Let’s say you do something. You want to lose weight or pass an exam. You don’t do well. And you make another effort and again you don’t do well. What do we do ? We get sad. Upset. Give up on it emotionally But this is what Yogananda said “Failure season is the best time …
Category: Scriptures and books
Mar 25
Boat, wave and ocean
Everyone knows this But first you must know your the wave – the soul. But we identify ourselves as the boat in the ocean. The boat here is the body. Where is the hope of wave and ocean. First get rid of the body consciousness. Do it once. Not in deep sleep. But consciously. Then …
Nov 13
In Hanuman chalisa
I wrote about it earlier. Thank you he In Hinduism, eight siddhis (Ashta Siddhi) or Eight great perfections (mahasiddhi) are described as follows अणिमा Aṇimā: reducing one’s body even to the size of an atom महिमा Mahima: expanding one’s body to an infinitely large size गरिमा Garima: becoming infinitely heavy लघिमा Laghima: becoming almost weightless …
Apr 25
General thoughts
It has been a while since I wrote on here. I have had several experiences but have not had time to write them and with time I forget them 1) Swami Vivekananda visited me a few days ago and blessed me. I do not remember the things he told me though. 2) In his books …
Mar 28
Ramayana stories – Hanuman battles Ahiravana and Mahiravana (interpretation)
During the battle between Rama and Ravana, Ravana’s son Indrajit is killed. At that point, Ravana calls his brother Ahiravana for help. Now, Ahiravana is the king of Patala (the underworld). (There are many variations to the story. All of them can be interpreted spiritually). Ahiravana promised to help. Vibhishana somehow manages to hear about …
Mar 14
Desires and Satisfying the Senses
As I have written in my previous logs, Vishnutirthji Maharaj told me a few months ago, that the Gita for a yogi is Devatma shakti. I compare God talks with Arjuna, written by Paramhansa Yogananda like it is the Vedas and devatma shakti is the Gita or smaller excerpt of it. In Devatma Shakti, Maharaj …
Mar 12
The Book of Job
My daughter asked me a question if the book of Job was accurate. Let me relate the story of Job briefly. Job was an extremely pious and pure person. He had a wife and 7 sons and 3 daughters. Job constantly asked Gods forgiveness for the transgressions of his children. Satan then goes to destroy …
Mar 07
Avidya or Agyan or Satan or Maya
What is Avidya or Ignorance? The truth is this world that seems so real to us is nothing but a dream in the eyes of god. We may understand this accept it but that does not help us. This is avidya. In the bible this goes by the name of Satan or lucifer. Everything that …
Feb 21
Sankalpa (WILL)
Todays blog will be brief. A few more points on Sankalpa. An exercise in liberation and getting your sankalpa perfected. Remember : Sankalpa is done without any desire. The higher the person the more immediate the results of Sankalpa. This entire world is the Sankalpa of God. All interactions between people and the eventual results …
Feb 20
Hanuman Chalisa, Tulsidasji
A few days ago, Hanumanji and the Hanuman chalisa appeared and it has become “jagrat” or alive. Then very shortly, Tulsidaji appeared and blessed me with his living presence. This morning, once again I was blessed by Ganesh Bhagvan. I believe, that since I am Gurudev and Kashinathdada’s child, God has is partial and blesses …
Feb 14
Purity and Love, Aurobindo, techniques to fight faults
My blogs have been written, solely for my children. I do not wish anyone lead them ashtray in the matters of spirituality. All my accounts, if read and understood, should be signs of the true way to God. Until one has experienced all these things, one still has not fully caught on to the strong …
Feb 08
Sunderkand and Ramayana
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
Mantra, The Word, Aum
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 05
Polarity of Chakras
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
Self Realization Fellowship (SRF) energizing exercises (contd)
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 – Breathing Exercises, SRF, Kriya Yoga
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 …
Jan 17
Guidelines for Yoga / Rules of Yoga
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 …
Dec 25
Meditation
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 19
Random
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 12
Faith
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
Pearls
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 …
Nov 26
General thoughts – how to talk with God
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 18
Hanuman
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 06
Bhagvada Gita
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
Yahoo question, answers
Some question answers from yahoo answers Why Do we Get Bhang Parshad in LORD SHIVAS MANDIR? ; In the past, perhaps Bhang was given. The truth of the matter is, the entire tradition of walking in a Temple is an allegory. When we enter the temple, we take our shoes off, we sound the bell, …
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