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- How to Make Sleep Conscious - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2022 from santosh krinskyMuch research has been done to monitor the various stages of sleep and to try to determine what is taking place during each stage. People have been experimenting with learning during sleep, and some people actively ‘program’ their minds before they go to sleep to solve certain problems they are ...
Views: 618 - How to Maximize the Worship in the last 10 Days of Ramadan - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2018 from saad sheikhThird Ashra of Ramadan starts from 21st Ramadan and ends 29th or 30th Ramadan. The last 10 days of Ramadan are blessed and superior as Laila tul Qadr falls in these days and Muslims also practice I’tikaf and try to maximize their prayers. The last Ashra of Ramadan helps us to get rid of the ...
Views: 1366 - How to Overcome the Obstructions of the Vital Being - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2021 from santosh krinskyAs has been shown time and again when individuals have attempted to change the vital nature, the attempt is doomed to only partial success, if not ultimate failure, if the struggle is carried out under the conditions of the vital being. Almost any method, process, technique, control mechanism or ...
Views: 554 - How to Prepare Oneself for the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we find human beings innocent and acting out of their natural instincts, predilections, and their basic intelligence as human beings. They have no social setting or training to which they need to conform. They are essentially ignorant ...
Views: 552 - How to Quiet the Mind - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2022 from santosh krinskyIt is a virtually universal experience. One sits for meditation, trying to quiet the mind, and the thoughts keep surging and seem to have more intensity than before! Every sensation seems to provoke some activity in the mind, pent up issues or concerns take that time to come to the fore, ...
Views: 567 - How to Recall Tawheed While Performing Hajj? - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2018 from Marghoob Bin SafdarThe holy worship Hajj is one the greatest acts in the religion Islam. The reward of Hajj E Mabroor is double and great for Muslim Ummah. The person who performed Hajj with sincerity and completed all rituals according to Sunnah, Allah will forgive his or her past sins definitely. Similarly, ...
Views: 1571 - How to Recognise and Respond to the Higher Guidance in Work - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2021 from santosh krinskyWe are trained to think and act from the viewpoint of the ego-personality. When we take up the practice of integral yoga, however, we understand that the standpoint of action must shift so that we can become true instruments of the higher action of the divine force which is working to transform ...
Views: 577 - How to Recognise the Awakened Soul - by Submitted on Aug 07, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna asks how the ‘liberated soul’ can be recognised. How does he walk? How does he talk? What distinguishing characteristics can we find that identify such a person? Sri Krishna responds that there are not external signs, but only the inner standpoint of the individual ...
Views: 428 - How to Recognise the Divine Will - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe get prompted inwardly to do somethng. In some cases, we have conflicting impulses or reactions. We wonder how to distinguish the Divine Will from all of the other drives, motives, forces, and options that confront us. Add to this the complications of the vital nature, in i ts attempts to ...
Views: 142 - How To Remain a Mental Virgin - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2012 from Cathy EckWhen I explain to people that I teach the art of letting go of beliefs, I often get a blank stare. Some people ask me to provide an example of a belief. At first, this did not make sense to me. Doesn’t everyone know what constitutes a belief? Apparently, many people are questioning the ...
Views: 1580 - How To Repair Jammed Hedge Trimmers - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2013 from Anne MehlaThe frequent use of powered hedge trimmers poses the risk of the blades becoming jammed (and it is highly likely that this will happen to your model at least once). The most common cause of jamming is due to dull blades and debris becoming caught in the cutting mechanism. Finding that your ...
Views: 16244 - How To Save Money On Your Heating Bill – Heating And Energy Bills - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2020 from Sophia AliceWith the whalebone-white snow, quivering bodies, and longer nights, winter months tend to be among the most costly when it comes to heating and energy bills. The primary reason why the cost of natural gas goes up in the winter is that people are using more energy. After all, they want to be ...
Views: 915 - How to Sleep Well - by Submitted on May 13, 2022 from santosh krinskyOne of the most frequent concerns raised by people generally is their inability to get a good night’s sleep. Insomnia, as well as restless sleep, seems to be a widespread concern. Among practitioners of yoga, the concern goes even farther, in that they desire to convert sleep into a luminous, ...
Views: 634 - How to Survive the First Week Home with Baby - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2021 from Darfashan ParveenBringing the baby home can be an incredibly tiring and daunting experience for you, especially if you're a first-time mom. Frequent feedings, sleep deprivation, sheer physical and mental exhaustion – there are many things you have to go through during the first few crazy days of life. To help ...
Views: 926 - How to Take Care of a Turtle In Your Home - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2019 from Jason RoyAquatic and semi-aquatic turtles are mainstream as pets. The best-realized species is most likely the red-eared slider, however, it's solitary one of a few types of aquatic turtle that are usually kept as pets. Numerous individuals don't understand how huge aquatic turtles can get. Red-eared ...
Views: 1034 - How to talk to dead souls - 2 - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2019 from Sri TulasiNowadays, EVP is considered a standard means of searching and speaking to souls all over the world. Today there are hundreds of EVP forums connected to the Internet, on which educated and serious people come to talk to the soul. They say that dead click spirits talk to them. Anabella Kardosay ...
Views: 1298 - How to Transform One’s Nature By Overcoming Mental and Vital Bias - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2022 from santosh krinskyOnce we have recognised that we cannot rely on the mental being to truly review, analyse and control the vital desire-soul of the external being, and adopted the principle enunciated by the Mother to hold up each thought, feeling, emotion, action and motivation before a ‘screen’ of one’s highest ...
Views: 519 - How to Tread the Sunlit Path of Yoga - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2021 from santosh krinskyThere are no exemptions from the issues, obstacles and difficulties that attend the work of bringing forth a new evolutionary principle and thereby impacting, changing and vastly reorganizing the existing status quo of the mind-life-body complex in the world. The issues must be addressed. The ...
Views: 837 - How to Use Love to Transform Obstacles and Suffering - by Submitted on May 02, 2023 from Maetreyii Ma NolanAll beings have suffered. Sometimes in life, things go your way; sometimes, they go the opposite—be it physical, mental, or spiritual, be it loss of loved ones, loss of health, or loss of well-being in one form or another. These periods where something difficult happens can be very challenging, ...
Views: 501 - How to Utilize Will-Power Effectively - by Submitted on Oct 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyMost people have very little idea about how to utilize will-power effectively, because they don’t fully understand what will-power actually is and how it needs to be focused and concentrated. Essentially will-power is the function that concentrates the ‘signal’ while reducing the ‘noise’ in a ...
Views: 252 - How to Utilize Your Kids’ Natural Affinity for Games to Teach Them Some Crucial Life Lessons - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2021 from Saurabh GuptaWhen do you find your kids the most delighted? Surely when they play! After all, games and children are so inseparable! The glee on those little faces, the bright smiles, and those loud giggles speak for the pleasure and contentment children get when they indulge in playing. Experts say that ...
Views: 563 - How We Find Happiness in Life - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiHow We Find Happiness in Life. Happiness is life’s most desired goal. But we can never achieve it while we continue to look outside of ourselves, as it is an inside job. “Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every ...
Views: 1111 - How We Reflect on the Forces That Impact the Direction and Development of Our Lives - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyChance, coincidence, free will, astrological influences, fate, destiny, karma, chain of causality, predestination, determinism, correlation, causality, foreknowledge, past life influences, fortune telling, divination, omens, predestination, oracles, Divine Plan — these terms all come up when we ...
Views: 348 - How You DO NOT Create Your Own Reality - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2016 from Andriana ElohaEasy, by just doing the following: 1. Expecting anything outside of you to make a choice for you. PROS: None CONS: Anything outside of you will not make the best choice for you. 2. Getting forever stuck in and never addressing your own previously acquired “United States of ...
Views: 2548 - Human Motives and Divine Motives in Action - by Submitted on May 26, 2021 from santosh krinskyThere is a difference between action undertaken with the usual motives in the normal course of human life, and actions undertaken by the spiritual seeker attempting to achieve spiritual growth and realisation of the Divine. The outer form of action, in and of itself, does not make an action ...
Views: 632 - Humility and Self-Confidence - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe play of the three Gunas is active at all times in the life we live here. We may believe that the aspiration, or an act of consecration overcomes this play, but if we examine closely we can see that, in actuality, even the quality of our sadhana, our spiritual effort, is very much controlled ...
Views: 154 - Hypnosis and Individual Development of Its Action for Liberation from the Control of the Surface Waking Consciousness - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe tend to label actions and thereby don’t reflect on the implications of them. Thus, for most people, when we use the term ‘hypnosis’ we associate it with a hypnotist using some unique power to gain some control over another individual’s will and actions. Since its introduction in the West, ...
Views: 243 - Hypnotherapy Helps you Find What you Look for Within - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2013 from Kemila ZsangeDeep down within the paradoxical richness of empty space… If you are willing to go there, tell me what you will have found. Our daily life is like surface of a lake, a river, a sea (depending on your container). There are always activities, good or bad. Things happen, expected or unexpexted. ...
Views: 2151 - Hypocrisy of Science and Religion - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2012 from Matthew PettiIf you believe that the religion versus science argument for human origins holds water, then you are forced to side with either of two biased and shortsighted conclusions. Who is preaching nonsense and who is not? The truth about anything unproven is subjective. The true nature of deception ...
Views: 1984 - I'm Not Sorry! - by Submitted on May 07, 2015 from Maggie SliderI'm not sorry! As my 21/2 year old son sat on his baby sisters head, while having covered it with a blanket, I tried to use the incident as a teachable moment. "We don't sit on anyone, and we don't place anything over their faces" I said calmly. "Your sister won't be able to breathe if you ...
Views: 1414 - Iam non vegetarian, am I eligible for Moksha-salvation-nirvana? - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2020 from Dada BhagwanYes, everyone is eligible for moksha (also known as salvation or nirvana), provided one wants it! Moksha is a state of complete freedom from all pains, sorrows and sufferings experienced while living in this materialistic world. And to attain this, first and foremost, we make a firm ...
Views: 624 - Icse schools in noida - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaSapphire International School is one of the Icse schools in Noida good educational school in noida Believe it or not, self-esteem in children, i.e. the opinion they have about their selves and their worth, is something that starts takinga vague shape in their minds at quite an early age. And ...
Views: 758 - Ideal Expectations, Real Life Results and Divine Grace - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe think and plan and harbor expectations as if we are the sole arbiter of what happens in our lives. We then judge the results from the standpoint of our ideal expectations and express either dismay or disappointment that what we hoped for has not come to pass. What we frequently fail to take ...
Views: 169 - Identifying and Addressing Obstacles Through Inner Development for Spiritual Progress - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2025 from santosh krinskyIt is a somewhat natural tendency in human nature to blame others, or circumstances, or fate, when obstacles arise. We tend to bemoan how ‘unfair’ life can be. We see conspiracies and power structures that are preventing us from accomplishing what it is that we believe we are meant to ...
Views: 93 - Identifying and Overcoming the Resistance of the Tamasic and Rajasic Egos - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe action of the three Gunas pervades and permeates all action including our response to obstacles, setbacks and concerns that arise during the practice of Yoga. When Tamas is predominant it sends out thoughts and ideas of weakness, failure and limitation. When Rajas is in the ascendent it ...
Views: 578 - Identifying Your Lifes Calling and How to Setup Your Own Business (Part I) - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2014 from Mark VillarosaIt’s not usual for people to be able to say that they’ve successfully identified their life’s calling so don’t worry if you haven’t quite discovered what yours is yet. I experienced such emotions shortly before quitting my job. My full-time position did very little to challenge, excite and ...
Views: 1305 - Illness and the Vital Sheath - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are historical examples of individuals who were caught in the middle of a major epidemic, such as the plague, who worked daily among the infected populace, yet failed to become ill. Invariably we can see that they maintained a strong vital envelope, or aura, around themselves and never ...
Views: 298 - Illness Is a Deformation of the Physical Nature - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2026 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual takes up a spiritual path, he has to work through the seemingly fine lines of distinction that the various prescriptions and directions for progress along the path appear to carry. For example, ‘equality’ and ‘equanimity’ are counseled as essential characteristics for ...
Views: 44 - Illness, Faith, Yoga-Power and Medicines - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2026 from santosh krinskyIf we examine how illness comes upon us, and what effects it has, we can identify multiple different contributing factors that can lead to the physical imbalances that we call illness. Many of the symptoms of illness are the result of the physical body actually resisting the effect of the ...
Views: 47 - Illumined Mind - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen we study the functioning of the mind, we see that the essential nature is one that can receive sense perceptions, analyze, organize and then subject the objects so developed to a process of reasoning using systematic application of rules of logic. We can also see a process of recall of ...
Views: 439 - Imagination and Science - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyJules Verne, a writer who was not himself a scientist, nevertheless inspired generations of scientists. He did not invent the idea of the submarine, but in his book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, he worked out a number of conceptual issues so that submarine use could become widespread, ...
Views: 310 - Imagination Can Help or Harm Depending on the Intention Behind Its Use - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyEvery great power that humanity discovers and wields in the world has both its negative and its positive side. It can either be utilized to destroy or to support, benefit and create. For example, humanity has harnessed the use of fire. Fire can burn down the house, or it can cook one’s food. ...
Views: 329 - Imagination is a Power of Formation - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyMost people tend to respond to life circumstances and opportunities based on past experience, training, education and any guidelines or rules they have imbibed from their past, all combined with their basic outlook on their lives, their desires, their needs and their circumstances. We can say ...
Views: 316 - Immersion in the External Nature: the Roots of Atheism and Agnosticism - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany people profess to believe in the existence of God based on the teachings of their religion. Because the belief is based solely on a teaching, rather than actual experience that would support this belief, they may, in many cases, not take their faith in God seriously enough to actually abide ...
Views: 322 - Immersion of the Individual in the Experience of Theatrical Performances - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWith the rise of modern technology in the field of film-making, we find an immersive experience in movie theaters engulfs the viewer deeply in the action. This includes high resolution images, 3D technology, giant wide screens, comfortable seating and surround sound. The viewer of such films is ...
Views: 229 - Immunity, Yoga-Force and the Supramental Nature - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2026 from santosh krinskyA question recently arose about how to become aware of the subtle vital envelope that surrounds the physical body and acts to protect it. One can practice quieting the mind, the emotions, the vital energies and the body and just feeling the sensation of the wider body until it becomes vivid and ...
Views: 44 - Impatience - by Submitted on Apr 18, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhile at its root impatience has as a primary source the frustration associated with either lack of ability to fulfill a desire, or a delayed gratification of that desire, in the modern world, these root causes are accentuated and provoked through acculturation and the systemic operation of the ...
Views: 550 - Impatience and the Practice of Yoga - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyImpatience is endemic to modern day society. We expect everything immediately. If it does not come, we exhibit frustration, annoyance, anger and a disturbed energy which impacts the the body, the life-energy, the nervous envelope and the mental state. Impatience, therefore, creates an energetic ...
Views: 480 - Impersonal and Personal Aspects of Consciousness in the Universal Manifestation - by Submitted on May 11, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur understanding of existence is very much rooted in our own anthropocentric view of things. We generally recognise the awareness we hold within ourselves, and, viewing other beings and forms in our visible environs, we either attribute to them no consciousness, or, at best, lower forms or ...
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