Spiritual progress gets drastically retarded by indulgence in masturbation. For faster spiritual progress, we need channelizing sexual energy towards the only goal of life. Sexual energy is the most potent of all energies made available to mankind by grace of God Almighty. Some whiled it away through pure physical channels; others channelized it to gain success in life. By: […]
Looking within we could see Lord Krishna all the time. Lord Krishna was the sarthi (charioteer) of the human body. By indulging in truthfulness all the time we could realize our true inner self, become a pure soul atman forever. Truthfulness paves way for hearing the sweet small promptings of our soul atman (Lord Krishna within) coming from our heart. […]
The moment I realized that I could get in touch with my soul atman by traveling path of truthfulness, my happiness within was out of bounds. I could distinctly hear the sweet small inner voice of my soul atman when about nine years of age. Remaining truthful all the time was truly a blessing in disguise. I could talk to […]
Pursuing something dear to my heart gives me absolute peace of mind. From six years of age I pursued something dear to my heart, search for God Almighty! Whenever I indulged in contemplation, introspection, logical reasoning; I experienced bouts of bliss, ecstasy that could never be expressed in words. Practicing Brahmacharya Vrata (celibacy) I could channelize all my energies behind […]
Who does the voice really belong to? As detailed in Hinduism scriptures, the voice coming out of our mouth always belonged to our consciousness, soul atman existing in our heart. Apart from voice our face, our hairs on the head said it all. The spiritual standing of a person could be easily recognized by ones voice, face and hairs on […]
Precepts of spirituality contained in Hinduism scriptures do not believe in presence of ghosts. In the world of souls’ atmans, existence of a ghost was totally ruled out. The soul atman either manifests a body on mother earth or hibernates in heaven or hell. There was nothing in between. After death of human body the released soul atman immediately manifests […]
It is only in our sufferings we realized value of happiness. Every failure, every adversity was a stepping stone to success. Behind every dark cloud hid a silver lining. Beyond 5 AM (the darkest hour of night) lay dawn of new morning. Unless we face insurmountable difficulties in life, we would never succeed! Life moves ahead only in phases of […]
Path of religion (rituals) was easier to travel, prime reason why people world over indulged in religion than spirituality. Path of spirituality directly leads to God Almighty, was difficult to travel. Spirituality demands our indulgence in contemplation, logical reasoning… introspection which most people world over found difficult to indulge. Going to temples, churches and mosques was easier. We must […]
Follow the path undertaken by Swami Vivekananda. Form a definite goal in life and go after it with all eggs in one basket. If necessary practice Brahmacharya Vrata (celibacy) to channelize sexual energy towards your only goal of life! One can increase mental powers to infinity practicing Brahmacharya Vrata. We need removing all the clutter in our thinking process to […]
Karma was inherent ingredient of cosmic system based on which life moved ahead in cosmic life cycle. No sooner life supporting planets like mother earth evolved in cosmic system, karma took over! Right from first manifestation as an amoeba (single cell formation) to multi-cell formation, insect life, plant life, animal life… karma was governing. Based on residual balance of karma […]
The value of mantras can be realized only by a spiritual aspirant. For religious travelers indulgence in mantras was never necessitated. For reaching God in present life our negating karma to zero was necessitated. Whatever negative karma we indulge in present life could be neutralized but what of negative residual balance of karma from previous manifestations! It took me […]
The stage of immortality is reached demolishing our ego to zero. Once negated, once a bud becomes a flower it could never become a bud again. The process was irreversible! Initially the soul atman was pure. In its cosmic sojourn it gained impurities. The moment life supporting planets like mother earth evolved souls atmans started manifesting life on mother […]
Once a human being reaches stage of self realization all was over for soul atman within. One finally reaches 8.4 millionth manifestation, last in cosmic life cycle. Nowhere else to go further, the self realized soul would attain moksha salvation. By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 – (Ref. 161103) Bhagavad Gita Study Circle: […]
Yes, if we look at individual earthly manifestations, decorations… every achievement in this physical manifest world was overrated. Every individual accomplishment that was not directed towards spirituality was meaningless, a waste. But for people who worked for welfare of mankind all the time, even a small achievement was worth it. If Sachin Tendulkar, a sports person could be awarded […]
Realization of our true inner self, our soul atman existing in our heart becomes possible traveling path of spirituality as detailed in Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads (independent treatises). To realize our true self existing in our heart, we have to become 100% truthful. We also need 100% faith in existence of God. Indulging in contemplation, logical reasoning… introspection we could […]
No part of science including mathematics could help on path of self realization. Realization of true self relates to path of spirituality, not even religion (path of rituals). Self realization is achieved indulging in scriptures of different religions of world. Our following path of contemplation, introspection… logical reasoning was necessitated to reach hidden underlying cosmic truths contained in scriptures […]
In Hinduism scriptures spirit denotes consciousness existing in our heart. Spirit also stands for soul atman existing in our heart. It is presence of soul atman, consciousness in our heart that was cause of life on mother earth. In absence of spirit, soul atman within no life form could exist in cosmos. Our belief in world of souls’ atmans, God […]
If we desire students learning deeper precepts of cosmic life, indulgence in yoga meditation was mandated. The spiritual teachings rendered to students must be limited and left to their choice. In the field of spirituality nothing could be dictated. Everything has to come from within. It is only through path of introspection, contemplation… logical reasoning we realized hidden cosmic truths […]
Enlightenment could not be gained through path of karma yoga or jnana yoga alone. One needs following path of both karma yoga and jnana yoga to reach God in one’s lifetime. By karma Yoga we mean path of nishkama karma yoga. King Janaka (father of Sita in Ramayana) was a perfect karma Yogi. He indulged in affairs of his kingdom […]
Even if we had knowledge of Sanskrit we could never decipher hidden underlying meaning of scriptures. Nothing could be understood in sacred texts literally. Commentary on Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads (independent treatises) with Gita press, Gorakhpur, India was commendable. Apart from commentaries by Jayadayal Goyandka, Swami Ramsukhdas and Hanuman Prasad Poddar (in Hindi and English) they also have commentaries by […]
The doctrine of Advaita Vedanta put forward by Adi Shankaracharya had no parallel. Based on truth but only truth, the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta confirms apart from God Almighty nothing existed in cosmos. Duality existed in nature but was never part of world of souls’ atmans, domain of God Almighty. One could always refer to original teachings of Adi Shankaracharya […]
In present times we do not expect to find yogis living in inner confines of Himalayas. So was not necessitated. Even while living in society one could indulge in contemplation, introspection… path of logical reasoning to reach hidden underlying cosmic truths of life contained in sacred texts of different religions of world. More than contemplation, sometimes Satsanga amongst like-minded thinkers […]
Indulging in karma without attachment to fruits of karma was practicing nishkama karma yoga. Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita explicitly details merits of indulging in nishkama karma yoga. Negation of karma, a necessity of spiritual path was possible only through indulgence in nishkama karma yoga. We need working like a trustee, a caretaker for whom everything belonged to God Almighty […]
In the entire history of mankind not hundreds but thousands reached stage of enlightenment in erstwhile Bharatvarsha (now India)! For an enlightened one, nothing to achieve further one gains emancipation from cycle of birth and death forever… reaching stage of moksha salvation nirvana moment one leaves mortal frame. For an enlightened one gaining moksha salvation nirvana was automatic. Starting […]
Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita clearly says a true seeker who indulged in yoga meditation even while living in confines of home (Grihastha ashram) was the biggest Yogi of all. In present times one need not go to confines of Himalayas for penance, indulgence in contemplation, introspection… logical reasoning! Everything could be achieved even while living in society. It was […]
In yesteryears yogis primarily indulged in tapasya (penance) in deep dense jungles (forests) where the epidemic of mosquitoes was much widespread than in present times. Prime reason why Tapasvi’s preferred colder climate of snow-clad mountains to avoid the menace of mosquitoes etc.! In the higher reaches of Himalayas, animals also were limited. In older times, the body of yogis […]
Cleansing of self (karmic cleansing) can be indulged only by the individual self. By overpowering five senses and mind we could always negate karma to zero forever. All travelers of spiritual path indulged in karmic cleaning which was a very slow step-by-step process. Overpowering five senses and mind takes time. By indulging in good karma, positive karma most of time […]
As detailed in Hinduism scriptures namely Bhagavad Gita and Upanishads (independent treatises)… every single human being on mother earth had spark of divinity within to reach stage of Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Prophet Mohammed. Every single human being on mother earth would become a man god one day. God (Brahman in Hinduism) ordained a long journey of 1.1 […]
Heaven (swarga in Hinduism) was the size of core of sun where existed all souls atmans. As detailed in Upanishads (independent treatises) Heaven was a place in core of sun for hibernation of souls’ atmans where temperatures exceed millions of degrees centigrade. It was in such high temperatures our soul atman felt comfortable. After death of human form if matching […]
It was beyond capacity of even enlightened ones to assess from where came matter and energy after occurrence of big bang! We all know it just came, everything just happens! Travelers of spiritual path could understand to minutest detail how big bang occurred and also about dissolution of cosmos (Pralaya in Hinduism) but never about what happened in the […]