August 2020 archive

A miracle

Don’t expect this all the time If miracles occurred to us all the time , we would lose its importance But miracles do occur every second to the siddha and enlightened. But we can’t see them Once in a while Shakti reveals those miracles to us Here is a story of Yogananda “I remember at …

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Kitten or monkey

2 types of Bhakti Described by Ramkrishna. He said kitten like is better. I personally believe starts as monkey and evolves to kitten In time. Not easy This is what Yogananda said Preparing for your next incarnation The Right Attitude Toward Suffering There are two kinds of seekers: those who are like the baby monkey …

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Time to go – can we say that now?

Surrender to God If God were to say to me today: Come home! without a backward glance I would leave all my obligations here -organization, buildings, plans, people- and hasten to obey Him. Running the world is His responsibility. He is the Doer, not you or I. 
 ~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Sayings of Paramahansa …

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How much spiritual knowledge is there?

You can add all the books from all religions together and it will not even be .1% A Guru of course has it all – 100%. Yet people insist on reading books and texts What true knowledge is – it starts after you go into Samadhi. Not before Anything external will only guide you to …

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Is material happiness equal to spiritual progress?

Of course not But yet most people – when they get material happiness they feel more secure. Feel powerful. And they feel just happy. This they equate to blessings from the fake Guru, or doing karma yoga or worship or tirth or mala And that dream is eventually shattered and they reevaluate their situation A …

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An interesting forward

Here is an interesting forward https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Lord-Shiva/answer/अहम-जोगी-Aham-Jogi?ch=3&share=9c6864a4&srid=8hzMM You can choose to read it Or not read it If you read it you can choose to believe it Or not believe it If you believe it you can choose to call him a Guru or say interesting I did not read it. Just glanced at it I …

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Indifference

In Gita there is a shloka that says to an enlightened person gold and rock are the same and sees friends and foe alike This is in chapter 14. Verse 24-25 ? But even these enlightened people need food and need some money for daily sustenance. They live in society or interact with society. As …

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Freedom

At the final moment, if you have no remaining desire , you are free In our foolishness we think that without meditation you can overcome desire. But that is not possible. Why is it foolish? The mind inherently goes out. You see a good looking man or Woman and there is a desire. Or you …

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A different way of looking at progress

The silence descends into the inner being first — as also other things from the higher consciousness. One can become aware of this inner being, calm, silent, strong, untouched by the movements of Nature, full of knowledge or light, and at the same time be aware of another lesser being, the small personality on the …

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