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- The Psychic Being and Its Interface with the Mental, Vital and Physical Parts of the Being - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe physical being, the vital being and the mental being each have their own characteristic mode of action, habits and predilections. They also have created over time an interface that modfiies the native action of each to accept some amount of influence and control by the other elements. Thus, ...
Views: 47 - The Psychic Being and Its Relation to the External Nature - by Submitted on May 11, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe newborn child has a mind, but it is not yet fully focused, awakened and in control of the sensory instruments. Over time, as the child grows and matures, he can gain more precise control over his senses and his powers of action, and eventually, the mind matures, can be trained and developed ...
Views: 28 - The Psychic Being and Progress - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2026 from santosh krinskyUntil someone actively takes up the spiritual path, and consciously begins to focus on the significance of his life and the purpose of the manifestation, the question of progress for the psychic being does not even arise. The progress takes place, but it happens without appreciation or ...
Views: 20 - The Psychic Being and the Essence of Past Lifetimes for the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2026 from santosh krinskyFor most people, as described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, there is a period of time where the person who has died systematically sheds the various sheaths, the physical body, the vital being, the mental sheath, and is then a being of consciousness who carries along the essential experience ...
Views: 3 - The Psychic Being and the Evolutionary Principle in Earthly Life - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2023 from santosh krinskyThere are certain beings that occupy specific positions in the hierarchy of consciousness, who inhabit specific planes with a specific define role in the creation. These are essentially ‘static’ beings as they do not ‘evolve’. It is commonly held that, on the contrary, the evolutionary principle ...
Views: 431 - The Psychic Being and the Interlude Between Death and Rebirth - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Tibetan Book of the Dead describes the progression from death, through an intermediate realm called the bardo and the eventual liberation, or alternatively, the choosing of a new birth. For those who are awake and conscious or who follow the directions and guidance provided by the text, an ...
Views: 11 - The Psychic Being and the Karmic Trajectory in the External Life and in the Process of Rebirth - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe external nature constantly tries to establish what it considers to be fixed laws of Nature that are axiomatic as to the mechanisms of the universal manifestation. There are laws of matter and energy, there are laws of genetics, there are laws of time, space and circumstance. There are laws ...
Views: 0 - The Psychic Being and the Law of Attraction - by Submitted on May 14, 2026 from santosh krinskyWherever we focus our attention, we attract the object of the attention. The universal manifestation is one consciousness. Attention creates a direct correspondence that sets up affinities and links. This leads to meeting people or attracting circumstances that fulfil the focus of the attention. ...
Views: 27 - The Psychic Being and the Management of the External Being and Its Action - by Submitted on May 16, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere are a number of different management strategies we see in the world today. They range from attempts at total control, what we can call ‘micromanagement’ to total laissez faire release to permit individuals to do whatever they decide at each moment. Both of these extremes have their ...
Views: 30 - The Psychic Being and the Mechanism of Choosing Its Next Birth - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2026 from santosh krinskyNothing can evolve that has not previously been involved. A tree grows from an acorn because the essence of the tree, in the form of its genetic code, is already in place within that acorn. The entire creation, from the most material to the most subtle, contains an involved consciousness. If we ...
Views: 26 - The Psychic Being and the Phenomenon of Avatars, Vibhutis and Emanations - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe psychic world is defined as an interlude during which the psychic being, in a timeless status, assimilates the experience of the past life as it prepares for taking a new birth in the world. By definition it is not involved with activity in the world or with any particular human soul. The ...
Views: 7 - The Psychic Being and the Process of Rebirth Provide the Basis for a Real Purpose and Meaning in Life - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2026 from santosh krinskyHumanity has grappled with finding a meaning and purpose to life since time immemorial. We ask ourselves, why have we been born? Is there a meaning to life? What are we here to do? Is life simply about acquiring wealth, status, power and creating offspring? Is there anything else that acts as ...
Views: 50 - The Psychic Being and Transformation - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2023 from santosh krinskyAs long as we remain rooted in the awareness of mind-life-body, we see the world and our existence as a fragmented collection of separate objects, beings and forces and we act as if we are separate and distinct from everything else. The spiritual transformation of consciousness involves a shift ...
Views: 430 - The Psychic Being Awakens Aspiration in All Parts of the Being - by Submitted on May 03, 2026 from santosh krinskyAspiration. When we observe sunflowers opening and turning toward the sun, we are witnessing a form of aspiration at a very basic level. When we strive to enhance our physical capacities, manifest and express beauty, work to achieve a more pure and powerful vital energy, develop our minds and ...
Views: 26 - The Psychic Being Brings Cheerful Focus to the Spiritual Sadhana - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2025 from santosh krinskyIn his novel Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens exposes us to a character who is perpetually cheerful, Mark Tapley. We meet him in a comfortable situation working at an inn, with a warm relationship with the proprietor of the inn, with whom he is in love (and who is in love with him). He ...
Views: 153 - The Psychic Being Can Change the Individual’s Life Direction and Circumstances If He Is Destined to Take Up the Spiritual Life - by Submitted on May 15, 2026 from santosh krinskyAn individual recounted a seemingly minor incident that nevertheless began to turn his mind into a new direction, eventually leading him, over time, with further experiences, to take up the spiritual quest. He was in a debating competition in high school. His team was well-prepared, and the ...
Views: 32 - The Psychic Being Carries the Essence of Experience Through Rebirth and the Evolution of Consciousness - by Submitted on May 27, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe are born into the world, we grow, we learn, we participate in it, we age, and eventually we die. Many people look at this process without trying to understand any deeper significance. They involve themselves in the process and do not look at what happened before, what caused the existence we ...
Views: 26 - The Psychic Being Carries the Essence of the Soul’s Experience from Life to Life - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe tend to look at things through the standpoint of the external physical being, the body, life and mind with which we identify. From this standpoint we treat the soul as something that we need to search for, if we even acknowledge the existence of the soul, and as something secondary to and ...
Views: 56 - The Psychic Being Determines Its Next Lifetime At the Time of Death - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2026 from santosh krinskyMany people believe that the thoughts and feelings one has as death approaches will determine one’s fate after death. There are cases of deathbed confessions or religious conversions. There are in some cases fervent prayers to God for salvation, and a renunciation of past bad deeds as one faces ...
Views: 1 - The Psychic Being Has Periods of Assimilation Between Successive Incarnations - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe entire process of conscious evolution involves periods of ascent, outreach, growth and development, followed by periods of rest and assimilation when the fruits of the former efforts are allowed to settle in the being and provide a basis for the next stage of development. All through ...
Views: 8 - The Psychic Being Is Automatically Attuned Towards the Spiritual Truth of Existence - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe observe in nature that certain plants turn towards the sun and follow the sun’s position in the sky throughout the day. This phenomenon, ‘heliotropism’, is based on certain sensor cells in these plants that identify the location of the light and automatically orient themselves towards it. ...
Views: 25 - The Psychic Being Protects from the Dangers of the Internediate Zone - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2026 from santosh krinskyGoethe, in his famous poem Faust, recounts a scene where Faust conjures the Earth-Spirit. He is stricken with fear although he felt himself to be a god and a peer to the Spirit he called forth. “To view me is thine aspiration, My voice to hear, my countenance to see; Thy powerful yearning ...
Views: 13 - The Psychic Being Provides Instant Protection When It is Active and Guiding the Being - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2024 from santosh krinskyWe train the physical body with intense repetition to create what is called ‘muscle memory’. This allows the body to respond, instantly, without thought, when certain circumstances occur. Not all circumstances require the instantaneous response of the body, or even if they do, the body may not ...
Views: 259 - The Psychic Being Provides Protection from the Desires of the External Nature and the Suggestions of Forces Hostile to the Divine Truth - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2026 from santosh krinskyAs long as we are established in the consciousness of the external being and personality, the body-life-mind complex aggregated around the ego-personality, we interpret and decide things based on the external relationships each of those elements has developed in their dealing with the external ...
Views: 17 - The Psychic Being Senses the Divine Presence and Guidance - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2025 from santosh krinskyEverything we experience is sensed or felt by some developed capacity or part of the being. Vibrations that occur within the ranges of the electro-magnetic spectrum that human beings can perceive are identified as light, colors, sound, etc. We have senses of taste, touch and smell, similarly ...
Views: 111 - The Psychic Being Utilises the Essence of Past Life Development, Not All the Details - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2026 from santosh krinskyFor the most part, the psychic being has no need for all the myriad details of any particular lifetime in its evolutonary progression. It distils the essence of all the experiences to build up its development and increasing complexity as it masters each successive plane of energy and experience. ...
Views: 2 - The Psychic Being Works to Gain Experience and Independence and Upgrade the Instruments of Body, Life-Force and Mind - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Bodhisattva vow represents an ideal of dedication and compassion by those who have reached the stage of enlightenment and who thereby have gained the freedom to choose liberation, moksha, from the cycle of birth and death. Those individuals who attain this state of consciousness make the ...
Views: 23 - The Psychic Being — Soul: Its Nature, Mission and Evolution Introduction - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere is considerable confusion about the nature of the soul. A sizable portion of humanity denies the existence of the soul, while another segment of humanity reduces its ‘value’ below that of material possessions and outward satisfactions. The ego-personality, bound up in the actions and ...
Views: 61 - The Psychic Being — the Nature of the Soul - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2022 from santosh krinsky.When we try to understand what is meant by the term ‘soul’ we run up against a confusing mix of ideas about what the soul actually is. Similarly, the use of the term ‘psychic’ has its own issues with confused interpretation. Recognising the need to have some term in English that can be employed ...
Views: 593 - The Psychic Being, Its Interaction With the External Nature and the Transformation Process - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2026 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo makes a key distinction that clears up much potential confusion about the nature and action of the psychic being. The psychic being is a direct expression of the soul and maintains thereby the direct connection with the Divine. It cannot be harmed or polluted by any actions of the ...
Views: 37 - The Psychic Being: Its Growth and Development Through the Evolutionary Cycle - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2026 from santosh krinskyThere are certain questions about the meaning and processes of the evolutionary cycle, the existence and growth of the psychic being, and its relation to our human external existence that most of us have a difficult time addressing, as we have not had the experience or evidence from our own ...
Views: 23 - The Psychic Being: Its Special Role Manifesting the Divine Presence in Matter - by Submitted on May 03, 2026 from santosh krinskyHumanity has long had the feeling that it represents something special and unique in the universal creation. Major religions have creation stories that emphasize this uniqueness, with God creating man in his own image and finding that it was good. Many people believe that humanity is the only ...
Views: 29 - The Psychic Conversion — the Shift from the Ego Standpoint to the Soul’s Standpoint - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2026 from santosh krinskyA young individual recounted a tale of what he considered to be his own experience of a psychic conversion. He had a near death experience and when he awoke he suddenly knew there was a Divine Presence in the world and that he was meant to focus on that rather than the career he had been ...
Views: 14 - The Psychic Entity Knows the Purpose and Significance of Our Existence - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhen we live primarily, or entirely, focused on our external life via the instruments of the body, life-force and mind, we cannot determine nor recognise the purpose and significance of our existence. We may speculate. We may hold opinions. We may adhere to some doctrine, such as a religious ...
Views: 541 - The Psychic Transformation Is Preliminary as Essential for Spiritual Development Before Experiences or Powers - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe ego is allured and enamoured of spiritual experiences and the development of unique powers that may arise with various openings of the being to other ranges of mental, vital or physical activity than we normally live in. Certain spiritual disciplines actually advise the seeker to avoid ...
Views: 17 - The Purpose and Significance of Life Becomes Clear as the Individual Contacts the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2023 from santosh krinskyMost people do not understand why it is they are alive, what it is they are here to do in the world. Many simply think that ‘eat, drink and be merry’ is the sum of their purpose; in other words, they do not recognise a life purpose or mission in that sense, and just want to find a way to enjoy ...
Views: 368 - The Purpose of Life - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiThroughout my life, I have persevered through much pain and misfortune; however, instead of using my experiences as reasons for a life of retaliation and reparations, I used these tragedies as motivation to making other people’s lives better. I believe that we all have untapped potential, ...
Views: 868 - The Purusha, the Master of the Nature, Sanctions, Upholds, Directs and Changes the Nature - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2025 from santosh krinskyWe are not destined to be the puppet or plaything of the external Nature, Prakriti, through the working of the 3 Gunas or qualities of Nature. When we shift our standpoint to that of the Divine, when we recognise our Oneness with the creative Force, we can participate in the ordering and the ...
Views: 146 - The Qualities of Food and Spiritual Practice - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2022 from santosh krinskyWhen people take up spiritual practices, they are exposed to many different ideas about the proper diet. With the idea that ‘you are what you eat’, there is a long list of foods that are considered suitable for spiritual practitioners to eat, what are called in the ancient traditions of India, ...
Views: 562 - The Quality of Rajas and Its Impact on the Spiritual Sadhana - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2025 from santosh krinskyThe quality of Rajas, when it predominates in the action of the individual seeking spiritual growth, can have quite disruptive effects. A certain amount of focus and energy is required for any spiritual endeavour, to be sure, but there is a fine line between too little energy and too much. Rajas ...
Views: 159 - The Quest to Establish the Connection to the Higher, Subtler, Causal Planes of Existence - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyAt a certain point in life, an individual begins to appreciate that the surface events, surface ‘facts’, the ‘reality’ of the external world are all derivative results, with the causal forces and energies active on more subtle planes or domains and creating from that place, the physical forms ...
Views: 257 - The Question of Possession by Vital Entities - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2024 from santosh krinskyThe question of possession by vital beings has been sensationalized to such an extent in modern society, with an entire genre of motion pictures depicting such things in an extreme way, that it is difficult to have a serious discussion and review of whatever reality underlies these sensational ...
Views: 334 - The Question of Possession of an Individual by Vital Beings - by Submitted on May 16, 2024 from santosh krinskyOnce we acknowledge the idea that forces, beings or entities from the vital planes can act upon and through human individuals, the question then arises as to how we can identify this action and distinguish it from what we might call normal actions of a human being under the impulsion of the ...
Views: 307 - The Radiating Power of an Inner Transformative Force - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2025 from santosh krinskyThere are many methods that have been tried to shift ideas, thoughts, motives and actions in the world. Some of these methods involve subtle, or not so subtle, use of various forms of propagandizing, proselytizing, sermonizing, or dominating others through use of covert or overt force, including ...
Views: 163 - The Realisation of the Self and the Realisation of the Psychic Being and the Individual Ego-Consciousness - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe generally live, most of the time, within a framework of the ego-consciousness. We look at and experience our lives from this standpoint, and it places limitations on our understanding and our response to circumstances. Those who are called to yoga and spiritual development practices in ...
Views: 356 - The Reality of Being Born Into the Spirit - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2025 from santosh krinskyPeople commonly believe that espousing a particular religion or religious doctrine, reading scriptural texts, singing devotional songs, practicing yoga, or meditation or any of the numerous other practices often called ‘spiritual’ makes them spiritual. While these practices may help to turn ...
Views: 205 - The Reality of Invisible Worlds & Life: Physical & Spiritual - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2018 from Godwin Terhemba IhaghIt is a bit shocking that in the midst of all the astonishing scientific and technological knowledge that has been discovered/invented over the ages, confusion and disbelief still abound regarding the existence of other invisible or inaccessible parts of creation; there is also uncertainty as to ...
Views: 1461 - The Reality of Subjective Visions and Objective Sight - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2025 from santosh krinskyModern society, influenced heavily by the scientific/technical focus of the West, puts a premium on the concept of “objectivity” versus anything that can be considered ‘subjective’, which is then treated with suspicion and largely dismissed. This implies several things. First, it implies that ...
Views: 251 - The Reality of Worlds of Existence Other than the Physical World - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2023 from santosh krinskyWe have a strong bias in favor of accepting things that we can perceive with our physical senses, and we tend to disbelieve or discount anything that is not directly, physically available to our experience. Yet if we reflect on the totality of our life experience, it becomes clear that there are ...
Views: 453 - The Refraction of the Unified Supreme Consciousness Into the Various Levels and Forms of the Manifested Creation - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Supreme Consciousness refracts itself into sub-spheres of awareness depending on the level of the creation that needs that awareness. Thus, the unified Supreme Consciousness, known as Sat-Chit-Ananda, creates apparent separate forms at the Knowledge level, the supramental consciousness, ...
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