On a personal level if someone hurts us than we could forgive one but what if a whole system goes astray… beyond all stages of sanity. This is what happened with Kauravas. Collectively they were responsible for practicing adharma (lawlessness). Lord Krishna intervened and advised Pandavas to face the situation head-on by indulging in a battle of Dharma (righteousness). […]
Desires act as fuel for increasing attachments day by day. More the attachments, greater our sufferings! For human beings to reach God, our attachments must reduce to zero. We need indulging in nishkama karma yoga, never attaching self to fruits of karma performed. Desire for God was like having a lifelong desire to climb Mount Everest. Staying wherever we […]
The prime reason for calling India (erstwhile Bharatvarsha) as karma bhoomi was… it was only from India (present-day Hindustan) that human beings reached stage of enlightenment (kaivalya jnana) and finally moksha salvation. In Christianity only Jesus Christ reached the stage of enlightenment and in Buddhism only Gautama Buddha. In Islamic Dharma only Prophet Mohammed gained enlightenment in his lifetime. […]
The philosophy of life detailed in Bhagavad Gita directly relates to path of spirituality to reach God in ones lifetime. One must never indulge in Bhagavad Gita if our goal of life was not spiritual, reaching God in present life. Most followers of Hinduism hesitated indulgence in Bhagavad Gita as family ties, all attachments to family members get broken […]
A soul when it manifests a body is termed consciousness. A soul exists in our body in our heart. In absence of consciousness in our heart, the body does not carry any meaning. A soul atman is the true essence of life. Other than world of souls’ atmans nothing existed in cosmos. If an individual grain of sand is […]
If we seriously desire indulging in yoga meditation as detailed in scriptures of Hinduism, we must indulge in introspection, self enquiry as practiced and preached by Maharishi Ramana. Yoga meditation could never be learnt literally through books. To reach hidden inner meaning contained in scriptural texts of different religions of world… our indulgence in self enquiry was an absolute […]
The word yoga is distinct from yogic exercises. When we say we were indulging in yoga, we were actually indulging in yogic exercises. Yoga as detailed in scriptures of Hinduism was derived from the root word yog which in Hindi stood for synthesis, the effort of soul atman trying to merge with Parmatman (God Almighty, Brahman). One indulging in yoga […]
Hinduism must rightly be coined as Sanatana Dharma, something that exists from times immemorial. Dharma (righteousness) was inherent in all living beings. One could not survive in absence of Dharma. Before invaders from West (who pronounced H for I) started calling people living east of river Indus as Hindus, the whole umbrella philosophy that existed in erstwhile Bharatvarsha (now […]
Can we pull a plant to make it grow? Can we induce a flower to smell? Can a teacher force a student to come first in class? As per law of karma, every life in cosmic system moves of its own including human beings. Lord Krishna born an ordinary mortal succeeded in awakening kundalini at a very young age […]
Nishkama karma yoga is a precept that relates to pure spirituality. Anything that was negative does not relate to spirituality. If we talk of nishkama karma yoga then it relates to positive karma, good karma alone. Indulging in good karma, positive karma… nishkama karma way of life results in consequences never affecting us. A true spiritual person, one who […]
Ego (Aham in Hinduism) is a property of physical manifest self. In absence of ego no human being would indulge in karma. Everything would simply decay and die. To travel spiritual path, we need to overcome ego forever. Devoid of ego our karma negates to zero. Ego can be overcome only by indulgence in nishkama karma yoga, offering […]
One or two enlightened ones came every 100 to 200 years on mother earth. That was how God Almighty ordained cosmic system to be. Imagine if 50 Gautama Buddha came simultaneously. There would be total chaos as whom to worship or not. In the last about 150 years only two enlightened souls manifest on mother earth… Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa […]
Absolute control on unwanted thoughts, stage of Nirvikalpa Samadhi (when not a single thought entered our brain uninvoked) can be achieved only by establishing absolute control over five senses and mind. Establishing absolute control over five senses is an extremely difficult proposition but not impossible. By indulging in scriptures of different religions of world, the vagaries of ephemeral world […]
Can life exist in cosmos in absence of karma? Karma is the controlling factor, the hidden ingredient of cosmic life. In absence of karma life just could not move ahead in cosmic life cycle. Everything would become stagnant, just decay and die. Looking at the whole scenario, the whole cosmic cycle… we find after death of human body, based […]
Both heaven and hell are home to souls atmans. Ever since creation of cosmos souls atmans reside in heaven or hell. Our belief in existence of souls’ atmans was necessitated if we believed presence of heaven and hell. As detailed in scriptures of Hinduism a soul atman keeps manifesting form after another until it reaches last leg of cosmic […]
If we try to find who prompted us in our subconscious state, we shall find it was our true inner self, our consciousness… our soul atman that tries to guide us in subconscious state. The same happens when we dream. It is only during dreams our soul atman tries to tell us what it wants from us. Guided by a […]
The only path to remove negativity from our inner self was indulgence in positive thinking and nishkama karma way of life. Negative karma can only be eradicated by indulging in positive karma, good karma all the time. We need neutralizing negative karma so that we could manifest positive karma all the time. Positive thinking, indulging in positivity all the […]
Two pieces of advice from my father made me what I am today… a God realized soul. Reaching God in a limited time span of 70 to 80 years of earthly life was not easy but I succeeded in reaching God in the wee hours of third of August 1993 37 years of age. One day when I was […]
The moment one gains enlightenment, there were two paths to follow… one taken by Gautama Buddha and other by Mahavira (24th Tirthankara of Jainism). Gautama Buddha gained enlightenment at the ripe age of 80. By that time his body was so frail that he preferred leaving the mortal frame at age 81. On the contrary Mahavira reached stage of […]
Everything flows from within. If we were not passionate about anything, there is a possibility we did not have a fixed goal in life. Like a rudderless boat going round and round in the ocean, we engage ourselves in anything but never concentrate all our energies behind a single goal of life. If we desire true success in life, […]
While traveling path of spirituality in search of God, the concept of heaven and hell became absolutely clear. Both heaven and hell (swarga and naraka in Hinduism) were places for hibernation of souls’ atmans having nothing to do with manifest human form. After death of body on mother earth, the released soul atman immediately manifests a new body based on […]
The origin of cosmos is best detailed in Upanishads (independent treatises) that form part of Hinduism scriptures. As detailed in Upanishads… a cosmos (Brahmaand in Hinduism) starts when God Almighty (Brahman in Hinduism) explodes self with a big bang. And what is God Almighty? The cluster of all souls’ atmans in cosmos in their pure form is what we […]
Our heart is the residing place for our soul atman, the consciousness within. It is only through pranayama one reaches the inner core of heart, soul atman itself. Mind is the connecting link between souls’ atmans and God Almighty. No human being ever had an independent mind. We all have a brain which acts as a receiving and transmitting […]
The world of heaven or hell (swarga and naraka in Hinduism) is not for human beings to speculate. The domain of heaven and hell laid in sun… heaven in the core of sun where temperatures exceeded millions of degrees centigrade. It was in such high temperatures our soul atman felt comfortable. Hell existed in periphery of sun where temperatures were […]
When young and in search of God, I also wanted to indulge in meditation. Not knowing what meditation was all about… I took help of a relative! He took me to a darkened room where sat many people concentrating on the center of a dimly lit bulb. I had many queries within but there were no answers. None in the […]
Human form is the highest manifest stage in cosmic life cycle. It was only in human form our soul atman within reached stage of absolute purity when human beings gained enlightenment in their lifetime. Under the circumstances, how it was possible that, human beings did not have absolute control over things? If some things were under control of God […]
The choice of choosing next life never lay in our domain. All was dependent on inscrutable laws of karma. As the residual balance of karma at the time of death of body, accordingly soul atman manifests a new body. If the residual balance of karma demands one taking birth in the house of a laborer, one just could not be […]
As many human beings, as many different paths to God Almighty can there be! There could be many students studying the same subject in a class. All approach the subject with a different viewpoint. Yet one comes first and the other last. Depending on residual balance of karma of the individual, our journey of life progresses! The balance sheet of […]
The communication between God and us develops only when we act as a soul atman, never the manifest physical form. The communication always happens between soul and God. As detailed in Bhagavad Gita of Hinduism we were primarily a soul atman, a spirit on its cosmic life cycle of 8.4 million manifestations. We are a spiritual being manifesting a human […]
Study of Vedas and Upanishads was necessitated if our goal of life was spiritual. Indulgence in spirituality simply means… getting away from your family. And why is it so? Path of spirituality demands that we indulged in world of souls atmans. As detailed in Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads we were primarily a spiritual being on its cosmic journey. To […]