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December 3, 2009

Liberation is freedom from the finite (1 of 2)

Good morning friends.  Liberation is freedom.  Yes this is true.  It’s the kind of action of freeing from control or domination.  Whatever we want to do, we can do it as we have a freedom for ourselves.  

Form is a wave perceived by the ocean of consciousness in an attempt to understand its own formlessness. This duality is imagined and the sense of am-ness crystallizes as a discrete entity that thrives on other forms or cognizing entities to assert its own form. 

It seeks cognizance from other forms to recognize its own transient form. What is eternal is the formlessness that is the precursor of form.

Form is obsessed with tangibility. The sense organs are mere instruments to reinforce this belief in form as the true self. The form continues to believe it is a discrete independent entity. It has total conviction in these deceptive sensory modalities of perception.

Relativity is based on the fact that perception changes as the observer’s state changes. One form cannot understand the precise nature of another form. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle also underlines the shortcomings of our sensory perceptive modalities, where the senses cannot determine the precise position and velocity of a particle simultaneously.

Sensory modalities can never fathom formlessness. Formlessness transcends the senses. When form has to decipher the formless it must first abandon the conviction of its own form. The brain has various centers which serve as destinations for perceptive inputs. It therefore has a strong discriminatory ability to separate the subject from the object. This discrimination is mediated via the sense organs and is the most powerful tool for effecting duality. Comprehension is totally a derivative of the sense organs.

There are many ‘silent areas’ in the brain whose exact function is not known. These areas could be mediating supra-sensory cognition, cognition that is not based on a subject-object dichotomy, cognition that uses itself to recognize itself.

 

November 11, 2009

Explore the path of spiritual living (1 of 2)

Good morning everyone.  There are some people who has materialistic living.  They found happiness on that.  But did you know that you will have the best part of your living spiritually?  Just explore the path to your spiritual living and you will see the best meaning in your life.  There is one article I have read and it shows the way on how to discover or see the sights of spiritual living. 

Is spiritual practice a must for everyone? 

You have to insulate yourself from the effects of worldly living. The environment has its strong impact. The external world is in a rat race for greed, glamour and respectability. It does not bother about real joy and purity. Naturally, external influence affects an individual. In this rat race even if one wins one continues to be a rat. Glamour gives you an illusory joy but your soul needs to grow.

‘Why does a fish in an ocean try to jump out?’ asked a Zen student.

‘The fish is trying to explore a world beyond the ocean,’ answered the Master.

Consciousness in each one of us is like a fish that wants to explore the unknown, to evolve and grow. If you do not insulate yourself from negative forces, there will be a leakage of energies and that would hamper your growth. So it is necessary not to struggle in life and not allow negativity to control your life. One has to learn to float in life, to let go, let in the essentials and negate unessential feelings.

How can I insulate myself from negative influences?

People live life in fear. It is out of fear that they worship; out of fear they get married; out of fear of insecurity they beget children. Whenever fear emerges, there is a leakage of energy. Fear creates a hurt body and it then tries to survive by quoting philosophy and logic.

June 17, 2009

How you perceive yourself defines your freedom (2)

Living in this consciousness, one will be more a wanting being rather than a satisfied being.

Does our inner growth impact the collective consciousness?

There is the principle of the ladder. Imagine a ladder in which people are climbing. If one is unwilling to move up, it blocks others. If one helps the other to climb, one is not only helping oneself but also others. If everyone is disciplined, the process becomes smooth. If not, it is because of sleeping consciousness that one does not see the sanity of harmony and order.

If one is not ready to be awake, then one blocks another. If one is willing to grow, it impacts the collective consciousness and in turn it also impacts people around. So it becomes necessary to make the right connection and disconnection.

How important is the role of a Master?

An enlightened Master’s being is awakened to higher levels of consciousness. His ‘presence’ has a rippling effect on others. He can see your blocks clearly and helps you open up. We have four doors to be opened. They are a conscious mind, a subconscious mind, an unconscious mind and a divine mind.

Conscious mind involves thoughts, decisions and discussions. Then the subconscious mind has to be opened. One has to have affinity to one’s Master with a deep feeling of love and oneness. Even in disagreement with a conscious mind, a deep feeling of love opens the other’s door.

The unconscious mind has to be opened through surrender. Surrendering to a Master can be a great opening. Surrendering involves considering the Master’s teaching as one’s breath. Surrender your ego. Then the third door opens.

Finally, the last door has to be opened by the power of grace. When all the three doors are opened, you will be flooded with grace. – The Times of India

Satsang: Swami Sukhabodhananda

May 19, 2009

Steps to Enthusiasm

Too many people are defeated in life because they lack a very important quality: enthusiasm. Those who think of enthusiasm as a kind of superficial emotion should remember that the Greek words en theos mean “in God,” George Matthew Adams puts it this way: “Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire.”

Just as the world loves a lover, so does the world love the person who is excited about life. If you are a person with no enthusiasm, or not enough, I suggest three steps which may help you.

Act as If: the noted psychologist William James said, “If you want a quality, act as if you already have it.” for example, suppose you have an inferiority complex that you want to change. Start visualizing yourself, not as you think you are, but rather as you’d like to be—in this case a person confident, assured, able to meet people and to deal with situations. Then act as if you were that confident person. It has been proven that, in time, you tend to become what you think you are.

Ventilate Your Mind: Empty your mind of gloomy thoughts. Go over the day’s unpleasant incidents: a sharp word, a disappointment. Review your mistakes, error or stupidities. Hold them before you, drawing from them all the lessons they have to give. Then lump them together and mentally drop them out of your consciousness, saying these therapeutic words: “Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before . . . (Philippians 3:13)

Tell Yourself All the Good News You know: Psychologists agree that you can condition a day in the first five minutes after you awaken. It was Henry Thoreau, the American Philosopher, which used to lie abed for a while in the morning telling himself all the good news he could think of that he had a healthy body, that his mind was alert, his work interesting. The same kind of technique can help you look forward to the day with eagerness. And the more good news you tell yourself, the more good news there is likely to be.

Maybe God bless you, and may you feel the joy for living that He wants you to have.  -N.V.P

February 2, 2009

At Home with the Sacred – 2

The simplest thins can, with consciousness, bring a sense of sacredness.  Display a small vase with a single flower of your choice to brighten a room with life.  Ligth a number of white candles, each representing one of your family members, to illuminate a corner with your loved one’s energy.  Arrange a few stones, tumbled and smoothed for years in the ocean, along the center of your dining room table or stack them on your bedside table to remind you of the sea’s vast dept and timelessness.  Display a beautiful piece of fabric found in a far-away shop on a favorite table to help you wander back to that stressless retreat.  Even lighting Indian incense in a room where you work can rouse  your spirit and inspire your senses.

 

Sacredness, like style, is a state of mind.  What is sacred to you is a reflections of your relationship with our soul.  It transcends color, form, shape, texture, and scale, and celebrates your humanity and spirit.  For some, sacred is defined by gods, temples, and divinity.  But to others, sacredness can be as simple and earthly as a sunset—something that is every being’s right to share every evening, regardless of religious affiliation or financial status.  The sunset belongs to anyone who has the consciousness to take notice.  The sacred is where you find it and what you bring to it.

 

ref:  Laurel House and JagatJoti Singh Khalsa

January 12, 2009

Love as Absolute

Love with a capital L: That’s the Great Love, love as the source of everything, love as radical unity.  At this level, love is another name for Absolute Reality.  Supreme Consciousness, Brahman, God the Tao, the Source—that vast presence the Shaivite tradition sometimes calls the Heat.  The yoga tradition often describes Absolute Reality as satchidamanda—meaning that it is pure beingness, present everywhere and in everything (sat), that is innately conscious (chit), and that it the essence of joy and love (ananda).

 

As ananda, the Great Love is woven into the fabric of the universe, which of course also puts it at the center of our own being.  Most of us get glimpses of the Great Love at some time in our lives—perhaps in  nature, or with an intimate partner, or in the moment of bonding with our children.  We remember these experiences for year afterward, often for the rest of our lives.

 

It happened like that for me one November evening in 1970.  He was sitting  with a friend in the living room, listening to a Grateful Dead Album, when without warning, an overwhelming experience of joy welled up in him.  The state sprang up seemingly out of nowhere, a sensation of tenderness and ecstasy that seemed to ooze out of the walls and the air, carrying with it a sense that everything was a part of him.

 

This experience inspired a burning desire to get back to it and ultimately became the motive for my spiritual practice.  At the time, however, I did what most of us do when we get a glimpse of unconditional tenderness:  I projected my inner experience onto the person I happened to be with and decided (rather disastrously; as it turned out)  that he was the love of my life and the mate of my soul.

January 2, 2009

Vision Quest – 6

Good morning friends.  I just left my part 6 of my Vision Quest last 2008, so let me continue the last part here now.

 

 

The Quest

 

For some people, a quest may be encased in a religious experience—for others, it might be a crisis or a dramatic change in person al circumstances, such as a birth or death.  And while religion is the spark that lights the fire within some individuals, it can also imposed a limiting structure with rules and belief systems that interfere with true personal growth—especially  when the distinctions between religion and spirituality become blurred.

 

We believe that our purpose in being here is to grow spiritually.  We do this in a variety of ways—none of which are better or lesser than others; but, rather, are chosen by us because we are at various stages of spiritual unfoldment.  The goals of peace, integrity, clarity, compassion and in particular, the balance between mind and body through personal and spiritual development are essential to spiritual development, regardless of the particular path one chooses to follow.  Spirit [God] is equally present in the job as in the remote mountainside.”

 

In the end, setting out on a spiritual quest—may be less a choice than it is a necessity.  What often makes people begin a quest, is a feeling restlessness, and that something beyond is coming through to us, says Andrews.  Begin by seeing your intentions.  Set your intention to live a happier or fulfilling life.  Speaking strictly to that intention will lead us to being aware of guides or teachers around us,  someone who can help on the path.  Again, it’s essential to set your intention to reclaim your own happiness and connection with life.  I feel that the spiritual path to greater consciousness has been –part of the human experience forever, and always will be.

 

 

Ref: fityoga

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