasons con

We have within our grasp the power of the mind… which when used in a positive way can move mountains. Thus it’s important to learn to use our minds in the positive process that is connected to love and kindness. 1 - Attitude - Attitude is a state of mind. And this means how we think brings about positive or negative effects that take place and we reap the rewards of that thinking.

Often when we face an unfavorable or inconvenient circumstance, we instinctively respond with complaints such as: ●This is all their fault!rn●If only they had done as I told them, everything would be fine.rn●How rude of them to speak to me like that!rn●I would never do that if I were in their place.rn●They are like this and they are like that… When we complain, we feel quite relieved and even happy. A sense of righteousness that stems from the suffering, coupled w

We have learned quite a bit about the sexual impulse. Young children are basically asexual, and it is only with the coming of puberty and the flooding of mood-creating chemicals in the system (hormones), that we become susceptible to responding to the sexual energy when it arises. Not everything is, however, driven by biochemistry. There is a very large component made up of peer pressure, cultural expectations, and societal manipulation of attention and awakening of desire through marketing and advertising that is based on sexual allusions.