DID WE MEET BEFORE! When you love God, you can truly love others. Your perception of souls is pure-like a crystal-clear mirror. Whoever comes before you will be reflected there as he really is. When you unconditionally love your friends, you will see that divine friendship in them. In my earthly father, and in so …
Category: spirituality
Jul 19
Words of Babaji
The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century,” Babaji told Lahiri Mahasaya, “is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.” . . . “Give …
Jul 19
There is more truth to this
Never let life beat you down. Beat life! If you have a strong will you can overcome all difficulties. Affirm, even in the midst of trials: “Danger and I were born together, and I am more dangerous than danger!” This is a truth you should always remember; apply it and you will see that it …
Jul 19
Is earth hell?
Perhaps But we do like it And we like coming back again And our mind seeks pleasure here Yet we must not forget the misery here. It is enough to have made everyone adult cry. One point of time or another. And I suspect a majority of people have at one point or the other …
Jul 18
How did Babaji build a palace?
There is a constant war. Mind and external circumstances. External situations try to constantly upset the Apple cart of peace. It does it by giving you good things and bad times. One must keep the mind at peace. Both with good and bad events. When this can be done, the mind has victory over the …
Jul 18
How do you know your mediation was correct??
Everyone thinks they meditate well. Even perfect. They feel joy because they fell asleep But that is not mediation There are a few things Sushumna opens. That is the first step. Now that it is open, your prana can turn within and ascend the staircase to heaven How do you know your prana ascended This …
Jul 18
Enemies or friend
SPIRITUAL SELFISHNESS VERSUS EVIL SELFISHNESS In this world there are two teachers. If you take God as your mentor, you will have a wonderful time; but if you choose the devil as your guide, you will have bullets of misery. The key word for most people as they go through life is “myself.” The spiritual …
Jul 16
The problem with good people
The problem with good people is they are naive They don’t realize there is evil all around them. After all this is the satanic delusion , maya. People around you are pre programmed in a different way They don’t believe is courtesy always. They want to use good people constantly. Manipulate them. And if your …
Jul 16
If God is everywhere how can I see him
You using the wrong equipment! You can understand that he is everywhere. You can imagine he is everywhere But what I am talking is about us seeing him everywhere To do that you need to stop using your eyes and use your intuition like Paramhansa Yogananda said. In his own words WHAT IS TRUTH? The …
Jul 15
The life of the enlightened
Christlike souls use their divine power like the Heavenly Father, only to win, never to harm, God’s erroneous children. Darkness can be dispelled only by light. Sin can be dispelled only by righteousness, nurtured by forgiveness and love, which heals the wounds, the ignorance, and the rage in errant hearts. Jesus set a wondrous example …
Jul 15
Be nice
“Every time you think good thoughts, the Kundalini begins to move upward. Every time you hate people or hold harsh thoughts about them, the Kundalini automatically moves downward. When you love others selflessly, or think kind thoughts about them, it moves up the spine. “Kundalini Is not awakened by techniques alone.” ~ Paramhansa Yogananda Seems …
Jul 15
The story of creation
The weaker forms of life were helpless before aggressive stronger ones, and out of the struggle to survive came the process of evolution to higher, more efficient forms. “Survival of the fittest” seems to us a terrible law, but in the final analysis it is not. The animals that are killing each other are only …
Jul 14
Is God truly loving?
Why do I ask that? We suffering everywhere. And in the Bible it is said , God says I am wrath or vengeance shall be mine. I am sure an avid Bible reader knows about it This is what Yogananda said The orthodox notion of eternal hellfire and damnation is an utterly false precept; it …
Jul 13
Savikalpa
BY PRACTICING THE EIGHTFOLD YOGA, the devotee first experiences ecstasy for a short time; by deeper practice he is able to remain divinely entranced for longer periods. The ecstatic state of perception of God without perception of the universe is called savikalpa samadhi or samprajnata samadhi. It is seldom, if ever, possible for a yogi …
Jul 12
Power of vibrations
So vibrations of the soul are very powerful. For Obvious reasons, I will not describe this accurately But as time passes by, couples tend to look alike, behave similarly. Now psychologists will say it is attraction and love but that is not true. There is something deeper and more powerful. Here is an article on …
Jul 12
Impressive fake Gurus
Why do people get impressed with fake Gurus ? Several reasons The seeker is not truly interested in God. So he will get impressed by logic Ok what about the miracles? Do you think hydroxychlooroquine worked for covid -19 ? No. Yes millions of people squire by it! Placebo effect. 3). Our own thoughts empower …
Jul 12
On Becoming a Guru
Today is a fine sunny morning! Beautiful weather predicted. And you think, I have read a lot. I even have a few spiritual experiences. I know a lot And you contemplate. Suddenly you think aah I should share my knowledge. Write a book, blog. Now I am ready and entitled to be a Guru !!!! …
Jul 12
Light
YOU ARE LIGHT, YOU ARE JOY Darkness may reign in a cave for thousands of years, but bring in the light, and the darkness vanishes as though it had never been. Similarly, no matter what your defects, they are yours no longer when you bring in the light of goodness. So great is the light …
Jul 11
Fakes are abundant
On several occasions Paramahansa Yogananda told his disciples: “After my passing, many ‘mediums’ will say they are in touch with me and are receiving my ‘messages’ for the world. All such statements are false. “My message for the world has been expounded in my speeches, classes, and writings. Do not be misled by persons who, …
Jul 11
Is this an Ordinary simple statement?
You cannot be free unless you have burned the seeds of past actions in the fire of wisdom and meditation. ~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Yogoda Satsanga annual-series booklet” This is a profound statement! It gives a complete solution! Karma – until all karma is destroyed you can’t escape Reading this is karma. Breathing is karma. …
Jul 11
There is only so much spirituality you can handle
Like I mentioned there are 7 soul types. Somewhere in previous blog People can only handle spirituality only to a certain degree. Based on past and soul type What do I mean? 1). Let’s say you believe in God. A figure. And you do good deeds. Can you handle being with God for eternity. Just …
Jul 10
Relaxation in sleep and while awake
Relaxation in sleep…… “”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””” During sleep, there is involuntary relaxation of energy from the motor and sensory nerves. Through practice,one can produce this relaxation during walking state also,at will. In big the sleep of death, there is total relaxation—the retirement of energy from heart and cerebrospinal axis. By deep meditation, this complete relaxation may be …
Jul 10
How to cultivate faith
Faith is known as Shraddha. If you read Prashnouponishad, you will realize that faith is the second step in creation. In its core, faith is the soul is immortal. You may know it. But yet, the long standing attachment to body , we constantly are afraid. We believe in heaven and hell. But in that …
Jul 10
Inner victory
As long as you come back to earth, in any shape size or gender , you will desire for things in this world. Inner victory comes in a few steps learn that material desires are not fulfilling learn that there is more substantial happiness within. That within some people call it/ him / her God …
Jul 10
Is spirituality for everyone?
NO India suffered because the principle of non violence and titiksha was applied to the masses. How can a country defend itself if everyone decides and says – oh we will endure and not be violent towards others and forgive our enemies? Prithviraj Chauhan was foolish in forgiving Mohamed Gazni 16 times in war. In …
Jul 07
Kabir
Kabir was a perfected saint , Guru, God He was born in a poor family , an outcast He desperately was searching for a Guru. He heard of Guru Ramanand. He approached Ramanand – and Ramanand rejected him. Insulted him. Telling him he is full an outcast family and can’t accept him But Kabir was …
Jul 07
Guru
What do you do if your Guru is not there? you don’t have a Guru? Go to his samadhi. Worship him. And his photo. Or his sandals. But also without fail also do pranam to his foremost disciples. In my lineage, Dineshuncle, Kantikaka, kankuben, Niranjankaka are perhaps the foremost. Why? They never went to any …
Jul 07
Gurupurnima
Last weekend was one of the most auspicious days. It is called Gurupurnima. Purnima means full moon. Guru is the word used to refer to a spiritual teacher. I am talking of a perfected spiritual teacher whose level of experience is similar to Babaji, or Ramana Maharshi or RamKrishna Paramhansa So how is it observed? …
Jul 05
Old poem
Freedom Trapped by ego trapped by thy mind Trapped by emotions Trapped in thy body. Learn to be a master No longer a slave Either to mind Or body. Know thy spirit And freedom reigns. So light And sprite Is thy spirit. Why shackle it With ego. Know thy spirit And freedom reigns Beware Of …
Jul 05
Poverty
“What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for. The spirit is exhaustless Bliss. You are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. The more you concentrate on the outside, the less you will know of the inner glory of the everlasting joy of the spirit. The more …
Jul 05
Victory
Man’s freedom is final and immediate, if he so wills; it depends not on outer but inner victories. Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi So what is this freedom? Pure consciousness is limited by 5 kleshas which leads toleads to the illusion of soul that is encased in three bodies – gross, subtle and causal …
Jul 03
Science of fields part 1
Here is an interesting article. It talks about a patient who lost his eyesight but could still navigate around a complex maze ! This is not some hocus pocus or saint blessings by just an extension of ….. How ? Scientifically impossible. The author here considers it as anextension of consciousness But it is not. …
Jun 29
An interesting story
Nevertheless, because she received much special attention, Radha became filled with pride. So one day the Lord Krishna said to her, ” Let us steal away together.” He played on her vanity, making her think he wanted to be alone with her. She was feeling very happy and favoured. They walked some distance, and Krishna …
Jun 28
Ashtavakra Gita
Ashtavakra was enlightened. There is a story he was enlightened even before he was born. When in his mothers womb, his father would recite the vedas and shlokas and would make mistakes. Ashtavakra would wince and his body would twist in mothers womb. So when he was born, he had 8 parts of his body …
Jun 28
Positive thinking
One of my uncle, Dineshkaka always emphasized positive thinking He has been instrumental in guiding me in my spiritual path throughout In this day and age failure in many tasks is common. However like Yogananda, he Always insisted on positive thinking. So even if you repeated fail to ride a bicycle, do we not try …
Jun 27
One pointed attention or dhayana or mediation
BE DETERMINED WHEN RESTLESS THOUGHTS INVADE THE MIND So, develop your desire for God; and when you are meditating, every time a distracting thought comes, remember that it is only static. Tune it out. If you are praying to the Heavenly Father, and suddenly you think that you should be in the kitchen working, just …
Jun 26
Hidden enemies
To find freedom from the enslaving power of the senses, the greedy, angry, sensual individual first must avoid the material environment that easily excites his specific psychophysical weakness, and then must kill the inner desires that will otherwise accompany him wherever he goes. The devotee who exercises outward self-restraint and thereby feels secure against temptation …
Jun 24
Difficulties on the path
This will be in 2 parts First let me display what Aurobindo wrote You are quite mistaken in thinking that the possibility of the sunlit path is a discovery or original invention of mine. The very first books of Yoga I read more than thirty years ago spoke of the dark and the sunlit way …
Jun 23
Family
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others. ~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda This may seem incorrect at first. After all why would a hungry starving person in Africa Make the soul unhappy? Or a child crying for …
Jun 22
Karma
Generally people are narrow minded. They think of karma as amount of money, security, people and relations they get. Usually many people focus on their bad fortune and use it to justify not helping others who suffer But here is a powerful statement from Yogananda If you give out love and kindness you will get …
Jun 22
God is everywhere but
“Gazing one Sunday morning at the masses of flowers that decorated the church, the Master said, “I thank you for the flowers. God is always pleased to receive flowers because He Himself is beautiful, and He created beauty in the flowers so that they would speak of Him. More than anything else in nature they …
Jun 22
Goals of life
If your on the spiritual path – know your true self. The Atman or pure consciousness If your religious – demand to know God but having him appear while you are still in the body If your a scientist’s and don’t believe in God – find out what existed before the Big Bang or find …
Jun 21
Reincarnation
Something to ponder Divine Justice and the Law of Reincarnation. “”””””””””””””‘”””””””””‘”” You may or may not believe in the law of Reincarnation;but if life is the beginning and the end of Human existence,it is impossible to reconcile the enequalities of life with a divine justice. Why is one man born in a rich family, whereas …
Jun 21
How many kriya yogis are there?
Hundreds of thousands, not dozens merely, of Kriya Yogis are needed to bring into manifestation the world of peace and plenty that awaits men when they have made the proper effort to reestablish their status as sons of the Divine Father….May all men come to know that there exists a definite, scientific technique of Self-realization …
Jun 19
Why knowledge or experience
Knowledge prepares the way to love. You cannot love that which you do not know. Knowledge of God must therefore precede love for Him. That knowledge comes by practice of Kriya Yoga, the technique that Lahiri Mahasaya gave. When you know God, you will love Him; and when you love Him, you will surrender yourself …
Jun 18
Atma siddhi
How do you know you have established yourself in God? Many things but the bare basic is as follows as per Paramhansa Yogananda Please not the words obtain at will! Peace when in external turmoil. Those are more Long lasting signs. Sporadic peace is equally important but slowly with patience one must increase it Per …
Jun 17
Cosmology and Aum – an introduction to dark matter and energy
Paramhansa Yukteshwar clearly described Aum. First it is the wave of love and then there is Aum which is 4 things all occurring simultaneously and are identical. They are – space, time, particle and the sound of Aum Now these things can be easily verified by any disciple when there is awakening of Shakti. This …
Jun 17
A riddle and old poem
Tell me tell me What it is No thought no logic No ego no emotions Neither life nor death Who am I ? Knowledge limits you Beyond understanding am I Compassion am I But I have no compassion Love I have none For love am I Thus spake the great The riddle to be solved …
Jun 17
Bubble of pure consciousness
The Ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality. ~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Metaphysical Meditations” This is a description …
Jun 17
Child – experience of pure consciousness
“In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.” “What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul – joyous, eternal.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi) …
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