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- Creating a Balance Between the Spiritual Quest and the Development of the Body, Life and Mind - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2023 from santosh krinskyA yogic discipline focused on the abandonment of life does not take pains to develop the inherent powers and capacities of the body, life-force and the mind. In fact, the powers of these elements of the human instrument are instead considered to be lures, obstacles and impediments to the ...
Views: 201 - Do the Stars Control Our Destiny? - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2024 from santosh krinskySomeone has their astrological chart done, and by that they are able to determine the location of the various planets and the sun and moon and the constellations in relation to their birth. They will learn about the hardships they will face, the major life events they can expect, and the ...
Views: 201 - The Benefits of a Prepared Mental Instrument for Action in the World - by Submitted on Dec 24, 2023 from santosh krinskyMany spiritual seekers in today’s world dismiss the need to develop the mind and its inherent powers. The mind is seen as the obstacle to the attainment of the greater knowledge that accompanies spiritual development. This understanding is rooted in the larger belief that spiritual growth ...
Views: 201 - The Need to Integrate the Realisations of the Yoga of Knowledge With the External Life of the Seeker - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2023 from santosh krinskySome spiritual seekers follow the path of knowledge, utilizing deep meditation in a trance-state called Samadhi, to put aside all interaction with the external world and focus intensely on the unification with the Supreme Truth, and liberation from the life of the body. Their goal is thus for a ...
Views: 201 - Occult Beings and Entities In This and Other Worlds or Planes Can Impact Human Life - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyScientists are now beginning to speak of an infinite number of universes, each with their own beings and existence, many of which are very closely related to, and possibly interacting with, the universe within which we live. Separately, we are beginning to appreciate that our limited field of ...
Views: 200 - The Resurgence of Radio Podcasts in the Era of Social Media Dominance - by Submitted on May 25, 2024 from Lora DavisIn an age where social media platforms dominate the information landscape, one might wonder why radio podcasts still attract a significant audience. Despite the plethora of content available at our fingertips, radio podcasts continue to thrive. This article delves into the reasons behind this ...
Views: 200 - What are Moksha, Nirvana and Gati in Hinduism? - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2023 from Dada BhagwanYou have posed a very nice question! The last death in this world is termed as Nirvana. After achieving Nirvana, there is no rebirth. This state is considered as Moksha, wherein the Soul is free from the cycle of birth and death. Until the person does not achieve Nirvana, he continues to ...
Views: 200 - Receptivity to the Universal Vital Forces - by Submitted on May 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn May 1973, a devotee from the West was visiting Auroville in South India. At that time, it was primarily an eroded, dusty plateau, not the lush forested scene that one can see today if one visits. May is an extremely hot month, and the visitor had just arrived a couple of weeks earlier from ...
Views: 199 - The Evolution of Consciousness Across Multiple Lifetimes Organised Around the Development of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe human lifetime is extremely short in the context of Nature’s evolutionary development. This leads us to several possible explanations or conclusions. We can posit that life is just random chance and there is no real significance or meaning to our lives, or the fact that we have developed ...
Views: 199 - Useful Tips For the Seeker on the Path to Realization - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany people believe that realisation comes from reading specific texts, or practicing specific techniques of posture, breathing, prayer, mantra etc. The Mother provides a counterpoint to this belief by showing how the practice should take up all the actions and movements of life and transform ...
Views: 199 - Our Surface Personality Is Only a Small Representation of Our Complete and True Being - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe construct a personality that we present to the world and organize our expression and actions around this chosen construct. In doing so, we pick and choose elements that are present in our conscious mind, heart, life-force and physical body and create for ourselves the ego-personality that ...
Views: 198 - Worlds and Beings Exist Beyond What We Can Perceive With Our Physical Senses - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2024 from santosh krinskyWorlds and Beings Exist Beyond What We Can Perceive With Our Physical Senses Posted on June 4, 2024 Explorers of the world came across situations and beings with whom they had no prior contact and found some of them to be extremely dangerous while others seemed to be neutral or even positive. ...
Views: 198 - Experiencing and Understanding Infinite Worlds of Experience - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyScientists nowadays are speaking of infinite numbers of parallel universes, each one carrying out some different ‘choice’ that can be worked out. Not every world is based on the same set of factors and choices as the world we currently inhabit. There are also realms that are not physical in the ...
Views: 197 - Overcoming the Discomfort of Cold Temperatures - by Submitted on May 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyDealing with the heat radiation that comes from the sun is a matter of gaining the ability to absorb and utilize the energy without being overwhelmed by its force. Turning then to the issue of how to deal with cold, we have an entirely different scenario, in that we have a reduction in the ...
Views: 197 - The Action of Vital Entities in Human Life for Their Own Sense of Enjoyment - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyHuman beings love subjecting others to practical jokes. But very likely, we are not the only beings who suffer from this malady. Many people have had the experience related here by the Mother about searching for things, sometimes looking in the place where those things are, but not finding them. ...
Views: 197 - The Nature and Action of the Power of Suggestion - by Submitted on Apr 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many forms of suggestion, some more subtle than others. Peer pressure is one form that everyone experiences at some point in time. Our friends and acquaintances do something and encourage us to participate and do it also. In some cases, this can lead to life-long consequences, such as ...
Views: 197 - Unconscious and Automatic Action of Thought Forms and Formations in Daily Life - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2024 from santosh krinskyA story was related by an individual in business which. at the time, seemed somewhat unusual, but now, in context, makes a lot of sense. He indicated that he had a customer who would think about him when she needed to place an order for goods for her store. They seemed to have a very tight ...
Views: 197 - Involution and Evolution of Consciousness in the Material World of Forms - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe observe the material world around us and as we study that world, we see the development of forms of ever-greater complexity and power of action and intelligence. Charles Darwin described the process of the evolution of forms in his book The Origin of Species. The cause and purpose, however, ...
Views: 196 - The Power of Suggestion Working Through Personal Connections - by Submitted on Apr 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere is a serious rationale behind the many spiritual paths that counsel the true seeker to abandon his family, his friends, his social life, and live secluded in a cave, in the forest, in the desert, to practice his spiritual discipline. All of these connections and social interactions bring ...
Views: 196 - Becoming Aware of and Distinguishing the Source of Vibrations Impacting our Lives - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur consciousness tends to be so fluid and so mixed that it is difficult, if not practically impossible, to distinguish what represents our own internal process and what is coming to us from outside, from our interaction with others, from environmental influences. None of these things remains ...
Views: 195 - Seances, Automatic Writing and Attempting Contact With the Departed - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital nature gets excited by things that seem to be “occult” or that promise some kind of interaction with the “dearly departed” loved ones who have passed away. An entire industry has arisen to cater to people who are seeking solace, contact or information from the deceased. Some of this, ...
Views: 195 - 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: 194 - Influence of the Supramental Principle on Earth - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe supramental consciousness, as the next evolutionary stage, will eventually resolve the difficulties of the transitional period and establish itself on earth. The question then arises, what is the relationship between the gnostic beings and the existing organisation of beings rooted in body, ...
Views: 194 - The Law of the Rebound in the Practice of Occultism - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs with physical laws and laws of physics, laws of nature, there are laws of occultism which operate when there is vital interchange between people on an occult level. Knowledge of these laws is essential both to protect oneself and to ensure that occult powers are not being misused or ...
Views: 194 - The Soul’s Connection to the Divine and Its Role in the Divine Manifestation - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany spiritual practitioners have realized that the external life we customarily lead is a life of ‘illusion’, and that it is based in a flawed view of reality. This does not mean that our life, existence and action has no real significance; rather, that the way we define our lives, based on the ...
Views: 194 - Economic Systems Cannot Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo continues to explore the various proposed methods for effecting positive change in human life and society so as to confront the evolutionary crisis we see before us. Some have proposed that the solution can be found in developing a more perfect economic system, and much effort has ...
Views: 193 - Higher Powers of Consciousness Can Aid and Support the Evolution of Consciousness in the Human Being - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are forces in the universal creation that can obstruct, delay or harm the development of consciousness. They try to maintain a form of status quo, or they try to protect a vested interest or desire that they maintain. These forces, sometimes called ‘hostile forces’ are a frequent topic of ...
Views: 193 - Those Who Observe and Reflect Can Recognise the Higher Planes and Worlds of Existence - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2024 from santosh krinskyModern day scientists, researchers and philosophers are beginning to explore the mysteries of life and as they do so, they are beginning to recognise the existence of domains, planes, worlds and universes that the external mind of humanity has avoided or at least resisted. Now scientists speak ...
Views: 193 - Universal Forces, the Aura and the Individual Consciousness - by Submitted on May 09, 2024 from santosh krinskyMany people hold that the truth of existence is an “either/or” proposition. If the universal forces create all of existence, then the individual is essentially an illusory conception; and on the other hand, if the individual is a real and separate entity, then the universal is somehow denied or ...
Views: 193 - Is Spiritual Force Real? - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2024 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo once told about an incident that helped spark his interest in yoga-force. His brother was very ill. A wandering yogi came by and when he learned on that illness, asked for a glass of water which he then proceeded to infuse with mantas. The illness was quickly overcome once Sri ...
Views: 192 - What Causes the Wind? - by Submitted on May 07, 2024 from santosh krinskyA young child was asked what causes the wind. The child replied: “When the trees move their branches and leaves, that is what makes the wind!” This extremely logical observation mirrors the way we tend to look at the world. We think that we make the decisions, that we are ‘in charge’ of what we ...
Views: 192 - Consciousness Pervades All Forms, Beings and Entities in the Universal Creation - by Submitted on May 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn his play Hamlet, William Shakespeare comments on the limitations of the objective mind and its ability to understand existence: ““There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”. Our mind’s view of the existence of the universe and its significance ...
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Views: 191 - The End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyUnder the influence of the gnostic consciousness, the entire framework of the mental organisation of life, which we accept as assumed and given, would necessarily be modified. The very basis of viewing and understanding things would have to shift from one of division and separation to one of ...
Views: 191 - 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: 190 - Perceiving the Universal Forces at Work Through Attenuation of the Hold of the Ego-Centric Viewpoint - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyWith our normal human viewpoint based in the standpoint of the ego we react as if the entire world revolves around us. This ego-centric, anthropocentric viewpoint creates its own formidable limitations in terms of recognising, perceiving, knowing and addressing the larger forces at work. If we ...
Views: 190 - The Tension of the Current State of Human Existence - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyEverywhere we turn we see mounting crises. The news reports are dire. Climate disasters are increasing, we are poisoned daily by toxic substances in our food, water and the very air we breathe. On a day-to-day level, we are struggling in a world that seems to be impossible to understand, with ...
Views: 190 - Religion Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis - by Submitted on May 18, 2024 from santosh krinskyThroughout human history, mankind has turned to religion in an attempt to address or solve the problems of human life. In many cases, charismatic leaders have arisen who, through their teaching and their personal example, have inspired people to make changes in their individual lives, and there ...
Views: 189 - Delta Airlines 18086--467010 Phone Number For Reservations Call - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2023 from Mia ParkerDelta Airlines 18086--467010 Phone Number For Reservations Call What Is the 1-800 Reservations Number for Delta Airlines? The domestic reservations phone number for Delta Airlines is 18086--467010, and the international reservations phone number is 18086--467010, as of 2015. These phone ...
Views: 188 - Determinism in the Exercise of Free Will — Free Will in the Carrying Out of Determinism - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe generally jump to extremes in our way of looking at things from our normal, mental viewpoint. Thus, we either want to accept that everything is absolutely determined and thus, every move we make, every action, every reaction, is choreographed down to the slightest detail; or else, we want to ...
Views: 188 - Mental Consciousness Cannot Directly Comprehend Spiritual Forces at Work - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn order to know something, we need to utilize the tools and methods appropriate to whatever form or energetic action we are trying to know. Those things which rely on emotion, for instance, cannot be fully understood by the logical intellect. Similarly, the strict step by step process of ...
Views: 188 - Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development - by Submitted on May 23, 2024 from santosh krinskyIf we observe the trajectory of human development, we can see a very clear direction taking shape. As we have become more conscious of the stages of life, and the processes that accompany those stages, including the increasing weakening and deterioration of the body and the life energy, and the ...
Views: 187 - Occultism and Our Daily Lives - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe rarely reflect on the occult powers that we use all the time, automatically, including the various powers of the mind and emotions. Researchers in the field of medical science have now recognized the important role that our mental state has on our health and well-being. They now admit the ...
Views: 187 - Suggestions Coming from the Vital World Also Impact Our Responses - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe vital worlds are generally unseen and unrecognised by us, as they do not take physical forms in the same way as our external world within which we live and act. This does not imply, however, that they do not have interaction with our world and the beings, including ourselves, that inhabit ...
Views: 187 - The Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness Grapple for Supremacy in the World - by Submitted on May 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyIn Paradise Lost, John Milton describes at great length the intentions and motivations of the fallen angels as described by the Christian tradition, and their attempt and need to influence and control the human world and thereby to defeat God’s intention and plan for humanity. This story is in ...
Views: 187 - The Supermind and Its Evolutionary Action - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyAs we begin to experience realms of awareness other than that of our current primary body-life-mind complex, we can begin to appreciate that there are further, higher states of conscious awareness that can be experienced, and which have powers of insight, and ways of working that are far ...
Views: 187 - Universal Forces and the Subconscient - by Submitted on May 10, 2024 from santosh krinskyThere are many functions of our existence that take place without the conscious awareness or intervention of the mind. All of the complex functions of the body and its organs, for instance, are very much independent of control by our conscious mind and will, although some of these functions may, ...
Views: 187 - Are There Really Vampires? — the Reality and Nature of Vampirism - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe popular imagination about the existence and characteristics of vampires has developed from the famous novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula. From that book we get the picture of beings that survive many hundreds of years, who are shapeshifters , and who drink the blood of their victims, preferably ...
Views: 186 - Becoming Aware of Cosmic and Universal Forces That Impact Our Existence - by Submitted on May 06, 2024 from santosh krinskyEnormous forces are at work in the universe. Vast numbers of stars and their planetary groupings move at high speed. Radiation of various sorts streams throughout the universe. There is a cosmic background radiation that scientists can now measure as they develop ever-finer instrumentation to ...
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