There are many esoteric signs which have been described in yoga books. Many people , often with a weak temperament, have those signs. Yet since is is generated by an active imagination it holds little value.I am not saying those things are wrong or false. They are true but only if the very basic and …
Category: spirituality
Feb 29
Brahma gyana
To reach pure consciousness or brahma gyana or para shiv a few conditions must be met 1. Fearlessness : if your afraid of events in life or death you don’t have the firm conviction that you are pure consciousness. 2. Faith : full faith in shiv scripture and a living guru 3. A perfected guru …
Feb 28
A sad mistake
Sad mistake A perfected being I saw last month Blinded was I Bowed before him But failed to recognize Beautiful were his words Now I know He spoke He hid I know not more At the same Ganesh temple in Indore A blind fakir , his voice resonating above the tumult, in a captivating mesmerizing …
Feb 28
The world
Sad it is For the world Many great traditions Got revealed Now most founders Have gone into hiding. Harder it is For the disciples To bring Niraakar To Saakar But work hard and Even Niraakar Will take aakar Almost all of the great figures of 19 and 20 century got exposed. In a flash of …
Feb 26
Books
Only seek experience – not understanding. Understanding is like crumbs on the floor! It is so far away from the experience Enlightened beings only write a few things and many deeper meanings – they NEVER reveal Sign of someone who is experienced and is enlightened is that he knows a deeper interpretation to all scriptures. …
Jan 23
The tree
Steps to perfection 1. Know your not perfect 2. Try to become perfect. Look at ways to become perfect 3. Realize you can’t reach perfection on your own 4. You seek a guru. 5. You find multiple guru but none who can destroy your imperfections. You go into intellectual discussions and back to step …
Sep 19
Sunderkanda
“Sundere sundero ram sundere sunderi katha Sundere sunderi sita sundere Kim na sunderem” Translation : In Sunderkand, Ram is beautiful, the story is beautiful and Sita Ma is beautiful, hence the name Sunderkand. In Sri Lanka, the Trikutachal Mountains had 3 levels, Neel, Suvel and Sundar. Most of the events of Sunderkand occur in the …
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 22
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 …
Mar 21
Cracking of the Egg
I have not written a few experiences and actually have begun to forget them. The one big experience I had the other day mercifully came to me because of getting sick. The night before I did not have the heart to tell my wife no to her variety of different meals she cooked. I overstuffed …
Mar 21
Navratri – Chaitri, Durga stories and meaning.
It has been a while since I am writing. In the Indian calendar there are 2 navratri – the one we all know about and the other is chaitri. The regular navratri is usually in October and this is usually in March. In the regular Navatri which is more widely publicized people are supposed to …
Jan 28
Third Eye, Ritambara Pragna
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 24
Guru Mandali
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
Miscellaneous thoughts
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
Third Eye
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 17
Gautamkaka
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
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 …
Jan 08
Meditations
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
Mistakes
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
Mohangiriji Maharaja
“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
More clarifications
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
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 23
Fishbowl
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
Vice and Virtue
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
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 14
Energizing Exercises of the SRF (Self realization fellowship)
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
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 …
Dec 05
A beacon!
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
Nada
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
Law of Miracles – a borrowed title from Paramhansa Yogananda
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
Name of God and other miscellaneous experiences
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
Jesus Christ
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
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 25
Gurudev
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
Vision of the Liberated Souls
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
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 16
Potpourri
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
The mind (continued)
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
The mind
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 05
Siddha Yoga April 5, 2009
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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