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- Spiritual Liberation — Mukti - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2026 from santosh krinskyAs we grow beyond the pure vital enjoyment of the growing child, we begin to recognise that we have demands being made upon us, subtly or overtly, from family, friends, peers, and society at large. There are expectations and pressures that come with living in a societal setting, or even, just ...
Views: 13 - 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 - 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: 13 - 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: 13 - 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: 12 - 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: 11 - 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 - 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: 8 - 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 - 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: 7 - 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: 7 - 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 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: 7 - 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 ...
Views: 7 - Spiritual Progress Is Generally a Circuitous Process - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2026 from santosh krinskyWhen an individual takes up spiritual practices, the first expectation is that progress will be steady and upward toward the spiritual objective. This usually comes about through some experiences that take the individual out of his normal external view and ego-standpoint, temporarily, and which ...
Views: 6 - 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: 6 - Who or What Is Immortal? - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2026 from santosh krinskyWe identify with our ego-personality and our external life. As long as we live on the surface of our being, we are caught up in the storyline we have built of our lives. We identify with our thoughts, feelings and emotions and with our extended ego based in family, community, religious group, ...
Views: 6 - A Recipe for Eternal Boredom, and a Solution - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2026 from santosh krinskyJust imagine having to wake up and repeat the same things, the same way, every day. Nothing changes, nothing develops. A fixed routine. Now imagine repeating the same sequence, in another lifetime, time after time after time. In the modern video game language, this is an NPC, non-player ...
Views: 4 - 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 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 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 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 - “Love is All Around Us… if We Look Close” - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2016 from Dr. Paul HaiderIf we look at the natural world we see that the underlying quality that drives all life is love. Love is the key to everything that’s alive on the planet from the tiniest of living organisms to the elephant… everything thrives on love in one form or another. Take for instance a giant ...
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