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- 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: 306 - The Richness of the Evolution in the Knowledge - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyMost of us are wedded to the sense that enjoyment of life and richness of experience are inseparably linked to the play of the dualities. We believe and find our satisfaction in the mixture of darkness and light, joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, and the challenges attendant on meeting and ...
Views: 306 - True Freedom and Free Will Resides in the Divine, Not in the Individual Ego-Personality - by Submitted on Feb 29, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe individual drops of water that make up the ocean do not determine the movement or action of the ocean. They are carried along and partake of the larger forces that act upon and through the ocean. The are a small pinpoint ‘nexus’ of the ocean action but not the motive or driving ...
Views: 306 - The Lower and Higher Forms of Psychological Innocence and Purity - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is an ‘innocence’ of the instinctive vital nature. It acts according to its impulses, habits, instincts, without interference of any mental considerations, whether termed self-dealing, planning, calculation, conscience or ethical and moral constraints. The famous example is that the tiger ...
Views: 305 - The Unique Truth of Each Being in Relation to the Divine Manifestation - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyRecently the question arose about how and in what form the witness consciousness survives death. This is not a question for either philosophical reasoning or religious dogma. Regardless of the opinion that these general approaches put forth, it is between the individual soul, as a unique ...
Views: 305 - Vital Motivations in Action May Disguise Their True Nature from the Spiritual Seeker - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2023 from santosh krinskyIndividuals become famous as great philanthropists. Some pledge their wealth to a great cause, such as solving the climate crisis, others undertake to build hospitals or feed large numbers of people. These individuals are looked up to and used as examples of selfless individuals. Yet, a deeper ...
Views: 305 - Extending a Measure of Validity to Reports of Supra-Physical Perceptions and Experiences - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo makes an important point. Various aspects of reports about subtle senses and supraphysical realities as they impact our external world, have been documented, and in some cases, extensively studied and verified. Once we accept the fact that there is a real and solid basis for these ...
Views: 304 - Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation of Life - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we look at the immensity of the evolutionary crisis, and the failure of “tried and true” solutions that have been put forward through history, it is easy to become discouraged and pessimistic about the possibility of survival. The solution proposed, a radical transformation of human life ...
Views: 304 - The Influences That Direct the Development of the Vital Nature - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe can understand the role of genetic predispositions in the formation of the physical body. The transmission of physical characteristics from generation to generation, the blending of dominant and recessive genetic traits and the atavistic background that led to the status of the genetic ...
Views: 304 - The Need to Develop New Powers of Knowing - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyTo explore the hidden forces, both in our own lives, and in the larger framework of the universal manifestation and the evolution of consciousness over time, a new way of ‘knowing’ needs to be developed, one that can experience and interact with these hidden forces on a more direct and aware ...
Views: 304 - The Witness Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen the seeker first becomes aware of the practice of separating the witness consciousness from the active external nature, he may naturally take his stance in the mental awareness and begin to observe his actions and reactions from the mental standpoint. This generally yields some kind of ...
Views: 304 - Understanding Societal Expectations and Their Impact on the Individual and His Development - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe generally fail to recognise how much we tend to take on the coloration of the thoughts and feelings of those around us. Just as a chameleon will adapt its body color to blend into its physical environment, we tend to adapt our ideas, opinions, and feelings to match up with those with whom we ...
Views: 304 - Understanding the Limiting Frames of Our Existence and the Process for Breaking Free of the Bonds of those Frames - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs long as we live within a certain frame of understanding, we cannot truly understand who or what we are, or why we do what we do, as we are bound by the limitations of that frame. Thus, as we are born in a particular culture, or a particular society, or a particular religious persuasion, or ...
Views: 304 - 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: 303 - The Challenge of Duality and the Conquest of Light Over Darkness - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe live in a world filled with contradictions, a world of dualities. We accept the premise that we cannot have light without dark, pleasure without pain, joy without sorrow. This appears to be the nature of the world, and it seems like an irrefutable concept. Yet, we can in fact conceive of the ...
Views: 303 - The Need to Prepare the Being to Receive, Hold and Utilize the Influx of the Higher Forces - by Submitted on May 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe raw power generated by an electricity power plant is far greater than any single house can sustain. Thus, the utility company utilizes step-down transformers to systematically bring the power down to a level that the homes and the wiring to the homes can sustain. A similar principle is at ...
Views: 303 - An Exercise to Become Conscious of One’s Consciousness - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe Taittiriya Upanishad presents a methodology or practice to gain direct knowledge of the Eternal. The seeker is asked to practice tapasya, variously translated as concentration in thought, or concentration of force by Sri Aurobindo. Tapasya cannot be easily or completely understood through ...
Views: 302 - 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: 302 - The Cycle of Development in Nature and the Focus of Attention - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe everywhere that Nature has a development cycle, with focus of attention on what needs to take place at each stage of that cycle, rather than simply jumping ahead to an 'end result' of the development. Thus, we see that plants undergo a stage of sprouting from seed, and the first focus ...
Views: 302 - The Universal Tendency Moves Toward the Expression of Free Will - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe can identify the direction of the evolutionary development of the universe towards the expression of free will, despite the fact that at our current state we can recognise that there is apparently very little free will operative in our actions. In the physical world, Matter operates under ...
Views: 302 - Recognising the Emergence of the Soul in Our Being - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many things in the world which we know exist, not because we can directly perceive them, but because we can experience their effects. Thus, we cannot see ‘gravity’ but we know it exists. We cannot see radiation, but again, we know it exists. As we continue to develop powers of the ...
Views: 301 - The Call of the Divine Flute - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2023 from santosh krinskyAn individual is living out his life, following his career, pursuing education, enjoying himself, raising a family, pursuing a hobby. All quite normal things. For most people, this is the frame within which his life carries on, and he experiences the joys and sorrows, the pains and the ...
Views: 301 - The Development of the Powers of the Body - by Submitted on Dec 25, 2023 from santosh krinskyFor the seekers who wish to depart the creation through unification with the Supreme, the body is often considered to be an obstacle, something that needs a certain amount of begrudging attention in order to allow the meditation to take place uninterruptedly. These seekers prefer to give as ...
Views: 301 - Understanding the Meaning of Vital Formations and Beings That Arise During Meditation - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen people take up the practice of meditation, they generally do not know much about it. They follow a set of guidelines on ‘how to meditate’ and just let things happen. The result is very much dependent, then, on their state of conscious awareness, and their focus of attention. Meditation is ...
Views: 301 - What Is a ‘Natural” Response to Circumstances for the Human Individual? - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen we see any individual stopping to reflect, choose his line of action and make a specific, conscious determination of how to respond, we consider this action to be unnatural, stilted, and we imply that it is somehow subject to some kind of ulterior motive, and thus, tend to distrust it. ...
Views: 301 - Distinguishing Will From Willings - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2024 from santosh krinsky“The integral yoga, which involves a deep understanding of the normal psychology of the human being, as well as the impact of the descent of the higher spiritual force to manifest the Divine Will in the manifestation, has to develop its own terminology and specific definitions so as to ensure ...
Views: 300 - Mental Formations Mixing With Vital Forces - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyAn incident was observed and reported by several people which illustrates how mental formations can create entities on the vital plane which become visible to those who have eyes to see. The incident occurred in 1981 in California. An individual had come to the West and took the role of a guru ...
Views: 300 - Observing and Applying the Hidden Forces of Life - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs an individual begins to work with various forces or powers in the world, he gains an insight and understanding of them, and gains the benefit of making use of those powers or forces in various aspects of his life. For example, someone can learn about the anatomy and physiology of the human ...
Views: 300 - QuickBooks® Desktop Phone +1(855)649-3480) ☎️Number - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2022 from ashima khanEnter your concern, then select Continue. Choose a way to connect with us: QuickBook payroll support +1(855)649-3480☎️ **** help number. Expert product support: Included with your paid Contact us through your product. Basic, Enhanced or Standard Payroll, M-F 6 AM to 6 PM PT. Assisted Payroll, ...
Views: 300 - Thought-Forms - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we examine the question of thought-forms, we recognise that people usually want to imply that a thought is able to turn into some kind of physical reality, purely through the power of thought. This, however, is one element of the question, but not the only element. Thought-forms have a ...
Views: 300 - The Need and Significance of Psychic Education - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur educational systems focus on training of the body, the life-force and the mind, essentially fixating the individual on the life in the external world and his role in that world. He is trained on social expectations and customs, and the use of the tools of mind, life and body in the pursuit ...
Views: 299 - The Obstacles to Exercising the Will - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhatever experience an individual has in life, there come moments when he determines that he needs to exercise his will-power. it may be related to overcoming habits of laziness or procrastination, or overcoming a form of addiction, undertaking a diet to manage his weight, restraining the ...
Views: 299 - 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: 298 - Is the mind a part of our immortal soul, which is also immortal along with the soul? - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2023 from Dada BhagwanNo, the mind is not immortal. And it is not a part of the immortal Soul either. The Soul and the mind are two different entities. Just as this body is physical, the mind too is physical and is made up of matter. Whereas the Soul is not at all physical, it is pure consciousness and has no ...
Views: 298 - Reconciling Fate and Free Will - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe treat free will and determinism as opposite and irreconcilable concepts, and there are adherents ready to argue one position or the other and provide irrefutable proofs of their position. It is clear from the strength of each position that there is a truth that underpins each of these ...
Views: 298 - The Resolution of the Opposition of Free Will and Determinism - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs long as we remain rooted in the external surface consciousness and ego-personality, we are firmly bound by the determinism of Nature. Nature, whether on the physical, vital or mental level, operates under its own ‘laws’ of action. The more dense the expression of consciousness is, the more ...
Views: 298 - The Separate Ego-Consciousness and the Universal Divine Consciousness - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe concept of maya is frequently described as the world being an illusion that mystifies our senses and our minds, such that we take it for real, when it is not the truth of existence. We are then asked to cut through the illusion to find the actual reality, the Absolute, the consciousness that ...
Views: 298 - Individual Spiritual Change and the Collectivity - by Submitted on May 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs the evolutionary pressure begins to develop individuals who undergo the spiritual transformation we have been discussing, there is still the issue of how these individuals can impact the wider life of humanity. Isolated individuals surrounded by an untransformed mass of humanity and the ...
Views: 297 - The Attraction of the Spiritual Life to Beings of the Vital World - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyBeings of the vital worlds in many cases interact with and act upon the material world in which we live and act as embodied beings. What is the attraction? Vital beings generally crave energy, excitement, novelty, the ‘food’ of their existence. If they are seeking to harvest such energy from ...
Views: 297 - The Collective Soul of Human Groupings and the Expression of Collective Karma - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe individual is not an island unto himself; he is part of a series of larger groupings, such as family, clubs, teams, tribes, school classes, corporate entities, community, states and nations, religion, etc. The collective energetic expression of each of these groupings develops a way of life ...
Views: 297 - Transmission of Vibrational Patterns in the Physical World - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe transmission from one individual to another, or from an atmosphere created by a number of individuals together upon others entering that environment, is both a matter for vibration and a matter for actual physical carriers of those vibrations. The body exudes these particles as it vibrates ...
Views: 296 - Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot ...
Views: 295 - Mental Formations Can Create Experiential Domains - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe gross physical forms result from the subtler levels that are either the immediate, effective means, or the causal level that has formulated the result. If we look at the construction of a bridge, or a building, we see that first there is an idea that develops. The idea turns into a ...
Views: 295 - Signs for Identifying the World Personality - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2023 from santosh krinskyIn the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna poses the question of how to identify the spiritual man, the superior individual. Sri Krishna makes it clear that this is not determined by outer signs, but by the inner state of the individual. The Mother takes up this question in a slightly different form and ...
Views: 295 - The Process for Reviewing the Origin and Impact of One’s Thoughts, Feelings and Actions - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we acknowledge the ability of the vital desire nature to influence and manipulate the mind in its judgment process, biasing the interpretation and understanding of the motives behind the actions, it is incumbent on those who aspire to spiritual growth to find a way to root out this inherent ...
Views: 295 - The Spiritual Path and Ascetic Practices - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2023 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature craves excitement. It also craves recognition and acknowledgement, in the form of vanity, aggrandisement of the ego, and seeking for fame. The vital nature is also quite impatient and wants to see results right away. When the vital nature enters into the spiritual realm, it ...
Views: 295 - Causes of Accidents - by Submitted on May 05, 2024 from santosh krinskyWestern scientists tell us that the universe is always tending toward a state of lower energy and less organisation, a concept that call ‘entropy’. While this concept was developed and applied in the field of physics, particularly in the law of thermodynamics, it has been extended and claimed to ...
Views: 294 - Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe face, in every sphere of human endeavor, a conflict of competing ideas or directions. If we look closely we can see an element of truth in each side, but can also recognise that as long as we are bound by the mind’s limitations and its desire to reduce everything to “either-or”, we cannot ...
Views: 294 - The Subtle Vital Interchange and Vampirism - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen Bram Stoker wrote his classic ‘horror’ tale, Dracula, he popularized and sensationalized an actual phenomenon of vital interchange that operates mostly unnoticed and not as sensationally as his tale implies. To put it in simple terms, ‘vampirism’ is the ability of someone to utilise the ...
Views: 294 - Close Observation Can Identify the Influence of Vital Beings and Forces - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyOne of the key points in any attempt to change one’s actions or reactions, one’s behaviour or characteristic ways of responding to situations, is to determine, through careful observation, that these things are not an essential part of oneself or one’s character; rather, that they are external ...
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