Sutra atma
Feb 09
I will only touch the basics about Shiv Swarodaya here. However, there are a few fundamentals about Yoga that everyone should know. 1) For all individuals, the flow of air / breathing occurs in either left or right nostril. (Medically, this is due to changes in the sinuses). When the flow is through the left …
Feb 08
prabhu bhala kinha mohi sikha dinhi, marajadi puni tumhari kinhi. dhola, nagaar, sudra, pasu, nari, sakala tadna ke adhikari This is from Sundarkand, verse 58. This particular paragraph caught my attention because of Arvind Pathak when he stated in his lecture that he was making a change in what Tulsidasa had to say. He …
Feb 07
I am glad my daughter is taking immense interest in spirituality. This beautiful and royal road to God has become complicated by everyone claiming to know the way, giving their own versions of concocted ideas and floating in the world of thoughts and ideas but not walking the royal road to God. This blog will …
Feb 06
Before I touch on Nectar, one of the problems in spiritual progress is that when in difficulty or adverse conditions we resort to our “natural” state of dealing with it. It could be depression, aggressiveness, anger or fear or cowardice. With time, we tend to “forget” the pain and ignorantly we say time heals. However, …
Feb 05
I have alluded this to a few times in my past blogs. Every chakra except Sahastrar has a negative downward pole, a consciousness that is directed towards the world. This is referred to in the Bhagvad Gita as the “Dakshinayana” or lower six months of the calendar. If a person leaves the body while the chakras …
Feb 03
I would like to continue on expounding on SRF exercises. I wrote about it briefly in the past. However, to understand it fully, one has to have a clear understanding on prana. Yesterdays blog and elsewhere in my blogs there is a more precise explanation of the prana. As we talked about, the only way …
Feb 02
Pranayama – prana is the vital force, the force or energy used by Om or the Holy Ghost to run all 3 universes – the gross, subtle and causal. The word ayama means control. The most gross manifestations of the working of prana is breathing. It also includes all other bodily functions. Similarly it has …
Feb 01
I did not get a chance to write yesterdays blogs. I was orginally planning to write about sex, meditation and yoga. Is it wrong? Is it right? Is it a hindrance? Is it somewhere in between? There are some unwritten secrets about shakti and sex which Gurudev talked about and was also written by Shankaracharya (one …
Jan 28
Todays meditation was more at the Manipura chakra. It was more clear. Last year, I had written about the experience of being one with the light. This experience, the portal to enter the Brahmanadi, starts near the Manipur chakra. When I entered there, I had the similar experience as I had being in the tunnel. …
Jan 27
Spiritual Books can be writte in 4 ways 1) Pure fantasy or fiction 2) Books which are a compilation of information (I hate to use the word knowledge because true knowledge of God is only when one has experiened him) from a variety of books. Often times authors dont give credit to their source except …
Jan 26
Todays meditation was not as deep as yesterday. However, it was more satisfying. This may come as a surprise but allow me to explain Say you are climbing a 100 steps. If you climb all the way to the top stay there for a few second and come right back versus you climb 85 steps …
Jan 24
Last night, as I “slept” my true consciousness was with Kashinath Dada and a group of divine souls. I dont have a name so for the time being I will call it the Guru Mandali. They are constantly helping, guiding and creating spiritual aspirations in all those who have surrendered to the divine path and …
Jan 21
In order to stay in meditation for longer durations, one has to learn the technique of turning the heart off. Somewhere, I have described this technique in previous blogs as Yogananda Maharaja explained it to me about 4 years ago. It takes a long time to reach that stage. However, right before this stage is …
Jan 20
The opening of the third eye is gradual at best. These are the things that happen 1) It becomes easier for the eye balls to relax and remain upwards 2) Once it becomes habitual and natural, one realizes that the agna chakra slowly opens upwards 3) When it turns upwards, one can start to see …
Jan 19
Lord Ganesh was extremely kind and compassionate towards me. Last night, like I normally do, every so often when I wake up from my sleep samadhi, I immediately go back to a chant or mantra. I kept on chanting Hanumanji and for the last 2 hours before I woke up, all I could see was …
Jan 17
I have started translating the book written by Gautamkaka. It is under the blog gautamkaka.wordpress.com It describes the great tradition of our lineage which started 1000 years ago and still continues
Jan 17
I changed the name from rules to guidelines. The reason for calling it rules, is because in my opinion, doing yoga is like going into battle where one is constantly battling ones sanskaras. In other words, in order to win this battle, certain rules must be followed. If one reads any scriptures regarding Yoga and …
Jan 08
Last 3 days the meditations have been deeper. No matter how deep you go, you can always go deeper! 2 days ago, my meditation was so deep that all that was left was an awareness of a mass of energy. I suspect that this is the “siddhapitha” one of the places between Agna chakra and …
Jan 03
There are two ways of self improvement. The negative way is the way of learning from our mistakes. The positive way is by the love of God. The negative way : Let us say for example we love Pizza. We go to a pizza place and pig out. That very night we have severe abd. …
Dec 29
“I came out of Samadhi for you” Those were the words ringing in my ears when I woke up from Savikalpa Samadhi. I was bowing down before Kashinathdada and Gurudevs Samadhi with thoughts of dismay that the great souls like Mohangiriji Maharaja have their personal success but dont even turn back to help others. With …
Dec 28
These clarifications are from Yogananda Maharaj and some from personal experience. There are three worlds. Gross physical world, the subtle world and the causal or karana world. The three forces, a sort of autonomic intelligence, hidden from the human eye are Virata, Hiranyagarbha and Ishwara respectively. To give an eg. the function of Virata is …
Dec 25
Today’s meditation was exceptionally good. After all it was Christmas ! Yogananda maharaja has described that the halfway meditation is when one is at agnachakra the streams of prana are seen rolling back from the body going back to Agnatha chakra This is what I experienced. The color if the streams of Prana or light …
Dec 23
After 2 days of struggle, I was finally able to go back to my true consciousness. When certain karmas are about to come into play, or if one does something that is not appropriate, the first thing that happens is the consciousness gets clouded and one is no longer able to go that deep. Yes, …
Dec 21
Virtue is a problem to liberation just as much vice is. One must rise above both. There is a story in the Bible about Abraham who was given instructions by God to take his son to the top of Mount Sinai and sacrifice his son. Just before he was about to sacrifice his son, God …
Dec 19
Kumbh Mela : A place where many great saints gather. One should attend to the Kumbh Mela. In terms of Yoga, Kumbh means or refers to the head and mela is a gathering of the prana (withdrawn from the entire body). When that happens, one can say, we have attended the kumbh mela. Here all …
Dec 14
Paramhansa Yogananda has a series of lectures and pamphletes which are available to all who take the SRF fellowship and newsletter. In the lessons, he talks about energizing exercises and also insits that all disciples practice it for 30 min to an hour a day. I could not understand the reason and thought it was …
Dec 12
Today, I had a discussion with Aanal about Faith. Faith in my opinion and also according to the scriptures and very succinctly written by Sri Aurobindo is something that is within and which is part of the soul. This is an inner conviction. Unfortunately, this faith is very poorly understood. What most people have is …
Dec 06
I was asked, do you go to Church. My answer was no, the Church comes to me. The real church is where there is love for God. What is purity or a pure person? A person who only has love and desires only for God, is pure. Everyone else is impure. Love demands nothing in …
Dec 05
Every human being is a beacon! They are constantly emiting and transmiting vibes which attracts the universal vibrations which translate into karam. This has been said by Patanjali, Mirdad and all great souls. Every thought we have becomes a nidus which attracts similar universal vibrations. One should constantly, no matter what and no matter what …
Dec 02
A common misconception is the hearing of Nada. The truest of true nada occurs when the prana actually ascends in the sushumna. These nadas have the following characteristics 1) Extremely soft, no longer heard by the physical body 2) Extremely pleasing and one truly just wants to hear it again and again 3) On hearing …
Dec 01
Ever since the mental aspect of the subconscious has cleared, the shakti is now working on the vital physical of the subconscient. Unless you are very familiar with the terminology of Sri Aurobindo, it will sound like mumbo jumbo. What is becoming clear is the law or control over Prana. How it can be achieved. …
Nov 29
Today, we were reciting Sunderkanda. Now, in the version of Sunderkanda as recited by Ashwin Pathak, in some of the shlokas he follows it by Shree Rama Sharnam mama. However, he speaks Ramaa instead of the traditional Rama without an aa at the end of m. The normal and real pronounciation is M with an …
Nov 28
Today, I was reminded of a few experiences I had about Jesus. They were within the last 15 years. 1) I was new to USA and had no idea or concept about Good Friday. I was deep in meditation and I had a very clear and concise vision of Jesus. Later that day, while driving …
Nov 26
It is only the soul that can communicate with God directly not the thoughts… Thoughts are disorganized and thoughts have a mental impression or fantasy about how God is or maybe and we take our thoughts to be very accurate. and that is where all religions and sects in Christianity fight They have a certain logical …
Nov 25
I have always been very curious of what and how Gurudev helped Mataji at the time of her demise. A book was written by Dahyabhai Patel when Mataji passed away. Gurudev was disgusted with the book and he threw the book away. The reason for his disgust was because the book had absolutely no information …
Nov 25
A few days ago I had a talk with Pramodhbhai. During the talk, I made a statement, the way Great souls perceive this universe is different from our visions. I had a talk with Gurudev and he had told me that the light of the supreme never leaves the liberated souls, they constantly perceive the …
Nov 18
The greatest manifestation of Om or the holy Ghost as the Christians call it, is Hanumanji. There never was and I suspect there will never be a greater manifestation. He is the supreme ruler who effortlessly does all the work and is still alive. Amazingly, Rama Bhagwan took samadhi, but his Guru Vasishtha Maharaj, his disciple Hanumanji and …
Nov 16
I tried to hide the fact I had eye glasses from Gurudev. So, I made sure I did not wear my eye glasses or anything around him. However, out of the blue a few days after I was with him, he suddenly said, if you do Tratak properly, you wont need eye glasses. This was …
Nov 09
We ended the previous blog in a rather gloomy and dismal way. After all, who likes an existence where there is nothing to look forward to. A situation where the mind wants nothing and has nothing to look forward to is quite depressing! This is where the problem lies. The soul is not the mind. …
Nov 06
There is a fundamental flaw and misguided concept in the mind. It is the erronous concept that anything in the material world will give pleasure or content. There is nothing in this gross world that gives pleasure. If that is the case then why do we enjoy sex food intellectual discussions etc? This is because …
Nov 06
I have had a series of spectacular experiences some of which I have already forgotten. However, some of the experiences I remember about the Gita are as follows 1) I was very fortunate to have the darshana of Krishna Bhagwana. He started off with many many shlokas all praising his Guru. He praised his Guru …
Nov 05
I am getting more and more secure in going to the Sukshma world quickly. I saw today Shakti and usually see Gurudev regularly. One thing, I am beginning to understand the way to becoming a Siddha. Siddha, when I use that term, it does not refer to merely having powers but a state of perfection. …
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