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- Symbolism and Significance Explained of Panchmukhi hanuman Idol - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2021 from vivek choudharyThere are innumerable devotees of Hanuman all the world over who admire this majestic one in several forms. One of the much-revered forms is the extremely Panchmukhi Hanuman. Five faces are gazing in various directions, frequently operating the witness in reverence. The Panchmukhi Hanuman or the ...
Views: 738 - Symbolism and Significance Explained of Panchmukhi hanuman Idol - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2021 from vivek choudharyThere are innumerable devotees of Hanuman all the world over who admire this majestic one in several forms. One of the much-revered forms is the extremely Panchmukhi Hanuman. Five faces are gazing in various directions, frequently operating the witness in reverence. The Panchmukhi Hanuman or the ...
Views: 633 - Symbolism and Significance Explained of Panchmukhi hanuman Idol - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2021 from vivek choudharyThere are innumerable devotees of Hanuman all the world over who admire this majestic one in several forms. One of the much-revered forms is the extremely Panchmukhi Hanuman. Five faces are gazing in various directions, frequently operating the witness in reverence. The Panchmukhi Hanuman or the ...
Views: 726 - Waking Up- A guide to kickstart your spiritual journey - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2021 from Manoj UpadhyayAre you someone who believes that in order to be spiritual you need to follow a religious path? Or do you want to be self-aware and practice meditation without including religious chanting? All of the above-mentioned things are possible. We are here to break the myth that spiritually is ...
Views: 780 - OM, the Mantra and the Use of Mantra in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe ancient Mandukya Upanishad describes OM in considerable detail as the sound-body of the Universe: “OM is this imperishable Word, OM is the Universe, and this is the exposition of OM. The past, the present and the future, all that was, all that is, all that will be, is OM. Likewise all else ...
Views: 601 - Quotes On Life After Death And Reincarnation - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2021 from Scott & Stephen Petullo30 years ago, if you mentioned you believe in life after death, religious people might have agreed with you, but many others would have laughed at you. But now, with so much credible evidence that the soul survives death, all but the most skeptical among us at least consider the possibility. ...
Views: 601 - SUMMER 2021: A Mystic’s Take on Hungry Ghosts, Karmic Setpoints and How to Truly Feed Our Souls - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2021 from joan pancoeTO ACTIVATE ALL LINKS AND SEE ALL VISUALS: https://joanpancoe.com/2021/06/30/summer-2021-a-mystics-take-on-hungry-ghosts-karmic-setpoints-and-how-to-truly-feed-our-souls/ “In the Hindu Religion, where harmlessness is the ideal and flesh-eating is prohibited, Shiva has allowed meat for ...
Views: 864(1 vote) - Your Unlimited Unchanging Essence - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2021 from Maetreyii Ma NolanEvery living being loves their life. Everyone wants to be happy. The deer in the field wants to be happy. The wolf, the coyote wants to be happy. The plants, the trees want to be happy. And human beings want to be happy, want to feel that life is sweet. And it is a burden that even the wise ...
Views: 697 - Characteristics of Human Love, Psychic Love and Spiritual Love - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2021 from santosh krinskyIf we examine the nature of love as we see it in human society, there is a considerable amount of expectation, as well as ‘bargaining’, in our expressions of love. We tend to expect that the object of our love will reciprocate and return a measure of love, or some other concrete manifestation of ...
Views: 669 - Developing and Expressing the Flame of Divine Love While Avoiding the Misappropriation of the Energy for Lower Vital Gratification - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2021 from santosh krinskySuppression of the vital being and the emotions is often prescribed by those following a spiritual or religious discipline, due to the mixed nature of the expression that occurs in an untransformed and unpurified vital being. It is also true that there have been a number of cases, including high ...
Views: 636 - Main advantages and additional services of MultiBank - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2021 from Sohag ChadMultiBank was founded in California in 2005 and has since become a major global financial institution that offers its clients direct access to banks and exchanges through advanced trading platforms. MultiBank Group is currently headquartered in Hong Kong. The MultiBank Group service is ...
Views: 712 - THE ART OF JUNK JOURNALLING DECLUTTERING MIND - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2021 from Vishwas Healing CentreThere are days when our work-desk is loaded and so is our mind. Human brain is efficiently designed to do multiple tasks with minimal number of errors. However, when it comes to thoughts, it is not that easy. Most of the times, there is a long-hours traffic of our own thoughts that blocks the ...
Views: 915 - Why John Lewis's "Good Trouble" is Still Relevant Today by Kimberly E. Stone - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2021 from Ian MonroeIn honor of the late John Lewis, a civil rights leader, he is quoted as saying: "To those who have said, 'Be patient and wait,' we have long said that we cannot be patient. We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now! The documentary points out that America is still in a ...
Views: 897 - What Makes People More Vulnerable to Mind Control Manipulation? - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2021 from Emily ScottOftentimes, people are their own worst enemy. You may be subconsciously becoming more vulnerable to mind control manipulation without even knowing it. Inner weakness distorts the way you think, act, feel, and behave. As a result, you may find yourself falling into patterns that aren’t in your ...
Views: 717 - Work, Meditation and Devotion are Three Pillars of Yogic Development - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2021 from santosh krinskyEvery individual has a unique set of current capacities, difficulties and predilections in the nature. Spiritual growth therefore is not “one size fits all”. Some have a strongly developed mental power, others a vibrant emotional being, and still others have an active vital nature and / or ...
Views: 688 - Work and Spiritual Development - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe goal of integral yoga is both a shift of standpoint from the individual egoistic view to the divine standpoint, and the transformation of human nature to express the divine force as it manifests new phases of the evolution of consciousness in the world. This involves thus not only a ...
Views: 622 - Responding to the Consciousness in Material Objects - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2021 from santosh krinskyIn The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo describes several standpoints that highlight the relationship between human beings and the material world. The “refusal of the ascetic” simply rejects the material world and does not put any focus or interest in it. The “materialist denial” accepts the physical ...
Views: 592 - The Gunas and the Seeker’s Relation to Material Objects in the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe action of the three gunas, qualities of nature, is often overlooked in our understanding of how things take place in the world, including in our spiritual growth; yet, these qualities permeate all activity and an appreciation of them helps the witness consciousness observing the actions of ...
Views: 591 - Understanding the Need and Limitations for Rules and Guidelines in Social Interactions and Activity in the World - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2021 from santosh krinskyFinding and holding the right balance between the inner life and the outer action is one of the constant difficulties facing the seeker. In the ordinary human life, focus on the outer world and its demands takes precedence and there is little or no emphasis on an inner life. During this phase, ...
Views: 643 - Controlling the Ego in Ordinary Life and in Yoga - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2021 from santosh krinskyIn the normal life of an individual in society, the ego is important, although it’s actions must be managed to permit people to find ways to work together and achieve results. Wherever we turn, we can see the benefits of keeping the ego in check and subordinating the individual’s role within a ...
Views: 655 - The Importance of Order and Harmony in Work - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe Bhagavad Gita declares “yoga is skill in works”. For work to be a practice of yoga, there must be first the inward orientation that can make it into a consecrated and focused effort, and outwardly this translates into a skillful organization of the work and a harmonious development, keeping ...
Views: 804 - Umrah Packages Experts from the UK - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2021 from Abdul MaazUmrah is the lovely Sunnah of our Prophet (PBUH) and it is commended to perform Umrah to invigorate the Muslim's faith in Allah, Prophet PBUH, and day of judgment. In Umrah, the pilgrim will visit Kaaba, places in Makkah, and Ziarat in Madinah at entirely sensible rates. Our organization is a ...
Views: 663 - A Transitional Phase of Work in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2021 from santosh krinskyFor the practitioner of the integral yoga, any form of work represents an opportunity to discard the normal, habitual mode of action and replace it with the direct action of the Divine Force. This transition, however, is neither immediate nor completed all at once, so there is inevitably a phase ...
Views: 695 - A Transitional Phase of Work in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2021 from santosh krinskyFor the practitioner of the integral yoga, any form of work represents an opportunity to discard the normal, habitual mode of action and replace it with the direct action of the Divine Force. This transition, however, is neither immediate nor completed all at once, so there is inevitably a phase ...
Views: 696 - Facing and Overcoming Self-Doubt and Internal Criticism - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2021 from santosh krinskyAs the spiritual seeker develops the internal witness awareness, viewing the actions and reactions of the various parts of the being, it is frequently noted that the closeness of the view leads the aspirant to become overly critical of one’s own flaws, weaknesses, habits etc. This same type of ...
Views: 610 - Success: Its Meaning, Measure and Ultimate Significance in the Supramental Transformation of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2021 from santosh krinskyWe frequently identify success, as defined by our minds, as an indicator of divine Grace; yet this is driven in many cases by the ego, not by the larger viewpoint of the Divine. In a complex world that is undergoing evolutionary transformation driven by the manifestation of a new power of ...
Views: 607 - 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: 588 - Three Necessary Conditions to Receive and Act Under the Impulsion of the Divine Force - by Submitted on May 31, 2021 from santosh krinskyAs long as we identify with the individual ego-personality, we remain bound to the limits of the body-life-mind complex. The action of the Divine Force under such conditions is necessarily diffused and diluted. The energy is mixed with the much more fragmentary and limited goals and objectives ...
Views: 637 - Getting The Love You Want Is Easy: Love Yourself First - by Submitted on May 31, 2021 from Eric DesuzaYearning for someone to come and fill your life with joy and love? What if I told you that loving yourself is the beginning of discovering your right partner? Self-care messages are so rampant across the internet that even personal branding coaches use this as a major strategy to make their ...
Views: 742 - Advanced Methods for Converting Work into Karma Yoga - by Submitted on May 30, 2021 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo explores the methods of converting work into ‘karma yoga’ with several additional ways to approach this. The development of an inner ‘witness consciousness’, the purusha which is separate from the outer active nature, prakriti, is an intermediate stage beyond those which involve ...
Views: 670 - Two Introductory Methods to Develop Remembrance in Work - by Submitted on May 29, 2021 from santosh krinskyDevelopment of the inner attitude of dedication, and remembrance of the Divine in work is a progressive process. Initially, most people are unable to actively keep the focus and remembrance while concurrently concentrating on the work at hand. Sri Aurobindo introduces two methods to begin to ...
Views: 590 - The Process of Turning Work into Yogic Practice - by Submitted on May 28, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe Bhagavad Gita proclaims that ‘yoga is skill in works’. The type of focused concentrated effort that comes about through a yogic practice is an essential aspect of completing any task skillfully. It does not imply, however, that all ‘skill in works’ is necessarily yoga, unless by that one ...
Views: 601 - The Process of Turning Work into Yogic Practice - by Submitted on May 28, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe Bhagavad Gita proclaims that ‘yoga is skill in works’. The type of focused concentrated effort that comes about through a yogic practice is an essential aspect of completing any task skillfully. It does not imply, however, that all ‘skill in works’ is necessarily yoga, unless by that one ...
Views: 584 - 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: 648 - The Process of Establishing Equality in the Being - by Submitted on May 23, 2021 from santosh krinskyAs Sri Aurobindo has indicated, the practice of yoga is a science of applied psychology. The normal and habitual patterns of response that we exhibit need to be both understood and modified, energies redirected, and new forces allowed to intervene and exert their influence in our lives. ...
Views: 643 - Developing the Inner Poise of Equality in the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 22, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe more reactive we are to people and events, the more dispersed our awareness is and this draws away from the ability of the practitioner of the yoga to create and maintain the inner connection to the spiritual force that is pressing to manifest the next phase of the evolutionary development. ...
Views: 588 - The Nature and Power of Equality in the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 21, 2021 from santosh krinskyWe usually think about the term ‘equality’ in relation to society or the economy. Sri Aurobindo uses the term to describe an inner psychological state that keeps the practitioner of the yoga focused on the inner being and its spiritual practices, rather than having the attention drawn out to ...
Views: 556 - The Need to Remain Undisturbed by Outer Circumstances - by Submitted on May 20, 2021 from santosh krinskyOne of the great obstacles to the reception and activation of the higher forces of consciousness are the pre-existing habits of action and reaction in the mind-life-body complex. We are constantly pulled in one direction or another, we react to events and circumstances from our narrow ...
Views: 604 - The Power of Wideness in the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 19, 2021 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual being is under extreme pressure, whether through illness, emotional or mental distress, stress of living in the society or dealing with events and people, the natural reaction at the physical-vital-mental level is to contract, to curl up, to close off, to withdraw into a ...
Views: 592 - Understanding the Concept of Wideness in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 18, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe Vedic Rishis spoke of Satyam, Ritam, Brihat, ‘the truth, the right, the vast’. These represent psychological states into which the yogic practitioner can enter in order to embody the truth of the Brahman. The vast consciousness takes us out of the human egoistic standpoint into an awareness, ...
Views: 548 - Understanding the Concept of Wideness in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 18, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe Vedic Rishis spoke of Satyam, Ritam, Brihat, ‘the truth, the right, the vast’. These represent psychological states into which the yogic practitioner can enter in order to embody the truth of the Brahman. The vast consciousness takes us out of the human egoistic standpoint into an awareness, ...
Views: 579 - The Silent Mind Prepares the Receptivity for the Advent of the Higher Consciousness in the Being - by Submitted on May 17, 2021 from santosh krinskyAn important principle for the practitioner of yoga is to recognise that the old habits and ways of acting and reacting need to be removed in order to open up the capacity to receive the new powers of consciousness that are in the process of manifesting. Yoga is more or less a process of applied ...
Views: 569 - The Basis for Developing the Silence of the Mind - by Submitted on May 16, 2021 from santosh krinskyIn today’s world, we tend to value those processes of mind, life and body which focus on the elements of success in the outer life. We educate children to remember facts of the past, to learn basic mathematics, and rules of grammar and spelling. We train students on how to utilize and implement ...
Views: 599 - The Creative Power of the Silent Mind - by Submitted on May 16, 2021 from santosh krinskyFor most people there is never a moment of silence in the mind. A constant churning of thoughts, ideas, desires, plans, wishes, concerns, feelings, emotions, perceptions, and needs keeps mental activity of one sort or another always going. We seem to actually fear the silence, so if the inner ...
Views: 663 - The Nature and Power of Sincerity in the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 13, 2021 from santosh krinskyFor spiritual practices that seek a solution outside the life in the world, it is possible to try to “cut the knot” and simply abandon, or at least minimize, the active engagement of mind, life and body in the world. For a spiritual practice such as the integral yoga, however, which aims at a ...
Views: 567 - Distinguishing Between the Qualities of Quiet, Calm, Peace and Silence in the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 13, 2021 from santosh krinskyNear the top of the “wish list” for most spiritual aspirants is achieving “peace”. This is generally understood however in a very personal sense to alleviate the turmoil, dissention and conflict that invariably arises in our normal circumstances living in the world. It is rarely appreciated ...
Views: 648 - The Power of a Calm Mind - by Submitted on May 13, 2021 from santosh krinskyIf we observe our mental space for some time, such as when we sit for meditation, the first thing to be noticed is that the mind tends to jump around from one thought, idea or perception to another, seemingly randomly and impacted by sensory data coming to us through our sense organs. Some call ...
Views: 598 - Understanding the Quality of Sincerity in the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 10, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe general definition of sincerity as understood in society is the quality of unifying one’s intention with one’s words or actions. This definition is a good starting point for understanding sincerity in the yogic sense. The major difference between the two is the level of inward review and ...
Views: 581 - Patience and Perseverance Are Need for the Practice of the Integral Yoga - by Submitted on May 07, 2021 from santosh krinskyWe live in an age that expects instant success, immediate gratification and results that occur with a minimum of effort. It is difficult, therefore, to appreciate that the spiritual path, whether the integral yoga, or any other path that assumes a change to human nature or a redirection of the ...
Views: 567 - Developing Aspiration Without Admixture of Desire - by Submitted on May 04, 2021 from santosh krinskyThe Bhagavad Gita devotes considerable focus to the operation of the three gunas, qualities of the action of the nature, Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas. The Gita indicates that all actions are modified and controlled by the action of the gunas. This includes the practice of spiritual sadhana. Rajas ...
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