Link to Original Document One of the prays I was asked about Guna tara neet gaiye thai amara kaam het lavi hasav tu, sada raakh dil salad Bhul Kadi kariye aame, to prabhu karajo maaf It is a vaishnav prayer It says we will praise you , please let our wishes get fulfilled Keep our …
November 2022 archive
Nov 28
The issue with progress
Link to Original Document One other big hurdle in progress is consistency. The lack of consistency is many ways Inability to sit daily In ability to sit at a consistent hour Inability to have consistent interest and enthusiasm When either of them wanes, the soul quickly relaxes and gets immersed into Maya Once immersed into …
Nov 22
A trivial story in my life
Link to Original Document It was the year 1972, sometime in April or May. I was about 10 years old. It was a wonderful spring morning. At that time I was living in India. I was not very happy. I was in that house for 3 years and often wished I was back in USA. …
Nov 22
The Royal path
Link to Original Document People believe they can wake up one fine morning, start meditating and say Shivohum or Sohum, or say God is I and you are a yogi. There can be nothing farther in truth than this. It is not so easy to be liberated. You are fighting with a mental inertia that …
Nov 20
Yoga sutras from Patanjali
Link to Original Document The most important versus from Patanjali on Yoga come from Chapter तस्मिन्सति श्वासप्रश्वासयोर्गतिविच्छेदः प्राणायामः ॥ २.४९॥ tasminsati śvāsapraśvāsayorgativicchedaḥ prāṇāyāmaḥ .. 2.49.. tasmin = upon that (perfection of meditation posture) asti = being accomplished shvasa = inhalation prashvsayoh = exhalation gati = of the uncontrolled movements vichchhedah = slowing, softening or braking …
Nov 20
Yoga sutras from Patanjali
Link to Original Document The most important versus from Patanjali on Yoga come from Chapter तस्मिन्सति श्वासप्रश्वासयोर्गतिविच्छेदः प्राणायामः ॥ २.४९॥ tasminsati śvāsapraśvāsayorgativicchedaḥ prāṇāyāmaḥ .. 2.49.. tasmin = upon that (perfection of meditation posture) asti = being accomplished shvasa = inhalation prashvsayoh = exhalation gati = of the uncontrolled movements vichchhedah = slowing, softening or braking …
Nov 17
Socrates –
Link to Original Document DId Socrates say? The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing! Socrates was being in judged in the court. He was given a choice exile or to die. He chose to Die. We really dont know what he said, but Plato, his disciple of sort wrote about Socrates. In …
Nov 13
The perfection of Hinduism
Link to Original Document There are multiple stories in Hinduism. Some simple, some of them grotesque and others entertaining. They have drama, stories that go through generations and stories that seem like mythology However,if only, I really mean, if only, you can learn to meditate, you will fall in love with Hinduism or more accurately …
Nov 06
Yog
Link to Original Document We eat wonderful things about Yog. We get attracted to it. We want the wonderful things that come with it. We want to be like Yogananda or Vivekananda or Lahiri Mahasaya or Gorakhnarh And it is very easy to imagine we are like them. Thousands of blogs are out there with …
Nov 05
Ram Dass
Link to Original Document Richard Alpert was a psychologist working in Harvard until 1963. He often took LSD and had many hallucinations and out of body experiences. He believed them to be true. He wanted to see if that experience could be reproduced. In 1963, he was fired for experimenting with LSD with undergraduate students. …
Bhavin
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