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- How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 1 - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2025 from santosh krinskyDannion Brinkley told the story in his book Saved By the Light. He was a mercenary, a hired killer. He was struck by lightning. He was pronounced clinically dead. He returned to life. He knew, at that moment, that he was ‘sent back’ to accomplish a task, a mission. He left behind his prior life ...
Views: 180 - How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 2 - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2025 from santosh krinskyOne reason we do not have a sense of our purpose or role in the world, generally, is that we do not examine deeply our inner predilections or the trajectory of our lives. We interpret our lives based on external criteria and motives without appreciating that there is another driving force behind ...
Views: 183 - How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 3 - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2025 from santosh krinskyToday’s world provides people with both an obstacle and an opportunity when they try to follow their chosen or cherished path in life. The obstacle is based on societal requirement that individuals take up a productive form of work in the world to earn enough money to support their needs for ...
Views: 202 - How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? — Part 4 - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is only in still waters that we can see our reflection. Swami Vivekananda in his lectures on Raja Yoga, describes the mind-stuff (chitta), and how impressions, desires, observations and thoughts all disturb the stillness of the mind-stuff. He also describes methods of bringing it to a status ...
Views: 196 - How do we embrace our lives? - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2023 from Dada BhagwanEmbracing life, in simple terms, means fully accepting and appreciating the present moment and everything it brings without confrontation, attachment, seeking justice, or causing harm to others. When you embrace life naturally, you can experience peace, harmony, and bliss. Akram Vignan, also ...
Views: 357 - How Do We Know that a Spiritual Force Is Working in Our Lives? - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyHow can we know that the spiritual force is actually working in us? An actual experience of a force or what is called a ‘spiritual experience’ is a specific, generally short-lived ‘event’ that enormous numbers of people have had. Yet, the experience recedes and the daily life goes on, seemingly ...
Views: 350 - How do you tell if a Person has a Soul? - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2019 from Dada BhagwanThe Soul means Self You say, “I am John (the reader may insert his own name here)” However, John is the name of the body. Who are you in this? The Self is the Soul! Where There Is Growth, Where There Is Feeling, There the Soul Exists For instance, if you tie pulses in a wet cloth, they’ll ...
Views: 969 - How Does an Individual Acquire the Higher Form of Spontaneity? - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we distinguish the lower forms of spontaneity that stem from the vital nature and its instincts and desires, from the higher form of spontaneity that is linked to unification of the being with the higher spiritual purpose, the question arises as to how the individual can develop this higher ...
Views: 345 - How Does Experience in One Lifetime Become Useful in Future Lifetimes? - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe grow and develop our physical body and its capabilities. We may undertake various training regimens and refine the body’s ability to perceive, and to respond. Yet the body dies and that training is left behind with the dissolution of the body. We can see an effect within the larger framework ...
Views: 363 - How does Hell look like? - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2018 from Umer FiazMuslims are present in almost every region of the world. Due to a survey, it has been noted that the Islam is the most practised religion in the world. As being a Human it’s our psychology to get to know more about our religion and it is the deep interest of people that how the hell looks like? ...
Views: 1340 - How does one get rid of bad or wrong karma? - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2020 from Dada BhagwanWhen we write something bad on a paper, we erase it with an eraser. If we do something wrong in a computer, we undo it with 'ctrl+z'. Isn’t there any such option available to get rid of our bad or wrong karma in life? Wouldn't that be great if we have one! Let's read on to figure it ...
Views: 731 - How does the soul take a new birth? Where does the soul fly away after death? In which form does the soul go? - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2023 from Dada BhagwanHave you ever seen a talking and walking toy that runs on battery? According to what it is fed, it says, ‘I am hungry, I am happy’, and so on. It works as long as there is a battery in it. And, when the battery is discharged, it is dead. Similarly, a dead body doesn’t have any energy or power to ...
Views: 331 - How Does Writing Make You Feel? - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2017 from hellen geekLike holding your breath underwater and finally relieving your breath when you come to the surface; similarly, writing is an exceptional art form. You actually feel like you are in a valley of aromatic flowers, being embraced by the love that you lost instead of the love you currently have. It ...
Views: 2040 - How Emotions And Thoughts Can Affect Your Mental Health - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiMental health consist of our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is usually used as a substitute for mental health conditions, such as ...
Views: 1169 - How Emotions And Thoughts Can Affect Your Mental Health - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiMental health consist of our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is usually used as a substitute for mental health conditions, such as ...
Views: 1151 - How has mindful living changed your perspective on life and relationships? - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2023 from Dada BhagwanMindfulness helps transform our life from one of stress, fear and uncertainty, and clogged up with thoughts, to one that is on the whole calmer and stable, full of positive and clear thinking and wholesome. Mindful living helps focus ourselves on the present, here and now, rather than worrying ...
Views: 279 - How Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S) Finds His True Creator - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2018 from Marghoob Bin SafdarIslam is the most practiced religion in the world. Muslims are present in almost every religion of the world and practicing the teaching of Islam. It is the psychology of every Muslim to know about their religion, its aspect and the events which occurred in Islam. It is the most common question ...
Views: 1055 - How is Islam the Unique Religion of the world? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2018 from Umer FiazIslam is the most practiced religion in the world. Muslims are present in almost every region of the world and practicing the teaching of Islam. Islam has the complete code of life. It is the best and unique religion in the world. It is the Question asked by the number of people that How Islam ...
Views: 1273 - How is the Human Soul connected with the Supreme Soul? - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2024 from Dada BhagwanThrough the spiritual science of Akram Vignan, we can gain a deeper insight into how the Soul is one only, it is just that the stages are different. The Soul is an eternal element. The living beings that we see in various life forms from one to five senses in the entire universe are all ...
Views: 284 - How is writing a Form of Therapy? - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2017 from hellen geekYou might have heard of something about the ‘talking cure’, and if not, then you will most likely be accustomed to the feeling that you get when you talk about your problem with another individual. The major concern of every human being, who is stuck in some sort of problem is that he needs a ...
Views: 1027 - How Islam Establish A Direct Relationship With Allah? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2018 from saad sheikhIslam is the most practiced religion in the world. Muslims are present in almost every region of the world and practicing the teaching of Islam. Islam has the complete code of life. It is the best and unique religion in the world. It is the Question asked by the number of people that How Islam ...
Views: 1423 - How long it will take to move on after a very bad break up when you still love that person and should I do to move on as quick as possible? - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2023 from Dada BhagwanAttain Self-Realization As Soon As You Can The first thing you need to do is attain Self-Realization!! For details, you may check out https://www.dadabhagwan.org Let’s assume there is pitch darkness in your house, such that you cannot see anything ahead of you. What happens to you ...
Views: 343 - How Many Cantos are There in Srimad Bhagavatam - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2024 from juliana foleyThe Srimad Bhagavatam, also known as the Bhagavata Purana, is composed of 12 cantos. Each canto covers various aspects of spiritual teachings, stories, and philosophical insights, with a special focus on devotion to Lord Krishna. Here’s a brief overview of the content in each canto: 1. Canto 1: ...
Views: 272 - How Many People Have Psychic Powers Misdiagnosed as Psychotic Disorders? - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn the movie Sixth Sense, a psychiatrist meets up with a young boy who claims to see dead people and interact with them. The psychiatrist spends the better part of the film trying to understand the boy and bring him out of his delusion. In the end, it turns out that the psychiatrist gains the ...
Views: 273 - How The 5 Second Rule Helps Change Your Life - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2017 from Inez BracyUsing the 5 second rule helps change your life because it is the time between a thought and taking action. Using this rule helps to keep self-doubt at bay while building confidence to change your life. Most every morning at 8AM EDT I join a Mastermind Call that helps me to remind myself of ...
Views: 1773 - How the Akashic Records Help You Focus and Find Your Purpose - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2020 from Lisa BarnettWhen you exert a ton of energy but don’t get a lot back, it’s easy to feel frustrated and confused. Instead of spinning your wheels, let the Akashic Records help you focus your efforts in a way that gives you what you really want. Be forewarned, though – it just may not look the way you ...
Views: 1656 - How the non-dualistic vision of reality can change your life - by Submitted on May 21, 2019 from Eugenio VignaliWhat will change in our daily life, if we expand our vision of the true nature of reality towards a non-dualistic paradigm, thus overcoming our strong belief of each existing as a separate entity? The world around us will remain mostly the same, but our reading of all events and thus our ...
Views: 983 - How the Practitioner Can Identify the Action of Hostile Forces - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2021 from santosh krinskyWhenever the discussion turns to unseen powers and forces, the rational intellect of the mind tends to shut down. That is one reason why there has been an argument, in the West, between Science and Religion. Yet, at some point, even the reasoning intellect needs to begin to reflect upon and ...
Views: 686 - How to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our Lives - by Submitted on May 15, 2024 from santosh krinskySince we cannot easily observe vital beings or mental beings operating on their respective planes to influence actions in our existence, and since we maintain a skeptical attitude about things which cannot be observed or measured, we find it difficult to accept the existence of conscious vital ...
Views: 342 - How to avoid becoming servants… and the mystery of lost socks. - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2020 from Valeria TariAs women, we may often think, that by completing all the chores at home, we are embodying the essence of femininity, and in spite of all the running around, we receive no appreciation, and still lack happiness. The answer is very simple. A positive opinion of a woman does not correlate to ...
Views: 920 - How to Be at Home in the Moment - by Submitted on May 30, 2019 from Parvati DeviI have been quite nomadic for most of my adult life—traveled extensively, seen the world, and enjoyed many varied cultures. I have learned to find home wherever I may be. At first, home was literally my backpack in which I carried my necessities. But I have learned to put my pack down now and ...
Views: 912 - How to buy tassel necklaces from a wholesaler - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2020 from Wajahat AliTassel necklaces are simple necklaces that you can easily make at home. While there are many types of tassel necklaces, beaded tassel necklaces are the most beautiful and you can easily make them at home. Guide on how to make necklaces. To make the necklace, you must have a variety of ...
Views: 669 - How to Change Human Nature - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2023 from santosh krinskyMany people are skeptical about the possibility of true change to human nature. This skepticism is supported by the long experience humanity has had in trying various ways of changing and overcoming habits, atavisms and what are considered to be the ‘natural’ forms of expression and action of ...
Views: 566 - How to Change Human Nature - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2025 from santosh krinskyHuman beings have struggled in their attempts to make changes to human nature throughout human history. Many approaches have been tried, including adopting tough disciplines, isolating oneself from society to avoid the impulses and temptations, as well as harsh tortures to which the body has ...
Views: 122 - How to Change One’s Character - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2023 from santosh krinskyHumanity has struggled with the idea of an individual changing his character and becoming something more, or different, than what he was before. Numerous methods have been tried, and at the end of the day, almost everyone agrees that human nature and the individual character that expresses that ...
Views: 395 - How To Change One’s Consciousness, Part 1: The Initial Experience - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2022 from santosh krinskyThrough long habit and through a process of socialisation, we desire and expect that a specific path of development can be placed in front of us to guide us systematically along a pre-determined track, and that this path is suitable for everyone. We therefore believe that our accepted form of ...
Views: 482 - How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 2: Following the Clues to Spiritual Awakening Within - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2022 from santosh krinskyWe rightly recognise that memory is not the same as a living experience. Yet, the power of memory holds a key for those who wish to undertake spiritual development. We see this in the context of religious and spiritual pursuits that rely on the power of memory in some form to renew and actualise ...
Views: 442 - How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 3: Observing and Being Attentive - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2022 from santosh krinskySpirituality is not about having an intellectual understanding. There are methods described in various paths of spiritual growth, in books, or in other forms of instruction which have their potential benefit, but they are not a replacement for an actual inward experience that changes the texture ...
Views: 480 - How to Change One’s Nature - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2022 from santosh krinskyAs the awareness develops of the influences that have shaped our character and active nature from our ancestors, our parents, as well as the influences from our peers and from the society at large, we begin to develop a respect for the complexity of the task and the reasons why we cannot simply ...
Views: 598 - How to Connect with Your Guardian Angels Part II - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2021 from Scott & Stephen PetulloMost of the world’s population believes in the concept of guardian angels in some way or another; everyone has at least one invisible spiritual helper looking out for his or her best interests. You can make the most of your guardian angels by following the advice below. “The angels as the ...
Views: 647 - How to Convert Mental Seeking into Living Spiritual Experience - by Submitted on Jan 29, 2023 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo describes the first step to move from a mental seeking to a living spiritual experience as “the practice of concentration of your consciousness within yourself.” We ask what this means exactly. Some observation of our mental state discloses what we normally consider to be ...
Views: 459 - How to Cultivate and Utilize the Faculty of Intuition: Part 1 - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe tend to treat intuition as something amorphous and difficult to define. We want to somehow fit it into the framework of a mental process, possibly one that is very fast, but nevertheless works through the logical steps to arrive from a set of facts to a decision. At the same time, we try to ...
Views: 497 - How to Cultivate and Utilize the Faculty of Intuition: Part 2 - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs we have noted, there are some who believe that intuition is simply a very fast reasoning process that moves directly to a determination. This is clearly not intuition as the Mother explains below. It is a separate mental process that still follows the laws of the mental plane in its ...
Views: 514 - How to Deal With Anger and Other Strong Vital Reactions - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2022 from santosh krinskyThere is an idea, prevalent in some aspects of Western psychology, both mainstream and ‘pop’ psychology, that it is unhealthy to internalize and hold in strong reactions or emotions such as anger. They counsel letting it out and thereby saving oneself from the psychological and physical effects ...
Views: 710 - How To Deal With Hostile Forces - by Submitted on May 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyForces at work in the world try to effectuate themselves and perpetuate their action. They seek for receptive vessels to manifest and carry out their line of action. As these waves of energy, these vibrations move out into the world, they naturally come across elements and beings that are not ...
Views: 217 - How to Deal With the Feeling of Unfitness for Spiritual Progress When It Arises in the Sadhana - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is perhaps a virtually universal experience. An individual takes up a spiritual practice, and for a time, particularly when Sattwa is in the forefront, he has unique insights, experiences and a sense of progress. At some point, however, these experiences tend to recede and the individual is ...
Views: 142 - How To Deal With Vampirism When Confronted With It - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual is confronted with a possible, or likely, case of vampirism, several questions arise. The first is how the individual can be safe from the negative effects of such activity impacting them or their family, friends or associates directly; the second is the possibility and ...
Views: 362 - How to Develop and Utilize the Power of Intuition in Oneself - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2025 from santosh krinskyThose who wish to develop and utilize the power of intuition in their own lives have to address their active mental process, so as to open up the receptivity to the higher intuitive force, and allow it to modify the action of the mentality itself. There is a parable out of the teachings of Jesus ...
Views: 283 - How to Develop New Powers of Action - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the ways we tend to limit ourselves is to decide, in advance, that we cannot succeed at something, that we don’t have the education, the experience, the skill or the necessary training to accomplish that task. We imprison ourselves within our narrow range by this type of mental ...
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