Hell (Naraka in Hinduism) was not a place where human beings went bodily after death. Naraka (hell) as detailed in Bhagavad Gita was a resting place for hibernation of souls’ atmans. After death of human body if matching parents are not available on mother earth, a soul atman with a negative residual balance of karma hibernated in hell. No sooner […]
Karma is that inherent ingredient of cosmic life that facilitates movement of life from one manifestation to another, body after body. The residual balance of karma at the time of death becomes opening balance for next manifestation. Based on residual balance of karma of previous life, a soul atman manifests the new form! If the residual balance of karma […]
In present times meditation in Himalayas was not necessitated. We could indulge in meditation even while living in confines of home, says Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita! Meditation is always indulged via path of contemplation, introspection… logical reasoning to reach hidden cosmic truths of life contained in scriptures of different religions of world. Without getting into technicalities like physical […]
Any human being belonging to any religion, faith or belief can indulge in pranayama (breathing exercise) to reach our true inner self existing in our heart as our soul atman, the spirit! The journey in human form, the journey of soul atman within was beyond discretions exercised by human fraternity at large. As a spirit all souls’ atmans were integrally […]
Spiritually all human beings evolved directly from stage of animals. Hinduism scriptures primarily Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads (independent treatises)… even Vedas (Hinduism revelations) were absolutely clear on this point of life. Every single living form in cosmos had a soul atman within! Right from stage of amoeba (single cell formation) souls atmans manifest life in insect form, plant form, animal […]
The 700 shlokas verses contained in Bhagavad Gita had no reference to caste system. Bhagavad Gita deals with Varna based on which society was divided into four classes. Those indulging in religious practices were called Brahmins and those in security of the state… Kshatriyas! Those indulging in trading were called Vaishyas and those serving mankind in general Shudras. All […]
If we could maintain our positivity all the time… if we could invoke only positive thoughts most of time… we would not only manifest absolute success but destiny forever. There was nothing nobler than invocation of positive thoughts in any given circumstance of life… positive or negative! By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 […]
The best part of Bhagavad Gita was… it was a universal document… anyone world over could follow precepts of spirituality contained in Bhagavad Gita to reach stage of enlightenment, moksha salvation! Another beautiful aspect of Hinduism was… for following precepts of spirituality contained in Bhagavad Gita, one need not convert to Hinduism ever. Even while following ones religion, faith […]
Inner peace can be maintained traveling both paths… spiritual and materialistic! The inner peace gained traveling path of spirituality was permanent and inner peace experienced while living worldly life was intermittent. Choice was ours, what we truly desired in life! Indulging in spirituality, yoga meditation a seeker was far away from worldly attributes. Path of yoga meditation is successfully […]
Whatever our predicament, our indulgence in past life… indulging in good karma, positive karma in present life we could neutralize effects of negative residual balance of karma from previous manifestations! It was difficult but not impossible. Indulging in good karma we could practically remove all traces of negative residual balance of karma from previous manifestations. As we could not […]
Committing suicide abruptly halts cosmic journey of soul atman, consciousness within. As per Bhagavad Gita present journey of life was manifested by our soul atman, the spirit within. It is not within competence of human body to manifest a spirit, soul atman within! As the present journey of life belonged to our soul atman, human beings had no right […]
Beyond enlightenment lay world of God Almighty. Devoid of dross impurities within a soul atman finally reaches stage of absolute purity. The stage in human life is called enlightenment. A pure soul atman need not manifest in karma any further… the need to manifest a body any further now ceases to exist! The moment an enlightened one leaves mortal […]
Something that could not be conceived, how could it be put into practice? Spiritual aspect of Hinduism, path of spirituality as detailed in Bhagavad Gita was beyond comprehension of learned scholars… what to say of commoners, masses… prime reason why following precepts of spirituality contained in Bhagavad Gita only two spiritual stalwarts Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana finally succeeded […]
The fine line that separates principles of morality from immorality existed in karma. Whatever that was necessary to sustain, live life as ordained by God Almighty was never considered a sin as per Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita. Eliminating cells and bacteria for a particular cause could never be termed a sin. Indulging in indiscriminate killing of life definitely was […]
The state of self realization is reached indulging in spirituality, yoga meditation as detailed in Bhagavad Gita! When we realize our true inner self, when we realized we were primarily a spiritual being, a soul atman manifesting human form… we practically reached cosmic end of life, 8.4 millionth manifestation! Realization of our true inner self becomes possible by negating karma […]
Indulgence in yoga meditation means establishing absolute control over five senses and mind! Only then we could negate karma to zero. The goal of a spiritual person always was reaching God in present life. A spiritual person indulging in yoga meditation always minimizes desires and wishes to establish control, subdue ego in totality (Aham in Hinduism). By: Vijay […]
Human life primarily evolved through hit and trial but not all humans living about 12,000 years ago indulged in contemplation, introspection… logical reasoning! Only a very limited few must have done that. Jainism identifies such human beings as Kulkaras. With passage of time these Kulkaras indulged in farming, developing various tools to protect self and also kill animals for the […]
In simple words meditation means concentrating our thought process towards a single goal of life. Unless we channelized our thoughts, thousands of thoughts kept flowing through our brain incessantly. Channelizing thought process demands, our indulgence in contemplation, introspection… logical reasoning to reach hidden cosmic truths of life. To reach God in present life we need to understand the meaning of […]
If someone asks Bill Gates a well-defined path to becoming successful like him, what would be his reply… he would probably keep mum! Something that is achieved through permutation and combination of various factors, how such a thing could be limited to a single directive, a written paraphrase! Meditation simply means indulging in contemplation, introspection… logical reasoning to reach […]
Simple belief in God, indulgence in rituals never gained us anything in life. When we worked for welfare of mankind, we were in fact indulging in service to God. By taking care of his children, we were directly serving God Almighty all the time. At any given moment of life, we could never hold God Almighty responsible for our sufferings, […]
A soul atman can exist independently but not consciousness. When the soul atman manifests a body, it is termed consciousness… something that keeps our body going/running all the time! A human heart if left in the open would still keep working but when put in human body; it keeps the whole body going… it becomes a living animated body! […]
For life to evolve, presence of consciousness, a spirit in the body was essential. In absence of consciousness… the human body was as good as dead. The human brain in itself was inert matter. It was active because of presence of consciousness in our heart. Hinduism scriptures say… it is our soul atman, the consciousness present in heart that […]
In field of spirituality and also politics… there was never an, if or but… everything was absolute! Total disarmament of nukes world over, no borders… the whole world would usher into Satyuga (the golden period). We are not far away from such a situation. In about 10 years from now mankind would witness a man-made calamity, the fiercest war of […]
Contemplate and you shall reach the answers yourself. What do we mean by cosmic truth, the ultimate truth of life? Adi Shankaracharya in his doctrine of Maya and Advaita Vedanta clearly says, other than God Almighty (Brahman) nothing existed in cosmos. To realize we were a soul atman, our absolute belief in world of souls’ atmans, God Almighty was necessitated. […]
If our goal of life was spiritual, we must never leave our quest for truth midway. We had only a limited time span of 70 to 80 years of present earthly abode. Whatever we need to do, we have to accomplish within this timeframe. We do not know what form our soul atman manifests in next life after death of […]
Sexual desires have to be nipped in the bud by practice of celibacy mantra… that was what practice of Brahmacharya Vrata all about. By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 – (Ref. 161224) Bhagavad Gita Study Circle: a meeting point for people from all walks of life interested in knowing anything relating to spirituality, […]
I practiced absolute celibacy for a period of 14 years in continuation to reach stage of self realization, god realization in 1993 37 years of age. This is my last manifestation on mother earth, 8.4 millionth manifestation. Moment I leave my mortal frame, I shall attain moksha salvation! Having become a pure soul atman, there was nothing further to […]
Sexuality was deeply linked to path of spirituality but in a different way. Similar as karma can be negated to zero only by indulgence in karma (never buy abandoning it); we could transcend sexuality by practice of absolute celibacy, channelizing sexual energy towards the only goal of life and not by direct indulgence in a sexual relationship! Unless we indulged […]
In the initial stages of spiritual pursuit, I read many books of Acharya Rajneesh (née Osho). I could distinctly see in the initial stages of spiritual life Acharya Rajneesh was a rightful person, a seeker truly in search of god. But in the later stages of life he mixed sex with yoga. This not only proved detrimental to his quest […]
Science and spirituality complement each other from the beginning of time! Spirituality takes care of true inner self existing in our heart and science the external requirements of life. Science facilitates living life in a meaningful manner. To discover unknown frontiers of life… to fathom deep within entire cosmos and also to earn our daily bread-and-butter science was necessitated. […]