June 2021 archive

Link to Original Document Gyana or wisdom or enlightenment does not come gradually, little by little, day by day. It blazes forth all at once in all its fullness, when the practice has matured to perfection. So the bottom line is – it takes a fraction of a second. You are either awake in pure …

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Link to Original Document Struck by a bladless spear, he sits under the tree Surely he will die either today or tomorrow. Kabir This is a  difficult passage to understand, but this is my interpretation.  Bladeless spear – is awakening of the shakti or divine grace.  It is a spear since it penetrates the human …

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Link to Original Document Someone once asked The Unknown Wanderer to show them the Tao He looked in all ten directions He looked deep within His heart of Hearts He looked into their eyes touching their very Soul He even looked into the hidden Essence He looked at the origin of Origins He even unfurled …

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Link to Original Document We all suffer from the correction factor. What do I mean by it? Lets say you go to work. And find that one of your colleagues is taking too long to do a routine job done. And we like the person but still in the back of our mind and sometimes …

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Link to Original Document Vad or some people say vat – means higher or superior Punam is full moon And Savitri refers to the story of Satyavan and Savitri This story was narrated in Mahabharat when Yudhisthir asked a sage if there was any woman pure like Draupadi (mind you she had 5 husband). Thats …

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Link to Original Document First let us be clear. Yoga comes from the sanskrit word Yuj or to join. In other words you can say merge into God or pure consciousness. That is what Yoga is about. In this understanding of Yoga, you start with the idea that there is pure consciousness and or God …

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Link to Original Document You decide Neem Karoli Baba said “If you desire a mango at the time of death you will come back as an insect. If you desire even the next breath at the time of death you will have another birth“ How clean is your heart? Are you ready to start teaching …

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Link to Original Document Here is the link ham ne sodhi kaya re Here is the translation in English. It is a step by step description of Yoga from lowest to highest. However, the lowest described here…is the peak of many other saints It is about searching for God in the body temple I have …

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Link to Original Document This is a famous quote from Bhaj Govindam a short poem created by Shankaracharya Maharaj One may go to gangasagar(ganes), observe fasts, and give away riches in charity ! Yet, devoid of jnana, nothing can give mukthi even at the end of a hundred births. Stanza attributed to Sureshwaracharya. It is …

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Link to Original Document Let’s face it. Science has progressed. It has progressed a lot ! It can see planets billions of years away and can analyze the body at the magnetic field level They have done an MRI of every part of the human body. How come they have not seen a soul? Does …

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Link to Original Document You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. Rumi It seems impossible to comprehend this. Normally we think that God is the ocean and we are a drop or a wave. Rumi gives us a different perspective. The drop in the second line …

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Link to Original Document So I said earlier. Thoughts are powerful. Very powerful And man was made in image of God Yogananda said, this whole universe is nothing more than thought of God! In a second he can dissolve it and build it up again. So like God we too have power in our thoughts …

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Link to Original Document There are many Rules a yogi should follow It is not easy to over come maya. Or Satan. Jesus said get thee behind me. To Satan note that is a yogic technique but more later Many yogi have gone beyond maya or maha maya. But the battle is long. Difficult. So …

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