From the venerable Kallatta “ Mastery over tuti in inhalation and exhalation gives omniscience” Just an amazing statement.
Category: spirituality
Nov 07
Theory of Karma
Many people have written on this. Both Yogananda and Vivekananda have talked about it in length And a million other books are out there on karma and sadly, these books are all wrong What is to be done? People use theory of Karma to justify pain and sometimes happiness in their life. It helps minimally. …
Oct 31
Failure to change
Social reform. Spiritual reform An abundance of spiritual and religious books. Yet almost no one changes Why? Most religions preach kindness. Love. Tolerance. Love for God. Accepting Gods will. Not to retaliate. Forgiveness And they are perfect! Hinduism and Sanatan dharma. Goes a few steps further and states you must give up desires or food, …
Oct 31
Yoga sutra chapter 2 verse 19
The translation by Vivekananda is The states of the qualities are the defined, the undefined, the indicated only, and the signless. visheshavisheshalinggamatralinggani gunnaparvani The web link is http://oaks.nvg.org/yoga-sutras.html Veda Vyas has explained it i great detail. However the translation of what Veda Vyas wrote and typed by a variety of translators has been weak …
Oct 30
I feel sad for them!
I feel sad and sorry for the politicians. This is true for the rich also All their life they work hard, some get it without hard work. And make lots of money But the money was not given for personal pleasure or to imprison Laxmi ( Vishnu wife) in your bank account It was given …
Oct 30
The lokas – confusing terminology?
In the holy science, Sri Yukteshwar maharaj gives the 7 lokas Satlok – the creator / God / self Tapolok- this refers to Lalitha. This has nothing to do with tapa or penance Janlok- sons of Gods Maharlok- Maya Swarlok – maha shunya great void Bhuvar lok – shunya or void Bhuvarlok – the all …
Oct 28
Karma
Thought itself is karma. Whether you act on it or not , it is karma The effect of thought related karma is significant in hindering meditation What kind of thoughts create the biggest obstacle in meditation? Not having love for everyone on Earth. Wish everyone well. No exception. The other is anguish and hurt feelings. …
Oct 21
Don’t lover in an illusion!
We like to think we are making progress! In some ways we are. But in many ways we are stuck. We repeat the same senseless mistakes. Let’s say you think you are mediating. But instead of making progress we make the error of thinking how to make progress or imagining progress or making a dialogue …
Oct 18
I finally found and understood salvation
I studied history. And finally I got to put things together. Maybe i should guide the rest of the world and maybe even be a super Guru. So this is what i realized. It came to be suddenly, while driving. I realized it in a second. Maybe even less time. And there was a lot …
Oct 18
Important to remember – life
From the internet but really worth whole The Law of Wasted Effort Do you know that lions only succeed in a quarter of their hunting attempts — which means they fail in 75% of their attempts and succeeds in only 25% of them. Despite this small percentage shared by most predators, they don’t despair in …
Oct 11
The slow intellect
A slow intellect – I mean this spirituality slow intellect. Where people are unable to grasp things Why does this happen ? It is not their fault. It is a game of blind people. Allow me to explain. The Mahatmas talk about kriya yoga. Or pranayama. Or divine light. Or divine sound. They actually experience …
Oct 09
Can you have experience without Yoga?
No Blog over But I am so smart. God is beyond your intellectual grasp But I read great books. Look above I do mantra and prayer. You are still in the physical world. God is beyond the physical senses I do yoga. So does a crane. Or crocodile. Neither see God. What you think is …
Oct 08
Depressing blogs
Sometimes my blog gets depressing Depressing for the reader All I want is people to be cautious and not accept everything on the web. Or the million odd self proclaimed Guru That would be an unfortunate mistake. A life that did not accomplish much The immortal Gurus like Babaji, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Neem Karoli baba, shirdi …
Oct 07
Satyam Vadami
I say the truth That is the translation. Sanskrit to English Why do I have to say that? If only you experienced things by going within – there is a tremendous wealth within. So much that all the books put together seem worthless ! All these great books, Blogs, etc are so insignificant you would …
Oct 07
Why is it so complicated?
It is not These are the thoughts of a Yogi A funny pun. Think about it ! Silence the mind, emotions and logic. No ego. That is the bare minimum as a starting point I can’t silence the mind. Of course you can’t. You never practiced it. Your habit is to think, analyze, react. Pretend …
Oct 06
Greek mythology
The ancient Greeks were very advanced. Look at their architecture and prolific work of literature But , many of them where perfected or nearly perfected souls Vishnutirthji maharaj was there too in one of the births Socrates taught Plato. Plato disciple was Aristotle. Alexander the Great followers Aristotle, came to India. He could not go …
Oct 05
Be careful of the books you read or people who you hear
The mind is very impressionable. Once a wrong concept goes in your mind, it takes a lot of work to get rid of it In the name of spirituality , you think all books are ok to read and everyone is good to listen to – that is not true From my perspective – all …
Oct 03
I want to be spiritual and make progress
It seems wonderful. Many try. Most fail And why is that? Many reasons Of course if you don’t have a true Guru you will not progress. Nothing real will happen The mind is very artistic and easily creates an illusion of a divine experience but it was not real. It was your mind playing tricks …
Oct 01
Sanskrit
A comment I made on what’s app about Sanskrit. A little background It might be folklore but one thing is certain – it is very difficult for anyone to comprehend Judaism – they claim that their book – Torah was created before the universe was created Samskrt – is considered to be the language of …
Sep 09
Writing blogs
I have not been writing much What is the point ? No one truly gets the concept People continue in their ways. They try and perhaps make significant effort to go forward. But Their efforts are in vain – because they don’t want to change in their ways of thinking or give up the selfish …
Sep 09
Is my surrender complete?
This has to be with all your mind, all your emotions, not a shred of ego, with all your heart, no logic and no selfish interest that if I surrender God will take care of your wishes or needs. The surrender should be such – I don’t care if I am deprived of everything in …
Aug 14
A miracle
Don’t expect this all the time If miracles occurred to us all the time , we would lose its importance But miracles do occur every second to the siddha and enlightened. But we can’t see them Once in a while Shakti reveals those miracles to us Here is a story of Yogananda “I remember at …
Aug 04
Kitten or monkey
2 types of Bhakti Described by Ramkrishna. He said kitten like is better. I personally believe starts as monkey and evolves to kitten In time. Not easy This is what Yogananda said Preparing for your next incarnation The Right Attitude Toward Suffering There are two kinds of seekers: those who are like the baby monkey …
Aug 03
Time to go – can we say that now?
Surrender to God If God were to say to me today: Come home! without a backward glance I would leave all my obligations here -organization, buildings, plans, people- and hasten to obey Him. Running the world is His responsibility. He is the Doer, not you or I. ~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Sayings of Paramahansa …
Aug 03
How much spiritual knowledge is there?
You can add all the books from all religions together and it will not even be .1% A Guru of course has it all – 100%. Yet people insist on reading books and texts What true knowledge is – it starts after you go into Samadhi. Not before Anything external will only guide you to …
Aug 02
Is material happiness equal to spiritual progress?
Of course not But yet most people – when they get material happiness they feel more secure. Feel powerful. And they feel just happy. This they equate to blessings from the fake Guru, or doing karma yoga or worship or tirth or mala And that dream is eventually shattered and they reevaluate their situation A …
Aug 02
An interesting forward
Here is an interesting forward https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Lord-Shiva/answer/अहम-जोगी-Aham-Jogi?ch=3&share=9c6864a4&srid=8hzMM You can choose to read it Or not read it If you read it you can choose to believe it Or not believe it If you believe it you can choose to call him a Guru or say interesting I did not read it. Just glanced at it I …
Aug 02
Indifference
In Gita there is a shloka that says to an enlightened person gold and rock are the same and sees friends and foe alike This is in chapter 14. Verse 24-25 ? But even these enlightened people need food and need some money for daily sustenance. They live in society or interact with society. As …
Aug 01
Freedom
At the final moment, if you have no remaining desire , you are free In our foolishness we think that without meditation you can overcome desire. But that is not possible. Why is it foolish? The mind inherently goes out. You see a good looking man or Woman and there is a desire. Or you …
Aug 01
A different way of looking at progress
The silence descends into the inner being first — as also other things from the higher consciousness. One can become aware of this inner being, calm, silent, strong, untouched by the movements of Nature, full of knowledge or light, and at the same time be aware of another lesser being, the small personality on the …
Jul 31
When will I get results?
No one can say! She knows. Shree Lalitha. However how and when is kept a big secret. When on the verge of I liberation your Guru can tell you. But before that, it depends on your effort and endurance. Since it is a personal choice, and God does not interfere with personal choices – there …
Jul 31
St. Paul died daily
And that is the goal of yoga This is not really death But totally forgetting the body consciousness and to soar in the skies of freedom as pure consciousness Some may consider that as an end point. But for a true yogi it is only the starting point This is what Yogananda said Why not …
Jul 31
God knows everything!
God, who is Omnipresent and omniscient, knows all things good and bad that quietly come and go in human minds and secret acts. There is nothing that can be hidden from Him; for even when a man takes with him to the grave long-held secrets, they are openly read by the all-seeing God. He who …
Jul 29
Ashesh Dhar passed away
53 years old , head of Tata EV section passes away. Many achievements. Which of those achievements or meetings helped him at the time of death? Such is life. In a second it can go away What will help you in the last moments? The number of people who praised you? The number of times …
Jul 29
For Gurubandhus
You should always read the books in your lineage What good is that Arjuna who has not read or heard Gita? What good is a tirthji disciple of modern day who has not read Maha yoga vigyan or devatma shakti or Saundarya Lahiri by Vishnutirthji? What good is a yogi who has not read Yoga …
Jul 29
When will God appear from the clouds or incarnate?
We read often that God will come and punish evil. Destroy it. And there will be peace and happiness. Krishna Bhagwan came. Destroyed evil. But yet at the end of his presence on earth – kaliyuga started It means only one thing. We have not understood what God said and meant The true interpretations are …
Jul 29
Can I just say sohum and be enlightened?
Foolish You can’t. You have to experience things. Slowly. In small steps Every step can be a challenge Fools think they have reached the highest without going through the smaller steps. Can you become a surgeon without going through all the necessary smaller steps of knowing anatomy? Merely seeing a little light is not enough …
Jul 27
Hardship with no solution
Sadly humans need hardship with no solution to make progress. Why? We are Very comfortable with the world and always think we can work with it and find a solution with our ability and intelligence. Such is human ego Hence some hardships are a springboard to progress This is what Yogananda said Our endeavor must …
Jul 27
Death
When you reflect that this world is filled with death, and that your body, too, has to be relinquished, God’s plan seems very cruel. You can’t imagine that He is merciful. But when you look at the process of death with the eye of wisdom, you see that after all it is merely a thought …
Jul 26
Blessings – encounter with Babaji
From Autobiography of a Yogi I go to America At that moment there came a knock on the door of my Garpar Road home. Answering the summons, I beheld a young man in the scanty garb of a renunciant. He entered the house. “He must be Babaji!” I thought, dazed, because the man before me …
Jul 26
Easy to misunderstand
He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God….A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, prana, to every body cell. The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the universal …
Jul 25
A reminder about Babaji
Babaji’s mission in India has been to assist prophets in carrying out their special dispensations. He thus qualifies for the scriptural classification of Mahavatar (Great Avatar). He has stated that he gave yoga initiation to Shankara, reorganizer of the Swami Order, and to Kabir, famous medieval master. The chief nineteenth-century disciple was, as we know, …
Jul 25
The heart
The heart has been talked about in the Bible and other scriptures What is that heart? There are 3 the physical heart! emotional heart. That which makes you believe in love and you foolishly say I love you. Miss you etc the true heart Where is the true heart? It is in the right side …
Jul 25
The problem with the masses
The average IQ of a nation varies. Singapore has IQ of 109 average USA 98 INDIA 81 Source : https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php Why is this interesting? Just an observation stupidity abounds So what does this have to do with spirituality? Ego plus lack of intelligence makes rumors and false information spread like wild fire. There are a …
Jul 25
Be thou a yogi
One of the few words that reverberate in my mind is from Gita Krishna Bhagwan tells Arjun be thou a yogi Now I would like to ask you to set aside all your fancy concepts of yoga. And all the adjuvant words with yoga. Those extra words confuse you “ oh I am doing Bhakti …
Jul 24
Did I reach Atman ?
Soul, mind, body, brain, senses, the world, the cosmos—all are creations of Spirit. The wise man, not conceiving himself as the architect of anything (not even his own destiny), does not laugh or cry or disturb himself with the ups and downs of dualities. An egotist is never satisfied, be he rich, poor, a clerk, …
Jul 23
Is God real or just a vivid imagination?
Here Yogananda tells us about talking with God Practising the Presence of God God is approachable. Talking of Him and listening to His words in the scriptures, thinking of Him, feeling His presence in meditation, you will see that gradually the Unreal becomes real, and this world which you think is real will be seen …
Jul 23
In lay terms – let’s create our palace !
How did Babaji create a palace? Well in lay terms for common people to understand, This is how he did it! By Yogananda On a grand scale, Mahavatar Babaji created a golden palace to fulfill a long-forgotten desire of Lahiri Mahasaya-an event I have recorded in Autobiography of a Yogi. The “miracle” was explained thus: …
Jul 22
Is a Guru necessary or is it just a weakness of thought?
Before we discuss this let us look at what Yogananda says The short season of life will be gone before you realize it. Reap the harvest of divine happyness that nothing can take away. It is not impossible; you have only made of yourself think it is impossible. The power of God is within you, …
Jul 22
I used to cry a lot!
When I was 12 years old I started daily prayers. I had my yagnopavit done at age of 8. Now when you get yagnopavit you are told to do 3 Gayatri mala a day ( 108 x 3). Initially I did it but then fell off. But in 8 grade I started doing it again. …
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