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- The Potentiality of the Soul — the Actuality of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2026 from santosh krinskyA seed, in its essence, contains all the potentiality that eventually turns into a full grown tree. It is useful to reflect on this when we look at the position of the soul in relation to the psychic being. The soul is like that seed to the extent that it has all the potential of the Divine ...
Views: 27 - 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: 579 - The Power of a Quiet Mind - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2025 from santosh krinskyModern civilization puts a premium on the mental process. We educate our children with a focus on the mind. We want them to learn verbal skills, reading skills, logical skills and measure them on their abilities in these areas with various forms of standardized tests by which we then classify ...
Views: 165 - The Power of an Integral Immobility - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe general concept of ‘immobility’ in the face of external pressures is actually not a new discovery. Stoicism encouraged people to develop ways to withstand the pressures of the external world and accept those pressures without wilting or breaking under them. For the most part, however, the ...
Views: 240 - The Power of Auto-Suggestion for Health and Wellness - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyAuto-suggestion is constantly active, although we generally do this more or less unconsciously. For example, when we anticipate a meal at a favorite restaurant, our mind sends signals to the body that generates feelings of hunger, begins to develop saliva, and prepares the body for enjoyment of ...
Views: 289 - The Power of Compassion - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2013 from Yamaya CruzI’ve been around the block a couple of times and I’ve heard all the talk about empathy and compassion. The Buddhists preach about how great it is to have compassion. Priests in Yoruba talk about sensitivity, and Christians talk about forgiveness. What does all this mean? It means absolutely ...
Views: 1078 - The Power of Concentration is the Key to Realization in All Fields of Life - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2023 from santosh krinskyEvery major accomplishment in human life involves some form of concentration. We live in a modern world that systematically distracts and disperses the mind, thus making it more difficult to achieve a state of concentration. Cell phones, internet surfing, music, flashing lights, entertainment, ...
Views: 478 - The Power of Detachment to Effect Transformational Change in the Nature - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2021 from santosh krinskyThere is a vast difference between a mental acknowledgement of a concept or idea, and the actual realisation that underlies that concept. It is not an infrequent occurrence for a spiritual aspirant to hold a mental belief that is, nevertheless, not a full realisation. Spiritual realisation is ...
Views: 537 - The Power of Enthusiasm Represents the Action of the Mystic Flame of Aspiration Working in the External Being - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Rishis of the Rig Veda focused, first and foremost, on kindling the mystic fire as the key to the reception and utilization of higher powers of consciousness. The altar for this flame is in the secret heart of the being, deep within, behind the physical organ, where the psychic being is ...
Views: 318 - The Power of Imagination and Visualisation Can Aid in Coming into Direct Contact with One’s Psychic Being - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe power of visualisation has been recognised as an aid in healing from illness, in excelling in sports, and in helping an individual achieve results in the external world. The spiritual seeker also can put this power to work to achieve results in the inner world. Practitioners of Tibetan ...
Views: 265 - The Power of Immobility in Action - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe Bhagavad Gita has an interesting verse that provides a clue to the secret of action and inaction, between ‘static’ and ‘dynamic’ power, if you will: “He who in action can see inaction and can see action still continuing in cessation from works, is the man of true reason and discernment among ...
Views: 232 - The Power of Love - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2023 from Maetreyii Ma NolanEvery day is a new opportunity, a new beginning, an opportunity to live the life you truly want to live. Spirituality uplifts the human spirit. It is governed by love, lovingkindness, compassion, and awareness. When the mind and body and spirit are aligned, there is a flow from that infinite ...
Views: 526 - The Power of Mastery - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe operate on multiple levels at the same time. There is the external level comprised of actual physical, vital and mental actions we undertake. We speak, we express ourselves through gestures and body language. We undertake physical activities. At the same time however, there is the unspoken ...
Views: 243 - The Power of Occult ‘Seeing’ - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyThere is a long tradition and history of individuals who have utilized a variety of methods for the purpose of obtaining ‘visions’ of events, past, present or future. The action generally takes place through creation of a state of trance that allows the surface mental consciousness to recede and ...
Views: 229 - The Power of Peace - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2022 from santosh krinskyAs human beings, we are enamored of dynamic power. We want “action” and the powers of the body, the life energy and the mind are prized when they can accomplish visible results. We have proverbs such as “might makes right” which make it seem like strength in action is the most positive ...
Views: 547 - The Power of Phonics in Teaching - by Submitted on May 30, 2020 from Saurabh GuptaWhether or not phonics play a crucial role in teaching to young minds or not has remained a matter much debated on for several years. However, recent studies and research have revealed that the cognitive powers of the brain of children remain directly related to the sounds they listen to. Hence, ...
Views: 884 - The Power of Rejection in Gaining Mastery Over the Nature - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2025 from santosh krinskyOperant conditioning is a phenomenon identified in Western psychology by B.F. Skinner. His experiments showed that by the results of carrying out specific actions, they can either be encouraged, through positive reinforcement, or discouraged through negative reinforcement. One of the principles ...
Views: 121 - The Power of Silence of the Mind - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are habituated, particularly in the modern world, to the mind constantly interacting with its environment, with sensations, with media and with ideas. We are also addicted to the activity, the energy, of the mind’s engagement and when the mind is not engaged somehow, we either sleep, or seek ...
Views: 240 - 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: 316 - The Power of the Evolved Soul to Tread the Spiritual Path - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe frequently hear people speak about the ‘law of attraction’. In most cases, they treat this as some kind of method or ‘trick’ to attract wealth, fame or other objects of desire to them, through use of a sort of mental focus or vital magnetism effect. The true ‘law of attraction’ however is ...
Views: 367 - The Power of the Inconscient and Subconscient Levels in Our Lives - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyOur physical bodies operate complex functions without active oversight or intervention of the mind. We are essentially in the dark as our organs function, as our immune system automatically responds to pressures, as breathing, brain function and much more go on absent our supervision or control, ...
Views: 329 - The Power of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen most people think of ‘power’ , it is within the context of some overt ability to accomplish something in the setting of the external world within which we live and act. This may be political power, economic power, physical power, moral power, the power to persuade, the power of an idea, the ...
Views: 351 - The Power of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on May 13, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe evaluate things by the power they command. It can be physical power, the power of raw Nature in the ocean, the wind, the volcano, or it can be related to our human physical existence as muscular strength, speed, trained responses, the power to effectuate physical actions, or it may be the ...
Views: 7 - The Power of the Psychic Being to Guide the Direction and Focus of One’s Life - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyWhen we look back on our lives, with the benefit of hindsight, we frequently can identify a change in direction that took an individual from a normal path of societal acceptance, career, marriage, family, social interactions and entertainment, to a life that is dedicated to some cause or purpose ...
Views: 189 - The Power of the Quiet Mind and Vital to Resolve Problems We Face - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe are habitually conditioned to try to solve problems with our mental capacity. We are taught to observe, organize, classify, compare and contrast, and examine similar past circumstances in order to determine a solution to whatever we are facing. This is the normal pattern for a mentally ...
Views: 262 - The Power of the Soul in Relation to the Other Parts of the Being - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe development of the human being takes place in several successive stages and as individuals mature they begin to manifest and express the powers of the nature as they successively come to the fore. Not every individual develops and expresses all the powers fully in a particular lifetime. For ...
Views: 196 - The Power of the Spiritual Consciousness Is Needed to Overcome the Limitations of the Mental Approach to Existence - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2025 from santosh krinskyAs the mental consciousness awakens, particularly if there is an influence coming from the psychic being or from the spiritual planes pressing down on the mental being, we become aware of virtually endless problems, issues, difficulties, imbalances, disharmonies and outright conflicts in the ...
Views: 192 - The Power of the Subconscious - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyWestern psychology has developed with the basis that the subconscious mind is extremely powerful and can determine actions and reactions of individuals that overcome the conscious intentions of those individuals. Events, circumstances, perceptions, and corresponding fears, hopes and excitement, ...
Views: 378 - The Power of Thought to Shape Our External Existence and Its Significance - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen we begin to reflect on the role of thought in the creation of forms in the world, it becomes clear that it is an important part of the process of converting pure conscious awareness into the world of vital action and physical substance. Thought is a tool of consciousness. When properly ...
Views: 303 - The Power of Visualisation Can Aid in Overcoming the Limits of the Logic-Bound Mental Consciousness in Achieving Realisation in the Spiritual Endeavour and the External World - by Submitted on Sep 20, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe mental being tends to accept that if it has an intellectual understanding of something, that it has ‘accomplished’ that thing. It does not tend to concern itself with the vital or physical world per se, and thus, if it ‘knows’ that it is one with the rest of the universal creation, or if it ...
Views: 458 - The Power of Vulnerability - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2013 from Betty LouiseLooking up a definition of vulnerability, the first one noted is “susceptible to physical or emotional injury.” Aren’t we all, as human beings, susceptible to a blow to our physical and emotional well being? This is part of BEing a human. We can be strong and powerful in one moment, and fragile ...
Views: 1022 - 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: 577 - The Power to Change Your Past - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2015 from Guy FinleySo many people today are bitter, broken-hearted, or just plain angry because of what happened to them while growing up. The reasons for their resentment or regret are as countless as are the unconscionable people responsible for the pain they unknowingly created in the lives of those they ...
Views: 1400 - The Power to Unfix Yourself from Any Negative State - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2022 from Guy FinleyWe value negative states because of the strong sense of self we get from them. This may be very difficult for us to see, but a strong light will show us the freeing facts. No one wants to believe that he or she values things like self-pity, anger, and depression. We would insist we don't, and as ...
Views: 868 - The Practice of Attempted Elimination of Unwanted Vital Movements Through Purposeful Indulgence, Part 1 - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere is a theory, current in various spiritual paths, as well as in various attempts to overcome certain unwanted behaviours in the ordinary life, that by purposeful indulgence, through ‘experience’ (anubhava), the individual can overcome the undesired impulse, craving or desire. The idea is ...
Views: 63 - The Practice of Attempted Elimination of Unwanted Vital Movements Through Purposeful Indulgence, Part 2 - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2026 from santosh krinskyAn individual dedicated some years to study and spiritual development. He gathered a small group of young people around him and took on the role of a teacher. He had obviously studied the texts and spent some time practicing them. He gained an aura of charisma for the young people who came under ...
Views: 63 - The Practice of Yoga and the Development and Use of Psychic Powers - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2024 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual undertakes tapasya, the concentration of conscious force, in any manner, it is certain that the results will bring about new powers for that individual, whether an accentuation of powers that the individual already possessed and exercised to some degree, or the development and ...
Views: 259 - The Practitioner of the Integral Yoga Will Face Difficulties, Obstructions and Challenges With the Support of the Divine Force to Meet Them and Overcome Them - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Sri Aurobindo poses the question: ‘How shall he cure the ills he never felt’, in reference to the world redeemer’s task. There is a truth here that impacts every disciple and devotee of the integral yoga. Sri Aurobnido has set the objective as the ...
Views: 110 - The Predominant Characteristic of Physical Consciousness: Tamas or Inertia - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2022 from santosh krinskyAn understanding of the three gunas, or qualities of Nature, is extremely helpful in gaining an understanding of the responses to external stimuli, events, people and circumstances. The gunas are sattwa, with a predominant quality of light and harmony, rajas with a predominant quality of ...
Views: 503 - The Price of the Transformation of the Earth-Consciousness - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2021 from santosh krinskyOnce the yogic sadhana moves to the physical consciousness, it runs into the nature of the physical and material world that predominates in the quality of Tamas, with its characteristics of darkness, sloth, indolence and dullness, inertia and slowness to change. In the physical world itself, ...
Views: 617 - The Principle Thing in the Practice of Integral Yoga - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn his book The Mother, Sri Aurobindo provides a detailed roadmap for understanding the relatively simple idea that one must have the ‘will to overcome all attachments’, etc. In order to do this, we need to be able to appreciate what is meant by ‘attachments’. Most people would associate this ...
Views: 93 - The Procedure for Elimination of Unwanted Movements in the Being - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2026 from santosh krinskyMedical researchers tell us that bacteria that can cause various disease conditions are always present in our environment, to some degree, including within our bodies. Yet for the most part, we do not become ill or remain ill all the time. The bacteria may be in a diffused or weak form, or our ...
Views: 62 - The Process and Steps of Ridding the Nature of Habitual Movements - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2022 from santosh krinskySome believe that it is impossible to change human nature. They repeat the proverb that one cannot straighten out a dog’s tail, but it will return to its former status time and again. Some become frustrated and essentially fight with their body, vital being or mind, wherever the movement they ...
Views: 534 - The Process Behind Communicating Thoughts from One Person to Another - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe utilize speech to communicate with other people. Speech however is a translation into vibrational patterns a specific thought content developed with a particular pattern of electrical impulses. When it is effective, the hearer receives the vibrational energy of the speech he has heard, and ...
Views: 279 - The Process for Gaining Equality in the Face of Outer Circumstances - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe question of how to achieve the status of inner equality to all outward circumstances is one that occupies the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere. In his book Bases of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo devotes the first chapter to the questions of achieving calm, peace and equality, as these are ...
Views: 166 - 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: 328 - The Process of Bringing About Change at the Subconscious Level of Our Being - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2021 from santosh krinskyAnyone who has taken up the practice of meditation is familiar with the attempt to quiet the mind and not pay attention to thoughts that arise during the process, letting them drift through without being followed or amplified in any way. One quickly realises during the process that we tend to ...
Views: 594 - The Process of Bringing Harmony and Unification to the Being Centred Around the Spiritual Purpose - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs long as an individual lives ‘aimlessly’, without recognising a higher purpose in life, there is no way to appreciate and measure the actions of the external nature with respect to any variance from that aim or purpose. The aim or purpose comes with the identification with the soul, the ...
Views: 348 - The Process of Changing Human Nature - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2023 from santosh krinskyWhen we take up the question of how to go about changing human nature, we are confronted with the difficulty of that attempt. Instincts, habits, trained responses, ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’ all conspire to maintain the status quo. When we attempt to make any change, we run up against the opposition ...
Views: 413 - The Process of Effecting Change in Character - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2022 from santosh krinskyThe character we exhibit today is a result of the past, whether we start from the underlying habitual patterns of human nature, or perhaps even go back farther to the patterns of the vital animal nature. Much of this is actually built into the genetic framework of the being, but layered on top ...
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