Ifs and buts carried no meaning in spiritual world. Everything in world of spirits, consciousness was absolute. If we were a spiritual being manifesting human form… we were! If Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita says so, then as a seeker we should accept it. In absence of happiness what value of sufferings! Inversely in absence of sufferings what value […]
The concept of beauty as detailed in Hinduism scriptures relates to inner beauty, never external. The external beauty was temporal, would fade with time. The inner beauty not only persists but pervades future manifestations. After death of human body based on residual balance of karma our soul atman manifest a new body. The closing balance of present life becomes opening […]
Instead of indulging open-endedly in the vast paraphernalia of Hinduism scriptures, we must first form a definite goal in life… what exactly we wanted to read! Once our goal is final we could indulge in requisites. One single book containing philosophies of best writers of Indology was just not possible. When I started in search of God six years […]
If the goal of life was fixed where was the hurdle! Go after it with all eggs in one basket. Burn all bridges behind. Have absolute faith in God. Nothing could stop one from manifesting absolute success. Frustration belonged to those whose journey of life was like a rudderless boat going round and round in the ocean. Channelize all […]
Mere reading of scriptures never helps. All that we learn literally fades away with time. First we must indulge in scriptures through path of contemplation and when we get to know the hidden underlying meaning we must spread the message of scripture to our family members. For this purpose everything contained in Bhagavad Gita was truly an asset. We must […]
When I was young I preferred company of elders in the family. I developed a habit of listening to their stories before going to bed. At that young age I may not have realized the true meaning of all stories but within my interior I was forming my absolute goal of life. By six years of age I started searching […]
If we could meet God Almighty, there were thousands of questions to ask… who were we, where did we come from, what was our purpose of life, our relationship with god… who was God, our relationship with lower forms of life, meaning of dharma, karma… enlightenment, moksha and so on. Indulging in yoga meditation via path of contemplation we […]
J. Robert Oppenheimer indulged in Bhagavad Gita not as a messenger of peace but he was filled with awe when he found that everything concerning atom already existed in Bhagavad Gita, even Upanishads (independent treatises). Whatever was necessary for developing nuclear fusion theory, he took from Bhagavad Gita. Robert Oppenheimer was a physicist with no interest in spirituality whatsoever. […]
Whenever we indulged in something that was wrong from our point of view, we got angry! But from someone else’s angle it may be right. If I follow the golden rule the problem is resolved forever. We must do unto others what we expect them to do unto us. The cause for anger was our one-sidedness. What if I […]
Spirituality is the path that directly leads one to God Almighty. Primarily we were a spirit, a consciousness manifesting human form. To reach this spirit existing in our heart our indulgence in path of spirituality was necessitated. Spirituality was totally distinct from path of religion (rituals). Path of spirituality demands our indulgence in yoga meditation. Our indulgence in jnana […]
Even though a developing nation but spiritually India was a fully developed nation, the citadel of spiritual world! Most of the money inflow in present times came from software engineers spread all over the world. United States of America is superpower number one not only in paper but in deeds. Following the election trend was normal for situation worldwide was […]
If I chance to meet a really beautiful girl and proposed her to marry me, what if she said “No “! What alternative did I have except to say, ‘For God’s sake’ please marry me. I would not disappoint you, ever…My dear Princess! ‘For God’s sake’ means… in the name of God, for fear of God… on behalf of […]
Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita says that all worship, prayers must be directly offered to Brahman (God) the one and only creator of cosmos instead of various attributes, hordes of gods and goddesses. This will save us precious time and energy in searching for right attribute. As Brahman was always Nirakaar in form (having no form) we must offer all […]
If we look at the whole scenario of evolution, karma and reincarnation (rebirth)… everything becomes crystal clear. We were primarily a spiritual being manifesting human form. As a soul atman we manifest human form to work out our karma, remove dross impurities within. After death of human body the released soul atman immediately manifests a new body to start […]
In the entire history of mankind the most evolved person I have come across was Lord Krishna, who gave sermon of Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna in the battlefield of Mahabharata… something so precious that it does not have a parallel in mankind. Lord Krishna was almost born enlightened. His kundalini awakened fully when probably 4 to 6 years of […]
Human beings owed their intelligence to faculty of mind. No human being ever had an independent mind. We all have a brain that works like a receiving and transmitting station. All thoughts rotating in either all around globe were invoked by human beings directly from reservoir of mind plus and mind minus. All positive thoughts flowed from reservoir of mind […]
Spiritually Lord Krishna was the first avatar who advent on mother earth. Right from childhood Lord Krishna manifested godly powers. The kundalini of Lord Krishna awakened when very young maybe 4 to 6 years. Such a feat could only be accomplished by a spiritual traveler of the highest order, fit enough to become an avatar (God manifest in human form). […]
In times of extreme strife, tribulation advent an avatar of that era (God manifest in human form)! In Dwapar Yuga came Lord Krishna and in present people await advent of Kalki avatar. Kalki avatar would be a true copy of Lord Krishna (not Maryada Purushottam Rama). Almost similar conditions as existed in Dwapar Yuga existed in present Kali Yuga […]
I indulged in practice of meditation as people normally do worldwide. Not knowing what meditation was all about… About nine years of age one of my relatives took me to a so-called meditation centre where I was asked to concentrate on the center of a dimly lit candle in a completely dark room. When I asked what I was supposed […]
Indulging in yoga meditation human beings established control over five senses and mind. For establishing control over five senses and mind, control over desires and wishes was necessitated. Control over ego was another necessity. Control over ego, desires and wishes resulted in controlling emotions and feelings within. Day by day we improved our power of concentration by indulging in positive […]
When God Almighty (Brahman in Hinduism) exploded self with a big bang, present cosmos formed. God Almighty (Brahman), the collective power of all souls’ atmans in cosmos in their pure form! The big bang resulted in all pure souls’ atmans scattering all over cosmos at unimaginable speeds. In the melee, hurtling souls’ atmans gathered impurities similar as a rolling ball […]
God Almighty, Brahman in Hinduism was not the form of human beings. It was magnanimous primordial cosmic energy size of half a thumb, collective power of all souls’ atmans in cosmos in their pure form. The words religion evolved from the root word religare which means to bond. To keep the flock of like-minded individuals (human beings) bonded together… […]
For Swami Vivekananda, remaining bachelor was a blessing in disguise, being free of bickering of married life. For Sage Yajnavalkya (composer and compiler of most voluminous Brihadaranyaka Upanishad) married life was not a hurdle in gaining enlightenment. He not only gained enlightenment in his lifetime but also facilitated his wife Maitreyi to gain Brahma jnana, become an enlightened one! […]
Both Adi Shesha and serpent surrounding neck of Lord Shiva allegorically mean the same. It simply signifies that unless human beings awakened their kundalini shakti fully, one could not reach stage of an enlightened one. Lord Shiva represents an awakened soul. By practicing absolute celibacy for a minimum period of 12 years in continuation human beings can awaken their kundalini […]
The purpose of soul atman has been explicitly detailed in Bhagavad Gita, foremost of all sacred scriptures existing on mother earth. By remaining truthful we could hear the sweet small promptings of our soul atman coming from within our heart. Guided by voice of our soul atman we could undertake spiritual journey to reach cosmic end of life, when our […]
By practicing celibacy (Brahmacharya Vrata) we could establish total control over sexual inhibitions. Before indulgence in Brahmacharya Vrata (celibacy) our having a definite goal in life is necessitated. In absence of a goal all energies get frittered away for no reason or rhyme. When we had a definite goal in life, we could all our energies including sexual energy behind […]
People who suffer from insomnia do not have a goal in life. In absence of a goal we keep invoking thousands of meaningless thoughts into our brain both positive and negative. Successful people in all walks of life first formed a definite goal in life and then pursued it with all eggs in one basket. They also succeeded channelizing sexual […]
The biggest work on the topic of sex is Kama Sutra by Sage Vatsyayana. The Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh, India represent mastery of Indians in the art of lovemaking. Everything contained in Kama Sutra and temples of Khajuraho was symbolic. Sex always had two precepts. One the art of lovemaking that was very much essential for continuing the act […]
Dogged by affection, Moha (extreme emotional attachment) for relatives, friends and countrymen Arjuna behaved cowardly in the battle of Mahabharata, aptly termed battle of Dharma (to uplift righteousness). The enemy camp of Kauravas included maternal grandfather Bhishma Pitamah and Guru Dronacharya of Arjuna, both of whom were extremely revered by Arjuna and the Pandava camp. Arjuna did not want […]
After manifesting human form for the first time, our soul atman gets a maximum of 1.1 million bodies to emancipate from cycle of birth and death forever. For human beings it should be a matter of great consolation that there was never any hurry to reach stage of enlightenment and finally salvation moksha. On the karmic scale ranging from […]