The grace one received from God was directly proportional to our practicing truthfulness, faith in God and prayers addressed to God Almighty. If we were untruthful in life, how could we expect grace of God Almighty? If our faith in God was not absolute, we would only get intermittent blasts of grace, never infinite grace. As our prayers, worship… accordingly […]
Ever since advent of mankind, path of contemplation, logical enquiry was travelled by various sages and saints of different era that existed in erstwhile Bharatvarsha (now India). Nowhere else in the world people indulged in path of contemplation, self enquiry, logical reasoning to realize what was God. As the evolving brain of human beings matured, some sages and saints […]
Karma is the inherent, integral precept of spirituality that has been detailed in almost all scriptures of Hinduism including Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads (independent treatises) and Vedas (Hinduism revelations). In absence of laws of karma and evolution nothing in cosmic cycle could move ahead, everything would just decay and die. God Almighty always acted as Dhrishta (onlooker) never interfering with creation […]
As detailed by Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita, God was one and only one termed Brahman in Hinduism. As per Bhagavad Gita nothing other than God existed in cosmic system. All other gods and goddesses including Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva were attributes of God Almighty, nothing more. As per Bhagavad Gita, to reach stage of enlightenment […]
Free will is one of the most integral, inherent precepts of Hinduism. It is only because of free will not in hundreds but thousands gained enlightenment in their lifetime in India and erstwhile Bharatvarsha. Unless we exercised free will, one could never reach stage of enlightenment and finally salvation moksha. Law of karma is that inherent precept of Hinduism […]
India is the spiritual citadel of world. Anything perceived untruthful vanishes with time. Since advent of Gautama Buddha, the teachings of Buddhism diluted to its extreme. So much so that people, masses primarily lost faith in Buddhism in India. Buddhism Dharma primarily contained teachings of Gautama Buddha, the one and only preceptor who reached stage of enlightenment in his lifetime. […]
When I started in search of God six years of age, myriads of thoughts passed through my brain every second of life. No matter how best I tried, this incessant flow of thoughts continued as if I had no control over them. I was right; I truly had no control over their invocation. It was almost a free for all […]
Goal of life could not be set on premise of hit and trial. Goal in life has to be firm; it must always come from within. You are not following your passion, your inner call. Passion is something indulging in which human beings lost track of time. When young I was sometimes so immersed in thoughts of God Almighty that […]
To gain emancipation from cycle of birth and death forever, to reach cosmic end of life, 8.4 millionth manifestation… to gain enlightenment and reach stage of moksha salvation, to become a man god like Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or prophet Mohammed, one must indulge in Bhagavad Gita. If our goal of life was different from above, we must […]
The contents of Bhagavad Gita can only be understood following path of contemplation, path of logical reasoning. Even an enlightened one could never preach Bhagavad Gita. The contents of Bhagavad Gita need assimilation from within. Through indulgence in Bhagavad Gita we are trying to reach our true inner self… our soul atman, the spirit within that seem to reside in […]
When young and surrounded by lot of mosquitoes in the village I used to wonder whether or not to kill mosquitoes biting me all over for my indulgence may invoke bad karma. At that young age sometimes I killed, sometimes let them bite me. It was not a stage of do or die so I let it go. Suppose […]
Indulgence in Bhagavad Gita helped me reach last stage of cosmic evolution… stage of self realization, god realization. As Bhagavad Gita could not be understood literally, I indulged in path of logical reasoning to reach hidden underlying precepts of spirituality. There was nothing more pious, sacrosanct than indulgence in Bhagavad Gita. To reach our true inner self indulgence in Bhagavad […]
There is only one question prohibited to ask in Bhagavad Gita… Why did God Almighty create present cosmos in the first place? Even through path of logical reasoning, we never reached the answer. The answer to this query becomes clear only when one gained enlightenment (kaivalya jnana), never before. The present cosmos came into being when God Almighty exploded […]
It is a proven principle of life that it was close relatives never friends who hurt you most. From childhood you start trusting your relations, whoever it be. With passage of time this bond of relationship gets stronger but only on the surface. As observed in practical life, one who was simple, a godly natured person most of time suffered […]
All my life I searched for God Almighty. There was never a particular meditation technique that I followed. The path of meditation yoga is following path of contemplation, path of self enquiry, path of logical reasoning that varied from seeker to seeker. As my indulgence in yoga meditation, accordingly the manifestation! With passage of time I observed that my body […]
Brahman as detailed in Upanishads of Hinduism stood for God Almighty in all its glory. Upanishads clearly defined Brahman as the originator of present cosmos. As detailed in Upanishads, only when God Almighty exploded self with a big bang the present cosmos came into being. With the explosion of big bang, God Almighty himself (Brahman in Hinduism)… role of all […]
In present times, the essence of Hinduism religion, called a way of life laid in path of spirituality, not rituals (followed by masses). If one seeker went in search of God via path of spirituality, there were many millions who preferred travelling path of religion (rituals). I have come across people who ceremoniously went to temples for 15 years in […]
Spirituality, precept of inner self is the path… self realization, end goal of cosmic life. One could not reach stage of self realization, god realization via any other path than path of pure spirituality. In present times reaching God was not possible through path of religion (path of rituals). Path of bhakti yoga (categorized under religion) demands total submission to […]
If an outsider came to me and asked, “Which of your 10 fingers is the best”… what would I say, the middle, index, ring and pinky finger or the thumb? Would I be able to justify any of my answers? For me, all my eight fingers and two thumbs were equally important. Attempting to make a distinction between different shlokas […]
I need climbing the highest mountain in world without referencing Mount Everest in discussions. I desire going from Delhi to Bombay within four hours but concept of journey by air is totally ruled out. How to deal with such a situation? Are we being ignorant or deliberately playing the ignorance card? Bhagavad Gita, the sermon given to mankind by […]
Bhagavad Gita, the teachings of Lord Krishna contained truth but only truth. Nothing in Bhagavad Gita diluted with time. As much it was applicable 3600 years before is also applicable now. On mother earth there was nothing more pure, more sacrosanct than 700 shlokas verses of Bhagavad Gita. Bhagavad Gita is not a religious document; it deals only with […]
In a democratic setup like India who is primarily above all, the parliament or the courts? Any parliament world over is only meant for establishing laws, nothing more. The execution of these laws is the responsibility of the government. However if the Administration, the policing fail in their efforts then judiciary played its role in maintaining harmony in the society! […]
The meaning of word avatar, the concept was taken by Steven Spielberg from scriptures of Hinduism. As movies were never meant to display absolute reality, nor was it necessitated but in movie Avatar Steven Spielberg clearly displays the ultimate message of Bhagavad Gita that godly powers finally win the end. The main character in the movie finally succeeds in re-establishing […]
We must never relate Hindu mythology to absolute reality. Both these philosophies had distinct paths. As per Hindu mythology Lord Brahma is the creator, Lord Vishnu the maintainer and Lord Shiva the destroyer. From absolute reality point of view all the three Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Mahesh (Shiva), part of Hindu Trinity of gods were nothing more than […]
Commentaries on Bhagavad Gita were very limited but translations, narratives existed in many hundreds. The original gist of Bhagavad Gita, the original teachings of Lord Krishna, the composition of 700 shlokas verses in Sanskrit with English or Hindi transliteration were available for mere Rs. 40/= ($.60) from Gita press, Gorakhpur, India. This is a highly subsidized publication and almost all […]
The present cosmos is covered by veil of illusion (not delusion) as detailed by Adi Shankaracharya in the theory of Advaita Vedanta. As per Adi Sankara the whole cosmos could exist only in thoughts of God Almighty. When perceived from senses point of view things appeared solid including living beings. Perceived from cosmic point of view, broken down to basic […]
The winter was really harsh and a collective group of Indo Aryans migrated from upper reaches of Himalayas to warmer Gangetic plains of northern India. The chieftain of the group had a big umbrella in his hand. This umbrella provided immunity from harsh weather including rains. A large bird who happened to pass by shouted in human language, “What is […]
Vijay, a skinny lad from birth always spent his time doing nothing worthwhile. All the time eating, gossiping he had no goal in life. As time passed he grew in age, a young lad 13 years of age. Whenever his mother Mala asked him for some errand, he whined, made excuses galore. Fed up with uncalled for whining of her […]
If a wolf in sheep’s’ clothing claimed at the top of his voice that he was sheep, would we believe him? Claims do not carry any weightage in the field of spirituality. It was not within capability of Swami Vivekananda to recognize Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, his spiritual master. But Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, an enlightened one had inkling that one like […]
Wisdom (jnana in Hinduism) is the path, gaining enlightenment end goal of human life. In yesteryears various sages and saints succeeded in reaching god via path of bhakti yoga alone (total surrender to God) but in present times none could reach God via path of karma yoga or bhakti yoga alone. Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana started their […]