Sri Aurobindo concludes that once we have defined the seven forms of Ignorance, our aim and goal in our human lives must be to successively overcome the Ignorance through the development of the sevenfold forms of knowledge. Each aspect of the knowledge we develop addresses one of the already defined seven forms of the Ignorance.
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Until Self-Realization, one does not have the understanding of the Self i.e. âWho am I?â rnHe knows he exists (astitva) but he does not have the awareness of who he is (vastutva). If he were to attain the awareness of who he really is even for a second, he can reach completion i.e. liberation (purnatva). The Self is natural, the path to acquire the knowledge of Self is straightforward and easy, but a Gnani Purush (the Enlightened One) is needed to give the knowledge of th
Liberation can be attained only from the human life form...rnThere is no other life-form besides the human that has the privilege of being granted the right to ultimate liberation (moksha). Of the four life-forms namely, animal kingdom, hell, heaven and the human form, it is only through the human form that one becomes eligible to attain liberation from the cycle of birth and death - such is the law of Nature! The Journey of the Soul from complete bondage to ultimate liberati
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One of the things that spiritual seekers experience is that regardless of how strong the central aspiration of the soul happens to be within them, they experience fluctuations based on the various parts of the exte al nature coming to the front and asserting their own priorities.
In 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 sequentially upon the death and dissolution of the body. It becomes obvious therefore that the development, the evolutionary progression that takes place, is not based in the body-life-mind complex or the ego-personality that attaches to them in any particular lifetime.
The mind can be a powerful tool for spiritual growth, or it can become an obstacle under certain circumstances. Many devotees take the position that aspiration, devotion, surrender to the Divine is the only way forward. For those individuals that may indeed be true. Not everyone is capable of the kind of single focused love and surrender required to tread the path of devotion, where the individuality is consumed in the love for and surrender to the Divine.
As long as an individual is locked within a framework of understanding, he is unable to truly recognise or exceed the limits of that framework. The ego-consciousness is such a frame of awareness. It creates the sense of a separate individual, apart and having his own autonomy in contra-distinction to the rest of the creation. It creates a sense of “self” and “other” that drives the individual to see things in a fragmented manner.
Suppose you have a candle that you want to light.rnSo, you would obviously do a step-by-step exercise i.e. You would go to the market, buy a matchsticks box, come home, find a platform on which you can station the candle, switch off the fan, pull down the curtains so that the wind does not gush in through the windows, take the matchbox, remove the stick, learn to ignite the matchstick; you may fail a couple of times, and finally when you manage to rub the stick correctly on t
And What Can We Do About It? We Have a Country Full of Very Sick People. People who are extremely overweight and extremely ill with multiple diseases. People in the US take more medications than anywhere else in the world. And studies show that people are exceedingly unhappy compared to 50 years ago. What Has Happened and How Can We Fix This? Watch and Find Out More! Live a Long Healthy Life! It’s Time to Get Healthy! Let’s Work With Nature and Feel Great! Watch My Video and Find Out More… Dr. Paul Haider
New Studies show that if you eat lots of fruits and veggies you have better mental health and you can prevent most of our modern day diseases. Plus how dangerous can it be if you don’t eat fruits and veggies… this is an eye opening look. This is Vitally Important… Check This Out! Watch this and find out! Live a Long Healthy Life! It’s Time to Get Healthy! Let’s Work With Nature and Feel Great! Watch My Video and Find Out More… Dr. Paul Haider Dr. Paul Haider – Master Herbalist - Many Blessings to Everyone!
Ambalal Muljibhai Patel, who later became a Gnani Purush (the Enlightened One), sharing his experience of school days, says, âIn my maths class, the teacher had asked the students to find the smallest indivisible number, which is common to all other numbers (LCM = lowest common multiple). From this search, I immediately discovered God. We are all ânumbersâ and God (Atma) is within each one of us in an indivisible form.â So, yes! Atma is indeed the smallest indivisible
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As long as the mental consciousness remains insulated within its own range of awareness, it believes it has a power of knowledge and action that can be made practically infallible. Even when its shortcomings are made patently obvious, it believes that an improvement in its processes, or the input of new facts available to it now or in the future, will lead to the desired result. It thus believes itself to be self-sufficient and thus, is self-satisfied. It has not cause to look outside of its own functionality to resolve any pending conce s.
In our normal human lives, we live in an exte ally focused standpoint and we create a distinction between ‘objective reality’ and ‘subjective reality’. Because we are so dependent on the body-life-mind complex and its relation to the outer world, we tend to assign a greater truth and reality to the exte al world. Western science has made the ability to measure, and reproduce results in the exte al world as the touchstone of ‘what is real’. Subjective experiences, subjective views are treated as something less real and thereby denigrated in our understanding.
Letâs begin with an example. Suppose a person is suffering from cancer.rnSo, he will either:rnTake it positively and harness good intentions, âThis suffering has come due to my own karmas. I want to stay positive and live my life as peacefully as I can, without giving pain to anyone else.â rnor rnshall invite further suffering for himself by making weird intentions, âIt is due to the stress my husband and my mother-in-law gave me that I am suffering from this cancer.
When we become inattentive to money, it comes to us in abundance. There is nothing lacking in this world. In this world there is everything. Is there not a saying:rnâSakal padartha hay jagmahi, bhaagyaheen nar pavat nahiârnmeaningrnâIn this world there is everything, He who has not the fortune will acquire it notâ.Obstacles to money will remain as long as we harbour the desire to earn it. Therefore whatever we imagine to have, we can have it; but only if we have not c
43% Feel Nervous, Anxious, and Stressed - What Can You Do The New Mental Health Pandemic 43% feel nervous, anxious, and stressed out… and feel tired and lack energy. Even the “WHO” is talking about mental health as a powerful issue that needs to be addressed. Here are a few simple things that will help your STRESS. It’s Time to Get Healthy! Let’s Work With Nature and Feel Great! Watch My Video and Find Out More… Dr. Paul Haider Dr. Paul Haider – Master Herbalist - Many Blessings to Everyone! I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on YouTube Please Subscribe
New Studies Show Using Inexpensive Earthing Mats and Sheets Really Work for Getting Rid of Pain and for Reversing Disease. You Just Sleep on Earthing Mats and Let Nature Do The Work. Even Works For Our Little Dog! Watch and Find Out Everything! Watch and Find Out More! Live a Long Healthy Life! It’s Time to Get Healthy! Let’s Work With Nature and Feel Great! Watch My Video and Find Out More… Dr. Paul Haider Dr. Paul Haider – Master Herbalist - Many Blessings to Everyone! I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on YouTube Please Subscribe
Eat These Foods and Open Your Blood Vessels Right Away. If You Have Poor Circulation These Foods Which Contain Nitrous Oxide Are Super Important to Eat Every Day Especially for the Heart. Watch and Find Out More. Watch and Find Out More! Live a Long Healthy Life! It’s Time to Get Healthy! Let’s Work With Nature and Feel Great! Watch My Video and Find Out More… Dr. Paul Haider Dr. Paul Haider – Master Herbalist - Many Blessings to Everyone! I Have the #1 Herbal Channel on YouTube Please Subscribe rn#Open_Your_Blood_Vessels_in_Minutes_-_New_Studiesr
The Tao is all yet nothing. It is the beginning and the end. The old and the new. Living in the Tao means that you are in this world but not off it. You are not your ego, nor your possessions or money. You are an eternal being that returns to the Tao to begin again. The ending of things is only clearing the way for new beginnings. The Tao does not discriminate. What is, is and what is not is not. Live in the moment do not empower the past or the future. Trust in the Tao. It p
What is Karma? How does it work? Traditionally, it is taught that karma is simply the law of cause and effect, the fruits of past actions and little more is said about its mechanism and workings than that. Subsequently, much misunderstanding and vagueness has arisen and continues to be perpetuated.nn It seems very difficult for us to free ourselves of the idea of karma as a cosmic justice system. In fact, karma has nothing to do with justice and retribution and does not at al
Fear and desire are two most compelling factors in a personâs life. Most of our actions and decisions are propelled by either fear or desire, and hence we remain constantly swinging like a pendulum between action and reaction. So what makes these dominate our life? What is its root cause? And how do we become free from them and remain in a constant state of bliss instead? Our fearsrnSuppose we are travelling to a relativeâs house in the next town and have a big wad of cas
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The end goal of spirituality is to attain ultimate liberation. A balance of both spiritual and worldly interaction is the ideal and fastest way to liberation. These two are like the two wings of the bird. The most critical worldly interaction is that of money. And if this is tainted or impure, no progress can be made spiritually. If this wing is defective, then one cannot fly to spiritual heights at all. On the other hand, just one rupee of the right kind brings tremendous pe
Severe self-discipline is NOT essential to Self-realisation, when attained through Akram Vignan. There are two paths which lead to ultimate liberation.rnKram is a traditional step-by-step path. This path requires one to renounce their worldly life and material possessions, and perform severe penances and follow strict rituals, with a purpose to conquer their inner weakness such as anger, pride, deceit, greed, attachment and abhorrence, which inhibit oneâs progress on the pa
In his lectures on Raja Yoga, in the chapter titled “Powers”, Swami Vivekananda explains how various occult powers arise or can be developed. The process is an extension of the preceding efforts of purification, quieting of the ‘mind stuff’ and then gaining the ability to fix the concentration on a particular object. If one turns to the focus on development of specific powers, this form of concentrated effort will eventually bear fruit. If done with serious intent and discipline, the power eventually can be utilized at will.
The vital nature revels in having extraordinary experiences that arise as a result of spiritual practice or some type of opening to other planes of being. These experiences support the ego, making the individual feel special, uniquely qualified and selected for spiritual progress, and they are frequently ‘shown off’ to others as a type of spiritual “one-upmanship” and as a sign of authority to exercise influence or power over others.
Sake: Get your door within a 30 to 60 minutesrnSake is a type of alcoholic beverage that can be fermented with rice. It is also referred to as name Japanese rice wine. In liquor stores, they can have made this wine, used rice that has been polished to remove the bran. It can be made by fermenting process this process is known as a multiple parallel fermentation. In the fermentation process, the rice is to be converted into sugar that can be followed by the conversion to alcoh
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Making one happy when he is alive is far more important than anything else in this world. So, take good care of everyone around you. It is our duty to give people peace when they are alive and it is our duty to give them peace even after they have left us. How Do We Give Peace After The Person Has Left Us? It is not easy to forget someone you love. But after the person has left, if we grieve over him, it will make both miserable, for our unhappiness reaches him exactly and fo
Consider briefly that you have a television set that receives all the available channels, but you cannot tune the set, so that all picture and sound from the entire frequency range come in at the same time and mix up with each other, along with the static that occurs between various station signals. Obviously such a system is chaotic and does not function properly. In order to receive, understand and utilize whichever channel you want to watch, you need to be able to tune to that specific frequency and exclude all the others.
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We have a strong bias in favor of accepting things that we can perceive with our physical senses, and we tend to disbelieve or discount anything that is not directly, physically available to our experience. Yet if we reflect on the totality of our life experience, it becomes clear that there are many experiences, innumerable forces and powers, that are not susceptible to direct sense perception, yet are able to be determined as real.
Tropical cocktails to make sweet your summerrnTropical drinks can be just the heaven in the summer, whether you're on a boat, on the beach or on your back. Check out our recipe ideas and get hot tips for cool summer drinks. No matter what you say to them, sometimes you need to pour in the rum, fruit juice and sunlight during the summer. So letâs slow down, pull up on a hanging bed and combine some sunlight for the hottest summer and your favorite boat rock playlist-decorate
Putting aside the ‘allurement factor’ of having some kind of special, unusual, extraordinary type of experience, which is clearly a way to feed the ego-personality, we come to the actual benefits of such experiences. There are cases where an individual is leading a perfectly ordinary life in the world, and something extraordinary happens to him, which changes the entire future direction and focus of his life. We can look at the experience of Saul on the road to Damascus, recounted in the Bible.
We tend to be carried away by the exte al focus in the work we are doing, and thus, the presence of mind needed to remember and offer is set in the background of our awareness. If we reflect on the state of consciousness we experience when focused on some exte al work, we soon find that we can be almost totally absorbed, and in fact, that work is generally best accomplished through what may be called a “one-pointed” concentration. So how do we convert this work into karma yoga when we are not paying attention at the time of the work to the spiritual focus?
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When an individual is called to the yoga of transformation, he comes with all of his strengths, weaknesses, developed and latent capacities, and habitual ways of dealing with things, as well as his familial, social, economic and educational background. These frame the starting point for the individual’s yogic practice. As he begins to shift to the standpoint of the witness of the nature, he begins to identify issues, patterns, conce s and obstacles to the practice. Some of these may be physical limitations, nervous disturbances, or emotional or mental blockages.
The vital ego is attracted to the excitement of having experiences that are unusual or powerful. It therefore wants to find ways to repeat or expand upon them once they have had such an experience. In reality, however, there is very little of long-term value in this approach. The experiences come, and they go, and the individual remains essentially unchanged, other than perhaps being distracted enough to want to chase after experiences.
A spiritual seeker identifies with his aspiration and the focus and actions that come about as a result of that aspiration. It may be acts of prayer, acts of giving, acts of consecration, acts of meditation, or dedicated works. During the moments that he is engaged in these acts, he feels like the spiritual purpose of his life is being carried out.
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If we consider what the most important quality is for progress in spiritual growth, we generally come up with a number of different ideas, including devotion, strong mind or will, faith, dedication, aspiration. We rarely name ‘sincerity’ as the quality most required. Yet, the Mother stresses the importance of this generally under-rated quality. Without sincerity, all the other qualities tend to fail at some point. A disciple asks: “What is the fundamental virtue to be cultivated in order to prepare for the spiritual life?”
I find it interesting, that way back in the 70’s President Jimmy Carter was talking about people only being interested in material things— and that was the real reason for most of our challenges. I can still remember President Carter coming on TV and telling the country that they needed to stop being so materialistic and start looking inward at more important things. 40 years ago he was telling the world that we were losing our humanity. And 40 years later not much has changed, people are still fighting over material things on Black Friday.
Yoga has historically focused on liberation of the individual soul from the illusion of the outer world. The seeker is advised to see through the transitory nature of all exte al rewards, undertake practices that help him to discover his true self, and once that is done, live a life, free from the normal sense of human bondage, until such time as he can escape the cycle of rebirth entirely. The practice s focused on individual salvation. The goal is ‘other-worldly’.
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