Category: Self Help

Love

What we think of love is not love Why ? Because it is external. Since it is external – we can only express it in an external fashion. Thus we like to hug, kiss or even degraded further to consummation That by no means is love. Vivekananda has described the triangle of love “We may …

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A different take on theory of karma

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 …

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Fundamentals that are a must to know

Just a collection of one line thoughts! My last written blog of adhara was incomplete due to the computer crashing.  The whole article was written and the computer crashed!  1) Surrender occurs in three stages.  a) Surrender with effort.  Here there is surrender with the sense of I ness. As long as there is a …

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Unconscious

We are generally unconscious of all the different parts of the intellect, mind, sensory system, body and more importantly of our psychic, our subconscious and of the  higher worlds completely.  At best, we get rare intimations from them.  Thus the words, Be here now, referring to when our consciousness is here, we are in touch …

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General statements

Just a few general statements 1) Dont wish that you could do good things to those who need.  When you wish to do good, you are also subconsciously wishing that someone be in need.  Instead, God will send you people automatically if they need help but never wish that you could help.  Also help them when  …

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Worry

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, …

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