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- 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: 8 - The Sunlit Path of Yoga Is Based on the Lead Role of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2026 from santosh krinskyWhen the external being through any of its constituent parts, the mind, the vital being or the physical body, as well as the ego-personality formed around them are predominant, they focus on needs, desires, ideas, wishes that are relevant to their specific unique characteristics and situations. ...
Views: 8 - Three Steps of Self-Realisation - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2026 from santosh krinskyAs long as we live in the standpoint of the external personality, the ego-consciousness, we look to external rewards and satisfactions, and the fulfillment of ambitions and desires, as the central objective towards which we orient our actions. It is only when we begin to feel and appreciate the ...
Views: 8 - 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: 7 - Two Ways to Overcome Suffering — the Way of the Self and the Way of the Psychic Being - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2026 from santosh krinskySri Aurobindo provides a detailed overview of the causes and types of suffering we experience and how to transcend the suffering through a shift in standpoint away from the external nature to the Self above or the psychic being within. Sri Aurobindo writes: “It is not the soul that suffers; the ...
Views: 7 - The Meaning of Existence — a Work in Cosmic Time - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2026 from santosh krinskyIf we want to understand the meaning of existence, and the significance of our own lives within that larger framework, we need to appreciate the significance of perspective or standpoint. We can observe that impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh used perspective as one of the defining ...
Views: 6 - The Occult Mechanisms Behind Birth and Death - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2026 from santosh krinskyFrom the viewpoint of the external being, we see a physical process of birth and death. With deeper investigation, we then identify processes and encoded information in the genetic code that tell the physical body how to develop. When we die, we see the departure of the vital force from the body ...
Views: 5 - 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: 5 - Nirvana and the Paths of Return to the Life in the World - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe Buddhist tradition describes a path that leads to complete liberation from the world, which is called Nirvana. They describe crossing the ocean of Samsara (the illusions of the external life and its enticements, and rewards) to achieve final exit from this world. This is different than ...
Views: 2 - 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: 2 - 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: 1 - Ghosts — Their Existence and Their Interaction with Living Human Beings - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe experience of ghosts, spectres, poltergeists, apparitions and spirits has haunted human existence since time immemorial. We can find references to these beings, if we can call them that, throughout the world. The ancient Greeks referred to them as shades who maintained more or less the form ...
Views: 0 - The Meaning Behind the Process of Rebirth - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2026 from santosh krinskyThe idea of a reward or a punishment after death for the actions in a particular lifetime is ingrained in the thinking of most people. Whether it takes the form of a residence in heaven, or hell, or it takes the form of some kind of karmic consequence that follows an individual soul across ...
Views: 0 - The Soul and the Process of Taking a New Birth - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2026 from santosh krinskySome people believe that the soul enters the body at the time of birth; others at the time of conception; others at some later stage after the body has had some time to develop after the birth has occurred. This leads to serious arguments and even policy decisions about contraception, abortion, ...
Views: 0 - The Soul Does Not Suffer in the Process of Rebirth - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe generally evaluate situations from our external standpoint. We see the pain of labor during childbirth, and we extrapolate from that a similar pain for the child being born. We create scenarios of a fetus, peacefully growing within the mother’s womb, receive comfort, warmth and sustenance ...
Views: 0 - Timing of the Psychic Being Entering Into the Human Individual - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe expect Nature to follow our rigid mental rules, but our observation of Nature is that it creates abundance through a profuse variation and wild abandon that seems disorderly to our minds. While there are general principles that govern each type of being or formation, they allow variations in ...
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