So in various yoga books they mention karma can be burnt with meditation on certain chakra

Yogananda mentions the wisdom way in meditation to burn karma

So where is that chakra and who knows how to do it ?   Is it fantasy?  Reality?  Speculation?

Many gurus will tell you they can do it – what a joke ! 

With child like imagination , they will describe a chakra – based on things they read -draw beautiful pictures !   Such chakra do not exist in the way they render!   Grow up !  Stop imagining and stop fooling others !  

If your earnest , want your ego destroyed then a Guru will appear.  Until then there is the web, numerous Guru, con artists and books.  

There is a book just published – why are we here ?

He has the following story from Plato

Plato’s allegory of the cave, where he likens our existence to people trapped in a cave, being forced to look at the shadows of reality from the light cast behind them on a wall. And he said the job of a scientist essentially is to interpret those shadows to understand the reality underneath. And when we look at the universe around us we’re seeing the shadows of reality. And what we’ve been able to do is peer underneath to discover the real world, which is really quite different.

The very title of the book shows he did not understand Plato.  Plato was a yogi.  Like Socrates.  They had experienced something very very high.  And based on that they came out with  brilliant stories.  

The world is a shadow ! Or a shadow of a shadow !  Enough said.  Find the real and you will know what I mean.  Otherwise you will merely have a conjecture

Banat Banat bana jai

These are the famous words by Lahiri Mahashaya.  Try again repeatedly.  Someday or sometime it will materialize.  Meaning your spiritual efforts will give success

Yet the time frame is variable. Could be months or years but generally it is several life times

I am amazed at the number of Swamiji and guru out there who reached success within an hour

Even the Avatars take a long time to regain their greatness.  Buddha took time.  Jesus took many years.  Rama and Krishna also humbled themselves by having a Guru.  I find it incredulous when there are many so called guru who either fraudulently or incredibly naively believe their one single experience is profound enough to give them the title of a Guru and to lead.

Lahiri Mahashaya took 10 years even with Babaji help. Buddha took 100 lives and even in final life took 10 years AFTER finding a guru.  Kabir gyaneshwar Mirabai all took many many years

Please stay away from anyone who claims success with fake reports of one experience. IT IS DELUSIONAL.  Right now there is no one out there in the public.  So unfortunate!

We go and get information from scriptures and books and from the different saints and guru.  They share stories , jokes and their incredible logic and millions of people will be impressed and promise themselves ” wow. This is perfect. I will change. I loved it”

The problem is very few if any will really change.  And those who do change they change because of their past karma but not from the books or the words of the fake guru

They are all welcome. But it would be nice to discover the correct technique of changing permanently.  Yogananda said the way is “meditation”    Vivekananda said Rajyoga  Others say awakening of Shakti

They all said the same thing.  

One scholar from the 3rd century B.C.E. was even said to have “‘Twas the Liar who made me die, And the bad nights caused thereby” engraved on his tombstone. It’s likely that we’ll never solve it either, though philosophers aren’t likely to be giving it up any time soon. 

This is a quote I read from an app called curiosity.   Excellent app 

But the solution is quite simple.  There is no paradox in that philosophers quote. He wrote it clearly standing high above ordinary people.  The liar is Maya and to forget the divine spirit is death and your sentenced to the terrible nightmare called earth 

Simple

Three  types.  It involves a steady gaze at an object. Without blinking

Outward : like the stars etc

Middle like a photo or flame of diya 

Inner in middle of forehead

That is the traditional teaching.  True trataka is different.  Takes years of practice. All blogs and traditional books have been misunderstood

It proves only one thing.  They are yet to start yoga!  

Of course there is chemical imbalance.  The scientists still struggle with properly identifying the chemical – they change it every 20 years- MAO, to SSRI to GABA to gut bacteria – and treatment methods differ.  Many treatment strategy exist.  Medications, ECT, TCM HERBS, PSYCHOTHERAPY but what does a yogi say?  Do they have an answer?

The biggest threat to treatment of depression is the treatment itself. Many frauds online publish fake studies , criticize medical studies and seduce patients by appearance of being sympathetic   

Ultimately the solution is quite simple but seemingly impossible to reach.   Depression is part of personality.  Soul has no personality.  So knowing your self as spirit is the quickest and permanent way.  Yet every step of the way the personality or three gunas rise up and our divine self is forgotten

Without going into specifics I would like to say if your goal is a permanent solution then meditation can put a more permanent dent.   The charlatans of the world will always misguide you and they will abound in this world. The bad karma of the individual will prevent them from finding or seeking a permanent method and even if they find it they cannot hold on to it and even if they hold on that will not reach it unless their desire is truly to get rid of the burden of depression.  

Let the world be.  Should you be so fortunate to find the tricks of the trade let the light lead you away from darkness and gloom to a brighter future

Religion is a way of psychotherapy.  I am not referring to it.  The roots of depression continue to stay there.  Joining any path cannot help unless there is an awakened and still livingindividual in the path.  Sadly the world does NOT have a person like that.  They exist but not in any form of business, retreat, temples churches, books  etc 

After all what can such an enlightened person want from you ? 

How do I know I have made more permanent progress towards god?

Any religion or spirituality that is practiced remains for the birth and in next birth if born in a country devoid of that religion – the soul will not make progress. This is the effect of bad karma

Lets say you love pizza or Basundi.  You have a hearty meal.  3 months later you suddenly remember that food and you crave it or feel sad you can’t have it due to diabetes than that particular desire has taken a more permanent control over you and the stronghold of Maya over you in this regard is permanent

Thus any sadness or unhappiness is a victory of Maya over you.  This continues from body to body.  

Not having something is not the same as not desiring it.  In India the fakes will not have things but continue to desire it.   The yogi has those things but does not desire it 

Most people pray for some material benefits and having a hardship free life

THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN – HARDSHIP FREE LIFE

Constantly – you will be bombarded by hardship and pain – physical , emotional, spiritual pain.  Always

In fact if you are progressing rapidly and truly your hardship will be significantly more.  

The world is a hell – the hell of duality. The hell of twins.  You ask for fame and at some point in life this or in future you may get it but you will get the pain of ignominy. Ask for money and you will endure poverty. The list is endless

Truly , everyone will face economic hardship once or twice in their life time.  No exceptions.  

So why do the evil people have more happiness compared to those who are nicer?

Because those who are nice are trying to empty their bag of karma.  So all the past karma come out !  Since generally bad karma are more common more pain is endured

Now of course there are tricks and techniques of shortening it but only a true guru can give you specifics in each individual case

Vivekananda has written a few lines on this in his inspired talks.  Just reading his lines can bring comfort. 

Without a guru chances that an individual collapses ( alcohol , drugs, anti depressants) during hardship is very high 

Good luck ! 

Enjoy the world if you can

Or

The world will enjoy at your expense

Or

Find a true guru.  Only live 

 through his wisdom

Meditation is better than reading or any activity. But few people can each the stage where they prefer meditation over anything

Reading – all it will do is cultivate an interest in it

The mind will ask for candies what will I get out of meditation

Answer is everything.  But you need a guru.  A real guru.  And 30-40 years of meditation at least

Go and read books and blogs 

Full of nonsense. All based on stupid false understanding rather than experience 

If there was experience there would be more Secrets revealed rather than a display of erroneous logic.  

No matter how hard people try but they constantly expose their lack of experience when they use logic

A smart man leaves gaps in what he writes so he can reveal the truth when a true disciple comes along

You may think your a true disciple but sadly its not so.   So many desires, so much ego, too many thoughts on multiplicity and changing the world.   Leave me alone.  

For great people with immense purity they correct the world not by words or talks but merely by their presence.  Such people are the highest

Every country that wants to become great should have 2-3 such pure people in their headquarter

Free in the universe

Free in the world

Free in the body

Fretters are many

Your ego 

Your desire

Your habits

Your emotions

Are you willing to fight

Destroy your desire

Ego habit and tear

Always free 

Never bound

Illusion it was

Your choice

Dream 

Or be free

Answer is simple.  The following should occur 

Wanting to meditate in preference to any other activity -ALL Day long

Depth of meditation increases daily

New experience DAILY

Desire to teach or educate others about meditation goes away.  Its futile.  The rest of the world cannot understand

There are other things that happen but they must not be revealed

Michael Kaku – physicist is a proponent of string theory M

Basically it is a theory that seeks to identify a unity to the forces of the universe and subatomic particle.   He has done it quite eloquently.  He also figured out 11 dimensions of the universe

The known universe – the forces we know is 4 %.  Dark matter is 24% and dark forces is 72%.  

The dark forces and matter are known to a yogi.  But liars thieves scoundrels of the world use that missing knowledge to deceive other people in the name of religion

The string theory is accurate. It refers just to indriya – Sanskrit for string.  The stupid foolish religious people mistook indriya as senses. However the true knows like yukteshwar gyaneshwar goraknath gurudev knew the real answer.  

Good luck finding a knower now  ! 

A five year old saw a book on mathematics.  It had weird designs ∫ sin^3 (2x) dx

He immediately said this is stupid and meaningless and no one should follow this

He then got his friends together and praised the only thing that they  knew- counting to 100 – and said this is the only way to become intelligent 
The world is full of such stupid children.  They read a few books. Barely understand it.  Walk around giving big big lectures.  While they have not even walked one step towards spirituality

Only a true yogi knows it.  What is written in books is for infants. Go enjoy your coloring books 

A father watches silently a child playing with his coloring tools waiting patiently for the child to grow up or ask his father – this plane in the coloring book won’t fly will it ?

For spiritual progress one must be honest with oneself

Questions like these should occur constantly without self justification.  

1. Why am I doing this?

2. Do I really seek god? Or do I look for complements from the world? Do I want to become wealthy using spiritual knowledge and powerful? 

3. A often lame excuse is I want to help others.  Yes a few people want to help others but not purely.  Deep down there is a hidden agenda of money and fame.  It is still ok  though for helping a poor person get food or clothes is noble 

4. What about helping others spiritually? Some people may benefit with the inferior quality of help out there. However true spiritual help – which everyone needs – is one on one.   Never published or written.   You can only get that with a true guru and they hide.  They only help a disciple who is a 100 % committed to the love of God. Such a person is rare

6. Neeem Karoli Baba exposed himself as a divine person.   So did Aurobindo and Ramana maharashi. Shivohum tirrhji Maharaj and Vishnutirthji Maharaj also. But their play was divine – not necessarily to help everyone who met them but to turn the masses to the idea that God exists. Don’t get buried up in science and technology

7. Later at the end of this blog I will write the names of the other enlightened divine people of the caliber of Neem Karoli Baba

Often times people say it’s ok for them to get angry or upset – the other person criticized wrongly or was unfair or was evil. Your goal is to pray or meditate incessantly without thought of the world.  Let the world be.  Find someone who believes in these values 

This is shloka 16

kaveendraanaam chaetah kamalavana baalaat ava ruchim
bhajantae yaesa sah katichid arunaam aeva bhavateem
virinchi praeyasyaas taruna tara sringaara laharee
gabheera abhir waagbir vidadhati sataam ranjanamamee. 16
This shloka reveals two secret siddhis in a yogi – how to separate the subtle body from the gross body and development of vaak sidhi or ability of spoken words to become true

Kavi refers to a yogi with that siddhi

Vaagbir refers vaak siddhi.   Gabheera means deep contemplative secret. 

Abhir means he nears it and vidadhati giving out

All these siddhi are for the pleasure of a yogi

The literal translation if you look it up by scholars – stupidly of course – will say goddess gives them the ability to recite poetry

This shloka by shankaracharya – how could he be interested in the gift of reciting poetry ?

He was a yogi.  Every word he gave out was in a deeper meaning referring to secrets of yoga

How these siddhis develop – the shloka hands out a few secrets. They could be learnt at the feet of a yogi.  That is my version.  

There are extremely few people who want god just for his love and want nothing NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING from this world. No fame no acknowledgement of their yoga or siddhi, no money, no disciple, no wine or sex 

They usually live their life in seclusion unknown to all. Remaining unknown to all 

They are mere words or terms used that the gross world is unaware of

Just like infra red and ultra violet words are used

For atman or pure consciousness it is neither subconscious nor subliminal but an open handy book for many things

A yogi is aware of it at all times. Until this stage is reached your yoga has not reached a ripe stage

Somewhere – the contents of this “open handy book” can be revealed.  Suffice to say many mysteries are written there

The world may see them as success. They may think there is success 

To a degree there is success – the long awaited features are finally fulfilled – after much power and good deeds accumulated

Yet they have the same anguish and pain in life as an ordinary person – the pain of jealousy, insecurity anger, fear of health aging, death, humiliation when reputation is lost, emotions of vengeance 

So in the long run they are stagnant in the cosmic picture

The same is with all the famous guru of the present time.  

All have thoughts and they want the world to believe in their thoughts.  Even when totally wrong !  Amazing!

Success in thoughts does not mean your right! The roman catholic pope imprisoned Copernicus for saying the earth rotates around the sun !  The pope won but yet they were wrong !

I don’t see stars or performers.  I see their pain.  Their emotional anguish. Their joy. Their arrogance

Don’t be a star or a guru.  Win your weakness

Be victorious  in yourself.  Not the world. 

A voice 

An echo

From timeless

To time

Existence to reality 

An image you see

Many images

Only one is true

The lost know it not

The truth knows it all

What thy understand

Is within confines ( of limited intellect)

What is revealed 

Has no bounds 

Ask 

And ask 

And ask again

Perhaps thou are earnest

Then and only then

Can grace be bestowed

A person

His reflection 

The reflection talks 

With other reflections 

How strange !

With blessings

The reflection talks 

With the person

The person says come back

There never was a reflection !

The quotes seem accurate. However since people reading it are full of ego and have never experienced the true limitless self they will all go in wrong direction without a Guru

A guide is needed to understand even a letter from the quote 
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”“Knowing others is intelligence;

knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength;

mastering yourself is true power.”

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

“If you understand others you are smart.

If you understand yourself you are illuminated.

If you overcome others you are powerful.

If you overcome yourself you have strength.

If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.

If you can act with vigor, you have a will.

If you don’t lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.

If you die without loss, you are eternal.”

“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

The Three Greatest Treasures in Life

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures.

Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies,

you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,

you reconcile all beings in the world.”

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”

“A leader is best

When people barely know he exists

Of a good leader, who talks little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will say, “We did this ourselves.
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

On Acceptance and Change

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.”

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”

On Peace and Happiness

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.

If you are anxious you are living in the future.

If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

“Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.”

On Nature

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

“If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”

“Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.

God gives what you think and ask for.  That is his kindness. 

Our fault lies in wrong thoughts and what we ask for

Is there a reporting bias with an increase in violence ? ( meaning increased incidence of crime reporting and a bias from population growth ) or has violence gone up ?

I believe it has gone up. Why ? We read and the news media reports crime crime and crime.   These thoughts are on our mind and all God can do is fulfill our thoughts.   Moreover it gives criminals more ideas for crime and ideas to be evasive 

Once again the media is at fault.  Also in the hearts of people they want to read about crime.  Who wants to read of a poor family that fed an even poorer person ? Or a low level government worker that goes out of his way to help an illiterate old lady ? 

Change your heart.  Applaud those small things and bless them.   Wish you could be that kind and loving and helping.  In time even those wishes will be fulfilled and you will uplift yourself.  If a hundred people do that a village gets uplifted.  What is to stop a nation to becoming great if everyone does it ?

Instead what do we do ?  We have hatred and anger – for things that do not go well.  Hatred even toward government leaders and other things.   I am not asking that you hug a snake but asking that you fill your heart with small acts of good things.  Let that spread.  In time the nation changes 

The media can play a great role in this.  Sadly they won’t. It is not their fault.  The world is not ready for Satyuga.   But soon it will change for a short time.  

I read a lot of quotes on mindfulness in the news.  I do not go about searching for it

ALL  of the authors of the quotes – in the deepest sense – are wrong and flawed. They are but mere a baby step in the grand scheme. Helpful to the world maybe but it forms only an extremely small step in yoga

For a yogi it is worthless.   Someone who reads the quotes and thinks the quotes make sense – has not even started yoga and meditation.   I don’t like the word meditation.  

Samadhi is the real word.  What use is meditation when Samadhi is to be reached 

He recently stated he gets angry. At small things. It lasts a few minutes and he battles it and goes away. 

He gives a few strategies and suggests how to combat it. After all we are Only humans!

I merely smiled.  Are we ? 

Generally they will only have a few disciples. Followers can be many but disciple or shishya only a few 

Why ? Because no one truly wants moksha – an existence without a body , no food or water or sex or fun things to do. No one to talk with or no one to show off or brag

A true disciple only wants that kind of existence.   How many are like that in this world ?Right now everyone is trying to be disciple.   They talk with others read or argue debate take god name,  meditate all in preparation of realizing one fact  – existence as we know in the body is fraught with pain

None of my readers are ready for the existence of pure consciousness  so a true guru who knows the hidden secrets of his disciples – waits patiently and with love for the disciple to be ready

So there are many Guru.  Much much higher than even Krishna or Any modern day guru but no one has the clean simple desire of wanting nothing in this world except pure consciousness

Neem Karoli Baba said – if I did not have a big heart I could have been a great yogi.  Remember Neem Karoli Baba did far greater miracles than anyone I know.  He probably did thousands of miracles a day.  Including averting natural disasters, bringing people back from dead, saving Ramana maharani from pain at death, etc

It saddens me when I see all the misleading methods out there. People flock it by the millions.  They Rob people by the thousands.   Buy this book or this series, come to our retreat etc.  A guru does not need any of that.  He wants your genuine interest and wants to take away your sins  once the burden of sins is lifted it is easier to go to high levels. 

Such a loving guru is very rare. 

Go about your way.  Go to other blogs books and retreat. Find fault with my words and what I write what do I care.   Rely on your flawed understanding.  I live where intellect can’t each  My blog is not meant for anyone except a weary traveler

Nowadays there is much talk on mindfulness

They often try to climb to glory by quoting Buddha

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

Then Buddha says

Doubt everything. Find your own light.”

Then he says

“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”

Generally people grasp these statements in the wrong way.  Both statements about doubt refer to the exact same thing.  In one instance he says doubt everything and then says doubt is your enemy  

And whatever aspect of doubt you believe becomes your awareness !

True awareness is when you begin to understand that all three statements are identical

I will end by a quote from Buddha – if the scriptures agree with me then they may be worth something ! 

Oh self

Thou are all

Up and down, all around

In the smallest quantum

Aware of it

And ordering it to create 

Electrons and photons

With all the atomic energy

On earth and planets

In every galaxy 

Cosmos across
Pray tell me

Oh intelligent reader

What is it like

To throb in the atom

In the quntum

In the stars

Across the skies 
I have written a short poem 

This was one of the experience described in the toltec religion original person

The poem is mine

I wrote it to let the reader understand that it is not intellect but experience that is needed

True reporters and reporting is dead.  All that exists – strong biased opinions and heavily biased facts

For example – the other day it was in the news- cop slams teenage girl to floor. What does this headline tell you ?  This must be a bad cop.  Maybe later in the details there is some mention of the facts leading to why the police officer needed to use force.  Was such an inaccurate headline needed?  Why not just say police officer had to physically restrain a teenager  ?

Such unnecessary use of melodramatic words leads to public bias against the police officers and they are put under further scrutiny

Are all police officers good ? No but are all of them bad?

At the golden globe streep took jabs at Trump. What it shows its anger and resentment against him.  But why ? Who said having anger and resentment is good?  If you can have anger and resentment against someone you don’t know how much more anger and resentment do you harbor within you ?

SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO SPIRITUALITY?

It shows several basic flaws that exist in humans. These flaws are the very reason why people fail to make any progress

One is : people are of very limited IQ.  they quickly draw erroneous conclusions. This flaw is manipulated by journalist by evoking emotional responses in the reader by use of adjectives rather than strictly reporting facts

Patanjali wrote in yoga sutra :sattwapurushaanyatakhyati : meaning all that needs to be done is to realize intelligence is different from atman !  Well truth is everyone knows that !  But the next statement is one who knows that develops all yoga siddhi !  Now how many people have any yoga siddhi ?  This is an example how extremely limited intelligence leads to quick conclusions of knowledge of a subject without even starting !

Thus what Patanjali was saying is extremely deep and very very hard to go to that level.  All their life people think but not once can they stop thinking and realize their higher self. They will waste their breath in all the logic and use of logic and thinking is like saying I am going to keep shouting all my life and attain “maun” ( Sanskrit for silence of speech ) 

The second thing it shows is we have a lot of anger and hate in us.  

Third it shows we judge and prosecute others in our mind based on their actions even when the bible says ” judge not lest you be judged”

There are a few other subtle things in this discussion but this is not the place

Lastly , am I guilty of judging the media and streep and many others in the blog? Am I failing in my own directive?  That I will leave to the reader to decide.  

My only goal was to help readers learn their own flaws and continue their spiritual journey learn to read news by cutting out bias and emotional reporting by media and stick to facts.  Until journalism matures into reporting facts and starts showing less of childish tantrums and sensationalism, readers should become adults and weed out just facts 

This is even more true for all spiritual blogs and guru and so called leaders

Ram / god was abducted by Ravana brothers – Ahiravana and Mahiravana.  Ram and laxman were about to be sacrificed to the goddess in the underworld and Hanuman intervened and rescued them !

Bhairava has three aspects.  Sun, moon and fire !

Jonas was swallowed by a whale and came out alive 3 days later

David used a sling shot to shoot a giant 3 1/2 qubit tall !

How primitive ?!

Primitive is our thought process. These wise stories and incidences have a much deeper meaning based on perception and NOT on any logic that you can use 

I am so amazed and impressed !   Life after life people stay at the same spiritual level for a very long time.  

In one birth they will walk with a tulsi mala, next birth they will say walk with the cross, then become non believers,and then say meditation is the way.  Others will say oh public service is best way 

One birth they will think of Ram, next birth Krishna or Swaminarayan  and then who knows what

All they do is shift from one set of rules to another 

And in every life time they are extremely adamant about what they do is the only right thing 

However what is the real thing? What is the right thing?

Purity is essential.  What is purity ?  Loving god AND NOT wanting material things both must co exist

Love is essential.  If you love god then you will learn to love others.  Without that it is not possible

The list is long. I cannot divulge all of it. 

But it is a must to know yourself as the pure soul 

All practices are but small steps to build you to the giant leap of knowing yourself as atman !

Please heed my words – wake up. If you realize what you do is good but there is something purer you will come to me 

Shankaracharya, his disciples, Ramana maharshi, Kabir,  Christian saints like saint francis, mother Theresa lived very simple lives

They served and helped others.  Were they happy ?

Some of them had no roof, no money.  Like Vivekananda. Or swami rams  They moved from place to place.   

So if we try to live life like that will we be happy ?  Or miserable ?   

Honestly they were very happy.  They did not have twitter, Facebook, word press blogs, texting, microphones, Tv. It was unsure if anyone would even listen to them.  Yet they were happy 

Contrast this to the modern day fake saints who only want a larger audience, people to worship them , often literally worship them and say they don’t want money but yet charge anyone who wants to attend their sessions including meditation sessions and retreats

Most of the readers cannot fathom why ramana maharshi or vivekananda would be happy being penniless or not even having a single person to talk with

Can you live an existence like it?   Was something wrong with them that they found joy in that existence?

If you cannot understand why they were joyous in that way of living – then one thing is certain , you have not learnt to meditate and most certainly you have ZERO ZERO experience in knowledge of self

Once you get there, in that supreme state of meditation, the outlook changes. This is my opinion.  

Like vivekananda said Our mind is hypnotized by Maya and we must get it de hypnotized from its clutches to obtain true happiness

Sadly I do not see anyone of that caliber out there! The media, publicity hungry, money chaser , pretentious gurus are out there – helping everyone by relieving the pressure in your wallet. How can such people give you the truth

So if you want happiness, if you want to truly truly get rid of the burden of your attachment to material things in life, then spirituality is your calling 

For most people they don’t want spirituality but just want their life to be easy, comfortable and have desires fulfilled.   Why why why should a guru appear before you and help in deep meditation when you want , for the most part, material gains

My words are intended to make material minded men run away.  They won’t like me anyway  they won’t understand me. 

This is why the world does not see a guru even when or if he or she exists.  

Enough said 

Please don’t publicize me or my writing. It is insanity

No guru or god can help you – as long as you believe you know or understand

And that is the problem !   In the field of spirituality most people are like cavemen thinking they know physics because they made the first wheel ( compare to the true guru who are like quantum physicist )

Yet in their ignorance they have an attitude they know spirituality.  Not only do they have an attitude but viscuouly lash out at any one who does not follow their misguided beliefs 

I discourage people from reading my blogs.  People seek understanding alone.  Get the grace first

First try to be worthy of being a good disciple.  Show humility.  Humbleness.  Realize that you know NOTHING in the path to god.  All the spiritual books put together from now and the past have  nothing compared to the experience based wisdom of an enlightened one

I should not reveal more.  

Those who think they know all about spirituality may read – so they can put others down satisfy their ego and feel good

Those who aspire something higher may read it.   

Of those who aspire – some search for a method and they bounce around

Some who aspire may know method but keep reading thinking the reading can take them there. It can help clarify and make sure you stick to the right technique 

What does an enlightened yogi do ? Once you experience it – what book is of help ? They don’t go back to reading spirituality.  It would be like a phd reading alphabet !

Be a yogi is what Krishna said 

This is a repeat of previous blog but I wrote it for a specific purpose 

Aurobindo wrote a lot. The great yogi of the past wrote barely one or two shlokas.  !  And the entire world has written thousands of pages to discuss understand explain one shloka of Gita !

Such is truth. One word or sentence from truth and the world spends thousands of years trying to explain or understand. A yogi just experiences it.  And remains silent 

Silence.  Calmess. Peace.   

And the world remains busy discussing explaining thinking !  Losing peace !   

A royal comedy ! :) 

Ordinarily people can see enjoyment of life as the only purpose of life.  Yet in their pursuit they face multiple anguished, sadness, painful situations and have more disappointments than success.  

And they come back again and again thinking it will be better next time but it is never so 

Oh ! So much hardship for a little bit of happiness ! It is a hard lesson to learn.   We think being a physician will bring happiness but we quickly see the pain all the way.  Long study hours, long work hours, etcetera

Same about marriage – we think a relationship will bring good days. But instead there are fights arguments, hurt feelings financial problems etc

So then why are we here.  In the long run , in the last fraction of a second when you are ready to kick the frame permanently you realize it was a waste of time.   The only real purpose was to discover your higher self !  This can only be uncovered with deep meditation.  Logic cannot take you there. Neither can your intelligence.  

Deep meditation with an awakened consciousness is the only way.  But a guru is a must to awaken that !  Otherwise it is worthless 

They are deliberately vague. If I write more clearly, the world will misuse it. They people of the world can only understand things to the limit of their intellect and experienc

No one out there has any real experience. If they had experience the first thing that happens is – silence and NO I don’t want to be a guru

Thus all great saints conveyed deep messages in allegory 

Mahiravan and ahiravan are forces of Maya.  You can read stories. De mystify your self.  But you will always remain far from the truth 

Same thing with ramal Vidya.  Shiv swarodaya.  All the world can understand is limited to their breath. Not the breath of shiv

Drink alcohol. Have sex.  That is the way to freedom. The concept of a yogi is different.  The world can only think incorrectly 

Truth is alcohol is the intoxicating nectar that a yogi tastes deep in meditation. The alcohol of the world is fake. 

Sex is withdrawing within your senses  from the body and going back to shiv. That gives satisfaction 

Thus statements are misunderstood.  Or if you can’t drink that nectar / alcohol you say it is a lie or this guy is a lunatic 

All religion are misunderstood this way.  The story of David goliath in bible or ravana or the story of the sacrifice of Abraham 

No one should follow me or read my blogs. it is easier to follow the wise men of the world.  Learn to understand a yogi !

The world leaders pray for peace  

The question is if you went to Jesus or another great yogi like babaji or gyaneshwar maharaj – would they pray for peace ?

No.  They just bless peace and it happens. Of course depending on the individual more or less results vary.  But their blessings never fail 

The problem is the world does not retain the peace for long at all

So everyone should do their best for peace.   Meditate deeper. Learn the technique from a guru 

Learn to be grateful to the pain and anguish in your life.  They alone help you understand your faults so you may correct yourself and be more loving to all those hurt you

After all the outside – its a reflection of your self.  Take it literally or take it to mean it is figurative

We all have many inner corrections to make. Adverse conditions should not be taken as punitive but rather as an opportunity to correct your self to love all. Like all great saints

After this happens a million times over , maybe more, ( the number is not a figure of speech) we finally learn to correct and love everyone 

I have omitted many smaller steps in between.  For that you must find a guru

The help of a guru is very clear to those who are sensitive to external influences.  People often mistake bipolar disorder as a neurological condition but in truth it is often external environment situation that caused the problem 

The pendulum to treat many medical illness will change in the future. Right now we are still in the stone ages

If there is rebirth we forget it.  Some claim to remember it but often times it is an over active imagination

One has to progress very high before past lives are uncovered

At present, there are hardly a few souls who are even able to get to muladhar!

Muladhar – one should read mahayoga vigyan.  It says there is airavat, ganesh, prithvi etc. people read about it online but have no experience.  There are 56 rays as per Vishnutirthji there and each ray has a different divinity mantra etc 

Sad how the vain ego of people make them claim knowledge of all these without any experience.  

For recollection of past one has to go way beyond this 

Thus when someone comes back, all knowledge of past is lost and one firmly believes in whatever religion or practice or environment they are born in.  

It is only when there is a strong commitment to guru and wanting true progress and a sincere wish to destroy ego and not want a certificate from others that spiritual progress can continue

Surprisingly I see others – in the past they were on the right track and then lost it again for many births !  Amazing. If only they had humility they can accept guidance

Some great saints pass away early – like vivekananda , ramkrishhna

Others pass away at a ripe age – like yukteshwar, 

Some saints fall in category of immortal beings

Each has a role to play and stay here till done 

What about ordinary people – some live a short life and others live till 100.  It is sad for those who live long and are healthy that they did not pray or meditate long enough !

The precious human life is there so we can meditate deeper and uncover our higher self! That is the ultimate secret. We think human life is to serve others or enjoy life or praise god.    It is none of it. Know Thy higher self

Once you know it you will prefer that existence rather than human suffering. Fear of death can slowly go away.  

I write short blogs because longer versions in more detail should not be revealed in public

Shiv Puja.  It is done with bilipatea

This is what it looks like.  Traditional 

However if you read bilvastaka it says the base is Brahma, proximal is shiv and middle is Vishnu!

This is a great clue that the bilipatra is not a leaf but something else.  

A very advanced yogi knows what it is and how to pray to shiv with it.  It is not the leaf

Aniyata : not ordained

Phala : fruits

Bhaksya: enjoyed

Bhojyam : food

Peyam : water

Vidhi Parinam : results of destiny / rites 

Vibhakta : separate or special religious follower

Desha kalam space time

I read the translation by a Sanskrit scholar !  He missed the entire meaning.  However both yogananda and vishnutirthji understood the word peyam.  

Peyam is not just water or heroic water but refers to subtle water and subtle world 

The scholar missed that subtle word and as an end result missed the meaning of the shloka and greatness of abhinav Gupta

The entire shloka : refers to creation and how to dissolve back in shiv 

Be bold

What do I mean by it? Go bungee jumping? Jump out of a plane? Go to war?

Absolutely not.  What I mean is if hardships come your way be bold. Brave. Fearless.  

Some people tend to avoid hardships by devious ways but goes what? They merely postponed their hardship. When it comes back at a later time it will be more severe and harsh

In my talks I have elaborated it in much detail with examples

These are the basic requirements to be a yogi 

Is it responsible for growth or downfall?

It is both.    Some intelligence with quest for betterment and growth is  good 

The  problem lies where  most  of the  people believe their intelligence is  complete, all  knowing and their solution to a situation is  perfect and  all  others  are  wrong!

This  absurd obstinate stupidity, the  illusion of  knowledge causes  downfall.   Even now we such  forms of  stupid argument  – Oh  the prime minister made the  right  decision or  wrong decision, this  candidate is better for  presidency, global warming is  a myth or  real, should  I marry this  person or  not, etc.   

This  is  the  world  of  debate, duality.  How  can  you  find  an answer when  you  use  logic with  very  incomplete data?

How  does  a yogi  solve these dilemmas?   

Very  easily !   Such  questions do  not  torment him.   He sits  in  meditation.  Silences his  emotions.  This  is  the  trick. Silencing his  emotions. Then  Silencing his  logic.  What remains is  divine help !  Follow  it! 

All  problems in  the  world can  slowly  dissolve if everyone followed it !

A president would  do  well if  he  had  a yogi  guiding him.  

Enough  said !   Learn  to  deal  with  problems this way 

The Liars of the world will claim to have experience of the atman. What a lie and self deception!

Experience of atman – forgetting the body is a must.  Rest is a lie 

Forgetting the body by thinking of the world and people does not count – nor does forgetting body by watching a movie count 

Find a yogi. He can show the way.  

Don’t read – meditate and experience it

Many more powerful blogs – I write and delete!

Grades of knowledge? Maybe but not like people think it is

It is mostly depth of meditation :) 

Only a yogi – whose shanti is fully awakened and pierced many chakra can know sanskrit and the shloka

Every verse in Gita has a very different meaning.  A few of them were exposed by Yogananda and Gyaneshwara maharaj

This is what is called dichotomy of sanskrit per Yogananda. I see it as a skill level of the great saints where they revealed ultimate secrets which only a Guru knows – never to be published. Rest of the world can pursue its ignorant way

Why not reveal it? Would you give a dynamite to a monkey?  Causes more damage.  If you think you are ready to receive it, demand that you receive the information, get angry at the Guru not revealing it, you are not ready to get that level of shakti awakening 

I was reading a translation from laxman joo – gopachara and the end of the shloka said liberation from 7 births.  This is when I realized the essence is not understood at all by the scholars 

A guru reveals his skills by beautiful exposition of these shloka 

I was shocked to read about some posts on Facebook – why did one of the richest and most famous actress turn to Sanatana dharma?

What a ridiculous question?  This shows how stupid the mentality of the spiritual followers are.

A path is NOT great by the followers but is great by the leader of the path !!  The guru is far greater than all the riches in the world and all the fame in the world.  For him, it is a burden to have a famous person or a rich person at his feet.  I have no need for such people.  A guru only seeks someone who has love for God and wants God.

A guru who thinks that he can get fame or money by having a rich person visiting his ashram is NOT a worthy person.  Go away

Julia Roberts got impressed by Neem Karoli Baba ashram.  There is a deeper unpublished story behind it

She captured some vibrations but there is no one who can guide her the right way.  Ram Das, Krishna Das, etc have very little to offer.

Talking with an intellectual person like George Clooney will not help her.

A lot of people seek to know about swarodaya.  You can never learn it from books.  Most people want to learn about it to get success in material life – including wealth, romance, power,  success etc.

A guru knows about it but he can only reveal it to those who only seek the love of God and not material success.

Thus the truth of swarodaya is kept hidden

Vivekananda described a few small things and Yogananda has described a few minor details – such as flow through left nostril gives success etc.  HOWEVER, the truth is much deeper.  Even the books only gave a very superficial knowledge.  In the book shiv swarodaya, the author described time and length of swar, the association with certain tattva, – yet the real core was kept totally hidden.

All books and upanishads, Gita, bible, Torah were written with a deeper meaning.  Even the simplest of simple statements have a very deep meaning.  For example, the word swarodaya itself – at a deeper level has nothing to do with flow of prana through nostril but something much deeper

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top. Zen sayingThis is a powerful technique for meditation 

You don’t go to the top or imagine top you start at top!