Bhavin Dave

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Karma and meditation

So in various yoga books they mention karma can be burnt with meditation on certain chakra Yogananda mentions the wisdom way in meditation to burn karma So where is that chakra and who knows how to do it ?   Is it fantasy?  Reality?  Speculation? Many gurus will tell you they can do it – …

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Plato 

There is a book just published – why are we here ? He has the following story from Plato Plato’s allegory of the cave, where he likens our existence to people trapped in a cave, being forced to look at the shadows of reality from the light cast behind them on a wall. And he …

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Try again and again

Banat Banat bana jai These are the famous words by Lahiri Mahashaya.  Try again repeatedly.  Someday or sometime it will materialize.  Meaning your spiritual efforts will give success Yet the time frame is variable. Could be months or years but generally it is several life times I am amazed at the number of Swamiji and …

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Spiritual progress

We go and get information from scriptures and books and from the different saints and guru.  They share stories , jokes and their incredible logic and millions of people will be impressed and promise themselves ” wow. This is perfect. I will change. I loved it” The problem is very few if any will really …

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Liars paradox

One scholar from the 3rd century B.C.E. was even said to have “‘Twas the Liar who made me die, And the bad nights caused thereby” engraved on his tombstone. It’s likely that we’ll never solve it either, though philosophers aren’t likely to be giving it up any time soon.  This is a quote I read …

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Trataka

Three  types.  It involves a steady gaze at an object. Without blinking Outward : like the stars etc Middle like a photo or flame of diya  Inner in middle of forehead That is the traditional teaching.  True trataka is different.  Takes years of practice. All blogs and traditional books have been misunderstood It proves only …

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What causes depression?

Of course there is chemical imbalance.  The scientists still struggle with properly identifying the chemical – they change it every 20 years- MAO, to SSRI to GABA to gut bacteria – and treatment methods differ.  Many treatment strategy exist.  Medications, ECT, TCM HERBS, PSYCHOTHERAPY but what does a yogi say?  Do they have an answer? …

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Sad

How do I know I have made more permanent progress towards god? Any religion or spirituality that is practiced remains for the birth and in next birth if born in a country devoid of that religion – the soul will not make progress. This is the effect of bad karma Lets say you love pizza …

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Why do I pray?

Most people pray for some material benefits and having a hardship free life THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN – HARDSHIP FREE LIFE Constantly – you will be bombarded by hardship and pain – physical , emotional, spiritual pain.  Always In fact if you are progressing rapidly and truly your hardship will be significantly more.   The …

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A simple truth

Meditation is better than reading or any activity. But few people can each the stage where they prefer meditation over anything Reading – all it will do is cultivate an interest in it The mind will ask for candies what will I get out of meditation Answer is everything.  But you need a guru.  A …

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Read

Go and read books and blogs  Full of nonsense. All based on stupid false understanding rather than experience  If there was experience there would be more Secrets revealed rather than a display of erroneous logic.   No matter how hard people try but they constantly expose their lack of experience when they use logic A …

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Walk free

Free in the universe Free in the world Free in the body Fretters are many Your ego  Your desire Your habits Your emotions Are you willing to fight Destroy your desire Ego habit and tear Always free  Never bound Illusion it was Your choice Dream  Or be free

Have I learnt to meditate?

Answer is simple.  The following should occur  Wanting to meditate in preference to any other activity -ALL Day long Depth of meditation increases daily New experience DAILY Desire to teach or educate others about meditation goes away.  Its futile.  The rest of the world cannot understand There are other things that happen but they must …

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The universe. What we know

Michael Kaku – physicist is a proponent of string theory M Basically it is a theory that seeks to identify a unity to the forces of the universe and subatomic particle.   He has done it quite eloquently.  He also figured out 11 dimensions of the universe The known universe – the forces we know …

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Mini story

A five year old saw a book on mathematics.  It had weird designs ∫ sin^3 (2x) dx He immediately said this is stupid and meaningless and no one should follow this He then got his friends together and praised the only thing that they  knew- counting to 100 – and said this is the only …

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Sincerity

For spiritual progress one must be honest with oneself Questions like these should occur constantly without self justification.   1. Why am I doing this? 2. Do I really seek god? Or do I look for complements from the world? Do I want to become wealthy using spiritual knowledge and powerful?  3. A often lame …

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Saundarya lahiri

This is shloka 16 kaveendraanaam chaetah kamalavana baalaat ava ruchim bhajantae yaesa sah katichid arunaam aeva bhavateem virinchi praeyasyaas taruna tara sringaara laharee gabheera abhir waagbir vidadhati sataam ranjanamamee. 16 This shloka reveals two secret siddhis in a yogi – how to separate the subtle body from the gross body and development of vaak sidhi …

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Subliminal self / subconscious

They are mere words or terms used that the gross world is unaware of Just like infra red and ultra violet words are used For atman or pure consciousness it is neither subconscious nor subliminal but an open handy book for many things A yogi is aware of it at all times. Until this stage …

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Tv stars and success

The world may see them as success. They may think there is success  To a degree there is success – the long awaited features are finally fulfilled – after much power and good deeds accumulated Yet they have the same anguish and pain in life as an ordinary person – the pain of jealousy, insecurity …

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Voice

A voice  An echo From timeless To time Existence to reality  An image you see Many images Only one is true The lost know it not The truth knows it all What thy understand Is within confines ( of limited intellect) What is revealed  Has no bounds  Ask  And ask  And ask again Perhaps thou …

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Mirror

A person His reflection  The reflection talks  With other reflections  How strange ! With blessings The reflection talks  With the person The person says come back There never was a reflection !

Lao Tzu

The quotes seem accurate. However since people reading it are full of ego and have never experienced the true limitless self they will all go in wrong direction without a Guru A guide is needed to understand even a letter from the quote  “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know …

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God is kind

God gives what you think and ask for.  That is his kindness.  Our fault lies in wrong thoughts and what we ask for Is there a reporting bias with an increase in violence ? ( meaning increased incidence of crime reporting and a bias from population growth ) or has violence gone up ? I …

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Mindfulness

I read a lot of quotes on mindfulness in the news.  I do not go about searching for it ALL  of the authors of the quotes – in the deepest sense – are wrong and flawed. They are but mere a baby step in the grand scheme. Helpful to the world maybe but it forms …

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Dalai Lama

He recently stated he gets angry. At small things. It lasts a few minutes and he battles it and goes away.  He gives a few strategies and suggests how to combat it. After all we are Only humans! I merely smiled.  Are we ? 

A true Guru

Generally they will only have a few disciples. Followers can be many but disciple or shishya only a few  Why ? Because no one truly wants moksha – an existence without a body , no food or water or sex or fun things to do. No one to talk with or no one to show …

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Buddha

Nowadays there is much talk on mindfulness They often try to climb to glory by quoting Buddha “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that …

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So curious

Oh self Thou are all Up and down, all around In the smallest quantum Aware of it And ordering it to create  Electrons and photons With all the atomic energy On earth and planets In every galaxy  Cosmos across Pray tell me Oh intelligent reader What is it like To throb in the atom In …

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Media and their mischief and Meryl Streep 

True reporters and reporting is dead.  All that exists – strong biased opinions and heavily biased facts For example – the other day it was in the news- cop slams teenage girl to floor. What does this headline tell you ?  This must be a bad cop.  Maybe later in the details there is some …

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Primitive stories – or not ?

Ram / god was abducted by Ravana brothers – Ahiravana and Mahiravana.  Ram and laxman were about to be sacrificed to the goddess in the underworld and Hanuman intervened and rescued them ! Bhairava has three aspects.  Sun, moon and fire ! Jonas was swallowed by a whale and came out alive 3 days later …

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Amazing !

I am so amazed and impressed !   Life after life people stay at the same spiritual level for a very long time.   In one birth they will walk with a tulsi mala, next birth they will say walk with the cross, then become non believers,and then say meditation is the way.  Others will …

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Happiness

Shankaracharya, his disciples, Ramana maharshi, Kabir,  Christian saints like saint francis, mother Theresa lived very simple lives They served and helped others.  Were they happy ? Some of them had no roof, no money.  Like Vivekananda. Or swami rams  They moved from place to place.    So if we try to live life like that …

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I cannot help

No guru or god can help you – as long as you believe you know or understand And that is the problem !   In the field of spirituality most people are like cavemen thinking they know physics because they made the first wheel ( compare to the true guru who are like quantum physicist …

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Who reads spiritual blogs?

Those who think they know all about spirituality may read – so they can put others down satisfy their ego and feel good Those who aspire something higher may read it.    Of those who aspire – some search for a method and they bounce around Some who aspire may know method but keep reading …

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Purpose

Ordinarily people can see enjoyment of life as the only purpose of life.  Yet in their pursuit they face multiple anguished, sadness, painful situations and have more disappointments than success.   And they come back again and again thinking it will be better next time but it is never so  Oh ! So much hardship …

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My postings

They are deliberately vague. If I write more clearly, the world will misuse it. They people of the world can only understand things to the limit of their intellect and experienc No one out there has any real experience. If they had experience the first thing that happens is – silence and NO I don’t …

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Christmas and peace

The world leaders pray for peace   The question is if you went to Jesus or another great yogi like babaji or gyaneshwar maharaj – would they pray for peace ? No.  They just bless peace and it happens. Of course depending on the individual more or less results vary.  But their blessings never fail  …

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Pain and anguish

Learn to be grateful to the pain and anguish in your life.  They alone help you understand your faults so you may correct yourself and be more loving to all those hurt you After all the outside – its a reflection of your self.  Take it literally or take it to mean it is figurative …

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Forgetfullness

If there is rebirth we forget it.  Some claim to remember it but often times it is an over active imagination One has to progress very high before past lives are uncovered At present, there are hardly a few souls who are even able to get to muladhar! Muladhar – one should read mahayoga vigyan. …

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Life expectancy

Some great saints pass away early – like vivekananda , ramkrishhna Others pass away at a ripe age – like yukteshwar,  Some saints fall in category of immortal beings Each has a role to play and stay here till done  What about ordinary people – some live a short life and others live till 100. …

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Bilipatra

Shiv Puja.  It is done with bilipatea This is what it looks like.  Traditional  However if you read bilvastaka it says the base is Brahma, proximal is shiv and middle is Vishnu! This is a great clue that the bilipatra is not a leaf but something else.   A very advanced yogi knows what it …

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Sanskrit scholars cannot hold a candle to a yogi

Aniyata : not ordained Phala : fruits Bhaksya: enjoyed Bhojyam : food Peyam : water Vidhi Parinam : results of destiny / rites  Vibhakta : separate or special religious follower Desha kalam space time I read the translation by a Sanskrit scholar !  He missed the entire meaning.  However both yogananda and vishnutirthji understood the …

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Be bold

Be bold What do I mean by it? Go bungee jumping? Jump out of a plane? Go to war? Absolutely not.  What I mean is if hardships come your way be bold. Brave. Fearless.   Some people tend to avoid hardships by devious ways but goes what? They merely postponed their hardship. When it comes …

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Intelligence 

Is it responsible for growth or downfall? It is both.    Some intelligence with quest for betterment and growth is  good  The  problem lies where  most  of the  people believe their intelligence is  complete, all  knowing and their solution to a situation is  perfect and  all  others  are  wrong! This  absurd obstinate stupidity, the  illusion …

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Liars 

The Liars of the world will claim to have experience of the atman. What a lie and self deception! Experience of atman – forgetting the body is a must.  Rest is a lie  Forgetting the body by thinking of the world and people does not count – nor does forgetting body by watching a movie …

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Big difference 

Don’t read – meditate and experience it Many more powerful blogs – I write and delete! Grades of knowledge? Maybe but not like people think it is It is mostly depth of meditation :) 

Dichotomy or skill?

Only a yogi – whose shanti is fully awakened and pierced many chakra can know sanskrit and the shloka Every verse in Gita has a very different meaning.  A few of them were exposed by Yogananda and Gyaneshwara maharaj This is what is called dichotomy of sanskrit per Yogananda. I see it as a skill …

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Julia Roberts

I was shocked to read about some posts on Facebook – why did one of the richest and most famous actress turn to Sanatana dharma? What a ridiculous question?  This shows how stupid the mentality of the spiritual followers are. A path is NOT great by the followers but is great by the leader of …

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Shiv Swarodaya

A lot of people seek to know about swarodaya.  You can never learn it from books.  Most people want to learn about it to get success in material life – including wealth, romance, power,  success etc. A guru knows about it but he can only reveal it to those who only seek the love of …

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Zen

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top. Zen sayingThis is a powerful technique for meditation  You don’t go to the top or imagine top you start at top!